One Piece: The Eternal Flame

My name is Shanks, and I am a pirate. Have you heard of the Roger Pirates?I am the trainee crew member above, and I believe that in a few years, I will definitely become a full-time member!
Today the Ole Jackson got into a super~ super storm, and it blew away my mate, um...his name is Bucky, and he's a cadet on the ship like me.

I was standing next to the guy when he was blown away, and he grabbed the collar and blown away too.

So it's a crisis situation, and while I'm a good swimmer, Bucky's a landlubber—he's always saying I made him a landlubber.

That's weird, I obviously didn't do anything.

I've been at sea for two days, holding a plank and holding Bucky with the other hand.

Now finally, a small island appeared on the distant sea.

"Hey! Bucky, did you see it?" Shanks excitedly said, "There is a small island, we will be saved soon!"

What responded to him was another blue-haired red-nosed child with his head lying on the wooden board and his tongue hanging weakly, "My uncle is going to die. My uncle is going to die. Shanks, my uncle is going to die."

"I won't die!" Shanks smiled, although he was also in a mess, he was still optimistic and positive.

"We'll be swimming right away."

In fact, he was also starving to death, soaking in the sea for two days, even a non-capable person felt uncomfortable.

By the time Bucky was finally dragged ashore, Shanks was exhausted.

He closed his eyes tiredly, and murmured a second before fainting: "I'm so hungry."

"Shanks, my lord" Bucky stared in confusion, his eyes were blurred, and he vaguely saw a bright golden light.

"My uncle saw the gold."

When they opened their eyes again, the two of them had already been sent to the hospital in the port town.

Shanks woke up earlier, and while drinking milk, Bucky sat up suddenly from the bed.

"Gold! Uncle Ben's gold!" Bucky's head was shaking like a rattle, and when he didn't see it, he rushed out of the bed and slapped it on the table in front of Shanks.

"Shanks! Something is wrong."

Bucky's solemn tone made Shanks feel that he was going to be serious.

Shanks swallowed the milk, "What's wrong Bucky?"

"Uncle Ben's. No, our gold was stolen!"

"what?"

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"The one who saved you?" The doctor rubbed his chin and thought for a while, "It should be drinking in a pub, either a pub or a restaurant, and I don't know where the money came from. Uh, where are you going? You can't do strenuous activities yet!"

"Hey Bucky, there's no need to run so fast, right?" Shanks rushed out of the hospital after Bucky.

In fact, he didn't even figure out why Bucky was in such a hurry, talking about the gold being stolen, he went to ask the doctor who saved them.

"Shanks, I saw the gold before I passed out, and now the gold is gone, that guy definitely stole it!" Bucky ran ahead - Shanks swore, Bucky had never run so fast before.

I broke into several pubs and restaurants in a row, but found nothing.

Two guys in capes.

Shanks felt tired, but Bucky rushed to the next tavern in high spirits.

"Ah! It's you!" The blue-haired and red-nosed child pointed at the two people in the corner of the tavern. They were dressed mysteriously, exactly as the doctor had described.

His voice was so loud that it drowned out the noise of the tavern.

The drunken people looked at the kid in front of the salon and couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, kid, you're too young to go home and breastfeed. You can't come to this kind of place."

"Hahaha, just learn how to drink like others when you are young."

"What's the matter with your red nose, clown?"

The words spoken by one person deeply pierced the place that Bucky cared about the most in his heart. He ran up to the man with his eyes wide open, stretched out his foot and kicked the other man's face while shouting angrily: "Who are you calling a red nose! Damn it!"

"Hey, Bucky!" Shanks ran in, but what he saw was that Bucky was pinched on the wine table by someone choking his neck, and the other hand of the man was a bright dagger.

Shanks will not let his companion get hurt, "Let him go!"

He drew his katana from his waist—a trophy he had captured from other pirates, it was the first time he had defeated an opponent alone.

"What are you brats, are you allowed to have companions?" All the spectators stood up.

Obviously, except for the two of them in this tavern, everyone around is this man's companion.
No, there may be exceptions.

