Rebecca's actions made Wendy laugh out loud, feeling that her teachings had worked; Rebecca was just seizing every opportunity to gain an advantage!
Ain was a little confused. She really thought Rebecca was looking for something, and she had even searched through Vic's body herself just now.
Ain is still a child at heart, and she has a great interest in magic and the like.
After setting up the easel and attaching the canvas, Vic began to slowly paint the scene he had just witnessed onto the canvas, layering it on top of each other. The proportions of the foreground and background, the contrast between the flower fields, the wooden house, and the figures gradually emerged on the canvas.
This amazed Rebecca and Wendy. They were no longer in their original spots; they were all watching Vic paint. But Vic had only glanced at it at the time, yet he had transferred the scene onto the canvas without missing a single detail. Although he had only painted half of it, it was enough to show the whole picture. This observational ability and memory greatly impressed Wendy.
Rebecca and Vic grew up together and she knew Vic's learning ability very well, but she didn't expect that Vic could remember even the smallest details in the picture so clearly.
Ain had no other thoughts; she just thought Vic was amazing, almost omnipotent.
Painting is not something that can be completed in a few strokes, and the painting that Vic is painting is quite large. He needs to reproduce those bouquets in greater detail, not the kind that looks like a sea of flowers but is actually a blurry mass with little detail. It can't be finished in a short time, so Vic told them to go and look around somewhere else and not to keep staring at him.
Rebecca didn't look around for long before pulling Wendy and carrying Ain through the sea of flowers.
With the noise gone, Vic could paint more quietly, but Vic peace and quiet didn't last long before it started getting lively again.
Many tourists from outside the area also enjoy themselves in the sea of flowers. Now, Vic is painting alone in the sea of flowers, which attracts a lot of attention.
Needless to say, he's incredibly good-looking, inheriting the excellent genes from his parents. He's the kind of high-quality human that human traffickers would want to kidnap, and many single young women have come to watch.
You wouldn't believe it until you see it! The people in the paintings are so beautiful, and the paintings are flawless. They really wanted to replace the people in the paintings with themselves.
Several young women stared at Vic, who was painting, with infatuated expressions. They didn't say anything, afraid of disturbing the beautiful scene. As the saying goes, while you are enjoying the scenery in the sea of flowers, you yourself have become part of the scenery in other people's eyes.
Although Vic was somewhat unhappy about being surrounded by women, they didn't actually bother him. The flower field was a public area, not his private space, so Vic could only concentrate on his painting and ignore the sounds of people swallowing their saliva next to him.
Rebecca and her two companions were currently visiting a wooden cabin amidst a sea of flowers. A girl of similar age greeted them, so she didn't notice that Vic was being watched by a group of young women. Otherwise, she might have resorted to force to resolve the situation, since Vic was someone she trusted, and she couldn't allow those unknown people to covet him.
" Konan, your hometown is so beautiful! This blue land, this sea of pink flowers, it feels like being in a dream world. What surprises will the capital city hold for us?"
Rebecca said enviously to the girl sitting across the table, "We just met in the sea of flowers, and because we're about the same age, we got along quite well."
Konan originally intended to pick some flower petals from her family's Flower Field field to exchange for some money in the capital. On the way, she met Rebecca and her two companions. Rebecca took the initiative to chat with them, and in the end, Konan stopped picking flowers and invited the three of them to her home.
"Hehe, the island wasn't like this when I was a child. We grew ordinary crops, and it wasn't a romantic place to pledge our love. Not many people came here to visit, except for pirates who would occasionally come to the island!" Konan's smile was a little forced as she recounted what she had seen when she was a child.
Konan looked rather thin. Although she was dressed appropriately in a pale yellow dress, she wasn't very tall, almost a head shorter than Rebecca. She was also a bit dark-skinned, probably because she often worked in the Flower Field.
Konan's wooden house wasn't very big either, only one story. Besides the main hall of about seven or eight square meters, there were only two small side rooms. It seemed that all the houses in the flower field were like this, as if the size of the wooden houses was regulated so as not to spoil the beauty of the flower field.
"It seems your king is quite the businessman. He's changed the island's customs to attract tourists and spread its fame far and wide. Impressive!"
Wendy sighed. The transmission of information in this world was still relatively backward, especially in the Grand Line. It was quite remarkable that an island could become famous in just over a decade. The last island, a Land of Hot Springs, took hundreds of years to become well-known in the Grand Line. That's why Wendy said that the king of this country was very capable.
"Maybe so, but I feel like my life now is worse than when I was a child. The king has changed; now he only cares about money!" Konan didn't elaborate on the details, perhaps because she herself couldn't explain the changes.
"Cough cough"
Just then, an old coughing sound came from a side room, which was terrifying. Rebecca and Ain were startled, and Wendy also trembled as they all looked in the direction from which the sound came.
"Um, I'm sorry, that's my grandma. She's sick in bed right now and probably thirsty. Please wait a moment," Konan said apologetically, then took the water cup and went to the small house over there.
"I didn't expect there to be a patient in the room. Rebecca, didn't you sense it with your Observation Haki?" Wendy asked Rebecca.
"No, I haven't activated my Observation Haki before. I'm out having fun today, so I didn't activate it," Rebecca said, shaking her head. This was also why she hadn't noticed the group of girls surrounding Vic.
" Konan's grandmother seems to be very ill. Are there no good doctors on this island?" Rebecca used her Observation Haki to sense Konan's grandmother's condition. She felt that her grandmother's breathing was very weak, as if she was about to die at any moment.
"Probably not. A complete country shouldn't lack doctors. It's just a matter of whether there are any doctors with exceptional skills," Wendy analyzed.
Konan came out shortly after, her eyes filled with sadness. She smiled apologetically at the three women. Rebecca and Wendy didn't care about any of this. They were the ones who should feel bad for disturbing someone who was taking care of a patient.
"Sister Konan, when did Grandma get sick?" It was Ain who spoke first; her thought process was quite different.
"My grandmother fell ill two years ago, and I only took over the care of these Flower Field after that. Her condition hasn't improved since she fell ill, and the doctors can't figure out what's wrong. Her health is getting worse and worse, and she can only stay in bed. There are many elderly people on the island with unknown illnesses!"
Konan was also very sad when she talked about her grandmother. She was an orphan and was adopted by her grandmother when she was a child. The two of them depended on each other for many years. Now her grandmother's illness has become a source of heartache for her. Today, she picked flowers to sell in order to invite a doctor to come and check on her again.