Chapter 872: Requiem Playing Quietly Part 4
"..."
Luo sat on the rocks at the top of the mountain, holding a knife in one hand and raising the other hand towards the sky.
In the mist in the valley before my eyes, the faces of my hometown, once known as the "White Town," seemed to appear. My father, my mother, and my sister...
Luo was not sure what was happening, but he could feel that there seemed to be a requiem following the sound of the straw hat and the power of "ONE PIECE" left by "D" as mentioned by Nicole, echoing in his ears, and briefly bringing back the souls of the people in the destroyed North Sea hometown from the underworld.
Yes, I am still alive. Luo silently moved his lips to bid farewell to those smiling souls. Tears welled up in his eyes and he smiled, "This is what 'D' means, isn't it? And I am also 'D'."
"Hey! Luo! Come and see!" The sound of grass chirping came from behind.
"Captain, captain..." Soon it was Bepo and the others.
Luo rubbed his eyes, stood up and looked back. Xiaocao smiled, "Why are you still holding your hand up?" She, Bebo, the white bear, and the survivors who had crawled out of the cave pointed at the distant mountains, which were reflected by the sun and had a golden edge. "The heavy rain, tsunami, and storm have all stopped!"
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"it's over……"
Somewhere in the New World, the handsome pirate group was stranded here. Anne and Amorin, mother and daughter, saw the rain stop and the sky cleared up, and said in surprise, "It's all over!"
Cavendish just found it unbelievable. "Straw Hat, Lynch, Nico Robin... They can even do such a thing? They... do they save the world?"
Not far away, Marianne set up her drawing board, hummed a song and began to sketch, applying oil paint, depicting the calm sea in front of her and the islands in the distance.
Several sea beasts cautiously surfaced, and the distant cries of seabirds could be heard from the vast expanse above.
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"The prophecy I divined...did I interpret it wrong?!"
Fishman Island, Mermaid Bay, Madam Shirley opened her eyes, sighed with relief, and murmured to herself, "The Eight-Armed Evil...Lin Qi, he didn't destroy the world, he saved it."
In the distance, super-large sea kings were carrying many humans on their backs, and at this moment everyone was cheering excitedly for having been reborn after a disaster.
"But, Kuroko, Luffy, and Nami...how did they do it?"
The mermaid Kemi propped up her chin, looked at the distant horizon, and said to herself in amazement, "It's amazing that even the anger of the sea can be calmed down..."
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In the South China Sea, a warship passed through an area of the sea. The marines on the deck showed shocked expressions one after another, exclaimed one after another, and looked up.
Garp and Tsuru have been frowning ever since they "heard" the history and secrets that Nico Robin revealed to the world through "ONE PIECE" live broadcast... As veterans with great military achievements, they vaguely realized that with Nico Robin's move, the history of the world will turn a new page. The World Government, which has controlled the world's discourse power for 800 years, may...
What made them feel even more uncomfortable was the truth of the history told by Nicole Robin, which even they, the high-ranking officers in the navy, were not aware of.
Hearing the noise on the warship, Garp and Crane soon noticed the thing. They looked up at the same time, and a drop of cold sweat appeared on their foreheads.
"I see. The 'illusion' just now was real... That guy Lynch... How many of these things has he erected around the world?"
The two murmured to themselves, "Sengoku, Sakaski, how many more days can we raise the flag of justice of our navy?"
Among the crowds of people in navy caps surging on the deck, there seemed to be the shadows of Sengoku and Akainu's souls, projected down from heaven and looking at this world.
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"A mountain has risen up from the bottom of the sea!"
"How magnificent! How tall! This mountain reaches up to the sky!"
“Is it this mountain that stopped the tsunami and storm?”
The mountain that rose from the sea and reached the sky could be seen from a distance even from a thousand miles away. Moreover, most of the survivors had gathered at the highest point in various places, so it was very convenient to see from afar.
South China Sea, West China Sea, East China Sea, North China Sea...
The flood receded. Spencer avoided the crowd. He did not point excitedly at the towering mountain peaks vaguely visible at the end of the horizon like everyone else. Instead, he stared fixedly at somewhere in the air. A woman with long black hair had her back to him. She suddenly turned her head and pointed a sword at him with her hair flying. She blinked provocatively and smiled.
