[One Piece] Brother Ace, please pay the bill

~~~~~ You chase me and run away, that is the correct posture for love~~~~~

Back in KILALALA, William was still awake.He was holding a big pipe, standing on the terrace on the third floor, smoking silently.

"I thought you wouldn't be here today, Ace." William said when he saw Ace returning to Center Street with Mandala.

Ace was speechless. He now felt that Mandala's strange character must have been influenced by William.How can there be a restaurant owner and chef who expect others to eat Bawang meal.

"William, can you do squid sashimi?" Mandala pointed to the three dead agate squid in Ace's hand.

KILALALA's dishes are basically Western food. Mandala has never seen William cooking Chinese or Japanese food.

"Of course." William took down the pipe in his mouth, and he exhaled a gray smoke ring, "How can someone who has been a cook on a ship not know how to cook seafood sashimi?"

Mandala blinked. From the beginning, she felt that William must not be a simple character.Especially after he told himself that he was going to teach her swordsmanship, no matter how a chef looks at it, it should be that the swordsmanship is better.

"Let's go, Ace." Mandala opened the door of KILALALA, and led Ace to the third floor, "You used to eat in the lobby on the second floor before, but there are no customers today, let's go to the third floor .”

"The third floor, is it for nobles to eat?" Ace was a little repelled, and he thought of Sabo.That childhood friend who is obviously a noble, but wants to go to sea to become a pirate.

"It's not specially for nobles, but the decoration is more luxurious, and the table fee is outrageous." Mandala didn't notice Ace's abnormality, she explained casually.

"How outrageous?" Ace suddenly wanted to know how much Mandala's family had, so he let this stupid-looking restaurant owner casually send someone else's boat.

"It's only 2000 Baileys per person, it's okay." Mandala smiled, she didn't know much about the prices in this world.But judging from the 300 Baileys for a plate of fried beef tenderloin in their restaurant, the table fee is still very unscrupulous.

"2000 Bailey!" Ace exclaimed, feeling dizzy for a while, and quickly grabbed the white jade handrail of the stairs wrapped in gold leaf, "You are a black shop, even the pirates dare not be as blatant as you Robbing the nobles!"

"Don't you think William's cooking skills are not worth the money?" Mandala looked at Ace contemptuously, "In life, food and drink are two words. A good cook is worth three naval warships. Human food Death is justified."

"Stop, stop, stop." Ace rarely interrupted others, but now he really didn't want to listen anymore, "I'm not interested in listening to your nonsense, let's eat."

"You're so smart, you know how to get straight to the point." Mandala gave a thumbs up in admiration, "Today, I'll let you see if the 2000 Bailey's table fee is worth it!"

After handing over the three squids to William, Mandala and Ace sat on the special table for couples outside the terrace.

"Ace, look, this ship is beautiful." Mandala took out the sales brochure of the shipyard and put it in front of Ace, letting him see the pirate ship she had chosen for him.

"Mandala, what exactly are you trying to do?" With the flickering candlelight, Ace couldn't see through the conspiracy behind Mandala's innocent smile.

"I want to send you a boat." Mandala blinked her big eyes, pretending to be calm and said, "It's just half a month's turnover, don't be polite to me."

"What do you know?" Ace didn't trust Mandala at all, but he couldn't find any evidence that she was sent by the Navy to track down his identity.He reached out and grabbed Mandala's wrist directly.Deliberately increased the force slightly, Ace wanted to scare Mandala.

"I……"

I know everything!

Mandala really wanted to shout out like this, but she knew that by saying this, Ace would not regard herself as a psychopath or a spy of the navy.

"My lady is just hungry." At this moment, William came over with a large plate.

The plate was covered with a layer of ice, and on the surface of the ice were slices of squid so thin that they could hardly be seen.Under the low temperature of the ice, a layer of frost quickly formed on the squid slices.

Putting the plate on the table, William had no intention of leaving.He leaned against the pillar beside him and smoked leisurely again.

Although William didn't make any unnecessary movements, Ace had the illusion that he was going to be killed by this strong man for a moment.At the same time he grabbed Mandala's wrist, he was also strangled by William.

Ace suddenly understood that Mandala really just wanted to give him a ship, although he still didn't understand why.He completely ruled out the speculation that Mandala was a lackey of the navy, because if that was the case, he would have been killed hundreds of times by this cook named William.

