——I don’t want to die.

——Can’t die.

Thinking only of these two things in his mind, the young man continued to move forward. Every time he took a step, the sound of rustling snow could be heard in his ears.

How long have you been gone?

The young man didn't know it clearly, because what he saw around him was a forest of coniferous trees and a world covered in silver.

He also didn't know how far away it was from the "town on the island next door" that Colonel Malvern said.

He was almost losing feeling in his hands and feet. After all, he had not eaten anything for three whole days and had been walking non-stop. If this continues, before the onset of the disease, this young man will undoubtedly suffer from the disease.

He died of hunger and cold.

The body is heavy and sleepy.

"If I just fell directly into the snow, would I be free?"

Such thoughts could not help but flash in the young man's mind.

(No! If I die here, I won’t be able to repay my benefactor, and I won’t be able to live up to Colonel Malvern, who went against the will of the world government in order to cure my disease!)

Such thoughts made the young man tremble. He took out a small knife from the bag wrapped around his waist. Then——

"Ahhhhhh!"

Screams echoed throughout the snowfield.

Just like that, the young man gritted his teeth and stabbed his left wrist - in this way, under the influence of pain, his sleepiness disappeared.

After wrapping the wound with a bandage, the young man began to move forward again. He knew very well that in such a bleeding state, it was extremely easy to attract wild boars or wild wolves trying to forage, and if he was attacked, he would

With his strength and current state, there is only one outcome: death.

But he has no time to think about these unnecessary things. Now, his mind is full of one idea - go to the town, go to the town!

Go to the "town on the island next door" that Colonel Malvern said, and then find a way to get in touch with the big shot at the Navy Headquarters, Lieutenant General Porusalino.

(Who is Lieutenant General Porusalino? Why does Colonel Malvern trust him so much? Will he help me?)

The boy who was thinking this way, when his consciousness was almost gone, finally saw——

"It's a lamp..."

There's no mistake, it's the town lights!

"I'm saved, now I'm saved!"

As he said this, the boy's steps suddenly became brisk - when he entered the town, he would have food to eat, hot soup to drink, and a good sleep in the soft quilt!

He ran forward and soon arrived at this town with a brick exterior. The sign at the entrance said "Happy Town" in large letters.

This was the name of the "town on the island next door" that Colonel Malvern had told him.

Although I didn't notice it from a distance, there were many people walking around in the town. That would be fine - if you talked to those people, you would be taken to a warm house!

The young man who was thinking this way was about to run quickly into the town, hoping to talk to someone after running into the town.

But suddenly, he stopped.

He stood blankly in front of the entrance to the town, and everything that had happened to him so far flooded into his mind.

It was the memory of being persecuted because of a disease called leucorrhea. It was the memory of being disgusted, alienated and even hurt by many people.

The past events that he didn't want to recall revived in the young man's memories one by one.

Because of those who firmly believe that aphrodisiac is an infectious disease, the hometown of the boy, the Kingdom of Freifans in the North Sea, where he was born and raised, is commonly known as the "White Town".

——Isolated by the surroundings; abandoned by the royal family; after the war began, his parents, sister, and church partners were killed one after another...

——Hidden among the piles of corpses, the past of escaping from Frevans.

——The experience of being placed in a hut on a remote island by Colonel Malvern, only to be discovered by fishermen, treated like garbage, and thrown into the sea...

All are bad memories.

On the day when the town was set on fire and the people close to him were massacred, the boy actually decided that he would never trust anything or anyone again.

He even tried to assassinate the most powerful naval officer in the North Sea, Captain Malvern, the base commander of the North Sea branch, when he was on vacation, in order to avenge the world government and the world...

The boy once only had despair.

But even so, the Colonel Malvern who was assassinated by him and who should have killed him was not a complete lackey of the World Government as he thought... Instead, after listening to the young man's scolding, he chose to accept

Got him and helped him.

