One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Fred." Gray said, "Let's go out and play."

"what?"

Go out and play, just the two of them.

Taking advantage of the late night to secretly put down the boat and bring food and water that may or may not be enough, the adventure of the two began irresponsibly.

Abandoning all the noisy and trivial matters on board, Gray lay on the boat, howling excitedly.

"What's your name, do you want to quarrel them all? Hurry up and row the boat." Alfred raised the oar, and the water he brought splashed Gray's face.

Gray was not annoyed either, he smirked, "Today is my happiest day!"

"It seems that the life of a naval genius is not so good."

"Hahaha, yes, at that time I was always thinking of getting into trouble, and I didn't make many friends at all, how about you? I never seem to ask you, what did you do before?"

".Nothing to mention, just bad experiences."

"Hahaha, yeah, it seems that Fred's life is not going well."

"Yeah, today is also my happiest day." It was rare for Alfred to argue with Gray.

Gray was stunned for a moment, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

He looked at the sky and said with emotion: "The moon is so beautiful tonight~"

Alfred froze for a moment, then looked up, "Well, it's the full moon."

The moon is big and round, the moonlight is like water, and the moonlight is also gentle.

"Hungry." Gray sucked in his saliva, shattering all the beautiful fantasies.

"Idiot, I shouldn't think of you." Alfred paused, then changed his words: "I shouldn't have come out with you."

"What, but you haven't come out yet." Gray smiled and took out food from the bag, threw a portion to Alfred, and then opened his own and started to eat.

"Let's go back tomorrow morning." Gray said vaguely.

"Not going on a long voyage?"

"Hahahaha, I have already obtained a treasure that is more important than a long voyage."

"What treasure?" Alfred asked.

"You tell me what you used to do, and I'll tell you."

"...Forget it, I don't want to know."

"Hey~ don't, you ask me again."

"Do not ask."

"Ask again~ I promise to tell you this time."

"I got a treasure more important than the voyage"

Gray rubbed his face and fell back on the ground.

20 years old is the age of vigorous and unrestrained.

Gray thought to himself, he had never trusted a person so unreservedly, kept digging his heart and soul out of him, but forgot to ask him, do you want these from me?

He was still thinking about the poison on Fred, what would happen if it happened again, so he gave him pure gold and asked him to go to Dressrosa to find Nora.

From the moment he learned of Nora's ability, Gray was thinking that if there was such a capable person back then, as long as he could save Fred, he would be willing to kneel down and beg.

But it didn't.

Too licking, really too licking.

You have failed me once again, Fred.

Starting today, I'm going to hate you.

"It's you, Fred."

Gray didn't get depressed for too long, he walked out of the cabin and looked at the speeding ship, the huge waves breaking on both sides splashed onto the deck, as if it was raining without dark clouds.

"Oh, Captain, you are awake." Andrew came out from the kitchen, "There is food in the kitchen."

"Thank you Andrew." Gray laughed.

After eating in the kitchen, he took over Ace's job and increased the speed of the boat again.

The journey that originally took more than ten days was shortened abruptly to four days.

Magnetic Drum Island is named after the peaks on the island are shaped like magnetic drums. It belongs to Winter Island. The Magnetic Drum Kingdom above is one of the member countries of the World Government and is also a famous medical country.

At this time, it was snowing on the island, and the wind was bitterly cold. Except for the two flame users, everyone else was wearing thick clothes to keep out the cold.

"It's such a familiar cold." Colin breathed a sigh of relief, and the moment he entered the port of Magnetic Drum Island, he sniffed and his eyes turned red.

"Let's go, Colin, lead the way." Gray didn't wear a cloak, and his shirt kept flapping when the wind blew, making him a little thinner.

"Cough, if it's cold." Ace hung his head, stretched out a hand embarrassingly, and said to Lu Jiu, "Would you like to hold hands, er, I mean, I'm quite hot."

