Chapter 390

"There is one more here." Robin pointed to herself.

"Only Sister Robin stays by my side..." Sima Di sighed.

"Second Captain, don't be so depressed. Isn't it nice to have delicious food right before your eyes?" Robin said.

Robin addressed everyone by their title.

"It is nice, but I always feel like I need to do something." Sima Di said.

This feeling was hard to describe; it was like when leaving home, always feeling one had left something behind, yet unable to recall what it was no matter how hard one tried...

"Then what do you want to do? Like... visiting a grave?" Robin suggested tentatively.

"Visiting a grave?" Sima Di felt a sudden clarity. "Yes! That's it! I finally know what this feeling refers to... and this feeling tells me I must visit the grave right now."

"Visit the grave right now? Your feeling is truly strange..." Robin said.

Sima Di also felt a bit embarrassed; visiting a grave in the middle of the night made one either a madman or someone with ulterior motives, and she clearly categorized herself as the former.

"Sister Robin, um..." Sima Di said timidly.

"Are you afraid?" Robin laughed.

Sima Di nodded. She was not afraid of corpses or such things; what she feared were those ethereal ghosts and monsters.

"Let's go together."

"Thank you so much! Sister Robin!"

Shortly after, the two arrived at a desolate, remote spot in Food Town.

This was a cemetery, but the area was not large. Because the local custom was to cremate the dead and scatter the ashes into the sea, very few people were buried in the ground.

The gravekeeper was an elderly old man. Sima Di claimed she was short on time and would leave tomorrow, so she came to visit a friend's grave.

"In that case, I will take you there. Just do not stay here too long; this is not exactly a good place after all."

"Yes, yes, yes. Thank you, old sir." Sima Di said.

"Who is the friend you wish to visit? 1.0" The old man's voice was hoarse.

"Sima Di." After Sima Di spoke, she wrote RINSHI on a piece of paper.

Robin looked at Sima Di in surprise but said nothing.

The old man picked up the name and examined it closely. "Oh, I do have an impression of this name."

"Why?"

"Strange to say, this grave is a cenotaph, yet the young man who arranged this matter specifically bought the largest and best plot here. Look, that slope facing the sea is the grave of this person named Sima Di." The old man pointed it out for them. Speaking thus, the old man seemed to recall something, adjusted his glasses, squinted his eyes to scrutinize Sima Di, "By the way, who are you to her?"

"I am Sima Di's niece, and the one beside me is a friend accompanying me." Sima Di explained.

Hearing this explanation, the old man nodded.

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"So it is an aunt-niece relationship; no wonder you look so alike... Alright, alright, go and return quickly. Remember, do not delay there for too long."

"Thank you, old sir."

By the bright moonlight, the two could clearly see the half-man-high marble tombstone before them.

The tombstone stood atop a cliff; the view of the sea from there was quite beautiful. However, this height made one feel somewhat dizzy. And Sima Di thought of her own "failed suicide" history.

The two's gazes fell on the tombstone; the photo on it was unmistakably Sima Di's appearance, except the photo had already turned yellowish and looked quite aged.

The name on the tombstone was first a line of "RINSHI," with a smaller line of "Sima Di" two characters beside it.

The last line on the tombstone read—Erected by close friend Trafalgar Law.

"Close friend, huh..."

Sima Di bent down and saw that "close friend" seemed to have been altered; originally it was not such wording.

So originally... what was carved here?

"Trafalgar Law, captain of the Heart Pirates. A newly risen pirate crew; I heard their strength is not weak." Robin said, "If I recall correctly, the poster behind your room door is of him."

Sima Di's hand froze, and her face instantly turned red.

"Eh, eh, eh? Sister Robin, you... you saw it..."

"I learned this while chatting with Nami. She said you had someone you liked; to verify it, I paid attention to what was behind your door while looking for you." Robin laughed.

"Nami really is..." Sima Di complained.

"However, can you now explain your friend Sima Di's tombstone? Judging by the appearance of this grave, it has existed for at least ten years." Robin looked at Sima Di.

"Since I asked you to accompany me, I had no intention of hiding anything. It's just... explaining it is a bit troublesome; I don't know if you have heard of transmigration..."

What Sima Di explained was naturally only about his transmigration to the small garden over ten years ago, and finally returning to the present by a stroke of luck. Matters concerning the Time Fruit and the Space Fruit were not mentioned.

Robin pinched her chin and thought for a moment. "The situation you describe is not without precedent; the Rainbow Mist of the Rumble Ball Island was once suspected to be something produced by time distortion. If possible, I truly wish to travel back to that blank one hundred years to see with my own eyes what actually happened..."

