[comprehensive] red tide

Qingzhi never thought that one day, he would show mercy to the criminals who should have been arrested.

He came to arrest Nicole Robin with the purpose of ending the mistake 20 years ago. He was supposed to freeze her immediately when he saw her, and pack her up and throw her into the deep sea prison. However, he changed his mind again.

After reading the information given by her colleagues, Nicole Robin's near-indiscriminate killings caused Aokiji to regret her actions back then; after the actual meeting, her performance overturned all his speculations and estimates.

If he let her go as an innocent child 20 years ago, it was because of his friend's last wish and his own sympathy; then, 20 years later, in the Gardenas Island bar, he let her go, probably because of her And the faint touch.

It is undeniable that it is rare for him to be curious about what kind of growth environment in the past 20 years of disappearance has cultivated her into her current personality.

With suspicion, he let her go. The same curiosity made him hide in the ship of the pirates who temporarily cooperated with her.

After several detours and attempts, the closer he got, the more confused he became.

People who thought they were bloodthirsty, cruel, vicious and cunning seemed to have their own weird principles in their actions; they would ignore personal provocations, but would be murderous for a few words that insulted the dead, luring others into dangerous situations, along the way But also try to protect each other.

Aokiji seldom can't see through a person, unfortunately, now Nicole Robin is one of the exceptions.

He should have complied with her wishes, let her be overwhelmed, and finally disappeared in the cracks of history, but when he saw her follow that phantom without hesitation, he subconsciously took action to stop it.

Glancing sideways, Aokiji smiled wryly at the pitch-black cloak standing close to him. He could already foresee how the Warring States Marshal, who knew all of this, would be furious in the future.

'As a general, he did such a stupid thing! '

After the roar, it is probably the pens, cups, folders, etc. rushing...

Speaking of which, it seems like he hasn't been smashed since he was promoted?How about trying to relive old dreams?Being splashed with ink or something... ah~ The brand that the Marshal is using now seems to claim that it will not fade for 100 years?

Raising his hand to scratch his fluffy curly hair, Aokiji blinked in distress.

If it really doesn't work, should we carry him back to the Navy headquarters first according to the original idea?

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Aokiji compared items one by one with his fingers, whether it was "going home empty-handed and being smashed all over the head by the marshal" or "bringing people back and being smashed all over the head by the marshal", whichever of the two choices would give a happier death.

After a long time, he couldn't help but secretly twitched the corner of his mouth, "Ah la la~ It's really embarrassing——"

However, compared to his personal troubles, what is more embarrassing is... he can't comfort girls, hey!

Looking sideways again at Nicole Robin, who was standing there quietly, exuding a sad aura, Aokiji could only raise his hand and scratch his cheek again, thought for a while, and said dryly, "Well, in fact, this kind of parting is not enough. good."

While speaking, his eyes dropped a little, sliding from her pale and bloodless cheeks to her tightly clenched fists, he narrowed his eyes slightly, "History cannot be changed, even if you are lucky enough to go back to the past, One Piece will be born in a short time."

"The time will come when the 'sun falls' you mentioned." He raised his eyes and looked at her almost cruelly. "At that time, what do you want to do? What can you do?"

Nicole Robin seemed to have finally regained consciousness, raised her hand and pulled up the hood, hiding most of her face in it, only her pointed jaw was exposed, and the eyes hidden in the black cloak stopped at him.

Her thin and transparent lips curled into a mocking smile, "History cannot be changed, so what about the future?"

"What?" Aokiji asked unconsciously, startled slightly.

"It's nothing." She quickly denied, and the smile on the corner of her mouth deepened deliberately, "I really don't understand women's hearts ~ you admirals."

"Miss, don't look down on me, I'm very popular." He was suddenly stunned as he spoke, quietly watching her slowly walk to a position close to him, stretching out her hand towards his neck.

"Compared to those useless verbal comforts, I need some practical ones." Under his indifferent gaze, the nails lightly pressed on his rolling Adam's apple, paused, and meandered along the line until it was fastened neckline.

"For example..." She paused inexplicably, and straightened up before he subconsciously raised his hand to cover his neckline, withdrawing from the range he could control, "If you don't want me to escape, defeat that difficult guy on the island."

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Clenched his raised hand into a fist, pressed it to his lips and coughed a few times, Qingzhi turned his face sideways, and snorted lazily, "Ah la la~ Miss is really good at instigating people."

"Why do you think I didn't tear a piece of intestine out of your body?" Her ambiguous voice cooled down in vain.

Out of the corner of his eye, Aokiji saw Nicole Robin lift the hand that was covering his lapel before, rubbing his thumb and forefinger slowly, crushing the buttons that had been ripped off from his lapel.

She let go of her fingers and let the powder disperse silently, her voice was slightly neutral, and her tone was difficult to distinguish between joy and anger, "Of course it is for you, who has the highest combat power of the navy, to deal with the final boss who has not yet appeared."

