One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Master Navy! We are forced to become pirates, please spare our lives!"

"Give us a life, I still have a wife and children at home, if I can't pay the money, I can't come out to be a pirate!"

"What about them?" Zefa squatted down, looked at the tearful pirate kneeling in front of him, and asked in a flat tone: "What should you do with the family that you killed?"

"They. They..." the pirate stopped crying, and said pitifully, "We don't want to either. If you hadn't stationed in the water capital suddenly, we would have no time to escape, otherwise we wouldn't have broken into their house to hide!"

"Alas." Zefa sighed, stood up again, wrapped his arms around his legs, and gave the two pirates a heavy blow.

He was a little puzzled, why did he sympathize with these pirates before, obviously the evil things they committed cannot be forgiven.

Thinking of this, Zefa looked at the family who died innocently, and there was even a little girl who looked only six or seven years old. The cruel and selfish pirate could even kill children.

The breath around Zefa became more and more cold, and for a while, even the people who were in the navy did not dare to approach.

Just when the atmosphere was heavy and oppressive and wanted people to escape, Karp strode in. He didn't feel the atmosphere was wrong, and said with a smile: "You go out first, I have something to do with Zefa."

All the marines left with the corpse as if they were pardoned, and soon, only Zefa and Garp were left in the house.

The former asked: "Is there something wrong?"

"Look at this." Garp stretched out his hand and showed Zefa the flame on his index finger, flaunting, "Do you have this?"

Zefa frowned even tighter. I don't know if it was because Garp's tone made people uncomfortable, or because he didn't receive the flame, and he was a little bit annoyed, "What does he want from you?"

"I don't know, it seems that he wants to take me somewhere." Garp won the victory, his smile widened, and he said kindly: "So I'm here to ask you, do you want to go and see together?"

"Go by yourself." Zefa said as he bent down and picked up the collars of the two unconscious pirates, dragging them like corpses, "I don't deal with pirates."

"Tch, I don't deal with pirates~" Garp shook his head, and repeated it in a weird way. He was about to say, "Then I'll go by myself", but saw Zefa who walked to the door stop, raised his right hand, and the pirate he was carrying knocked his head heavily on the ground.

The black flame beating on the flexed index finger dispelled the surrounding coldness, Zefa turned to Garp and said, "Let's go, when are we going?"

Garp rolled his eyes blankly, "Didn't you say you don't want to deal with pirates?"

"Pirates aren't worth dealing with, but family members are." Zefa raised his eyebrows and urged him, "Hurry up, you weren't in a hurry just now."

"Tch, it's definitely not a big deal to even get you called." Garp slowly walked out of the house, "I was thinking, since we have all received it, then the Warring States period should also receive it."

".I don't think he will go." Zefa thought for a while, "Do you still want to go to him?"

"I think so too." Garp shrugged, "It's better not to go to him, let him decide whether to go or not."

"Yeah." Zefa nodded, got a few navy soldiers, and asked them to take the two pirates back, while he and Garp walked in the direction pointed by the flame.

Different from the relaxation of the two of them, Zhan Guo's heart is full of entanglements at the moment. He is sitting on the bench in the training ground, looking complicatedly at the flames floating in the air in front of him, constantly beating.

After a while, he stretched out his hand and let the flame stop in his palm.

It was one thing to know that Gray was looking for him, but quite another to go.

A large part of the reason why Sengoku cooperated with Gray in Qiancheng Island was that the navy's strength at that time could not resist the Rocks Pirates, and only a small part was because of the previous affection.

He is not a person who likes to talk about affection, and after eating the fruit of everyone in the form of a great Buddha, he is more used to thinking about problems without emotions.

A man who disobeys government orders is not a navy, and a stubborn mind is his philosophy of action.

If he did go to the appointment, it would be a betrayal of the navy and the world government, and Sengoku would not do that.

He thought about this in a short period of time, and decisively wrapped his palms with armor color, clenched his fists tightly, and the flames were extinguished.

"I won't find out where you are now." Warring States said to himself: "Grey, this is already the biggest concession I can make."

