[One Piece] The White Wolf of the Red Foss
Chapter 163
Luffy is a big-hearted kid. After going through such a thrilling incident, everyone thought he would slow down for a few days, but he ran to the tavern again the next day.
This time it wasn't for Shanks.
With a chubby little face, under the gaze of everyone, he walked aggressively next to Akales, who was sitting on a high stool with his tail hanging down naturally, looking down.
Shanks stared at Luffy curiously, not knowing what he was going to say.
"Thank you for saving me yesterday!" Luffy shouted with all his might.
Akales suddenly remembered that when he was crying on his head yesterday, it was like a nightmare, and the wolf's ears trembled, "I can hear you even if you keep your voice down."
Lu Fei blushed, "I...I..." He still wanted to say something, but forgot the words, and glanced flusteredly at Makino at the counter.
Makino encouraged him, silently reminding him.
Luffy was encouraged and wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Akales, "If it's thanks, forget it."
He said coldly, "I just want to kill that bandit."
"You really saved Luffy." Shanks knocked on the table.
After a moment of silence, Akales signaled Luffy to continue what he had just said, "What else did you want to say just now?"
However, Luffy obviously forgot what he wanted to say, and only remembered when he saw the mouth shape that Makino gave him, and handed out the things in his hand as if offering a treasure.
His hands were covered with dirt, holding a big unicorn, with a bright smile: "This is for you!"
"Oh oh oh, it's a unicorn!"
"Wow, I used to catch it a lot."
"It's been a long time." The pirates who saw the gift clearly showed interest.
"Luffy, didn't you ask you to prepare a gift?" Makino was shocked.
"This is my gift." Luffy was unconvinced, "I finally caught it!"
"How can you use a unicorn as a gift..." Makino supported his forehead.
"Give it to Shanks." Akales sighed, he didn't like this kind of thing, but Shanks liked it very much.
"This one is too small, Luffy." Shanks pinched the unicorn, which was still alive and kicking, "I've caught one several times bigger than this one before."
Luffy didn't believe it.
"Really!" Shanks gestured, "It's so big. I competed with my friends and caught such a big one. Yaka can prove it."
"Then where is it now, did you put it away?" Luffy asked enthusiastically.
Shanks glanced at Akales, "Well... I buried it."
When he landed on an island, he made a bet with Bucky that whoever caught the bigger unicorn would not have to clean the deck for a week.
After the two separated, when Shanks returned to the shore with the unicorn, Bucky hadn't come back yet.
His hands were covered with mud and dusty, and when he saw Akales sitting by the sea, he leaned over, thinking that Akales would also be very interested in the unicorn.
As a result, the moment it was stretched out, the unicorn was separated from its body...
In the end Bucky won the bet and he cleaned the deck for a week.
"It's a pity...that's the biggest unicorn I've ever caught." Shanks took a sip of his wine.
"I'll go out for a while." Yakales got up to leave.
Shanks smiled, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you going to catch a unicorn for me?"
"A breath of fresh air."
"Okay~" Shanks also got up, leaned on Akales' back from behind, and sighed: "If you tell the truth, I will be very happy."
He rubbed Akales' hair, and when he got up, the red hair was entangled with a few white hairs, and he raised his arm and smiled at the pirates in the tavern: "Little ones, catch the unicorn!" !"
"How old are you, Captain!"
"Couldn't even the unicorn be caught?"
"I'm good at catching unicorns!"
Makino looked helplessly at the empty tavern, a little amused: "Why are they all the same as Luffy..."
The mighty group of people all walked into Mount Gorpo, which is backed by the windmill village.
Although the villagers said that there were bandits and wild beasts on the mountain, they were very dangerous, but they were no threat to the pirates. Soon, a group of people scattered in all directions, wanting to catch a unicorn fairy that was bigger than others to show off.
Luffy happily followed Shanks and Akales, and led them to a place where it was said that they could meet a big unicorn.
It rained a few days ago, and the road was still wet. Shanks bent down and grabbed a handful of dirt. After getting his hands dirty, he called Yakales, "Yaka~"
The latter turned his head to look at him, with mud smeared on his face defenselessly.
"Camouflage, it's a camouflage!" Shanks wore the same look, and was very satisfied with the dirty look of Akales. He wiped the mud all over Luffy's face again. His movements were not gentle, and he almost wiped the mud on the road. Fly in the mouth.
Luffy shook his hair and punched, and the two chased in the woods, starting to circle around Akales.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the distant forest, the leaves rustled, and all the perched birds flapped their wings and flew away.
Shanks and Akales looked at each other, picked up Luffy and ran towards that side.
"What's the matter?" Luffy was sandwiched by Shanks, experiencing the feeling of running at extreme speed.
"Who knows~"
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The era of great pirates opened by One Piece Roger made people all over the world suffer from the atrocities of pirates, so most people in this world hate Roger.
"Don't you know why there are so many pirates doing evil in this world? It's all the fault of that guy named Roger."
"It is said that before he was executed, that guy said some inexplicable words like a unique "big secret treasure", which created this era of rampant idiot pirates who believed in him."
"Roger is a scum, an incorrigible villain!"
"If Roger has a child, the child will cry and say that I am a piece of trash and don't deserve to live in this world hahahahahaha!"
I was born...would it be a good thing?
Ace, who was exhausted, leaned on the tree trunk to pant violently, and there were several dead animals lying on the open space in front of him.
Although he eats a lot, half of them is usually enough. This time he killed so many purely to vent his anger.
After a short break, he dragged back to Dadan, Ace clenched the water pipe next to him, and slowly closed his eyes.
"Wow~ so much meat, can we have a banquet?"
Why is there a child's voice?
"Good idea, I happen to feel a little bored the last few days."
Ace opened his eyes and looked at the uninvited visitor vigilantly. The child who was not pleasing to the eye was drooling while touching the dead body of a wild boar.
The other two adults stood aside.
"Hey! You guys, don't touch other people's things!" Ace shouted angrily.
Akales looked at him, flicked his tail, but didn't speak.
On the contrary, Shanks took off his hat and smiled brightly at him, "Yo~ You killed all these things, they are quite powerful, little guy."
"Wow, you killed all of these?" Luffy ran over adoringly, his eyes were bright, making Aspen's frown even more intense.
"Get away!" He waved the hose, preventing Luffy from getting any closer.
The latter looked at him aggrievedly, "I didn't do anything, why did you hit me!"
"What now?" Akales asked Shanks.
Shanks was also quite helpless. They didn't want to disturb and get involved in Ace's life, but now that they met, there was nothing they could do.
"Little guy, let's discuss it." Shanks squatted down and looked at Ace at the same level. "I will provide the chef, and you will provide these ingredients. How about treating you to dinner tonight?"
"Don't even think about it!" Ace gritted his teeth, clenched the water pipe in his hand, and decided that Shanks and the others were going to grab his things, and then simply attacked.
He has good strength, and he has the power to fight against the adults at the terminal of the uncertain object, but he has no resistance to the pirates in front of him.
