Chapter 50 Several Flags

The Moby Dick had just finished a battle and was now cleaning up the battlefield and distributing the spoils.

It was called a battle, but it was more like the pirates on the ship were unilaterally beating up these ignorant provocateurs.

Among them, their newest brother Ace was the most active. He defeated nearly half of the provocateurs by himself, but he didn't show any sign of being tired. He seemed extremely excited. It seemed that he could easily beat several times more enemies.

Something was wrong with Ace.

This was the conclusion drawn by Thatch.

Although he usually looked full of energy, with an incredible appetite and energy, he was not as excited as he was now. The wide orange hat brim covered half of his face, but you could still see the joy in his eyes and the smile on his lips.

Perhaps he himself did not realize this kind of joy that was difficult to express, but chose to hide it in his heart.

"When did you become so sensitive?" When Thatch analyzed his point of view to Harta, Harta commented, "You noticed the details that even Izou didn't notice?"

Thatch turned the barbecue in his hand over: "How could Izou not notice such an obvious thing!? I think he just didn't bother to say it."

He finally concluded: "I guess it must be related to the woman named Cheng Xi."

Harta: "Maybe he thought of his brother Luffy."

Another high-spirited boy's voice sounded from behind. I don't know when Ace had already hugged Thatch's neck: "Are you talking about my brother?"

Thatch, Harta: "..."

Obviously, the names of the two people were mentioned in their conversation, but Cheng Xi was deliberately not mentioned. No matter how you look at it, there must be something going on!

The battle was over, and as usual, a lively and grand banquet was held. In the middle of the way, a pirate soldier came to report that the ship of the shipping king Umit had sailed into the waters around the Moby Dick. For these ordinary cargo ships that had no intention of fighting, the Whitebeard Pirates have always been very tolerant, so they decided to let them sail along the normal route.

But unexpectedly, less than half an hour later, the soldier who had just delivered the letter came back again, this time holding a large square box in his hand, saying that someone had asked Umit to bring the box to Ace.

It was a cardboard box folded from hard cardboard, pure sky blue, with a red ribbon tied into a beautiful bow, and the most important thing was the signature on it.

From: Cheng

Xi Ace was surrounded by people like a star-studded star. He took the cardboard box, and his joy was like the sea water rippling with light ripples in the breeze, an unexpected surprise.

The originally gentle sea breeze seemed to be blocked by something. Ace turned around and found that there were more than a dozen heads crowded behind him, with obvious gossip on their faces, and even the usually calm Izo joined in.

Ace unconsciously hugged the box tightly: "What are you looking at?"

"We... just look around, just look around, you continue, continue."

Then these people turned their heads around to look at the sky, the water, the seagulls, and the scenery, but in fact their eyes never left the box in Ace's hand.

"Then you can continue to enjoy the scenery." Ace ignored the ongoing party and went back to the room with the box in his arms. He

closed the door, carefully untied the ribbon, opened the box, and the first thing he saw was the bouquet of bright sunflowers and sincere blessings.

Always happy in the future.

At this moment, his heart was hit by an arrow called warmth.

This box, this blessing, like a bright target, shows a girl's bright and undisguised preference for himself.

Cheng Xi's love and hate are very clear. When she wants to cut off the past, she will simply say goodbye to the cookie man in the BIG MOM Pirates. She will talk about the importance of her partners at the banquet without any cover, and will choose to spend all her money to treat herself to a meal when they meet for the first time, even if she is short of money.

Even if he is not sure whether this preference belongs to sincere friendship or has fermented to a deeper level?

The bouquet of sunflowers when they first met has dried up and shrunk, becoming fragile, but the sunflowers in the box are still vivid and bright.

Joy and sweetness filled his heart. When Ace came to his senses, he found that there was a group of onlookers in front of the glass window of his room.

Ignoring these guys who loved to watch the fun, after confirming that Umit's cargo ship had not completely left the waters around the Moby Dick, Ace found a small wooden box in the drawer in front of his bed. When he saw it for the first time, Ace felt that it was very suitable for Cheng Xi, so he exchanged all his spoils with Bista for it.

Bista murmured in his ear for several days that there was no suitable gift for the beautiful girl he just met.

...

When the ice and snow melted and the first green bud grew out of the soil, it meant that spring had come to Fuluns Island.

Cheng Xi was still in the store as usual, wearing a simple short-sleeved T-shirt, but his actions were a little different from before. He either held his chin to observe the environment in the store, or suddenly stretched out his hand to ask if anyone needed help, or simply handed everyone water to drink.

The desire to show off was too obvious.

