The sudden sound attracted everyone's attention.

A man in a cowboy hat, with a few freckles on his face and a red beaded chain around his neck, emerged from the smoke.

The sun was scorching, but the man was bare-chested, not worried about the sun damaging his skin.

Or, for this man.

Compared to the potential damage caused by the harsh environment, it is more important to always expose the pride on your back.

"Ace !!"

Looking at the man who came out of the smoke and dust, Luffy, the blind king of the face, recognized the identity of the man in an instant, and immediately dangled in Maude's hand with excitement, like a silkworm chrysalis.

"This man is Luffy's brother!?"

The Straw Hats, who were a little flustered, looked at Ace who was walking slowly, and in addition to being surprised, they always felt a little familiar.

"Fire Fist Ace."

Maud looked at Ace with a calm expression, slightly surprised in his heart.

Before Ace could speak, he had already detected the breath that was rapidly coming from the smoke and dust.

I thought that this breath would be someone from the Don Quixote family, but I didn't expect it to be Fire Fist Ace.

I vaguely remember that Ace did appear in the Alabastan chapter.

At this point in time, the potential butterfly effect did not affect Ace's movements.

Maud thought to herself.

"Yo, Luffy."

Ace walked closer, and his gaze crossed over to Maude and landed on Luffy, who was bound into a rice dumpling by the shadow chains and had a rather funny movement.

After half a ring, Ace, who had finished greeting, turned his eyes and stared at Maude.

"Please let go of my brother, Seven Martial Seas...... Hammond. ”

"What if you don't let it go?"

Maude smiled, suppressed Luffy's dangling movements, and immediately treated Luffy as a ball and kept throwing it up.

Hearing Maude's words, the Straw Hats looked solemn, but Usopp was at a loss, neither advancing nor retreating, looking very uncomfortable.

"If you don't let it go, you can only ......"

Ace's shoulders were filled with flames, and his eyes were full of battle intent when he looked at Maude, and said, "I'm going to beat you down." ”

"Try it."

Maud freed her left hand and hooked her index finger at Ace.

"Hey." The corners of Ace's mouth grinned, he casually threw away his satchel, and said seriously: "I thought I would meet you!" ”

As soon as the words fell, clusters of flames appeared all over Ace's body, and for a while, his ability characteristics were undoubtedly revealed.

Zoro and the others stared at Ace, who was on fire all over his body, and said in surprise in their hearts: "The natural ability is ......!"

It was also at this time that they finally remembered Ace's identity.

A pirate who often made headlines in the past two years, and is also the captain of the second team under the Four Emperors Whitebeard Pirates, with a bounty of more than 500 million, known as Fire Fist Ace!

It's just that they never imagined that such a famous sea thief would be Luffy's brother.

Zoro, Nami, Sanji, and the others all showed shocked expressions on their faces, but in the blink of an eye, they calmed down and glanced at Usopp quite tacitly.

The Seven Martial Sea Master on the ship has a bounty of more than 500 million.

Well, it's not surprising that Luffy will have such an older brother as Ace.

"What?"

Usopp, who was a little uncomfortable, sensed something and looked at his companions strangely.

Zoro and the others stopped looking over their heads for the first time, and continued to pay attention to the confrontation between Maud and Ace in the field.

“？？？”

Looking at the strange reactions of his companions, several question marks popped up on Usopp's brain, and he always felt as if he had been targeted by the Void just now.

Inside the field.

Feeling Ace's soaring battle intent like a flame, the corners of Maude's mouth twitched.

With a slight movement of his mind, the shadow chain that bound Luffy flowed down his arm and back behind him, turning into a shadow in his normal form.

Without the restraint of the shadow chain, Luffy, who is full of active genes in his bones, suddenly couldn't be idle, and his eyes glared at Maude.

"Rubber rubber ...... Uh, if there's an afterlife, I'd like to make a shell. ”

One second, Luffy bared his teeth and waved his arms, and the next second, he was shrouded in a haze, so negative that his whole body became limp.

But it was Perona who summoned a negative ghost, so that Luffy, who was about to attack Maude with all his firepower, instantly extinguished.

"Perona."

Maud glanced at Perona.

"Got it."

Without Maude's orders, Perona took the initiative to float backwards, as far away from the battle circle as possible.

Maud watched Perona float to the Straw Hats, and then dodged a few times to a sand dune, and looked condescendingly at Ace, who was on fire.

Luffy was still in the hands of Moddy, but he was made to lose the power to resist by the negative ghost.

Looking at it this way, it looks a bit like Maude taking Luffy hostage.

However, Ace didn't have any scruples at all, and his right arm instantly turned into a high-temperature flame.

"Fire Fist!"

Ace punched Maud in the air, and a stream of fire was born out of thin air at his fist, and the volley went straight towards Maude.

If Maud can't even block a fire fist......

That can only show that it is in vain.

But Ace was naturally inclined to Maude to be able to block this fire punch easily.

Maude calmly looked at the punch fire rushing in the air, his elbow bent slightly, and he also made a fist swing action.

The difference is that Ace's arm is a red high-temperature flame, while Maude's arm is a pitch-black shadow water wave.

"Shadow Fist."

Maud punched out.

The shadow wave surging on his arm immediately left his body along the fist, and in an instant, it turned into a flame and met the fire fist that Ace struck.

After absorbing Pika's Devil Fruit experience, Maud became more comfortable and comfortable in manipulating shadow form changes.

A remastered version of the Shadow Fire Fist, even more so, has a sense of déjà vu that the superhuman system has turned into a natural system.

One of the most powerful properties of the Shadow Fruit is its free morphology.

It's just that Maude's fruit ability hasn't awakened yet, so there's a limit to the [volume] that can make the shadow expand.

However, it is more than enough to reproduce the Fire Fist.

"It's ......"

Looking at Maude's Shadow Fist, Ace frowned, quite surprised.

The black and red "fist fire" met in mid-air like this, and then collided into a ball.

"Boom!"

The shadows and flames became entangled, not giving in to each other, and thus squeezed into a huge tornado, which rolled up a large amount of sand as it swirled violently.

"It's kind of interesting."

Ace's brows relaxed, and he looked at Maude on the sand dunes with a breezy face.

Outside the war circle.

The Straw Hats were stunned and looked at the mighty black and red tornado.

What kind of monsters are these......

In terms of strength, they who have been hit to the point that they are almost depressed.

"Strong people like Maude and Ace must be a minority in the Great Passage, yes, they must be a minority!"

The Straw Hats can only comfort themselves like this.

Perona looked at Maude standing on the sand dunes and said to herself: "It's so strong, but there are always at least a hundred people in the 'New World' who are stronger than themselves, so you must be humble, Maude." ”

Her self-talk reached the ears of the Straw Hats.

Suddenly, it was like the last straw that crushed the Straw Hats.

Zero is not needed, they are already depressed.