Part 10 - Who ordered sushi? 1/??

Well, this part will be as big as previous one (also 24-28 chapters). Soo, one more time.

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From this place, an excellent view of the sea opened up, which is why this gentle cliff became a wonderful place for the last refuge of the one who once spent a lot of time plowing the vastness of this very sea.

By a large wooden cross lay a bouquet of fresh flowers and several tangerines, and directly opposite the cross, with her legs tucked under her, sat a dark-skinned, slender, tall, blue-haired girl of about twenty. Dark breeches, a light T-shirt, seductively tight-fitting prominent chest, light sandals on the legs and hair tidied up with a silk strap. Although, nevertheless, the very first thing - well, the second, after all, the girl's breasts really stood out - what any person would pay attention to is a large tattoo covering a significant part of the girl's right arm and the upper part of her chest. The tattoo was nothing definite. Branching lines, dots and slight curves - as if the girl's hand was entangled with the branches of a bush or tree.

- Belmere-san, over the past couple of months, I have probably already bored you, - the girl said with a slight smile. - But I can't help myself, - she added with a heavy sigh. - It's been over a year since I last saw Nami. You yourself know that she has never disappeared for such a long time. Six months at the most, and even then only once. Every day I worry more and more ... and I hope more and more. I hope that my little sister has finally found her happiness and will never return to this god-damned island again. Nami didn't deserve such a life. My little sister deserves to be happy ... You think so too, Belmere-san?

Nojiko was the name of the dark-skinned beauty who is now sitting at the grave of her adoptive mother. The girl owned a small tangerine farm, which she inherited from her deceased mother. Actually, that's why fresh tangerines lay on the grave, although to a stranger with the deceased person this might seem a little strange. However, there was no one in the area who did not know the life story of a former mrine who left her service to raise her adopted daughters. Nojiko was her eldest daughter - a serious, calm, balanced child, and Nami was the youngest. The same Nami, which the East Blue now all knew as the "Queen of Monsters", "Merciful Queen" and almost all forgotten "Cat Bulgar". And, probably, considering how restless and problematic child Nami grew up, there was nothing surprising in who the girl eventually became. Although the people from the island, including Nojiko, did not know anything about it yet. And there were several reasons for this.

First, for more than eight years, a pirate team of fish-men, led by the heartless Arlong, has ruled the island and the surrounding waters. No one could leave or land on the island without their knowledge, so the people living on the island were virtually cut off from the outside world. Arlong made sure that even newspapers were not delivered to them. The information simply did not reach them. Naturally, information about Nami was no exception. So neither Nojiko, nor anyone else on the island, simply did not know about the existence of the pirate hunter team, which has long terrified all the East Blue pirates. And not just pirates. On the other hand, even if Nojiko heard rumors about the existence of a certain Nami, nicknamed the "Queen of Monsters", the girl would still not be able to believe that her little sister and "Queen" are one and the same face. You never know how many girls in the world who bear the name of Nami?

Secondly, why Nojiko knew nothing about the outside world is because Nami never told her anything. Such was Nami. Nojiko only knew that her little sister had undertaken to rob pirates in order to collect one hundred million bellies to buy Kokoyashi - their native village - and Nami always left everything else behind the scenes. Even when the girl, at first, returned to the island all wounded, Nami did not tell her sister anything. And then Nami, gradually, began to return not only without injuries, but each time bringing more and more money at a time. And Nojiko just stopped asking. Although she never stopped worrying. And hope.

Hope, that when Nami once again will go to sea, that this time she would just spit on her, Nojiko, their village, their entire island, Arlong with his gang, and never return. Moreover, the villagers have done more than enough for this, carefully demonstrating their contempt to Nami. How did it happen? It's simple. When Nami joined Arlong's team eight years ago, she did not tell anyone but Nojiko that she did it only to buy back her home village, Kokoyashi. So Nami suddenly became a traitor for all the inhabitants of the island, and most importantly for the inhabitants of her native village. Naturally, such a secret could not remain a secret for a long time.

Village elder, Gen-san, being to sisters someone like a beloved uncle, quickly found out from Nojiko the whole real background of the transaction. And since then, everyone in the village knew that Nami was trying his best to save them all. And that is why, no one in the village showed the girl his real attitude towards her. So that if Nami ever decides to give up everything and run away, she can live in peace, not tormented by thoughts about their fate. Hence Nojiko's ambivalent feelings about Nami's long absence. On the one hand, the girl was sincerely worried about the fate of her younger sister - did something happen to her? - and on the other hand, just as sincerely hoped that Nami had finally decided to leave them, but Nojiko didn't believe that Nami could really leave them. Who else, if not the older sister knows how stubborn her little sister is? Unfortunately, such thoughts only made Nojiko worried even more. Since Nami could not leave them, but at the same time she had not been for more than a year, then, most likely, with her…. At this point, Nojiko diligently drove all bad thoughts away. And in order to somehow maintain her peace of mind, the girl, in the past few months, has made it a habit to come to the grave of her adoptive mother almost every day. After all, who else can you ask for protection for your little sister if not their loving mother? Fortunately for the girl, her worries were about to end today. And not only her. And not only worries.

- The sun is already high, so I have to work. You yourself know what it is like to look after an entire tangerine grove alone. I have a lot of work to do. And thanks for listening to me again, Belmere-san, but I'm afraid I'll be back again in a day or two. I worry too much about my little sister ... ha ha ... nothing new, right? Nami have been that fidget since childhood ... you also look after her, - added Nojiko, rising from her knees. - Goodbye, Belmere-san.

Taking one last glance at the grave, Nojiko turned away and began to descend from the gentle cliff on which the grave of her late adoptive mother was located. The mood, despite the brightly shining sun, and the joyful chirping of birds in the forest, was not good. And it remained so exactly until the moment when her house appeared in Nojiko's field of vision, from the chimney of which a thin plume of smoke was flowing. The girl's heart, frozen for a moment, began to pound with a vengeance. Nojiko involuntarily quickened her pace. And then she added more. And further. In the end, unable to resist, the girl started running. Why? Because there was only one person in the world who, having entered her house without permission, would have started to heat the stove. And only one person could ever need to heat the stove in her house. And so it turned out.

Almost knocking the door off its hinges, Nojiko burst into the house and froze. First of all, the girl noticed a long, lush, luxurious mane of hair, the color of a ripe tangerine so familiar to her from childhood. And then the owner of luxurious hair turned in her direction, and Nojiko froze for a completely different reason. The girl who appeared before her undoubtedly was Nami, but ... and from this very "but" Nojiko involuntarily forgot that she needed to breathe.

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Hello, thanks for reading this.

Well, this part will be as big as previous one (also 24-28 chapters). As was said not once. "Oh shit, here we go again"

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