The four people on the cable car suspended in the air and the girl sitting by the round hole in the stone wall of the Magnetic Drum Mountain stared at each other.

Wind and snow whirling......

From a distance, I could see that the girl was obviously startled!

Lynch pointed at her and asked, "Is there a cave like that on that kind of columnar mountain wall?" ”

In the manga, Luffy carried Nami on his back and bit Sanji to climb the peak little by little.

Dalton was a little surprised, "Is it Lotus?" How is she ...... here?"

Kureha smiled, "No wonder the team of hunting doctors can't catch her, it turns out that she is hiding in this kind of place." ”

"But how is that possible?" Dalton wondered, "Rose is just a weak little girl, how could she possibly climb the peak of the snow-covered magnetic drum?" ”

The cable car is still slowly diagonally upward, heading towards the royal palace at the top of the mountain. You can see the round hole in the mountain wall, and the girl Rose wants to leave in a panic......

Lynch said: "Since we all know each other, just call her over and ask if you can't." ”

Well? Before Dalton could realize what he meant, he saw that Giorno jumped over, and actually jumped out of the cable car.

Feed! He was frightened, this is a mountain high in the cold wind! Fall like this...... Is that?!

Dalton was shocked to see that after Giorno jumped out of the cable car, he was walking on the ground in the cold wind high in the air, and every time he stepped in the air, he stepped on the air with a crisp sound, and just like that, he quickly swept towards the circular cave on the wall of the magnetic drum mountain, and easily fell in front of the girl Rose at the edge of the cave, his tall body almost covered half of the hole, and the howling cold wind blocked him.

"......" looked like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl's eyes were round, and her jaw almost fell to the ground.

Unbelievable! This person is actually flying!

She looked horrified at the tall man who had come in the snow.

And the man was not looking at her.

"This hole ......"

Lynch looked closely at the entrance to the cavern where he was standing at the moment, the edge of the outline was extremely smooth, and it was an incomparably perfect circle.

With the perfect circle of this entrance as a cross-section, the entire cave extends inward into a regular cylindrical shape......

"Who are you?" Rose cowered into the cave in fear.

Lynch grabbed her shoulders and jumped straight out of the cave.

"Ahh Rose exclaimed.

Lynch stepped on the moon for a few steps, and then slipped in the air with the girl holding his arm tightly, and looked back...... On the stone wall of the columnar peak, the hole in the circle quickly closed and disappeared into nothingness.

In the cold wind, the stone wall is smooth and cold, seamless and traceless.

"Hehe, it's really fate!" Lynch smiled and walked away with the screaming girl.

………………

The cable car had already risen some distance, and when the crisp sound of "pop" and "pop" approached in the cold wind, Dalton knew that it was Giorno who had returned.

To be honest, after Giorno left, he thought about whether he could break out and subdue this woman named Xu Lun first......

However, after finding that Xu Lun's calm and calm expression had not changed at all, and after glancing at himself, Dalton finally sat on the bench of the cable car and did not move.

Although it is a little lower than Giorno's bounty, this woman is also a terrible pirate of 330 million Bailey......

"Whew!"

The cold wind poured into the cable car, and Lynch took the girl back through the wind and snow and got in.

He let go of the girl he was carrying.

"Rose." Dalton went up and helped her up.

“……？！” Rose was rubbing her buttocks when she was startled by the black bison's head, "Ah! ”

After seeing that it was Dalton, I was a little relieved.

Rose glanced around, and when she saw Kureha, who was also sitting in the cable car, her panicked mood stabilized a lot, at least her legs were no longer weak, and she was able to stand up on her own......

"It scared me, I thought it was the people who hunted the doctors......" Rose patted the snowflakes on her clothes.

She glanced at the handsome young man, who looked very tall even when he sat down, who was talking softly to the beautiful woman beside him, and the woman looked at her with a look of surprise as she listened.

"I didn't expect to be able to fly in the air, I thought I really couldn't run away this time, and it was completely finished! It's ok and it's ok......"

Rose said, but the look of vigilance in her eyes did not disappear completely.

Dalton asked, "Have you been hiding in a cave like that all your year?" How do you ...... that kind of place."

"It's my own business." Rose said seriously, "I don't want to tell you." ”

"It's the fruit!" Lynch laughed, "A superhuman Devil Fruit that can create 'pipes' in any environment and turn objects into 'pipes'......"

"That's right," Rose said seamlessly, "because of the pipe fruit, as long as you make a pipe, you can go up in one go." What a stupid Dalton, it's a cow! ”

"......" Dalton glared at the bull's-eyed, superhuman Devil Fruit?

Lynch said strangely: "You said that she came from overseas to study medicine, and she has been here for more than a year, why, don't you all know that she has the ability to manage the fruit?" ”

He looked at Kureha and Dalton.

"When she came, doctors were no longer welcome in the country." Kureha looked at the snow outside the cable car, "She's hiding in Tibet, it's good to be alive until now." ”

"......" Dalton was silent, his face ashamed, and looked at Rose, "I thought you had already left this country......"

