People are full of pirates

Chapter 28 Return to the Body
"Tina!"

At this moment, a somewhat severe voice suddenly came from outside the door.

The two people in the room were startled. When they looked up, they found that Zhizi appeared at the door at some point. She glanced at the photo frame and then at Tina, her brows furrowed.

Tina looked at her blankly, her eyes full of puzzlement.

Seeing this, Shiba sighed slightly, and her voice softened: "It's getting late, go take a bath and rest, you and I, Sister Gion, have something to talk about."

"Eh? But Tina also wants to..."

"When adults speak, children are not allowed to eavesdrop."

"Oh……"

Tina could only leave the bedroom honestly, and after her back disappeared in the corridor on the second floor, Zhizi shook her head, closed the door, and sat beside the bed in front of Nuoxia.

"Sister Zhizi..." Nuoxia could probably guess Major General Zhizi's state of mind at the moment. After hesitating for a moment, he took the initiative to break the silence, "This Portgas Lujiu..."

"That's right, it's the one you think." Zhi Zi said quietly, "The wife of One Piece Gol Roger, who died three years ago with Roger's posthumous son, was chased by the navy."

Killed by the Navy?
Nuoxia was stunned, her eyes hard to hide.

What does this say?
If he remembered correctly, didn't Lu Jiu escape from the navy's pursuit after all the hardships and died of exhaustion and blood loss after giving birth to Ace on Baterila Island in the South China Sea?
"Surprising, isn't it?"

She took the photo frame from Nuoxia's hand, looked at the little girl with a bright smile in the photo, gently brushed the dust off it with her hands, her eyes were soft, with a trace of chasing:
"Lu Jiu, although she is not related to me by blood, I have always regarded her as my own and treated her as my own daughter."

"It's a pity that this child has become rebellious since her uncle died. Not long after she became an adult, she left home to travel, and there was little news after that."

"After a few years, she contacted me again, apologized for her self-willedness, and said that she had found the love of her life in the South China Sea and was pregnant."

"I was very happy at that time. I wished her a happy wedding on the phone. Later, I kept thinking about it, looking forward to one day in the future, when I can see her husband with her child and come home to reunite with me."

When Zhizi said this, she put down the photo and laughed at herself, "But a few months later, the headquarters began to order the killing of Roger's family orphans, and I didn't know until this time that the lover that Lu Jiu mentioned was exactly that. One Piece, Gol Roger."

"What an ironic story, Kogion."

Nuoxia pursed her lower lip and remained silent.

He was actually not surprised by this. Before Zhizi entered the door, after getting Lu Jiu's name from Tina's mouth, Nuoxia probably guessed the story behind this series of characters' relationships.

As the deputy chief of staff of the Navy Headquarters, he and Kapuzefa were the old navy of the same era. The adopted half daughter, after encountering the pirate king Roger, turned out to be the wife of the other party.

Very bizarre, but also a common routine.

It's just like this, the age difference between the two sides seems to be a bit outrageous.

Lu Jiu traveled in the South China Sea for several years, how old was she when she met Roger?Stay in your early twenties?

But at that time Roger had disbanded the pirate group, and he was fifty-three years old, almost half an old man.

Such two people, who are so different in age, experience and status, can come together in just a few months of acquaintance, which is really commendable.

Maybe... this is the power of love.

Nuoxia didn't want to make more comments on this old and young love, but she always thought it was strange.

——Since Roger knew that he was terminally ill before he disbanded the Pirates, why would he develop a relationship, leaving orphans and widowed mothers, and living in misery and helplessness in this world?
Even without Garp's secret help, Lujuice's mother and son might not even have the qualifications to survive.

Maybe... this is the brain circuit of the pirates, right?
He couldn't understand it anyway. Right now, he just wanted to find out whether Major General Zhizi left Malin Fando at the time point after Roger's execution three years ago. Was it related to the navy sending someone to hunt down Lu Jiu.

This kind of practice of cutting grass and rooting and harming innocent people is probably hated by many people in the Navy headquarters, right?
What's more, for Major General Zhizi, it was half her adopted daughter who was hunted down.

If for this reason, there is a gap with the headquarters, it would be reasonable to resign and return to the hometown.

But... what does this have to do with Karp?
Anyway, the words have been spread out, and Nuoxia can't care about Garp's taboo here at Zhizi, and is ready to break the skylight to speak brightly and directly ask the reason three years ago.