The water pipe was taken away, and the body was bound into a rice dumpling by the water flow from nowhere. Ace couldn't even struggle, and could only stare at Akales with fierce eyes.
"Well~ We were discussing with you just now." Shanks smiled helplessly, "Why did you rush over all of a sudden?"
"Kill me if you can!" Ace yelled, "I shouldn't be alive anyway!"
The smile on the corner of Shanks' mouth disappeared, and he was a little puzzled why the child thought so, but before he could ask, another child emerged from the bushes nearby.
The kid pressed the hose against the unsuspecting Luffy's neck and warned, "Let Ace go! Or I'll...I'll kill him!"
"You're finally out." Shanks said calmly, having spotted the child hiding in the grass long ago.
"Sabo! Leave me alone, run!" Ace couldn't struggle, and shouted at Sabo weakly.
The child named Sabo seemed very calm, "Sir, if you want these prey, take them away, please release Ace, and I will also release this child."
Only one day later, Luffy, who was taken as a hostage again, grew up very fast. This time, there were only tears in his eyes, but he didn't cry out immediately, but it could be that Shanks and Akales were both beside him. for the sake.
"Yaka!" Shanks yelled.
Akales nodded, and in just a moment, Sabo was also tied tightly.
"Oh, I changed my mind." Shanks threatened them, "In addition to these ingredients, I also want to take you two back to work as coolies."
"Bastard, if you have the ability to kill me, I can't do it for you... Ugh!!" Ace was wrapped around his mouth by a stream of water.
Akales looked at Sabo, who kept his mouth tightly shut. Although he was unwilling, he still shook his head to indicate that he would not make a sound.
"Damn it, I also want such a powerful ability." Lu Fei looked enviously.
Shanks patted him on the head, "Don't think about it, instead of relying on abilities, it's better to make yourself stronger."
"Hmph, who is stronger, you or him?" Luffy usually couldn't call Akales' name, so he couldn't remember it.
Originally, he had an easy-to-remember nickname, but Shanks listened and taught him a lesson.
Shanks thought for a while, then shook his head: "We haven't fought."
"Then why are you the captain? Shouldn't the captain be the most powerful?"
"Well... then we have fought, and many times, on the bed... on the boat."
Shanks wanted to grab Akales' shoulder, but before he could grab it, he tripped over something on the ground and fell face down on the ground.
"It's weird..." He touched his nose and stood up, but he didn't see anything that tripped him.
Captain... these two men are pirates?
Ace and Sabo looked at each other. The huge gap in strength made them choose to compromise temporarily. Anyway, they are familiar with the terrain here. If they find a chance to escape, even pirates may not be able to catch them.
The two decided to wait and see what happened, but their expressions became more and more strange. They were taken directly to the village below the mountain. These two suspected pirates had a good relationship with the people in the village.
Ace knew that there was a small village called Windmill Village at the foot of the mountain, but he had never been there. The only places he went to were Uncertainty Terminal and Duan Town.
Makino had already cleaned up the tavern messed up by the pirates, and was surprised to see Shanks and the others bring back two children, "Captain Shanks... aren't you going to catch the Unicorn?"
Why were the two children brought back?
"Oh, these two children are good people. They provided a lot of ingredients for our evening banquet, so I invite them to have a meal at night."
"Sister Makino, I'm thirsty!" Lu Fei raised his hand confidently.
Makino poured him a glass of orange juice.
"Boys, you can leave after dinner tonight, so don't be so vigilant against us." Shanks looked at them, "I let you go, don't run away."
If you don't run, there will be ghosts!
The moment Ace and Sabo were released from the shackles, they rushed out of the tavern and ran into the mountains, almost bumping into a few innocent pirates carrying wine boxes on the way.
Akales watched them run to the entrance of the forest, and the moment they saw hope, they tied the two children back again.
Luffy laughed at them mercilessly, "Don't run away, you can't run away anyway, Shanks and the others are very powerful pirates."
At the banquet at night, the bonfire was very lively, and the aroma of the barbecue spread far away.
Ace and Sabo sat side by side on a felled log, holding hot milk in their hands, wearing clean clothes that were worn out.
Who would have thought that they were forced by the pirates to take a hot bath and put on the new clothes they found.
He is still sitting among the pirates to participate in the banquet.
"Looks like he's still full of energy!" A pirate sighed, "The clothes fit pretty well."
"The matching is also very good. If you want me to say, the shirt should be paired with black pants and tucked into the waist!" Another commented.
"Striped short sleeves and cropped pants are also good."
"The beach pants are still loose and comfortable!"
"Whose clothes belong to these two boys?" A pirate asked, "So you still pack up the old clothes if you have the heart."
"Of course it's mine!" Shanks leaned over, obviously overheard their conversation just now, and said flauntingly: "I used to have good taste!"
When they heard that it was Shanks' clothes, the pirates all showed expressions of disgust or disbelief.
"Huh? The clothes actually belonged to the captain."
"I really can't see it."
"Sure enough, it's the spirit of those two boys. It depends on who wears the clothes better."
Shanks felt that these words were not quite right, as if he was burying himself.
"You are wrong, and the clothes are not at fault!"
"I bet it's definitely not the captain's match. Look at that blond boy, doesn't he look exactly like Akales!"
"It's alright if it's Akales, I'm relieved."
"Sure enough, good-looking people have good taste, on par with me."
Shanks tried to speak several times, but was blocked. If he still couldn't understand, it would be too bad.
But these clothes really belonged to him when he was a child, and he also wore them like this, but Yakales, who was dressed in black when he was a child, it was his good-looking face that saved his outfit.
Is my current clothes weird?Shanks couldn't help but have such doubts.
He called out, "Yaka!"
Akales looked over and heard a sentence that made him doubt his ears.
"Change the clothes on us."
Although I don't know why, Akales and Shanks exchanged clothes. When he was about to go out, Shanks called him, "Akales, button it for you."
"I can show," he said, referring to his frequent opening of his shirt, "but you can't."
This shirt has been buttoned so many buttons for the first time since I bought it.
Akales let Shanks decide whether it was better to have one less button or two. He raised his arm and smelled the shirt.
Wine, smoke, barbecue, and sweat.
His actions were noticed by Shanks, who quickly decided to save two buttons, and then held Akales' face and kissed it.
"You have been wronged for a while, and you can change it back later." Shanks pinched Akales' ear.
Akales slowed down and shook his head, "It's okay."
Standing in front of the pirate again, there are two people wearing each other's clothes.
Shanks crossed his hips, a little uncomfortable with the feeling of tucking the hem of his clothes into his pants.
The pirates looked at it seriously for a while, and finally came up with a true and objective evaluation.
"Sure enough, it depends on the person to wear clothes."
"It's not the clothes' fault, nor is it the outfit's fault."
"I admit, I'm a superficial person."
"Hey! Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you if you say this?" Shanks frowned and rushed towards one of the most yelling pirates.
A dispute started, and the place where the battle was fought was instantly surrounded by a circle.
"Hey, eat!" Luffy, Sabo, and Ace sat together, holding the kebabs in both hands and eating vigorously, with oil stains all over their mouths.
