To the end of the sea [One Piece]

"Hey, we're finally here!" Luffy cheered after seeing the land.

Nami and Vivi changed into a set of well-covered robes and came out, only to be met with Sanji's wailing: "Miss Nami! Miss Vivi! Why do you have to change the beautiful dress I bought for you!"

Eina also changed into a white robe at Weiwei's suggestion. She happened to pass behind Sanji and gave him an unceremonious blow: "I was still wondering why Nami and Weiwei were dressed like dancers. , it turns out it was you who did it!"

"Ah - even Eina has changed!" Sanji lay on the deck aggrievedly, "Obviously the white skirt before was so beautiful..."

Eina ignored this guy's pretentiousness and walked around him. Weiwei kindly explained to him that it was because if you expose your skin in the desert, you will get sunburned.

Eina smiled softly.

For some reason, the feeling of distance between her and Sanji disappeared after she left the team and came back. She couldn't explain why, but it saved her the effort of trying to talk to him.

This is what companionship looks like, she thought.

"If you want to enter the desert, you will need a lot of water and food!" Nami said, "Be sure to bring your own things!"

"Ah, that." Eina raised her hand obediently.

"What's wrong?" Nami looked at her.

"After meeting Ace this time...I found a way to use the fruit's ability." Ena said.

Everyone was attracted by her words: "What?! Great! What kind of ability is it, Ena!"

She raised her right hand with the ring, activated her power to show her space and took out an apple: "Space storage. So, there should be no need to worry about water and food issues..."

There was a second of silence.

Then Luffy was the first to break the calm: "Ouch! Ena!! What was that just now! You really can conjure food, right?!"

He was taken away by Nami with a punch.

"This is so convenient Ena!" Usopp said in surprise, "How many supplies have you stored in it?"

"In short, it's enough for everyone to use for two or three days." Eina said, "But there are limits. You still have to bring some of your own things. Mine is best used for emergencies."

"Sure enough, this is the ability I remembered before." Sanji said, "It's just that you didn't use a ring at that time, and I forgot how you did it, but that's it."

"It's amazing..." Weiwei said in admiration, "That makes me feel relieved!"

As a result, until they reached the shore, Luffy followed Eina with eyes wide open and asked if he could show him the magic of turning into an apple again. Ena couldn't resist him, so she had to tell him that he could only do magic once a day. If he did more magic, there would be no more magic to see in the future.

Only then did his captain calm down.

Ena was really helpless, but she found that sometimes she really couldn't lose her temper with Luffy. In Nami's opinion, Luffy's behavior was annoying and idiotic, but Eina always found it strangely cute.

Maybe she has the potential to be a preschool educator... Ena thought in a daze.

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Stepping onto the land of sand, this time Ena is no longer in the helpless state she was last time. She was walking on the sand in a good mood, and Ace quietly walked up to her.

She and he looked at each other, smiles flowing in their eyes.

After climbing over a sand dune, Weiwei suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Nami asked.

They looked forward and saw a desolate scene.

The rickety houses were stuck in the sand, and the dry wind blew through the endless city, bringing only bitter sand.

The city in front of them was obviously abandoned, with not even a trace of life to be found.

"This is the former 'Green City' Elmar..." Weiwei murmured.

"Once..." Usopp caught the details in her words.

Everyone stared at this dry land speechlessly, and they could imagine how much torture the people who once lived in it must have suffered to have a city abandoned like this.

"You will soon see what the Baroque organization has done to this city and this country." Weiwei said with sadness in her tone, "You will also understand what the people of Alabasta are suffering from. suffering."

They walked into the ruins of the city, walking among broken walls and dead branches and bones. Eina looked at the scene in front of her quietly, and suddenly understood what the stall owner of Rohara once said to her.

[It hasn’t rained for three years. How do you think our place will be better? 】

"It hasn't rained in three years. This is an unprecedented event in Alabasta, which has very little rainfall." Weiwei was also telling them about the country's crisis.

"But at the same time, there was continuous rain in one place." Weiwei said, "That is the capital of Alabasta, Yarobana. At first, the people said that it was a miracle from the king and a blessing from God. The symbol of Alabasta. But one day, a truck carrying goods into the royal city overturned, and people saw a truck full of dancing fans in the dumped bags."