The two people in the corner, wearing cloaks that covered their faces tightly, were still drinking wine as if nothing had happened.

Those two were what they were looking for.

Shanks swallowed his saliva, since he could save the two of them, it meant that he wouldn't die without help.

No!Shanks didn't want to risk his and his companion's life to others.

He swung the sword with both hands, accurately bounced the bullets that were aimed at him, and then when he was about to turn back to block the attack of the other after cutting down an opponent, a hand that flew away from the wrist stabbed the short dagger into the arm of that person.

"Tch, it was going to pierce the heart." Bucky muttered dissatisfiedly, and kicked the man who held him down.

"Shanks, don't forget that I am a capable person." Bucky held several daggers in both hands, quite proud.

In normal combat situations, he is very happy that he has the shattered fruit, but in normal times, he hates that he has become a landlubber.

After all, most of the treasures are in the sunken ships, and the sunken ships are all in the sea!
The two leaned their backs together, and quickly knocked down all the people in the tavern.

The tables and chairs were tilted, and the wine splashed everywhere. Shanks wiped his sweat, and just wanted to tell Bucky that the cooperation just now was a tacit understanding, but when he turned his head to look over, he found that the other party had already walked towards the corner of the tavern angrily.

The farce just now didn't affect the mood over there at all, even that corner was clean, as if it was divided into two worlds from here.

"Hello!" Bucky slapped the table with his heart inflated by the victory just now, in a state of self-confidence that he thought he was invincible.

He shouted: "You two, hurry up and hand over the gold to me! Otherwise, I will let you fall here like these people!"

"Hey Bucky, they saved us." Shanks also ran over, his innate beast instinct told him that these two people were dangerous, and just getting close made his hair stand on end.

Facing the two children, one of them lowered his head slightly, but the light in the corner was too dark, and he was wearing a cloak, so he couldn't see his face at all.

"Gold?" The voice under the cloak was unexpectedly young.

Shanks noticed that the two hands holding the wine glass were very young, with slender fingers, and obvious calluses on the tiger's mouth, thumb, etc., which were the marks left by holding a sword.

Bucky nodded, and continued: "I saw it before I fell into a coma! The bright gold is either gold or gems! It belongs to me. Even if you save me, you must return the treasure to us first!"

"Oh, that's it, you lost your treasure?" The other party suddenly let go of the hand holding the wine glass and stretched it to his waist.

Shanks held his sword hilt nervously, is it... going to draw his sword?

He slowly took out a bag of heavy things, and the man asked, "Is it this?"

The seal of the bag was not tightly sealed, and several beautiful gemstones rolled out of it, dazzling and dazzling, and they were valuable items that could sparkle without needing light.

Bucky glanced at it, and couldn't pull out his eyes, so many!So much treasure! ! !

"Hahaha, it seems that you like it very much." The man's voice was filled with a deeper smile.

He put his elbows on the table, and discussed with Bucky with his face on his face: "How about it? I still have a lot here, but if you want... just make a deal with me?"

Bucky was moved, but he still asked first: "What deal? I have to know before I can decide."

"Hmm~ It's okay to tell you, I've taken a fancy to the kid next to you, give him to me, how about you just take this bag of gems?"

"Huh?" Shanks looked at the other party pointing at himself, a little dumbfounded, "You, what are you talking about?"

He didn't expect to involve himself.

Bucky didn't expect that either, he looked at Shanks, then at the man, and made the final decision, "No, how can I let my uncle betray his companion with a bag of gems!"

Shanks was overwhelmed, "Bah"

"Unless ten bags!"

"Hey?"

"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha, ten bags? Although you are very greedy, you are not annoying to be outright greedy." The man seemed to have brought a lot of money, and he took out one, two, three bags from his cloak.
Finally came the ninth bag.

He looked up at the cloak opposite, and stretched out his hand, "I'm out of money, Al."

"Please." The man called Al tapped the table lightly, and Shanks saw that he was wearing an ordinary golden ring on his left hand.

"please."

The last bag of money was also taken out.

The man even sponsored Bucky for a bigger bag to hold ten bags of treasure in one.

