The gourmet among pirates

"This is·······"

Dadan frowned and looked at the fire not far away, with a gloomy look on his face:

"Those nobles in Goa Kingdom are so cruel!"

The dazzling fire in front of them, which lit up most of the night sky, was enough to prove what Sabo and Luffy just said.

Similarly, it also shows that the nobles of the Kingdom of Goa, in order to please the officials of the World Government, did not care about the lives of hundreds of refugees at the Uncertain Terminal who made a living by picking up garbage.

"These guys..."

Suddenly, a series of shrill wails came from the fire.

"No, there are still people in the sea of ​​fire!"

After vaguely hearing screams coming from the direction of the sea of ​​fire, Ace's pupils shrank and he immediately turned around and ran towards the burning mountain of garbage.

He didn't even bother to praise Luffy.

"Ace!"

"Ace!"

"Ace... let's go, follow."

When Dadan and the others saw this, they quickly followed after a similar look.

"Why are there still people in the fire? We have obviously told them!"

After Luffy and Sabo were stunned for a moment, they started running with doubts in their minds.

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The place where Luffy and Sabo chose to grill fish was not far from the garbage mountain known as [Uncertain Object Terminal].

Therefore, it didn't take long for Ace to use the impetus generated by the flames erupting under his feet to move forward quickly and arrived at the mountain of garbage that was lit up by fire that lit up half of the night sky.

After arriving at the scene.

Ace, they finally understood why they heard so many screams just now.

All I could see was the outskirts of a huge garbage mountain.

There were several groups of people with weapons and fierce faces surrounding them.

I saw a lot of empty oil drums piled up next to these people.

It was the flames ignited by these oil drums that blocked the refugees who wanted to escape from the garbage mountain.

Even in the garbage mountain, some people are lucky enough to escape from the fire.

They will also be brutally killed by these pirates who are surrounding them.

More people rushed halfway and were hacked to death with random knives before they could pass through the wall of fire.

The body was dumped in a mountain of rubbish lit by kerosene.

After a while, it was roasted and sizzling, and an alluring meat aroma emerged.

"Asshole, Bursam, you bunch of bastards also came out of the garbage mountain. I gave you a bite to eat when you were down and out. We haven't seen you for a few years, and you actually helped the nobles in the city to kill us all. You Is it up to your own conscience?"

Inside the garbage mountain blocked by a wall of fire, an old man with a thin body, a dirty face, and a stench all over his body yelled at a group of pirates blocked on the other side of the sea of ​​​​fire.

"Haha." A thin man squatting on an empty oil drum slowly stood up from the oil drum and said to the scolding old man: "Old guy, speaking of which, I really have to thank you. If it weren't for your... If the sour leftovers made me completely determined, I really didn’t have the guts to go to sea at the beginning.”

"For the sake of that bad meal, in return, I will let you die a little more happily!"

"boom!"

As he spoke, Bursam pulled out the flintlock gun from his waist and shot the old man's eyeball into pieces and into his mind.

In an instant, Nirvana wiped out the old man's vitality.

"Is it wrong? I originally wanted to keep your whole body, but it seems that I can't, but... speaking of it, it doesn't matter if the body was charred by the fire or not."

After blowing away the white smoke from the gun muzzle nonchalantly.

Bursam turned to the dozens of younger brothers around him and said: "Keep an eye on me, don't let anyone run out. This is a big deal. If you let people go because of your softness, you will offend those nobles." If you are dissatisfied, if you give me less money, I will skin you and throw you into the sea to feed the sharks."

"Hey, hey, don't worry, boss. They are a bunch of trash guys who are neither human nor ghosts. Death will be a relief for them. Maybe if they die early, they can have a good pregnancy in the next life!!!"

"That's right, that's right, we won't be soft-hearted."

"Boss, after we get the bounty from those big shots, can you take us to Custom Street for a fun trip? Brothers have been holding back for three months without eating meat."

