One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The Soap Bubble Park in Chambord has always been one of the most popular attractions in the area, with an endless stream of tourists and laughter.

A group of casually dressed men stood by the attractions of the bubble roller coaster, either covering their mouths and retching, or with pale faces, drooping their heads.

On the roller coaster, the screams and excited shouts of the tourists continued one after another, which made it even more obvious that this group of people was very weak. They were obviously vicious, burly and strong, but they were dizzy even from a speeding car. It was really useless.

What they didn't know was that these men had already ridden the roller coaster six times in a row.

The roller coaster finally stopped.

A red-haired boy wearing a straw hat jumped out of the car first, and said excitedly: "This is too exciting, hahaha, I feel like my heart is about to jump out."

"Stop playing the boss, you've already played seven times." Lackey covered his mouth, not wanting to spit out the meat he ate into his stomach.

Beckman also suppressed the nausea that surged up, and said, "We still have business to do."

"What business?" Gray asked, jumping out of the car.

As a result, his legs went limp in the next second, and he fell face down on the ground.

Under the gaze of the crowd, he raised his head and smiled awkwardly, "Hahaha, my legs are weak."

"It turns out that you are not really enjoying it!"

"Why do you want to be brave?"

"If you're afraid, just come down and stay there!"

Under the stern scolding of the pirate, Gray wanted to say something, but he was hit hard on the head again, and his whole body was buried in the roots of the Archiman red tree.

Alfred stepped down on Gray's head and said without apology: "Sorry, I didn't see you just now."

"You did it on purpose."

Gray pulled out his head and shook off the sawdust on it, not caring about Alfred's behavior of using him as a stepping stone just now.

"Speaking of which, if you are going to do business, we can't follow."

At the end of the day, the two were just staying on board Shanks' ship, and Shanks was being generous enough to let them stay this long.

When Gray said this, everyone in the Pirates turned to Shanks.

Beckman took a cigarette in his mouth and said to Shanks: "Look at you Shanks, don't show me a foolish peddler."

Shanks, wearing a straw hat, has an enigmatic similarity to the boy who sells melons in the melon field.

"Well, why do you say that? It's just to collect some information about the new world." Shanks smiled, "After all, coming to Chambord means that we are about to enter the new world."

"I'm not saying that with your current strength, entering the new world is courting death."

"Huh? What do you mean, have you ever been to the New World?" A grumpy crew member immediately became unhappy.

They were famous in the first half, even if they went to the so-called hellish new world, the ending could not be "court death".

"Ada." Shanks patted the crew on the shoulder, and looked at Gray meaningfully, "They have indeed been to the New World."

"Just them?"

So young, one of them such an idiot, and the other a social handicap who didn't talk to them more than ten sentences in total?Also eat soft rice.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a strong person.

"Yeah, just them." Shanks nodded with a smile, "Anyway, let's find someone first, what's their name?"

"Xia Qi's rip-off BAR." Beckman said.

"Yes, yes, it's a tavern, let's go to the bar first."

"It can't be such a coincidence." Gray and Alfred were at the end of the drinking line.

Gray muttered, "By the way, Gary is still alive?"

"If we really have to wait until then, many people will die."

"Haha, people have to die. We made it very clear on the day we separated."

Their gang of pirates can be regarded as the remnants of the last era.

As long as they are here, they cannot escape time.

Before leaving the park, Alfred threw a gem to the peddler, took two bags of specialty senbei, and after handing one of the bags to Gray, he said coldly: "It's almost over, Gray."

"I know, we will definitely win, defeat the final boss, save the world, and finally get the reward we want, isn't that what the story says."

"So is reality."

-

When they reached the tavern in area 13, Gray and Alfred stopped moving forward.

"Hello, Shanks."

Shanks turned around and frantically caught a heavy bag of things. The unfastened mouth of the bag slanted down, and two crystal colored gemstones fell out.

He immediately understood what was going on, "Are you leaving now?"

"Yeah, see you later." Gray thought for a while, "Maybe it won't be long."