"Are pirates like this?" Sabo looked at the hot place, a little surprised.
"Aren't all pirates like this?" Luffy asked strangely.
"Hmph, a group of idiots." Seeing that there were no pirates nearby, Ace ate the skewers in his hand in two or three bites, and beckoned Sabo to leave, "Go Sabo!"
They turned around and immediately froze, a wall of water in front of them seemed to warn them not to act rashly.
Not far away, Akales was looking at him coldly.
Ace sat down angrily, "Damn it, what are those pirates doing!"
"But for now, they don't mean to hurt us." Sabo ate the skewers, his eyes lit up, "Wow, it's really super delicious."
"That's right, Big Brother Peel's cooking is super delicious!" Luffy smiled, "I will definitely find a chef like this in the future!"
After teaching those guys who told the truth a lesson, Shanks was refreshed. He pulled out the hem stuffed into his trousers, and unbuttoned a few buttons casually, "Wow, it's so easy."
He exhaled and asked Yakales, "Can you change your clothes back?"
"No need." Yakales shook his head, as if thinking of something, and added: "I don't want to change."
"Hahaha, good."
"Those two children just wanted to escape."
Only then did Shanks remember that there were two other children who had been captured, "I am very concerned about one sentence...he said he shouldn't have been alive in the first place."
It stands to reason that Cap would not have told him about Captain Roger.
Did you encounter any setbacks?
Although Shanks wants to let him grow freely, since he has encountered such a big problem, he must not sit idly by.
He and Akales walked over, and sat across from Ace and Sabo's vigilant eyes. Luffy raised his head to say hello in his busy schedule, and then buried himself in eating hard.
"What are you doing?" Ace asked.
"Greet the guests." Shanks took the wine from a pirate, "Hmm, you should be children from Duanzhen?"
"You control us, bastard!"
Why doesn't this kid look like Captain Roger at all?Is it like Miss Lu Jiu?
... It shouldn't be.
"I'm sorry, Captain..." Sabo was much more polite, looking a little aristocratic, "We are indeed children from Duanzhen. If we go back late, our parents should be in a hurry."
"I see~" Shanks nodded, "Then if I don't let you go, there's nothing you can do."
"Bastard! You're kidding us!" Ace exploded at one point, pumping his fist to rush over again.
This time it was Shanks who shot and pinned him directly on the sand.
"Bah!" Ace spat out a mouthful of sand and struggled cursingly, "Kill me if you have the ability! I won't do things for you!"
"When I was young, I always beat and killed. I remember you said that you shouldn't be alive?" Shanks patted his head, his eyes stopped Sabo's actions, and he said to Ace: " What? Did your parents give birth to you by mistake? "
This sentence obviously hit Ace's sore spot, he stopped struggling, his eyes were full of stubbornness and pain, "Yes! I was born wrong! I shouldn't have been born in the first place!"
"Ace..." Sabo didn't know why his good brother collapsed suddenly.
Luffy was also a little worried, "Are you okay?"
How infuriating, Shanks who knew all the details was trembling with anger, sister Lu Jiu endured so much to give birth to him, but the child actually said that he should not have been born.
"Shanks." Akales pulled Shanks back forcefully, "You should at least hear his reason."
Shanks took a deep breath, "You're right." He kicked Ace, "Boy, who told you that, tell me."
"Cut." Ace sat on the ground covering the place where he was kicked, and was silent for a long time. When he was handed a glass of wine in front of him, he raised his head and saw a cold and delicate face.
Yakales had complicated eyes, and passed the wine again: "Drink a little."
Ace couldn't understand what was in his eyes, but the only thing that could be determined by intuition was that this person understood him, unlike Shanks' anger, but a feeling of sympathy.
Shanks was taken away from the wine glass, and he sat aside aggrieved. He was really impulsive just now. After all, whether it is Captain Roger or Sister Lu Jiu, they are the most important people to him.
Ace took the drink, unlike Luffy who didn't drink it a few times, his face flushed slightly after drinking a glass, but he was still sober.
"You are pirates..." He held an empty wine glass and asked in a trance: "Roger, the pirate king... what do you think?"
"He is super powerful! But I will definitely be stronger than him in the future!" Luffy immediately shouted: "I want to become the Pirate King!"
"Cut, it's up to you, a kid who can't even resist!" Ace mocked mercilessly.
"Hmph! I will definitely become stronger in the future, stronger than anyone else!" Luffy retorted sternly.
Ace snorted coldly, and ignored the kid's rhetoric. He looked at Shanks and asked again, "As a pirate, what do you think of Roger the Pirate King?"
"He is the freest and most powerful person I know." Shanks took off his straw hat, and looked through the hat, as if seeing Captain Roger more than ten years ago.
The man stood on the deck with his chest folded, his bright red cloak fluttering in the wind, with a bright smile on his face, full of vigor and radiance.
"What's the point of being a pirate if you can't do what you want?"
The captain's sonorous and forceful voice can still be recalled by Shanks. He looked up at the bright night sky, his tone full of heavy nostalgia.
"With his love of sailing, his yearning for freedom, and his curiosity about the truth of the world, he explored to the end. He will always be my role model and guidepost."
"Wow!!!! So cool!" Luffy has already looked at Shanks staringly. At this moment, in his heart, Roger is not only the previous One Piece, he is more like a person walking in a blur. The shadow in front, waiting for Luffy to overtake.
Unlike Luffy, Ace was so surprised that he couldn't speak. The rumors about Roger he had heard before were all about the most evil person in the world, a damned pirate, a murderer who did all kinds of evil...
He has heard countless ugly names and abuse, but he has never heard this kind of praise... No, this is no longer praise, but worship.
"Roger is indeed a remarkable person." Yakales also said something.
"Why, why?" Ace asked stumblingly after a long time.
"Why?" Shanks shrugged, "He created a new era, and based on this alone, no one will ever say he is a mediocre person."
Shanks thought about it just now, and he knew in his heart that Ace should know his life experience. Not only that, he should have also learned a lot of rumors about Roger from other people.
It’s just that except for those who have really come into contact with Roger, others can only rely on news and newspapers to understand Roger. Those words and pictures that echo what others say, how can they have good reviews after being handed over by the Navy.
So why Ace said he shouldn't be born, Shanks also guessed a lot.
Alas... after all, I was still a child.
Shanks looked at the stunned Ace and sighed inwardly.
He didn't want to tell about the fact that he once belonged to the Roger Pirates, and he didn't want to tell Ace—ah, when you were still in Sister Lujiu's stomach, Yaka and I touched you—like this matter.
"Ace." Sabo looked at Ace worriedly, and couldn't help calling him softly.
Only then did Ace come back to his senses, and asked again: "Then if... the child of One Piece is still alive, is it a good thing?"
He asked Garp this question, and the old man's answer was: "You will understand this after you live."
I also asked many other people, but the answers of those people are all the same, if the child of Pirate King Roger is really alive, he must be a devil who does all kinds of evil.
——It’s ridiculous that the future has already been defined before he has done anything.