"Okay." Lu Jiu held Ace's hand tightly, and a warmth spread from his palm.

She narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Sure enough, Ace is really warm."

Ace responded indiscriminately, the snowflakes on his head were melted and steamed by the heat, and his whole body began to smoke.

"Dr. Doriel lives quite out of the way, I think."

"boom--"

There was a gunshot, and the bullet was melted by black fire in mid-air.

"I forgot to say, pirates are not very welcome in our country hahaha." Colin scratched his head in embarrassment, seeing the defensive islanders standing on the shore with guns, he remembered the things he had neglected.

Generally, pirates are not welcome on the islands of countries that have joined the world government. He was too excited so he forgot about it.

"Pirate, get out of our island immediately!"

"Don't go any further, pirates!"

The people on the shore shouted and tried to drive the intruders off the island.

"I feel like I haven't felt this kind of atmosphere for a long time."

"After all, we have been staying in the new world, and the islands there will not prohibit pirates from landing."

"Okay, pirates, don't go any further. We have already notified the Kingdom Self-Defense Force. If you land on the island, you will be an enemy of our country." Among the crowd, an old man walked out with a cane.

He seemed to have a high status among them. When he came out, the noisy crowd automatically silenced.

Colin snorted, took off the hood he was wearing, and waved excitedly, "Uncle Bora, it's me, Colin!"

"Colin?" When the old man heard the name, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then he flew into a rage, "Pirate, I don't know where you know this name, but Colin has died long ago, don't think that I can fool me just because I am old!"

"It's really me, Uncle Bora!"

Colin was helpless, "I stole plum wine from your house before, because I failed the medical test, so I wanted to use it to please Doctor Doriel."

This thing. Borah's breathing was heavy, and it was indeed what Colin had done before.

He didn't tell anyone. He adjusted his reading glasses and took a good look at Colin's face.

He looked very carefully, and his body trembled uncontrollably, "You are Colin?"

"Yeah, I haven't seen Uncle Bora for a long time." Colin stepped on the side of the boat and jumped to the opposite bank, standing in front of Bora, "I'm back."

The closer you are, the more clearly you can see.

"Really. It's really Colin kid." Bora stretched out his old hand tremblingly, and touched Colin's face, two lines of tears flowed out of his cloudy eyes, "Really, it's really great that you are still alive, it's really great."

"Hahaha, I'm not a child anymore." Colin held his hand back, "Uncle, it's great to see you again, can my companion go to the island first?"

"Yes! Yes, yes." Bora nodded, motioning everyone to put down their guns, "Put down their guns, it's not the enemy, it's not the enemy!"

Most of the crowd were young people. When Colin left, they were still half-grown children, so they had no impression of them. Hearing this, they hesitated and dared not put down their guns.

"But they are Haiyo!" The young man who spoke was hit on the head.

"Stinky boy, you had a cold when you were young, and Colin saved you." The middle-aged man was very excited.

After docking the boat, Gray and the others successfully landed on the island.

"That's great." Colin sighed, "The things in my memory haven't changed much."

On the road, when they met a huge hiker bear that walked upright like a human, with an expressionless face, everyone bowed to it, and the hiker responded with the same courtesy.

"Will it be delicious?" Gray looked at the back of the hiking bear and asked the chef on board.

Andrew shook his head, "I haven't done it, you can give it a try."

"You can't try this." Colin said, "The excursion bear is treated like a friend here."

"Colin, why did you join the pirates?" Bora looked at him and smiled, playing snowball fights while walking. The pirates, who couldn't calm down at all, didn't understand how the good kids in their eyes would join the pirates.

Even if you join, why not join a smarter one.

"It's a coincidence." Colin didn't want to tell what happened to him, he asked, "Where is Doctor Doriel now?"

"Ah, talking about her." Borah hesitated, "She should be chasing and killing Xiruluke."

"Hishiruluk?"

Colin stared wide-eyed when a name that he thought was dead was mentioned, "He, is he not dead?"

