[One Piece] Inferior Star

Chapter 117 Unexpected Gains

Mr. Ace was right.

As long as you look into Cabbage's eyes, the only thing left in your mind is confession.What exactly did I just say!After Rossi ran out of the room, she felt a little regretful, and said those things to Youxiang all at once, would it bother her?Will it make her uncomfortable?What I just said doesn't sound like a confession, does it...?

Forget it or forget it!Hurry up and go back to Matthew, there is something important to tell them——

Just thought of this, just listen to 'Meow! ! With a bang, Rosie was thrown to the ground by a huge cat that jumped over from the side!Because the cat was so big, Rosie couldn't even move because of his little fluffy paws!But fortunately, this is not some 'cat monster', but a cat he knows: "Plop?!"

Rossi called out the name of the big cat in surprise, and the cat seemed to understand and responded with a "meow ~" cry.

"Why are you here, Pupu? And don't press me down..." So heavy!You are too big for a cat!Rossi was pinned there and couldn't move. Fortunately, the cat's owner appeared in his field of vision immediately: "I found you! Reborn!"

"It's you..." Omniscient, Lance.If anything, he was the first demon Rosie had ever seen.He was the one who brought Youxiang to find him back then.But his cat...

The big cat named Pupu stretched out its tongue and licked Rossi's face, and then lay on his body like a baby and began to rub against his face, purring.Although it's cute and fluffy and warm, it's really...too heavy! !

"Pupu likes you very much!" Lance said with a smile, "But we don't have time to act like a baby!"

"It's her who is pressing me!" I couldn't stand up at all!And almost out of breath—ah, do demons need to breathe?Rossi has only started to think about this kind of problem now, but fortunately, when he pushed hard, Pupu finally got off him, and now Rossi could sit up and take a breath, "Really, I have a very important Things to do, do you want to come with me?"

"That matter, it's okay if you don't go." Lance sat kneeling beside Rossi, tilting his head and said, "Listen to me, rebirth, I also have very important things to tell the master, but now the master is arrested Stuck, can't move, right? So you have to help me! I don't understand human affairs!"

"You explain it from the beginning first!" Why is it okay if you don't go?Rossi said, "The poisonous gas will fill the island soon, so I need to notify Matthew and them."

"Well. I know, but 'Matthew already knows'. The answer I got was this." Lance replied calmly, "I really wanted to help the master, so I tried some 'not very important 'questions'. When I asked...is there anything else that needs to be done?, the answer I got was: if one thing is not done, it will be bad!"

"Huh?" said Rosie, "what's the matter?"

"That's right! I just want someone else to ask this question! I can only go so far!" Lance said with a sigh of relief, "The answer is: there is something about the Emerald Isle and the Navy. Important information is buried in the depths of this research institute. Ah! This is very important to the master, right!"

"Emerald Isle and the Navy?" Although I knew that there would inevitably be an intersection between the two, but I didn't expect it to be here... Rossi said, "What kind of information?"

"You can't say it! After you say it, the master will have to pay the price! That's why we have to go and see for ourselves!" Lance said, "You don't want to hurt the master, right? So let's go quickly!"

"That's the way..." Rossi stood up, and he said, "Are you sure Matthew's side is okay?"

"Hmm! The answer can't be wrong!" Lance nodded quickly, then he climbed onto the cat's back and rode on the cat's puppies, "Let's go, it should be here! It's too late!"

"What's going on when it's too late!" You asked me to ride too! !He started running right away!Rossi had to run up to keep up with Pupu, "How much do you know??"

"To be precise, I know it from the beginning to the end, but if you tell it, the master will pay a huge price-after all, these are the information that you can't get out of if you don't risk your life and are extremely lucky." Lance He replied, "If it's someone else, I'd say it, maybe it's interesting to watch humans being tortured...but I like Master! So don't!"

Should I say thank you instead of Youxiang!Just as Rossi complained in his heart, he fell down with a snap!

"Ah! It hurts!" Lance sighed instead of him, Pupu immediately stopped, ran back and licked his head again.Looking at Rossi whose hair was licked up, Lance reached out to him, "Come on. Rebirth. We are friends now, right?"

"Then can you call me Rossi or something?" It was still a little unaccustomed to be called Rebirth.Pulled by Lance to sit on Pupu's back, Rossi said, "Speaking of which, I'm really a devil."

"Of course! You're not just starting to think about this seriously now, are you?" Lance said when Pupu began to run again, "Hey... there are always examples of human spirits turning into demons, So this is not very unusual. The only special thing is that you are a pure demon, stronger than those 'hybrids'."

"I don't think I've become stronger..."

"If you judge the strength by human standards, you may not feel it. But the fact is that demons are demons after all, Rossi. You are no longer human." Lance stated calmly, he said, "You will find How powerful your strength is...you don't need me to tell you, you will find out. This way you can accept it better."

"Really..." Although Lance looked like a very young boy, he felt that he knew a lot.Rossi said, "Well...Lance, I have another question. Before, have there been demons—"

"Is there an example of a demon falling in love with a human?" He interrupted Rossi directly, and said what he hesitated to say. Lance looked back at him and smiled, "There are many~ After all, human beings are so attractive. With the existence of such a pure force, we will definitely be attracted, caught, and never be able to look away. If not, how can we try our best to go to the human world?"

"Is that so... I thought you would laugh at me for asking such a question."

"It's not so much ridicule as envy. Being able to know what love is is something that makes us very envious. Rossi."

"Don't you know what love is?"

