One Piece's Strongest Vice-Captain

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spn It was already dusk when Usopp woke up, and the waves under the setting sun were glowing with golden luster, but everyone appreciated all of this.The bad news I received today made everyone feel heavy in their hearts. The Merry, a partner who has sailed with everyone for so long, is dying of illness. This dhow will soon be scrapped and sink to the bottom of the sea.

"My head hurts... By the way, Nero, you knocked me out just now, didn't you! What the hell are you trying to do!" Usopp touched the back of his head, which still feels sore, and pointed The culprit, Nero, cursed.

"That's to clear your mind!" Nero turned his head and looked at Usopp with his eyes, and suddenly a feeling of being stared at by a monster made Usopp shut his mouth. "Think about what you did in the shipyard today? I can tell you very clearly that this ship is going to sink! And I knew about it many days ago! I'm just afraid that you will be sad and someone People's demands have never been told to you. I am very disappointed by your reaction today! Everyone is very sad that the Merry is gone. You usually love the Merry the most. We understand how sad you are. But I hope you will Remember that you are the sniper on our boat, not the king of kids in that village. Think about it yourself!"

After Nero finished speaking, he withdrew his momentum, turned his head to look at the sea outside, and gently scratched Ibrahimovic's chin.

Usopp sat there blankly, for a moment he seemed to think that Nero would really kill him!However, this terrible feeling made Usopp really calm down. Things were too complicated this day. "I'm sorry, I..." Usopp didn't know what to say, he was too willful!Thinking about what I did today is really self-willed, but, "...I don't want to lose Melly, really! I don't want to lose him!" [

Seeing Usopp crying, everyone's heart became heavier.Yeah, really don't want to lose this little place.Although it is very crowded when sleeping at night, although there is a queue for a long time to take a shower, although... I really like this small boat!Several boys closed their eyes and said nothing, and the girls began to sob softly.

"I know everyone likes the Merry very much, but he can't hold on... Forget it, I don't know what to say! Douding, come out!" Nero saw the atmosphere It suddenly became heavy, and I felt that I should tell everyone the news.He gave the Ibsai in his arms to Abis who was already crying and let her use it as a towel, while Nero walked to a corner with a few steps, grabbed something and pulled it out vigorously.

"Don't pull me! I'll get out by myself, stop!" A small figure in a black cloak was trying to fight against Nero, and Nero was pulling him out like a carrot.The most surprising thing is that the other half of his body is actually inside the wall!

"Come out Douding! Didn't you agree to meet everyone? Don't be shy!" Nero pulled the little shadow hard, and finally pulled him out.Nero carried the "trophy" triumphantly to the middle of the cabin, put him on the ground and pulled off the cap of his cloak, "This is the surprise I gave everyone—the elf Douding of our Merry ship! Come, Douding, say hello to everyone!"

"Don't say you're small! Douding! No!" The soft golden hair was combed into a small braid behind his head, and his handsome face showed an expression of anger and embarrassment, and he was less than one meter tall. (For details, see Edward as a child in Steelmaking) Although he looks very cute, the name of Douding can be said to be worthy of the name.

Nero put his hand on the head of the ship elf, making him wave his small arms in vain but couldn't even touch the corner of Nero's clothes.Nero grinningly pouted at the ship elf, asking him to look to the side, "Are you sure you're not Douding? Even the youngest Abis is taller than you!"

The ship elf glanced at Abis who was looking at him curiously, calculated a little, and then ran to the corner to draw circles by himself.

"This is... what... people." Weiwei felt that her brain was a little short-circuited.How is it possible to pull a person out of the wall!Although this guy is a little guy (the ship elf burst into tears), but it's impossible to hide in the wall too far!

"Gah!" Karu held a lump of garlic that he didn't know where to get, and looked nervously at the guy who was performing the curse ceremony in the corner.

"It should be some kind of ship elf. Isn't elder brother an elf? Relatives or something." Kuina said with some uncertainty, as if getting along well with her elder brother.If he hadn't been blond, he would have been the eldest brother's illegitimate son.No, maybe the woman is blonde!

Just as Kuina was pulling the face of the ship elf to compare with Nero, Dashiqi, a girl with glasses who had the same appearance as Kuina, rubbed her chin and struggled to recall something. "By the way, that's the one! I've heard of the ship spirit!" Da Siqi clapped his hands, as if remembering something.Her shout also attracted everyone's attention, um, except for Kuina, who was still researching the relationship between the ship elves and Nero. "I used to hear a very old man in charge of the old Navy warehouse talk about the ship spirits. He said that some strange creatures would be born on the old ships that have been used for a long time. No one has seen their true appearance. You will hear their cries from time to time. Then... it hurts, hurts!"

In the middle of Dashiqi's inexplicable tone, her story was ended by Nero with a knife in his hand. "Don't tell ghost stories, that's the story of the sailor's ghost, okay?" Nero pressed his aching temple, maybe it's time to tell them some common sense of the sea, "The materials used for ships are all grown. The wood of many years. The wood of more than [-] years will give birth to a creature called the elf, and the old wood will give birth to a soul after a long voyage after a long period of sailing. This is the ship elf gone."

