Chapter 28 Autumn Moon and Spring Breeze

"Ahem." Cheng Xi sat up and coughed twice. Although she still felt some pain because she fell to the ground too quickly, her bones and internal organs were not injured.

Yushula immediately ran to Cheng Xi and supported her. The manager's hand under the counter had moved to the gun. He questioned Kuzan with a bad face: "My guest, why did you attack my friend?"

She had been in the New World for many years, so she could naturally see that the man in front of her was very strong, but she was still ready to attack.

"No, no, no, this is a misunderstanding. How could I hurt her?" Kuzan explained, and then thought of the terrible scene that might happen next, and said to Yushula: "She ate the devil fruit. Hit her back quickly to make her spit it out, otherwise she will explode and die."

"What! You ate the devil fruit!?" Yushula's still smart head panicked when she heard about the explosion and death, and subconsciously hit her back according to Kuzan's words.

After several hammerings, Cheng Xi finally couldn't stand it anymore. He grabbed her wrist and complained, "Stop hammering. I'm about to vomit bile."

Yushula's hand was grabbed by Cheng Xi. Finally, he had time to think. After eating the devil fruit for the first time, it seems that there is no other effect except that he can't touch sea water and seastone?

And Kuzan's mind also cleared up. After such a long time, he finally realized that something was wrong. He walked in front of Cheng Xi and held her cheeks with both hands. After the tossing just now, due to physiological reasons, Cheng Xi's eyes were tearful, and a few tears unconsciously wet her eyelashes. Her hair was messy and scattered on her face. Apart from that, there was nothing unusual, and she still looked very healthy.

"Are you okay?"

"I'll be beaten to death by you two in mixed doubles."

Cheng Xi looked at Kuzan with some dissatisfaction. The moment their eyes met, Kuzan immediately shifted his gaze as if to escape and let go of Cheng Xi's head.

Cheng Xi: "You are a traitor. You dare to hit your boss. I will deduct your salary!"

You Shula looked at Kuzan with more dissatisfaction: "It's not my fault. It was obviously Vice Admiral Aokiji who was exaggerating."

Kuzan asked her: "You didn't eat the devil fruit before, right?"

Cheng Xi nodded and admitted: "Well, actually that is my own ability, but I was afraid of trouble, so I kept claiming to the outside world that I ate the devil fruit."

After explaining this, Kuzan immediately understood Cheng Xi's worries. He guessed in his heart that Cheng Xi might be a rare race with special abilities. Thinking of the tragic experiences of the Bakani and Lunaria tribes, he looked at Cheng Xi with more sympathy and distress.

"Sorry, I thought you ate two devil fruits, and I was anxious for a while, so..."

"I didn't expect you to care about me."

Cheng Xi's straightforward language embarrassed Kuzan speechless. Just as You Shula was about to remind her not to say such ambiguous words to men casually, she saw Cheng Xi raised his fist and beat Kuzan.

“那就乖乖接受我送你的回礼吧。”

因为这是自己理亏，库赞也不好还手，再加上成希没用武装色，他就这么硬抗成希的拳头，额头上不知不觉肿起来几个大包。

青雉中将是真男人啊，挨揍硬是一声不吭，优舒拉心里庆幸，并努力把自己存在感降到最低。

成希大人，既然已经打他那就不要再打我了，如果还不解气那就再多打青雉中将几拳吧。

店长在旁边目睹一切，默默摇头，现在的年轻人啊，可真是有活力。

成希他们刚离开这座岛，奥罗·杰克逊号就在岸边停留了下来，对热爱喝酒开宴会的罗杰海贼团，这座岛对于他们简直有着巨大的吸引力。

船员们依次上岛，进入成希刚刚来过的酒吧里，点了很多的酒水与食物，开始狂欢。

During this time, Roger casually mentioned Cheng Xi to Rayleigh, and the manager continued: "Hey, do you know Cheng Xi too? She just left with her friends."

This was just an insignificant episode, but it was heard by the sensitive-eared Shanks. When the banquet reached its climax, while no one was paying attention to him, Shanks secretly walked to the counter and asked: "Manager, what kind of friends did Cheng Xi come with?"

The manager was reading a book, and she was fascinated by it, so she answered him consciously: "Little Yushula and Vice Admiral Aokiji."

Yushula, this name sounds like a girl, but Shanks has some impression of Vice Admiral Aokiji: "What is her relationship with Aokiji?"

