Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 45 Landing in Alabasta, meeting Ace again 2
"Aha~~~~ I'm finally full~~~" Ace put down his fork after finishing dozens of plates of food.

Only now did Ace realize that Encore was already sitting a few meters away from him, and said with a little surprise, "Hey, Encore, you..."

"You really have the leisure to eat in full view, the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates, Portgas-D-Ace." Suddenly a man's deep voice interrupted Ace's unfinished words, "Why are you here?"

Encore looked over and found that it was actually Smoke.Anke slowly covered his face with the cloth scarf, and shook his head slightly at Ace.

Ace also knew what Encore was thinking about, so he pretended not to know her cooperatively, put his hands on the table and looked at Smokey with a smile and said, "I'm just looking for someone, my brother~"

The atmosphere in the store immediately became tense, and Ace still looked at Smokey relaxedly and said, "What do you want to do to me?"

"Let me catch you obediently." Smoker bit his cigar and made an unreasonable request, "Although I'm not interested in the head on your neck."

"Then let me go~" Ace crossed his legs and smiled very naturally.

"I'm afraid that won't work, because I'm a navy, and you're a pirate." As he spoke, he smoked his fists and looked at Ace coldly.

"It's really troublesome, then I'll play with you~~~~" Ace casually glanced at Encore who was sitting on the side, and motioned her to wait for him for a while.

Anke nodded slightly, watching their swords at war, a little curious about how strong Ace had become in the past three years.

"Rubber Rubber-Bazooka!!!" A familiar voice came from far away on the street, and the voice was getting closer.

Encore, who was sitting on the side, watched in a daze as Luffy, who flew in from outside, hit Smoke and then knocked Ace into the air. The captain, who was about to eat, looked at the huge hole in the wall and Ace and Smoke who had been knocked out of sight, and suddenly realized that he was quite prescient, sitting so far from the beginning.

"Eat, eat~~boss, eat, eat~~~" Luffy sat on the table spontaneously, tapping the knife and fork that he didn't know where he came from, his face full of excitement.

Some dazed bosses served a few dishes, looked at Luffy who was feasting, and reminded melancholy, "Hey, brother, you should hurry up after eating..."

"Why?" Luffy asked curiously while stuffing something into his mouth.

Before the boss had time to speak, he was interrupted by Smoke who came out, "I've been looking for you for a long time, Straw Hat Boy, you really came to Alabasta."

Luffy was still eating and drinking, not affected by Smoker at all, he looked at Smoker and didn't know what he was thinking, suddenly Luffy sprayed the food on Smoker's face, "What!! You were from that time Smoker? Why are you here!"

"You bastard!!" Smoka wiped his face fiercely, but saw Luffy stuff all the food into his mouth suddenly, and ran away after saying "Thank you for the treat", and Smoka quickly chased after him biting his cigar.

"Lu... Luffy!!!" Encore jumped off the chair and wanted to follow closely, but suddenly remembered a person, just about to run into the big hole, when he saw Ace rushing out with his bag, yelling : "Hey!! Luffy, it's me!!! Uh, Encore??"

Anke stretched out his hand helplessly, letting Ace hug him and rush out to chase Luffy.

"Hey!!! Luffy!!!" Ace was still yelling, but unfortunately Luffy and Smoke didn't know where they went.An Ke said helplessly: "Let's go to the concentration point first, where Luffy is rushing now."

"Huh?? Encore, how do you know?" Ace said a little confused.

"Ace, don't tell me that you haven't mastered the arrogance of knowledge for so many years..." Anke pulled down the cloth covering his face, "Really, it's just covering your face, and Luffy doesn't even recognize me!! "

"No way, Luffy has always been a daredevil." Ace smiled, not caring that his younger brother who was being hunted in the distance sneezed and was almost caught.

Running and running, Ace stopped abruptly, looked at Anke and blinked, looked at her a little bit puzzled and said, "Informative domineering??"

"Ah, what's the matter? Hurry up." Anke looked strangely at Ace who stopped suddenly.

"Why do you know that you are domineering?" Ace asked strangely.Anke silently stretched out his hand in front of Ace and said, "Armed color—hardening!"

Ace stared blankly at the little white hand in front of him that instantly turned black and hardened, then waved it in front of him as if showing off, and then Encore's sweet childish voice sounded: "I will be domineering 5 years ago, you If you don't run away, I will knock you now, Ai Sijun..."

