Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 498

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Jinbei, who has been petrified there, saw the intact life card again and felt that the world view had been refreshed countless times, and he picked out the most important thing from the doubts in his heart and asked, "This, what is going on... ..."

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"A lot of things happened, and I got help from a lot of people~" Enke just smiled and looked at the person in front of him, reaching out to help him wipe away his tears, "In short, Ace and I are safe now. And, We all hid in a place where no one knew and recuperated~~~"

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"Mr. Ace... is still alive...", Jinbe didn't know how to express his mixed emotions full of touch and shock. It made his eyes moist with excitement.

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"Ace..." Luffy sniffled and smiled brightly with tears in his eyes, "That's great..."

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"Well," Anke reached out to wipe away his tears, then pulled his limp face with a smile, "Hey, don't cry. Seeing that I'm fine, shouldn't you smile?"

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"Hmm!!" Luffy immediately smiled brightly, and then carefully stretched out his arms to hug her, his face full of relaxation and satisfaction.

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"Hey, it's okay~", Anke patted him carefully, holding back the severe pain all over his body and still smiling gently.

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"Finally, I can sleep with peace of mind..." Sauron stretched lazily, and then asked, "Then, where have you been hiding all this time?"

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After patting the person holding him to let him go, Anke smiled and explained: "That shark is on the island~ being taken care of by a lot of people~~ but because Ace hasn't woken up yet, so this time it's the shark's island." I'm the only one who came to see you~~",
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"Sharks???", thinking of the guy who had been chasing them on the battlefield, Sauron frowned, "Why is it at that guy's place? Besides, Lu Fei obviously found a shark with the same left eye as yours there. Eye."

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"Because anyway, Ace and I were saved by him. Then he was taken to that shark's island by that brat~~. As for that eye, it should be a fake made by that shark." , Anke shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his hard life of being entangled by tiger sharks for more than ten days, "But that guy's favor is not easy to repay..."

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Sanji frowned worriedly, worrying that this was another conspiracy, "But why did that guy suddenly save you cuties? He kept stopping us on the battlefield."

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"This~ There is a reason that is inconvenient to say. In short, we have saved everything, so let's ignore the past~~" Anke smiled and waved his hand, and did not say that Tiger Shark is a subject of Raphael's country and The fact that the other eye exists, after all, she still knows the seriousness and secrecy of this identity.

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Robin suddenly thought of the vague concessions and protections given to them by Tiger Shark's subordinates on the battlefield, and when he thought about Raphael who didn't show up even at the last moment, he could guess the "inconvenient reason" Seven or eight.

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Immediately, she smiled and chimed in: "Anyway, now that Miss Anke is back safely, we also know that Mr. Ace is fine. Let's put those details of the past aside~ After all, the one who is back is the most important~ ~~”

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"Hmm~~", Luffy gripped the life card tightly, then gently hugged the child in front of him, rubbing it contentedly, "Enke is fine~~Ace is fine~~hehehe~~~"

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Hearing his happy smirk after being completely relieved, everyone also looked at each other and smiled. The original heavy heart has long since disappeared, and the whole body is extremely light because of joy.

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"You have been tortured during this time..." Anke touched the countless bandages on the person holding her in distress.

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The happy person completely ignored the pain on his body, still holding the little child, "It's okay~~ Anyway, Encore is okay, Ace is okay~~ Then I will be fine~~~"

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Sauron looked helplessly at his smirk, then frowned slightly and worriedly looked at the pale face of the child in his arms, "It's fine, let go of Encore after you calm down, she is now I'm in poor health."

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"Oh! Yes... Yes!!", Luffy, who just came back to his senses now, carefully let go of the person he was holding, and looked nervously at the man who was more haggard than he was in the top battle complexion.He didn't intend to ask why they were able to leave that dangerous situation, nor did he intend to ask why his elder brother who was fatally injured was able to live safely, and he didn't even want to ask why she was dying, because he knew the reason very well, knew To let him feel a chill.

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Because, when they didn't know, the girl in front of them must have used a price they couldn't believe to achieve this miraculous thing.

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Knowing what he was thinking, Anke just smiled and shook his hand, "Don't worry, I know what's on my mind."

