Pirates: I am a daddy's girl in the White Group

Shanks noticed this.

He narrowed his eyes, smiled and asked Ace.

"Aren't you going to say hello to me? Why don't you introduce yourself first?"

Shanks looked at Ace with a peculiar smile on his face. Although he was just asking, his hand was always on the hilt of Griffin's sword, as if he would attack instantly if Ace made any suspicious move.

Davi glanced at Shanks with an unclear expression, but did not say anything. She just took a puff of cigarette quietly, and the smoke slowly came out of her hood.

Ace, who had just relaxed, sat up straight again and tried hard to organize his words.

"You...are not right...let me think...my...name is Ace, my full name is Portgas D. Ace, I was born on Batalila Island in the South China Sea and grew up in the East China Sea." Ace tilted his head, as if he was trying hard to recall.

Shanks raised his eyebrows, and after hearing the words "grown in the East China Sea", he put down his hand that was originally on Griffin.

"Um... Navy... People call me 'Fire Fist Ace'. I just arrived in the New World a short time ago. How much is the bounty I owe?"

Ace scratched his hair, feeling distressed.

"How would we know——!"

"It's a complete mess!"

The cadres who had been paying attention to the situation here could no longer hold back and started complaining crazily.

"Pfft." Davie couldn't help laughing out loud. It was so cute. This nervous self-introduction made her say, "Five hundred and fifty million Baileys."

"Oh yes, the bounty is 550 million Baileys." Ace was stunned for a moment when he heard Devi's voice, then quickly nodded in agreement.

This cold voice...why does it sound so much like a snowflake?

Without the time to think about this for the moment, Ace continued to introduce himself: "I'm new here, please forgive me, seniors! Um... I'll introduce my boss to you..."

Obviously, this paragraph should be the quotes from the pirates' meeting that Ace heard in some tavern.

"Is there anyone else here besides you?" Beckman asked pointedly.

"Ah....Oh yeah! It's really just me! After all, I always feel it's not good to have too many people..."

Dawi's body was hidden in the cloak and kept shaking. She was almost laughing.

"What the hell are you doing..." Shanks had a dark face, obviously a little confused about the young man in front of him.

Ace tilted his head and thought for a while...but in the end he felt that his ability to organize language was hopeless, so he gave up thinking and sighed.

"Alas - even though I have practiced many times according to Makino's instructions before coming here, I still can't learn this way of greeting -"

"Makino?"

Hearing this name, the executives present and Shanks himself were stunned.

"Oh, right!" Ace seemed to suddenly think of something, took off the backpack on his back, lowered his head and fumbled inside, took out a bottle of wine and handed it to Shanks.

"Wine?" Shanks stretched out his hand and took the large bottle of wine that Ace handed over.

"Yes." Ace nodded: "This is the wine produced in the East China Sea where I grew up. Makino said that you can greet the pirates by sending this thing..."

"Oh?" Shanks showed an expectant expression, then pulled out the cork, tilted his head back and took a big gulp.

"Ah! That's the smell! I really miss it so much!" Shanks sighed.

Ace also breathed a sigh of relief. The dangerous feeling that had been hovering in his mind just now finally disappeared. Before this, he had a feeling that Shanks in front of him would attack at any time.

What Makino taught was indeed correct.

"Did you know that I once stayed in the East China Sea for a period of time?" After hearing the familiar name and drinking the familiar wine, Shanks' attitude softened visibly.

"I, I know. In fact, I lived in Mount Korpo, not far from the Windmill Village. You must have heard of it. I was taken care of by the bandits who lived there."

Davi supported her chin quietly, listening to the pirates' chatter. It seemed that Ace was not here to challenge Shanks, so she worried for nothing.

"Windmill Village... I miss it so much. Is the village chief still in good health?" Shanks said with a smile: "I see... It's Makino's wine."

"No, this is just the wine I bought in Rogue Town when I was about to enter the Grand Line."

"Hey! Give me back my emotion!" Shanks complained speechlessly.

"But before I went out to sea, Makino did give me a bottle of wine. But I encountered a shipwreck not long after I went out to sea. I was washed up on an uninhabited island, and the wine was gone..."

"That's a shame." Shanks sighed, "But this is also one of the necessary stages for new pirates."

"Makino is safe, this is really good news." Beckman stopped reading the newspaper: "That girl should have grown into a beautiful lady..."

"Who knows? I really want to go back to Windmill Village again, Captain..."

Looking at the Red Hair Pirates officers who were already lost in their memories, Ace tilted his head and continued, "My brother always told me about his savior, you, Shanks, so I thought I had to find a chance to thank you in person no matter what."

"Wait." Shanks stretched out a hand to stop Ace from continuing. He remembered the riddle that Devi had asked him, about someone related to Luffy.

"Could your brother be Luffy?"

"Yeah." Ace nodded.

"Then you! Why! Didn't you say so earlier——"

Everyone present said in unison.

Shanks turned to look at Devi, his eyes full of accusations, Devi already knew it! She just wanted to have fun!

Devi blinked her eyes and gave him an innocent expression from a perspective that only Shanks could see, with a simple smile on the corner of her mouth.

Shanks understood her look, which meant: What? Why do you think so? I don't.

"It turns out that kid has a brother. I'm so glad you're here!" Although he really wanted to complain directly to Davi, Davi didn't seem to want to reveal her identity, so Shanks had no choice but to let it go.

"Tell us the story of your brother!" Shanks rushed to Ace and patted his shoulder.

"Lu! It's time for a party!"