One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The cherry blossoms fell one after another, turning the world into a pink and dreamy paradise.

The sword was unsheathed, and a white light flashed, the sword energy was extremely sharp, and the petals were all cut off wherever it passed.

However, the moment the sword energy was about to strike the cherry blossom tree, it dissipated suddenly, leaving only an insignificant wind hitting the thick tree trunk, causing a large swath of cherry blossoms to fall down.

"I heard you're leaving tomorrow?"

"That's right." Ace put the knife back into its sheath, unable to hide his inner joy, "Go to sea and find all my companions."

He looked at the blue-haired girl not far away, and asked, "So you don't go to sea? Guina, Sauron, who is younger than you, went to sea two years ago, right?"

"Two years, three months and seven days." Guina smiled, "Time flies so fast, it feels like it was still yesterday when I sent him to sea."

"Then you're not going to sea?"

"No, I will work hard to gain my father's approval by practicing swords." Kuina said, "Prove to him that even if a female swordsman has physical limitations, she can become the number one in the world."

"But if you don't go to sea, you will never be able to imagine what the real strong people in this world are like."

Kuina didn't reply, but just looked at the cherry blossom tree that was quite old behind Ace.

Ace shook his head, and suddenly invited: "Hey, I'm leaving tomorrow, are you on board?"

"On board?"

"Yeah, as my crew, let's go on an adventure, find the final island, and become the new One Piece!"

"Going to sea. Is it really so interesting?"

"Of course! Chasing freedom and dreams, this is what people born in this sea should do!"

"Chasing freedom and dreams?"

The next day, when a ship sailed out of the waters of Wano Country, Koshiro Shimotsuki realized that his daughter, who was as old as him, was gone.

At first he thought that Kuina was going to practice swords, but he didn't go home at night, so he searched around a lot. Finally, General Oda explained with a smile that he saw Kuina and Ace boarded Ann's pirate ship together.

Oh~ My daughter has gone to sea, it's okay.

If Shimotsuki Ushimaru hadn't stopped him desperately, Shimotsuki Koshiro swore that he would definitely chop Oden into eight pieces.

These are not important to Kuina after going to sea.

She was immersed in the vastness and novelty of seeing the boundless sea, and the free and easy way of doing things of the pirates also brought her a great impact.

Ace was much worse. An, who drank too much wine, laughed at him severely, and then yelled loudly at the crew, popularizing his brother's black history.

Ace's head was burning with anger, and he came to the stern angrily, blowing the cold wind by himself.

"Yo~" At this moment, a person greeted him.

Ace turned his head and looked over with a displeased face. The next second he stood there in a daze, and after a while he excitedly said: "Sa, Sabo?!"

"Hey, long time no see, Ace." The golden-haired gentleman in a tall hat wanted to pretend to be an aristocratic etiquette, but his brother didn't wait for him to take off his hat at all, and directly gave him a bear hug that made him stagger a few steps.

"Sabo, why are you here!" Ace was excited, "I didn't notice you just now."

"Because I ate a devil fruit and hid in the darkness." Sabo shrugged and said helplessly, "By the way, you are too heavy, can you come down and talk?"

"You also ate a devil fruit?" Ace selectively ignored Sabo's other words.

Sabo nodded, "That's right, I ate the fruit when I encountered something before."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Ace didn't ask in detail what the matter was, and turned to Balabala to briefly talk about what he had experienced in the past few years.

Sabo listened carefully, and then said: "Actually, I'm here for business. I'm going to take a look at Punk Hazard later, take a ride with Sister An, and see you by the way."

"Hey, what about Luffy, have you seen Luffy?"

"No, I happened to be on a mission when he was out at sea, and when I got back, he had already left."

Sabo sighed, and took out the new version of the reward order that he carried with him from his clothes pocket-an excellent younger brother should be able to take out Luffy's reward order anytime, anywhere.

"Look, Luffy's latest reward order!"

"Oh! That kid looks very happy."

The reward order follows a photo of Luffy laughing, and the reward is [-] million Baileys, which is the reward for winning the sand crocodile Crocodile.

Ace unceremoniously chose to accept this reward order, "When I find my companion, I will go find him."

