One Piece: My Spirit

A year has passed since the 2001 duel between Sauron and Kuina. What comforts Ciel is that in this year, Kuina did not have an accident like in the original plot, and the nightmare that Kuina would die has gradually disappeared. Therefore, Ciel has not been as nervous as before, and everything seems to be so stable.

At this time, beside a small stream in the back mountain of the dojo, Charles sat cross-legged on a rock with his eyes closed. Not long ago, Charles' basic swordsmanship finally reached lv12. It took a full year to upgrade from 'basic swordsmanship lv11' to lv12!This is a difficulty that Charles didn't expect!

But at that moment of 'basic swordsmanship lv12', Charles only felt that he had a kind of mysterious enlightenment, as if he had touched some kind of wonderful realm, but unfortunately, this feeling was only fleeting.

However, when Charles held the bamboo sword again, it seemed as if he could use his arms to move his fingers. Every part of the bamboo sword seemed to be able to clearly feel the difference. With a slight tightening of his arms, he could instantly reach the tip of the sword or sink the blade with force, and finally swung the sword freely and as one.

Charles waved lightly, and there was a sound of breaking through the air instantly, and a small water splash was stirred up in the creek not far away.

"Chopping?"

Although the power is very small, it can already be vaguely seen that it is the prototype of the 'flying slash', but this may also have something to do with the bamboo sword in Shire's hand. If it is replaced by a real knife, it is estimated that the power will be a little stronger.

Name: Charles

Sword Realm:

Basic swordsmanship (++++) lv12 (max)

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At the same time, [Number of lottery draws: 1] is also displayed on the lottery draw wheel of the system, and when Charles chooses to draw a lottery, a line of information is suddenly displayed on the lottery draw interface:
[For the first time successfully reaching level 12 in 'Basic Swordsmanship', special rewards are being calculated]

[Do you want to convert the number of lottery draws into special rewards? 】

[Special Reward: Unknown! 】

[Note 1: This special reward is only once and unique! 】

[Remark 2: This reward is limited to reaching lv12 for the first time! 】

For a moment, Charles fell silent looking at this message. He didn't expect this special reward to appear in this system. Is this the first pass reward?Or is it a special reward of 100 points?

But it seems that there should only be such a chance, and it should not appear again in the future, but this [Special Reward: Unknown] is too good at showing off, right?
However, Charles still chose this special reward without hesitation. Since it has been clearly stated that this special reward is only once and unique, no matter what the result is, it should at least not be worse than getting a [Good Fishing Rod], right?
After Charles selected the special reward, an orange treasure box suddenly appeared in Charles' mind. As Charles thought, the orange treasure box gradually opened, and there was a red strawberry in it, which was covered with dense swirl patterns. When you look carefully, each swirl pattern on it is a unified 'left-handed vortex'.

Why is it considered red?Ciel didn't understand either. From the color point of view, there was almost no difference between the two, but for some reason Ciel felt that 'red' was more suitable.

【Devil Fruit】

Effect: You can gain a certain ability after eating it.

Description: This is a fruit with strong vitality.

Sure enough, it was a devil fruit. Although Charles wanted to complain about why there was a devil fruit, what Charles wanted to complain about now was that there was too little description information about this devil fruit, right? !
Charles doesn't even know what type this devil fruit is, let alone what ability it is!
But the last description can provide some ideas, strong vitality?Then there is a relatively high probability that it is an animal, but it may also be a special kind of superhuman.

Although devil fruit can greatly improve strength, it also has many limitations. Just being afraid of sea water is very troublesome, so Charles does not dare to make a hasty decision for a while.

At this time, a familiar female voice came from not far away,

"Charles, are you asleep? Let's compete! I feel very good recently! I feel like I'm about to make a breakthrough."

Ciel opened his eyes, and what came into view was a slim young girl and Marilou wearing a pair of sunglasses at her feet.

