One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Have you decided which 'light' you want to extinguish in history this time? If you have a conclusion, please convey the name of that person."

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Everything will be revealed today.

Gray took a deep breath, and at the same time that the World Conference officially started, he sneaked into Marie Gioia. Without the hindrance of the five old stars, the entry was much smoother this time, and he headed all the way to the depths of the Holy Land.

But after escaping the patrol with the largest number of people, the road ahead is unimpeded, and there are not even guards.

Gray felt that something was wrong, but the irritability could no longer make him think calmly. After waiting for four years, it was impossible to turn around and go back.

There is no turning back.

Following his intuition, Gray came to the deepest place 'Between the Flowers' of Mary Joa.

It was dark and silent here, and he took a step inside after he sensed that there was no other breath here.

But with this step in, the lights in the entire space suddenly lit up, just like daytime.

Gray's whole body was clamoring for danger, he hurriedly hid behind a thick pillar, his hands tightly gripping the hilt of his sword, his back was covered in cold sweat.

He obviously used the color of knowledge, even though there is still a gap between them and those strong men, but it is not impossible to not even detect the breath of people.

But he held his breath for a while, but there was no movement. The whole space was as quiet as a needle falling, and everyone could hear it.

Gray gritted his teeth and poked his head out from behind the pillar. He saw a huge and majestic high platform in front of him. There were countless long swords pierced into the ground on the first step, adding a bit of evil spirit to the high platform for no reason.

The third step goes up, which is the top of the high platform. The world government logo is painted on the wall. The curtain is opened to both sides, and there is a throne in the middle. Behind the throne is a huge sword with a sharp blade facing upwards.

And above the tip of the sword, it should be empty, with direct sunlight coming in, just shining on the giant sword and the throne, making it look sacred and majestic.

Gray's hands trembled uncontrollably, but he forced himself to move forward. When he got under the high platform, he saw some square characters engraved on the stones that made up the platform, which he couldn't understand at all.

At this moment, the lights in the space suddenly went out again, and a woman's voice rang in his ears.

"Although the devil fruit is a whole fruit, in fact, in order to obtain this ability, the user does not need to eat the whole fruit, as long as he takes the first bite, he will gain this power."

"Who!" Gray swung his sword and slashed, but only hit the air beside him.

After the color of knowledge was completely useless, Gray simply burned a flame, and the orange-red light illuminated part of the surrounding area, but the shadow of the speaker was still not seen.

That voice seemed to be right next to my ears, but sometimes it ran far away, everywhere and pervasive.

"This is the most thought-provoking point about devil fruit. As a fruit, it is not dangerous, but as long as humans take a bite, it will form a transfer of ability."

"In other words, the fruit is just a storage space for this ability to choose independently. We have done many experiments and placed various fruits around the ability user, for example. The ability user of the flame, we found that after killing the ability user, the boarding fruit chosen by the flame will always be an apple."

"This overturns previous inferences that devil fruit will randomly host nearby fruits, and it is selective."

"Oh! It's worth mentioning that the green apple is not good enough, it can only be a red apple, a devil fruit with a lot of personality, just like its name, we guess it does have a devil's soul."

Gray took a breath, knowing that now was not the time to listen to these voices, but when the voice of that person sounded, he immediately listened carefully again.

"Speaking of the soul, this is a very wonderful thing. Because of its existence, some people began to describe the devil fruit as an ability that is possessed by a 'demon' and spurned by the sea. With these inferences and a large number of experiments, we believe that the 'soul' does exist in the devil fruit."

"But after it is eaten by humans, it will fuse with the soul of the eater, and humans will strengthen their control over the demon's soul by becoming stronger."

"Afterwards, we started a new round of experiments. After death, the soul disappears, and the dead body becomes a container. We extracted the 'demon' from the devil fruit and put it in the container. Then the dead were revived and turned into a brand new 'human' composed entirely of demon souls."

The voice paused for a while after saying this, as if admiring Gray's shocked and unbelievable expression.

The voice said again: "You are such a 'person', do you know why you can't remember the past no matter how you think about it?"

"Because you don't have it at all. You are just a drawn out ability, including your name, all of which belong to this body, and the sporadic memory is also left by the remaining soul of this body. You have nothing."

After listening quietly, there was a few seconds of silence, and Gray let out a chuckle, "Oh, do you think I will believe it? To shake my heart, the story can be made more dreamy, because I don't like eating apples at all!"

"It's okay, I don't care if you believe it or not, it's just that I don't bother to lie, and I hate that you call yourself D."

A hand emerged from the darkness and put it on Gray's shoulder, ignoring the burning flames.

As if being entangled by a poisonous snake, Gray felt a strong oppressive force in an instant, and the air changed. The man raised his eyebrows slightly, domineering?

A burst of fluctuations erupted centered on Gray. He was not as calm as he appeared on the surface, so that when the speaker put his hands on his shoulders, Gray burst into a domineering look due to strong emotional fluctuations.

This kind of innate kingly posture, which can neither be acquired nor inherited, can only be determined by one's own destiny.

Unable to move, Gray couldn't turn his head to see who was behind him. The sense of fear and oppression was infinitely approaching and magnified behind him. Gray's hand holding the hilt of the sword was trembling, but he knew that he absolutely couldn't sit still like this.

Must move!Get moving and draw your sword.
'Zeng——' Griffin unsheathed, like the first ray of light piercing the night, the sword body was burning with raging flames.

Gray slashed fiercely at the figure behind him while turning around. Under the light of the flames, Gray could clearly see that it was a woman wearing a very high crown.

Afterwards, someone grabbed the back of his head and hit the ground directly, and the bend of his leg was also hit by gravity and fell to his knees.

The middle-aged man who suppressed Gray said respectfully: "Lord Im, Rear Admiral Gray colluded with the pirates in an attempt to rebel against the World Government. The evidence is solid. Please issue a punishment order."

The woman called Im raised Gray's chin with the tip of her sword, and said softly: "A demon's soul, plus D's body, although I am looking forward to your follow-up growth, but unfortunately, the real D has already appeared, and there are still two."

"On the day when the World Conference ends, let's execute him in public in Marin Fondo, so as to warn those who want to shake the government's rights."