-

"The flame is extinguished." The moment after the flame was extinguished in the Warring States Period, Gray, who was far away on the Hulk Island, said with a smile: "Sure enough, no matter in the previous life or in this life, the Warring States Period will always be the Warring States Period."

After listening to Gray's words, Perry already understood that the Warring States Period would not come, "It seems that we have lost a good support."

It's a pity that among the three navies, Sengoku is the most calm and composed. With his help, the completion rate of their plan will definitely be higher.

"Well~ it's expected, I'll be surprised if the Warring States really comes." Gray didn't care much, he didn't expect the Warring States to attend the appointment from the beginning, and put this matter behind him, he looked around, "Where's Yu Tian?"

"I don't know where I went to play."

"Well, my sword is still in his hand." Gray scratched his head and asked again, "Where did Ace and the others go?"

"Ace and Lu Jiu went shopping, Bud and the others went sightseeing."

Now only Gray, Perry, and Andrew are left on Hulk Island, along with Shipwright and Demon.

Gray accepted the fact that he was abandoned in disbelief, "Why didn't they call me?"

Perry frowned, "You didn't just wake up from sleep, they left while you were sleeping."

Well, that seems to be the case.

Gray was wronged, touched his nose and stood up, "Then I want to go out to play."

"Remember to bring money." Perry reminded.

"Don't worry."

-

On the edge of the water capital, Oden emerged from the sea with a splash, holding a Griffin in one hand and a small light brown frog in the other, shouting excitedly: "Alder, look what you caught!"

"What, what, I can't see clearly." Alder put his right hand on his forehead, because he couldn't go into the sea, he could only stand on the shore, "Hurry up, have you found the treasure?"

"Hope is something valuable." Abel squatted on the shore and muttered.

"It's not a treasure, it's a frog!" Oden ran to the bank, showed Alder the frog in his hand, and said excitedly, "Look!"

Alder was a little disappointed, but still didn't discourage the child's enthusiasm, "Oh, the frog is not bad, but why did you catch it?"

"Because it passed out in the sea!" Mitian said, "It can't swim!"

"Huh?" Abel suspected that his ears had misheard, "Shouldn't frogs be born breaststroke?"

"But it really can't swim." Oden recalled what he saw in the sea, and nodded with certainty, "That's it."

"Well, since you rescued it, let's keep it first." Abel smiled, "It's almost time, let's go back."

"Good~"

-

"Is this for me?"

Dangling in front of him was a string of necklaces, and the pendant was a slightly rough Gesang flower. It was obvious that the person who made it was not skilled.

Lu Jiu met Ace's nervous eyes, and the latter explained: "I learned from Latin, uh, I didn't do it very well, because it was too late to buy gifts."

"It's well done, I like it very much." Lu Jiu showed a gentle smile, and wanted to reach out to take the necklace.

But Ace withdrew his hand and said, "I'll help you wear it."

He approached Lu Jiu and helped her put on the necklace. By the way, he also helped Lu Jiu pull the hair that had slipped from her ear behind her ear very naturally.

Lu Jiu didn't feel disgusted at all, on the contrary, every movement of this man she had just met made her feel extremely pleasing to the eye.

She half-closed her eyes and suddenly asked, "You know me, right?"

"Ah?" Ace was taken aback, opened his mouth not knowing what to say, and finally nodded silently.

The two sat on a bench by the waterway.

Lu Jiu said: "It feels like you guys didn't want to hide it from me, and I quite care about what the captain said 'bring you to this world'."

Ace looked at the rushing waterway and said, "I'm from the future."

"The future... so, then I should be able to understand." Lu Jiu was not surprised, but just smiled, "Life at sea is very interesting."

"Yeah, very interesting."

"Would you be happy if I joined?"

Ace raised his head abruptly, looked at Lu Jiu who was looking over with a smile, and a dazzling light burst out from the bottom of his eyes, "Do you want to join?"

"Because it's very interesting, and I've wanted to write a report on black fireworks before." Lu Jiu stretched her waist and stood up, "Let's go, don't you have to buy something~ The pirate's banquet should also be very interesting."

