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A strange, stiff atmosphere close to confrontation lasted for about 10 minutes in the Warring States Marshal's office.

When he finally found out that Huang Yuan's determination could not be changed, the ghost spider stood up with a cold face, "I don't want to know what your plan is, but... that is a woman, you——"

Xu Shi felt that he was too irritable. The ghost spider stopped, took a deep breath, and then slowly let it out after a while. Together with the slight anger accumulated in his heart, when he spoke again, his tone had returned to indifference, "You'd better not regret it, Polusalino."

Huang Yuan pursed his lips slightly, his eyes were calm, "You're going to strangle the little guy in your hand, ghost spider."

Looking down at the velvet ball in his palm, the ghost spider was stunned, and then the cold light in his eyes warmed slightly, but he didn't say anything, but cautiously released a little bit of force, and then put it back into his pocket with his backhand.

The little thing didn't know whether it was frightened or something, but anyway, it was ridiculously well-behaved, pressing the edge of the pocket with one hand, the ghost spider was finally not in such a bad mood.

After standing still for a moment in silence, he turned around without saying a word, and walked towards the door.

……

The door of the Warring States Marshal's office opened and closed again.

When the sense of existence outside the door angrily disappeared, the yellow ape Polusalino lowered his eyes, rubbed the ball lying on his knees, and laughed hoarsely, "Aren't you happy that you didn't rush? "

"Don't worry now, Qiuqiu, as long as she is still around, one day..."

Someday what?But he didn't say the second half of the sentence, Huang Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, hiding the shock in his eyes in a careless indifference.

Qiuqiu Huabuliu turned her head back, rubbed his fingertips in disgust, then jumped off his knees in an instant, back to the mat and lay down on the mat, with a lifeless and lonely look.

Huang Yuan withdrew his hand, leaned forward and took out the cigarette pack lighter that he had casually thrown nearby, lit a cigarette for himself, then sighed slightly, and said, "I regretted it more than 20 years ago, idiot. "

After the words fell, Sakaski, who was sitting opposite, raised his face, revealing his eyes hidden in the shadow of the brim of his hat, "You don't want to give up when you call others stupid, do you?"

"Just let her go like this?" The corners of his mouth slowly curled into a sarcasm, Sakaski glanced at the office door, and sneered coolly, "You are not afraid that she will really run away."

"Yeah~ she won't leave." Yellow Monkey shrugged nonchalantly, and replied in a calm voice, "I've made it very clear, except for Marineford, no other island dares to take her and that brat~"

"She's a smart person."

Qiantui Baisui is so clever that he is strange, how could he fail to hear his obvious threat?

"What's more..." Huang Yuan continued slowly after taking a puff of the cigarette stuck between his fingertips, "She took the initiative to let that kid appear in the navy's sight, so how could she have no purpose?"

"Thousands never do nonsense, do they, Sakalski."

"So?" Sakaski pursed his lips, paused for a few seconds, and snorted coldly, "You don't plan to care about her purpose, threaten her to stay, because..."

"Of course it is to let everyone know that a thousand years old is a navy."

Kizaru Polusalino took Sakaski's words lightly, "Whether it's Shichibukai or the World Government, no matter who was involved before, she and them will never have a future together."

He spoke in a calm tone, as if he was talking about an unimportant matter, but his dark eyes gradually darkened, and his eyes could not hide the cruelty and blood. Only the navy."

……

Sakaski clicked his tongue, but before he had time to say anything, he and his two colleagues turned their eyes away.

In the other corner of the room, the half-closed door of the temporary lounge opened, and the Marshal of the Warring States came out without a sound, and then gently closed the door with his backhand, leaving only a small gap.

"Is the kid asleep?" Polusalino twitched the corners of his mouth, showing his usual accent, each syllable was drawn out very long, and the tone was half mocking and half ironic, "I cry like a bun without my mother around , Marshal of the Warring States Period, you have worked really hard."

