All the toys across Dressrosa turned back into humans at that moment.
It was as though an earthquake had struck.
Inside a noodle shop, a toy riding a unicycle gradually turned into a middle-aged man under everyone's frightened gazes.
A woman beside him clamped a hand over her mouth, unable to stop her tears from falling.
Just moments ago, she had watched A Lun turn from a toy into a human, and memories came flooding back.
They were all about her and A Lun.
Their first meeting, their first date, the first time they held hands, their first kiss, his proposal, and more.
She had never imagined that A Lun, the toy working as a waiter in their shop, was actually her fiancé.
They had once been inseparable, sharing everything with each other. He had even proposed.
Yet she had actually forgotten him.
"A Lun... I... I... I actually forgot you. I'm... I'm sorry." Her tears fell like beads from a broken string, pattering down.
"Jinlian..." A Lun looked at the woman before him. He had never forgotten her, not for a moment.
To stay by her side, he had even swallowed his pride and applied to work as a waiter at this shop.
Yet things had turned out differently from what he had imagined. He had watched the woman he loved gradually get together with Ximen, the shop's owner.
He remembered Jinlian telling him, "If you were human, I think we'd get along."
Just then, Ximen came over to them and slipped an arm around Jinlian. "What's wrong, Jinlian? Has this man been bullying you?"
Jinlian gently pushed his arm away. "No, I just remembered some unhappy things."
Ximen looked at A Lun and asked, "May I ask who you are?"
A Lun was just about to say he