One Piece: The Eternal Flame

When Ace and the others arrived at Murloc Island, the Rocks Pirates had fled to the New World.

The navy didn't leave, and was busy helping the residents of Fishman Island rebuild their homes.

They avoided the navy and came directly to the Dragon King's Palace. After expressing their apologies to King Triton, they handed over all the gold treasures they were carrying to each other.

Triton had no intention of blaming them for being late.

On the contrary, the other party's ability to come has already done their best.

"By the way, you should know the members of the Roger Pirates." Triton asked suddenly.

"Ah? What happened to them?" Ace was taken aback.

He didn't know what Triton meant when he suddenly mentioned Roger. Could it be that the other party was also on Murloc Island?

Triton continued: "This time, without them, the situation in Fishman Island would have been even more critical. They have guarded the flag on the square and are recuperating in the palace."

"Did they hold the flag of Black Fireworks?"

Ace looked at Roger who was sleeping soundly on the bed with extremely complicated eyes.

The opponent was naked to the waist, with bandages on his chest and arms, and several bruises on his face. It looked like he had been beaten badly.

"Well, the food on Fishman Island is really delicious."

Ace closed his eyes, the chewing sound getting louder and louder in his ears.

He growled angrily: "Hey! What are you doing here as a navy!"

"Lazy."

Capri smiled confidently, and took out a senbei from the big package in his hand, "Come here, try the specialties of Chambord, it's super popular~"

"Tsk, didn't you just say that the food in Murloc Island is delicious." Ace snatched the senbei and took a bite angrily.

Garp laughed and said, "Hahaha, but if you want to recommend snacks, senbei is really better."

He fished out of the big package again, and took out a bag of well-packed senbei.

"Hey, don't steal this bag."

"Give it to me, why don't you let me eat it?"

"Because it's for Gray."

Garp pointed at the senbei, his eyes narrowed into a smile, "I gave it to him once before, but it expired, and I always wanted to give him another one."

"Yes, it's overdue. This is really a stupid thing you can do." Esther looked at the expiration date deliberately, and calculated the time, it should be enough for Gray to eat.

"But why didn't Gray come?" Garp became dissatisfied, "Just the three of you, it's useless."

"Ha, what do you mean we are useless!" Ace directly fought Garp angrily.

The movement of the two disturbed the sleeping Roger, who got up from the bed in a daze, and immediately became angry after seeing the situation clearly.

"Okay, Garp, you dare to hit Ace, pretending that I don't exist!"

"Roger! What's the matter with you?"

"Damn Roger, you don't need to intervene!"

"It's so noisy." Raleigh slammed on the door and shouted at them, "Bring the navy here and see how you end up."

"Hahaha, it's all right, it seems they are very busy." Triton smiled good-naturedly, "In short, the red history text has been taken away by Lockes, and only the black one remains."

"Well, we'll get it back from Rocks." Reilly lit a cigarette, and the painful muscles at the corner of his mouth twitched.

And at this moment, a navy rushed over in a hurry, and when he saw the two men, he asked aggressively, "Where is Garp!"

"never seen it."

At the same time that Lei Li replied bluntly, the door behind him was knocked open with a bang, and the three men rolled into a ball and rolled out from inside.

"Okay, Cap is here." Reilly sighed.

"Cap!"

Zefa's eyes were red, holding a new newspaper in his hand, he shouted in a low voice: "Grey has an accident!"

God knows how Zefa kept his sense and ran over. When he saw this newspaper, he was completely dumbfounded.

He stood in the camp temporarily used by the navy to receive information from the outside world, staring stiffly at the photos in the newspaper, feeling an inexplicable sense of fear welling up in his heart.

He desperately needs others to deny what he sees.

When he grabbed his collar and asked all the navies around him, he realized that the newspaper really seemed to be reporting a real news this time.

Before Karp could react, Ace, who was holding his collar, let go of his hand first, and hurriedly ran to Zefa to grab the newspaper. During the period, he was almost tripped by the flat ground because of his haste.

"What, what?"

