Chapter 521: Wells Town! A Strange World
The townspeople threw in their sympathetic kindnesses, and soon she had a pile of Baileys in front of her.
"Something's wrong." Arthur paused for a moment and looked at the port sign not far away.
The street signs listed the names of the streets in the east, west, south and north of "Wales".
The sea outside Yuewan is very clear, and the first impression it gives people is beauty.
Five or six fishing boats were fishing near the coast, and many single-sail trading ships left the port one after another.
The bustling harbor, the harmonious coexistence of the common people, and the prosperous appearance...
Such a harmonious town was not the Welsh town he remembered.
"I also feel something is wrong..." Leia knelt on the ground, staring at the Baileys and swallowed.
"But we really have no choice, we have to take the money!"
Arthur's face darkened as he looked at her longingly. They were not on the same topic.
Feng's clothes were torn by holes caused by a sharp hammer. After being exposed to wind and sun for several days, he looked more like a beggar.
Not to mention that they were wearing patched clothes, flip-flops, messy hair, and sloppy looks, so they were naturally mistaken for beggars.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your kindness!" Leia hurriedly held the money in front of her and put it in her pocket.
No one knew that she had been following Arthur for several years. She looked very beautiful when dressed up and had a strong figure, comparable to those celebrity supermodels advertised in newspapers.
But now she was just a woman like Arthur, wearing rags and with her hair covered with seaweed and solidified salt crystals.
"Hmph." Arthur, dissatisfied with his self-esteem, stood up and was about to leave, but found that his body was shaking as if he had low blood sugar.
I was so hungry that my body was shaking. I had been eating fish, fish, and more fish these days.
"Fuck..." Arthur felt the changes in his body and was very surprised.
"My body didn't have so many problems in my previous life, what happened?
Is it because of the growing age? That shouldn’t be right…”
He looked around and found that Feng suddenly disappeared from the surroundings.
I turned my head sharply and saw that he was begging at the port, imitating Leia's example.
Arthur glanced at them both with disdain, then turned around and found that many town guards had rushed to the port, surrounded Fat Tiger, and were about to arrest him.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Arthur hurried over to stop them and shouted at them.
"This tiger doesn't bite people. It's a pet, a pet tiger!"
"Such a big one, but it doesn't bite people?" The captain of the guard talked to Arthur.
"Are you kidding me? What if someone gets hurt?"
"Hey, wait a minute!" Arthur explained quickly, "Look, there's an eagle on my shoulder. We're both pets."
"Ah..." Fat Tiger saw Arthur coming to smooth things over, and he lay on the ground and yawned obediently.
It seemed that no one here recognized them.
In order to explain clearly, Arthur patted Fat Tiger all over.
The tiger's buttocks, tail and other sensitive parts were all shown to the guards, and finally they were asked to try it themselves, which made them so happy and their emotional value was maximized that they were able to escape.
Before leaving, he took a target as a label and hung it around Fat Tiger's neck.
It says: Well-behaved pet tiger, no bite.
The guard left after receiving a satisfactory answer, leaving some instructions.
"Bad habits!" Arthur sent them away, but stood there in a daze with his fists clenched.
"This damned social etiquette, this damned underworld custom! It makes someone like me bow my head..."
But after a while, he sighed weakly.
Fortunately, this is the Grand Line. If it were the Four Seas, Fat Tiger would probably have to go to jail.
"It's hard to describe how a person like me has to be humbled."
He pouted and looked at the two people who were begging for Bailey not far away with an unhappy face.
On second thought, isn’t it a good thing that they are able to beg?
No one here knows them, and they can get a free meal without having to eat fish.
"Well, let's go, Cooper." Arthur took Cooper to other parts of the harbor.
"Only the weak beg. We are the strong and we must stand tall!"
He shook his short hair, which gradually dried up under the sun. The short hair looked like a ball of seaweed covering his head. It would be a miracle if someone could recognize him with a bounty warrant.
From time to time, in order to investigate the situation underground, he would lie on the ground and listen to the movements underground, to see if there were any ghosts calling out.
