Chapter 256 Just Smile
“…God ​​avoids.”

Zoro managed to turn over, his chest wrapped in bandages and his breathing was heavy.

He stretched out his hand to stroke his hair, and the gracefulness of that knife kept replaying in front of his eyes, the black lightning that captured his mind, the arc of the knife that was like a swallow's tail...

The gods avoid him, a domineering attitude that forces all gods to avoid him.

Every time the video was replayed, Zoro could feel the pain in his wound.

The swordsman did not avoid it, but cherished this feeling even more.

He grabbed his hair and squeezed his eyes shut.

He replayed the grace of that knife more frequently, replayed his state when facing that knife, and replayed the fear that suddenly surged out of his body and mind at that moment.

Memories will continue to fade, but this feeling will be engraved into the swordsman's bones and become the nourishment for another attack.

If it happens again, how should I face this knife?

Zoro seemed to be in a state of high tension and excitement. Fine beads of sweat seeped through the bandages and together with the blood, stained spots on the white straps.

The atmosphere on the Sunny was particularly depressing. Brooke gently dragged the bow across the strings. The sad sound of the piano seemed to bring in everyone's emotions.

Sanji was not in the mood to cook. He leaned against the side of the boat and smoked non-stop, his hair covering his eyes.

Usopp seemed to have said something, and he clenched his fists, unable to do anything.

Franky was pouring oil into his machine body, his mechanically modified face full of sternness.

Chopper was holding the bandage and the medicine bottle, at a loss.

In front of him was the captain, who had buried his face in the deck and covered himself with a straw hat.

They had suffered a terrible defeat.

Failures often happened in Luffy's previous adventures, and his companions would always be separated. In Rogue Town, Alabasta, Sky Island, Water 7, Judicial Island, Marineford...

Not once was it easy.

It must be said that the blow Luffy suffered at this moment was almost comparable to when Ace died to save him.

A sentence was also echoing in his mind.

"You are using the life of one partner to exchange for another partner. That's what you are doing now."

"You should thank me for my kindness."

"..."

"Two billion... I can accept that..."

"Just give us our captain back!"

Luffy felt as if his heart was being twisted tightly.

"Chopper..." He raised his head slightly, flattened his face, and tears streamed down his face, "I lost Nami."

The fact that Red Nose is stronger than him did not cause much of a blow to Luffy. There are many people in the world who are stronger than him, and he had seen it on the battlefield of Marineford.

Luffy would definitely not lack the courage to punch such a strong man.

But what really hit him was what he said.

He lost his partner.

"This isn't your fault, Luffy!"

The reindeer waved the bandage anxiously, "We all just want to bring Robin back, and Nami is not lost, she just went with that devil for a while..."

"That's no different than losing it!"

Chopper ran around with his face covered. His reindeer horns were shaking at the thought that Nami would have to spend half a month with that devil red-nosed guy.

"Devil's red nose!"

"Poor Nami-chan!"

"Have a safe journey, we will definitely remember you!"

Chopper and Usopp got together and threw paper boats into the sea.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

When Zoro pushed open the door of the deck house, this was the scene he saw.

He was covered in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water, and his eyes opened and closed like a wounded eagle, his ferocity completely aroused.

"Is that all you can do, Captain?"

"And you stinky cook, the knight lost the princess, you should die to atone for your sin, you bastard."

"Zoro!" Chopper hugged the swordsman's calf, his eyes rolling.

The tone was pleading.

He was afraid that the group of companions he had found with great difficulty would fall apart.

Sanji and Luffy didn't answer. One of them had already lit up his cigarette, and the other was lying on the green ground on the deck, looking dead.

"If this is your level, just ignore what I said."

Zoro hefted the three swords onto his shoulders, turned around and took two steps.

"Kamabaka Kingdom."

Sanji's fingers kept rubbing the cigarette butt, and smoke was faintly rising.

He didn't look up, but stood up silently and said, "I heard it clearly, it's called the Kama Baka Kingdom."

"Hey, what do you want to do?"

"Nami is not dead, she just went to be a host for a day?"

