One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Gray was still lying on the deck chair, someone covered him with a thin blanket, his chest heaved and heaved, breathing evenly.

Ace walked over and sat on the lawn next to the deck chair. In fact, it would be a lie to say that he didn't care. Anyone who is suspected for no reason will feel uncomfortable.

But he can understand their actions, even if it were him, he might not even be able to maintain this rationality.

Ace sat quietly for a while before Gray opened his eyes, drowsy in sleep. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the black head sitting next to him, and subconsciously patted it.

"Ace, are you in a bad mood?" Gray asked.

Ace shook his head, and repeated what Perry and the others said to Gray, but he changed his meaning and only said that he discovered it by accident.

"Grey, I found that I can absorb your black flame, and then my flame becomes stronger."

Gray nodded unsurprisingly, and said with a smile, "So what do you mean?"

Without waiting for Ace to answer, he said pleasantly: "In the future, you will not eat, but eat black inflammation instead?"

The tone is a lot more excited.

"Of course I want to eat!" Ace said angrily, how could the flame be eaten.

Gray lowered his face, "Hey~ What a pity, I want to help you eat your share too."

"I'm talking about business with you." Ace sighed. Gray's behavior made him wonder whether to continue talking or defend his right to eat.

It seems that the right to eat is more important.

"I know, I heard it, that is, you can absorb my black flame to evolve your own flame, isn't that a good thing? Are you going to hold a banquet?"

Gray thought for a while, "Have a banquet! I'll tell them later."

Not on the same channel at all, Ace bends forward in frustration.

He changed his mind and decided to be more direct, "If my flames naturally restrain you, and my ability to absorb black flames becomes stronger, then I may kill you in the future, don't you worry?!"

Yes, Ace intends to tell Gray everything. As one of the parties involved, Gray should have the right to be fully informed. As for what will happen afterwards...

He was ready for Wano Country to be kicked off the ship.

Amused by Ace's words, Gray laughed so hard that tears came out, "Well... I'm worried... Puff hahahahahahaha, I'm too worried."

"Tsk..." Ace frowned.

"I knew it a long time ago." Gray laughed enough and shrugged, "And my intuition tells me that you must not be able to do such a thing."

"Intuition may be inaccurate. In our era, they all called me the son of the devil, so I can do anything!" Ace sternly put on a fierce look.

"Then you are so handsome hahahahaha," Gray still laughed, "Then I will give the devil's son a chance."

He reached out and grabbed the collar, pulled it down, and completely exposed his neck, "Come on, son of the devil, you can kill me now."

"Captain!" The people who were hiding and did not dare to appear all stood up anxiously at this moment.

Latin said anxiously: "Captain, don't make such a joke~"

"Don't worry, I told you to do it, they dare not do anything to you." Gray turned cold, loosened his collar, and turned to Ace's face.

"You don't know it at all, Ace." Gray's words were soft and vague.

With a certain emotion that Ace couldn't understand, it seemed to be sighing, and the only thing that could be sure was complete trust.

This kind of emotion smeared, making Ace's eyes turn red, and he lowered his head in embarrassment, for fear that he would cry out in embarrassment.

"I fell in love with you at first sight..." Gray said this meaningfully.

Ace intuitively felt that there was some meaning behind this sentence, but he didn't understand it, and neither did the others.

No one knew exactly what Gray meant by that statement.

Gray patted Ace on the head, stood up from the recliner, glanced at the people present, and said, "I invited Ace to board the boat. I trust him completely, just like I trust you. You are worried that Ace may harm me in the future. Do I also have to worry that you will harm me in the future?"

"how is this possible!"

"We'd do anything for you."

"Captain, I will never hurt you!"

Because of Gray's words, everyone immediately exploded. They can tolerate anything, but once the captain is involved, they absolutely cannot!

They met the captain in a place where they shouldn't have met, like being caught in a deep swamp, and their lives were saved because of Gray.

To live for Gray, to live, and then to die, without regrets, is the most certain dream of all of them.

Gray raised his hand to signal them to be calm, and he said, "I hope everyone can show me face, and this kind of thing won't happen again."

"Understood, I will never make such a mistake again in the future." Perry walked out from the crowd, his back straight, but a little depressed, "I suggested to talk to Ace."

"No, no, no, we are all involved!" How could it be possible for others to let the deputy captain take all the responsibilities alone, so everyone admitted their mistakes.

Gray gradually showed an inexplicable expression, and he wondered: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about, what are you participating in? You have a small meeting behind my back?"

Ace stood behind Gray, unable to hold his forehead, these idiots...he didn't mention them at all, and blocked everything on himself, just to keep Gray from knowing that they talked to him once.

As it turned out, these guys were useless, but they panicked when they were caught eavesdropping by Gray, and even Perry couldn't get through it.

"Captain, didn't you just say that we were talking to Ace at the stern?" Demon was impatient and asked immediately.

The doubts on Gray's face were even greater, "What? Why are you looking for Ace?"

Perry frowned and didn't answer Gray's question, but continued to ask: "Then you were so serious just now, why did you say we don't believe in Ace?"

"Because of what? Weren't you eavesdropping just now? If you trust me, why did you eavesdrop?" Gray also frowned, "Also, I've been wondering since just now why each of you has such a bitter and hateful expression. Didn't you have enough to eat?"

"Then...why did you tell me "don't do unnecessary things" before?" Colin asked anxiously.

"Don't do unnecessary things?" Gray scratched his head, as if he was thinking about it. After a while, he suddenly realized that he hit his palm with his fist, "You said that—"

"—I'm not cold at all, so you don't need to bring me a blanket at all, isn't that superfluous."

"It's actually about this..." Colin bent forward in frustration, regretting that he had thought too much.

Gray looked like an elder, and taught them with his hands behind his back: "I tell you, just come here if you want to hear it in the future. No matter what a man does, he must be upright!"

"Yes...understood." Everyone's answer was weak.

I really didn't expect that one day, I would be taught a lesson by the idiot captain. They thought Gray too ideally. In fact, most of the time, Gray is a single-celled person.

"Speak up! Didn't you have enough to eat?"

"Yes, Captain!"

"By the way, having said that... what did you talk to Ace about?"

"No, nothing."

"They asked me a little bit about Wano Country." Ace relieved, "Do you want to listen?"

Gray covered his ears with his hands, with a full face of resistance: "No, no, no, I won't listen! I won't listen if I know it."

"Hahaha, that's why we talked behind your back." Ace laughed.

Gray foolishly wrote the letter, and even patted Ace on the shoulder to praise them for their good performance. This kind of thing should be discussed behind his back.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison. Fortunately, the captain trusted them very much, so this matter was able to pass away so quickly.

In the future, they will also work hard to trust Ace like the captain!