The two turned and left almost without a memory.

Lackey couldn't help but said, "I didn't quite understand what they meant."

"But they gave the money, so from this point of view, it's pretty good."

"Why did they leave?" Beckman couldn't figure it out. "Before that, they didn't express any idea of ​​wanting to leave."

"Will you?" Shanks asked.

"Yes."

"Hahaha, they are such willful guys." Shanks remembered that once, after he and Bucky returned to the pirate ship, he heard about the willful deeds of Black Flame Gray from Captain Roger and Uncle Ace more than once.

Whether it's changing the course without warning, or going to Mary Joya after a disagreement, or making everyone sad after pretending to be dead, it all shows how willful this guy is.

So Shanks wasn't surprised at all.

"Boss, who are they? It seems like you guys knew each other very well before."

"I'm not very familiar with them." Shanks smiled, "But he gave me my sword."

The sword later saved his life.

Now thinking of Zefa's wonderful expression when he saw the sword, Shanks can still burst out laughing.

However, the former Admiral of the Navy has now retired to the second line and taught the emerging navy at the headquarters. Unfortunately, there is no way to see him again.

Everyone was surprised, "Hey! Griffin?"

"Give it away as soon as you say it, and say you don't know it well?"

"Hahaha, yes, I also regret that I didn't participate in his era."

"But they are only 20 years old."

"It's been said that they are wizards! They are wizards!"

-

In 1503, Garp's grandson Monkey D. Luffy was born.

No one knew how big a storm this child would stir up in the future.

Fast-forward seven years, in 1509 of the lunar calendar, the red-haired Shanks came to the East China Sea for something, and temporarily stationed in Windmill Town, a small town on the edge of the Kingdom of Goa.

There, I met Lu Jiu, the wife of the One Piece Roger.

Shanks is very happy. It is really worth celebrating to see Aunt Lou Jiu, so the most common way of celebrating for pirates will naturally be on the scene.

While preparing for the banquet, three children who seemed to have rolled several times in the mud rushed into the tavern, and they could barely tell who was who from their height.

Seeing that the pirates that came were not what he wanted to see, one of the children immediately cut out in dissatisfaction, the intention of needing to be beaten was particularly obvious.

However, after hearing Lu Jiu introduce that Shanks was once Roger's crew member, the child's dissatisfaction disappeared immediately.

The red-haired pirates stayed here for a while, when a group of bandits came suddenly, Luffy was caught above the sea, and attracted the king of the sea in the sea.

The red-haired Shanks was almost bitten off by the King of the Sea in order to save his life.

But at the critical moment, a pirate ship fired in time to stop the attack of the King of the Sea.

The pirate flag they raised was quite similar to Roger's flag back then.

On the bow of the ship, a woman looked down at Shanks and Luffy who showed astonished expressions on the sea.

Ann is now a well-known pirate in the sea, belonging to the Whitebeard Pirates, but because the latter stipulates that women are not allowed to participate in battles, she is only a member, and there is no need to change the pirate flag to Whitebeard.

"What, do you think I'm the savior?"

"install??!"

Shanks' expression suddenly became exciting. He has already thought about fleeing the island immediately, but if the crew asks, what should he say?
Because the psychological shadow left by her childhood is too heavy.

Is he afraid that his sword will be taken away and used for barbecue, or that his face will be painted as a monster?

Damn, actually take the Griffin barbecue!It's just too much!
After much deliberation, in order not to lose face in front of the crew, Shanks decided to give it a shot and stay here.

Everyone went back to the tavern to chat.

When asked why Ann came back so coincidentally, the latter touched his chin and took two boxes from the crew, "I met two strange guys, saying that Shanks would embarrass himself here."

The shamed Shanks covered his face and couldn't even drink the wine.

"Those two people gave me this." Ann pushed the two boxes to the counter, "Devil Fruit."

One is a flame-patterned orange fruit, and the other is a snail-shaped lavender fruit.

