Chapter 413 I'll Just Call You Pikachu! (Prelude...) (Two in One)

The four people on the mountain cable car suspended high in the air stared at the girl sitting next to the round hole on the stone wall of Mount Drum.

The snow is howling...

From a distance, the girl was obviously startled! Lin Qi pointed at her and asked, "Will there be such a cave on that columnar mountain wall?"

It is the peak in the comics where Luffy climbs up little by little while carrying Nami on his back and biting Sanji.

Dalton was a little confused. "Is it Rose? Why is she here..."

Kuleha smiled and said, "No wonder the doctor hunting team always fails to catch her. It turns out she is hiding in a place like this."

"But how is this possible?" Dalton asked in confusion, "Lose is just a weak little girl, how could she climb up the Drum Peak covered with ice and snow?"

The cable car was still slowly ascending, heading towards the palace on the top of the mountain. At the round hole in the mountain wall, the girl Rose could be seen trying to leave in panic...

Lin Qi said: "Since you all know each other, why not just call her over and ask her?"

Huh? Before Dalton could react to what he meant, he saw Giorno leap up and actually flip out of the mountain cable car.

Hey! He was shocked. This was high up in the mountains with a howling cold wind! Falling down like this... what would that be?!

Dalton was shocked to see that after Giorno jumped out of the cable car, he walked in the cold sky as if it were flat ground. Every step he took in the air made the air crackle. He leaped quickly towards the circular cave on the wall of the Drum Mountain and landed easily in front of the girl Rose at the edge of the cave. His tall body almost covered half of the cave entrance, and the whistling cold wind was blocked behind him.

"..." The girl, who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen, widened her eyes and her jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Unbelievable! This person is actually flying!

She looked in horror at the tall man walking towards her in the snow.

But the man was not looking at her.

“This hole…”

Lynch looked carefully at the entrance of the cave where he was standing. The edges of the outline were extremely smooth, forming a perfect circle.

With the perfect circle of the entrance as the cross section, the entire cave extends inward into a neat cylindrical shape...

"Who are you?" Rose shrank back into the cave a little scared.

Lynch picked her up by the shoulders and jumped out of the cave.

"Ah!" Rose screamed.

Lin Qi took a few moon steps, and casually lifted the girl who was hugging his arm tightly and suspended her in the air. He turned around and looked... On the stone wall of the columnar mountain, the perfectly circular hole quickly closed and disappeared into thin air.

In the cold wind, the stone wall is smooth, cold and hard, without any seams or marks.

"Haha, it's really fate!" Lin Qi smiled and walked away carrying the screaming girl.

………………

The mountain cable car had already risen for some distance. When the crisp sounds of "pop", "pop" and "pop" in the cold wind approached, Dalton and the others knew that Giorno had returned.

To be honest, after Giorno left, he thought about whether he could suddenly attack and subdue this woman named Jolyne first...

However, after noticing that Kujo Jolyne's calm and composed expression had not changed at all and even glanced at him, Dalton finally sat on the bench in the cable car without moving.

Although her bounty is lower than Giorno's, this woman is also a terrifying pirate with 330 million berries...

"call!"

The cold wind rushed into the cable car, and Lynch brought the girl back through the wind and snow and got in.

He let go of the girl he was holding.

"Rose." Dalton went over and helped her up.

"......?!" Rose was rubbing her butt when she was startled by the black bison head that came into view, "Ah!"

After seeing clearly that it was Dalton, I felt relieved.

Rose looked around and saw Kuleha, who was also sitting in the cable car. Her panic calmed down a lot. At least her legs were no longer weak and she could stand up on her own...

"I was so scared. I thought they were the people hunting doctors..." Rose brushed the snowflakes off her clothes.

She glanced at the handsome young man who looked very tall even after sitting down. The latter was talking softly to the beautiful woman next to him. The woman looked surprised and looked in her direction.

