Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

“Young people today are really scary.”

Kizaru glanced at his chest, his face calm and composed.

He did not leave, but prepared to wait for the results on the island.

If things really get out of control, he will have to volunteer to work overtime without pay today.

If he really tried his best to kill Uta, even the Emperor of the Sea might not be able to save him.

As night falls, a cool jade plate hangs in the sky, emitting faint moonlight that pushes away the clouds.

"Let me go, you bastard! Perverted uncle, don't think I'll let you go just because you're Luffy's partner!"

Back at the concert, Uta, who was carried on his shoulders, kept struggling and punched Reiner's back with his fists.

Reiner didn't care and just treated it as a free massage. He walked to the stage and threw Uta to the ground.

boom.

"Ouch! That hurts."

Uta fell to the ground, covering her hips with her hands, a tear welled up from the corner of her eye, and she looked up at Reiner angrily again.

"Can't you be a little gentler to a lady?"

"Give me back the sleepless mushroom!"

Uta rushed up and reached out to grab the basket from Reiner's hand.

Reiner didn't stop her and let her take the sleepless mushroom.

Uta sat back on the ground, leaning against the high stone steps, and looked up in surprise at Reiner, to whom she had snatched the Sleeping Mushroom so easily.

"Why did you save me just now?"

Picking up a sleepless mushroom and putting it in his mouth, Uta asked while chewing.

Saving Uta from the navy didn't make her like him much, but at least they could communicate normally.

Reiner did not respond to her question, but asked:

"Do you think the world you created is really the so-called new era?"

"Why not!"

"No war! No pirates, no illness, I can create anything you want!"

"Isn't this the world everyone is looking forward to? No longer having to face the pain of reality!"

Uta retorted loudly and said:

"Let me ask you! For humans, which one is the essence of life, the body or the spirit?"

"Spirit."

Reiner did not hesitate.

"That's it! As long as the spirit lives on in my world of songs, the decay of the body is not the end of life!"

Uta's tone was firm, as if trying to get Reiner to agree with her point of view.

"When I say spirit, I don't mean consciousness."

But Reiner shook his head.

“Life is a weave of good and bad experiences. We are distressed by difficulties and delighted by good things. We look forward to a better future and grow tenaciously in adversity.”

“This is the eternal spirit of mankind.”

"Your so-called new era is nothing more than a selfish denial of everyone's past lives. You didn't even ask them if they wanted it."

"I'll stop talking!"

Uta clenched his fists and became excited again.

"After all, you are just a pirate, stop using such high-sounding words to embellish yourself!"

"What's wrong with pirates? Pirates are eating your rice."

Reiner gave him a disdainful look, "You're full of big words, have you ever been a pirate?"

"Of course I have!"

Uta stopped talking halfway through his words, and the fragments of memories that emerged in his mind were all from the time he spent with the Red Hair Pirates.

Shanks, Beckman, Lakilu

At that time, everyone was happy every day.

Adventure, party, singing

Does that count as being a pirate?

If that counts, she probably can't hate pirates at all.

"I hate pirates."

Uta curled up her legs, hugged her knees and half buried her face in her arms, and tears began to well up in the corners of her eyes.

"They were the ones who abandoned me first, but now they're making it seem like I'm the one at fault."

"The Elegia incident, the news about the Red Hair Pirates stationed in Windmill Village. They used a girl to approach the Kingdom of Music, and finally destroyed and plundered it."

Reiner suddenly spoke up.

"How did you know."

Uta didn't turn around, but just asked casually.

Reiner leaned his back against the wall and looked up at the night sky.

"I'm from Windmill Village too, and I happen to know a little bit about the Red Hair Pirates."

Hearing this, perhaps because they had something in common, Uta couldn't help but turn her head to look at him.

"I don't know them as people, but I know some of the things they did."

Reiner still looked at the night sky and said calmly:

"I heard that the territories and pirate groups under their control are all weak forces. They rely on them to survive in the cruel sea."

"It's hard to imagine that such a pirate group would destroy a country for treasure."

"Are you trying to defend them?"

Uta's voice was very soft, but her tone clearly expressed some dissatisfaction.

"If you ask me, I'm the last person to believe they would do such a thing, but I saw it all with my own eyes."

"It may not be accurate to say that I saw it with my own eyes, but I saw the kingdom being destroyed, and I saw the pirates celebrating their treasure haul as they rode away."

"Gordon, who survived, has told me everything."

Uta clenched her hands, and a hint of disappointment and struggle flashed in the depths of her tearful eyes.

Over the years, Uta has never communicated with anyone other than Gordon in real life, but she is not opposed to chatting with Reiner.

Of course the main reason is that I can’t win, and I’m afraid that someone will snatch away my sleepless mushroom again.

But what she worried about still happened.

"That's enough. If you eat any more, it might be really dangerous. Game over."

Reiner snatched the basket from her hands.

Uta immediately pretended to rush forward to grab it, but it was in vain.

Reiner simply placed his hand on her forehead, but Uta's arms couldn't even reach his body.

"Give it back to me now, bastard!"

"Why! Why are you trying to stop me? I'm only doing this because everyone asked me to!"

"Don't be so polite. Luffy and the others never asked you for help."

It has only been an hour or so since the concert started. Perhaps because she did not consume too many sleepless mushrooms, Uta is not showing any signs of mental madness at the moment.

Reiner took a sleepless mushroom and put it in his mouth to try it, and his face suddenly turned green.

"This thing has gone bad. How long have you kept it here?"

"Stop talking nonsense! What can I do? It took me many days to collect all these. Give them back to me now!"

"At least dry it out in the sun. Don't you have any common sense?"

Reiner couldn't help but complain.

Uta was still struggling as he waved his arms rapidly, making it seem like he was bullying a child.

The people that Uta could control were already tightly bound by the wizard's undead spirits.

Seeing that he couldn't get the Insomnia Mushroom back by his own strength, Uta stepped back and took out a piece of worn parchment with a music score on it.

"Is it the legendary Totumjika?"

Reiner recognized that it was a sealed monster, a collection of human negative emotions, sealed in a music score by the former user of the Song-Song Fruit.

"It seems you know what this is."

Wuta looked hesitant, "I didn't want to use this thing at first. After all, I don't know what the consequences will be."

"It will destroy the world."

"Eh?"

"Both the real world and your spiritual world will be destroyed."

Reiner stroked his chin and jokingly said, "The new era is about to end before it even begins."

"."

Uta paused, remained silent for a moment, and finally dropped his hands in disappointment.

"Asshole, you are such a complete asshole."

Sleepiness came over him again, and Uta staggered back a few steps, then slumped down on the high stone steps, looking exhausted.

"What else can I do? I just want to bring happiness to everyone. Obviously everyone asked me to do this."