[Comprehensive] BE saves the world

Ace Extraordinary Star

【Death is the moment when the heart stops beating and the clock starts beating.

Love is the moment when the heart starts beating and the clock stops beating. 】

07

While searching for relics, Portgas D. Ace met people he never thought he would meet.

"Boss Ace!"

When his men came down to report to him, he hadn't realized who he was going to meet next.

"There is a woman who said that she has Miss Gloria's things, but she must hand them over to you, no matter what we say, she will not let us hand them over, and her grade is so old, we don't want to be rough... "

The subordinate said with a face of embarrassment, turned sideways, and let the woman enter the door.

The moment he raised his head, Ace froze.

"you are……"

He subconsciously used honorifics.

——How can you not recognize it?

If Gloria could live to this age, she would probably have such a face.

Fragments of memory flashed before his eyes in an instant.

That was many, many years ago, when Leah first came to Windmill Village.

At first their relationship was not good.He hated this inexplicably pretentious and bad-tempered eldest lady, and Leah also hated him who hated her.They always fought within three sentences, their noses and faces were swollen every time, and there was almost no time for them to sit quietly together.

So, when did the relationship get better?

Probably that time.

I don’t know why, Leia insisted on teaching him and Luffy to read and write at that time. She was so angry that she was almost killed on the spot by their (mainly Luffy) unteachable attitude, but she still gritted her teeth and taught them. They read it down.

At that time, Ace couldn't realize how interesting reading was, but he became curious about books because of Sabo.Maybe it was for this reason, that day when he saw Gloria holding a big book and reading on the tree alone, he would lean over to read it on a whim.

Then he saw the picture.

As a bookmark, a group photo sandwiched between the yellowed pages, a young and beautiful long-haired woman is holding a baby in her arms, with a slight smile on her face, she lowers her eyes and looks at the baby in her arms, no matter how gentle she is His gestures and focused eyes are like the statue of the Virgin in the church, full of motherhood, as if it is shining.

"...Who is she?" Ace's voice lowered slightly, no longer as aggressive as usual.

"It's...my mother."

Liya smiled slightly, and for some reason, recalling that smile now, she always felt like she wanted to cry, and suppressed it again.She blinked her eyes a few times, then pretended not to care and raised the photo with a big smile on her face.

"Look, isn't she a big beauty?"

It was rare that they didn't quarrel that day, but leaned against the tree and read a book.Ace didn't have any thorns all over his body, and Lia also had a rare good temper, and patiently told him the story in the book.

Looking back now, the improvement of their relationship started from that day.

After so many years, he has long forgotten the stories in the book.Only Leah's smile that day, and the beautiful woman in the photo are still in his memory.

Now, the person in that photo was standing in front of him.

She is no longer young, and the wind and frost of the years have eroded her face prematurely, engraving traces on her face.Her long gray hair was twisted into a dignified bun at the back of her head, and the strands of white hair at the sideburns showed her old appearance even more.However, he could still see her amazing beauty from this face.

As Ace looks at the woman, she looks at Ace.Different from his straightforward and astonished gaze, her scrutiny was reserved and calm. Her gaze just swept across him quietly, without any hint of evaluation. It could be seen that this was a A well-educated lady.

That look couldn't help but remind him of Gloria.

——How similar can mother and daughter be?

The appearance is so similar that it's like engraving the blood relationship on the face, that's all, even the standing posture, the way you look at people, the angle when you turn your face...these more secretive habits, as time goes by. A day's accumulation of subtle influences made the two of them surprisingly similar.

As long as you see it, you will understand.

The woman in front of her was Gloria's mother.

and so……

"go out."

Ace turned his head and ordered to the surrounding subordinates.

"Everyone go out, and no matter what happens next, you are not allowed to come in... let alone embarrass this lady, understand?"

"captain?"

"Boss Ace!"

"Captain Ace???"

Amidst the uproar among his subordinates, Ace just looked at them blankly, and declared word by word——

"This is the captain's order."

"..."

Everyone present was choked.

On a pirate ship, the captain's orders are absolute.Ace may be a good-natured guy by day - but when he uses "Captain's Orders," he shows he means business.

In this matter, there is no room for rebuttal.

