One Piece: I Want to Sign

Pride Daniel has been good at water since he was a child. He can already go into the sea to save people at the age of 13. He is nicknamed "the son of the sea" by everyone. Although this is common in the water city, there are still relatively few people who actually grow up to become navy - especially those who have climbed to the very high position of lieutenant general in the navy.

But for this highly accomplished Vice Admiral, his teenage years were not so easy. He has no relatives. It is said that his mother was originally an eldest lady, but she was expelled from the family because she eloped with a sailor. Later, she died in a foreign country, and there was no news about the sailor. She probably abandoned the eldest lady after discovering that she had no money. Let’s find the next target.

After all, what does love mean in the face of interests?

And that family also regarded Daniel as a shame. Not only did they not bring him back to the family, they also made things difficult for him in every possible way.

In this way, a child always wanders in the streets and alleys. Occasionally, kind-hearted residents want to give him food or warm clothes, but the family members stop him and even issue an announcement: Whoever gives Daniel these things, Everyone will have the same fate as him.

Naturally, fewer and fewer people gave Daniel things. Everyone said privately that Daniel's grandfather seemed to want Daniel's father to come out of hiding after seeing such a miserable Daniel, so that the family could Execute the guy who seduced their lady.

However, Daniel's father never came back.

There are always creatures on earth who dare to face the power of thunder.

Everyone spontaneously formed a small organization. Every day at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, one of them who was more sensitive would sneak to the street quietly and take Daniel to someone's house to have something good to eat. There were even several married women who wiped away their tears and stuffed cotton into his clothes when they saw their children who were about the same age but treated very differently.

Doing these things cannot even take more than a quarter of an hour. Wait for this short quarter of an hour to pass, and then secretly let Daniel return to his doghouse-like "home" on the street. In order to prevent the family from finding out, they took Daniel to a different person's house every day to "eat".

These kind-hearted folks call this warm and loving organization Anmukai.

"An Mukai is the god of water, and we all hope that you will be blessed by her!"

"I hope you will grow up safely and healthily with An Mukai's blessing!"

Everyone's kind words were engraved in Daniel's mind and he would never forget them until his death.

Later, as Daniel grew older, the villagers began to wonder if it was time for him to go to school.

Perhaps it was time, and seeing that Daniel was not dead yet and his father had not come out, the family gave up and continued to make things difficult for the poor child.

When he was 11 years old, with tears in his eyes, Daniel accepted the admission fee raised by everyone from "Anmukai" and entered a pretty good school in the water city. Daniel lived up to expectations and achieved excellent results in school.

Someone from the nearby navy branch sent a message, saying that they were interested in Daniel, a talented young man, and wanted him to go to the navy headquarters for training early so that he could become the backbone of the navy in the future.

The villagers were not as happy as they expected. They were afraid that Daniel would be suppressed by his family again, and felt that if Daniel stayed in the water city and found a job like a teacher, he would be able to live and feed well.

But Daniel knew that things were not that simple.

He didn't believe anyone who directly recommended a young boy to go to the Navy Headquarters.

Even if his grades are relatively good, he is not a genius. There must be something inside.

So, he went to find his so-called grandfather.

Above the high hall, an old man with gray hair sat on a wooden chair with carved patterns, staring at Daniel with his sharp eyes like an eagle. Daniel was not afraid, but stared back.

"Hey, you and her are so similar, cough, cough."

The old man started coughing without saying a few words.

Daniel ignored him.

"Come here."

Daniel didn't move.

"Don't you want to know the truth?"

The young man finally lifted his legs and came to the old man's side.

The old man looked at Daniel's profile and his eyes suddenly darkened.

"Sure enough, I'm still more like him."

Daniel heard the change of pronouns and had a slight guess in his mind.

"Speak up quickly."

The old man suddenly smiled, obviously smiling seriously, but because the curve of the corners of his mouth caused layers of wrinkles, his whole face looked particularly hideous and twisted.

"Your mother, Pride Lulu, she is my pride. After her mother died, she was my spiritual support. Ahem, when I insisted on marrying that poor boy, he just A sailor! A, ahem, someone who hangs around in the port all day long without any merit, huh—vomit—cough—"

He seemed to be choking, coughing hard, and the sound like a rusty screw being tightened came continuously from his neck covered with age spots.

Then, he took a deep breath and continued,

"A poor sailor! A sailor with nothing!!!"

The old man's hands tightly grasped the handle of the seat, and his nails seemed to be embedded in the patterns of different shades.

"But I have asked everyone. He is a helpful, enthusiastic and kind-hearted person. He will help everyone if there is anything within his ability. Moreover, he has made an appointment with a captain at the port. As long as their fleet has finished collecting, He can follow their merchant ships and create his own piece of sky."

"Haha, but he actually wants to take Lulu away! And, Lulu, my good Lulu, actually wants to go with him!!!"

His eyes seemed to pop out of their wrinkled sockets.

"I put pressure on him, but he still won't give up, this ungrateful guy!"

Daniel stopped looking at the old man and lowered his head to look at the insteps of his feet.

"So I kicked the captain away, spread negative rumors about him, and eventually, he and Lulu disappeared."

"Lulu talked to me before they left."

‘Father, is it necessary for us to come to this point? ’

'If you insist on doing this, there will be no way out. Why are you so stubborn? You are the eldest daughter and the only heir of the family. Infinite glory awaits you in the future. Why are you doing this? ’

‘But Father, have you ever asked me whether this life is happy or not? ’

"She said that she is learning damn etiquette every day. Apart from her and me, there are just some servants in this real family. No one plays with her, no peers, no one who understands her. Every day Just study, study, study. The happiest time in her life was with that bastard."

"She asked me, Father, if you could ever truly love me for a moment."

"Hahaha, hahaha, my silly Lulu, except for you and your mother, there is nothing worthy of my love in this world! Hahaha, why don't you understand!"

The old man was shaking all over and laughing, but silent tears fell from his eyes.

"The recommendation for you to go to the Navy Headquarters was my handiwork. Consider it my compensation for you."

Daniel nodded unexpectedly calmly, turned and left, walked to the door, stopped again, and said:

"But, since you love her, why don't you want her to call you daddy?"

The old man looked at Daniel in astonishment and started laughing again.

"I said the same thing as her. Hahaha, hahaha, cough, hahaha."

Daniel was already gone.

His dark brown eyes gradually turned cloudy from their previous sharpness, and his hand, which was so thin that the bones were exposed, trembled slightly and stretched out towards the void, as if something was about to disappear.

After a second or two, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing an ugly smile.

"In this way, you should be satisfied, Lulu..."

"Cough, cough, cough—"

The sound of intermittent coughing kept echoing in the empty room where he was the only one.

At that time, before the girl left, she turned back to her father and said:

‘Dad, tell me, what does the sea look like? ’

He didn't understand it at the time, thinking it was just the ravings of an ignorant girl, but later he thought about it carefully and realized that the daughter he said was endowed with glory, wealth, talent, family background, and temperament seemed to have never been seen even in the sea. We are in this "watery" water city.

When he was 17 years old, Daniel set out on the road to Marineland, the headquarters of the Navy, carrying his fellow villagers on his back, of course.

He had his own army and met many people with different personalities at sea. With his own efforts and innate logical reasoning ability, he earned the name "Ghost Judge" for himself.

The villagers were all proud of him. The old man also sold his ancestral home and adopted a little girl in an unknown corner of the water city, living an ordinary life. Of course, I only talked about this with Daniel.

And Daniel also met his greatest happiness, and she was about to bring him the greatest luck and misfortune——

A woman named nature catherine.