Chapter 6 Carding
It's not that Maud is pretending to be stupid.
Mainly, the timing of Sonny's questioning is so odd.
Seeing Maud's puzzled expression, Sunny added: "Arthur's hand."
"Oh, that ah..."
Maud looked at Sunny strangely.
After a pause, he put down the mop bucket and repeated the dodging action in slow motion.
After doing this, he looked at Sunny and said in an uncertain tone, "Is that so?"
Sonny was silent.
A few seconds later, there was a sudden sound of falling objects inside the counter.
Maud subconsciously looked under the counter, and his eyelids moved after seeing the small part of the gun handle exposed at the edge of the bottom of the counter.
Sunny said at the right time: "It's just that the gun accidentally dropped, don't worry about it."
With that, she bent down to pick up the gun and placed it on the counter at will.
"I can't remember the action you demonstrated just now. Please demonstrate it again."
"..."
Maud glanced at the flintlock pistol lying across the counter, and the muzzle was aimed at him intentionally or unintentionally.
He pondered for a moment, of course not going to demonstrate the meaningless action again.
Although Sunny's motives for clinging to this are not clear, it seems that she can't do anything more perfunctory.
"I didn't use any method. It was only because I was prepared at the time that I could avoid it in time. Besides, this kind of thing is no big deal, right?"
Sunny heard the words and looked at Maud quietly.
After a while, she nodded and said calmly: "It's really no big deal, you can keep busy."
"..."
Maud was dumbfounded, and could only silently label Sonny with a label called Weird.
Then, he put the mop bucket in the storage room.
When she returned to the store, Sonny was still sitting in her place.
The flintlock gun that had been lying horizontally on the counter was gone, and instead there was a piece of grass paper with a pencil pressed on it.
Maud glanced past the pen and paper and asked, "Can I go back to the room?"
Sunny nodded, pulled out the straw paper under the pencil, and motioned for Maud to come and take it.
Maud understood, went to the counter, and took the straw paper handed over by Sunny.
There are several lines of writing on it.
A cursory glance, it seems to be a few points of attention.
So little content to be written on paper?
Maud raised a question mark.
Receiving the draft paper, Maud caught a glimpse of the pencil out of the corner of his eye, and his thoughts moved slightly.
"Sunny, can I take this back to my room?"
"up to you."
"thanks."
Maud took the pencil and turned to leave.
Sunny watched Maud leave, then took a notepad and a newspaper from the drawer under the counter.
She put two things on the table.
The newspaper was put aside, and the notepad was directly opened halfway.
The pages that were turned over contained some information with names.
Sonny glanced, then turned again.
This page also has words, and in the first half of the page, Kidd's name is impressively included.
Without further reading, Sunny flipped a few more times, and finally turned to a completely blank page.
After that, she took out a pencil from the drawer, first glanced at the contents of the newspaper, and then wrote something on the notepad with the pen.
After a few minutes, Sunny stopped writing.
The blank pages were already half-written.
At the bottom of those words is Maud's full name and a big question mark.
Glancing at Maud's name one last time, Sonny closed the notepad and put the pencil deep in the drawer.
"Let's talk to Sol."
Sonny whispered to herself.
.............
Maud went back to the room where he woke up.
so easy to be accepted,
Maud was quite surprised.
However, Maud can also see that Sol, who is in charge of the house, is very casual in this regard.
The reason why he was brought back may be that he was purely regarded as the future coolie in the store.
"They come, the security."
Maud muttered to himself, locked the door, and then sat down on the dusty chair before scrutinizing the contents of the drafting paper.
[Whether it is day or night, you can't go out and stay in the house honestly. 】
【Do not touch the items on the shelf. 】
[Entry into the basement is prohibited. 】
[There are ingredients in the kitchen refrigerator. 】
[Other things will be discussed tomorrow. 】
Maud read the content on the straw paper in a complicated mood.
It's just a few things, can't you just say it orally?
Maud shook his head slightly, unable to understand Sunny's style of action, threw the straw paper on the same dusty table, and then picked up the pencil that he brought with him.
【Hunter Notes】
With a thought, a black notebook appeared out of thin air.
Randomly flipping to the blank page, Maud closed his eyes and tried to recall the memory of One Piece.
In order to consolidate and organize these memories, he plans to slowly write them out silently, then sort them out, and then rewrite them several times.
Although the quill pen that comes with Hunter's Notes is inkless, it is the only one that can fundamentally leave handwriting in Hunter's Notes.
As for other pens.
Like the pencil in Maud's hand.
He can scribble with a pencil on any page in the Hunter's Notes.
But then as long as the hunter's notes are removed, the words and graffiti left on the pages will turn into graphite dust and fall to the ground.
From this, Maud can arbitrarily use this to consolidate the memory.
You must know that the information transformed by these memories may become his nourishment in the future.
"I'm more impressed, is it still the Straw Hat Pirates..."
"After all, it is the protagonist group, and more information is disclosed."
"But the period when they were really strong was two years after the plot started."
"It's too far..."
"Judging from Kidd's current age, there are still a few years before the plot begins, right?"
"Also, more suitable targets abound and there is no need to target them."
"By the way, the Evil Dragon Pirates, I don't know if the Hunter's Note can be effective for the murlocs, and the giants!"
"I can't imagine it if it could be done."
"By the way, the Evil Dragon Pirates are in the East China Sea, and this is the West China Sea. If you just rely on sailing, can you go to the East China Sea?"
"I remember that Kidd seems to be from the South China Sea. Since he can come to the West China Sea, it should be no problem to go from the West China Sea to the East China Sea."
"Thinking about it now doesn't seem to make sense."
Maud wrote and drew on the pages as he combed through his memories.
Although he has no knowledge of navigation, it does not prevent him from thinking.
So immersed in it, time passed by minute by minute.
.........
Sol's room.
The lit candles are placed on the windowsill, on the edge of the bed, on the table, etc., to provide sufficient light source for the room with dozens of square meters.
There are more convenient electric lights, but Sol refuses to use them.
It's always been one of those things that Sonny couldn't understand.
"You came to me specifically to tell me that Maud is abnormal?"
Thor sat cross-legged on a huge double bed, holding the gilded slender pipe in his right hand.
Smoke lingers, slightly choking nose.
Through the smoke, his eyes fell on Sunny in front of him with a little scrutiny.
"But you know, I never cared about that."
"Sol, Maud is different from the previous ones..."
"What's the difference?"
"..."
Sonny couldn't say why.
Sol rubbed the cigarette handle lightly.
"You're right, he's really different."