[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

Regarding her own affairs, Adelina's narration was very flat.

Ace didn't even see the emotional fluctuations on her face, nor did he have the conflicted and uneasy emotions when he was about to confess his life experience to Whitebeard.

At that time, she gently stroked the corner of the sapphire with her fingertips, as calm as if she was telling a story about someone else.

"When I was young, my parents died unexpectedly. Grandpa naturally took over my custody and threw me into the training camp."

"My father is a navy, and my mother is a pirate—well, it seems strange to others that they love each other in this capacity, but I don't think it's okay."

"I was clamoring to become a pirate all day long in the training camp, and I was often beaten. However, if I don't get beaten, I won't make progress." She smiled and put the dagger back into the cowhide bag at her waist, "I Being able to survive until now is thanks to the skills learned in the training camp."

"Then, when I met you..."

This was the first time she had brought up the encounter between the two of them a few years ago—Ace listened more seriously.

"It's my last mission."

"After that, something happened to our training camp. My... partner died, and he exchanged his life for mine. I went to sea alone, and sometimes I caused some trouble for the navy. ——" She pointed to the dagger at her waist, "I snatched this from the naval base when the old man of Isano's family was away. Since then... that old man let me know that I am no longer Isano People from my family, my bounty has risen from tens of millions to [-] million. Although the name of the Isano family is still on the surname, the gimmick of the "rebel" has come out-you know, the Isano family The naval family will not allow a descendant of a pirate. Then Dad and the others found me, and I joined the Whitebeard Pirates."

"Living under the command of someone you respect is much more comfortable than the days when you didn't know who you were working for."

Adelina said that the dagger she snatched was not an ordinary dagger, but an heirloom of the Isano family. Her father planned to leave it to her during his lifetime.Ace could also see that she would subconsciously touch the sapphire at the top of the dagger from time to time, like a way of faith.The Isano family's military achievements are outstanding, and in a sense it can be regarded as a signboard in the navy.She snatched the family heirloom of Isano's family, which is to openly provoke Isano and even the entire navy.No wonder her bounty increased all of a sudden.

She said that when she successfully snatched back the dagger, there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, and the expression on her face was a bit willful and proud.

Ace knew she wasn't as relaxed as she seemed.

No one wants to turn against their relatives.

At least, in the early morning before landing on the next island, when he entered the cabin to wake her up, the vigilance in her eyes and the subconscious movement of pulling out the dagger made Ace realize that this seemingly What the strong and proud girl has experienced in these years may be much more terrifying than the past she narrated.

Ace quickly pressed her wrist, and then smiled gently, "You draw your sword at the captain, what should you do?"

Her eyes suddenly became clear, and she seemed to scratch the back of her head a little embarrassedly, "...This is an old problem, and there is no way to change it."

Ace felt that the force on her wrist was finally not as strong as before, so she slowly let go of her wrist, and by the way, pressed the silver handle and half of the sharp blade that had been drawn back into the leather bag.

Before leaving, Adelina stuffed the record pointer into her brown backpack. Ace saw that her backpack was a little heavy, and reached out to hold the bottom of the bag, "What are you packing?"

Adelina is sideways tying the string on the cowhide bag at her waist, "Things that may be used... Ropes, guns, etc. I can't always use short-attack weapons like daggers, I'm not a capable person yet ——Don’t be shot dead from a distance by then without even knowing.”

Ace smiled and said, "We are going in to find clues, and wait for the magnetic field of the recording pointer to be recorded by the way. Why are you doing it like an assassination."

Adelina spread her hands, "Such a high wall—do you think this is a safe place?"

From the outside, Minos can only be seen as a high stone wall that surrounds the entire island.Closed Kingdom - This is exactly what Ace said.Their boat sailed around the island and found that there was only one entrance and exit to the wall, and there were soldiers guarding it, which seemed to be an official channel for importing and exporting materials.Obviously, that passage is not suitable for two pirates to swagger in. After observing for a long time, Adelina fixed her eyes on one spot, and then turned her head to Ace and said, "How about going over the wall?"

Ace raised his eyebrows and gestured with his hand, "So tall?"

"There's no need to climb to the top." Adelina pointed to the left side of their line of sight, and Ace narrowed his eyes. "It's just a part of steel embedded in the stone wall."

"It's strange to see such an abrupt part."

The overall height of the ground of Minos Island is higher than the sea level.Adelina and Ace drove the boat to the shallow sea with complicated coastline, and stopped near a chaotic reef.The two of them got off the boat and walked uphill. When they reached the iron wall, Adelina took out a flying claw from her bag, stepped back several meters, and pressed a small button on the handle at the end of the flying claw. It was ejected in an instant, and the metal claws bounced off the iron wall and then retracted. After going back and forth more than ten times, Adelina finally found a part that would not bounce back to the claws.

