One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Time goes back to last night.

The carnival of the whole island did not affect the silence in one corner - that was a high slope of the island.

At the end of the high slope is a calm windless belt like a pool of stagnant water, and below is a steep cliff.

"This world is really amazing."

Roger took a deep breath, sat on a high slope, his legs bent and hung down naturally, "Why there is a windless zone, I have always been curious about this matter."

"Did you come to me just to talk about this?"

With a straight face, Ace looked at the stars in the sky awkwardly and stubbornly.

Roger giggled, his shoulders were shaking, and he looked very happy, "I just want to say, it's great that you can come."

After speaking, he took a few sips of wine.

Before Ace spoke, he laughed loudly again: "Hahaha, it is because of this magical world that we can meet. I should thank this world for giving me a chance to make up for it."

He raised his arm, pointed the mouth of the bottle at the sky, and the wine in the bottle shook a few times.

Ace pursed his lips, "It has nothing to do with you, I know, you're not that Roger."

"Whichever Roger it is."

Roger said earnestly: "Ace, I don't know what happened to that man, but for me, when I know all that, I won't treat it as nothing to do with me, a man must bravely take responsibility."

"responsibility."

"Hey, I know what's going on in your mind right now, hahaha, you must be thinking: Responsibility? How can you, a man who abandons his wife and children, have the right to talk about responsibility."

Roger shook his head, "To be honest, why I will become like that in the future, I can't figure it out at all now."

"Because you went to the final island, saw the truth that had been blank for 100 years, became the One Piece, and was terminally ill, and was about to die soon."

Gray walked over with Oden, Whitebeard and Rayleigh.

Gray did not reveal the reason why Roger abandoned his wife and son in front of everyone.
One is that the 100-year blanking period is very important, and the other is that the crew of the Roger Pirates would be disturbed if they learned that the captain would be terminally ill, so they concealed it at the time.

Roger was a little dazed, and after reacting for a while, his eyes burst into a frenzied brilliance.

He excitedly ran up to Gray and asked, "Me? We went to the final island! The water star island? Hahahaha, I knew it, we can do it."

"Hey! Raleigh, did you hear that?"

Roger put Lei Li on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Hahaha, brother, I knew we would do it. I'm still the One Piece hahaha."

"Roger." Raleigh looked at his captain with complicated eyes.

He was full of smiles, and his lively and sunny appearance made it completely impossible to think that he would suffer from an incurable terminal illness in the future.

"Hmm, what's the matter?" Roger nodded, and the next moment he received a heavy punch on the head.

Lei Li withdrew his fist, gritted his teeth and said, "You still have the face to ask me what's wrong, you know the point is wrong?"

"Yes, I'm really sorry." Roger squatted on the ground covering his head, and said aggrievedly.

Gray smiled, "As expected of the future One Piece, when I hear these things, I always focus on adventure."

Or maybe it's because he heard about his terminal illness, and in order not to make the people around him feel bored, he changed the subject like this.

"Hehehehe, I don't want to be the One Piece."

Roger said with a smile: "Whoever wants to be that kind of name, the purpose of my going to sea is to turn the world upside down and be the freest person on the sea!"

"Gu la la la, I kind of like you now." The white beard laughed, his eyes full of admiration for Roger.

Oden also looked at Roger with a look of admiration, as if there were stars in his eyes.

When Roger said these words, he was as dazzling as Gray who took him out of Wano Country at that time, "I, I also want to be such a person, unrestrained and free."

"Not only here, but Wano Country is the same. The world is so big, Wano Country's eyes can't just see the small piece of sea horizon in the distance!"

"Wano Country?" Roger looked at Oden in surprise, "Are you from Wano Country?"

"Can you understand a kind of square and square writing?" Lei Li didn't carry the rubbings of Sky Island's historical text with him, so he could only describe the characteristics of those writing in general.

Unexpectedly, Gray took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket, "Is this the kind of text you are talking about?"

This is the entire historical text rubbed from Wano Country, Zou, and Murloc Island.

"That's it! It's exactly the same as what we saw on Sky Island."

Roger asked excitedly: "So you know this too."

"I'll get it." Raleigh said, and left to get the rubbings of the main text of history.

"Where have you seen this thing?" Gray sat down and put the rubbings in front of him.

"We were rushed to the sky by a soaring ocean current. There is an empty island there, and there is this kind of writing on a big rock on it."

Roger explained with dancing, it seems that he likes to tell his adventure stories to others.

"The god on the empty island told us that this is the text of history, and he also said that this kind of text is only known by the Kozuki clan of the legendary Wan country."

"Oh~ that's it."

Gray nodded in understanding.

"Are you also looking for such a text?"

White Beard said, "I've also seen such writing on a red stone."

Roger was taken aback, "Red? What we saw were black stones."

"Sure enough, Lockes is also looking for this thing." Gray asked: "We only need a piece of red history text, do you know where it is in Newgate?"

"Is there any difference between red and black?" Roger always thought that this thing was just a historical and cultural heritage, but it seemed that it was not that simple.

"What red and black?" Raleigh heard Roger's question as soon as he came back.

"There are a total of 30 historical texts in the world, including the four most important landmark historical texts and nine intelligence historical texts."

Gray explained: "The text of the history of the four signposts is red, and they are the only guide to the true final island after the Water Star Island."

"We've saved up three dollars and we're short of the one that Newgate said."

"Ah."

Whitebeard nodded, "The red historical text originally belonged to Charlotte Lingling, and Lockes learned about it from nowhere, so he went to attack Charlotte's pirate group. That's why they joined the Lockes pirate group. Long Bread gave the historical document to Lockes instead of Lingling, in order to get a chance to join."

"As for why Rocks is interested in the historical text, we went to Alabasta and saw a black intelligence historical text in the royal tomb, which recorded the information of Pluto Pluto."