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"Hmm..." Luffy just nodded, his eyes were covered by the lowered straw hat.

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Anke just shook his head helplessly, and then stretched out his hand to him, "Then let me put Ace's life card into the straw hat for you~ Otherwise, you might lose it carelessly~"

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"I wouldn't be so careless..." Luffy retorted unconvinced, but still obediently gave her the straw hat and life card.

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"Yes yes~~~", Anke just took the two things with a smile, lowered his head with a smile and carefully put the folded life card into the brim of the straw hat.

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Luffy sat there happily watching every move of Encore, smiling as if he had won a lottery.After scanning the small body from top to bottom several times, Luffy suddenly noticed something strange.

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With some doubts, he stretched out his hand to pull Anke's collar, and he looked at the red and black interlaced lines on his collarbone in astonishment.The character '六' in a red flower body, and the small, blood-red Bana flowers blooming around it. At the bottom is the tail coiled into an 'X' shape, going up along the circle and spitting letters towards the sides. A black rattlesnake with small but sharp scarlet eyes.A pattern the size of a ping pong ball, but he always felt as if he had seen it somewhere.

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Suddenly, when he rescued his eldest brother, there was the same pattern at the same place under his collarbone. At first, he thought it was just a mistake.I didn't expect it to be true...

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Encore looked at him strangely because of his movements, "What's wrong, Luffy?"

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Luffy was startled, and naturally pulled her collar, "It's nothing~~"

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"Really? That's good~~"

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Seeing that the girl continued to fiddle with his straw hat without suspicion, Luffy suddenly reached out and touched her thin neck, and placed his fingertips lightly on the carotid artery inadvertently.

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The anxiety of being controlled by someone made Anke instinctively tense up, but then slowly relaxed, just because that person was Luffy.Feeling puzzled, she looked up at Luffy who was thinking deeply, "Luffy, what happened??"

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"No...", the feeling of blood beating under his fingertips made his last uneasiness disappear, and then Luffy smiled happily, "Encore is still alive~~"

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"Of course~~", thinking that he just couldn't accept the fact that the change was too fast, Anke shrugged with a smile, lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the straw hat in his hand.

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After the bandage-wrapped fingers continued to touch the thin neck, Luffy suddenly withdrew his smile, and said uneasily, "Well, Encore..."

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Hearing him calling himself, Anke looked up at him again, still patiently and gently asked: "What's wrong? Luffy?"

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"Next time... if there is anything, can you tell me in advance? If there is a second time, I..." Luffy frowned more and more, and finally couldn't continue because of the sudden depression.

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"..." Anke paused, and after a moment of silence, he said lightly: "Didn't you surpass the past this time?"

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"!!!!" Luffy was stunned, and the hand on her neck subconsciously exerted a little force and then relaxed a little.

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Feeling his hand trembling slightly, Anke tightened his hand holding the straw hat, then looked at him quietly and said, "Luffy, you..."

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"There won't be a next time." Gently touched the place where the beating speed increased, Lu Fei suddenly smiled brightly, "Right~~"

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"!!!!!!", Anke stared at the familiar person in front of her with wide eyes. The bright smile was very familiar, but it made her feel strong uneasiness and a little vague fear.I don't know why, but I always feel that the captain, who has always been innocent, is thinking of something terrible, and even she feels a chill in her heart.

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"Luffy..." Zoro and the others not far away saw Luffy's smile and couldn't help but look worriedly at the pale-faced deputy captain.

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As if he didn't see the panic in the different pupils of the child in front of him, Lu Fei just gently wiped off the unnatural cold sweat on her face, and asked again with a deepened smile, "Right~~~"

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"..." Anke finally came back to his senses and smiled unnaturally. After taking a deep breath to regain his panic, he nodded, "Of course~"

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"That's good~~~", Luffy's mood instantly became very good, and the hand that had been resting on Encore's neck felt the slight beating under the fingertips.

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"..." After Wu Yan smiled at him, Enke continued to lower his head and put the life card into the straw hat, but frowned slightly thinking about what happened just now, "Luffy's domineering has become very Intense...Even I can affect...'

