【Eagle Red】Lifetime

When Mihawk took out the permanent pointer pointing to the Twin Gorges, he did not have any expectations for this long enough trip, and indeed nothing worth mentioning happened during the journey to the starting point of the great route. matter.

Until his boat stayed near the end of the journey, and when he drew his sword and cut the boat for fun, amidst the angry exclamations of the pirates, he learned that it was a fleet from the East China Sea.The moment he heard the word "Donghai", an indescribable subtle emotion emerged in Da Jianhao's heart. Before he could think of anything more, the usual storm on the great route suddenly fell.

Mihawk held down the brim of his hat in silence, ignoring the rising waves, the sea surface full of ship wreckage and struggling pirates who fell into the water.He narrowed his eyes in the wind and rain, and his eyes locked on the rickety main ship trying to escape in the chaos.At that moment, a feeling of being inhumane suddenly overflowed, and finally, he took back the night, calmly followed the frightened pirate ship, and sailed all the way out of the place he hadn't seen in more than ten years. The great route I left.

When the azure sea water gently surrounded the strangely shaped boat of the great swordsman, he felt a sense of unreality, and thought a little absentmindedly that this is the East China Sea, the weakest sea of ​​peace that he has been ignoring all this time... …where Shanks lost his arm.

Later, his interest finally ran out, and when he was about to pack up the big ship that he intentionally let go, he saw the young man named Roronoa.From the small knife on the neck to the black knife on the back, it never took it seriously to be very interesting. After a few unexpected questions, when he finally swung the knife that fulfilled the opponent, Mihawk suddenly added something No feeling.

"Such a child... It's very rare to meet one." A certain sentence that the red hair once said broke into the mind of the great swordsman again after a long time in the dust, and he understood it somewhat. The meaning of the words.

And when Roronoa's partner stretched his arms angrily after the competition, trying to attack the swordsman with a rubber fist, Mihawk turned his body slightly in surprise and avoided the ridiculous attack .He turned his head and noticed the kid trying to get his head out of the wood.

rubber?The ability of a devil fruit will not be repeated, so this child... Although he didn't see the familiar straw hat, Mihawk quickly confirmed the identity of this brat who was as reckless as Roronoa in front of him.

At the moment when the child said without hesitation that he would definitely become the Pirate King, the world's number one swordsman gently closed his eyes and showed an extremely rare smile.

"That's a more difficult road than surpassing me." He didn't expect that his casual sentence would attract a big grimace from the other party.

"I don't care! I'll do it!"

Mihawk finally thought with complete relief that this little guy really resembled that person, no wonder the redhead would willingly lose his arm for this child.

So when the arrest warrant whose smile was as bright as the red hair caught the eyes of the great swordsman, the idea of ​​meeting Shanks suddenly came to him from the bottom of his heart.Mihawk couldn't explain why this idea came about. He and Redhead have known each other for so many years, but they always get together less and leave more.Leaving aside the initial peaceful and simple voyage together, all their encounters were nothing more than two duels and an announcement to terminate the duel, and the time between them was getting longer and longer.

Thinking about it carefully, from the last time we met until today, seven years have passed quietly like this.

After first learning the reason why Shanks broke his hand, he couldn't be calm for a period of time. Every time he thought of the guy who kept smiling, he would feel the disappointment and emptiness of losing his opponent like a shadow.

A little ghost who accidentally ate a devil fruit and turned into a landlubber put the world's number one title on Mihawk's shoulders prematurely.He is not ready yet, and he is not sure what kind of mood and method he should continue to explore the ultimate of kendo from now on. where.Shanks may be the unavoidable disaster in his life-how can there be a guy in this world who can always create a turning point out of thin air, making himself suddenly lost and lost?

Mihawk finally chose to leave this question to time. He also imagined that on the day when he could calmly face the past, he might be able to drink and chat with the redhead again, although the common topic between them may be It's all said and done.

However, the changes brought about by the peaceful and boring long time are unpredictable——Mihawk will no longer take the initiative to think about what kind of existence that red-haired pirate is to him. One kind of letting go, the other kind of relief.

Until the young man named Roronoa brought another change to Mihawk, until the arrest warrant belonging to Monkey D. Luffy reminded him of this again.

Mihawk, who set foot on Shanks' resident again, saw the red-haired pirates, whose scale was no longer what it used to be.Those unfamiliar and hostile faces made him suddenly realize that the time that seemed so long to be stagnant to him had already brought so many changes to others.