Even in order to save the boy's life, he gave the boy the devil fruit that the world government valued so much...

(For me, this world is hell. I should have no expectations for anything, but thanks to Colonel Malvern...I found Lieutenant General Porusalino, right...I will, I want to do it again

Try to believe in people and human nature!)

This is what he was thinking in his mind, but now, the young man can't move his body.

When he was about to enter a crowded town, he flinched.

Maybe, I will be persecuted again, maybe the harm will be more serious than that time...

Just thinking about it like this made the young man's feet tremble and he shivered.

However, he finally took a step forward and entered the town.

Walking a little further in, he tried to strike up a conversation with the man who was clearing the snow.

"...please, please!"

"Oh, kid, your..."

(Exposed! The matter of lead disease has been exposed!)

(He will be glanced at like that again - a look of disgust, a look that seems to tell him "you have no right to live"!)

"Ah, wait!"

The boy who was thinking this way didn't even listen to the lady's voice telling him to stop, and ran out of the town very quickly.

He had completely lost the courage to continue the conversation.

So sad.

(Colonel Malvern, although I have been protected by you, now... I still cannot truly trust others...)

The young man wandered around aimlessly. He passed by the coast and saw a cave, so he dragged his body and walked in.

Although the cave is still wet, compared to the outside, a slight humidity is tolerable when staying here.

The boy's stomach growled. He missed the crepes that Colonel Malvern bought for him when he came to visit him. It was said that it was his wife's favorite food...

We were hungry and cold, but fortunately, the snow outside did not fall near the cave, so there were still many dry branches on the ground, both thick and thin.

The young man randomly picked up a few thick branches and made a fire using the friction heat method with great pains. When he still had a home, he read some miscellaneous books to pass the time, and he did not expect that the knowledge in them could be used in other places.

This is when it comes in handy.

The young man put his hand close to the crackling bonfire, and his eyes couldn't help but get wet.

(So ​​warm...)

But he soon wiped his tears, after all, now is not the time to relax and miss.

Going out to hunt and get meat back was an option that was first eliminated by the boy - he was already weak, and now he was even more hungry and cold. Although he had a knife, for the predators who would come out in the snow, he was

It's food instead.

So he randomly found a branch, tied a line to the end, tied the earthworms he had dug out of the soil to the line, and swung his pole into the sea to fish from a nearby cliff.

Although it was a simple and improvised fishing rod, perhaps because Colonel Malvern often told him his fishing stories, the boy quickly caught two big and plump fish.

My stomach is already extremely hungry and is about to reach its limit.

The young man hurriedly returned to the cave, removed the internal organs from the fish, strung it on a branch, and grilled it over the fire.

The aroma of grilled fish soon wafted out.

(Anyway, eat this fish first to restore your energy and strength, then take a nap, and then think about the future...)

——The moment the boy thought this, a sudden sharp pain spread throughout his body!

Hands, feet, head, waist... every part of the body is in severe pain, the pain is so painful that people scream loudly and cannot breathe normally!

(Oops, it’s not surprising that it deteriorates to this extent any time, but I was still careless!)

Three years and two months, this is the remaining lifespan calculated by the boy based on the medical data left by his parents when he contracted the disease. Since then, one year and two months have passed, and Marr

When Colonel Marvin was with him, the boy also had an attack - in fact, according to Colonel Malvern, it was the painful situation when the boy got sick in front of him that made him determined to hand over the Devil Fruit.

Used by teenagers to treat illnesses.

(Devil fruit...)

(Yes, I ate the superhuman surgery fruit. According to Colonel Malvern, it is the ultimate devil fruit that the world government attaches great importance to, and is worth more than 10 billion beli... People who eat the surgery fruit seem to be able to

Become a "freely transformed human being" and master the ability to cure any disease. But that does not mean that you can suddenly use magical power, nor does it mean that you can cure diseases by eating the fruit. It must...)
To be continued...