Chapter 610: Burying Flowers (Two Chapters in One)
[Series at the beginning of the chapter·Heart Pirates 18·"The Way of Sailing for Weapon Man"] [The target is Petrel Island, which is not too far from Mignon Island. There, they can find the surgical equipment needed to treat Law's platinum-lead disease... But Rocinante (Rocinante) and Law (Rocinante) have a child's body and an adult's body but a child's soul, respectively. Seeing them rowing with wooden oars is too slow. Baby5 hugged her knees and sat at the stern thinking for a while. After turning around, her feet turned into claws and nailed to the hull tightly. Her arms merged into a thick gun barrel and fired a shot at the sea...]——
[Burial Flower Valley——]
Under the cold moonlight, a figure walks alone.
"I didn't expect that your incurable disease would be like this..."
Lin Qi sighed softly as he walked in the dark valley that buried the bones and blood of the heroes of the Flower Kingdom's Luzhu League who had resisted the rule of the Black Dragon for more than three hundred years. In his heart, he recalled the life of the woman named Lily.
A nameless little beggar wandered around the Kingdom of Flowers until he was picked up by a young psychic lady and taken home...
Because I admired the Lily Princess in the story, I named myself Lily...
He was very talented and learned all the skills of the psychic lady in just one year. From then on, he traveled the world with a sword, no longer a little beggar, but a little knight, measuring every corner of the Kingdom of Flowers...
After failing to assassinate the Black Dragon, she did not become pessimistic or desperate, nor did she compromise. She knew very well that she had to completely defeat the Black Dragon. There was no other way out...
But she also clearly realized that if she continued to stay in this land, her strength would not be able to improve. If that happened, she would never be able to defeat the black dragon, so she decisively set sail...
Go to the sea.
There must be a wider world, more powerful opponents, and many possibilities on the sea...
Let’s go to the sea!
On the sea, there are places Princess Lily has been to, footprints she has walked on, and national treasures she has pursued...
Let’s go to the sea…
I will definitely see a different starry sky, I will definitely find different flowers, I will definitely meet different people, and I will definitely become stronger! However, that woman who was as brilliant as a flower and as heroic as a hero never came back.
Twenty years after leaving the Kingdom of Flowers, on a hillside surrounded by wild flowers outside a small village in the West Sea, lilies fell into the mud.
Perhaps the only thing she hadn't expected was that the enemy could be so despicable as to poison her directly under the pretext of peace talks...
Ordinary poisons may not be able to kill a master like Lily, but it happened to be the modified "pollen". Pollen is highly toxic, and after taking it, there is an obvious "benefit" of a sharp increase in strength, but the modified pollen has no "benefit", so even the toxicity has become unusually hidden... Hiding in Lily's body, it was not until ten years later that it mutated into an incurable disease that could not be cured...
Lin Qi couldn't help but wonder if Roger, the Pirate King who also suffered from an incurable disease, had also been conspired and accidentally ingested a similar chronic poison? "I'm afraid even Roger himself doesn't know about this."
A black shadow walked beside Lynch, and the stand-in armor slowly said, "For pirates, assassination, ambush, revenge, conspiracy, backstabbing, poisoning..."
Lin Qi was walking in the valley and saw a stone on the side of the road. The moonlight was shining like silver frost. There was a small white flower sticking its head out from the crack under the stone, blooming stubbornly in the moonlight.
He continued the stand-in's words, "Well, these are common things!" He sat casually on the stone and stretched out his finger to touch the small flower sticking out from the crack of the stone. "Roger, Rayleigh... Even if those people really knew that Roger's illness was caused by someone's conspiracy, what happened later would not have changed. After all, an incurable disease is an incurable disease. No matter how it came about, Roger suffered from an incurable disease. Because of this, Roger lived every day of the last few years of his life as if it were his last day..."
『BIB』 folded his arms, his narrow eyes glowing with light as he looked down at the main body, "But unfortunately, Lily couldn't live the last period of her life as if it were her last day... because her son was not with her."
“This is none of my business.” Lin Qi rolled his eyes, looked up at the bright moon behind him, and said calmly, “With her strength, she didn’t even have the strength to go out to sea to find her son. You can imagine how painful her last period of time must have been…”
He waved his hand, and BIB understood, peeling off the mask and flying into the hands of the real body.
Lynch put on his mask and saw Lily's suicide letter in the memory bank through the glimmer in the substitute's narrow eyes.
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"Mom is from the Land of Flowers."
As time goes by, that simple first sentence makes Lynch feel differently.
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"I didn't mean to hide it from others... but they all asked! Although the ancient custom of naming after flowers is not very popular in the Kingdom of Flowers, I'm still very unhappy... so, hmm, I won't tell them."
