I am brushing up materials in One Piece

As the excitement and excitement of breaking through the current gradually dissipated, the limitations of the Stormtrooper finally began to show.

The Stormtrooper, which was not a large ship in the first place, squeezed in three big men and Ace continued to release flames. This resulted in the fact that it was clearly early February, but Kos and Deus felt like it was June in the sweltering heat. .

"Is it hot? I think it's fine!"

Ace responded with a smile after hearing the other two's complaints.

Kos and Deus rolled their eyes at him at the same time.

"Haha, you are just a ball of human-shaped flame now. Damn if you feel hot."

Kos took out a wooden can filled with fresh water from the Stormtrooper's storage room and moved as far away from Ace as possible to slowly moisten his dry lips.

After seeing Kos drinking water, Deus also picked up a can of water and counted the amount of fresh water again. He frowned after silently calculating the consumption rate in his mind.

"Based on the current frequency of drinking water, the reserves on the Stormtrooper are only enough for two days."

"Then we just need to find land within two days!"

Ace remains as optimistic as ever.

"When we run out and haven't found land yet, we can use Ace's ability to distill seawater. It should be able to cope with the situation, but it's best to find land as soon as possible as Ace said."

After being on the pirate ship, all Cos could do was learn to be as optimistic as Ace.

"Yes, it seems that there is really no other way."

Deus also understood that he should not panic now, because panic would be useless.

Maybe people who love to laugh are not too bad in luck. On the evening of the second day after setting off from the isolated island, Kos, who was watching from the bow of the ship, saw two small black dots appearing on the horizon.

As the Charger continued to approach that direction, the two small black spots gradually became larger and clearer. They turned out to be two ships. The two ships were not small boats like the Charger but schooners that could take the crew on long voyages. .

"These two ships are a bit subtle!"

After seeing the appearance of the two ships clearly, Kos couldn't help but shook his head and said.

There was no other reason, because one of the two ships had the navy's seagull flag on its sail, and the other one had the skull and crossbones flag representing the pirates.

After continuing to get closer, you can see that the two ships are constantly firing cannonballs at each other. It seems that the navy and the pirates are fighting. And seeing that the distance between the two ships is getting closer, it seems that a boarding battle is about to begin.

"It looks like it's a battle between the navy and the pirates. Ace, what should we do?"

Deus also saw the scene of the battle between the pirates and the navy ahead, so he began to ask Ace for his opinion.

"Go help, follow them and you will be rescued."

Ace made his judgment without hesitation.

"Who is that gang?"

Kos asked, looking at Ace with interest.

Ace felt that Kos was a little confused, and then said naturally: "It must help the navy! Because aren't pirates bad guys?"

"Pfft-"

Kos couldn't help but laugh out loud, leaving Ace looking confused.

At first, Deus didn't quite understand it, but he finally understood it after being stunned for a while, so he also laughed.

"what happened?"

Ace originally thought it was just Cos who was a little weird, but after even Deus started laughing, he finally began to think about whether there was something wrong with him.

While suppressing a smile, Kos said perfunctorily to Ace: "It's nothing, I just think you have a clearer self-understanding."

After hearing Kosna's perfunctory and joking answer, it took a while for Ace to come back to his senses - "It seems that I am also a pirate."

However, after realizing that he was a pirate, Ace decided to help the navy. After all, if a stone was thrown and hit nine navy, there might be one or two bad guys, but if it hit the pirates, basically none of them would be good.

So the Charger accelerated towards the navy warship and pirate ship under Ace's "fire".

"Captain Crowe, something is approaching from directly ahead!"

The pirate on the top of the mast on the pirate ship, which was fully prepared for war, reported to a man in a black suit.

Crowe, a man in a suit with finger blades on his hands, pushed up his glasses with the lower ends of his palms and asked with an ugly expression: "Is it reinforcements from the navy?"

"No, it was just a small speedboat with only three people on it."

The pirate on the mast reported.

"What should I do, Captain Crow? Do you want to stop the operation?"

Another pirate wearing a black top hat and heart-shaped sunglasses cautiously asked the suit pirate known as Captain Crowe.

"It's okay. Just kill the three people on the speedboat. No one can stop my plan. But the focus is still on the navy. Just remember to leave only one alive for Jango to hypnotize."

Crow gritted his teeth and looked determined. Then he looked at a tall and thin man wearing pointed claw gloves and said,

"Sam, take someone in a small boat to stop and kill the people on the speedboat."

"No! Captain Crowe. We can't stop them. They are too fast."

The pirate on the mast pointed to the sea in front of the pirate ship with a shocked face.

A group of pirates who were eager to start a boarding battle followed the direction of the pirate on the mast and swarmed towards the bow of the ship. Then they saw a small boat with fierce flames spraying from the tail heading towards them on the sea. The pirate ship is coming at speed.

"So fast!"

"How could it be so fast?"

"My Pirate King! How did you do this?"

Some of them marveled at the Stormtrooper's speed.

"How did that flame come about?"

"There's a man on the boat who's on fire!"

"It's a devil fruit capable user!"

There were also some sharp-eyed pirates who saw the flaming Ace on the boat and recognized the power of the Devil Fruit.

Seeing Ace's body turn into flames, Crowe's face was so gloomy that he almost shed tears.

Crowe is a maverick pirate. He is neither an adventurer with a dream to go to sea, nor an extreme villain who enjoys robbery. He has only one dream - to make some money and live a stable life.

If you want to enlarge your dream, it would be to make more money and live a prosperous and stable life.

In order to achieve this dream, he needs to let himself be "captured" by the navy first, and today is the day when his plan officially begins to be implemented.

But now the intrusion of a Devil Fruit user made him start to think about whether he should terminate the plan.

Because if he can't deal with the Devil Fruit user, his plan will have unexpected insiders, and once everything he does here is known to others, all his efforts will be in vain.

"Don't worry about them, let's continue with the plan!"

Crowe turned around and looked at the navy warship that was about to get close to each other. He was always cautious and decided to take a risk because of the stable life so close. He was betting that the people on the small boat would not notice or remember everything that happened here. .

"But Captain Crowe, they're about to hit us!"

A group of pirates gathered at the bow of the ship exclaimed loudly.

"what?!"

Crowe felt as if the whole world was against him.

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Later addition: I misremembered the time of Crowe's retirement. He should have retired before Ace went to sea. But my outline is based on this wrong memory, so I can't change it.

I'm very sorry, and please just turn a blind eye and let me go.