One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"let go."

"Do not."

"Let go." Alfred emphasized his tone.

".Let's loose! Do you think I want to see you?"

Gray let go of the prison uniform he was holding in his hand, and said in a bad tone, "Why are you still alive, I know that."

He still remembers the stickiness and resistance when his right hand was inserted into the chest cavity, and the touch of warm blood spraying on his face.

Alfred didn't answer, he looked at the approaching and unfamiliar Blacks, and said softly, "It's a new ship."

"Yeah, just changed."

The two fell silent.

Gray clenched his fists. In fact, he wanted to ask many things, such as why you are still alive, what happened to the injury on your arm, why you are advancing the city, etc., but he didn't know where to start when the words came to his mouth.

Alfred is very special to him, like drinking orange-flavored iced soda in summer. Although this metaphor is strange, the other party has such a status in his heart.

After Zeus, who was timid and fearful of death, drove the two back to the boat, he began to cry loudly, but unfortunately no one paid attention to it, only Prometheus let him stop crying in a listless manner.

Everyone's attention, or hatred and anger-filled eyes, looked at Alfred, of course excluding Ace, Oden, Brook and Whitebeard.

"Anyway, get out of here first." Gray wanted to stand in front of Alfred, blocking the sight of the crew, but the latter reached out and clasped his shoulder, "I don't need you to block the front."

He didn't have it before, and he won't need it now. Alfred never wanted Gray's protection. He preferred the feeling of going hand in hand and fighting side by side.

He said to everyone: "No matter what you want to do, wait until you are in a safe place."

Passing through the encirclement of sea kings and returning to the calm windless zone, Alder was the first to jump off his post, rushing to Alfred, and was about to beat him up without saying a word.

The fist was forced to stop a few centimeters from the cheek, because Alfred reached out to restrain his attack, and his golden eyes looked at Alder without warmth, "I never said that I would be beaten obediently."

This remark immediately aroused public outrage, except for Mi Tian and White Beard, everyone rushed towards the young man standing on the deck.

Rapidly growing vines bound his hands and feet, and several bullets aimed at his vitals flew in mid-air, sword energy, cards...
Alfred didn't move at all, but from the dense wounds on his arm, fragments of sword blades flew out abruptly, and the blades flew in all directions, with a silver streamer, knocking down all the surrounding attacks.

"What is this?" Oden was very surprised, "Is it the ability of devil fruit?"

"[Thousand Blades] Alfred, it is said that he has a knife that can change. I didn't expect him to hide the blade in his flesh and blood." Whitebeard said solemnly. He had only heard about it before, but he didn't expect to see it today.

Thinking of the scruples the prisoners had towards him in the prison, Whitebeard realized that Alfred, who is not a person with abilities, has a strange sword, and he can indeed kill anyone without anyone noticing, as long as he wants.

Mi Tian asked again: "Then why are they fighting?"

"I heard that Wan Ren betrayed the Pirates."

"Huh? I suddenly don't like him anymore."

Ace came up from the bottom of the cabin and looked at the situation blankly. After seeing Alfred, he smiled and said, "Oh, is there a new guest?"

"There is no guest, just an uninvited guy."

"Yes, Ace, don't be so polite to such a person, be careful that one day in the future, he will stab you in the back."

"Uh" Ace scratched his head. Although he was very nervous, he could tell that everyone didn't like, or even hated, this white-haired man.

He subconsciously looked at Gray, "Grey, what's going on?"

Gray shrugged, "Probably a dead person reappeared suddenly, and everyone is greeting him enthusiastically."

"It's not like a warm greeting." Ace couldn't believe Gray's nonsense, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? I'll do whatever you say!!!"

He quickly turned his head to avoid the attack of a sharp blade, but the sword energy still left a bloodstain on his cheek.

Ace's arm suddenly burst into flames, "What do you mean?"

Alfred smiled at him, "It's just a warm greeting to you."

"That's right, then I'll return the gift warmly!"

The white fire fist rushed directly to Alfred, and the latter's blade fragments wrapped around the surface of the flame like particles and rushed towards Ace.

"Enough!" Gray stretched out his hand to block the flames so that none of them burned onto the ship.

The blade then returned, circled around Gray and returned to Alfred's hand, turning into a samurai sword with a textured blade.

"Colin, treat Ace." Gray looked at Alfred, "You will return your life, so stop pretending."

Alfred just smiled, walked to the side of the boat and sat down, letting the wound on his arm drip with blood, "Do you have anything to ask me, if not, I'll go first."

"I didn't let you go." Gray frowned, "Colin, treat Fred."

"But the captain."

"hurry up!"

"Yes." Colin reluctantly stepped forward, activated the ability, and the treatment was only a short-lived thing, but unexpectedly, Alfred's wound was not healed, and he was still bleeding.

"It's useless." Alfred said, "Don't waste your efforts." He was not surprised by his physical condition.

Colin used his ability again, but it still had no effect.

Gray stepped forward quickly, grabbed Alfred by the collar, and asked, "What's going on? You must know the reason."

"Grey," Alfred asked a strange question suddenly, "do you want to hear my heartbeat?"

Gray looked at him for a while, and put his ear on the other's chest. Through the prison uniform and flesh and blood, he heard the sound of machine gears turning inside.

Click, click, click. Instead of the pounding of the heart, it became the only sound in Alfred's chest.

"You" Gray's eyes widened, "Why?"

"It became a failed experiment." Alfred was very calm.

"Experiment product?" Gray tore off Alfred's prison uniform, and saw a hideous scar on his chest.

This scar was left by Gray.

In addition, from the belly to the chest, there is a long and narrow stitched wound in the middle.

As an experimental subject, Alfred once saw the whole process of being disemboweled himself soberly.

Gray's hands were shaking, and his anger ignited the gunpowder in his heart like a spark, "World government?"

Alfred said softly: "Grey, I betrayed you, you need to know this."

"They robbed my treasure without telling me, you have to tell me this too!!!"

Gray never swears, and now he is out of breath.

The anger kept transpiring in his mind, and he was burning without reason. His arrogance centered on his body and oscillated towards the surroundings. The calm sea stirred up storms, the sky was gloomy, and the thick clouds even churned out huge vortexes, entangled towards the higher sky.

"Changing the road, I'm going to Mary Gioia."