Pirate Merchant

"Don't be too nervous, keep your breath steady, it's not your fault, everything goes wrong in all likelihood, you've done your best."

Koshiro, who was dressed in a black formal kimono, put his hands in the wide sleeves and hugged his chest, with an extremely dignified expression, he comforted Mu Qian who was nervous at this time.

"I haven't done it better. If I hadn't quarreled with Elsa and told her to continue going out when she just came back, she wouldn't have encountered Blackbeard."

Mu Qian, who was walking on the forest path to Shuangyue Village, took a deep breath, closed his eyes and didn't know what expression to use to face the family of the deceased.

"No one knows the future, and no one can stop the future. It's good to learn the lesson. There is no need to feel sorry for yourself. When the time comes, the teacher will join you in apologizing to the family of the deceased."

Koshiro took out his hands from the cuffs of his kimono, and he and Mu Qian came to stand in front of a house.

"Ah! Isn't this Mr. Mu? Hehehe, why are you here? Please come in! Please come in! Haruko! Go make tea! Take out the snacks that Koji brought back from Luoge Town! Master Koshiro is also here Already?! Let's have a cup of tea together!"

As the door was opened, a well-dressed woman with a radiant face invited him into the room in surprise after seeing that it was Mu Qian who knocked on the door.

And a fourteen-year-old girl in the house who was eating snacks hurriedly hid the snacks behind her back when she saw Mu Qian at the door, turned around and ran back to her room with a blushing face and softly exclaimed, completely ignoring her mother's words.

"Aunt Chuncun, Koji died at sea, at the hands of the pirate Blackbeard"

Mu Qian took a deep breath and didn't enter the room. Instead, he closed his eyes and lowered his voice, and bowed his head deeply to the woman to express his apology. Koshiro, who was standing beside him, also closed his eyes very humbly. Head bowed in silence.

".I know, Mr. Mu. Although the newspaper did not record the list of victims, everyone tried to contact them through phone bugs. A total of 17 crew members were sacrificed in Frost Moon Village, and 21 crew members were sacrificed in Luoge Town. We already knew about this.”

The woman who turned around to welcome Mu Qian into the room stopped, and her body trembled with her back to Mu Qian. Amid sobbing, the woman turned her head to look at Mu Qian with tears in her eyes.

"My son, did he die a hero?"

The woman squeezed the apron on her body tightly, and asked Mu Qian expectantly with tears in her eyes.

". He never begged for mercy until his death. He is a good disciple of our Yixin Dojo."

Mu Qian's body shook suddenly during the questioning, and he didn't know how to answer at all, but Koshiro, who stood aside and bowed his head silently, immediately opened his mouth, opened his eyes slightly, and answered the woman very seriously and seriously.

"That's good, that's good"

The woman couldn't help but knelt down on the ground sadly, covering her lips and weeping bitterly. The pain she had suppressed for several days in front of her daughter nearly collapsed at this moment.

Mu Qian and Koshiro went door to door in Shuangyue Village, apologizing to the families of the victims, and the sound of crying kept ringing in Shuangyue Village as they arrived.

Although the father, mother or wife of each victim said they never blamed Mu Qian, the crying and tears of the family members of the victims in each household were like a sledgehammer hitting Mu Qian's heart hard, making him frown. Locked up extremely guilty.

"Master, thank you"

In the dead of night, Mu Qian sat on the coastal cliff of Shuangyue Village, and softly thanked Koshiro behind him with his arms folded.

"The children in Frost Moon Village have more or less been taught by me, and I am ashamed of their sacrifices. This is not helping you, but apologizing to the parents and wife who trust me for not teaching them well. .”

Koshiro shook his head slightly, walked to Mu Qian's side and looked at the rough sea under the night sky at this time, and replied gently to Mu Qian.

"Master, I want to hold a mourning meeting in Rogge Town, and I want you to be the host. I'm too busy these days. I have to repair the railway and negotiate with officials."

Mu Qian shook his head slightly to shake off distracting thoughts and said to Koshiro.

"No problem, it's inappropriate for you to go to the mourning meeting. Since you are the 'head of the family', besides the necessary tenderness and guilt, you must also have the necessary cruelty."

Koshiro nodded and agreed, and he even objected to Mu Qian personally hosting the memorial service.

"I see."

Mu Qian stared at the sea with his eyes, pursed his lips and kept adjusting his terrible mood. Every crying cheek at the door of the house seemed to be imprinted in his mind, which made him feel guilty.

"Come out of the shadow of failure slowly, remember the teacher's teaching, your destiny is only 'victory', you have become so ugly after being attacked by pirates only once, if there is a bigger blow, I'm afraid you will feel guilty To be crazy, so you can only win all the time, you must win all the time, I believe you have such a talent."

Koshiro patted Mu Qian on the shoulder, taught him a word seriously, then turned and left.

"'Victory', the master is really self-willed, what can I say, I can only win all the time, I have already lost to White Beard before."

Mu Qian shrugged his shoulders and didn't take what Koshiro said seriously. He didn't think he could only walk a one-way street. Sometimes, failure would lead to greater victories, just like the two defeats to White Beard. Let him obtain benefits and rights far beyond direct victory.

"Let's go back. Tomorrow, we have to go to Luoge Town to apologize. After that, we will go to the Kingdom of Alabasta, and after that, we will go to the South China Sea."

Mu Qian took a deep breath and shook his head. There were too many families who needed to apologize, so he would never allow such a thing to happen again.

In the quiet and solemn conference hall of Rogge Town, people dressed in black formal clothes mourned silently. Master Koshiro received every family member and guest of the victims with a gentle manner.

He declined the navy's invitation to attend the celebration banquet in the Holy Land of Mariegio, put on black clothes and sat quietly in the guest gallery to attend this mourning meeting.

Although he did kill Blackbeard to avenge the victims, but even after revenge, all he could feel at this time was the emptiness of having lost something, and could not get any satisfaction.

He doesn't think he is a compassionate saint, but the feeling of others being sacrificed because of his decision is really too bad. Perhaps, he doesn't have the kingly sense that can count the lives of tens of millions of people as numbers, right?

"Elsa doesn't hate you, and none of the people who died will hate you either. They all voluntarily sacrificed for their dreams."

Guina, who was wearing a black kimono, quietly came to sit next to Mu Qian, lowered her head and whispered comfort to the senior disciple who had never relaxed his brows since the war at the top.

"This is not voluntary. The only thing that people can do voluntarily is breathing. They are all trying their best to chase my dream. Little senior sister, please rest assured. I will grow from this tragic lesson. From now on The pain and regret of this time will only help me become stronger."

Mu Qian shook his head slightly, pursed his lips and replied to Guina. With his brows furrowed, his emotional control at this time was far better than before, and the ultra-high and ultra-low temperatures produced by the fruit's ability became more refined with the change in his thinking.