[One Piece] I will definitely not be stabbed again after reopening after many episodes.

Lacey's matter-of-fact attitude confused the pirates.

The pirates couldn't help but complain: "How does the crow look like a writing desk?"

"What does it have to do with it except that it's the same color?"

"Maybe...because of the crow-shaped writing desk?"

Lacey groaned and shook his head, "If you don't believe me, ask Marco if the crow looks like a writing desk."

Lacey Maomao is super confident, raising her head proudly, holding her head high, and her aqua-blue hair swaying behind her head.

The pirates collectively turned to look at Marco.

Under the scorching gazes of his brothers, Marco raised his eyelids and said, "Ah, the crow is like a writing desk."

"... "

"... "

"Don't tell lies just because you're a little bastard!" xn

“Ku la la la”

Lacey tilted her head, crossed her arms and looked at Ace, "Hey, little Freckles, do you think the crow looks like a writing desk?"

Ace shook his head honestly, but his words didn't match his actions, "...it's similar."

Thatch wrinkled his features together in distress, "So why?"

Lacey Cat: "."

Don’t you understand yet?

Lacey: "Because you like me."

"Because I like me, I say a crow is like a writing desk, and a crow is like a writing desk."

In a sweet and knowing blow, Lacey no longer said that she liked them, but started saying that they liked her.

Well, that smug little expression makes people happier than any sweet words.

Ace immediately turned red. He is now somewhat resistant to Lacey's bold, straightforward and passionate confession, but he is reluctant to express his emotions...

Fortunately, Marco, who was still calm and calm, stood next to him. Ace's eyes drifted for a while and asked him, "Marco, do you know the reason?"

Marco shook his head, and Phoenix's arbitrary pirate style came to the fore, "Hey, it sounds like she said it."

Lacey Cat jumped onto Ace's back with a smile and said triumphantly: "See, Marco must be helping me."

The ends of Lacey's red eyes were outlined with mist, and the diffuse autumn light was emitting dots of light, as if there were stars in her eyes. Her eyes were full of Ace, who turned his head to look at her, and Ace who was standing behind her. A phoenix with arms folded on the side.

One pair of eyes, two people, ruthless and affectionate, pure and affectionate.

Ace smiled helplessly, "Yes, yes, Marco is definitely helping you."

Showing off and receiving satisfactory feedback, Lacey Maomao rode on Marco's neck with great success, "Phoenix charge, charge!"

Marco, who had a headache, put his hand on Maomao's slender back, "Lacie."

No matter how much her daddy has a headache, Lacey the Cat still holds the Phoenix's head with both hands, and then puts her little head on the Phoenix's head, like a little orange cat stacking the cats until they die. On the bird.

"Let's go to Dressrosa~" Lacey always acted coquettishly.

Marco looked at Whitebeard, who was sitting firmly on the fishing platform.

The white beard and crescent moon beard were curled up, and the sharp golden eyes saw through the eldest son's hesitant attitude.

"Ku la la la, let the little bastard and Ace go."

The Whitebeard Pirates did have an incident in Dressrosa that needed someone to deal with, but the original candidates were other captains.

Marco nodded, but before he could say anything, Lacey, who was laying her head on his head, suddenly asked, "Is Ace going to Wano Country?"

Then everyone's attention focused on Ace again.

Whitebeard disagreed and vetoed all opinions with one vote, "No."

The head of the family suddenly became dignified, and Lacey Maomao stopped making trouble and allowed Marco to hold her in his arms.

The stubborn Ace and Whitebeard looked at each other, "Dad!"

Whitebeard: "No."

Rejected, Ace subconsciously looked for Lacey's support, but when he looked at Lacey, Lacey was uncharacteristically calm, with a calm expression on his face, as if he had expected it.

Lacey told him, "Ace, now is not the time."

"What's not the right time..." Ace wanted to retort

Lacey interrupted him directly and declared word for word: "Now is not the time to leave daddy."

It turned out that the brothers who supported Ace also calmed down because of her words, and all their agitation cooled down in the little sister's indifferent expression.

Marco put Lacey down and brought her to her feet on the deck.

At this moment, Lacey looked extremely indifferent. She looked around with sharp eyes, "I won't let dad deal with a lunatic like Kaido."

"This is a choice. Call me selfish or callous, it doesn't matter."

"To me, Whitebeard Edward Newgate is indeed more important than all the people of Wano."

"The most important thing for a pirate is freedom, companions and treasure."

"The partners of the Whitebeard Pirates are brothers, the treasure is daddy, and freedom..."

"We have no freedom from beginning to end. At most, we just do whatever we want."

Lacey looked at Ace seriously, "If dad wants to go, I won't stop him, I will even act as a forward to open the way, but he has already rejected you Ace."

"To put it bluntly, I don't dare to bet on how long he can live. Ten or twenty years? But I can live for a long time, so long that even Marco and the others may lose it."

Lacey calmly said what no one wanted to face, but still seemed indifferent.

She and Marco stood together at Whitebeard's hand, her whole body in the shadow of Whitebeard, like a prison bird trapped by family affection.

But she was not. She said to Ace: "You have only two choices. One is to become stronger and do what you want to do by yourself. The other is to wait for your father to die and then win over your brothers to die."

Lacey's thoughts were clearly revealed, and White Beard looked happy. Ku La La La smiled and poured wine into her mouth without stopping or refuting.

His daughter felt sorry for him and wanted her sons to grow up and be strong, so what reason did he have to stop her?

Lacey refused to stop at this point and further declared, "For us, a new era seems to be coming with the wave."

"Wave after wave of new pirates emerge, but as long as Whitebeard is alive for one day, this era can only be the old era."

Lacey raised his head and glanced at Whitebeard, and interrupted angrily, "Who knows if this smelly old man will say: There is no ship to carry him in the new era."

"Since he will say no, then this era can only be the old era. If anyone wants to update it, then step on my corpse and challenge this smelly old man again."

"As long as I live, I will never try to beat my stinky old man. This is my attitude."

Ace is very stubborn, Whitebeard is even more stubborn, but Lacey is the most stubborn.

Ace is strong, Whitebeard is stronger, but Lacey is very strong.

Lacey is not afraid of being disliked, "It's not that I look down on your strength, little Freckles, but you are indeed still very weak."

For Lacey, Ace is still too weak, and a one-on-one fight against Kaido is like hitting a rock with an egg.

As for Whitebeard, to be honest, even if Whitebeard's body is repaired by Lacey's "sugar pills", he is still not in a situation where he can fight unscrupulously against a lunatic like Kaido.

So even if it was to give these stupid sons some time to grow up, Whitebeard would neither take his sons to kill the Beast Pirates for the sake of Wano, nor would he let Ace go to Wano to die alone.