Chapter 22 I'm Still Alive
The wash of the cool breeze was Darren's first sensation.
The cheerful cries of seagulls seemed to come from far away, mixed with the sound of uniform drills.
Darren struggled to hold up his heavy eyelids and opened a slit, revealing a blur of bright light.
Am I dead?
it hurts……
The long coma made his consciousness somewhat blurred.
All the bones in his body felt like they had been crushed to pieces, and the pain in his chest was burning and unbearable.
He lay like this for a while, barely getting used to the suffocating pain, and panting slightly from his dry throat.
"I'm alive."
he muttered hoarsely.
He is still alive, indeed still alive, having survived from the hands of the future Pirate King...
Darren was lying on a soft hospital bed, covered in blood-stained bandages, with tubes inserted in many places, and his face was as pale as a ghost.
But he couldn't help but laugh, happily.
Although at the last moment of the fall, he was severely injured and exhausted, and he could not cause any harm to Roger, but at least he recovered some interest.
"what's so funny?"
A cold female voice suddenly sounded.
Darren turned his head with difficulty, and what came into view was a beautiful and refined face.
Her long, wavy black hair was simply tied into a ponytail, and her pair of phoenix eyes were slightly raised, making her look a bit sharp.
"Of course I'm very happy to see such a beautiful face just after I woke up."
He looked at Gion, who looked a little haggard and had clearly been sitting here to look after him for a long time, and couldn't help but smile.
Gion avoided Darren's eyes unnaturally and snorted coldly:
"Since you can still speak hooligan words, it means you are not dead yet."
Darren smiled and said, "I feel better when I see you, Major Gion."
As soon as the words fell——
"And me, and me! Hahaha Darren, are you happy to see me?"
A rather scrawled face suddenly came over from the side, grinning, holding a peeled and chewed banana in his hand, his face full of excitement.
"Darren, do you know? You are now a well-known figure in Malinfando... Well, although your reputation is far less than that of a genius like me, everyone is talking about your name!"
"The rising star of the navy who went head-to-head with the legendary pirate Gol D. Roger and inflicted heavy losses on him!"
"And there's more..."
"That...Major Jiaji?"
Darren couldn't help but interrupt Jia Ji's chatter.
"Huh? Say it!"
Jiaji was startled, and then he moved his face closer to Darren with some concern.
After the two incidents involving Bundy Waldo and Roger, although Jia Ji was unwilling to admit it on the surface, he had completely recognized Darren in his heart.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable? Should I go find a doctor? Or are you hungry? The doctor said you must fast for the past few days. After all, your internal organs have suffered a lot of trauma..."
"Can you please move your face away? You're too close."
The banana suddenly broke off and fell to the ground.
Addition:…
He blinked.
Darren winked at him too.
"You're just jealous that I'm handsome!"
He muttered angrily, turned around, walked to the corner, squatted down, and opened a brand new fruit basket with gritted teeth.
Darren looked at Jia Ji's figure and couldn't help but laugh.
Well, I feel better now.
He looked at Gion again,
"This is...Mainfando, the headquarters?"
He took a quick glance at his surroundings.
The white walls, the ceiling fan hanging from the ceiling, the smell of disinfectant and blood in the air, and the various vital sign detection instruments are flashing with light and emitting electronic sounds with a stable frequency.
Darren is familiar with this environment.
Gion nodded and said:
"Yes, this is the military ward of the headquarters. We just arrived a few hours ago."
Darren frowned:
"How long have I been unconscious?"
"Three days."
Darren was silent for a moment, laughed dumbly, shook his head and whispered:
"It seems like I almost got away with it this time."
Ever since he reached 60 points of physical fitness and acquired a tough body comparable to steel, he had never suffered such a serious injury.
Three whole days of coma.
"Sure enough, there is still a long way to go..."
He murmured.
Facing Roger's evasive sword, if he hadn't burst out with overlord Haki at the last moment and successfully comprehended Armed Haki, he probably would have been struck by Roger even with his inhumanly strong physique. Cut in half.
The most important point is that when others were not aware of it, Darren exerted the "repulsion" of the magnetic fruit on Roger's supreme sharp knife at the moment of Roger's attack, weakening the strength of the attack. .
After such a comparison, he truly realized that the so-called "World Destroyer" Bundy Waldo... was actually far inferior to Roger in terms of personal combat power.
And this also shows how terrifying people like Lieutenant General Garp, Whitebeard, and Golden Lion, who are at the same combat level as Roger and can fight with him casually for days and nights, are.
"The top of this sea..."
Darren's eyes sparkled.
"Hahahaha, Darren, I heard you're awake?"
At this time, a hearty laughter came from outside the ward.
Drager, holding a fruit basket in his hand, smiled and pushed open the door of the ward, and strode in.
"Major General Drager."
Gion and Kaji, who had half an apple in his mouth, stood up immediately and saluted.
Drager waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to be polite, and smiled at Darren and said:
"How do you feel? Major Kaji and Major Gion took turns to take care of you on the way back. You also know that there are too many wounded on the returning warship, and the accompanying ship doctor is already too busy."
"The old man and I... well, you know we are not very good at taking care of people."
When he said the last sentence, Drager scratched his head embarrassedly.
He and Garp slept most of the time on the return journey.
"Feeling much better."
Darren smiled, and glanced at Gion and Kaji while speaking, and a touch of warmth surged in his heart.
"That's good. Get well. There are two days left before the opening ceremony of the officer training camp. Such an important occasion cannot be without you, the 'King of the North Sea'. Now you are a hot figure in Marinford."
Drag said with a sincere smile.
After saying this, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and said with a strange expression:
"Well, the annoying guy is here. He is your old acquaintance."
Darren was startled.
The steady and powerful footsteps sounded from outside the ward door.
Rigid, cold, and standard, the footsteps alone give people a sense of pendulum-like hardness.
Soon, a tall and oppressive figure appeared at the door.
Just standing there, he gave people a sense of iron-blooded momentum.
···
···
···
···
Ask for everything, thank you.