"You can't ask me about this, and you can't ask anyone else." Shanks looked at Ace solemnly, "Whether it's a good thing or not depends on you, and only you can define yourself."
"Others are others, and everyone is not the origin of everything. Even without you, the pain of others is still pain."
What he said is very simple and straightforward, and it is also the most common truth. Shanks believes that Ace will understand it.
Holding a wooden stick in his hand, he poked the flames and said, "My parents loved each other very much, so when my mother died to give birth to me, my father blamed me for everything."
Now he can talk about the past calmly and without fluctuation, "He loves me and hates me, so he let me die."
"I grew up amidst the prejudice of the village and his indifference. I ate food that was trampled, drank the sewage next to the garbage dump, and slept in a tree hole infested by ants and insects."
"At the age of six, he was caught in the arena and fought with hungry beasts. If he won, he would drink the beast's blood and eat raw meat. If he lost, he would die."
"At the age of ten, he escaped from the duel field and met a slave trader. He was branded as a slave and auctioned off as a commodity."
"Sitting on the prison van heading to the auction house, I wondered if my birth was a mistake, and if I made many people suffer."
The firewood made a crackling sound, and Akales took a deep breath. Rather than telling his own story, his tone now seemed to be examining his past.
"You..." Ace didn't know what to say. Compared with his own, it was obvious that the other party's experience was more hopeless, especially...the other party's father was still alive, how cruel it was for a child.
Shanks knew a little bit, but not so specifically. He even met Akales, who was about seven years old. The child was slender and fragile, and he was extremely wary of humans.
He would bark his teeth like a beast in warning whenever he approached, and he thought at the time that it was the influence of Akales who was too young to control the influence of his other half.
But now it sounds like it might be because he has been fighting with beasts in the duel field for too long, and he is used to behaving like beasts.
"I'll always be here." Shanks clasped Akales' shoulders tightly, as if he could pass his strength on in this way.
Yakales nodded, and smiled rarely, "As a half-orc, I thought my blood was dirty, and the motivation that supported me to live at that time was to become a human being."
"It's ridiculous to think about it now. Most of my situation is caused by humans, but I still want to be human."
"I lived on that motivation, and then I met Shanks."
"He replaced everything in my past and became my present and future."
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Windmill Village is indeed a good place to stand aloof from the rest of the world. The red-haired pirates who have been traveling here for a whole year are finally going back to the new world.
Before leaving, all the villagers came to see him off, and Luffy stood on the steps of the breakwater, crying out of breath.
The two children on the back mountain did not appear. Presumably, with Ace's awkward personality, he definitely dragged Sabo to look elsewhere.
Looking at the smaller and smaller port and villagers, Akales looked at Shanks, "Would you be uncomfortable without the hat?"
He knows how important this hat is to Shanks, but whenever he thinks about something, he will habitually touch the hat, and sometimes take it off and stare in a daze.
When Shanks heard it, he subconsciously wanted to touch the hat, but unfortunately, he only touched a handful of hair. He reacted and said with a smile: "Hahaha, I'm really not used to it. After all, I have worn it for more than ten years."
"You like him very much."
"He is very similar to the captain. I believe he will become a great pirate who will change the world in the future." Shanks rubbed his neck and said, "Just treat me... and block this straw hat in the new era."
"It's up to you to decide." Yakales nodded and said no more.
In fact, he has always been aware that Shanks is hiding something from him, and he has always been unable to see through Shanks' thoughts, but what does it matter?
Shanks is Shanks. No matter what he wants to do or what obstacles he will encounter in the future, Akales will unconditionally trust and support him.
He will always stand by Shanks' side and become the sharpest weapon in his hands.
The sea was no longer a threat to them, so the Reid anchored at the Chambord Islands without any hindrance.
"Let's go to Sister Xia Qi's tavern first, and pay a visit to Senior Rayleigh." Shanks got off the boat and took the pirates to the Racked Tavern. Thank you Senior Lei Li, he will be very happy to bring you back this time."
It's a pity that when they came to the tavern, Xia Qi told them regretfully that Lei Li had gone somewhere to fool around, and she was also worried that she couldn't find him.
Although it is a pity, as long as you are still on this island, you will definitely encounter it.
Shanks disbanded the pirates, and took Akales to the newly built playground in Chambord Islands with great interest.
At this time, the naval base of the Chambord Islands also received news that the main ship of the Red Hair Pirates had landed on the island, and the rear admiral guarding the base made a decisive decision.
"Don't act rashly for the time being, send people to follow up from a distance first, as long as they are not aggressive, we don't want to conflict with them."
Now the highest combat strength of the Chambord Islands is only at the level of major generals. If the red-haired pirates really want to do something, they are not opponents at all.
"Is it the headquarters? The main ship of the Red Hair Pirates has landed on the Chambord Islands, asking for support!"
The navy in charge of tracking is like facing a big enemy. If you get close, you are afraid that the opponent will find out, and if you are far away, you are afraid of being lost.
Seeing that the other party wanted to turn his head, the navy hurriedly found a bunker and hid there. Unfortunately, the bunker that the navy found was too short. He was tall, so he left his head outside in the end. It was difficult for people not to notice.
Akales took a look, then looked away, and asked Shanks, "Do you want to solve it?"
"There's no need to conflict with the navy at this time." Shanks shook his head, his interest was still high, "We play our game, they play theirs."
After queuing for a while, it was the turn of the two to buy tickets. Shanks put his hands in his pockets and touched them.
Well, empty.
He has no money.
Forgot to ask Beckman for money...
"Here." Yakales handed the money to the conductor, took the ticket from the other party, and walked into the playground first.
After walking a few steps, I didn't hear footsteps, so I turned my head and looked back, "Let's go."
Shanks came to his senses and ran over to ask, "Did Beckman give you the money?"
"Yeah." Akales threw the money bag to Shanks, and in a blink of an eye, he forgot that when Beckman gave him the money, he reminded Shanks not to touch the money bag, otherwise the money would be completely lost. Not enough for him.
Facts have proved that Beckman’s concerns are correct. Shanks squandered all his money after only playing in one playground. He wanted to try everything and buy everything. He had no concept of money at all.
The navy following them thought they could see some kind of scene where the red-haired captain met with a certain underground organization, but instead watched the "playground parent-child activity" for a long time.
To be able to follow such a capricious captain, that pirate named Akales is really patient...
After playing all the items, I put the purchased items into the bubbles of Shambord’s specialties. This is the convenience of this island. No matter how many things you buy, you can easily take them away in the bubbles. .
On the way back to Xiaqi Tavern, the two met Lei Li who was also going back. The latter was carrying a flagon and leaning against a tree not far away, as if waiting for them specially.
"I heard it in the casino, the red-haired pirates landed in Chambord." Rayleigh looked at the two with a smile, "Boy, you're doing well."
"Senior Raleigh, please don't make fun of me." Shanks smiled helplessly, habitually trying to grab the straw hat but found nothing, he rubbed his hair instead, "Senior Raleigh, I happen to have something to think about. tell you."
