I'm not interested in devil fruit

Chapter 624 The Promise of the Straw Hat

Thirteen years ago, the Roger Pirates arrived at the final island, and Roger was called the "One Piece"—or the vicious "devil" by the world.

Twelve years ago, on Luoge Island in the East China Sea, Roger was publicly executed, and the life of the prosperous pirate came to an abrupt end.

From being famous all over the world and shaking the world... to disappearing, everyone screaming and beating...

What happened to the mighty Roger Pirates in that short year?
The once famous and unparalleled Roger had never suffered any disadvantages in front of the navy back then, so why was he suddenly captured by the navy?

The year that the little-known Roger Pirates left the world's sight gave birth to countless mysteries, aroused speculation, and even sparked a series of conspiracy theories...

Even Garp once thought about why Roger...why surrendered himself.Is it just to say the words before the execution?

However, how to execute the sentence, whether to execute it publicly in front of the world, or to cut off his head and spread it all over the world after the execution in secret, and whether he will have the chance to say that sentence before the execution is still uncertain...

But Garp did not expect that the answer was so simple.

Suffering from a terminal illness, the sky does not lie, and time is numbered.He clearly witnessed the truth of the world and learned some kind of future prophecy, but he really ran out of time.

Faced with such a trick of fate, perhaps no matter how open-minded a person is, he will regret his untimely birth... So, what about you, Roger?

hello what do you think

The dancing flames swayed on Garp's already wrinkled face, and it was unclear. He laughed and said, "Roger, he played a trick on our navy before he died!"

This guy who always likes ostentation the most, everything needs a big scene, and makes a scene that shakes the world, is using his last embers of life to make the last big limelight in front of the whole world...

It's so chic...

You bastard, what kind of naughty brat are you?
Do you feel reconciled because you can't participate in that future era?
So in the end, in that kind of prank-like way, your name, Gol D. Roger, was forever imprinted on the head of this era after your death?

It really is……

Very much like your style!Cap grinned silently.

"The one who disembarked after that was Captain Roger himself..." Shanks recalled the past in front of the fire, the corners of his eyes were a little wet, "Although everyone didn't want to admit it, but that day... everyone cried miserably. Mr. Cass asked for the last dose of medicine, and hugged and bid farewell to Mr. Rayleigh, the oldest vice-captain on the ship. One day also..."

Ace stared blankly at the much smaller flame.Of course he had found the newspaper where Pirate King Roger was executed and read it.He clearly remembered the expression of the man who was his biological father in the execution photos that almost occupied the entire newspaper page.

He is laughing.

He was obviously wearing a sword, wearing shackles, kneeling on the execution platform...but he was still grinning.

what's so funny?

He's obviously a dying criminal... Tell me, what's so funny?

Abandoned his wife and unborn son, leaving them in this world full of malice for them... You are dead, what about them?What's so funny about this? !
"None of us knew where the captain ended up... of course, now I know."

Shanks looked up at the dark night sky, "Ace, do you know how old the captain was at that time?"

"..." Ace said nothing.

"He was 52 years old when he disembarked. Generally, if someone wants to keep blood, it won't be delayed to this age, right?"

Shanks muttered to himself, "I think, when the captain heard the prophecy on Fishman Island, he felt for the first time that he should have a child... Captain Roger, many people say that he pretends to be a child. Extraordinary, arrogant, stepping on people when he sees them, and killing things that make him uncomfortable, he is simply a self-respecting bastard! But you know what...they said nothing wrong."

Ace was taken aback when he heard the words, Garp snorted, but Shanks laughed, "'I am the number one pirate in the world, if it is predicted that there will be a more powerful guy in the future, of course it will be my son' , the captain is 100% thinking this way. Hahaha..."

Amidst Shanks' laughter, the campfire gradually fell silent.

Shanks lay down, looking at the starry sky that hadn't changed much compared to many years ago.

Ace looked cold.

Luffy is sleeping on Tulip's lap.

Karp sat on the ground with his arms folded, lowered his eyes, not knowing what to think...

"Garp, do you still remember," Shanks said while lying on the grass, looking at the night sky suddenly, "that day in Logue Town, the last words our captain left in this world..."

"..."

That paragraph of words was published one after another in the original newspapers—not just the World Economic News, but newspapers of all sizes and pheasant magazines all over the world are reprinting frantically, and people spread it by word of mouth. Even if the world government wants to stop it, it cannot stop it. live.Even on Jiu Snake Island, a windless belt with no news, Tulip had read such newspapers and knew that passage.

"..." Garp chuckled, "'Do you want my treasure? Then go to the sea to find it, I put everything there'."

Tulip said to herself: "It's also because of his words that all the ambitious pirates in the four seas flocked to the great route like crazy..."

Garp snorted coldly: "That bastard is going to make trouble for people when he is dying, so our navy has to focus on the first half of the paradise, so that Newgate, Charlotte and the gang have drilled a lot in the New World. Hole?"