Hearing what he said, the corners of Marshal Warring States' mouth sank, his lips moved a little, but he just waved his hands in the end. He found another topic, and said in a deep voice, "I leave the matter of thousands of years to you, it's just..."

Looking at the yellow monkey through the transparent lens, the admiral sighed imperceptibly, and then said, "Don't forget that you are the admiral, Polusalino."

"Yeah~ Of course I remember." After answering without hesitation, Huang Yuan put away the strange expression on his face, and stood up relaxedly, "Marshal, you continue to deal with the affairs, and I will help take care of that kid."

"You?" The Marshal of the Warring States Period, who was already walking towards the desk, paused, turned his face in disbelief, "Rosie is not yet six years old, what do you want to do, Polusalino?"

Bathed in the distrustful gaze of his boss, the corner of Huang Yuan's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly after a while, "I'm not bored enough to do anything to the kid."

"The thousand-year-old guy dotes on children, and he will definitely come back to see him when he gets rid of fluff control. I need to talk to her."

"About the details of his future military career." The yellow ape Polusalino narrowed his eyes, the haze between his brows finally faded, and his smile was more rippling than ever.

After a while, he restrained his smile, looked down at himself in a mess, and frowned, "But before that, I need to go back and change my clothes." While talking, he bent down to pick up the ball that was spread on the mat, and gently shook it To Sakalski, "Start playing with you today, lest that guy be so frightened that he doesn't even care about the child and runs away."

The fluffy ball in his arms ran down his back, Sakasky stood up holding it, his eyes shifted a few degrees, and he nodded calmly, "Then I will take my leave, Marshal of the Warring States Period."

In the end, Aokiji Kuzan, who was always sitting on the sofa, seemed to be sleeping with his eyes open, lazily got up, "Ah la la~ The marshal's office is really not a good place to sleep, so I——"

He yawned vaguely while talking, raised his hand and scratched the curly-haired Aokiji as if remembering something, raised his eyelids, "Why put people under the command of the ghost spider?"

Huang Yuan smiled slightly and answered the question, "Because it suits her there."

Hearing this, Qingzhi paused, frowned, and lowered his voice, "Suitable for killing?" He glanced at Huang Yuan from the corner of his eyes, and then said to himself, "What an unexpected wife~"

"Yeah~ she's just..." After she spoke, she fell silent again, and Huang Yuan smiled and shook her head, "You will know later, Kuzan, that guy's behavior cannot be explained clearly, only when we get along can we understand."

……

Lazily following behind the two colleagues who were one step ahead, Kuzan asked softly after Sakaski put his hand on the doorknob, "Aren't you jealous?"

Polusalino turned his face slightly, looked quietly at his colleague behind him, and replied with a sigh for a long time, "As long as she lives, there is nothing worthy of my concern."

……Dividing line……

It was not until late in the evening that the waiting visitors arrived.

The temporary lounge of the marshal's office was very quiet. The soft floor-to-ceiling curtains swayed with the wind, and the gaps were opened, and the orange-red glow was reflected outside the open window frame.

Thin clouds like fish scales floated in the sky, and when dusk was approaching, the light in the room was dim, and a black line was wrapped in the soft night wind, which appeared without warning after the curtains rose and fell again.

In the corner where the light couldn't reach, Polusalino the Orasma ape silently raised the corners of his mouth.

The black velvet ball stopped on the window frame, its impossibly small claws grabbed the wooden window sill, quietly folded its wings, and shifted its head slightly, looking at the room from the unique perspective of a bird, and then precisely met his sight.

The moment the eyes met, a sigh floated faintly in the silent room, and the light and shallow voice was like her feathers, if there seemed to be nothing to disperse, in the dim light and shadow, the black velvet ball began to change.

Like the moonlight melting on the surface of the sea, the static scenery is slightly distorted, until the ripples spread out, stopping at the position of the velvet, and the enchanting figure is outlined in the air.

