One Piece: Under the Throne

"Hey, hey, hey, don't worry about those weird settings. Anyway, I want to train Ace well, so that he can at least have the ability to protect himself when facing the truly powerful ones on the sea."

Leo cut off Will's imagination and spoke to everyone seriously.

"Leo, this is not like you. What is so special about that boy that you should worry about him?"

The butler frowned slightly. He didn't quite understand his captain's behavior. He obviously hated pirates, but why did he care so much about Roger's son?

Leo didn't know how to answer. Alfu's question hit the nail on the head. He couldn't say that it was because the character Ace in the comics was very charismatic. In the original One Piece, Leo liked Ace more than the protagonist Luffy. He didn't even understand why Ace was Captain Roger's son, but his former companions ignored him and even watched him die, but instead cared so much about Luffy, the grandson of the naval hero.

I don't know if it was because I felt like a loser when I met Ace in this life, or if I was simply angry. Since you guys don't care, then I'll take care of him. If Ace joins Whitebeard's army in the future, it would be helping my dad in a roundabout way.

"Ace is Ace, Roger is Roger. I didn't help him because of One Piece. How should I put it? I felt the same loneliness from Ace. I had endured it during the years before I met everyone. And his positive and sunny temperament also made me curious. I wonder how far he can go."

After saying that, everyone looked at Leo blankly, and Leo remained in a melancholy mood.

"Captain, did you eat something bad again?" Charles questioned after looking at the food in his hand.

"Shh! Keep your voice down. Can't you see the captain is enjoying himself?" Although Gloria felt that Leo's speech was a bit awkward, she couldn't bear to interrupt him.

"Tsk, he's just showing off." Gloria expressed what most people were thinking.

Everyone exchanged glances, thinking that applause was the way to go. However, a burst of sobbing was heard.

"Woo, Leo, I understand you. I haven't felt that kind of feeling since I met you, so we will always be together in the future, right? Haha~"

Will wiped his tears gently with a handkerchief, sobbed, and then blew his nose hard after speaking his true feelings.

Everyone:...

Leo: ...

"Ahem, anyway, I hope everyone can help me train them well. Okay, that's all. No one is allowed to mention what happened just now. Let's eat."

On the deck, Ace and Deuce wolfed down their lunch. Ace also drank the physical strength potion prepared by Victoria. He felt as if he was reborn and full of strength.

Ace put down the plate, stood up and stood at attention, put his hands with five fingers together on both sides of his body, and bowed to Victoria politely.

"Thank you for your hospitality and for treating me."

"Hehe, you are quite polite, much better than the average pirate. But even if you recover, don't think about running away. Obey the agreement with the captain, otherwise bad things will happen."

Ace didn't seem to hear the threat in Victoria's words, and replied firmly: "Please rest assured, I will never run away once a fight occurs."

Hearing this, Victoria curled her lips and thought, boy, you will suffer a great loss in the future. However, she did not remind Ace. She returned the lady's courtesy and left.

That afternoon, Ace and Will stood facing each other on the shore.

Ace was wearing a light yellow short-sleeved shirt with his chest open to reveal his strong and active abdominal muscles. His legs were spread out in a lunge stance, and his calf muscles were stretched tight, pulling down the brim of his cowboy hat. The two emblems on the hat, one crying and one smiling, seemed to symbolize Ace's black-and-white character that did not know how to adapt.

On the other side, Will was wearing a black kimono bathrobe, a pair of wooden clogs made of the precious Adam wood, and a pair of small-framed round sunglasses on his nose. These were given to him by Leo when he first met Leo, and he has been wearing them for many years without changing them. The overall outfit gives people a sense of déjà vu of a Japanese gangster from the 90s.

The sea breeze made their clothes rustle, and a tense atmosphere surrounded the space, as if the air was stagnant.

After the battle in the morning, Ace knew that he was no match for this group of people in terms of physical skills. He first carefully observed Will's body shape and judged that his opponent might be a power type, and then a battle plan took shape in his mind.

[Fire Fist] A huge pillar of fire rushed towards Will.

Compared to the grand scene on Ace's side, Will only raised his hand [Fish-Man Karate·Super·Ocean Current Push] to block the attack of the fire fist.

After extinguishing the fire fist, Ace disappeared. It turned out that Ace used the power of fire to propel himself into the sky and launched a sneak attack [Fire Fist] from above.

Will locked onto Ace without even raising his head, and deftly did a backflip on the spot before suddenly kicking out with [Five Elements Flow·Water·Backward Waves]. The kick with the water flow was like a blade, splitting the fire fist in half.

Ace saw that his attack on a single point had no effect, so he kept changing his moves. He made a shooting gesture with both hands [Firegun].

He fired with both hands alternately, and the flames shot towards Will like bullets.

"Increase the frequency of attacks? It's useless. [Murloc Karate: Shotgun Water Strike]."

The racial advantage of Will's race. As a fishman, Will has larger hands than his compatriots, so he developed more powerful karate moves.

Revolver versus shotgun, both sides turned the battle into a cowboy showdown, the bullets of fire and water collided in the air and canceled each other out, leaving only clouds of water vapor.

Ace frowned, and used the propulsion generated by the flames to bounce in the air constantly. He thought Will was an opponent who mainly used power and physical skills, but he didn't expect that long-range attacks could be so difficult to deal with.

Moreover, the opponent must be a master of dual-color domineering like the old man. How can I break through his defense?