"Akales came back from the dead, this matter should really be discussed." Raleigh glanced at Shanks' empty room.
This time it wasn't for Shanks.
With a chubby little face, under the gaze of everyone, he walked aggressively next to Akales, who was sitting on a high stool with his tail hanging down naturally, looking down.
Shanks stared at Luffy curiously, not knowing what he was going to say.
"Thank you for saving me yesterday!" Luffy shouted with all his might.
Akales suddenly remembered that when he was crying on his head yesterday, it was like a nightmare, and the wolf's ears trembled, "I can hear you even if you keep your voice down."
Lu Fei blushed, "I...I..." He still wanted to say something, but forgot the words, and glanced flusteredly at Makino at the counter.
Makino encouraged him, silently reminding him.
Luffy was encouraged and wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Akales, "If it's thanks, forget it."
He said coldly, "I just want to kill that bandit."
"You really saved Luffy." Shanks knocked on the table.
After a moment of silence, Akales signaled Luffy to continue what he had just said, "What else did you want to say just now?"
However, Luffy obviously forgot what he wanted to say, and only remembered when he saw the mouth shape that Makino gave him, and handed out the things in his hand as if offering a treasure.
His hands were covered with dirt, holding a big unicorn, with a bright smile: "This is for you!"
"Oh oh oh, it's a unicorn!"
"Wow, I used to catch it a lot."
"It's been a long time." The pirates who saw the gift clearly showed interest.
"Luffy, didn't you ask you to prepare a gift?" Makino was shocked.
"This is my gift." Luffy was unconvinced, "I finally caught it!"
"How can you use a unicorn as a gift..." Makino supported his forehead.
"Give it to Shanks." Akales sighed, he didn't like this kind of thing, but Shanks liked it very much.
"This one is too small, Luffy." Shanks pinched the unicorn, which was still alive and kicking, "I've caught one several times bigger than this one before."
Luffy didn't believe it.
"Really!" Shanks gestured, "It's so big. I competed with my friends and caught such a big one. Yaka can prove it."
"Then where is it now, did you put it away?" Luffy asked enthusiastically.
Shanks glanced at Akales, "Well... I buried it."
When he landed on an island, he made a bet with Bucky that whoever caught the bigger unicorn would not have to clean the deck for a week.
After the two separated, when Shanks returned to the shore with the unicorn, Bucky hadn't come back yet.
His hands were covered with mud and dusty, and when he saw Akales sitting by the sea, he leaned over, thinking that Akales would also be very interested in the unicorn.
As a result, the moment it was stretched out, the unicorn was separated from its body...
In the end Bucky won the bet and he cleaned the deck for a week.
"It's a pity...that's the biggest unicorn I've ever caught." Shanks took a sip of his wine.
"I'll go out for a while." Yakales got up to leave.
Shanks smiled, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you going to catch a unicorn for me?"
"A breath of fresh air."
"Okay~" Shanks also got up, leaned on Akales' back from behind, and sighed: "If you tell the truth, I will be very happy."
He rubbed Akales' hair, and when he got up, the red hair was entangled with a few white hairs, and he raised his arm and smiled at the pirates in the tavern: "Little ones, catch the unicorn!" !"
"How old are you, Captain!"
"Couldn't even the unicorn be caught?"
"I'm good at catching unicorns!"
Makino looked helplessly at the empty tavern, a little amused: "Why are they all the same as Luffy..."
The mighty group of people all walked into Mount Gorpo, which is backed by the windmill village.
Although the villagers said that there were bandits and wild beasts on the mountain, they were very dangerous, but they were no threat to the pirates. Soon, a group of people scattered in all directions, wanting to catch a unicorn fairy that was bigger than others to show off.
Luffy happily followed Shanks and Akales, and led them to a place where it was said that they could meet a big unicorn.
It rained a few days ago, and the road was still wet. Shanks bent down and grabbed a handful of dirt. After getting his hands dirty, he called Yakales, "Yaka~"
The latter turned his head to look at him, with mud smeared on his face defenselessly.
"Camouflage, it's a camouflage!" Shanks wore the same look, and was very satisfied with the dirty look of Akales. He wiped the mud all over Luffy's face again. His movements were not gentle, and he almost wiped the mud on the road. Fly in the mouth.
Luffy shook his hair and punched, and the two chased in the woods, starting to circle around Akales.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the distant forest, the leaves rustled, and all the perched birds flapped their wings and flew away.
Shanks and Akales looked at each other, picked up Luffy and ran towards that side.
"What's the matter?" Luffy was sandwiched by Shanks, experiencing the feeling of running at extreme speed.
"Who knows~"
-
The era of great pirates opened by One Piece Roger made people all over the world suffer from the atrocities of pirates, so most people in this world hate Roger.
"Don't you know why there are so many pirates doing evil in this world? It's all the fault of that guy named Roger."
"It is said that before he was executed, that guy said some inexplicable words like a unique "big secret treasure", which created this era of rampant idiot pirates who believed in him."
"Roger is a scum, an incorrigible villain!"
"If Roger has a child, the child will cry and say that I am a piece of trash and don't deserve to live in this world hahahahahaha!"
I was born...would it be a good thing?
Ace, who was exhausted, leaned on the tree trunk to pant violently, and there were several dead animals lying on the open space in front of him.
Although he eats a lot, half of them is usually enough. This time he killed so many purely to vent his anger.
After a short break, he dragged back to Dadan, Ace clenched the water pipe next to him, and slowly closed his eyes.
"Wow~ so much meat, can we have a banquet?"
Why is there a child's voice?
"Good idea, I happen to feel a little bored the last few days."
Ace opened his eyes and looked at the uninvited visitor vigilantly. The child who was not pleasing to the eye was drooling while touching the dead body of a wild boar.
The other two adults stood aside.
"Hey! You guys, don't touch other people's things!" Ace shouted angrily.
Akales looked at him, flicked his tail, but didn't speak.
On the contrary, Shanks took off his hat and smiled brightly at him, "Yo~ You killed all these things, they are quite powerful, little guy."
"Wow, you killed all of these?" Luffy ran over adoringly, his eyes were bright, making Aspen's frown even more intense.
"Get away!" He waved the hose, preventing Luffy from getting any closer.
The latter looked at him aggrievedly, "I didn't do anything, why did you hit me!"
"What now?" Akales asked Shanks.
Shanks was also quite helpless. They didn't want to disturb and get involved in Ace's life, but now that they met, there was nothing they could do.
"Little guy, let's discuss it." Shanks squatted down and looked at Ace at the same level. "I will provide the chef, and you will provide these ingredients. How about treating you to dinner tonight?"
"Don't even think about it!" Ace gritted his teeth, clenched the water pipe in his hand, and decided that Shanks and the others were going to grab his things, and then simply attacked.
He has good strength, and he has the power to fight against the adults at the terminal of the uncertain object, but he has no resistance to the pirates in front of him.
The water pipe was taken away, and the body was bound into a rice dumpling by the water flow from nowhere. Ace couldn't even struggle, and could only stare at Akales with fierce eyes.