What else can it be, the kind of relationship where they fight each other. Just when she was about to answer, she happened to see the words written in the book in her hand: "She and her junior brother have always adhered to the principle of beating is love, scolding is love, and kicking when love is deep. Their relationship is extremely good."

Thinking of the situation just now, the manager thought about it for a while, and felt that she understood the young people nowadays less and less, so she decided to follow the standard answer in the book.

"They have a very good relationship, love each other, and are close to each other."

Shanks: ...

At this moment, he silently began to dislike Vice Admiral Aokiji.

...

After returning to the headquarters, Cheng Xi handed Prince Roy to Kong Kong to deal with, and other trivial matters were handed over to Yusura. Yusura felt guilty about the few times he beat Cheng Xi on the island, so he took over these follow-up tasks very neatly.

"Good morning, Mr. Sakaski."

The next day, Cheng Xi greeted Sakaski after arriving at the office, and then concentrated on writing the report in her hand. This mission was different from the previous one. The illusion created by the Utopia Fruit was Cheng Xi's previous life. Once it was written, it might arouse suspicion from the top leaders and some other actions, and she might also fall into danger, so she discussed with Kuzan on the ship yesterday how to make up a lie to deceive them.

For the first time, after finishing the report in her hand, Cheng Xi also handled some other official business.

According to the usual practice, Cheng Xi should have come to Sakaski with a pen and paper to ask him about something not long after he arrived at the office, but this time he didn't. Cheng Xi sat in a chair and dealt with his own affairs honestly, and didn't come to him.

Sakaski was used to having people chattering around him when he was working, but now it suddenly became quiet around him, which made him a little uncomfortable.

When Cheng Xi came in in the afternoon, he pushed a whole cart of things in, which was full of various cosmetics and large professional books neatly arranged.

The sound of the wheels rolling on the ground attracted Sakaski's attention. He glanced over and saw the cosmetics in the cart. He wanted to remind the junior in front of him that in a serious and confidential place like the Navy Headquarters Building, other girls put them in their bags and occasionally put them on their faces to touch up their makeup. But she brought such a large cart of cosmetics in without any disguise. Wasn't it a bit too arbitrary? But he didn't say anything in the end. Although Sakaski was a man who didn't understand cosmetics, the little girl was just eighteen or nineteen years old, and he could understand her love of beauty. Cheng Xike didn't know about his thoughts. She sat down at her seat, put all the books and cosmetics on the table and began to study the fruit. These cosmetics ranged from skin care and sunscreen to mascara, blush, lipstick, etc. There were many colors and they could be divided into low-quality cosmetics and high-end cosmetics. The moment she ate the makeup fruit, all the information of the fruit was generated in her mind, and she could use it to replace cosmetics to draw any beautiful or strange makeup on herself.

There are many kinds of cosmetics in the world, and they are all-encompassing and countless. There are more than 8,000 kinds of raw materials allowed to be used, not including the permutations and combinations of these ingredients. Poor quality ones must contain illegally added chemical hormones, heavy metal color powders, benzyl alcohol and other irritating acne-causing, carcinogenic and allergenic ingredients, which can be used to attack the enemy.

Safe cosmetics that meet the inspection standards, various isolation, sunscreen, isolation film-forming, smooth and moisturizing ingredients in foundation liquid can be used for self-protection.

She opened the book to find the relevant knowledge in it and frantically fed it into her head. She thought she would not have to study again after graduation, but she did not expect that after many years of twists and turns, she would pick up a chemistry book in her hand again.

This is really... learning never ends, and fate plays tricks on people.

Sakaski saw her applying something on her face while flipping through books, sometimes writing down some notes on paper. She looked much more serious than when she asked him for advice before, so he asked, "Cheng Xi, do you have a date tonight?"

"Ah!?" Cheng Xi looked up from the pile of books, full of doubts about his question, "No, why are you asking?"

When she realized that Sakaski was looking at the table of cosmetics with a puzzled look, she understood his doubts.

"Oh, you misunderstood. I accidentally ate a devil fruit on the way back from the mission on the Devil Island a few days ago. It was a superhuman makeup fruit, a very useless fruit. Now I am studying how to develop this fruit more."

Makeup fruit? Sakaski had some impression of this fruit. It was indeed as Cheng Xi said, it had no attack power. Its main function was decoration, and it was not very useful in combat.