Today, Kuina has also begun to develop. In just one year, her height has soared from about 1.5 meters to nearly 1.7 meters, even two centimeters taller than Shire, and the two are only 12 years old now. Sure enough, the rumor that girls grow taller than boys is true!

"Let's go, Charles, let's use a real sword this time. It still feels a little bit worse to use a bamboo sword."

Kuina gently pushed Charles from behind, and urged with a smile.

A year ago, Kuina would never have made such an intimate gesture. In the past, Kuina's competitive and strong personality was largely due to the knot in her heart that had been bound for many years, and the psychology of wanting to prove that girls are not inferior to boys.

But since she unraveled her knots and gained insight, Guina's personality has gradually changed a little. The previous strong and domineering personality has also changed a lot, relatively speaking, she is more restrained, and the smile on her face is also much more visible to the naked eye.

After that, Shire had no choice but to go to the warehouse where the knives and weapons were stored together with Kuina. On the way, Shire saw Kuina and Marileu talking and laughing, and said with emotion:

"Guina, you have changed a lot this year."

After hearing what Charles said, Guina subconsciously looked down at her chest, then blushed, and snorted coldly at Charles:
"Charles, you are really disgusting!"

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After finishing speaking, Kuina picked up Marilou and left quickly, leaving only Charles with a bewildered expression on her face.

And when Charles came to the warehouse where knives and weapons were stored, Kuina had already gone in first. At the same time, he happened to see a few juniors from the dojo coming out of the warehouse. Seeing their disheveled looks, Charles knew that these little guys were probably being taught by Kuina again.

When Charles came to the warehouse, he happened to see Kuina holding a whetstone coming down the stairs on the second floor of the warehouse. For a while, Charles felt that the blood in his body was a little congealed, but it seemed that Charles was thinking too much. There was no accident to Kuina. Instead, Kuina found that Charles looked very bad and said concernedly:

"Charles, what's wrong with you? Why are you so pale?"

While talking about Kuina, she walked towards Shire, but when Kuina had just walked halfway, the wooden shelf with knives on the side suddenly collapsed and hit Kuina!
"Guina!!!"

Shire immediately rushed to Kuina and hugged her to protect her in his arms. Kuina, who was hugged in her arms, hadn't realized what happened for a while, but suddenly Kuina's pupils shrank, and a section of memories about Shire flashed in her mind:
Guina is my family, my sister
I will protect Guina
I will become the third swordsman in the world.
At the last moment, Kuina, who was being protected by Charles in her arms, suddenly pushed Charles away forcefully, and instead turned her body over to block behind Charles!

"boom!"

After a large amount of dust cleared, Kuina, who was lying on Shire, looked at Shire who was in a panic at this time and smiled, "Oh, it's good that you are fine. No. Don't worry."

"Guguina, you... you, stop talking, I will take you to the doctor right away!"

There was trembling and unprecedented fear in Shire's voice, because Shire had already seen the knife stuck in Kuina's back, the whole knife pierced Kuina's abdomen from the back, and a large area in front of his body was already stained red with blood, and there was even a large puddle of blood on the ground!

But Kuina didn't seem to hear what Charles said at all, she just kept murmuring: "It's fine. It's fine."

Speaking of which, Kuina's eyes seemed to be closing gradually, and Charles couldn't care less about the blood on his hands, and kept stroking Kuina's paler face, begging tremblingly: "Don't, sleep, Kuina, don't sleep"

At this time, Sauron, who heard the abnormal noise from the warehouse, was also frightened by the scene in front of him. Charles asked Sauron and Marilou to quickly clean up the wreckage of the wooden frame on himself and Kuina. Marilou was cleaning up the wreckage, and shed tears of self-blame. Marilou was also at the scene just now, but it had no time to react, and could only watch Ciel and Kuina get hurt.

Soon Charles carefully hugged Kuina, who had fallen into a coma, and ran to the dojo. At the same time, he asked Sauron to go to the village to find a doctor. Sauron also hurried to the village after responding.

