General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 431 Reiju
The territory of the Kingdom of Freifans is not large. It is located more than 200 kilometers north of the Kingdom of Prince. There are only one large, two small and three adjacent islands.

The largest island among them is White Town, which is world-famous for platinum lead disease.

It is also Luo’s hometown.

At this moment, Reiju, who led twenty Germa war docks and brought five thousand troops, had arrived here.

Reiju wears tight leather armor, has pink hair covering her right eye, her eyebrows are shaped like a circle unique to the Vinsmoke family, and she wears headphones with the number 66 printed on her ears.

On her long, slender white legs, she wore knee-high boots.

The tight leather armor could not hide her proud figure.

After ordering the army of clone warriors to stay on the sea, Reiju walked into this world-famous white town alone.

The first impression you get when setting foot on this island is that of desolation.

The ground as far as the eye can see is either piled with various kinds of garbage or covered with weeds and moss, like an uninhabited island that has been abandoned for many years.

On both sides of the street are dilapidated buildings covered with various vines.

Some have collapsed, most of the doors and windows have been damaged, and the more valuable items inside have been taken away.

Reijiu stood at the entrance of the deserted street, looking at this ancient town that was as ghostly as a ghost and eerily quiet.

Dressed in bright clothes, she looked out of place in the town in front of her.

Reijiu glanced around, suddenly a slight smile appeared on her lips, and she raised her hand to tap the earphones on her ears.

This pair of headphones, which can amplify subtle sounds and enhance human senses, immediately captured many subtle breaths coming from the dilapidated buildings on the left and right.

There are a lot of breaths, and they become more dense the further in you go.

Obviously, this place is not deserted, but the people on the island have already discovered their fleet and hid in advance.

Following these subtle breathing sounds, Reiju released the Haki she had just awakened.

Although she has just mastered this magical power, the effects it can exert are very simple.

But at this moment, one can clearly feel the fear, panic, and despair emanating from those hiding in the surrounding dilapidated houses.

These emotions were so obvious that they were reflected directly on their bodies.

Some people were crying uncontrollably, some were chanting prayers, and some were huddled in the corner and shivering.

As the steps went deeper into the center of the town, this emotion became more and more confusing, and even infected Reijiu, causing the slight smile that appeared on her face to gradually disappear.

Until she suddenly heard a faint cry.

Reiju followed the sound and walked over.

The bottom of her shoes is a bubble-shaped device that makes her body as light as weight and makes no sound when she steps on the ground.

Therefore, when he walked all the way to a dilapidated house where the faint cry came from, he did not disturb the owner of the cry.

Reiju concealed her breath and looked in along the broken window of the house.

In this dark house with no lights, there was a seven or eight-year-old girl in ragged clothes and no shoes. She was hugging her knees, huddled on an old wooden board, sobbing softly.

The little girl has short black hair that reaches her ears, but it looks messy due to malnutrition and lack of care.

The clothes she was wearing obviously did not belong to her. They seemed to be grown-up clothes picked up somewhere, and they looked roomy on her body.

The clothes were very thin and could not bring her any warmth in this cold winter.

The little girl is very thin, with bulging cheekbones, sunken eye sockets, and a body so thin that a random gust of wind could blow her away.

"Cuckoo..."

The growling sound coming from her stomach made the little girl's sobs extremely weak.

Reiju heard her whisper.

She was chanting, "Dad, mom, I miss you so much. Brother, brother... I'm so hungry, I'm so cold."

As time passed, the sky became darker and darker, the air temperature became lower and lower, the room became darker and darker, and the little girl shivered harder.

Reijiu had been standing quietly outside the house without going in.After a long time, a little boy, also thin and short, ran panting from a distant street corner.

In his hand, he held a palm-sized fish.

"Alice! Alice!"

As soon as the little boy approached the house, he shouted in a low voice and walked in nervously.

Hearing the boy's cry, he hugged the sobbing little girl who was curled up on her knees. She quickly wiped away her tears and stood up from the board, with a weak smile on her face.

"Brother, are you back?"

When the little boy saw that the girl was fine, he relaxed his nervousness. A smile appeared on his dark little face and he raised the fish in his hand.

"Alice! Look, what is this?"

When the little girl saw the fish in his hand, she couldn't help but lick her lips, her throat rolled, and she said happily: "Brother, have you caught another fish?"

"Yeah! As you said, I'm very good at catching fish. As long as I'm here, Alice, you won't be hungry. Come on, I'll grill this fish for you right now."

The little boy held the fish in one hand and held his sister's hand in the other. He walked into the dark room and squatted on the ground next to the broken board.

The little boy rubbed his stiff hands and feet, picked up a pile of dead grass from beside the board, took out two flints from under the board, and started to make a fire quickly.

He didn't wear any shoes on his feet, and the soles of his feet were red and swollen from the cold.

A cold wind blew in from the cracks in the window, making the bodies of the two children leaning against each other tremble.

"Crack, click."

The flint sparkled in the little boy's hand, illuminating the expectant faces of the two men.

The weather was not very good today. The leakage on the roof made the picked dry grass a little damp. Even though sparks from flint splashed on it, it was never ignited.

After a dozen more blows, the little boy was panting and his hands were so cold that he couldn't use them.

He looked back at his sister with an apologetic expression, picked up the fish on the ground, wiped it in his arms, and handed it to the little girl.

"Alice, you must be starving. The hay is too wet to light. It looks like you will have to eat raw fish again today."

"Brother, you can eat. I'm always at home. I'm not hungry." The little girl Alice licked her lips and pushed back the fish handed by the boy.

"I have already eaten. I forgot to tell you. When I was at the beach during the day, I caught a total of two fish. I ate the big one. I am very full now. You eat, I will try again. Can you light the fire?"

The little boy stuffed the fish into Alice's arms. Without waiting for his sister to speak, he turned around and squatted on the ground, picked up the two cold flints, and started beating again.

Behind her, Alice, who was holding the fish in her hand, hesitated for a moment, swallowed her saliva, then put the fish to her mouth and opened her mouth to bite it.

Reijiu, who was standing outside the house, watched quietly. Suddenly she raised her hand and shot a tiny spark from her fingertips, flying into the withered grass in front of the little boy.

The next moment, black smoke and fire appeared on the damp grass.

"It's on fire! Alice, I'm on fire!"

When the little boy saw the withered grass being ignited, he immediately shouted in surprise. He went to the wooden board and took some dead branches, placed them on the lit withered grass, and then looked at his sister.

Seeing that her sister was struggling to bite the palm-sized fish, her shrunken body could not stop trembling. She immediately pulled her to squat down and approached the burning fire, saying at the same time: "Alice, the fire point Once it’s cooked, there’s no need to eat it raw, I’ll help you bake it.”

"Well, here it is." Alice obediently handed the little fish to the little boy.

The little boy picked up a dead branch, inserted it into the fish's mouth, and placed it on the fire.

Two thin bodies clung to the fire, looking at the small fish being roasted by the flames.

The jumping firelight reflected their little faces, conveying a touch of warmth.

"Did you see? A small fish and a simple fire can keep two fragile lives alive. If Germa's army rushes up, the small fire will be extinguished. Countless People who are already lonely and impoverished will die one by one. Do you want to add more blood to this already desolate and dilapidated country?"

"Vinsmoke, Reiju."

Reijiu slowly turned around and saw a woman with an open mind and a cigarette in her mouth walking out of the darkness.

(End of this chapter)