To the end of the sea [One Piece]

Usopp woke up from the hard and cold ground, and Eina was squatting next to him looking at him worriedly. She breathed a sigh of relief when he sat up: "You finally woke up Usopp."

"This is..." Usopp rubbed the back of his head and looked around. When he saw the woman sitting at the table drinking tea, he suddenly recalled what happened before and said angrily: "It's you! You The guy hit me before, right! It’s rare that I still want to save you!”

"I saved you." Noqigao poured him a glass and pushed it to the seat next to him. "If I hadn't stopped you, you would probably be dead by now."

Usopp stood up and pulled out a chair to sit down, Eina followed suit and sat next to him. "Usopp, this is Nokigao, who grows oranges near here. After she knocked you out, she took us to her house."

From the conversation between Nokigao and the little boy, Ena and Usopp roughly understood the reason why they were not allowed to take action. The fish-man Aaron is rampant in this area and kills innocent people indiscriminately. It is easy to kill a fish-man, but the opponents are numerous and powerful, and all of them are species with abilities different from humans. They will definitely attract revenge from the other party.

"Then go die." Nokigao said calmly after hearing the little boy's immature determination to avenge his dead father with all his life. After hearing this, Usopp spit out the tea in his mouth.

"Since you are determined to die, it is just right to take revenge." Noqigao ignored him and stood up with an indifferent expression.

"Hey - is that too much for a child?" Usopp whispered dissatisfied.

"It doesn't matter if he is a child or something." Noqigao poured himself another cup of tea. "You can die if you want. Anyway, he doesn't have the courage to survive in a difficult situation."

Eina also felt that it was a bit too much: "Nogi Kao..."

There was sadness in the voice of the short-haired woman. She turned her back to them and said: "I know a child... for the distant future, he would rather choose a more painful way than death to continue living. So I hate this the most. People who always want to die."

Eina and Usopp were both stunned.

After she lost her memory, she only thought about the reasons for her death. However, there are also people in this world who choose to live in more pain than death?

Her emotions, which had become sluggish due to amnesia, were being replenished in confusion.

Nokigao turned around, the expression on his face was still indifferent, but his tone was more gentle: "Where is your mother?"

"Alive..." the boy sobbed in reply.

The woman's expression softened, and she said softly: "She must be worried about you. Go back to her."

After sending the little boy away, Usopp smiled and leaned on the chair and said, "You are also a good person, even though you have tattoos."

"You are biased." Noqigao said, "Okay, it's time to talk about your purpose, Mr. Pirate?"

Usopp looked at Eina, and the girl shrugged, saying that she hadn't told Nokigao about their mission yet.

"We are looking for a girl named Nami."

"Nami?" Nokigao's expression changed for a moment, which did not escape Eina's eyes.

"You know her, right?" Eina frowned, and Usopp's eyes widened in surprise: "Eh? Is that so?"

Nokigao pondered for a moment, then returned to indifference: "Ah, yes. She is Aaron's cadre. Didn't the kid just mention that the witch in Aaron's Paradise is Nami."

"What what?!" Usopp sat up straight in shock. The navigator who had been with them day and night for several days... turned out to be such a terrifying woman!

Cold sweat broke out on Usopp's back.

"It's not just that." Eina said calmly, "You know Nami not because of Aaron." Her eyes caught the photo frame on the table in the distance that Nokigao had been looking at, and she affirmed .

Nokigao glanced at her with admiration, walked to the table and picked up the photo frame. On it was a photo of a woman with dark pink hair and two little girls. The girl with short blue-purple hair squatting on the right is Nokigao, and the other girl with short orange hair hugging the woman's legs must be Nami.

"Nami and I are sworn sisters." Noqigao looked at the photos in the frame. "This is the home where we grew up together. Nami and I are both orphans, and the mother who adopted us has passed away. But, three We must have had a happy time together."

Usopp's hand holding the table seemed to feel some texture. He took his hand away and saw that it was a small compass pattern and a small sailboat, carved with a childish technique.