"Because we're just who we are. Omniscience, anger, fear...that's all. We're not 'love', how can we know what it's like. But it's a magical thing, even if we don't I know, and I will come to you." Lance lowered his eyes, and he smiled, "So, don't be so afraid, Rosie. This is a good thing, to be able to feel love, to be able to understand it, this is the best thing! "

"...Ah. Thank you, Lance."

"You're welcome. We are already friends!" Lance said with a smile, "It's impossible to fall in love with Master~"

"No, don't say it... I will be embarrassed if you do this!"

"Hey..." Lance smiled mischievously, and then he said, "Arrogance...you know he's only just born, right?"

"Huh? Ah... Hip?"

"Hmm. Heep. He's the first demon. But Pride is supposed to be a demon, like us, born from the dawn of life. And Heep...is the 'second Pride.' For some reason , the original arrogance is no longer in the dream world. That's why he was born. And the original arrogance..."

"The strongest demon, he went to another place because he fell in love with humans."

"Hey...?" This is the first time I've heard of this.Rossi said, "Going somewhere else means..."

"Let's live with the human being he likes!" Lance laughed, and he said, "It's a surprise! It's not a cruel story! They are happy now... maybe, they will always be happy. Someone to accompany Afterwards, 'eternity' will also become less scary."

"..." That's right, it turns out that you can still choose... It turns out that it's not 'doomed to have no results' or 'lost opportunity'.Rosie, slightly amused, said, "Thanks for telling me this, Lance."

"After all, I'm a neutral demon. I'm very kind~"

"The more you emphasize it, the more I will feel that there is a pit in it."

"Huh?! Is that so? Humans are so hard to understand..."

Feeling like a... simple demon?No, maybe he just really doesn't understand human feelings.In any case, he should also be something that has lived longer than any human being, and it is impossible to be 'simple' from all aspects.perhaps.Rossi didn't investigate this carefully, and seeing Pupu, he carried them to the depths of the research institute.

The research institute is very large. Outside the normally unused area, there are intricate pipes and boiler-like equipment that don't know what to do.The entire space is covered with metal panels, making it feel cold and dark.

"It should be around here! Rossi!"

When Pupu ran to the door of a research room, she stopped, and then Lance also jumped off Pupu's back, and he said: "I can't tell you many things, and I can't even express my opinion. The master accidentally paid the price, so it is better for me not to be here! Then I will leave it to you!"

"Ah, um! I see." He was quite thoughtful.Rosie got off of Puppies too, and while he was dealing with the big, round, hairy head of Puppies that was rubbing over immediately, he said to Lance, "I'll tell Cabbage... tell Youxiang that you've done so much for her .”

"Well! As long as the master doesn't forget me!" I kind of want to eat pudding... Ah, but if I say it, it's like making these for pudding!No, it's because I like the master... Well, forget it.Anyway, I haven’t eaten it for more than 300 years, and it’s not bad for another 300 years.There were tears of blood behind Lance's smile, but he held back his tears and waved to Rosie before disappearing into the shadows together with Pupu.

He wants to eat pudding.

I don't know why Rossi actually heard his voice.Maybe it's really just a simple guy.Go back and tell Cabbage.With that in mind, he turned around and began to observe the laboratory.There is almost nothing inside, and the equipment has no power and cannot be started.Dust everywhere, didn't see anything useful...

These devices should be able to be opened if Matthew is there.He's such a great guy.It is not known where he found the cabbages.

Rossi thought to himself, he pressed the buttons on the device with common sense, because there was no power at all, so of course these buttons would not respond.Could it be somewhere else?Lance said it was near here, maybe not this room...Huh?

Still thinking about whether to go out and look for it, Rossi found something wrong with the sound under her feet.One floor tile echoed differently than the others.This is a classic secret door.He knelt down and knocked on the strange floor tile, and sure enough it was empty.

Rossi tried to open the floor tile, and a small space was artificially dug out inside. There was nothing in it except a newspaper.This is a world economic newspaper. I looked at the date...it was a newspaper six years ago.I probably looked through it, and there are three editions that introduce Mansfield and his company. At that time, he was only 20 years old... What a powerful guy.

The rest is also related to the world economy. Because it is an economic newspaper, it rarely reports news about pirates. At most, it only mentions the impact of the rampant pirates on the economy.Other than that, I didn't find anything special...

"This is it." Lance suddenly appeared behind Rossi, and he said, "This is it! Rossi!"

"But..." Rossi was taken aback, but he immediately got to the point, "But I didn't find anything special, except... almost every report on this page has something to do with Mansfield, could it be? Is that what you mean?"

"I can't tell!!" Lance said anxiously, "In short, I have already got it, and Rossi will give it to the master!"

"I see, I will tell Youxiang all this." Rossi put away the newspaper, just about to put it into the coat, when she realized that her coat was on Youxiang.Is she okay... I have to go back to find her, and I don't feel relieved if I can't see her.

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The author has something to say:

Lance's cat (Pu Pu) is very big, about the size of a full-grown horse. It is definitely not an ordinary cat in terms of size, but it is an ordinary (a little fat) three-colored cat in appearance.It's mother's.

In terms of personality, she is a family cat, no matter who she is, she can go up to rub, meow, and purr a few times.Habits are not much different from ordinary cats.It's just relatively quiet, not very lively, it's a lazy cat who likes to lie down and sleep there!

Being friends with Lance, the two of them seem to have acted together since a long time ago.But what exactly is Pupu... I suggest not to pry into the secret of the 'master' w

And the newspaper that Rossi found...actually has a clue!What is it!It has nothing to do with Mansfield, it's a... covert clue, only those who are familiar with this newspaper know that w is actually used by whoring for the next story.

So here comes the question, do you still want the third watch tomorrow? (looks at the manuscript box and smiles)