Usopp spread his hands, having a very strong premonition.

"We just need to wait here for her to come back. The Joker and the Shichibukai's ship have already sailed so far that we don't even know where their destination is. Are you going to go to the Kamabakka Kingdom to intercept them?"

"The Joker's men haven't really come out yet. And there's Crocodile, Kaido, and Robin. Maybe they're all in this Maka Kingdom?"

"Are we going to rush up like this and bring them all back?"

Usopp waved his hands, as if he was amused by his own words, "Stop joking."

"Thank you, Usopp."

The most depressed captain raised his head at some point, listened carefully to the great god's advice, and then nodded.

"I know how to do it!"

Zoro and Sanji stood behind him.

"Hey, hey..." Usopp opened his mouth, "Do you know where this Kamabakka Kingdom is? Maybe it's in the East Sea, North Sea, or West Sea?"

“In Paradise.”

Brook's music entered a new stage, with the gloomy rhythm gradually turning into firmness and generosity.

"I had been there decades ago and I had fled there just as quickly."

Brooke remained silent about why he fled, saying that he and his former partner had sworn an oath never to mention it again.

"Then let's go back."

"Let's go to Kamabakka Kingdom and bring back Nami and Robin!"

……

……

"This woman is quite familiar."

Buggy stroked his chin and saw that Nami had become friends with the women of the Perfume Serpent.

The wild and beautiful female hooligans seemed to be quite curious about the delicate little thieving cat, and soon the two sides were arm in arm.

Nami also seems to be good at how to get along with female gangsters.

"This woman..."

Hancock leaned on the railing of the ship's tower, and the corners of her mouth twitched unnaturally.

She always had an aversion to that little thief.

It's a kind of unpleasantness that is hard to describe.
It’s like... people wearing masks are envious of people who don’t need masks, because of their openness and uninhibitedness, and they can reveal their inner selves without any care.

“Are you...jealous?” Bucky came closer and leaned against the railing with her.

As soon as the word "envy" came out, Hancock's face suddenly froze and his eyebrows raised.

"How could I be envious?"

After that, she started to brag about herself with words like the most beautiful woman in the world, the strongest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and the Pirate Empress.

Bucky let it go in one ear and out the other.

He leaned against the railing and smacked his lips.

"You are envious of her for not having her own embarrassing slave past."

His voice was very soft, so soft that only Hancock beside him could hear it, but to her ears, it was no less than dropping a nuclear bomb.

The whole world was swept by the shock wave of the explosion, and all sounds suddenly turned into roars.

Hancock's face turned pale.

On the deck, the two younger sisters seemed to sense something and raised their heads, only to see that their elder sister had turned her head away and hidden her face.

"…No."

Hancock's fingers turned white and numb, and she even had trouble breathing.

"You're scared." The clown continued, staring at her, but Hancock lowered her head, not daring to look him in the face.

“Hehehe…” The clown suddenly grinned and tilted his head. “Tiger lit a fire. I also lit a fire. Do you know why I lit this fire in the Holy Land?”

"I have never been a slave, nor do I hate the Celestial Dragons, but I like the hatred in the eyes of those slaves."

Bucky closed his eyes and thought back to the first time he stepped onto the holy land.

"The hatred that is boiling up to the sky is because of this pile of hay that I can light the fire with."

"Of course, if no one is there to light the fire, the hay will just be hay, and leaving that environment will not change the fact that it will die."

Hancock's body was shaking. Her past as a slave was the darkest place in her heart. The fear of falling into the bottom of the sea was completely brought back to her by the clown's words.

Those who have not experienced it cannot understand such fear.

His mask was completely torn off.

"When I mentioned the Celestial Dragons..." Baki leaned close to her ear, "I saw the same hatred and fear in your eyes."

"The fear of being a former slave."

boom--

Hancock's eyes narrowed suddenly, and her domineering aura burst out instantly. The momentum was as surging as a tidal wave, and the impact that directly hit the hearts and wills caused most of the defenseless female warriors on the deck to fall down at once.