"But I'm on vacation, such a troublesome thing..." Aokiji's eyes sank slightly, and then covered up the strangeness in an instant, and calmly refused, "Miss, let's find someone else~"

When he bluntly refused, Nicole Robin just smiled contemptuously, "I don't know about you, General, have you heard of it?"

"Flying birds are gone, good bows are hidden."

"Ah? Do you not understand me when I say that?"

After pausing for a few seconds, she Shi Shiran raised an index finger and shook it slowly, "If all the pirates in the world are wiped out, there is no need for your navy to exist."

"Should you understand that?"

"Hey hey hey! Even if it's the aggressive method, you're going too far, right?" Qingzhi couldn't help but argue, "Although they are all uncommon and rare fragments of oriental ancient books, there are still some collections in this department."

"The girl who was so cute when she was young, why is her mouth so poisonous when she grows up?"

Deliberately looking up and down at Nicole Robin from the corner of her eyes, Aokiji tried her best to recall the things she had accidentally glanced at, and found evidence from her meager memory to prove that her literacy was definitely not as barren as she ridiculed.

"Ah~ Hmm... For example, what do you and... say? Acting like a participant?"

[Life does not meet, moves like participating in business], the originally profound and sighing words, embedded in what he means at the moment, is like a curse:

She and the black-haired king were left at the two ends of time, unable to meet until death.

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After blurting out, Aokiji immediately felt a little annoyed, okay~ This is simply another stab at someone's wound, why is he competing with a little girl?

As soon as the words fell, he felt her breathing was disturbed for a moment, but it was only for a moment, and it was also very well restrained under the night-like black cloak.

After a long time, she let out a long and dull breath, and then walked straight towards the exit of the palace; her face seemed to be nonchalant, her disguise was gone, but the aura she exuded was like a blood-quenching blade, sharp and difficult to approach.

Aokiji was dazed for a while, then shook his head and smiled self-consciously, wiped off the dust on the corner of his clothes, and finally set off to catch up.

Backtracking in the direction they came from, neither of the two people in front and behind was willing to speak for a long time; until they walked around the dry pool without a fountain and walked out of the beautiful garden, Nicole Robin suddenly stopped.

Aokiji put his hands in his pockets, speeded up his pace pretending to be unintentional, walked to her side, took a closer look, and then froze just like her.

Outside the garden, there are no traces of the resplendent and precious buildings, replaced by the turbidity of the sky and the ground, and the light gray mist coiling and rolling, which is boundless as far as the eye can see.

After a moment of silence, Aokiji tentatively opened his mouth, "Are we trapped on the island, or are we stuck in the cracks?"

Aokiji previously guessed that the overlapping of time and space was caused by the eye of Amphitrite. Nicole Robin wore it and entered the route of Wish Island by boat, causing all the ships in the same space that spanned a hundred years to enter this sea by mistake. , until she imprisoned it, the intersecting time and space repelled each other, and finally returned to their original positions.

The only exception is the source of the mutation, Nicole Robin, the culprit, and everyone else at that time were stuck on Wish Island.

There is actually a last sentence in the rumor about Yongye Island that few people know:

[Thieves be careful, the gods who lost their eyes are prone to anger. ]

The 'final boss' in her mouth probably refers to this.

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Nicole Robin seemed very unwilling to pay attention to him. She continued to take two steps forward and stopped again. She didn't see any movement, and the thin light gray covering her side was suddenly disturbed, and the smoke billowed in all directions. escape.

The faint smell of decay mixed with the rust-like smell of blood, the turbulent wind pressure swirled like a vortex, and the turbulent airflow made the wide hem of the cloak flutter, and lifted her hood.

The black hair twined and danced like life, and the half-hidden profile of the face was calm and empty.

The pupils shrank slightly, and Aokiji licked his dry lips subconsciously. How much life does it take to condense such a thick hostility?How many of them are innocent?

No matter how pitiful she is, the blood on her hands cannot be washed away, right?

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With her hands hidden in her pockets clenched into fists, Aokiji moved a little forward, and in the next second, she turned around as if feeling something, her dark blue eyes flickered slightly.

"What are you doing, Your Excellency General? Now that the situation is unclear, do you still think of your justice first?"

The corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, her smile was soft, and there was unspeakable irony in his eyes, "Once the navy's highest combat power takes action, I'm afraid it will soon destroy the balance of space. By then..."

"Hehe~ Will I be involved in an unknown era? Or will I die of old age in the crevice?"

"I don't care, what about you?"

While speaking, he slowly raised a hand, and a thin black silk thread faintly flashed between the fingers, and then the card slowly appeared, with a dark background and a strange pattern printed on one side, "Let's go to war now, or leave safely?"

After pondering for a long time, Aokiji tightened his eyebrows, finally let go of the fist hidden in his pocket, and slowly pumped his hand, "Miss is really vigilant, I just wonder why you, a little girl, are so murderous."

