Chapter 813 Huh?! (5000 words)
"Brooke, maybe you should let Mellie change your face."
Lynch and his companions walked on the streets of the Flower Capital without any disguise. The attention attracted by their "strange costumes" was secondary. Brook's skull face was really easy to cause a disturbance. The key point was that this guy was very unconscious and always liked to get close to the girls in kimonos passing by, trying to scare them to death in a polite manner.
Brooke was surprised, "Huh? Change your face? Can Mary do such a thing?"
The boat elf on Lynch's shoulder was also surprised, as if it itself didn't know it had such ability.
"The person who has been reflected by the mirror fruit can be mirrored to himself," Robin thought for a moment, "but you can also use the mirror to reflect other animals and disguise them as the person in the mirror image."
Pedestrians on the road hurriedly avoided him. Lin Qi said as if nothing had happened, "If it's a corpse, it should be considered an animal, right? Or maybe humans themselves are also a kind of animal."
"Mr. Lynch, that's a bit too much." Brooke said casually, "Besides, just like Mr. Lynch doesn't want to change his clothes, I don't really want to change my appearance."
Lin Qi smiled and said, "That's true."
Brooke said, "If I change my appearance, what if I meet a Yankee captain and he doesn't recognize me?"
Robin asked, "That's your old captain, is he still alive?"
Brooke said: "Maybe he is still alive? Somewhere in the ocean."
Lin Qi sighed: "If it's today, I'm not young anymore."
Brooke also sighed, "Yeah."
A vendor at a roadside stall was using flint to start a fire. The crackling sparks attracted the attention of the thundercloud Ymir.
A hand reached out, and sparks appeared on Lynch's palm, which gradually turned into electric currents, with arcs jumping around. Ymir, who was wearing glasses, looked up and saw Lynch smiling, as if asking, "Do you want to eat?" Ymir nodded and moved closer, but Lynch's hand was raised, so it also floated up. Lynch's hand wrapped in arcs was led to the other side, so Ymir went around again...
"That's them! Over there!" Suddenly, there was a commotion ahead, and a group of soldiers dressed as officers and soldiers rushed over, and the crowd dispersed.
Robin and Lynch looked calm. This was something they had expected when they entered the Flower City without any disguise.
Brooke saw that these people were coming aggressively and didn't seem to recognize Mr. Lynch and Miss Robin, so he thought that he could save their lives if he could, so he took the initiative to pull out the black knife Qiu Shui from his waist. A wisp of cold air as if from the underworld was wrapped around it. At the same time, a dark green figure invisible to the naked eye appeared behind Brooke, stretched out his hand and gently plucked the blade of Brooke, and it made a sound like plucking the strings of a guitar...
"Catch..." Before the team of warriors under the general's command in front of him attacked, he suddenly felt very sleepy. He fell headfirst on the side of the road and fell into a deep sleep.
The crowd was in an uproar, confused and stunned, not understanding what was happening at all.
"Let's go over there and take a look." Robin pointed to another street. "It seems very lively." She moved her ears as if she was listening to something, and suddenly smiled and said, "Is that the brothel?"
"Huajie, isn't this inappropriate?" Lynch looked at her, one of his hands was swallowed by the white cloud. Ymir squinted her eyes, as if she was very happy, sucking the electric arc created by Lynch's hand.
Robin blinked, "Haven't we been to Fun Street together before?"
"Is that true?"
"Brooke's already gone," Robin reminded.
"Let's go." Lynch took Robin's hand, and they smiled at each other and walked towards the red-light district where geishas, prostitutes and prostitutes gathered.
Ymir followed Lynch's hand and floated forward. Meili jumped onto Ymir's cloud, raised her head and opened her mouth wide, looking around with curiosity. A cherry blossom fell and landed on its sailor hat, but it seemed very heavy and quickly passed through its phantom body and gently fell on the pure white cloud...
