Chapter 49: Perseverance is more important than life
Chapter 49
Hundreds of meters away, Koya, who was sitting on the deck and caring for her knife, was sitting on the deck and carefully wiping the oil with a tarpaulin, while waiting for the cake that Anna was preparing for herself in the kitchen, which was said to be super delicious......
Ice Wheel Pill leaned on Koya's curvaceous white long legs, although he couldn't figure out what kind of [in equipment] state this was, but this did not prevent Koya from transmitting energy into Ice Wheel Pill with two hearts, maintaining, and expanding the scale of [Celestial Phenomenon Descending], one of the characteristics of Ice Wheel Pill.
Koya was very curious about what kind of surprise the maximum output of [Celestial Phenomena from the Advent would bring to him].
"Captain, here comes your cake." All the way to Koya's side with a cake and a pot of tea. Putting down the afternoon tea prepared for Koya in her hand, Bena, who was sitting on the side, looked curiously at the katana in Koya's hand with her chin under her chin.
"Now, Captain. Is this knife famous? ”
Turning his head, he looked at Bena, who was sitting next to him. Unexpectedly, the girl, who hadn't spoken much since the other two companions left, suddenly asked herself a question. Koya smiled and put down the tweezers, handed over Kaga Kiyomitsu in his hand, and said with a smile, "Why do you ask that, Bena?" ”
He took the Kaga Kiyomitsu handed over by Koya with both hands, looking at this murderous sword just by looking at it, and feeling the chill of the blade. Bena whispered, "Because Sister Alize has always told me before, Captain, that you have a real sword. ”
Pick up a piece of cake with a fork and put it in your mouth, feeling the silkiness and sweetness of the mouth, chewing your lips and teeth, and the sweetness brought by the broken juice of the fruit makes Koya's eyes shine.
Putting down the fork in her hand, she looked at Bena, who was obviously thinking about her two deceased friends, with her head hanging down. picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of juice of unknown raw materials, and Koya, who was savoring it, did not comfort Bena with the nonsense that those people are gone, don't be nostalgic, and look forward to the future, but looked at Kestan, who was getting closer and closer to him, and said: "Then you have to work hard, work hard to get a treasure knife of the same grade as mine, and give it to her." ”
"Hmmm! I'm going to do it, Captain!! ”
"Oh, well, I believe you."
"But captain, you haven't told me what your knife is called."
"Uh...... Listen up. This knife is called Kaga Kiyomitsu, and it is one of the 20 most famous daikuai knives in the world......"
Koya, who guessed for a long time and couldn't guess what the juice was this time, looked at Bena, who was about to leave, and asked, "Bena, what kind of fruit is used for the juice this time?" ”
"Papaya, grapefruit, green mango and honey with milk, captain." Hearing Koya's question, a flash of brilliance flashed in her eyes, and Bena lowered her head and reported in a low voice.
"Papaya......" didn't care about the strangeness of Bena's eyes, and looked at the juice in the cup. Koya looked down and carefully observed his unfluctuating open-mindedness...... Pouted and drank all the juice in the cup, put down the cup and lifted the corner of his skirt, looked at the "Treasure" level armor that was quietly worn on his body, and muttered in a low voice: "The third characteristic of this thing, does it work?!" ”
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"Trouble......" Ten minutes after the shadow of Koya's ship appeared in the live broadcast phone bug, the Kingdom of Kestan led a large number of elite troops in the country to the "Iron Wall" fortress, and led the ministers and generals to the lookout of the fortress to check the situation, at this time, the Artemis was only a few hundred meters away from the harbor, and several generals with good eyesight could even see Koya sitting on the deck to maintain their weapons through binoculars.
At this time, he was already in his twilight years, and the white-haired King Charlize III of the Kingdom of Kerstein was dressed in thick and warm leather clothes, standing in a country that looked snow-capped as far as the eye could see, like a world of ice and snow. The strongest man in the country who wanted to stand behind him with an extremely jealous tone, Devil Fruit Jagged Tiger Form Fruit Ability Ovik asked.
"General, if I refuse the landing of Her Royal Highness the princess on the island in the future, once the war starts, how sure will our Kestan Kingdom be able to resist the anger of this Highness?"
"......" his fists clenched tightly, even if his nails pierced his palms and he didn't know it, Ovik raised his head, looked at His Royal Highness the King, who was asking himself in front of him, with a little expectation in his eyes, lowered his head that had always been proudly raised, and watched a drop of blood splash on the snow, like the most vivid red plum.
He said in a dry voice, "Your Highness...... Even if our kingdom of Kestan exerts its national strength, it can only stop the pace of Her Royal Highness the princess slightly. ”
The wind howls and the overwhelming snowflakes swarm to decorate a country that has not fallen in thousands of years. Charlize III, who had already put on two full layers of cotton clothes and was a little thicker and had begun to move, looked up at the huge dark clouds in the sky that still seemed to be tirelessly drifting with ice and snow in the cold, large enough to cover the entire kingdom of Kestan, and for the first time had a clear understanding of the power of destroying the country that his deceased father was talking about.
The snow was falling all the time, and the ever-decreasing temperature caused many civilians who had never experienced such weather to fall to the snow with bruised faces; The soldiers on the defensive line near the harbor also fell to the ground one after another in the lower and lower cold.
The old houses kept collapsing, and the civilians of the kingdom of Kestan, who had never experienced winter, faced such a season of severe cold, and they were completely unprepared, so they had to huddle in their rooms helplessly, burning all the wood that could be burned, and snuggling up to keep warm.
Charlize III, who couldn't guess what Koya's intention was, stood in the charcoal fire in the city hall with tears in his eyes, listening to the damage reported in just a few hours from all over the country, and fell to his knees on the floor weakly, lost his soul.
This king, who had never been to sea in his life and had learned about the cruelty of the sea, learned for the first time the true embodiment of the cruel laws of the sea.
Powerful is the truth!!
"Alas, why can't you live well, life is so precious......" sat on the deck and ended Ming Yugong's operation for a week. Koya, who opened his eyes, looked at the Artemis that had stopped, and Marina, who was standing beside him, holding an umbrella for himself, shook his head and said with emotion.
"Is it because they think something is more precious than life, or are they still lucky?" Marina, who was holding an umbrella for Koya to shield herself from the wind and snow, heard Koya's self-talk, raised her eyes to look at the city port that seemed to be buried by ice and snow, and replied in a light tone.
"Perhaps, at this time, the kingdom of Kestan has both......" Shaking his head, some fine snowflakes stained on his hair fell, and Koya, who stood up, felt the biting coldness that he could still feel even if his Ming Yugong had reached the peak of the fivefold realm. Turning to Marina, he said, "Dress thicker, and stay on the boat." ”
Stretching out his hand to catch a snowflake, Koya, who was holding it in the palm of his hand, raised a confident smile on his face and said, "After this operation is successful, then there is only one step left before I become the Seven Martial Seas." ”
"Yes, Captain." Handing the umbrella in his hand to Koya, Marina's fruit ability was activated, and the repulsion instantly repelled all the snowflakes on her body, and said with a smile at Koya: "I'm here to congratulate you on the smooth plan." ”