Chapter 18 - Wan Shou's Last Words

　　Two years later, the year 1486 of the Sea Circle Calendar.

　　This year's Lily is already twenty-two years old, her height is completely set at five-five meters, the use of various colors of hegemonic aura is also relatively mature, and the ability of Devil Fruit has been mastered proficiently, so it can be said that now, if Lily meets the Major General at that time again, Lily has the confidence to subdue him in less than a single move, but this growth doesn't let Lily be happy, because Mansou is dying.

　　During a training session last year, Wanshou suddenly sat down and fell to the ground, covered in sweat, red in color, and gasping for air. Lily rushed Wanshou home and hurriedly tried to find a doctor, but then she remembered that the two best doctors in the whole of Angsar were Wanshou and herself.

　　Lily panicked to take Wanshou's pulse, the kind of pulse that Lily had never seen before, just when Lily was sweating all over the place, Wanshou finally caught his breath and grabbed Lily's hand to force her to relax, he asked Lily to take his pulse again, and told Lily in a soft voice that this pulse is called the dead pulse.

　　The normal people who have this pulse usually can't live more than two hours, but because of his special situation, the awakening of the Pixi Fruit can let him last for another year, at that time Lily wanted to use the power of the Vermilion Bird Fruit to fill Wanshou's life force, but was stopped by Wanshou, Wanshou's body is now like a leaking broken bucket, if you don't care about him, the hole leaks after the water can be a little slower, if at this time Lily added another bucket of water to him, that If Lily adds another bucket of water to him, the broken bucket may fall down with the bottom, and the water will leak out faster. Wanshou tells Lily that this is the law of nature, and that he has already lived for 245 years, and has lived long enough.

　　Wanshou did not have a giant bloodline, his longevity all depends on the life force brought by the awakening of the Pixie Fruit, the normal life expectancy of the Ghost Race is only two hundred years old, as an ordinary person Wanshou has lived for 245 years, which can no longer be described as a joyful mourning, but Lily is still very sad, her has not seen her real father, her adoptive father has also died, and now even the master is also ...

　　Lily touched the corners of her eyes, this year, Lily wanted to reduce her training to spend more time with Wanshou, but Wanshou disagreed and reprimanded Lily severely.

　　It was exactly one year to the day that Wanshou had fallen ill, Lily hadn't gone out today and Wanshou wasn't in the right place, he was lying in bed, his face was rosy and his breathing was calm, he looked fine, but the two people present knew what it was, a flashback.

　　"Lily, how many years have I been teaching you?" Wanshou asked.

　　"Eight years, eight years and 77 days." Lily replied without any thought, while wiping Mansou's arm with warm water.

　　"Eight years ah, time is so fast, it feels like it went by in the blink of an eye, obviously before you were a little girl who didn't know anything, now you've grown up and are taller than me."

　　"Do 246 year olds think eight years is fast too?" Lily teased.

　　"That's for sure, 246 years is fast too, it feels like it went by in a flash," Wanshou sat up with Lily's help and took a sip of water from the cup at the foot of the bed.

　　"My whole life ah, nothing accomplished, and also caused a lot of trouble, good in ah, on the verge of ah, received you such a good disciple ah."

　　"Master you don't say so, rest well, it's fine." Lily whispered persuasion.

　　"No, there's no need to be like that Lily, we all know that don't we? It won't be more than tomorrow, I'm going to finish my speech while I'm still awake and comfortable." Wanshou waved his hand stubbornly, his gaze going to Zee on the windowsill.

　　"Zee, go dig that out for me." Zee saluted at Wanshou's words and turned to run out of the house, and Wanshou shifted his gaze back to Lily.

　　"Lilly, did I never tell you about my life."

　　"No, I asked once and you didn't tell me." Lily sat down on the floor and clasped her hands in her lap.

　　"Really? Hey, speaking of which, I'm still a nobleman oh, or a great nobleman," Wanshou made a face at Lily, "Your master, I, ah, was the second prince of the Kingdom of Flowers back in the day, a proper royal clansman, and was crowned King of Qin."

　　"Oh."

　　"You're not surprised at all?"

　　"About guessed, although I've never been to the Land of Flowers, but the Tuji you gave me contains an introduction to the Land of Flowers, combined with your clothing, fruit ability, and rhetoric, I can about guess that you're a person from the Land of Flowers, and then through the knowledge reserve, I guessed that it's an aristocrat, although I didn't expect it to be a royal clan, but it's still not too far off."