Rose was silent.

……

[A year and a half ago. Drum Kingdom. Wind and snow are like the old ......]

[Captain Dalton walks in the snow with a sad face.] 】

[What kind of foolish king would be so willful and arbitrary to promulgate laws and expel the doctors of his country's pride? 】

[The cold wind blew on his face, calming his angry heart a lot. 】

[There was a strange noise around, Dalton was startled, horns appeared on his head, and when he turned his head, he saw a girl sitting in the snow, patting the snow on her body and standing up. 】

"Who are you? I haven't seen you......" Dorton asked. 】

["My name is Rose! The thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl was carrying her bags, her delicate cheeks were slightly red from the cold, and her face was full of smiles, "Is this the Kingdom of Magnetic Drums, it's really as rumored-it's so cold!" I'm here to study medicine! ”】

["......" Dalton clenched his fists and sighed dejectedly, "I'm sorry ......"]

[The girl naturally looked disappointed and unconvinced, and ran in the direction of the palace despite Dalton's obstruction. 】

[Dalton looked at the place where the girl appeared, and a trace of doubt appeared in his heart, why was it ...... in the snow Without her footprints? 】

……

At that time, Rose appeared but did not leave footprints, it turned out that it was because of the Devil Fruit...... Dalton now finally understood. Although it is not clear how this ability that Giorno called the Tube Fruit did it, since it is a Devil Fruit, it should have the ability to do the impossible......

"I know that doctors are no longer welcome in this country, so why not learn medicine in a different place?" Robin asked.

"That's right," Lynch nodded in agreement, "There's more to the world than Drum Island as a medically advanced place, right, old woman?" ”

Call! Kureha punched him, but Lynch turned his head to dodge it.

"Of course." Kureha said, "This world is too big, and the medical level of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom is only very famous in this area in the first half of the Great Voyage, and there are powerful doctors everywhere!" ”

"After all, there are patients who need doctors everywhere, don't they? As long as there is a patient...... There will be doctors who will step up, and rightfully so. The beautiful woman who is more than 100 years old like a flower and jade smiled and said, "For example, I heard that there is a place in the South China Sea where herbology is very developed......

"Ahh Lynch and Robin looked at each other.

"......," Rose bowed her head in silence, and after a while she spoke slowly, "my hometown...... Sick. ”

"Huh?" Lynch and Robin looked over.

Rose looked down and said, "Everybody's sick...... I want to learn great medical skills and save everyone...... So, I can't run away...... But I couldn't do anything...... Nothing can be done......"

The girl's body trembled, holding her knees with one hand, covering her eyes with the other, tears streaming down her fingers.

"............" Dorton also trembled, clenched his fists, and before he knew it, his eyes were already full of tears, his boundless shame filled his chest, and his voice was hoarse, "Please forgive this country...... Didn't help you, really...... Sorry ......"

"......" Kureha wanted to take a sip of wine, but unfortunately he finished it.

Lynch touched his chin at this time, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and asked, "I said, Rose...... You can't be a princess of some country or something, right? ”

As soon as Robin didn't mention this, Kureha and Dalton were stunned.

Where did he get his guess out of the connection?

How could it be!

"This ......" Rose raised her teary eyes, but her eyes glanced at her in panic, "how is this possible, how can I be a princess or something......

It's too fake! You can't lie at all!

[ ] Dalton and Kureha stared, looking at Rose's obviously guessed expression, and their hearts were very speechless.

Just as I was about to continue, the cable car gently hit something and stopped.

"Ah," Lynch looked up, got up and smiled, "Looks like we've gotten there." ”

“……！！” Dalton's heart tightened as he watched Giorno and his female captain step out of the cable car and onto the top of the flat, wide columnar peak, with the royal castle towering in the wind and snow in front of him.

Not caring about whether Rose was a princess or not, Dalton hurried to follow the two men.

Rose breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up to see Kureha's smiling face.

"Do you want to come and see?" Kureha walked out, "It's not often that such a powerful pirate shoots out. ”

"Pirates?!" Rose was startled and chased out of the cable car.

………………

"Does it really matter?"

In the Drum Kingdom, the inhabitants of several towns have gathered, all of them looking worried.

"That Dalton is a bastard, though...... But he's still the king of this country! ”

"Did you just watch him get killed by pirates?"

Everyone looked at the newspaper and the bounty order, and the 330,000,000 Bailey under the empty Xu Lun photo, Joe Barna. The 400,000,000 Baileys under Giorno's photo, so many zeros are almost blinding the eyes of these small island dwellers, and such terrible pirates have come to their country to wreak havoc, just thinking about it makes people shudder.

"No way!" The weather-covered old hunter said in a heavy tone, "As a citizen, the king is threatened by pirates, how can we just sit idly by? ”

At last......

Hundreds of people gathered together, picked up their weapons, and flocked to the cable car one by one, heading to the Drum Peak where the palace was located.

"Now...... It's time to unite and unite with the outside world! ”

"Help the king fight off the pirates together, and only then will he have a chance to change his mind and revoke the law of hunting doctors!"

