[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

Those gazes that stopped on Ace and Adelina were as calm as stagnant water.But as keen as Adelina, she could quickly detect the panic and anxiety in it.

Silence seems to have become a habit for these people. They looked at the two for tens of seconds, then looked away and went back to their respective things.It was as if the abnormal atmosphere just now had never existed at all.

Before they realized why the atmosphere on this island was so weird, a group of people came from the other side of the street.Ace tugged Adelina, and the two of them flashed into a fork in the road.Ace poked his head out quietly to observe the movement over there, while Adelina closed her eyes, held her breath, and listened to the movement over there.

Those people were wearing armor and looked like soldiers.With expressionless faces and weapons in hand, they rushed into a dilapidated hotel, and then there was a burst of howling and pleading.They dragged a young man out of the store, the old and the young were crying and pulling the edge of the young man's worn clothes.The soldiers were indifferent to the cries and pleadings of the elderly and children, and the neighbors in the neighborhood also looked familiar, or in other words, they did not dare to step forward to interfere.

Only then did Adelina notice that there was no strong young man on this street—only a trembling white-haired old man walking along the corner of the wall with a cane, and a thin man with only bones left sitting on the side of the street. Children with stones, and young people with missing arms and legs and blind eyes.Under the blue-gray sky, there is only one lifeless street.

The two soldiers who were dragging the young man mechanically dragged the man around and left.

Adelina heard the whispered conversation of several thin old women a few meters away.

"The last healthy young guy on this street is going to die in the maze."

"It's been two years, what's the point of living such a life that is worse than death..."

"The legend about the labyrinth monster that has suddenly spread recently, I don't know if it is true or not..."

She lowered her head to ponder the meaning of these words, and raised her head to say something to Ace, but found that the guy who was still grabbing her wrist just now had gone somewhere.

Immediately afterwards, she smelled a pungent burning smell in the air, she reacted suddenly, and looked towards the place where the fight had just started.

The armors of those soldiers burned at some point, and under the light of the fire, panic finally flashed across their dead faces like zombies.

The old and children holding back the young people, and even all the people on the street secretly observing all this, all fell into an uneasy silence.

The young man got up from the ground panting heavily, and took a few steps back, as if he was afraid of being burned by fire.

And the instigator was sitting on the stone steps in front of the hotel, laughing heartlessly.The flame at his fingertips slowly dissipated, but the fire on the armor could not be extinguished.

A soldier jumped a few times, discarded his helmet and armor, with a fierce look on his face, picked up a knife, and was about to rush towards Ace.

Ace sat there with a smile, not dodging or dodging, the long knife slashed at his shoulder, and the old man next to him immediately covered the child's eyes.

The moment the blade fell, Ace's shoulder became a ball of fire, and the tongue of fire climbed up the handle along the blade, hitting the soldier's head directly.

When one soldier is defeated, the others cannot stand.

They took out cold weapons one after another, aiming at the man with strange skills who didn't know where he came from.

Seeing the astonished expressions of those people, Adelina thought to herself that these people must know what a devil fruit is.

Before Ace could do anything, Adelina shot out a few poisoned silver needles from her cuff.

The silver needle precisely hit the part of the carotid artery that the armor couldn't cover.

It was only for a short while, and the few soldiers who were able to drag the young man just now fell to the ground, and the breath of life slowly faded away.The islanders in the street, who had witnessed all this, did not look upon either of them with particular gratitude.On the contrary, Adelina felt even more fear from those numb eyes.

She walked up to Ace, who smiled at her like nothing serious.

Adelina couldn't hold back, and just about to raise her hand to give him a shudder, the man grabbed her wrist.

She lowered her voice and said to him, "You caused a commotion before we figured out what's going on here, what are you doing so impulsively?"

"Riot?" Ace still smiled indifferently, "I don't think so."

Both of them could see that life was not easy for the islanders here.

"However, if this little guy loses his father..." Ace pointed to the shivering little boy in the old man's arms, "I'm afraid life will be even more difficult."

As soon as Adelina turned her head, she looked into the bright black pupils of the little boy.His eye sockets were red and swollen from crying.

She glanced at the young man, then at the little boy, and frowned, "Is he your father?"

The little boy didn't know how long he hadn't talked to a stranger. He bit his lower lip hard, and it took him an unknown amount of time before he uttered a single-syllable, weak mosquito sound from his throat——

"Ah."

……

"Minos Island has been closed for two years. The only passage we saw before is indeed the transportation route for their supplies."

This was the first sentence Ace said after he opened the door and walked into Adelina's room.

After Ace rescued the young man three days ago, Adelina and Ace got the chance to live in the dilapidated hotel.In the past two days, Adelina tried to wander around the entrance of the hotel a few times, and found that the islanders had always held a vigilant and hostile attitude towards outsiders.She and Ace tried to get a routine out of the young man and the old man, but the two didn't say a word except to deliver meals regularly, so Ace could only talk to the little boy occasionally.

"You asked this question for three days?" Adelina raised her eyebrows after taking a sip of hot water.

"How much can a child know." Ace closed the door, took another water glass, and poured some water to drink. He looked out at the dark clouds and squinted his eyes, "I think they are very stuffy here. "

Adelina nodded in agreement, while thinking about the strangeness of this island in her heart.

This is a closed island, but Qiqila can come and go freely.In all likelihood, they came in from the same secret passage as they did.

Based on what Adelina knew about Qiqila, she didn't believe that guy would only go one way.

In other words, with Qiqila's strong curiosity, he must have walked on both sides.

Minos began to retreat two years ago, and it is very repulsive to outsiders.

Is there a secret that you don't want to let outsiders know?

Life is worse than death, the legend of the labyrinth monster.

If it is true as they said, the Minos islanders have lived a life of fear and fear every day for the past two years, it is not difficult to explain why there is such a depressing atmosphere on this island.

Thinking about what she heard that day, Adelina couldn't think of anything else after thinking for a long time. She put the water glass on the table, and found the record pointer from her bag.

Ace leaned in front of her, looked at the still pointer, "It seems to stay for a while."

"Hmm." She looked out at the peaceful street through the window, "... When do you think those people will come?"

"The companions of those soldiers, or their superiors?"

"Correct."

"I think it should be soon...a day or two?"

"That team of soldiers was originally here to arrest people, and they won't arrest people spontaneously. So someone must have instructed them. Since they found that the people they sent didn't return, something must have happened. So... it didn't take long , someone will come and catch us both, right?" Ace immediately said a bunch of words as if he knew what she was thinking.

Adelina smiled and nodded, "You're pretty smart."

While the two were talking, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Ace responded, and then the young man who was rescued by them that day pushed open the door and entered. He lowered his head and held a tray in his hand. There were simple meals in the tray. Adeline could guess that the old couple It's pretty good food for a hotel.

This man probably thought that they had saved him once before he dared to take in the two outsiders.

Adeline noticed that the man's hands were trembling, very subtle, but still noticeable.

Even if they saved him, he didn't think they were good people.

Fear seems to have become a habit among the Minoan islanders.

"Hey."

Adelina shouted abruptly, her voice turned a little cold.

Ace looked at her, not knowing what she was going to do.

The man shook his hand and even spilled the tea.

The sound of teacups breaking resounded in the shabby and empty hotel.

When Ace realized it, Adeline had already held a fragment, and pointed the sharpest end at the man's carotid artery——

"Tell me everything you know."

The author has something to say:

Go through the story line..

It is estimated that Minos Island will take six or seven chapters, and there are too many foreshadowings. [cover face]