"Then let's separate on the next island. Sister An will definitely not take us to the destination."

"Hahaha, she's always like this."

-

The three generals who returned to the Navy Headquarters went straight to the Marshal's office of Sengoku. At this moment, in addition to Sengoku himself, there was Lieutenant General Karp who was disturbing his work by eating senbei.

The three of them greeted Garp, who waved his hand, indicating that he should not care about his existence.

"What's the matter?" Zhan Guo frowned, "You said that the arrest failed, and there is still a major event to report. What major event is bigger than the failure of the three generals to go out at the same time!"

"It was about to succeed, but in the end there was a pirate group that responded to Yan and Ace." Akainu replied coldly.

"Pirates? Whitebeard Pirates?"

"No, it's a forbidden pirate group."

Huang Yuan's tone still has his own unique tone, "Although I was young back then, I can't remember the Pirate Flag wrongly, Black Fireworks, you two should still have memories."

Garp stopped chewing the senbei.

Zhan Guo took a deep breath, the more ups and downs in his heart, the less expression on his face.

"I should remember correctly." Huang Yuan continued: "That pitch-black ship is really just like its name, and it makes people feel frightened."

Garp stood up abruptly, strode out, and Sengoku shouted from behind, "Hey, Garp! What are you doing?"

"Go out for a stroll."

"Damn it." Cursing, Zhan Guo rubbed his temples, "Tell me all the details of the encounter with Black Fireworks."

After Zhan Guo learned the whole story, he finally believed that it was not someone pretending to be, but the real black firework ship reappeared on the sea.

Ha, boy Gray. I just knew he wasn't dead.

Zhan Guo forcibly ignored the feeling of relief in his heart, but kept a more stern face and signaled the three generals to leave first.

Aokiji ran to Garp's ship that was about to set sail at an extremely fast speed, "Lieutenant General Garp, I've never heard of this pirate group, did you block the news?"

"Oh, you're young, so you really don't know." Garp laughed and said, "Yes, the news has been blocked. This is a pirate group that was active in the sea before the Lockes era."

"More specifically, they don't want to talk to me." Aokiji shrugged, "Even if the news is blocked, there is no need to hide the admiral."

"More specifically." Garp touched his chin, "What do you want to know?"

"The pirate captain, the bounty, and what did they do to get blocked?"

"They threatened the interests and the rule of some people, just like Rocks, no, he was more threatening than Rocks."

"Is there more threat than Rocks?" Aokiji opened his eyes wide, watching the ship leave the port little by little, "Where are we going?"

"Chambord Islands." Garp smiled and said, "Buy some senbei."

"Huh? I thought you were going to find that pirate group."

"I just want to find that pirate group. To be precise, I owe that captain a bag of crackers that haven't expired."

"Ow? It sounds like you and that captain are very familiar."

"It's very familiar, very familiar."

-

Chambord Islands, a prison where merchandise is held in the backstage of an auction house.

"Hurry up, go in!"

With the loud shouts of the guards, the sound of chains clattering from far to near.

Another two unlucky people.

Rayleigh was sitting on a wooden box, and the years had turned his originally blond hair all white, and even his beard had also turned white.

He didn't panic and cry like other slaves, but his expression was calm. After all, he wasn't captured by someone, but he wanted to be auctioned off at his own request.

He looked curiously at the two new children who came in. They didn't seem to know what they would encounter in the future, and they neither cried nor yelled.

But the guard was very satisfied with such obedient attitude. He loudly told the two to walk faster, but he didn't use his legs to chase people away as usual.

Rayleigh looked at the two children, and the children looked at him, with a little gleam in their dark eyes.

The child's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Heiyan Gray, no, or Hei Yangrai.

Raleigh raised the corners of his lips, watching the two children being locked in his own cell - this is certainly not a coincidence, in fact slaves who have no resistance are locked in such cells.

"Are you okay?" Lei Li spoke first, smiling like a kind elder, "How did it become like this?"

"I came in on purpose." Gray said immediately.

"Is that so?" Raleigh looked at Alfred.

Alfred didn't give Gray any face either, "It's ridiculous to be tricked by a cotton candy while visiting the amusement park."