"You can't just give up the king, you can't let pirates do anything wrong in this country!"

Residents were in a heated spot, holding shotguns and other weapons and chanting.

When the cable cars stop one by one......

Residents grabbing shotguns swarmed up, shouting and rushing to the royal castle towering over the snow.

"Down with the pirates!"

"Empty strip Xu Lun! Joe Bana. Giorno! Stop it! ”

“……”

Soon, everyone stopped in the open space in front of the royal palace and castle, and everyone looked at each other in a daze.

In front of everyone, in the cold wind, only one Dalton was left standing in place, with his back to everyone, looking up at the flag of the Magnetic Drum Kingdom fluttering with the cold wind at the top of the castle.

"Dalton, what's going on?"

"Are you alright?"

"Did you drive the pirates away?"

The villagers walked up with confusion and circled to the front of Dolton.

"Those two pirates...... Belch?! ”

Everyone was shocked to find that Dalton, who was standing alone in the cold wind looking up at the flag on the high part of the castle, was already in tears at this moment, and he couldn't cry silently, and the tears on his face solidified his eyelashes in the cold wind, and even froze into locks of water, hanging on his chin like ice picks......

"Hey! Dalton! What happened to you! ”

The residents who rushed to the rescue asked worriedly, "Why are you crying?" What about the two pirates? Where are they? ”

The villagers dared to break into the palace and castle, but no matter how they searched, how they shouted, how they searched...... No trace of a single person can be found.

King...... Minister...... Soldier......

And those two pirates, all gone!

"Where have they gone?"

"I can't find it anywhere!"

"No one at all! What's going on! ”

"Dalton, are you stupid, speak quickly!"

The old hunter village chief who led the way had an ugly face, covered his head and said bitterly, "Could it be ...... Did the pirates take everyone captive? Dalton ......"

Dalton's eyes seemed to freeze and hot tears welled up again, and he said with great sorrow:

"It's our king...... Abandoned the country without hesitation!! ”

……

[Not long ago, Lynch and Robin walked to the royal palace castle that towered in the wind and snow——]

["Crooked~~ Is anyone at home? ] As Lynch walked, he shouted, "Is your king Valpo here?" I'm looking for him! ”】

[His voice echoed in the wind and snow in front of the castle, but there was no response.] 】

["How is it possible...... "Dalton, covered in bruises, followed, looking at the empty and unresponsive castle in disbelief, "What about the soldiers? What about the people of the convoy? You've gotten the news a long time ago, and you should have been ready to meet you a long time ago......"]

[The captain of the guard rushes into the castle, and the anxious roar echoes throughout the castle over and over again. 】

["King Valpo! Where are you! ”】

["Your Majesty! Come out! The country needs you! ”】

[The black buffalo ran wildly all over the castle, and finally heard a faint gasp, and he hurriedly stopped, only to find that it was an ordinary soldier of the escort who had fallen in a pool of blood. 】

["What's wrong with you! What about Sogel, the king of Wapol and his ministers? Dalton picked up the bloodied soldiers, with tears in his eyes, and asked eagerly, "The pirates have hit the palace, where are everyone?!" ”】

["King Wapol...... They ...... "the dying soldier grabbed Dalton by the collar with all his last strength," all ...... Escaped ......"]

【“……？！！ Dalton's tearful eyes were bloodshot, and he endured unspeakable shock and grief, "Who is it...... Wounded...... Yours? ”】

............The soldier opened his mouth, smiled miserably, and finally said nothing, two lines of tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and the hand holding Dalton's collar fell. 】

["It's really hopeless...... Valpo, that bastard!! ”】

[In front of the dead castle, Kureha, who could probably guess what was going on, obviously didn't expect this to happen, she sighed, her face buried in the shadows,]

[Robin looks up at Lynch and sees that he doesn't seem to be too surprised, just laughs a few times.] 】

[The castle resounded with a roar of sorrow and rage, and even the snow shook and shook off. 】

……

At the top of the peak, in front of the palace castle, the cold wind was bitter, but it couldn't withstand the coldness in everyone's hearts at this moment.

"What kind of king is this......"

The residents gritted their teeth with tears in their eyes, covered their faces and said sadly, "I didn't hesitate to abandon my country because I was afraid of pirates!" ”

With a bang, the behemoth Dalton fell to the ground in a slump.

The old hunter village chief sighed and patted Dalton on the shoulder, "What about the two pirates?" ”

"Gone......" Dalton, his face covered in frost, looked at the sky, "flew into the sky and left, maybe to find Valpo who had fled the country, they went to ......"

………………

In the snow on the outskirts, a huge tree covered with snow fills the room.

This is Dr. Kureha's residence, a tree hole house.

A beautiful woman in her hundredth year was drinking to herself expressionlessly, and suddenly she heard movement outside, and when she pushed the door, she saw that in the cold wind and howling snow, there were three figures standing tall and low.

Lynch raised his hand and smiled: "Yo, old woman, it's so cold outside, don't you invite us to sit at your house?" ”