[One Piece]Walking with the Sea

The whole world is a bet in a grand gambling game. If the bet wins, all future generations will be winners.

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"Hey, hey! Brat, can you do it? How many rounds is this already!!"

Ace turned a deaf ear to Roger's questioning. He was standing on the ground next to him holding a rubber hollow ball. There was a long circle drawn with a stick on the ground in front of him. Inside the circle, he was standing. There were two people on full alert - An and Lujiu.

Being bored in the morning, Roger suggested that a few people play a ball-throwing game together. The so-called ball-throwing game, as the name suggests, is to draw a long circle on the ground, and then one person is responsible for throwing the ball, and the rest of the people stand in the circle. The main thing is to avoid the flying balls and not to step outside the circle. The person hit by the ball has to take over from the person who threw the ball and throw the ball. The first person to throw the ball can stand in the circle, but the person hit by the ball cannot even if he acts as the thrower and hits someone behind. Let’s continue playing in circles.

This is a game that local children particularly like, and Roger only remembered it after seeing it many times when he went out to buy groceries.

However, Vivian said it was boring and uninterested in this childish game. Ace didn't want to talk to him, but An politely refused according to Ace's wishes. Eighty percent of the rejection votes made Roger extremely sad. Jue, just when everyone thought that this game would be ignored, Lu Jiu suddenly expressed that she wanted to play it.

Upon hearing that Lujiu wanted to play, Vivian immediately said that the game sounded good. Ace agreed and An agreed with a smile.

Roger: "…………"

The game started happily, but another problem arose before it started, that is, Lujiu also wanted to play in person. Roger persuaded her that she was not suitable for strenuous exercise while pregnant with a baby, but Lujiu suppressed Roger with absolute majesty. Here, Lujiu is like a god. No one will refuse what she says. Whether it is Vivian Ace or An, they all obey her orders. Roger does not dare to say "no"!

The first person to lose the ball was decided through rock, paper, scissors. Roger was very lucky to win all the paper with a rock, and stood at the edge of the circle with a slumped face.

As soon as Lujiu shouted, Roger hit Vivian with a quick ball...

“Vivian out”

Vivian gritted her teeth and glared at Roger, who put his hands on his hips and laughed triumphantly.

After Lujiu called start again, Vivian immediately stared at Roger throwing the ball. She threw it wherever Roger was hiding, as if she would not give up until Roger was eliminated. However, how could Roger be hit by her so easily? He easily dodged all the balls thrown by Vivian with a few quick moves. Vivian was so angry that her hands became harder and harder, and the balls she threw were like bullets.

Ten minutes later, Lujiu, An and Ace were all standing in a small corner, cheering Vivian constantly.

Seeing that he had become the target of public criticism, Roger could only pretend miserably that he had not dodged and was hit in the back by Vivian. Vivian's angry face disappeared, and she finally smiled happily as if her great revenge had been avenged. Then she happily walked aside and sat down to watch the battle.

Roger once again became the loser. He looked at the remaining people on the field and stared at Ace with a wicked smile. Of course, Ace could not be Roger's opponent. Even though he had tried his best to dodge, he was still hit in the stomach by Roger.

Staring coldly at Roger's arrogant and proud face, Ace fiercely snatched the ball from his hand. At this time, there were still Lujiu and An on the court, but Ace hit both of them without hesitation, so this The ball was thrown for more than ten rounds, and it didn't even touch the corners of the clothes of the two people on the court.

Roger watched for a long time and finally couldn't help shouting.

"Roger, Ace is not as cold and heartless as you." Vivian snorted at Roger. When Roger heard this, he looked at her in disbelief and said angrily: "What? I'm cold and heartless. ?! Vivian, tell me. Why am I so cold and heartless?!"

"Ace is a hundred times better than you! He's also more polite than you, huh--" In the past few days, every time Vivian and Lujiu needed help, it was Ace who took the initiative to step forward. Roger, that stinky guy, was pretty good even if he didn't make fun of her, and Ace and Ann would always take the initiative to help with housework and other things, and were very polite. In comparison, Roger seemed clumsy and couldn't do anything except physical labor. good.