"That day, I was also in Rogge Town, and after witnessing what Captain Roger said, I was executed..."

Shanks took off the straw hat, covered his face lightly, and murmured to himself, "Who is the captain talking about? Are you talking about us? No. , We have been with him a long time ago and witnessed everything... Did you say it to other pirates in the world? I used to be sure it was the latter, but now I am a little uncertain..."

It was quiet in the forest for a long time.Until Ace's cold voice broke the silence, "What do you mean?"

"..." Shanks sighed, "It's not interesting. I just think that Captain Roger, who likes to show off so much, even if he is a father, will definitely want to achieve a level that no one else can do." , even if he wants to leave something to his son, it must be in a way that no father in the world can replicate..."

..............................

Luffy woke up suffocated by urine.

He dazedly opened a slit of his eyes, lifted the hem of his mother's skirt, jumped away from her lap, wandered dazedly to the side of the woods road, unbuttoned his pants and began to shush...

Woo~!The boy with the scar under his left eye trembled, hissed, and suddenly said "ah", and said in surprise: "Oops, I accidentally fell asleep, and I didn't hear the story of One Piece—forget it, if I didn't hear it, it's okay." Didn't you hear it?"

He didn't care, and even felt a little lucky that he didn't hear it.

After putting in the water, Luffy turned back and saw only ashes and a pile of wild boar bones left on the bonfire.

The sky is already slightly bright, and the air in the mountains and forests in the morning is slightly cold, with the humidity of morning dew.

Grandpa Garp has disappeared, and Shanks has disappeared... Only my mother is still there. She stretched her waist, closed her eyes and opened her arms in the direction of Luffy with a smile: "Come on, let Mom hug you!" .”

Luffy walked over to be hugged, passed his mother's shoulder, but saw a distant figure in the woods over there.

"It's Ace." Luffy broke free from his mother and wanted to chase after him, but Tulip grabbed his ears, and the ears were pulled back out like ramen noodles.

Luffy was pulled back, turned somersault, covered his ears and shouted: "Mom, what are you doing?"

Tulip pulled him into her arms and said softly, "Leave him alone for a while."

"..." Lu Fei was pressed into his mother's arms, and he blinked, as if he understood something, but also as if he didn't understand anything.

"..."

Chi Chi, Chi Chi Chi, Chi Chi... Ace dragged his broken water pipe, leaving a long and thin trail behind him on the ground covered in morning dew.

【"What if Goldo Roger has a child?" Passers-by in the restaurant and on the street, the young Ace who once had a vision for his father, heard those people say it for granted, "Of course you have to. Execute him!"]

Ace was walking alone in the woods, his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept all night.

【"We really came too early... Who will really get the big secret treasure? That 'voice' is the 'truth', someone will be born and surpass us!"]

【On the pirate ship, Roger smiled confidently, "Haha, that must be my son!"】

【Railey was speechless, "Where did you get your son?"】

【Roger laughed and said: "There will be one later!"】

……

Dadan's mountain hut was not far from the sea, and Ace quickly walked out of the forest.

【"Hey, old man..." Ace, who had fought with others in the town again, stared blankly at the sea, "Should I really be born in this world?"]

As soon as Ace looked up, he saw the coastline ahead.

["If that devil has blood in this world, I hope that when he is caught and executed..." the people in the tavern roared with laughter, "he will cry and confess like this: 'I'm sorry, I'm a trash, no Should live in the world.'Hahahaha!"]

Ace walked slowly to the shore alone.

【Karp said behind his back: "If you watch this kind of thing alive, don't you know it?"】

The sea breeze blows, blowing Ace's black hair.

[The red hair, who was beaten all over by himself, lay in a pool of blood and said: "The captain answered me like this: 'What are you talking about, you were born in this world...'"]

The waves hit the shore, splashing bursts of crystal mist, brushing across Ace's face, bringing a burst of coolness.

He looked at the almost arc-shaped sea horizon in the distance, and a fiery red sun slowly rose at the end of the sky.

[Many years ago, the young Gol D. Roger came to the port of Rogue Town with a straw hat on his head, and said with a smile: "Hey, Raleigh, come with me, how about turning the world upside down?" ?”]

The rising sun dazzled the sea surface at the end, as if there was a grinning Roger with a beard, looking at Ace on the shore from a distance.

【"Want my treasure?】

【"Then go to sea to find...】

【"I put everything there!"】

Boom!

The turbulent waves crashed on the shore, raising white waves, drowning out the wailing voice of the freckled boy.

【"Who cares what other people do?】

【"Since you are still alive, even if there is only one day left, let's live with your head held high!"】

"Damn..."

Facing the boundless sea, Ace cried like this for the first time since he was born, as if all the sadness and unwillingness accumulated in his heart, as well as the endless grievances, were all cried out.

