[Pirate] Ann

"After the child is handed over to Karp, there is no need to worry."

"Yes."

"Next is the kid."

"This child... I'm afraid he won't be able to survive tonight."

"What nonsense are you talking about, don't underestimate their children!"

"That's what he said."

--17 years later--

"Ann! Ann!"

"Stop shouting, that girl must have gone to the Kendo gym again."

"Old woman, look at this!"

"What? Rewards, hey... Pirates are getting more and more rampant these days."

"No, look at the name!"

"Name? Portgas...D...Ai, Ace?!"

"Yes!"

"Oh my god, I'm blind! Is it really that child?"

"It's that kid!"

"That kid... has grown so big, that guy Garp... woo..."

"Lu Jiu, have you seen that? The children you gave birth to with all your might have grown up well!"

After a whole day of training, when Ann returned to the small home, she saw such a scene - two old people leaning on each other and sobbing softly.

"Grandpa and grandma, what's the matter with you? Is something wrong?" She panicked for a moment, but she calmed down immediately.It doesn't look like someone came to make trouble at home, and the two of them are not injured. Could it be that they discovered what she was doing in private?

"Ann, you're back. Come, come and see this."

Grandma raised her head and handed her the things in her hands tremblingly.An took the paper and looked at it, offering a reward?Portgas D Ace, newcomer?There are quite a few bounties.

Wait... wait a minute!An couldn't control the strength of the hand holding the bounty, and the thin paper was immediately wrinkled, "Portgas?"

"Ann, he is your brother!" Grandma said with a sob.

The expected answer.

Ann laughed, but she didn't expect to be preempted.

She was fascinated by the photo on the reward, and the boy smiled flamboyantly, "He... doesn't look much like me."

In the photo, he inherited his father's black hair, but she inherited her mother's blonde hair.Although there are freckles on her face, she can hardly see them.Although if you look carefully, you can find that the facial features of the two are somewhat similar, but who would seriously compare them?

"He's your brother!" Grandpa also said something as if he was afraid that An would not believe it.

"I know."

After all, the same blood flowed, which could be seen at a glance.

It seems that the plan is going to be changed drastically.

"Grandpa, grandma, I'm going to see him."

Ann didn't expect the two old people to readily agree. Their attitude towards pirates has always been very extreme, so her plan to become a pirate has been carried out quietly.

She knows her background.

It should be said that she was in very poor health when she was a child, let alone going out to play, she was forbidden to get out of bed at will.The reason is roughly that the mother endured for too long, so that all the nutrition was taken away by the stronger boys.

At that time, grandma used the story of her One Piece father and her almost mythical mother as a pillow story, and told her it over and over again.

She knows that pirates are bad, because the place where she lived and the nearby towns were destroyed by pirates.But she believes that her father is different from those third-rate ones, so she can make such a great mother pay so much for it.

So she also wants to become a pirate, to see the world that her father saw with her own eyes.

Before that, Ann planned to visit the place where Ace grew up.However, grandparents don't seem to know very well, and in the end they only know what they might be able to find out by going to the Windmill Village.

It happened that there was a merchant ship going to sea in the village, so An took this opportunity to go with him.Before leaving, her grandparents also gave her thousands of instructions to take good care of herself. After seeing Ace, she would write to them to report her safety, and if she had the opportunity, she would come back with Ace to have a look.

Finally, the two elders were willing to let them go, so An rushed to the merchant ship that had already anchored with his luggage on his back.

It was the first time for An to go to sea, and An was very curious about everything on the ship, so she kept looking out from the deck.

The whole journey was calm, and just when she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly caught sight of a small boat with a pirate flag not far away from the corner of her eyes.An frowned, and took out the binoculars in her backpack to look over.

Surprisingly, there was only one girl with short orange hair on board, and the other party was desperately waving in her direction, shouting something.

The crew on the boat also seemed to have seen the boat, so they found a ladder to lower it down. Not long after, the girl boarded their boat with a large bag of things.

"Thank you very much. The equipment on that ship is broken, and I'm at a loss." The girl thanked the crew with a smile, and after a few simple greetings, she took her things and sat aside.

Ann saw some wounds on the girl's body, which seemed to have been simply bandaged with a cloth torn off from nowhere.Taking a closer look at her complexion is also very bad. An originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but she couldn't ignore it.After struggling for a while, he still sighed and walked over.

"It's better to take some medicine for your injury." She squatted down in front of the girl, and naturally saw the defense built up unconsciously in the girl's eyes, and relaxed a little after hearing her words.

An Dang didn't see anything, put his backpack in front of him, and found the medicine box from it, "I don't know why a girl is going against the pirates, if she is not careful, she will die easily. .”

The girl looked at her vigilantly, then smiled and said, "What are you talking about? Although I hate pirates the most, it's impossible to fight against them!"

Ann didn't speak, pulled the other's arm, and unceremoniously covered her wound with a cotton ball dipped in alcohol.