He didn't move at the same place and didn't speak, she sat on the window sill and looked at him quietly through the dim sky.

The bright red glow outside the window covered her with a beautiful outline.

Between light and darkness, Polusalino could clearly see her slender frame, the right ups and downs of her chest, her slender legs, and the sharp strength curled up in the lines of her body.

……

The room was very quiet, only the sound of breathing from the depth of the quilt on the bed in the center.

After waiting for a while, she jumped down lightly, and walked straight towards the bed with both feet on the ground. He still remained motionless and did not make any obstructions, not even making a sound.

She quickly walked to the bed, carefully touched the light blond head on the pillow, then bent down, tried the temperature of the kid's forehead with her cheek, and then seemed to be relieved, and tucked the quilt up again for the child, He straightened up and gave him a peaceful look.

Polusalino sneered in his heart, but he didn't speak. He just raised his hand and patted the empty space beside him, signaling silently.

She hesitated for a moment, then walked towards him slowly.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, Polusalino disappeared without a trace, glanced at the guy who occupied the bed in the marshal's lounge, and then lowered his eyes.

The kid was on the bed, who slept the whole afternoon, and for some reason, was so quiet that he didn't even turn over. Polusalino checked it out because he was worried.

The little ghost cried a few times in a daze, but he called the Marshal of the Warring States, coaxed him to sleep peacefully with a glass of milk and a storybook.

If it weren't for her steady breathing and strong heartbeat, Polusalino would have thought that the little ghost was sick... But it didn't look right, because she seemed to be normal just now, but she was actually very nervous.

After thinking about it, he suppressed the doubt in his heart, raised his eyelids, and squinted at the person sitting next to him; she also looked at him, under the dim light, her eyes were so clear that they were almost cool.

……

When the eyes of the two met, the lips of the person who was close to him slightly curved slightly, and actually smiled at him, the corners of his eyes were soft, and there was a soft light like water in the flowing eyes.

Looking quickly at the delicate collarbone half hidden and half exposed between her collar, Polusalino closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, "Yeah~ the beauty trick failed for me more than 20 years ago."

"It seems that we were friends back then." Her voice sounded unusually innocent, her mood seemed to be very happy, her shallow laughter had an indescribably lazy taste, "I forgot, I'm really sorry."

Polusalino closed his eyes, forced himself to ignore the astringent heat in the corners of his eyes, and snorted casually, "You are too relaxed, you are a thousand years old."

"I'm threatening you with a brat~"

"No, you're just stating the facts." Her tone was very flat, "I'm not so stupid that I can't even tell the difference."

Pausing for a few seconds, Polusalino felt the air between him and her move lightly, but before he opened his eyes, a weight was attached to his knee.

"Some things will always come to light when they should know, don't you think?"

Her temperature is slightly lower than that of ordinary people, and through the fabric, the strength of the caress is not light but heavy, with a little guilt, and a little... It seems to be a sad loneliness.

"I forgot, your anger is justified, after all, we were friends in the past, right?"

"No." Polusalino replied in a low voice, then opened his eyes, and fixed his gaze on her. After a long time, he sighed and continued, "We are companions, thousands of years old."

In just one thought, replace the blurted thoughts with the past truth.

"We trust each other and give each other back to each other."

It was too late to be upset, he asked in a deep voice, "You forget it so easily?"

In the semi-dark sky, Qiantui Baisui slightly opened his eyes wide, with a look of astonishment on his face.

But she came back to her senses in a flash, her expression seemed to be caught off guard, but at the same time, she nodded lightly, "It really is like this, no wonder..."

Muttering in a low voice, as if she was talking to herself, there was a trace of complexity in her eyes, which flashed and disappeared in an instant.

