Chapter 66: Companions, Day 11, All about this player...
Companion Day 11:
...What kind of boring thing is this?
Hawkeye decided to ignore the incident and asked serious questions: "What happened? Who hurt you?"
Wendy answered readily, "Oh, it's nothing. I just starved. This happens all the time. It's normal."
In fact, Wendy once starved to death when she was obsessed with farming in the castle. She was resurrected on the corpse and smashed the corpse to obtain 2 bone fragments. Then she went to the kitchen to eat and came back to continue farming. Hawkeye just didn't know it.
The baboons did see it, but they couldn't speak, and they were used to seeing Wendy resurrected repeatedly in the early days, so they didn't even scream when they saw this scene.
Hawkeye: "..." He felt that he shouldn't be silent so often, but sometimes, he really had nothing to say.
But when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was understandable... Since it was a famine fruit, then starving to death was also normal... uh, is that normal?
Fortunately, he didn't understand the Famine Fruit anymore, but he already understood Wendy. He changed his question and asked, "What happened after we separated?"
Wendy jumped out of his arms and went to the refrigerator to get two dragon fruit pies and two vegetable cocktails, which she quickly devoured, restoring her three-dimensional stats to full. She also stuffed a vegetable cocktail into Hawkeye's hand and said, "You'll also lose sanity after I die. Drink it quickly to restore your sanity!"
Hawkeye then realized why he was a little uneasy before... He thought it was because he subconsciously anticipated that Wendy might be doing something big.
Although it seems to be okay now.
Wendy watched him take the cocktail before recounting what had just happened. "I think I've found the main questline. I'll tell you later. I'm going to go pack my things and put them in the box first! Mihawk, I'm telling you, I gained a lot this time!"
Then, Hawkeye watched Wendy open the box and put in two sets of Celestial Dragon clothes and glass hoods, a smaller glass hood that looked like it was for a pet, more than twenty slave collars, some gems, a devil fruit, a few empty bottles, some rotten things, two canine teeth, a small piece of meat... Oh, she even stood up and put the small piece of meat in the refrigerator.
He was shocked at first and then silent - sometimes he really didn't understand what Wendy considered valuable.
However, the so-called "Celestial Dragon killing Celestial Dragon incident"...it is already very clear who the Celestial Dragon mentioned above is referring to.
As Wendy was taking things out and putting them back into the box, she suddenly exclaimed, "Huh? When did I get a walking cane?"
She looked at the corrupted cane in her hand, then at the skinless walking cane she had just taken out, her face full of confusion.
Hawkeye looked over and asked, "No one else can make this except you, right? Have you ever given it to anyone before?"
Wendy tilted her head, thinking. "Hmm... I've never given it to anyone. I was planning to give it to Dover, but I wanted to wait for a better skin to give him, so I never gave it to him. We ended up breaking up... Ah, the walking stick I used before my first death is with the Don Quixote family!"
Hawkeye glanced at the walking stick on the ground, then returned his gaze to Wendy's face: "Where have you been today? What have you done?"
"Hmm..." Wendy tilted her head, trying to make it short. "I just killed a Celestial Dragon on 31st Street and picked up the loot. Then I took Abigail to the Human Auction on the 1st and killed two more Celestial Dragons and picked up some loot. We didn't see any more Celestial Dragons later because Kuzan came."
Hawkeye immediately grasped the key point: "Kuzan? Admiral Aokiji? Your death is related to Aokiji?"
"Well, if Kuzan hadn't been blocking the door, I wouldn't have been stuck. But I didn't reveal my identity," Wendy said, continuing to sort through the boxes. "And Kuzan is a ground-type unit, so Abigail isn't afraid of ground units and won't get hurt. The food I brought out was stale and I couldn't recover, so I just died and came back."
This battle system... does it mean that because Aokiji's ice attacks from the ground, it can't damage Abigail? No... Abigail is a ghost without a physical body, right? Can she still cause damage?
Hawkeye thought about it and asked another important question: "Are you familiar with Aokiji?"
"Yeah! I traveled with Kuzan briefly for a few days before, but he would easily freeze me and make me lose blood, so I didn't become his companion." Wendy finished stuffing her things over there, closed the box, and seemed to have put the previous problem behind her.
Hawkeye remembered something else.
He remembered that when he first arrived at Kraikana Island, he saw a navy cloak among the items that were stolen from Wendy by the baboons...
"Mihawk?"
"...It's okay." Hawkeye came back to his senses. "Did you get this walking stick at the human auction on 31st Street or 1st Street?"
"Hmm...it should be a human auction." Wendy replied.
After all, she was backstage at the auction and picked up everything she could.