"Yes……"

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"Wow!!!!!!! Help!!!!" Luffy, who was being chased miserably by Smokey but helpless, ran away desperately. In front were his partners holding all kinds of food, and behind him was Smokey. And a whole lot of navy.

"Leave the straw hat boy to me to clean up!!" Smoke, who was chasing after him, turned his arm into smoke and punched him hard, "White fist!!!!"

"Huang Yan!" A fireball flew out, knocking back the white smoke of Smokey, and everyone stared blankly at the guy who suddenly appeared to save the Straw Hat Boys, his whole body was on fire, and he brought a child with him. youth.

"Don't stop?" Ace stretched out his flaming right hand and said with a smile, "You are smoke, I am fire, we can't tell the difference."

Enke, who was being held by Ace, looked down at the flames on his clothes, and after reaching out to extinguish them, he saw that the originally beautiful clothes had completely turned into rags, and his face was a little pale.

"Ace, it's Ace!!" Seeing Ace, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Luffy instantly became happy, and then he was attracted by the fire coming out of his body, "Ace, did you eat the devil fruit too?"

Ace hadn't noticed that something was wrong with Encore, and explained with a smile: "Ah, burn fruit..."

"Polkas, D, Ai, Si, Jun!" Anke said calmly, just calling out Ace's full name and adding honorifics, "Why didn't you tell me that you are fire, although I am a crystal and I am not affected, but!!!"

Hearing the gnashing of teeth in Anke's words, Ace broke out in a drop of cold sweat, and silently looked down at the child he was holding. He saw that he was fine, but his clothes were all burned, even the cloth towel covering his face It's almost burnt out.

"Hehehe..." Ace snorted a few times and took the rag from Encore's face and wiped the black smoke from her face, not knowing how to answer.Only then did Luffy discover Encore, and shouted excitedly: "Hey! Where have you been, Encore? I haven't seen you since just now~~"

"Smokasan!!!" Da Siqi looked at Anke's face and exclaimed, "It's that child!! She really belongs to the Straw Hat Boys!!"

"I see," Smokey clenched his fists tightly, remembering the humiliation that night, "Since she's a pirate, I won't let her go!!"

Ace handed the encore to Luffy who came up, and said with a smile, "Give it to me here, you go first, and I will catch up with you later!" Then he whispered, "Luffy, hurry up!" Take Encore away, these navies seem to know Encore."

"Yes!!" Luffy laughed, and fled to his ship with his Encore in his arms, leaving Ace with his head full of bags to deal with the marines.Encore slowly withdrew his fist and let Luffy take him away, 'Hmph!Tell you to burn my clothes! '

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"Hey, Luffy, Encore, who is that guy?" Nami who ran to Luffy asked curiously, "He seems to be very powerful."

"He's my brother~~~~" Lu Fei smiled excitedly and narrowed his eyes.

Anke reached out and took the cloth towel that Sanji handed to him, covered it on the clothes that Ace had burned to pieces, and added with a smile: "Luffy and Ace haven't seen each other for three years, that's why I'm so excited."

While the others were still struggling with what Luffy said, "Luffy's brother..." After looking at Luffy, who was like a daredevil, they were already thinking about what kind of trouble Luffy's brother is.

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"Wow!! Smoke and flames are fighting~~" Luffy ran backwards, looking at the scenery behind.Enke, who was hugged by him, was also very happy to see Ace's battle, "Ace has become very powerful."

The others were not interested in this fight. What they cared about now was getting back to the ship as soon as possible. After all, there were also people from the Navy and the Baroque Works on the island.

"There is a fork in the road ahead!!" Usopp, who was running at the front, reminded loudly, "Which way to go??".

"Go to the left, our boat is over there!!" Nami reminded with a cloth bag.Everyone went into the left alley smoothly.Except for Luffy, who didn't look at the road at all, and Anke, who didn't need to walk, both of them were paying attention to the battle situation behind them. In the end, they both ran into the alley on the right and broke away from the team honorably.

"Ah, where did Zoro and the others go?" After running into an empty alley, Luffy was surprised to find that his companions were not by his side, and asked Enke in his arms, "Enke, did you see?" Where did Sauron and the others go? Really, they will all get lost..."