In his previous life, when Ao Shuang cut the ground, the island was immediately split into two by the tide, and countless corpses and souls emerged from under the foundation.
The devil fruit related to the soul also floated out and was swallowed by Ao Shuang.
"That's not right, judging by my hearing." Arthur muttered to himself, his left ear pressed against the hot ground.
"Even if I don't split the ground, I should be able to hear the movement below, but there is no sound at all!"
The fat tiger who followed him lay on the street, waving his tiger claws and shaking the label on his chest at the civilians passing by.
Many people quickly gathered around, thinking it was some kind of animal show, and threw Baileys in front of it.
There are even Bailey coins with denominations of over a hundred yuan.
"Haha, Tiger Tiger who doesn't bite is so cute! He's like a big cat, so soft."
"Awoo~!" (Don't come up and rub against me, human!) Fat Tiger called out meekly to show that he was harmless.
There is no way to stop people from checking it out as a landscape.
After Arthur stood up, he was stunned where he was. Surrounded by the crowd, he subconsciously covered the knife at his waist.
He also watched the coins falling to the ground in an endless stream, unable to stay still any longer.
"Hey, bro! Are you guys going to do some acrobatics show tonight? I'll definitely buy a ticket to see it!"
"..." Arthur was stunned, his breathing became more and more rapid, and he became more and more angry, thinking,
“What a joke… What a joke!!”
Time flies, and we are in a busy pub on the coast of Crescent Harbor in the Welsh town.
Arthur looked depressed and drank beer madly.
He investigated for a whole day and even went to check the situation underground.
There were no screams of wronged souls or mountains of bones.
"I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of, Captain." Feng said while eating the egg fried rice in the bowl.
"We were shipwrecked and our lives were hanging by a thread. Besides, no one knew us, and they were kind enough to give us money. What's wrong with that?"
"Well... I just want to live better and in the present." Leia said while eating food in big mouthfuls.
"I'm different from you. I absolutely cannot abandon such pride!" Arthur put down his glass and glanced at them.
"But if you ask me to enjoy it, I won't feel uncomfortable at all."
"Cooper!" (That's right! Never!) Cooper shouted at them with a stern face.
"You're brave, little one!" Arthur was proud of Cooper when he heard his response.
"Be a man with backbone!"
After his rebirth, everything around Arthur changed.
Even he, who was six years old and hunting in the mountains, has changed.
The only thing that hasn't changed is Cooper.
Seeing Leia's self-blame, Arthur put aside his pride and pointed at the wine glass.
"But the beer is delicious."
"Haha, huh!" Leia's unhappy expression instantly disappeared when she heard his words.
"Living in the present is the most important thing. Didn't you teach me that? I don't care what others think!"
"Awooo!" (So noisy!) A tiger roar came from the fat tiger who was lying on the sofa behind the table where Arthur was sitting and resting.
Suddenly, everyone in the tavern was stunned and looked at this group of ragged guys.
During the day, everyone in the port knew Fat Tiger, so no one was afraid at all.
"What did it...say? Can't you translate it, little brother?"
Someone asked Arthur, curious about this huge tiger that didn't bite.
Arthur curled his lips and looked down on them, "Said you guys were making too much noise."
In an instant, the entire pub cheered even more and raised their glasses to celebrate Fat Tiger, the tiger that doesn't bite.
"Ah! I really can't stand it! I almost don't recognize this world anymore!"
Arthur put down his glass, covered his ears and walked out of the tavern, not feeling happy at all.
Outside the tavern, night gradually approached, and Arthur sighed as he looked at the afterglow on the sea.
"This isn't the world I know. It's so weird!"
"Cooper?" (Arthur, what kind of world do you know?)
"It was cruel and twisted, with killing and bloodshed happening every moment. I grew up in that environment."
Cooper thought for a moment, then called out, "Cooper." (I see. I'm not that miserable, I've just been discriminated against by my family.)
"Go back, go back to the East China Sea and hide there, it's better than fighting every day."
