Chapter 812: Flower City
The village where the flower capital is located in the six villages of Wano Country is located in the center of the five villages.
Lynch, Robin, Ymir, Brooke, and Merry headed north from Rabbit Bowl, across the border river, and into the Flower Capital.
There are big changes from Rabbit Bowl to Flower Capital.
First of all, the most intuitive feeling is also the first feeling - almost the moment you walk across the border river bridge and step onto the border of the Flower City, you can feel the subtle climate difference.
The Rabbit Bowl behind me seemed to be in early autumn, but the entire Flower City Township below was shrouded in a warm spring breeze, as if it was the season where cherry blossoms could be seen falling all year round.
Robin withdrew his gaze from looking back at Rabbit Bowl across the river, and continued to walk side by side with Lynch and Ymir, humming with his chin on his hand: "Both Shiraishi and Rabbit Bowl are autumn islands, one in late autumn and the other in early autumn. According to Lao Kang's previous description, Bell Queen to the north of Shiraishi seems to be a winter island with snow all year round. According to Ace's memories of Kuri Eirikasa Village, the climate there is probably that of a summer island. The northernmost Hime may be a spring island or a summer island at the turn of spring and summer, or it may be a winter island similar to Bell Queen..."
"And the Flower Capital where the general is located is the Spring Island with the most pleasant climate and scenery." Lynch walked, stretched out his hand, and caught a piece of cherry blossom that floated in from nowhere.
"Yohoho, Mr. Lynch doesn't seem to like the general of Wano Country?" Brook chased from behind, and he swung his black knife Qiushui, shaking off the thin layer of frost on the blade, and returned the knife to its sheath. At the border of Rabbit Bowl in the back, the thieves who appeared on the roadside were lying on the ground in a mess, some with frost on their eyebrows and hair, and some with blue faces in their dreams.
Robin said: "It's not that he dislikes the generals of Wano Country, but he dislikes all royal groups."
"Don't look at me like this," Lynch stretched out a hand to touch the quiet Thundercloud Ymir, who tried to hide next to Robin, "I almost became a mentor of the Revolutionary Army back then."
Robin smiled and rubbed Ymir's soft cloud body as she hid beside him.
Brooke thought about it and asked curiously, "Miss Empress, and Miss Ayu, aren't they also 'kings'?"
"I don't like it, but I'm not against it." Is Lin Qi going to say, I don't like the class differences in the other world, but essentially - it's none of my business? He thought about it and smiled, "Besides, Snake Princess is the strongest warrior of the Nine Snakes. No matter from which angle you look at it, she is still a long way from the 'King'."
"So what Mr. Lynch doesn't like is essentially 'blood nobility'?"
"After all, the so-called royal family is the same as the Celestial Dragons. The Celestial Dragons are just the kings of kings. I obviously don't like the Celestial Dragons, so naturally I don't like the royal families of each country. Similarly, since the royal families are low-level Celestial Dragons, the degree of dislike for them is naturally not as serious as that for the Celestial Dragons."
"Yohoho, you're so straightforward, Mr. Lynch." Brook was very emotional and suddenly remembered something. "Ah, come to think of it, many years ago, I seemed to have been put on the wanted list for attacking the Wang family, and later became a pirate. I see, I almost forgot about it! Yoho, yohoho..."
"Oh?" Robin and Lynch both looked at him. They had never heard him say that before.
Brooke said, "During those years on the ghost ship, I was so busy trying to remember the memories of my companions that I gradually forgot some of the earliest and most distant events... Come to think of it, I seemed to have been a member of the palace guard on an island in the West Sea?"
"You use a questioning tone, are you expecting us to answer you?"
When Lin Qi complained, Robin thought for a moment and asked, "Muse Xindao?"
"Huh?" Brooke was a little surprised, "How did Miss Robin know?"
Robin smiled and said, "After all, Lynch and I are both from the West Sea. When we passed by Muzexin Island, there was an old man living by the sea who would play "Binx's Wine" facing the sea and talk about a friend with an afro who once went out to sea as a pirate. That should be your friend, right?"
"Yohoho," Brooke said happily, and the skeleton's steps became brisk. "Although I don't remember his name or appearance, he should be my friend! I really want to go back and play a song with him~"
The Afro Skull suddenly put his hand on the hilt of the knife and saw a group of people on the roadside ahead. It turned out that they were not thieves, but some skinny locals from Wano Country. When they passed by, they looked at them with great surprise. When they saw Brook in the shape of a skeleton and Ymir in the floating white cloud, they rubbed their eyes in astonishment, as if they thought they had seen it wrong. In comparison, the "strange costumes" of the three of them were not so prominent.
