'Pulu Pulu...'
'Pulu Pulu...'
In the dark night, a certain phone bug rang for a long time. Finally, when the phone bug itself became impatient and planned to block the signal, it was finally grabbed by a milky white and delicate hand and connected before disconnecting the signal. .
"..."
(っ?-?)
"who is it……"
???(＿＿*)??
"Hello? What kind of bastard comes here in the middle of the night to disturb people's sleep?"
('-ω??)
In the darkness, Annie rubbed her eyes, and without even opening her eyes, she began to ask questions into the phone full of resentment.
'Zizzi...'
'Hello? '
'Is...Zi...is An...Zi...Ni? '
'I'm Chopper! ! '
'Where are you? '
'Is everyone okay? '
Finally, Chopper's voice came intermittently from the phone bug's mouth.
"oh……"
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It turns out to be Chopper...
(??′?`?)?
When she heard Chopper's voice, Annie was stopped abruptly as she was about to curse.
'Annie! '
'I'm in a strange place right now, and you can use that kind of magic that just pops up...'
'I……'
'? '
'Zizzi...'
'Zi Zi...'
Obviously, I don’t know if it’s because of the distance, or because the sailboat is running too fast. The phone bug’s communication doesn’t seem to be very good, and the signal is intermittent. Anne doesn’t even know what Chopper wants to say.
"..."
(￣o￣).zZ
"wrong number……"
???(＿＿*)??
Toot~!
Annie, who was not awake and felt that the other party could not speak clearly, did not even think about it. She reached out and hung up the communication, and then threw the phone bug that disturbed her sleep out of the ship's window.
Plop~!
The phone bug was thrown into the sea by Annie.
At this moment, Chopper and the others' only channel to contact Annie was completely destroyed.
"Oh~!"
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"Go on to sleep..."
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Annie pulled up the quilt and fell back to sleep, completely ignoring what Chopper had tried to call just now.
In her opinion, those guys are fine anyway. She and Luffy have to do other more important things now, so it's better to wait for a while before picking them up. No matter how much you urge them now, it's useless. , it was better for her to continue sleeping on her big head.
(…)
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At this time, the Sonny was still galloping forward with the help of magic, like a light elf flying on the sea in the dark night.
At the same time, deep in the impel city, outside a certain cell, Navy Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp finally arrived here with heavy steps, and stopped outside the iron bars of the cell, silently Look at the prisoner inside whose limbs are tightly locked by sea-floor stone chains.
"..."
"Ace..."
Lieutenant General Garp sighed and called out the name of the prisoner in the cell.
That's right, the person imprisoned in the cell at this time is none other than Portcas D. Ace, the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates, who is about to be taken to the Marine Headquarters, Marinefando, and publicly executed!
In fact, Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp also knew that the prisoner inside was originally named Gol D. Ace, and was actually the posthumous son of the executed "Pirate King" Gol D. Roger. Because he hated his father so much, he changed his surname to that of his mother, Portcas D. Luju.
The reason why Lieutenant General Garp knows so well is because the Pirate King Roger handed Estor to him before his public execution, but the result...
What he never expected was that Ace would eventually follow the same path as Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King, and was about to be taken to the execution platform. To this, he could only watch helplessly. Time is coming bit by bit, but there is nothing you can do.
I think back then, in order to prevent the world government from discovering that Ace was the son of Pirate King Roger, Lujiu, the other party's mother, used various methods to greatly delay Ace's birth date, and tried her best to protect her son. Under her will, she forced Ace to stay in her belly for a full twenty months, even if she died of exhaustion, she was not afraid of it. What a great woman she was?
But the result…….
Looking at the dark figure in the cell in front of him, who was kneeling on the ground and tightly locked by chains, and looking at the other person's thin body, Garp tried to open his mouth several times, but in the end he still couldn't say anything.
"Hey……"
"O-Old man..."
At this time, Portcas D. Ace seemed to have finally discovered who was standing outside the cell, so after a pause, he raised his head with difficulty and spoke feebly.
"Well……"
"Are you not dead yet?"
"Too!"
"'Fire Fist' Ace is so powerful and has a bounty of 550 million Baileys. How could he die here so easily?"
Seeing Ace speak, Garp also came back to his senses, then crossed his arms and said with a self-deprecating smile.
"..."
Ace did not speak, but slowly raised his head, staring at the white-haired, white-bearded, white-shirted vice admiral outside the cell with his stubborn eyes.
Sure enough, the other party was just as he imagined, still as stubborn and a bad old man who always pretended to be happy or angry no matter what happened.
"whispering sound!!"
After a moment of stalemate with Ace in the cell, Garp's eyes dimmed, and then he turned away with some hatred.
