[Pirates] Retired Knight's Logbook

【forty nine】

Andrea was also quite surprised. After all, she didn't have many friends. Shanks and Hawkeye were both rare friends who fell in love with each other at first sight.

Counting further down, they would probably be Whitebeard, her old friend, and Marco, who had helped her take care of Ace and thus chatted a little more.

She is not the type to take the initiative to make friends, and she is also very picky. After living in the Kingdom of Goa for so long, he was just a lone ranger with a kid.

So she was very happy to see Shanks at this time.

"Let's not mention this...what happened to the injury on your face?" Andrea noticed this immediately and was still confused, "Who was injured while fighting?"

Andrea has also fought against Shanks, so she naturally knows the opponent's strength. Although she said that her strength gradually improved after her trip to the new world... But she is also familiar with Shanks's character, as well as his desire to form a pirate group to go to sea, his adventures and accumulation of experience points There should be quite a few of them, and there shouldn't be many people who can hurt him like this.

"Ah, this..." Shanks raised his hand and touched the scar on his left eye, sat up, and the smile on his face faded a little, "I'll tell you more in detail later."

Andrea had an intuition that something was going on here, but before she could ask in detail, the red-haired young man in front of her smiled again: "It's been a long time since I last saw you! I didn't expect to meet you here. Let's wait together." Have a drink!”

The two of them have indeed not seen each other for a long time. If you think about it carefully and count forward, they have not seen each other again since they said goodbye in Rogge Town seven years ago.

But Shanks is not much different from when they parted ways.

This refers specifically to character. Naturally, there are some physical changes from boyhood to young adulthood, as well as appearance.

Just like Andrea from the age of fifteen to the current age of twenty-two, her height has not changed much, but her figure has changed significantly.

Naturally, Andrea readily accepted Shanks' invitation. But she had other things to take care of.

"Wait a minute, there are two children following me. Can I take them with me?"

"Huh? Two?" Shanks showed a hint of surprise at first, then laughed and said, "Of course!"

He followed Andrea out of the bar and saw the two children standing at the door, surrounded by people.

The group of people surrounding them were still his crew members, and they all greeted him when they saw him. After saying hello, they stared straight at Andrea behind him, with different expressions, and some winks that seemed like It almost makes me cramp.

When Ace saw Andrea, his originally bored expression dropped, and he shouted obediently: "Mom Leah!"

As soon as he said this, before Andrea could respond, Shanks passed over first.

The red-haired young man squatted down in front of little Ace, showing a surprised expression, and raised his hand to touch his chin, with a thoughtful expression on his face: "Is this your son Leah? He doesn't look like Hawkeye." ah……"

Andrea, who was standing behind him, suppressed the smile on her face, raised her foot and kicked him expressionlessly.

【Fifty】

In the end, Andrea took Sabo and Ace to the evening banquet.

Sabo and Ace were having fun with Shanks' crew. Andrea lamented that Shanks's love for lively parties had not changed at all, while chatting with people on the side.

Of course, compared to Shanks who is not sitting upright, her sitting posture is upright, and even her drinking posture is leisurely.

This move earned Shanks the same emotion as before: "Lea, you still look so serious!"

"You are too immoral." Andrea gave the same reply as before without expression, and glanced at him, "Okay, now you can tell where the injury on your face came from, right?"

This time Shanks did not refuse, but after laughing, he talked about the reason - his injury was caused by a man named Blackbeard Teach on the main ship of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Andrea was greatly surprised when she heard this. She frowned and thought about it carefully. She couldn't find the impression of this person. At the same time, she also felt that something was wrong: "Blackbeard Teach... Since it can hurt you, it's okay." You have great strength, but you don’t have any reputation...Do you like to keep a low profile or just stay dormant?"

"I don't know...but Leah, you have to be careful in the future."

"I understand." Andrea nodded and took note of it seriously.

After Shanks finished talking about his own affairs, Andrea naturally started to talk about her side - first, throwing away the blame for Hawkeye's innocence.

Naturally, Andrea wouldn't hide too much about her best friend. Just like Hawkeye, she explained that Ace was her sister's son, why she adopted him and became his mother, and why she Please don't clarify it from Hawkeye.

At the end, Andrea said in a warning tone: "I'm already a little embarrassed for dragging Mihawk into trouble for personal reasons. If you keep talking nonsense, I will be angry."

Shanks then showed a sudden expression: "No wonder Hawkeye remained silent when I asked him last time..."