"But I haven't developed any useful skills yet, I only know this. Can you see any difference?"

After saying this, Cheng Xi's mind moved, and her face was immediately covered with a light makeup, from isolation to highlight, blush, and even applied clustered false eyelashes to make her eyes bigger and more stylish.

Sakaski couldn't tell where she had changed, but she felt that she was more beautiful than before, but she couldn't say where it was beautiful: "Have you improved your skin?"

"How about this?" Cheng Xi changed her makeup again in an instant.

Sakaski: "Cheng Xi, your makeup is too heavy."

Cheng Xi was speechless. Sakaski was really a straight man...

"But I'm completely bare-faced now, I just put on a bright red lipstick!"

Sakaski:...

He chose to remain silent and stopped talking to Cheng Xi. The office fell into silence again. The two of them did their own things, clearly separated, and didn't disturb each other.

Before the evening, Zhan Guo came over to tell Cheng Xi about the result of Roy's treatment. The naughty boy was a prince of a member country of the World Government, and he was a favored prince. The navy that was plotted against was just depressed for a few days and then alive and kicking again, without any major casualties. Moreover, the one who suffered the most after he was captured was not the navy, but his father who was used to worrying about the child and a bunch of unlucky guards in the kingdom.

In addition, the little prince deeply implemented the principle of speaking to people in a human way and speaking to ghosts in a devilish way. He said a lot of nonsense, saying that he was a simple child who liked adventure. He didn't know that he would trouble so many people . He apologized a lot. Of course, the most important thing was that the old king really loved the child. In addition to the originally agreed remuneration, he added another 500 million Bailey donations.

So the little prince was now acquitted.

Cheng Xi cursed in her heart that those with money really can do whatever they want. Zhan Guo said something that shocked her.

"But Prince Roy said he refused to return home and wanted to join the navy and train with your fleet."

Cheng Xi: ...

She was halfway surprised when another big thunder: "Calvin was shocked by your strength and also wanted to join your fleet to train."

Cheng Xi thought for a while about who Calvin was. Wasn't he the major general who refused to confess and still pestered her, so she slapped him away with a sword and fined him a 5,000-word self-review! ?

She disliked these two people to death: "I refuse to let them join."

"But the two of them crying and sneezing in front of the headquarters are really unsightly and bad for the reputation of the navy..." Zhan Guo looked like he was about to say something but stopped.

Cheng Xi had a bad premonition in his heart: "So you agreed?"

"Yeah."

Cheng Xi:! ?

"Haha."

Going to the mental hospital is just for fun. If you want to find a 100% mental patient, you still have to go to the Navy Headquarters.

The devil is one foot high, the way is ten feet higher. These two little princes have money power, and Cheng Xi also has uncle power. She threw Calvin and Roy directly onto Garp's warship and let them experience the survival of the dungeon under the iron fist for a few years.

One day, Cheng Xi was wandering outside the military area and saw a little boy with golden hair, about thirteen or fourteen years old, crying at the grass and ants on the side of the road. He looked a little pitiful.

Cheng Xi walked over and said to him, "What's wrong, kid? Who bullied you? Tell me. I'm bored now, so I'll help you bully them back."

Luo Xinan Di was feeling sad, and suddenly heard someone talking to him, so he sniffed and sobbed, "No... no one bullied me."

"I, I just miss my dad and mom."

When he said that, Cheng Xi suspected that his parents might have passed away, but they might have gone on a long trip. If she rashly comforted him, it might cause embarrassment. After thinking for a long time, she finally said, "Little friend, don't be sad."

It seems that not everyone can be a caring sister. She regretted stopping a little.

Luo Xinan Di said to herself, "My parents passed away, and I lost my brother."

Cheng Xi remained silent. Silence was the best comfort. She was afraid that she would say something wrong again and accidentally step on a landmine.

Luo Xinan Di wiped her tears with her sleeves and looked at Cheng Xi, "Thank you for your comfort. I'm much better."

Cheng Xi: ... I just said don't be sad, and I didn't say anything else.

In fact, Rosinante had a lot of things in his heart, and he was very sad. He was originally an introvert, and he had few friends in the navy. He was embarrassed to confide in Zhan Guo, fearing that he would cause trouble for him. He felt uncomfortable with these things in his heart, so he had to tell them to the flowers and plants on the roadside. It just so happened that Cheng Xi's inquiry opened the vent in his heart.