"Well~ We were discussing with you just now." Shanks smiled helplessly, "Why did you rush over all of a sudden?"
"Kill me if you can!" Ace yelled, "I shouldn't be alive anyway!"
The smile on the corner of Shanks' mouth disappeared, and he was a little puzzled why the child thought so, but before he could ask, another child emerged from the bushes nearby.
The kid pressed the hose against the unsuspecting Luffy's neck and warned, "Let Ace go! Or I'll...I'll kill him!"
"You're finally out." Shanks said calmly, having spotted the child hiding in the grass long ago.
"Sabo! Leave me alone, run!" Ace couldn't struggle, and shouted at Sabo weakly.
The child named Sabo seemed very calm, "Sir, if you want these prey, take them away, please release Ace, and I will also release this child."
Only one day later, Luffy, who was taken as a hostage again, grew up very fast. This time, there were only tears in his eyes, but he didn't cry out immediately, but it could be that Shanks and Akales were both beside him. for the sake.
"Yaka!" Shanks yelled.
Akales nodded, and in just a moment, Sabo was also tied tightly.
"Oh, I changed my mind." Shanks threatened them, "In addition to these ingredients, I also want to take you two back to work as coolies."
"Bastard, if you have the ability to kill me, I can't do it for you... Ugh!!" Ace was wrapped around his mouth by a stream of water.
Akales looked at Sabo, who kept his mouth tightly shut. Although he was unwilling, he still shook his head to indicate that he would not make a sound.
"Damn it, I also want such a powerful ability." Lu Fei looked enviously.
Shanks patted him on the head, "Don't think about it, instead of relying on abilities, it's better to make yourself stronger."
"Hmph, who is stronger, you or him?" Luffy usually couldn't call Akales' name, so he couldn't remember it.
Originally, he had an easy-to-remember nickname, but Shanks listened and taught him a lesson.
Shanks thought for a while, then shook his head: "We haven't fought."
"Then why are you the captain? Shouldn't the captain be the most powerful?"
"Well... then we have fought, and many times, on the bed... on the boat."
Shanks wanted to grab Akales' shoulder, but before he could grab it, he tripped over something on the ground and fell face down on the ground.
"It's weird..." He touched his nose and stood up, but he didn't see anything that tripped him.
Captain... these two men are pirates?
Ace and Sabo looked at each other. The huge gap in strength made them choose to compromise temporarily. Anyway, they are familiar with the terrain here. If they find a chance to escape, even pirates may not be able to catch them.
The two decided to wait and see what happened, but their expressions became more and more strange. They were taken directly to the village below the mountain. These two suspected pirates had a good relationship with the people in the village.
Ace knew that there was a small village called Windmill Village at the foot of the mountain, but he had never been there. The only places he went to were Uncertainty Terminal and Duan Town.
Makino had already cleaned up the tavern messed up by the pirates, and was surprised to see Shanks and the others bring back two children, "Captain Shanks... aren't you going to catch the Unicorn?"
Why were the two children brought back?
"Oh, these two children are good people. They provided a lot of ingredients for our evening banquet, so I invite them to have a meal at night."
"Sister Makino, I'm thirsty!" Lu Fei raised his hand confidently.
Makino poured him a glass of orange juice.
"Boys, you can leave after dinner tonight, so don't be so vigilant against us." Shanks looked at them, "I let you go, don't run away."
If you don't run, there will be ghosts!
The moment Ace and Sabo were released from the shackles, they rushed out of the tavern and ran into the mountains, almost bumping into a few innocent pirates carrying wine boxes on the way.
Akales watched them run to the entrance of the forest, and the moment they saw hope, they tied the two children back again.
Luffy laughed at them mercilessly, "Don't run away, you can't run away anyway, Shanks and the others are very powerful pirates."
At the banquet at night, the bonfire was very lively, and the aroma of the barbecue spread far away.
Ace and Sabo sat side by side on a felled log, holding hot milk in their hands, wearing clean clothes that were worn out.
Who would have thought that they were forced by the pirates to take a hot bath and put on the new clothes they found.
He is still sitting among the pirates to participate in the banquet.
"Looks like he's still full of energy!" A pirate sighed, "The clothes fit pretty well."
"The matching is also very good. If you want me to say, the shirt should be paired with black pants and tucked into the waist!" Another commented.
"Striped short sleeves and cropped pants are also good."
"The beach pants are still loose and comfortable!"
"Whose clothes belong to these two boys?" A pirate asked, "So you still pack up the old clothes if you have the heart."
"Of course it's mine!" Shanks leaned over, obviously overheard their conversation just now, and said flauntingly: "I used to have good taste!"
When they heard that it was Shanks' clothes, the pirates all showed expressions of disgust or disbelief.
"Huh? The clothes actually belonged to the captain."
"I really can't see it."
"Sure enough, it's the spirit of those two boys. It depends on who wears the clothes better."
Shanks felt that these words were not quite right, as if he was burying himself.
"You are wrong, and the clothes are not at fault!"
"I bet it's definitely not the captain's match. Look at that blond boy, doesn't he look exactly like Akales!"
"It's alright if it's Akales, I'm relieved."
"Sure enough, good-looking people have good taste, on par with me."
Shanks tried to speak several times, but was blocked. If he still couldn't understand, it would be too bad.
But these clothes really belonged to him when he was a child, and he also wore them like this, but Yakales, who was dressed in black when he was a child, it was his good-looking face that saved his outfit.
Is my current clothes weird?Shanks couldn't help but have such doubts.
He called out, "Yaka!"
Akales looked over and heard a sentence that made him doubt his ears.
"Change the clothes on us."
Although I don't know why, Akales and Shanks exchanged clothes. When he was about to go out, Shanks called him, "Akales, button it for you."
"I can show," he said, referring to his frequent opening of his shirt, "but you can't."
This shirt has been buttoned so many buttons for the first time since I bought it.
Akales let Shanks decide whether it was better to have one less button or two. He raised his arm and smelled the shirt.
Wine, smoke, barbecue, and sweat.
His actions were noticed by Shanks, who quickly decided to save two buttons, and then held Akales' face and kissed it.
"You have been wronged for a while, and you can change it back later." Shanks pinched Akales' ear.
Akales slowed down and shook his head, "It's okay."
Standing in front of the pirate again, there are two people wearing each other's clothes.
Shanks crossed his hips, a little uncomfortable with the feeling of tucking the hem of his clothes into his pants.
The pirates looked at it seriously for a while, and finally came up with a true and objective evaluation.
"Sure enough, it depends on the person to wear clothes."
"It's not the clothes' fault, nor is it the outfit's fault."
"I admit, I'm a superficial person."
"Hey! Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you if you say this?" Shanks frowned and rushed towards one of the most yelling pirates.
A dispute started, and the place where the battle was fought was instantly surrounded by a circle.
"Hey, eat!" Luffy, Sabo, and Ace sat together, holding the kebabs in both hands and eating vigorously, with oil stains all over their mouths.
"Are pirates like this?" Sabo looked at the hot place, a little surprised.