"Ace..."
"Thanks to you, Navy Headquarters..."
"No!"
"Not only the Navy Headquarters, but the whole world is in chaos now! All sea areas, including the New World, are in chaos!"
However, in the end, he still used that dull tone and began to speak slowly.
"Ah……"
"Hahaha……"
Then, Garp didn't know what he thought of, but he raised his head and laughed. His posture was somewhat similar to Luffy's?
"..."
Ace didn't speak, but slowly lowered his head.
He himself did not expect that when he met this old man again, it would be in a prison cell in Impel Down City. Thinking about it seriously, he was indeed a bit inferior.
"kill……"
"Just kill me!"
Finally, after a moment of silence, Ace began to plead.
He didn't want to embarrass the old man outside, nor did he want to be locked up here forever, nor did he want his adoptive father, Whitebeard, to fight with the navy because of him!
Because he had already heard some scattered information from the guards, and he also knew better what kind of crazy things his adoptive father Whitebeard could do once the news of his public execution spread.
Therefore, if he had a choice, he would rather die here now, which might resolve all the turmoil, and he is willing to do that!
Only in this way can he make his adoptive father, Whitebeard, stop fighting, and make the old man in front of him no longer worry about his own affairs.
He could tell that the old man's laughter just now contained too much emotion and too much helplessness.
"Well?"
"Kill you?"
Garp was stunned for a moment, and then he slowly sat down cross-legged on the dirty and damp stone floor outside the cell, so that Ace in the cage could be at the same height as him outside the cell, so that the other person could do so without having to raise his head with difficulty. Make eye contact with him.
"it's useless……"
"You stupid!"
"No matter what you do now, it is useless. Even if I kill you now, Whitebeard will not give up. War is inevitable."
"No one can stop it."
Shaking his head, Garp sighed again.
Yes, war is inevitable!
At this time, the Sengoku Marshal of the Navy was already urgently mobilizing troops and generals, summoning almost all the generals, lieutenant generals, and brigadiers, and even King Shichibukai, to the Navy Headquarters, Marine Fando, and Whitebeard was already ready to wait. Now, pirates from all walks of life are gathering, and the pirate detachment from the New World is also returning. Now the war is about to break out, and all they have to do is wait for Ace to appear.
And the reason why it hasn't completely erupted yet is that he is just waiting for Ace, the center point of the storm, to wait for the signal gun to sound. Even if he kills his relatives in a righteous way and executes Ace privately here, it is just to let him. The war just broke out a few days in advance and had no practical significance.
Besides, Garp asked himself that he would not do such a thing.
He has analyzed that the outcome of the war between the Navy and Whitebeard is only 30-70. Whitebeard's side also has about three levels of chances of winning. Perhaps Ace can really be defeated by the other side. Not necessarily rescued?
With some of the above thoughts in mind and looking deeply into the cell for a while, Garp continued:
"Anyway!"
"Because of your arrest and public execution..."
"Our navy has now successfully angered Whitebeard and the 'King of the Sea'."
After saying that, Garp shook his head and sighed.
War is now inevitable. No matter who wins or loses, life will be ruined. Once the delicate balance between the two sides is broken, once the navy suffers heavy casualties (which is inevitable), God knows what the world will be like in the future. What will happen again.
In Karp’s view, perhaps, the world will become more chaotic and uncertain in the future, right?
"..."
Ace didn't speak, just gritted his teeth and listened silently. He could tell that Garp came to tell him all this on purpose.
"Ah!"
"Thankfully I thought about letting you and Luffy become outstanding marines together before!"
"At that time..."
"You are still two little bastards!"
After a while, Garp quietly talked about some things about Ace and Luffy when they were young, and fell into memories.
"But now..."
"Not to mention joining the navy, my two grandsons, you two brothers actually became the big bad guys together?"
"I think……"
"You've heard some rumors about Luffy, right?"
As he spoke, Garp's face became darker.
Yes, he was a vice admiral, his son was a leader of the revolutionary army, and his two grandsons were great pirates. There was simply nothing in the world that made him feel more heartbroken and sad than this.
"Cut~!"
"Old man!"
"Not everything your navy does is right, right?"
"snort……"
"Do you really, really want the truth of the world to be what you advertise?"
However, at this moment, upon hearing this, Ace, who was gritting his teeth in sadness in the cell, suddenly raised his head stubbornly and said this to Garp who was sitting on the cold ground outside the cell with a mocking smile.
Although Ace chose the path of being a pirate and chose to stand on the opposite side of the old man, he did not regret it!
"well……"
"You are too young, Ace..."