"Lily..." Spencer muttered, looking at the famous sword Fu Ping in his hand, holding his forehead in distress, "Xiaohua, Xiaohua, I have a strange feeling, that Lin Qi... I suddenly feel that he is like you. Too much like you." Spencer muttered to himself on the beach, "Should I go meet this eight-armed demon? Well, it happens that he seems to be very familiar with Rayleigh..."
"Also, we agreed that when this day really comes and really passes, our Roger Pirates will definitely gather again and tell Roger the results we saw..."
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"Hey! Roger!"
New World, Sphinx Island. Ace, Marco and the others finally put down their tired hands and lay on the ground in all directions, looking at the clear sky. They couldn't help laughing, "Those guys are really good at it. They saved the world? Hahaha."
"Captain Ace, your brother should be considered the Pirate King now, right?"
"I think he's already more amazing than your father!"
The White Group's crew members made a weak noise and whistled with their last bit of strength.
"..." Ace smiled, reluctantly sat up, looked up at the fire clouds in the sky that were still spewing fire everywhere, and shouted unhappily, "Hey! Roger! What are you doing? The storm is over, there's no need to set fire anymore!"
Fire Cloud Roger stopped with a puzzled look on his face. Not far away, Fire Cloud Susanoo glanced at it lazily. Roger was furious and chased after it, cursing.
"Roger is such a worry..."
Ace looked at the fire cloud in the sky that was chasing Susanoo and shook his head. Suddenly, he froze in place, staring straight at the sky. In the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw a woman with long light pink hair with a red flower in her hair, looking at him from afar with a gentle smile.
Ace opened his mouth and tried to speak several times. When hot tears flowed into the corners of his mouth, he realized that he had already started grinning foolishly.
"Mother……"
The man now known as Flamebeard wiped his tears vigorously, and with red eyes, he smiled brightly at the shadow in the sky, "I am Ace! I am living a good life! I... don't regret being born!"
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Snap! The golden lighter lit a slightly damp cigarette, Sanji took a deep breath, wiped the corners of his eyes, stood on the edge of the red earth continent, smiled and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke into the wind.
A black dragon came flying, carrying many people on its head, neck and back.
"Awesome! We did it!!"
Chopper and Merry were jumping around excitedly.
Nami was also happy and said, "I just realized that I'm so powerful."
Chopper and Merry looked at Nami with golden eyes. Nami was not as thick-skinned as Usopp and the others. She laughed and explained, "Haha, no, without Luffy's power connection and Lynch's help - by the way, is this guy still a human now? Could he have merged with the entire planet?! - I would not be able to inject the weather magnetism that calms tsunamis and storms into those mountains..."
"That's just him using the power of the Stone-Stone Fruit, right? How is it possible that he could become one with the planet..." Usopp complained, a little confused, "But I also seemed to 'see' him using the power of the Float-Float Fruit..." After a pause, everyone reached a consensus, "Forget it, he was originally like a monster anyway!"
"Okay, Brooke, it's over. Put your stand away..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
When Franky and the others passed by Brook, they stared at the humanoid Stand beside Brook, which was slightly different from the previous one, with a puzzled look on their faces. "So your Stand has a new ability? Could it be able to call back the souls of the dead from the underworld?!"
"It's not over yet~" Brook smiled and continued to play the Requiem of Heaven, "Mr. Zoro has not yet become the world's number one swordsman..."
The sea breeze blew by, and everyone turned their heads to look into the distance. Off the coast of the Red Earth Continent, a sword energy was rising into the sky.
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"Sensei! Give me her sword!"
"I will definitely, definitely, definitely become the world's greatest swordsman!"
"I want to take her share with me and let my name resound through heaven!!!!"
The sword energy that soared into the sky was accompanied by green and black ripples and flying blood, tearing the sky apart. It seemed as if a frail girl with short hair could be seen playfully climbing the stairs step by step on tiptoe. Suddenly, she stopped in the rolling clouds, looked back, and saw the Wado Ichimonji sword held high up in the sky on the sea. She laughed and waved her hand.
