One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 127 Kong Mingwei in front of the Whitebeard Pirates

Above a certain sea, the Moby Dick sailed. Whitebeard sat in the main seat on the deck, holding a large glass of fine wine, drinking with his crew.

Marco couldn't stop his father's drinking habit anymore; he could only watch as he drank less. His father's health wasn't good; the symptoms were mild now, but if this continued, it would only get worse.

"Father, you can't drink any more after this cup," Marco said to Whitebeard, hands on his hips, but his expression told him it was pointless.

As expected, Whitebeard ignored him and continued to sip his wine.

"Dad still enjoys drinking as much as ever."

A woman's voice suddenly came from the boat, but everyone looked at each other, and no one knew what was going on.

Marco simply glanced at the white-bearded man in the seat.

Whitebeard knew who her master was just by hearing the voice.

The two waited quietly, waiting for their master to appear.

"Dad, Marco, it's been a long time."

A whirlpool appeared on the deck, and figures emerged from within it. The members of the Whitebeard Pirates all focused their attention on the whirlpool; had Marco not given a prior warning, the newly arrived crew members would have already drawn their swords.

The man came out, and the crew members stared wide-eyed at him, their jaws dropping in astonishment.

"Yu?!"

"Isn't that You!"

A few people who weren't looking closely exclaimed, but were quickly corrected by their companions, "No, she's not You. You can tell from her demeanor that she's different."

"But they really look alike, it's almost impossible to tell them apart."

A pair of hands patted the crew member's shoulder, interrupting their speculation, "She is our former partner, Kong Mingwei, Kong."

"Captain Izang!"

The one called Captain Izang was a man dressed in women's clothing with heart-shaped lipstick on his lips.

As a veteran crew member, he had seen Sora. Besides him, only the other division commanders and Captain Whitebeard remembered Sora; by the time new crew members joined, Sora had already left the Whitebeard Pirates.

"Yi Zang!" Kong Mingwei greeted Yi Zang warmly when she saw him; they had once been comrades-in-arms.

Yi Zang handed Kong Mingwei a glass of wine and beckoned her over.

Marco didn't say anything, but he had the crew bring over a chair, which was even cushioned.

Kong Mingwei's eyes reddened as she watched the two men's actions, but she didn't dare drink the wine she accepted, nor did she dare sit down in the chair placed beside her.

Because Dad hasn't given the order yet...

None of the crew members knew what was going on; they only knew that the atmosphere was strange.

Izang and Marco stood on either side of Whitebeard, looked at each other, and said nothing.

"Now that you're back, sit down and have a good drink with me," Whitebeard said.

Kong Mingwei raised her wine glass and clinked it against the white-bearded man's from a distance, then drank the wine in her glass in one gulp with tears of gratitude in her eyes.

"Gulp, gulp, only you can keep me company while I drink!" Whitebeard finished his drink with gusto.

Marco shook his head. Now that his drinking buddies had arrived, the wine on the ship was probably in for a rough time; a few barrels less would be a good outcome.

The atmosphere instantly returned to its initial state.

One of the crew members asked Marco and Izang curiously what was going on.

“Kong is our partner, and the only one who would recklessly enjoy wine with Dad. However, she suddenly disappeared without a trace until today,” Izo explained.

Marco, "My father saved Yu and adopted her as his son, partly because of Sora."

Kong Mingwei was a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, having been there before Kozuki Oden and Amaterasu Toki joined. She later became sworn sisters with Amaterasu Toki, and the two were inseparable, sharing everything. Aside from Oden, no one else could get a word in edgewise.

When Yu Tian and Tian Yue left with Roger, Kong Mingwei was still very angry.

Later, upon hearing that Oten and Toki were in Wano Country, he used his abilities to go and see Toki. However, at that time, Oten was fighting Kaido, and in the chaos of Wano Country's war, Oten sacrificed himself, Toki was shot, and Sora also disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, thirteen years have passed.

"I'm sorry, Father, for disappearing without a word for so many years." Kong Mingwei didn't know what to say, so she could only apologize. But she came today because of You. "I'm here today because of You. Thank you, Father, for saving You."

That child is my daughter.

Whitebeard and Marco had suspected it when they rescued Yu, but they still found it hard to believe when Sora said it himself.

You is already twenty years old, while Kong Mingwei has only been gone for thirteen years.

The timing doesn't match!

"When I went to find her, she was determined to die to accompany Yu Tian. She used her power to send me away, but I didn't want to leave, so I activated my power as well. By some twist of fate, I returned to twenty-three years ago." The past events were still vivid in her mind, and Kong Mingwei still found it unbelievable when she thought about them.

Kong Mingwei didn't tell the truth; she left Wano Country and went to another world.

That world was completely different from theirs. Kong Mingwei's pink hair looked out of place there, and her abilities suddenly became unusable, sometimes working and sometimes not, far from their original power.

Fortunately, she met Samojiu. Samojiu took her in and gave her a temporary place to live.

Kong Mingwei hadn't forgotten that she had repeatedly tried to escape using her abilities, but all her attempts failed. Her frequent attempts to use her abilities in that world had taken a toll on her; if Sha Mojiu hadn't rescued her in time, she wouldn't be alive today.

Later, she fell in love with Samojiu. The two had a son, but four years later, she saw a video on an app called "Mobile Phone" in that world.

The video showed the entire Whitebeard Pirates facing the Marines in an attempt to save the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. In the end, the commander died, and Whitebeard also died.

Kong Mingwei suddenly realized that her world was a comic book, an anime, in that world.

The story unfolds from the perspective of a teenager. Kong Mingwei wasn't sure if it was true, but her intuition told her that she couldn't stay any longer and had to return to her original world.

Kong Mingwei left, along with Sha Mojiu, leaving behind only her five-year-old son.

She successfully returned to her world, but ten years earlier than when she left; she had returned to the past.

But there was nothing she could do.

Because she had glimpsed the future, and because she wanted to find her father and tell him about it, she and Shamojiu were trapped on Shanie Illusion Island and could not leave.

It was only in these past few years that she was able to briefly come out and participate in activities. But Kong Mingwei dared not say anything; saying anything would not only fail to change the future, but would also confine her back to the Sandie Illusion Island.

Kong Mingwei placed all her hopes on You.

Yu is the embodiment of two worlds. She has powerful enough abilities to change the future, and she must change her father's future!

Whitebeard was unaware of these things. If he had, he would have simply said that Kong Mingwei was foolish and should have stayed in that world instead of coming back.

Even the strongest person in the world is still just a human being with only one heart, and one day they will have to face death.

All he ever cared about was his family, his sons. As long as they were all well, that was enough for him.

But now, Whitebeard suddenly burst into laughter, “Gurararara, that girl looks like you and can hold her liquor well, but the only difference between her and you is that she can get lost on the ship.”

Not only Whitebeard, but the other crew members also burst into laughter upon hearing this. The entire pirate crew already knew that Yuu was terrible with directions, even after only a short two weeks of interaction.