One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 112 You've liked me for a long time.

"How do you know I won't be in danger after I leave here? And you just believe what that man said?"

Yu found it strange. Katakuri wasn't someone who was easily fooled, yet she believed that person, who even claimed to be her brother. Of course, she only had one brother, Don Quixote Rosinante.

"That man?"

"He told you about the partnership too? He came to you?" Katakuri realized that Sarant had this trick up his sleeve; was he trying to drive a wedge between them?

Yu explained, "It was a dream. I've been having strange dreams ever since I met you."

"At first, it was all related to you, such as the nickname 'Ka2', and people were praising you for your many good points and saying you were very cute."

"But later, I would dream about that man, who would threaten me with you and Grandpa, or make me see some strange images. I guess it was something I experienced in the past, but I can't say for sure."

“This time, what I dreamed about was your conversation with him.”

Youyi explained that she used to think that the dream was about other people's experiences, but now she thinks it was probably her own experience, which she just forgot.

Katakuri, combining Yu's words with his own, and then thinking about Sarant's words, gradually gained clarity. The more he thought about it, the more he felt incredibly lucky to have met Yu.

"Why are you suddenly laughing?" Yu was almost startled; he just suddenly started laughing...?

"I just didn't expect you to like me this much. Even though I was just a story in a book to you back then."

"What do you mean?" Yu was a little confused. Katakuri was a character from a book to her? Or was she mistaken, or was he the pirate her grandfather and the others were talking about?

Katakuri explained what he knew.

In short, in Yu's world, Yu learns about Katakuri through a manga book, and the timeline in the book is in the future.

Although the specific content is unknown, it is clear that Yu has learned about him and developed a great interest in him, or more accurately, she likes him.

"You've liked me for a long time, Yu."

"..." His words were rather sarcastic.

"You just believe what he says? What if he's just lying to you? How could our world be in a book? What, is his power even greater than Mondold's Book-Book Fruit?"

"If there were a time-traveling fruit for things in the future, it would be possible to travel through time and space."

Yu didn't believe it, not at all.

But in her dream, she was indeed traveling from her original world to this place to see Katakuri, and at that time, the man in the dream said that Katakuri was fictional and did not exist.

Could it be that all of this is really as Katakuri said?!

"I don't completely believe it either. Maybe it's just that the timeline is different. In your timeline, it was recorded and written into a book." Katakuri believed Salant's words, but he would not deny his own existence or the existence of the world he lived in.

"You really have no memory of the person I was talking to?"

You thought for a moment, her eyes darting around, but she couldn't think of anyone like that. "No."

"That Shalante, Shayoulan, Youyou?"

You shook her head, wanting to say she hadn't heard of it. But as the words were about to come out, a strange feeling welled up inside her, making her pause.

Katakuri noticed Yu's condition. "Do you remember?"

"Not entirely." The feeling was fleeting, and Yu couldn't quite put her finger on it. "It was like knowing someone and not knowing them at the same time, a very strange feeling."

"It's like fire, you want to get close but you don't dare to get too close..." That feeling is very uncomfortable, it's familiar, but you don't dare to get close.

"I might... know... someone here whose name is his?"

Katakuri nodded. "Sarant is his name."

“Shayoulan, that was your original name.”

“Sharant is your older brother.”

Yu was completely dumbfounded. If there had been a mirror, she probably would have seen her own shocked pupils.

This is outrageous! That man, Sharant, is her brother, and Celluloid is in cahoots with her brother.

No, does that brother, whose identity is still unknown, know that Celluloid wants to kill her?

and many more!

Yu thought of the Samo Lake on the Island of the Illusion of Sande.

He had previously said earnestly that Celluloid and the others didn't really want to hurt her, but simply wanted to bring her back to her original world. He also said that she was Celluloid and the others' only remaining connection.

At that time, Yu didn't understand at all, but now it seems to make sense.

"Do you really believe he's my biological brother?" Yu wanted to confirm again.

“He looks just like you, like you were cut from the same mold.” Katakuri sensed something was off about Yu’s mood. “What are you thinking about?”

This sentence was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Therefore, Samojiu already knew that the person was Sharant, her own brother.

After reading the manga and getting to know Katakuri, she left the world that originally belonged to her. Sharant, knowing this, wanted to bring her back, and even brought Cel to the area.

Samojiu isn't from this world either; he probably knew Sharant from his original world...

The characters "沙" all begin with "沙" and are surnames!

"Ka-2, do you still remember Shane Illusion Island? Back then, Samojiu wasn't from this world either. He stayed in this world because of his wife." Yu didn't dare to think further, but these memories were very clear, and she hadn't forgotten a bit.

She rarely disliked her own memory; it was too clear, and she couldn't forget it even if she wanted to!

“That day he kept calling me ‘Little Er.’ If it’s similar to why I called you ‘Ka Er,’ then Sha Mo Jiu should know Sha Lan Te and know that he is my brother.”

Katakuri hadn't forgotten Samoju. That time, he met someone else than Yu—a woman who looked remarkably like Yu, Sora Mikoto. She was Samoju's wife, which meant…

"He is your father."

"Why? He's nothing like me, not at all." That guy is quite handsome, but Yu is completely different from him. He's probably just another relative, definitely not her father.

“You and your brother look like your mother,” Katakuri recalled for a moment and said with certainty, “especially you.”

"... "

Yu didn't know what to say, and suddenly she found her family? Her biological parents and an older brother?

Her biological mother was originally from this world, but her biological father stayed behind for her sake, and she came to this world as well. Only her brother remained in another world.

No wonder Samojiu said she was Salant's only concern.

“Samo said he stayed because of his wife, which means his wife is a person of this world.”

"So it's the same for me, I'll stay here without any problems." Yu doesn't have her past memories, so she's not really willing to go back to that world and be with her brother whom she doesn't know.

Katakuri sensed Yu's rejection of his parents; at least, he wasn't willing to acknowledge them, even addressing them by their full names. But… "That world has no pirates; it's a very safe world."

"..." Speechless. That jerk kissed me and then wanted me to leave, even though it was for safety reasons.

"There is only one way for me to go back to that world: to be killed by the people of the outside world at my own will."

Currently, the only people in the outside world are Cellulose and Samojiu, and Cellulose definitely wants to take him away. Therefore, staying in Tavern is only to make it easier to kill her.

Katakuri doesn't know that.

Yu saw Katakuri's expression clearly. "Leaving aside whether what we're saying now is true or not, the way to leave here is extremely unreliable."

"I'm afraid of dying. Who knows if I can go back to another world if I die here? Even if that's true, I don't want to leave."

"Katakuri, I've lived here for almost twenty years. I've connected with Grandpa, Shanks, my brother, and you. You want me to sever those ties and leave? I can't do it."

"Fear of me getting hurt is not a valid reason."

Yu speaks frankly: she will leave the pirate crew, but she will not leave this world.

At least not now.