Traveler in the Pirate World

In the pitch-black prison, two tall figures stood facing each other, and the light of a golden oil lamp placed on the ground flickered.

"I entrust my child to you, Garp!" The firelight crossed the gap in the prison and illuminated Roger's slightly pale face.

"Why?" That was the last time Garp met Roger, also in this prison, in the deepest part of this prison.

In Garp's image, Roger is not the kind of person who would surrender himself. This man called the Pirate King will never truly bow to anyone.

"My life is coming to an end. The pain has left this body with no time to do more." These plain words revealed the cruel and unwilling reality. "So I must leave everything to the future. I will use my death to open the way for the competition for the throne and crown the new king."

"This is not like you, Roger!" As Roger's opponent, Garp couldn't help but feel strange about the man in front of him at that moment, "What did you see in Raftel?"

Roger did not answer Garp's words, but continued to speak calmly, "Too many eyes are focused on me. It is impossible to hide from the eyes of the World Government. The road ahead for that child will not be easy, but I believe in him because he is my child, Roger.

I have reached a deal with the World Government. I will die in my hometown. On the day of execution, many acquaintances will come to see me off, but no one will cause trouble, so I don't need you to be there. Protect them well, Garp!"

Yes, the Age of Discovery was never just the result of Roger's efforts alone. The big game had already been set up at the moment before Roger's death.

Roger died in his hometown, a small town without any military defense conditions, on a simple platform.

That day, there were no generals from the Navy Headquarters accompanying him, nor were there any powerful ships or cannons. The huge central street was crowded with ordinary people. The powerful pirates mixed in the crowd quietly watched Roger leave. Everything seemed like a carefully prepared funeral.

To this day, Garp still doesn't know what kind of deal Roger reached with the World Government. He looked at the face that was also illuminated by the lights, and his heart was unsettled.

Everything seems to be a repeat of the past, history is like a reincarnation, Roger, who is both an enemy and a friend, and Ace, who is like a grandson, seem to overlap at this moment, even though they are not similar in many ways.

"After crossing the Upside-Down Mountain, I went to the South China Sea and to my mother's grave. I stood there but didn't know what expression I should make." Ace leaned against the stone wall. The seastone suppressed his physical strength, leaving him with no strength. Even his speech was a little weak. "I learned a lot of things there. People were very secretive about what happened back then.

After learning about what happened in the South China Sea, I think it is not wrong for the world to call me the blood of sin, after all, I have no peers in the South China Sea. "

When the World Government learned that Roger had surviving descendants, they carried out an indiscriminate purge of all children born and conceived in the South China Sea within that year.

At first, Ace also thought that it was the World Government's attention and fear towards Roger's descendants, but as he got to know this world and the arrest from the World Government not long ago, Ace felt that there was something hidden in it.

The conversation with Kizaru made Ace more certain of his feeling that there were deeper purposes behind all the actions of the World Government.

"But I think, actually, at that time, they should have known about the existence of my mother and me. You, an old man who rarely travels around the South China Sea, must have known about it a long time ago. You couldn't hide it from them, right?

If not, you wouldn't have handed me over to Dadan's care after returning to the East Sea."

There was anger and mockery in his voice. The death of countless people was just a drama. "I don't know what they want to do, but I hate their actions. I will complete this journey to see the truth, to see what my father Roger wants to do, and to see what the World Government wants."

"It seems that Lily really taught you how to think. Alas! That stupid boy Luffy didn't learn anything at all. Although that's not entirely a bad thing!" Garp looked at Ace with complicated eyes.

Among the four children, Lily is the most mysterious, Luffy is the purest, Sabo is the most faithful, but Ace is the most contradictory and complex.

Luffy wants to be the Pirate King because he feels that he is the freest person in the world, has partners he can trust, and has new and exciting adventures, and that's all.

Sabo originally wanted to escape from his cold aristocratic family and because he hated the cruelty of existing social rules, after hearing the stories about pirates, he wanted to pursue his own life, so he wanted to become a pirate.

But after experiencing the garbage mountain incident, he vaguely realized what he wanted to change. The appearance of the dragon gave him faith and he embarked on the path of the revolutionary army.

However, Ace's reason for wanting to become a pirate is completely different from those of his two brothers.

The sinful bloodline who is not worthy of living in this world is questioning why he was born into this world, and is unwilling to accept why the world treats him like this.

While obeying the so-called fate, he also tried to resist it. He hated his father who was the Pirate King, but chose to bear the fate of a pirate.

Everyone was saying that Roger's descendants deserved to die. Even his adoptive mother Dadan, who raised him, always said a lot of unpleasant things with a stubborn mouth. This made Ace at the time think that he really shouldn't be alive.

But why should I die? Why? Why!

It was not until the bet with Lily, and the years that followed, when he listened to Lily's stories every day and learned about the world bit by bit through old newspapers, that Ace slowly let go of his obsession.

The girl who was obviously a younger sister but took care of them like an older sister taught Ace a lot of things.

"What is their purpose in arresting me and this guy this time? I don't think I have the qualifications to make them fear me to this extent." Ace glanced at Joz, who had a huge bump on his head, and said helplessly.

"Bait, bait to start a war!" At this moment, Garp no longer had any of the inconsistency he had in the past. "Maybe it's the appearance of the Eye of God that's making them worry that the power of those old guys on the sea is out of control. Maybe there's a deeper purpose. The real target this time is Whitebeard, the remnants of Roger's pirate group."

Garp's words left Ace silent for a while. "A public execution? This will cause trouble for Luffy, Sabo, and Lily!"

Looking at his awkward expression, Karp snorted in annoyance.

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The Kingdom of Kloof

"Why did you come down suddenly?" Lily asked casually as she looked at Qinasi eating snacks beside her.

"There's a noisy guy in the sky recently, his name is Enelu. He was tricked by that guy Balto into going to the universe to play these two days, and he won't be back for a few days. Seeing that he was so quiet, I couldn't help but come down to play with you, Lady Lily." Qinasi's little mouth opened and closed, and his chubby little face was white and translucent, which made Lily couldn't help but poke it with her hand.

"Is it tasty?"

"From a human perspective, it's pretty good! I can understand why Lady Lily likes traveling." Qinasi smiled and answered seriously.

"I think so too!" A familiar voice sounded behind her. Elsie suddenly hugged Qinasi from behind, "You are so cunning, Qinasi!"

"That's right!" Zeli's figure appeared at the side, and she nodded seriously in agreement, "Where is the practice we agreed on before?"

"Learning to feel everything in this world from different perspectives is itself a kind of practice!" Qinasi let Elsie lift her up high, and said it without blushing or heartbeating, her expression as serious as ever, like a little adult.