"Aren't all pirates like this?" Luffy asked strangely.
"Hmph, a group of idiots." Seeing that there were no pirates nearby, Ace ate the skewers in his hand in two or three bites, and beckoned Sabo to leave, "Go Sabo!"
They turned around and immediately froze, a wall of water in front of them seemed to warn them not to act rashly.
Not far away, Akales was looking at him coldly.
Ace sat down angrily, "Damn it, what are those pirates doing!"
"But for now, they don't mean to hurt us." Sabo ate the skewers, his eyes lit up, "Wow, it's really super delicious."
"That's right, Big Brother Peel's cooking is super delicious!" Luffy smiled, "I will definitely find a chef like this in the future!"
After teaching those guys who told the truth a lesson, Shanks was refreshed. He pulled out the hem stuffed into his trousers, and unbuttoned a few buttons casually, "Wow, it's so easy."
He exhaled and asked Yakales, "Can you change your clothes back?"
"No need." Yakales shook his head, as if thinking of something, and added: "I don't want to change."
"Hahaha, good."
"Those two children just wanted to escape."
Only then did Shanks remember that there were two other children who had been captured, "I am very concerned about one sentence...he said he shouldn't have been alive in the first place."
It stands to reason that Cap would not have told him about Captain Roger.
Did you encounter any setbacks?
Although Shanks wants to let him grow freely, since he has encountered such a big problem, he must not sit idly by.
He and Akales walked over, and sat across from Ace and Sabo's vigilant eyes. Luffy raised his head to say hello in his busy schedule, and then buried himself in eating hard.
"What are you doing?" Ace asked.
"Greet the guests." Shanks took the wine from a pirate, "Hmm, you should be children from Duanzhen?"
"You control us, bastard!"
Why doesn't this kid look like Captain Roger at all?Is it like Miss Lu Jiu?
... It shouldn't be.
"I'm sorry, Captain..." Sabo was much more polite, looking a little aristocratic, "We are indeed children from Duanzhen. If we go back late, our parents should be in a hurry."
"I see~" Shanks nodded, "Then if I don't let you go, there's nothing you can do."
"Bastard! You're kidding us!" Ace exploded at one point, pumping his fist to rush over again.
This time it was Shanks who shot and pinned him directly on the sand.
"Bah!" Ace spat out a mouthful of sand and struggled cursingly, "Kill me if you have the ability! I won't do things for you!"
"When I was young, I always beat and killed. I remember you said that you shouldn't be alive?" Shanks patted his head, his eyes stopped Sabo's actions, and he said to Ace: " What? Did your parents give birth to you by mistake? "
This sentence obviously hit Ace's sore spot, he stopped struggling, his eyes were full of stubbornness and pain, "Yes! I was born wrong! I shouldn't have been born in the first place!"
"Ace..." Sabo didn't know why his good brother collapsed suddenly.
Luffy was also a little worried, "Are you okay?"
How infuriating, Shanks who knew all the details was trembling with anger, sister Lu Jiu endured so much to give birth to him, but the child actually said that he should not have been born.
"Shanks." Akales pulled Shanks back forcefully, "You should at least hear his reason."
Shanks took a deep breath, "You're right." He kicked Ace, "Boy, who told you that, tell me."
"Cut." Ace sat on the ground covering the place where he was kicked, and was silent for a long time. When he was handed a glass of wine in front of him, he raised his head and saw a cold and delicate face.
Yakales had complicated eyes, and passed the wine again: "Drink a little."
Ace couldn't understand what was in his eyes, but the only thing that could be determined by intuition was that this person understood him, unlike Shanks' anger, but a feeling of sympathy.
Shanks was taken away from the wine glass, and he sat aside aggrieved. He was really impulsive just now. After all, whether it is Captain Roger or Sister Lu Jiu, they are the most important people to him.
Ace took the drink, unlike Luffy who didn't drink it a few times, his face flushed slightly after drinking a glass, but he was still sober.
"You are pirates..." He held an empty wine glass and asked in a trance: "Roger, the pirate king... what do you think?"
"He is super powerful! But I will definitely be stronger than him in the future!" Luffy immediately shouted: "I want to become the Pirate King!"
"Cut, it's up to you, a kid who can't even resist!" Ace mocked mercilessly.
"Hmph! I will definitely become stronger in the future, stronger than anyone else!" Luffy retorted sternly.
Ace snorted coldly, and ignored the kid's rhetoric. He looked at Shanks and asked again, "As a pirate, what do you think of Roger the Pirate King?"
"He is the freest and most powerful person I know." Shanks took off his straw hat, and looked through the hat, as if seeing Captain Roger more than ten years ago.
The man stood on the deck with his chest folded, his bright red cloak fluttering in the wind, with a bright smile on his face, full of vigor and radiance.
"What's the point of being a pirate if you can't do what you want?"
The captain's sonorous and forceful voice can still be recalled by Shanks. He looked up at the bright night sky, his tone full of heavy nostalgia.
"With his love of sailing, his yearning for freedom, and his curiosity about the truth of the world, he explored to the end. He will always be my role model and guidepost."
"Wow!!!! So cool!" Luffy has already looked at Shanks staringly. At this moment, in his heart, Roger is not only the previous One Piece, he is more like a person walking in a blur. The shadow in front, waiting for Luffy to overtake.
Unlike Luffy, Ace was so surprised that he couldn't speak. The rumors about Roger he had heard before were all about the most evil person in the world, a damned pirate, a murderer who did all kinds of evil...
He has heard countless ugly names and abuse, but he has never heard this kind of praise... No, this is no longer praise, but worship.
"Roger is indeed a remarkable person." Yakales also said something.
"Why, why?" Ace asked stumblingly after a long time.
"Why?" Shanks shrugged, "He created a new era, and based on this alone, no one will ever say he is a mediocre person."
Shanks thought about it just now, and he knew in his heart that Ace should know his life experience. Not only that, he should have also learned a lot of rumors about Roger from other people.
It’s just that except for those who have really come into contact with Roger, others can only rely on news and newspapers to understand Roger. Those words and pictures that echo what others say, how can they have good reviews after being handed over by the Navy.
So why Ace said he shouldn't be born, Shanks also guessed a lot.
Alas... after all, I was still a child.
Shanks looked at the stunned Ace and sighed inwardly.
He didn't want to tell about the fact that he once belonged to the Roger Pirates, and he didn't want to tell Ace—ah, when you were still in Sister Lujiu's stomach, Yaka and I touched you—like this matter.
"Ace." Sabo looked at Ace worriedly, and couldn't help calling him softly.
Only then did Ace come back to his senses, and asked again: "Then if... the child of One Piece is still alive, is it a good thing?"
He asked Garp this question, and the old man's answer was: "You will understand this after you live."
I also asked many other people, but the answers of those people are all the same, if the child of Pirate King Roger is really alive, he must be a devil who does all kinds of evil.
——It’s ridiculous that the future has already been defined before he has done anything.
"You can't ask me about this, and you can't ask anyone else." Shanks looked at Ace solemnly, "Whether it's a good thing or not depends on you, and only you can define yourself."