In the eyes of all kinds, the elderly lady was still standing calmly, holding a small suitcase in her hands.Old but polished leather, rough leather box corners, faded metal locks... those well-maintained and many rubbed details all prove the importance of this box.

Holding such a box, she just stood there quietly, looking at Ace silently.

Under Ace's tough attitude, although the subordinates were unwilling, worried, and bewildered... they still retreated as promised.Leave space for the two of them.

Ace got up from his seat and walked in front of the woman.

Then, he knelt down without any hesitation.As if apologizing, he bent down deeply, deeply, and rested his forehead on the ground.

This posture, whether it is the neck or the heart, is exposed in front of this lady without any concealment.

"I'm really... very... very sorry about Leah."

What does such words mean to the woman in front of me?

Ace thought to himself mockingly.

Her only daughter died on that battlefield ten years ago forever.Killed by her own father - by this man's husband - himself.

Because of the blow that burned herself completely before Liya died, she couldn't even take back her daughter's body, and even the Clothes Tomb was buried in a place she didn't know.

I'm afraid that for so many years, the only place where she can pay tribute to her beloved daughter is the place where her daughter was buried—the gap that divided Marin Fando in two before Leah died.

And all of this is because of myself.

Ace thought.

It was he who killed Gloria.

He should be the one to protect her.

Obviously even if he died, he should protect her.

However, because of his recklessness, recklessness and stupidity, the girl he most wanted to protect died at the age of 20.

He killed the girl he loved the most, and took her daughter from this mother forever.

Leah is no longer there.

Not in his life, not in hers.

The dead cannot be brought back to life, and this lack cannot be made up.

What kind of gap Gloria's death left in Ace's life, the one left for this mother will only be bigger and deeper.

He understands this very well, so...

"No matter what you want to do with me, I have no complaints."

he said quietly.

08

The woman was silent for a long time, and then she opened the lid of the suitcase.

cluck.

Hearing that voice, Ace closed his eyes calmly.Waiting for the Hailoushi bullet to penetrate the heart or carotid artery.

Leah once said that her mother was a doctor at the Naval Hospital.So even if the marksmanship is not good, the place should be found accurately.

It's not surprising that the ex-wife of the admiral can get the Hailoushi bullet that is specially used to deal with ability users.

However, to Ace's surprise, the lady just took out a thick booklet.

"I just wanted to see what kind of man my daughter would die for."

she said softly.

"I've been paying attention to your news these years...I heard that you've been collecting Leah's things recently, so I wanted to come and see you."

She bent her knees slightly, and put the large booklet in front of Ace, then, she closed the suitcase, got up and walked towards the door.

It seemed that he was just looking at him. The lady didn't look at him again, but before walking out the door, she subconsciously supported the door frame, as if she wanted to support her tired body. She paused for a few seconds, and then opened the door. mouthed.

"I'm very relieved... Leah didn't see the wrong person."

After leaving such a sentence, the lady left.

The booklet she gave to Ace was all the newspaper clippings, letters sent to her since Leah became a pirate, and the photos Leah took during that period.

That mother seems to have given everything to Ace about Gloria, who existed as the great pirate "Daughter of Sunshine Eyes".And all she kept was the information of her daughter before she became a pirate.

...Perhaps that mother already understood when she watched her daughter embark on the road of pirates.

From then on, Liya will no longer be the youngest daughter of Cheng Huan, but will rush to her own destiny as a child of the sea.

So she handed that Leah to Ace, and the only thing she kept was her little daughter.

Just like [Sun-eyed Daughter] belongs to the Whitebeard Pirates——belongs to Ace.

[Gloria who has not yet become a pirate] is a small treasure that belongs only to that mother.

After that, Portgas D. Ace never saw the lady again.

She no longer comes to see him.

He never bothered.

However, he understood that in the years to come, they would all miss the same person.

It has been so in the past, and it will remain so in the future.

09

At the age of 50, Portgas D. Ace officially announced the retirement of the pirates.

Such a major event as the sudden retirement of the emperor at sea naturally caused a great shock in the whole world. Leaving aside the intrigues and intrigues of several forces, the re-division of sea forces alone is enough to cause a lot of headaches.

But that has nothing to do with Ace.

He is just like when he was young, carrying a small bag alone, relying on his ability to burn fruits, driving a speedboat to wander around the world, completely ignoring how the pirates he encountered were so sad, chasing his navy What kind of complaints.