"I believe what happened during that period would certainly not be to your liking; otherwise, it would not have been deliberately covered up." Sima Di said.

"That is true... but pursuing history is my dream, just as you wish to become the world's number one writer."

"Haha, correct. If it is for a dream, whatever one gives up is worth it." Sima Di said, "Since we have seen my own tombstone, I think we can return now..."

"Wait, I still feel something is strange."

"What is it?"

"Nami said that discovering you pasted Trafalgar Law's poster happened shortly after you arrived in the Grand Line, yet your transmigration occurred at the small garden... I simply cannot imagine you are the type to fall in love with someone based solely on a wanted poster. Besides, Trafalgar Law is not exactly a person of outstanding appearance... Did something happen in between?" Robin asked.

"How can you be so certain I am not that shallow a person? Or perhaps it was love at first sight?" Sima Di asked back with a smile.

"It is not certainty, but a feeling. Having spent time together, I feel you are more the type to believe in love growing over time; in daily life, your way of handling things also gives such an impression."

"Your intuition is truly sharp... I should have known not to bring you along." Sima Di sighed and said.

"But it is already too late, isn't it?" Robin said with a smile, "And you yourself said that since you asked me to accompany you, you had no intention of hiding anything... However, it is still not too late to regret it now."

"There is nothing to regret; I trust you." Sima Di said this sentence without hesitation.

"This kind of trust without reason puts great pressure on me."

"You must hold on despite the pressure. Listen to me about these matters obediently. I feel that if I don't speak these things out soon, I will be driven mad by suppression one day."

"In that case, I will listen with my ears washed."

Sima Di thought for a moment and said, "... You are right; I am not a person who believes in love at first sight. Something did happen in between. Once, for some reason, I was imprisoned in a madhouse under guard. During that time, I tried every means to escape. Then one night, someone suddenly appeared before me, saying he wanted to take me away from here. At that time, I could not have been happier. So I followed him... However, just as we were about to leave the madhouse gate, we were discovered..."

At this point, Sima Di's tone paused, as if somewhat hesitant.

"That person was Trafalgar Law, right?"

"Yes... it was him..."

"What next? What happened?"

Sima Di looked at Robin with a bitter smile. "If I say it, you might find it hard to believe; even I dare not believe it myself."

"Tell us."

"Those who came to capture me were the so-called attending physician and some strong nurses and orderlies, but not a single one of them could see him standing beside me. Just as I was surprised, he... disappeared without any warning. Even now, thinking back to what happened then, I feel that I was truly mad at that time."

The story she told was true. At that time, Sima Di was imprisoned in the madhouse by the butler under the pretext of training.

Sima Di herself only held a fondness for the character Trafalgar Law, just like other pirated figures piled up at the head of her bed. After this incident, Sima Di came to regard Trafalgar Law as an indispensable favorite in life, even enshrining the other's poster.

However, miracles do not happen. After Sima Di waited bitterly for two months, she reached this conclusion. At that time, Sima Di also clearly realized that the other was merely a virtual character, absolutely impossible to come and save her; everything stemmed from the fact of her own fantasies... This conclusion plunged her into true despair.

From then on, she decided to end all this madness by her own ability.

After Sima Di finished speaking, Robin fell slightly silent for a moment before opening her mouth to speak.

"There are only two explanations for this situation to occur. First, you stayed in the madhouse too long, and the influence of other patients or some drugs caused you to have hallucinations."

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Sima Di nodded. "This possibility is indeed very high, because before this I did see Law's old wanted poster, so it is understandable to produce such a hallucination. I feel the same myself. Then... what about the second?"

"The second is... he is also a transmigrator! Only his method of transmigration is different. His transmigration time was not only very short, but only you can see him."

Hearing this explanation, Sima Di finally understood.

Sima Di had never thought of such a possibility before, but this possibility does exist, and its probability is comparable to that of the first situation.

But... if the second explanation comes true. Then that means Trafalgar Law once came to her world?

Furthermore, based on the information Sima Di obtained from Luffy's Logbook (this information is based on the premise that Luffy did not arrive in Jin Long Country but arrived in the true Ming Dynasty), one can reach a terrifying conclusion.

The current world and the world where he resides are equally real existences.

"Then... why did Oda write this story more than ten years ago..." Sima Di murmured in shock.

Robin looked at the murmuring Sima Di, whose face had turned somewhat pale.

"You... thought of something? What more than ten years ago?"