"You see, Kuina." Zoro raised his sword and said to himself, "I said what I said, and I did it. It's different from you! We agreed... but you..."
Complex and sour emotions surged up, and the Three-Sword Swordsman took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
"It sounds like a story..." Hawkeye's voice came, causing Zoro to open his eyes. Zoro retracted his gaze and looked over. Hawkeye, like him, was already covered in scars, but the difference was that Hawkeye's black sword was no longer in his hand. Facing Zoro, Hawkeye opened his arms and smiled faintly, saying, "Come on. Being injured in the back is a shame for a swordsman."
Zoro was stunned, then smiled.
He held Xuezou in one hand and Ashura in the other, biting the Wado Ichimonji in his mouth, "Well said." Boom! He was like a tiger out of its cage, and the three swords turned into a storm of blades, slashing towards Hawkeye head-on.
Puff! Blood flew in front of Hawkeye. The amazing slash broke through the sea and even slashed vertically on the thick mountain wall of the Red Earth Continent, making a low roar...
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In the distance, the slash swept towards the sky.
In a post-battle ruin on the Red Earth Continent not far from Mary Geoise, Lynch sat on a pile of rocks, not doing anything special, just staying there alone.
Suddenly, he turned over his palm, and a ball of dark flame appeared in his palm.
In the center of the flame, a pair of rippled eyes opened, staring uncomfortably at the man who was holding her in his palm.
"You can kill me." said the one-eyed black flame.
Lin Qi smiled and said, "Don't be so formal, Sister Yi. You didn't kill me before, and I won't kill you this time. We are even now, right?"
"Then let me go." said the black flame.
"That's not fair. You didn't just let me go, did you?"
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"So, can you tell me now?" Lin Qi tossed the one-eyed black flame in his hand, "Why did you target my stand-in?"
"..." The dark flame fell silent. Just when Lin Qi thought she was going to refuse to answer again, she suddenly said, "I..." After a pause, "I will never die."
"Let's do something new," said Lynch.
"What I mean is," there was not much emotion in the one eye of the dark flame, "even I don't know how long I have lived. I... can't remember who I am."
Seeing Lin Qi's surprised expression, Yim said calmly: "Of course I have not lost my memory. However, although my strength is far beyond that of ordinary life, my brain and the speed of thinking are also far beyond anyone in the world... However, the length of my life is obviously far longer than any life I know, and the objects of comparison can even be replaced by countries and civilizations..."
Lin Qi was surprised and said, "You mean, your brain is filled with... tens of millions of years, maybe hundreds of millions of years of experience and memories, and you... can't recall them at all relying on your own thinking?"
"Of course I can recall it." Yim said, "But who knows how long it will take? Maybe just to recall the events of 100 million years ago, I need to sit among the flowers and ponder for a whole ten years, but in the end I find that what I recall is just an insignificant fragment from billions of years ago. Because it has been too long, it takes a long time to dig out those fragments in my mind, so that... even if I try hard to recall it, I will feel... very strange. And tired."
Perhaps because he recalled the exhausting experience of trying to review his own history, Yim seemed a little silent.
"This is really..." Lin Qi was amazed, and suddenly thought, "Isn't there a memory fruit? You can rub it with your hands and eat it yourself, right?"
The one-eyed man in the middle of the pitch-black flame trembled for a moment, and said indifferently: "Have you ever tried to pull out the film of memories in your brain and fill it up the entire flower room? And that is only the amount of memories within ten thousand years..."
"Because you don't know what kind of memory you are looking for, and you don't know which part of your mind the memory is in, whether it's within 10,000 years, 100,000 years ago, 1 million years ago, or 100 million years ago?" Lin Qi shook his head. "You are aimless, so whether it's the memory fruit or meditation, it's just a waste of energy."
The dark flame jumped, "But your stand is different."
"Yes, it's different." Lin Qi nodded and said, "I can retrieve something I can't remember instantly. So that's why you are interested in this ability. And your ability to devour everything can probably achieve this..."
(End of this chapter)