"Because the cotton candy is colorful and looks like a sunflower!" Gray tried to defend, "It's the first time I've seen such a cotton candy."

"Hahaha" Lei Li laughed softly, "I'll treat you to dinner when you earn some money."

"Then why are you here?" Gray asked curiously.

"I'm here to make money." Raleigh raised the shackles on his hands, "Gambling spent all the money."

"That's it, but if you're an old man, will anyone really buy it?"

"There are all kinds of people in the world." Rayleigh looked at the child in front of him who was too young, and even grew back. "But Captain Gray is so cute, he must be worth more than a bad old man like me."

"Of course!" Gray accepted the praise unceremoniously, "Today we will set the highest auction record!"

"Heh, it was sold to the count." Alfred sneered, and found a cleaner place to sit down.

Gray shook his head, and chatted with Raleigh Barabara a lot.

They chat happily here.

The good parent Zefa who lost his child has searched the entire playground, not only him, but also his students have participated in the search.

run away again?
Zefa gritted his teeth angrily, at this moment, a voice sounded not far away, loud and full of air.

"Boss, I'll take care of all the senbei on the stall! That's right, it's all included, find me a big bag!" Garp's eyes fell on the senbei.

Aokiji, who was following behind him, looked at Zefa's eyes.

Aokiji raised his hand, "Oh, Teacher Zefa, what a coincidence."

Zefa restrained his emotions, nodded at Aokiji, then walked to Karp, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Me? I'm here to buy senbei, right! Do you know about Gray?"

Zefa's eyelids twitched, "What's the matter?"

Garp complained that he was not well informed, and at the same time told Zefa the news that Ace in the stomach of the three generals was rescued by the Black Firework Pirates who suddenly appeared.

The latter was silent, looked at this side and didn't care about it. In fact, Aokiji, who had been listening, suddenly dropped a blockbuster, "Grey is here with me."

When the bomb hit, Garp and Aokiji were burnt apart.

"Old, teacher, what did you say?"

"Zefa, what are you talking about, boy?"

"Grey was with me, but now I lost it."

"What does it mean to lose it?" Garp felt that his mind was not in a rush.

"No, maybe ran away again."

"Then why are you still here, look for it!" Garp dodged the packaged senbei from the merchant, and took out enough money, and the merchant roared out the voice of "Navy robbery" that was about to appear in his throat.

Aokiji followed the two of them, still feeling baffled, so Gray is the captain of Black Fireworks?Then lost. Isn't this word used on children and the elderly.

Ah, having said that, the pirate of Black Firework is indeed an old man now.

The Straw Hat Pirates Luffy and his crew are also in the Chambord Islands at this moment.

And coincidentally, they were also looking for someone, a mermaid companion, Kemi.

Sanji called the Flying Fish Knights led by Dibaru to help.

Relying on the strength of the Flying Fish Knights, all the Straw Hat Pirates who were originally scattered all over the island were reunited!
Afterwards, through the explanations of Nicole Robin and Pappagu, everyone knew that there was a bad habit of discriminating against murlocs in the Chambord Islands.

After finally finding out about Kemi's whereabouts, it turned out that she was taken to the No. 1 GR auction venue as a slave for auction, and she wanted to rush directly into the auction venue to rescue Kemi.

But Octopus tried his best to dissuade him, so Nami and others had no choice but to sneak into the auction to buy Kaimi back.

At the same time, Zefa and Karp also mobilized a large number of manpower, and found the helpless place of No. 1 GR.

"Two, two Navy lords, I really didn't know that the child belonged to you. If I knew, I would dare to arrest him."

The slave trader had a bitter face, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen from the beating.

"Catch it, and lock it into the city of advancement." Zefa grabbed the slave trader's collar and threw it to Qingzhi's feet behind him.

The latter shrugged and ordered the navy on standby: "Take it away."

The navy took the lead and quickly dragged away all the people who fell on the ground.

"Go to the auction house." Garp straightened his sleeves, but soon, a navy from the Chambord Islands approached with a bitter face, "Master Lieutenant General, General... that auction house cannot be entered now."

"What auction house can't enter."

"Noble. There are three Heavenly Dragon Lords auctioning it inside!"