The public security in the Flower City seems to be better, Brooke thought.
It seems that the Flower Capital is ruled by Orochi himself, and all those who have the ability to cause trouble have been killed? Robin looked calm, but in fact, as he walked along, he intermittently grew flower eyes and flower ears in the surrounding area where they passed, and calmly observed the surrounding environment...
"The capital is not far away. There is a village ahead." Robin looked up and saw the highest mountain in Wano Country where everyone had agreed to meet before they dispersed. It was in the direction of the capital surrounded by cherry blossoms for dozens of miles ahead. And in front of this capital, where they passed by, there seemed to be a small village.
The reason why it is "seemingly" is because the aura sensed by Robin's observation Haki is very scattered and weak, even weaker than some slightly stronger animals.
Lin Qi and his companions walked into this dilapidated village adjacent to the capital of Flower City.
Ebisu Town, also known as Fuxing Town, is the name of this place.
Without asking specifically, with Lynch's observation Haki and Robin's ability, they could easily get the information they wanted from the beggars in tattered clothes basking in the sun on the street, the kids playing listlessly in the garbage dump, the old people lingering in the shabby huts... these locals. Moreover, with their "fashionable" outfits that were incompatible with the local painting style of Wano Country, Brook's unconcealed skull head, and Ymir's cloud shape with a human face, they attracted all the attention of the people around them as soon as they entered the village.
"Wow! It's a bone monster..."
"Is this... the legendary Oiran?"
“That’s amazing!”
Children in ragged clothes, some without pants or shoes, all looked pale and skinny, and looked malnourished. They hid by the houses on the roadside, nervously and in amazement at the passing Lynch, Robin, Brooke, and Ymir. Brooke's eyes blinked in her afro. It was Merry who had just woken up.
Perhaps it was their attire, or perhaps it was the knife hanging from Brooke's waist, or perhaps it was the blue-black iron rod floating beside Lynch, but when the villagers saw them passing by, they simply retreated and looked at them with doubt.
Lin Qi remembered that this seemed to be the town that Zoro and Lao Kang passed by in the comics. It was originally a town poisoned by the failed SMILE fruit, and all the villagers became landlubbers who could only laugh... But in the village before him, the villagers did not have the uncontrollable laughing disease like in the comics, but their living conditions seemed to be more worrying than in the comics, which seemed to be because there were no failed SMILE fruits to fill their stomachs.
"Are you guys going to...enter the Flower City?" From the dilapidated village that had originally kept its distance from them, a short old woman with messy gray hair walked over.
Lin Qi and others stopped and looked down at her.
"My grandmother talked to the monster!"
“It’s so dangerous!”
There seemed to be the sound of little kids gasping and grumbling nearby.
"Will the Yokai Samurai harm my mother-in-law?"
“No…”
"Yes, I'm on my way. What can I do for you?" Brooke asked. Mary poked her head out from his afro and curiously saw the old woman holding a few patched Japanese-style clothes and sincerely advised: "It will be very dangerous for you to go into the Flower City like this... Although the clothes are simple, they can at least cover up a little..."
Robin asked curiously, "Doesn't the old woman think we are bad people?"
The old woman laughed and said, "In this world, are there any worse people than those in the Flower City?"
"That's a very insightful point." Lin Qi said, "But there's no need for clothes."
The Observation Haki could clearly hear that many villagers who were observing secretly were feeling gloomy and muttering about something. They simply thought that Lin Qi and others disliked the clothes because they were too torn and dirty.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But soon, more and more intensive gasps were heard one after another, because the villagers saw that the tall man, although dressed strangely, patted the head of the afro-haired white-bone monster, and then reached in and took out a continuous stream of food from the afro-haired monster—a lot of meat! A lot of water! A lot of food!!! Bang, bang, bang. Lynch asked Meili to help and take some food from the mirror world's main body, Meili, and put it in front of the old woman.
"But you are wrong about one thing." Lin Qi said to the old woman, "We are much worse than those people in the Flower City. They are the ones who are afraid of us."
As he spoke, he grabbed the dark blue iron rod floating next to him and swung it towards the village road behind him.