He went to the snowfield in the far north to play with the white bear, went to the legendary ALLBLUE to fish, and went to the famous Ralph Drew to look at the relics left by the pirate king Gol D Roger. Age, the grievances and entanglements with his father when he was young have long been a thing of the past.

Along the way, he fought countless fights, drank countless wines, and owed countless bills for overlord meals... He also made countless friends, encountered countless novel adventures, and left behind countless legends.

Countless people hated Portgas D. Ace.

Countless people love Portgas D. Ace.

But people who love him or hate him must admit that Ace's life is so free, wanton and dazzling.

He lives to his heart's content, loves to his heart's content, and does everything he wants to do.

Five years after Ace the Great Pirate retired, suddenly no one heard of Ace anymore.

It was as if he had vanished from the sea suddenly, with no more of his adventures, no more of his stories, and no one to see him.

Some say he is dead.

Some people say that he is brewing a huge conspiracy, and one day he will return to the world with a wave of destruction.

Some people also said that he went to guard the tomb on the island where his lover and adoptive father were buried. Few people knew where the cemetery of the Whitebeard and the Sun-eyed Daughter was, so few people believed this statement.

It's just that, no matter which version it is, no one has seen Portgas D. Ace again.

10

A small island in the East China Sea.

This is an unremarkable island, with neither special properties nor rare sights, only an ordinary town where ordinary people live.

If you must find an unusual place, it is probably the carnival every year, and some strange foreigners will come here to celebrate the festival.

There are dangerous swordsmen who always keep one eye closed, enigmatic beauties whose age cannot be seen, middle-aged blondes with fashionable clothes, intellectual women with a bookish look holding a civet cat, and big boys who are so burly and almost perverted. The tall blue-haired man... That's all. What frightened the local residents the most was that they even saw talking skeletons.

... What the hell is going on with a good carnival! ?

But even if these people are tied together, it is not as strange as the two people at the head of them. One is a black-haired man who once emptied three local restaurants in one go. A blond man with burn scars on his face, very normal in normal clothes and normal but very abnormal in this group of people.

When the two of them walked together, it was no exaggeration to say that the aura within a radius of a hundred miles could only be described by ghosts and gods.

And these people all lived in the only bookstore in town.

The owner of the bookstore is a traveler who settled here nearly ten years ago.After passing by this small town by chance, he suddenly decided to live here for some reason.

So he bought an old bookstore that was about to close down, and remodeled the bookstore into a weird little shop that sells half coffee and half books. When the manager is in a good mood, he will also sell some curry and barbecue.It's so different that it makes people wonder what the store is here for.

The taste of the store manager's selection of books is so-so, and the coffee is very bad, which makes the business of the store quite cold most of the time.On the contrary, when he sells barbecue and curry on a whim, the shop is always full - there is no other reason, the store manager's barbecue and curry are so delicious - so why is this store not turned into a restaurant? Well, it's a real mystery.

The store manager himself may be old and doesn't care about these things.If you have business, do it, and if you don't, just lean your head against the cashier and sleep.After watching it for a long time, there is actually an illusion of philosophical life.

Only during the carnival, the store manager will entertain his foreign friends.

It's funny to say that there was no carnival in this town, and it was only after the strangers came that this day was designated as a carnival.

I have to say that the black-haired man is simply the god of the carnival. The first time he came to the island, he forced the store manager to ask him to hold a banquet. It was a town-wide event. By the time everyone realized it, the whole town had already sat at the banquet held by foreigners like them. Everyone drank unconsciously and ate happily. Messed with these strangers... The last impression I left was only laughter and happiness, and the bright and dazzling bonfire.

So the day when foreigners came to visit became a carnival on this unremarkable island.

Some people once asked these foreigners why they chose this day as a festival.

"Well, because it's our mutual friend's birthday."

The blond man smiled.

The store manager just smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

His eyes fell on the old portrait posted on the back door of the bookstore. It seemed to be a very old wanted warrant. Because of the exposure to the sun and the erosion of the sea breeze, both the girl's face and the wanted amount had been blurred.

The only thing that is still vivid is that the girl's beautiful eyes are still as dazzling as stars to this day.

That is the light of yesterday that never dies.

[Special episode [-]. End]