[One Piece]Walking with the Sea

Then let parting teach you how to cherish and repent.

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"Vivian?" Shanks opened his mouth and shouted again.

Unexpectedly, a sword suddenly appeared in Vivian's hand, and the owner of the sword swiped it towards his neck at lightning speed.

Seeing her actions, Shanks' eyes were filled with tears and he immediately shouted and rushed towards her: "Don't——!!"

However, there was a figure faster than him.

The dragon almost dodged to Vivian's side the moment the sword appeared. He didn't even remember his identity as a fruit ability user and directly grabbed the blade with his bare hands. The sword was hindered, but Vivian didn't seem to notice it. She just increased her strength. The sharp sword almost cut off the dragon's entire hand. Fortunately, Shanks ran over in time and took the sword away from her hand.

"Vivian, what are you doing?!" Shanks was angry and worried. He knelt down and hugged Vivian to prevent her from doing what she just did again.

But after the sword was taken away, Vivian covered her face and finally cried out sadly. She cried with all her strength, as if she wanted to cry all her tears for more than ten years in this moment. Her body was shaking and her arms were terribly cold.

Keep crying, keep crying, until you almost retching, until your body convulses uncontrollably due to excessive pain, until your breath is choked, and your throat is blocked, and then you completely lose your voice.

Despair surged into her heart like a frenzy, and the corpse hanging on the high platform was like a curse that could never be shaken off. It was firmly engraved in her soul, making it impossible for her to see the sun rise again.

What does death mean?

Vivian once asked Roger this. What was Roger's answer to her at that time?

"People don't really die, Vivian." At that time, Roger was just discovered to have an incurable disease. After inviting Kurokas on board, he was diagnosed to have only a few years to live. But Roger didn't seem to care at all. He drank by the bucket and fought with all his strength.

Vivian knew what it meant to have an incurable disease, and she also knew what it meant to die soon, but perhaps she had never experienced it in a real sense. She stubbornly believed that Roger would not be defeated by the so-called incurable disease. , she firmly believed that Roger could live until his hair turned gray.

So with such a firm belief, and because Roger's attitude gave her an even firmer belief, she ran like a stubborn little calf towards a place, even though many people laughed and said that Roger was already fast. There was no time, so she just believed the joke in the words.

"As long as one person remembers him, then he does not die in the true sense. Death is inevitable for all humans, but he can choose the way to die, be unknown or be remembered by the whole world." Roger Having said this, he suddenly smiled and patted Vivian's head and asked: "Vivian, if one day I die, can you remember me and live on for a long, long time? In this case, I He will never die."

What was her answer at that time?

Vivian no longer remembers it, because she seems to suddenly not like this world that much.

What is the world like outside?

After boarding the ship and witnessing the village massacred by pirates for the first time, Vivian had doubts about the contents of the book for the first time. This doubt made her start to have a suspicion of everyone and everything. A wave of doubt.

The sky will never be an unchanging beautiful blue, the sea will always be scary, people will become vicious, brothers can kill each other, blood relationship is never a shackle, biological daughters can be sold for food, weak people are like Ants can be killed at will, and partners in the same boat can also become enemies...

When Vivian's world turned completely dark, Roger approached her. He changed his usual behavior of teasing her and told her many stories inexplicably. Some were about what the Roger Pirates had experienced, and some were about what happened when the people on the ship boarded the ship. He mentioned that he The meeting with Jabba Rayleigh and the others told them a lot of embarrassing things that Rayleigh and the others had encountered, such as being swallowed by a sea king in the Windless Zone and almost being pulled out, and being frightened to death by a strong woman's confession. In the end, he had to leave the island. He was favored by the queen of a certain country and asked Rayleigh to be her little lover, but was kicked away by the angry Rayleigh.

The beautiful Spring Island, the ever-changing Four Seasons Island, the Flower Island with the most beautiful flowers in the world, the passionate Dance Island, the Music Island that can shock the soul, the Rare Bird Island with countless rare and rare animals, the whole island is full of wonders. It’s the home of marshmallows, and Ice Cream Island, home to ice cream.

Roger asked her if she had ever been to these places? Vivian shook her head.

So Roger smiled. He rubbed her head vigorously, turning her beautiful blond hair into a golden retriever. "Look, Vivian, there are so many things you haven't seen yet." But before that, how could we so hastily decide whether the world is good or bad?"

Roger looked down at Vivian. At this time, she was brushing his hand away dissatisfiedly, holding her head and combing her messed up hair. She didn't notice the rare gentle smile in Roger's eyes. meaning.

"So go ahead and love the world, Vivian."

"No matter what kind of setbacks you encounter, even if you cry in pain or lose your courage, it doesn't matter. Just stand up again. Keep living and see the whole world!"

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Vivian was stunned by a hand blade from Long who came back after taking care of the injury on his hand.