Kanae satisfied her boasting and expectation, and smiled and praised her: "Manager, your new bracelets are very beautiful."

Although Kocho Shinobu didn't understand why two bracelets could make Cheng Xi excited for a whole morning, she still chose to follow her sister's words: "Yes, yes, very beautiful."

Hearing the expected compliment, Cheng Xi was like a child whose wish was fulfilled, with a smile in her eyes, eyebrows curved, and looked very happy: "Thank you Kanae, thank you Xiao Shinobu, I also think this pair of bracelets is very beautiful, a friend of mine gave it to me."

Lu Qi shifted his sight to the bracelet on her wrist that she stretched out in front of the Butterfly sisters.

It was two stacked gold bracelets, one of which was a slender plain ring bracelet, which was the most common and classic style. The other one was slightly thicker and divided into several sections. The connection of each section was inlaid with deep blue semicircular lapis lazuli and white pine, and carved with exquisite patterns. Even the buckle at the opening was designed with six petals, and each petal was inlaid with oval turquoise as an embellishment, and the other end was a round and shiny pearl.

In addition, she also had a bracelet woven with red rope on her hand, which was also decorated with messy embellishments. She always wore this bracelet. Lu Qi guessed that it should be a kind of amulet.

The three bracelets together did not seem cumbersome, but were brighter and more brilliant against the background of her fair and slender wrist.

Which friend gave it to her?

Her boyfriend?

Lu Qi was shocked by his own thoughts, wondering when he became so uncalm and actually thought about things that had nothing to do with the mission.

As for Gabra, in just three months, Cheng Xi had become one of the women he hated the most. Although he still had to work for her unwillingly, he still had the strength to refute her.

"Vulgar."

He said his thoughts clearly and clearly.

As an agent of the World Government, the girls he has met over the years, whether it is Kalifa, Alpha, who are also agents, or Catherine, the waitress in the restaurant, all have good aesthetics and wear various niche and high-end exquisite accessories from high-end brands.

How can someone show off like her with two big gold bracelets on her hands? It's so tacky and ignorant!

Not deep at all.

Cheng Xi's originally good mood was suddenly poured with a basin of cold water by him, and he said unhappily: "People who think gold is tacky must not have enough grams."

"No one gave you gold, what qualifications do you have to evaluate my bracelet."

"It's so pitiful that you have no friends."

Three consecutive critical hits, each hit was fatal.

Gabra made up for it by saying, "Didn't Kanae and Shinobu comment first, and then I made the comment?"

Kanae: "Don't get me wrong, Shinobu and I have received bracelets as gifts too."

Shinobu Kocho said in a disgusted tone, "Don't call me Shinobu, we're not familiar with each other, it's very rude."

Gabra looked at Cheng Xi and the others, and said unhappily, "What a bunch of money-grubbers."

Cheng Xi: "Then don't eat at night, just starve."

"Why?!"

He has been working here for two and a half months, and not only has he not received a salary, but now he can't even eat. If the situation did not allow it, he really wanted to assassinate her!

"Because I also bought dinner with my money. Since you don't love money, then don't eat, just starve for two days first."

"You...!" Gabra was furious, and glared at Cheng Xi viciously, then turned his attention to Lucci. Although they usually hated each other, now they were the only two in the same camp. Even for the sake of teammates, they should help each other, right?

Lucci did not help him, but just coldly scolded him: "Stupid dog."

Social genius, language master, Terminator Gabra, with just three sentences, made everyone in the room hate him.

In some ways, how can this not be considered a talent?

...

The three months given by the World Government have expired.

"Knock, knock, knock." There was a knock on the door, and Oda Sakunosuke got up and went to open the door. The moment his palm touched the door handle, the future after opening the door emerged in his mind.

The person behind the door was Lucci.

Maybe he had decided not to hide his identity anymore and exposed himself to everyone openly.

The moment Oda Sakunosuke saw the door open, Lucci rushed to him at super high speed like a swift and dangerous cheetah in the forest, stabbed his body with the finger that had been strengthened to be as powerful as a bullet, and then took the blood from his wound.

All this happened very quickly, from attack to blood collection, it took only about five or six seconds.

Oda Sakunosuke took out his double guns and tried to calm himself down.

He turned the handle and opened the room. The moment Lucci attacked, he immediately dodged in the opposite direction and predicted Lucci's future trajectory in his mind, firing the bullets from his two guns at him.

He shot at Lucci's shoulder.

When he closed his eyes, everything he had pursued seemed like discarded paper in a wastebasket, but when he opened his eyes again, the discarded paper had been picked up from the wastebasket and spread out again.

