Lady Toki's Legacy

Deep underground, in the boundless darkness.

The smell of decay and death filled the air, and occasionally came a few slight insect chirps, like the lament of a wandering ghost.

Longinus held high the night pearl, the faint and clear fluorescence emitted, illuminating the deeper path.

The road was very hidden and narrow, and because of the violent shaking of the ground above in that war, the ground fractured, and many fallen rocks fell and blocked the passage.

However, this difficulty is nothing for the three of them.

After almost an hour of this silent journey, finally, the narrow passage opened up.

At the end of this is a four-square room.

Although the room was mostly collapsed, they can vaguely see that the room owner was once decorated in a very simple and refreshing way, with a regular and symmetrical layout, which has a feeling of being out of place in this era of the Wano Country.

"Was this room built to commemorate her past?" Longinus muttered to himself in his mind, and he knew something about it, that Lady Toki seemed to be from that Void Century eight hundred years ago.

Not to mention his reaction, from the moment Kawamatsu and Hiyori stepped into this room, tears came out in a raging rush as if the dam had broken!

"This is it, this is the last place I stayed with Oka-sama!" Hiyori stroked the wall sentimentally, seemingly caught up in a long-ago memory.

Kawamatsu, on the other hand, suddenly stepped forward and carefully moved the fallen rock pressed against a corner of the desk and then retrieved a slightly yellowed letter from underneath it.

"Your Highness, it's a letter, it's a letter left to you by the Lord Mother!" Kawamatsu was incomparably excited and handed over the letter.

"Yes, did Oka-sama leave it for me?" Hiyori awoke from her memories and took it with trembling hands.

Under Kawamatsu's expectant gaze, it was as if with all her strength that she finally took out a piece of the written epistle.

Longinus held the luminous pearl aloft as if he was taking the initiative to illuminate her vision, but in reality, he was secretly surveying the contents of the letter; after all, the writing of the Wano Country was not new to him.

The letter briefly mentioned that this Lady Toki came from eight hundred years ago, but did not go into detail, just a passing comment, more about Kozuki Oden and her encounter and travel, between the lines you can see that happiness and joy.

In the end, she then admonished Hiyori never to think of revenge for her; to be able to live happily is her greatest hope!

"Sure enough, there is no particular message worth caring about!" Longinus sighed in his heart but was not surprised; a mother certainly did not want her daughter to live in hatred all the time and the kind of invincible enemy.

Just as Longinus' eyes were running over the surrounding layout, a lightning bolt suddenly crossed his mind, "No, this kind of handwriting I seem to have seen somewhere ..."

"It's the rag that was brought before my eyes by that 'white dragon' during the battle with Dragon!" Longinus' eyes brightened abruptly, "Although someone wrote that rag in ancient script, something like handwriting can still be roughly read!"

"However, it would be best to verify it!"

At this time, after reading the contents of the letter, Hiyori had already sobbed, "Mother, she, mother, she ..."

Longinus gently patted her head, "At least, she was happy at the moment she chose to stay, she has met, able to let her stay for her man as the end!"

"I understand that, but I still can't help ..."

Hiyori only wiped her tears and said with red eyes, "I'm sorry for making a joke of you guys!"

Longinus shook his head, "You have been very strong, if Toki-sama could see this scene, I think it would also be very pleased!"

"Fleet Admiral-nii, Uncle Kawamatsu, why don't you guys go back and rest first, I want to stay here for a while longer." Hiyori said with a strong smile and a somewhat depressed mood.

"Your Highness, it's okay, I happen to want to stay here to reminisce about the past too!" Kawamatsu said seriously.

"I'll stay, too." Longinus looked around, "Just in time, I also want to know if there are any records here about that past history."

"Thank you, thank you!" Hiyori said with pursed lips.

The room fell silent again as Hiyori sorted through the relics that might have belonged to her mother. Kawamatsu's eyes lost focus as if he remembered something, and Longinus searched the room for carriers who had recorded words.

"Most of them are accounts of Kozuki Oden and some of her own heartfelt stories!" Longinus was quite helpless, he had searched several books and books, but all failed to find any bit of information he wanted to know.

"In the end, because the woman who fell in love with no other ideas, or her own instinctive resistance to leave certain records?" Longinus sighed softly in his heart, suddenly his eyes stared, looking at the booklet in his hand.

This one used to write records; it is ancient writing!

And the handwriting was the same as what he saw last time.

"It's really her! However, the meaning of her writing that sentence is ..." Longinus secretly mused, putting his mind all into the booklet in his hand.

"It's been three years since I came to this era, but I've never heard a legend about Imu, could it be, she's dead? No, it is impossible, she is the one who vowed to take revenge on the world, she will not die until the hate wears off! She just wants to turn the world he loves into hell! Besides, isn't the world already on the verge of becoming hell?"

"Today, Oden proposed to me... So happy... Seems like my journey can go on without me! In this era, I've found the harbor where I can stay! But is this really good ..."

"Captain Roger finally finished the Grand Line, and everyone was happy, but I was not included among these people. Because, I found that weapon on this island called Raftel, I suddenly somehow understood why I never heard the legend of the Final Island in my time! This makes me feel uneasy ... she really does not know anything? Or maybe it was a trap that she set on purpose? Really do not understand it, really, guided by the hatred of the woman is not able to understand!"

"What I expected did not happen, although Captain Roger was arrested, but that seems to be his own action, for us, it was more like a dream trip, other than that, nothing happened! I began to think, what happened again in that era after I left?"

"I never thought that day would come so soon! Someone once told me this; time travelers will owe a time debt; time is irreversible; time debt is a debt that people can never repay! But I didn't care, I was in a time when there were no more ties that were worth keeping, and the point of traveling was to keep sowing the seeds of hope on the way to the pilgrimage.

But today, I finally understand the heaviness of this debt. Even a long time, those who travel through time and space are just a moment, but it is an unspeakable pain and suffering for those who have created the bond. So, this time I will not leave again, and finally arrive at the end of the journey, is the side of Oden, I will stay here to stay with him!"

"Although a little selfish, but I no longer intend to continue my mission, I will write down the answer thrown into the unknown time and space, let these ten pieces of cloth to replace me to complete the unfinished mission! Moreover, the inner light without a trace of darkness really existed ... may have existed, once Imu and Joy Boy may be such a person ah!"

"Forget it, what the future has nothing to do with me, the current me, as long as I can accompany the side of Oden is enough. How nice!"

Longinus gently closed the book and wondered in his heart, "Is this what she really meant when she wrote on that scrap of cloth that only justice can defeat the gods? But why is it such a materialistic statement, because of Imu's ability or her state? Also, how did this conclusion come about? Is it a prophecy, or has Imu ever failed because of this?"

PS: The extremely unbeatable card in writing; try to update before one o'clock.

Published in Qidian, December 12, 2019