In the photos published in the newspaper, the blood on the blade was an eyesore.

Ace's hands trembled violently, his words trembled, and he stammered, "This, this seems to be fake."

An ominous premonition was experienced before leaving.

Ace swallowed subconsciously, his Adam's apple slipped, and it took him a long time to find his voice, "Aren't the news all fake?"

As he said this, his eyes were very wet, water slid across his cheeks, and dripped onto the newspaper, blurring dark spots.

Karp also reacted after knocking his head, but he still said optimistically: "It must be like last time, it's signed in the newspaper, he always likes to make jokes like this."

"No signature." Zefa's voice was very dry, "Karp, the joke he made this time is a bit too much."

"Ahaha" Garp wanted to smile as usual, but he didn't know that the arc of the corner of his mouth was uglier than crying this time.

Roger's heart skipped a beat. If something happened to Gray, what about Lu Jiu?

What will happen to Lujiu who sailed with Gray and the others?
"No! Gray won't die." Ace said suddenly and firmly: "He will definitely not die, he promised that he would not let Lu Jiu lose a hair!"

Gray has always kept his word. Since Lu Jiu is fine, then Gray must be fine. He just has his own plan, so that's all he needs.

"Rayleigh, let's set sail as soon as possible!" Roger lowered his hat, "Go to the new world and find Lujiu and the others!"

"They disappeared in the final island." Raleigh reminded.

"Then look for it! The text of the history is in Lockes, then go beat him up!" Roger roared, "Anyway, they'll be fine!"

"Ace." The white beard walked over with Oden who was crying, and handed over an envelope, "Before departure, Captain Gray gave it to me."

"give me!"

Zefa immediately wanted to snatch it, but Whitebeard quickly took the letter back, frowning: "Navy, this is from Gray to Ace. I don't know what the relationship between you is, but Captain Gray probably doesn't like you doing this."

"Damn it." Zefa cursed, his eyes were fierce as if he wanted to kill Whitebeard immediately, but his body was frozen in place by the other's words.

Yes, Gray would definitely be upset if he knew.

Ace took out the letter in front of everyone's eyes, and there was an active life card inside after unfolding it.

The letter was short and written casually, very much like Gray's character.

【Hey, Lu Jiu's life card is in there, you can find her through this; besides, hahaha, I can only say that it's nothing more than three Ace about cheating you. 】

Nothing but three.

It's nothing more than three!

"What do you mean? What does he want to express?" Karp asked eagerly.

"He often said that after he lied to others." Zefa clenched his fists, remembering that he was fooled by this word several times back then.

"Did Gray say anything important to you at the end?" Garp looked at Ace and encouraged him, "Hey! Brat, cheer me up, now is not the time for you to cry alone!"

"Woo" Ace gritted his teeth and wiped away his tears, "He said. He told me: I will not die, Ace."

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The newspaper was only delivered to Murloc Island in the evening.

At this time, the sun had already set, and Yangshu Eve could no longer transmit light to Fishman Island.

Fishman Island didn't calm down just yet. Lights lit up outside the building, and everyone was rebuilding their homes with enthusiasm and hope.

They should have been desperate, but when they cried and asked the king if our country was destroyed, the king answered like this.

Triton asked back, "Who am I?"

"You are the king"

"I am the king, I am still alive, and you are still alive, so our country will not perish!"

They are following the king, and the king has not given up, and is sharing weal and woe with them, how could they give up their homeland.

The brightness outside the window makes the room even darker, only a small area by the window is shrouded in light.

The light hit the office desk, turning the newspaper pale.

The steel bone was sitting in front of the table, looking at the newspaper with both eyes intently, with his hands crossed on the table, his finger bones turned white due to the force.

Because of the position, half of his body was swallowed by the darkness, and the other half was covered by the light from the window, and he could clearly see the pain hidden in his tight lips and eyes.

It was very noisy outside, but nothing could cover the dead silence and pain in his heart.

Most people in Fishman Island didn't know the news yet, and there was a fierce quarrel in the square.