"In other words, Nami has now betrayed her sisters, family and villagers and joined Aaron's group?" Usopp said angrily.

"Ah, that's about it." Nokigao gently put down the photo frame, "A woman who is just like a witch."

"Damn it!" Usopp was really angry at this time. Although the Liar King loves to lie, he will never tolerate betrayal by his partners. He naively thought that Nami wanted to kill Aaron to collect the bounty. After all, Nami was such a money-loving person.

"So she is all for the treasure. This woman who betrayed her partners." Usopp slammed the table in anger.

Ena did not speak. Although she guessed the truth before she met Nami, she sat across from Nokigao and watched the other person say that her adopted sister was a traitor without any emotion. She thought that maybe it was not the case. .

Usopp was still angry: "Obviously she and Luffy protected my village together, and she was smiling so happily on the boat..."

"Very happy?" Nokigao suddenly turned his head, but Usopp was immersed in his own emotions and didn't hear it. Nuo Qigao turned back and said softly: "She..."

The woman's subtle voice did not reach Usopp's ears, but Eina somehow caught it.

She was now sure that Nokhigao was hiding something from them.

"But it's not necessary now!" Usopp stood up, "Let's leave now, there is no need to take that woman back!"

Then Eina watched the expression on his face change from serious to comical embarrassment: "Speaking of... speaking of it, I think one of my partners was unfortunately captured by a fishman..."

Ena almost had the urge to knock him out with the back of a knife.

Remember, I really want to thank you for Zoro! After all, who was he arrested for?

Eina picked up the knife placed aside and stood up: "Then, let's rescue him."

"Eh?" Usopp looked at Eina in surprise. The girl showed a handsome smile: "Since he is a companion, there is no reason not to save him, right?"

Nuo Qigao looked at the back of the silver-haired girl and smiled. Usopp was stunned for a second and then immediately plucked up the courage to say loudly: "That, of course!"

They originally wanted to find Aaron, but they didn't expect that Aaron came to Cocoyasi Village on his own. Usopp and Noki took Eina and hid in the alley, watching the tall fish-man gang on the street talking about something in front of a man.

"That's Mr. Ajian, the village police officer." Nuoqi's face was calm, but her eyes revealed her worry. "Aaron is using Shang Gong's matter to make things difficult for him."

"Make an offering?"

"Just like the name, it is the money we have to hand over to Aaron every month." Nuoqi said coldly, "We have to use money to buy our own lives every month. If one person does not go to school on time, If we pay him, he will destroy that village just like he destroyed the town of Gosa.”

"Just because of this kind of thing, such a big town...!" Usopp couldn't believe what he heard.

"He is a fish-man and doesn't care about people's lives or lives at all." Nuo Qigao's voice was full of hatred. "He wants our money to build his own empire, and we are just lower-class humans."

While they were talking, the ferocious fish man strangled Ajian's neck and used strength with his fingers. Ajian soon had difficulty breathing.

Seeing this scene, Nuo Qigao finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out and shouted: "Let go of Aaron! Haven't we paid the payment every month? Haven't we paid the money on time every year for the past eight years?" ? How can you still rebel? Please let Mr. Ajian go!"

Following Nokigao's lead, the doors of several houses also opened, and the villagers came out and plucked up the courage to say, "Let Ajian go!"

"Yes, we won't rebel. Let Ajian go!"

The fishman showed a cruel smile: "Inferior humans are so disgusting. What, do you want to rebel like this?"

Jian struggled to squeeze out the words from his throat: "Everyone... go back quickly... If we wanted to resist, we would have fought eight years ago... Didn't we swear an oath... We will wait for a future battle together. Victory… awaits freedom…”

"What a touching speech." Aaron laughed, "But... the differences between races are insurmountable... Just take a good look at you ants." After saying that, he pushed Ajian downwards A slap.

Everyone opened their mouths and looked at this scene in panic. However, just when Ajian thought he was about to fall heavily to the ground, a silver light flashed, and when he looked again, Ajian had been gently placed on the ground by the silver-haired girl.