"I didn't expect that I could actually fly in the air. I thought I really couldn't escape this time. I was completely doomed! Fortunately, fortunately..."

As Rose spoke, the vigilance in her eyes did not completely disappear.

Dalton asked, "Have you been hiding in the cave like this for the past year? How did you survive in a place like that..."

"This is my own business." Rose said seriously, "I don't want to tell you."

"It's the Pipe-Pipe Fruit!" Lynch laughed, "It's a parahuman devil fruit that can create 'pipes' in any environment and can also turn objects into 'pipes'..."

"That's right," Rose changed her words seamlessly, "It's because of the Pipe-Pipe Fruit. All we have to do is make a pipe and we can go up there in a flash. You're so stupid, Dalton. You're really a cow!"

"..." Dalton stared with his eyes wide open. A parahuman devil fruit? Lin Qi asked curiously, "You said she came from overseas to study medicine. She has been here for more than a year. How come you don't know about the ability of the Pipe-Pipe Fruit she possesses?"

He looked at Kuleha and Dalton.

"When she came, doctors were no longer welcome in this country." Kuleha looked at the falling snow outside the cable car. "She hid from place to place. It's lucky that she's still alive today."

"..." Dalton said nothing, looking at Rose with a guilty look on his face, "I thought you had left the country a long time ago..."

Rose remained silent.

…

[A year and a half ago. In the Drum Kingdom. The wind and snow were still blowing...]

[Guard Captain Dalton walks in the snow with a sad face.]

[What kind of foolish king would be so capricious as to issue a law to expel all the doctors that his country was proud of?]

[The cold wind blowing on his face calmed his angry heart a lot.]

[There was a rustling sound around him, and Dalton was startled. Horns appeared on his head, and he turned around to see a girl sitting in the snow. She patted the snow off her body and stood up.]

【"Who are you? I've never seen you before..." Dalton asked. 】

[“My name is Rose!” A girl who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old was carrying a bag on her back. Her pretty cheeks were slightly red from the cold, and she was smiling. “Is this the Drum Kingdom? It’s really like the rumors say—it’s so cold! I came here to learn medicine!”]

[“…” Dalton clenched his fists and sighed dejectedly, “I’m sorry…”]

[The girl naturally looked disappointed and unconvinced, and ran towards the palace despite Dalton's attempts to stop her.]

[Dalton looked towards the place where the girl appeared, and a trace of doubt emerged in his mind. Why... were there no footprints in the snow from when she came here? ]

…

At that time, Rose appeared but left no footprints. It turned out to be because of the devil fruit... Dalton finally understood now. Although he didn't know how this ability, which Giorno called the Pipe-Pipe Fruit, was achieved, but since it was a devil fruit, it should have the ability to do impossible things...

"Knowing that this country no longer welcomes doctors, why don't you go somewhere else to study medicine?" Robin asked.

"That's right," Lynch nodded in agreement, "There's more than one place in the world with advanced medicine than Magnetic Drum Island, right, old lady?"

Whoosh! Kuleha thrust a punch, but Lynch dodged it by turning his head.

"Of course." Kuleha said, "This world is too big. The medical level of the Drum Kingdom is only well-known in the first half of the Grand Line. There are great doctors everywhere!"

"After all, there are patients who need doctors everywhere, right? As long as there are patients... there will be doctors who will step forward. This is natural." The beautiful woman who is over a hundred years old said with a smile, "For example, I heard that there is a place in the South China Sea where herbal medicine is very developed..."

"Ah." Lynch and Robin looked at each other.

"..." Rose lowered her head in silence. After a while, she slowly spoke, "My hometown...is sick."

"Huh?" Lynch and Robin looked over.

Rose lowered her head and said, "Everyone is sick... I want to learn powerful medical skills to save everyone... So, I can't run away... But I can't do anything... I can't do anything well..."

The girl's body was shaking. She hugged her knees with one hand and covered her eyes with the other, tears streaming down through her fingers.

