One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Cyborg is a restrained person, and his emotions are basically not exposed, so he often appears indifferent and alienated.

Gray is completely different. He has the same personality as Flame, open-minded and lively, free and easy. This can be seen from the fact that after he lost his memory, he first focused on hunger and then made a fuss in the entire hospital.

But at the same time, he has a fragile and sensitive side, eager to get a sense of security from others to fill his own vacant memory, which has a lot to do with him being a child.

He looked at the steel frame expectantly, his heart felt as if he was beating a drum, and his outstretched hand trembled nervously.

Cyborg wanted to refuse, subconsciously, he felt that it was a cowardly and cowardly act for such a big child to hug.

But suddenly, he thought of the day his mother died, he knelt beside the hospital bed, and his mother asked him to roll up the hospital bed—she was too weak to sit up by herself.

The steel frame rocked the hospital bed, and his mother opened her hands, just like Gray's movement at the moment. He leaned over and felt the warmth of his mother's hands on his back and head.

At that moment, as if realizing the meaning of his mother's action, it was the first time that Cyborg's emotions collapsed uncontrollably.

Tears flowed freely, while his mother's hand slid down from the top of his head feebly.

It was the warmest and coldest hug that will never be forgotten.

Gray was tired from raising his hands, and his eyes dimmed. Well, he thought that if he behaved well, Cyborg would like him.

Maybe just work harder.

He secretly cheered himself up, and as soon as his arms were loosened, he was about to put them down.

As a result, at this moment, Cyborg suddenly squatted down, reached out and hugged Gray, he let Gray sit on his arm, and protected his shoulder with the other hand.

After doing this, he warned Gray who was completely stunned: "Just this once, don't make another example."

After a brief surprise, surprise suddenly exploded like fireworks, and the disappointment on Gray's face was swept away, replaced by a bright smile of surprise and excitement.

He put his hands around the steel bone's neck, knocked his head on his shoulders, and giggled silly.

Are you that happy?Steel Bone thought helplessly, and warned: "Sit still."

"Good~"

You don't need to look at the expression, you can hear the child's good mood just by listening to the voice, and the uncontrollable steel bone is also in a better mood.

Now that the child is adopted, he has to take responsibility. He doesn't have a good father, so he hopes he can become a good father.

Early the next morning, when Cyborg wanted to knock on Gray's house, he found that the boy had no habit of closing the door.

The door was ajar, and Gray had already fallen asleep on the floor from the bed.

Cyborg didn't talk nonsense, he directly picked up Gray's vest and threw him on the street in front of his house.

Suddenly awakened by the pain of being thrown on the ground, Gray was still a little dazed, and yawned with his chicken coop head on his head, and gradually understood the current situation.

He smiled and said to the steel frame standing at the door: "Good morning, Dad."

"Morning, let's start running, and go around Marin Fanduo, don't you need my supervision?"

"No, I won't be lazy." Gray promised.

He was at the moment when he was full of fighting spirit, and he ran in one direction after speaking.

Marin Fando is very big. There are towns where the naval headquarters, naval schools and naval families are located on this island. The fixed population alone has 10,000+ people.

If you want to run around Marin Fando, even a young and strong navy will not be able to bear it.

Cyborg wanted to test Gray's physical fitness, endurance, and self-consciousness through this. Of course, he didn't believe that Gray could complete a lap, and planned to fall behind and step forward to stop at a critical moment.

At first, Gray felt quite relaxed. Running around the edge of the island and breathing the fresh air felt good.

And from time to time, he would see other sailors who got up early to exercise. They were either lifting weights to exercise their arm strength, or sparring with swords. Of course, there were also people who were running like Gray.

However, after the navy passed by Gray, they quickly ran away, and their physical strength was much better than Gray.

After running for a while, Gray began to gasp for breath, his stomach felt uncomfortably hungry without food, his throat became dry, and finally it hurt, and he could smell a strong smell of rust.

Very tired, his legs began to tremble, his heart beat faster, and he couldn't wipe off the sweat. He could see that the hair on his forehead had turned into strands, and it was the same for other hairs.

Gray picked up the hem of his vest and wiped his face, finally feeling better, but then more sweat dripped down, and he felt a little sick.

But judging from the current progress, he has only run less than a quarter, and if he has to persist, at least if it is only one lap, he will climb back even if he climbs.

He didn't want to disappoint Cyborg, he couldn't accept it.

"I want to be an admiral." Intermittently giving himself a warning, Gray closed his mouth and continued running.

No matter how tired he was, he didn't stop to rest or take a few steps.

If he admits defeat, Cyborg will definitely be disappointed. He just got a hug yesterday, so he can't let yesterday's efforts go to waste.

Reassuring himself in this way, Gray ran almost a quarter of the distance.

Now it is really supported by ideas.

He stumbled and slammed on the ground, "uh..." his nose was hit, bleeding came out, and the blood dripping from both knees flowed down his calves and into his shoes.

The eyes of the steel frame following behind flickered slightly, and his heart almost softened.

But Gray didn't give him time to soften his heart. The boy simply wiped off the nosebleed and started running again.

It was slow, and the pain and exhaustion made him sick, but there was really nothing to spit out.

Already one-half, Gray thought in his heart, victory is in sight, so we must persevere.

He wants to become stronger all the time, become an admiral, and satisfy Cyborg.

There were running footsteps gradually approaching behind him, but Gray's head was buzzing at this time, and he could only hear his own rough panting and heartbeat, and he didn't know that someone was chasing after him.

Until the sound of steel bones came from above the head.

"You've done well, do you want to keep going?" He was running with Gray.

"Dad!" Gray blurted out in surprise, feeling full of energy again, "I want to keep running!"

Unknown where the power came from, Gray's speed increased a lot again.

But the steel frame stopped him, "Don't run too fast, master the rhythm, let your breathing and footsteps coordinate, and slowly find the feeling, and you won't be tired when you run."

"Breathing at a constant speed, you can inhale in two steps, exhale in two steps, or inhale in three steps, exhale in three steps, adjust according to your physical strength, be sure to inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth, never inhale through your mouth."

Gray listened to his words and immediately corrected his mistakes. Unlike him, Steel Bones didn't feel any tiredness, just like walking in normal times, which was in stark contrast to Gray's tired eyes with darkened eyes.

The gap between them is too big, in Gray's eyes, the steel frame is a towering mountain peak.

Now he is trying his best, but he can only get close to the foot of the mountain, let alone climbing.