"Dongdongdongdongdong~"

"Here is here! Here!"

With the rapid knock on the door, Jennifer quickly ran down the stairs, making a thumping sound on the wooden floor, but suddenly.

Because she was too anxious, she staggered forward with her left foot and her right foot. Before she could react, an invisible force held her back and made her stand back on the stairs.

"Huh~"

Jennifer breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear, and then smiled.

"Fortunately you are here..."

But there was no one around, and no one responded to her words...

People without spiritual power cannot even hear what the spiritual says.

But even so, Jennifer could still imagine what he would say to himself based on his past familiarity with him.

[Be careful, don't be so rash next time, what if I'm not here?]

Jennifer smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will be careful next time."

As he said that, he continued to run downstairs, walked quickly to the door, and opened the door.

I saw a middle-aged man with tea hair standing at the door, wearing a windbreaker, and the faint smell of the sea blew on his face with the breeze...

Looking at the man, Jennifer opened his eyes slightly and said in a somewhat uncertain tone.

"Victor...Victor?"

"Well, sister-in-law, I'm back." Victor said with complicated eyes.

"That's great!" Jennifer looked excited and excited, "Betty will be very happy to see you!"

But there was no joy on Victor's face, but he took out a card from his arms and handed it to Jennifer.

"This is the money that belonged to Captain Hull after I sold all the treasures on our ship and some useless devil fruits, totaling one billion pounds."

The country will buy these precious treasures from these adventurers. For the country, this amount of money is naturally not enough to worry about, so it is very refreshing to pay.

As he said that, he raised his right hand and held the strange-shaped fruit in his hand.

"Then... this is what Brother Hull asked me to give to you, the natural frozen devil fruit, let Martin eat it, and you will gain the power to protect yourself.

Then, if you have any trouble in the future, you can come to me. I can teach Martin how to use evil in the future..."

"No," Jennifer interrupted Victor's words, causing his words to stutter.

She smiled, "Martin now has a good teacher."

Then he took over the Demon Fruit and the card.

That was something her husband had fought for the past eight years, and she couldn't have refused to accept it.

"Thank you for bringing this to us."

"Don't you just want to ask Captain Hull what's wrong? Don't you just want to ask him about his life or death?"

Victor finally couldn't hold back and looked at Jennifer, who looked calm in disbelief, with an excited tone.

"The captain has been thinking about you mother and son for these eight years!"

Just now, he was actually at the door.

It was just that he struggled for a long time before knocking on the door because he could not calmly inform Jennifer and his son of Hull's death.

It is even more unexplainable why all of them came back, only Hull did not come back.

The dream that had been waiting for eight years was ruthlessly shattered by him and became a dream bubble.

He could not do such a cruel thing at all.

He had fantasized about countless possibilities.

Unbelievable, abused herself and deceived her, or collapsed directly, hysterical...

But I didn't expect that this would be the case...

Jennifer's calmness made him even more difficult for him to accept...

"I know," Jennifer murmured with his head down, "because..."

She turned to look behind her and smiled, "He has been back long ago..."

Victor looked behind Jennifer. The living room was not big, almost completely visible, and there was no place to hide.

His experiences and feelings were almost impossible to find the people on the first floor.

And Jennifer's words continue...

"Although I can't see him or hear his voice, I can sense his existence. He is here, right by our side, guarding us."

Victor was silent, and his excitement suddenly sank to the bottom of the valley...

He had imagined many scenes, but never imagined what he saw.

Because of the illness of longing... Is it a fantasy of a ghost that does not exist...

He trembled, moved his mouth slightly, trying to say something, but he couldn't speak...

But at this moment, a girl who ran down from the upper floor broke the deadlock.

Betty hid behind Jennifer, poked her head out timidly and looked at Victor standing at the door...

When Victor went out to sea, Betty was actually only four years old.

The childhood memories of the name "Dad" have long been blurred, and all the memories about Dad in my mind were instilled by her mother.

When she saw her classmates picked up by her father after school, she sometimes fantasized about living her life with her father in envy.

She also fantasized about how she looked when she actually met her father.

I must have been excited to throw myself into his arms, and then I couldn't wait to tell him what she had experienced in the past eight years...

but……

When this day really came, Betty felt fear...

Will he like me?

Will he love me as much as his mother loves me?

Does he still remember me?

he……

Countless complex thoughts turn around in the girl's young mind...

Victor almost recognized Betty at a glance because she looked exactly like her mother when she was young.

He glanced at Betty with a complicated expression, held back his tears, made himself look as kind as possible, and tried hard to squeeze out a soft smile, and said.

"You're grown up, Betty..."

The girl was very strong, stronger than everyone thought. She had never cried once after saying goodbye to her mother a few nights ago.

Because she knew that if she cried, her mother would definitely be unhappy.

But Victor's words suddenly hit her tear glands. She bit her lip and wanted to hold back her tears.

But it is obviously useless. The pressure of the past, all the grievances, pain, and sadness suddenly burst out at this moment...

She opened her hands at Victor aggrievedly, and Victor also hugged her in his arms.

"Mom..." Betty choked, "Mom she..."

"I know, I know..." Victor's voice was deep, "Dad is back, you still have dad, dad will never leave in the future, no one can bully you again.

Dad has a lot of money now.

From now on, Dad can take you to everything you want to go, sell you everything you want to sell, and live in a house that is ten times bigger than the house you used to..."

Victor choked even more and more.

This doesn't matter to twelve-year-old Betty.

For her, as long as Victor comes back, that's enough.

This is more about a father's guilt towards his daughter...

...

On the high building in the distance.

Sherlock and Hull quietly stared at the scene in front of him.

"You knew it a long time ago, will he come back?" Sherlock said.

"The sea race in the world of Yegaret has reached a cooperation agreement with humans and will never take the initiative to attack humans. The first half of the great seafaring road is quite simple, and he will never be unable to come back." Hull said calmly.

Sherlock nodded, "Can you tell me now? Everything about death."

"Didn't you guessed it all?" Hull said.
To be continued...