【One Piece】She comes from a private server

"Ah, it's so hot that I can't even sweat anymore..."

"Stop screaming all the time, Luffy. It'll make you even hotter."

This was the first day that Luffy and others landed in Elmar and headed for Yuba, but everyone already had the illusion that they would become dehydrated at any time facing the empty desert.

"I can't do it anymore, I'm afraid of the heat the most." Chopper, who was lying on the wooden board and being dragged by Zoro, was paralyzed, sticking out his tongue as if it was about to melt.

"Ice pillar." Alicia, who had changed into a magician since entering the desert, weakly raised her staff and stuffed the solidified icicle into Chopper's arms. "Don't be brave, Chopper. I didn't say ice." Will you tell me once the pillar disappears?”

"But...the ice here melts very quickly. It will be hard for Alicia to keep turning into an icicle..." Qiaoba wilted and put the icicle on his cheek, feeling the unbearable burning heat on his body. The feeling dissipates a little.

"Alicia, I want an icicle too!" Luffy begged, leaning on a wooden stick.

"Me too..." Usopp looked at Chopper enviously.

"I've said it all, you can only make one icicle at a time, it's for Chopper." Alicia couldn't muster the energy to curse, "If I had known, I should have chosen the Ice Spirit instead of the Queen of Darkness when I changed jobs... …”

"Don't be so stingy, use one for me!"

"Don't take away Chopper's icicle!" Alicia was furious for a second, and then quickly withered, "I don't have the energy to accompany you to fool around, Luffy, please be calm."

"Little Alicia, would you like some water?" Sanji's face changed completely after learning Alicia's true gender.

"Although it's very hot, the water is still enough to drink. Don't worry about me, Sanji." Alicia waved her hand to refuse, so Sanji held the kettle and went to ask Nami and Vivi again.

"Your physical strength is too low, Alicia." Ace teased Alicia with a sideways glance, and the other party gave him a white eye in return.

"My physical strength is within the normal range, provided that those idiots don't pester me to do nonsense."

"It seems they are all fools. What a fun team." Ace looked up at the people who were fighting over a few spats, with a half-smile on his face.

"Obviously you don't have to give in too much when it comes to Hu Lai."

"Stop talking to me like that shit." Ace pressed Alicia's head in warning, "I'm your brother."

"Yes Yes."

"Don't roll your eyes at brother either."

"Yes Yes."

"Don't deal with me, you stinky girl!"

"Yes Yes."

As the sun gradually disappeared below the horizon, the Straw Hat Pirates welcomed their first night in the desert. Alicia sat in front of the campfire wrapped in cotton clothes, swallowing food, and her unfocused eyes fell on Ace.

"What's wrong?" Ace noticed and looked over.

"No, it's okay." Alicia shook her head.

"..." Ace stared at Alicia for a long time without saying a word across the bonfire, then laughed slightly, "Really?"

"Alicia, are you still wearing thick clothes?" Nami, who was shivering in the desert at night, finally realized what Alicia was wearing.

"Because in Nalohara, Weiwei told me that the temperature will drop at night." Alicia wiped off the oil stains on her hands and took out a few more winter clothes, "I am also prepared for everyone's sake."

"That's great!" Nami gave Alicia a hug. After changing into winter clothes, she took the remaining pieces and distributed them to others.

With thick clothes, the night in the desert is not difficult, but the day in the desert is difficult. After dawn, everyone who had just encountered a sandstorm changed into winter clothes and set off again.

Alicia, who firmly believed that letting Luffy carry all the luggage was a bad idea, packed everyone's luggage into their backpacks. For this, Nami yelled in her ear, "Why didn't you tell us earlier that we could pack our luggage?" Even if the luggage is saved, the journey with Luffy is bound to not be smooth sailing.

"...So what's going on now?" Ace thought blankly.

"Ah?" Alicia raised her head listlessly and followed Ace's gaze to look behind her, but there was no one behind her. "...It's hard to say that this situation is not Luffy's fault."

"They got separated." Ace held on to his hat nervously, "Do you want to go back and look for it?"

"It's okay not to look for it, right? Food and water are all on me."

In the desert, Ace and Alicia walked back following the footsteps they came from, without anyone speaking first. In silence, Ace was the first to break the silence.

"are you tired?"

"what?"

"You look quite tired now after traveling for so long. You are so weak, Alicia."