"You got lost, Luffy." Encore asked Luffy to put himself down first, looked at the ragged clothes on his body, and made a crystal pillar helplessly and said, "Stop here now, Ace is coming here."

"Oh," Luffy replied and sat on the crystal pillar, before he could sit still, Ace jumped down from the roof next to him with a smile and said, "Really, it doesn't make any sense for you to escape first. "

"Yo, Ace." Encore greeted lightly.

"Long time no see, Luffy." Ace said with a smile, "I knew you, a daredevil, must be around when I saw Encore just now."

"What?" Luffy jumped off the crystal table and said dissatisfied, "It's been so long since I've seen you, and you actually said I was reckless, it's obviously Ace's recklessness, okay?"

The two tacitly stretched out their right hands to hold, and put their elbows on the crystal table.An Ke put his hands on theirs, and as soon as he let go, the two began to wrestle their wrists vigorously.

"Luffy, you still like to act without authorization like you did when you were a child," Ace secretly forced, with a forced smile on his face.

"You too," Luffy said with a smile, not showing weakness, "Except that you surprised me by eating a devil fruit, you haven't changed much."

Anke looked at the ferocious faces of them trying to knock each other down with all their strength, with veins appearing on their hands and their faces flushed from suffocation, and then glanced at the crystal table with several cracks, and silently stepped back a few steps.

Sure enough, the crystal shattered in the next second, and the two of them hadn't competed yet, but they didn't care about the result, they smiled and clapped their hands.

"Enough is enough for you," Anke looked at the two brothers helplessly, and said, "Let's go to the boat first, and we can talk about it on the way if we have anything to do."

"That's right, aren't your partners looking for you? Luffy." Ace smiled and took out a bottle of water from his backpack, and handed it to Encore first.Encore drank a few sips before throwing it to Luffy.

"Ace, why did you come here?" Luffy looked at Ace holding the water bottle, wondering why he appeared here.

"Ah, I came to the nearby sea because of some miscellaneous matters, so I came to see you and Encore." Ace turned and pointed to the sign behind and said, "I'm in the Whitebeard Pirates now, I think Whitebeard The Pirates are the best, Luffy and Encore, do you want to come together?"

"No," Luffy refused directly, while Enke said with a smile, "I can only refuse, Ace, because my captain doesn't want to."

"Haha, I knew it." Ace looked at Luffy meaningfully. "I think Whitebeard is the most powerful person. I think that man will become One Piece, not you, Luffy."

"It's okay, I will definitely become the Pirate King!" Luffy said with a smile, "Anyway, it's time to fight."

"Speaking of which, Ace," Anke interrupted their conversation lightly, looking at the water bottle in Luffy's hand that seemed to be drunk down to the last drop, "Have you ever drank any water?"

"No, ah!! Luffy!! Why did you drink it up!!"

"Ahaha~~ Don't worry about these little things~~"

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"Which port is the ship at?" Ace, who was walking slowly towards the coast, asked Luffy, who was also walking slowly. After all, if they were tall and they walked too fast, the childish Encore couldn't keep up.

"Who knows, um~~ I can't remember, where did it stop..." Luffy knocked on his head with a headache, his face full of confusion.

"You boy!! As the captain of the pirate group, at least remember where the ship is!"

"Ace, it's not that you don't know Luffy's character, he only has food in his head." Anke changed his clothes with illusion. After all, it's not good to always wear a rag, and when Luffy and There is no need to cover up Ace's ability to use the eyes of reincarnation in front of him.

"Indeed," Ace stared at the red blade on Anke's back for a long time before asking the question stuck in his heart, "Anke, I remember you have two knives, the snow-white one Where's the knife?"

Hearing Ace heard Xue Lian, Anke stopped abruptly, and his whole body slowly showed a murderous look. Luffy on the side winked desperately, and waved his hand to signal Ace not to ask.

"What's wrong with your eyes, Luffy? Is your hand hurting??" Ace didn't quite understand Luffy's signal, thinking he was unwell.

"Xue Lian...was snatched away..." An Ke choked out this sentence, and said with fire in his eyes: "That bastard!!!"

"Snatched? Who??" Ace's jaw dropped to the ground in fright. You must know that neither he nor Luffy could beat Encore alone.

