"Eat slowly, be careful not to choke."

"I still have it here, don't worry, there's enough fresh water."

"Little golden retriever, go to the kitchen and get some more bread."

Even with Absalom voluntarily stepping forward to help, it took Norsha ten minutes to finally distribute food and water to these poor people.

The slaves devoured the delicious food. Nuo Xia watched quietly for a while. When he turned around, he was surprised to find that Moriah was chatting happily with a pink-haired little girl beside the railing.

From time to time, he would make funny faces and make the little guy laugh happily like "Hello, hello, hello".

Does this guy still have such a side?

...Wait, this laughter sounds familiar from time to time?

Nuo Xia suddenly seemed to realize something, and carefully observed the side face of the pink-haired girl. Hey, you can't be wrong, she is really...

"Princess Mononoke", Perona.

The top cadre under Moria in the original timeline, and one of the three weirdos of the terrifying barque.

The timeline was also correct. He vaguely remembered that both Perona and Moria were born in the West Sea, and were picked up by the latter when they were young. They were raised like precious daughters until they reached adulthood.

Is it such a coincidence that the time when the two met happened to happen to him?

He suddenly seemed to remember something, and with a thought, the system panel emitting a faint blue light appeared.

Looking at the taskbar, as expected, there is a prompt box like this:

"The second phase of the side mission "Rescuing the Girl" has been completed"

"Mission phase rewards: 200,000 points, random attribute point*1"

"There is only the last phase of the mission left. After all is completed, you will receive additional massive rewards. Please keep up the hard work."

…

"Is it really done...?"

Nuo Xia held her chin, not too surprised. The description of this mission was to save three important girl characters who appeared in the original work.

In addition to Little Robin, Perona, who is quite popular, obviously also has this qualification.

Two hundred thousand points have arrived, and the most important thing is that Nuo Xia has received the long-lost random attribute point reward.

While the future father and daughter were chatting happily and had nothing to do for the time being, he simply sat back on the zombie's back - this guy didn't get Moria's order and kept kneeling with difficulty.

I didn't dare to get up there.

Then open the backpack bar and choose to enable random roll points.

The blue dice appeared out of thin air, and immediately began to spin rapidly under Nuo Xia's gaze.

[End of roll point]

[Your strength attribute has reached 1]

…

Strong?

Noxia was a little surprised. Every time I rolled attribute points in the past, due to my good luck, the most expensive ones that popped up were Charisma or Intelligence.

This is the first time he has rolled into the attribute points of basic body measurements.

However, at the current stage, adding a little bit of strength attribute is equally expensive, and the situation is completely different from the initial stage.

So, this time it’s like using 500,000 points for nothing?

It's still pretty cool.

Good intentions are rewarded... I didn't expect that tracking down the thief and rescuing the slave would lead to such a big harvest.

Nuo Xia was a little dumbfounded. If he really wanted to talk about it, at this point, shouldn't he still have to thank those blind navy bugs in the morning?

Turning off the attribute panel, Nuo Xia clenched his fists and closed his eyes slightly to feel it. The 20% increase in strength increased his physical melee combat ability once again.

Maybe it's not obvious from a data point of view, but at his level, when fighting against a strong man of the same strength, this change in power is completely enough to turn the tide of the battle.

"I kind of want to fight Katakuri again."

Nuo Xia had some expectations in his heart, "Next time we meet, that guy won't be able to rely on his fruit ability to take the initiative in attacking..."

Regardless of the opposing stance between the navy and pirates, he still admired Ka Er.

In the previous battle, even if he faced pressure from Big Mom, he still refused the help of Smoothie and others and fought against himself until the end.

It can be said that he is the only real man among the unreliable children in the Charlotte family.

How great would it be if such a man could be brought to the navy camp?

A bold idea suddenly came to Nuo Xia's mind.

His current charm value is already quite terrifying, especially when it comes to women. In many cases, he can even attack them face to face and turn enemies into friends...

If the charm value is higher in the future, it may be possible to turn a guy like Katakuri from a powerful enemy of the navy into a top-notch combat force that can be relied on.

"Moria."

After retracting his thoughts, Nuo Xia's eyes moved slightly and looked at the tall and thin man who was still chatting and laughing with Perona. The latter was excited and immediately turned back:

"what?"

"I have to go to the 233 branch to clean up some moths."

Nuo Xia stared into Moria's eyes, "So, can I ask you to do something for me?"

"……no problem."

Obviously he was several meters taller than this guy, but when he was stared at by this look, Moriamo felt that he was the dwarf. He wiped his cold sweat:

"I was shocked. I thought you were going to do something... tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"Help me send these poor women and children back to their hometown." Nuo Xia said calmly, "If there are no relatives at home and they are unwilling to go back, let them disembark in a safe and prosperous town along the way."

"Give them some money by the way, not too much, otherwise you will harm them."

Nuo Xia touched his pocket, but it was empty, so he shrugged helplessly, "Please remember the exact number, and I will return it together when we meet next time..."

"No need to pay it back!"

Moria immediately said, "This small amount of money is nothing. Don't worry, Major General Nuo Xia. I just have to wander around the West China Sea for a while, so just leave this to me!"

"Well, that's troublesome."

Nuo Xia nodded, he was relatively assured of Moria's promise.

Since he had a "bad reputation" and had a precedent of killing Shichibukai, Moria didn't dare to offend him at all.

Secondly, compared to the other Shichibukai, this guy is more concerned about the Zhaoan position, otherwise he would not have been able to be a Shichibukai for so many years like the Sand Crocodile who is good at pretending.

Soon, it was time to say goodbye.

Nuo Xia stood up and came to the bow of the ship. The kneeling zombie soldier, who was almost numb, finally breathed a sigh of relief and crawled back to the team.

The slaves also crowded to the railings, reluctantly waving goodbye to the benefactor who saved them from fire and water.

"Lord Noxia, thank you!"

"If we can meet again in the future, please be sure to come to our home as a guest!"

Perona, who was being held by Moria's hand, was holding the dirty bear stuffed in her arms and crawling on her toes.

After hesitating for a long time, he gritted his teeth and boldly ran over suddenly, putting a silver bracelet that he was holding tightly in his hand into Nuo Xia's hand.

"What is this for?"

Nuo Xia was a little surprised. She shook the small bracelet in her hand and said with a smile, "Little girl?"

"My name is Perona!"

The little Princess Mononoke raised her neck and smiled, "Well, this was given to me by my mother. Now it's handed over to you, Uncle Navy. I don't have anything else. This is the only one that can be used as a thank you gift!"

Uncle...

The corners of Nuo Xia's eyes twitched slightly. He had clearly just turned twenty this year, and could barely be called a teenager. How could he be inexplicably promoted in seniority?

"I can't take such a precious thing."

He laughed and shook his head, pulled Perona's little hand away, and stuffed the bracelet back, "Keep it, after all, it is the last memory your family leaves for you, isn't it?"

"As for thanks..."

He glanced at Moriah, who was standing there in the distance, and said with a smile, "As long as you can grow up well, I will be happy enough. Are you only five years old now?"

"Yeah."

"Then if there is any gift you want to give, you can give it to me when you grow up and have a chance to meet in the future."

Nuo Xia bent down, touched the little girl's head, and said warmly, "I'll give you thirteen years to prepare, little one. In these ten years, you will grow up happily while thinking about what to prepare."

Give it a gift."

Perona blinked, looked at the small bracelet in her hand, looked into Nuo Xia's deep and gentle eyes, and finally nodded vigorously:
To be continued...