Chapter 684 Going to Heaven
The drunk with a chestnut head and a fierce look on his face stood there motionless for a long time.
"Hey..." Usopp leaned over and poked it gently with his finger, and the other party slowly fell towards him, "Wow!"
Chopper immediately ran over to check, his face solemn, he looked up and shouted: "Hurry up and open the window to ventilate, make the bed and let him lie down flat--"
"I'll get some water," said Robin.
"Ah, I'll help too!" Although Nami didn't understand the situation, "I'll go open the window!" But since the ship's doctor had spoken, she just had to listen.
Usopp and Chopper carefully moved the chestnut-headed drunk to the bed and laid him down. Chopper took the basin of water handed over by Robin and placed the wet towel on the chestnut-headed drunk's forehead...
After a flurry of activity, the chestnut-headed drunk was finally stabilized, but he was still asleep.
Usopp wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Really? Why should we help this person who threatens us as soon as we meet?"
Nami noticed, however, that Robin and a mecha hand that appeared out of thin air were flipping through a book placed on a wooden box in the corner of the room.
She leaned over to take a look out of curiosity. "'North Sea Folk Tales: The Great Liar Norland'? Is this drunken chestnut-headed guy from the North Sea?"
After flipping through the book, Nami came across this absurd story: About 400 years ago, in the North Sea, an explorer named Mont Blanc Noland claimed to have discovered an island full of gold on the Grand Route. The king believed him and led 2,000 soldiers across the Grand Route to search for it, but he did not find any gold at all. In anger, he sentenced Noland to death. Before he died, Noland lied, saying that maybe all the gold had sunk to the bottom of the sea...
"...This is a disease that only people who dive frequently will get, but it's not a long-term disease normally." Chopper was explaining to Usopp in the back, "This person must have been diving recklessly every day to mess up his body like this..."
Robin pointed to the hairstyle of "Mont Blanc Noland" in the illustration of the storybook.
"Chestnut-head..." Nami turned around and said in surprise, "Could this drunkard be the descendant of this Norland? How pitiful! His ancestors were made into such a story and spread as a joke..."
Robin leaned against the door, looking at the sea outside the house, and said lightly: "If I were to guess, he probably wanted to prove the last words of his ancestor, 'the gold sank to the bottom of the sea', so he ignored his physical condition and dived randomly every day to find the truth, just like Chopper said."
Usopp was quite shocked and murmured, "This is just like a duel with our ancestors from four hundred years ago! How romantic..."
"BIB" glanced at the small bed with his narrow eyes shining. At some point, the drunkard with a chestnut head lying flat on the bed opened his eyes. But he did not move, just listened to their conversation, staring at the ceiling in silence.
After a while, a pitch-black helmet suddenly appeared in the air, "Luffy and the others are coming."
…
The three of them came all the way through the woods in the south. Zoro was dragging a wild wolf, and Sanji was kicking a wild boar over like a ball. The two were unhappy with each other, as if they were competing to see who had the bigger prey.
Only Luffy, holding a colorful strange bird with its head in a strange posture, laughed non-stop.
Usopp asked in surprise, "Are you three injured?"
Luffy smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Sanji, I'm hungry!"
Robin pointed to the room and said, "You may need to know something..."
She and BIB walked out of the house and sat down at the small wooden table outside. However, before they had sat down for long, Sanji's roar, which almost blew the roof off, came from the house behind them:
"You said you killed a cute mermaid?!!!!"
It is entirely imaginable that after hearing such a thing, Sanji's reaction would be heartbroken, furious and crazy... Robin shook his head, walked to the shore alone, and waved his hands.
Gurgle...
On the seafloor around them, clusters of petals condensed into dozens of identical sea beasts. Each sea beast seemed to have blossomed and borne fruit, with dozens or even hundreds of Robin's dark green eyes emerging, scanning the seafloor from all angles... These extra visions seemed to bring a 360-degree panoramic view to Robin's eyes, giving him a bird's-eye view of the entire seafloor...
Until the sunset rose and dusk approached, the waves surged on the beach, and three huge sea carps emerged from the water, holding two golden statues that were very similar in shape to the bird Luffy caught in the afternoon.
Pululu, Robin didn't think "BIB" would take action, and he summoned a row of colorful arms to carry the two golden birds ashore.
