Behind the scenes of One Piece

Change first and then change.

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After eight consecutive days of sailing, Guli and the others finally arrived at the first port city, Nahana.

Ace plans to stay here for a while and look for traces of Blackbeard.

"Thank you for your hospitality along the way. I'm leaving now. See you again if we have the chance!"

"Goodbye by fate!"

The two shook hands and said goodbye.

"By the way...since I've been bothering you for so many days, I still have a few words to say before I leave."

Ace suddenly spoke and actually extended an invitation to Gu Li:

"I think your fighting ability is ordinary, but you are a good person. Are you interested in joining Father Whitebeard's fleet?"

"Whitebeard Pirates?"

Gu Li was a little surprised and happy, but after thinking about it, he still shook his head and refused.

Ace was quite surprised: "Why refuse? Our fleet is the strongest in the entire sea! And to tell you the truth, the sailors on your ship are not like a team..."

"Ah, I know, we are just a temporary group. My official identity is a member of the Straw Hat Pirates."

"Straw Hat?" Ace was stunned for a moment when he heard the name.

"Well, that's Luffy's team."

"Luffy? He came to the Grand Line? Where is he now?" Ace showed a look of joy on his face.

Guli was stunned for a moment. He thought Ace had known about Luffy's arrival at the Grand Line. Now it seems that he revealed the news?

Regardless, it was important for Ace to see Luffy, and Coulee was happy to see it happen.

He recalled the Merry's route.

After Luffy and the others left Whiskey Hill, their first stop was the small garden, where Tori and Brocky were two giants who had been dueling for 100 years.

After they took down the giants and Mr. 3 who was causing trouble, they went to the Drum Kingdom to seek medical treatment because Nami fell ill.

Considering that the Melly's sailing speed is far inferior to that of a steam-powered gunship, Luffy and the others are either in the small garden now, or they have just arrived at the Drum Kingdom.

So he explained to Ace:

"Luffy and I have separated. He is probably seeking medical treatment in the Drum Kingdom now."

After thinking about it, he added:

"But you can wait here. We agreed to meet up in Alabasta. He will come to get Hana soon."

Ace shook his head: "I don't want to wait any longer, and it is very possible to meet the person I am tracking in the Drum Kingdom! Let's go to the Drum Kingdom now!"

With that said, he jumped onto his sloop and waved goodbye to Guli.

Looking at Ace's retreating back, Guli felt a little envious of Luffy.

On this vast sea, it is really a lucky thing to have a big brother who cares about me.

If we follow the plot of the original novel, Ace did not meet Luffy when he went to the Drum Kingdom, and the two of them returned to the port city of Nahana before they really got together.

In fact, this is normal. The sea is so big that it is a low probability event for the two brothers to encounter each other.

But then again, now that he told Ace, he had the idea of ​​​​looking for Luffy.

So how did Ace know that Luffy was nearby in the original plot?

And the matter of giving Arrita the slippery fruit,

Could it be that Guli was originally part of the plot of the original work?

Once this idea arose, his thinking became somewhat entangled.

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After Ace left, Guli and others disembarked from the ship to purchase some supplies according to their original plan, and had a big meal in this beautiful port city.

They came to the largest restaurant in the area, found a window seat, and sat in a row.

Since Prado brought a lot of money, everyone was free to order, and everyone ordered a lot of food.

Guli ordered himself a lobster, a roast lamb leg, and a seafood fried rice, and then sat down to eat while enjoying the scenery outside the window.

It is said that he has been walking all the way from various small fishing villages and towns in the East China Sea, and it was the first time he saw such a prosperous city, and his eyes were almost dazzled.

There are all kinds of people coming and going.

Travelers leading camels, vendors selling things, young girls in robes... Of course, there are also many fierce-looking pirates.

Well, the last type of people is the most numerous, and many of them have tattoos on their arms. Although they are covered by some clothes, you can roughly see that they are the logo of Baroque Works.

It is said that the Baroque Working Society supports more than two hundred "billion elders" and a huge number of "million elders". These people are now concentrated in Nahana, obviously preparing to cause trouble.

I just don’t know what it is, and the system doesn’t rush to dispatch a task.

While I was thinking this, things suddenly became lively outside the window.

A dozen pirates armed with muskets suddenly stopped a slender woman and whispered to her. Seeing the woman's disgusted expression, they must not have said anything nice.

"In broad daylight, are the pirates so arrogant?" Guli turned around and asked Prado next to him.

Unexpectedly, Prado looked quite nervous. He put the hat he placed on the dining table back on his head, and then murmured: "It's very common, it's very common. Let's eat quickly."

Guli turned back to observe the woman carefully.

He realized that women's attire was uncommon in this desert city.

Due to the intense sun exposure, half of the women here wear robes, and even those who don't wear robes wear long gauze scarves to protect themselves from the sun.

But apart from the weird hat on her head, the woman in front of her was wearing a women's short shirt and jeans. This was not what the locals wore, and she had obviously just arrived in this city.

Well... Prado, he is hiding something.

Soon, the situation outside the window changed again: the pirates started to take action!

More than a dozen men shot the woman without mercy!

But what is surprising is that the hat on the woman's head suddenly turned into a huge three-petal carapace, protecting the woman inside. Even if the bullets hit it, there was no damage at all.

Those who can?

Seeing that the muskets were ineffective, a dozen pirates pulled out their axes and knives and began to attack the shell.

The shell was hard enough, but after a few blows with the ax, the woman was staggered to the point where she could no longer stand still!

But the woman did not sit still and waited for death. Several more things protruded from her hat, like an enlarged version of the mantis sickle, and slashed at the pirates, and the situation was restored in an instant.

Seeing that they could not get any benefits, the pirates dropped their weapons and ran away.

The woman then put away the sickle and carapace, patted her clothes and prepared to leave.

Suddenly, through the window in front of her, she saw Prado who was eating in the restaurant.

"Mr.10? I finally found you!"