One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The companion who gets along day and night on the ship, who is a little silly and not very smart, is actually 70 years old, and even conquered the great route earlier than Roger.

Although it ended in failure in the end, it was also under the condition that Gray's death was confirmed. Now that Gray is still alive, even very young, this failure must be properly explained.

Usopp was still in a daze, with a blank expression on his face.

Nami remembered that she had beaten the opponent countless times, and wondered if she still had a way out.

Although Chopper had heard some stories from Colin, he never thought that the captain's legend could continue to the final island.

Sanji lit a cigarette, and it took several strokes of the lighter to light the fire. He took a deep breath, feeling the breath of tobacco filling his lungs.

The old man admired Black Yan Gray quite a bit, and there was a reward order for violating regulations and prohibitions posted in the collection room, but Sanji also thought that the other party was Black Yan Gray's grandson or something, but he didn't expect it to be himself.

Sauron maintained his expressionless face, but moved his gaze to the captain. After listening to Brook's story excitedly, the latter was sitting on the barrel, but now he was jumping up and down excitedly with his hands on the barrel.

He didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, or he did, but didn't want to say it.

Luffy is a very perceptive person, and he should have known from the very beginning that these two guys who suddenly appeared and joined readily were hiding secrets.

And in the kitchen, Ace was chatting with the two about some topics that were easy or not, serious or not serious.

"We left from Oden and met Tiki on an island."

Blackbeard Teach, of course, is his future name.

When I first met Tiqi, the other party was wearing worn-out patched clothes and a hat, and looked miserable after being bullied too much.

Suddenly he came out from the side, knelt on the ground and begged Whitebeard to take him in.

Ace and Whitebeard looked at each other at that time, he believed in his father and knew that his father would make the right choice.

Facing such a poor child who begged him bitterly, Whitebeard stared at him for a few seconds, then cut off Tiqi's head decisively with a knife from Yunqie's hand.

Although Whitebeard's dream is to start a family, no one on the sea will regard him as an innocent and kind person.

He is a pirate, and a great pirate who can stand on top of the world.

Many times what he reaches out to others is Cong Yunche instead of a warm and generous hand.

You tell a big pirate: This person will betray you in the future, send your son to the execution platform to bribe the navy, and finally cause half of your family to die on the battlefield.

What will the big pirate do?
He will stretch out his hand and say confidently: I will influence him with love, the future is the future, and the present is the present, and he will not hurt us now.

Isn’t this farting? Only the beautiful nun Carmelite from a long time ago would say something like “God hopes you can reconcile”.

However, in fact, this broad-minded nun is also a criminal orphan dealer, anonymized as "Mountain Man", who collects children everywhere and sells them to the CP organization.

"I'm not surprised by this." Gray said, "If it were me, I would do the same to someone who is destined to betray."

Immediately afterwards, he said again: "You just said that Momonosuke boarded Whitebeard's boat?"

"Well, what's the matter?" Ace nodded.

"That kid vomited dizzily when he first got on the boat. We all wanted to send him back, but he got better after that. He is quite adaptable, but he is a little timid."

"now what?"

Speaking of this, Ace showed a hesitant expression, "Now. How should I put it? Some time ago, it was very common for Momanosuke to take people to buy supplies, but when he came back, he was already a devil fruit capable user."

"Pink dragon?"

"How do you know? It's indeed a pink dragon." Ace spread his hands, half mocking and half helpless, "You know quite a lot, Black Flame Gray."

"My ability to gather intelligence is pretty good."

"Huh, what are you going to do now? Just follow my brother, eat the supplies on the ship for free, and do nothing?"

"???" Gray showed a puzzled expression, "What do you mean I eat supplies for nothing?"

"With your strength, it is easy to take a boatload of children to travel to the New World, but now my brother is still sailing step by step. How dare you say that you have fought seriously."

This point cannot be refuted. Gray, who has been fishing in troubled waters on the boat, feels that the old man Ace has become eloquent now, and he is almost going to convince him.

