Smoker suddenly asked, "How about a fight?"
In the East China Sea, the pirates' strength is basically imbalanced, and no one can make Smoker use his full strength.
Now that he heard that Coles had graduated from the elite training camp and killed several pirates with bounties of over 100 million berries, Smoker couldn't help but feel itchy and wanted to have a fight with Coles.
"Let's put aside the sparring for now. I just got back and don't really want to fight."
Coles shook his head.
In addition to the fact that Kaikai Fake was reluctant to take action, it was also because he possessed double Haki. As long as he had the ability to restrain himself, it was not very difficult for him to defeat Smoker, who had the natural smoke fruit.
"OK."
Smoker continued to smoke his cigar, puffing away clouds of smoke, completely unaware that he had avoided a 50-50 fight in which his title would be taken away.
"Then Colonel Smoker, I'll go back first. Thank you for your help and care this year." Coles stood up from his seat.
Although he arranged for Lanros and twelve shadow knights to protect his father and sister, he also troubled Colonel Smoker to look after them before leaving, so he still needed to express his gratitude.
"Um."
Smoker nodded without comment, his face still showing the same ferocious expression.
Coles didn't care too much.
Because he knew Smoker's character. Although Smoker had a ferocious face, he was a good man with a cold outside but a warm heart.
…
After leaving the naval base, Coles returned to the villa.
At this time, the people from Rogue Town who were watching had also dispersed, and only a group of people who were curious about ancient creatures were still watching and discussing the Shadow Dragon.
Coles didn't care about this and walked straight into the villa.
The purpose of letting the Shadow Dragon continue to stay outside is to create a deterrent to outsiders and let people know how terrifying his abilities are.
If you want to take advantage of his family, then you should first consider your own status and see if you are qualified to go against him.
How many lives do you have? How dare you come here and act so recklessly!
This is the underlying message and meaning that Coles wants to tell others.
After passing through the hallway and climbing the curved circular staircase, Coles arrived at the third floor of the villa and pushed open the wooden door of his room.
Kacha.
The room was opened.
You can see the light of the setting sun shining in from the window, which makes people feel a little lonely.
Although my father had arranged for servants to come and clean the room regularly, there was still an inexplicable sense of missing when no one was living there.
"Stand up."
Coles walked into the room and gave a clear summons.
A black knight wearing black armor and a red cloak suddenly appeared.
It is Lanros!
Behind Lanros were twelve shadow knights also wearing black armor!
"Thank you for your hard work." Coles said.
Lanros led the twelve shadow knights to kneel on one knee and said respectfully: "Follow the king's order. This is our duty."
These thirteen shadow soldiers, with the ability of "designated shadow summoning location" developed by Coles, are here to protect his family at all times.
At that time, Lanros was the strongest force in his hands, but in order to ensure the safety of his family, he still kept him.
Now a year has passed, his strength has grown rapidly, and among the summoned shadow soldiers, Lanlos is not the strongest one.
However, the person Coles trusted the most was the Grand Knight in front of him, because he had no grudges against him, and it was he who helped Lanlos regain consciousness.
"Yeah." Coles was not too polite to his shadow soldiers. After all, these shadow soldiers were his most loyal subordinates.
Outside the villa.
At this time, the Shadow Dragon had been watched for too long by some people, and his eyes showed impatience. He opened his mouth full of sharp fangs and let out a loud dragon roar at those who were watching.
call!
This roar directly blew up a strong gust of wind, and the people who were originally watching were suddenly frightened and scattered like birds and beasts.
Seeing this, the Shadow Dragon was satisfied and began to crawl on the open space of the villa to rest.
Coles looked at the scene outside and felt a little helpless.
High-level shadow soldiers have memories of their previous lives and the ability to think, but they also have a small problem, which is that they still retain some of their previous habits and dispositions.
The shadow dragon is a shadow soldier summoned from a giant silver dragon. The silver dragon does not like being watched by people because it makes it feel dangerous, so it will roar at the onlookers to disperse them.
However, these effects were not very significant, and instead made Coles feel that high-level shadow soldiers were not dead objects.
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The second day after returning.
Coles set up an easel in the room and sketched some scenes on paper with a pencil.
His younger sister, Vilshia, sat beside him and began to look through her brother's picture album.
"Brother, what is this sunflower-like thing? Is it an island?"
"Um."
"There is such an island in the Grand Line? That's too weird. Then what about this rhinoceros beetle named Hercules? Is he a human?"
“I don’t know that either.”
…
Vilshia continued to flip through the pages, and soon she came across the sketch of Nico Robin.
There are only light and dark colors on the white drawing paper, but it is these light and dark colors that completely reveal the woman's beautiful face.
In the sketch, the refraction of light is just right, making the straight nose, sexy lips and bright eyes vivid.
Vilshia thought this was a very good sketch drawn by her brother.
"Brother, this sister is so beautiful, who is she?"
Coles turned his head and glanced at the painting in his sister's hand, and her graceful figure seemed to appear in his mind again.
"Her name is Nico Robin."
Wei Ershia asked curiously, "Is she also a marine?"
Coles shook his head: "No."
Wei Ershiya was a little puzzled: "Then what is her identity?"
Coles turned around, reached out and picked up an object similar to an eraser, and began to paint the outline of a light and shadow picture on the drawing board.
"Scholars, historians."
"Oh." Vilshia nodded and continued to look through the album, but unexpectedly discovered that there were more than a dozen sketches of this sister in the album.
"Brother, do you like this sister? Otherwise, why did you draw so many pictures?"
Coles paused at his sister's sudden question.
He couldn't help but think about it.
Do you like Nico Robin
In fact, he is not very clear about this issue now. When he first met Nico Robin in the Kingdom of Valleran, he did not arrest her just because of his personal opinion.
Later, when they met again in Black Flame City, he felt that there was an inexplicable attraction to Nico Robin that made people unconsciously approach her, perhaps because Nico Robin met his own aesthetic standards.
In short, he is not sure in his heart whether he likes it or not.
Looking at the unfinished sketch in front of him, Coles just gave a perfunctory answer.
"Brother, I don't know now!"
Vilshia tilted her little head, her blue eyes staring at her brother's back, wondering, "Why don't you know? If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, you don't like it!"
Coles explained as a smile spread across his lips and he reached out to rub his sister's head.
"This kind of love is different, it carries a special emotion, not the kind of love for family, nor the kind of love for food, but the love between the right man and woman.
A more accurate adjective is love..."
Vilshia's sapphire eyes stared at her brother, then looked at her sister who was sketching on the drawing board, still confused.
"Love, what is it?"
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