Chapter 319: Learning from the Pain
Crunch, crunch.
Inside the swaying cabin, the loose boards beside the bed creaked.
"Cooper...I ate a ton of fat beef today..."
The unconscious Arthur opened his eyes in the cabin, staring blankly at the ceiling and talking in his sleep.
As his consciousness gradually became clearer, he realized that he had had a very long dream.
The hull drifted slightly with the waves, and outside the window, seagulls wearing hats flew in groups to all parts of the world.
Arthur, who had just woken up, suddenly had violent convulsions all over his body.
The muscles, skin, and even bones were making crisp sounds.
He was in so much pain that his face remained expressionless, and he didn't even care about the strange condition of his body.
The convulsions lasted about two or three minutes, followed by an itching sensation in the chest.
Arthur suddenly sat up, curled up and spit out a large amount of black blood on the floor beside the bed.
I can't feel any strength in my body.
It seemed as if any gentle sea breeze could blow him to the ground.
After vomiting black blood, Arthur grabbed the edge of the bed, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at what he vomited on the floor.
Outside the cabin, Yana, who heard the noise, pushed open the cabin door anxiously and ran to Arthur's bedside.
Slowly help him up and put him back on the bed.
Arthur lay in bed, feeling severe pain in the bones and nerves in his chest.
In this world, domineering is the source of life and power.
Even Arthur could not bear the backlash of overspending beyond his own ability.
Arthur can recover quickly from both external and internal injuries.
The only thing is that the overdrawn domineering aura is difficult to recover as fast as the body recovers.
"Where am I, Xiaona?" Arthur looked at his daughter with a dead gray look in his eyes and asked.
"On the way back to Mommy's G Division base, are you hungry, Daddy? I'll go make you something to eat."
Yana took Arthur's calloused hand and rubbed it, trying not to mention the sad things.
"I can't eat. I have no appetite at all." Arthur was very hungry and thirsty.
But I don’t want to eat anything, or even move.
"You are so weak, how can you not eat?!"
"Go out, Xiaona, leave me alone for a while." Arthur turned his head and faced the wooden hull.
"No, you have to eat!" Not only did Yana not listen, she also held Arthur's hand tightly.
Arthur, who was already on the verge of a mental breakdown and tried hard to control himself in front of his daughter, suddenly became furious.
"I told you to get out! No one is allowed to come near me!"
This roar also caused the pain in Arthur's overdrawn body to surge up like a flood.
Torturing him severely.
Arthur endured the pain silently, and a few seconds later he heard choked sobs behind him.
"I understand..." Yana cried sadly and got up and left.
Hearing his daughter's cry, Arthur's heart softened and he suddenly shouted:
"Wait, Xiaona... bring me a meal."
Arthur found it hard to bear the thought that Gion had also been sacrificed and his daughter had lost everything.
Yana remained silent after hearing this and cleaned up the black blood on the ground.
He stood outside the cabin door for a few seconds, then closed it and left.
The room fell silent. Arthur gritted his teeth and looked meaningfully at the black knife on the bedside table.
Arthur wanted to say something harsh, but Nai's current body was simply not strong enough to control her.
Being weak made him completely lack confidence.
This knife is a real devil.
At such a critical moment, his power was actually cut off.
She made the decision for him and put an end to his decision to go to Marijoa and cause a scene.
"Hmph." Arthur became angrier the more he thought about it, and showed a disdainful expression towards his own knife.
He put on the coat hanging on the hanger beside the bed, endured the pain, and held on to the board.
Step by step, he walked out of the cabin.
This time, he did not bring the ice dragon with him, and was very unhappy with her behavior of advocating to stop him.
As soon as he got out of the cabin, the dazzling sunlight made Arthur unable to open his eyes.
But I quickly adapted and stood at the front of the bow.
Looking at the blue sea and the seagulls selling newspapers all over the world.
"I came here alone... and now I am alone again."
Cooper's death taught Arthur two things he must experience in life.
loyalty.
death!
Facing Cooper's death, even though his body was overdrawn and so weak that he could hardly walk.
Arthur couldn't let it go either.
The cost of this lesson is too heavy, more difficult to accept than any previous experience.
"We've killed so many people, so tragic death will be the inevitable outcome, right?
But I don't believe in fate, Cooper, I will come back again!"