At this time Koshiro also found Shire covered in blood and Kuina in his arms. The knife stuck in Kuina's abdomen seemed to be stabbed in Koshiro's body at this time!

Soon the only old doctor in the village was urged by Sauron all the way to the dojo, followed by two children holding a medicine box, who seemed to be his apprentices.

Charles has also heard that this old doctor named Kiriichiro is over 70 years old, and it is said that he once went to sea as a ship doctor.

Kiriichiro had already heard Sauron briefly describe Kuina's situation on the way, and now when he came to the dojo and saw Kuina's injury, his heart sank.

Kiriichiro didn't speak, but let all the unrelated people leave the room, leaving only his two disciples to help.

And Koshiro has already learned what happened from Charles, and at the same time asked him to deal with the injuries on his body first. Although Guina helped Charles block the fatal knife, there are still many cut wounds on his body.

It's just that at this time, Shire seemed to be unable to hear Koshiro's voice at all, and his mind was full of the scene where Kuina finally smiled and said to herself, "It's fine".

And Kuina's face was unknowingly intertwined with the face of his sister in the previous life, and Charles had already regarded Kuina as his sister and a real family member!He couldn't imagine the consequences of losing Kuina, and he couldn't forgive himself for hurting Kuina!

Sauron on the side looked at Shire in shock at this time. He has been in Yixin Dojo for more than two years. Although Shire sometimes likes to tease himself, Shire gave him a more mature and calm impression. In dealing with certain things, Shire is even better than Master Koshiro.

And now Sauron has never seen Charles's distraught appearance. His original deep eyes have gradually lost their brilliance. Those empty eyes seem to have suddenly lost something most important in his life.

On Koshiro's side, a few young juniors from the dojo were crying while lowering their heads, saying something to Koshiro with remorse on their faces. After a long time, Koshiro looked up at the cloudy sky and sighed.

Not long after, the heavy rain fell continuously from the gloomy sky "wow, bang, bang", and the rain became heavier and heavier, but Shire didn't make any movement at all, letting the heavy rain fall on him. Neither Koshiro, Zoro and others could persuade Shire, and finally Marile held an umbrella to protect Shire from the rain.

Charles suddenly hugged Marilou, buried his head in her embrace, and kept murmuring, "Marilou, I'm so scared."

Marilou also looked at Ciel with a worried face, so she had no choice but to comfort Ciel constantly:

"lilu~lilu"

At this time, Kiriichiro came out of the room, surrounded by Charles, Zoro, Koshiro and others. Kiriichiro looked at his friend's son with a complicated expression, and then shook his head:

"Koshiro, maybe you should get ready."

When Charles heard this sentence, he was stunned as if struck by lightning. Regarding Kuina's injury, Kiriichiro was also powerless. When he heard Sauron's description, he knew that he might bleed profusely.

Although temporarily stabilized by the blood transfusion bag, the problem is that the blood bag on my side is not enough to support it!
But the more serious thing was yet to come. When Kiriichiro took out the knife that pierced Kuina's entire abdomen, he was surprised to find that Kuina's wound had been infected!Even Kiriichiro used the 'family secret medicine' to no avail.

"At this time, that child Kuina is still comatose with a high fever, and there may only be an hour left at most and then."

Kiriichiro didn't continue talking about the following words, but just patted Koshiro on the shoulder and sighed, these words pierced into the hearts of Koshiro, Zoro and Shire like a bayonet!

But at this moment, there was a cheering voice in the room: "Teacher, the patient. The patient suddenly woke up!"

And Zoro was also happy when he heard that Kuina had woken up, but he suddenly saw that the faces of Koshiro and Charles suddenly became abnormally pale, and even their hands were constantly shaking.

"boom!"

At this time, a thunder suddenly sounded in the gloomy sky!
Sauron, who didn't know why, only heard the old doctor sigh, and murmured:

"Ah, back to the light"