"What a rare visitor." Kurokas, the administrator of the Twin Points Lighthouse, folded the newspaper in his hand, adjusted his glasses, and called out the uninvited visitor's name, "Rayley."

"Haha, long time no see, Kurokas." Rayleigh jumped off the small sailboat, "It must have been more than ten years."

"So," Kurokas put down the newspaper and stood up from the sun lounger, "What do you want to see me for?"

His eyes glanced at Nyx who was following Riley: "Is it related to this girl? Do you want me to treat her?"

"He is indeed the doctor with the highest reputation in the sea." Rayleigh flattered with a smile, "You can tell at a glance."

"Don't do this," Kurokas raised his eyebrows, "I can't think of anything else that would make you come all the way to see me."

Reilly didn't bother with him and pushed Nyx directly in front of him: "This child's name is Nyx. She is my lovely junior. I will ask you to take care of her for a while."

Kurokas held his hands and made a face: "Then what if I refuse?"

"Then please treat me as a junior who comes to visit you simply because of your reputation." Nyx replied in a neither humble nor condescending manner.

She took out a bottle of wine from her luggage and handed it to Kurokas: "I'm sorry for visiting here. This is the wine I bought in the Chambord Islands. I hope it suits your taste."

Kurokas accepted Nyx's gift with a surprised look on his face. He couldn't help but raise his head and ask Reilly: "How can you bring up such a polite child?"

"Hey, what you said is too rude, I'm not Roger's guy." Reilly retorted.

"Come on, you're only half-assed." Kurokas showed no mercy at all, "Besides me, are there any serious people on that ship?"

"Yes, according to what you said." Riley pointed at Nyx standing in front of them, "Well, isn't this it? You just praised her."

Kurokas: “Huh???”

"In a sense, she should be considered your predecessor." Reilly reminded him kindly, "I said, this child's name is Nyx. You should still remember it, right?"

-

Kurokas remembered that he had indeed heard the name. From the mouth of another red-haired brat.

It was his fourth year joining the Roger Pirates, on the Fish-Man Island in the deep sea. After they learned the prophecy about the Mermaid Princess from Charlie, they prepared to leave, but the red-haired kid and the red-nosed kid sneaked back while everyone was busy.

Then he ran back crying and laughing.

When he was worried that the two people with twitching mouth corners and uncontrollable facial expressions had eaten something poisonous by mistake and was about to induce vomiting, the red-haired kid and the red-nosed kid broke away from his hands and rushed towards them to check on the situation. of Raleigh and Roger.

"She's still alive!" Shanks jumped up and down around Roger excitedly, "Captain Roger, Nyx is still alive!"

"Really!" Roger also happily lifted Shanks up, "Where is she? Let's go pick her up together!"

The corners of Shanks' mouth drooped: "Charlie said she couldn't see clearly either...but Charlie also said she would reappear in thirteen years!"

Bucky muttered to the side: "It will reappear thirteen years later. This is really strange."

"Thirteen years..." Roger felt a little regretful, but quickly cheered up, "Anyway, I finally got the news about her. It's great, Shanks!"

"Ok!"

For several weeks after that, Kurokas could hear Shanks chanting this name in various places almost every day. Bucky couldn't bear it anymore and covered his mouth.

Seeing the two brats fighting together, he curiously asked the other crew members about the story of this name.

"Nix? She's a good kid."

"Hahaha, I still remember when she and Shanks were arguing over who was the brother and sister."

"I remember Nyx won in the end, right? Didn't Shanks start calling her sister?"

Upon hearing this, Shanks pushed Bucky away and ran over, protesting loudly: "I am the brother! I am the brother!"

"If Nyx hears this, will she have another fight with you?" The crew around him teased him, "Did you beat her back then?"

Shanks said stubbornly: "I can definitely win now! I have become stronger! I have become stronger...so I will definitely be able to protect her in the future!"

Kurokas noticed that the corners of Shanks' eyes were a little red.

"Nix is ​​my sister no matter what," Bucky got up from the ground and expressed his dissatisfaction with Shanks mercilessly, "You idiot who always causes trouble for others!"

Bucky: "Sister Nyx will help me find treasures and buy me things, but you will only trick me!"

Shanks: "So you were bribed by her?"

Bucky: "So what!"

The two brats started fighting again.

-

"When you said that, I remembered it." Kurokas turned around and motioned to them, "Stop standing here, come inside and chat."

Riley and Nyx looked at each other and saw the joy in each other's eyes.

To express her gratitude, Nix took out several bottles of fine wine.

While sipping the wine that Nyx gave Kurokas, Rayleigh asked her where she got the money to buy the wine.

"The money was exchanged for gold and gems." Nyx did not hide her journey from Reilly. "I had done various jobs in other places before. Because money cannot be circulated, I always ask others to help me before I leave. Replace it with gold and precious stones.”

Although some parts will inevitably be damaged on the way across, there is still a lot left.

"What have you done?" Riley was curious.

"Hmm... the most common profession is hero, right?" Nyx thought about it for a moment, "protecting people from weirdos or criminals, and accepting some commissions and running errands."

Nyx sighed: "Of course, occasionally I am only allowed to be an intelligence agent because of my age."

"Being a pirate but trying to be a hero?" Rayleigh said with a smile, "How does it feel?"

"I still like to be a pirate." Nyx thought for a while, "Heroes... life is too tiring. But one of my teachers is an exception. He becomes a hero out of interest. Because it is out of interest and not responsibility. , so I live pretty freely.”

