One Piece: The Eternal Flame

On the deck, after the farce just now, everyone returned to seriousness. Perry leaned on the recliner with a cigarette in his mouth, reading the newspaper with sharp eyes. He couldn't see the tragedy of being crushed in the crowd just now.

For a while, there were not many people left on the deck.

Gray was even worse, being pressed at the bottom, feeling like he was about to fall apart.

He sat cross-legged on the lawn, moved his neck with a bitter face, and kept complaining, "Really, I'm the captain, how could you treat me like this."

"Who made you always say stupid things." Perry put down the newspaper and complained angrily, "Don't carry out the sentence 'there is no danger, the captain is the greatest danger' so perfectly."

Gray didn't dare to argue with Perry, so he just mumbled to himself in a low voice, "Cut, that's really rude."

Mitian walked up to him and sat down, with a childish face, "Reggie, I have a merciless favor!"

"Ah? It's too embarrassing for me so don't say it." Gray curled his lips and said unreasonably.

Mi Tian didn't know what to answer for a while, he was holding his breath in his chest, and his face turned red.

What he was going to say next had been carefully considered in the cabin for a long time, and what he said would definitely disappoint Gray, and he was also hesitant, whether it would be unsafe to talk about such a topic shortly after boarding the ship.

Gray had seen his tangled reaction enough, he laughed and patted Oden on the back, "Okay, okay, don't hold back, just say what you want, I'm just kidding you."

"You're really bad." Ace sat on the side of the boat fishing, and after hearing the conversation between Gray and Oden, he immediately said to Gray dissatisfied.

He remembered the words that Gray lied to him in order to ease the atmosphere when he first boarded the boat, but what was exasperating was that he really believed it.

"Hahaha, because you are all serious~" Gray waved at Ace, then patted the lawn next to him, and said, "Come and sit, it's only lively when there are many people."

After Ace walked over and sat down, Oden took a deep breath and continued, "I realize the importance of rulers in Sky Island. They are also a country that has little contact with the outside world. They are very similar to our Wano country. There are many powerful people like Reggie and you in the outside world. If we keep the country closed, the future will definitely be like what Ace said."

"The people are destitute, and the people are dying. I don't want to see the future of Wano, so I think." Oden clenched his fists, "Maybe in the future, after I see more of the wider world and understand more diverse cultures, I will choose to disembark and return to Wano, and work hard to make Wano open!"

When he said this, he looked closely at Gray, trying to convey all his determination through this method, but for some reason, there was mist in his eyes.

He had just boarded the ship not long ago, and he didn't have much sense of belonging, even in a sense of crisis that he was useless and would be abandoned at any time, so he was particularly active and enthusiastic.

Even though he knew Gray wasn't like that, the subconscious still terrified him.

After clearly realizing the crisis that Wano Country may face in the future, he chooses to face the crisis directly and tell Gray what he really thinks, instead of pretending that he didn't hear it and continue sailing heartlessly.

"A person who is destined to disembark, do you still want it?" What makes Oden sad is not the burden he will shoulder in the future, but Gray's possible disappointed expression.

"Hmm... Is there any necessary connection between the two?" Gray frowned, not understanding Mitian's question, "What does your going to disembark in the future have to do with you being on the ship now?"

"What does it matter..." Oden was also stumped by Gray's question.

The two of them crossed their arms in the same way, frowning tightly, with huge question marks on their heads, thinking about the same problem, and finally couldn't figure it out.

Ace listened quietly and didn't get involved.

On the other hand, Perry, who was reading the newspaper, suddenly sighed, adjusted his posture and said, "Oden, leaving is just for a better return, don't think things too complicated."

"That's not the case, Perry!" Gray clasped his hands on his chest, denying, "If Yu Tian leaves, he won't come back!"

"Huh?" Yutian was taken aback, and recalled what he said just now, he didn't seem to have said so firmly that he would not come back after getting off the boat, right?

"Really, Yutian, do you think so?" Perry looked at Yutian, "You won't come back after getting off the boat?"

"No! I don't have one. After the founding of Wano Kingdom, I will definitely come back again!" After Perry's guidance, Mitian suddenly figured it out.

He was the one who got into a dead end. In fact, after it made sense, the matter was still very simple!
He's just getting off the ship and doing some things of his own, not quitting the Pirates forever.

"Reggie, I've figured it out!" Oden hugged Gray excitedly, and then threw himself on Perry.

Perry was crushed unpreparedly, and even the newspaper was crumpled. He wanted to give Yu Tian a good beating, so that he would not be so reckless.

But looking at the child's bright smiling face, the anger welling up in his heart suddenly turned into a sigh.

Forget it, the child is too young, when he gets older, he will be beaten back with profit.

"What are you doing..." Gray looked blank, Oden came and went quickly, he didn't understand why the other party suddenly gave him a hug.

"Hahaha, just take it as a child's innocence." Ace smiled and said, "By the way, Gray, when I wanted to tell you the future, you said you were not interested in me, why didn't you stop me from telling Oden about the future?"

He remembered that Gray said that he was not interested in the future, and that it was enough to have an existence on board that could predict the future.

However, according to the time spent together, he found that Charles' ability was not at all predicting the future.

He can judge whether the future is good or not, and he can also judge the location of the island based on Gray's goal, but divination can only be done with a clear goal.

These record pointers can also be done, isn't Charles just a humanoid record pointer.

For example, Wano Country will be occupied by Kaido in the future. Charles has no way of knowing this specific future.

So to be precise, no one on board except him can know the existence of the future.

Gray answered this question very quickly, and he even gave Ace an example, "For example, I am about to miss a piece of cake, and the future me will definitely change this bad result when I return to the present, because I like eating cake very much."

"So when you come here, it is impossible not to change any history. If you want to change it, just change all the history that you think is not happy or you don't like!"

"We are companions, if you want to change the future, we will definitely be with you, so you can say anything, just like Mita!"

"Don't worry about changing history, I'm here for everything." Gray stretched out his hand and pressed Ace's head down, "You have to always believe that I will be on your side."

"...Why?" Ace didn't understand, Gray seemed to have said to him more than once such firm and resolute words as "on your side forever".

Gray laughed, moved his head away, and whispered to Ace, "Because I also know the future."

"Huh?" Ace opened his eyes wide, looking at Gray in disbelief.

The latter narrowed his eyes slightly, showing a mysterious smile, "Keep it secret~"

Ace clearly heard the sound of swallowing saliva and the faster and faster heartbeat, "Grey..."

"Ah?" The smile on the corner of Gray's mouth grew bigger and bigger, and he said, "You won't believe it again, Ace."

"Hahahahaha, it's always so easy to trust me, but I can't do it ~ how can I know the future, what I eat is not the fruit of the future."

"G, Ray!!!"

Ace became furious, this was the second time, the bastard Gray lied to him again!

"Oh, it's only three things, it's only two times." Gray spread his hands, with an expression of 'why are you so boring'.

Ace was so angry that he almost buried Gray with a fire. Later, he thought that the flames would not hurt him, so let it go.

But if you don't teach me a lesson, you can't swallow this breath.

So in the end, he threw Gray overboard.