Arthur stretched out his hand to feel the sea breeze, and recalled the airflow generated when he was riding on Cooper's back and soaring into the sky.
In the past, he didn't believe that he would ever be separated from Cooper.
Now I feel the pain myself.
The enemy's sword had not caused him such pain.
"I really want to go back to when I first came here, knowing the meaning of life and no longer struggling for ambition." Arthur said, looking at the blue sea.
When he saw a sea king appear on the sea in the distance, he concluded that this was the waters of the Grand Line.
His body after the battle is not even as good as that of an ordinary person.
Arthur tried to move his limbs and felt that a baby with a knife could kill him now.
Is this the price of being overly domineering and overdrawing your limits?
"dad?!!"
After a while of reflection, Yana's scream was heard in the cabin.
Yana, who was carrying food and searching for Arthur all over the ship, suddenly kicked open the cabin door.
When I arrived at the cabin and looked around, I found Arthur standing at the bow facing the sea.
"Dad! Don't scare me. You are my only relative!"
She hurried behind Arthur to check on him.
On the tray in his hand was a fried fish weighing more than ten pounds and a large glass of orange juice.
“What happened to Cooper, Gion, Stussy, Shakey, their bodies?
How many days was I in a coma?
Arthur calmed down and asked his daughter about the situation.
“Mommy… They are in the cabin, and I decided to transport them back to the G12 base for burial.
That’s where my mother stayed for decades, so it can be considered a return to her hometown.”
Yana said with her head down, her sad expression showing again.
"What a calm and resilient character, even though she looks like a fragile girl."
Arthur noticed that Yana showed a tenacity that ordinary people did not have when dealing with this kind of thing.
However, the corners of her eyes were red, probably because she cried again and again in private.
It's just like when Arthur first arrived and got hurt, he liked to find a deserted place to faint.
Bear everything alone and silently.
"Eat, Dad!" Yana shook her head and handed the tray to Arthur:
“Although these are not delicacies from the mountains and the sea, these are the only things we have to eat now.
But I'll feed you, Dad."
Arthur stared at Yana for a few seconds, opened his mouth with disdain, and cooperated with her.
"Why do I feel that Dad is a little arrogant?" Yana stared at Arthur for a long time, thinking.
After dinner——.
Arthur walked into the cabin and checked each cabin one by one.
In a cabin, Yalu was found lying naked on the bed with a blonde girl.
The two of them snuggled together, with the white sheet covering them.
"..." Yana stood behind Arthur and turned around with a serious face.
I couldn't bear to see this brother's behavior.
Arthur just kept staring at Yaluo without any scruples.
"Huh?" After a moment, Yaluo suddenly became alert and turned to look outside the cabin.
Then he noticed Arthur's pale and bloodless face, like a murderous ghost.
He was so frightened that he trembled all over and shouted:
"Dad!!! What are you doing!"
"What have you done to Sakaski's daughter?" Arthur asked him.
His eyes quickly scanned the sheets.
Soon he noticed a hint of red and his brows instantly furrowed.
Yunque also woke up after hearing Yaluo's scream, and knelt on the bed, wrapped in the quilt.
He lowered his head straightly towards Arthur, saying nothing.
"This is my business, it has nothing to do with you, right!?"
"I can't stand it!" Yana heard her brother disrespecting Arthur.
He immediately clenched his fists, walked past Arthur in front of the door, went in and beat up Yaluo.
"Your words are not right, and your actions are not proper! I have wanted to beat you up for a long time!"
Arthur watched Yana scolding Yaluo with an expressionless face, without any ripple in his heart.
Instead, he observed Yun Que, holding tightly to the white cloth, trying to cover his body.
Sakaski and the two emperors are still trapped in the soul cage.
"What's the noise, in the middle of the day!" In the corridor, in another cabin.
A tall old man with two axes hanging around his waist, thick hair down to his waist, and an extremely sturdy physique suddenly walked out.
Arthur looked down the corridor and saw that his body was like a giant bear, extremely powerful.
"Jabba." Arthur called out the name of the familiar person in front of him.
Jabba laughed and walked over to Arthur to see what was going on in the room.
I wanted to pat Arthur hard as a customary way of saying hello.
Jabba sensed Arthur's aura.
There was no sense of dominance from him, and his body seemed so weak that he would fall down if pushed.
Just like an ordinary person, with one foot halfway into the gate of hell.
