Traveler in the Pirate World

"Did you know there's going to be a big fire at Waste Terminal tonight?"

"I know, kid!"

"Of course, I am looking forward to it. I think the Kingdom of Goa will be even more beautiful tomorrow!"

"This is something that everyone agrees on. Trash should look like trash. The fire will burn out a better Goa Kingdom!"

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Sabo looked in horror at these well-dressed and always gentle and polite nobles in Gaocheng District, his eyes widened to the point of almost tearing the corners of his eyes.

"Escape! Escape! Escape! This is hell, they are all devils!" Sabo ran towards the city gate like crazy. The desire to escape from this country became stronger than ever before.

At the same time, he was shouting in his heart, "Ace, Luffy, please be okay! Lily must be worried about us now!"

However, the soldiers and guards sent by Otluk III to find him did not intend to let Sabo escape so easily, which put Sabo in a deadlock where he could not leave the city.

A gust of wind blew by, and Lily suddenly looked up. She felt a familiar force in this unnatural wind, "Is it Uncle Long?"

Growth is often accompanied by pain. Lily watched Sabo running and hiding, and saw him shouting frantically in an attempt to awaken people's conscience and kindness. She finally chose to take action, "That's enough. He has tried very hard."

Sabo, who was fleeing, was suddenly grabbed by a cold and soft little hand and dragged into an alley. The white little hand blocked Sabo's mouth as he wanted to scream.

"Sabo, I'm here to pick you up!"

The pleasant sound like wind chimes rang in his ears, and Sabo couldn't help but shed tears. He hugged Lily's slender body, buried his head deeply in Lily's shoulder, and sobbed silently.

Lily stroked the boy's back and pulled him against the wall. A curtain of water rose up, hiding them and avoiding the soldiers' pursuit.

"I'm sorry, Lily, I'm obviously the brother!" After a long time, Sabo recovered and said embarrassedly.

"By the way, why are you here? How are Ace and Luffy?" Sabo asked anxiously before he had time to continue feeling embarrassed about his unmanly behavior.

"They are fine. How about we go pick them up together when we go back?" Lily said, looking at the red eyes of Sabo, who was always the most stable. "As for me? Of course I am here to take my dear brother home."

"Yeah, let's go!" Sabo eagerly pulled Lily towards the city gate, "Tonight, the Waste Terminal will be set on fire, we must go and notify others!"

With the help of the water curtain, the two left the Kingdom of Goa unhindered and came to the waste terminal formed by the accumulation of all the garbage and waste in the country.

Sabo shouted all the way, asking the people living in the waste terminal to leave, but to little effect. Only a few people listened to him and chose to leave temporarily and watch from afar to see if anything bad would happen at night.

On the contrary, because Lily's appearance was too delicate, some guys had bad ideas, which made Sabo so angry that he beat up several guys who spoke rudely.

"Lily, why don't they want to believe me?" Sabo looked at Lily with a distraught look.

"Because people are more willing to believe things that are beneficial to themselves. For example, if a stranger told us that there was a fire in our tree house, would you leave immediately?" Lily said calmly.

"I understand, Lily, you are really smart!" Sabo nodded thoughtfully.

"We have no obligation or need to save everyone. We just need to do everything we can and try our best. That's enough for our own conscience." Lily looked at the lost Sabo and comforted him, "People always have to learn to save themselves. No one can protect them for their entire lives."

Lily had no idea how much Sabo had taken her words to heart. She looked at him still trying hard to explain everything that was going to happen tonight. She just smiled and didn't force him. There was no need to impose one's own values ​​and outlook on life on others, because one might not always be right.

Finally, Sabo's shouting attracted the soldiers' pursuit, and Sabo quickly pulled Lily away.

The soldiers' angry behavior made some guys who originally didn't believe Sabo pack up their pitiful belongings, quietly inform people they knew, and flee to Mount Gorbo and the sea together.

Just as Sabo and Lily finally got rid of the pursuers and were about to catch their breath, a familiar voice sounded in the distance: "Sabo? Lily!"

When he looked up, he saw Luffy and Ace, who were carrying a box with a red flag, followed by a group of pirates.

Luffy ignored the pirates' shouts, threw away the wooden box in his hand, and ran towards Lily and the others excitedly, "Sabo, you are finally back. Lily, why are you with Sabo?"

Ace looked at the wooden box that rolled to the ground with his pupils shrinking. A large amount of gunpowder was scattered all over the ground. They were going to fill the entire waste terminal with this stuff. What did they want to do?

He decisively hit the pirate next to him with the wooden box in his hand, grabbed a wooden stick in his sight, and knocked down several other people in a blink of an eye.

"Tell me, what are you planning to do with this gunpowder?" Ace stared at the people lying on the ground with a bad look on his face.

"Ace, they've accepted bribes from the city's nobles and are planning to burn down the entire waste terminal tonight!" Sabo stepped forward to explain.

Upon hearing this, Ace and Luffy were both extremely shocked, "Why? There are still many people living here!" Luffy couldn't help but shout.

"Because the Celestial Dragons are coming, they are going to eliminate the garbage in this country!" Sabo clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with unwillingness and anger.

"Including these people?" Ace turned his head and looked at the towering city walls standing in the distance, his eyes full of disbelief. He suddenly understood some of the things Lily had said to them.

"It was not just Roger who pushed the world into the Age of Exploration. He just found an outlet for the contradictions that have always existed in the world for something he believed he had to do."

Perhaps what he hated was never the pirate legend who faced death calmly and opened an era with his life.

What he hated was the father who cruelly left him and his mother and chose to die. The more generously Roger left, the more painful Ace felt.

A man called his father, who made his mother hide from the world government, endure the pain, and carry him for more than 28 months before giving birth to him and passing away.

"Hahahaha, even if you know now, it's too late." The pirate laughed and shouted, but was kicked unconscious by the angry Ace.

"What are you going to do after this?" Lily said, looking at the gunpowder scattered on the ground.

"Lily, you go back first. I want to try again!" He looked at Ace and Luffy. Seeing them nod, he turned to look at Lily beside him and said seriously, "Don't worry, we will definitely come back safely before dark. I just want to do my best."

"Be careful and come back early." Lily didn't say much, just nodded. The water curtain wrapped her silently, simulating the surrounding environment, and disappeared quietly and silently.

"Wow, Lily is so awesome!" Luffy looked at the place where Lily disappeared with shining eyes and a look of excitement on his face.

"Okay, let's start. Be careful to avoid those soldiers!" Sabo looked solemn and serious. He couldn't just ignore such a thing.

"And there are Bluejam's crew members!" Ace reminded.