I just wanted to go home, I was forced to become a general

Li Baiye sat cross-legged on the ground, took a jug of wine from his waist, raised his hand,
"Drink?"

Ace glanced at the chains on his body, smiled wryly and said, "How can I drink like this?"

Li Baiye smiled faintly, and with a slight twist of his fingers, the jug actually floated up, got into the fence, and floated in front of Ace.

"How did you do this?! Devil fruit?"

Ace looked at the jug standing in front of him in surprise.

Li Baiye nodded, "Yes, Superman-type Floating Fruit."

Ace bit the spout, raised his head, and took a few sips of wine.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"You must be stronger than me now."

Ace remembered that when he met Li Baiye last time, he was still very confident that he could defeat him, but this time he met, Ace could feel that Li Baiye's aura was much stronger.

Li Baiye didn't answer, he looked at the bruised Ace and said:

"Do you know now why you failed?"

Ace was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled bitterly, "I underestimated the strength of that bastard Tiki. Even with your reminder, I still think I can defeat him."

"Even if you didn't underestimate Blackbeard's strength, can you beat him?"

Ace froze again, speechless.

Li Baiye folded his arms around his chest, and said flatly: "In the final analysis, the dimensions of measuring strength are nothing more than devil fruit, domineering, physical skills, or physique."

"Swordsman can add another sword skill."

He looked at Ace, "And you, none of these can compare to Blackbeard."

Ace gritted his teeth unwillingly, he had to admit that what Li Baiye said was the naked truth.

Li Baiye shook his head and looked at him regretfully, "You are not afraid of death to challenge White Beard, but White Beard didn't kill you, but instead adopted you as his son."

"You didn't listen to persuasion and went after Blackbeard. After Blackbeard defeated you, he handed it over directly to the world government. In exchange for Qiwuhai, it also led to the upcoming war."

"This is the painful price you have to pay for your recklessness. You have the same character as your younger brother."

Ace raised his head suddenly, looked at Li Baiye with red eyes, and said hoarsely:
"Do me a favor and kill me!"

"Kill you?" Li Baiye sneered, "Killing you is very simple, your life will be worthless, your life will be meaningless."

Li Baiye stared closely at Ace's eyes, and asked seriously:
"What is your aspiration?"

"Dream?" Ace murmured softly, "My original dream was to become the One Piece, the freest person in the sea, and now my dream is to help Dad become the One Piece."

"Look." Li Baiye spread his hands.

"You have lived to be 20 years old, but you have been in a confused stage."

"You naively think that becoming One Piece is the freest person on the sea, but in fact, you are subconsciously following Roger's old path."

"Later, when you met your stepfather, White Beard, you felt the love of a father you had never had before, so you naively took helping him become the One Piece King as the meaning of your existence."

Li Baiye squinted his eyes slightly, and said firmly: "I can tell you with certainty, because of age and various hidden wounds on his body, White Beard will not live long."

"So, he can't become the One Piece King, and he is very likely to die in this war. This is also the way Whitebeard himself chose to die."

"He would rather die vigorously on the battlefield than die in front of his sons because of injuries."

Ace stared at Li Baiye with wide eyes, "Impossible, Dad won't die!"

Li Baiye ignored his gaze, and continued: "So you have been confused about the meaning of your existence, Roger's behavior of a scumbag who abandoned his wife and son made you hate him all the time, and feel inferior to your One Piece bloodline. "

Ace drooped his head, as if he had lost all his strength, like a dead person.

Li Baiye's words just now completely dissected him. He really has never realized the meaning of his birth.

Li Baiye quietly looked at Ace who was full of death. In the original plot, after Ace blocked the attack of the red dog for Luffy,
Before he died, he asked Luffy to convey his words of thanks to everyone, and said with a smile and tears that he had found the true meaning of life, so he had no regrets in life.

That's just his unwillingness to say that's all. He knows that the white beard father will die too, and he has no goal. To save his brother Luffy and his family's death is indeed his last bit of value.

The reason why Li Baiye ruthlessly stated Ace's confusion was to forcibly guide (fool) him a brand new path.

I saw Li Baiye standing up suddenly, smiling, showing his white teeth like Matt Kai.

He looked at Ace, his eyes were full of tenderness and recognition, and said with great sincerity:

"Ace, do you want to know the true meaning of your birth?"

"The real meaning?"

Ace raised his head slowly, looked at Li Baiye in puzzlement, and there was a gleam of light in his eyes again.

Li Baiye said with a heavy tone: "Your scumbag father, Roger, started the era of great pirates, causing the number of pirates in the world to increase dramatically. They burned, killed and looted, and countless civilians died tragically under the butcher's knife.

He pointed at Ace: "And you, your mission is to end the era of great pirates! This is the meaning of your life!"

Ace widened his eyes and said in shock: "End the era of great pirates! Me? Can I?"

"Of course!"

Li Baiye nodded heavily, and said with great certainty: "Even if you become the One Piece King, you've just followed Roger's old path, and if you want to surpass him, you must walk your own path!"

"Think about your mother, do you want to be a scumbag like Roger?! You have to use your actions to prove Roger's mistake!"

Li Baiye took out a small bottle of milk from the pocket of his navy coat and said with a smile:

"Do you remember what this is?"

When Ace saw the familiar milk, he couldn't help thinking of a girl wearing a cow hood, blonde hair and a warm smile on her face.

"Momotan?! How do you have her milk?!"

Sure enough.

Li Baiye said with a smile: "It seems that you still remember her."

How can you not remember?Ace felt unprecedented peace and warmth in that girl, it was the smell of a mother.

The time when he lived in Motan's house was the most peaceful time in his life. Without the sense of wandering and loneliness, he really wanted to live on that farm forever.

However, he is the blood of Roger, the Pirate King. Once someone finds out, the whole town and even the whole country will be destroyed. He can't be selfish and implicate others, so he can only continue wandering and wandering.
Until he met Whitebeard, the king of the sea, Ace continued to launch suicide attacks. He was ready to die, but who knew that Whitebeard not only did not kill him, but also sincerely accepted him as his son.

In White Beard, Ace experienced a father's love that he had never had before, and he could finally stop.