One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Lu Jiu felt baffled, she was just an ordinary trainee reporter, she had been living in the South China Sea before, and she never knew or met the legendary pirate captain, why did President Pulitzer connect them?

And it's that close relationship.

While Lu Jiu was walking on the road in the city of water, she explained her innocence to President Pulitzer on the other side of the microphone, but the other party's brain could no longer listen to any explanation, and the relationship had already been determined by him.

In order to please Gray, he even promised to let Lu Jiu come back when her outing this time is over, and give her a large page to write the manuscript.

Lu Jiu was about to laugh angrily. She didn't want to explain to Pulitzer any further, and she also felt a little disgusted with this captain she had never met before—all the remarks in the world would not be groundless. If there was no problem with her, it must be the captain's problem.

Anyway, it's rude to discredit a lady casually.

"ah!"

Lu Jiu, who was distracted, bumped into the arm of a person walking towards him, as if hitting some solid wall. The man was fine, but she was knocked down to the ground, and the pile of documents and phone in her hand fell to the ground.

"Sorry. Are you okay?" The purple-haired man immediately reached out to pull her up.

Lu Jiu pinned the hair that had slipped to her eyes behind her ears, and said "It's okay, it's okay" while picking up the materials on the ground.

Zefa also knelt down to help her pick up the things. Soon, all the things were picked up. He shook the dust on the paper, picked up the flowers that fell on the ground, and said awkwardly: "Sorry, this flower is gone."

The Gesang flower he was holding was already wilted because it fell to the ground, it should have been the most beautiful decoration in Lujiu's ear.

"It's okay, Lord Navy, don't worry about it." Lu Jiu smiled at Zefa, she saw the navy uniform Zefa was wearing, "Master Navy, I am an intern reporter of the World Economic News, and I was sent by the president to interview the Marshal. Can you introduce me?"

As she spoke, she handed Zefa her press pass.

Portgas D. Lujiu, age, intern reporter of World Economic News.

Zefa scanned the personal information above, and what caught his attention was that this woman had a D in her surname, the same D as Gray.

He thought about it—even though he didn't like the people in the newspaper office, Zefa finally nodded and agreed, "I can take you to see the marshal, but I can't guarantee whether he will agree to your interview."

Lu Jiu's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile, "Yes! Thank you, Mr. Navy."

Zefa nodded and motioned for Lu Jiu to follow. He was still holding the Gesang flower in his hand. After realizing this, he raised his hand and passed the flower over.

Man handing flowers to a lady - what a scene!
Garp took a deep breath, and a nameless anger burned in his heart. He yelled at Zefa after a long distance, "Zefa, I misjudged you!"

"Huh?" Zefa was inexplicable, wondering what kind of nerve Karp was committing again.

Lu Jiu was startled by Garp's roar, looked over there, and found that another man in a navy uniform was rushing towards them, with clenched fists raised high, and a fierce look on his face.

Zefa didn't know what happened at all, but seeing that Garp was so serious, he didn't seem to be joking. He protected Lujiu behind his back, wrapped his fists in military colors, and confronted Garp's fists.

"Hey! Why are you crazy!" Zefa said to Garp angrily.

"You have the nerve to say me, I'm going to beat you to death for Ashley today!"

"What a heartless person, why do you want to involve Ashley?"

"You gave flowers to other women, but I saw it with my own eyes!"

"I" Zefa wanted to say when he gave flowers to other women, but then he thought about returning the flowers that Lu Jiu dropped on the ground to the other party just now.

Lu Jiu stood behind Zefa, and was not affected by anything, but the wave of fisting between the two was too strong, and she had to firmly grasp the information in her hand.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Lu Jiu understood why the later navy man was so angry. It turned out that he regarded her as a third party.

Why is she so unhappy emotionally recently!First she became the woman of Heiyan Gray whom she had never met before, and then she became the third party involved in the navy's love.

Lu Jiu shouted frantically in her heart, she needed to stop this misunderstanding that shouldn't exist, "Master Navy! You misunderstood, I saw this Navy for the first time today."

"Okay, Zefa! I will send you flowers the first time I see you." Karp was even more furious when he heard this.