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[Flower City, outside the recreation area]
[A certain alley——]
"Sister, don't be angry." A tall woman with long grass-green hair tied up in a Wano-style bun squatted down and grabbed the hand of a little girl with the same hair color. "Is it okay if I don't pretend to be a geisha? Of course I won't. I just get close to them and occasionally ask for some information."
"Are you coaxing a child?" Sandang looked at her sister coldly, "Who is the elder sister? Who is the younger sister?"
"You. I am your younger sister." Monet held her sister's soft little hand tightly and found that there was a little syrup left from the candied haws. She took out a handkerchief, used the ability of the Snow Snow Fruit to make some clean water, and wiped off the sugar stains.
Sandang let her sister wipe it, hummed with satisfaction, stared at Monet's bulging chest under her kimono, and scolded: "You are so beautiful, is it just to dance and show off your sexiness for those disgusting men to see?"
"Okay, okay, I was wrong." Monet put away his handkerchief.
"Stop it, please. I'm still sickened by what happened before!" Sugar's big little girl eyes flashed with cruelty and anger that didn't match her appearance. She gritted her teeth and said, "The dog ran fast..."
"Now that it's like that, you can calm down now, right?" Buffalo, who was disguised as a carpenter, came over.
Sugar glared at the buffalo, who immediately took two steps back.
Monet changed the subject and said, "What about you? No news yet? With their style, as long as they come to Wano Country, which is far more closed than the outside world, it will definitely cause——"
Before the Snow Girl could finish her words, there was a commotion outside.
The three of them walked out of the alley after hearing the sound, and saw a tall and handsome man who was even more handsome than in the newspapers, a beautiful and bright woman who was even more exaggerated than in the newspapers, a skeleton, a cloud, and a child on the cloud. This group of people who were out of place in the Flower City walked through the street in a dignified manner, talking and laughing, and went deep into the brothel where the famous Oiran was.
"ha?!"
Although they were still discussing Lin Qi and others, they were still surprised when they suddenly saw these people passing by around the corner.
Especially Lynch.
When they were closest to them, they were only a few meters away from him on the street. Even though there were many passers-by who were talking in surprise and confusion blocking the way, and even though Lynch was chatting with the woman next to him and didn't pay attention to them... Sugar, Monet, and Buffalo saw his face, his profile, and still couldn't help feeling a shudder from the bottom of their hearts.
Buffalo, can you please stop shivering! It's annoying! Anger welled up in Sugar's heart, but the sound of teeth chattering was so close. Am I the one shivering?
The noise on Youku Street returned like a tide. Monet's face turned pale, and he slowly sat down with his back pressed against the wall. After confirming that Lynch and others had passed by, he let out a long sigh and sighed with a wry smile: "Only when I saw him with my own eyes did I realize how terrifying this man is..." It was so embarrassing that he didn't even have the courage to look at him again.
It's like a baby secretly observing a ferocious dragon. If she watches a little longer, the dragon will open its cold eyes and stare at her, kill her, tear her apart and eat her.
Buffalo's face was pale, and his huge and fat body wanted to curl up into a ball. He turned his head and saw Senior, whose face was covered with white powder and looked like a local kabuki, walking towards him. He murmured, "I told you not to come, right? I told you to give up revenge, right? That Lin Qi is not someone we can afford to provoke now... Even if the young master is resurrected, he will definitely die a second time..."
Monet wanted to refute him, but he had no strength to open his mouth. Sugar wanted to scold him, but he dared not open his mouth easily, for fear that the sound of his teeth chattering would be heard.
Senior's face was paler than the white Kabuki makeup on his face, but he took a step forward with a determined look, "Anyway, since we're here and since we've met them, let's go over and take a look first."
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"Xiao Zi! I'm here to pick you up! I'll take you away from the wandering place! Come and live with me!"
"Hahaha! How dare you say that! Is this lecherous monk crazy? Do you have the money to redeem the Oiran?"
"Of course! All my money is with Xiao Zi, and I redeemed her long ago! Xiao Zi, you finally got out! They don't even know about our relationship, explain it to me quickly--"
"Didn't you say you would give me that money? I've already spent it all. Thank you."
