One Piece: The Eternal Flame

On the boundless sea, a pitch-black two-masted sailing ship is galloping towards a place at an extremely fast speed, ignoring the current and wind direction.

The sea water on both sides broken by the bow set off huge waves, and the deck wood near the side of the ship was fainted into a dark color.

In the captain's cabin, Gray sat cross-legged on the ground, lowered his head and blew off the gold powder in his hands, "Phew, that's it."

He held forward a polished ring.

Opposite him, Alfred crossed his arms and didn't intend to take it. He just raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where are the carvings?"

"Vulture" Gray remembered what he had said so brazenly, and lacked confidence, he muttered, "Why are you wearing a carved ring?"

At that time, the solid gold ring was gone, and he had promised Alfred to make a new ring.

Gray did what he said. Recently, he has been studying how to make a ring in the captain's cabin. Fortunately, he is fire and can melt gold very conveniently.

But carving. It's a bit too difficult. He tried several times but failed. In the end, he had no choice but to return to the original and grind a ring without decoration.

"Put it on first, hurry up." Gray couldn't wait to take Alfred's hand, "Do you want to wear the left hand and the right hand?"

"...the left hand." Alfred stared at the ring with golden eyes, and said firmly: "It's still okay after a rough look."

"Tch, it's not bad to look carefully, okay, I don't want to see who made it."

Gray felt complacent, and added: "If you lose it again, I won't guarantee compensation."

"Ah."

"But don't worry too much, because I won't lose you again."

Gray didn't want to see Alfred lying lifeless on the bed again, he worked so hard to become stronger, not to see this.

"It's the most embarrassing thing for a pirate to lose his treasure. Everyone on board can rely on me to do his best. Fred, you can do the same."

"." Alfred curled his right hand on his lap, "I..." he hesitated, with a strange sense of fear, "Grey, something is wrong with me recently."

-

"Pulitzer says the Pirates of Oz are on this island."

Perry faced the direction of the island, lit the lighter and lit a cigarette, "It turned out to be the island of flames."

As the name suggests, Flame Island is full of flames and volcanic magma that is about to erupt and is erupting. There are many and deep cracks on the ground, and red magma flows slowly in it.

"Why?" Alder complained, "It's such a hot island, I really don't want to go up to find someone."

"Stop complaining, Ace is already off the boat and ready."

"Ha, this kid, what about the captain?"

Said that the captain arrived, Gray opened the cabin door, glanced around, and shouted to Whitebeard: "Newgate, come here."

White Beard froze for a moment, stopped walking towards the boat, and didn't ask any extra words.

"Perry, Lu Jiu, you come too."

The deputy captain stifled his own cigarette, and sighed slightly in his heart, thinking it was troublesome again.

"The rest of the people go find the Oz Pirates."

After speaking, Gray returned to the captain's cabin, and after the three entered, he closed the door.

"What happened? Captain Gray." Lu Jiu spoke first, she could understand Gray calling Whitebeard, Perry, or Alfred who had been in the captain's cabin long ago.

But she didn't understand why Gray called her.

-

"Captain! Captain Oz! Black, black fireworks are coming to this island!" The pirate in charge of guarding and warning took down his binoculars and ran to a flat ground where the Oz pirates gathered in horror.

Little Oz was tall and burly, with huge and thick horns on his head, and cold fangs protruding from both sides of his mouth, making the crew members particularly petite in comparison.

"Black fireworks? Are you sure you read it right?" Everyone giggled and didn't take the words of guarding against pirates seriously.

"How could that kind of pirate group come here?"

"It's only us who will come hahahaha, for the magma barbecue!"

The Oz Pirates came to Flame Island not to hunt down enemies or occupy the island, but to compare the difference between charcoal barbecue and magma barbecue.

Their captain heard that magma barbecue was delicious on Shangzuo Island, so they set sail here to satisfy the captain's curiosity.

"Speaking of the captain, is the meat roasted by magma really delicious?"

Little Ozzy shook his head, nodded again, and said with a simple smile, "There is no difference, but it tastes especially delicious when I'm with you."

