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After confirming that the man was truly unable to move, Kos stepped forward and removed the skull mask from his face.

Under the mask was the face of an ordinary young man with a hint of cleverness. After seeing Kos's serious expression, that face was also a bit panicked.

"Well, I can work on the ship to pay the fare."

"Ha ha."

Kos just smiled and remembered to make up for the ticket after he was discovered. It was too easy to get forgiveness in this way.

Moreover, Kos and the others are pirates. It is too naive for this man to actually want to obtain the pirates' forgiveness through apologies and work.

"Who is this?"

Ace rushed over, still practicing the weird dance of the giants on his feet.

"how could I know?"

It was also the first time for Kos to see the man in front of him, so how could he possibly know his identity.

"My name is Skaar, and I am a collector."

The man introduced himself familiarly,

"I have been on many pirate ships, and I am very confident in my handyman skills."

Facing Skar's rather proud introduction, Kos's head was filled with dark thoughts. It felt like he was not caught sneaking onto someone else's ship, but instead came for an interview after seeing the recruitment advertisement.

"Okay! Do you want to be my companion?"

Ace smiled and extended his hand to Skaar.

"Ace, are you kidding? How can a guy like this who sneaks into other people's ships be invited on board casually?"

Kos had always felt that Ace's standards for inviting people on board were too casual.

In fact, this phenomenon had already been revealed when he invited Michal. It was obvious that the two of them just chatted for a while, and then they invited Michal on board the boat.

Then came Daz. Although Cos did intend to invite him, Ace invited him before Daz gave an answer and Cos expressed his stance.

I already knew Michalkos and knew that he was a trustworthy person, so I didn't say much. As for Daz, because Cos knew that he would not easily betray the people he recognized, he turned a blind eye to him boarding the ship.

And it was the first time for Kos to meet Skar, both in the previous world and in the current world, so it was impossible to judge whether he was trustworthy.

Not to mention that Skaar still appeared as a stowaway, which made his trust in Kos drop a lot.

"What does it matter?"

Ace smiled and put his arm around Kos's shoulder.

"No matter who you are on the sea, as long as you are willing, you can board my ship and move forward together. And wouldn't the more companions, the better?"

"The more, the better!"

Kos suddenly aimed a knife at Ace's head. This attack with weak armament and domineering power failed to hit Ace as Kos expected, and his hand fell into a ball of flames.

Withdrawing his right hand, Kos blew on the slightly burned skin and continued,

"Do you want to count how many crew rooms there are on the Gray Pearl? If anyone can get on the ship, let alone pretending to be able to fit it in, the daily food consumption will be a terrifying number. It's not like there are no cooks on the ship. you!"

"I don't have to sleep in the crew room. I have no problem sleeping in the warehouse or on the deck, and I don't have much to eat!"

Skarr answered immediately. Although he was taking the opportunity to plead with himself, his tone was not very humble, and he still maintained a bit of cheerfulness.

"And I will leave on the next island, so I won't cause you too much trouble..."

"That won't do!"

Ace interrupted Skaar,

"Since you have become a companion, you have to accompany me to move forward. In exchange, I will also realize your dream."

"you……"

Only then did Skar belatedly realize that Ace was not allowing him to stay on the ship, but was formally inviting him to become his companion.

"I'm just a weirdo with no other talents besides doing odd jobs. I'm just a curious freak. And you should be a powerful natural ability user. Why would you invite someone like me to join?"

But Ace shook his head, obviously disapproving of his presumption.

"It's okay. This guy will even keep a big cat that can't catch mice as a companion. Of course, an adult with sound limbs is no problem. And you are not as useless as you said."

Kos took a closer look at Skar's panel and found that he not only had LV1 Armed Color Haki, but also had LV4 Knowledge Color Haki.

But it doesn't mean that he agrees with Skaar joining, but if Ace really wants to invite Skaar to join, he can't deny it. At most, he can only be more vigilant about Skaar after he joins.

"Gollum!"

Kodaz, who came behind Kos at some point, let out a low growl of dissatisfaction, then stretched out his claws threateningly and scratched Kos's trouser legs.

So Kos had to squat down and scratch Kodaz's chin to comfort him.

"So you want to be my companion?"

Ace reached out to Skarr again.

Looking at Ace's extended hand, Skaar's eyes became complicated. This was the first time he had been invited so sincerely.

Kos, who was petting his cat, looked at Skaar's expression and understood that he was probably ready to accept Ace's invitation, so he could only untie the chains that bound Skaar.

After untying the restraints, Skar hesitated for a moment and took Ace's hand.

"I will work hard to prove that your decision is not wrong!"

After pulling Scar up from the ground, Ace happily led him to the bonfire, and then the two started fighting and dancing like Dongli and Brockie.

"Another problem child."

Kos sighed helplessly.

Deus smiled and comforted him,

"You have to believe in Ace's vision, just like he trusts the two of us without reservation. The person he likes should be worthy of his support."

"Not always."

Kos smiled and said,

"If we encounter any major danger, I will definitely be the first to abandon you and run away."

"Oh."

Deus's reaction was extremely cold, and after a while he added with a smile,

"Remember to take me with you then."

"No kidding, how about the next route planning?"

Because Ace didn't want to go back, it was naturally impossible for the Spade Pirates to return to one of the seven starting islands based on the permanent pointer given by Robin.

Then we can only use the permanent pointer as an ordinary compass according to Deus' original idea. However, this is easier said than done. Not only must a scale be added to the spherical permanent pointer, but the direction must also be re-determined based on the position of each island on the chart.

"It's barely finished. Fortunately, Miss Robin told me the real direction of the pointer early. Otherwise, I would really go crazy if I had to do such a tedious job all over again."

Deus smiled bitterly and said,

"Originally, I thought it wouldn't be difficult, but due to the existence of the magnetic chain, it is very difficult to draw a chart of the Grand Line, so the positions of each island are blurry. So I can only compare the positions on many different charts. distribution, and checked some relevant records, and finally determined the next island and its location."

"Oh, that was really hard work."

Kos patted Deus on the shoulder, thankful that the Spade Pirates still had a reliable companion like him.

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