The handwriting of the first few paragraphs was still steady, still chattering about the trivialities of life...
But it was obvious that as her illness worsened and her body deteriorated, Lily no longer had the energy to write down all the things she had to say to her son...
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"Mom will tell you a story about the Kingdom of Flowers~"
"Once upon a time, in ancient times anyway, there was a princess named Lily in the Kingdom of Flowers - yes, the same name as your mother! Great, right? Princess Lily was the treasure of the Kingdom of Flowers, but in order to retrieve the national treasure of the Kingdom of Flowers, she bravely went to the endless sea. Well, that's the end of the story!"
There was no mention of the terrible things happening in the Flower Country. Did he never intend to involve "Lynch" in it?
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"I regret it so much, Lynch. If I had known earlier, I would have brought you to the Kingdom of Flowers... I had originally planned to wait until you grew up... I had so many plans. I haven't seen you grow up yet, haven't seen you become a real man yet... Ah, it doesn't matter if you're not a man, mom is not a man. Just be happy!..."
Lynch once again slowly read the suicide note that he had kept in his memory.
"If you can see this letter, please go back and check on my mom's behalf in the future, okay..."
He took off the visor on his face and handed it to the faceless black armor in front of him, pondering: "She is not my mother, right?"
Click, the visor returned to its place, and BIB's narrow eyes shone with a faint light, "Of course."
Lin Qi sighed, "But... she is indeed a very good person! If she were still alive, it would not be a loss to recognize her as a godmother."
"BIB" said: "Of course."
Lynch looked at his stand-in and stretched out his hand.
"BIB" waved his hand, and a cold light flashed.
Puff! Blood splattered on the white petals of the small flower that was sticking out from under the crack in the stone.
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"He's Lily's child!?"
In the caves under the Buried Flower Valley, everyone was shocked when Robin finished speaking.
Ayu was surprised because to her, the ranger Lily from more than 30 years ago and the princess Lily from more than 300 years ago were both like people in a story, but she didn't expect that the person who was related to the female ranger in the story was so close to her! The psychic grandmother was surprised, of course. Although she only raised Lily for a short year, she was a mother and a teacher after all, so the feelings between them were naturally self-evident. Hearing that Lily actually had a child, and that it was the great pirate Giovanna Giorno who made a great name for herself in the Grand Line... she was extremely surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was so reasonable. Giorno - no, a young man as powerful as Lynch, who was full of vigor and vitality on the boundless sea and became famous all over the world, isn't he just like Lily who smiled and called herself a little ranger and traveled to every corner of the Flower Kingdom to do justice?
Needless to say, the mute was surprised. He had already seen features similar to Lily's on Lynch's face. That was why when he saw Lynch, he felt as if he had seen an evil ghost demanding his life. He felt guilty and terrified.
Xiangchun was simply shocked. Who could have thought that Giovanna Giorno, who had become the man of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Jolyne Kujo, and the great pirate Giovanna Giorno, whose original bounty was 400 million berries, was actually the child of her sworn sister, Lily, born in the open sea. His real name was actually Lynch? Why did he use the pseudonym Giorno? Was it because Lynch's father's last name was "Giovanna"? What kind of man could be favored by a woman like Lily?
As for Xianglian, she had already been swallowed up by endless sorrow due to grief and regret. When she heard Kujo Jolyne say that Giovanna Giorno's real name was actually Lynch, and that he was actually Sister Lily's biological child...
Endless sadness was about to drown her. Xianglian burst into tears and looked at Kujo Jolyne, murmuring: "Sister Lily, you really... brought back the national treasure... Your child brought back the flower and fruit for you..."
"No." Robin said, "Have you forgotten that Lynch's mother went to sea not really for the national treasure?"
Xianglian shuddered all over.
"Lily never expected that Black Dragon would really keep his promise after finding the national treasure."
Robin whispered, "She wanted to find the national treasure just to follow the footsteps of Princess Lily. This has nothing to do with the black dragon. It is a romantic story of two lilies from the Kingdom of Flowers that spanned three hundred years..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"And Lynch——"
She looked up at Xianglian, who was in tears, and said seriously, "He will not 'bring' the Flower-Flower Fruit back to the Kingdom of Flowers. Just as Lily said... the grudges on this land can only be truly resolved by completely destroying the Black Dragon. This is the only way out."
“Big sister!!”
Xiangchun cried out, because after Xu Lun said this in Kujo, Xianglian could no longer bear it, and tears rolled down his cheeks. He left the secret passage and headed straight for the Burial Flower Valley above the outside world.
"She went to find Lynch, right?"
The psychic grandma wiped her eyes and sighed deeply, "Let's go up and take a look."