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Frowning between his eyebrows, he let go after a few seconds, and Anke smiled proudly, "However, this is also a good thing, after all, Luffy will be the man who will become the One Piece in the future~"

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Luffy didn't try to guess what the gentle smile on her face meant, but continued to feel the beating under her finger, and then retracted his hand after a while and continued to stare at Encore with a smile, and even hummed there in a good mood.

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Looking at the happy Luffy and the smiling Encore, Jinbe, Zoro, Sanji and Robin looked at each other and smiled again, tacitly keeping silent and not disturbing them.

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However, the person who has been sitting not far away but no one has seen him until now has a little doubt about his sense of existence, and immediately coughed lightly after seeing that they had stopped talking.

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"?????", except for Anke, everyone else looked at the place where the voice came from with question marks on their faces, and they were stunned again to varying degrees when they saw who that person was.

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Raleigh was very satisfied with their reaction, after all, he had been sitting there just now but no one noticed him.

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"Uncle Rayleigh?!".Luffy looked at him suspiciously, his face was full of surprise, "When did you sit there??"

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"Haha...I've been sitting here, but you've been looking at that little girl." Reilly smiled and put on his wiped glasses, "It's great to see you so soon."

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"Why are you here? I was planning to use the Life Card to go to the Chambord Islands." Luffy looked at him anxiously, a little worried about the situation of the remaining partners, "Where are the others?"

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"Well, I probably haven't assembled yet. My life card has been handed over to Aunt Xia, otherwise, I won't be able to act naturally~" After a pause, Lei Li looked at Sauron and the others, "But, you guys It was beyond my expectation that he would appear on the battlefield with Lu Fei and the little girl, how did he get there?"

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"Running past," Sauron replied lightly, after all, they really ran to their side along that space tunnel.

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"Then airborne for a while..." Sanji still remembers the terrifying feeling of falling straight down after one foot came out of that tunnel.

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"..." Robin thought of stepping on his partner when he came out, so he decisively decided not to say anything.

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It's a pity that the thing she didn't want to talk about was said by a certain green algae with a little glee, "Speaking of it, but there is a guy who stepped out when he came out, which is pretty good~~"

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"######", the blond cook who was the 'stepping guy' immediately rolled up his sleeves and shouted with fangs: "Do you want to fight?! Bastard Chlorella!!"

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"Who is afraid of whom!! Eyebrow nympho!!" Sauron, who was successfully provoked in an instant, immediately stood up and gripped the handle of the knife.

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"Hehehe~~~", a chuckle immediately sounded from the side, and the child with crooked eyebrows stared at them and smiled innocently, cutely and childishly.

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"!!!!!!!!!", the green algae head and the curly eyebrow nympho who sat obediently on the spot in an instant

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"Very good~~", Encore nodded in satisfaction, and then put the straw hat on Loopy's head, "Go ahead~~ Luffy, Lord Rayleigh~~"

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"Hahaha...", Lei Li was a little amused by them, and shook his head helplessly.

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"Rayleigh the Pluto, is that me?" Jinbe, who saw Rayleigh petrified until now, just came back to his senses, but still stared at the person who was leisurely there in dumbfounded amazement, "I was really shocked... ..."

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"I remember you should be from the former Qiwuhai..."

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"He is Shiping, my savior." Luffy immediately introduced.

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Rayleigh smiled and nodded to him, with a gentle look like an old man who has nothing to do with the world.

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Immediately, Luffy looked at Jinbei who was still frozen there strangely, "What's wrong?"

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"No... I can see a living legend here..." After trying to calm down, Jinbe looked around with only a few of them, and asked a little suspiciously: "There should be pirates here just now, right?"

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"You said what Mr. Trafalgar said, he sailed away just now." Enke smiled and pulled the hand of the person beside him, and seriously conveyed the words of the death surgeon, "Luffy, he asked you to rest for two months. Zhou~"

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Rayleigh also smiled and said, "It seems that he saved your life~"

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Luffy froze for a moment, the memory of the person Encore mentioned only stayed in the Chambord Islands, as if he vaguely saw such a person in the chaos not long ago.

　The new year is here~~ I wish you all good health and all the best~~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)