He tried to restore his shredded soul and write about human life. He still adhered to his principle of not killing people and continued on this path.

Lucci didn't expect that he could dodge his attack. Just as he was about to continue to attack, he felt the bullet flying at him, so he dodged. The bullet hit the glass window behind him, bursting out large pieces of fine debris and a loud noise.

At the same time, gunshots and the sound of things breaking were heard from Rosinante's room not far away.

It seems that Gabra's sneak attack was also unsuccessful.

Lucci gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "Damn it."

The red-haired man in front of him usually had a low presence and always looked like he lived alone. His daily activities were cleaning, reading, cooking and other chores. He didn't seem to have anything special, but after fighting with him, he found that this man seemed to be able to see his next moves and had the ability to predict the future. He was really difficult to deal with.

Of course, Oda Sakunosuke was not having an easy time either. Lucci's attack was too fast and too fierce. He was not sure if he would have a chance of winning if he had met Lucci a year ago.

But...

even a novelist would have the desire to become stronger.

The sound of gunfire quickly spread throughout the store. When Cheng Xi arrived and saw them fighting like this, he threw two thunder talismans directly at Gabra and Lucci, which flashed with lightning and thunder and struck them both.

She pretended to be angry and yelled at them: "Lucci, Gabra, what are you two doing!? Why did you attack my partner?"

After the mission was over, Gabra revealed his identity on the spot and said a lot of nonsense, such as everything was pretended, he didn't treat them as his own people at all, and he didn't have a real sister. Hearing this, Lucci couldn't help but scold him in his heart.

In Cheng Xi's mouth, Oda Sakunosuke and Rosinante were called "my partners", and the two of them were called "you two". Even a stupid pig who only knows how to eat every day can hear the difference!

Cheng Xi thought so too.

Everyone is open, only Gabra is still acting.

I really don't know whether to say that he is dedicated or not very smart?

Lucci intuitively believes that everyone here has a secret, but now the deadline has expired, the mission is over, and Gabra, the idiot, has exposed his identity. There is no possibility of continuing to disguise, so he has to give up the possibility of in-depth investigation.

So he broke the wall with a punch and left here using the Moon Step.

After Lucci left, Gabra looked at himself surrounded by a group of eager eyes, and he was furious, cursing Lucci for being stingy and vindictive.

He cursed, but his feet were not idle either, using the Moon Step to escape from this hell where he had been tortured for three months.

Seeing their figures going away, Cheng Xicai said to everyone: "Don't chase them, they probably won't come again in the future."

Rosinante: "They won't give up so easily, will they?"

Although his previous position was only a lieutenant commander in the navy, a low rank, he had heard from Zhan Guo and Yusura about the CP organization's style of action. Once they determine something, they will be like a dark snake entwined around the target and stare at you closely. It is common for a mission to be carried out for three to five years. Why did they give up after only three months this time?

Cheng Xi: "Of course they won't give up easily, but completing the mission is another matter. They won't bother us for at least three to five years."

"Complete the mission?" Yoshino Junpei didn't quite understand what she said. He glanced at the tightly bandaged right forearm of Cheng Xi and asked worriedly, "Are you injured?"

"No, I'm healthy."

Knowing that she was not injured, Junpei breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard her next sentence, he almost choked on his breath, his eyes went dark, and he passed out.

"It's just that the blood sample was given to Lucci."

"Ahhhhh!?" Rosinante was so scared that her eyes popped out of her sockets. She was so excited that she went berserk, grabbing Cheng Xi's shoulders and looking left and right, up and down, as if she would become a guinea pig in the World Government's laboratory that was being studied all the time in the next second.

"How about you go back to the Navy?"

With her current combat power, she would at least be a vice admiral if she returned to the Navy. With the protection of Yushura, Will, Zefa and others, the World Government should not tear off their face and be so cruel as to use the Navy's senior officials for experiments, right?

"Stop, stop, stop!" Cheng Xi stretched out her palm, trying to calm down this mess.

She untied the bandage on her arm, revealing the bloody and horrible wound inside, and then rubbed it back and forth vigorously, which made everyone gasp.

However, her violent destruction did not cause the wound to burst open. Instead, the skin here fell off her arm like a puddle of mud, and finally revealed the skin inside, except for a slight redness due to the strong rubbing, everything else was intact.

Having been friends with Cheng Xi for so many years, Rosinante seemed to understand her train of thought. She calmed down and asked, "Whose blood did you give to Lucci?"

Cheng Xi: "On the day of joining the CP organization, they will leave blood samples and spare blood. There are hundreds of milliliters in total."

