Chapter 27: Sunshine
It was a beautiful form of light that shined down on the ground, and the three of them looked up with a smile.
By this time, the three of them already have their clothes drenched from the rain water, so the warmth of the sun feels so nice.
"Hey Master, where do you think you'll be going next?" Vincent asked as he raised his face towards the sun and basking in its light.
"I'm not sure, but I think it is time for me to swim towards the Grand Line," Leo said as he put his hand into the water to see if the seawater has any effect on his body. But it doesn't affect his natural disposition. "What about you two?"
"Well, I think I'm going to open up a pub," Orpheus said as he followed Leo onto the ship. "My pop used to be the owner of a pub, and I will hope to restore that part of his legacy."
In the large ship, they could gather a large amount of golds and set it into a bag. It is funny how, despite how the pirates look, their ship is still so poor and out of money.
"Here, you two, keep the money," Leo said as he put the large bag of gold coins into Vincent's hands.
"What about you, Master? Do you not need some money for yourself?" Orpheus asked with care, while putting the bag of money to load on a small boat from the ship.
"Don't worry about me," Leo said, while putting his two hands on the boys' heads. "I think I miss you two and all the children back on the island. But I'm not someone who quite knows how to say goodbye to others."
The two boys looked at each other before giving a laugh.
"It's okay, Master," Vincent said. "We understand. And you can always come back to us, visit us one day."
"Maybe the next time you come back here, I'm sure you would see Vincent having a family with a girl already," Orpheus joked with him. Leo and Orpheus, knowing signs with their eyes. The both of them had known about Vincent's crush on one of the younger girls that has been in the group.
"I think he will," Leo laughs, then speaking to Orpheus, "and you too, Orpheus, keep this guy in check."
"Don't worry, Master, I will," Orpheus says to him before waving goodbye to him at last.
Standing on the wet sand, Leo stood there while watching their boat becoming smaller and smaller each second.
It is quite a complicated feeling to have, since he had been them grown up so much in such a small amount of time.
But perhaps there's no everlasting stories in life. He breathes out a sigh and looks up at the bright sky up ahead.
"Where should I go next?" He asked himself.
...
On a distant shore, inside a pub, there seems to be a loud commotion going on as the people there were talking about the same topic.
"Did you hear about the news recently?"
"What news?"
"Apparently there's been something strange happening on the Grand Line's ocean," he says to his friend. "Something is sinking countless pirate ships."
"So, could it possibly be some kind of sea monster?"
"Well, no, there's nothing that could the marines could find. The ships just suddenly have a big hole smashed through it like some kind of air pressed against it underneath the water."
In a corner of the room, Leo is hunching back on the seat while observing out the window. He likes the smell of the seawater that washes through from the shore close by.
He is wearing a cloak that covers his head and darkens it from the sight of people to see his face, and enjoys remaining mysterious in this way.
"Here, sir, is the bottle of milk that you requested," a woman that works in the bar said to himself as she puts down a bottle of milk on his lonely table.
What is he doing here? Is it for some certain plot? Well, no, just simply enjoying the nice freedom out at the sea, because what is more wonderful than the taste of absolute freedom?
"Hey! Stop it!"
While drinking the glass of milk of in his hand, he looks up to see what is going on across the room. The sound of the glass bottles and the metal tray hitting the floor made him look up to see which annoying bastard it is that is disrupting his enjoyable vacation.
"Oi lady, don't be like that, it was just that my hand accidentally slipped," the guy sitting in a chair across the room said to the women before who was handing Leo the glass of milk.
There was a quiet silence at the bar, as everyone noticed what's happening from the corner of their eyes. But nobody is standing up for her because no one would want to stand out for this kind of trouble.
She seems to try her best to withstand this kind of situation, which, to be honest, happens way too often. Except in this kind of island filled with pirates coming and going, it is not so easy to find a comfortable job.
As she was about to turn away and pretend to ignore this, she heard a loud shriek coming from the man who was teasing her behind.
She saw with surprise that the hand which touched her underneath her skirt before was now sliced off.
A thin piece of tissue slowly fell down from the air like a floating piece of leaf. And everyone in the room could see that the tissue had the touch of the man's blood still on it. What they could not understand was how a small piece of tissue got turned into a weapon.
While the accident took away their attention, they didn't notice that someone had already left the room. Outside the bar, Leo could still hear the loud shrieking from inside and gives a dry grin while producing a ball of pressure that made a beer cap in the middle of his hand into a centimeter sized ball.
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