Chapter 77: New World Day 6 (Nutrient Solution 130,000 plus more) Because...
New World Day 6:
When Shanks was talking to his first officer about Ace, Wendy came back after delivering the wreath and saw Hawkeye with an expressionless face.
"Did you forget something?" Hawkeye asked.
"No, it's because Beckman asked me about the wreath before, so I made a wreath for him with flower petals. But after I finished it, I saw you when I got back and forgot about it. I just remembered it when I was cleaning the things in my backpack." Wendy said with a long sigh.
"Wreath?" Hawkeye was stunned.
It's no wonder he didn't know, because after meeting him, Wendy quickly entered farming mode and grew tomatoes. She can use food therapy to quickly restore sanity, and she can also use the forget-me-nots grown from weeds to make soothing tea. Both are much more cost-effective and faster than the wreath. Naturally, she abandoned the wreath that would take up the space on her hat.
Seeing Hawkeye's confusion, Wendy explained, "It's used to restore sanity. It restores 1.33 sanity points per minute. The recovery is slow, so I don't use it anymore."
Hawkeye frowned slightly: "Why did Beckman suddenly mention this?"
Wendy answered obediently, "Because he asked me about the lei I gave to Shanks."
Hawkeye: "...You also gave Shanks a lei?"
"Yeah. Back in Windmill Village, I made a wreath for Shanks to thank him for giving Luffy his straw hat." Wendy then keenly noticed her friend's mood swings and asked, "Do you mind this?"
Hawkeye looked at her. Before she could answer, Wendy continued, "That's not necessary. I've given it to a dragon before, too. And the first one I gave it to was a dragon."
Hawkeye: “…” This is not reassuring.
"Mihawk, do you want one too? Actually, the soothing tea and vegetable cocktail I made for you are better than this..." Wendy said this, but she was still very considerate of the other party's feelings. She ran to the refrigerator, opened it, looked at the remaining 28 petals, and prepared to take another 12.
Hawkeye had stood up and walked behind her, holding her hand and stopping her action.
Wendy looked back in confusion, and the black-haired young man said calmly, "I'm not trying to be like everyone else."
Wendy was stunned for a moment, a look of confusion on her face.
Knowing the other party didn't understand, Hawkeye paused for a moment, sighed imperceptibly, and stated bluntly, "I don't need a wreath. Don't waste your petals."
Wendy is the type who takes what she says literally, so she immediately stopped and closed the refrigerator - she just wanted to leave the petals for her sister!
"Indeed, although we have enough petals now, if I forget to take out the petals in Abigail's urn and let them rot, we will need fresh petals." Wendy nodded seriously, agreeing with Hawkeye's words.
Offering Abigail requires four petals. Thanks to the revitalizing refrigerator, petals that are about to rot can be restored to their original state by placing them in the refrigerator. Otherwise, the petals must be constantly replaced with fresh ones. She would never waste petals from the ship to make wreaths to give to others - after all, not all islands in this world have flowers.
Come to think of it, it was because of this that when Doflamingo asked her, she specifically mentioned that the place she wanted to stay needed to have flowers.
Now it’s different. Although there are no flowers on Kraikana Island, she can catch butterflies to plant flowers.
It was her miraculous act of catching butterflies and planting them into flowers that shocked Hawkeye for a moment... But after being shocked so many times, Hawkeye became calm. Later, he was able to remain calm when he saw Wendy killing butterflies and butter falling out.
However, he could get used to Wendy's strange behaviors and peculiarities, but as for the others...
Looking at Wendy packing boxes over there, Hawkeye lowered his eyes.
After a moment, he suddenly asked, "You must have known Shanks earlier, right? He's not a Devil Fruit user, and you didn't know he could be your partner... Why didn't you want to marry him then?"
Even if you were confused at first, after you made up your mind, it was not difficult to ask Wendy why she was so determined to get married and then decided to just be companions - because Wendy basically answered every question and never lied.
Whether the expression will be ambiguous is another matter.
Wendy had almost finished packing her boxes. Seeing that they were a little full, she even made another box and placed it on the side in preparation for the move. When she heard Hawkeye's question, she turned to look at him and tilted her head to think carefully about the situation at that time. "Well... because at that time, I didn't want to go out to sea to explore anymore. I wanted to build a home first."
So it’s Shanks’ goal that doesn’t match the target, not Shanks himself... — Hawkeye understood.
Wendy also realized something was amiss. She thought for a moment, closed the box she had just moved a little, and ran over to Hawkeye. Since Hawkeye had his arms folded and his head down, deep in thought, she simply placed her hands on his legs, leaned her furry head over to look at him, and asked, "Mihawk, are you unhappy again?"
Hawkeye: “…”
He always found it difficult to evaluate Wendy's radar. She seemed to be very sensitive to other people's emotional changes, but she was very slow to understand why they changed their emotions.
Hawkeye raised his eyes slightly and looked at her. She was very close, and a few strands of her golden hair brushed against the back of his hand, causing a slight tickling sensation.
"You..." Hawkeye started to speak, but then he didn't know what to say and fell silent.