　　"Is that so? Really, I wanted to see your surprised expression." Wanshou bristled with some disappointment.

　　"Then I should look like this? Woah! That's incredible!" Lily put her hands on her cheeks and put on an extremely exaggerated expression.

　　"Stop, stop, stop, good lord, it's too weird for you to make that expression." Mansou covered his face with one hand to keep from looking at him.

　　"See, it's more or less the same for Kiki and Anna to do this kind of thing. But I'm quite curious as to why someone like Master would leave the country and wander here."

　　"That, ah, goes back a long way ... (See Characterization: Mansou Chapter)"

　　...... The dividing line of Mansou's storytelling .....

　　"So what happened after that?" Lily asked.

　　"Afterwards, ah, I encountered many things, shipwrecks, betrayals, the World Government's pursuit, the Navy's pursuit, and even the underground organization's pursuit, and only one of those Devil Fruits was saved, the Vermillion Bird Fruit that you ate." Compared to the detailed explanation just now, the current Manju was extremely perfunctory.

　　"Zee Zee Zee!" Just then, Zee ran in holding a cylinder, Wanshou stroked Zee's head and reached out to take the cylinder, Lily looked at the cylinder, there were obvious remnants of the island cloud on it, it looked like it was buried inside the island cloud.

　　"Boo," Wanshou pulled off the stopper and pulled a roll of yellowed paper out of it and handed it to Lily.

"This is where I lost the Devil Fruit at the time, and the name of the lost Devil Fruit, I was being hunted until I came to Onsar, I couldn't even look for it, and I don't know what's become of it now, it might not be of much use, but it's more or less a clue, so go look for it if you have time."　　Lily took the chart and looked at it, there were places on it that she had never heard of, as to whether she could find them or not was anyone's guess, but at least it was a clue, just as Lily was looking through it, a piece of paper fell to the ground, Lily picked it up and looked at it, it was a wanted notice.

　　Subversive - Mansou, bounty of 2 billion beli.

　　"Oh, a wanted notice, how nostalgic, it's 100 years old." Wanshou lamented.

　　"2 billion from 100 years ago, it seems like the world government is very uneasy with you Master." Lily looked at Wanshou and smiled, in the eyes of the weak it was a death charm, in the eyes of the strong it was the best decoration.

　　"Yes, it's a pity that they didn't raise the price later, probably because they saw that I failed to recruit manpower." Wanshou hemmed and hawed with a very smug expression.

　　"Alright Master, give me all of these, so what exactly is it that you want me to do?" Lily asked, she could guess that Wanshou definitely had something he wanted her to do, and Wanshou never hid that.

　　"My errand? It's easy to say and hard to say," Mansou stroked his beard "First of all please help send my ashes back to the Land of Flowers, I still wish to return my soul to its home."

　　"That's no problem, I'll do it even if you don't tell me." Lily nodded.

　　"Then there's the matter of finding these Devil Fruits for me, if you find them, you can keep them if you want, but if you find the Pixie Fruit that appeared after my death, I hope you'll return it, I stole all the other fruits, and the fault for losing them lies with me, but the Pixie Fruit was given to me by the temple, and I need to return it."

　　"I'll do my best." Lily nodded, the uncertainty of such a thing was too high for her to make any promises.

　　"Don't worry, don't worry, don't we still have Zee here? Using Zee's power can help you accomplish a lot of things, but I wasn't able to get him to awaken, so it's up to you." Not wanting to stress Lily out, Mansou gave a small hint.

　　"The last thing is," Wanshou suddenly paused.

　　"That is?" Lily looked at Mansou, and just then, Mansou suddenly stood up, his face red, and looked Lily straight in the eyes as he said solemnly, ""

　　"Rose Lily, go! Go fulfill your dreams! Go pull down those high and mighty bastards, drag those who stand in the clouds and call themselves gods down to the ground, go fulfill your dream of bringing down those nobles, whether it's for you, or for me, or for the people, go rebel, subvert, and stir up the world! Ahahahahahaha, ahahahahahahahahahaha!"

　　Saying that, Wanshou let out a loud laugh that reached the sky, so unrestrained and spontaneous.

　　Lily also stood up and bowed down with her hands together.

　　"Student, dare not follow orders."