Codex Pirates

Chapter 102: A Victim of the Era (Part 2)

After dealing with several convicted crew members, William noticed Dawell, the town of Black Lagoon.

Darwell was so scared that his legs went limp when William looked over. Fortunately, the two pirates next to him supported him and brought him to William.

"Are you from the town? What are you doing here?" William asked aloud as he took the cotton cloth from Crowe and wiped the blood on the knife.

"My lord," Darwell forced himself to be calm, and controlled his gaze not to turn to the corpse on the ground, but his voice still trembled involuntarily, "I am the mayor of the town..."

"Mayor?" William interrupted Darwell questioningly.

William raised his head again, turned his attention away from the knife, and looked up and down at the skinny old man in front of him.

His body shivering in the cold wind, his clothes covered with dust, his face criss-crossed with hills and valleys, and the thinning white hair on his bald head fluttered in a mess with the sea breeze.

This dress, said to be a beggar, some people believe it.

Seeing the terrified expression on the old man's self-proclaimed mayor's face and stuttering speech, William knew the fear in his heart.

He looked at the pier full of corpses and blood, and invited the other party to board the boat, and he was about to talk to the mayor about something.

...

On the main ship of the Morgan Pirates, a small round table was placed on the front deck of the bow, with some peanuts and fruits on it, and of course the essential rum on the pirate ship.

William, Harden, Crowe, Aramis, and Selkirk, the five important cadres on the ship, and the poor old town Dawell sat around the table.

William poured wine for the cowardly Mayor Darwell with a kind face, contacted his gentle invitation when he was at the pier, and took care of his old and inflexible helper when Darwell boarded the ship. It smells like spring breeze.

But when he thought of this young man pouring wine for himself with a smile on his face, he chopped off the heads of several people in a row on the pier just now, Darwell dispelled his illusions.

Pirates are all murderous thugs!

William's series of behaviors were actually not too artificial. Darwell looked about sixty or seventy years old. He was not willing to treat such an old man humbly begging for mercy when he ran up to him.

After all, in the past few decades in the previous life, William lived as an ordinary person like Darwell. At the beginning of his time travel, he also felt at a loss for this chaotic world where the strong were rampant, so he was more able to understand Darwell. The panic of these ordinary people feels empathetic.

Several people chatted while drinking, but Darwell was surrounded by a group of pirates, and he seemed a little cautious. When he heard William explain that he punished the pirates on the shore because they violated William's order and hurt the civilians in the town, There was a trace of astonishment on his face, which was covered up immediately, and he flattered him: "My lord, you and your subordinates are indeed a group of marvelous righteous men. It is really a lucky thing that a group of heroes like you can appear in the East China Sea."

William saw through Darwell's intention to hold him up with words at a glance, and said with a smile: "I dare not be a hero or a righteous man, but Donghai is the hometown of 'One Piece' Roger, no matter what happens None of these characters are worth making a fuss about, the mayor."

Dawell smiled awkwardly, but didn't answer.

Harden, who sat across from William, was a fan of "One Piece" Roger. When he heard this topic, he was in high spirits, and he was a fierce general with no scheming. He was convinced of William's strength and wrist, and decided that William He will be the next famous pirate in the East China Sea after Roger.

Therefore, hearing William's modesty, Harden quickly said: "Captain, why should you be humble, 'One Piece' Roger is the pride of East China Sea in the past and present, but we might not be able to become the next 'One Piece' and become the new pride of East China Sea in the future."

Aramis exclaimed "Wow" with an exaggerated expression, pointed at Harden and smiled, "This guy usually looks so honest, I never thought he would flatter me!"

Several other pirates laughed out loud, and even William showed a smile, but at this moment, someone whispered——

"'One Piece' is the pride of the East China Sea."

The wine table is not big, not to mention that the pirates are all sharp-eyed people, although the voice was low, they still heard it.

William withdrew his smile, looked at Darwell, who was staring at the wine glass in front of him with his head lowered like a primary school student, and gradually frowned.

Harden was not as good-tempered as William, he glared at Darwell fiercely and said, "What did you just say?"

Seeing this, Aramis smiled and comforted Harden who seemed a little angry, intending to ease the atmosphere: "Forget it, maybe he just said something unintentionally, just a slip of the tongue."

"I didn't make a slip of the tongue," but at this moment, Darwell raised his head and said loudly: "What right does 'One Piece' have to be called the pride of the East China Sea?"

Harden slammed the table and stood up straight away, scaring Darwell to leave his chair and take a few steps back.

"Are you also worthy of evaluating 'One Piece'?" Harden said angrily, "Roger, who has repeatedly escaped from the audience of the world government, conquered the great sea route, and set off the 'Great Pirate Era', is not worthy of being called the pride of the East China Sea. Who deserves to be called, are you? !?"

The more Harden spoke, the louder his voice became, and Darwell's body trembled slightly. At first it was because of the fear in his heart, but after Harden's words, it turned into anger.

"The Era of Great Pirates..."

Darwell repeated with some confusion, thinking of the children and family members who died in the pirate audience, remembering the humiliation of bowing to all walks of life, the hatred for Roger, and the anger at Harden's remarks overwhelmed his fear , let him look at Harden without flinching.

"Look behind me, look at my hometown," Darwell pointed to Black Lagoon Town behind him over the guard. There was almost no complete building near the pier, all of which were destroyed by the shelling when the pirates landed. The lingering smoke left after some pirates set fire, "Looking at all this, can you still say that One Piece is the pride of the East China Sea?"

"Donghai is also Goldo Roger's hometown, but look at what he has brought to Donghai and to this world?" Darwell also spoke louder and louder, and finally shouted hysterically, "Goldo Roger Jie, he is not the pride of Donghai at all, he is the shame of Donghai!"

Harden was furious, grabbed Darwell by the collar, and lifted him up so that his feet were off the ground.

"Let go, Harden." William said, who had been sitting in the chair without moving.

"But, Captain..." Harden blushed, turned his head and tried to justify his actions, but still did not loosen Darwell's collar.

"I said," William said emphatically, "'let go'!"