I Will Protect You As Cora-San Did For Us

Chapter 45: A new era begins!

Somewhere in grand line.

Apoo: "What's going on now?"

"What do you mean, apoo-san?"

Apoo: "They'll be enemies someday. Do you honestly think he'll save them?"

"Huh?"

Apoo: "I'm talking about Trafalgar law. That guy is famous for his brutality. He's got to have some ulterior motive for helping Mugiwara and utahime."

At another place.

Hawkins: Reading his tarot card. He frowned. "Peculiar."

"What is it, Hawkins senchou?"

Hawkins: "Mugiwara no luffy's chances of survival... No matter how many times I look at it, it won't fall to zero. But what I'm more surprised about is her. Shi no utahime miyuki... Her chances of survival definitely dropped to zero but. This devil arcana in reversed always showed up every time I draw a card on her."

"What do this card mean actually?"

Hawkins: "In tarot card, this devil arcana in reverse indicates a near miss with a negative, harmful or dangerous situation or even a person. That means, even if she's destined to die she'll somehow managed to escape. No matter how many times death try to grab her she'll managed to slip away from their grasp for some unknown reason."

"What the? Is that even possible?"

Hawkins: "My reading will never lie." (Who are you actually utahime? I'm pretty sure that my reading indeed showing your chances of survival drop to zero. You're supposed to die here. So how did you manage to escape death...)

Another place.

"To be honest, I was scared when the war broke out, but now the great pirate, shirohige has died."

"It has to be over, right?"

"I guess?"

Eustass: Laugh. "What's over? The new force that emerged during this war... That kurohige is a force to be reckoned with. Shin sekai is a sea governed by yonkou Shirohige. Akagami. Kidou. Big mam! Now that one of them has fallen, the balance has tipped, and I have no idea what's gonna happen! It begins now! A brand new era, and nobody has seen anything like it! And that little twerp utahime. She promise to give me a good fight with her someday." Excited. "I really can't wait." Laugh.

Back at law and crew.

Law: Sigh heavily. "Finally... The surgery was a success."

He walk away to his bedroom.

Law: (Her injuries is a lot more serious than I thought.)

He knock on the door.

Miyuki: "Come in..."

He went inside.

Miyuki: Look at him. "Oh, it's you law-san... Have you finished the surgery?" Worried.

Law: Nod. "Just now. They're stable for the time being, so you don't have to worry about them."

Miyuki: Sighing in relief. "Thank goodness..."

Law: "Although Mugiwara-ya is injured he might suffer another kind of injury. I don't know how he will act after he woke up."

Miyuki: Sad. "I know... That's why he fainted. It was some sort of defensive instinct to keep himself from being broken."

Law: Look at her. "How about you? Are you okay?"

Miyuki: Close her eyes. "Honestly... I don't know myself anymore. I am sad beyond grief... But at the same time... I don't deserve to mourn for anyone. I don't know how to apologize to luffy when he wake up or even face everyone when we meet again."