Three huge sea carps also spread out like petals and drifted away on the sea.
"I'm sorry, I only found these two golden statues in the seabed around here." When Robin returned to the house, chestnut-headed Mont Blanc Kulik was covering his eyes, with water seeping out from between his fingers. The big, strong man burst into tears and said with hatred, "It's all my fault. I was too careless because she's a mermaid. I actually let such a young child go to the bottom of the sea to look for gold for me. Just because of my own ridiculous obsession, I haven't heard from her for so many years..."
Usopp was speechless. He wanted to retort, how could that be a ridiculous obsession? It was clearly a duel between two men four hundred years apart!
But...looking at Uncle Montblanc who was full of self-blame and regret, Usopp was speechless again.
Seeing the two golden bird statues brought back by Robin, Mont Blanc was saddened and picked up the bottle of wine to drink it. When he was drunk, he kicked over the box in his house, and two golden bird statues similar to the ones brought back by Robin rolled out.
"If I can find that child back," Mont Blanc said drunkenly, staring, "I would rather not look for the Golden Country! Damn it..."
"Of course!" Sanji said angrily, "You actually let the beautiful mermaid get killed, you bastard..."
Robin said: "Maybe it has already been eaten by a passing sea beast and bitten into bloody pieces..."
"Ah! Damn it!" Sanji was even more angry and furious. If Luffy and Zoro hadn't stopped him, he would have wanted to step on Mont Blanc several times. Usopp said in shock: "Robin! Why are you saying such terrible things!"
"Mermaids can talk to sea creatures..." A pitch-black helmet suddenly appeared in the air, "Perhaps a confused mermaid may be swallowed by a sea beast, but I have never heard of a mermaid being eaten by a sea beast. Mermaids are the fastest of all sea creatures. As long as that little mermaid is still alive, it doesn't make sense for her not to come back once in all these years to explain the situation to you. But you said that you have searched the nearby sea area countless times over the years, not only did you never see the little mermaid come back, you didn't even find a single useful clue?"
Mont Blanc seemed to have lost the energy to be surprised by the sudden appearance of the ghost in the air. He just drank his wine and asked calmly, "What do you want to say?"
"It seems that you have already guessed it yourself." "BIB" said, "After eliminating all other possibilities, the remaining one, no matter how incredible it is, is the only answer that can be pointed to..."
A strip of armor on its right arm covered with red flame patterns also condensed in the air, and its right index finger was pointing upwards.
"She went to heaven."
Under the gaze of Mont Blanc, Luffy and the others, "BIB" was finalized.
"..." Mont Blanc really didn't show too much shock, obviously he had already guessed this possibility. "Even if this is true, then what? Do you also believe that the so-called 'Sky Island' really exists?"
Robin said: "Of course it exists. Because we have been there before."
"What?!"
Luffy and the others were shocked, and Robin slowly explained: "Just like the sea here, there are many different sky islands in the sky. The one I went to before was a very small sky island... It's not the same place as the one in the sky here."
Everyone couldn't help but follow Robin's finger and look up together - well, they could only see the ceiling.
"Could it be Biruka?" Robin said to himself.
After all, she had just seen the remnants of the ancient weapon Pluto in the tomb of Alabasta, and the information that Pluto was on Sky Island Birka... and then she actually encountered an opportunity to go to Sky Island. Robin couldn't help but think about it.
"BIB" is also in my mind, but it's about something else.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
It looked at Luffy who was excitedly discussing how to get to the unknown sky island above their heads... The reason why it guessed that the mermaid had mistakenly landed on the sky island was naturally partly because of what it said; but the other part was also because of Luffy.
After all, Luffy's "luck" is really weird.
Especially, when Luffy and Blackbeard, the two "antisymmetrical" protagonists, collide with each other, the fate here is particularly weird.
The first time these two met, the Jidi Cloud and the Chongtian Current of Gaya Island happened to appear on the same day! It was a true meeting of the wind and the clouds, as if they were waiting for Luffy to come and ride the waves on this day...
The second time these two met was during the war at the top! The prison was originally a solid place that Luffy could never break into with his strength at that time, but because of the involvement of the war next door, Luffy successfully broke into the prison...
At the moment, Luffy came here; he happened to hear about a missing little mermaid... and Luffy was very likely to go to Sky Island...