"I don't know," Anke was suddenly discouraged, and continued to walk forward with his head lowered. "He seems to be a space-type fruit capable user. I can't beat him at all, and..."

Luffy walked a few steps slower, walked to Ace's side and whispered, "Shhh, Ace, don't mention this again, I was beaten by Encore several times, it hurts..."

I knew that Encore must have used a little bit of armed domineering when he beat Luffy, otherwise his idiot rubber brother would definitely not feel the pain, so Ace suppressed the surprise in his heart and changed the subject, "By the way, Luffy, introduce What about your fellow shipmates?"

"There is a little doll vice-captain; there is a swordsman who wants to be the best swordsman in the world, always wearing a bellyband; navigators like maps, oranges and gold; there is a chef who cooks well, and A big liar and a reindeer," Luffy said while counting his fingers, "and now there's a princess with a boat and a duck."

"Your partners are really few people." Ace glanced at Encore, who was still low in front of him, and said, "Also, that doll vice-captain is Encore, right?"

"Ah, yes~~~" Luffy laughed, "But I think so many people are enough~~"

"Speaking of which, Ace," Encore, who finally recovered his mood, looked back at Ace and said, "Why did you know that I would go to sea with Luffy?"

"Who knows, just intuit it," Ace looked down at Encore who worked hard and looked up at him, and found that from this angle, Encore was super cute, although he was usually cute.

"Stop for me, Fire Fist Ace!!" Suddenly a man came up with a gun and sneered, and many people with weapons walked out around the three of them, surrounding them together, even the roofs on both sides of the alley were covered with guns. someone.

"Hey, isn't that the straw hat boy Luffy who offered a reward of 3000 million Baileys?" A person saw Luffy who was also a bounty criminal with sharp eyes.

Encore lowered his head slightly and hid secretly beside Ace and Luffy.Ace and Luffy also subconsciously hid her behind them.

"Hey, they still have a child with them, what should we do?" A person looked at the frightened child and said hesitantly.

"Hmph, whatever, grab Fire Fist Ace and the Straw Hat and we'll be able to level up!" The leading man roared, "Catch them!!"

"What should I do?" Lu Fei calmly looked at the person rushing towards him, and stretched out his hand to protect Encore behind him.

"You take Encore first, I'm here." Ace said with a smile, and then turned around to find that Luffy and Encore were gone, "Really, I didn't even finish listening..."

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"Hey!!! Everyone!!!" Luffy held Encore with one hand, and shouted towards the Merry at sea, "Here I am!!" He stretched out his hand and grabbed the side of the ship and flew back. Sanji and Chopper beside the boat also turned pale when they saw Luffy's action.

For the sake of his own safety, Encore jumped out of Luffy's arms halfway, made a few crystal steps and jumped back to the boat.As expected, Luffy knocked Sanji and the others into the air and rolled into a ball.Seeing all this, Sauron helplessly raised his forehead, "Here we go again..."

"Sanji-san, Tony-kun!!" Weiwei said worriedly, "Are you alright?"

"Ahaha~~" Luffy laughed and got up from the ground and said, before he could stand still, he was stepped on by Encore who fell from above.Seeing what the soft object was stepping on, An Ke nervously jumped aside and asked, "Are you all right, Luffy? Does it hurt?"

"Don't worry about this guy, Encore," Usopp said angrily, "Luffy won't feel it if he steps on him dozens of times, and you still have such a small weight."

"Really," Nami agreed, still in scantily clad clothes, "Isn't the captain conscious at all!!!"

"I'm sorry~" Luffy apologized obediently, only to remember that Ace was still nervously running to the side of the boat on the island and shouting, "Hey, Ace!!"

"Were you with your brother just now?" Sanji patted his hurt head and asked, "Where are the others?"

As soon as he heard someone ask himself, Luffy immediately threw Ace behind his head, and leaned his back on the side of the ship and explained to them excitedly, "Ace and we met some very excessive guys just now, Ace Si let me take Encore first."

"Is your brother alright?" Usopp asked worriedly.

"Ah, it's okay, Ace is very strong~~" Luffy laughed without worry, "When Ace hadn't eaten Shao Shao fruit before, I never beat Ace once, ahaha~ ~"

"Not once?? At that time your brother was still an ordinary person??" Nami was taken aback, because in her opinion, Luffy was already super powerful.

