[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

...Death will not hurt the other party in the slightest.

Bradley rests his thumb on his chin, thinking about what Adeline said that night.

He looked away, and there was a three-masted sailboat quietly parked beside the pier on the coast.A half-torn piece of black cloth remains on the observation deck guardrail, fluttering in the wind.Passing seagulls spread their wings to avoid the black cloth strip, as if getting any closer would bring bad luck.

"That's really a bit of a troublesome relationship."

He looked at Ace and Adelina who were walking ahead side by side, and whispered.

The wood of the hull shows a little damage, but it has been filled in with other wood.

Adelina turned her head and was about to walk towards the three-masted sailing ship, but Bradley stopped in time, "It's not that one. Look to the left."

"Navy warships?"

The blue and white seagull flag came into view, and Ace sighed, "You are really capable."

They were standing very close to the warship, facing the black muzzle of the warship's bow.

This feeling was quite new to Ace.

After all, usually he would let the cannon burn up under the fire fist before the muzzle was aimed at himself.

Adelina is not very interested in warships. After all, she has dealt with the navy a lot over the years, and it's not like she hasn't entered the interior of a warship.But seeing Ace running towards the warship excitedly, without even thinking about it, she withdrew her gaze from the three-masted sailboat, and started to follow.

Ace moved nimbly, kicked to the top of the wooden ladder two or three times, and climbed onto the deck with one hand supporting the railing.

He jumped back, sat on the railing, put his hands on his sides, raised his neck, and dangled his feet at the same time, with a leisurely look, "So we're going to sit on this?"

Bradley, who boarded the boat behind Adeline, nodded at Ace, "This is the boat I snatched before, isn't it amazing?"

The warship was remodeled by Bradley himself.He opened a dark warehouse at the bottom, which can store the small motorboat that Ace and Adelina took before—and can export it at any time.

Thanks to him, Ace and Adelina don't have to take turns to watch the night.

Adelina swayed around on the deck after boarding the boat—the familiar fixed pattern, in her opinion, really hasn't changed at all.

She walked down the ladder on the right side of the deck and walked into the interior of the hull.

It looks like a warship in appearance, but under the pen of Bradley, the interior has been completely changed.

She glanced at the copper nameplates on the door panels of each cubicle, and finally found the two rooms where she and Ace lived.

Neighboring.

That guy is probably still basking in the sun on the deck.

she thought so.The body moved uncontrollably to the door of Ace's room.

She hesitated for a few seconds, then slowly raised her hand, touching the brand new doorknob with her fingertips.With a careful force, he unscrewed the door panel with the smell of wood—a not-so-pleasant damp smell came over his face. The room here must have been closed for too long, and the doors and windows were not opened for proper ventilation.Adelina wrinkled her nose. She took the new broom she found while walking, walked into the house, and started cleaning from the innermost corner.

There was a bottle of blue air freshener on the table, she picked it up and sprayed it into the air a few times.

The fragrance of the spray filled the air, finally covering the indescribable smell just now.

A very light blue water mist diffused in the air, slowly fading away from her field of vision.

She turned around, bent over, trying to push a small pile of garbage on the ground into the garbage shovel, but froze in place the moment she turned around.

Adelina straightened up slowly, and the hand holding the broom was at a loss for a moment.

When her eyes met the smiling eyes of the man, she had no time to hide the panic that flashed in the blue eyes.

There was no light on in the room, it was very dark.But with the help of a bright sunlight cast from the entrance of the corridor, she still had a clear view of the person standing at the door.

He pursed his lips and leaned against the door with folded arms.The outline of the handsome figure is perfectly outlined by the clear sunlight.He had already taken off the orange cowboy hat and hung it casually on his back.

The four eyes met, and they were speechless for a moment.

Adelina was quickly thinking about how to explain it.Ace just kept looking at her with a smile on his face, as if he couldn't move me.

"I……"

"It's delicious."

The two words sounded almost at the same time, disrupting the original quiet atmosphere in the room.

