[Pirates]Walking with the sea

We walked in front of the dark sea, we encountered ghosts, ferocious beasts, storms, and lost lovers

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After that kidnapping incident, Shanks would follow Vivian every time he went to the island.

——It’s like having an extra little tail.

Although Vivian has said many times that nothing will happen to him again, Shanks still goes his own way. Everyone thinks he has bad intentions. If anyone even looks at Vivian for a second, he will give him a vicious slap in the eye. .

Although his childish face doesn't have much deterrence.

"Shanks, don't treat me like a child, okay? I'm older than you." Seeing Shanks glaring away at an innocent passerby again, Vivian reluctantly stuffed him an apple.

Shanks, who was happily chewing on the apple, was stunned for a moment, and finally remembered this incident belatedly. He frowned, feeling that the apple in his hand was no longer sweet: "If I'm younger than you, I can't protect you, right?" ?”

"Not really..."

Shanks's eyes lit up, but Vivian didn't say anything else. Instead, he turned to the stall owner and continued to ask, "Are your oranges sweet? Sweet? No, are there any sour ones? The very sour ones... ...No? Okay, excuse me..."

"Vivian, why don't you buy sweet oranges?" Looking at the beautiful and attractive big oranges on the stall, Shanks swallowed his saliva and asked doubtfully.

Vivian didn't look back: "Bought it for Roger."

Shanks was stunned. He thought about the taste of sour oranges, and suddenly felt sourness in his mouth. It was so sour that he felt a toothache. After silently pitying his captain in his heart, he saw Vivian walking further and further. Far away, he immediately followed him.

Near night.

After dinner, Vivian sat high up alone, staring at the distant dark sea in a daze. The wind blowing on the sea was like the unwilling scream from a deep-sea ghost. It said that she was not the only one who had lost everything.

Vivian dropped a pebble in agreement. For a moment, the pebble gave Vivian a trance-the sea could be broken.

It reminded her of someone.

...Vivian withdrew her gaze, looked at the night, then at the moon, and finally lowered her eyes sadly.

She was going bad.

Just like the rotten apple she found in the utility room that time, it was ugly and dirty, weird and smelly.

Shanks and Bucky could freely talk about their life after getting off the ship, but she had been avoiding such topics because she couldn't think of anywhere else she could go besides the Roger Pirates...

But just like a young eagle always leaves its nest and learns to fly on its own, she cannot stay with the Roger Pirates forever.

She understands.

She always understood.

The severe pain in her head began again, and Vivian endured it expressionlessly. The after-effects of the experiment were becoming more obvious and severe, but she still told no one.

She hid it so well that even Roger didn't notice it.

How many and what the sequelae of the experiment are, Vivian will only know them one by one when they appear, but she only knows it. There is no medicine in the world that can drive them away. They have already been integrated with her. Her bones, her blood, and even more importantly, her sex, are the girl named "Vivian" by Roger.

She no longer likes to dream. The pure white world in her dreams is too depressing and makes her breathless.

Vivian looked at the blue flames in her hands and squeezed them tightly. The pain that occurred every night made her feel tired, so in order to divert her attention, she began to think about many things—— Should I suggest Mr. Ord change the blue fish sashimi to braised in soy sauce? Do you want to tell Mr. Reilly that the culprits of the kitchen theft were Roger Shanks and Bucky? I want to see what Mr. Jabba looks like without tying his hair and wearing sunglasses. How is Uncle Hua’s hair made? Why does Marco always like to have that straw hair style?

She also thought about many weird things. Are there really tiny people as big as a thumb? Where do the glowing flowers grow?

But she would inevitably think of that tall figure, and then his unsmiling face, which was outlined with the same hard lines, and then tilted out of control.

"Vivian? What are you doing here?"

Bucky poked his head out. His conspicuous red nose looked a little weird in the moonlight. He climbed up and sat down next to Vivian. Then he stuck his head down and said, "Come up quickly, Vivian is here."

A few seconds later, Shanks also climbed up and sat on the other side of Vivian, then turned to look at her: "What's wrong with you?"

Vivian glanced at him, and then at Bucky who was babbling and saying, "Vivian, you are so cunning, you are hiding alone to look at such a beautiful starry sky." She suddenly felt the difference between people. , Shanks can always detect something wrong with others at a glance. If it were Bucky, he would only feel that someone was talking about his red nose.

"Mr. Aude said that you haven't eaten much recently, and he asked us if we did anything to make you unhappy. Really, Vivian, are we that kind of people?!"

Before Vivian could reply to Shanks, Bucky began to vomit bitterly.

"And Mr. Rayleigh, he keeps looking at me and Shanks with doubts about whether we have bullied you. He doesn't even think about it, how dare we bully you!...You are just as good as bullying us..."

Bucky muttered, sounding as if he had been greatly wronged, and Vivian pretended not to hear his last words.

"You're too sensitive, Bucky."

Shanks' words immediately made Bucky furious: "What?! Am I sensitive? You idiot is too slow!" He clenched his fist and wanted to hit Shanks' head, but when he saw that Holding a straw hat, he hesitated and put down his hand.

If you beat him to pieces, that's it. Forget it.

He once heard the captain say, don't argue with fools.

"Vivian, are you really okay?" Shanks looked at her worriedly. In fact, he discovered something very early, but it was not specific. Most of the time, he felt that it was just his illusion. But there was always a vague feeling in his heart that something was wrong.

"What can happen to Vivian? Eat well and sleep well... She has slept more than me recently. She is late for training and Mr. Reilly didn't criticize her. How partial!"

"I'm fine." Vivian told him seriously.

Shanks didn't believe it and was about to ask something again when Bucky's voice suddenly came out: "Look! There is a small island in front of you!"

Small island?

The two of them were stunned, a little surprised, and couldn't help but look towards the place pointed by Bucky's finger. Sure enough, a small island did appear in front of them, the kind that could be seen at a glance.

But what surprised them was not this, but that a few minutes ago, there was nothing in front of them except the black and silent sea, let alone a small island.

The island seemed to appear suddenly in front of them.