Chapter 432: Eagle Cooper
The "she" Arthur mentioned was not Gion, nor the Empress.
It was her real name in the memory when the ice dragon fused the power of extreme ice into his body.
"Practicing swordplay, living a normal life, and playing with pretty little girls is basically retirement life."
Living the life he had dreamed of before, there was a glimmer of sadness in Arthur's eyes.
The memories in the firelight made him realize deeply that everything he did was moving in a direction that was out of his control.
He killed so many people that even his own family members couldn't stand it and chose to commit suicide.
Gion gave up being a navy soldier and worked hard for him to realize his ideal peaceful world.
But in the end... everything went wrong.
"Why did I return to this era with my memories?" Arthur pondered under the starry night in the courtyard of the house.
Soon he thought of only one possibility.
"Kozuki Toki? That stupid woman..." Arthur read the name of the user of the Time Fruit and suddenly looked down at his chest.
Before his rebirth, when he destroyed and massacred the country of Wano.
Kozuki Toki infused a force into his body.
Arthur thought about it, analyzing and guessing.
The Time Fruit cannot allow people to go back to the past, but can only allow people to jump through time to the future.
Is there a possibility that this is the awakening ability of the Time Fruit?
Thinking of this, Arthur became uncertain.
Even if awakened, it can allow people to go to a timeline that has already happened.
Shouldn't that mean his real body will be teleported over?
Why did only his soul and memory return? And it was not symmetrical with the first time he came here.
The ice dragon disappeared, but the power of extreme ice remained in his body, and he could not feel the existence of the soul cage.
If he could be teleported here from his previous life, it would be the nightmare of this era.
But why did she do that? Arthur was puzzled. She killed everyone in her country, her sons, ministers, husbands, and people.
"Could it be... a parallel world?" Arthur thought more and more about it and sighed.
"I don't want to think about it anymore... Since I can be reborn, I will live this life well."
After roasting half of the venison, Arthur put it in his mouth and started to eat it.
The tendons of flesh were torn in his mouth, leaving clear lines. As a necessary source of nutrition for his body, he had to eat hard.
The way he eats is very primitive, but he doesn't have a kitchen or ingredients to cook a delicious meal.
In the dead of night, crickets are singing in the forest,
Arthur fell asleep lying on Fat Tiger, ending the exciting and shocking second day of his rebirth.
Gradually, he began to adapt and accept it all.
Perhaps somewhere in this world, there are the remains of a destroyed kingdom, and he will do his best to find it in the future.
A smile from the heart appeared on Arthur's face in his sleep.
It had been a long, long time since he last laughed in the true sense... He couldn't remember how long it had been. Basically, he had only felt crazy joy.
Time is blurry——
Early morning on July 10th.
On a hot summer day, a young eagle with injured wings and bleeding abdomen made a painful "kukuku" sound while flying over the island of Rapeseed Village.
"Cooper..." (Why do you treat me as an alien... exclude me... just because my voice is not loud enough... why do you treat me as an alien... exclude me...)
Its eyes were distracted yet determined, and it stubbornly endured the pain and flew across the sea to here.
At this moment, it was exhausted, and with the serious injuries on its body, it was no longer able to soar and take a look at the world.
Flying from the North Sea to the East Sea is its last struggle to express its desire to see what the overseas world looks like.
“Cool…?” (Is this…the end…?)
Its wings were stung and the scars on its abdomen revealed its internal organs, making it no longer able to spread its wings and fly to the next island.
The young eagle glanced at the island below. The dark green island was covered with lush green plants and seemed to be a good burial place.
The next second—
It gave up its final struggle and decided to let its body die on the land below.
The severe pain tore its wings, and the sky in the eyes of the young eagle suddenly collapsed.
His body spun out of control in the air and fell into the dark green island like a rock.
Fortunately, it did not fall directly to the ground and die, but fell into a pile of bushes under the cushioning of the tree crown and branches.
"Ku...Ku..." Pain swirled in the throat. The young eagle looked up at the sky through the gaps in the bushes, as if saying final goodbye to the world.
Just then, a rustling sound was heard all around, as if some creature was approaching and stopped in front of the bushes.
A pair of small hands pulled aside the bushes, and a human child with red and hot faces, who looked somewhat cute, appeared before it.
Driven by the desire to survive, Cooper's originally distracted eyes suddenly widened in horror as he stared at the human in front of him.
"Ouch?" (What strange creature is screaming, and there is a bloody smell?)
At this moment, Fat Tiger stuck his head, which was bigger than the young eagle, into the bushes and stared at the injured young eagle.
When the young eagle saw the tiger's face, it was as if it had seen the god of death. Terror instantly filled his face and he fainted on the spot.
"Ah——!" Seeing this, Arthur picked up a wooden stick and hit Fat Tiger on the head angrily, scolding, "Don't interrupt me at this time! It's very timid!"
Fat Tiger, who was hit on the head with a stick, lay on the ground covering his head, not knowing why he was beaten by Arthur.
A big bump gradually rose on the head.
"Let's go home... go home..." Arthur gently picked up the young eagle's body and carefully ran from the forest to the house at the entrance of the forest.
Nothing had ever made him so nervous.
The entrance to the forest, at the door of Arthur's house.
Leia waited outside the door for a long time with some medicine and a bucket of milk.
Seeing Arthur running hurriedly from the forest holding an eagle, he immediately said to him, "The medicine and milk you asked for, plus the running fee, will cost two... thousand Baileys."
Arthur returned home, took the medicine and milk from her, then gave her two thousand Baileys and ran into the house seriously.
This made Leia, who had been teased by Arthur for seven days, feel a little strange. Why was Arthur so serious today?
I usually say some dirty words...
She suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and walked towards her home in the village alone. "I paid for you out of my own pocket. Medical supplies are very expensive, you know, little brother."
I do not know how long it has been--
The young eagle woke up from its coma, and for the first time the dazzling light made it unable to open its sharp eyes.
It subconsciously used its wings to cover itself, only to find that its wings were bare, covered in white bandages and a strange herbal smell.
Some of the feathers on the abdomen were also shaved off and wrapped tightly with bandages.
"Cooper..." (I am not dead...)
In the kitchen, Arthur stood on a stool and used a kitchen knife to accurately prepare deep-sea fish sashimi.
Each piece was just big enough for Cooper's mouth to swallow.
Its body size is now less than one meter, a little over half a meter, very small, just a young eagle about two or three months old.
"Meeting again will only make me cherish it more than the last time..." Arthur muttered. He had been through so much, but nothing had ever made him so excited.