"As for why Alfred is so young, I know that even if I ask you will find a reason to fool you."

When his name was suddenly mentioned, Alfred nodded and admitted bluntly, "That's right."

"I just want to know, what exactly are you going to do next?"

"Since you asked sincerely, I will tell you with great mercy that we are going to find someone." Gray said, "Vegapunk is now working for the World Government."

"Are you going to Marie Gioia again?"

"What do you mean again? We don't go there very often. Besides, Vegapunk is in Marlin Fandor, so it's not Marie Gioia."

"I'll go with you." Ace said without thinking, "I always feel that if I don't go, I will miss something."

"Ha, come on, you're an old man now. An old man should sit on the side of a boat and catch a few small fish and read the newspaper with reading glasses instead of running around and pretending to be young."

There was a sound of punches and kicks in the kitchen as a heavy object fell to the ground.

Sanji was the first to open the kitchen door, cursing angrily, "Be gentle in other people's kitchens"

He was taken aback by the horror inside, "Forget it, you guys continue."

After finishing speaking, Sanji closed the door, and floated to Nami, who was in charge of the money like seaweed, and said in a sincere and rippling tone: "Nami-san~~The kitchen is probably going to be overhauled~~Can I have a refrigerator with five locks~~~"

"Five locks, you don't find it troublesome." Usopp said helplessly.

Luffy nodded vigorously to cooperate, but was kicked by Sanji to the side of the boat, and cursed viciously: "Who do you think it is because of!"

"No." Nami folded her arms and refused, "The funds on the boat are simply not enough, you should have stopped them just now."

"Why don't you stop it." Sauron broke through her, "You are afraid."

Nami was exposed, and she glared at Zoro angrily. In the past, she could certainly punch him, but now that she knows the identity and strength of the opponent, how can she treat Gray so rudely.

"Luffy, I'll take these two guys away." Ace dragged Gray to the deck outside, "We're leaving."

"No!" Luffy stood in front of Ace, "They are my crew, you can't take them away."

Luffy doesn't care what he used to do or how powerful he is. Once on his ship, he is his crew and companions. Anyone who wants to take them away is not allowed.

"Luffy, Brook told you who he is." Ace said helplessly.

"So what, if you want to take my companion away, even Uncle Ace will never do it."

Having a headache, Ace rubbed his forehead and said seriously: "I'm not trying to snatch him away, but I want to do something with him."

Luffy's expression relaxed a little now, but his brows were still frowning and his mouth was pouted.

"Well, Captain." Gray stood up and adjusted his clothes a little bit. Although the bag on his forehead was obvious, his body was probably messed up by the beating.

He smiled and said: "I know that the captain will not care about my past, but I really need to do some things of my own."

"." Luffy looked at him, "How long will it be?"

"It won't be long, at least before you break into the new world, we will definitely meet again."

"Well, if it's something you think you have to do, then go ahead and come back alive." Luffy laughed and didn't bother to ask what they wanted to do.

If it is said that they are going to the world government, these immature children will definitely drop their jaws in shock.

-

Time is enough to change a lot. For example, Zefa Black Arm, the former admiral of the navy, and Zefa Black Arm, the current chief instructor of the Naval Academy, were attacked by pirates when they led the training ship out to fight seven years ago.

All but two of the beloved students were killed and his right arm was badly injured.

Two years ago, scientists transformed the right arm into a mechanical arm "crusher" equipped with sea stones, and soon after, a "pirate guerrilla team" was formed to deal with pirates.

He still belongs to the navy, and because the nearest position is in the first half of the first half of the great route, he was sent to Alabasta to support the navy there, and investigate why the deputy captain of the Whitebeard Pirates came here.

"It's okay, teacher. I've been staying in the cabin since I got the order." Ain, who had long, soft sea-blue wavy hair, was worried.