"Oh~" Gray suddenly realized that Pluto's design is in their hands now, so there is no need to go to the historical text of Alabasta.

As for Sky Island, since Rayleigh has already brought the rubbings over, they don't need to go anymore.

"By the way, the reason why I can understand the text of history is because there is a three-eyed person named Cynthia in the Pirates. Her third eye can understand these texts after awakening." Whitebeard said everything he knew.

Roger's head hurts a little, so much information made his brows wrinkle tightly.

Rayleigh, who only listened to half of it, understood, "So those words are not only historical and cultural heritage, but also written records that bury great secrets."

"That is to say, if you collect all these things and find the real final island, you can get countless treasures and become the number one pirate group in the world?"

Roger's mind can only listen to things like treasures~secrets, which represent adventure, and he doesn't bother to think about deeper things.

"Hmph~" Gray lowered his head and smirked like a villain.

When everyone was looking at him inexplicably, he suddenly raised his head and said triumphantly: "We must be the No. 1 to find the final island with all the historical texts!"

"Yes, it's us!" Mitian echoed, raising his arms.

"We are the number one pirate group in the world!" Ace looked at the battered Roger with a smile.

Ah~ Such revenge seems to be quite cool.

Raleigh patted Roger on the shoulder, "Whoever it is, just enjoy the adventure on the way to that island, right Roger?"

"Yes, yes," Roger regained his spirits, "The adventure with your companions is the most important thing."

After chatting for a while, Mita began to seriously look at the content of the historical text of Sora Island.

After a while, he said: "The history text of Sky Island records that Poseidon, the king of the sea, is located at the fishman island [-] meters below the seabed."

"Poseidon is a mermaid princess who can communicate with sea kings—the king of sea kings—that will only appear in hundreds of years."

"Fishman Island!"

Roger hasn't been there yet, "How should we get to Fishman Island?"

The Roger Pirates, who haven't even been to Chambord, naturally don't know that they have to coat their boats and enter the fishman island [-] meters under the sea before they can go to the new world.

"Speaking of Fishman Island, it's Captain Gray's territory, right?" Raleigh recalled the news that was making a fuss in the newspaper.

"Of course! Go to Murloc Island to report my name, and keep your journey unimpeded!"

"Hahahaha, that adventure would be too boring."

Roger naturally refused. The adventure he was looking forward to was not unimpeded, but a passage that he could build bit by bit by relying on his own strength.

"Do you have anything more to ask me? Like your terminal illness."

Gray lowered his voice, "Here, there is a treasure called pure gold. After wearing it, it can delay aging, which is similar to the effect of immortality~"

".Immortal~" Roger looked at the sky and asked, "Does Captain Gray want to use this thing?"

Gray shook his head, "I'm not afraid of death."

"me too."

Roger smiled and stood up, "Anyway, you should use pure gold for yourself. I know that the bastard in the future won't just abandon his family for no reason!"

"Don't you take away the text of your history?"

"This, take it as a thank you for helping me take care of Ace!"

Roger didn't look back, but just raised his hand and waved, "Whether it's the main text of history or the final island, we will reach it by our own strength, so I won't disturb your pirate group's discussion."

"Everyone has their own adventure, let's go, Rayleigh, the party has just begun!"

"Let's leave first." Raleigh nodded resolutely, got up and followed Roger's pace.

"You're slow, Raleigh."

"Idiot, who would be as rude as you?"

The voices of the two gradually faded away.

Gray looked at Ace, and asked without warning: "How is it? I think Roger is this person."

"Huh?" Ace was stunned and lowered his head.

In fact, except for the blood connection, Roger and Ace have no intersection of life, and it can be said that they are complete strangers.

Ace's understanding of Roger is all pieced together from other people's mouths, most of which are of course bad.

Occasionally, there are people like Whitebeard who will talk about Roger in a tone of nostalgia and affirmation.

When a patchwork outline meets a real person, it shatters like a mirror, and the false outline shatters, revealing the real Roger himself.

Roger loves adventure, doesn't care about life and death, doesn't run away when things happen, and can take on his own responsibilities. This is Roger.

Ace was quite confused, especially when he learned that Roger was terminally ill, even if he didn't surrender, he would eventually abandon them.

"Hahaha, it's okay. You can think about this kind of thing anytime, anywhere. What you should think about now is where to find the last piece of historical text."

"Charlotte took Lockes alone. I don't know the exact location of that island."

"Well, so let's find another insider. That Cynthia, I don't think she's on the arrest list."

"When she met Cyborg, she lost contact with us."

Whitebeard shook his head, "Although she is near the sea area of ​​the water capital, she is a capable person, so I don't know if she is still alive."

"You don't have life cards?"

"No. No, as for the life card, maybe someone has it. Do you know Miss Ba Jin?"

Whitebeard took out a life card from his pocket, with a troubled expression on his face, "She doesn't have a reward order, you probably don't know."

"Miss? A woman?" Ace seemed to have heard something interesting, and gossiped, "Dad, why do you have her life card?"

On the Moby Dick before, they had also discussed their father's past feelings behind their backs, but Marko and his senior members were very tight-lipped, always saying that they didn't know, and if they wanted to ask, they had to ask Dad directly.

White Beard had a headache, "Forgive me, I don't want to be entangled by that woman."

"What happened to that woman?"

"She saved my life. Although it's not good to say that, she has been entangled with me since then, including several other powerful men on the Lockes ship. Miss Bajin is a very ambitious and greedy woman."

"I'm afraid .

Whitebeard rubbed his temples, "Black Fireworks is a more powerful pirate group than Rocks, if she boards the ship, she will be the first to follow her."

He looked at Gray, "I'm afraid Captain Gray is about to suffer."