In the end, when he walked to the front and saw those not-so-unfamiliar leaders of the Reid again, this kind of feeling made the world's number one swordsman lose his mind for a moment.The most obvious change is undoubtedly Beckman. Mihawk silently nodded to the deputy captain of the Reid who was closest to him and whose hair was already graying, and then turned his gaze to the one sitting under the sun umbrella a little far away. man.

My own visit may have been too unexpected for the redhead. When Shanks, who had always been gentle and friendly in front of him, first mentioned the domineering and proactive dating, Mihawk was also secretly surprised.Since the opponent took the initiative to provoke, he was confident that he would not lose to himself, right?

That's exactly what the Four Emperors should be, even if Shanks claims he's still hungover.Mihawk was a little relieved to cooperate with the confrontation atmosphere created by the other party, stared at Shanks coldly without showing weakness, and repeated the sentence he had said seven years ago.

However, when he straight-forwardly raised up the arrest warrant for the straw hat kid, Shanks' serious face, which he was trying to maintain a moment ago, instantly switched to a bright smile like the kid in the photo.

The red hair is still the same red hair, Mihawk secretly appraised the four emperors who are famous in the great air route in front of him with a relaxed mood that he didn't realize.

Mihawk was forced to have a few glasses of wine by Shanks who insisted on having a banquet. After many years of acquaintance, Da Jianhao was finally able to drink several large glasses of rum without changing his face.But this time, it was the redhead himself who was the first to overwhelmed with alcohol—after a few rounds of happy drinking, Shanks wobbled his glass and stood up by himself.Mihawk saw the other party staring at him hesitantly for a moment, then moved away decisively.

He watched the redhead grab a new member of the Pirates casually, and talked about the rubber kid; he watched him drink a glass of wine, and then grabbed a new glass from his partner; he watched He smiled and danced and sang... Shanks seemed very happy, but he kept deliberately avoiding where he was sitting.

Mihawk doesn't know why, Shanks is obviously a generous person, but after so many years, when he drifted across the vast ocean again and took the initiative to find the other party, this person behaved as if he was in harmony with him. Make trouble with yourself.

When he was in his twenties, the young swordsman felt that he did not understand the initiative of the red-haired pirate; in his thirties, the disappointed great swordsman thought he could not understand the self-sacrifice of the newly promoted four emperors; Mihawk is 41 years old. When he finally agrees with what happened back then, he doesn't understand Shanks now.

Mihawk, who was left on the sidelines, finally gave up on continuing to explore. He took the wine handed by Beckman and drank it in one gulp, accepting the sincere apology from the deputy captain of the Reid to the neglected guests.

"The boss just got carried away with drinking, and he does that when he's drunk, please don't be surprised." Beckman took a deep breath of his cigarette, and explained to Shichibukai, the king in front of him, in a tone that was neither familiar nor alienated.

"I know, it's not surprising." Mihawk responded politely.

Lackey on the side hesitated to speak, but finally got up silently, stood behind Beckman, and smiled at Mihawk with his face parted.

Mihawk finally bid farewell to Beckman in a harmonious and calm atmosphere. Before leaving the lively crowd, he took a deep look at the wine-drowsy man not far away who was happily chatting with a certain pirate. Dude, it's no wonder the Reid's excellent first mate has become so vicissitudes after all these years.

In the red-haired world, you no longer have yourself?This visit is superfluous.The moment Mihawk re-boarded his small coffin boat and sailed away, Mihawk suddenly felt a familiar sense of emptiness surge in his heart again.He turned his head slightly, and locked his eyes on the warship that quietly appeared in his field of vision. This might be sent by the World Government to question his whereabouts, but that is not important.The world's number one swordsman put his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Mihawk, who was in a slightly happier mood, would not know that while he was slashing the huge warship with his knife, a red-haired pirate who had drunk his mind was looking at his deputy captain with hazy eyes. smile.

"Hey...Beckman, I haven't been so drunk for a long time."

"I agree." Beckman blew out a smoke ring and looked at his leader coldly. "This is the first time I've seen a boss who was so drunk that he forgot how to treat guests."

"What?" Shanks' eyes widened in surprise.

"...Why did we have a banquet?" Beckman showed a look of surprise.

"Because Luffy wants to...?!" Shanks' happy tone stopped abruptly, and his smile froze on his face. He squeezed his forehead hard with his only hand, proving the authenticity of everything in the pain.

"After drinking three or five cups, the boss completely forgot about Hawkeye." Beckman spread his hands, "Obviously he is a rare visitor, I thought you were talking about some unpleasant topic, so I had to Send him off for you."

