Whooosh!
The sails were unfurled by the sailors, and the howling sea wind filled the sails, making a whistling sound. A couple, holding each other, could not bear to look back, their hearts full of guilt as the ship sailed away from the land.
"Safe journey~!"
A little girl, dressed in a pink spotted dress with two pink braids, sat on the shore, beside a large backpack filled with candy and pastries. She ate her snacks while waving goodbye to her parents.
"Mmm~ So tasty!"
The girl ate her treats happily, her legs swinging with excitement, shaking the ground beneath her.
She was rather big for her age.
Her name was Charlotte Linlin, and she was 5 years old. What she didn't know was that her enormous appetite, to the point where she would even develop symptoms of food craziness, was the very reason her parents had abandoned her here!
They simply couldn't afford to raise her, and her extreme appetite and destructive nature caused massive losses.
The sea breeze blew gently as the girl hummed a song while eating her snacks. By the time evening came, and the golden rays of the setting sun bathed the scene, she had finished the food in her backpack. She rubbed her belly and looked at the sea, suddenly realizing that her parents might have abandoned her.
The sea breeze was cool, and Charlotte Linlin continued to kick her legs, thudding them on the ground as she gazed at the sunset and the rolling waves where her parents had disappeared.
"Grrr~"
Her stomach growled in protest.
"Thud, thud, thud!"
Impatient, she kicked her legs up and down, shaking the ground even more.
The sun dipped into the horizon, and the last rays of light signaled that night was approaching.
"Huh?" Charlotte Linlin looked in surprise at the sea, where a boy suddenly appeared in the sky, dropping straight into the water.
Blinking her eyes, she didn't care why the boy had appeared out of nowhere. What mattered was that the boy had a bulging backpack.
There must be food in there!
As she smelled a faint fragrance carried by the sea breeze, she excitedly jumped into the water with a splash, sending waves crashing and scaring several large fish to swim away in a hurry.
The sea was cold and the current dangerous. Harold Roy had just fallen into the water, and as his mind calmed down and he understood the situation, he began swimming upwards. But suddenly, a large mass jumped out of the water and collided with him, causing him to quickly swim to the left.
It wasn't good to get knocked into by something big in the cold, rushing waters.
"Whoosh! Splash!"
The sea splashed with a small wave as Roy was thrown out of the water and landed on the shore. The cold, biting wind combined with the sea water gave him a wave of "magical cold damage."
"Ugh, it's so cold, who... what is that?" Roy shivered, looking at the shadow beneath the water and pondering.
"Whoosh! Splash!"
Charlotte Linlin had noticed the boy swimming back to shore and quickly grabbed onto the shore, leaping out of the water with a huge splash.
"Whoosh!"
The splash hit Roy's face, making him even colder.
"Plop, plop~"
As Charlotte Linlin emerged from the water, a few small fish were thrown onto the shore by the waves, their tails flapping desperately, hoping to return to the sea.
The life of a fish was so sudden and sad—one moment, it was thrown ashore by a wave, and the next moment, it was being collected by Roy, scaled, gutted, and prepared for roasting!
"Crackle!"
Under the moonlight, a few clouds drifted across the sky.
On the island, the sound of the waves mixed with the howling sea wind, making the night feel colder and more biting.
Roy, taking shelter behind a windbreak, had made a fire, roasting fish and sharing one with the girl named Charlotte Linlin as they chatted.
"Hey, your grilled fish is really tasty. Do you have more?" Charlotte Linlin blinked, finishing her fish in one bite, smacking her lips.
"Mm." Roy handed her another grilled fish, looking around.
He wasn't panicked at all and had already figured out the situation.
Harold Roy had crossed into the world of One Piece around 800 years ago, just as the "void century" was nearing its end.
At that time, he had obtained his "golden finger" but hadn't yet witnessed history unfold when he encountered a troublesome, yet somewhat endearing situation.
[Warning: The host's body is carrying time-space rules, which are entangled and causing confusion!
Intimacy points can suppress the time-space confusion. Please collect intimacy points quickly!
Time-space confusion will cause uncontrollable time traveling. In severe cases, the host will become part of time-space itself!
Next time-space confusion will happen in 30 minutes!]
Yes, Roy had gained something that many transmigrators also had: his body carried the rules of time and space, and these rules had become tangled, causing confusion. He lamented that he wouldn't live to see the plot unfold.
Surrounded by the chaotic time-space rules, his body vanished from 800 years ago and was suddenly transported through time, appearing in this place.
The chaos allowed him to travel through time, but the location was random.
When Roy heard the girl introduce herself as "Charlotte Linlin," he was able to deduce the time and place he had arrived in.
Charlotte Linlin was 5 years old and had just been abandoned by her parents on the island of Elbaf!
"Is it tasty?" Roy looked at the girl with a gentle smile.
"Mm, it's delicious!" Charlotte Linlin kicked her legs happily, causing the ground to shake slightly.
Looking up at the towering Linlin, Roy couldn't help but think that this was one adorable yet dangerous little girl.
"Here, there's more!" Roy opened his bag and took out a slightly wet biscuit.
"Uh, it's soggy," Roy said, looking at the damp bag and the last grilled fish on the fire.
Well, with only the grilled fish left, he figured it would still help him build a relationship with Linlin, whether for his golden finger or to suppress the time-space confusion, both of which required intimacy points.
Charlotte Linlin rubbed her stomach, which kept protesting with growls, and hesitated as she looked at the soggy biscuit in Roy's bag, which still smelled faintly of the sea.
"Do you want some more?"
Linlin wiped her mouth, feeling faint from hunger. She couldn't care less at this point!
"Here!" Roy handed her the wet biscuit, worried that if the future BIG MOM got too hungry, she'd eat him instead—at least food could be figured out later.
"Thank you, you're Linlin's favorite friend now!" Linlin cheered, quickly grabbing Roy's bag.
She tilted her head back, opened her mouth wide, and devoured everything in the bag, swallowing the food with gusto.
"Am I your friend?" Roy chuckled, watching her.
"Of course!" Linlin happily nodded.
[Charlotte Linlin:
Relationship: New Friend
Intimacy Points: 40!
Intimacy Points: 0!]
[Intimacy Points have reached 40, establishing a new friend relationship with future BIG MOM. Reward: 50 Intimacy Points!]
Roy's eyes brightened. BIG MOM was quite a character! Back in 800 years ago, it took a lot of effort to reach 40 intimacy points with a local girl and get just 1 intimacy point in return.
[Achieving 60 intimacy points with BIG MOM will unlock the talent card replication option!]
The system's voice echoed in Roy's mind, while in front of him, the young Linlin was now surrounded by gray cards floating in the air.
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𝙥𝗮𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙤𝙣(.)𝙘𝙤𝙢/𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙊𝙛𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧
✨ • 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝟲𝟬+ 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚.