A spatial door opened quietly, and Sephiroth walked out with Nico Robin, both carrying suitcases in their hands. He reached out and gently touched the top of the girl's head, looking at her:
"This town is close to the border of the Ilusia Kingdom, and its security is quite good. It stretches far west, crossing mountains, and can reach other countries, while it's close to the port in the east, and you can go to sea. I don't suggest you go to sea until you have the strength to protect yourself. This sea is chaotic and dangerous!"
"Um!"
Nico Robin, with her head bowed and her voice slightly stiff, held back the tears that threatened to burst from her eyes. During her four years on the run, this was the happiest time she had experienced, and Sephiroth was the kindest person to her. Now, she was alone again!
Seeing the young girl's distressed expression, Sephiroth sighed softly. He took out a white half-face mask from the inside of his black leather jacket and placed it on the girl's face.
"Robin... I can help you... Only this far! In these chaotic times, learn to deceive and betray, and don't trust anyone easily. In the distant future, the historical truth that Ohara pursued will no longer be obscured and will be known to the world. Live well and witness new history!"
With that, Sephiroth stopped looking at the brunette girl, he spread his black wings and soared into the sky, high in the air, locked onto a specific direction, opened a spatial door, and appeared hundreds of miles away.
Nico Robin stared blankly at the silver-haired youth who disappeared high into the sky, and after standing still for a long time, she raised her hand, wiped the tears that had dried in her eyes, picked up her suitcase, and walked into the nearby Pique Town.
This was a very ordinary agricultural town with a population of over a thousand. Two days ago, a terrible pirate attack occurred! The leader of the Black Iron Pirates, to make himself famous, gave the order to massacre the entire town.
After receiving the message, the Royal Army rushed there, but they only saw corpses everywhere, as well as burned houses! Powerlessly, the Royal Army had no choice but to bury the town's residents outside, leave the town, and inform the Marines about the incident there, telling them to rush and hunt down the Black Iron Pirates.
There were many burnt-out house areas in this town, and from time to time you could see dried bloodstains on the streets, as if narrating the tragic situation of two days ago.
In the sky, black bats occasionally flew by.
On the empty street, a girl with a petite figure, wearing a long black gothic lolita dress, long pink hair, and a teddy bear in her arms walked aimlessly. Somewhat eerily, around this little lolita, two ghostly bodies hovered.
The girl's name was Perona, and two days ago, her parents were killed by pirates, and even her house was burned down. Had it not been for her injured father, who, before dying, took her to hide in the forest outside, she might have been killed as well!
For these two days, Perona, hiding in the forest and getting lost, besides finding a very strange and unpleasant fruit to fill her stomach, she endured the nausea and ate it. Other than that, she found no food in the forest! And, she was also attacked by wild boars in the forest! Had it not been for the strange fruit that had given her the ability to create ghostly bodies and use them to put the wild boars into a negative state so she could take the opportunity to escape, she wouldn't know if she could have left the forest safely.
Perona, enduring her hunger, wandered through the familiar yet alien streets of the town, the walls that had collapsed due to shelling, the houses that had been burned, the dried bloodstains everywhere, the deserted streets, the sight of a dilapidated condition that she found hard to connect with the previously peaceful and quiet town.
Whoosh!
Tap! Tap! Tap!
A silver-haired young man in a black leather suit, with a long blade hanging from his waist, a slender figure and handsome appearance, emerged from the alley in front of Perona.
The pink-haired Lolita girl held the teddy bear in her arms, subconsciously took two steps back, and looked at the silver-haired youth with a wary expression on her face.
Sephiroth squatted down and said in as gentle and soft a tone as possible, "Little sister, where are your parents?"
"All dead...."
"What's your name?"
"Perona."
"Can you come with me? I will take care of you from now on."
"Can I go with you without being hungry?" With her big round eyes wide open, the young girl looked at him with an innocent face.
Sephiroth nodded slightly and said earnestly, "Hmm! Never!"
Gulu-lu~!
Perona touched her stomach and said to him, "I'm so hungry now, I want to eat...."
"OKAY, I'LL TAKE YOU TO EAT NOW."
As he spoke, Sephiroth took his long blade from his waist and opened a spatial door, transporting himself to Bristol, a port city more than a hundred kilometers from Rosanna Town.
"Let's go!"
Sephiroth took Perona's small hand, stepped through the spatial gate, and arrived on a street bustling with people.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Bagels and hot chocolate!" The little Lolita girl replied without thinking.
"Alright!"
Sephiroth nodded, took Perona, found a family restaurant on the street, walked in, and ordered two bagel sandwiches, hot chocolate, and coffee at the counter.
After a while, the waiter placed the food and drinks on the table where the two were sitting, and Perona immediately cheered. She picked up a bagel with both hands and bit into it fiercely, not even caring that the tomato juice from the sandwich was smeared on her chin.
"Aren't you eating?" Perona looked at the portion in front of Sephiroth while biting into the bagel sandwich in her hand, and the girl's eyes flashed with longing.
"Eating from the bowl, looking forward to the pot." Seeing this, he couldn't help but smile slightly and pushed his portion in front of the girl. "I'm not hungry yet, you eat!"
"Thank you~!"
Perona, who also didn't stand on ceremony, laughed and thanked him, and after quickly finishing the sandwich in her hand, took the second one.
After waiting until the girl finished eating, Sephiroth took her to a clothing store to buy some different gothic lolita-style clothes.
After doing all this, he took Perona and returned to the hotel where he was staying, to rest.
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