"Sounds like an interesting guy." Rayleigh filled another glass of wine for himself and Kurokas, "Any other stories?"

Nyx looked indifferently at the two men who were sharing their experiences with each other, and argued that they would tell her the story of the adventure in which she was absent in exchange. Then she regained her composure and continued talking.

"I also worked at a psychic counseling center, which is a place that handles supernatural-related incidents. Although most of those incidents have nothing to do with supernatural beings."

"There are some relatively peaceful places where there is basically no job that I can do." Nyx even considered using an age-increasing agent to change her age, but unfortunately she was not good at refining potions, and she There was neither time to study nor the corresponding materials. “In the end, I had no choice but to become an amateur fortune teller to earn some pocket money.”

Nix thought for a while: "The most profitable career I have ever had is... the Mafia?"

"Have you ever been a mafioso?" Reilly sipped the wine in his hand, "Your adventures are not bad."

"To be precise, he's a mercenary who works as a thug for the mafia?" Nyx said with emotion, "That boss is quite generous."

"Sometimes I would go to deserted places." Nyx continued to recall, "Although life was very inconvenient at first, various minerals can be dug out of the ground, including gold and various rare gems."

"Okay, it's your turn."

-

After that, Nyx and Reilly started a leisurely life in the lighthouse to recuperate and retire.

There is also a huge whale called Rab near Twin Capes. Kurokas introduced that it was entrusted to his care by the Lombard Pirates.

"But Roger and I went around the Grand Line and only found out that they had disappeared for a long time."

Kurokas injected Rab with a stabilizing medicine again and said regretfully: "I guess they are in danger. But Rab doesn't want to believe it."

Nyx stood in front of Raab, stroking the scar on his head.

"It's painful, Rab." She leaned her head gently and closed her eyes, "We are the same guy."

Nyx's voice was so soft that even Kurokas and Rayleigh couldn't hear her clearly: "They must not have forgotten you."

But as if he sensed her thoughts, Rab tiredly raised half of his eyelids and tried his best to make a long cry.

"Thank you, Rab."

After a while, after confirming that Nyx's body did not need to be suppressed by the domineering force for the time being and that there would be no sudden changes, Rayleigh planned to say goodbye to the two of them and leave the lighthouse.

"Come to me if you have any questions." Riley handed his life card to Nyx, "Do you need me to find someone to make one for you?"

Nyx nodded.

Reilly accepted Nix's nails and rubbed her hair: "I will send it to you then, so you can recover well."

He waved to Kurokas again: "I'll come and have a drink with you again when I have the chance."

"Let's go." Kurokas smiled and chased people away.

Nyx's life in Twin Heads is busy, fulfilling, yet quiet and relaxing.

In addition to healing her injuries, Nyx spent most of her time reading books and learning medical skills from Kurokas.

I would also stare at the blue sky and white clouds in a daze, listening to Rab humming Binx’s Wine.

Occasionally look at the cheerful pirates who have gone through great hardships to climb the Upside Down Mountain and enter the Grand Line.

And from time to time, I have phone calls with three people in Windmill Village. Because there is really nothing to talk about in life here, Nyx basically listens to what they say. However, the three brothers always complained about each other's words, so it was not a quiet moment.

Luffy showed off to her that he was finally able to catch prey on his own today, but the next second he was ruined and they were still hungry because of Luffy's naughty behavior.

Then there’s the “who’s the captain” time where the three brothers must argue every day.

"Nix, which ship are you going to get on?" The three people who were arguing asked the question to her.

Nyx was silent for a while.

"Perhaps I can choose to go to sea on my own?"

The more Nyx thought about it, the more feasible it became.

Anyway, she only went to sea to find Shanks, and the three brothers seemed to have agreed to wait until they were seventeen before going to sea, which was too long.

After Nyx recovers from her injuries, she plans to find a suitable place to improve her strength and make money. When everything is ready, use magic to teleport to the Chambord Islands.

Since she is not wanted now, she can still try to get on board the ships provided by the World Government for civilians to travel between the New World and the Four Seas and Paradise. Then go to the New World and buy a boat to find Shanks.

It's not like she never thought about using magic to directly travel to the new world, but due to various restrictions, Nyx had to give up this idea.

All in all, they still didn't come up with any results from their discussion that night, and the few people who had been arguing all night quickly reconciled and went to sleep happily.

Until one night, while studying the stars, Nyx suddenly received a phone call.

There was rare silence on the other end, with only a muffled breathing sound.

"Hey?"

"...Nix."

"Um, Ace?"

"If...if," Ace's voice was very hoarse, "if Gol D. Roger had a child..."

He seemed to be eager to know her answer, but there was an imperceptible uneasiness in his tone: "What would you think of him..."

Nyx looked at the line connecting the starry sky and the sea in the distance.

She figured out the answer to this question months ago.

"Just an ordinary person."

He was the child born after Roger disbanded the pirate group. Instead of asking the crew members who had been together through life and death to take care of the child, Roger chose to entrust his son to Garp.

Then there should be no other intersection between him and her.

That kid was Roger's kid, that's all.

They are strangers to each other.

It should be so.

"But Ace," on the other side of the microphone that Ace could not see, Nyx showed a slight smile, "if that child is... like you, I would like to meet him."

"You will definitely become a great man, Ace." Nyx deliberately blurred the subject so that Ace could not tell whose growth she was looking forward to.

"You, what are you talking about!" Ace felt dizzy, and his cheeks were inexplicably hot, "Why did you involve me? I'm not..."

"Ace," Nyx called his name again, "I miss you."

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