Ace continued firing with the musket in his hands, and at the same time, he imitated Will's use of his feet to launch a flame attack [Flame Sun Sword]. Taking advantage of the gap in the musket shooting, Ace turned 360 degrees in the air and used a flaming roundhouse kick, which was like Will's water kick and also like the Storm Kick in the Six Styles. The crescent-shaped flaming sword slashed towards Will.

"Nice kick, but still useless, [Murloc Karate: Spiral Oscillation]."

Will took it a little more seriously and used an enhanced version of the Penetration Move, which was extremely penetrating and blocked the flaming bullet while also shattering the flaming scimitar.

It wasn't that Ace's attack worked. The main reason that made Will exert so much effort was that the place where the two were fighting had already been engulfed in flames. The flaming bullets that Ace shot off target while moving ignited the surrounding trees and broken wood.

The temperature on the battlefield continued to rise, making Will feel uncomfortable.

Suddenly Ace threw another fire fist, and Will used the same fishman karate to block it. While breaking the fire fist, he changed his palm into a knife and slashed forward.

But an accident happened, the hand knife failed to attach to the sea water, it was no longer Fishman Karate but just an ordinary hand knife.

"Hey, here comes the chance [Fire Fist]."

It turned out that Ace deliberately missed the target with his musket in order to ignite the battlefield and evaporate the moisture. Will had been using Murloc Karate to defend himself since the beginning of the battle, and the water on Will's body had long been used up. Now that Ace was more practical and mature, he used his fire fist to affect Will's vision and took the risk of breaking into his close quarters to launch an attack. How could a Murloc who couldn't use Murloc Karate resist my close-range attack? This wave was a sure win.

However, Will was not as flustered as Ace imagined. Instead, he praised: "Cunning boy."

[True Qi Flows·Unmoving Martial Body·Vajra Breaks]

Unfortunately, Ace didn't know that Will was not only a karate master, but also a martial arts master. The natural martial arts of Qinglong Temple have been thoroughly developed and promoted in Will's hands. With the natural life energy, armed color domineering and fish-man karate, Will has already embarked on his own path to becoming a master.

Will put his hands together, raised one foot and suddenly dropped it, bending his knees to make a horse stance to worship Buddha. His body was coated with a layer of gold, and a powerful aura burst out from his body, instantly shattering the ground within a radius of 50 meters. Ace's attack did not hurt Will at all, and he was also shaken and flew backwards.

After the smoke and dust cleared, part of the coast was found to have been cut down by more than ten centimeters, and Ace was lying on the edge of the circular pit, his life or death unknown.

At this moment, Ace felt like his body was about to fall apart, and there was no part of his body that didn't hurt. He struggled to stand up, and his jaw dropped when he saw the marks left by Will's powerful blow.

"You can't even defeat me just by defending? I really can't accept that I can't even let you take the initiative to attack."

Ace suddenly stood up, opened his arms to Will, and cried out: "Come on, please give me the last blow, let me surrender like this, I can't do it."

Will showed an admiring expression. What a courageous young man. He put his arms into his sleeves, then stretched them out from the slit in the front and pulled his shirt down to his waist. "As you wish, Ace, you will definitely become a strong man on the sea. [True Qi Flow·Super Pushing Hands·Blue Dragon Roar]."

Will pushed his palm forward with force, and the dragon-shaped energy tore through the earth and completely swallowed up the unyielding young man in front of him.

On the other side, on the Poseidon, Leo and his crew watched the duel with Deuce. Deuce was already in tears, and his nails on his hands that were holding the side of the ship were broken due to excessive force.

After seeing Ace being engulfed by the energy, Deus couldn't bear it any longer. He shouted Ace's name and was about to rush down, but before he could move, he was pressed against the side of the boat by Alfu.

"Asshole, let me go. I want to die with the captain."

Leo remained calm and said, "Why are you crying? Ace is not dead yet. Gloria, go bring the boy back. Victoria, prepare to treat him."

"Okay Captain."

"Haha! No problem. I promise he'll be full of energy in a day."

Charles crossed his arms and smiled, "Captain, I understand what you mean. A young man who is not afraid of life and death in order to carry out his beliefs is really admirable. I will prepare a sumptuous dinner for him to reward his bravery."

Gloria also chuckled and said, "Haha, this passionate young man has given me a lot of creative inspiration. I want to write a song for Ace."

Deuce looked at everyone in disbelief: "Why...why on earth would you do this?"

Deuce also realized that Leo and his companions were not playing with Ace, but were training Ace with good intentions. However, he couldn't understand why they would show goodwill to them when it was their first meeting and they were one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea who specialized in eliminating pirates.

Ah Fu released his hand that was holding down Deuce and said elegantly, "Young man, there is no reason for us to extinguish your dreams before you do anything bad. Don't doubt or refuse. You two are still too weak."

Yes, we are still too weak. We don’t even have the right to reject the kindness of the strong. What a damn kindness! Deus stopped struggling. At this moment, he seemed to have grown up a little.

Soon Gloria and Will returned to the Poseidon. The maid carried Ace straight to the medical room, but Will became the object of Leo's ridicule.

Leo stood on the side of the boat and hugged Will's shoulders. "Hey, Will, you've been tricked by me. I saw it clearly just now. Even your fishman karate was ineffective. It seems that this battle has also made you discover your weakness."

Will returned victoriously and raised his head proudly: "No, even in that situation I can still use Fishman Karate."

"Oh? What are you going to do?"

"Hetui, [fishman karate strikes water]."

Leo: ...