A hash mark appeared on Lu Jiu's forehead, and the voice was louder, "Master Haijun, this flower was originally mine, but he just picked it up and returned it to me. Have you ever seen a man send flowers, such a wilting flower!"

She held up the Gesang flower to show Karp, the flower was drooping and it was indeed not very fresh.

Garp squinted his eyes, and he felt that Zefa, a dull gourd, could not be so carefree.

He took the lead to take back the offensive, flicked his cloak, and asked aggressively: "What's going on?"

Zefa snorted coldly, as if he didn't want to talk nonsense with Capudo.

Lu Jiu resigned herself to explaining the cause and effect of this incident. Garp suddenly realized this time, half to please, half heartlessly, he leaned next to Zefa and laughed: "Oh, I really misunderstood you, Zefa, I don't think you are such a person!"

"Stay away from me." Zefa took a few steps aside and said to Lu Jiu, "Let's go, I'll take you to find the marshal."

Lujiu nodded, followed Zefa's footsteps, and Garp also followed with a smile, showing no sense of guilt at all.

He knew that Zefa would not want to talk to him for a while, so he turned his attention to Lujiu, "Hey, I just saw your press card and you are D?"

Zefa paused slightly. It was because of this D that he agreed to take Lujiu to see the marshal. Otherwise, even if Pulitzer came in person, he would have to go through complicated procedures to see the marshal.

Lu Jiu's eyes were pure, as if she didn't know what the D stood for at all, she nodded and said calmly: "Yes, what's the problem, Mr. Navy?"

"No, it's nothing." Garp is very accurate at seeing people, and Lu Jiu really doesn't know, so Garp doesn't plan to tell her more things. Knowing too much will only increase troubles, even if it is D, it doesn't have to complete D's mission.

Lu Jiu could clearly hear Garp's insincere words, but the other party didn't want to talk about it, and she didn't want to continue asking.

The navy is temporarily stationed here at the mayor's office building in the city of water. Zefa and Garp brought Lujiu to the door of the marshal's office.

Just as Zefa was about to knock on the door, Karp pressed the doorknob first, pushed the door open and walked in carelessly, "Yo~ Marshal, good morning~"

Steel Bone looked at the sky outside, it was already afternoon, so there was no such thing as good morning.

"Marshal, you haven't slept all night, have you?" Zefa also walked in, and frowned when he saw the pile of documents in the office. Since the marshal was here, the documents piled up in the headquarters were also faxed.

Cyborg didn't answer his question, but just looked at the woman who was following them, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Lu Jiu was also quite nervous when she saw the marshal. Hearing this, she immediately bowed, introduced herself and said her request.

Steel Gu listened, frowning, and interrupted Lu Jiu, "No! This is simply nonsense."

"噗——" At the same time, the sound of the blade being unsheathed sounded. Cyborg, Zefa, and Lujiu looked at the same time, and saw Karp maintaining the posture of drawing a sword, smiling at them awkwardly.

In order to ease the atmosphere, he said: "Marshal, this sword is really good! Even a layman like me who doesn't understand swords thinks it is unusual."

"Put it back." Steel Bone's tone was extremely flat, and the suppressed anger in his tone could only be heard if you listen carefully.

Garp immediately admitted his cowardice, put the sword back into the scabbard, and put it back to its original place.

"Master Marshal, I am not fooling around. The purpose of the reporter is to convey the first-hand materials and information to the audience in an objective, timely and effective manner."

"Objective? With all due respect, the objectivity of the World Economic News is an exaggeration." Steel Bone said, "Do you want to deny this?"

Lu Jiu bit her lip. She really couldn't deny that no matter which newspaper it was, it was inevitable that there would be such a problem.

Her silence made both Zefa and Garp come to a conclusion, and this was probably the end of the matter.

But no one expected that Lu Jiu's expression would suddenly become firm and decisive. She looked straight into the steel bone's eyes and asked, "Then you." It takes courage, especially when facing the oppressive eyes of the steel bone, Lu Jiu clenched her fists to gain some confidence, "Then the newspaper of the Navy News Agency is not very objective!"

"Hey!" Garp exclaimed, admiring the woman's courage in his heart.

Zefa shook his head, actually questioning the Admiral of the Navy here, this is simply a serious crime that will be put in prison.