"Others are others, and everyone is not the origin of everything. Even without you, the pain of others is still pain."
What he said is very simple and straightforward, and it is also the most common truth. Shanks believes that Ace will understand it.
Holding a wooden stick in his hand, he poked the flames and said, "My parents loved each other very much, so when my mother died to give birth to me, my father blamed me for everything."
Now he can talk about the past calmly and without fluctuation, "He loves me and hates me, so he let me die."
"I grew up amidst the prejudice of the village and his indifference. I ate food that was trampled, drank the sewage next to the garbage dump, and slept in a tree hole infested by ants and insects."
"At the age of six, he was caught in the arena and fought with hungry beasts. If he won, he would drink the beast's blood and eat raw meat. If he lost, he would die."
"At the age of ten, he escaped from the duel field and met a slave trader. He was branded as a slave and auctioned off as a commodity."
"Sitting on the prison van heading to the auction house, I wondered if my birth was a mistake, and if I made many people suffer."
The firewood made a crackling sound, and Akales took a deep breath. Rather than telling his own story, his tone now seemed to be examining his past.
"You..." Ace didn't know what to say. Compared with his own, it was obvious that the other party's experience was more hopeless, especially...the other party's father was still alive, how cruel it was for a child.
Shanks knew a little bit, but not so specifically. He even met Akales, who was about seven years old. The child was slender and fragile, and he was extremely wary of humans.
He would bark his teeth like a beast in warning whenever he approached, and he thought at the time that it was the influence of Akales who was too young to control the influence of his other half.
But now it sounds like it might be because he has been fighting with beasts in the duel field for too long, and he is used to behaving like beasts.
"I'll always be here." Shanks clasped Akales' shoulders tightly, as if he could pass his strength on in this way.
Yakales nodded, and smiled rarely, "As a half-orc, I thought my blood was dirty, and the motivation that supported me to live at that time was to become a human being."
"It's ridiculous to think about it now. Most of my situation is caused by humans, but I still want to be human."
"I lived on that motivation, and then I met Shanks."
"He replaced everything in my past and became my present and future."
-
Windmill Village is indeed a good place to stand aloof from the rest of the world. The red-haired pirates who have been traveling here for a whole year are finally going back to the new world.
Before leaving, all the villagers came to see him off, and Luffy stood on the steps of the breakwater, crying out of breath.
The two children on the back mountain did not appear. Presumably, with Ace's awkward personality, he definitely dragged Sabo to look elsewhere.
Looking at the smaller and smaller port and villagers, Akales looked at Shanks, "Would you be uncomfortable without the hat?"
He knows how important this hat is to Shanks, but whenever he thinks about something, he will habitually touch the hat, and sometimes take it off and stare in a daze.
When Shanks heard it, he subconsciously wanted to touch the hat, but unfortunately, he only touched a handful of hair. He reacted and said with a smile: "Hahaha, I'm really not used to it. After all, I have worn it for more than ten years."
"You like him very much."
"He is very similar to the captain. I believe he will become a great pirate who will change the world in the future." Shanks rubbed his neck and said, "Just treat me... and block this straw hat in the new era."
"It's up to you to decide." Yakales nodded and said no more.
In fact, he has always been aware that Shanks is hiding something from him, and he has always been unable to see through Shanks' thoughts, but what does it matter?
Shanks is Shanks. No matter what he wants to do or what obstacles he will encounter in the future, Akales will unconditionally trust and support him.
He will always stand by Shanks' side and become the sharpest weapon in his hands.
The sea was no longer a threat to them, so the Reid anchored at the Chambord Islands without any hindrance.
"Let's go to Sister Xia Qi's tavern first, and pay a visit to Senior Rayleigh." Shanks got off the boat and took the pirates to the Racked Tavern. Thank you Senior Lei Li, he will be very happy to bring you back this time."
It's a pity that when they came to the tavern, Xia Qi told them regretfully that Lei Li had gone somewhere to fool around, and she was also worried that she couldn't find him.
Although it is a pity, as long as you are still on this island, you will definitely encounter it.
Shanks disbanded the pirates, and took Akales to the newly built playground in Chambord Islands with great interest.
At this time, the naval base of the Chambord Islands also received news that the main ship of the Red Hair Pirates had landed on the island, and the rear admiral guarding the base made a decisive decision.
"Don't act rashly for the time being, send people to follow up from a distance first, as long as they are not aggressive, we don't want to conflict with them."
Now the highest combat strength of the Chambord Islands is only at the level of major generals. If the red-haired pirates really want to do something, they are not opponents at all.
"Is it the headquarters? The main ship of the Red Hair Pirates has landed on the Chambord Islands, asking for support!"
The navy in charge of tracking is like facing a big enemy. If you get close, you are afraid that the opponent will find out, and if you are far away, you are afraid of being lost.
Seeing that the other party wanted to turn his head, the navy hurriedly found a bunker and hid there. Unfortunately, the bunker that the navy found was too short. He was tall, so he left his head outside in the end. It was difficult for people not to notice.
Akales took a look, then looked away, and asked Shanks, "Do you want to solve it?"
"There's no need to conflict with the navy at this time." Shanks shook his head, his interest was still high, "We play our game, they play theirs."
After queuing for a while, it was the turn of the two to buy tickets. Shanks put his hands in his pockets and touched them.
Well, empty.
He has no money.
Forgot to ask Beckman for money...
"Here." Yakales handed the money to the conductor, took the ticket from the other party, and walked into the playground first.
After walking a few steps, I didn't hear footsteps, so I turned my head and looked back, "Let's go."
Shanks came to his senses and ran over to ask, "Did Beckman give you the money?"
"Yeah." Akales threw the money bag to Shanks, and in a blink of an eye, he forgot that when Beckman gave him the money, he reminded Shanks not to touch the money bag, otherwise the money would be completely lost. Not enough for him.
Facts have proved that Beckman’s concerns are correct. Shanks squandered all his money after only playing in one playground. He wanted to try everything and buy everything. He had no concept of money at all.
The navy following them thought they could see some kind of scene where the red-haired captain met with a certain underground organization, but instead watched the "playground parent-child activity" for a long time.
To be able to follow such a capricious captain, that pirate named Akales is really patient...
After playing all the items, I put the purchased items into the bubbles of Shambord’s specialties. This is the convenience of this island. No matter how many things you buy, you can easily take them away in the bubbles. .
On the way back to Xiaqi Tavern, the two met Lei Li who was also going back. The latter was carrying a flagon and leaning against a tree not far away, as if waiting for them specially.
"I heard it in the casino, the red-haired pirates landed in Chambord." Rayleigh looked at the two with a smile, "Boy, you're doing well."
"Senior Raleigh, please don't make fun of me." Shanks smiled helplessly, habitually trying to grab the straw hat but found nothing, he rubbed his hair instead, "Senior Raleigh, I happen to have something to think about. tell you."
"Akales came back from the dead, this matter should really be discussed." Raleigh glanced at Shanks' empty room.
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