One Piece: Three Fruits, Starting with the Dark-Dark Fruit

As soon as the word "death" came out, Jiger withdrew his gaze, but Apu on the roof suddenly widened his eyes, his eyes were extremely red.

Pfft!

Apu fell like a piece of rag, sliding from the roof to the ground.

His internal organs were all shattered by the sound waves, and he died with bleeding from all seven orifices. His death was extremely horrific.

So far, six pirate supernovas have died at the hands of Ziger.

This news began to spread rapidly on Sabaody Island. When they learned that most of those monster-like supernovas had died in such a short time, some new pirates who came here to be coated or were in the process of being coated directly gave up the idea.

Some of them didn't even want the deposit they paid. They just wanted to leave here quickly and leave that ghost-like man.

On this day, the people of Shampoo finally remembered the legend about the great general Black Dragon.

Area 41,

The Straw Hat Pirates' ship, the Sunny, is parked here, and Luffy and his crew have returned here.

On the way back, Zoro had already learned the identity of the white-haired old man from Kozuki Toki.

He is actually the former vice-captain of Roger's pirate group, Pluto Rayleigh!

Luffy and others already knew about it at the auction. At that time, Zoro was fighting on the street, so he missed the auction.

Of course, it was also because of Zoro that the Celestial Dragons did not participate in the auction, so their process of rescuing the mermaid Kami went much smoother.

When Rayleigh appeared, Kozuki Toki recognized him immediately, and then they left the auction house in a swagger and went to find Zoro.

However, the Rosward family was ultimately unable to escape the fate of being punished by the Straw Hat Pirates, and their fate was even worse than in the original work, as Charlos died directly.

Lei Li used his remaining hand to hold a hammer and knocked on the Sunny. Luffy squatted beside him and said with a smile,

"It would be nice if Ace was here too. He must be eager to meet you, Uncle Rayleigh."

Rayleigh paused and said,

"Is Ace... Roger's child?"

"Yeah, we grew up together. He's my older brother! Oh, I also have an older brother named Sabo, but he doesn't want to be a pirate. I feel like he's the one dad likes the most!"

Rayleigh was silent for a moment and whispered,

"The Roger Pirates owe your father a favor."

"Ah? Uncle Rayleigh, what are you talking about?"

Rayleigh smiled slightly, put the hammer aside, pounded his waist with his fist, and said,

"Nothing, this straw hat on your head is very nice, where did you get it from?"

When Luffy mentioned the straw hat, he smiled even brighter. He raised his head and pressed his straw hat, saying,

"Uncle Rayleigh, you recognized this straw hat, right? The person who gave me this hat was also one of your former crew members. His name is Shanks. My father told me this. He also told me that this hat once belonged to the Pirate King Roger!"

"Oh? Luffy, how did Shanks give you this straw hat?"

Luffy thought about it and told Rayleigh about the situation.

It turns out that when Luffy was young, Shanks once went to find his father Dragon. His purpose was very simple. He just wanted to see Ace and his son who were entrusted to Dragon by Roger. He also brought the rubber fruit that he had snatched from the World Government.

According to Luffy, Shanks obviously wanted to give the rubber fruit to Ace at first, but Ace did not eat the rubber fruit after getting it. Instead, he showed it to Luffy and Sabo first.

As a result, while the three of them were playing, the rubber fruit was "accidentally" eaten by Luffy.

When Shanks learned that the fruit was eaten by Luffy, he did not show any strange emotions. He just muttered Luffy's name and then accepted the fact.

He stayed with Dragon for a while, and when he left, he gave the straw hat to Luffy.

After hearing this, Rayleigh looked at Luffy with a more meaningful look, and he said,

"Luffy, I heard from you when you were little that your dream is to become the Pirate King, right?"

Luffy chuckled and suddenly shouted,

"That's right! I'm the man who will become the Pirate King!!"

As soon as the words fell, a teasing voice came from not far away.

"Hey Luffy! I'm the one who's going to be the Pirate King! You can only be the Pirate King's younger brother."

Luffy was stunned when he heard the voice, then turned his head with surprise and shouted,

"Ace!?"

Ace and his crew stood on a patch of grass not far away. He grinned at Luffy and said,

"Yo! Luffy!"

The Straw Hat Pirates looked at Ace standing there, and Nami said curiously,

"Is he the brother Luffy often mentions?"

Zoro crossed his arms and nodded.

"Well, he's a pretty tough guy. He looks exactly like the picture on the wanted poster. What do you think, pervert?"

Sanji raised his eyebrows and immediately put his face in front of Zoro.

"Green algae head, don't mention the bounty again!"

However, before Zoro could say anything, Chopper and Usopp beside him were already rolling on the ground laughing, and veins on Sanji's forehead were bulging. After two bangs, Chopper and Usopp apologized to Sanji in tears.

Ace came over, glanced at Usopp and the others, and said to Luffy with a smile,

"Luffy, the partners you found are very interesting."

Then he turned his gaze to Sauron and said,

"And this guy actually dared to kill a celestial dragon. This is a very big event!"

Zoro really didn't think he had done anything remarkable. He crossed his arms and said,

"Are Celestial Dragons very strong? That guy just now was so weak, and I didn't intend to kill him."

Ace nodded and smiled.

"Well! That's right! There's nothing to be afraid of the Celestial Dragons."

Luffy clenched his fist and said,

"But they are so annoying! I beat one of them to pieces!"

Since Ace appeared, Rayleigh has been observing Ace. In his eyes, Ace doesn't look much like Roger, maybe because he takes after his mother.

And I don’t know if it’s the filter of the straw hat, but Rayleigh always feels that Luffy looks more like Roger.

Ace also turned his gaze to Rayleigh at this time, and then he suddenly bowed deeply to Rayleigh.

Rayleigh was stunned for a moment and said,

“What are you doing…?”

Ace raised his head and said softly,

"Uncle Rayleigh, nice to meet you. Mom told me that my father often mentioned you and said you were his closest friend."

Rayleigh fell silent, Roger's face appeared in his mind, and he was lost in memories for a moment.