[One Piece] Brother Ace, please pay the bill

~~~~~Boyfriend and boyfriend fell into the water, who do you save,~~~~~

Because they did not purchase enough supplies from Mermaid Island, the Whitebeard Pirates found another island to stop on the way to the scheduled route.This is the only summer island nearby, and it has a rich variety of ingredients.After replenishing fresh water and food here, the pirate group will go to a winter island with extremely difficult conditions.It is said that White Beard wanted to meet another Four Emperors there.

But Mandala is not interested in these things, she knows that there won't be any big troubles during this time, she just needs to eat and drink with Ace.

Because Ace became the captain of the second team, Mandala joined in regardless of his objections in the end.Although she was annoyed to see Blackbeard from time to time, this was a good opportunity to find out his strength.

"Mandala, get off the boat with me." As expected, Ace was still worried that Mandala was alone, so he turned back before getting off the boat and took her with him.

"Okay." Mandala didn't want to be bored in the room, she picked up Nereus and pinned it to her waist.

"Wow, this looks like Hawaii." Walking beside Ace, Mandala raised her head and looked at the island covered by dense jungle.

When Lena was young, her father took her to the base where he studied seabirds.She just spent a summer vacation in Hawaii, plus half term.

Every afternoon, she would set off from the base and walk to the nearest small town to eat ice cream.

And now the pier of the island where they are located looks very similar to the place where the small town is located.

"Hawaii, where is that?" Of course Ace had never heard of this place name, so he just asked casually.

"Ah, that's..., it's..., a small fishing village in my mother's hometown." Mandala was a little flustered, she seldom thought of things in that world recently.So much so that now she has an illusion that this world is real.Three-dimensional or something, maybe it's my own imagination.

"Really, where is your mother's hometown?" Ace remembered that William said that Mandala's mother died of illness very early, and her father also died not long ago.Hearing about Mandala now, I am also a little curious.

"Dong..., Donghai." Mandala broke out in a cold sweat, she glanced at Ace secretly, afraid that he might remember something, "It's not too far from the Kingdom of Goya, right here Near the East China Sea."

She has never figured out exactly when the him she saw in the three-dimensional time traveled through the past.Moreover, the time in the two worlds may not be equal. Maybe the months he stayed here were just one night?

"What kind of place is it?" Ace continued to ask, how did he know what Mandala was thinking, he just wanted to chat with her.

"Hmm..., it's a very... very beautiful place." Mandala's face turned pale, and the palm of her hand holding Nereus was covered with sticky sweat, "Every spring, a lot of flowers bloom. Cherry blossoms. In summer, everyone wears straw hats to shade them. Autumn, autumn..."

When she was nervous, Mandala became incoherent, and she didn't even realize what she said.

"Straw hat?" Ace turned his head and looked at the pirate ship docked at the pier, "Can you do it?"

"What to do?" Mandala only heard the word "do". She blushed and quickly spread her palms to cover her face.

"A straw hat, I can give it to little Ozzy." Ace raised his hand to cover the glaring sunlight pouring down on his head, "He is so big, so close to the sun, it will be very uncomfortable."

"Oh, that's it." Mandala smiled awkwardly. She remembered that she had learned in geography that the temperature would drop by 100°C when the altitude rose by 0.6 meters.

"By the way, it can also protect you from the rain and wind. Little Ozzy is so big, there is no umbrella to hold it." Ace smiled brightly. He turned his head and faced Mandala, "Have you been dark lately? Too much sun?"

"No way!" Mandala never thought that Ace would pay attention to her skin color, which she didn't even care about.

"Look at you." Ace raised his finger, inserted it into Mandala's finger, and scratched the tip of her nose, "It's all peeling."

"..." Feeling Ace's warm and soft fingertips touch the skin at the tip of his nose, Mandala felt a slight tingle.Her face became even redder, she simply didn't cover her face, let go of her hands, and started running.

"Where are you going?" Ace suddenly discovered a new way to play, he smiled and chased after him, "There are many ogres on the island!"

After running to the beach, Mandala slowed down slowly. She saw many people in the jungle.It seems to be the aborigines of this island, both men and women are dressed quite fancy.

"What's wrong?" Ace caught up to Mandala, and he asked when he saw her stop.

"Look, they also have that kind of human-shaped beads here." Mandala raised his hand and pointed to the huge shell among the crowd.

"Ah, I heard from Marco that there are a lot of these shells in this area." Ace could feel Mandala's discomfort. After all, she is a girl, and she must be particularly affected by this kind of life and death.

"Where did it come from?"

"There are a lot of special ones recently."

"I heard it's Mermaid Island."

"No way, hasn't it been stable over there for a long time?"

"It seems to say that a very cruel rookie pirate passed by and seemed to kill all the rookies following him."

"No wonder, obviously, this kind of thing has not been seen for several years."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it looks like a girl."

"Yeah, it's still very small, what a crime!"

Hearing the conversation of those aborigines, Mandala panicked all of a sudden, she squeezed into the crowd, and jumped in front of the huge shell.

"Mandala!" Ace didn't know what happened, so he had to rush over, "What happened?"

"The Siren..." Mandala pulled out Nereus, and she touched the surface of the huge human-shaped pearl with the tip of the sword, but did not cut it.

"Mandala, you..." Ace saw the tip of Nereus' sword tremble slightly, making several scratches on the smooth skin of the pearl.

"No! No!" While comforting himself, Mandala raised his sword and began to strike.But the pearl seemed to be harder than imagined, and there were no deep grooves when it was cut off.

"Why can't it be cut?" Mandala's hand holding Nereus trembled even more, and she couldn't feel at ease unless she saw it with her own eyes.He chopped even harder, the jaws of the tiger were even cracked, and Mandala didn't notice it.

