Chapter 253 Weight

Facing Yana's questioning, Arthur smiled gently, looked at her silently, and said nothing for a long time.

This action seemed to give Yana the answer in her mind. She looked into Arthur's eyes for about two minutes. Then she stuffed the bag of money in her hand into Arthur's palm and ran madly towards the naval base.

Along the way, I kept reminding myself frantically, words like impossible, impossible, etc.

Arthur took the money and did not chase after him. Instead, he went into the hotel and booked a luxurious private room.

He didn't know how to make Yana accept him, and he didn't know how to face his daughter.

This is completely different from the feeling of fighting an enemy and being finished with one strike...

This was Arthur's first time dealing with parent-child relationships. He only knew how to fight and had no idea what to do in this regard.

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Yana hurried back to the naval base and broke into Gion's office directly. She saw Gion sitting behind his desk, concentrating on handling today's official business.

"Mom! Something weird happened!" Yana rushed to the desk with an anxious look on her face and looked at Gion who was still concentrating on his work.

As if he knew what was going on, Gion didn't even look at Yana, but stared at the documents on the table regarding the mobilization of North Korean troops.

She pretended to respond: "What's weird?"

"I just saw a man who is not much older than me offering a bounty of 37 billion Baileys. His name is Arthur. I felt very close to him when I was in close contact with him!" Yana hurriedly told what happened.

"And then?" Gion grinned and looked at the panicked Yana.

"Mom!" Yana frowned in surprise. "Why do you care about this? The reward is 37 billion, which is comparable to a Four Emperor in the New World! The most important thing is the name. Don't you think it's weird?"

"This sea is full of wonders. What's so strange?" Gion said again.

"Did you do this on purpose, Mommy?" Yana's brain quickly analyzed the situation and said to Gion, "You never asked me to patrol at night, but today you insisted on asking me to patrol at night! Then I met that guy again... Did you know that he looked at me in a very gentle way? It was like... the feeling of a parent staring at his own daughter!"

"Pfft..." Gion couldn't help but laugh when he heard that, and asked curiously, "What else did he say to you?"

She had no doubt about Yana's strong analytical ability and keen perception.

Whenever Yana encounters an event, based on what happened before and some intelligence provided, she will most likely be able to analyze the general situation of the event, and she will be very accurate, without exception.

"You're laughing...you know who he is, right?" Yana said, noticing that something was wrong with her mother.

"Who do you think he is? Yana, based on your accurate intuition," Gion asked again.

"Could it be my father?! But he is too young, right?" Yana recalled Arthur's appearance and stared at Gion with a frown.

Arthur now looks to be in his 20s at most, but he is actually 43 years old and will be 44 in a few months.

"Yana, I don't want to hide it from you." Gion adjusted his state and confessed: "He is your father. Seeing how panicked you are, maybe he doesn't know how to face you."

Yana was almost stunned, her eyes widened in shock as she looked at Gion and said, "Are you kidding me? Is it true that there is a pirate with a bounty of 37 billion?!"

"A lot of things happened more than 20 years ago, Yana, and it's hard to explain them to you all at once." Gion explained: "Is he still in town? If he hasn't left, he must be thinking about you a lot."

"He should still be there. I treated him as a down-and-out prodigal and gave him the purse." Yana said again.

"Then you can look for him all the time, or, you will never be able to find him or see him, but he is secretly watching you. Your father is so weird." Gion said, shaking his shoulders and rolling his eyes.

Even as one of Arthur's closest women, she simply couldn't understand what kind of person Arthur was.

Cold, yet gentle sometimes.

Not indifferent, he always does some brutal actions that shock the world.

"Tsk... What an elusive guy." Gion was a little overwhelmed when he thought about it. He held his head and said to Yana: "Go and rest first, Yana, since he chose this way to see you, he will definitely not leave. If you want, go find him tomorrow."

Yana clenched her fists and responded decisively: "Of course I will go! I have one last question...Mommy."

"Say it."

"Dad, he has such a high bounty, but you have a good impression of him. Is he strong?"

This question made Gion startled, and after a moment of thinking, he responded to Yana: "Let me tell you this, silly daughter, no one in this sea dares to face him alone."

"What about someone as powerful as the Four Emperors themselves?!"

"Not qualified." Gion shook his head and responded: "His domineering aura is enough to shock everything."

Both the bounty order and the person himself gave Arthur a great shock.

With Gion's personal confirmation of his identity, Yana felt that her father was indeed a big star, the kind that was reviled by the world.

She didn't know how many times she had fantasized about hugging her father and feeling his love.

The next morning——.

The sun rises high overseas in the town of G-13 base.

In the hotel, Arthur lay in bed and stayed awake almost all night, with Yana's face all over his mind.

He didn't know what was wrong with him, but the moment he saw his daughter, a ray of light was forced to open up in his cold and dark heart.

It seems like I have a new goal, and my motivation becomes endless.

The next day, on the main street of the town, at noon.

Arthur folded his arms and leaned against the wall, leaning against the door of the hotel.

He swung Yana's purse in his hand and looked at the colorful crowd on the town streets.