"Ace..." Mandala felt that Ace was not holding his hand so hard, but he still didn't let go.

"I was stung by a jellyfish just now, you can feed me." Ace was almost 16 years old anyway, and he quickly thought of another possibility.

"Okay!" Mandala was overjoyed. She grabbed the chopsticks, picked up a piece of squid sashimi, and brought it to Ace's mouth. "This sashimi must be eaten before it melts, otherwise it won't taste good."

"Come on, ah..." Mandala smiled brightly, and the candlelight reflected in her eyes was extremely bright.

"Uh..." Looking at the overflowing love in Mandala's eyes, Ace knew that he was actually just attracted by this young lady.He had goosebumps all over his body, and he felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his forehead.

"Ace, what's wrong with you, are you cold?" Seeing Ace shivering, Mandala thought it was because he was only wearing a vest and was frozen by the wind.

"Sorry, I'm leaving first." Ace let go of Mandala's wrist tremblingly, he stood up, and ran away like the wind.

"What's the matter?" Mandala couldn't figure out the situation at all, she looked at Ace's shrinking figure with confusion.

"Hahaha." William couldn't help laughing when he saw Ace running away.His laughter was so loud that the plates on the table shook slightly.

Adolescent teenagers are more or less longing and fearful about love affairs, especially in the situation of being chased by girls, the fear is far more than the joy.

Thinking of Ace's father back then, he was not afraid of anything, except for the hibiscus flower.

"Miss Mandala." William finished laughing, then turned to Mandala and said, "Today, when Siren and I went shopping for seafood, we found a fisherman picking up a devil fruit. Would you like to see it?"

"Devil fruit?" Mandala's eyes glowed green this time, "OK, where is it?"

In the original manga, Mr. WT did not mention when Ace got the Devil Fruit of Fire, but it is only speculated that it was after he went to sea.

Mandala suddenly felt that maybe Ace's devil fruit was provided by himself.

But after William took out the devil fruit, Mandala really felt that he was thinking too much!

The gray-black devil fruit, which seems to be composed of countless vortexes, is about the size of a durian, and there seems to be a hint of ominous aura seeping out of it.

"This is?" Mandala looked at the gray fruit, disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

"Smog fruit." William was still smoking a pipe, but the smoke from his mouth was not as strong as the suffocation brought by the fruit in his hand.

"Smog? Does it have any special abilities?" Just hearing the name, Mandala couldn't guess what the specific ability of this fruit was.

"People who eat this fruit can release a smog covering a huge area, which also contains a small amount of toxicity. And this smog will not be blown away by the wind unless the person with the ability releases it on their own. Humans in this area After seven days of inhaling this kind of smog, it will cause respiratory diseases, which will not be cured for life." William said seriously, and blew three smoke rings in the meantime.

"Haha..." Mandala smiled wryly, and she looked at the fruit with even more disgust, "It's better to throw it away, no one will want this kind of thing."

"Not necessarily." William shook his head slightly, "An idiot will definitely ask for it."

"Haha..." Mandala continued to smile wryly. She tilted her head and focused her gaze on William. "By the way, William, can I ask you a question?"

"Miss Mandala, please speak." William exhaled a few more puffs of second-hand smoke. The gray smoke covered his entire face, making it difficult to see the expression under his beard.

"Were you a pirate before?" Mandala had already guessed it, and she just wanted to see if William would confess to herself.

"Yes." William didn't hide anything, he nodded vigorously, as if he was afraid that Mandala would not be able to see clearly.

"Were you on the ship of Pirate King Gol D. Roger?" Mandala continued to ask.

"No." William's answer was terse, but absolutely true.

"Is your master Hawkeye Mihawk?" Mandala felt that William's swordsmanship was so superb that he had only been apprenticed to him for a few months, and he was able to achieve such an effect. A swordsman Hawkeye.

"Hahaha." William laughed again, this time the laughter was louder, the vortex on the devil fruit was disturbed and the direction of rotation was messed up.

"What are you laughing at?" Mandala didn't think it was a joke, she had already worked hard to reason.

"Of course not." William restrained his smile. He stood up and looked towards the sea not far away. "You said you asked me a question, but you asked me three questions. In return, your tomorrow's training Triple the volume."

"No, master!" Mandala wailed, she didn't have such tenacious vitality as Luffy.Triple the amount of training, it will kill you!