"They said they would give it to Ace and Sabo." An Tanshou commented, "This is the first time I've seen someone who offered to give money away. Don't want it for nothing, I'll just accept it."

"Didn't the two of them tell you anything else?" Shanks guessed who those two people were.

I'm afraid they are the only ones who can send things out so generously.

It used to be Griffin and the treasure map, and now it's two devil fruits.

Ann nodded, "Yes, I asked them why they gave it, and one of them said it was because they thought it would be interesting."

"As always, willful."

"Hahahaha, I also think it's interesting, so Ace, Sabo, pick whatever you want, anyway, it's free."

"No." Ace shook his head, "I can't swim after eating a devil fruit."

"That's right, we're going to go to sea in the future, and someone must be able to swim. Things like today must never happen again!"

Both Sabo and Ace are so persistent, just because Luffy is already a capable person.

"Ha, I have to remind you." An poked Ace's head, "You have to be 17 years old to go to sea. At that time, Luffy was only 15 years old. He couldn't go to sea with you."

"Hmph, we'll come back to pick him up when the time comes, we're joint captains!"

"Captain United?."

"ASL is our pirate group!"

"Ha, you can figure it out for yourself."

An spread her hands and stood up while talking, and her crew also stood up.

"Whether it's the joint captain or ASL, these are things you decide for yourself. I'll throw the two fruits here. It's up to you whether you want to eat them or not."

"Are you leaving?" Shanks' eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to get up to see her off.

"Is it my illusion, you seem very happy?"

"Of course it's your illusion!"

"Hmph, you pretended fast."

The encounter and parting of pirates are always as short as fireworks.

In West Sea O'Hara, Gray is sitting in the library of the Tree of Omniscience, counting with his fingers.

He has been sitting here counting all afternoon, is adding and subtracting within ten so difficult?

Standing in front of the bookshelf, Nicole Robin's attention was not on her own books.

The black-haired man who had been here since noon and was sitting at the table wringing his fingers attracted most of her attention.

She knew all the residents of O'Hara, but this man was an outsider.

This has to make Robin vigilant, she is now one of the only connections between scholars and the outside world in O'Hara's basement.

Dr. Kloba also told her to be [-]% vigilant when meeting strangers.

Should I take the initiative to try it out?
Robin turned over a page of the book, closed it again, and decided to ask this man what he was doing in the library.

But when she was about to take the first step, another person suddenly walked in at the door of the library.

The man wore the same mask on his face, and he looked like he belonged to the same group.

"Things." Alfred put a stack of books on the table, "You can take it yourself next time."

"Yes, yes, hard work~"

Gray nodded, beckoned to Robin, "Miss, you are the staff here, right?"

Robin walked over, "No loud noises are allowed in the library, what can I do?"

"Sorry sorry, we borrowed books here decades ago and now return them."

"Decades ago?" Robin frowned, picked up a book and flipped through it.

The inside pages of O'Hara's books are all stamped with red stamps as a proof, and this book that is handy does have O'Hara's red stamps on it.

Robin flipped through other books, and they all had the same mark.

but these two
"Excuse me, did you return it for someone else?" Robin asked, "Why did it take so many years to return the book?"

"Because I was too lazy to return the book before, we borrowed the book ourselves." Gray said confidently: "The one who lent us the book was Dr. Keluoba, you can ask him to recall the memory."

Robin's heart tightened, but his face remained calm, "I'm sorry, you may not be clear, Dr. Croba died in a pirate attack decades ago, and now the curator of the library is my mother."

"I know about it."

"Ha, since you know everything, you should understand that Dr. Kloba is no longer able."

"We are the pirates who attacked and killed people back then."

Hearing this news suddenly, Robin felt the hairs all over her body stand on end, she immediately stepped back, crossed her hands in front of her body, and locked her eyes on Gray.

"Three rounds."

The figure of the man opposite disappeared in place, and the back of a hand behind him rested on Robin's shoulder.

"Don't be so nervous, we can have a good chat."