"For Meteor Street people, even a moment of relaxation may result in death." She shrugged, putting away the threatening fierceness in her eyes, "How about we coexist peacefully? You know, if the nerves are too tense, it is easy to make mistakes."

After he nodded, she repeated it as if uncertain, "You won't do anything until we are safe."

"Ah la la~ everyone said it was an accident just now, but I just..." Aokiji raised his hands helplessly, "Okay, okay~ You are a very suspicious girl, I promise not to shoot you again, is that okay?"

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"Then—" Nicole Robin smiled, and her transparent lips gradually turned a strange color, "The contract is established."

As the words fell, the card at her fingertips shattered, and countless small lightning burst out, half of them covered her wrist, and the other half disappeared in the air.

Aokiji glanced at the left wrist that suddenly seemed to be scalded, paused imperceptibly, and then slowly turned his gaze to Nicole Robin, narrowing his eyes.

"Men always like to change their minds at any time, I need some assurance." She smiled like a cunning fox, and there seemed to be a poisonous snake entrenched in the depths of her inorganic blue pupils, "It is [Thunder God's Wrath] , those who break their promises should be careful~"

After a long silence, Qingzhi shook his wrist and smiled casually, "You have so many tricks."

"I can shuttle between the islands of the Great Channel, change from male to female at will, what else? Oh~ I made the Eye of Amphitrite into a card before..."

Counting her series of actions in detail, Aokiji raised her eyebrows, her eyes were full of interest, "I have never heard of such a devil fruit."

"The guys from the science department must be very interested if they know about it." He looked at her meaningfully.

"Are you implying me, what should I do to stop your mouth?" She glanced at him from the corner of her eyes, and raised her hand to lift her hair from her sideburns and tie it behind her ears, "Let's talk about it when we really leave~"

The raised chin signaled him to focus on the scene that had just started to recede from the mist.

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It was as if the enchantment was broken, and the endless light gray melted silently, separating out the faintly glowing red sky hidden behind, the tides beating the beach one after another, and...

Staring at the warships gathered in the sea not far away, Aokiji frowned. The scene in front of him gave him a sense of familiarity for no reason. After thinking about it for a few seconds, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, " this is impossible!"

Turning his head suddenly and looking in the direction he came from, Aokiji found that as expected, he saw a towering giant tree standing quietly on the highest point of the island, the crown of the tree reflected the afterglow of the setting sun, and cut out a tree in the twilight. Round mourning cool line shadow.

As if the old trees had foretold their impending doom.

Many pictures surged from the depths of memory in an instant, and Aokiji only felt slightly dizzy.

Hageval D. Saron, his friend who was frozen into an ice sculpture bit by bit, the smiling face that has not dissipated until death; the young figure of Nicole Robin running for his life in a hurry...

In the sky full of flames, the ship carrying innocent civilians sank to the bottom of the sea together with the justice he once upheld.

This place turned out to be... O'Hara, which hadn't been destroyed 20 years ago.

The heart contracted violently. After the surprise, anger and bewilderment emerged spontaneously. Aokiji stiffly withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Nicole Robin, only to find that she was acting calmly, only using dark blue eyes Looking around with indifference.

It occurred to him then that she had no memory of before she was eight years old.

So - it seemed there was still time to take her away...before she knew it.

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Slightly relieved, Aokiji took a deep look at the fleet of warships floating on the ocean, and pretended not to walk to her side, "Ah la la ~ we seem to have come to a strange place."

Tsk-tsk twice, he deliberately diverted her attention from quietly staring at the sea surface, vaguely confusing the facts, "The model of the warship is really old, and I don't know what era it is—"

Taking advantage of her ignorant expression, he reached out his hand to pull it, his fingertips barely touched a bit of fabric, and a cold and irrational laugh seemed to slip by his ear, a crack appeared out of thin air behind her, a strong suction force Rolling her and falling inwards, while bouncing off his rescue.

Aokiji saw Nicole Robin's eyes widen in astonishment, and his outstretched hands missed each other.

Everything ended in a blink of an eye, together with the scene of the past that he cared about so much, it disappeared completely, leaving him standing outside the garden before entering the gray mist.

Behind is an empty and gorgeous courtyard, and in front of you is endless chaos. Aokiji stands upright for a long time, slowly withdraws his hand, silently unbuttons his cuffs, and stares at the tattoo-like mark on his wrist.

The devil fruit ability will only disappear when the holder dies. If the contract is still there, it means that she is still alive.

It's just that I was swept away by the strange aura that suddenly appeared, and it was probably the phantom that fell... O'Hara 20 years ago, but in that way...

After a while, he calmly buttoned his cuff buttons back, dusted off the dust, and finally jumped into the air and punched him with all his might, "Ice Age."

The icy and snowy land spread rapidly, carrying his anger that rose to the highest point, freezing everything in sight.

Aokiji tightly clenched the corners of his mouth.

The so-called "god" is so despicable!