BIB couldn't help but think that the little mermaid might have gone to Sky Island by chance.
"Joey Boy"? Roger, Shanks, Rayleigh, the person you are waiting for is this guy... "BIB" looked at Luffy and others who were discussing and arguing.
It turned out that it was Mont Blanc who informed Luffy of the information about the Ocean Current. Luffy's eyes were full of stars when he heard it, and he looked very interested. However, he was severely resisted by his companions - Usopp angrily scolded: "The Merry has been badly damaged after sailing for this period of time! You can't just hit the Ocean Current just because you want to find excitement!" Nami also hugged Chopper in tears, "And that kind of thing sounds very dangerous. If something goes wrong, we will all be dead..."
Luffy looked reluctant.
But to the surprise of Robin and even "BIB", Luffy, although reluctant, nodded and gave up. He smiled and said, "Although riding the Sky-High Flow is more handsome, you are still more important!"
Nami and others were moved to tears. This idiot could actually say such touching words.
Sanji raised his foot and stepped on Luffy's face, "Don't say such disgusting things! Really... Anyway, let's follow the original plan. Let me take care of the trip to Sky Island! Didn't Sister Robin find two golden statues? They should be enough to make a vehicle to carry us to the sky to find Sky Island..." Zoro touched his chin and said to himself, "The rest of us can enter Little Green's castle, but what about the Merry?"
Everyone looked at Robin, who nodded and said, "Merry is not a large ship, so it should be able to fit into the castle."
"Okay!" Luffy clenched his fists and said excitedly, "In that case, let's take Merry with us - to Sky Island!!!"
"..." Looking at these pirates, Mont Blanc put the empty bottle of wine on the table and kicked his two golden bird statues to Luffy and the others. "Let's go to the sky... count me in, okay?"
His eyes seemed to have never been drunk, full of sober determination, "I will not be content until I find that kid Kimi."
What did you say Kai? 『BIB』 was stunned.
～～～～～～～～～～～ "Wow! The Merry was really put in!"
Usopp stared at the empty beach in amazement. Sanji kicked him in the butt from behind and kicked him into the Den Den Mushi Castle. "Stop talking nonsense."
Sanji picked up Xiaolu and looked at the four golden bird statues lined up on the grass in front of him. He raised his finger and they immediately changed shape, gathering into a ball of liquid gold, and then quickly changed into a golden throne step. Sanji walked up step by step with Den Den Mushi in his hand, biting on a cigarette, grinned, and looked up and said, "Well, let's go."
The heavy golden base slowly left the grass, carrying Sanji quickly into the air, flying straight into the vast blue sky.
The wind was whistling outside the Den Den Mushi castle. Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were lying at the gate of the castle, staring at the scenery outside with starry eyes and exclaiming continuously.
Zoro and Nami also smiled. Mont Blanc, who was taking a ride, was shocked to see this group of people really speeding into the sky with this whimsical and magical operation. He couldn't help but be stunned for a long time...
Suddenly, a pitch-black helmet condensed in the air of the castle and shouted to Sanji outside the castle: "Be careful!"
"Um?!"
Hearing this, Sanji looked down suddenly. Gaya Island had shrunk to the size of half a palm. On the endless blue sea, a black line suddenly rushed at him like lightning. No, it wasn't a black line, it was a bullet!!
An invisible bullet slashed across the sky like a flash of knife light, heading straight for Sanji!
Bang! Sanji's golden palm blocked his forehead. The bullet that came from the distant sea had already sunk into his golden palm, emitting puffs of green smoke...
When Sanji removed the golden color from his palm, blood immediately gushed out from the wound on the palm, soaking the bullet that had accurately sniped him.
…
On the sea near Gaya Island, a giant bamboo raft-like pirate ship was floating with the waves. Sniper "Otokoshi" Van Oka put down the long gun that was pointed at the sky and said calmly: "What a pity, Captain, the opponent's reaction was good and I didn't shoot him down..."
At the back of the bamboo raft, Marshall D. Teach, the black-bearded man who was eating cherry pie crazily, laughed out loud when he heard this: "Didn't you shoot it down? Never mind. In that case, there's nothing we can do. We'll just catch it next time, thief, hahahaha..."
(End of this chapter)