"Ah!" The girl yelled in pain, then bit her lower lip again, forcing herself not to make a sound.

"Yes, yes." An complied with her rhetoric perfunctorily, and his subordinates did not stop for a moment. They quickly took care of it, and then bandaged her with the gauze that had been hurriedly.

"All right."

The girl touched the gauze-wrapped wound, hesitated for a while, and said, "Thank you."

At this time, An had already rearranged her backpack, and upon hearing her thanks, she smiled at her and said, "You're welcome." Infected by her smile, the girl also smiled, and the defense in her eyes had long since disappeared.

"Miss An, we've arrived at Windmill Village!"

"it is good!"

While wiping one glass after another, Makino talked to Luffy who was sitting on the bar counter without saying a word.After Ace left, Luffy occasionally came down to her shop.

Today's guests are a group of high-spirited pirates who have just won the battle.Makino was very worried whether Luffy would have any disputes with the other party, so he didn't dare to take his eyes off him for a moment.

"Crack——" The door was suddenly pushed open, and a strange girl with blond curly hair walked in.

"Welcome." Makino wiped his hands with a towel and said to the other party with a smile.

"Hello," the girl smiled at her, "what can I eat?"

Makino blinked, wondering if it was her illusion that the girl in front of her was somewhat similar to Ace.Before she came back to her senses, Luffy had already answered on his behalf: "The meat here is super delicious, there is also juice, and pie! Of course the most delicious thing is meat!"

"That's it, then let's have a fried rice and a bowl of vegetable soup." The girl listened to Luffy's suggestion seriously, and then said to her with a smile.

Makino couldn't help laughing, and nodded, "Okay, wait a minute." After she finished speaking, she turned and walked into the kitchen.

"Hey! Why don't you order meat!" Luffy's dissatisfied voice came from outside the door.

"Because I'm a girl, eating meat will make me fat."

"can you?"

"Of course, you can eat so much by yourself."

"I'm still very hungry! I'm going to catch a wild boar for dinner later."

"Hey—you're a monster!"

Makino couldn't help laughing when he heard the conversation between the two. He packed a plate of fried rice and walked out of the kitchen, and put the plate in front of the girl, "I've been waiting for a long time."

The girl smiled at her again, and ignored Lu Fei.She put her arms on the bar and leaned forward slightly, "Miss Boss, I want to inquire about someone."

"Huh?" Makino brought the vegetable soup out of the kitchen again.

"Portgas D Ace."

The originally noisy shop suddenly fell silent, but the girl seemed to have noticed nothing, and still looked at her expecting an answer.

Makino faintly had a bad premonition, and before she could speak, Luffy who was beside him jumped up excitedly, "Ace! Do you know Ace?"

"Huh? Do you know him?"

Then the two fell silent, looking at each other with the same expectant eyes, Makino shook his head helplessly, and said, "Little girl, if you are looking for Ace, you are in the wrong place."

"That means he did live here?" The girl's face was also full of excitement, she even stood up, and put her face in front of her, "Can you tell me about him?"

Makino froze for a moment, and then saw the faint freckles on the girl's face, "You..."

"Hey, woman, what are you looking for with Ace?" The leader of the pirates in the store asked with a fierce face, and the girl turned around: "Do you know Ace?"

"Hmph, of course I know him. If I see that guy again, I must chop him up!" The other party's face was full of resentment, as if he really had some deep hatred with Ace.

"What did you say!" Luffy dropped the meat and stood up angrily.

"What are you doing, do you want to fight!" The pirate at the head jumped up, and the others stood up after him, and the flames of war between the two sides were on the verge of breaking out.

But the girl laughed out at such a tense moment, so the eyes of both parties were focused on her.

"Are you Ace's woman? If that's the case, it's better to follow me, I'm the well-known hundred-person killer Will in Xihai!"

"Only by you? Ace's defeated general?" the girl laughed.

"You!" The leading pirate's face became very ugly, and finally became angry, smashing the table beside him with his palm, and shouted: "Little ones, kill this woman for me!"

Makino stood anxiously at the bar, seeing the pirates take out their weapons to face the strange girl and Luffy, her bad premonition really came true.

"Don't destroy anything in the store! Rubber rubber—bullets!" Luffy was the first to attack, and directly knocked the leader out of the store, even smashing the door.

"Captain!" The crew yelled and ran out of the shop, and there were a few people who rushed over to attack Luffy and catch the girl.

With just two or three hits, Luffy knocked all those people down on the ground and lost consciousness, even those who went after the girl were all knocked down.And the girl didn't move at all from the beginning to the end, as if she had expected that she would not be hurt.

"Sure enough, you guys know Ace, can you tell me about Ace after you solve them?" The girl turned her head, still smiling.

Makino looked at her and nodded blankly.

"Hey, what's your name?" The girl turned her head again and asked Luffy who was rolling up his sleeves and preparing to have a big fight with him.

Luffy turned his head to look at the girl, and replied.

"Monkey D Luffy!"