One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Is the tableware alright?"

"Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it."

After a short one-sided massacre, Andrew took the lead in caring about his tableware, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they weren't even stained with blood.

"Go back and tell the captain about the situation." Colin glanced at the cliff, with heavy eyes, and sighed: "I really don't want to disturb the good mood of the captain..."

"There is no way, thousands of lives will be lost." Tang En straightened his blindfold and patted Tang Tang's head comfortingly. The fluffy hair made him feel better.

The three returned to the main road and walked through an alley, but suddenly stopped in their tracks.

They happened to meet the pirates who were escorting Nora back to the base, and they looked at each other, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

"Do you need help, Miss Nora?" Colin smiled politely, and didn't do anything immediately.

"Isn't Latin with you?" Andrew frowned, with some headaches, "You weren't driven away by him because you didn't know the lipstick number?"

Except for Tang En and the newly joined Ace and Oden, everyone else on the boat was dragged by Latin to go shopping. It was a real hell.

Both arms are covered with big and small bags, and you have to keep boasting that Latin is good-looking, it's really worse than death.

"Isn't Nora a woman?" Although Dunn couldn't see her, he had heard Nora's voice. "Women should be able to distinguish...that kind of thing."

"We are friends with Nora, and we specially invited her to be a guest." The pirate said, "Right, Nora?"

Nora froze and bit her lip tightly.

"Hey! Nora, hurry up and talk!" the pirate said impatiently, "Your family has already been invited by us."

"Latin said that a woman cannot be forced." Andrew shook his head and raised his hand, "She obviously doesn't want to, Yuntie—"

The cloud that appeared from nowhere collided with the pirates. The cloud in the sky itself had no lethality, but Andrew turned the cloud into a solid body, which was like steel when it collided violently.

Both Colin and Tang En's weapons were flintlock guns. After a few gunshots, all the enemies on the opposite side fell to the ground.

"I think it would be better to shoot the heart." When Tang En didn't take off the blindfold, he would rely on his knowledge and ears to distinguish the enemy, so he generally liked to aim at the heart.

Colin prefers the position between the eyebrows.

Nora was short of breath, and it was the first time she had seen so many corpses, maybe... Maybe these people, she could really ask for help.

At this time, it doesn't matter who it is, even a pirate, as long as it can save her country, she is willing to do whatever.

"Nora~" Latin's voice sounded from behind, from far to near, he took Nora's trembling arm affectionately, and complained: "Ah~ why did you leave without waiting for me, and made me wait there for you for a while."

"La, Sister Latin..." Nora looked at Latin with red eyes, her eyes were full of despair, she knelt down almost begging, "Please, help me... Woo... Please..."

Latin was silent and looked at Colin in embarrassment.

The latter shrugged and said, "It's useless to tell us, you should go to our captain."

"Besides, if you ask pirates to do something, you need to be paid." Andrew said lightly: "We don't do voluntary labor."

"Remuneration... There is a lot of gold on our island!" Nora's eyes sparkled, and she remembered that she could afford the reward, "This island...all the gold of the Owen Pirates was obtained from our empty island! As long as you save my country, no matter how much gold it is..."

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"So that's it, everything makes sense." After hearing Colin's explanation, Perry immediately understood the source of the gold on this island.

Akatis looked at Nora excitedly, "Little girl, are you interested in cooperating with our chamber of commerce?"

"Achitis, that gold belongs to our Pirates!" Perry frowned and warned, "The princess of Sky Island has promised that when our Pirates solve the crisis in her country, all the gold can be given to us, including those that haven't erupted!"

"Yes, all the gold can be given to you!" Nora said firmly after wiping away her tears.

Akatis raised his forehead, "Please, you guys still need to cash in gold, why not just cooperate with us~"

"Cooperation is also fine, you don't even need to give us money." Perry's mouth rose, "As long as your Chamber of Commerce will send us a list of all the products you will get in the future, let us pick one or two for free."

"How can this be done? Do you think I'm a fool?" Arkatis patted the table, "The goods in our chamber of commerce are worth more than gold!"

"Then once a year, how about two items at a time?" Perry stretched out two fingers and smiled purely.

"Don't worry!" Alder and his brother patted Achtis on the shoulder, "How many years have we been friends, how could our pirate group cheat you!"

"Hehe...I have to ask the boss." Achatis shook off Alder's hand and ran to the side to make a phone call.

Gray drank the last bit of rum in the wine glass, and the glass was placed on the table with a dull sound.

"How many families were there on this island three years ago?" He stared at the wine glass, stroking the hair at the back of his neck with his fingers, as if talking to himself.

"Our captain asked you something!" Teuton kicked the tavern owner until he reached the bar before stopping, and the wine bottles on the bar swung a few times and fell down.

For a while, the ground was covered with torn wine bottles, and the wine liquid made the wooden floor dark, and the floor was in a mess.

The owner of the tavern had been beaten so badly that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He said in a trembling voice, "I... I don't know the details... It should be, it should be thirteen hundred... More..."

His voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he could only hear it when he was whispering to himself, because the surrounding temperature gradually increased, and a scalp-numbing sense of oppression permeated the air.

"More than 300 people..." Gray leaned back on the back of the chair, not knowing where to look with downcast eyes.

"No, Captain Gray, it's not our fault at all, it's all ours... No! It's all that Owen, it's all his thoughts, it's him who said he wanted to build a golden island completely under his control..."

The boss trembled in horror, and crawled over in a panic, trying to reach out and grab Gray's calf.

But before he could catch it, Gray raised his foot and stomped hard on the back of his neck. Hearing a crackling sound, the boss swallowed his breath with wide-eyed eyes.

Gray's face was gloomy, his eyes were dark, and a huge aura erupted from him, with a sense of overwhelming oppression, quickly covering the entire island from the tavern.

Heaven and earth change color.

Above the island, the floating white clouds were already entangled, centered on the island, spinning like a storm.

The pirates scattered all over the island fell unconscious one after another, and the houses and buildings collapsed. From above, except for the tavern they were in, other places had become ruins.

"Clear the field." Gray stood up, his tone low and dangerous, "This island needs to be reshuffled again."