Chapter 78 No, She’s a Good Fighter

“You’ve been out to sea for two or three years, but you didn’t find anything…”

The old village elder's eyes turned red, and he said in a deep voice, "Do you know how lonely your mother was in the last year of her life..."

"Oh, I don't know," said Lynch.

He pulled at his clothes which were sticky with all kinds of stuff and searched the room for a water tank or something.

"Is there a bathroom or something?" Lynch walked around and looked around calmly, "I feel uncomfortable. I want to take a shower."

The old village chief's beard trembled twice, and he said in disbelief: "You...Lin Qi! Or should I call you Giorno?"

He picked up the newspaper on the table and said, "When you mention your deceased mother, you...are you really not sad at all? You really...don't regret it?"

"Hunter, bounty hunter? Are you serious?" The old village chief threw the newspaper at Lin Qi and growled in a low voice, "Although it is wishful thinking, I thought you really wanted to find medicine that can cure your mother in the sea... But what are you doing? Playing a cat-and-mouse game with those pirates? Is it interesting? Is it interesting!"

The old village chief pounded the ground with his cane and said in a hoarse voice, "Are you doing well? But...but your mother is not doing well! Without you, she is not doing well! You...you..."

The old village chief pointed at Lin Qi, who didn't respond, with his dry, branch-like fingers. He trembled and could no longer speak. Finally, he sighed dejectedly and sat down on a stool beside him.

"..." Robin picked up the newspaper on the ground, dusted it off, and read the report about the young hunter Giorno. The news praised the young hunter for being so talented and extraordinary, and what a handsome young man he was.

The old village chief leaned on a cane, looked at the sunset outside the window, and whispered: "I watched her become more silent and thinner day by day... She always looked towards the sea, hoping to see you come back while she was still there! But no matter how hard she tried, her condition became worse and worse. In the end, she couldn't even walk. She even trembled when holding a pen. It was very difficult for her to write a word... She only struggled for a year after you left, and then she left just like that..."

The old village chief couldn't help choking up. He covered his eyes and tried his best to calm down.

"Two years after he went to sea, Lynch also died."

Lin Qi's voice came from behind. The old village chief's pupils shrank, and he turned around silently, seeing Lin Qi taking off his messy clothes.

"I was probably killed by a certain sheriff. This is normal. Since I was on the pirate ship, I should have been prepared to be captured and killed... Perhaps it was some kind of miracle that I revived from the darkness and crawled out again from being thrown into the garbage dump as a corpse... But after I came back to life this time, I forgot most of the things in my mind."

This statement is not too far from the truth. Lynch said slowly, "I only remember that my name is Lynch. And from time to time I think of the face of a woman named Lily... But, I'm sorry, that's all."

"..." The old village chief didn't say anything. He looked at Lin Qi's well-defined upper body and the wounds on his arms that had been caused by the angry villagers.

Lin Qi smiled and said, "If you don't mind, you can tell me about the bad things that Lin Qi did in the past. Also, what kind of person is his mother?"

The old village chief was silent for a long time, then said hoarsely: "The electricity is out, but the water is still there. There is a small bathroom inside..."

…

There was the sound of running water in the small bathroom.

The old village chief sat outside and recalled, "Your mother... She was not originally from this island or this village. Eleven years ago... She was still pregnant with you and originally planned to stay here temporarily, but she didn't expect to stay here forever... No one knows her past, and she rarely talks about her origins... Some people say that they saw her coming off a pirate ship, so they guessed that she was a pirate in the past, or something else..."

"..." Lin Qi washed the stains on his body and picked up a piece of soap. The soap, which was filled with a faint floral scent, had not been used for a long time.

"What a good person she is! Just like her beautiful name..." The old village chief sighed, "Even before the Pirate King, pirates often appeared on this island. Thanks to your mother, those pirates didn't dare to come to this village to harass..." Lin Qi asked, "Why, is she famous?" The old village chief said: "No, she is a good fighter!" Lin Qi: "..."

"I have never seen anyone more powerful than her. Those arrogant so-called pirate captains became as docile as the most obedient sea beasts under her fists..." The old village chief sighed, "But no one expected that such a powerful girl would be infected with such an incurable disease... Her illness became more and more serious. She regretted more than once that she might not have the time to teach you to be a reliable and strong man! She said... that there might not be a chance, no time, to be happily protected by her beloved son... She..."

The old village chief's tears rolled down again. He sniffed and saw Robin, who was sitting obediently with his knees hugged, also had tears in his eyes.

"Until three years ago... you probably overheard what your mother said, and you shouted something like, 'The Pirate King said there are all kinds of treasures in the sea, and there must be a panacea that can cure your mother's illness...'" the old village chief said sadly, "You left secretly, and she waited on the hospital bed for a year, and she never had the chance to wait any longer..."

“…” Lin Qi had almost finished washing when he remembered that he had forgotten to take clean clothes.

“……?!” The old village chief was feeling sad when he saw Robin put his hand into the mouth of a humming Den Den Mushi.

At this time, a row of arms grew out of the wall and brought in a set of clean clothes. Lynch took it and said, "Ah, thank you."

"You are..." the old village chief asked Robin puzzledly.

"Lynch's...friend." Robin blinked and whispered, "My name is Jolyne, Kujo Jolyne."

"Oh..." The old village chief was puzzled. Kujo Xu Lun, what a strange name.

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Lynch took a shower and changed into clean clothes.

"Give it to me." He stretched out his hand to the old village chief.

"What?"

"What she wrote," Lynch said. "You just said that she was shaking even when she held the pen, and it was very difficult for her to write a single word... It should be something she wrote for her son Lynch, right?"

The old village chief sighed heavily, walked slowly to a corner of the wooden house, took out a letter from the bottom drawer, and handed it to Lin Qi.

It was a very simple envelope, with no words on the cover and a lily pattern sealing the letter.

"I wrote this for you... No one has read it." The old village chief sighed. "Her grave is at the foot of the mountain in the east..."

"Really?" Lin Qi held the letter in his hand. "Then go and have a look."

…

Outside the house, the villagers scattered in groups, trying to peek and eavesdrop from all angles. Everyone carefully avoided the small flowerbed in front of the door, even though it had been unattended for a long time and was already very messy.

(End of this chapter)