“Hahahaha! This old guy actually thought Xiao Zi was in love with him! I’m dying of laughter! Hahahaha…”
In front of the gorgeous building, an old monk with a patched robe knelt on the ground crying bitterly. The courtesan he had begged for came out from the second floor and mocked him before returning home. The gangsters at the door of the brothel laughed again, and even the passers-by laughed at the old monk who was in despair.
Zoro looked up at the courtesan who turned back to the house, and then glanced at the old monk who was crying on the ground. He could hear the laughter and discussions of the crowd. They said that the old monk had brought this upon himself, that evildoers will be punished by evildoers - the person who said this seemed to have been beaten by the people next to him - and that the old monk was colluding with the arsonist and the timber merchant to make a fortune by charging too high funeral expenses for the families who lost their loved ones in the fire...
"Alas." Zoro sighed and gave up the idea of helping.
"ha?!"
Brook's scream was heard nearby, and the face of the skeleton flashed into view, "Mr. Zoro, why are you here? Didn't you go with Mr. Luffy to find the samurai?"
"Brooke, there's no need to ask about this kind of thing, right?" Lynch followed over.
"Oh?" Zoro looked at Lynch, Robin and Thundercloud Ymir, "You are here too."
Robin chuckled and said, "Zoro got lost, but he actually got to the Flower Capital before us."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lin Qi said: "Anyway, we agreed that this is the meeting place. There is a reason why this kid got lost - although he got lost, he accidentally arrived at the right place."
"Hey!" Zoro was angry, "Do you think I can't hear you?"
Brook smiled and said, "Mr. Zoro really looks like a local samurai when he changes into this outfit."
Zoro said: "In my hometown village, many people wear this kind of clothes during festivals."
"Oh?" Robin was surprised.
On the side, Lynch was looking up at the second-floor balcony where the oiran had just left, and Zoro also looked over there.
On the balcony, a man in a kimono with a hairstyle that looked like a dogtail grass hanging on his forehead was staring at them intently. Although his narrow eyes that seemed to never wake up were mostly blocked by the decorative wig on his forehead, you could still see a little of his stunned, bloodshot eyes. Kyoshiro held the wooden fence with his hands and stared at the tall man in the crowd on the street.
He was wearing the clothes of a foreigner, and a dark blue iron rod was floating beside him.
Judging from his appearance, he had only seen the bounty order once, at General Ooshi's mansion, but he would never remember it wrong, nor would he make a mistake.
It's him! The greatest pirate in the world with a bounty of 5 billion, the ripple messenger who is more terrifying than Kaido...Lin Qi! Huh! ?
How could such a dangerous person, one of the most powerful men in the outer sea, suddenly come to Wano Country?! The other party's eyes seemed to be able to see through all his disguises, like a heavy punch piercing through his pupils into the back of his head. Kyoshiro managed to not lose his composure, his temples unconsciously wet, and a trickle of cold sweat dripped down.
The pressure that was even more terrifying than Kaido's was pressing on him invisibly. Kyoshiro was almost unable to control himself and drew the sword at his waist. Only in this way could he give himself even the slightest sense of security... Fortunately, Lynch seemed to just look up at him casually, then retracted his gaze and continued chatting with the people around him.
Gurgle, Kyoshiro swallowed it in one gulp, lowered his eyes and saw that the fence had been broken by his grip without him knowing.
The old monk whose property was cheated away by the courtesan was still howling in front of the door. Kyoshiro was in a state of confusion and was in no mood to talk to him. He waved his hand and asked his men to chase him away, then he went back to the house with a slightly unsteady pace.
It seems that Kyoshiro's real identity is a samurai under Kozuki Oden?
Lynch looked up and thought about this question when he looked away. However, he only had BIB's arms on him. Without BIB's mask, he couldn't call up the memory bank of his substitute. Never mind. It wasn't a big deal anyway, so Lynch didn't take it seriously. Suddenly, he heard the sound of the crowd that had been dispersing again.
“It stinks!”
"Who! Let this stinking dog into this undefiled street!"
