One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 142 Diuss's Breakdown

Shanks can tolerate being insulted or injured, but he cannot treat his companions and crew the same way.

Even without the "Observation Kill" technique, Yu doesn't think Katakuri could win a one-on-one fight against Shanks. He might be able to withstand a few blows, but the outcome would still be quite obvious.

Katakuri can't hide anything at all; his emotions are written all over his face, even when his scarf covers half of it...

Yu realized this a long time ago, whether it was going out to sea on missions or encountering other challenging pirate crews. Katakuri's motivation was the Big Mom Pirates, because he was Big Mom's son and the older brother in the family.

Katakuri has become accustomed to eliminating challengers for his family and defending the status of their Sea Emperor Pirates.

He defeated challenger after challenger, but those people were not ignorant or overconfident. Challenging the Emperor of the Sea was their way of proving themselves to the world; they had goals and ambitions.

But Katakuri doesn't realize that he's not fighting for himself, so to him all this is ridiculous.

Shanks, like them, has his own beliefs and dreams, and based on that alone, Katakuri has already lost.

However, on the other hand, Yu knew that she wasn't much better off herself.

"Boss, your sister's cooking is so delicious!"

"I haven't had such delicious food in so long, I'm so moved I could cry!"

"Waaaaah, boss, why can't you...?"

"Boss, could you let your sister come with us?"

Ace slurped up a large mouthful of spaghetti in front of him, and only after swallowing it did he answer, "Yu! I want another bowl!"

"Okay." Yu took the plate from in front of Ace and filled it with water. "By the way, did you keep Crystal with you?"

"Hmm." Ace took the plate with one hand and took out a crystal from his pocket with the other. "The chain broke before, so I've been keeping it in my pocket."

The chain broke during his fight with Yamato, so Ace temporarily put it in his pants pocket. When Ace took the crystal out and handed it over, he took a closer look at it.

Katakuri previously stated that this was connected to Yu's life, with the depth of the crystal's color indicating Yu's lifespan. However, whether Yu was on the verge of death before or now, the crystal has not changed.

Is he lying?

Yu pushed the crystal back, "It's okay, you can just keep it with you."

"Sister," Ace called Yu-nee-sister, which was rare for him, "you can consider this your Vivre Card."

"Almost, what's wrong?" Yu didn't remember explaining this to Ace; she must have discovered it herself.

Ace hesitated, pursing his lips as if he wanted to say something, "Why do I have to bring this?"

"..." Because you will die in the future, and I don't want that to happen.

But Yu couldn't say this to Ace, so all she could say was, "Of course, if I'm in danger, you can come and save me."

"Just like this time, if it weren't for you, Ace, I'd still be locked up on Onigashima right now."

Ace felt there was something wrong with what he said, but then again, it didn't seem wrong. "Don't worry, Yu, no matter what, I'll save you!" No matter what, Yu was his sister, and he would never let anything happen to her.

"By the way, Deus has always wanted to ask you about your medical skills." Deus subtly reminded Ace, who then spoke directly to Yu.

"Ah, me?" Yu was flattered, but the key point was that she didn't know any medical skills.

Diuss had already asked, "Scal's intelligence contains a lot about you. Patients who have been through your care, even with the most serious injuries, can be healed very quickly."

Yu realized what was happening. "Do you know how those people got injured?"

"What's the difference?"

Yu stirred the vegetable pieces in the bowl with a spoon and sighed helplessly, "I don't know medicine. If you want to learn, you can go to Hongo."

Hongo, whom Yu mentioned, looked up and exchanged a glance with Deus, then nodded.

But Deus still didn't believe it. "Then those!" Deus thought that Yu was just finding it troublesome, or that she didn't want to reveal her skills. In any case, Skar's information couldn't be wrong.

"To be precise, they weren't injured, they were affected by the abilities of those with special abilities," Yu explained. "My ability happens to be able to remove the effects of those abilities."

Deus was heartbroken. He had thought there was some top-secret method, but the result was... somewhat disappointing!

"Don't be too sad." Skar patted Deus on the shoulder to comfort him. "It's also my fault for not figuring out who the injured were. The title of witch isn't given for nothing; this ability is quite mysterious."

Deus looked at Scal with melancholy eyes, then at Ace who was waving helplessly at him, and heartbrokenly picked up the wine on the table and drank it all in one gulp.

"Hey Deus! That's alcohol, you're not..." a non-drinker, are you?

Diuss didn't hear a thing, he ate his meat in big mouthfuls and drank one glass of wine after another. As he ate, his eyes reddened, and he wiped away his tears with his hands.

In the end, her cheeks were flushed red, and her nose was also very red. "What witch, what healer, it's all a lie!"

"Waaaaah, I really idolized her, she's a complete liar!"

Skar kept pulling Deus down his throat, shoving wine into his mouth and stuffing pieces of meat from the table into his mouth. "Even food can't shut you up!"

"Haha, he's not usually like this."

Ace slapped his face, too embarrassed to look. Deuce usually seemed quite calm; why was he so emotional today? "He doesn't usually drink..."

Shanks peeked out from behind Yu with a mischievous grin, "Hey Yu, you've hurt that little boy's feelings."

"..." She was wronged. She did nothing. "The witch title was just something the Navy gave me. I have nothing to do with the Holy Hand."

Yu was only whispering to Shanks, but Deus still heard it. It was as if his tear ducts had triggered some crucial command, like a dam opening, and tears gushed out.

What was supposed to be a lively luncheon was inexplicably interrupted by artificial background music.

It's quite unique.

"Um, how about I give you some medical equipment, or I can find some rare medicinal herbs for you?" Although, perhaps because of what Shanks said, or perhaps because Yu really felt it was her fault, she didn't want Deus to continue like this any longer.

"You don't even know medicine, how would you know which equipment is good, which medicinal herbs are rare..." Deus replied to You while feeling sad, and then continued to feel sad after answering.

The more I think about it, the sadder I get…

"I don't know, but I can ask people." Yu sighed and rubbed his forehead. Not to mention that there was a professional doctor, Hongo, right next to him, and Luo was also a doctor, a surgeon. Yu had seen all the medical equipment on the ship.

I've never eaten pork, but I've certainly seen pigs run.

"So what! You still don't know medicine, and my goddess is no longer perfect!"

"I followed the boss to sea to become a pirate, partly because of the boss, and partly because of you!"

"You're powerful and capable, and also a chivalrous girl thief who can heal the wounded. You're a one-woman pirate crew—what a great character model! The female doctor adventurer in my adventure novel is based on you. Now, now..."

Before he could finish speaking, Deus gulped down another glass of wine.

After listening for a while, You finally understood that the main reason was that the characters in the novel couldn't be written because of her. That was easy to solve. "You can just continue with her original character setting. At most, you can add that her medical skills are due to special abilities. Wouldn't that be more attractive?"

“You don’t understand! Every time I treat a patient, I’m dealing with a difficult and complicated case. It’s a challenge, and the process requires constant experimentation and drug trials. To say that you can cure someone with a wave of your hand is disrespectful to doctors!” Diuss said indignantly.

Yu thought Deus was right, but she couldn't just cure him with a wave of her hand; she also had to pay a price.

That's not a pleasant thing to hear...

"Doctors are not to be desecrated! Not even my goddess!"