Wendy, on the other hand, had already finished her detective deductions and showed an understanding expression: "You don't like Shanks? That's okay. Shanks is already my partner anyway. We can look for someone else to marry."
Hawkeye: “…”
That's worse than red hair.
...No, red hair doesn't work either.
Hawkeye wanted to just ignore it at this point and simply explain to Wendy the real difference between a marriage partner and a companion... But he had other concerns - he was worried that after Wendy knew about it, she would not only think that Red Hair could join, but would even invite Beckman.
"But if you don't like it, Mihawk, I won't agree." Wendy promised in a "don't worry" tone. Although she was small, she said it seriously and showed an attitude of "I really can't do anything about you."
Hawkeye decided to ignore the subtle feeling behind it, just staring at her and asked, "Why?"
At this point, Wendy also answered honestly: "Because I was worried that you would run away."
Although she hasn't played the marriage mod yet and hasn't chosen her first marriage partner, she actually has room to maneuver, such as asking someone who agrees to have other candidates later as the first marriage partner... But the premise for finding loopholes and exploiting bugs is that she doesn't care about the consequences of failure.
After careful consideration, she decided that it didn't matter to the others, as long as Hawkeye couldn't escape. After all, he had a history of going back on his word.
Anyway, after the partner quota is full, she can still look for mods to expand the partner slots... There are always more mods than problems!
"..." Hawkeye was stunned for a moment, a look of astonishment on his face. After coming to his senses, his expression relaxed and even brought a hint of a smile.
Although he wouldn't run away, he couldn't say it at this time. Otherwise, this guy might just start drawing up a new list of marriage partners.
Therefore, Hawkeye changed the subject directly: "Further ahead is Big Mom's territory, and the sea area will change by then... If you want to catch new fish, you can try it in the next few days."
"Great!" Wendy immediately shifted her attention, took out her fishing rod and ran to the deck.
The seas along the Grand Route are already complex because of geomagnetic issues. Things like weather, ocean currents, and air currents are all irregular, unlike the four seas where there are regular patterns to follow.
The new world belongs to the second half, and the danger level and frequency of change are even higher.
Generally speaking, you would need to use the record pointer and the permanent pointer to get here...but Wendy has the system's built-in map. For her, there are only maps that have not been opened up, so she will never get lost and lose her direction.
Even knowing this, they still had a tracking indicator. Wendy's boating skills were terrible; she'd basically just rig the boat with bumpers and keep going straight, then patch it up when it hit something. After all, hers was an advanced GPS real-time positioning system.
She really swore to Hawkeye that she had already rubbed two spare ships on herself, and when the ship could not be repaired, she would replace it with a new one, so they just needed to move faster.
As for learning the skills of sailing properly, she never thought about it - because after ten minutes of learning, she found it too troublesome and even wanted to take out the driftwood paddle and start rowing.
Hawkeye could only say in silence that he would be the one driving the boat from now on, and let Wendy go play with her fishing rod, reminding her to remember to release Abigail. He would only call Wendy to ask questions when he was unsure of the route.
Anyway, at home, Wendy is the one who does the work that interests her, and when she gets tired of it, she leaves it to Hawkeye.
Wendy was just fishing there, killing the fish she caught and putting them in her backpack. Any sea kings or fish that appeared by were killed by Abigail kuku, so she harvested fish meat xn, monster meat xn, and popcorn xn.
During this period, there were times when she failed to catch any fish, causing her to lose her bait. She would then be very unhappy and go to Hawkeye to complain - although she couldn't get the bait back, she just wanted to complain.
The change happened when Wendy's bait was almost used up...
"Mihawk! I caught a very strange fish!" Wendy shouted in shock.
Hawkeye had already gone over when she called his name, and fell silent when he saw what Wendy had caught - this wasn't a fish, it was a human, right?
"Just like you said, Mihawk, the number of strange creatures here will increase..." Wendy was still sighing as she took out a ham stick - a weapon made of meat, pig skin, and branches that had high damage. Wendy hadn't used it before simply because it was fresh, and it would be a waste without the ever-fresh mod.
It’s different now. Now with the fresh-keeping refrigerator, her weapon in the future will be tied to the ham stick.
She took a ham stick and started hitting people.
Hawkeye did not stop her, because he knew that Wendy's abilities were limited and she couldn't really kill anyone.
A minute later, Wendy was tired and put away the ham stick with a depressed look on her face.
Hawkeye could also confirm that this was indeed a human and not some fish that could create hallucinations - because if it wasn't a human, it would have been turned into fish meat x2 by now under Wendy's beating.
"Looks like it's a human." Hawkeye looked at Wendy, "What bait did you use to catch it?"
Wendy had previously explained to him her various special baits, which attracted different species of fish... but this was the first time she'd caught one. Could it be that Wendy's bait had gone bad? But she always put anything that could go bad in the refrigerator, and nowadays, things in the refrigerator never go bad...
"Hmm? Because all the bait I prepared fell through, so I tried something else. I used a fruit that I had left when I was sorting through the boxes," Wendy said, recalling the appearance and describing it. "It's golden."
Hawkeye: “…”
It was the devil fruit she had picked up at the auction before!
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