[One Piece] Pirate Life of Port Officers

"Um...Sister Xilai, can't I come?" Seeing Yesop's crumbling and holding her head, Ruby, who was hugged by Xilai, flinched and asked in a low voice.

Seeing her cautious appearance, Sha Lai softened her heart for a moment, but she still said firmly: "Well, because we are dealing with very important matters, little Rubi, you go upstairs to the lounge to have fun and eat grapes, wait for us How about going to find you after we're done?"

After speaking, she put Ruby back on the ground, and signaled Yesop with her eyes to come quickly and take over and take her away.

But they didn't expect that with just one second of delay, Ruby, who had just returned to the ground, ran towards the winery staff on the opposite side, asking Yesop who had already come behind her in an instant to stop her.

"Grandpa Grape, is my dad here? Yesop said he left the island for something. I don't believe it. He promised to go to the mountain with me to pick white grapes." Ruby said while running, and ran to the When the elder was in front of him, he tripped over his own skirt and fell forward in an instant.

And the old man with white beard and hair subconsciously opened his hands and wanted to squat down to catch her, but he didn't know what he thought of. He stopped and kept standing, watching her fall to the ground like this. .

However, the expected falling sound did not come.

"Old man, do whatever you want, it's not good to give up halfway."

Jessop held the little girl who had been tormenting him all day with one arm and ruffled her hair.Smiling, he looked back at his partner to admire him, but he only got a bunch of stares.

Why did Sha Lai mouth to him and tell him to go quickly, and there was no outsider coming, although the elevator was soon carrying two people, but it felt like ordinary people like the winery employees, so there was nothing to be nervous about.

"Ding-dong-"

With the sound of the elevator door opening, a middle-aged man with a lot of bruises on his face staggered as if he had been pushed, and limped out of the elevator.

Now that the matter had come to an end, Sha Lai had no choice but to suppress her urge to stab her partner with a sword, and took a closer look at the culprit who triggered a series of events.

The scars on their faces did not increase. These people who have lived on this small island all their lives are indeed innocent. Even if they caught people who had blood feuds with them, they did not use punishment.But judging from his sloppy footsteps and cracked lips, they didn't give him food or drink, and their attitude was definitely not friendly.

After taking a look, she seemed to have a clue in her heart, and then calmly shrank behind Shanks, and before they turned to look at her in confusion, she raised her hand to cover her ears.

"Father—how did you become like this! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" the child's voice was shrill, so the screaming and crying child was everyone's nightmare.

Jessop, who had not suffered such an attack for a long time after leaving his hometown, felt that there were ten thousand bees dancing in his brain, and he had no choice but to let go of the constant struggle in his arms. Ruby, let her run towards Luke while wiping her tears.

"It's okay, don't cry, Dad is fine." Luke, whose face was bruised and purple, squatted down at this moment, wrapped his daughter in handcuffed hands, held her in his arms, and gently coaxed her.The appearance of a gentle and loving father does not seem like a person who will contact Pirate Tudao.

In the huge exhibition hall, for a moment, there were only the sound of the little girl sobbing, and the soft voice of the middle-aged man.

"Don't make people sick, Luke!" Sha Lai, who was huddled behind Shanks and pretended to be dead, just put down her hands covering her ears, when she was yelled by Wright's violent voice and covered her hands back again.

"Do you know how many children died in Fengxue Island because of you? Mr. Grape's grandson, a child less than two years old who just learned to call grandpa, was burned to death by you! He even—"

"Shut up, Wright."

"Enough, Wright."

Sha glanced at the old gentleman who spoke at the same time as her, and after a smile, she came to Luke in an instant with a shave. Under his guarded eyes, she said calmly, "I have always treated innocent children preferentially, so now I have a suggestion for you: I can knock Ruby unconscious for you, and take her to a brand new place to start her life. Children forget things quickly, and they may forget these things at some point. What do you think?"

Luke was obviously moved by Sha Lai's proposal, but before he could agree, Ruby in his arms struggled out of his arms, clenched her fists and looked directly at Sha Lai, before he spoke.

"I don't agree!" Ruby, who just stopped whimpering, spoke with a strong nasal voice, "I want to stay, I want to know what happened!"

Sha Lai met her stubborn eyes, put away her usual gentle smile, and asked coldly, "Whether it's good or bad, do you want to stay and listen?"

"...Yes!...I want it!" Although Ruby's face was timid, her position did not loosen at all.

"Okay, let me tell you. Your father found out the terrain by doing business on this island ten years ago, and then contacted pirates to attack this island, causing most of the people on this island to die at that time. Well, you know death What is it?"

Although all the four-year-olds she knew knew what it meant, Mafia kids were different from ordinary people, so Sarai stopped here to make sure.

"I know, my mother died when I was very young. My father said that to die is to leave this world, and I can no longer live with people in this world."

Seeing Ruby's earnest answer, Sarai shook her head inwardly.

Being able to say these words so calmly, she really only understood some superficial meanings of the word. Forget it, there are some things that cannot be expressed in words anyway, she still——

"Then Ruby, if Dad dies and leaves you forever, you will never see me again. What would you think?" Luke, who had been squatting behind Ruby, said at this moment, letting Ruby's tears still wet His face was full of panic.

