Save Corazon

Was there any sound just now?

Merry stopped abruptly, turned around in confusion, and stared at the figure on the snow.

Rosinante was still lying on his back in a pool of blood, with snow falling all over the sky, layer by layer.

A wisp of white mist slowly rose from the corner of his mouth, and was blown by the wind, becoming thinner and thinner as a gossamer.

Huh? Still alive?

Merry stared at the blood-stained face.

Rossinanti didn't know what he was thinking about, but he slowly curled up the corners of his lips and revealed a relieved smile.

He was injured so badly, but... he's not dead yet?

And why are you laughing?

There was no pain or despair in that smile, but more of a kind of...peace that had settled.

Why? Doesn't it hurt?

Merry's heart was deeply touched by that smile.

Every time he was injured, Meli felt very painful.

But this man has already lost count of how many injuries he has suffered, and there may not be a single intact place on his body.

He was dying and his blood was almost drained.

But why can he still laugh?

Moreover, Meli always felt that he seemed to have seen this kind of smile before.

Just like that day in the Water City.

The water train roared away. Robin sat by the window, looking through the glass towards the direction of the Water City, revealing an almost identical smile.

She knew clearly that if she left with CP9, she would only end up dead.

But in order to ensure that Luffy and his companions could survive the hands of the Navy Admiral, she still resolutely boarded the water train to Judicial Island.

Merry's throat tightened as that smile hit her again.

The snow is getting heavier.

The rise and fall of Rossinanti's chest was barely discernible to the naked eye, and the white mist at the corners of his mouth was as thin as a gossamer, but it stubbornly refused to dissipate.

Meli thought of everything he had accidentally witnessed.

At first, Meli thought the man with the weird smile was a human trafficker, but it was this man who was willing to lurk among the wolves in order to stop his brother from doing evil.

In order to save Law, he fought with all the pirates for the devil fruit.

Unfortunately, after Rosinante's identity was exposed, he was immediately shot and killed by his own brother without mercy.

Good people don't have a good ending.

Meli wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and couldn't help but come to Rosinante.

"Why are you laughing?" Merry murmured subconsciously, "Is it because the child finally escaped?"

Hearing the sudden sound, Rosinante's breathing suddenly stopped in the pool of blood. He opened his blood-red eyes and his smile shattered into a face full of panic.

"Who...what do you want to do?" The voice was as hoarse as a broken bellows, so low that it was almost swallowed by the wind.

Rossinanti subconsciously struggled to get up, but his body was completely unresponsive.

The wound was torn and blood gushed out again.

Rossinanti didn't care. He looked around in panic but couldn't find the source of the sound.

“Ahem—”

Blood gushed out from the corner of his mouth, but Rossinanti seemed to feel no pain and was still struggling to get up.

What an idiot! He is already dying, yet he still wants to protect others?

Well, in that case, let me help you.

In the end, Meli couldn't bear to watch him die.

[It's okay, saving a life is a great deal~]

[I'm not afraid, use me~]

Use me~

Pink octopus tentacles danced beneath her coat, cheering Mellie on.

Meli made up his mind, pinched an octopus tentacle with his little hand, and suddenly exerted force.

The fishman burst out with karate, and a pink octopus tentacle broke off.

"Hiss!" It hurts!

A stream of warm blue blood instantly gushed out from the fracture.

The severe pain rushed up the nerves to the back of Meli's head, and golden stars exploded in front of her eyes. She staggered in pain and fell to her knees on the snow.

Merry was in so much pain that he could hardly maintain his disguise. A small shadow flashed on the snow.

Woohoo...it's really painful to be injured!

Especially a broken limb! The pain is a hundred times worse!

But Meli had no time to cry. She gritted her teeth to calm herself down, endured the severe pain of her broken limb, and moved closer to Rosinante.

Meli grabbed the still twitching octopus tentacle with one hand and quickly smeared the dripping octopus blood on Rossinandi's wound.

As soon as the blood touched the wound, it seemed to come alive and continued to seep into the wound, and the skin and flesh at the wound shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But, it’s not enough!

After doing all this, Meli pinched Rosinante's jaw and stuffed the still warm tentacle into his mouth.

"Um... cough..." Rossinanti struggled and coughed continuously due to the sudden foreign object.

He instinctively turned his head to avoid the attack, but due to excessive blood loss, he had no power to resist.

"Don't waste it, eat it quickly!"

Meli simply wrapped another tentacle around Rossinanti's head and forced him to swallow the tentacle.

The octopus tentacle slid down its throat and rolled into its stomach.

Rossinanti's pupils contracted violently. He tasted the slightly salty, sweet smell of blood with a hint of the ocean, but he did not feel disgusted. Instead, a warm current ignited in his body.

