Chapter 67 The disappearing time
"I want to tell you, Arthur, no one can go back to the past, and everything can start over from now on."
"I... I'll try my best." Arthur lowered his eyelids, and his deep eyes could no longer find the luster they had a year ago.
As he spoke, Roger suddenly burst into laughter: "I can't imagine the expressions of Newgate, Ski, and the navy when they see you join our group, hahahaha."
Looking at Roger in front of him, Arthur finally found a home for himself, a place that could protect his safety.
Given Roger's personality, he would never tolerate any member of his ship being chased and assassinated by others.
No need to worry about the CP secret intelligence agency assassinating people at any time, no need to worry about sneak attacks...
Arthur returned to the party and saw Cooper, who was already drunk, dancing the Kun dance that he had taught him in front of the crowd.
"Hahaha~"
"What kind of dance is that? It can actually make people so happy. It's so funny. Haha."
"The eagle suddenly turned into a chicken..." This sentence from a crew member successfully made Cooper attack it.
As a bird of prey, it hates being called a chicken the most, as they are not creatures of the same level.
Rayleigh took a sip from the bottle and looked at Arthur who came out of Captain Roger's room. He waved and said hello to him: "Arthur, come here."
Arthur is no longer naive, and exudes a maturity and stability far beyond his 15 years.
"..." At the banquet, Buggy, who had been on tenterhooks, saw Arthur walking towards Rayleigh and couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "The joining of these two monsters has completely destroyed the peace on our ship, Shanks!"
Shanks was full of curiosity about Arthur and looked at him with a smile on his face: "I really want to know how strong he is. How strong is he now compared to Captain Roger and Rayleigh?"
Arthur came to Rayleigh and watched him drinking with everyone.
On the other hand, I, who am always on guard, am out of tune with the joyful atmosphere on the pirate ship.
"Once we arrive at Gemini Cape, I will test your strength, Arthur." Rayleigh said to Arthur with a slightly tipsy face.
He really wanted to know what level of strength Arthur, who was stronger than Barrett, had now.
During this period, his various shocking combat stories were spread all over the sea, making it hard not to be curious.
"No problem." Arthur agreed without hesitation, and also found that his current cold personality was incompatible with the atmosphere of Roger's pirate group.
It seems that people gradually become less talkative after losing something.
"Are you okay with your injuries?" Rayleigh looked at the red bandages on Arthur's body and asked with concern, "Do you want to change clothes or something?"
"My physique is quite special, and my injuries will completely heal in a few days. I'd better not change my clothes, just wash them. Even if they are a bit sloppy, it will remind me of my current level of strength and keep me awake."
Arthur's answer surprised Rayleigh a little. He had no doubt that he had a special physique. If an ordinary person was still alive after suffering such serious injuries, it would definitely be a rare miracle.
He glanced at the partially torn robe on Arthur's body, and fixed his eyes on the ice dragon on Arthur's waist: "Your physique is indeed very strange. It is obviously not hard, but it allows you to maintain your original fighting power after being fatally injured..."
To this day, Arthur still has scars from being cut by Rayleigh and his men during the battle in the Sphinx Sea.
"You're not a Devil Fruit user, are you? Why can you release the power of ice? That kind of extreme cold can give almost anyone a headache."
Rayleigh looked at Arthur's knife and seemed to have the answer in his mind.
Following Rayleigh's line of sight, Arthur also looked at his own sword: "The power of extreme ice and extreme cold all come from this sword. I still cannot fully unleash its power, and it has saved my life many times in battle."
In Roger's pirate group, everyone listened to Arthur carefully and was very curious about everything about him.
"What an enviable and gorgeous sword! Can you let me see it?" Rayleigh requested. He really wanted to know what a sword with a blade containing ice element looked like.
Arthur hesitated for a moment, took off the Ice Dragon Scabbard from his waist, and handed it to Rayleigh.
Rayleigh took the knife and pulled it out impatiently. He was attracted by the shining silver light of the blade at first sight. It was so exquisite and flawless.
"This quality..." Rayleigh bent the Ice Dragon blade and found that it was not moving at all. He was shocked and said to Buggy beside him:
"Bucky, go get Roger's Ace and let me compare them."
"Huh? Why me... Deputy Captain?"
"Just go when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
To compare the Supreme Blade Ace with the Ice Dragon? Arthur narrowed his eyes slightly.
After a while, Buggy came out of the cabin holding a Western knife and handed it to Rayleigh: "This is a supreme sword, deputy captain, how can his sword compare with the captain's?"
Rayleigh compared the two blades and came to a conclusion that shattered his understanding of the grade of blades.
"As we all know, the Supreme Sword is the highest quality blade in the world. Your sword... completely crushes this quality." Rayleigh said, waving Arthur's ice dragon.
He even used his domineering aura, trying to unleash the power of extreme ice, but apart from being sharp, no cold air came out of the sword.
Even so, he was still attracted by the sharpness and toughness of the knife, but it was a pity that it was not his.
"How did you unleash that extreme icy power?" Rayleigh was surprised. Logically speaking, his strength was stronger than Arthur, so it should be easy for him to unleash the power of the blade.
However, the cold and frost he had imagined did not appear at all.
"Inject physical strength and domineering power, and it will come out with a light wave. Can't you do it?" Arthur looked at Rayleigh waving his knife in the air, and a shocking guess emerged in his mind.
Could it be that, except myself, no one else can unleash the power of this knife?
It shouldn't be like that. It's just a weapon. Weapons are meant to be used by the strong. No matter how sharp it is, this kind of phenomenon shouldn't happen.
"Why can't I? That's strange. I'll give it back to you, Arthur." Rayleigh tried and found that he couldn't use the power of extreme ice at all, so he returned the knife to Arthur.
"It seems that the analysis is correct. This knife..." Arthur took the knife, put it on his waist and looked at it: "I think only I can exert the power of this knife."
"Bound to your body? When I came here, it was on me..."
Suddenly, Arthur asked Rayleigh, "Rayleigh, what year and date is it now in the Haiyuan calendar?"
"Huh? Don't you know the time? Christmas is coming soon. We plan to spend it in the Sabaody Archipelago and then enter the New World to start our final adventure."
Christmas, December 12th, Arthur, who had been being hunted, had no idea of the time.
I just realized now that I have turned 16 without realizing it.
"Have I been at sea two years? It seems as if I have been idle for twelve years."
During the two years at sea, Arthur felt as if his time had disappeared. After being put on the bounty list, he did not notice the passage of time.
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