Chapter 262: Defense

Ander also listened for a while before he said to the other roommates in the room: "When I came, I heard that Abram and their sisters also seemed to be preparing to write a joint letter after hearing about Mitch Maronko, asking the school to agree to let the students also participate in the war. ”

"Abram wasn't born in the East China Sea, right?" asked one of the people in the dormitory.

"But our school is in the East China Sea, and it's the principal who is leading this battle. Ender said.

Sabo sighed and looked at the letters on the table.

The letter is not from Ace or Luffy, but from his former roommate, Hughes Hult.

Hughes Hoult, who was born in the slums at the time in the dormitory, was the oldest and had been graduating for a while now.

It's just that unlike what others expected, after graduating, Hughes Holt took the initiative to apply to leave Kalmar City and go to the local area to help preside over the work in the countryside, in his words, that is, the life he is living now, which he has never dared to think of before, and he hopes to do something for people from the slums.

When Hughes Hult was still in school, his relationship with Saab was not particularly close, but after going to the countryside, the two often exchanged letters, and the relationship became a lot closer.

Hughes Hult said in his letter that not only has the city of Kalmar recently been boiling over by the mobilization of the war in the newspapers, but also the local area has been affected a lot.

Sabo sighed, closed the book, and stood up from his seat.

"Sabo, what are you doing?" Ander subconsciously asked when he saw this.

"Go to Abram, I'm going to add to the joint letter," Sabo said, turning to look at the other people in the room, "Are you going?"

……

In the town of Blackreef in the Kingdom of Navia, Johnny and Joseph left the docks, looked around, and then inquired all the way to a tavern in the town.

There were many customers in the tavern, and after the two young men found a seat and sat down, the young and capable tavern lady Mary came over in a short time.

While recording the food and wine ordered by the two, Mary looked at the outfits of the two of them, and asked, "You two are here because of the mobilization in the newspaper?"

"How do you know?" asked Johnny, scratching his head.

The proprietress Mary pursed her lips and smiled, this smile with a mature charm and a charming smile made the two young men with strong blood look dumbfounded, only to hear her say: "During this time, people like you have come a lot, just two of you, so young and armed with weapons, can there be any other reason for coming here?"

Mary kindly persuaded: "I'll help you avoid this order today, you better go back, your ideas are very good, and I also admire your enthusiasm, but the Golden Lion Shiji is not an ordinary person, and the number of airships and hot air balloons in Kalmar City and White Pine Town is not enough, so you can only choose elite battles, and I am afraid that you will run for nothing if you go." ”

When Joseph heard this, he boasted loudly with a tone of disbelief unique to young people: "Don't underestimate us, the two of us are bounty hunters, Johnny and Joseph, although they have not debuted for a long time, they are already very famous!"

Mary's expression changed when she heard this, and she subconsciously looked at a wine table behind Johnny and Joseph.

Seeing this, Johnny, who was a little more careful, also subconsciously looked back, and saw that the drinkers at that table heard his words and put down their wine glasses in unison.

"Bounty hunter?" said one of the men at the table, smirking his hand to the saber at his waist.

His fellow pirates at the table also laughed strangely, and looked at Johnny and Joseph with ill will, and someone sneered, "What are you stray dogs doing here that eat leftovers from the navy?"

Johnny's color changed slightly, and he also reached for the hilt of his saber, and Joseph also stood up from his seat at Johnny's reminder.

When the saber rattling, surrounded by a group of pirates, a strong man with a three-cornered hat suddenly slammed his wine glass on the table, making a noise to attract the attention of the people around him, and said: "Enough!"

"You're also here to defend the East China Sea?" the man, who looked like a pirate captain, asked Johnny and Joseph, who were nervous.

Johnny nodded.

"Everyone is from the East China Sea, if you have any grievances and disputes, wait until this incident is over," the pirate captain was quite magnanimous, and after saying this, he ordered some of the subordinates around who took out their weapons, "Put away all the weapons!"

Johnny and Joseph looked at each other and put their half-drawn knives back into their scabbards.

"If you don't mind, you can come and sit down and have a drink," the pirate captain added, "We're here to defend the East China Sea, too." ”

Seeing Johnny and Joseph's hesitation, the pirate captain smiled and looked a little contemptuous: "If you're afraid, forget it." ”

"Who's scared?" said Joseph, striding through a line of vicious pirates and sitting down in front of the pirate captain.

Seeing this, Johnny couldn't leave his good friend behind, so he followed.

"Do pirates want to defend the East China Sea?" asked Joseph after he sat down, not to be outdone.

The pirate captain was not angry at Joseph's tone, but poured a glass of wine for each of them: "I am a pirate and a native of the East China Sea, this is not a conflict, this is where I grew up, and it is also where I live, someone wants to destroy it, why can't I fight?"

"So, you're still heroes?" said Joseph, pouting.

"I don't think we're heroes, but when we arrived in the kingdom of Navia, it was shown that we were mobilized by Morgan William in the newspaper, and we were treated like heroes, and we didn't loot anywhere along the way, but the supplies on board were never lacking, and the local residents thanked us sincerely and warmly, and prayed for our safety as they left," the pirate captain pushed his glass in front of the two men. Therefore, it was the first time that I realized that it felt good to be a hero, and I was still a little hesitant at first, and my subordinates still objected, but when I did this more times, my thoughts were firm, and we will definitely participate in this East China Sea defense battle. ”

Johnny and Joseph looked a little surprised: "The world has changed, and the pirates are so great?"

"Not really," the pirate captain smiled wryly with a complicated expression, "There are also pirates who take advantage of the fire to rob and even fish in troubled waters passing by here, but ......." ”

A young man pushed open the tavern door and walked in.

The pirate captain looked at the man and said, "But they were all wiped out by this young Sheriff Hughes Hult." ”[.]