Chapter Eighty-Six: The Pirate Flag

"Listen, now that the battle is over, you don't need to worry too much about your own safety, this battle is not the fault of either of us, and the source of all the fighting comes from the real enemy of both of us, a brutal captain."

While Becker and his ship rested in Momiji Village, the pirates of the Pirates ate and drank and rested peacefully on board, while the captives of the Viking Pirates endured the clammy and cold conditions in the bilge and struggled with hunger.

As last time, Becker sat in the chair that his men had brought and crossed his legs to observe Creon, except that this time Creon was held in solitary confinement, and Becker finally spoke after a long silence.

The iron-beaten man will become weak after enduring such a long period of hunger, Creon is now thin and tired, Becker's strategy of not saying a word last time left a deep impression on the captives, and the fatigue tactics have greatly reduced the captives' willpower, so Creon did not show a tough attitude and chose not to give Becker a response.

Creon struggled to the cell door and asked Becker with some anticipation, "Captain Ragnar, how is he ......?" ”

"He's dead," said Becker, who stepped out of his chair and crouched down at the cell door, looking Creon in the eye, "Barbarossa killed him." ”

Creon, who had been silently enduring the pain of prison, heard Becker's words, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he looked at the man in front of him without saying a word, knowing that the other party still had something to say.

"Most of the pirates I've seen before are a bunch of scumbags, until I met your captain, he's really a hard guy, Barbarossa tortured him like that without asking about the whereabouts of the Devil Fruit," Becker's eyes moved slightly, and his eyes no longer met Creon's eyes, but at his eyebrows, "He loves you very much, so he made a deal with me knowing that there was no way out." ”

"What deal?"

"He saw the disagreement between me and Barbarossa, so he traded the Devil Fruit for a promise from me that he would spare your lives and let you join my group of pirates after I took control of the ship." The true cause of Ragnar's death was known only to Becker and Barbarossa, and now that Barbarossa is dead, Becker has no psychological burden to throw the black cauldron at the dead.

Creon smiled sarcastically, obviously disbelieving, "You mean Captain Ragnar, let's join a fleet of former enemies?" ”

"Enemies? Friend? Becker stood up, took out a key and stuffed it into the lock hole of the cell door, and said, "We are pirates, not children, the sea has never been a playground, except for the navy, we have no eternal enemies, and making friends cannot be based solely on personal likes and dislikes, only two points are the rules of interpersonal communication for pirates." ”

Creon turned his head and listened to the eloquent victor's voice, "Great strength, and most importantly—a common goal." ”

The cell door was opened by Becker, who, seemingly oblivious to the stench in the air, came to Creon's side to untie his hands and legs.

"Your captain, Ragnar, is a wonderful man, he brought you to the East China Sea, presumably to find a place for you crew to stay, you are not well staffed, and you are not familiar with life in the East China Sea, he knows that you are actually the safest in doing things under my banner now," Becker untied the handcuffs and shackles and threw them aside, he was not worried about the weak captive in front of him resisting, "As I said at the beginning, there is no enmity between us, The cause of the feud was nothing more than the greedy desires of a brutal man, and the man who led us to fight and killed your captain, and the true enemy of both of us, Barbarossa, has been slain by me. ”

"Of course, I am a person who keeps my promises, if you people are willing to follow Ragnar's wishes and be willing to 'retire'," Becker deliberately accentuated the word "pension", looking a little contemptuous, "Then I will also let you go and ensure your safety, after all, as I said, as a pirate, the most important thing to find friends or companions on this sea is to have a common goal, I am looking for a man who can rule the East China Sea with me, not a group of cowards who are fearless and frightened." ”

Creon tried to get up after being untied, but his hands and feet weakened and he fell to the ground.

Becker stretched out a hand to him, but Creon just glanced at Becker, took two breaths and sneered: "Rule the East China Sea? The weakest part of the sea? So that's what your ambition is. ”

Becker smiled disapprovingly, still half-bent over, stretching out his hand: "One Piece Roger, was born in this sea area. ”

Creon looked at Becker, was silent for a moment, and finally grabbed Becker's hand and stood up, and said to him: "You forgot to mention that the hero and legend of the navy, Karp, was also born in this sea. ”

"It turns out that the legends of the Navy and the Pirates were born here."

"Yes."

Becker spent a year at sea in the moment of communication.

In 1507, at the age of seventeen, Becker had a warship of his own, a group of battle-hardened men, and one of the best pirates in the East China Sea.

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For the uneducated pirates, the connotation and style of the pirates' name is actually secondary, and the first priority is to be straightforward, especially to highlight the characteristics of the captain - Becker is especially concerned about this, he feels that this is the easiest way to subtly increase the authority and influence of his crew.

Since Becker did not have a wanted warrant and did not make a name for himself, he was given a nickname such as "Redbeard", so he directly named his pirate group after his surname, naming it "Morgan Pirates", which is also the most common way for pirates to name it.

The original Redbeard Pirates' pirate flag was obviously useless, and the ship's doctor, Harrison, volunteered to design a new flag for the Morgan Pirates.

In Harrison's words, no patient other than a pirate would trust an alcoholic doctor's medical skills, so before he became a pirate, he actually relied on drawing more often than medical skills to make a living.

Becker originally had no hope in its technology, but just had the mentality of giving it a try and let Harrison design it, but in fact, he was more inclined to find a clever painter who could combine his own characteristics with art to design the pirate flag in the future. Becker.

But he didn't expect Harrison to finally bring out the finished product that Becker was quite satisfied.

The black flag depicts a smiling skull wearing a tricorneal hat, and on the brim of the skull's forehead is the letter "M" for "Morgan" written in a script similar to medieval English, with a feather curled diagonally pointing diagonally to the sky from one side of the letter.

There are two scimitars crossed on the back of the skull, and the Pirate Banner is composed of three shades of black, white, and gray, plus a little trick Harrison uses, which makes people look at the skull with some top-down perspective, which makes the skull shudder to look at despite the smile on his face.

Neil looked at the skull with a strange smile on the pirate flag, then at Becker, who looked at the flag with a smile on his face, and nodded his head in agreement from time to time, thinking that Harrison was really fat enough.

(What exactly does the pirate flag of the Morgan Pirates look like, you can see the Taifu WeChat public account, there are pictures of the Taifu self-made on it, you can search for "Taifu Siqing" on the WeChat public account, or the pinyin of these four words plus 01, that is, "ta [anti-harmony] i [anti-harmony] pusiqing01.") ）