Bucky didn't expect that the other party really had so much money, so he froze in place holding the money bag for a while.

Shanks blinked, suddenly realizing something was wrong.

Ah. It seems that the other party gave the money, and he was sold!
"Wuah—" The body suddenly flew into the air, and Shanks was shocked to find that he was carried by someone's arms, "Hey, hey, I haven't agreed yet!"

"Hey, isn't it already sold?" The man and his companion stood up, threw the wine money and maintenance fee to the tavern owner who was hiding aside, and then walked to the street.

Shanks collapsed and found that his resistance was completely useless, he couldn't break free at all, this man was stronger than all the opponents he had encountered before.

"Let go of Shanks! We are apprentice crew members of the Roger Pirates!" Bucky ran out of the tavern, wanting both money and people.

But his strength was too low, and Shanks watched Bucky being kicked away.

"Hey, Bucky! Go find Captain Roger, I'm fine!" Shanks didn't want Bucky to die for himself. Anyway, now it seems that the other party should have no malicious intentions, and he knew that he would pay the same price.
Uh, no, is he really worth that much money?

The red-haired kid, who has not yet offered a reward, is deeply in self-doubt.

Ah, if these two guys find out that they have misunderstood, will they kill him directly?

"Red-nosed kid." The man carrying Shanks said to Bucky: "Well, we are leaving this island soon. If you think it through, you can come to the port to find us~ Return the treasure and exchange it for your companion."

"Boring." Another commented in a low voice.

"If you're bored, go to the next island right away. This island is really boring." The man smiled.

"Idiot, what he said is that you are boring, not this island." Shanks tried to give himself a chance to break free by provoking the other party.

However, the opponent did not follow the routine at all.

The man was surprised, as if he just wanted to understand the meaning.

"Yes, I'm bored? Isn't it this island?" His tone was full of disbelief, even trembling slightly, "Is it because of me?"

"Tsk, it's because of this island, okay?"

"Sure enough, this kid really knows how to joke."

"Idiot." Shanks puffed up his face, so that he had no chance of escaping.

Damn Bucky, he won't run away with the treasure, will he?
No, no, he must trust his companions.

Shanks was carried by men all the way to the boat in the port, and then he was released unexpectedly.

He immediately reacted and wanted to jump off the boat, but as soon as he turned around, something shook his eyes.

It was a shattered piece of iron, shining with a cold light, slowly reversing Shanks' steps.

"Welcome, what's your name?" The man took off his hood and revealed himself.

Black hair and black eyes, is a young and handsome face.

Shanks felt as if he had seen it somewhere, but he had forgotten it and couldn't remember it at all.

He looked at the two of them vigilantly, his lips were tightly pressed, and the sword in his hand was aimed at the man.

The man tilted his head, pointed at himself and smiled, "My name is Reg, and this is Al. Hahaha, don't be so nervous. Captain Roger and I are old acquaintances."

"You know Captain Roger?" Shanks was stunned for a moment, "but I haven't heard the captain mention you, and I've never seen you!"

"Relax, don't be so nervous." Reg looked at the person next to him, and suddenly reached out and took off the other person's hood, "Don't wear it too, just relax when you get on the boat."

"Uh." Al raised his hand, but he was still a step behind Reg.

The hood fell down, the white hair fell down, the golden eyes reflected the sun, Shanks opened his eyes wide, and it was the first time he saw a person with a real glow all over his body.

Ah. The gold that Bucky mentioned could not be this person's eyes, right?
"It's very impolite to stare at other people's treasures, kid." Reg poked Shanks' forehead, "Ah, your little companion is here."

"Bucky!" Shanks looked at Bucky who was running over, and waved excitedly.

Along the way, Bucky, who made up the picture of Shanks being beaten badly, paused, and suddenly didn't really want to hand over the treasure.

Of course, he was not because of Shanks, but because he was afraid that it would be difficult to find Captain Roger.

"Hey! Take your money, woo, take it back! Give Shanks back!"

"Pfft, I think he's about to cry." Reg sighed, "What can I do~"