"Hahahaha." After laughing, Bursam said with a ferocious smile: "If you are done, I will not only take you to the Custom Street to be cool, but I will also give you 10,000 beli for each of you. But if you fail, Don’t blame me for being cruel.”

It is precisely because of the obstruction of these pirates that the hundreds of refugees in the garbage mountain have been unable to break through the sea of ​​fire.

When Ace arrived, most of the refugees gathered at the exit of the garbage mountain had collapsed from the thick smoke.

The half-burned corpses, combined with the ferocious smiles of the pirates, instantly aroused Ace's anger.

"Bastard!"

"Fire Dance·Condensing Flame!"

Ace stretched out his finger, and the power of the burning fruit was instantly activated.

The raging fire burning on several nearby garbage mountains flew into Ace's palm like a baby swallow returning to its nest, forming a fire bead emitting scorching heat.

"Fire, the flame was absorbed by him, it's a strange...monster!"

The refugees in the garbage mountain and the pirates were shocked when they saw this scene.

Everyone looked at Ace with expressions of disbelief.

After absorbing a large amount of fire power, Ace reached out and crushed the fire bead containing the huge flame, then punched the group of stunned pirates.

"fire punch!"

boom!

Under the blessing of the huge energy after the fire ball collapsed, Ace blasted out a huge fireball that was more than ten meters tall with one punch, instantly engulfing many members of the Bursam Pirates, including Bursam.

Burned all these pirates into cokes.

After finishing off the Bursam Pirates, Ace didn't stop and rushed directly to the other side, blocking several other exits and the pirates with skull patterns all over their bodies.

"The monster is coming, run!"

The Skeleton Pirates not far away were not stupid. After seeing Ace show off his power, he punched out a huge fireball and burned the Bursam Pirates, including the captain, to ashes.

There is no one who is not afraid.

This kind of monster that can control fire, no matter how hard-headed the Skeleton Pirates are, they don't want to be burnt to charcoal by this kind of monster.

"Damn it, it's that monster from the Marine Fortress...'Fire Sword' Ace. Why did he appear here?"

The captain of the Redbeard Pirates, the furthest away from the Bursam Pirates, instantly recognized Ace after seeing the huge fire fist.

After recognizing Ace, the red-bearded man felt so regretful that his intestines turned green.

"Damn it, I shouldn't be so mean and accept this task... How can it be so easy to get 10 million Baileys?"

"Captain, what should we do... run away?" the red-bearded man asked in a panic.

Looking at the many subordinates surrounding him, as well as the members of the Red Beard Pirates who didn't care about him at all and fled for their own lives.

A hint of cruelty flashed in the red-bearded eyes.

He said solemnly: "If you want to survive, run away..."

With that said, Red Beard ran away with him.

Seeing that their bosses had all run away, the remaining members of the Red Beard Pirates dispersed in an instant.

Scattered away.

They had seen the power of Ace's fire fist.

That kind of move is simply not something they can resist.

However, Ace is only one person.

If they ran separately, they would still have a chance to survive. But being together and being wiped out by Ace with one punch would be frustrating.

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After running away for a while, Red Beard took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, gritted his teeth, and rushed directly into the sea of ​​​​fire in the garbage mountain.

Redbeard, who had carefully lived in the East China Sea for several years, knew better than anyone the horror of the monsters that were unleashed in the Final Fortress.

Although there was a slim chance of escaping, he was the captain of the Redbeard Pirates, so what if he happened to be targeted by Ace.

So he decided to do the opposite.

Rush into the garbage mountain and disguise yourself as a refugee in the garbage mountain.

After Ace left, he passed the line of the guard captain of Goa Kingdom and left this unfortunate country.

Of course, before leaving, the guy who asked him to do it must compensate his red beard a sum of money.

Otherwise, Redbeard wouldn't mind, and before leaving, he would kill those hypocritical nobles who were one thing on the surface but another behind the scenes, and steal their wealth.

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The Skeleton Pirates, a newly established pirate group, obviously have never encountered a strong man like Ace.

Even when escaping, people gathered together and ran for their lives.

