To the end of the sea [One Piece]

"So, are we leaving now?" Nami asked.

"No! We haven't had a good time on Fish-Man Island yet!" Usopp said quickly.

"Yes, yes, I was hunted down before I had a long leisurely time. Don't be so anxious!" Chopper said pitifully.

Luffy was about to say something when he was interrupted by a voice.

"Straw Hat Boy - please wait!!" A guard caught up with him panting and quickly took out the phone bug in his arms, "King Neptune, I have caught up with Straw Hat Boy and the others!"

He pointed the phone bug at Luffy, and Neptune's voice came from inside.

"Your Highness Luffy, we hope to thank you in person. You are the heroes of our country."

"I don't want to be a hero!" Luffy yelled, "No need for that kind of thing!"

But the next second he immediately changed his mind.

"Come and hold a banquet." Neptune said, "We will hold a grand banquet for you again. Please be sure to grant our small request!"

"A banquet? I'll go then!" Luffy immediately grinned.

Ena and Nami looked at each other and sighed.

"If it's a banquet, I can't refuse." Franky said with a smile, "Then let's stay a few more days!"

They looked at each other and laughed.

The guard returned happily, and Ena walked over to Jinbei.

"Now that we've agreed, we must come, Jinbei." She leaned on the railing and looked sideways at the fish-man, with a faint smile.

"That's natural." Jinbei nodded, "Luffy can invite me...I'm very happy."

Just now, Luffy invited Jinbei to become their partner, but he refused.

The reason Jinbe gave was that he still had unfinished business, so he had to settle some things before joining them.

Everyone expressed their willingness to wait for the day when Jinbei joins.

"That guy really looks like his grandfather." She sighed and said, "Should we say that all the men in the Monqi family are so out of line... I really don't know if the legendary Mr. Long also has that side. .”

"You all know Garp?" Jinbe looked sideways.

Eina nodded and shook her head.

"I met him once."

There was unspeakable nostalgia in her expression: "The grandson of the hero Garp has refused to be called a hero time and time again, but in fact, both his grandfather and grandson are the same people."

"It's just that Garp is a bit more stupid than Luffy." She said with a smile, "I don't know which one of them chose the more difficult path."

"Who can say for sure?" She smiled, "A terrible family."

Jinbei was a little confused, but didn't ask anything.

The silver-haired girl looked at Luffy more like a family member than anyone else in the Straw Hat Pirates.

Only she can understand the inextricable connections behind this.

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They received a very grand reception in the next few days, and Neptune insisted on letting them stay in the Dragon Palace City. They originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking about the public's enthusiasm for them, they accepted the arrangement.

But they still go out to the streets during the day and browse the shops like tourists.

The first place Eina came to was the Mermaid Cafe.

The girls who had been kidnapped by Caribu had regained their energy, and after seeing Ena, they rushed forward with great enthusiasm to hold her.

"Ena, why are you here!"

"Ena Ena, would you like to taste my coffee!"

"Ena, you were so handsome that day, woo woo..."

She looked at the girls chattering with a smile with a headache, and helplessly followed their hands and sat down in the store.

Ishili and Mello sat next to her: "Straw Hat boy, are they all okay? Are you the only one here? Are your injuries better?"

She nodded: "Everything is fine. They should have come out to play, but I am here."

"We all want to thank you so much Ena." Sera brought her coffee, "You and Luffy are simply our idols now, especially you. I don't know how many girls are clamoring to meet you."

"Eh?" Eina asked blankly, "Aunt... girl? Me??"

She scratched her head: "No, shouldn't it be Luffy..."

Kailian burst into laughter: "I didn't expect that there are more girls among the people who admire you."

"Because Ena is so handsome as a girl! We have also imagined that we can be so powerful!" The younger Figas said with a smile, "Luffy-sama is naturally everyone's hero, but Ena is our girl Represent the children!”

She shyly picked up her coffee and took a sip: "By the way...is Mrs. Charlie here?"

"Madam just came back!" Mero said, "Are you looking for her?"

She nodded, so they pointed her in the direction, and Eina walked towards Charlie's room.

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She knocked on the door, and a deep female voice answered inside.

"Are you okay?" she asked with a smile as she walked in.