Shanks stood there blankly, the double-drunk dizziness and headache were too tormenting, and finally he woke up with a start, and asked eagerly to his deputy, "How long has he been walking? Will he still have time to catch up?!"

"The time is not too short." Beckman shook his head helplessly, "His boat should have been refitted, and the speed is not as slow as it used to be."

"How could I think..." Shanks swallowed back the words in frustration and disappointment.

"The news of Luffy's going to sea was actually brought by Hawkeye. I've been too busy with things recently and forgot to pay attention to the news from the navy." Beckman changed the subject calmly, "I'm going to catch up on the recent news. newspaper, and get someone to get you something to sober up by the way."

"Thank you, Beckman." Shanks sat on the spot, watching his excellent deputy.

Beckman shrugged his shoulders habitually. He walked a few steps, and certain old memories suddenly came to his mind like yesterday, as if the uninvited guest who had hardly been changed by the years brought them, but forgot to take them away.He stopped in his tracks, turned his head while biting his cigarette, and whispered to Shanks who was alone in a daze, "...sadly."

"...Hey! Beckman!"

When the sound of footsteps stepping on the sand gradually disappeared, Shanks raised his head with a bitter smile. He sat alone on the beach, quietly looking at the blue sea in the distance.

He didn't know how to evaluate such a stupid self, who was so drunk that he forgot the reality, and regarded the real, breathing, flesh and blood Mihawk in front of him as the phantom that often appeared in the half-dream and half-awake after drinking.

Shanks can't remember which hangover that strange shadow first appeared in. At that time, he was happily holding half a jar of spirits, and when he looked up, he saw the straight figure with his back facing him.

"Hawkeye! Did you come to ask me for a drink?" He still remembered that he walked forward confusedly but cheerfully, and handed over the wine jar, but the other party just remained motionless.The moment the half-truth and half-false accusation was about to be blurted out, the red-haired pirate's eyes dimmed due to drunkenness gradually focused, only to realize that he was handing half of the jar of wine to the little tree in front of him.

This matter has been joked by Lackey and Jesus for a long time. Shanks laughed at himself when he heard the joke of his partners that "the boss likes to exercise his arms when he is drunk". hear.

In a certain period of time after that, Mihawk's figure frequently appeared in Shanks' drunk vision-the red-haired man tried to chat up various things such as masts, mops, and stones, and even threw a The cotton piled on the table had been some fancy feathered hat.Naturally, this also triggered a lot of joking voices in the red-haired pirates. Shanks listened casually, smiled and let everyone guess wildly.

Later, he also finally learned to turn a blind eye to the shadow that always appeared and disappeared in an instant—they were not real, and he no longer needed to deceive himself.Mihawk hasn't appeared in the New World for three or four years. He has concentrated on being his Shichibukai, and he shouldn't look forward to it anymore.

Later, the image similar to Mihawk rarely appeared. Shanks would occasionally think of that name when he drank too much wine, and think of those cold golden eyes, but he has long been used to more Real hallucinations, they are nothing.

Time passed by like this, and when he raised his head before he knew it, he saw Beckman's glossy black long hair mixed with gray and white markings.Shanks felt that his drinking capacity seemed to be a little worse than before, and the fatigue caused by the hangover lingered far longer than when he was young.

Growth is a thing that will never stop from birth to death, and all the gains and losses, when you look back occasionally, you will understand that it is just that.Different from the confident longing for the new era, the red-haired man finally gave up the optimistic assumptions about the relationship between himself and Mihawk.

Shanks didn't even know what words to use to describe the many years he had no contact with Hawkeye, wasted or should it be?They probably won't have any future to speak of, and the so-called common past-those short and beautiful days floating in Rigwhite, recalling it now, is really extravagant.

In any case, he never regretted it.Even if the past time comes back again, he and Mihawk will only follow their respective lives and come to where they are today without hesitation.

The only thing that is uncertain is the future that belongs to this era.

Shanks carefully took out the thing brought by the other party from his arms, and carefully looked at the smiling face of the child whose brows and eyes were still vaguely familiar in relief and exclamation.He has to continue to shoulder the responsibility of being the Four Emperors, while waiting for the arrival of Luffy, to see how the child will reach the agreement and finally surpass himself.

As for Mihawk... why did he travel thousands of miles for a wanted warrant?This question, which should not be missed the most, was missed by myself.Shanks, who has always been an alcoholic, has always been proud of his drinking capacity, but today he also had to taste the taste of being wrong after drinking.

It is already very difficult for me to leave the new world, if I can wait for that person to visit again... Shanks put the arrest warrant back into his arms and clenched his right fist silently.