"That is to say, this bean sprouts is the soul of the Merry?" Sanji looked at the ship elf who was struggling with Kuina's face in disbelief.

"Are you sure you didn't abduct this little guy from somewhere to be your son?" Sauron sized Nero suspiciously, and then glanced at Abis and Shirley.Have a criminal record!

"How is it possible! Don't learn to speak like me!" x2 Nero and the ship elf who escaped from Guina's clutches retorted Sauron in unison.

"Okay, okay, anyway, this little guy is the Merry, right? It's unbelievable that Merry looks like this." Nami saw that the topic was discussing the blood relationship between Nero and this little guy. The direction of development, and timely voice to drag the topic back on track.

"I was also surprised when I found out about this. Maybe the Merry is related to a small sailboat. This guy is surprisingly small!" Nero pressed the head of the ship elf, and stopped the little guy and his desperate attempt again. .Then he turned his head and smiled at Usopp, who was staring blankly at the ship elf, "You have seen this little guy, remember when you were on Sky Island? You met him by chance that night , but you seem to have frightened him into a ghost."

"In that case, you were the one who repaired the Merry that night! I remember you seemed to smile at me." Usopp also remembered the scene he accidentally saw when he got up to pee that night, from He got down on the bed and squatted down to hold the ship elf in his arms, "I'm sorry, Merry, I'm really sorry! We don't care about you so much. We don't know you hurt so badly! Every time we go to the island, we only care about ourselves I’m playing but I don’t know how to take you to the dock to check it out! Melly..."

"It's me who should say I'm sorry. I originally wanted to carry everyone on a journey forever, but this is my delusion. When the keel cracked a few months ago, I thought this moment would come, but it's really nice to be able to persist here. Great!" The ship elf also had tears in his eyes, he hugged Usopp's neck with his small arms, and buried him in his curly hair, "Don't blame yourself or everyone. It is because you love me so much that I feel the calling of everyone, so I can meet you before sinking. I am very happy, and I live and take risks with you every day. Thank you very much, so far you have all Cherish me so much." [

"It's us who want to say I'm sorry!" Luffy, who had been holding back tears, finally couldn't stop his tears, "I won't steer you into an iceberg. I also broke your sail. Zoro and Shan They are also rough people, and they broke a lot of places on the ship. Although Usopp can fix it, he is clumsy. If you want to say sorry...it should be us!"

Everyone closed their eyes, quietly recalling the bits and pieces of their time together with the Merry, and the cabin fell into a heavy atmosphere.

Nami wiped away her tears, walked up to Nero, tiptoed and kissed him gently on the cheek.Seeing Nero's bewildered look, Nami wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and gave Nero a charming smile, "Thank you for the surprise. We are all very happy to see the Merry for the last time before parting." Happy, or I don't think I'd have known our 15th crew member turned out to be such a cute little guy!"

"Don't say I'm young! And I'm not going to leave, how could it be the last time! I will definitely grow taller than you in the future!" The ship elf shouted at Nami angrily, waving his fists.

Nami was taken aback by what the ship elf said. Nami suddenly thought of something, and said to Nero in an unusually gentle tone, "Dear Mr. Nero, do you still have something to say? Is it hopeless?"

"How? He is now equivalent to the same soul body as your mother Bermer. Although I have no way to repair the ship, as long as a new ship is built, I am sure to move him into the new ship and continue the adventure with everyone. This is the real surprise!" Nero said triumphantly, completely oblivious to the crying in the cabin when it stopped.Everyone looked at him with very subtle eyes.

"That is to say, you made us shed so many tears in vain?" Nami looked at Nero with a chilling smile, and twirled the weather stick in both hands to form air masses of cold and warm air.A dark cloud gradually gathered above Nero's head...

"I just want to save the surprise until the end. I still have something to do and you can continue!" Nero also realized that the situation was not good, so he sneaked towards the door.But before he slipped to the door, Kuina and Dashiqi were both standing there.

"It's okay big brother, we don't know how to use knives. With your recovery ability, you won't die." Kuina moved her wrist, and together with Dashiqi blocked Nero's last escape route.

"No!"······

"Hehehe, everyone is very happy! I can also leave with peace of mind." On the rock not far from the Merry, Robin looked at the Merry and showed a beautiful but sad smile.

"The ship elf was born, you really love your ship." A masked man stood behind Robin, looking weird in the evening sun, "It's time to go, Nicole Robin. You Let’s see the last time, don’t push too hard. The time is up, and we have to go to Frankie and Bingshan to ask for something.”

"Hey, I see." Hearing the man's smile, Robin also put away the expression on his face.Turning back and walking into the darkness, "I listen to you, now I have nothing to do with the Straw Hat Pirates. I hope you don't embarrass them."

"We won't do anything to them. If they leave here obediently." The masked man snorted coldly, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.