Chapter 85: While in One Piece, He Made One of the Four Emperors Cry!
"So Linlin hates me? Then I'll leave with Toki right now."
Roy chuckled bitterly, pretending to be angry as he turned to go.
"By the way, I knew you'd come, so I had all the doctors around you keep studying the medical books here."
After saying that, Roy sat on Horus's cloud body, patted him on the shoulder, and took off, Horus fluttering upward with obvious reluctance.
"I don't know how many years it'll be before we meet again. Linlin, take care of yourself. Don't let people fool you anymore."
Those were the last words Roy left behind before disappearing into the sky.
"No!"
Charlotte Linlin panicked. She quickly jumped onto Zeus and urged him to chase after Roy.
Zeus's fluffy body sagged as he sped forward with all his strength.
What was Roy trying to do? Once he left… who knew how many years it would take before he came back?
Linlin had been abandoned by her parents, then lost the nun who raised her… and now Roy, who had taken care of her ever since she'd been abandoned, was about to leave her too.
She was terrified she would break again—fall into madness, become a wild, uncontrollable monster…
The very Big Mom the world would one day fear.
Without Streusen, she might truly return to her ruthless nature.
"Brother Roy, don't go! I… I don't hate you!"
Linlin shouted, her voice shaking.
Roy, hovering ahead with Horus, looked back at her with an exhausted expression. This silly girl always said one thing and meant another.
Of course he wasn't leaving. He wanted to change Linlin and change Totto Land's future.
He was just tricking her.
The current Linlin was far easier to deceive than the terrifying Big Mom of the future.
"What? Am I the kind of brother you can just order around? Linlin, you're being selfish." Roy stopped Horus and glared at her in pretend anger.
Linlin's eyes widened in fear.
"No, that's not what I meant!" she waved her chubby hands frantically, looking distressed. "I just didn't want Brother to leave, so I said that."
Roy's eyelid twitched.
Could she actually… like him?
That could NOT happen.
He could use the role of an older brother to teach and fix Linlin, but he absolutely couldn't accept her as a girl.
Besides, time itself made it impossible.
Roy could use the rules of time to leave this era—
But he couldn't take Charlotte Linlin with him.
Leaving her alone with no guidance would create too many unpredictable variables.
And what if something went wrong?
What if she grew up twisted?
Also…
He refused to return to the future and find Linlin waiting for him as a sixty-eight-year-old grandma.
He didn't want Captain-America-level tragedy in his love life.
"Linlin is so selfish!" Roy huffed, signaling Horus to continue flying.
Horus looked between his mother and the direction of Toki's house, clearly conflicted. His little cloud body trembled.
"No, Linlin is already changing! Linlin will always belong to Brother Roy! Don't go!" Linlin grabbed her dress, tears spilling down her cheeks.
Roy: "..."
He…
He actually made Linlin cry.
A future Emperor.
A monster who would terrify the seas.
And here she was… sobbing like a helpless child.
Another peak moment in life?
"Stop crying. I'm not just your Brother Roy anymore. Come with me."
Roy sighed and motioned for Horus to keep flying.
Linlin wiped her tears and followed with a pout, sitting on Zeus like a sulking child.
The happier her childhood was, the more pain she would feel later when everything collapsed—and the more ruthless she would become as a pirate.
Roy originally just wanted her talent, but the relationship between the two had become unexpectedly complicated.
At the doorway, Toki stood in a pink kimono, smiling softly.
"Welcome back, Linlin~"
Linlin snorted and turned her head away, refusing to look at the "evil woman" who had stolen her Brother Roy.
"Don't be upset. Let me make this clear: your brother will find you many more sisters-in-law in the future," Roy said casually, taking Toki's hand and walking inside.
"How… how could this be…?"
Decades later, no one across the seas could imagine this scene:
The great Big Mom—one of the Four Emperors—
feared by pirates, dreaded by marines, a terrifying force of nature…
Acting like a sulking, dependent child in front of this boy, following obediently like a little sister.
"I'm sorry, but that's how he is. Roy is gentle. He just doesn't want you to rely on him too much," Toki said, comforting her with a warm smile.
Linlin, despite being powerful, felt a sisterly warmth from Toki—who was actually the weakest one here.
"Linlin just wants to rely on him. But we were…" Linlin bit her lip, eyes misty.
She wanted to say that she'd met Roy first, lived with him at the Sheep's House…
Why did her brother choose such a weak, delicate pretty face?
"He must have his reasons. He wants you to grow up properly," Toki said, though she herself didn't really know Roy's motives.
But when you like someone, you defend them no matter what.
"Alright… Linlin will be good from now on. Teach me whatever you want…" Linlin mumbled, sitting inside the tiny house that suddenly felt much smaller with her in it.
"Here. Memorize all of these first."
Roy placed a thick stack of books in front of her.
During the year he spent searching for medical cures, he had written down portions of his knowledge from his past life, intending to use them to broaden Linlin's mind.
He wondered…
What kind of new world would Linlin create after being shaped by him…
When he returned many years later?
"Too much…" Linlin stared at the mountain of books. Her already strained brain felt like it was spinning.
At that moment, she seriously considered giving the throne to Roy and becoming a general instead.
So THIS was what it meant to handle actual state affairs?
Linlin suffered internally.
"I only inherited the Sheep's House. When the children grow up, they can choose someone else to inherit the Sheep's House. That's all."
But your kingdom is your own responsibility.
Roy looked at Linlin with a serious expression.
He had only written a fraction of the books—he couldn't remember everything.
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