Nokigao covered her mouth in surprise.

Aaron was instantly irritated. He looked at the girl who suddenly appeared and yelled: "Where did you come from?! Don't you want to live anymore?"

Eina sneered, took Nokigao and Takeru behind her, and pulled out the knife on her body.

The cold light came out of its sheath, and even Aaron was shocked for a second by this unusual sword light.

"I heard that you want to build your empire." Eina raised her knife and said mockingly, "I heard you right...you have been collecting donations from people here for eight full years, right?"

Aaron said fiercely: "Yes, so what?"

Eina deliberately let out a laugh that she almost couldn't hold back, "It's true... you almost succeeded in making me laugh. But you still stayed on this small island for eight whole years and lorded it over. You are also a legend after all. A murloc from the Grand Line, right? Are you sure you are building an empire and not just playing house with your own bunch of losers?"

Not to mention Aaron, the surrounding villagers were completely stunned. This girl who suddenly appeared looks young, but she is surrounded by an intimidating aura, and her words are...

That makes so much sense. What's going on? !

Eina kept talking, but her feet were gradually getting ready to attack at any time.

She still said in her cold and mocking voice: "You sound so nice, but you are just a little gangster who can't survive on the Grand Line, right? You just come here to bully the defenseless with your pitiful talents that you were born with. People. Create an empire... Don't be ridiculous! Have you ever seen a real empire? Have you ever been on a real battlefield? You murlocs are born with stronger bodies than humans, but you are lazy and lazy in such an unfashionable place. Eight years of work?!"

A cold light flashed in the girl's eyes: "Compared to you, the human beings I have seen are constantly getting stronger through their own efforts. Even the weak villagers will stand up for their friends... In the final analysis, the lowly and inferior Race--"

"It's you who bully weak fish!" After saying this, Eina transformed into a silver knife shadow and rushed forward, stabbing Aaron in the abdomen.

Blood splattered everywhere, and the hard skin was cut with a sharp knife, which frightened everyone. Aaron's men rushed up to check his injuries, and Eina sneered: "Why are you nervous? Isn't he a fish-man? This level should be nothing."

"You guy-" The tall fish-man was completely irritated, stood up with bloodthirsty eyes, and stretched out his hand to grab Eina.

A cannonball came through the air and hit the hole opened by Ena accurately. Aaron screamed in pain and covered his abdomen, and people looked at the roof in the distance.

Although Usopp's legs were shaking with fear, he still raised his head and pretended to be powerful and shouted: "I am the legendary Captain Usopp! I...I have 8000 subordinates! I am what people call me. King Usopp of the Demon King of Darkness!”

However, even his voice was trembling, which was really hard to believe.

Aaron straightened up with red eyes and rushed towards the house where Usopp was. Eina was slow and wanted to catch up, but the fish-man was still faster than she expected. Aaron stretched out his hands and lifted it up, and the house fell to the ground.

Aaron's subordinates hurriedly stopped him: "Boss, we can't demolish any more new villages! If we do, we will have one less place to pay money!"

Eina shouted anxiously: "Usopp! Are you okay?"

The long-nosed boy climbed out of the smoke in shock, and said fearfully: "I was scared to death, but luckily I didn't fall..."

As soon as Eina felt relieved, Usopp's hand slipped and he fell down with a scream. A group of fishmen immediately chased after him, and Usopp quickly ran away.

Over there, Aaron was carried away by his subordinates. They really don't want their eldest brother to demolish the house casually again! It is easy to demolish the house, but it is difficult to rebuild it. How will they collect the money then?

They had always known that following their eldest brother could lead them to a good life and drink spicy food, but what the silver-haired girl said just now made these murlocs, who had never been very smart, think hard.

Their eldest brother’s management policy seems to be really problematic! !

Ena looked at the direction in which the fish-man left and then at Usopp, who was missing, and immediately decided to find out if Usopp was alright first.

As for the fish-men... she had a hunch that they would meet again.