"Sure enough, the monster's brother is a big monster," Usopp concluded.Enke, who was on the side, tilted his head strangely, remembering the previous contest with Ace and Luffy, "Then what is the self who defeated the monster and the big monster?"Big monster? ? ? '

"But now I will definitely win him, ahahaha~~" Luffy leaned on the side of the boat and laughed smugly, and then except for Luffy whose back was facing the sea, everyone else could clearly see what Usopp said The monster jumped onto the boat and kicked Luffy away, squatted on the side of the boat with a smile and said, "Who do you want to win? Luffy."

"Ace, is it resolved?" Encore looked at the unscathed Ace and asked casually.

"Ah, be it..." As soon as Ace opened his mouth, he was interrupted by the excited Luffy. Luffy pointed at the people on the boat and said with a smile, "Ace, they are the partners I told you~~"

"My brother has been taken care of by everyone~~" Ace bowed politely to his companions on the boat,
"No, it's okay!" Except for Luffy and Encore, everyone else bowed to Ace modestly,
"No one has ever dealt with this guy, so you guys think it's tricky too?" Ace, who knows Luffy's character well, bowed gracefully again, "I ask you to take care of him from now on."

"You guys should have a lot to talk about, right?" Sanji held up the unlit cigarette in his hand and said with a smile, "Come in and I'll make you some tea and we'll talk slowly."

As soon as Ace raised his hand, Sanji's cigarette was easily lit, and he smiled and bowed slightly, "No, don't worry about it."

I have never seen such a gentle and polite 'Luffy's brother', and everyone's facial expressions twitched a little.Nami believed for a long time that Ace was really Luffy's brother, "Liar, such a common sense person can't be Luffy's brother!!"

"Ah, me too," Usopp said with a stiff expression, "I thought he was an ignorant bastard like Luffy."

"He's still a good man who thinks about his brother..." Zoro didn't quite believe this fact, and commented with a half-smile.Sanji held a cigarette and looked at Ace and affirmed, "It's really incomprehensible, there are so many new things at sea..."

Chopper said with tears in his eyes, "Brotherhood is really touching."

"Uh, everyone, don't say that..." Weiwei interrupted their random thoughts with a smile, worried that Ace would hear them.

"Ahahaha~~" Luffy still sat on the ground and laughed, "How about it, Ace, aren't they interesting? Ahahaha~~"

"Would they be surprised if they knew how hard you practiced etiquette in the past?" Anke lay on the side of the boat, tilted his head to look at Ace who was squatting on it, and said with a smile, "'Gentle and polite' brother, brother, grown ups?

Ace was so frightened that he almost fell into the sea. Looking at An Ke who was smiling innocently, he said strangely: "How do you know? You probably hadn't come to Dadan at that time."

"Maggie said," Anke shook his head, glanced at the five ships that caught up behind him and said, "and that incident is too classic, Dogula and other bandits have said it~~"

"Those guys!!" Ace lowered his head helplessly, "It's rare that I thought that from that time on, I was a polite person in your eyes..."

"Yes~~Polite Mr. Ace~~" Anke pointed to the boat behind and said, "I'll leave the rest to you~~"

"Ah!!" At this time, Weiwei also noticed the boat behind, and said nervously, "It's the boat of Baroquehua Works!!"

"Ah, it's them again..." Luffy said helplessly when he saw the familiar people above.

"Don't worry about it, Luffy." Anke pointed at Ace with a smile, and said, "Just let Ace do it, anyway, those guys are all here for him."

"Huh??" Lu Fei tilted his head strangely, "But he also said my name just now?"

"Okay, Luffy" Ace stood up, threw his bag to Luffy and said, "I'll just go and deal with them." After finishing speaking, he jumped back and jumped onto a ship that didn't know what From time to time, they appeared on the small boats near the Merry, using fire as power to drive the small boats towards those ships.

"Let's take a look at the ability of the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates," Zoro said lightly, folding his arms and looking at Ace who rushed forward.

Ace, who came to the front of the ship, smiled and punched out, "Fire fist!!!" A large number of high-density flames formed a huge fist, and the 5 ships burned to death under the huge flame attack. There are still some wreckage floating on the ground, telling their past existence.

Encore looked at the handsome man with his finger on the brim of his hat, completely speechless, "One or two are like this..."

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(End of this chapter)