Andrea was a little surprised when she heard this: "Huh? Have you met Mihawk?"

"Well, we met last time in the New World and we had a good fight."

"It looks like this... I don't know where he has gone now." Andrea said with a hint of nostalgia, "I really want to play against him again to see what level he has reached."

The two talked about their mutual friends. After learning that the battle between Hawkeye and Shanks was witnessed by Whitebeard, and that it had not been long since she left the Whitebeard Pirates, Andrea became even more excited. It's a pity - if I had known she would have stayed a little longer and joined her friends to fight together!

After Shanks said this, he mentioned another thing: "Do you know that there are rumors outside that you like red hair?"

His tone was very natural, so Andrea didn't feel anything was wrong at all.

"Huh? Yes." She said and glanced at her little friend's red hair. She sighed in her heart and said that although it was not the bright red of her teacher, it was still a beautiful wine red, and she didn't realize it. Hiding the meaning, he still felt a little puzzled, "But I just said it when I was in the Chambord Islands. Did this spread so fast?"

She has always been curious, besides the big events in the newspapers delivered by Newsbird, what are the scraps of gossip? In order to see the big news, she ended up eating gossip surrounding the Charlotte family - I wonder if Big Mom has recently married a new husband.

Since she moved to Golber Mountain, it was inconvenient to ask Newsbird to deliver newspapers, so she simply did not order them. Instead, she went to the town from time to time to inquire and read old newspapers to understand the news.

Facing Andrea's innocent and curious look, Shanks stared at her for a while with his chin in one hand, and said in a somewhat surprised tone: "Lea, you... don't know that my nickname is Red Hair, right? "

Andrea: "...Huh?"

Shanks: "Ah, you're blushing."

【fifty one】

Andrea really didn’t know.

After she reacted, she realized how outrageous her declaration would go. For a moment, the red-haired young man in front of him felt something wrong - he clearly had no thoughts, but it was as if he was confessing his love in front of others.

Andrea blushed because she was thin-skinned, but when Shanks discovered this and exposed it, he started laughing. The sitting position where he could still watch turned into lying backwards.

Then, he was dragged away by the collar by the angry Andrea and went to a deserted open space to spar.

He could even maintain a smile and wave to the crew members who were looking at him, and said loudly: "It's okay! Don't worry about me!"

Crew members: "..." No, no one is worried about you at all, boss! Everyone is just envious!

However, this envy turned into sympathy when it was discovered that the two of them were not doing something quiet, but actually fighting.

After the beating, Andrea's feeling of embarrassment basically disappeared.

The most important thing is that Shanks' attitude is too natural, which makes it look like she has a guilty conscience if she has any special reaction.

But since it was rare to meet Shanks, Andrea naturally did not forget her purpose. She called Ace and Sabo together and asked Shanks about Roger.

Ace was already familiar with the situation, so he naturally lay obediently on Andrea's lap and listened. Sabo was purely following Ace and was full of curiosity about what kind of person he was under the famous name of One Piece.

After Shanks took a deep look at Andrea, he put on his usual smile and began to tell the story of his captain.

During this period, Ace would interrupt and ask a few questions, and also mentioned Rayleigh and Tom.

After Shanks had almost finished speaking, the two children who had been noisy all night were tired and fell asleep.

Andrea looked at it and decided to find a hotel to stay in Windmill Village tonight. It wasn't that she couldn't carry her two children home, or that she was worried that the two children, who could eat and sleep well, wouldn't sleep well. She simply felt that it was too dark and she had been drinking, making it unsuitable for travel.

Shanks also helped carry Sabo, and Andrea didn't show politeness to her friend and picked up Ace herself.

After finding the hotel, putting down the two children, and out of courtesy Andrea thanked Shanks and sent her to the door, Shanks looked up at the night sky, then looked at her and asked : "Is Ace the son of Roger?"

"..." The expression on Andrea's face did not calm down for a moment, and her expression also showed a bit of hesitation. Seeing Shanks's expression revealed, she was silent for a while and asked, "How could you tell? Yes? Ace and Roger don’t look alike, he’s more like my sister.”

"Ah, it really doesn't look like it." Shanks smiled, "But you said that Ace's father is dead and his identity makes you feel very difficult and you have to hide it to protect him. In fact, people who meet this condition don't That’s too much…and then you asked Ace to listen to Roger’s affairs.”

Andrea crossed her arms and her expression gradually became serious, with a bit of self-reflection - Oops, she was too careless and forgot that there are still smart people in this world.