Chapter 3: interrogation

"Whether i am in a coma or reality, it doesn't change anything "

While Leon was immersed in his thoughts, the captain took out a fragrant cigar, sniffed it gently, then lit it and smoked it slowly.

"So who are you? and how did my men find you in the middle of the empty sea?" the captain's eyes were so firm that made the absent-minded Leon wake up from his thoughts and get nervous so that he said involuntarily, " I was at my house and suddenly I found myself falling from the sky towards the sea that saved me from your men."

Leon felt stupid from his actions and some fear and looked at the captain's face, who shook his eyebrow resentfully, " are you making fun of Me, Do I look like a joke to you I'll ask you again and this time I want you to answer without any games, who are you and how did my men find you in the middle of the empty sea?"

Leon calmed himself down and took a deep breath and then said, "My Name Is Leon White, I was traveling with my family in a small sailing ship, but we were hit by a strong storm on the way that destroyed the ship, when I was struggling for my life, I clung to one of the parts of the ship and drifted with the current for a whole day, after the storm subsided, I found myself in the middle of the sea alone and continued drifting for a short time before the part of the hull that I was clinging to sank and stayed floating in place until your ship passed and saved me." a small tear appeared in Leon's eyes and he seemed to remember his family, from which he parted.

The captain exhaled some smoke and looked into Leon's eyes, which seemed a little hesitant, " which island are you from and why was your family traveling in the first place?"

Leon's eyebrows wrinkled a little and he was silent for a short while pretending to be bitter but in fact he was thinking about a lie saying 'I was trapped I was hoping to get some sympathy from him but this bastard is very strict, which island should I say an island I know or make up a name, but why did he say an island and didn't he say a country, should I speak according to what I assumed, I have nothing in front of me but to take a risk and if he doesn't understand what I mean I'll pretend to be mentally retarded'

"Sigh, I was born on the island of water 7, my father was a master carpenter who built our ship himself, the reason for our travel is my family's desire to see the world and living in water ships will not be convenient for us anymore due to some family circumstances" Leon's heart was beating hard while in his heart he hoped that the improvised lie would be acceptable.

'"I see," the captain exhaled some smoke, was silent for a short time, and then said, " I'm sorry about what happened to your family, our current destination is the chapundi archipelago. you are welcome to travel with us, but you will not travel for free."

Leon felt deeply relieved and shook his head happily, "thank you, sir,"

"Go now, I'll arrange something for you to work on until we get to our destination. Are you OK with that?"

"Yes, sir," Leon stood up, bowed his head slightly as an expression of gratitude, and then left while his heart was beating irregularly from the intensity of happiness, "I'm in the world of one piece, this is crazy," his body was trembling from the intensity of enthusiasm while he suppressed his desire to laugh with great difficulty.

"Damn, this is so exciting, Pirates and Devil's fruit and all that exciting stuff. This is really a dream vacation. thank you, shady website for this once-in-a-lifetime trip."

"Leon come here" while Leon was walking happily he heard Adrian calling to him, he calmed himself down and hid the signs of crazy happiness in his face and calmly walked towards him.

As soon as he stood in front of Adrian, Adrian gave him a broom and a bucket full of water, pointed to a dirty spot on the deck and said, " clean this spot."

"Well" Leon did not feel any discomfort, he expected something like this, he took the broom and bucket and began to slowly clean the deck, his work was slow and not good, but no one I talked to or bothered him about this, he is not a sailor and does not have any experience in cleaning in such a primitive way.

The time passed quietly and Leon spent most of his day cleaning until the evening, then he headed towards the dining room reserved for the ship's crew, the dining room was a little cramped and the tables were worn out, but he liked this atmosphere, the place was so noisy that the crew members were having fun and playing in a very cheerful atmosphere that made Leon, who used to live a quiet and lonely life, feel new emotions and live an atmosphere he had never seen before.

While Leon was standing at the door and watching the crew a little separately as a spectator, he felt a big hand patted on his shoulder, he slowly turned around and looked at the owner of the hand to find him a huge man of more than two meters tall, his hands were very thick and with a lot of hair, his face looked coarsely Manly, he had a very light mustache, in addition to some freckles on his cheeks, which seemed inconsistent with his face.

Leon recognized this man immediately, he is the same person who pulled him out of the water, and because of that, Leon lost some gratitude to him and remembered that he had not thanked him properly yet, so he turned around and bowed his head a little " thank you for saving me this day."

The other man shook his hands and muttered strangely and inexplicably, "hmm, important." Leon didn't understand what he meant and said, "I really appreciate what you did."

"The man shook his hands again and this time he pointed to his mouth and shook his hands, between us he muttered, "hmmmmm."

Leon suddenly realized what the man was trying to say and asked, " you can't talk."

The man shook his head as a sign of confirmation and then pointed to some empty seats.

Leon understood his intention and they both sat down with the rest of the men who were exchanging jokes and making fun of each other, after a short while the waiters brought huge food plates and distributed them to the crew members, the food was not something luxurious but it was good, most of it was grilled fish, some soup and also some slices of lemon as a kind of dessert.

Leon ate his food happily, although it is not comparable to the food in his world, but it had a unique flavor due to the noisy atmosphere accompanying the meal.

After he finished eating, he left Lyon and walked through the corridors, but because he did not know the plan of the ship well, he passed through the rich passengers area and then he saw the very big difference between them and the crew, each of the passengers had a large and clean table and put some clean napkins on it and was decorated with some roses, but their food was very varied, juicy grilled meat, ice cream and sweets, in addition to various kinds of fish professionally cooked and beautifully decorated.

Leon quickly passed by them and did not focus on the details. This was a clear and ordinary thing and there was nothing to be upset about. These people paid a lot of money to get this unique treatment.

After Leon did not reach his small and narrow room, he fell on top of his hard and uncomfortable mattress and fell asleep without feeling.

Time passed and some few hours later Leon suddenly woke up while feeling a severe pain in his head "what's going on" Leon's vision began to become blurry while the narrow and dark room was strangely distorted.

"Uh my head" the pain in Lewin's head increased and looked like it would explode at any moment, causing him to hold his head tightly and groan loudly as his body began to boil inexplicably, wet sweat was coming out of every pore of his body without a sign of stopping.

"Uh '" the pain continued to increase to the point that Leon was no longer able to think properly, his vision became distorted and he could no longer see anything clearly and logically, but suddenly the pain stopped and his body began to cool slowly

"Hah, hah" when it was all over Leon sat in his place while he was going crazy, his body was shaking uncontrollably while he felt a Deep Terror in his heart.

Suddenly a transparent blue screen appeared in front of him.

[The flight data has been completed ]

[Host data has been prepared ]

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