Reunion

"This is what the outside world is like..." Shirahoshi looked around curiously. She could no longer remember when she had last come out, and everything about the outside scenery filled her with curiosity.

"Yeah. How long has it been since you last came out...?" Li Ziming shook his head helplessly. Ignoring the vendors' astonished looks, he bought up all the food on the stalls.

"You're lucky you were born into the imperial family. If you were an ordinary person, you probably couldn't even afford to feed yourself..." Li Ziming teased with a laugh. Seeing Shirahoshi's panicked expression, he grinned mischievously.

"I, I..." Shirahoshi hurriedly tried to swallow the food in her mouth, but the more anxious she became, the more things went wrong. She ended up choking on it.

"All right, all right, I was only joking..." Li Ziming shook his head helplessly. If he hadn't known what was really going on inside her, he probably would have thought she was a timid coward.

"Meow!" The familiar cry made Li Ziming smile faintly. He took a piece of dried fish from his pocket and offered it to Gua, who had landed on his shoulder. Gua, however, showed little interest in the dried fish and instead seemed far more interested in Shirahoshi inside the fish tank in Li Ziming's hands.

"Ming~" Si also came over to Li Ziming. "I heard you kidnapped the mermaid princess?"

"You despicable bastard! How dare you do something so enviable—no, so jealousy-inducing—no, so exciting!" Sanji's voice became distorted, but the attack beneath his feet was not slow in the slightest as he kicked toward Li Ziming. "Go die ten thousand times! You already have Robin, and now you have Si too!"

"Come on, don't get so worked up..." Li Ziming dodged Sanji's attack and said with