"Oh~ It's rare for the captain to say such a thing."

"Hahahaha, no matter how hot it is, it's worth it."

"I said, the black fireworks are really coming!!" The pirate in charge of guard jumped angrily, "Even if I'm joking, I don't need to make such a big joke."

The joyful atmosphere suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at the angry pirate, and after a while, one of them said, "It seems to be the same."

"In other words, Black Fireworks has really come to this island."

That's too bad.

Almost instantly, after knowing that this incident was not a joke, such a thought suddenly arose in everyone's mind.

One of them lay down on the spot, "Forget it, I'll just pretend!"

As soon as his back touched the ground, he screamed and jumped up. The fire behind his back was burning, and it was finally put out by others.

"It's so hot, damn it, can't you even pretend to be dead?"

"Don't be so cowardly, Carol!"

"That's right, anyway, we are also pirates of the new world!"

"Can the pirates of the new world be the same as the overlords of the new world?" Carol muttered, "I really don't want to see them."

"It doesn't matter!" Little Ozzy stood up holding the weapon, and said to everyone very reliably: "Even if it is a black firework, it is impossible to hurt my companion."

Ace, who was walking over, heard this and immediately said, "We didn't mean to hurt you either."

"Who would believe it? None of the pirates' words are credible!" A member of the Oz Pirates retorted, and then realized that the subject of the words just now seemed to be wrong.

When I looked back, I found that my companions all looked like they were facing an enemy, and they all looked at the outsiders who came here.

Ace raised his hands and smiled brightly and harmlessly, "Well, if you want to eat barbecue, would you like to come with us?"

"Huh, he wants to make us a barbecue?"

"Idiot, he clearly said that he wants to become a barbecue with us."

The members of the Oz Pirates were whispering, but the volume could be heard clearly by everyone present.

Ace has gotten along with the Oz Pirates before, and knows that they are usually so off-line and open-minded.

So he explained more seriously: "I mean, should we make friends? I came to you this time because of a guy named Carol in your pirate group."

In the crowd, a man silently moved aside, trying to block himself with Captain Oz's body.

But after Ace finished speaking, everyone subconsciously cast their eyes on Carol.

Latin rolled his eyes. I haven't seen him for so many years. That guy Carol still likes to escape from reality as always.

"What do you want with Carol?" Little Ozzy asked.

"We know that he is the ability user of the fruit of the door, and we want him to connect to the fish-man island." Ace explained: "We have something urgent to go there."

"reason."

"The Fishman Island is our territory, and it has been violated."

"...you can ask Carol. If he agrees, we have no objection." Little Oz handed over the decision to Carol.

The latter grimaced, walked out of the crowd reluctantly, and muttered, "Long time no see, Latin."

"You speak so softly, who can hear you." Latin frowned, "If you are a man, speak up."

"Long time no see, Latin!" Carol blushed, and was immediately provoked by the aggressive method.

"Why do you know each other?" The rest of the Oz Pirates asked in unison.

Latin snorted coldly, "I advise you to agree to it, otherwise people will tell you what happened to you back then~"

"Damn it. You guys are really deceiving people too much!" Carol said angrily.

"Oh, back then, Carol was still a teenager"

"Stop, stop, stop! I promise, I promise, please stop talking."

Carol was controlled by the handle in Latin's mouth. It was hard for him to get out of the shadow of "the girl he has a crush on is a man, and she is bigger than anyone else". Don't fall into it again.

"Carol, if you have any clues, you can tell us and we can solve it together, don't be blackmailed by them." Little Ozzy said seriously.

Carol was so moved that she almost cried, but this handle
"Captain, it's okay. We knew each other before, so it's okay. Even if I don't have this reason, I will help them."

"Carol, you are so touching~" Latin wiped away the non-existent tears in the corners of his eyes.

Seeing that Carol agreed, Little Ozzy thought for a while and said, "We will go to Carol with you too, so even if they have other goals, we can leave together."

"Woo~ Captain!!!" Carol hugged one of Little Ozzy's legs, because the latter's leg was too thick, he could only hug half of it.