"Get rid of him!!!"
The crowd was in chaos, but they shouted to chase away the stinky dog, but it hid faster than anyone else. Zoro and Brook looked over and found that it was a filthy puppy, especially its mouth, full of feces, stumbling towards them. Brook said, "A puppy wants to see the Oiran too? Yohohoho." This joke was obviously not funny, and Brook aroused public anger, but when they saw his honor, everyone's face changed and they took two steps back.
Zoro was ready to stop the dog from charging at the only woman among his people. He tried to grab the knife but missed it. He remembered that Wado Ichimonji was taken away by a nasty guy, so he was speechless again. Just then, the dog with a mouth full of feces seemed to hit an invisible wall and stopped 20 meters away from them.
Fortunately, fortunately. Zoro breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he didn't want to swing his sword at such a ghost thing.
Robin suddenly asked in surprise: "What is it doing?"
"Hey, why is it bowing its head again?" Lin Qi looked in surprise at the puppy that was parked twenty meters away and was bowing its head towards them repeatedly, with its head hitting the ground, making a dong dong dong sound.
Brooke asked curiously, "Are you kowtowing to us?"
Zoro asked, "Do you want to catch him and see why?"
"This..." Several people thought about it and looked at the puppy with its mouth full of feces. Although they were a little puzzled by its mysterious behavior, they decided to just let it go.
The puppy kowtowed a few times, turned around twice as if reluctant to leave, and then ran away, causing another commotion among the crowd.
However, at this time Zoro noticed that the puppy's running trajectory was very strange, just like just now, it seemed to bump into something from time to time. Every time it bumped into something, it would kowtow continuously, and then continue to run and kowtow... After finally stopping kowtow, Robin shook his head and released the Flower Eye that was sent to the street corner. The puppy rushed into someone else's toilet and was beaten out.
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"Didn't you say you would give me that money? I've already spent it all. Thank you."
The courtesan exhaled a puff of smoke from her red lips, took her pipe on the second floor, left a frivolous and cold remark, turned back into the house, and left the old monk crying and begging at the door of the brothel.
As soon as the door was closed, the courtesan sighed, put her pipe aside, knelt on the cushion, poured a cup of tea, listened to the noise outside, and drank the tea with a cold expression.
"Swish--bang." The footsteps behind her sounded, and compared to the usual calmness, they seemed a little messy. The oiran frowned slightly. The cold expression on her face disappeared, replaced by her usual gentle smile. She looked up and saw Kyoshiro sitting across from the coffee table.
Kyoshiro, whose real name was Denjiro, was one of the samurai who once served as retainers of his father Kozuki Oden.
For more than a decade, he has been disguised as the gangster boss of Flower Capital, replacing the vacancy left by Bao Goro after his disappearance, secretly gathering gang forces, building connections to get close to the usurper general Kurozumi Orochi, and preparing for the day predicted by his mother Kozuki nineteen years ago. He is waiting for Kin'emon and others who have traveled through nineteen years, and waiting for the hope of saving Wano Country.
The teacup was steaming, and the leaves were floating in it. The oiran Kozuki Hiyori, whose real name was Kozuki Hiyori, raised her eyes and looked at Kyoshiro. He was pale, sweaty, and seemed a little absent-minded.
Since he didn't say anything, Xiao Zi didn't ask any more questions. She continued to hold the tea, lowered her eyes and said nothing.
After a long silence, Kyoshiro calmed down and suddenly said, "I'll go take a look at that matter again."
Xiao Zi said calmly: "Last time we just returned empty-handed and disappointed. Next time, maybe it will be a real trap. We are not the only ones who know the prophecy left by our mother. Orochi and Kaido, they all know it."
"Prophecy..." Kyoshiro murmured, once again recalling the day when Oden Castle was burned nineteen years ago, and the prophecy left by Lady Toki about what would happen nineteen years later.
He said with difficulty: "No matter what, we can't give up. Shit—"
"My name is Xiao Zi." The courtesan smiled softly, "Mr. Kyoshiro."
(End of this chapter)