The female warriors who did not fall held their weapons nervously, looking not at Snake Princess but at the clown beside Lady Snake Princess.

These two people... broke up?

Hancock stared at the clown, her long black hair fluttering like a fan, and the golden snake ornaments hanging on her earlobes jingled.

Like a wild beast, he guards the entrance to his closed heart, intimidating anyone who approaches.

Even the clown is no exception.

Such intimidation has little effect on the clown, but instead stimulates his more frenzied demonic dominance.

The black lines swept across the entire Perfume Serpent like a torrential rain.

Not to mention the remaining female warriors, even the two snakes pulling the boat and Hancock's two sisters could not withstand such an impact.

The body takes precedence over the will and activates the protective mechanism - fainting.

"Can't you accept that? It's embarrassing to your lowly self like that?"

The Joker overpowered her momentum, staring at her directly.

The word "lowly" further stimulated Hancock's extremely sensitive nerve. She almost felt suffocated, and the painful memories of the past kept coming up.

The more this happened, the more Hancock acted as if she didn't care.

"no!"

She glared with anger, denying her past which was difficult to talk about.

She even had the urge to kill everyone on the ship.

When looking at the clown, the ability of the Sweet-Sweet Fruit had already been activated. The effect is that as long as the other party has a slight impulse, he will be petrified directly.

The Joker was not affected at all, but Hancock herself, her heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was about to jump out. She was afraid that when all her identities were revealed, her dignity would be gone and all her envy would turn into contempt.

She was frightened to the point of going mad!
All the blood seemed to have rushed to the top of his head, and there was not a trace of blood in his body.

"Hahahaha..." The clown licked his lips and suddenly laughed, holding his belly.

"What do you think I'm going to do?"

"Reveal that embarrassment to humiliate you and force you to accept it?"

"No, no, sweetheart."

After the clown finished laughing, he put his arm around Hancock's shoulders again. She was like a puppet, without the strength to resist.

"No, I don't need these boring things."

"I just want to tell you that the past doesn't have to exist if you want it to."

"It's like a magic trick..."

The Joker whispered into Hancock's ear and held her in his arms, "Do you want to see this trick?"

He is...what does that mean?
Hancock's brain was a little insufficient, but the close distance made her feel hot all over. The excitement in her heart after the secret was revealed intertwined with this heat, which seemed to burn her brain.

I should kick this man away...

In order to keep his secret, he had to sink him to the bottom of the sea 10,000 meters, and all the people who might know about it had to be sunk to the bottom of the sea...

I absolutely cannot reveal that extremely ugly mark on my back!

"think…"

That was the only thing that came out of her mouth.

The tearing sound was very gentle, and she could feel the clown's fingers sliding across her back, cutting open the purple cheongsam.

Hancock trembled even more violently. The Joker was looking at her back, at her most unacceptable past...

She felt that her entire back was exposed, and all her secrets were revealed.

The clown's fingers passed through the barrier of the silk cheongsam and pressed on his back.

"Want to see the magic in action?"

"do not be afraid."

Bucky put his other hand on the empress's neck, then lifted her head and turned it to the back.

A very strange picture.

He took the head of the woman in his arms and turned it around, just so that she could see his back.

She could see with her own eyes that her originally tight-fitting cheongsam had been changed into a backless one, and the hoof of the soaring dragon that was originally printed on her back... had turned into a smile.

“You can take off your little mask and just smile.”

"Because I believe that anything that doesn't kill you makes you... stranger."

Hancock's mouth corners rose several times, then drooped again. She wanted to laugh, but the tears were so powerful that they pulled the corners of her mouth down again.

She opened her mouth and her breathing became very smooth.

She sobbed silently at first, then tried to laugh, but after laughing twice, she couldn't help sobbing again.

Hancock looked closely at her back, holding the clown's body tightly with both hands, and all her tension and fear turned into uncontrollable joy.

The clown held a head that looked like a crying or laughing child in his hands.

"Now, we can vent our hatred as much as we want."

"Set the world on fire."

Aeghede, we have arrived.

……

(End of this chapter)

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