"......" Dalton also trembled all over and clenched his fists. Unknowingly, tears welled up in his eyes. Boundless shame filled his chest. He said in a hoarse voice, "Please forgive this country... for not being able to help you. I'm really... sorry..."

“…” Kuleha wanted to take a sip of wine, but unfortunately she finished it.

Lin Qi touched his chin at this time, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and asked: "I say, Rose...you are not a princess of some country or something?"

After these words were spoken, not to mention Robin, Kuleha and Dalton were all very surprised.

Where did he come up with this guess? How could it be possible!

“This…” Rose raised her tearful eyes, but her eyes glanced around in panic and confusion, “This, this, this, how is this possible, how could I be a princess or something, hehehehe…”

This is so fake! You can't lie at all!

Dalton and Kuleha stared at Rose's expression, which clearly showed that she had been guessed, and they were speechless.

Just as I was about to continue, the mountain cable car gently hit something and stopped.

"Ah," Lynch looked up, stood up and said with a smile, "It seems we have arrived."

"......!!" Dalton's heart tightened as he watched Giorno and his female captain walk out of the cable car and step onto the flat and wide top of the columnar mountain. In front of them was the royal palace castle towering in the wind and snow.

Without caring whether Rose was a princess or not, Dalton hurried to catch up with the two men.

Rose was quietly breathing a sigh of relief when she looked up and saw Kuleha's half-smile.

"Want to come and see?" Kuleha walked out. "It's not often that you see such a powerful pirate in action."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Pirates?!" Rose was shocked and chased out of the cable car.

………………

"Is it really okay?"

In the Drum Kingdom, residents of several towns have gathered together, all looking worried.

"Although that Valpo is a bastard... he is still the king of this country after all!"

"Are we just going to watch him get killed by pirates?"

Everyone looked at the newspapers and bounty notices they had found. There were 330,000,000 Beli under the photo of Kujo Jolyne, and 400,000,000 Beli under the photo of Giovanna Giorno. So many zeros were enough to blind the eyes of the residents of these small islands. The thought of such a terrible pirate coming to their country to cause trouble made people tremble with fear.

"No!" The weather-beaten old hunter said in a heavy voice, "As citizens, how can we just sit back and watch the king being threatened by pirates?"

at last……

Hundreds and thousands of Magnetic Drum citizens gathered together, picked up their weapons, and rushed to the cable car in batches, heading towards the Magnetic Drum Peak where the royal palace was located without hesitation.

"Now... is the time to unite and face the enemy together!"

"Helping the king fight off the pirates will give him a chance to change his mind and revoke the law that hunts doctors!"

"We can't just abandon the king like this. We can't let pirates run rampant in this country!"

The residents were discussing the matter enthusiastically, holding up shotguns and other weapons and shouting.

When the cable cars stopped one by one...

The residents, holding their shotguns, rushed forward, shouting, towards the royal palace castle standing in the snow.

"Down with the pirates!"

"Kujo Jolyne! Giovanna Giorno! Stop!"

“…”

Soon, everyone stopped in the open space in front of the palace castle and looked at each other in confusion.

In front of everyone, in the cold wind, only Dalton was left standing there, with his back to everyone, looking up at the Drum Kingdom flag on the top of the castle fluttering in the cold wind.

"Dalton, what happened?"

"Are you okay?"

"Did you drive the pirates away?"

The villagers walked up with confusion and went around to the front of Dalton.

"Those two pirates... eh?!"

Everyone was shocked to find that Dalton, who was standing alone in the cold wind and looking up at the flag on the top of the castle, was already in tears and sobbing. The tears on his face solidified his eyelashes in the cold wind and even froze into strands, hanging on his chin like icicles...

"Hey! Dalton! What's wrong with you!"

The residents who came to rescue worriedly asked loudly, "Why are you crying? Where are the two pirates? Where are they?"

The villagers bravely broke into the palace castle, but no matter how they looked, how they shouted, how they searched... they could not find any trace of anyone.

