"Lord Marshal!"
"Lord Marshal!"
Imu had just taken off half of the face towel when Gion's voice came out from Flower Chamber.
Almost at the same time, Imu reacted quickly and put on the face towel.
The next second, Gion rushed into Flower Chamber and ducked directly in front of Akira.
"Gion, what are you--"
Akira did not blame Gion for suddenly breaking into Flower Chamber, because he knew Gion very well. If it was not a particularly important matter, Gion would never have been so rude, let alone so anxious.
"Letter, letter!"
Gion didn't bother to say hello to Akira and Imu. He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Akira. It was as if something big had happened, making Gion's hand holding the envelope tremble.
Seeing Gion's reaction, a flash of doubt flashed in Akira's eyes, and he immediately took the envelope and opened it.
Although Imu didn't like Gion, she obviously felt the seriousness of the situation. She stood silently beside him and glanced at the envelope calmly.
Akira As soon as he opened the envelope, a whitish photo fell out of the envelope.
The photo fell to the ground silently, and the large group photo in the photo came into Akira's eyes without any warning.
"This is?"
Looking at the photo that fell to the ground, Akira's pupils shrank slightly, and the hand holding the envelope could not help but tremble.
Those who appear in the photo are his comrades who participated in recruit training.
Different from the large group photo he put in Fleet Admiral's Office, the large group photo dropped on the ground was much smaller in size and was a little yellowed because it was not well preserved.
After a brief two seconds of astonishment, Akira quickly bent down, picked up the photo, wiped it gently, and then opened the photo.
There are a few lines of crooked text written on the back of the photo:
: Baby, remember the uncle standing in the middle in the group photo, his name is Akira.
: If dad died, if you encounter difficulties, go to Uncle Akira. He is dad's best brother.
The moment he saw this line of text, Akira suddenly raised his head and looked at Gion, his voice even trembling, "Gion, this... is this the handwriting of Brian?"
Brian was a comrade at the same time during his recruit training, and he was also the last brother among the dozen or so people they had the best relationship with to sacrifice his life and death to save him.
Over the years, Akira has been helping the wives, children, and parents of all his comrades who died because of him, except Brian. Even though he accidentally saved Sakazuki's mother, he could not find any information about Brian's relatives.
Brian was born in Beihai. According to the file records when he joined the navy, Brian's parents were dead, but he had an unmarried wife in his hometown.
So Akira followed this clue and went to Brian's hometown in Beihai in person after Brian's death. However, when he arrived at Brian's hometown according to the address recorded in the file, At that time, Brian's hometown was looted by pirates, and many villagers died at the hands of pirates. Although the villagers who survived by chance knew about Brian, they did not know that Brian had a wife.
After numerous inquiries to no avail, Akira chose to leave, but he never stopped searching over the years.
Because he clearly remembered that Brian would mention his wife to everyone from time to time during the recruit training, and also joked with everyone that when his children grow up, he would tell them that he has more than a dozen fathers.
However, they did not wait for Brian's child to call him daddy, but the comrades around him died one after another.
In the end, only Akira, the only one who was spoiled as a "little one" by the recruits during training, was left.
Seeing Akira's voice trembled with excitement, Gion nodded fiercely, with tears twinkling in his eyes.
Akira didn't notice Gion's reaction. After keeping the photo carefully, he showed a smile that was lost and recovered, "Let me guess, this letter is either from Brian's wife or his child! Is it a boy or a girl?"
With that said, Akira opened the letter paper, and the dense text immediately came into view.
"Uncle Akira:"
"My name is Brian·Aqua. I am seven years old this year. My father is Brian, which is the Navy Brian in the photo in the envelope."
"Uncle Akira, Aqua can't write many words, so a sister in the village helped me write them."
"Uncle Akira, my mother was beaten to death by bad guys. They wanted to take her away, but when she didn't follow them, they broke into her room and beat her to death!"
"Uncle Akira, why do they bully mom? Why do they bully Aqua, wuwuwu."
"Akira uncle, Aqua has no mother."
"Uncle Akira, can you give dad back to Aqua?"
The whole article about Uncle Akira and the contents of the letter were like a sharp knife stabbing into Akira's heart, causing the veins in his big hand holding the envelope to be exposed, and his eyes were so congested that blood and tears seemed to flow out at any time.
"Akira"
"Lord Marshal--"
Feeling the state of Akira, Imu and Gion took a step forward almost simultaneously.
Akira raised his hand to stop the next two people, "I... I'm fine."
Before he finished speaking, Akira couldn't bear it anymore, he opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood.
He once again raised his hand to stop Imu and Gion. Akira grabbed the letter tightly and used his strong strength to suppress the sudden heartache and asked Gion: "Where was this letter sent from and when was it sent?"
Gion did not dare to neglect, and immediately said, "It is written in the letter that Aqua recognized Lord Marshal during the live broadcast of Whitebeard Jr.'s execution. Then he wrote this letter and left her current address in the letter! Beihai, Orleans Kingdom, Keen Village."
Before he finished speaking, Gion quickly added, "As soon as he received this letter, Gion contacted the Beihai Marine Branch base and asked Colonel Branch 135 who was closest to Orleans to immediately set off for Keen Village."
"Keen Village... Why did you go to Keen Village!"
Akira did not choose to wait for the result at Holy Land, but simply turned around and left.
Just a few steps away, Akira suddenly looked back at Gion, his red eyes filled with murderous intent. "Inform Doflamingo and ask him to fly to the Orleans Kingdom immediately. Not even a bird in this country is allowed to leave before I arrive."
Beihai, Orleans Kingdom, Keen Village terminal.
A navy warship slowly docked and stopped.
On the deck of the warship, stood the headquarters Rear Admiral Fujitora Issho who had left the headquarters under the order of Marshal to investigate all Affiliated Nation Heavenly Gold.
Because of his special mission, Fujitora did not choose to go to the Orleans Kingdom port, but chose Keen Village, a small village in Orleans, in order not to attract the attention of the Orleans Kingdom royal family and nobles.
"Master Rear Admiral, this village... is so deserted!"
Joanna, who was standing next to Fujitora, looked around the village and asked with doubts in his eyes, "Shouldn't the villagers go out to work at this time? Why is it so deserted? Could it be that all the villagers in the village have moved away?"
"Maybe it's abandoned!"
Fujitora raised his ears and listened for a moment, then his expression changed slightly, "Someone is coming!"
Before Joanna could react, a roar suddenly came from the other side of the village, and immediately a cavalry team rushed out from the corner outside the village and headed straight for the village.
"All the untouchables of Keen Village, listen."
"I'll give you three minutes. Come out within three minutes to greet Mr. Royal Army Captain."
"Anyone who hides at home for more than three minutes and does not come out will be regarded as a rioter and will be executed without delay."
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The two updates are over today and will continue tomorrow!