This saves Ace a lot of effort.

After extracting the flames from the nearby garbage mountain.

Ace killed all these scum with a few fire fist moves.

The sight of the Redbeard Pirates fleeing in all directions gave Ace a headache.

After killing a dozen members of the Red Beard Pirates, Ace gave up the pursuit.

Return to the garbage mountain and use your ability to burn the fruit.

Take control and extinguish the raging fire burning in the garbage mountain.

In the garbage mountain, there are still many refugees who did not escape from the garbage mountain in time and were stopped by the three pirate groups.

In Ace's mind, saving the refugees struggling to survive in the sea of ​​fire was obviously more important than chasing the pirates.

When Ace used his fruit power to extinguish the raging flames burning on the garbage mountain.

From the garbage mountain, thick smoke quickly rose into the sky.

After smelling the rotten smell, the sour smell, and the poisonous gas produced by burning garbage, Ace couldn't help it for a long time, coughed, and retched.

"Cough cough cough..."

What followed was a nauseating feeling of dizziness.

"No, this smoke is poisonous..."

With his heart sinking, Ace picked up a refugee who was stunned by the thick smoke and ran towards the outskirts of the garbage mountain.

While running, Ace yelled: "Cover your mouth with your clothes. This smoke is poisonous. If you smoke too much, you will die..."

"what!!!!"

The Dadan family, who had just rushed into the burning garbage mountain and rescued people with Ace, heard this and immediately covered their mouths with their clothes.

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With the help of the refugees who can still move around in the garbage mountain.

It took Ace and the others ten minutes to rescue the still-breathing refugees from the mountain of garbage.

As for the rest, even if they were not burned to death, they were killed by the thick smoke.

"hateful······"

Ace punched the trunk of an old tree. Looking at the refugees with extensive burns on their bodies, the anger in his eyes was as real as fire.

These refugees in the garbage mountain are just poor people who have lost their property and land and were driven out of the "siege city" by the Kingdom of Goa.

They have already lost everything.

Wandering around this smelly garbage mountain all day long, I just want to pick up a bite to eat and fill my stomach.

It is already very difficult for them to live, so why are the nobles of Goa Kingdom unwilling to give them even this small hope?

After taking a breath.

The refugees who had woken up, organized by several old men, came to Ace and knelt down with a "swish" sound.

"Old man, thank God of Fire for saving my life. Thank God of Fire for killing those pirates and avenging us."

"Thank you Kagami!!"

"Thank you Kagami!!"

"Thank you Kagami!!"

"..."

For the refugees living in the garbage mountain, Ace suddenly appeared, extinguished the raging fire in the garbage mountain, and could control the flames to kill the pirates.

It was like the God of Fire in myths and legends descended to save them.

Seeing this, Ace quickly helped the people in front of him, smiled bitterly at them and said: "I'm not a Vulcan, I'm a navy!"

"Killing pirates is our navy's duty!"

A skinny little girl hiding behind an old man heard this and asked timidly: "Brother, are you really a navy? Mom said that the navy is a hero who protects civilians. Will you protect us?"

Ace looked at the little girl who was covered in smoke and was dirty, with thin and yellow hair. He took a deep breath, nodded heavily and said, "Of course, I... I'm a navy!"

At this moment, Ace's voice was full of perseverance, seeming to have lost its previous immaturity and became unusually rich, sounding very reassuring.

When a refugee heard this voice, he subconsciously raised his head and said in confusion: "Can the navy... really... protect us refugees?"

Upon hearing this, Ace's face became solemn and he said seriously: "Of course, our navy will not give up on any civilians."

As he said that, Ace bowed at 90 degrees, his posture unusually low: "I'm very sorry. This time, we were late and let you be harassed by pirates. This is our dereliction of duty. I'm very sorry!"

"No, no, no, sir, just come."

"Yes, if your lord hadn't arrived in time, we would have been buried in the flames just now. If we asked for help before, no one would pay attention to us. My lord, you are a good navy."

"Yes, your kindness will never be forgotten by us."

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