One Piece: Mandala Swordsman

Chapter 278 Love can't solve problems, but power can.

I'm staying in a deluxe single room at the hospital, doesn't anyone ask that people can't just enter a deluxe single room?

"Lieutenant General Borsalino, I haven't even submitted my application yet. You don't need to rush me to start work right now."

Looking at Borsalino's ambiguous smile, Roman was speechless.

"Just consider this my way of showing concern for my future subordinate?"

It sounds good, but Roman won't believe a word he says.

"You can ask me any questions you have!" Roman's eyes revealed shrewdness.

"You can't hide anything from me!" Borsalino said, somewhat exasperated.

You've already gone to the West Sea, how could I not know what you're going to do?

Roman made two phone calls while he was in Ingrid.

The second time was to find Borsalino.

The first call was to the Naval Administration.

After all, when she left, Borsalino's eyes as he looked at Roman conveyed the message, "I've found a clue."

They learned that the Borsalinos were not at Marine Headquarters.

Roman then had a plan in mind.

"You went to the Land of Flowers!"

"That's it."

The land of flowers, the true home of "Roman".

"What a wonderful country! Ask me anything you want!"

Roman seemed quite at ease.

“A name like Sylroman doesn’t fit the naming style of the Flower Kingdom.”

"That shows you know too little about the Flower Country. There are ethnic minorities in the Flower Country, and their surnames are different from the common people's. Besides, wouldn't using the name Roman directly make people think of that country?" Roman said matter-of-factly.

Okay, that's one reason.

Roman never wanted too many people to pry into her past.

"And your hair color? I don't think I've ever seen your original hair color in the Flower Country."

"In the Flower Country, black hair is the most common color, but there are also people with red hair, though they are less common. Of course, I also prefer black hair, so I dyed it black. For the people of the Flower Country, black hair is more in line with their aesthetic standards."

That's quite a story.

Porusalino was born in the North Sea.

I don't know much about the Flower Kingdom in the West Sea.

But I also know that it is a country with a long history.

In terms of the duration of its history, few countries can compare.

Therefore, the national culture of the Flower Country is very strong.

This is different from other countries.

Borsalino also knows that the parents of the Flower Kingdom like to name their daughters after flowers.

Roman's name is also derived from the mandala.

"You once stayed in the Butterfly Valley of the Flower Kingdom. Do you still have any impression of the beautiful butterflies there?"

"It's called Butterfly Valley not because there are many butterflies there, but because there are vast fields of butterfly flowers blooming there, isn't that right?" Roman looked at Borsalino.

"It seems I remembered it wrong." Borsalino looked innocent, as if he were old and had a bad memory.

I don't believe you! You were just testing me.

However, Roman was too lazy to expose him.

"It seems you've really investigated a lot about me!"

They even went to Butterfly Valley.

"Has that place been restored now? Back then, the pirates almost burned it to the ground."

"But speaking of which, you just let it go like that?" Borsalino was very curious, since Roman should have had some fighting ability back then.

“I wasn’t there at the time. By the time I found out, the Babao online army had already resolved the issue.”

"Is he/she just not here?"

"After all, I had to go buy something for Roland. She's dead. I wanted to buy her some burial items, but when I got back, it was all ashes."

Borsalino: "..."

"If you want to ask who Romain is, I can tell you this: according to biological relations, you can call her Mother, but more precisely, Romain is a work by Romain."

What you're saying is a little hard for me to understand.

Is Romain Rolland's work?

"This is a long story to explain, would you like to hear it?"

of course.

Borsalino nodded quickly.

"Okay, it's like a fairy tale beginning..."

Long ago, a king fell in love with a girl with red hair.

Although red hair is rare in that country, it is not popular.

However, this still could not change the king's passionate love for her.

So the king was determined to marry her, but there were obstacles in the way.

Is the obstacle simply a difference in social status?

This seems to be a common trope in fairy tales.

But in the end, true love can overcome everything.

When Borsalino asked the question, he received a "you're so naive" look from Roman.

"Although there is a difference in status, that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that the king already has a queen who has given birth to three princes for him."

"Huh?" Borsalino felt that this was going a bit off from a fairy tale.

Of course, while true love can't solve everything, power certainly can solve most problems.

The king and queen divorced, and the queen, unjustly deposed, died of depression.

Of course, because of this incident, the red-haired girl and the king got married.

Later, she gave birth to a princess who also had red hair.

However, not long after, the new queen fell seriously ill and died.

Fortunately, the king adored his only daughter, as did her three brothers.

"Wait, I can understand the king's fondness for the princess, but why do the three princes do the same?"

After all, their mother had died.

Although this was not the new queen's intention, but...

"Because of guilt..."

"Guilty?"

"The new queen was poisoned by the three princes."

"These...they're just children, yet they already wanted to poison the Queen?"

"Who told you the prince is a child? The eldest prince is only a year younger than the new queen."

Roman's words were always earth-shattering.

“Didn’t you just say the king and the new queen…” Borsalino suddenly realized.

Roman only spoke of the king's intentions from beginning to end, but never mentioned the queen.

How much love the young queen had for her son, who was almost the same age as herself, is a topic open to debate.

"So what happens next?"

"The tragedy begins later. The second and third princes, along with the eldest prince's children, all died in various accidents."

"This... can't be a simple accident!"

"Of course not, I think the murderer should be easy to guess!"

"That's the princess. So, the princess knows that her brothers were the murderers of her mother, and this is her revenge?" Borsalino thought it wasn't hard to guess.

"The murderer was indeed the princess, but she wasn't motivated by revenge; it was by her own pure ambition."

"Ambition?"

"Yes, ambition."

That's the position that everyone born into royalty wants.