"Mr. Soldier, this way, this way..."
A little girl who looked about fourteen or fifteen quietly opened the door of a house in the slums and put the one-legged doll and the super handsome doll hiding from the guards in.
"Huh? Is this... Mr. Soldier's friend?" the little girl asked.
The light pink hair and the relationship with "Mr. Soldier" made Guan Liyuan guess the other party's identity - King Riku's granddaughter, Princess Scarlett and Cyrus' daughter, Rebecca.
Eight years ago, a major incident happened in Dressrosa. Doflamingo used threats, fruit control and other means to destroy the reputation of the Riku family and exiled King Riku and Rebecca - the price was King Riku's second daughter Viola, joined Don Quixote's family and became "Violet", otherwise they would probably have been executed in secret.
King Riku, who was full of stigma, disappeared in Dressrosa. After Rebecca's mother died, she forgot the existence of her father Cyrus because of the Childish Fruit. At the same time, Cyrus, who lost a leg in the great changes, failed to protect his lover, and was forgotten by his daughter, still guarded Rebecca as "Mr. Soldier".
Although Cyrus was not controlled after becoming a doll, in order not to be discovered, he still went to the "Toy House" to work at night and protected Rebecca during the day.
Until one day, the human traffickers targeted Rebecca in the slums. In order to rescue her, Cyrus shot and injured several human traffickers-a truly controlled "doll" could not do anything to harm humans, so Cyrus was wanted and wandered with Rebecca again. At the same time, he also began to teach Rebecca swordsmanship...
Later in the original work, Rebecca also became a sword fighter and participated in the battle for the flame fruit.
Dressrosa has had the custom of "gladiators" since ancient times, that is, two or more warriors fight in the bullfighting arena, and even kill each other, as a kind of "performance", or even as a means of escaping guilt.
This kind of gladiators is divided into three categories, one is the slave gladiator, that is, selling themselves to the arena; one is the prisoner gladiator, who is forced to be sent to the arena after violating certain laws; the duels of these two types of gladiators often require life and death, and the latter can be escaped if they can win a hundred consecutive victories, while the third category is the free gladiator, who voluntarily serves as a gladiator for bounty, glory or some other purpose.
In the original work, from the fact that Rebecca was not in the cage when she was resting, and could hang out outside the arena, it can be seen that she does not belong to the first two types, and because of Viola's relationship, Rebecca's wanted order was also lifted.
After all, although it is not explicitly expressed, the original work has hinted at the relationship between Viola and Doflamingo many times...
Not only the names between the two, but also the names of Viola by the soldiers of Don Quixote's family. The most obvious thing is that when Viola was ready to settle with Doflamingo, she used a dagger instead of her real fruit ability...
Here we have to mention the "famous custom" of Dressrosa-the women in this country are passionate when they are in love, but in contrast, once a man betrays, they will stab people with a knife... In addition: the more beautiful the woman, the more ruthless she stabs people!
This was discovered shortly after the Straw Hat Pirates landed in the original work. At that time, there were even people who watched the excitement on the street. Zoro thought that there was a serial killer in this country...
Later, Guan Liyuan saw similar scenes in Dressrosa in this world, and asked Cyrus specifically. It was true-but now "stabbing people in the street" is basically a ritual. Real knives will not be used. Basically, it hurts but does not bleed. Stabbing people with a dagger is an extreme case.
But Guan Liyuan was not sure why Rebecca in the original work had to fight as a gladiator amid boos and curses from the crowd.
For the bounty? Not likely... Although Viola could not have any contact with her, there were many ways to make a living.
For glory? Even more impossible!
Judging from the situation in the original work, Rebecca participated in the gladiator duel, and no matter whether she won or lost, she would only gain humiliation.
But at this time, Rebecca was obviously not a gladiator yet...
It made sense to think about it. After all, Rebecca was only fourteen years old now. If she became a gladiator earlier, could she live to sixteen?
Cyrus also introduced Guan Liyuan to Rebecca at this time. Of course, he did not say anything about the revolutionary army, but just said that Guan Liyuan was also a puppet that was not controlled.
He did not mention that Guan Liyuan "was a human before". Cyrus thought that these were too heavy after all. He taught Rebecca swordsmanship just to protect herself, not to let her bear anything.
Therefore, Rebecca now does not know the true identity of "Mr. Soldier", let alone the truth about the toy... Naturally, she did not mention Guan Liyuan's name!
"I see, then... can I call you Mr. White Cat from now on?" Rebecca was like a child who had just made a new friend.
In terms of age, it can indeed be considered a "child"...
"No, this is a tiger, a tiger!" Guan Liyuan retorted.
That's right, Guan Liyuan now looks much taller than Cyrus, and is considered a relatively large doll. At the same time, he looks like a Q version character wearing a white tiger (mao) hat...
Guan Liyuan suspects that it is because his Holy Soul White Tiger is the ability of the Fantasy Beast Fruit, and it has also awakened, so it is not so easy to be "covered" - otherwise, under normal circumstances, after becoming a doll, it will completely lose the ability of the fruit.
Of course, even the Holy Soul White Tiger now only has a relatively Q appearance, which is shown as a "personality".
"Then... Mr. White Tiger? Mr. White Tiger is different from Mr. Soldier. It is plush!" Rebecca said and wanted to come over to touch Guan Liyuan's head.
Mr. Soldier is made of iron, hard and cold, and you can't hug him when you sleep...
As a result, Guan Liyuan ruthlessly avoided him and said coldly: "Haven't you heard that you can't touch a tiger's butt?"
Rebecca: ⊙�z⊙?
Guan Liyuan: ￣□￣｜｜
After saying that, Guan Liyuan realized that this sentence seemed inappropriate, so he had to add awkwardly: "Not even the head!"
At this time, Rebecca obviously didn't have any guard against others. Although there was a plush white tiger (mao) who she met for the first time beside her, Rebecca suddenly said to Cyrus solemnly: "Mr. Soldier, there is something I want to discuss with you."
The degree of solemnity made people feel that if a boyfriend knocked on the door outside the next second, it would not feel out of place.
Cyrus also asked with some worry: "What's the matter?" It
was better in the past two years. Before, Cyrus had beaten the little kid who sent love letters to Rebecca as a one-legged puppet...
"I... I want... in two days..."
"What? Right now?" Cyrus couldn't wait to see which beast was so bold as to "seduce" his daughter.
"That's right! I've thought about it for a long time, and now is the best time!"
"No, no, no, you are still young, you must have been deceived." Cyrus said immediately.
"No! I have practiced the swordsmanship that Mr. Soldier taught me very well! Even if I can't win the championship reward, I will have no problem participating in the Gladiator Competition!"
"Oh, so you mean the Gladiator Competition... What? The Gladiator Competition?" Cyrus felt like he was in trouble.
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