Ace is an old sarcastic person when he opens his mouth. He took off the backpack behind him and hung it around Alicia's neck, squatting in front of her. After waiting for a long time for Alicia to make a move, he turned back in confusion.

"Eh? Don't you want me to carry it?"

"No fool." Alicia threw herself on Ace's back. Ace weighed the weight in his hands, stood up, and continued walking back with a relaxed expression.

"Speaking of which, I was quite surprised to see you on the spaceship."

"It's so rare, so strange. What's so surprising about this?"

"How could it not be surprising? I always thought you would go to the navy." Ace stared at the gravel at his feet, and his speech slowed down because he was immersed in memories. "After all, when we were young, every time the old man preached to us, he asked us to When he wants to become a marine in the future, you will comply, and when he asks you to go to training, you will obediently follow him. In the end, you will become a pirate like me and Luffy."

"I don't want to get beaten." Alicia curled her lips and swayed her feet in the air. "You and Luffy are too stupid. Even if you want to be pirates, you don't have to say it out loud, at least not in front of grandpa. Doesn't this mean you are actively looking for a fight?"

"You're too cunning." Ace couldn't help but grin as he remembered the days when he was flying around in Gerbo Mountain. "But it turns out you also want to be a pirate? Luffy and I yell like this every day. , but it seems that I have never heard you talk about your dream once."

"I want to live freely and do what I want to do as I please." Alicia's arm holding Ace's neck tightened slightly, "If I become a navy, where I want to go, what I want to do, these are all Neither can be achieved.”

"Haha, wouldn't it mean that even the old man was fooled by you? If he found out, he would be so angry that he would explode, right?" Ace laughed, especially looking forward to Garp's expression when he learned that Alicia became a pirate, " Hey, you must not be caught by the old man, otherwise you will die miserably."

"Of course I know this. I'm trying very hard to keep a low profile and not let myself be wanted, okay?" Alicia shuddered, as if she had already seen the scene of her dog's head being beaten by Garp, " I must not let him catch me until I am stronger than grandpa. Even if I am caught by him, I will not give up the pursuit of freedom."

"Free? But Alicia, you are actually free now, right?"

"It seems so." Alicia looked at the back of Ace's head, her heart heavy, "What about you, Ace? Are you free?"

"Huh?" Ace, who didn't expect Alicia to ask such a question, laughed a little, "That's natural, right? I'm a pirate now!"

"..." Alicia said nothing.

"The back of my head is going to burn. Don't you look at me like that again?" Ace didn't get an answer and didn't care. He continued to talk to himself, "You're still the same as before. You don't care at all." Change."

"What are you talking about? What look?"

"What? Have you never realized it yourself?" Ace sighed, "That's the kind of look I can't understand! When I was a kid, every time you looked at me with that look , will give me the feeling that you think you are great, which is very unpleasant. To be honest, I didn’t like you at first and thought you were a bit unlucky. Sometimes I would bully you, but you didn’t pay attention to me. I thought you would change when you grow up, but who knew that since we met again, you started looking at me like that again."

"..." Alicia lowered her head on Ace's shoulder in frustration.

"Why are you so downcast all of a sudden? I'm not blaming you when I say this. I just want to say that after going to sea, I met more and more incredible people and had a group of amazing partners. I seem to be gradually able to understand that look in my eyes. "Ace tilted his head slightly and glanced at Alicia with a smile, "You have been worried about me, right? Although I don't know why you are always worried about me, but you always let your sister worry about you and so on. , it will make me look useless."

"What's wrong with your brother?" Alicia buried her face in Ace's neck, her voice a little dull.

"Of course there is a problem. I am the one who should be responsible for worrying about you. Please respect my pride as an older brother, Alicia. Stop looking at me with that worried look."

"I know." Alicia said angrily, "Then Ace has to promise me something."

"Well, yes."

"You must always remember that if something happens to you one day, your partners, your friends, Luffy, or me, all of us will definitely do it even if we risk our lives. It will rush to where you are. This, only this, you must not forget."

Ace's steps paused, and the weight of the two of them carried him sinking a little deeper into the gravel.

"Alicia..."

"what?"

"You really like me as your brother, right? Hahaha!"

"...I think you are the stinker!"

"Is that so? Wow! Don't pull the hair on the back of my head, it hurts!"