"I won't...forgive you..."

The golden sun rose slowly over the sea level, smudged the sea like a long-haired woman emerging from the water, looking back at Ace, smiling slightly.

"Mother……"

Ace let himself be weak, cried until he almost collapsed, choked up, and even murmured indistinctly, "I really want... to be able to see you...just one time..."

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〖Another day, Windmill Village, Port——〗

The pirates loaded their cargo onto the ship, and they were about to leave.

The village head was very happy and drank two more glasses.

Makino and some people came to the port.Shanks' face still has bandages and bandages applied by Makino himself.

As for Karp, he left here long ago and returned to the headquarters.He originally wanted to throw that boy Luffy to Dadan and Ace to raise together...but with Tulips around, he obviously couldn't throw it away.

Tulip came with Luffy.

According to the agreement, before Shanks left, he notified Luffy.

"Luffy!" Beckman, Jesus Bu and others greeted each other on the boat and asked with a smile, "Can we talk now? Why did you give up on our boat? Don't you want to be a pirate?"

Shanks was about to board the boat, and looked back at Luffy with a smile.

"Of course I want to be a pirate!" Luffy shouted energetically to those friends on the ship, then walked up to Shanks, raised his head and grinned, "But, a ship can only have one captain, right? So I I don't want to get on your boat!"

【"It's one thing to pour wine on me, but it's another thing to bet on your life! It's one thing to bet on my own life, but it's one thing to bet on my friend's life..."】

【Standing in front of the bandit, the red-haired man under the straw hat looked serious, "That's another matter! I will never let go of the guy who hurt my friend."】

"I see, you want to be the captain."

Shanks smiled when he heard the words, he had expected what Luffy said, but he was still touched when he heard the boy say this.

Luffy laughed and said, "I'll find a group of partners who won't lose to you guys! Then I'll be a pirate myself! Shanks, I want to surpass you—"

The boy raised his fists and announced with high spirits.

"I'm going to be—One Piece!!!"

"..." Shanks laughed, "If you want to surpass us and become the Pirate King... Ace won't be happy if he hears it?"

Luffy stuck out his tongue, made a face and said, "I don't care!"

"That's right!" Shanks giggled, and then took off the straw hat on his head, "This hat...is given to me by Captain Roger. It is my most cherished treasure. I will deposit it with you now... "

Pfft, he put the straw hat on Luffy's head, pressed the boy's head, "When you don't need it, give it to me like Captain Roger."

It's really time to say goodbye, Luffy finally couldn't help crying under the straw hat, and heard Shanks' voice with a smile: "Do you have any opinions, the future One Piece?"

Luffy choked up and said, "No..."

Tulip watched the scene quietly with a smile behind her.

Shanks handed the straw hat to Luffy, turned around and boarded his own pirate ship, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a black-haired boy carrying the broken water pipe under a tree not far away, and raised his finger from a distance, Appears to be waving goodbye.

"..."

Shanks smiled slightly, raised his fist towards that side, and continued to board the boat.

"Anchor! Sail!"

"Let's go!"

"Wow~~~~!!!"

The ship of the red-haired pirates gradually went away. On the port side, Tulip walked up to Luffy, held down the straw hat on his head, and leaned against his side.

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In the afternoon, Luffy and his mother returned to their cabin on Mount Korpo, only to find a freckled boy carrying a water pipe waiting for them on the hillside.

"Ace!" Luffy smiled and waved from a distance.

Ace didn't scoff at his enthusiasm as before, nodded to him, and then looked up at the tulip beside Luffy.

Tulip asked: "What's the matter? Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Are you training him..." Ace was referring to Luffy, of course, he said to Tulip sincerely, "Please train me too, I want to become stronger!"

Tulip asked strangely: "Oh? I haven't shot in front of you, how do you know..."

Ace was also taken aback, but Tulip smiled, "It seems that you, who are as sensitive as a girl, may be better at seeing and hearing."

Ace doesn't understand what knowledge is, but being said to be like a girl makes him feel embarrassed—of course, the main reason is that after hearing his mother's evaluation of Ace, Luffy pointed at him very rudely. Ace laughed "hahahaha".

Ace glared at Luffy angrily, and the latter quickly shut his mouth tightly.

"If it's Luffy's friend," Tulip thought to herself, "then it's not impossible to train together..."

"..." Ace was speechless, looking at Luffy.Slowly moved down from the straw hat on the opponent's head, looked into the opponent's eyes, and then stretched out his hand, "My name is Ace, Portgas. D. Ace."

Luffy wearing a straw hat didn't mind at all, he held his hand and said with a grin, "My name is Luffy, Monkey D. Luffy."

Tulip looked at the two teenagers who were holding hands tightly, and smiled gratifiedly.

But Ace raised his head, thought of something, and asked embarrassingly: "Well... I have taught two people anyway, how about teaching one more?"

(End of this chapter)