"Hey! You guy..." Bucky's roar was interrupted by Long's cold voice before he finished speaking, "We can't let her continue to cry, otherwise the wounds in her body will open again."

Shanks naturally understood this truth, but when he saw Vivian crying until she almost fainted, he felt so distressed that he couldn't do anything. Watching Captain Roger die, being killed by two weak sailors who could even defeat him, he felt as angry and sad as anyone else, but the final command given by Captain Roger was absolutely Can't save him.

Bucky opened his mouth: "But Vivian..."

"She can only get out on her own. You are her partners. You can try to help her." After Long said that, he watched Shanks carefully put Vivian on the bed and then turned and walked out.

Shanks and Bucky did not dare to leave Vivian alone in the room. They each found a stool to sit down and just watched her quietly.

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Vivian felt like she was trapped in a huge dream woven with countless beautiful memories. Here, she was reluctant to leave because she was greedy for the passing warmth, and gradually began to be unable to distinguish between dreams and reality.

"Hey, Vivian, look, I will definitely catch a big fish for you today!"

"Are you hungry again? I'll prepare something delicious for you."

"Odd, remember to prepare a glass of milk for little Vivian, so that the little one can grow taller, hahaha, you say so, Spencer!"

"Hey, Jabba, if you want to die, don't drag me with you!"

"Vivian wants to learn to swim? Then you've found the right person. Fishmen are the best at swimming!"

“Oden oden—delicious oden—”

"Roger—have you made Vivian angry again?!"

"Vivian!"

"Vivian!"

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Vivian discovered a strange thing. She found that everyone on the ship had no face.

No, maybe she couldn't see their faces clearly. No matter how hard she tried to open her eyes, their faces were just a blur of black thread. Could it be that she had become short-sighted? Vivian was very puzzled.

But when she looked closer to Shanks' face, even though she was so close that she was almost touching his face, Shanks's face was still a mess of black lines. Well, the voice that came out was exactly the same as in the memory.

"What's wrong with you? Vivian."

"It's nothing."

For a moment, it was as if noisy memories were whistling through the wind, settling in a gloomy dream that was hazy and unreal. Vivian seemed to have remembered something, but it seemed as if she had not thought of anything at all.

"Hey - it's time to eat -"

Vivian turned his head, and Bucky, who had the same black thread face, was waving vigorously towards the two of them.

"Let's go and eat!"

Vivian nodded and was about to follow Shanks when someone suddenly stopped her. She turned around in surprise and saw a person with normal facial features.

"Vivian, are you going to forget me?"

Vivian was stunned. She didn't understand what this sentence meant. Shanks' call came from behind. She turned around blankly and saw Shanks and Bucky standing quietly by the door, seemingly waiting. she.

She subconsciously raised her feet to walk over, but the man spoke again.

"You have to think carefully. If you go there now, you will never be able to see the person you love again."

What's the meaning?

Vivian paused and turned to look at the man who was speaking. She was surprised to find that this man had the same mustache as Captain Roger... Wait, does Captain Roger have a beard? She couldn't help but recall Captain Roger's appearance in her mind, but no matter how she recalled it, what came to her mind was a messy, black thread-like face.

She suddenly realized that something was wrong. It was impossible for a person to have no face!

"It seems you have finally discovered it, not bad Vivian." The man nodded happily, "So, do you still remember me?"

Vivian looked at his face blankly. The man's face seemed to wake up from a long memory, gradually replacing the black thread face of "Captain Roger".

Captain Roger finally had facial features, and the false people on the ship disappeared in an instant.

After thinking of this face, Vivian's tears fell instantly. She looked at Roger in panic like a child who had made a big mistake, "I'm sorry, Captain Roger...I, I forgot about you." …”

"How could it be? Don't you always remember me?" Roger laughed, "Vivian, I probably haven't told you. As a father, you will never think that your children will make mistakes. of."

He walked up to Vivian and patted her head gently: "So Vivian will always remember me, right?"

Vivian cried and nodded vigorously, but felt that she shouldn't cry in front of Roger, so she kept wiping away her tears.

"I'm really looking forward to Vivian's future adventures. It will definitely be a more exciting journey than mine!"

"I, I will definitely... I will, I will become a person more powerful than Captain Roger!" Vivian hiccupped, and she tightly grasped the hem of Roger's clothes, stealing this short-term warmth. .

"Really? Hahahaha, since Vivian is so sure, then I must believe it!" After Roger finished speaking, he rubbed her head again, "Then, wake up, Vivian, yes Many people who love you deeply are worried about you."

"But...I didn't even see Captain Roger's last face..." Vivian choked.

"Then do you think I am fake now?"

Vivian shook her head vigorously.

"So, you have already met me. Don't worry, I won't die, because Vivian will definitely remember me forever——"