【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Ace and Lucci were standing in the captains' meeting room, with all the captains sitting around the conference table.

Ace looked at all the captains, then looked at Whitebeard "So Dad, you still want me to be the captain of the second team?"

"Of course!" Whitebeard grinned, "You will always be my son!"

Ace had a smile on his face and nodded "Okay, I'll do it!"

Lucci laughed along, then nodded and said with a smile, "I'll help Ace."

The other captains cheered happily. After some trouble, the other captains left to do their own work, leaving only Marco and Thatch in the meeting room.

"Ace, you are now the captain of Team 2!" Marco looked at Ace and said with a smile, then a smirk appeared on his face. "So all the work documents of Team 2 for the past two days, please prepare them for me tonight."

"Huh?" Ace looked at Marco in shock. "Why do I have to do paperwork?"

"This is what every captain has to do!" Marco said with a smile.

Ace grabbed his hair in frustration, then looked at Lucci pitifully, "Lucci..."

Lucci quickly smiled and turned to look to the side, pretending not to see Ace's pleading look.

"Sachi..." Ace looked at Thatchi who was watching the fun on the side and looked at him with pitiful expression.

Thatch avoided Ace's gaze, coughed lightly, grinned and said, "Come on, Ace!"

"Tsk! You guys are so unreliable!" Ace said with disdain as he looked at their performance.

"What did you say?" Thatch pretended to be angry, then put his arm around Ace's shoulders and took the opportunity to ruffle his hair.

Lucci and Marco couldn't help but laugh out loud at their funny actions, and even Dad had a huge smile on his face.

……

Zhan Guo was sitting in his office with a newspaper in front of him. He picked it up and looked solemnly at the person in the photo - Ace was squatting steadily on the roof, his palm pressing down on the hat on his head, flames coming out of his shoulders, he turned his head and smirked at the camera, showing off his sharp fangs, and the pirate mark of the Whitebeard Pirate was exposed on his back.

"Another powerful master has joined Whitebeard! They are getting stronger and stronger!" Sengoku said seriously.

A drop of cold sweat broke out on Garp's forehead, and then he pretended not to hear what Zhan Guo said and continued chewing his biscuits.

Sengoku glanced at Garp, then slapped the newspaper on the table in front of Vice Admiral Garp, his eyes twitching "Garp! It's your damn family again!"

Garp leaned over the newspaper, curiously reading the headline 'Fire Fist Ace Becomes Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division! ! '

"Hahahaha, you're worthy of being my grandson!!" Garp tilted his head back and laughed. He laughed so hard that his chest rumbled.

"Now is not the time to laugh!" Sengoku roared "Garp!!"

……

On an unknown island somewhere in the New World, a group of drunkards were partying. The red-haired captain grinned and said, "Hahaha, you are worthy of being Ace! You are really powerful!"

Ben Beckman, the vice-captain of the Red Hair Pirates, nodded seriously and looked at the newspaper in his hand. "It seems that Whitebeard has conquered him. However, the fact that he became the commander of Whitebeard's Second Division so quickly also shows that Whitebeard thinks highly of him."

"Maybe they want him to be the next Whitebeard." The red-haired man laughed loudly.

"Huh?" Ben looked at Shanks in surprise.

"Hahaha, I was just kidding." Shanks had a mischievous smile on his face before grinning "Luffy should be leaving soon, right, Ben?"

Ben thought of the little boy they met in the East Sea, and a smile appeared on his face. "Maybe soon we will hear all the news about how a certain idiot keeps doing all kinds of stupid things."

Shanks laughed loudly, agreeing with Ben.

……

"A-choo!" Luffy sneezed and rubbed his nose.

Qi looked at him and asked worriedly, "Are you okay, Luffy? Are you sick?"

Luffy shook his head firmly and said, "I've never been sick before! Someone must be talking about me!"

"Hahaha, is that so?" Qi said with a smile, and then teased, "Don't get sick in the first few months before we set sail, Captain~"

"I won't!" Luffy shouted angrily, and then as if he had thought of something, he said seriously, "I'm talking to you, as the captain, I have to say something to you, did you sneak out to eat delicious meat at night?"

"Huh?" Qi blinked in confusion.

"You smell like meat every morning, and I never see you sleeping at night." Luffy said as a matter of course, and then said angrily, "The most important thing is that you didn't give me meat."

"Uh!" Qi scratched his cheek. Although it was true that he couldn't see him at night, after all, he was recovering his strength in Luffy's shadow at night, but the smell of meat was obviously because his nose was too sensitive. It was just that when he entered his shadow, he was contaminated with the smell of meat that had just been eaten on his body, and he actually smelled it. Qi complained silently in his heart.

"I'm preparing our food!" Qi said guiltily.

"Souga!" Luffy forgave him instantly when he heard the food, and then a huge smile appeared on his face. "Then let me, the captain, try it first to see if it tastes good!"

Qi looked at the obvious thoughts on Luffy's face, and instantly showed his shark teeth and yelled at Luffy, "You're being too obvious, brat!!"

……

"Hey! Hey! I'm leaving soon! Won't you come and see me off?" Luffy leaned on the door, stuck his head out and asked with a smile at Dadan who was sitting inside.

"Even if the village chief and Makino don't care, the other guys in Windmill Village will definitely be scared! If I go down the mountain..." Dadan said while sitting on the floor with his back to Luffy, and then shouted angrily, "If you want to leave, just leave now!"

"Well, thank you all for your care all the time!!" Luffy raised his hands and shouted with a bright smile on his face.

"No need, it would be embarrassing to say thank you or something..." The bandits scratched the back of their heads embarrassedly.

"...Don't say such sour words!" Dadan said awkwardly.

"Dadan!! I hate bandits the most!!" Luffy had a huge smile on his face.

"Stop making so much noise, you little bastard!" Dadan shouted angrily.

"But I like you guys very much!" Luffy shouted with a smile.

"Wow!" Dadan excitedly took out a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe his tears, crying, "Stop talking nonsense, go away quickly! Bastard!!" Really, everyone is like this! ! "

"What's wrong? Are you crying?" Luffy said innocently.

"I told you I didn't cry! Wow!!" Dadan retorted, crying.

……

East Island, Goa Kingdom border ＜Windmill Village＞

"Luffy, here!" Qi waved and shouted to Luffy who was running.

"Oh!"

"Hey! Luffy! Just use my old fishing boat, your boat is too small!" the villagers on the shore shouted.

"Hey! We worked hard to make this." Qi grumbled quietly, "Although it is indeed a little small, it is not professional after all."

"No, this will do!! I'll start sailing from here!!" Luffy responded with a smile, he turned to look at Qi and said with a smile "We are finally sailing!"

"Yes!" Qi smiled and looked at the sea.

Luffy then looked towards the sea, a huge smile on his face, and shouted to the sky "Lucci, Sabo, look!! I'm finally out to sea!!!"

Qi smiled at Luffy with a doting smile on his face, he had seen it.