Once again, Garp took a deep look at his righteous grandson Ace in the dark cell, but in the end, Garp still didn't explain or refute, he just closed his eyes and sighed softly.
"never mind!"
"Let me tell you about Luffy!"
After a pause, seeing Ace in the cell seemed very interested, and then Garp began to speak leisurely.
"think carefully……"
"What that little bastard did is no less than what you did. I'm quite worried about him now."
"..."
"In the Water City, he openly shouted at the World Government and uttered nonsense..."
"Then he boldly captured Judiciary Island."
"That bastard!"
"Although I beat him severely at that time, he still had no intention of repenting at all..."
Thinking about what happened on Judiciary Island, it was rare that Garp, who had been keeping a tight face tonight, showed a trace of relaxed expression.
"You probably don't know yet, right?"
"Only a dozen days ago!"
"Shortly after you were arrested, he once again committed a shocking crime in the Chambord Islands!"
Speaking of this, Garp suddenly stopped and his expression gradually became serious.
"..."
Ace in the cell did not rush to interrupt the other party.
Because what the old man was going to say next was something he didn't know. At the last moment of his life, he really wanted to know more about Luffy.
"that day……"
"Three Tianlong people were attacked. One of them is still missing and is basically presumed dead."
"Right after!"
"Thousands of marines were instantly turned into sheep..."
Thinking of the flock of sheep, Garp couldn't help but sigh again.
Because of their navy's haphazard treatment at that time, quite a few of the more than a thousand sailors who could have recovered automatically are still in the shape of sheep. For example, the brigadier general, because the other party received the focus of their respective treatment methods, It is still in the form of a sheep and is still being raised in the office of the Warring States Marshal!
"besides!"
"Admiral Kizaru, you should know that, right?"
"Because the Tianlong people were attacked, he and the navy's scientific troops were dispatched, but the result..."
"They were all defeated, including the general Kizaru, the captain of the scientific force Zhan Momomaru and a bunch of combat weapons, as well as Bartholomew Okuma himself, one of the seven warriors under the king!"
"You are indeed my good grandson. The bounty has surpassed you in just one moment."
"a ha ha ha……"
As he spoke, he didn't know whether he was really happy or sad. Anyway, Garp laughed loudly outside Ace's cell again.
"This is impossible……"
"Old man, don't lie to me!"
"It's impossible for Luffy to grow up so fast and still be able to defeat the Admiral and the Shichibukai..."
Finally, Ace spoke weakly, and used those trembling and weak words to refute the words of the bad old man outside the cell.
He is very weak now. Due to his injuries and the Sea Tower Stone Shackles, especially the Sea Tower Stone Shackles, his abilities are now restricted, just like an ordinary person. Therefore, he wants to get out of trouble and run out by himself. , that is basically impossible.
"really!"
"You're right, Luffy did not reach that level, but..."
"I can't help but he found a new good crew member!"
"Ahahahaha!"
As he talked, thinking about the scene where Kizaru was beaten horribly, and thinking about the aggrieved scene of the navy being so scared that they huddled in the base and dared not go out, Garp laughed heartlessly again. He stood up as if he was not a member of the navy at all.
"New crew?"
Ace was a little confused.
"Yes!"
"Annie Hastur, the 'little naughty child' of the Straw Hat Pirates, is an eight-year-old little girl. The things I just said are actually hers alone, and Luffy..."
"It's just because of her that she got involved!"
"Her bounty now amounts to 5.5 billion beli, which is no less than your Pirate King father Gol D. Roger!"
"oh!"
"I almost forgot. Two days ago, a navy ship sent to recruit the emperor of the Daughter Kingdom and the Shichibukai came with a message saying that Vice Admiral Flying Squirrel was petrified by the little girl and is now on his way here. I don’t know if I can recover.”
"so……"
"I estimate that her bounty will soon exceed 5.6 billion Baileys. She should be the first person in the world whose bounty exceeds that of One Piece, right?"
"I just hope that the navy people will not treat him carelessly this time. Otherwise, in addition to the sheep in the Warring States Marshal's office, I'm afraid there will soon be another stone statue."
Rubbing his beard on his chin and grinning, Garp spoke seriously and gloatingly.
Fortunately, he didn't try hard to deal with that 'naughty' little girl when he was in the Chambord Islands. Otherwise, he might not be able to talk to the little bastard sitting in the cell here now.
Of course, apart from the general Kizaru, the unlucky one was also the guy from the Shichibukai Big Bear. The other party originally wanted to help, but in the end, he was still beaten up by the scary little girl, but not as badly as Kizaru.
"..."
Ace made no comment.
He just stared wide-eyed, gasping silently as he digested and understood the purpose of what the old man Cap came here to say to him.
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