"Ah! Rabbit! Rabbit hit someone!"
Suddenly, Luffy, who was lying on the bed, stood up and shouted in a panic.
"What are you shouting for, you idiot Luffy."
Zoro seemed to be disturbed by Luffy's voice, and cast a dissatisfied look.
"Eh!!! Zoro!" Luffy froze as soon as he saw Zoro, and then pounced on Zoro.
"Hey, hey, hey, you idiot, don't hug me so tightly. I'm a wounded person, and the wound is very painful! Bastard! Stop!"
Luffy finally reacted and took two steps back. He showed a big smile and said with a relieved smile, "Zoron, you're okay, that's great!"
Zoro felt inexplicably relieved when he heard Luffy's concerned tone.
"You guy, are you an idiot? Just call that woman. Why are you running over here? If Chopper hadn't passed by, you would have died in the snow!"
Zoro gets a little angry when he talks about this.
If Chopper hadn't gone out to replenish some fresh medicinal ingredients, Luffy would have been killed by the snow mountain rabbit halfway up the mountain. After Chopper's explanation, he understood that the snow mountain rabbits on Drum Island were very powerful.
"Well~ It's nothing, isn't it~" Luffy chuckled, as if he didn't care. As he said that, he got close to Zoro and poked Zoro's bandage.
"Stop it, you idiot! It hurts!"
Because it is a new medicine that has just been changed, the affected area is very sensitive under the stimulation of the medicine. Zoro stopped Luffy with a decisive fist.
"Hehe, it's great that you are so energetic!"
Zoro drank some water angrily, "By the way, Nami and the others, didn't they come with you?"
"Nami and the others are muttering in the town below. The uncle of the guard won't let us all come up."
Zoro frowned, remembering Dorothea's words before, and felt an inexplicable bad feeling in his heart.
…
In the wind and snow, a group of people moved forward quickly despite the wind and snow.
"Ah~ah~ah~ I'm going to freeze to death!~" Usopp walked forward in pain with snot on his face.
However
"Hurry, we have to hurry up. I'm afraid something will happen to Luffy along the way." Nami said anxiously.
Behind her, a group of people wearing thick coats were walking shivering in the wind and snow. Surprisingly, it was Nami and the others who were supposed to stay in the town.
Not long ago, Nami suddenly felt her heart tightening and she felt restless in the room. A woman's intuition told her that there must be something wrong. At that time, it happened that Dalton took the residents to the pier to block people, so Nami directly took a few people and ran out secretly.
Sanji suddenly stopped and looked behind him.
"somebody is coming."
As if to verify Sanji's words, several figures emerged from the wind and snow. Dressed in burly armor, it was Dalton.
After making way for Wapole, Dalton thought for a while and felt that if this was the case, Wapole might regret it and stay in the castle without leaving. While he was mobilizing manpower, the residents who had been guarding Nami and the others came over and told him that the pirates had knocked him out and ran away.
However, there was no movement on the pirate ship belonging to the group of young pirates on the dock, so those people probably followed it up the mountain.
So Dalton thought for a while, handed over the matter of mobilizing manpower to Klin and Crewe, and then he took a few mountain climbers to catch up.
"I finally caught up with you. If you go further, you will deviate from the route. That is the territory of the snow rabbit, which is very dangerous."
Nami looked at the other party warily, "Are you here to take us back, uncle?"
Dalton looked up and looked at the road that was not far from the top of the mountain and shook his head, "We have already reached this place, so let's go up together. Wapol has already gone up, and I am afraid that you will meet him on the way."
The three people who followed Dalton couldn't help but reveal a wry smile.
Dalton is very good, but he is just too good. He is honest and kind, and always thinks of others, but this kindness also makes everyone worry about him.
Perhaps in order to eliminate the doubts of Nami and others, Dalton explained to them things they said they didn't know during the rest of the way.
"Witch? Why does a doctor have such a nickname?"
"Her real name is Dorothea, and she was one of the doctors who left together. Later she became stronger and came back once, because she had strange abilities, and when we asked her name at that time, the name she reported was 'Colorful' "Witch", and her teacher was also Dr. Kureha, who was called a "Witch" by everyone, so everyone gradually got to know them and became accustomed to calling them witches." "This is what happened at that time..."
…
"Why, why are you here?"
As soon as he returned to the castle, Wapol was yelled at by the woman sitting in the seat that should have belonged to him. There was just a hint of fear in this roar.