The game finally ended when An couldn't help but ask Ace not to let go, and then was hit by Ace, and Lujiu won the final victory.

In the evening, Lu Jiu looked at Ace who was eating so much and smiled tenderly and dotingly, then kept picking up food for him. After eating, Ace told Lujiu about his adventure vividly at Lujiu's request. Lujiu listened with a smile and echoed a few words from time to time. Roger sat aside seriously and said nothing, but raised his head high. His ears showed that he was eavesdropping.

Vivian also sat aside and listened carefully, but did not notice that An, who was sitting next to her, had been secretly watching her.

But what makes Vivian strange is that sometimes Ace's voice will disappear while talking, especially when talking about names or key points. Ace will never say the name, but it is obvious that he His mouth is still opening and closing.

How strange, is this a ghost?

On the morning of the second day, after dinner, Lujiu asked Vivian and An to go to the hillside not far away to pick some hibiscus flowers and put them in the vase.

"Um...Vivian, can I ask you something?" An was not used to calling Vivian directly, but she didn't know how to call her.

"Okay." Vivian answered casually while picking hibiscus flowers carefully.

"How old are you?"

Unexpectedly, this was the question, and Vivian gave her a strange look. By the way, An's attitude towards her seems to have always been strange, but age is not something that cannot be said, "I am 18 years old." As soon as she finished speaking, Vivian suddenly noticed something, and she stood up straight , secretly visually measured her and An's heights, and sadly found that he was more than half a head shorter than her.

"Huh..." An was stunned. She thought her... ah no, it was Vivian. She thought Vivian was only sixteen years old at most. Unexpectedly, she was already 18 years old. Does that mean …

"Okay, let's go back." Guessing that they had picked enough, Vivian asked An to go back together.

On the way, An kept looking at her from time to time, as if he was hesitant to speak, but Vivian, who was walking in front, didn't notice.

When the two went back, Lujiu, Ace and Roger were preparing lunch in the room. Lujiu was the chef and Ace was helping, while Roger was washing the dishes bitterly.

After the two of them replaced the flowers in the vase, Vivian turned around to ask if she needed help, but she caught sight of the tattoo on Ace's back. In fact, Vivian was already very curious when she saw the tattoo for the first time, but she felt that she was not familiar with them yet, so she never asked. Now that she saw the tattoo again, she thought of this question again, and couldn't help but asked quietly.

"An, that tattoo on Ace's back...is Whitebeard, right?"

An nodded: "It's the symbol of the Whitebeard Pirates."

"Are you and Ace members of the Whitebeard Pirates?" But why haven't I seen them before? Could it be Marco and his new partners?

An nodded and shook his head, smiling: "I'm not from the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace is."

"Is that so?!" No wonder she doesn't have any tattoos on her body, but aren't they ghosts? Vivian finally reacted belatedly. Ace and An's originally translucent bodies gradually solidified in the hours after they appeared, becoming like normal people.

But Vivian still always thought that the two of them were ghosts.

Ace and An stayed here for a week, and then disappeared in the morning a week later without anyone noticing, just like no one expected their arrival, and no one found them. 's departure.

It wasn't until Vivian called them to finish eating that they discovered the fact that the two were missing. After discovering this situation, Vivian became anxious and thought something had happened to them.

Roger said that they had probably returned to their own place. Although Vivian didn't quite understand what he said, she could tell that Ace and Ann had probably gone home, so she could only mutter in despair. He left without saying goodbye to her.

Lujiu glanced at Vivian with a smile, then looked at Roger, and suddenly asked with unclear meaning: "Have you decided on a time, Roger?"

After understanding what she meant, Roger glanced at her apologetically, stretched out his hand to cover the back of her hand, his eyes gradually became firm: "Soon." He suddenly sighed: "I can't see him before this. What a pity, Whitebeard is a very good guy..."

Lujiu held his hand tightly, "Go ahead! I will always support your decision, no matter what it is!"

"Lujiu, being able to meet you is the luckiest thing in my life."