King...ministers...soldiers...

And the two pirates, they're all gone! "Where did they go?"

“I can’t find it anywhere!”

"There's no one here! What on earth is going on?!"

"Dalton, have you become stupid? Speak!"

The old hunter village chief, who was leading the group, had an unpleasant expression on his face. He covered his head and said with difficulty, "Could it be... that the pirates have kidnapped everyone? Dalton..."

Hot tears welled up in Dalton's frozen eyes again, and he said in great sorrow: "It was our king... who abandoned this country without hesitation!!"

…

[Not long ago, Lynch and Robin walked towards the royal castle standing in the snow——]

[“Wow~ Is anyone home?” Lynch shouted as he walked, “Is your King Valpo here? I need help from him!”]

[His voice echoed in the snow and wind in front of the castle, but there was no response.]

[“How is it possible…” Dalton, covered in wounds, followed and looked at the empty and unresponsive castle in disbelief, “Where are the soldiers? Where are the guards? Everyone should have received the news a long time ago, and should have been prepared to fight you…”]

[The captain of the guard rushed into the castle, and his anxious roars echoed throughout the castle.]

[“King Valpo! Where are you!”]

[“Your Majesty! Come out! This country needs you!”]

[The black bison ran wildly around the castle. Finally, he heard a faint gasp. He hurriedly stopped, only to find that it was an ordinary soldier from the guard team lying in a pool of blood.]

[“What’s wrong with you! Sojer, where are King Wapol and his ministers?” Dalton picked up the soldier with blood all over his head, and asked anxiously with tears in his eyes, “The pirates have already attacked the palace, where are everyone?!”]

[“King Wapol…they…” The dying soldier used his last bit of strength to grab Dalton’s collar, “They all…ran away…”]

【“……?!!” Dalton’s eyes were bloodshot with tears in his eyes. He endured the unspeakable shock and grief, “Who… hurt… you?”】

[The soldier opened his mouth... "Idiot! How can you possibly defeat those two pirates! Do you want this king to die? Bastard! You are this king's soldier, right? Just die for me..." The curses that Wapol had shouted when he led all the soldiers and the 20th Medical Corps to evacuate the palace echoed in his mind... In the end, the soldier just smiled miserably, and finally said nothing. Two lines of hot tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, and the hand that was grabbing Dalton's collar fell down dejectedly. ]

[“There’s really no cure… that bastard Valpo!!”]

[In front of the deadly castle, Kuleha, who could probably guess what was going on, obviously didn't expect this to happen. She sighed and buried her face in the shadows.]

[Robin looked up at Lynch and found that he didn't seem too surprised, he just laughed a few times.]

[A mournful roar resounded from the castle, shaking even the snow.]

…

At the top of the mountain, in front of the royal palace, the wind was freezing cold, but it couldn't resist the coldness in everyone's hearts at the moment.

"What kind of king is this..."

The residents gnashed their teeth with tears in their eyes, covered their faces and said angrily, "They actually abandoned their own country without hesitation just because they were afraid of pirates!!"

With a loud bang, the huge Dalton fell to the ground in despair.

The old hunter village chief sighed and patted Dalton on the shoulder, "Where are the two pirates?"

"Gone..." Dalton looked up at the sky with a frosty face. "Flew into the sky and left. Maybe they went to look for Walpo and the others who fled the country..."

………………

In the snow in the suburbs, inside a huge tree covered with snow, there is a room full of lights.

This is Dr. Kuleha's residence, a tree hole house.

The beautiful woman, who was over a hundred years old, was drinking by herself with an expressionless face. Suddenly, she heard some noise outside. She pushed the door open and saw three figures of different heights standing in the snow in the howling cold wind.

Lin Qi raised his hand and smiled: "Hey, old lady, it's so cold outside, why don't you invite us to your house?"

I haven't written the content of the title yet... Let's start with a prelude!

Looking up at the sky

(End of this chapter)