Pirates: Breath of Kalei at the beginning

"As long as that guy is dead, no one can bother us."

"No one will know the truth back then..."

"Everything will return to its original state..."

Ahiburn, who looked haggard, was still thinking casually.

But at this moment, at some point, Sol, who had already been close behind him, suddenly launched an attack, seizing the opportunity when he relaxed, and slashed the opponent's back with a knife.

Chi-!

The soft sound of the knife blade entering flesh.

Before he could understand what was happening, Ahiburn's eyes widened and he fell to the ground with a mouth full of blood.

"Ashborn!"

Albert, who had just followed Saul to the island, rushed forward when he saw this situation.

"Don't kill him, Thor."

"If you don't want to kill? How will Minian and the others wake up?"

Ignoring Albert's words, Thor held the knife and moved forward.

But Albert didn't give him a chance to kill someone. He rushed forward in three or two steps, lifted up Ashbourne's collar and said, "You damn bastard, why on earth did you do this?"

"Why?"

Ashbourne grinned, and he asked Albert in a questioning tone: "Is a world where no one is here what you yearn for?"

"Is that false world what you yearn for?"

Albert asked rhetorically.

Everyone is dead.

"I have lived in the illusion you created for 16 years..."

Albert recalled various scenes from the past.

He seems to have been aware of it from a long time ago, but why did he choose to reveal this secret until now?

Maybe it's because he doesn't want to wake up.

But now it is different.

The reunion with his parents in the fantasy world just now made him recall many details from the past, and he also saw through many truths that he had never thought of.

"You said 16 years ago, if I had not opened that box, would everything have been different from now?"

Yes, he remembered it all.

Encountered a shipwreck at sea 16 years ago?

How could a storm of that magnitude appear so coincidental in such a calm East China Sea?

In the final analysis, it was still because of the box of unknown stones.

"The crystal stone in your hand was brought back by the village chief's grandfather 16 years ago, right?"

Sixteen years ago, the village chief Grandpa, who had entered the Grand Line, returned to Lamorak Village, and five or six years had passed since he left the East China Sea.

No one knows how he came back, especially the villagers of Lamorak Village who have never seen the outside world. In their eyes, isn't the Grand Line just a place where you can only go and never return?

"You...why do you know this?"

After hearing this, Ashbourne didn't care about the wounds on his body. He vomited blood and stood up, looking at Albert with great surprise.

"Because...16 years ago, it was the 'magic box' I opened."

At that time, Albert, who was only six years old, out of curiosity, opened a box abandoned in the corner while playing in the warehouse of the ship's cabin. Then, tragedy happened.

A thunderstorm suddenly fell on the extremely calm sea, dark clouds spread, and a storm came. The boat gradually sank amidst the cries of the villagers. Just before his death, his parents hurriedly stuffed him into a wooden barrel. .

"This kind of stone can absorb human flesh and blood essence to achieve the ability to control wind and rain, right?"

Albert looked at the sluggish Ahiburn and the blood stains on his body that didn't look like splattering from a wound, and then said: "Did the old man from the village who went to sea to look for us 16 years ago also die?" Under a sudden storm?”

The air suddenly became oppressive.

Ashborn gasped. Suddenly, the crystal stone in his hand fell to the ground. He grabbed his hair like crazy and shouted: "No... I didn't do it. This can't be me." Yes! They are all still alive and waiting for me in the village. My father also said that he would take me out of this island to see..."

Tears instantly filled his eyes.

Looking at Axibo, who seemed to be going crazy, Albert couldn't help but sigh, but just when he wanted to step forward to comfort the poor man, Axibo, who was still lowering his head and muttering to himself, Well, he took out the dagger first and stabbed Thor's heart straight away.

Almost in an instant.

Thor, whose spirit was once again attacked by illusions, tensed up his muscles. Without any hesitation, he cut off the heads of his "parents" before he even had time to open his mouth. Then, the moment he woke up, he took advantage of the situation and moved the knife blade towards him. The next chop.

click!

The Nichirin Knife cut Ashborn's throat with incomparable precision.

Glancing at the dagger pierced into his shoulder from the corner of his eye, Thor frowned, and then kicked Ahibourne's body away, leaving him to collapse on the lawn.

"Why.."

Albert, who witnessed all this, pursed his lips bitterly.

Of course he would not have any dissatisfaction with Thor for killing Ahiborn.

He just regretted that after tonight, he and Faith were the only ones left in Lamorak Village.

The wound healed quickly, and when no traces could be seen on the skin of the shoulder, Thor took out Aliangliang's card and inserted it into Paknota's card. He walked until he was not completely dead. In front of Toru's Ashbourne.

He stretched out his hand and put it on the other person's shoulder.

After half an hour.

"Is this the reason why you can't accept reality?"

It turns out that 16 years ago, Ashbourne did not stay in the village to recuperate, but went to sea with the villagers to find people.

The reason why he lied and told Albert that he stayed in the village because of illness was because...it was him who caused the second sea storm that year and caused a boatload of old people, including his father, to sink to the bottom of the sea. Myself.

"Yes..I'm sorry.."

In a pool of blood, Ahiburn's throat was cut, and his eyes were distractedly looking at an open space on the left, where a figure he had missed for a long time seemed to appear.

"Go home, little Bourne. Auntie Cole and Grandpa Coleroy are coming to our house for dinner today."

"Okay dad, I'll be right back."

"You are so old, why are you still dirty? You have to wash your clothes yourself when you get back."

"understood."

"By the way, when you grow up a little bit, daddy will take you to see the outside world."

"it is good!"

"Dad, let me tell you, there are fun things everywhere outside of Lamorak Island, especially the Grand Line. Dad heard that there are many people of different races living there..."

Under the sunset, big hands holding small hands, walking farther and farther.

At the same time, Ahiburn, who still had tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, had already closed his eyes completely with a smile on his face.

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