Merry let go of her hand and fell down in the snow, breathing a sigh of relief.

In this way, Rosinante's death should be temporarily delayed.

She looked down at her tentacles and saw a layer of translucent gelatinous membrane had formed on the broken cross section.

Although it is painful to lose a limb, it won't take long for new tentacles to grow back.

Dr. Surina's warning echoed in my ears:

"Merry-chan, your blood is very special. The self-healing factor it contains is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary octopus mermaids. But remember, you must never tell anyone about this, otherwise you will be in great danger."

No wonder she recovers quickly every time she gets injured.

If Dr. Surina hadn't given Meli a full body examination a few days ago, she really wouldn't have known.

However, Rossinanti was seriously injured, and the blood could only save his life and delay his death. If he wanted to survive, he had to find a doctor for treatment as soon as possible.

Merry looked up toward the distant coast.

I heard that two naval warships arrived at the coast, and there should be a ship doctor on board.

Having made up his mind, Meli extended two more tentacles, one wrapped around Rossinanti's waist, one supported his head, and another tentacle pressed against his back, lifting the upper half of his body off the ground.

"Who are you..." a hoarse voice came from above.

Rossinanti felt his body suddenly suspended in the air, his legs hanging on the snow, and he was moving forward. He couldn't help but ask again.

Meli was in no mood to solve the mystery for him. Although the bleeding from the wound of the severed limb had stopped, the pain would not subside so easily.

While carrying Rosinante towards the shore, she contacted the sea kings in her mind to come and help.

【Mina-san, please come and help me. 】

[Yes, Your Highness.]

Meli held up Rosinante's upper body and continued to drag it forward. His weak long legs left two drag marks on the snow that were deeper than Meli's crawling marks.

Blood dripped from the wet cloak, rolled into the snow, and was soon covered by new falling snow.

The coastline was getting closer and closer, and suddenly the sound of artillery shells was heard in the distance.

boom--

The orange-red flames lit up most of the sky.

Huh? A fight broke out over there on the warships?

Merry stopped abruptly and squinted his eyes to look at it for a moment.

That side had already become a battlefield, and the uncle was too badly injured to withstand any further injury.

Meli didn't dare to take the risk, so he had to turn around and carry Rosinante in another direction.

The snow fell softly.

Rossinanti seemed to have lost all his energy and spirit, and his eyes slowly closed.

As they passed a flattened house, a thin shadow suddenly rushed over from behind the corner.

It was Luo. He was running, stumbling, crying with tears and snot running, but strangely, he didn't make any sound.

The silent mode that Rosinante had cast had not been lifted yet, so Meli didn't hear any sound, which led to the face-to-face encounter with Luo.

Her tear-blurred vision met Rosinante floating in the air, and her sobs suddenly choked.

The next second, Luo Lian rolled and crawled over.

"Corasan! You're still alive!"

Bang——

Meli was caught off guard and hit by Luo who was rushing towards him. He lost his balance and fell on the snow.

As the tentacles loosened, Rosinante fell down and fell on Meli.

Woo!

The wound of the severed limb was pressed at the bottom, and the pain made Meli's eyes go black, and he grimaced and wanted to cry.

Before she could recover, the weight of another person suddenly fell on her.

The octopus is in so much pain!!!

The piercing pain exploded into a golden star in Meli's mind.

Luo threw himself on Rocinante and cried silently again.

"Corasan!"

He opened his mouth wide and cried so hard that his whole body was shaking, but still no sound came out, and big tears rolled down his face.

The snow still didn't stop, but got heavier.

Rossinanti's eyelashes trembled. He tried to raise his hand to comfort Luo, but only moved his fingertips.

Meli was pressed underneath two people, his chest felt stuffy, and the severe pain from his broken limbs shot straight from the wound to the back of his head.

If you press her any harder, she'll break first!

Meli finally couldn't bear it anymore. He used several intact tentacles to exert force and suddenly lifted up the two people who were pressing on him, knocking over.

Rosinante and Luo were knocked over at the same time and rolled several times on the snow.

"That's enough! Calm down! If you keep crying, he'll really die!"

The mimicry ability failed, and Merry revealed her true appearance.

A baby octopus mermaid, its pink-gold hair was stained with white snow and red blood, and its two small tufts of hair were pressed higher than the other, sticking up crookedly.

Luo ignored the pain and crawled to Rosinante's side using his hands and feet.

Rossinandi's face was as white as snow, his lips were black, and each breath he took was very weak.

"Please save Corasan!"

Luo held Rossinanti's hand, and tears left two clear tear marks on his frozen red cheeks.

"Don't let him die! I'll do anything!"