But at this moment, a muffled sound of "pop" suddenly came from outside the door, accompanied by the pained cry of a little girl.

"It's Tina!"

Zhizi and Nuoxia's expressions changed, and at the same time they rushed out the door and ran downstairs.

When they got to the hall, the two looked around and found that the bathroom was lit with lights, and the sound just now came from inside.

"Tina, what's wrong with you?"

Nuoxia knocked on the door of the bathroom, but there was no response for a long time, and she suddenly groaned in her heart.

Zhi Zi, who was beside her, was already full of anxiety, she tried to twist the doorknob twice, and found that it was locked from the inside, she didn't hesitate and kicked out.

With a bang, the wooden door burst open and shattered.

"..."

Nuo Xia stared at the wooden door that had been crushed into powder, until the thin old lady had strode into the bathroom like a god of war before she reacted.

He just wanted to follow closely, but suddenly thought of something, hesitated for a moment, then stopped and waited silently at the bathroom door.

After a while, Zhizi held Tina's small body in her arms, walked out of the bathroom, came to the sofa, and carefully put the latter down.

Tina was wrapped in a bath towel, and her face was pale and weak, but she seemed to be in good spirits and seemed to be fine.

"What's the matter, Sister Zhizi?" Nuoxia asked with a sigh of relief.

"I fell while taking a shower and fell into the bathtub. Fortunately, I didn't pass out."

Zhizi touched Tina's cheek, and said with some reproach, "You child, you were not careful, you surprised me and your sister Gion."

"I'm sorry, Grandma Zhizi."

Tina's tone was still a little weak, her eyes were blank, "I don't know what's going on, but when I was taking a shower, I suddenly felt that I had no strength at all, and I fell down when my foot slipped..."

"Are you feeling unwell?" Zhizi frowned, "I remember that you are on your menstrual period these days, haven't you kept your mouth shut and secretly ate cold drinks in the refrigerator?"

"No."

Tina hurriedly shook her head and pointed to the dining table next to her, "I haven't eaten anything in the past few days. I just washed a few strawberries that Sister Gion brought me to eat after coming downstairs."

"Oh, right."

She suddenly remembered something, and said with a bitter face, "Those strawberries are delicious, but one of them seems to be broken, it smells very bad, I took a bite and threw it away, it's not because that one broke my stomach, right? ?"

broken?

Nuoxia glanced at the trash can next to the coffee table subconsciously, and there was indeed a strawberry with only a bite in it, but... Why does that strawberry look different from the normal one, and there are spiral patterns on the surface?
Pattern?

He and Major General Zhizi looked at each other, their expressions changed at the same time, and they blurted out almost at the same time:

"Devil Fruit!"

Nuoxia bent down, picked up the strawberry in the trash can, and put it in front of him to examine it carefully, and his head suddenly became bigger-the pattern was dense and the hand felt rough, yes, it really was a devil fruit.

He recalled that when he bought strawberries yesterday, he just finished the system task, and his mind was full of things related to points. The strawberries were all selected by the stall owner, and he really didn't pay attention to whether there was any abnormality.

As a result, he was taken to Major General Zhizi's house in a confused way, and was eaten by Xiao Tina in a confused way...

How could such a coincidence happen?Wouldn't it just be the fruit of the threshold?

Nuoxia murmured in her heart. When she was about to throw the wreckage of the Devil Fruit in her hand back into the trash can, she suddenly noticed that Major General Zhizi and Tina on the sofa were looking at him up and down with a weird look.

what happened again?
He wondered in his heart, thinking that there was something on his clothes, he looked down subconsciously, and suddenly the whole person was stunned.

In his sight, there was no such astonishing rolling hills, nor a slender waist, but a slender and sturdy man's body, a body he was familiar with and could no longer be familiar with.

Nuoxia finally understood why Zhizi and Tina looked at him with those eyes.

In the huge living room, the silent falling of needles could be heard, and only the ticking of the clock could be heard faintly.

"..."

In this strange atmosphere, the corners of Nuoxia's eyes twitched.

After a long time, he raised his head with difficulty, looked at the expressionless Major General Zhizi on the sofa, and tried his best to squeeze out a shy smile:

"Cough, so what, or else, I'm going to a far place now to find the owner of the fruit stand that sells strawberries to return it for compensation?"

(End of this chapter)