Another man dressed like a Wano country ninja shook his head, also worried about the state of the teacher.

Since the accident seven years ago, Zefa has always attributed the deaths of the students to himself. Although everyone is comforting him, he is still guilty.

Ain and Binz were the only two survivors of that accident.

Just as he was thinking, the navy in charge of looking out suddenly said loudly: "There is a situation!"

Ain and Binz reacted immediately, and picked up a telescope to look over at the same time, only to see two ships appearing on the horizon in the distance.

One of the boats was fusiform, with a flag of the Whitebeard Pirates flying, and the other was a very small and ordinary boat that needed manpower to paddle. It only sat two people and didn't fly a flag.

"Flame and Ace!" The navy reported, "It's the Flame and Ace of the Whitebeard Pirates."

"I see!" Ain put down the binoculars, the purpose of their trip was each other, and now they happened to meet each other.

"Send the boat!" Binz pointed forward, "Fire the gun!"

"No, wait!" Ain stopped Binz, "There is another ship, if he captures civilians, we can't fire!"

There was a lot of movement, and Zefa walked out of the cabin, took the telescope handed by the student, and frowned, "For the time being, just approach, don't shoot."

"is teacher!"

"Hey, hey, it's Zefa's ship." The ship was approaching, and Ace, who didn't have a telescope, could see the other party's ship clearly.

"Oh! Zefa~" Gray became excited, "Hurry up, come over."

He was paddling hard, and Alfred across from him folded his arms, showing no intention of helping.

"Fred, hurry up."

"Too tired." Alfred said, "Come on."

"I'm really..." Gray hadn't paddled like this for a long time, he let go of his hand and spread it on the deck, "Forget it, let Zefa and the others come and find us."

"The current Zefa is not the same as before. He will really take me to prison." Ace looked at the navy ship getting closer, and simply stopped powering the Charge.

The three resigned themselves to their fate and waited for the naval ship to approach. Zefa stood on the side of the ship, looking down at them.

"Whitebeard Pirates, what did you do in the first half?" Ain asked sharply.

"Come for sightseeing?" Ace shrugged, "You are not here to find me, are you?"

"Hmph, you went to Alabasta secretly. As a navy, we need to arrest you to understand." Binz pointed to the other two people, "Are they the civilians you captured or your accomplices."

Ace smiled, "Hmph, it goes without saying, of course it is"

"Civilian!" Gray stated his identity confidently, and wiped his face sincerely, "Help, Lord Navy."

"Help." Alfred said with a flat expression, he did not feel the joy of seeing the navy as a civilian caught by the pirates.

Ain and Binz were silent for a while, and said in unison: "Stop pretending! You are all his accomplices!"

And at this moment, Zefa spoke.

"It's a civilian." He raised his hand, "Put down the gangway, and Yan and Ace, if you dare to do it, we don't mind sinking your ship."

Saying that, the muzzles of the side string of the warship aimed at Ace's boat.

"." Ace raised his hands, indicating that he understood.

The three of them boarded the boat, and even the two small boats were picked up.

Gray saw the huge iron arm crusher that now replaced Zefa's right arm, "Wow, that's pretty cool."

"Hey, what are you talking about!" Ain said angrily, "Teacher Zefa, don't pay attention to what he said."

Zefa raised that arm, and said in a deep voice, "It was bought at a huge price. If possible, I don't want it either."

The two students "teacher" lowered their heads, with infinite hatred for the pirates in their hearts, and at the same time, they felt deeply powerless because they had no power to resist back then.

Zefa wallowed in self-blame, and so did they.

"Did I say something wrong?" Gray smiled, "He's really handsome."

"Okay, let's stop talking about this matter." Zefa looked at him, "Now it's time to talk about your business."

"You are much calmer than before. Sure enough, people will be calmer when they get old."

"Indeed, I'm already thinking about when I should retire." Zefa turned and walked towards the cabin, "Let's go, it's time to have a good chat."