"Is there anything unobjective?" Steel Gu became interested, and simply threw the document in front of him forward, and stared at Lu Jiu with his arms folded.

Lu Jiu said: "I don't know if you know the Roger Pirates."

"Roger?" Garp straightened his back, and said in surprise, "Do you know that pirate group?"

"Ahem!" Zefa coughed vigorously, pulling the excited Karp back.

Lu Jiu nodded and continued: "Some time ago, they successfully escaped from Judicial Island. The navy newspaper reported that this group of pirates knew no law and tried to make their name in the sea through their trip to Judicial Island. Afterwards, they told about the various crimes of this pirate group."

"But in fact, the real reason why they went to Judicial Island, the navy that should know the most, didn't mention it at all. They broke into Judicial Island to save a companion."

"Judicial Island, also known as the Island of Never-night, contains courts in name only. Anyone who is escorted there will definitely consider him a prisoner. Prisoners will only be escorted through those empty courts, and finally arrive at a huge cold steel gate, the Gate of Justice." Lu Jiu knew all about this. "The companion that Roger Pirates wanted to rescue was not actually a member of their ship, but a young king they met on the last island."

"Because he couldn't pay the heavenly money and didn't want his own people to suffer, the king rebelled against the Tianlong people, so the innocent king was escorted to Judicial Island."

Lu Jiu said what she knew, Garp was a little surprised, why did this woman know so clearly, did she really know Roger?

Zefa lowered his eyes and clenched his fists subconsciously. They were Tianlong people again. If it weren't for them, Gray would probably be a general by now.

Steel Bone closed his eyes, took a light breath, and when he opened it again, it was already icy cold.

His voice did not fluctuate, "Resisting the Tianlong people is the greatest sin. The navy has done nothing wrong. Resisting the rule of the Tianlong people and the world government, that king is the guilty one."

"Marshal?" Karp and Zefa were taken aback. They didn't expect Cyborg to say that. Even because of his status as Marshal, Cyborg had never been so firm in defending the rule of Tianlong people and the world government.

"You know that Roger Pirates very well, you can't be one of them." Steel Bone continued: "Zefa, lock her in the prison of the water capital, and release the news, let that Roger Pirates come to save people."

"You! I have nothing to do with them!" Lu Jiu didn't expect things to develop like this. She originally wanted to use an example to reason with Steel Bone, but she didn't expect that not only would she be harmed, but Roger and the others would also be harmed.

Zefa hesitated and didn't go forward, but Garp was uncharacteristically active and made a gesture of invitation to Lu Jiu, "Miss, don't make things difficult for us."

"You guys are really disappointing." Lu Jiu left such a sentence at the end, turned around and went to the cell resolutely.

Garp gave Zefa a look, Zefa understood, and the three left together.

After the three left, Steel Bone knocked on the table and said to the empty room, "Since you're here, don't hide."

After a few seconds of silence, the door was pushed open again, and a tall man in a clean white robe and a white mask walked in, "Your Excellency Marshal is indeed very knowledgeable."

"You are so good at hiding your aura." Steel Gu said coldly, "What's wrong with Wu Lao Xing?"

"Nothing, you are the admiral of the navy, and you will become the commander-in-chief of the world government in the future. They believe that your choice will not be wrong." CP0 said respectfully.

"Then what are you doing here, spying on me?" After the steel bone's voice fell, the aura around him suddenly became sharp and dangerous.

CP0's hands hidden under the wide sleeves trembled, and his tone became more respectful, "Master Marshal, you are serious. I was just ordered to remind you that the task has been completed. I will leave now and will not disturb you anymore."

"Go away!" Steel Bone slapped the table and roared angrily.

Cold sweat broke out on CP0's back, and he left here immediately in fright.

Steel Bone restrained his momentum and narrowed his eyes slightly. If he hadn't noticed the existence of CP0 just now, he would have agreed with Lu Jiu's point of view.

Judiciary Island was just a useless place to claim the authority of the World Government, Cyborg thought so too.

It's just that the current him has not reached the time to confront the world government head-on.

at least
He looked at the sword hanging on the wall. The sword Garp pulled out and praised was named Griffin, and it used to be his sword when he was young.