"It's not too late, let's go back to Gray and the others now." Ace was always worried about Murloc Island, and it took them three days to come to Flame Island.

I don't know what the fishman island will look like in these three days.

"There's no need to look for it." Whitebeard walked over from Yunqie alone, "Ace, Mitian, and Captain Gray said that the three of us are enough for this trip to Fishman Island."

"Huh?" Ace froze.

"Why?" Mita frowned, "Is there something wrong with Lei Guitar?"

"We split up into two groups." White Beard said, "Leave the Fishman Island to us, and Lu Jiu, Captain Gray will borrow Lu Jiu for a while, and will send her back intact."

"But." Ace wanted to say something, "Uh, I'd better find Gray, that would be better."

It's not that he doesn't believe his father, it's just that this incident happened suddenly.

It doesn't take much time to go to Fishman Island through Menmenguo, and even if you don't go, it's good to come here and talk to them in person.

"Ace." Whitebeard grabbed Ace's shoulder, preventing him from leaving.

"Well, Ace, the captain always has his own considerations." Colin said gently, "He must have thought it through for such a big matter as the Fishman Island before letting the three of you go."

"But he doesn't consider my feelings with Oden now!" Ace said louder, "Even if he doesn't go, he can always come!"

"Your godson is angry." Alfred looked at Gray.

"Pfft..." Lu Jiu couldn't help laughing out loud. Although Ace really looked like a child who hadn't grown up, being treated as a godson by Gray at the same age was ridiculous.

After all, Captain Gray sometimes has an IQ of only a few years old.

The corner of Gray's mouth raised, triumphantly, "I can't help it, I'm just so important to Ace."

"Because you both want to be each other's father?" Perry complained sharply.

"That's better than if you want to be the old lady on the boat."

"Is that what I want to be? If you were not so naive, I wouldn't be reduced to this point."

During the quarrel, four people came here.

Yu Tian hurried over, aggrieved: "Reggie, are you really not going?"

Gray nodded, and asked back: "Why, can't you three still figure it out?"

"Of course not!" Oden immediately shook his head, "It's just the Rocks Pirates, I'm sure I can fight with Baiji and Ace, but, but why don't you go?"

"The soldiers are divided into two groups." Gray handed the package on his shoulders to Mi Tian, ​​"There are a lot of money in it, help me bring it to Murloc Island."

"Oh" Oden hugged the big package in despair, and really didn't want to be separated from Gray and the others.

Gray patted him on the head. After coaxing one child, there was another child waiting for him to comfort.

"So having two children is simply suffering." Gray whispered in Alfred's ear.

"If you have children, it's the children who suffer, not you." Alfred choked Gray's complaint back with a single sentence.

The latter rolled his jet-black eyes, and suddenly said viciously, "I'll teach you a lesson after I finish coaxing my son."

"Oh, then I'll really wait and see." Alfred didn't take Gray's threat to heart at all.

Coming a little further away with Ace, Gray casually found a rock and sat down, raised two fingers, "Time limit. Two questions.

"Why the three of us?" Ace asked straight to the point: "Me, Dad, Oden, why did you let the three of us go to Fishman Island together?"

This decision had to make Ace feel concerned, even if there was one more person among them, he wouldn't think so.

"Give you a chance to promote communication." Gray replied, "Don't you like these two people very much?"

"It has nothing to do with this, I think you have other purposes! You are lying to me."

"Huh? Why should I lie to you? You can't sell it for a good price, and I'm not short of money."

Gray sighed, "Ace, going to the Last Island and the Fishman Island are equally important things, but once I go to the Fishman Island, I'm doomed to be unable to leave for several days or even half a month. Time waits for no one."

"I believe that the three of you will be able to handle the matter of Murloc Island well, and when you handle it well, we will return from the island of the end. If you are worried about Lu Jiu, I guarantee that she will not have a single hair."

"I know, I'm not worried about her!" Ace interrupted Gray's words, solemnly said: "I was worried about you, Gray."