"I went to one of their archive bases overnight last night, replaced the blood sample of a CP8 agent named Alpha with pig blood, stole her blood sample, and then pretended to be accidentally cut by a fruit knife. I used the power of the Makeup Fruit to create a fake wound and deliberately exposed Alpha's blood sample to Lucci's sight."

She spread her hands and looked cunning: "How could I let them get my precious O-type blood casually?"

Everyone was speechless. Indeed, O-type blood is indeed very precious in this world.

"Oh, by the way, I met Spandine in the base." She told Rosinante, "This is really a coincidence. I thought I would make time to find him later, but I didn't expect to bump into my sword. Hehe."

This hehe made her devilish tone and style interesting.

Rosinante seemed to want to remind her of something, but was interrupted by Cheng Xi.

"I know what you want to say. Spandane has a son who is the nominal leader of CP9."

"It's just a matter of convenience."

Spandane also inherited his father's despicable and cowardly genes. He has no advantages at all and is incredibly weak. Cheng Xi always held back when he beat him, for fear of accidentally beating him to death.

I don't know if Lucci will commit treason and usurp the throne to replace his boss when he returns to hand in the mission report and sees that his boss is covered in wounds.

After confirming that no one was seriously injured, with only some minor scratches and abrasions, Cheng Xi was relieved.

Then she looked at the messy and dilapidated house after a battle and fell into silence...

The landlord would scold her to death...

In this world, she was not afraid of the senior agents of the World Government, the pirates on the Four Emperors' ships, and the admirals of the navy with the highest combat power. What she was most afraid of was the landlord's aunt who kept scolding her for not taking care of the room. Last time, she was humble, bowed and apologized, and repeatedly assured the landlord's aunt to shut up her mouth that scolded Cheng Xi.

The fact is that people have to bow their heads under the eaves. No

matter how strong you are, you are afraid of the landlord.

Cheng Xi used Den Den Mushi to call the last decoration company. They were very fast and promised to arrive in half an hour.

Unknowingly, this decoration company has silently regarded Cheng Xi as their high-quality customer.

When the decoration company arrived, Xiao Shinobu and Kanae helped them clean and disinfect, and simply treated the wounds on their bodies.

At this time, Cheng Xi received another call from the sheriff on Furens Island, asking her to go to the port. Originally, Cheng Xi wanted to eat before going, but she saw the figure of the landlady walking into the store step by step through the big hole in the wall, so she chose to leave the store as quickly as possible and go to the port. She

took Kanae and Xiao Shinobu with her and handed the upcoming storm to the men in the store.

Good luck to you, Rosinante, Sakunosuke, and Junpei.

The little wizard beast can pretend to be a doll to escape this disaster.

Arriving at the port, I saw the sheriff holding several boxes in his hands. He and the island owner had been waiting on the shore for a while, looking at the sea from a distance, with a sad look on his face. Seeing Cheng Xi coming, his solemn expression was slightly relaxed and pointed to the distance.

Cheng Xi looked in the direction he pointed. It turned out that several pirate ships were slowly approaching the island. The sea breeze blew the pirate flags on the masts, and the pirates on the deck held their weapons and laughed wildly.

She scratched her index finger with her nail, and with blood as the medium, she drew a pattern spell that they couldn't understand and threw it to the sea.

"Ice for a thousand miles."

The bloody pattern merged into the sea water and disappeared quietly, but the sea water in the area around the port condensed into ice in an instant, and the sea surface became a crystal clear mirror, reflecting the golden glow of the sunset, sharp and beautiful.

And the pirate ships that were full of confidence and sailed to the island were also frozen several feet, and stopped in place and couldn't move.

Cheng Xi took out a tissue from his pocket and wrapped it around his finger to stop the bleeding, and asked: "Old island owner, did you call me here today to deal with these pirates?"

The island owner was stunned by her magical operation. He secretly analyzed the principle of seawater freezing for a long time but couldn't analyze it, and finally chose to give up.

"This is just one of the reasons." The island owner said, while signaling the sheriff next to him to open the box. These boxes are all flags of different camps.

There are flags of various camps, such as the Red Group, the Nine Snake Group, and the Navy Flag.

Cheng Xi pursed her lips and asked, "What does this mean?"

The island owner said that this was the protection given to her by those big men.

Cheng Xi's current situation is so dangerous that anyone with a little reputation on the sea wants to capture her to study how to revive her. Therefore, the various forces on Fuluns Island have increased dramatically in the past few months compared to the past.