Charlie raised his head and saw her, and immediately smiled: "It's you... Naraku, sit down quickly."

"Call me Ena." She sat down calmly, "We already know each other."

Charlie looked at her guiltily: "Sorry...Ena, part of the reason why you are being hunted down is because of my responsibility."

Eina shook her head and signaled that she didn't need to say anything.

"I know." She leaned back in her chair and said softly, "You don't have to apologize for this... besides, everything is in the past."

"And..." She suddenly showed an expression that Charlie didn't understand. There was bitterness and sadness in that smile, as well as powerlessness and entanglement with oneself.

She heard the silver-haired girl say in a hoarse voice: "Whether the prophecy is right or wrong... we can never know what kind of fate it points to, right?"

Charlie stared at her steadily, and suddenly made a very bold guess.

"Ena...you...?!" Her expression changed drastically.

She put a finger to her lips and smiled weakly.

"So... I completely understand Charlie's thoughts." She sighed, "Although I have only seen some dream-like fragments, I saw Ace being tied to a high platform and executed. And since his death, I have also I have lost that ability, but..."

"Just once is enough." She whispered, "I don't want to continue anymore."

Mrs. Charlie had not recovered from the shock and murmured: "That's why you asked me...whether the future I saw has been changed."

"Yes." Eina whispered, "I couldn't see the ending. I was just worried about the predictions again and again, and tried to do something, but in the end everything was irreversible."

"Charlie, maybe I could have stopped it." She looked at the mermaid with short dark blue hair, tears welling up in her eyes, "I always wonder... what if I really could have stopped it...?"

"No, it won't." Charlie interrupted her.

She looked at her in surprise, then heard the mermaid exhale a long breath of smoke, with a voice as ethereal as emptiness: "In the future I see... no one can change it."

"Besides, you also said that prophecies are just prophecies, and no one will know the final outcome."

"Then what if I say that I really knew the ending?" She leaned forward with some excitement.

"This is another question." Charlie smiled a little, "Will the ending and the prophecy really affect each other?"

"What... does this mean..." She looked at her confused.

"The ending is just a result, and prophecy can only tell us the process. As for when it will come and in what form it will appear, we are not able to control it. Even if you think you are seeing the ending, you don't know That was just a link, and the final result didn’t appear at all.”

"So, people's destiny will not be changed no matter what, right?"

"Little girl, is it really your fate that you are struggling with?" Charlie suddenly asked a profound and pointed question.

Eina was stunned for a moment.

"What you are struggling with is not your destiny, but other people's." Charlie took another puff of cigarette, "It is foolish to try to change other people's destiny. As for your own..."

The female mermaid gave a bright smile.

"It's always in your hands and can be changed at any time."

"Just as you cannot change the fate of others, the only one who can change your fate is yourself."

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She had an enlightenment at that moment.

The overly hot fire that had been burning in her heart finally subsided.

The last haze lingering in my mind has also dissipated.

She stood up and bowed deeply to Charlie.

"Thank you...Mrs. Charlie."

She smiled with relief.

“It’s hard to have such an ability,” she said.

Charlie sighed: "So, I don't want to predict anything anymore."

Eina smiled.

"Perhaps one day the future we foresee will not contain so much pain and disaster."

She said goodbye to Charlie and walked out the door.

"Mrs. Charlie..." When Xiramela came in to give her the account book, she saw the short-haired woman sitting on the sofa with her head raised, and called her tentatively.

"Is Ena still in the store?" she asked in a hoarse voice.

"Still." Xiramela said, "What's wrong?"

Charlie said nothing and signaled that she could go out.

She heaved a long sigh.

In the child's description, she did not see the ending.

That's great.

Charlie smiled almost cruelly.

Because the scene she saw three years ago was the black-haired boy covered in blood standing in front of her and dying to protect his most beloved girl.

What kind of causal reincarnation is involved, and why there are different endings...

Charlie spent her whole life struggling with it, and she couldn't answer this question.

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"Ena!!" Mello waved to her, "Would you like to try on Mr. Papagu's latest mermaid skirt?"

"Eh? What is that?" Eina tilted her head curiously, "Mermaid skirt?"

