[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

——So, even if I'm that guy's son, doesn't it matter?

——A me like this, are you...willing to accept it?

Through a wooden door, Adelina heard everything. She was just passing by, but she stayed for a long time because of this special conversation.

She could probably guess what Dad said.

——Everyone is a child of the sea.

When the man said this, his deep, hoarse and vicissitudes of voice were the same as when he said to himself, "Take my name and go galloping in the sea".

It was an innate arrogance that could not be weakened by the years.

Tonight, there is no moon in the dark sky.Adelina only felt that the air was a bit gloomy, and she felt that it was meaningless to stand here any longer. It would be better to say that she was not interested in that person's special identity, and that what interested her was only the old man's answer to that person.She was about to leave when the door was gently pushed open.With a creak, that handsome face with some freckles appeared in front of her eyes.

This wasn't the first time Adelina met his gaze.She noticed that there was an indescribable complex emotion in his always clear pupils.

Recalling his conversation with her father, she probably knew why he had such an expression.

She coughed lightly and shrugged her shoulders, "What did you come to talk to Dad about?"

The conversation between Fire Fist Ace and Dad is in a low voice, and ordinary people probably can't hear it.But that doesn't escape the terrible hearing she's trained for years.Obviously the other party didn't know this, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with her pretendingly relaxed tone to him.

Rather, the other party is in a bad mood at the moment, and has no energy to worry about her appearance.

"It's nothing." Ace smiled weakly, "It's just very disturbing, and I don't know if my choice is correct."

Adelina folded her arms around her chest and tilted her head, "You have to know, how many people in this sea want to carry the banner of father to go out and do a big job."

After hearing her words, the man fell into deep thought again, as if in a daze.

"Father seems to appreciate you very much." Adelina waved her finger in front of his eyes, and he finally came back to his senses, "The guys on this boat have a good temper."

"But—you have to know that we have an iron rule here." She changed the topic, and said with a half-smile, "The one who kills the companion——"

She stroked the front of his neck neatly with her hand, then stepped back a few steps, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, like a lazy, dangerous but elegant cat.

Seeing her like this, Ace finally showed a smile on his originally gloomy face.

"Are you acknowledging me?"

He hooked the corner of his mouth and leaned forward.The man was obviously not frightened by him, and he still looked calm, "Wait until the day your bounty exceeds mine."

Fine rain began to fall from the sky, and those cold raindrops gradually hit the two of them.Adelina didn't intend to chat with him in the rain, so she turned around and left.

That slender figure gracefully disappeared from his sight, and disappeared into a hazy rain and fog.

With one hand in his trouser pocket, he was playing with his curly black hair that was wet by rain with the other, squinting his eyes until the figure disappeared.

Same as that time.

Ace chuckled.

Whether it's the indifferent back, or the bright and beautiful eyes like the sea.

……

——We are all abandoned by the world.But here, that person accepts us with indifference.

He thought about it, and it seemed that Marco said this sentence.

Ace stood with his back to the mirror, turned his head to confirm the tattoo pattern of the Whitebeard Pirates on his back, and then grinned, a little helpless and a little proud.

"Hey, what the captain of the first team really said made a little sense."

He picked up his orange cowboy hat and straightened the smile badge.The moment he turned sideways to face the mirror, ASCE's tattoo suddenly came into his eyes.

With a smile in his eyes, he put his hand on the tattoo.

"Sabo, Luffy."

"...I am alive and well."

As soon as the words fell, the wooden door was kicked open.

The slender figure standing against the light outside the door was Adelina.

She held the breakfast tray in one hand, put one hand in the pocket of her trousers, and kept kicking the door with one foot.Seeing him smiling happily and looking into the mirror, she couldn't help but twitched her lips, "You think you're not handsome anymore?"

"Hey, no no no." Ace felt a little embarrassed for her to see this appearance, so he stood up immediately, "Are you here to deliver breakfast?"

"Yeah, Sage went to sea. He said he wouldn't be back for a while." Adelina shrugged, "He asked me to take care of you."

Ace thought this was a bit funny, he pointed to himself, "I don't need to take care of it, do I?"

"Well, it's hard to say." Adelina wrinkled her nose, narrowed her eyes, and the corners of her mouth were curved, but she wasn't smiling, like an aggressive cat that hadn't woken up. "You assassinated me?" Father no less than a hundred times, every time he got wounds all over his body, if I don't treat your wounds and take care of your food, how can you have the strength to assassinate well next time?"