"Yeah!" Xiangchun quickly followed.
A Yu looked up and looked at Sister Xu Lun.
Robin held out her hand, and Ayu placed her small hand in hers, which was gently held.
The two of them followed the psychic grandma and Xiangchun, leaving through the secret passage and heading towards the Burial Flower Valley above.
"Ahh..." The half-petal tongue in the mute's mouth disappeared, and he could no longer speak. He gestured, cried and sobbed, and finally followed the crowd out dejectedly.
Xianglian stumbled along in front.
The Buried Flower Valley is secluded and rarely visited. With the strength of Xianglian and the others, it is easy for them to detect Giorno... No, Lynch's powerful aura is like a torch in the dark night, burning like a raging fire.
When Robin and others followed her to find Lynch, they were stunned for a moment when they saw what Lynch was doing.
Tick-tock...
Tick-tock...
Tick-tock...
Blood flowed down Lynch's palm in strands, splashing on the white petals, seeping into the cracks in the stone, and slowly flowing into the ground.
On the palm of his hand, there was a wound of more than ten centimeters, as if it was cut by a sharp weapon. The wound was smooth and neat, but very deep, and blood kept gushing out.
However, Lynch's body had a strong self-healing ability, and the dripping of blood gradually slowed down. The wound did not heal immediately, but it quickly formed a scar and stopped the bleeding.
"BIB" put his fingers together to form a knife, ready to hit the main body again.
"Lynch, what are you doing?"
A trembling voice came from behind him. Lynch had of course noticed that they were coming over, but he was a little surprised that the voice of the woman who called him Lynch was not Robin's.
He and 『BIB』 turned around and saw Xianglian standing in the front and talking to him with tears on her face.
Lin Qi glanced at Xianglian and saw Robin, who was following behind him along with the psychic grandma, Xiangchun, and Ayu, and said, "What? Isn't it obvious? Bleeding."
The psychic grandmother walked over, grabbed Lin Qi's cut palm, and gently stroked it. With tears in her old eyes, she said in a trembling voice: "Lily, my good girl...your flesh and blood has returned to your homeland today..."
Upon hearing this, Xianglian broke down again, tears streaming down her face, choking with sobs that she could hardly breathe.
Xiangchun also had tears in his eyes, but he held his elder sister and kept soothing her trembling back.
The psychic grandma squatted down, and Ayu on the other side let go of Robin's hand, walked over quickly, and helped the psychic grandma squat down.
"Burial Flower Valley... Today I buried you, Lily..." The old man burst into tears, "Flowers fade and fly all over the sky, who will pity them when their redness and fragrance are gone?... How long can the beauty and freshness last? Once they drift away, they are hard to find... Flowers are easy to see when they bloom, but hard to find when they fall. The people who are burying flowers in front of the steps are worried... A sad song was heard outside the courtyard last night. Who knows if it was the souls of flowers and birds?... I wish I could grow wings today and fly with the flowers to the end of the sky. At the end of the sky, where is the fragrant hill?" (Note) "At the end of the sky, where is the fragrant hill?"
The psychic grandma's mournful voice sounded like a chant or a cry, echoing under the cold moonlight.
"Sister Lily!!!"
Xianglian was so grief-stricken that her eyes became red and swollen from crying, and she couldn't stop crying.
The weeping cries echoed in the silent valley... Suddenly, the phantom of a black dragon slightly blocked the moonlight and hovered above everyone's heads.
Ah Yu's eyes were slightly red, and she raised her hand and aimed at the black dragon in the air. She was the one who released the phantom on her own initiative.
Lynch walked over to Robin, who held his hand tightly and comforted him a little.
"There's no way I can return the Flower-Flower Fruit to this country. My captain still needs it."
Lin Qi looked around, at the smiling Robin, the stunned Xiangchun, the tearful Xianglian... He crossed his fingers and stretched them backwards, making a crackling sound. He looked up at the phantom of the black dragon and said with a smile, "But, killing a dragon while passing by is just what I want. I've been annoyed by his beard for a long time!"
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Note: Everyone should know Lin Daiyu's Burial of Flowers... Oda can stitch together Japanese stories to write about Wano Country, so I think it should be okay for me to copy some parts of Dream of the Red Chamber when writing about Flower Country...
As for who Lily gave birth to Lynch with... It may not be written specifically in the main text, but I looked around and only found one suitable person, Spencer, the handsome swordsman with a ponytail from Roger's group.
As for how they met and how they separated, whether Lily had been on Roger's ship, whether Spencer knew of Lynch's existence, whether Spencer is still alive... You can write it first, and if it feels good, I can copy it later: P
(End of this chapter)