I, Sakaski, Won't Take a Dog Easily.

...The only difference is probably the pair of glasses that she randomly put on top of her head.

Everyone in the Straw Hat Pirates looked at each other in blank dismay, a little surprised by Sauron's previous gaffes.

And this move started when Nuo Qigao took out the group photo.

"Who is Kuina?" Seeing that Sauron was still staring at someone in the group photo, the blue-haired navigator who also appeared in the group photo blinked in confusion.

Because in this photo, all her comrades-in-arms are familiar, and there is no sailor named [Guina].

But it is clear that the emotionally unstable swordsman of the Three Swords Style cannot provide her with more specific information and intelligence.

The chef, who had been leaning halfway in front of the refrigerator, took out a wine glass from the bar counter, and slowly placed a refilled glass of gin with ice next to Sauron's slightly trembling palm: "Is there someone you know on it?"

The guy's mannerisms and expressions seemed to recognize a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

Sanji knew that the surprise, excitement and unprecedented tenderness in the opponent's eyes could not be faked.

But the swordsman directly answered other people's questions with questions. He raised his head and focused his gaze on the owner of the photo: "Have you seen Kuina?"

Although I don't know who the other party is referring to, it must be in this group photo.

Thinking of this, Reiju pouted at Nuo Qigao to signal the other party to put the photo on the table so that Sauron could identify it.

[Presumably, someone who is very important to him. 】

The empathetic deputy captain stared at the three-sword youth who suddenly showed anxiety, and said softly, "Can you tell us who it is? This will also make it easier for us to provide you with more detailed information about this person." Oh."

Following the direction of Sauron's finger, all the curious crew members squeezed their heads over.

"This is... Major Dashiqi." As a comrade-in-arms and best friend who graduated at the same time as this girl, Nuo Qigao easily recognized who Sauron was talking about [Guina].

Franky, who was the biggest, pushed his sunglasses up his head when he heard the words, and he seemed to have an impression of it: "Da~si~qi? That girl with glasses who practiced beside the general in Gion?"

Seeing this, Sauron was even more urgent, and couldn't help asking: "Have you seen her? Where is she now?"

While speaking, the tablecloth neatly laid out on the dining table was unconsciously clenched and crumpled by the swordsman.

Such unconscious actions failed to escape Reiju's meticulous observation ability, and immediately, a romantic drama in which lovers separated and reunited in a different place was instantly completed in her mind.

Congrats, congratulations.

Gossip is a woman's nature, especially this kind of story that is mixed with love and hatred at first sight is extremely attractive.

Reiju couldn't help but want to explore one or two: "Ahem, young man, may I ask what is your relationship with this [Guina]?"

"Uh...relationship?" Sauron was also stunned when asked abruptly, but he had never seriously thought about the relationship between himself and Kuina.

At first he regarded her as a competitor on the way of kendo, but in the process of being constantly challenged and defeated, Sauron gradually understood the girl's heart.

【Guina and I... are friends, right? 】Zoro stroked the hilt of He Daoyi's words, and hesitantly explained to Reiju: "I think... well, maybe it's a friend who has an important agreement?"

Isn't the reason why he went to sea is to inherit the opponent's saber and long-cherished wish: to become the most powerful swordsman in the world?

"Oh~ it's a female friend who had an important ~promise~." Reiju suddenly understood it as the most important promise between a man and a woman for a lifetime.

But Nuo Qigao, who is Da Siqi's best friend, feels a little confused. She has been together for so long, but she has never heard that there is such a fiancé in the East China Sea who has promised for life?

"But...she shouldn't be 'she'." After experiencing the initial agitation, Zoro finally regained his composure.

He sat down slumpedly, drank the wine in the glass, completely lost the energy to taste seriously at the beginning, and just wanted to pour the alcohol down his throat as soon as possible: "Guina passed away when she was 11 years old. Attended her funeral."

"Eh!?"

"Eh?"

Everyone was really a little confused this time, and wanted to ask urgently, but they were also worried that it would arouse the long-lost thoughts that the swordsman had buried in his heart for a long time.

At this time, Luffy, who has always been outspoken, took advantage of his love red deer and asked directly:

"How did she die? But didn't you just say that the person in the photo was her?"

"It is said that he accidentally slipped and fell to get the whetstone that was placed on a high place." When mentioning this matter, Sauron's mood was obviously a little depressed.

"It is said?" Sanji, who had been listening carefully to the conversation, frowned: "Don't you even know how your girlfriend died?"

In an instant, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Sauron's cheeks flushed, and he couldn't even explain the ignorant feelings buried in his heart.

Only he stammered and defended: "She is not my girlfriend!!! When I got the news the next day and hurried to arrive, Kuina had already closed the coffin and was ready to be buried. The news was told to me by other people."

"Wait, don't you think it's strange? How can anyone be buried the next day?" Nuo Qigao tilted her head, and she keenly found a trace of irrationality in Sauron's remarks.

Sauron was stunned by the question, and it took a while before he said: "This... I really haven't thought about it."

On the one hand, it is true that this memory is too unforgettable, like the bitterest wine burns into the heart, and the only comfort is to talk about the dream with her.

On the other hand, from his point of view, it was Master Koshiro's biological daughter after all.

If Kuina can survive by chance, the gentle master of swordsmanship doesn't need to tell such a lie.

If it is said that this is Koshiro deliberately weaving and forging the evidence of his daughter's death, Sauron really can't figure out why it is necessary.

However, the melon-eaters who were watching Sauron strongly gave their guesses about the ending of this love story that ended before it even started.

"Could it be that Kuina didn't die, lost her memory and was picked up by the navy?"

"Or that girl was originally a princess of a certain country, and your teacher had no choice but to forge evidence of fake death, and then deliberately changed her name and secretly sent her to the navy camp for protection!?" This is a conspiracy theory with both New World and Beihai characteristics.

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