She cried: "No! Dad, don't die! I don't want to!"

Luke: "What Dad did at that time indirectly caused many people on this island to suffer this kind of pain. So what Dad did at that time was wrong."

He looked at Ruby, who was crying and out of breath, and although he still had a look of pity on his face, he didn't reach out to hold her in his arms again.

He stood up, glanced at everyone present, his face was calm,

"Ten years ago, my wife was seriously ill, and I urgently needed a medicinal herb to keep her alive. So when the captain of the pirate group appeared in front of me with that medicinal herb, I told him the shortcut to enter the small town of Fengxue Island. "

"But maybe it was God's punishment for me. My wife still lost to a serious illness five years ago and couldn't spend the rest of her life with me."

"Believe it or not, I have always regretted it. So in the past three years, I have been searching for information about the remnants of the pirate group. After contacting them not long ago, most of the cadres of the red-haired pirate group are in the , and brought them here."

"I know that even so, I can't repay the crimes I committed back then. I am willing to let you deal with it. But Ruby was not born at that time, she is innocent, and I hope you can let her go."

......

After a long silence, amid Ruby's fading cries, the old man named Grape asked, "Girl from the Red Hair Pirates, do you want to change?"

Girl...forget it, it's not a little girl after all.

After struggling with the address for a second, Sarai left the father and daughter and returned to the members of the red-haired pirates.

"No." After walking back, Sha Lai opened the handcuffs of Wright and Wright, and signaled them to leave with his eyes, "I just wanted him to say goodbye to little Ruby, but now it seems that there is no need for that."

Glancing at Shanks who was already dozing off, Sara decided to make a quick decision.

"Ruby, if you want to start a new life with a new identity, come to me; if you want to die with your father, stay there. Now, choose."

So, under the gaze of dozens of pairs of eyes, Ruby took one last look at her father, thought of what he had just whispered to herself, and started to move forward.

Finally, she stopped in front of the people at the winery.

She looked up, looked at the rows of adults who were taller than her, and said in a hoarse voice: "I don't want Dad to die, but if he really did something so egregious, he should be punished. But I want to stay Come down, stay at this winery and do something, because even if it's just a little bit, I want to lessen the damage that Dad caused you."

The damage done is irreversible. Although most of the people present had no intention of letting the little girl pay for her life, Shalai felt that if it was her, she would never want to see her enemy's daughter dangling in front of her every day.

She sighed silently, and just about to go forward to say something, she was stopped by Shanks who stood beside her at some point.

"Keep watching," he said in a low voice, so he leaned into her ear, "This is something the child decides on her own, and it's the path she chooses."

Let her watch... But what kind of results can this kind of thing look like...

Sarai took a step across uncomfortably, avoiding the warm breath, she felt that she had to pick a time to talk to Shanks, don't talk on the back of other people's necks, otherwise she might really die from The opponent's defense is excessive.

During the time when she was absent, the situation on the field changed again.

Grape slowly squatted down, looked at the little girl in front of him, and asked, "If we kill your father, you stay, won't you resent us? Don't you want revenge on us?"

Ruby looked at him in confusion for a while, and then slowly replied: "I...I don't know. But Dad said, I am the most precious treasure of him and Mom, and their greatest hope for me, It's just that I can live happily. I don't know in the future... But hating you guys now doesn't bring me any happiness."

"Now... what?" Grape looked at her clear and firm eyes, muttered a few words to himself, then took out a handkerchief and wiped her stained face.

After that, he turned to face all the winery employees present, that is, almost all the people in this small town, and asked loudly: "I propose to keep Ruby, send Luke to the Navy, and let the government deal with him. Everyone, is there anyone who agrees with my proposal?"

The people in the hall were silent for a long time, or maybe only for a second.Then Lei Te, who had just returned to the team, raised his hand.

"I agree."

Another senior raised his hand, "I agree."

A young woman raised her hand. "I agree."

......

Finally, everyone except Wright raised their hands.

"Wright, facing little Ruby, facing Luke, do you think you can really kill the killer?" '

Rhett's words resounded in his mind. In fact, sometimes Wright really hated Rhett's ability, which suddenly appeared in his mind, and it was easy for him to think that it was his original intention.

He thought that he had just boarded a merchant ship and missed dinner time because he didn't understand any rules.It was Luke who noticed his borborygmus while huddled in the corner. For fear of hurting his self-esteem, that person didn't call for the chef, and cooked a bowl of noodles for him by himself.The taste is average, but it is hot and extra warm.

He thought of little Ruby.When she was born, it was the time when he was reused by Luke as a confidant and went in and out with him.Sometimes when Luke was busy and his wife was seriously ill, he was responsible for taking care of the little baby who was never afraid of him and just giggled when he looked at him.

......

Can he make a killer?

He thought of what Little Ruby said just now, "But hating you guys now doesn't bring me any happiness."

If, they did kill Luke, all this would be different, and there might be another kid in the world who wants revenge.

Forget it, this kind of revenge-driven life is too bitter and boring.Don't let other children join this rank.

"I agree."

Wright raised his hand.