With a natural smile on his face, he waited patiently for someone to come.

A moment later, Yana, dressed in everyday clothes, appeared on the street not far from the hotel.

From a distance, she was looking at Arthur, who was throwing money bags outside the hotel with a faint smile on his face.

"So handsome... Is he really my... father?" Yana could hardly resist the beaming smile that Arthur put on.

There is a kind of unruly and evil charm, which is very attractive.

Yana stamped her feet on the spot, prepared herself mentally, and walked towards the door of the hotel where Arthur was staying.

She came outside the inn, her teeth chattering with excitement, and stood in front of Arthur.

Arthur looked up at her, his eyes narrowed: "What's wrong with you? Do you have dental hyperactivity?"

"No...no!" Yana tried her best to refute when she heard this. She was so excited that even though she was mentally prepared, she found it difficult to suppress her inner panic.

"I'm returning this purse to you. You spent one thousand Baileys on your stay at the hotel last night." Arthur handed the purse to her and suddenly smiled at her silly expression.

"Um...um..." After taking the purse, Yana stuttered and asked Arthur the question in her mind:

"Did you throw the bounty last night?"

"I threw it at your feet." Arthur responded straightforwardly, without disguising: "This is not a place to talk, let's go somewhere with fewer people."

"Okay...okay..." After learning about Arthur's identity, Yana could no longer be as natural as she was last night. Her body was shaking with excitement.

Seeing Yana's look, Arthur seemed to understand and guessed that the other party already knew his identity.

The two of them talked all the way until they reached the outskirts of the town and the western coast of the island.

The sea breeze blew by, and Arthur looked at the calm sea.

"I know you will come to see me again. I am actually very confused." Arthur broke the awkward atmosphere and said to her:

“I don’t know how to communicate with my daughter whom I have never met.”

As soon as the words came out, Yana rushed into Arthur's arms, hugged him tightly with both hands, and tears filled her eyes.

This unexpected hug almost stunned Arthur.

"Dad!" Yana hugged Arthur and cried out with sobs: "I finally see you."

The palm of his hand touched Arthur's thin black robe for a moment.

Yana felt the exaggerated bumping sensation through the clothes.

At first she wondered if Arthur was wearing anything beneath his black robe.

When I opened my eyes, I could clearly see the creepy scars on his neck.

"What is this?" Yana ignored Arthur's flowers and suddenly shouted again, "What are these things!"

When she was about to lift up Arthur's black robe to find out more, Arthur suddenly stopped her by grabbing her wrist.

I was almost shouting at the top of my lungs. It was hard to imagine how many battles a person had to go through to have so many scars.

"It's just a sign of growth, Yana, you'd better not look at it."

"Okay! I won't look at you. I'll just hold you like this, okay!" Yana hugged Arthur tightly: "But I'm going to hold you like this for the whole day, and you won't be able to run away again!"

She was very satisfied with the image she had expected.

Handsome, great, and must have a story that was worthy of a fairy tale. At this moment, Arthur in her mind was simply perfect.

Arthur was held in her arms like this and spent the whole day at the beach. Even when the sun slowly sank into the seabed, she did not let go.

I thought I would wait until she calmed down and then talk to her about her true feelings.

Until the dead of night.

On the coast, Arthur stood bewildered, listening to the sound of the tide, and patted Yana on the shoulder:

"Hey, haven't you hugged me enough?"

"No!" Yana's stomach growled and she choked up, "I'm afraid if I let go, I'll never see you again!"

"How long are you going to hold me for?" Arthur asked her patiently without much resistance.

"Hold me for one more day, no, two more days! I can hold you, Dad, for two more days before I can calm down my longing for you for so many years!"

"Uh...are you hungry?" Arthur asked about her condition.

"Woo woo, I'm not hungry at all, but my stomach is growling loudly."

When Arthur heard this, he slapped his face with his hands and made a sound from the bottom of his heart for the first time.

It's like putting on a sticky little cotton jacket, a particularly sticky one.

"I heard from Gion that you are practicing sword seriously?"

"Ah."

"Then I have a gift for you, do you want it?"

"Yes!" Yana was still choking.

In Arthur's opinion, she was just being coquettish and clingy, but at this moment, Yana had already felt the weight of the scars on Arthur's body throughout the day.

It almost suffocated her, and she couldn't imagine what her father had been through.

Arthur didn't let her know about the past, so she used her own way to experience it personally, even if it caused misunderstandings.

The next moment, Yana saw Arthur reaching into the air with his bare hands and taking out an ancient scabbard.

"This First Generation Kitetsu is given to you. It is a demon sword, extremely sharp."

"Hand...what's going on? A devil fruit user?" Yana thought to herself, suddenly looking horrified.

This kind of supernatural power is not recorded in the Devil Fruit Manual.

From the tone just now, he was 100% sure that Arthur was his father.

There was absolutely no way there could be any mistake. It was impossible for such a person whom I had never met before to have such a terrifying sense of familiarity.

For the very sentimental Yana, she had never felt this way with anyone.

"The first generation of Kitetsu?!" When Yana saw Arthur giving her a gift, she immediately let go of him.