……

After a long while, she curled the corners of her mouth, and her smile became softer, "Do you want to continue to take revenge? Before you calm down, I don't mind anything~"

"Yeah~ Forget it." Polusalino patted off the weight sticking to his knees that made him ready to move, and shrugged pretending to be unintentional, "For the sake of my reputation, let's stop the rumors~"

When he was speaking, he observed her reaction out of the corner of his eye, and as expected, he found that she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

And after he found out, he was even more gloomy, and of course, he also didn't dare to let her notice.

After a brief silence, he spoke again, "Go to the ghost spider, Bai Sui, how about repaying the love you owe to my companion?"

He turned his eyes away from her face, looked at the dark room, and said slowly, it took him an afternoon to force himself to make a plan.

"Ghost Spider has encountered some difficult things recently. That guy is not good at it...or it should be said that he has no defense against his own people at all."

"If the plot succeeds, that ghost spider..."

Pulling out the big lie without blinking, Polusalino turned his head and looked at her 'sincerely', "We have fought for half our lives, but in the end we have to deal with the conspiracy behind us, it is really chilling~ "

"We people are transparent in everything we do these days, but you are different."

"Your identity is not recorded in Marineford, and the action will be easy."

"Help me, hundred years old."

He was deliberately vague, creating specious concepts.

Polusalino is considered to understand thousands of years old. She originally hated political strife, but now with the guilt of forgetting, he made a request at the right time and showed weakness appropriately. She would definitely not refuse.

Sure enough, after being silent for a while, she sighed softly and said, "Follow your arrangement, after all, I owe you once."

……

Because a settlement was reached (?) the atmosphere that followed seemed rather relaxed.

Continuing to talk about some irrelevant topics, Polusalino turned his head to look at the night that finally fell outside the window, and then tried to make a request, "Do you want to stay at my house? You and that brat."

Because she was trapped in the dark, her eyesight was particularly bad at night, so he showed an expectant look without any scruples, and coaxed in a low voice, "There is a small yard with a garden, and the logistics department staff are also good at cooking. Yes~”

"You go to the ghost spider, I can ask the logistics department to find a good person to help you take care of the little ghost."

"No, you have a cat at home." She muttered sullenly, "I'm afraid of that kind of creature."

"But Qiuqiu belongs to Sakaski?" He innocently threw the blame on Sakaski, who is also her classmate, "Qiaoqiu is raised at his house, and I just hug him occasionally."

"That's not necessary!" She was unreasonable like a child, and ordered categorically, "In short, the three of you must keep 50 meters away from me when you are together, no! A distance of more than 100 meters."

"Okay, okay~" Polusalino chuckled, thought for a while, and then handed out another choice, "Marshal of the Warring States Period likes that kid very much, let the kid sleep at the marshal's house at night, but you have to live in the dormitory ,How about it?"

"Eh?" She was stunned for a few seconds, then said, "Then it's decided like this."

After being able to subdue all the anomalies perfectly under the calm appearance, Polusalino got up in a leisurely manner and went to help her turn on the light.

The fingertips sank slightly, and then the room lit up with soft light.

Withdrawing his hand and inserting them into his trouser pocket, Polusalino turned his face slightly, and saw Chitose Baisui who was sitting on the bench get up and hurried towards the sleeping kid.

She bent down to hug the sleeping child, brows and eyes filled with joy, looking at the child's eyes with indescribable doting.

Staring at the person who didn't pay attention to him at all, Polusalino quickly closed his eyes, lowered his eyes, and slowly clenched his hidden hands into fists.

……

Don't worry, he told himself.

Even if he wanted to kill the sea rogue immediately, he still had to hold back temporarily, at least until Qiansui Baisui's impression of him became better, from "guilt because of forgetting" to deepening to regaining the tacit understanding back then.

Patience is a necessary condition for a good hunter. Be patient and wait for the best time. Before the prey falls into the trap, nothing can be done.

A thousand years old is the prey he desires most in his life, whether it is body or heart, he wants everything.

The first step is to keep her in Marineford.

Only by keeping her can there be a future.

So, don't worry.