If it weren't for her relaxed tone, Ace might really be fooled by her serious expression.

"You're really good at controlling your expressions. At that time too..." Ace stopped in the middle of speaking - he still remembered what Sage said to him.

Seeing her place the tray sideways on his table without saying a word, there was no reaction.He thought she probably hadn't heard.

However, even if she heard it, she pretended not to hear it.

The air suddenly quieted down.

"...Ah, why are there two of your tattoos?" Ace changed the subject, avoiding topics that might touch her bottom line.

On Adelina's right arm was a tattoo of the Whitebeard Pirates, and under this pattern was a dark blue tattoo, which did not match her fair skin, so it was particularly dazzling.Even if the underlying tattoo is covered up by the upper layer, a small part of the outline can still be seen.Ace didn't see it clearly at first, but it took him a while before he realized it.

"Ah, this one." Adelina turned her head and slightly curled her lips, "One, it's the pattern of the Whitebeard Pirates."

"The other... I think you should know too." She blinked, as if Ace's reaction was what she expected.

Ace froze for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Those two dark blue arcs were all too familiar to them.

But this woman is really, the answer is irrelevant.

Looking at the back of Adelina leaving against the light, Ace thought so.

That tattoo.

It is clearly the pattern of seagulls on the navy flag.

……

"Portgas D. Ace, the captain of the Spades Pirates, please give me more pointers from today..."

The end of his words was drowned in the congratulatory and laughing voices of the crew.

"Hey, don't talk nonsense, it's a great thing for Ace to join us today, let's have a good drink!!!"

"cheers!!!!"

A banquet was set up in the cabin, and the crew members were all competing for wine table by table. The room was full of unbridled laughter and the sound of glasses colliding.Against the backdrop of the warm orange light, the laughing figures looked extraordinarily lively.Because White Beard likes to drink very much, they have a lot of old and good wine hidden in this cabin. Today, I don't know who made White Beard take out his collection.The man was drinking happily, and when he was happy, he waved his hand and agreed.

This made the crew very happy, and they all booed and asked Ace to toast to Whitebeard to thank him.

After several times of drinking, Ace was not drunk. You must know that he drank a lot, so he would not be afraid of this little drink.After a few big glasses of wine, he really didn't feel anything.

When he walked to the edge of the bar, he found Adelina sitting at the end of the wooden table, holding a glass by herself, drinking slowly.She rested her chin on one hand, staring at the crystal clear liquid in the glass, as if in a daze.The originally delicate profile of the woman's profile softened a little under the warm light.

The little boy Chichila who was with her often went to nowhere—he just heard from others that Chichila and Thatch probably went to sea together.

"Hey."

In the midst of the noise, he yelled, and she turned her head suddenly, her eyelids were half drooped, and she still looked half asleep.

"Won't you have a drink?"

He grinned.

Looking at the man's bright smile, she twitched the corners of her mouth and nodded slightly.

When Ace sat next to her, he smelled the scent of wine on her body.

It wasn't the kind of very strong wine scent, or a faint scent - so weak that it couldn't cover the original fragrance of her body.

After touching the wine glass, Adelina raised her head and took a sip. She pursed her lips, as if she was savoring the mellow aroma of the wine.

"You..." The man next to him suddenly opened his mouth, and his next sentence made Adelina freeze in place, "It used to be the navy."

The opposite of a questioning tone, an affirmative tone.

Adelina turned her head slightly and narrowed her eyes.

This was the first time she had looked seriously at Portgas D. Ace.

This man's handsome brows contained the domineering and arrogance unique to pirates, and he also had the bright vigor unique to teenagers that has not been washed away by time.Wheat-colored skin that has been baptized by the sun for a long time, obvious or subtle scars on the body, plus strong but not cumbersome muscle lines - Adelina thought, even if there is no devil fruit, with this guy's sensitivity and dexterity, he His fighting skills shouldn't be much worse.

Ace was not used to her unobtrusive gaze, he stretched out his finger and shook it in front of her.Adelina looked away and laughed out loud, "Fight another day?"

Ace raised his eyebrows—could she feel that she was a suitable opponent after watching it for so long?

But the topic changed so quickly.

Seemingly seeing what he was thinking, she finally put away her teasing tone.

She shook the wine glass, the remaining wine in it slowly turned under her movements, and she lifted the glass.

A pair of blue eyes were reflected in the clear liquid.

"Hmm... That tattoo is indeed a navy logo."

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Ah, I forgot to post a part of the last chapter. I only found out when I updated it today, so I added it (^o^)/~