"Dancing fan?!" Nami said in surprise.

"Yes." Weiwei glanced at her, "It's a kind of powder. When it is sprayed into the sky, it will form clouds and perform artificial rainfall."

"But wouldn't it be great for the country if we had this kind of powder?" Usopp asked.

"No." When it comes to meteorological issues, Nami also has an understanding: "Dancing powder was originally developed in a country where it doesn't rain. The rainfall principle of this powder is to absorb the passing clouds that have not yet formed rainfall conditions. Forcing it to meet the rainfall standard and let it stop above your own country. But the consequence of this is that there will be no rain in the rainy cities where the cloud should reach."

"So it caused a war." Weiwei said, "It was the same in Alabasta. After people found out about it, they thought it was the king who used dancing powder, which caused other urban areas to dry up."

"Isn't this your father's fault?" Luffy jumped out and shouted, but Sanji kicked him away: "How could Miss Weiwei's father do such a thing! He must have been framed!"

"Baroque probably did it," Eina said, "and then by inciting people's hearts, they achieved the desired effect of civil strife in the kingdom."

Weiwei nodded.

While he was talking, a sudden gust of wind suddenly came from all directions. There was a faint echo in the wind, as if someone was wandering.

"There's someone!" Luffy immediately clenched his fists and looked warily in the direction of the wind.

"No, no one." Eina raised a hand to block the strong wind and narrowed her eyes. "That's the echo caused by the wind blowing between buildings."

A figure stood in front of her, and Ena opened her eyes to see Ace's generous back.

"But it really looks like someone! What do you think, brother!" Usopp shouted at Ace. He had an implicit trust in Ace. Ace nodded: "There's no danger, don't worry."

Weiwei's hood was blown off by the wind, and her eyes showed grief.

The city of Elmare... seems to be crying.

Abandoned and eroded by war, the Green City, which had nurtured countless people, was mourning in the wind that blew through the ruins. In the long period of time it was abandoned, there was no longer any laughter of children, no traces of water flow, and no breath of life.

It can only ask with dry whistling on this land again and again, why?

But no one will hear it anymore.

A condensed whirlwind came over violently, and Ace turned around and hugged Eina tightly in his arms.

The scorching body temperature could be felt even through the robe. Eina squinted her eyes and leaned against his strong chest until the wind subsided.

Ace slowly let go of her and gave her a reassuring smile.

Luffy looked forward and saw a ball of cloth floating in the distance. He said loudly: "Is that a person?"

"Is there anyone alive?" Weiwei quickly ran forward, but she and Luffy fell silent after seeing clearly.

It was a withered skeleton, still wearing the clothes of his life.

The girl with long blue hair knelt in front of the skull, and her suppressed grief came in a low cry: "What have the people in this city done wrong... Born in the Kingdom of Sand, in order to survive in a land with scarce water resources?" He has worked hard enough, but his peaceful life is still disturbed by the conspiracy of those people... Not only that, he also pretends to be the hero of the people in the name of King Shichibukai... He deceives the whole country's men, what rights does he have? this way!"

"I will never forgive him!!"

Following Weiwei's words, a ruin next to her collapsed.

The anger in Luffy's heart reached a high point, and the boy was so full of anger that he could only temporarily use his strength to vent it out.

"You're really childish." Zoro said helplessly.

Ace smiled like "Luffy should be like this" and squatted down to silently help Weiwei dig a sand pit. They buried the body, and Weiwei piously planted a dead branch on it.

"Let's go, I can't bear it anymore." Luffy strode forward with a sullen face.

Ena followed, and before leaving Elmar, she looked back at the city.

Wails that no one will hear may still sound in the ruins.

But this time they were heard.

He was listened to by the princess of Alabasta and the future heir apparent.

This question from the city and the country will definitely be answered.

It's up to the princess and her companions to end it all, a pain that the city spirits can't calm.

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"Weiwei." Eina walked quickly to the front and said to the princess at a volume that only the other two could hear, "Alabasta is really lucky to have a princess like you."

The blue-haired girl smiled shyly: "I am not a qualified princess... the people are suffering, but I can't do anything."

"You are already doing it." Eina said, "Whatever you can do and what you can't do, we will help you complete it together."

Weiwei lowered her head and smiled, but neither of them said anything.

Everything is in the wind.