Shiruluk, who was judged to be terminally ill at the time, should have died long ago.

"What did he die?"

Borah sighed, "He was alone when he came back. Kureha asked where you were, but he didn't say anything. Everyone thought you were dead outside. Kureha didn't accept this. Seeing Shiruluk was not pleasing to the eye, so he often hunted him down."

"That's it." Colin didn't know whether to be happy or sad. He was happy that Hiruluk was not dead, but sad that Doctor Doriel had always believed that he was still alive.

"Woo!" Gray was hit in the face by a large ball of snowballs, and fell into the snow without standing still.

Ace laughed, and the culprit, Oden, raised his arms and cheered.

"Captain, here you are." Teuton moved a snowball bigger than a person, and handed it to Gray with a simple and honest smile.

Gray took it, and when Oden hid behind Whitebeard, he slammed the snowball out.

The oncoming snowball was quite intimidating. Whitebeard reached out and smashed the snowball from the middle with a punch.

His move immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of others.

"Newgate, snowball fights are about enjoying the snowball hitting your face, not smashing it like you did."

Gray made excuses for being hit by a snowball just now.

Bud also cooperated with the education: "Look at the captain, he doesn't hide at all. You have to use a snowball to counterattack after being hit. It is a foul to smash it. Yellow card warning!"

Whitebeard looked at his fist, nodded, and learned the lesson seriously, "Sorry, I haven't played this before."

As soon as he finished speaking, he received two snowballs on his face.

"Oden, another point for the captain!"

"Yeah! I'm the king of snowball fights." Oden was already playing like crazy.

"Ah." Lu Jiu was hit on the back of the head by a snowball. Because of the thick hood, she didn't feel the pain, but was taken aback.

"Sorry, sorry~ I wanted to hit Ace." Gray threw a snowball and smiled provocatively.

"Daddy, let's form a team." Ace's eyes were burning with fire, "I won't turn a blind eye to being provoked like this."

"Ah, I didn't understand the rules before." Whitebeard also became serious, "I won't lose again."

The snow on Drum Island was so thick that it barely reached the knees and it was tough to run - for some guys in the normal size range.

Gray casually picked up the snowball provided by the crew, not afraid at all, "You guys, even if you go together, you still can't beat me!"

After uttering these bold words, he suddenly jumped forward after taking two steps, and fell face-down into the snow.

The noisy team fell into silence, and after a while, everyone sighed in unison.

"Hahaha, it's very interesting." Colin pointed to Gray who was lying on the snow and said with a smile: "That's our captain. He should feel ashamed now and plan to calm down before coming out."

Uncle Bora's expression was indescribable, "Colin, you are quite smart."

After so many years of traveling, how did he find such a captain?

Colin didn't understand the meaning of Bora's words, "I want to go home and see Doctor Doriel first."

"Well, I should go and see first, even if she is inside, I can't guarantee it."

"Wahhahaha, just now~ I seem to have seen beautiful flower fields and beautiful rivers that don't exist in this world." Gray got up from the heavy snow, pretending to be natural and sharing what he saw and heard with everyone.

"That kind of world doesn't exist at all."

"Captain, don't make excuses for your behavior."

Everyone expressed their disbelief.

After saying goodbye to the reluctant Borah people, Colin led them to a remote high slope.

"Doctor Doriel has a weird personality, and she doesn't like living in the village with everyone." Colin explained: "She is a very individual doctor."

The temperature is lower, the wind and snow are getting heavier, and the field of vision is full of white storms.

"No one is here." Gray scanned it with knowledge.

"Well, let's wait for a while." Colin took the key from the door frame with ease, and led everyone into the living room, "I used to live here."

"Oh, that looks really good."

"There are medical books everywhere, have you read all of these?"

"Yeah, not only did I look at it, but I also recited it." Colin looked at the familiar layout and decorations, "It hasn't changed at all after so many years."