Chapter 173: The Wine of Righteousness

Inside the checkhouse in Takajin, the cell door where Ace and Luffy were located was opened by a blank guard.

"You're free, get out. The guard saw that Ace and Luffy were a little stunned, so he cursed.

Ace pulled Luffy up, glared at the guard, and walked through the cell door, and then saw Sabo standing behind the guard at a glance.

Sabo grinned and said to Ace, who was full of questions, "Let's go out first." ”

……

"So you're leaving here, going to live in that school?"

On a hill near the sea, Ace asked Sabo excitedly.

"Ace, I've always wanted to be able to leave this country, see the world freely, and then record what I see and hear and write a book," Sabo said with a smile, "so I have to learn enough about sailing, and this opportunity may be right for me." ”

Sabo was telling the truth, not all the truth, he didn't tell Ace that his father threatened the safety of the two of them to force himself to nod his head and agree to go to William's school, because he knew Ace's character, and if he told the truth, Ace was likely to do something irrational.

"It's not that I can't learn here, I want to let you be my navigator when I go to sea in the future!" said Ace dissatisfied.

"Who can say for sure what will happen in the future? Besides, I will go to school, not to prison, and I will definitely come back to see you when I have the chance. Saab said.

"We'?" Ace asked, he followed Sabo's gaze and looked at Luffy on the side, his face not very good, "You mean him?"

Sabo beckoned to Luffy, who had been watching the two of them, and after Luffy came over, Sabo asked, "Luffy, why did you always want to be friends with Ace?

Ace put his hands around his chest, and after Luffy glanced at him, he said loudly, "Because I hate bandits!"

"Bandits, you say the Dadan family?" Sabo said with a grin, glancing at Ace, "It's the same as Ace." ”

With Sabo as a lubricant to guide slowly, Luffy finally has a chance to confide in Ace.

Because of his experience in Windmill Village, Luffy is both disgusted and resistant to the bandits, so after being thrown to this strange place by his grandfather Karp, he has no one else to know except for someone of Ace's age.

For someone of Luffy's character, living alone is more difficult than pain, so Ace's existence has a special meaning for him.

Ace pursed his lips and didn't speak, but Sabo, who knew him well, had already pulled him over with a grin and dragged him to Luffy's side.

"We're all people who don't have anything to rely on, so we can only rely on each other," Sabo nudged Ace, "Didn't you say you hated that gang of bandits too?"

Sabo struggles to reconcile the conflict between Luffy and Ace because he feels that after he leaves, he needs to find another companion for Ace who can rely on each other.

Portcas. D. Ace is Ace's name, he follows his mother's surname, and his real name should be Gore D. Ace.

Ace was the son of One Piece, and he knew this from a very young age, so he grew up in an environment where his existence was constantly denied because he could hear people slandering and cursing his biological father every day.

All this makes Ace both strong and vulnerable, and Ace has always wanted to become a sea thief, a big man who can make the world notice, not because he has any extraordinary ambitions, but just hopes that in this way, the world will accept him and have to face the fact that he exists.

So in the original book, when the Whitebeard Pirates accepted Ace into the big family, Ace's concept changed from becoming an independent pirate to assisting Whitebeard to become the One Piece, because he found a group of family members here who accepted him and gave him survival value.

Sabo, who is only ten years old, naturally can't come to the above conclusions in detail, but Sabo has always been an extremely smart child, and Ace has been with him day and night for five years, he already knows Ace's character very well, at least he knows that Ace is eager to be recognized by others, and if he is really alone, Ace will definitely feel the same pain as Luffy.

But Ace is overly sensitive and irritable, like a hedgehog, resisting the approach of others, he can only wait for others to take the initiative to approach, which is exactly what Sabo is worried about.

For the next four days, Ace, Sabo, and Luffy have been adventuring in Mount Kolber and the Terminal of Uncertain Objects, and Sabo tries his best to forget the fact that he is leaving this land and his friends, and plays carefree, not forgetting to bring Ace and Luffy closer.

This caused Luffy to have a better impression of him than he did to Ace, and the day before parting, Luffy also proposed that the three of them simply go to sea now and never separate, but they were rejected by the more rational Sabo, and it was too unrealistic for two ten-year-old boys to go to the sea with a seven-year-old and a landlubber.

Ace was inspired by this, he asked Luffy and Sabo to wait for him, and then ran to Dadan's room and stole a bottle of wine.

"Sabo, Luffy," Ace said to the two of them with uncontrollable excitement on his face, "Let's get righteous!"

"Tie up?" Luffy looked confused.

"As long as we drink together, we will be brothers from now on, no matter how far we leave," Ace looked at Sabo and then at Luffy, and said seriously, "No matter how many barriers we face each other, we all have a special bond between us, we will always be together!"

After Ace said this, he uncorked the bottle, only to find that he had forgotten to take his glass.

He was scratching his head to figure out what to do, when a pair of small hands, which were still a little dirty, clasped into a small bowl and stretched out in front of him.

"Come!" Sabo said with a grin.

Seeing this, Luffy also stretched out his hand.

Ace was stunned for a moment, poured the wine into the hands of the two, then grabbed the wine bottle, and the three of them touched it: "Sabo, from now on, no matter where you are, don't forget, you have two brothers with you." ”

Sabo didn't speak, he tilted his head and poured the wine in his hand into his throat, a spicy smell rushed to his head, and Sabo burst into tears.

……

On the evening of the fifth day, when William and the others set off, there was a small figure in the team.

Sabo followed William and the others on the boat a little sullenly, and didn't say much to his parents who came to see him off.

As the ship sailed around the shore, passing the shore where the terminal of the uncertain object was located, Jesus Bu, who had been leaning against the guard, suddenly underestimated: "What is that?"

Sabo felt a sense of it, and he leaned down in front of the guard, and on the shore, he could faintly see two figures chasing the faster and faster ships.

William, who was on the side, took out a telescope and looked at the shore, and found that it was two little boys running, and despite sweating profusely, they kept waving in the direction of the boat.

William looked twice at Luffy with a straw hat, frowned slightly, and then smiled and handed the binoculars to Sabo.

He watched Sabo look at the shore with a telescope and wipe his tears, then went to the stern of the ship and said a few words to the employees of the Yokai Trading Company at the stern of the ship.

Ace and Luffy on the shore finally had no way in front of them, and the two could only watch the ship carrying Sabo go farther and farther, Luffy cried, and Ace bit his lip.

At this time, they found that a sky lantern suddenly rose at the stern of the boat, and the lanterns swayed towards the sky under the action of hot air, which was beautiful.