One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Misunderstanding~ There must be some." Gray said with a smile: "In short, I will stop them before things get out of hand."

There is no unreasonable hatred in the world, and Roger knows this very well. He racked his brains to think whether he had met Ace before or did something wrong to Ace, but all his memories told him that he was innocent.

Ace knows it's not fair to take revenge on the present Roger for what the future Roger did, and the current Roger is just an innocent person, just like he was alone and helpless when he was a child.

Why was he labeled as a devil without doing anything?

Why can doing nothing yourself possibly cause other people's misfortune?
Why can't I do anything to change my life experience and destiny?

Then why did he appear in this world, and what is the meaning of his existence?
In the process of seeking answers, he blamed all the causes of his misfortune on Roger, and the answer he found was that he should not have been born.

He needs to make a break with Roger, needs to fight Roger.

win or lose.

"Flame Shanggang." Ace raised his hands, and flames gushed out from his arms to surround a large space around him. The towering fire wall blocked the view of the theater, and even Gray, who was standing on a high place, could not see the battle scene inside.

"This kid, Ace, has a good personality, but he's a little hypocritical and sensitive." Gray shook his head and commented.

"That's right, everyone has shortcomings." Lu Jiu did not refute Gray's words, "I think this is very good, this kind of Ace is already good enough."

"Well, children, as long as you are healthy and happy." Gray jumped down and landed firmly on the port, and said to Lei Li who was looking over vigilantly: "You didn't come here to fight, since you brought gifts, let's get together on the boat."

"So what do you mean now? Stop our captain, but invite us?" Rayleigh frowned.

"I can't do anything about personal grievances. Don't worry, if I really want to do something to you, I won't be alone." Gray looked up at the fire wall, "Prometheus, go back to the boat."

"Ha, that's what you said. If there is anything wrong with Ace, it has nothing to do with me." Prometheus turned around and returned to the boat in a hurry.

Lei Li took a deep look at Prometheus, and then asked, "Do all you flame power users like to use firewalls to stop others?"

Before it was Gray, now it's Ace.

"It's just because it's really convenient." Gray shrugged, ignored Lei Li and the others, and turned back to the boat.

"Rayleigh, what should we do?" Jabba asked, "Is it credible?"

"I don't believe there is any other way." Lei Li was helpless. If the other party really wanted to do something, it would not be just Ace, not to mention that Lu Jiu was still on their boat.

Lu Jiu was not in a hurry, which meant that there was really no danger for them to board the ship.

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In the circle of fire, Roger asked helplessly: "Do you really want to fight?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Ace stared at him, that especially innocent face kept burning the anger in his heart, Ace took the lead in attacking, "Musket!"

The index and middle fingers of his hands were gun-shaped, and continuous small flames were released from the fingertips, like a burst of pistols, shooting at Roger without holding back.

While dodging quickly, Roger drew out the samurai sword at his waist. This supremely fast sword that he got by chance was called [Ace]. In fact, he did not get it. No matter how close he was, Roger would never put his name on the sword.

It's just that when the owner of the knife forging shop dug the knife out of the soil, the word Ace was already engraved on the knife. He felt that it was destined and interesting, so he simply called it that way.

When other members of the Pirates misunderstood, he smiled and brought it up without explanation, because few people would believe such a fateful thing.

"Fire Fist!" Ace once again used the most commonly used move that had become his title, turning his arm into a huge flame with super high temperature, and then attacked the target with the fist of the flame.

This move is fast and has a wide range, making people unable to find any solution other than to face it head-on.

Roger held the sword obliquely in front of his body, covering his body with black. This was something he realized at the critical moment of life and death during the decisive battle on Judicial Island, otherwise he would not be able to defeat the CP organization of the natural department.

The natural system is almost unsolvable in the first half of the four seas and even the great route, because few people have the concept of domineering.

Ace looked at the armed color wrapped in Roger, and couldn't help squinting his eyes. It's normal for Roger to have arrogance, but he didn't expect that the other party had learned the armed color now.

Dazed by the anger, Ace thought to himself, he should use his fists, instead of using his ability and arrogance, he just used his fists to beat Roger hard.

The fire fist pierced through Roger's body like a wolf pouncing on his prey and refused to stop. He rushed out of the fire wall and rushed towards the passers-by who were watching the excitement outside.

As a result, the flame disappeared out of thin air, and Ace said to Roger, "I'm sorry, I didn't think carefully."

"Ah?" Roger groaned, smoke was billowing from his body, his skin was burnt red after the color of his armor faded, and blisters would appear in a short time.

He didn't wait for an answer, but he waited for a hard punch to the right cheek.

Roger moved a few steps to the side uncontrollably, reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, "Okay, hit me if you want, I won't show mercy this time."

He was also aroused a little bit of anger, no matter how much he liked the kid in front of him, he couldn't be passively beaten to this extent.

'噗——' The samurai sword was put back into its sheath, and Roger saw Ace's plan, so he no longer used the weapon, but clenched his fists into a good posture, and used the most primitive and most angry fighting method to separate the winner from the loser.

There were almost no moves to speak of in the battle, and the two of them were like two wolves that had been hungry for a long time, wanting to tear a piece of flesh off each other.

Ace saw the opportunity, turned his head to avoid Roger's fist, and concentrated his punch on the stomach.

Roger took a few steps back, covered his stomach with his hands and coughed a few times, spitting out all the blood in his mouth.

Outside the flames, everyone couldn't see the scene inside, they could only hear dull crashing sounds, feeling bored, coupled with the aroma of barbecue wafting from a certain pirate ship, no one wanted to stay any longer.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the sun reappeared after sunset. It was the early morning of the next day.

