One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Zefa was wearing a kimono, and his face was a little uncomfortable. Earlier, he followed the pink hem and caught her when the other party ran away in a panic.

"Why eavesdropping!" Zefa frowned tightly and grabbed the woman's arm with great strength. Obviously, he didn't recognize who this person was at the first time, but just regarded her as an eavesdropper.

But when the woman turned around, Zefa was stunned, "Ashley? Why are you?"

"I..." Ashley pursed her lips, and still bowed and apologized to Zefa, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have eavesdropped on your conversation with the Lieutenant General."

"No, nothing important." Zefa let go of his hand, and seeing Ashley wearing a pink kimono characteristic of Wano, he asked, "Are you going out?"

He was a little reckless just now. After all, he couldn't be so rude to a woman.

"Well, I heard that today is the fireworks display in the Capital of Flowers, so my friends and I are going out to watch it." Ashley said with a smile, "I wanted to ask for leave with the Lieutenant General."

"That's it, I'll tell him, there's nothing to do these days, thank you for your hard work." Zefa nodded, and was about to turn around and leave.

"Hey!" Ashley stopped him, summoned up the courage to invite, "Zefa, do you want to come together?"

"No, I have something else to do." Zefa replied politely.

Ashley had expected that Zefa's answer would be like this, although he was disappointed, he just nodded.

"What are you two doing here?" At this moment, the paper sliding door next to it was opened, and several marines came out from inside, and asked in surprise after seeing Zefa and Ashley.

Ashley's face was filled with pink, and he explained: "I happened to meet Zefa, so I said hello."

"Oh~ that's it," the navy dragged on, obviously he didn't really believe Ashley's words, "Ashley, are you going to watch the fireworks display in this suit, are you with Zefa?"

"No, I have work to do." Zefa responded.

Haijun scratched his head, in disbelief, "You don't want to look at that pirate again, do you? It's not like I said, that pirate has already worn a sea stone, so it's not that big of a threat."

"Yeah, Zefa, don't put all your energy on that pirate, go out and have fun with us."

"It's hard to come to Wano country once."

The navies tried to persuade Zefa.

Zefa was helpless, and it was a bit embarrassing for Ashley to stand here now. After all, if it wasn't for her, Zefa wouldn't need to hear these voices.

"Okay, when will the fireworks display start?" Zefa reluctantly agreed.

So in the end, it became like this. The navy wanted to match him and Ashley, and they made excuses and left together after strolling around, while Ashley walked beside him.

"Sorry for wasting your time today." Ashley took the initiative to break the deadlock.

Zefa didn't know what to say, so he simply replied silently.

Ashley smiled, and stretched out her hand to smooth the hair from her sideburns behind her ears. Because she was nervous, she smoothed it several times before letting go.

"That...Zefa, that...I..." She heard her voice trembling with disappointment, but this time is very suitable to express her heart.

Zefa pursed his lips and was about to interrupt Ashley's words, but the flow of people suddenly increased, as if there was something attractive in front of him and he needed to run quickly to grab it.

Caught off guard, Ashley was hit on the shoulder by someone, and was almost taken away by the crowd.

But Zefa stretched out his hand quickly, grabbed Ashley's wrist, and pulled him back, "Are you all right?" He asked in a low voice.

"It's okay..." Ashley shook her head, took a deep breath, her confession was interrupted, and she could no longer summon up the courage just now.

Zefa thought for a while, and seeing the other party's disappointed appearance, he thought it would be better to say yes.

This is good for both of us.

"Ashley, do you like me?" Zefa was a little nervous when he said this, after all, it would be too embarrassing if he guessed wrong.

Ashley was taken aback for a moment, then his face flushed red, his hands were crazily placed on his chest, "I...I...I..."

She couldn't speak, her brain was so hot that it was about to explode.

Zefa sighed, and continued: "Thank you very much for your liking, but I'm sorry, I don't have any plans to get married at the moment, at least... I don't have such plans until I become a general."

As he spoke out his heart little by little, Ashley also gradually calmed down. After Zefa finished speaking, she suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.

"How can anyone reject a girl because they don't want to get married right now..." She smiled gently, "What if I say, I confess my love to you, and I don't need your promise to marry me?"

"But after agreeing, don't they all want to get married?" Zefa didn't understand, in his mind, there was no option of breaking up.

He thought about love very simply.

What Ashley likes is Zefa's simplicity, down-to-earth, toughness and warmth. This is the Zefa she likes.

"Then when you become a general, I will confess my love again." Ashley held Zefa's hand gently and firmly, "At that time, if you also like me, get married. During this period, I will treat you the same as before, so you don't have to have too much pressure."

"...Are you so sure that I will become a general?" Zefa laughed.

"As long as it's what you want to do, you can definitely do it." Ashley said with a smile, "You are a hero."

……

"Is the rubbing finished?"

"Well, you can go anytime."

In the underground secret room of the General's Mansion, Kozuki Oden led Perry and the others to avoid all the guards, and successfully rubbed the main text of the history.

Yu Tian made a great contribution this time. He was already very arrogant, but this time he even raised his tail behind him. The grown-ups who watched were very helpless.

They can already foresee the scene of flying chickens and dogs on the ship in the future.

"Okay, let's go to the captain now." Perry put away the rubbing paper, "Follow Mitian, we..."

"boom--"

The secret room was suddenly shaken, and someone kicked a big hole in the entrance of the secret room - the way to enter here is a floor in the sukiyaki room, which can be opened in a special way.

But the visitor obviously didn't have the patience to find a way to open it, so he kicked the floor open and jumped in.

"Grey!" Ace shouted in surprise, his eyes lit up.

"Captain!" The others were also surprised. It was a surprise that the person who was going to rescue appeared here.

Gray was also surprised when he heard the voice. He froze for a few seconds, and then smiled brightly, "Why are you here too, hahaha."

"You also said that you were caught by Zefa lightly again!" Alder laughed.

"Hahaha, I made a mistake, I'm fine." Gray scratched his head and looked at the excited Kozuki Oden.

The latter ran over in two or three steps, and said excitedly: "Reggie, I'm so lucky!"