The nun looked somewhat pained:
"Little Lami, she actually... alright."
The nun also had a deep memory of that well-behaved little girl.
Silently offering a prayer for her, she crouched down and said to Law:
"Then you must catch the next refuge ship, Law."
"I will come back to pick you up."
At this moment, among the children behind the nun.
A friend who had grown up with Law called out:
"Hey! Law! Come with us!"
"Lami will definitely be saved afterwards!!!"
"Our parents are all dead! We have to survive even more!!!"
"Law!!!"
Law looked down, biting his lip, motionless.
He couldn't bear to leave his sister alone here.
The nun thought for a moment and said gently to Law:
"Listen to me, Law."
"There is no true despair in this world."
"A merciful light of salvation will surely descend upon you."
Law froze, then nodded heavily:
"Mhm!"
----
Outside the largest hospital in Flevance.
The iron gate was locked, and continuous streams of people stood outside, crying out for doctors to save them.
But the hospital was already paralyzed.
Most of the personnel had fled, leaving only a few doctors who held onto hope and continued their research.
In the office.
Law's father angrily shouted into the Den Den Mushi:
"There are too few doctors here, and not enough blood and medicine."
"Why isn't the kingdom sending more personnel!"
"There must be a way to strip the lead disease from the body!"
"And this disease is not contagious at all!"
"Why is the government concealing this information!"
*Bru—*
The Den Den Mushi's eyes closed, indicating the person on the other end had hung up.
"Damn it!!!"
*Bang—*
----
In the ward.
Law stood by the small bed, quietly watching over his sister Lami.
Suddenly, Lami's eyebrows twitched, and her eyes slowly opened.
She turned her head slightly and saw Law, wanting to cry out:
"Brother... my body hurts so much..."
Her voice was almost imperceptible, lacking even the strength to cry:
"And my body is getting whiter and whiter..."
"Am I going to die..."
Hearing his sister's words, Law trembled, nearly crying out, but he forced himself to comfort her:
"It's okay."
"Just bear with it a little longer, Dad is the best doctor in the country."
"He will definitely cure you."
*Bang bang—*
The continuous sounds of gunfire and cannons entered the ward from outside, capturing Lami's attention.
"What's happening outside, why is it so noisy..."
Law comforted her:
"They're holding a celebration."
"Isn't Flevance always this lively?"
"Get well soon, and we'll go to the celebration together."
A faint smile appeared on Lami's lips:
"Mhm..."
----
A few days later... ninety-nine percent of Flevance's residents had been killed.
Soldiers from neighboring countries were repeatedly sweeping through the country, attempting to find and eliminate any survivors.
Inside the hospital.
It was as if after a war, bullet marks, corpses, and shattered buildings filled the place.
Soldiers wearing gas masks were searching floor by floor.
In a corner room.
Law tucked his sister Lami into a cabinet:
"Lami, bear with it for a while."
Lami weakly nodded:
"Mhm."
Then Law closed the cabinet, and after hiding his sister, he dodged the searching soldiers and ran to his parents' office.
However, as soon as he entered, he witnessed a scene that broke him.
Everything in the room was smashed, and in the center lay two corpses, Law's parents.
They had multiple bullet wounds, their white doctor's robes stained red with blood, which flowed across the floor.
Law threw himself onto the bodies embracing each other tightly:
"Mom!!! Dad!!!"
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!"
And the soldiers searching the building heard the despairing shouts.
"There's someone in the building!"
"This way!!!"
"Quick!!! Shoot him!!!"
The footsteps grew closer, and Law, with no time to mourn further, gritted his teeth and shattered the glass, jumping out.
The soldiers who followed behind him continuously fired their guns.
Law, relying on his advantage of growing up here and being familiar with the terrain.
After twisting and turning, he hid under a bridge pier and escaped the pursuers.
----
Late at night.
After hiding for half a day and no longer hearing footsteps, Law dared to come out.
But the town now seemed so unfamiliar to him.
Fire was everywhere...
Even though dark clouds obscured the moonlight, Flevance at this moment was as bright as day, with raging fires everywhere... like hell.
As Law walked like a zombie towards the hospital, he tripped over something.
He looked down... and let out a despairing shout:
"Nun... Sister!!!"
Looking around, he saw the corpses of his friends scattered everywhere, and his voice almost failed him.
He recalled the nun's words from a few days prior:
"Law, there is no true despair in this world."
"A merciful light of salvation will surely descend upon you."
Law knelt on the ground, frantically pounding the earth:
"Whyyyyyyy!!!"
After venting for a while... his heart turned to ash, and he left in silence.
He could do nothing...
----
When Law finally returned to the hospital.
He looked at Flevance's tallest and largest hospital burning in the flames.
It completely shattered his spirit.
"Hospital..."
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Kneeling on the ground, Law's eyes rolled back, and he roared in despair:
"Lami!!!!"
But there was no response, only the raging flames illuminating his despairing face.
Suddenly, he lost consciousness and fainted.
In just one day, the entire world had collapsed.
No one could accept it, let alone a ten-year-old child...
The next day.
Law, having climbed over the barbed wire fence, cast one last look at Flevance, which had turned into ruins...
"I will... destroy this filthy world..."
And in the eyes of the world, the "White Town" Flevance was utterly destroyed.
Leaving only a pile of ashes.
----
At the entrance to the New World, Fish-Man Island.
Several super-giant sea kings stared intently at Fish-Man Island from afar.
Suddenly, these super-giant sea kings let out excited roars that echoed underwater.
"Roar—"
"Roar—"
"Our King has been born!!!"
The seabed rippled...
----
The Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
A fish-man with thick curly hair, a wide mouth, and large burn scars on his neck slowly crawled up from a pile of corpses.
With a tug, he tore off the broken slave collar:
"Freedom..."
The completely red fish-man cast one last look at the Holy Land, which looked like a paradise.
But he knew it was hell, a hell on earth.
Clinging to the steep cliffs of the Red Line, he descended bit by bit, carrying a hatred etched in his bones.
"Wait for me..."