Pirates: I'll be with the Straw Hat Pirates in my old age

"If what the newspaper says is true, can I ask you a question?" Uta suddenly said excitedly.

“Tell me about it?” Yun Yi raised his head proudly.

"The newspaper said that you are from the East China Sea and have fought with the navy hero Garp. Do you know Garp's grandson, Luffy?" Uta looked at Yun Yi with burning eyes, as if he really wanted to get a positive answer.

"Ah! Luffy! Hahahaha..." Yun Yi stuck Heming into the ground and laughed out loud with his head raised.

"do not know!"

The sudden reversal almost broke Uta's waist.

Wuta, who had originally held out a glimmer of hope because of Yun Yi's laughter, now felt as if he had been thrown back from heaven to hell in an instant.

Uta's expression also became depressed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hahahaha!"

At this moment, a loud laugh came from my ears again.

The sudden loud laughter made Uta, who was squatting on the ground, a little confused.

"???"

Turning around, I saw Yun Yi, who was already lying on the ground, laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.

Seeing Yun Yi smiling so happily, even Uta, who had not communicated with anyone for a long time, quickly realized that he was being teased.

Anger spread from his heart, and in just a moment, Uta's fist smashed hard on Yun Yi's head.

"what!!!"

Covering his head, Yun Yi lay on the ground with his butt sticking up, his wails of pain echoing throughout the sky.

“It hurts, Uta!!!”

Yun Yi got up from the ground angrily, but Uta had no intention of apologizing. He just sat there with his arms folded, looking arrogant.

"Hmph!" Yun Yi touched his aching head and, knowing that he was in the wrong, quickly put this little episode behind him.

"Okay, I admit that I know Luffy, and I've even sworn brotherhood with them."

"them?"

"Yes, not only Luffy, but also Ace and Sabo. They are all very interesting people." Yun Yi sat cross-legged next to Uta and happily introduced their story.

"You mean, Luffy ate the fruit from the pirate Shanks' ship?"

"Yes, it's called the Rubber Fruit. Luffy has now turned into a rubber man who can't swim."

"Oh, it's okay. He can't swim anyway." Uta smiled and waved his hand.

"In addition, he now has a great dream."

"Great dream?" Uta was a little curious.

I haven't seen him for a long time, and I don't know how he is doing now.

Uta recalled his previous memories, and then continued to ask: "What is his dream?"

"He put on Red Hair Shanks' straw hat and made a promise with Shanks to become the Pirate King and the freest pirate on this sea."

"The freest pirate." Uta muttered, "This is really the choice he can make."

Vague memories kept coming like the tide, and Wuta, sitting on the ground, seemed to have returned to the cliff of the windmill village in the East China Sea.

"I have a dream. I want to create a 'new era'."

Little Uta stood on the cliff, stretched out his arms, and looked into the distance at the sea.

Upon hearing this, little Luffy, who was standing by, jumped happily to Uta's side.

"Okay, then I'll help create a new era."

"Don't make it sound so easy." Uta put his hands on his hips and continued to ask, "What is your 'new era'?"

“I want to go on adventures around the world!”

"Going to all kinds of places, meeting all kinds of people, eating lots of delicious food..." Luffy said a lot.

In the end, I don’t know whether it’s because the afterglow of the sunset is too dazzling, or because the golden promise is too bright.

The color in Uta's memory is golden.

"I really want to meet him." The strange purple pupils slowly closed, and a crystal tear seeped out from the corner of the eye hidden under the white hair. It followed the breeze and disappeared into the vast grassland.

"Hahahaha, I believe he can definitely become the freest pirate in this sea."

Yun Yi smiled and looked into the distance.

"By the way, Uta, it sounds like you are very familiar with Luffy. You must have been to the East China Sea before."

"I've been there." When Uta mentioned this, I don't know why, his expression became depressed.

"I went there a long time ago with Red Hair Shanks."

"Shanks?" Yun Yi was shocked. How could it be related to Shanks?

"You know Shanks?"

"Yes, before, I was a musician on Shanks' ship." Uta sat next to Yun Yi with her legs crossed and continued to tell the story.

"One day, we passed by the East China Sea and met Luffy in the Windmill Village. He was a very interesting kid."

"Then, I met Luffy."

"One day after that, Shanks brought me to Elegia, the capital of music. He wanted me to study music here."

"But...but...I don't know what happened."

"When I realized what was happening, I saw the destroyed Elegia and the Red Hair Pirates that had already gone far away."

"I can't understand why he wants to destroy Elegia!"

Like a thunder exploding in his mind, Yun Yi looked at the distant ruins in disbelief.

"It was Red Hair who destroyed Eregia?" Yun Yi looked at Uta in shock.

"Yeah!" Uta nodded.

"He plundered the treasures of Elegia, then abandoned me and left me here."

As she spoke, Uta's tears began to fall from the corners of her eyes again, and snot mixed with tears dripped onto the grass.

Yun Yi, who was standing aside, also fell silent.

Red Hair destroyed Elegia?!

After hearing these short sentences, Yun Yi was so shocked that he was speechless.

All along, even though I always said that I hated pirates, my subjective perception in my previous life always added a special filter to those protagonists and some famous pirates.

For example, Whitebeard and Jinbe from the Sun Pirates.

Of course, this also includes Red-Haired Shanks.

As Luffy's navigator, the youngest of the Four Emperors, and a trainee crew member of the former Pirate King Roger.

All these titles combined make Yun Yi have the same filter towards Red-Haired Shanks.

But now, Uta's short words completely shattered Yun Yi's cognition.

At this moment, Yun Yi also had a new understanding of this world.

Comics are just comics after all. Passion and adventure are but short-lived happiness; death and fighting are eternal.

Everyone here is a flesh-and-blood being, and there are no truly good people.

On the other side, Uta continued to talk about the darkness in her heart.

"But I know that he definitely didn't come to Elegia for treasure. He has never lacked this kind of thing. But I just don't know why, why would he abandon me."

The burning Elegia and the Red Hair Pirates sailing away on the ship in front of him have become an indelible shadow in Uta's mind.

"He brought me here, but he destroyed this place and abandoned me."

Looking at Wuta who was crying bitterly, Yun Yi didn't know how to comfort her.

After a while...

"Na, Uta, do you want to go out to sea with me and ask Red-Haired Shanks why I abandoned you and why I destroyed Elegia?"

Hearing Yun Yi's question, Wuta raised his hazy purple pupils and looked at Yun Yi aggrievedly.

After a long time, Uta wiped away her tears and asked tremblingly: "Really, is it okay?"

"As long as you are willing, I will definitely take you to find the red-haired man."

"But…"

Looking back at Eregia in the distance, Uta thought for a moment, and finally nodded heavily.

"Okay, but can you wait for me for a while?"

"When I finish reading Elegia's music score, I will go to sea with you."

"Okay." Yun Yi nodded and did not object.

“However, when I meet Red-Haired Shanks,” Yun Yi clenched his fists, “I must ask him why he destroyed Elegia!”

"Yeah!" Tears flashed in Wuta's purple eyes, "I also want to ask him in person why he abandoned me."