[One Piece] Chasing the Eagle

This is the second time Brother Ming saw Ada cry.

Mihawk has watched it many times.

Compared with Brother Ming, Ada exposed her weak side to Mihawk more frequently.But this time it wasn't exposed, it was completely irrepressible... understood something.

She lost again.

Where did he get the courage to bet all his chips on Mihawk just now, but got the opposite result.

From the beginning of the battle between the two men, Mihawk didn't give her a sideways glance.

And Brother Ming warned her, protected her with a silk fence, and finally stopped because of her shouting.Obviously... the former is a gentle and restrained benefactor, while the latter is a bastard who harms the common people.

Ada wiped her tears. She didn't understand why the more she got along with these two men, the more what they showed her deviated from what she thought before?

She cried for Mihawk's true indifference, for the disorganized Brother Ming, and for her own stupidity.

Brother Ming's attention was not on the opponent, Mihawk's attack was ineffective and he had to withdraw his knife in annoyance.At the same time, Brother Ming retracted the silk fence that blocked Ada.

Two men stand at the same distance, looking at the same crying woman.

The shaking of the warship gradually calmed down.

Mihawk raised his foot, intending to walk towards Ada, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Brother Ming also had a tendency to take steps.

Unanimously, the two men looked at each other.

"You care about her very much?" Brother Ming smiled.

Mihawk said without expression, "It's not as good as you."

Unanimously, the two stood up at the same time.

Take back the foot you want to take.

far less than you...

Ada heard these four words.

She choked up and covered her eyes.

"Ada." Mihawk called her.

She buried her head deeper.

Mi Hokton, this time he ignored Brother Ming.He naturally walked to her side and squatted down.

"...just say what you want to say..." she said.

Mihawk looked at the back of Ada's bowed head, the roots of her golden hair formed a counterclockwise swirl on the head.Inexplicably, he stretched out his hand, wanting to feel the temperature and soft texture of the vortex with his palm, but his hand stopped halfway.

His hands clenched into fists and retracted.

He took one last look at her head, which was too low to see her face, and said, "You follow him."

Time stood still.

At this moment of stillness, there is no navy, no Brother Ming and his men.She raised her head, opened her red eyes, and looked at Mihawk who was close at hand——

The man she gave her first kiss to.

Compared with the appearance of the No. [-] swordsman in the future, his handsome face is much less fierce and indifferent, and what exists now is more of the fearless eyes that will hurt the person who likes him at will.

"You...don't care about me?"

"..."

"do you like me?"

"it's OK."

"I...I know I'm troublesome. I've created too much burden for you along the way. In fact, I...I blame myself..."

"It's ok."

What do you mean it doesn't matter?Why is it okay to drive her away?

"Don't cry," Mihawk said.This time he didn't reach out to wipe her tears as he did in the past.

She was sitting and he was squatting, with a distance of more than 20 centimeters between them.

So close, so far away.

Ada suddenly understood that even if he didn't drive her away, one day, she would automatically disappear in the turbulent waves of the era of great pirates...

I like him and want to be with him.However, his future cannot be delayed...

【Thank you for giving me this opportunity to leave you.Leave you as soon as possible, quit you as soon as possible. 】she thinks.

Ada reached out to wipe away the tears, and the wet face was cool under the sea breeze.

She looked at him greedily, thinking that this was the last time, she still couldn't accept it.After shaking her body a few times, Mihawk reached out to hold her shoulder in time.

She silently pushed his hand away from her shoulder gently, like brushing away dust.

Ada stood up, and Mihawk also stood up.She looked up at him.

[If you let me stay, I will definitely stay. 】The last fluke in my heart is clamoring!

But he didn't say anything, he looked at her with worry in his eyes.

Ada bit her lip, pretending to be cheerful and said: "You must have seen it at a glance just now... I pretended to have a stomachache..."

[At the last moment, why do I still involuntarily want to find you a step down? 】

She took a deep breath and blinked resignedly: "Did you...have a special reason to drive me away?"

[Say 'yes'! 】

But he still looked at her worriedly: "He likes you, go with him."

Plain expression and tone as always.

"..." Ada acquiesced.

Strangely, after he uttered these last words, Ada found that she was not particularly sad.

Is it because he knows that Dover is still there, so he doesn't feel flustered about the days after leaving him?

She doesn't understand.

Mihawk looked at the calm Ada, and suddenly felt his body temperature drop several degrees.

Fingers are cold.

【Strange, I can drive her away so calmly】 He thought.

Is it because I have thought about such a day before?I can finally be "alone", and I should be happy, but obviously I don't have that kind of emotion...

He doesn't understand.

Aida pretended to be expressionless, and took a few steps towards Brother Ming.Suddenly, she turned her back to him and said, "Mihawk, listen carefully..."

She swallowed hard, choked her throat, and said, "I...is destined to be a passer-by in your life...it's a good thing you...don't like me. It's really great..."

Listening to her nasal voice, he responded——

"it is good."

Heart, empty.

She tried to control her feet, ordering them to walk steadily.

She walked slowly and seemingly calmly to Brother Ming.

She still turned her back to Mihawk like that.

She didn't look up, but reached out and grabbed Ming Ge's clothes: "Dover, take me away."

Brother Ming frowned, squeezed Ada's little hand, and pulled her to turn around.

[Why is there no feeling of victory at all?On the contrary... it's a bit frustrating] Brother Ming thought to himself.

"Pike, Rao G, I leave it to you."

"Yes, my lord."

Brother Ming left a simple order and took Ida back to the pirate ship.

Just when Brother Ming and Ada stepped onto the deck of the Don Quixote pirate ship, there was a loud noise from the warship behind them——

It was Pique and Rao G who started the battle with Mihawk and the navy.

Brother Ming noticed that Ada's hands were shaking!

She gritted her teeth, and tears fell with the loud noise behind her!

"Don't cry!" Brother Ming pressed Ada's head, exerting a little force on his fingers.

Feeling the warmth of the big hand above her head, inexplicably, as if she had found her family, her tears grew bigger.

"Tsk, I told you not to cry! You woman!"

But how can this be stopped by a sentence in an imperative tone?

Ada turned around trembling, hugged Brother Ming and buried her face on him, opened her mouth and cried.

The crying was instantly drowned out by the loud battle sound, just like the fleeting relationship between her and Mihawk was drowned in this "sea of ​​parting"...

Brother Ming looked at the weak woman crying bitterly on his body with complicated emotions, and thought to himself——

[Your name is Zhu Luojier, don't let me meet you again. 】

Then, disregarding the warships that were still fighting fiercely, Brother Ming ordered to set sail.

"Bo Yun Wei Wei" Doflamingo & Ida