One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Ace finds it boring, people always have endless curiosity.

The more hidden something is, the more I want to explore it.

Ace always guesses Gray's past uncontrollably, why he knows the future, and why he treats him so well.

And he himself, why did he come here.

In the end, there were naturally many different guesses, some of which even Ace found unbelievable, but when the Lord did not admit it himself, these guesses were all untenable and wild thoughts.

Ace shook his head to shake off the complicated thoughts, and said with high spirits: "When Sabo and Luffy are born, I will run over and snatch them!"

Sabo was another sworn brother of Ace, earlier than he knew Luffy, but then died for some reason.

Of course Ace wants to change this.

"?" Gray had a question mark on his head, he couldn't understand the inner activities of his younger brother, and asked in confusion: "What about your future self, should you leave it alone?"

"No, actually, I've been thinking about one thing. If I find my mother here, the first thing I have to do is to prevent her from meeting Roger!"

"Uh" Gray froze in place.

"No matter who you like, you can't like Roger! I want her to spend her life in peace, without suffering so much, and without having to bear so much alone. My birth is a burden to her"

The rest of Ace's words were stuck in his throat, because his face was pinned directly to the ground by Gray, and his entire body fell backwards, while Gray squatted beside him.

Through the gap between his five fingers, Ace saw Gray bowed his head, his eyes were covered by black hair on his forehead, but from the tight lips and the rise and fall of his chest, it could be seen that Gray was holding back his anger at this time.

After his head hit the sand, the pain brought Ace back to his senses. He was really excited just now, and he spoke out his inner thoughts.

As a child of a criminal, Ace has always had low self-esteem. He heard too many vicious words about Roger and himself from other people when he was a child.

Everyone was cursing him to death, even when he grew up, when he thought he could get rid of that identity and live with his new family, he was publicly executed because of this identity, dragging his father, Marco and the others.

Those curses and bad experiences took root deep in his heart, entangled his heart like thorny vines.

Many times he would think that if he hadn't been born, his mother wouldn't have to suffer so much in order to protect him.

All other people who suffer because of him can also live well.

"You know the future, and you must know my identity," Ace said, "I am Roger's child, and my mother endured for 20 months to give birth to me. I am very grateful to her, and I know that it is very irresponsible for me to say that."

As he spoke, his voice choked up uncontrollably.

"But I really want her not to bear so much. If meeting Roger is destined to represent a tragedy, then I would rather not be born, as long as she is happy."

Ace held Gray's wrist, which was pressing on his face, tightly, as if grasping a life-saving straw, accompanied by the wanton tears left behind, the choked sobs were fragmented.

It seemed to be squeezed out of the throat, and it was also like the howling of a little beast after losing everything.

Those dark eyes were always staring at Gray.

Gray's anger has been drowned out, he knows Ace very well, and he is also very clear about Ace's past, it should be said that he watched this child grow up.

Yes, he's been watching this kid grow.

From a mother's womb to the first cry after birth, from crawling to walking in that bandit's house, from babbling to fluent communication.

Met brothers named Sabo and Luffy, went to sea at the age of 17, and finally executed at the age of 20.

He was standing next to Ace.

But unfortunately, after the age of three, Ace couldn't see him anymore.

Gray couldn't blame the kid.

"Sigh, isn't it too early for you to think about these things?" Gray felt the wetness of tears in his palms, and sighed, "Don't think about these things, children, just be as happy as Oden."

"I'm not a kid anymore," Ace whimpered.

"Isn't it a child who is crying so ugly?" Gray lit a flame in his palm, and wiped Ace's face indiscriminately, burning away all the tears.

Then he stood up, stretched out his foot and kicked him, "Okay, stand up, this matter will not be discussed until you really meet your mother, before that, enjoy life for me!"

Raising a child is tiring, and educating a child is even more tiring.

Gray scratched his hair, feeling that a child's heart is really like a maze, as long as one of them is not read well, it is easy to go astray.

"Go to the boat and wash your face before going back."

After Gray finished speaking, he gave Ace time to pack himself up, and went back to the research room.

Everyone inside has already known the precautions of pure gold from Dr. Assier, as long as they are not exposed to this kind of light for a long time, it will not affect their natural growth.

Naturally, Assie also had a way to store pure gold. He took out a dark and airtight box and put the pure gold box into it. It was perfectly stitched. It was obvious that he had prepared a comprehensive way to deal with it a long time ago.

It's just that Mr. Lantern came too fast at that time, and he hadn't had time to put the pure gold into the box, which made them live for such a long time by accident.

"Now that it's packed, let's leave." Gray said.

"Where's Ace?" Demon looked behind Gray.

"Captain, you won't beat him outside, will you?"

"What do you mean beating? The captain beat you. That can only be called sparring!"

"Ha, I want to beat him, but it's wrong to always beat a child." Gray's tone was half serious, half joking, "Let's go, Dr. Assier, do you have anything else to bring?"

"No, there is nothing to bring." Assie was a little surprised, "You really want to take us away?"

"Yeah, is this something incomprehensible?"

"No, no, I just want to say thank you very much." Assie quickly waved his hands.

"Father idiot, we gave them all the precious pure gold!" Compared to Assier who was at a loss, Olga was obviously more confident.

Now she already knew the truth about her father's study of pure gold - it was to delay her illness, so he studied pure gold.

Her father loved her, and this was the happiest news Olga had received in a hundred years.

Compared to before, she was even more arrogant and complacent.

As if thinking of something, Olga took the ring off her finger and handed it to Gray, "Here, there is also a bit of pure gold inlaid in this ring, you can take it too."

"Don't you want it?" Gray took the ring.

"Hmph, Colin has already cured my disease, and people don't need pure gold anymore." Olga's disease was Emperor's Fever of the South China Sea.

It was a terrible disease more than 150 years ago, but now a specific medicine has been developed.

"I want to live a normal life with my father, so I don't need this ring." Olga said confidently.

"But our next destination is Murloc Island. Do you want to live on Murloc Island?" Perry asked.

"Murman Island!?" Olga's eyes lit up and she said excitedly, "Wow, are we going to Fishman Island? I've never been there before. I heard there are beautiful mermaids!"

"But it is difficult for humans to live on Murloc Island." Teuton said helplessly, "Murlocs and merfolk hate humans."

There was no way it could be done, although Teutonic knew that there were good and bad people among human beings.

But the people who appeared on Murloc Island were basically bad guys. They would plunder property, catch mermaids and murlocs, and sell them to the auction house in Chambord Islands.