Vivi, whose legs were a little weak, slowly climbed down from Zoro's back.

Standing in the snow, struggling to control his trembling legs.

That powerful heart, which has also seen strong winds and waves, is starting to beat non-stop at this moment!

The wind mixed with the fine snow continued to howl and dance.

After a long time, Weiwei, who was barely bent over her knees with her hands on her knees, finally became a little better.

The blue ponytail wanted to be flung to the side, and Vivi, who raised her head, spoke weakly and asked Zoro:

"Suo...... Mr. Zoro! We, have we arrived!? ”

Just now!

The moment the coin that represented the signal fell, Vivi only felt that her world had changed dramatically.

It's as if you're already in another world.

The original time and space have inexplicably produced unimaginable chaos in this way!

Zoro's speed beyond ordinary people's comprehension was even terrifying, so that Vivi's visual nerves could not process the information received by her eyes at all.

The rapid scene change directly emptied Weiwei's brain.

Let her feel as if she was asleep, without any strength, lying directly on Zoro's body.

Otherwise......

With Vivi's reminder, they probably wouldn't have come here either.

……

……

"Why haven't they come up yet?"

After waiting for a while, seeing that Vivi had relieved her spirits and was already a little impatient, Zoro couldn't help but let out a self-talking inquiry.

After saying that, he walked to the edge of the cliff and glanced at the bottom of the cliff curiously.

Behind the entire castle, there was not a single sound of any other creature except for Zoro and Vivi.

Everything, the silence is touching.

……

……

Wei Wei got up and looked around, between her eyebrows, mixed with thoughts, and suddenly said:

"Mr. Sauron......"

"I remember, we started the ascent right in front of the castle, right?"

Before reaching the foot of the mountain, when there was still a certain distance from the high mountain, everyone had observed this strange castle.

In Vivi's memory, at that time, the gate of the castle seemed to be facing them.

But now, ......

There is clearly not the slightest hint of a gate here.

It seemed that because he didn't see everyone's figures, Sauron, who was a little irritable, turned around, and first answered Vivi's words and said:

"yes, it's right ahead."

Then, he complained helplessly:

"Really, what are they doing!

It's been so long!

Why haven't you come up yet, you can't be lost?! ”

"Huh!? Well!? Well!? ”

Weiwei's face was suddenly stained with three big question marks.

She really couldn't understand how Mr. Sauron had the courage to say such a thing.

"Inside...... Mr. Zoro. ”

"The one who is lost seems to be our ......"

"Huh!?"

Zoro was momentarily stunned, as if he remembered some of his previous experiences.

A drop of cold sweat suddenly leaked from his forehead and began to flow slowly downward.

The corners of his mouth kept twitching, his eyes were stuffed with embarrassment and panic, as if he was still a little disbelieving, and his voice trembled a little and said:

"No...... No...... No way? ”

"That's just the way it is!"

Vivi didn't care about Sauron's feelings at all, and directly and mercilessly struck:

"On the way up the hill, we could see the castle gates."

"Today, there's just one neat wall."

"So there's a good chance we're at the back of the castle!"

"What...... What the!? ”

Under Vivi's reasoned explanation, Zoro's face suddenly collapsed.

An overwhelming aura of despair instantly enveloped his green hair.

Thump......

Sauron, who was kneeling on the ground with his legs weak, supported the ground with his hands, his pupils suddenly contracted, as if he still couldn't believe this fact, and said tremblingly:

"I ...... I actually lost......"

Seeing Sauron's heartbroken look, Wei Wei knew that it was difficult for proud warriors to look directly at their own failures, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said comfortingly:

"It's okay, Mr. Zoro!"

"Victory and defeat are a common thing, and no one can always be on the road to success.

After experiencing failure, we will cherish the taste of success even more, right? ”

"I ......"

Sauron, who was kneeling on the ground, still revealed a desperate gaze, and Weiwei was inexplicably distressed.

After all, the more proud people are, the more they can't bear the taste of failure.

Sauron's gaze, all the way to the white snow in front of him, his lips trembled slightly, and he continued:

"I, failed......

I'm going to do housework for a month!! ”

"Ah!!!h

"Huh!? ……”

……

……

In front of the castle.

All the quarrels just now instantly turned into nothingness.

Everyone had a big smile on their faces.

Everyone accepted this happy finale with satisfaction, and tacitly turned the matter over.

As if the quarrel just now had ceased to exist, everyone's faces were smiling again, and they became a harmonious family that loved each other again.

……

……

"Negotiate ......"

The witch on the side, Dr. Kureha, took the last sip of rum in the bottle into her throat, and then turned her attention to Luffy and the others.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"

"Guests from afar, have you come to ask me the secret of keeping me young?"

"Hee-hee-hee!!"

At the age of one hundred and forty, Dr. Kureha completely ignored Luffy's strange behavior, fully revealing her identity as the owner of this place, and greeted Luffy and them with a laugh.

Strike... Strike... Strike...

Luffy quickly took care of the dust on his body, which was stained with dust from the exercise he had just had.

After a while, after he finished tidying up his appearance, he showed a cheerful smile and said to the old-timer with a good temperament in front of him:

"I'm sorry, but we're in our youth, so we don't need that kind of thing yet......"

As he spoke, Luffy suddenly stretched out his hand and showed Dr. Kureha the charm of "I'm a good person", and continued:

"Let me introduce myself, Your Majesty the Seven Martial Seas, the leader of the Starry Sky Pirates, Monchi · D. Luffy! ”

"Seven Martial Seas?"

Dr. Kureha was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted.

"It seems that today, it really ushered in a great big man~ hehehehehe......"

"Dr. Kureha, a doctor!"

Dr. Kureha stretched out her mottled palm directly to the handsome young man Luffy, and held it tightly with Luffy's armor.

The two had a friendly exchange about their first encounter.

"So...... The famous Lord of the Seven Martial Seas, came to this down-and-out small country, is there something going on? ”

"There is indeed a very important matter!"

Luffy, who was talking to Dr. Kureha, suddenly said seriously:

"I've heard that in this small and humble country, there is a very skilled doctor.

That's why I'm here to ask him to join our pirates. ”

"Sea ...... Pirates!? ”

As soon as he heard the word pirate, Chopper's energy immediately focused.

After all......

His adoptive father, Dr. Hiluluk, admired the most for the pirate spirit.

Influenced by Dr. Hiluluk, Chopper, who is single-minded, also yearns for the legendary free pirate life.

After hearing Luffy's words, Dr. Kureha let out a burst of his own laughter again, and then turned the wine bottle in his hand with one hand into a beautiful fancy, and replied to Luffy with some pride:

"Hee-hee-hee...... You might have to run for nothing!

I don't want to waste my youth on the sea of boredom......"

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no!!"

"I think you may have misunderstood......"

Luffy suddenly grinned, and the glint in his eyes passed over the puzzled Dr. Kureha, and threw himself directly at Chopper, who was behind her and was still sitting on the ground because of the fright just now, and said:

"I'm going to find someone......"

"It's the adopted son of the quack doctor Dr. Hiluluk - Tony Tony Chopper!!"

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