"Mandala, wait!" As soon as Ace grabbed Mandala's hand, he pulled her over and hugged her into his arms, "It won't be a siren, her strength is not enough to be controlled by these Miscellaneous fish defeated."

"I know, I know, but..." Mandala leaned on Ace's shoulder, looking at the pearl that was about the same size as a siren, and couldn't calm down.

"You get on the boat first, and I'll just come and see it." Ace patted Mandala on the head and coaxed softly.

"Yeah." Mandala was not in the mood to linger on that warm embrace, she immediately turned around and ran towards the boat.In her room, there is a phone bug that communicates with the siren, as long as she can get through, she will feel at ease.

Let Ace smash this bead first.

Kicking open the door, Mandala took out the miniature phone bug from under the quilt.

"Siren? Siren? Are you there?"

"Vick, Vick?"

"Hurry up and talk back, you two!"

I yelled for a long time, but there was no response.Mandala knelt and sat on the ground without strength, dropped the phone bug in his hand, and rolled far away.

A person suddenly appeared at the door, and the sun shone on him, dragging the shadow for a long time, even covering Mandala completely.

Looking up, the person she saw was, Marco.

"Mandala..." Bending down, Marco pulled out his hand from his trouser pocket, and picked up the phone bug that had rolled to his feet, "What is this?"

"This is a phone bug for communication." Because the matter of the phone bug hadn't been found out before, and Mandala didn't dare to hide the fact, her relationship with Marco was not as good as Ace, "But I The people I contacted were two girls from the former Spades Pirates. They were with me from the very beginning, but they didn’t want to join the Whitebeard Pirates, so they just followed behind in a boat alone. If you don’t believe me If so, you can..."

Originally, he wanted Marco to confront Ace, but Mandala thought about it, how could he drag him into the water.Mandala doesn't want Ace to bear even a little distrust.

If she really didn't make it clear, she could get off the boat.But Ace can't, this is the Whitebeard Pirates he considers his home!

"Are you asking me to ask Ace?" Marco was so clever, even if Mandala stopped talking, he could still guess who she was going to mention in the second half of the sentence.

"Ask me what?" At this moment, Ace happened to be on the boat, and his body was covered with mucus, which smelled a little pungent.

Knowing that someone was approaching, Marco naturally hugged his arms and hid the little phone bug in his shirt.

"No!" Mandala stood up, walked to Marco's side, and looked at him with an almost pleading look, "Marco wanted to ask you what you want for dinner."

Seeing Marco's action, Mandala knew that he still had a soft heart.

"Let's not talk about dinner, Mandala, there are no sirens or Vick in that pearl." Ace smiled and said to Mandala.

"Really, that's really great." Mandala twitched the corners of her mouth, but she couldn't laugh.It's not in this one, it doesn't mean the sirens are safe.

In the last fairy tale, the Siren said that he was on Mermaid Island.Having not contacted for so long, Mandala was not at ease at all.

Now that she was bumped into by Marco, she couldn't prove her innocence.In addition, he has never shown the determination that he is a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, and he should be suspected.

"Let's go to dinner first." Mandala pushed Ace to turn around first.

"Oh, good." Without thinking too much, Ace took a step and walked towards the stairs.

"Let's talk after dinner. I'll wait for you at the stern." Mandala consciously handed Nereus around her waist to Marco, "I won't run away."

"I hope so." Marco didn't have any expression on his face. He took Nereus and said flatly.

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"Mandala, are you still worried?" Ace watched Mandala keep poking the plate of seafood salad in front of him with a fork, the sound of metal and porcelain colliding made goose bumps all over his body.Ace seemed to be affected by her negative emotions, and Ace also became very anxious.

"Ah, no, it's just..." Mandala stopped what she was doing, and she put the fork aside, "I'm full, so I'll go up first."

"Wait." Ace pressed Mandala's hand, and he raised his eyes to look at her.

"..." Mandala felt guilty, so naturally she didn't dare to meet his gaze.

"Take a piece of bread and go." Ace sighed, he stuffed a piece of bread into Mandala's hand.

He wanted to say something reassuring, but Ace didn't know where to start.He doesn't understand women at all, let alone friendship between women.At this moment, he wished that he was Marco, who could comfort her naturally and unpretentiously.Although he also knew in his heart that as long as he said something, Mandala's mood would definitely improve.

It's just that, it seems too hypocritical.

Not wanting to make Mandala feel like he said those words just to make her happy, Ace decided to wait.The future is long, both of them are on the Moby Dick, there are many opportunities.

Walking out of the cabin, Mandala walked slowly towards the stern.Walking to the stern, she looked up and saw Marco leaning against the side of the stern mast.He held the miniature phone bug in his hand, and there was still no expression on his face.

"What are you going to say?" Marco also saw Mandala, and he asked softly.

The sea wind was so strong that it shattered his voice.

"I want to... leave the Whitebeard Pirates." Mandala pinned her long hair behind her ears, but the sea breeze still blows away the three thousand threads of worry.Her purple hair brushed back and forth across her face, making her eyes itchy.

"What did you say?" Marco was a little surprised, he thought he heard it wrong.Although I feel that Mandala is not loyal to the Whitebeard Pirates, I don't care.But she never expected that she would take the initiative to leave the group.Ace is still here, how could she be willing to leave?

"You heard it clearly." Mandala walked to Marco's side, and she grabbed Nereus hanging on Marco's waist.

Marco didn't speak, he raised his eyelids and looked towards the entrance of the cabin.

It seemed that someone came from the cabin.

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