One Piece: The Eternal Flame

However, there were times when he suffered a disadvantage. On the day he met Gray, he was beaten to the ground by those angry pirates because he robbed a pirate ship of treasure.

Someone kicked his head hard, making a buzzing sound. Lockes couldn't beat him, so he could only cover his head and be beaten passively, but soon, he couldn't feel the feeling of being beaten.

Because this group of pirates had already been beaten down by one person.

As a lawless place, Hive Island has no navy approaching at all. This is the first time that Lockes saw a man in a white navy uniform, who was still very young, so young that he didn't even look like he was thirteen or fourteen years old.

He stared blankly at the boy wearing white boots stepping into the mud. It had rained before, and it was very wet and dirty. The splashed mud splashed onto the boots. He walked over, bent down and stretched out his hand, and pulled out a cloth bag from Lockes's arms that he didn't know when to let go. Inside was the stolen pirate treasure.

The young man flipped through the contents, and started to call the phone bug as if no one else was there, basically meaning that he had found the stolen treasure and would go back immediately, and asked the people on the phone bug side to see if the marshal had eaten or not.

Lockes opened his mouth, his throat was poured with dirty water, he was still speaking hoarsely, but he said firmly, "That's my thing."

The young man didn't hear clearly at first, he let out a huff, and looked over with an unkind expression.

Rocks repeated again, "I said it was mine and I stole it."

"Oh, now that I've snatched it from you, it's mine." The boy proudly shook the bag in his hand, and was about to leave immediately.

Rocks hurriedly called out to him, "Hello, what's your name?"

"Me? Gray, what do you want to do, curse me?"

"Hmph, I don't play that kind of thing, Gray, right? What you stole today, I will snatch it back from you in the future!"

Gray said perfunctorily, "Wow, yeah, okay, whatever, the navy salary is not much anyway."

Rocks felt aggrieved and wanted to say something, but his stomach started to growl first. He hadn't eaten for several days, so he took the risk and robbed the pirates.

Gray laughed out loud, thought for a while and said suddenly: "Let's go, I'll treat you to a meal, if they didn't want to beat you, I might not have caught them so quickly."

Two plates of hot seafood fried rice were brought to the table, and the price was several times higher than other places. Gray paid the price in pain. Lockes buried his head in the meal, looked up at Gray's expression while swallowing, and said, "You don't have to pay at all, and run away after eating. They can't do anything to us. The price here is so expensive, just to kill you idiots."

"It's right to pay for meals." Gray also handed Lockes his fried rice, "Eat it, I'm leaving."

"."Got to go?

Lockes remained silent, ate his plate of fried rice in two or three bites, and unceremoniously took Gray's share.

"Hahaha, Beehive Island is not a suitable place to live. If you can leave, you should leave as soon as possible." Gray left these words, turned and left the restaurant.

Lockes was still silently picking up his rice, but he heard a sound next to his ear. The waiter put a glass of wine on his table, with a somewhat envious tone, "Locus, the person who invited you just now told you not to let you choke. Fried rice is better with wine. You guys are lucky. If you catch up with this person, you will be a navy."

Lockes didn't speak, and just when the man thought he wouldn't speak, he said: "I don't want to be a navy, I want to go to sea to be a pirate."

"Hahaha, you are indeed a person on our island, I knew you would not be moved by sugar-coated bullets."

"Oh." Lockes just laughed, put down the plate, picked up the wine and drank it down, his eyes were full of malice, if he was at the end of the abyss, then he would drag Gray down unceremoniously.

After that, Lockes started saving money, looking for people to go to sea with, and finally went to the paradise. Everything was as expected, but there were some differences. For example, Gray did not play cards according to common sense, and went directly to sea to become a pirate, which Lockes did not expect.

For another example, after going to sea to broaden his horizons, his ambitions became bigger and bigger, and finally swelled up after getting the dark fruit - he is no longer satisfied with being a strong man, he wants to become the king of the world and stand at the pinnacle of power.

It doesn't matter if it takes ten years or even twenty years for this.

Lockes stretched out his hand and looked at the thick black mist that filled his hand. At first glance, it looked similar to Gray's black fire, but one was cold, the other was hot, and it seemed to be the complete opposite.

"Black Flame Gray." Lockes stood up and looked towards the approaching figure in the distance.

The figure couldn't see his face clearly, but felt that his steps were steady, with an oppressive aura around him. Wherever he passed, the trees' trunks were cracked by the invisible aura, and the sound of clicking and clicking blended into the surrounding silence.

There are four people behind him, all of whom can be seen on the reward order.

Lockes raised a crazy smile, and shouted: "We finally meet again, Black Flame Gray."

Gray paused, quite puzzled, as if they knew each other.

Ace asked in a low voice, "Have you met before?"

"How can there be, is a meeting with a reward order also a meeting?" Gray was also baffled, and he said to Lockes: "Let's talk about the old things later, you snatched my Adam wood, we have nothing to talk about."

"Now that I've snatched it from you, it's mine - isn't that what you said back then." Lockes looked in a good mood before the battle, and he was especially happy this time.

"You really know each other?" Ace asked again.

Gray looked at him helplessly, and compromised: "Okay, okay, it looks like we know each other, he may have known me unilaterally through the reward order."

"Golden Lion Shiji, Wang Zhi, Lockes." Perry said, "Leave these to Ace, me and the captain, Teuton, help Demon to see our ship."

The reason why Demon and Teuton were brought over was because the shipbuilder needed to come here to see the condition of the ship, otherwise the three of them alone would be enough.

Lockes had no intention of explaining what happened before. He was too embarrassed at that time, and it was embarrassing to think about it.

Gray just needs to remember the things that will fail miserably today.