[One Piece] Uncrowned King

Teresa is not young anymore. For her, some things can no longer cause her emotions to fluctuate too much, but things that really make her unable to control her emotions will also make her count I can't forget it every day, just like now.Ever since seeing the grown-up Ace, Teresa has been tossing and turning and having difficulty falling asleep in the past few days, and there is no one around to confide her joy to. Facing a group of juniors, she can't vent her emotions calmly.Therefore, during the few days when Ace's ship was heading towards the Moby Dick of the Whitebeard Pirates, Teresa had trouble sleeping for several days.

Facing the mirror, Teresa, whose eyes were already somewhat blurred, took a closer look at the fundus of her eyes, and sure enough, she saw a thick black shadow underneath, which was invisible two days ago, but it suddenly became obvious today.Reaching out to rub her eyes, Teresa sighed, then flushed her face casually with cold water, dried it with a towel, and put on gold-rimmed glasses that are usually only used for surgery and reading to block the dark shadows under her eyes.She never had the habit of using any cosmetics, not when she was young, and even less now, so at this time, she couldn't even find a foundation.And a group of old men on the ship would not carry this kind of thing with them. Of course, apart from being on the Moby Dick, the boys and girls like to dress up to hide.

Looking in the mirror, the wrinkled and already half-white hair, Teresa stretched out her hand to loosen the hair on her shoulders, looked at the silvery white color, and said to herself: "Time flies so fast, I'm old too..."

"Wake up——!"

The shouts outside woke Teresa from her melancholy. In the second team where the lazy atmosphere spread, Ace got up from the bed early and started the daily routine wake-up task.Then, the originally quiet morning was broken, and the outside began to become noisy. Teresa let go of her lock of hair, put on a heavy windbreaker, opened the door and went outside.

As soon as I walked outside the door, I could smell a faint fragrance, which was the prelude to the start of breakfast.The chefs on board took out the prepared food, and a group of big men turned their faces away when they saw Teresa, then thought of something, suppressed the urge to speak, and nodded politely to her.Since Ace regarded Teresa as an ordinary ship doctor, this group of bad guys have tacitly concealed her identity, and none of them told Ace the truth.And Ace, who is born with few tendons, didn't notice the weird atmosphere, and still just regarded Teresa as an ordinary partner.

Taking a sneak peek at Teresa, Tiki of the Second Division said to Ace: "I just contacted Marco, and the Moby Dick will stop at the island in front of us and wait for us. Then we just need to go straight, and after that You will be able to meet up with your father in half a day."

Hearing this, Teresa paused holding the water glass, raised the corner of her mouth, and continued to drink water with her head down.Feeling that the water temperature was just right, she took out some pills for lowering blood pressure and other common diseases of the elderly from her pocket and put them in her palm, intending to swallow them with water.She can't live without drugs every day. She has been going on for several years, and it has become a habit now.

However, Ace is not used to it.

He leaned close to her, put his chin in both hands and said, "Are you sick?"

"It's just some common antihypertensive drugs for the elderly. It's nothing to worry about." Teresa swallowed the pills and washed them down with water.

Ace frowned, and said, "What is the common disease of the elderly? You are younger than Dad. Dad doesn't take as much medicine as you do. It looks scary." He thought for a while, He said again: "My old man didn't take any medicine. You are younger than them, and your body is so weak. Your physique is too poor. Go back and see Kiel."

Although Newgate is older than me, Garp wants to call me older sister.Swallowing these words into her stomach, Teresa put away the medicine bottle, and said to Ace: "I am a ship doctor myself, and no one is more familiar with my body than me. Don't worry." She stretched out her hand and smoothed Ace's body. With a wrinkle between Si's brows, he said: "Relax at a young age, don't think wildly, we are all old, and we know what we know. Ace, you are still young, as long as you live happily."

It's over half a century old, how could Teresa not understand, Ace's mind is very heavy, he puts everything around him more important than himself, so he is worried about gain and loss, and has no sense of security.These days, Teresa has noticed that Ace is trying to express himself, no matter what, he will take the initiative to take on it. This child is too tired to live, and he neither believes in others nor in himself.

Somewhat strange and Teresa's attitude that clearly belonged to the elders, Ace's expression was obviously puzzled.And Teresa also changed the subject at the right time, saying: "By the way, you said New...you said that Dad didn't take medicine?"

"That's right, why does daddy need to take medicine when he's in good health?" The simple Ace replied subconsciously after the topic was suddenly changed.

"Oh..." Teresa smiled meaningfully.That disobedient old man, before she left, she clearly told her that the medicine could not be stopped three times a day, so she really ignored her words.

Teresa got a little angry when she heard something she didn't know from Ace's mouth.When Newgate was young, he was obviously an honest man who would sincerely fulfill his promises, but now the older he gets, the worse his temper becomes. If he doesn't keep staring at him, he will forget his words in a blink of an eye, and Marco and the others can't do anything about it he.Not to mention not taking the prescribed medicine, I'm afraid I didn't drink less alcohol.

It seems that after going back, he needs to have a careful physical examination.

.........

When Teresa was still worrying about Newgate's physical condition, Newgate held a wine tank in his hand on the deck of the Whitebeard Pirates, and leaned on the sofa while watching his sons play, while pouring wine into his mouth. Drinking.The corners of his mouth were raised, apparently in a good mood, but Marco on the side was also in a bad mood. Watching his father pouring down the wine one after another, he couldn't help reminding: "Dad, it's not good to drink early in the morning." , don't drink so much, if mom comes back..."

"Whatever she does, just nagging, that's all right." Newgate obviously didn't listen to her.

"..." Marco sighed, sorry mom, dad is so stubborn, I can't persuade him at all.

At this time, there was a sudden noise from the watchtower above Moby Dick, and then a person jumped off the top and said to Newgate: "Dad! Ace's ship is back, he took it!" Go back to mom!"

Hearing this, Newgate poured all the wine into his mouth with his backhand, and then threw the wine bottle directly into the sea, destroying the corpse.

"..." Marco and a group of pirates were silent.

Dad, what you are doing now is completely different from what you just said.