"Yes! The banquet will be interesting too, I promise."

-

"Yo Ho Ho Ho, beautiful lady, can I have a look at your panties?"

"Yeah—monster—"

"Hey, Brooke, it's hard to meet so many ladies, don't scare them away." Bud patted Brooke's shoulder helplessly, "Street performers must have the dignity of street performers."

"Ah, I'm sorry, because this is the first time I've stood on the street to sing." Brooke got serious, "Mr. Bud was a street performer before he became a pirate?"

"Not really, at most it's just for making a living and making money everywhere." Bud plucked the strings of the guitar casually, and said, "Do you know the big liar Rolando?"

"The golden city of Shandora?" Brooke had obviously heard of it.

"Because of the spread of this incident, our country has gradually become a country where liars run rampant. Everyone's life is very bad, and there are many homeless people. I can only be counted as the lucky ones."

"Everyone has their own misfortunes." Brooke said with a smile, "Does Mr. Bard believe in the legend of the Golden City?"

"Me~ It depends on what our captain wants. If he believes me, I believe it. If he doesn't believe me, I don't believe it." Bard said: "It doesn't matter if you say I follow blindly or have no independent opinions. If there is really Shandora in this world, the person who can find it must be my captain."

"Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho, will Captain Gray go to find Shandora?"

"That place still depends on luck~ We don't have the option of Shandora in our itinerary."

"Are you going to return to the New World?"

"No, we may have to go to the city of boost first, there is a companion there, then go to the Kingdom of the Magnetic Drum, and then go to the West Sea from the Upside Down Mountain."

"Upside Down Mountain?" Brook's body shook, and there was a companion waiting for him at Upside Down Mountain. He laughed and said, "Yo Ho Ho Ho Ho, this is really exciting news."

Seeing that he was very excited when he heard Upside Down Mountain, Bud asked, "Do you know Kulokas from Upside Down Mountain?"

"Mr. Kulocas, of course I know~ Yohohohoho, he is a very good person, and he promised to help us take care of Rab." Brook turned around, "Do you also know Mr. Kulocas?"

"If this is the case, maybe you and Alder and Abel will have a common topic. They both know Kulocas." Bud said: "Go back, it's almost time."

He bent down and picked up the hat on the ground, which contained heavy coins.

Brook watched helplessly as Bud walked to the waterway with his hat in hand, and threw all the Baileys inside into the rushing seawater. After doing this, Bud put his hat on and smiled at him, "Let's go, it's time to go back."

"Mr. Bud, why do you want?" Brook didn't understand, the purpose of their street performances was to make money, although before they left, they were all stuffed with a lot of money by Perry.

"Just take it as my sense of ritual to bid farewell to the past."

-

"Do you think we should bring something to the past?"

"What can you bring? Expired senbei."

"Hey, can you forget about that, I didn't know it was expired at the time." Garp complained, "Really, it's been five years, and Gray hasn't held a grudge like this."

"If you expect a fool to take revenge, you might as well expect yourself to be more reliable." After Zefa finished speaking, he stopped, reached out and patted Garp on the shoulder, and raised his chin slightly, "Look over there, is that the kid on Gray's Ship?"

"What?" Garp looked over, and saw that Ace was walking on the road with Lujiu carrying big bags and small bags. At this moment, the other party had already noticed them, and their eyes happened to meet.

Ace blurted out in astonishment, "Stinky old man!"

When Karp heard this, the veins on his forehead twitched. He moved his fists and forced a smile, "It's that kid! I'll be angry when I see him."

"Although you are not that old, I am still very happy to hear him say that." Zefa reminded: "There is that reporter next to him, don't accidentally hurt civilians."

"I have a sense of proportion." After Garp finished speaking, Ace on the opposite side had already sensed the danger. He threw the things in his hands aside and protected Lu Jiu behind him, "You hide first and be careful."

Lu Jiu knew that if she didn't hide now, she would become a burden later, "Be careful not to get hurt!"

"rest assured!"