The days when I wanted to be a human being

Shanks finally understood why he was familiar with the name Ace.

Ace.

It’s the name of Captain Roger’s sword!

If... Ace is really Captain Roger...

Zhou Ling, who came to Windmill Village after Roger's execution...

wrong!

Ace clearly called her godmother.

"Listen carefully, my full name is Portgas D. Ace."

Shanks' thoughts were interrupted by Ace's words. For some reason, he suddenly felt relieved when he heard that Ace did not mention Gor.

"So... then you and Luffy..."

"We don't have the same father, but we have the same grandfather and the same godmother."

When Shanks heard this, he became a little uneasy again. When he wanted to ask more questions, he was stopped by Makino.

"Mr. Pirate, I know what you are thinking. In fact, Zhou Zhen is just Ace's godmother. Ace's mother is someone else."

On the side, Sabo pulled Ace, who was about to speak, out.

...

After the two of them brought Luffy, who was well fed and drunk, back to Dadan's residence, they immediately found Dadan and explained the importance of the matter.

Dadan quickly took out the Den Den Mushi that he hadn't used for a long time.

"Moxi moxi."

When Ace saw the Den Den Mushi was connected, he immediately said, "Grandpa, there are pirates coming to Windmill Village."

"What! What pirate is so bold as to appear in the sea!"

Cap stopped eating the donut in the middle of it.

"It's Shanks!" Luffy, who was lying on the side digesting, shouted with a smile.

"What! Is it…"

Cap stopped talking halfway through his sentence. He did not forget where he was.

He is still in the Warring States office now.

Sengoku naturally heard what Garp said before, and hurriedly said with concern, "If you are worried, Garp, let the nearby navy go over to take a look first, and you can set off back later."

Of course, Garp was not worried. After all, Zhou Ling was still in Windmill Village. He was not worried at all. Even if she slept every day, she would not allow the pirates to do whatever they wanted.

Besides, he was not unaware of the relationship between Shanks and Zhou Ling.

"That's it, that's good."

Garp hung up the phone and looked at Sengoku, "It's okay, there's a solution."

"That's good."

...

"It seems that Vice Admiral Garp will not come back." After putting away the Den Den Mushi, Dadan made a small summary.

"Besides, didn't you also tell me? Zhou is Shanks's adoptive mother, and you have to call him big brother."

"Nani!?"

Luffy and the other two all shouted in shock.

Lu Jiu, who had been eavesdropping, smiled knowingly. She had heard Roger talk about the interns on his ship, but she didn't expect to meet them here.

But since he couldn't figure it out, in order to prevent Ace from being affected, she wouldn't tell anyone. Ace should be the one to decide his own life.

A few days later, when Shanks was about to set sail, he came to Zhou Ling's residence to say goodbye to him, but in the end, Zhou Ling did not come out to see him.

Standing at the stern and looking from afar, it has become a small windmill village.

He remembered what Makino said.

"That's just Zhou's clone."

"Maybe we can't help her, and she didn't ask us to help. After that farewell, she never showed up again."

"We don't know where she went."

...

Time passes quickly.

The plot didn't seem to be affected much, as Luffy ate the rubber fruit by coincidence.

Even after several years of special training from Zhou Ling, Luffy and his two companions have improved in strength, but without the assistance of the green pill, the help is not that great.

In the tavern incident, Luffy was very angry when the bandit king Sig attacked him on the head with a bottle. He brought Ace and Sabo with him to find trouble with the bandit Sig.

With the help of Shanks and others, the bandit group was defeated, but at the last moment, Sieg and his two men kidnapped Ace and Luffy.

In a hurry, Lu Jiu was too worried about Ace, so she explained Ace's life experience to Shanks.

"what?!"

Shanks was shocked, but the situation was serious, so he didn't say anything and quickly used Moon Step to catch up.

Beckman and others followed closely.

Sig and his two men who left on the boat were thankful, "Boss, you have foresight. They definitely didn't expect us bandits to go to the sea."

"Hahaha!" After laughing, Sieg held Luffy and thought for a while, "Kid, since we have escaped, you are useless now."

"What the hell."

"Ah!" "Ah!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Luffy and Ace were both thrown into the sea.

"Help! Ace!"

"Luffy, wait a moment, I'll be there soon... ugh!" Ace anxiously watched Luffy gradually sinking to the bottom of the sea and accidentally choked on the water.

"Cough cough!"

"Ace!"

Shanks quickly approached and scooped up Ace, "Where's Luffy? Ace."

"He... ahem! sank! Quick! Leave me alone!"

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" The small boat that Sig and his two companions rowed out for some distance was swallowed by a huge sea king. They only had time to shout out their last cry of life in panic before they disappeared.

Oops!

"Ace! Hold your breath!"

Shanks shouted, then picked up Ace and dived into the sea using the Moon Step.

Shanks squinted his eyes and saw the Sea King running towards Luffy at a very fast speed.

Just as he reached behind him to touch the familiar handle of the knife, he found nothing there.

"not good!"

Why did it disappear at this time?!

Shanks' mind was churning violently.

He was not only worried about the missing green sword, but what made him even more anxious was that Luffy was in danger!

Just as the sea king was about to swallow Luffy, a figure quietly appeared beside Luffy.

Shanks stared at the slightly familiar figure with wide eyes.

wonderful!

Zhou Ling grabbed the sinking Luffy with one hand and swung the green long sword in the other hand.

A sharp knife appeared and slashed quickly towards the sea king.

A crack was created in the sea water, and the sea kings were split into two.

"Roar!"

After the sea kings let out their last mournful cry, the only sound left in the ocean was the surging waves.

Zhou Ling, standing on the water, handed Luffy to Shanks.

Shanks, who was holding Luffy and preventing him from sinking, watched Zhou Ling stroking the green long sword in his hand. The long sword seemed to have a spirit and began to tremble, as if it was happy for Zhou Ling.

"This knife...it's rare that you take such good care of it."

Zhou Ling looked at Shanks, "Shanks, I'll leave these two guys to you."

"Godmother, it's so cool that I can stand on the sea!" Luffy looked at Zhou Ling in surprise after waking up.

"Idiot!" Ace cursed as he lay on Shanks' back. He could feel that something bad was about to happen.

"No! Miao, wait a minute! Tell me what you need! Only then can I help you!"

Shanks looked at Zhou Ling anxiously.

Those words, which sounded like a last will, made him very flustered.

Zhou Ling didn't say anything, just shook his head and handed the green knife in his hand to Ace.

"wonderful!"

Shanks and the other two opened their eyes wide and could only watch as Zhou Ling, with her eyes closed, burst like a balloon filled with water, turning into a pool of dead water and spilling into the sea in front of them.