"It's been too long, my hands are raw." She shook the handle, making sure that the claws had firmly grasped the depression in the iron wall.

She grabbed the handle, and just as she was about to get on her feet, Ace grabbed her shoulder.

Ace unloaded the heavy backpack from her shoulders, swung it onto his shoulders, and gently took the handle from her hand.He smiled and said to her, "I'll pull you straight after I go up."

Adelina rubbed her suddenly relaxed shoulders in a daze, watching the guy nimbly climbed up the rope to where the hook was.

Ace is also smart, seeing a depression there, he pressed it directly.There seemed to be a switch there. After Ace pressed it, the iron wall at his feet suddenly made a slight sound. As part of the iron fell, a secret passage appeared in front of the two of them.Ace grabbed the depression where the claws were with both hands, and with the help of his arms and waist strength, he threw his whole body directly to the entrance of the secret passage.

The moment his feet hit the ground, he put the claws he tore off casually on the edge of the entrance to the dark passage and fixed them.Indicating that Adelina can come up.

This was the first time Adelina saw his strength and agility.

I have to say that those movements just now, if it was someone else, might not be as smooth and easy as he did.

Adelina gave him a thumbs up, and then grabbed the rope and kicked up the outer wall without hindrance.

Ace reached out, took Adelina's hand, and lifted her up.With this movement, his arm muscles slightly bulged into a perfect line.

After walking a few steps, a fork appeared in front of him.

Both sides could not see the way forward, it was dark.

Adelina was thinking about whether to walk both ways, but Ace grabbed her wrist and walked to the right without any explanation.

"This side is in the same direction as the only entrance just now." Ace explained, "At least there shouldn't be anything strange."

Adeline looked back at the dark and silent downhill road on the left, always feeling a little gloomy, "Why do I think you walked by instinct."

Ace curled the corner of his mouth, "Mostly it's intuition."

"Just trust you once, captain."

The two walked one after the other in the dark tunnel. The road was very flat, but since the surrounding area was empty, the sound of their footsteps was very clear in the tunnel.Adelina subconsciously looked around to remember the characteristics of this tunnel, she wanted to pull her hand away to take out the light from the backpack, but after the person felt the subtle movement of her wanting to pull away, she buckled the There was more force in her wrist.

At the same time, a bright and fiery flame flashed in the dark tunnel.

Adelina looked at the tongue of flame dancing on the man's fingertips, and then realized that she had forgotten that the guy in front of her was a person with the ability to burn fruit.

The warm flame cast an orange color on the profile of the man's profile.

"Are you afraid of it?"

Realizing that he was asking her back, Adeline replied very sincerely, "I just wanted a flashlight."

As if choking, Ace didn't speak for a few seconds, and then suddenly couldn't hold back and laughed.

Although in retrospect, his actions just now were really a bit redundant, but for some reason, Adeline's blank and suddenly serious expression when he turned his head was very interesting in Ace's eyes.

Adelina watched him smile with big white teeth, and didn't know what the man was laughing at, so she just followed him.

I don't know how long they walked, and both of them even began to doubt whether this road could go to the end.Ace stopped suddenly, and Adelina reacted quickly, standing behind him immediately.Taking a closer look, under the faint light of the fire, there was a hidden stone door in front of them.Ace glanced back at Adelina, the two looked at each other, and he pushed open the stone door without hesitation.

Dazzling light hit.

The long walk in the dark passage made the eyes of both of them a little uncomfortable under the normal light.

After the discomfort subsided, Adeline pulled Ace's arm.The people in front of him obviously sensed something was wrong around them.

They were standing on the edge of a deserted street.Now in the eyes of others, the two of them are strangers who suddenly appeared from a wall.

There are only a few vendors on the street, and the sound of weak selling.People wandered the streets like walking dead.A middle-aged man in his prime should be physically strong, but he is skinny and skinny from hunger. From this point of view, it is not to mention women, children, and children.

Adelina wore a close-fitting black short-sleeved base layer, a light, pure black shirt, and a pair of denim shorts that made her legs straight and slender.And Ace just added a short hooded jacket to the original topless state.The cool attire of the two attracted strange eyes from the sparse crowd on the street.

The group of islanders, who had wrapped themselves up tightly in the hot weather and couldn't tell the difference between male and female, looked at the two of them with a hellish look.

The author has something to say:

Adelina spoke very calmly, but of course there are many details that were not covered..

So the things about her past still have to be revealed slowly, which will be discussed later.

The story of Minos Island begins.