"That means there are two possibilities. One is that the Don Quixote family sold your cane, and the other is that this human auction was held by this family." Hawkeye deduced, looking at Wendy, actually leaning towards the second answer.
And... since he is involved in this kind of auction, he must be well-off. He would sell the walking stick that is Wendy's "relics", most likely to erase all traces of Wendy's existence.
As for what Wendy said before, she didn't actually commit any actual betrayal, she was simply taking sides... The person in charge of the Don Quixote family cared so much and decided to auction it more than a year later. He must have been a little too concerned.
"Is that so..." Wendy didn't think about it at all, or rather, she didn't care at all. She just nodded and put it out of her mind. "Forget it, now that I have it back, I don't have to make a special trip later."
...If word gets out that Wendy is alive, I'm afraid she'll make a special trip. — Hawkeye glanced at Wendy, who was using a cleaning broom to reskin her corrupted cane, and said, "Even if you can resurrect infinitely, don't make your own death so easy."
Wendy looked up at him with surprise on her face: "Ah, Long also said something similar."
Hawkeye: “…”
It wasn't clear before, but he is indeed a little unhappy now.
But he wouldn't say it, so he changed the subject and talked about the issue that was the last one in his priority list: "Why are you suddenly so keen on fighting the Celestial Dragons?"
"Because I suddenly found that the dropped items are pretty good, and I also opened the main quest." Wendy finally remembered the topic she wanted to talk to Hawkeye about from the beginning. She put down the cleaning broom temporarily, ran to Hawkeye, and said in an excited tone, "My uncle Maxwell seems to have turned into a person named Yimu, and the Celestial Dragons know where he is!"
“…Imu?”
"Yes!" Wendy nodded and began to explain, "My uncle Maxwell lost himself in his pursuit of power and is now sealed atop the Nightmare Throne, unable to come down. My main quest is to rescue him from the throne."
Hawkeye understood—in other words, Wendy's uncle was trapped in the place called the "Nightmare Throne," and she wanted to rescue him? And now, she learned her uncle's whereabouts from the Celestial Dragons?
Hawkeye thought for a moment and then asked, "How are you going to save him?"
Are they planning to attack Mary Geoise?
Wendy thought about the cutscenes she'd seen in previous games during this storyline, and said solemnly, "Find him and get him off the throne. He'll thank me, then turn into a corpse and dissolve in the wind. Then it'll be my turn to sit on it."
Hawkeye: “…”
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At the same time, on the other side, the commotion caused by Wendy was temporarily suppressed, and Aokiji also went back to report.
"Everyone injured here is like last time. They haven't had any injuries, but they've lost too much blood. Even if they're revived, their bodies are weakened..." Marshal Zhan Guo's face was solemn. He looked at the skeleton in the center and fell into an eerie silence. "Kuzan also lost blood. He said that the enemy who called himself the player said he would come back before leaving, and then turned into these skeletons. The ghost and she are both missing."
If it weren't for his trust in Aokiji, he would have almost thought that the other party was talking nonsense... But it was true that many marines present had seen the white bones, so they would not lie about this.
That is... is the other party a Celestial Dragon? What is his specific identity? What is his purpose in doing this... It feels like she showed up just to beat up the Celestial Dragons, rob them, free the slaves, and then ran away... She didn't do anything else!
After he asked this, the other people who were questioned also fell silent.
Garp secretly breathed a sigh of relief—he'd initially worried it was Wendy, but then he was relieved! While Wendy might be fighting Celestial Dragons (from a previous grudge), liberating slaves (probably something she learned from Dragon), and robbing (her hobby), she wouldn't just disappear into a pile of bones! This person definitely wasn't Wendy!
The other two generals frowned and were distracted.
"No matter what, it can be confirmed that this is a vicious criminal, right?" Akainu frowned.
"But if the other party is a Celestial Dragon, then it's beyond our scope to interfere, right?" Kizaru interrupted, "That's something you'll have to ask Mary Geoise."
This is also the reason why the navy is stuck here - if the murderer is a Celestial Dragon, they have no power to interfere or capture...
Everyone understood the implication of Kizaru's words, and everyone present looked unhappy.
During this stalemate, the phone rang.
Zhan Guo answered the phone: "Hello? It's me... Um... What? But... Okay, I get it."
He hung up the phone, and the heavy expression on his face did not fade away, but deepened instead.
Facing everyone's gaze, he sighed and announced, "An order has come from Mary Joa... This matter ends here. Abigail's bounty has been withdrawn, and everything that happened today must be suppressed... Also, all matters concerning this player will be handed over to CP0."
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Author's words: Wendy: Honest description
In other people's ears: what devil.jpg
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