【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Ace! Sabo! Wait for me!" Luffy's voice echoed softly among the trees of the forest. They were on their way to the Waste Terminal. Now they were approaching the edge of the forest. The Waste Terminal was on the north side of the mountain.

Waste Terminal is a large, depressing garbage dump surrounded by high walls surrounding a nearby city. The island is home to a kingdom called the Kingdom of Goa.

The Kingdom of Goa is a rather beautiful and wealthy city, filled with nobles and merchants. Inside town, the city is a beacon of prosperity, and every night, garbage is collected from every residential and commercial area of ​​the city, and then twice a day, it is promptly dumped outside the city gates into the growing ocean of garbage that surrounds it.

Of course, the Kingdom of Goa also dumps what it considers to be the dregs of society and the garbage of the people outside its gates, so the waste terminal gathers a large number of poor, homeless and unfortunate people, and it is also the home of most of the scum.

To the north of the waste terminal is the town, which is surrounded by a solid stone wall. The only entrance is the town gate, which is usually guarded. Residents of the waste terminal often go to the town to sell some recycled materials. In the center of the town is a high town where princes and nobles live. No one except the nobles is allowed to enter the high town. Inside is the palace, where the royal family of the Kingdom of Goa lives.

In the alleys of the border town

"It's great to be able to sell the crocodile skin at a high price! The pirate savings have increased again!" Sabo said happily.

"I'm hungry~" Luffy said frustratedly.

"Hold on a little longer, I'll treat you to delicious ramen next," Ace said to Luffy with a smile.

"What is ramen? Is it really delicious?" Sabo asked curiously.

"Anything is fine, I want to eat quickly!" Luffy said frustratedly.

"Okay, in order to eat ramen as soon as possible, we should disguise ourselves again!" said Lucci.

Lucci supported Sabo and Ace from below, and they put on their cloaks and disguised themselves as an adult, walking in the town. Luffy carefully pulled their cloaks and followed them, looking around, just like an adult with their children.

"Luffy, don't make any noise and just follow us, otherwise we won't take you to eat ramen," Ace said to Luffy in a low voice.

"Oh" Luffy rubbed his stomach in frustration.

The boys disguised as adults stood in front of a store called Haute Cuisine.

"This is the store," Ace said with a smile as he looked at the store.

"Welcome!" The shop owner bent down to greet them with a smile on his face.

The shop owner looked up and saw their dirty cloaks, and waved his hands hastily, saying, "This is embarrassing for us, this is not the shop you should come to."

Sabo, who was stacked in the middle, rummaged through his clothes and took out a pocket watch. "Give me a VIP room."

"That...that badge is..." The shop owner looked at the pocket watch in Sabo's hand in panic.

"It's such an honor to have you, the nobleman! I'll prepare it right away!" The shop owner hurriedly bowed and led them into the VIP room on the fourth floor.

"You really have a good thing," Ace said to Sabo in surprise.

"Ha...haha...I picked it up in town before," Sabo said with a guilty conscience.

Lucci looked at the pocket watch in Sabo's hand and said nothing.

"Three servings of ramen. Sorry for the long time you've been waiting! Please enjoy!" The waiter brought the ramen.

"Is this ramen?" Sabo looked at the fragrant ramen in front of him with surprise.

"It looks delicious!" Luffy said excitedly.

"Come on, try it!" Ace pulled down his cloak happily.

"Wow! It's delicious. I can't wait!" Lucci happily picked up the ramen in front of him.

"One more... oooo" Luffy just shouted when Ace and Sabo covered his mouth.

Lu Qi coughed softly, suppressed his voice and shouted at the door in a deep voice, "Another bowl!"

"Hi!" The waiter hurried down to prepare.

Before long, their bowls of ramen had filled the table, and when Luffy reached out to take another bowl, his disguise was quickly discovered by the ramen shop owner.

"Oh no! We are exposed!" Lucci said as he looked around quickly.

"Damn it!" Ace shouted in shock.

"Run!" Sabo shouted, breaking the window, and then Ace jumped out with Sabo, and Lucci pulled Luffy and jumped out of the window.

"Someone is eating and dashing! Come and help me catch them!" the restaurant owner shouted from upstairs.

After Ace, Sabo, Lucci and Luffy jumped down, they immediately ran towards the city gate.

"Stop them! Don't let them run away!" The guards chased Ace and the others.

"We lost 36 bowls of ramen and a wall of glass!" the store manager said angrily, with his hands on his hips, looking at the broken glass.

"Store...Store Manager, they also left a note like this." A waiter hurried over and handed the note to the store manager.

"What...?" The store manager looked angrily at the note in his hand which read "Pay with treasure - Luffy"

"Sabo? Isn't this Sabo? Wait! Are you still alive? Come home with me!"

When Ace, Sabo, Luffy and Lucci passed by a noble, the noble called out to Sabo from behind.

"Sabo, he's calling you." Ace said to the person calling Sabo from behind.

"Who is he?" Luffy asked curiously.

Lucci looked at the nobles behind him curiously, then turned to look at Sabo.

Sabo looked at the person behind him and said through gritted teeth, "He must have recognized the wrong person. Let's go!"

……

After Ace, Lucci, and Luffy escaped to the edge of a cliff in the forest, they surrounded Sabo and stared at him.

"What are you doing? I have nothing to hide from you." Sabo said

"Really?" Luffy tilted his head in a silly manner.

"How is this possible! Tell me, Sabo! How can there be a secret between us?" Ace shouted at Sabo.

Lu Qi looked at them with a guilty conscience.

Sabo looked at the serious looks that Ace and Luffy were giving him, and he turned his head away guiltily and said, "I've already said it, nothing."

"Hurry up and tell me, bastard! Be careful or I'll beat you up!" Ace and Luffy grabbed Sabo's collar and shook him hard.

"I...I said...I said it!" Sabo shouted with a blue face.

"Ah!" Lucci didn't expect this to be the answer, and then he relaxed.

"Son of a noble? Who?" Ace Luffy asked coldly.

"Me!" Sabo shouted angrily.

"Well... then what?" Ace, Luffy, and Lucci looked at Sabo boredly while picking their noses.

"You were the ones who asked me!" Sabo shouted at them angrily.

"Actually, I'm not an orphan, my parents are still alive, and I didn't grow up in the Waste Terminal. It was my father who called me today. Sorry, I lied to you." Sabo whispered while sitting under the tree.

Ace looked at Sabo in surprise.

"He's already apologized, just forgive him!" Luffy said to Ace and Lucci.

"Ah, I can see that. When we first met, I knew you weren't from Waste Terminal, but I didn't expect you to run away from Gao Town." Lu Qi said, scratching his head.

"This incident hit me hard. You are from a noble family, so why would you go to a place like that?" Ace turned around with a sullen face and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

"The reason I ran away from home! Is because..." Sabo looked ahead silently and recalled his childhood memories.