The flames were still burning, Ace hung up his paint, wiped the blood from his nose, grabbed the collar of Roger who was lying on the ground, and punched and punched until he lost his strength.

He let go of his hand, lay down next to Roger, and said to Roger, "Don't worry, we have a doctor on board, even if you have your last breath, you can be rescued."

"I'm not worrying about this." Roger laughed, his movements involved the wound on his cheek, his facial features twisted in pain, "You bastard, have you vented your anger?"

"what?"

"Vent your anger on an innocent person, you shouldn't be such a person."

"Ha..." Ace tried to laugh, but stopped after just a laugh. He looked at Roger with a cold face, and the anger that had calmed down a lot was ignited again.

He said: "Do you think you know me well? I am such a person, the son of the devil, how noble do you want me to be for an existence that shouldn't survive!"

"Son of the devil?" Roger was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, and said, "Hey, hey, did your dad do something bad?"

Ace looked at the sky surrounded by flames, "Ah, he made a very wrong decision and caused many people to suffer."

"But what does this have to do with you?" Roger scratched his head, his wrist was very swollen, and it hurt badly when he pulled it. He didn't understand, "Isn't it because your father is a demon that you shouldn't survive? There's no such reason."

"That man." Ace looked at Roger. "He left his pregnant mother to turn herself in for execution. My mother tried her best to protect me and died on the day I was born. I have the blood of a criminal. Everyone I met said that the devil's son deserves to die."

After Roger quietly listened to Ace's almost flat narration, he was a little nervous for no reason, and the pain in his body could not relieve the suffocation in his heart.

"You said. I, should I live in this world?"

"—Boom." A Bailey fell onto the deck, rolled around a few times, and stopped upright.

"Oh oh oh, come and take a look." Gray pointed at the Bailey excitedly, "It actually stood up."

"It's really a big event with a very low probability~"

"Nothing good will happen today."

"Does this mean that Ace's battle will end?"

"It must be our captain who wins."

"How is it possible, of course Ace won."

"It's been a day of fighting, so we should be able to tell the winner."

"If you use your ability, it will be over in a few minutes."

A few people gathered around the coins, chattering and discussing, mixed with people from Black Fireworks and Roger Pirates, I don't know if there is a resonance between fools, and soon after boarding, a few particularly lively people became acquainted.

Rayleigh looked at Captain Black Firework who picked up the coin and asked everyone to guess the heads and tails, but he couldn't connect him with the threatening terrorist yesterday.

"Your captain...will you handle documents and intelligence?" He tentatively asked Perry.

Perry had a hellish expression on his face, "Are you kidding me? Just as long as he doesn't make trouble for others."

Raleigh nodded, feeling that he was funny yesterday, "That's good."

——Everyone's captain is a bear, so he can rest assured, I really don't want to see the picture of the captain working hard on other people's boats.

"The flame is extinguished!" Lu Jiu has been paying attention to the port. Since she didn't sleep all night, a faint black appeared in her eyes.

Both Ace and Roger were in a mess, especially Roger, lying on the ground not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Ace watched Raleigh and the others jump off the boat, and didn't stop them approaching, but explained helplessly: "The bastard fell asleep."

"Hu~huhu" Roger snored, letting the wound still bleed, and just fell asleep like that.

"It's a good thing everyone is so worried about you." Lei Li wanted to kick him angrily, but because he didn't have a good place to set his feet, he finally had to give up.

Ace returned to the boat, first smiled at Lu Jiu, "Don't worry, I'm fine." He paused, then added: "He's fine too."

"It's fine." Lu Jiu breathed a sigh of relief.

She wanted to go down to see Roger, but there were a lot of people around Roger, so thinking about it, Ace's place was more important.

"How do you feel?" Gray asked, "Did you vent your anger?"

Ace was receiving Colin's treatment, and when he heard Gray's words, he nodded first, then shook his head, "I feel a little strange now."

"He is Roger, but not Roger. I can't ignore this. It's like the abuse that was cast on me. What I'm doing now is not the same."

Perhaps at the beginning, he was dazzled by anger and hatred, but when the anger faded, he began to look at the man in front of him.

Not the same, he is different from the photo in the reward order in Ace's memory, he is very young.

Ace didn't want to vent his hatred on an innocent person, so he was discouraged, because no matter how hard he fought, this person would not replace the man on the execution platform who threatened to hide the big secret treasure to the final island.

"...I can't do it anymore." Ace covered his face with his hands, choked his teeth and said, "I think I'm too bad to drag my anger on innocent people."

"Why do you doubt yourself so much?" Lu Jiu took Colin's place and took Ace's hand with both hands, trying to pass on the power in this way. She said with pity: "In my heart, Ace is already good enough. Even though he has experienced many bad things, he has grown into a very polite, gentle, responsible, and powerful man."

"What's the matter with Ace?" Whitebeard and Brooke didn't understand what was going on, and Qi Qi looked at Gray.

Gray laughed and said, "Because Ace is from the future."

"Huh?" Brook opened his mouth wide, and his bones were dislocated in an instant. He recovered himself and said in disbelief, "Future, future people?"

"That's why he said he was Roger, and not Roger?" Whitebeard understood a little bit, "The future Roger did something that I'm sorry for him."

"Yeah, it's a serious matter." Gray nodded, "We must make a fortune on the Roger Pirates."

When he said this, he didn't shy away from anyone, so not only the insiders on the pirate ship, but also the people of the Roger Pirates who had been petrified by the impact, heard about Ace being a future man.

Lu Jiu didn't seem surprised. She had long doubted Ace's identity. During the alone conversation with Ace in Water City, Ace almost slipped his mouth. This child never hides his eager eyes and feelings.

Apart from relatives, what else can explain her love and tolerance for no reason.