Boom! The domineering energy was not strong, but it was as dense as a spider web. A fierce wind was raised in the village, enough to make everyone's feet sway slightly but not fall down. Countless domineering energy points fell accurately next to each villager who was observing this place, smashing the ground, walls, and stones into a finger-sized round hole. A wisp of sword energy left a straight cut in the middle of the village road, extending all the way from the entrance of the village. Many naked children stood on tiptoe in fear and amazement, but no one could see how far the gully extended.
The tall, mighty, handsome and brave man swinging the stick continued to walk towards the Flower Capital with Mr. Skeleton, the oiran sister, and the lovely Baiyun. The villagers of Ebisu Town came out one after another. Everyone looked at the pile of food left on the ground in front of the old woman, and then looked at the cut on the ground that ran through the village and extended to an unknown distance outside the village. They all understood the meaning: the food was distributed by the old woman, and no one was allowed to mess around.
"It's really Buddha..." Holding a pile of worn-out clothes, the old woman knelt down in front of the food. Tears flowed from her old eyes as she looked at the people whose backs could no longer be seen. "Wano Country, how many years have we not seen such a chivalrous man?"
The villagers gathered around, but no one dared to touch the food in front of the old woman that was given to her by passers-by. However, after hearing the old woman's mumbling, they couldn't help but ask, "Grandma! Isn't Ugly Boy No. 3 a knight? He often gives out money in the village in the middle of the night!"
The old woman sighed, shook her head, and said nothing else. She distributed food to the villagers one by one.
In the distance, away from Ebisu Town, Merry flew out of Brooke's afro and jumped onto his shoulder, "Brother Hei!"
Lynch turned his head and saw the little guy's bright eyes, looking at him admiringly: "You are so good! Woo!" Lynch flicked his forehead with his fingers.
Robin chuckled.
Brooke looked up at the Flower City right in front of him, and the secular atmosphere of a prosperous ancient city hit him. "If Mr. Lynch and Miss Robin go in like this, it will definitely cause a riot!" The guy in a neat suit, a black hat, and a skeleton head had no self-awareness at all, and rushed into the city with brisk steps. "Wow, there are so many beautiful girls from Wano Country~ It's so lively!"
"If it weren't for this place, I would have to wonder if Wano Country was full of desolate places like Hakumai and Udon."
Robin and Lynch walked side by side into the capital of the Flower City, with Brook walking ahead curiously among the street vendors, which soon caused waves of panicked screams - not to mention his clothes, his dignity alone was enough to scare ordinary passers-by to death.
The bustling streets and the residents coming and going with laughter on their faces are no different from other towns except for the special customs and practices. The small village we just passed by, Baiwu coming out of Qiangang, and the area around Tuwan Prison seem like two completely different worlds.
"Wow! It's a shit monster!"
Suddenly, there was a commotion on the street, the sound of children making trouble, mixed with men's cursing and women's screams.
Lynch and Robin, who had been attracting more and more surprised glances from passers-by as they walked, were playing with small objects under the stall owner's suspicious gaze. Hearing the noise, Robin looked back.
The panicked crowd scattered, and a small figure ran wildly on all fours, with some dirty water splashed on his body, as he passed through the crowd, causing countless curses and screams. However, a few energetic boys from Wano Country chased the dirty shadow and threw stones at it, chasing it through the streets and alleys to the outside of the Flower Capital, causing countless chaos along the way as it went away.
"What's going on?" Lynch stood up and put a cherry blossom accessory into Robin's black hair and put it on.
As for the currency used for payment, it was a piece of gold that Lynch casually picked up from the gold from the Sky Island in the Little Green Castle and handed to him in front of the stall owner's wide-eyed eyes.
Robin touched the cherry blossom accessories in his hair and looked at Lynch in surprise.
Lin Qi was speechless and said, "Isn't it a shit monster? No matter how powerful my observation skills are, I won't 'see' shit, right?"
Robin pointed at the crowd that had gradually calmed down and said with a smile: "It was just a dog, and it was chased away."
"Let's go," Lynch didn't care and took Robin's hand, "Let's take a walk around before we kill the big snake."
"Um."
The stall owner was stunned. He looked at the gold grains in his hand, then looked at the handsome men and beautiful women going away and the floating white clouds, and decided to pretend that he saw and heard nothing.
(End of this chapter)