"It's okay, just a little effort."

... Actually, it should be a little effort.

Rosinante: "Thank you for listening to my venting. If you have any sad things in the future, you can also come to me."

Unexpectedly, this child is still a careful and gentle little warm boy. Cheng Xi told her his name and position, and also learned some information about the child in front of him.

His name is Rosinante, and he is the adopted son of General Zhan Guo.

Cheng Xi invited him to dinner again, and they said goodbye at noon: "Bye, kid brother."

It was another day to meet new friends.

Rosinante had just left when Yushula walked into the restaurant with two children. When they saw Cheng Xi, they immediately rushed towards her.

"Sister!"

"Master Cheng Xi!"

One was a purple-haired boy who looked about 13 or 14 years old. He was Cheng Xi's younger brother, Instructor Zefa's son Will.

The other was a black-haired girl about 6 or 7 years old. She was the child that Cheng Xi accidentally brought out from the Kingdom of Women.

"You stinky man, stay away from Master Cheng Xi." Seeing Will being intimate with Cheng Xi, Hancock stood with her hands on her hips and shouted in dissatisfaction.

"I won't, this is my sister, and you should leave if you want to."

"Is my sister so great? She is still my Master Cheng Xi. Humph!"

A year ago, Cheng Xi's ship stopped at the shore of Amazon Lily, an island that rejected men and only allowed women to live. It stood in an isolated doldrums. The women on the whole island were domineering and were trained as warriors since childhood. They were strong and brave.

Although the attitude towards outsiders was not good, this island was an island that respected the strong. After expressing to them that she had no ill intentions and was just passing by by chance, she quickly got acquainted with the girls on the island and got to know the pirate queen Guroliosa here.

After repairing the warship and setting sail, Cheng Xi saw this little girl who sneaked out in the utility room not long after setting sail.

"Okay, stop arguing. Have you had lunch?"

The two shook their heads and said in unison: "No."

"Then I'll treat you to a meal now. Do you want to eat?"

They nodded again: "Eat."

As expected, they are still children. They are easy to coax. A meal can make the two people who were just at loggerheads shake hands and make peace.

"Hey, Master Cheng Xi, when can you teach me that move?" Hancock asked with some expectation.

She sneaked out of the Nine Snake Island just to learn Cheng Xi's move. That move can attract thunder, call wind, call rain, and call snow. It has great power. If it can learn this move, it will definitely become the next emperor of the Nine Snake Island with its own strength.

Cheng Xi asked her patiently: "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Have you mastered your domineering power?"

Hancock shook her head disappointedly: "No."

"Okay, let's eat quickly." She stroked Hancock's hair and said to her.

Children's attention is easily attracted by other things. When the food is on the table, they will not pester Cheng Xi, but concentrate on eating instead.

At this time, Yusura reminded, "The boy named Mihawk is here to spar with you again, on the shore of Coast No. 17."

"Oh, okay, I'll be there in a while."

Yusura sighed, "You are really popular with children. Let them join your fleet when they grow up, and call it the Children's Alliance."

Cheng Xi took a sip of the drink, leaned close to Yusura's ear and whispered to her, "I was just playing with them, and I'm really playing with you."

"Really?"

"Really."

What Cheng Xi didn't expect was that Yusura actually believed this kind of words that were obviously a lie to children, and she believed it without a doubt.

After comforting the two children, Cheng Xi rushed to the shore, and Mihawk had been waiting there for a long time.

The man has very sharp golden eyes. Although he is not very old, he has a chilling temperament. He wore a burgundy patterned shirt and black trousers, with a golden cross on his chest, and a black sword, Night, with a chaotic blade and a T-shaped pattern, which is one of the 12 supreme swords.
"Hey, Mihawk, long time no see." Cheng Xi greeted him. As before, she was greeted by a sharp and powerful sword energy. Cheng Xi immediately raised her sword to counterattack. 

Mihawk is a newcomer who has just emerged and is in the limelight. He is also a sword fanatic. His goal is to become the world's number one swordsman. He is devoted to studying kendo. It can be said that sword is his lifelong career. 

About two years ago, he accidentally saw Cheng Xi fighting, so he came to challenge Cheng Xi to a sword fight. It was called a challenge, but it was actually more like asking for advice. However, he is indeed very talented in swordsmanship and has made rapid progress in the past two years. 