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief.But I was annoyed by the panic in my heart.

He was so calm when negotiating with that fox in Bradley, but he became nervous when he was in front of this harmless smiling guy.

"But..." Ace changed the subject and took another step forward. The smile on the corner of his mouth did not decrease, but deepened a lot. "This seems to be my room?"

Adelina took a deep breath, trying to regain her usual composure.She took a small step to the side, put the broom against the wall, wiped the dust off her hands, and put on a posture that she was going to lift her feet to leave.

But Ace blocked the door with his whole body, showing no intention of getting out of the way.

Ace bent his knees slightly, raised his foot and hooked it, and directly closed the half-open door.

Without turning his head to confirm, his eyes kept on Adelina during the smooth movements.

Seems to be waiting for something.

"I misread the house number." Adelina stopped two meters in front of him, raised her head slightly and said to him.

Ace let out a serious oh, but when Adeline was relieved, he suddenly leaned forward and leaned in front of her.

The handsome face with a gentle smile approached suddenly, causing her to react subconsciously, backing away quickly, but Ace grabbed her arm.

There was an astonishing heat from the skin-to-skin contact.This made Adelina recall the feeling of being held in the arms of the person in front of her when she entered the Minos maze.

In the dim space, he caught the flash of reddish on Adelina's face.

"You..." He suddenly sighed without thinking.

The sense of helplessness in the tone is very obvious.

Adelina is so smart, how could she not hear anything.

The emotional changes on the girl's face in front of him were all seen by Ace, and Ace, who had been watching her for a long time, could almost judge her next attitude at this moment.

"How long are you going to play dumb?"

His words blocked all of Adelina's subsequent excuses and reasons back into her throat.

She put away her usual joking tone, and put away the smile on her face just now. At this time, Ace's inexplicable hot gaze made Adelina feel uneasy.

Every fragment of getting along with her flashed back in his mind so fast that he couldn't catch it for a while.

But he remembers them all clearly.

I am so clear that once I think of it, there will be various emotions hitting the atrium in my heart.Sometimes it is delightfully sweet, and sometimes it is dull pain.

A thought suddenly appeared deep in his heart, and he tried his best to suppress it.But when he reacted, that soft body was already firmly shackled in his arms.

The strong smell of freshener in the room seemed to be ignored, and he couldn't smell it at all.The faint fragrance lingering at the tip of his nose has already made Ace's mind go blank.

Adelina, who was so startled by his sudden movement that she couldn't speak, stood helplessly in his arms, her fair face flushed red.

Theoretically, she should have pushed it away, but her hands were hanging by her side, a little weak.

Ace loosened his arms a little, and wrapped Adeline in his arms in a gentle gesture.

I don't know if it was caused by the dim environment or what, but Adelina could feel the man's breath very clearly at this time.

A warm, inescapable breath.

His Adam's apple moved slightly, as if he was about to say something.

She froze and didn't look up at him for a moment.

After a while, a half-joking remark floated above my head, "...Fortunately, you didn't draw your sword."

These words were like a pot of cold water, extinguishing the little flame of restlessness in her heart.

Her nervousness melted away in an instant.Her arm gained strength all of a sudden, and she raised her hand to push the man away.

Ace let out a low laugh in his throat, and squeezed her tighter.

This time the hug was tighter than at the beginning, and her struggle was nothing more than making their skin touch more times.

Adeline, who resisted to no avail, almost gritted her teeth, and she didn't dare to move, because she could rub the soft black hair of the man with a slight movement of her head.

Itchy.

It was as if her heart was jumping with joy.

Adelina casually touched the dagger on her waist, and muffled in Ace's arms, "You talk nonsense, I'm really going to draw the knife."

"Okay, okay, no more nonsense."

The man smiled lowly, and naturally raised his hand to stroke her hair.His chin brushed against her hairline, and his tone sounded distressed, "Then... what should I say?"