"Well!" Isili said, "It was designed by Papagu to express the major change in the prejudice between humans and fish-men. The skirts worn by humans look very similar to the tails of mermaids at first glance. oh!"

"Yes, fishmen can wear it if they want!" Figas said.

She said a little embarrassedly: "I, do I want to try..."

"Yes!" Figas directly took her arm and dragged her affectionately towards the employee lounge, "Didn't I tell you before that Eina is as beautiful as Princess Shirahoshi! We all really want to see Eina as a mermaid. Pack!"

She was not good at dealing with delicate and soft girls, so she let them control her in a cold sweat.

Ishili changed her dress, while Xiramela was responsible for putting on her makeup.

They struggled with Ena, and when they reached the last step, Ena couldn't help but protest loudly.

"Isili!!" The silver-haired girl blushed, "There's no need for this!!"

Yi Xili tilted her head and looked at her: "What's wrong with this? Are all us mermaid girls dressed like this?"

Eina stood there uncomfortably, the tips of her ears red as she pulled at the only piece of fabric on her upper body.

Dark green sequins that are very close to the color of her eyes are dotted on the bikini, flashing a misty phantom under the reflection of the light.

Her well-proportioned figure was exposed to the air, and her plump figure was wrapped in two pieces of fabric. The dark clothes made her soft skin look like snow.

From her slender waist was a long silver skirt, which outlined her sharply curved hips and legs all the way down, forming a charming fishtail. The skirt shapes and patterns designed by Papagu are layered on the smooth fabric, creating a circle of waves when walking, as smooth as beautiful fish scales.

The delicate-looking girl's cheeks are flushed, her plump red lips are dyed bright red, her deep eyebrows are drawn into a more three-dimensional outline, and her long eyelashes tremble slightly because of shyness.

She opened her mouth and was about to say whether she wanted to change into something else when she heard Mello calling her from outside.

"Ena! Your companions are here to find you!"

She didn't have time to change her clothes, and Yixili and the others pushed her out of the door like a heckler, so she had no choice but to walk out.

It's okay, isn't Nami just wearing it? They wouldn't be too surprised even if they saw it. She thought so in her heart.

Melo's eyes lit up when he saw her, and then he lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "It's the blond guy from before~ He said he would take you to the shopping street to buy ingredients or something."

"It's Sanji, then I understand." When Ena heard Sanji's name, she subconsciously put her shyness behind her and took over the conversation naturally.

Mello looked at her back and blinked.

"It feels like she hasn't noticed yet."

"Yes, I thought something was wrong with the way Mr. Sanji looked at Ena."

"Hehe, Ena is surprisingly a slow child."

The beautiful and thoughtful young ladies gathered together and gossiped.

"That is to say, Mr. Sanji seems to like us very much, but every time Eina, who is clearly far away, talks or makes any movements, his eyes~~ he immediately glances at her subconsciously !”

"I'm so nervous!"

"And he really looked at her like she was the only one in his eyes."

"This is how you treat people you really care about." The older Kai Lian concluded with a smile.

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At this moment, Ena was walking towards Sanji.

The blond man seemed to have been waiting for a long time. He was facing away from her and lighting a cigarette with his head down.

She called his name: "Sanji!"

He picked up the cigarette, turned his head casually, and put the lighter into his pocket.

Then, he froze in place.

In the air of fish-man island filled with dreamy bubbles, the silver-haired girl slowly walked towards him.

Her silvery hair was slightly scattered around her temples, and her cold and delicate facial features vividly pieced together a picture of spring.

Her eyebrows were smiling, her red lips were slightly raised, and her dark green eyes were shining with bright light.

The silver fishtail skirt fluttered as she moved, creating a pool of moonlight in his heart.

Maybe Usopp was right in complaining all along.

Everyone in the world saw her as stunningly beautiful, but he always seemed to be unfazed.

But who knew that the blond man was obsessed with all the women in the world, except her.

For the first time in his life, he saw a woman's naked skin. The blood didn't surge up, but rushed into his heart crazily.

His heartbeat was so strong that even his eardrums were vibrating vaguely.

The blond man may not have realized one thing.

In just one glance, he had fallen into that ancient and sweet gambling game.