Chapter 632 Roger's terminal illness
"I guess you are the vice-captain of the Pirate King, Pluto Rayleigh. Shanks has mentioned you to me. Are you interested in joining my pirate group?"
Vic walked over to sit next to Rayleigh and asked knowingly. He knew Rayleigh would definitely not agree. Since Roger had set up a plan, naturally someone was needed to guide the direction of the plan, and his crew was the most suitable person to do these things.
So on the surface, Rayleigh was just living a life of idleness and waiting for death in the Chambord Archipelago, but in fact, he was doing a lot of things in secret. Xia Qi's extortion bar was not for business, it all had a purpose.
"You must be the Shichibukai Orens Vic who forced the World Government to bow down! You are indeed young and promising. If I were a few decades younger, I wouldn't mind boarding your ship!
It’s just that I’ve been to almost all of this sea, and I’m past the age of pursuing my dreams. This sea now belongs to you young people!”
Rayleigh turned his head and looked at Vic, and immediately recognized him. The Seven Warlords of the Sea have been very popular recently, and he has been paying attention to them. He had been paying attention to them as early as two years ago when Shanks mentioned Vic to him.
It’s just that Wick used to be a navy, so he didn’t take the initiative to contact him. Now that Wick has become a pirate and is recognized by Shanks, he is naturally regarded by him as a member of the team that overthrows the World Government.
So if Wick needs any help, he will definitely do his best. His purpose in the Sabaody Archipelago is to help those pirates who are recognized and have potential to go to the New World and grow, so he has a very good attitude towards Wick.
Vic asked Xia Qi for a bottle of wine and drank it while chatting with Rayleigh. Vic was not a very outgoing person, but with a legendary figure like Rayleigh around him, he naturally had a lot of questions.
One was interested and the other wanted to sell well, so they naturally started chatting. It started from Rayleigh going out to sea with Roger by chance, to being chased by the young navy Garp and falling in love with him. During the journey, they had more and more partners and became stronger and stronger.
Later, in the Battle of God Valley, Shanks as a child was found in the treasure chest. Later, Barrett joined and left the group, as well as the clashes between the Whitebeard and Golden Lion pirate groups. Later, Kozuki Oden was invited to start a new round of travel until he reached Raftel.
Rayleigh didn't say anything more after that, probably because he didn't want to mention Roger's death. Decades of experience cannot be told in a few hours, so there are many details that he didn't mention, and there are some things he was unwilling to talk about.
The two had a pleasant chat. Vic only now realized that the Knights of God were involved in the Valley of God incident. He also only now realized that the Valley of God was just an ordinary country in the West Sea, not another holy place of the Celestial Dragons.
Rayleigh also warned Vic to be careful of the Knights of God, as there was a powerful character among them. Vic also confirmed his original guess. In the battle between Barrett and Rayleigh, Rayleigh did not use high-level observation Haki, high-level armament Haki and dominance, so the two were able to fight back and forth.
At such a young age, Buggy could not understand this level of fighting at all. He also stayed in the East China Sea and had no much experience, so he thought it was a draw. Rayleigh had no intention of hurting Barrett.
Vic thought about it and it made sense. Barrett in the Frenzy Operation did not have the ability to foresee the future, and he had never used Ryuo either. It was highly likely that he did not have it. It was just that his reserves of Haki were a bit abnormal, and he did not have Haki. If he had it, he would have used it. After all, it was a matter of life and death, and he would not not use it until the last moment.
This also explains why Barrett and Crocodile ended in a tie. Barrett's performance was full of oppression, but that was also directed at the younger generation. The sense of oppression is created by comparison. When an adult beats a child, he will definitely crush him.
"Mr. Rayleigh! When I was in the navy, I heard Kuzan mention that Captain Roger turned himself in because he had a terminal illness? Do you know what that terminal illness is?"
Vic had previously learned about the symptoms of Roger's terminal illness from Aokiji, and later obtained a large number of medical books from the underground library of the Drum Kingdom. During the time when he was developing the effect of the Thunder Fruit's ability on the human body, he read through the large number of medical books he got from there.
I saw a disease similar to Roger's, with many red spots growing on the chest and back. It was an acute symptom caused by a virus. This virus can cause death but is not contagious or hereditary.
However, the medical books describe that people infected with this virus will not live more than three months. However, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Roger persevered for four years and sailed around the Grand Line again to become the Pirate King before being executed in Rogue Town. If he had not been executed, how long would he have lived?
This alone was seriously inconsistent with what was described in the medical books. Even if Kulokas was a skilled doctor, it was impossible for him to extend Roger's life for that long, right? How skilled would that be?
"You are talking about the guy who used to follow Garp, right? What is Roger's terminal illness? We don't know. Later, we found a skilled doctor to treat him, but the doctor couldn't explain it either.
He had never seen that kind of disease before, and said it was caused by a virus that had never been recorded in medical books and that he had never seen before. He also said that the virus was very aggressive and was destroying Roger's body all the time.
In other words, Roger was very strong and suppressed it by force. If it were someone else, he wouldn't have survived for too long. However, Roger's strength was also affected by this disease. He could only exert 80% of his combat power. If he exerted more, he would be counterattacked!"
Rayleigh took a sip of wine while talking about Roger's illness, and his expression looked very lonely. Vic could only see the light reflected from his glasses, but could not see his blurred eyes under the glasses.
If Roger didn't have a terminal illness, he wouldn't have disbanded the Roger Pirates, and he wouldn't have surrendered to the Navy. Then, these old brothers could still travel and adventure together. What a wonderful thing that would be! Unfortunately, that's just an if!
"I have also studied some medical skills. There are many terminal illnesses caused by the body's own pathological changes. These need regular examinations to prevent them in advance. However, terminal illnesses caused by viruses are caused by external evils. They are basically caused by external factors, such as food, water, and environment.
You have been living together, eating the same things and going to the same places. It is impossible for such a perverted virus to infect only him and leave you alone, right? You must have been separated before, right? "
If the virus that Vic saw in the medical book is the same as the one in Roger's body, then this virus is an ancient virus. It may be like the virus that Nami was infected with in the small garden, which can only survive in certain specific environments.
Roger had been to that kind of place alone and returned to his companions after being infected by the virus, so the others were spared. Later, Ace, who was born to him and Lu Jiu, did not have this disease. In this respect, the virus that Roger was infected with was consistent with the records in the medical book.