The slightly hot breath accidentally brushed against her ear, like a burst of electricity.

"...Ghost knows what you should say."

The guy who is usually so careless and heartless, has learned to play around by this time.

Adeline is not a hypocrite, and she knows Ace isn't either.

So for her, there are some special words, it really doesn't matter whether she says them or not.

At least, the violent heartbeat she felt from his heart was real.

I don't know how long he stayed in this half-embracing and half-reclining posture, and finally "I" popped out of Ace's throat.

The sound is very light.

But the next words, almost at that moment, were cut off by an unsightly shout at the entrance of the corridor.

"Hey, are you two not eating?"

Ace's face suddenly darkened.

Adelina couldn't hold back seeing his expression that was so angry that she wanted to punch someone, she simply put her head on his shoulder and laughed.

With itchy teeth, Ace patted the head of the girl whose shoulders were trembling from laughing in his arms, "Hey, don't laugh—"

Adelina didn't intend to restrain herself at all, instead she laughed more and more openly.

"Still laughing?!"

"Okay, okay, don't smile, don't laugh." Adelina imitated Ace's tone just now, she retreated from his arms, walked around to the door in two or three steps, "Let's go eat."

Ace saw the proud expression of the girl in front of him, so he had no choice but to go along with her.

When the two walked onto the deck one after the other, Ace saw Bradley deftly undoing his apron.

The aggrieved fire in his heart was immediately suppressed by curiosity. Ace raised his eyebrows in surprise, walked up to Bradley and took a look, "Wow, the prince of thieves can still cook?"

"Snatching warships, what else can I do?" Bradley retorted without raising his head, as if you dared to underestimate his master.

He casually threw away the apron that was splashed with water.The apron fell precisely on the back of a wooden chair, and the skirt was still dripping with water.

Adeline had already entered the compartment where the dining table was placed.

Bradley glanced at Ace who was following her and was about to walk in, and pretended not to see his blushing ears, "Why haven't you come up for a long time?"

Ace thought for a while, and answered half-seriously and half-jokingly, "Clean the room."

Bradley smoothed the folds of his clothes, and chuckled casually, "I thought you would ask her about that person."

They were just a few steps away from the compartment door.

When this question was asked, Bradley did not lower his voice and remained calm.

Ace said nothing, just smiled.

He had an indifferent look on his face.

But the conversation that he clearly captured when he stood in the shadow of the corner of the corridor on the second floor of the castle that day still flashed through his mind.

——What relationship do you have besides being partners?

Earlier, he saw two people standing on the terrace and walked into the castle.

When Bradley asked this question, he happened to be standing in the corridor to the left of the terrace, in a corner where they could not see.

He still held a half glass of orange soda in his hand.

The surface of the water was calm, no bubbles came out.

The black-haired young man leaned against the peeling paint wall, and took a sip of orange soda with his head raised.

Drinking soda without bubbles will lose the original refreshing feeling.

He lowered his eyebrows, staring at the light orange liquid calmly.

A little sour.

But if he made a sound, she would find him standing here.

He pursed his lips, and slowly took another sip of soda.

He still didn't speak.

The clear female voice rang out, the voice was very soft, but with unquestionable firmness.

——Probably... the relationship that death will not hurt the other party in the slightest.

As Bradley said, he really wanted to ask about that person.

But he won't ask.

Just like before, he just needs to wait until she herself is willing to tell him.

Even at that time, the knuckles of the fingers clasping the rim of the glass had already turned white.

The author has something to say:

2017.8.3

In this chapter, the two people are more or less connected. .

To be honest, I don't think Ace at this time is suitable for a serious and straightforward confession..

He's a pirate, and he's a boy who fell in love with a girl for the first time...

I always find it weird to say that I like you directly..

So I think it's good to write it like this.

After all, expressing your heart doesn't have to be straightforward.

2017.8.4

Read the chapter again and made some minor changes.

2017.8.6

Due to various reasons... during 8.6-8.16, there is no way to update TAT normally

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