However, this island does not have a fighting force that can match it. The island's sheriffs can catch small pirates, but if they compare with those big pirates, their strength is not enough. It happened that at this time, the big men sent flags representing their forces.

The Four Emperors, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Navy, these big men at the top of the food chain, as long as they accept the protection of one of them, they can deter most pirates.

The problem now is that there are too many people offering olive branches, but this island can only choose one to accept.

"If the rules didn't prohibit it, I really want to hang all these flags on the island. Then we'll see who dares to bully us, hum."

Cheng Xi complained: "No, old man, you hang them all on the island to build the United Nations?"

"What is the United Nations?"

"Oh, these are not important." Cheng Xi's eyes swept over the many flags. She could understand the red group, the nine snakes, and the seagull flag. After all, they were good friends, but why did Doflamingo come to join in the fun?

It seems that her relationship with this person who wears pink mink all year round regardless of the weather is not good enough?

What's the matter with the plane.

And Big Mom, it seems that her mind is not broad enough to provide shelter for those who have bullied her before, right?

The weasel is paying New Year's greetings to the chicken. Just because of her crazy look, if I take her flag, she might marry several husbands.

What the hell are they doing?

Her answer was loud and clear.

"I don't choose any of them."

With the island owner hesitant, she drew her sword and slashed at the pirate ship in the distance. A sword wind rushed away, swift and sharp, directly splitting the hull in half from the middle.

"I can protect myself."

Under the gaze of everyone, she jumped to the sky, took off her cloak, tied it to the flagpole as a flag, and wrote her name on the white cloak with the power of the fruit.

Cheng Xi.

"My name is Cheng Xi, and I am a swordsman. From today on, this island is under the protection of me, Cheng Xi. No matter who dares to make trouble, I will chop him."

The voice was not loud, but it was shocking and hit the depths of the soul.

It made everyone feel inexplicably at ease.

She saw that Mihawk, who was not far away, curved his mouth into an imperceptible arc after hearing her words.

Cheng Xi also smiled back at him.

When she realized that she was no longer hesitant when facing a person, tried her best to restrain herself, could smile at him calmly and dared to look him in the eye, this was the real relief.

The island owner knew that she was very strong, but he was still a little hesitant.

He continued to persuade: "But you are only one person after all. If you encounter any big dangers and troubles in the future, there will always be a time when you can't do it alone."

Cheng Xi said with a firm tone: "Someone will protect me at that time."

The island owner asked: "Who?"

Could it be more powerful than the Seven Warlords of the Sea?

"Kanae Kocho, Shinobu Kocho, Junpei Yoshino, Sakunosuke Oda..." She counted the names of these people one by one with her fingers.

The old man expressed doubts: "Who is Kanae Kocho? Why have I never heard of her name?"

Could it be some unknown underground force or the leader of a black gang?

Kocho Kanae looked at the island owner, her tone gentle, smiling: "My name is Kocho Kanae."

"She is your...?"

Cheng Xi: "Partner."

"If I get caught one day, I believe they will come to save me, right, Shinobu?"

"What a worrying store manager." Kocho Shinobu sighed, "Then you have to carry a Den Den Mushi with you, and remember to send me a message if you get caught."

"Yeah, okay."

The island owner doubted the strength of the two of them. In this world where the average height is two or three meters, Cheng Xi is already considered to be thin and delicate, and these two seem to be even thinner than her...

His doubts did not last for five minutes, and he saw these two girls who looked thin and weak in his eyes draw their swords and attack the pirates in the distance.

In addition to their gentle and kind personality, the flower pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps also has a powerful flower breath.

The foundation of their existence in the powerful world of ghosts and monsters is the Nichirin sword in their hands.

Any bad people or bad ghosts who look down on the flower pillar and the insect pillar will pay the price for their contempt.

It was already dark when the battle ended. The pirates who came to cause trouble were knocked down on the ice in various postures, twisting and groaning in pain. The two sisters put away their swords to put a perfect end to today's battle.

On the way home, Cheng Xi held everyone's flag in her hand very cherishedly, deliberately dawdling and walking very slowly. At first, Shinobu Kocho didn't understand why she was so comfortable facing several ships of pirates just now, but was hesitant and deliberately dragging her feet on the way home.

When she got home and saw the two dark faces of Oda Sakunosuke and Rosinante who were taught a lesson by the landlord's aunt, she finally understood the reason.

Cheng Xi went out this time, in the name of fighting pirates, but in fact to avoid nagging.

...

Two years later.

Cheng Xi was preparing coffee for the last customer at noon, and saw an unexpected customer pushing the door in.

Because she was too surprised, she blurted out and called out the man's name: "Sabo!?"