Pirate: I'm not the King of the Sea, so don't mess with me.

"The vice captain...really the vice captain!!!"

The male voice, which was several degrees deeper than when he was a child, screamed in disbelief.

Riley was attracted by the familiar voice and turned to look.

The light and shadow of the past overlap with the present.

The red-nosed boy with a head full of treasures has grown up and become an adult.

Seeing the junior he had watched grow up, a look of surprise flashed across Rayleigh's face: "It's Bucky, long time no see!"

Today, Bucky is already the captain of a ship.

Although there were many weird things in his childhood and he was always being scolded, the experience on Roger's boat was his most unforgettable childhood memory. Now that he sees his old friend again, Bucky has already burst into tears.

He wanted to ask: Vice Captain, how have you been doing these past few years?

I also want to ask: Did everyone else on the ship really leave?

He also wanted to ask: Why didn't you come when Captain Roger was executed?

But with thousands of words stuck in his throat, Bucky opened his mouth, and in the end he just cried out: "Vice Captain..."

However, Rayleigh suddenly raised his hand and interrupted the touching moment of reunion after a long separation.

Bucky looked dumbfounded.

Reilly looked serious.

"Bucky, other things aside, do you have a boat now?"

Bucky's nose was running and he looked at Reilly with a dull expression:...

Rayleigh raised his hand and patted Bucky on the shoulder. There was no emotion at all, and his expression was still serious: "The navy is near this island. If you are still a pirate, you should make preparations early."

After patting the junior on the shoulder, Rayleigh turned to leave with the paper bag in his arms.

Bucky, who had not recovered from his daze, subconsciously asked: "Hai, navy? The navy is also coming to the celebration?"

Rayleigh paused, turned around, and smiled slightly apologetically: "Ah, I don't think so."

Baki Ka Baka has eyes and a silly look on his face.

Rayleigh had no choice but to explain: "It's Admiral Akainu of the Navy Headquarters."

After seeing and hearing, the man was next to his little wife.

Thinking of what happened eight years ago, Lei Li's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he turned around and left without pausing.

The figure of the vice-captain, whom I had not seen for a long time, quickly disappeared among the passing crowd.

"General of the headquarters...Akainu, Akainu???"

After recalling what the vice-captain had just said, Bucky couldn't help but hold his head and scream.

It attracted passers-by to look at him with strange expressions.

After screaming, Bucky thought tremblingly.

If, if it is really the general of the headquarters...

He shivered all over, turned around and ran in the direction of the pirate group.

While running, he was running with cold sweat on his face and said: "Yes, I must leave..."

I screamed in my heart: That’s General Akainu, Akainu!

How could he beat that legendary cold-blooded man?

Bucky, who was not in the mood to think about why the vice-captain he hadn't seen for more than ten years was here, ran away full of fear.

The posture of riding Juechen attracted the attention of many passers-by.

*

Medara Island, seaside, beach.

Two figures, one tall and one short, stepped across the sand.

The midday sun was bright and bright, and the sound of footsteps on the sand mixed with the sound of waves washing on the beach. There was an indescribable sense of relief.

On the sand not far from two figures, one tall and one short, the orange-haired girl and the black-haired girl were building sandcastles, paying no attention to the two adults walking further and further away.

"Mr. Marine...Actually, I have wanted to ask you since the first meeting..."

The woman in a pink dress suddenly stopped, her beautiful and fair face under the lace straw hat flashed with confusion.

She hesitated for a moment, then raised her head to look at the man beside her who was too tall for her, and tilted her head: "Have we met somewhere?"

Zenia could never forget her complicated and indistinguishable emotions when she saw this man at the door of the jewelry store for the first time.

Some don't like him, some are wary of him, and some are...sad?

It was precisely because the emotions that emerged at that moment were so complicated that Zenia had to ask anyway.

Sakaski also stopped and looked down at the woman who was looking up at him in confusion.

This time, his eyes didn't dodge.

His always cold eyes were full of tenderness and... apology that he didn't even notice.

His greedy gaze traced the woman's delicate face inch by inch.

Compared with the year she was at the Navy Headquarters, she has grown up and grown taller, like a flower in full bloom...

The last time they met suddenly flashed through the memory.

The woman with a high blue ponytail greeted him cheerfully, but that time...

That time, before he had time to take a good look at her, he said those words to make her unhappy, and later even because of his own paranoia...

Sakaski's expression darkened.

The fingers hanging by his side moved slightly, but in the end they did not lift up to touch them...

Sakaski couldn't help but smile bitterly.

What qualifications does he have to touch her...

What qualifications does he have...to ask for forgiveness?

Zheniya looked at the man's expression in confusion, her senses filled with the oppressive and suffocating guilt of the man in front of her.

Guilt?

Did he do something? Why feel guilty? And why...looks like he's about to cry?

"I've never seen him before." The deep and hoarse voice contained a difficulty that only the man himself could understand: "We don't know each other!"

The wind blew the bangs under the woman's hat.

Only a corner of a superficial scar was exposed, vaguely visible between the brim of the hat and the hair.

Sakaski clenched his side fist.

He pursed his lips: If, if he brought her suffering and pain, then don't get to know her.

From now on...don't ever meet me again!

Regardless of whether she is a pirate or another identity, she will be an existence that he treasures in his heart and silently protects.

...Even if he doesn't exist in her future, it doesn't matter.

Zheniya was stunned for a moment. Although she still had a lot of confusion, she still smiled and said: "That's it!"

In Sakaski's eyes, her smile was warmer and more beautiful than the sun.

She said in a cheerful tone: "My name is Zenia, what's your name, Mr. Navy? I also want to thank you for helping those two children."

She looked like she was planning to get to know him.

Sakaski pursed his lips in silence.

The determined man forced himself to be cold and distant: "No need."

Raising his gaze to look at the two children chasing and fighting on the beach in the distance, Sakaski lowered his head again and said coldly to Zenia: "They are just children."

Zenia blinked and understood what the marine gentleman meant.

Let her... You're welcome, these are what he should do... right?

After taking a look at the sky, although he was reluctant to leave, Sakaski felt that it was time for him to leave.

But before leaving, Sakaski thought about the gift he had specially selected in the jewelry store. He hesitated and took it out.

The beautifully wrapped gift box was placed in the man's generous palm and delivered to Zheniya.

Zenia was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this naval gentleman meant.

"...To give it to you." It seemed a bit weird to give a gift even though he had clearly said that he didn't know him, so Sakaski pursed his lips and explained: "Kuzan asked me to bring it to you."

Actually not.

Similar to this kind of valuable jewelry only used by girls, Sakaski would buy some back every time he passed by a jewelry store during his mission.

Although Zenia was considered dead at that time, Sakaski still bought a lot.

And these gifts that may not be given at all, on the one hand, remind him of the fact that the person is no longer there, on the other hand, they always remind him of the mistakes he has made.

I kept torturing and numbing myself like this for eight years.

Now, looking at the gift in his palm, Sakaski suddenly felt a sense of relief.

Although it was not given in my own name, but... this was enough.

Kuzan?

Although she could not remember the face of that person, the sweetness and warmth engraved in her soul still made Zheniya slowly reach out her hand...

She thought, if it was a gift from Kuzan...

However, as soon as her fingertips touched the gift box in the man's palm, a familiar voice interrupted her hastily.

"Yaya! Stay away from him!"