"So what if we have this flag? So what if we don't have it? Even if we accept the protection of the pirates, they won't be able to protect us!"

"That's right, why are you still keeping this flag! Just break it, and our Murloc Island will be at odds with humans from now on!"

"No! Don't you forget that this flag really brought us a good life before!"

"The Rocks Pirates destroyed our Murloc Island like this because of this flag. It is the culprit! The pirate behind it is the culprit!"

There was no wind around, and the flag hung there quietly, only a little white could be caught from the overlapping black.

It just stood there like that, ignoring the abuse, insults, maintenance and pain around it, like a god living in the clouds, there was nothing worthy of its care, and nothing it wanted to care about.

The surrounding navies looked at each other and didn't know how to deal with this situation. Logically speaking, they don't need to care about the island occupied by pirates.

Are murlocs worthy of human attention?They are of different races, and it is the best effort of many navies to not show contempt.

"I want it! I want to tear it down, we Murloc Island doesn't need this flag!" shouted one person and rushed to the flag, reaching out to pull the pole off.

Immediately afterwards, a murloc child rushed over and pushed him to the ground, stretching out his hands to firmly protect the flag behind him, "Don't touch it!"

Tiger glared at the man angrily, "We can't deny everyone just because of this injury! There are still people who are willing to help us on Murloc Island!"

"Don't be so naive, boy!" The man grabbed Tiger's collar angrily, and clenched his other hand into a fist, trying to beat the child up.

But when he saw the scars on Tiger's face, he swore and threw the child aside.

"Look clearly, no matter how much we quarreled, no one stopped me." He said to the child, "Do you know why? Because everyone's heart is shaking!"

'唰' The flagpole that was deeply inserted into the soil was pulled out, and the flag stretched out due to the skew of the pole, and it was thrown to the ground mercilessly the next moment.

The pirates who arrived late happened to see this last scene.

"Hey - what are you doing!"

"Oda!"

Whitebeard stopped Ace, but forgot that there was another Mitian beside him.

Oden couldn't understand why these people would do this, vent their anger on a banner, complain about their inability to protect themselves, why would there be such a person in the world?
Confused by his anger, he drew out his two knives and rushed towards the man.

The powerful aura came at him quickly, and the man had no time to dodge, he could only watch helplessly as the sharp knife light hit him.

A white figure stood in front of him, and when Sengoku received the blow, he slapped Oden Maedong's body back.

Whitebeard caught Oden with one hand, and pressed his other hand firmly on Ace's shoulder, "Ace, Oden, calm down."

"But they took the flag!"

"I don't have the ability to resist, so venting my anger on innocent people is the norm in the world." White Beard sighed.

Warring States withdrew his hand, and the cloak hung down behind his back.

He looked at Karp and Zefa on the opposite side with his eyes, and said sharply: "Karp, Zefa, you are standing in the wrong position!"

Standing with pirates, if they are noticed by caring people, they will definitely not have good results.

"Go." Garp looked at Zefa, whose eyes were fixed on the pirate flag soaked in sewage on the ground, and he was about to go up and pick it up.

Garp gritted his teeth and pulled Zefa away.

"Before Gray's incident is over, don't have any contact with the remaining pirates of Black Firework." Warring States whispered to the two: "For your own good, and for Gray's sake."

"Father, let me go." Ace gritted his teeth, broke away from Whitebeard's hand, and quickly walked a few steps to pick up the flag, "I understand Murloc Island. But Gray, I'm for you"

He squatted on the ground holding the flag, buried his face deeply in the flag, and shrugged his shoulders.

"Listen, Ace."

Roger half-kneeled beside Ace, put his hand on Ace's shoulder, and said softly: "It's okay to cry, the important thing is to get over the past, life is to go through these, victory and defeat, fleeing in a hurry and crying bitterly, a man can truly grow up."

"Hey, Baiji. So on the Flame Island, is Gray trying to drive us away?" Oden's body was still in pain where he was hit by Sengoku.

He looked at White Beard, "He already knew he would die, so he wants to drive us away?"