The sword body emits bursts of cold light, combining the real and the fake, which is unpredictable. Sometimes it is as fast as lightning, and sometimes it is as fierce as thunder. Judging from Mihawk's sword moves, it is obvious that it is more fierce than last time. 

They fought from lunch until dusk, and then the two sat on the rocks on the coast to analyze the previous duel. 

"Actually, my sword moves just now seemed to be arbitrary, hitting wherever I wanted, but they were actually purposeful, especially the last move, a fierce slash, and then the sword intent burst out in an instant, just... you understand?" 

She said it in an extremely abstract way, but Mihawk really understood it, and then he also summarized the knowledge he learned today with her. 

At night, when dusk fell, it was time to leave. Mihawk said to Cheng Xi: "Then I'll leave first. It was very enjoyable to fight with you. I really look forward to meeting you next time." 

Looking forward to meeting you, you big-headed ghost, obviously looking forward to the next challenge and exchange, Cheng Xi complained in his heart. He 

accidentally said out his complaints in his heart: "You left after the fight, just like a scumbag who doesn't recognize people after putting on pants." 

After saying this, Cheng Xi regretted it himself. He really... his mouth is faster than his brain! 

Mihawk was ready to leave, but when he heard this, he was suddenly stunned, stopped, and his ears turned red. Now he is still a 17-year-old boy in the Novice Village, very simple. 

"How can a little girl like you say such obscene words!?" 

Cheng Xi: "But you never treated me as a little girl when you chopped my head with the black knife." 

"You..." Mihawk was almost mad at her and turned to leave, but as he walked, he began to reflect on himself and felt that what Cheng Xi said just now seemed to be right. Every time he had a breakthrough, he would go to her to practice, and then leave directly. It seemed that... I was quite like a scumbag. 

He was thinking about what kind of gift to bring to Cheng Xi the next time they met. His few hobbies were kendo and red wine, so Mihawk thought about bringing Cheng Xi a few bottles of good wine from the wine cabinet next time he came. 

Cheng Xi's life at the headquarters was not fast but not slow, and soon it was the end of the year. 

Zephyr came to Garp with the newspaper that the newspaper gull had just delivered today. As soon as he arrived at his office, he slapped the newspaper on his desk and asked, "Garp! Is this what you said, the consequence of letting children be independent?" 

Garp woke up from his sleep and looked at the newspaper in front of him. He was a little surprised when he saw it for the first time, but soon calmed down. 

The news published on it was that his son Dragon, who was a navy before, formed the Self-Guard Army to protest in many places because of dissatisfaction with the policies of the World Government, and it has caused bad influence. 

"Oh. That's it." Garp touched his ears and looked nonchalant. "It's normal for children to have some ambitions. It will be fine when they grow up." 

Zephyr: "If they have already caused such a bad influence when they were children, won't they overthrow the World Government when they grow up?" 

Garp: "That's not possible. Do you eat senbei?" 

He relied on his big liar nature to deceive Zephyr and continued to implement the policy of letting children go according to his words. 

On the other side, Borsalino ran into Cheng Xi by chance in the corridor. Today happened to be the first snow of the year, and he thought it was a very romantic day, so he stopped Cheng Xi and was about to ask her out: "Cheng Xi, today..." 

Kuzan interrupted him in time: "Cheng Xi, have you finished writing the last report? I'm on my way, do you want me to help you hand it over to Marshal Kong?" 

"Oh, I've finished it, and I just happened to have it with me." She took out the report from her bag and handed it to Kuzan, "Then thank you for troubling me, and it saves me from making a special trip."
Kuzan: "It's not a trouble, it's not a trouble. There is no such thing as trouble between you and me."

"Ah!? Ah, yes." Cheng Xi reacted, and then looked at Borsalino, "By the way, what did you want to ask me just now?"

"I want to ask you tonight..."

Kuzan interrupted again: "Xixi, I saw Yushula looking for you in the corridor just now. It seems to be something very important, and it seems to be related to Bailey."

"I know, I'll go find her now." Cheng Xi's tone immediately became anxious, and she looked at Borsalino: "I'm very sorry, I'm going to take care of something."

After that, she ran away like a rocket without looking back, leaving Kuzan and Borsalino looking at each other in the corridor.