Dorothea put down the coffee cup in her hand, and the subtle sound of the clinking porcelain was very loud in the empty room.
"Oh~ Isn't this King Wapol~ No, you are no longer the king. When I came back earlier, I heard that you ran away to become a pirate. No, you have already become a pirate, so good I think I’m not polite here~”
Dorothea's smile was very gentle, but it gave people the feeling of being faced with an old fox's heart, always feeling that something bad was waiting behind her.
hateful! Is this what Dalton is for! While you asked me to take away my treasure grandly, you didn't tell me that you, a witch, was here. This woman... is simply like his nightmare.
Wapol raised his hand decisively, "Transform, cannon!"
Wapol's raised hand suddenly turned into the shape of a cannon, and a cannonball flew out the moment he opened his mouth.
However, the expected explosion did not sound, and the cannonball was caught by a slender hand.
"Wapol, do you want me to do it?~"
Dorothea's eyes were filled with amusement, and she remembered many interesting things.
That was when I returned to this country alone five years ago...
By this time, Wapol had completely taken control of the country. Except for a few doctors in the country who were still practicing private medicine, they had either disappeared on their own or passively. However, when she came back, she happened to encounter a few people who were crying at home because they had no money to go to the castle to hire a doctor. She couldn't hold it back and treated them.
Who knew that because this disease took a while, more patients would find her during the treatment period.
It didn't take long for this matter to reach Wapol. This behavior, which was almost like a free clinic, seemed to Wapol to be ruining his job. You must know the reason why Wapol reduced the number of doctors and took all of them to himself. His purpose is to monopolize the medical treatment on Cigu Island, so as to make profits with sky-high medical treatment.
This behavior was perfectly described by a word Dorothea had recently learned.
monopoly.
Master and control a certain resource, and then rely on its monopoly position to obtain pricing power, in order to obtain benefits that are ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, and thousands of times above the cost.
Dorothea wanted to intervene, but Kureha stopped her.
"They need fools who are willing to stand up for them, not the heroes you think of."
At the end of the matter, Dorothea and Wapol had some conflicts, and then Dorothea hit them directly, making the other party lower his head. [I will release this part of the story in the form of a free chapter later. 】
An agreement was then reached that Dorothea's medical practice on Drum Island would not be controlled by him.
Of course, things didn't end here. After that, Dorothea called someone to 'Lan', who had just moved the headquarters to Sky Island. Kuleha's words suddenly gave her an epiphany-like understanding of some of the words and actions in the 'Lan' organization.
Fools and heroes.
People need heroes, but when there is only a hero standing in front, then isn't that 'hero' just a fool?
If you want change, it’s not enough to have heroes. In fact, what is needed is not heroes, but thousands of ordinary people. What is needed is that they themselves also take on the responsibility of 'heroes'. When one person becomes a hero, he is a fool, but when thousands of fools become heroes...
So she did not choose to overturn the table at that time, but had someone bring a 'seed', a seed called 'Awakening'.
Back to the present...
"I ask you again, Wapol, are you ready to declare war on me?"
"You!!" Wapol was in a dilemma. "This is my castle!"
Dorothea laughed loudly, "What you want is not this castle, but the wealth you collected hidden in this castle."
Dorothea snapped her fingers and said, "It's easy. I can give you the castle, but... let's make a bet."
"Bet!" Wapol became alert.
This guy with the nickname of witch really has an unpredictable mind like a witch.
However, after some hesitation, he was still ready to listen to the bet. "What bet?"
"It's very simple. I will give up the castle, but you need to stay here for one day and not leave. Of course, I will not make any move during this period. How about this bet... do you accept it?"
Wapol thought for a moment "Only one day?"
"Of course, to be more precise, it's twenty-four hours. This time is already very short. You can't even do this, right~The escaped king~"
"I...I...I took it. When does it start?"
"The time is now 2:10 p.m., so I'll count it as two o'clock and give you ten minutes."
"Hehehe, it's a deal."
Saying this, Wapol had no intention of defending this castle at all. He had a bad feeling that he agreed to this bet just to get this woman to give up the castle so that he could move his treasure. At most, by tonight, he will be able to pack up all his wealth. You can leave early tomorrow morning.
As for the bet...
Haha, whoever wants an empty ruined castle wants it.
Seeing that Wapol agreed, Dorothea stood up. "Wait a minute, I have two patients upstairs. I'll take them away."
