The boy named "Ace", who chose to run away because he had no money to pay the bill, was the grandson adopted by the naval hero "Iron Fist" Karp. D. Ace.

Ace's birthday is January 1st.

Ace, who has aspired to be the king of the pirates since he was a child, sailed a small fishing boat to bid farewell to his relatives and friends in Windmill Town on his birthday. D. Luffy couldn't wait to go to the sea under his eyes.

However, Ace did not fly the pirate flag, because Ace had lost to a girl named "Kerra", and he had promised that he would never claim to be a "pirate" until he defeated that girl.

After traveling in the East China Sea for more than two months, Ace meets his co-captain "Dius" on an uninhabited island, and interestingly, this Dius is also a writer.

Writers are a rare creature in this world.

On that uninhabited island, Ace and Dius, who were almost starving to death, accidentally picked up a strange-looking fruit.

Ace originally decided to divide half of each of them to quench their hunger and thirst.

But when he ate a bite of the strange fruit, his body "burned" and he gained the ability to turn into flames.

That's when they realized that Ace might have eaten the legendary "Devil Fruit".

With the ability of this "Burning Fruit", Ace's strength has improved extremely quickly, and he has defeated the invincible opponent in the East China Sea in just two months.

Now, more than four months after he went to sea, he has come to the last stop of the Great Voyage to the East China Sea, the "town of beginning and end" Rogue Town.

Ace now can't wait to head to the Great Voyage in search of the navy.

It's not that he wants to find trouble with the navy, but that Hailan who came to Windmill Village back then is a navy, and if he wants to find the girl Kerra who is with him, he can only go to the navy first to ask for directions.

In Ace's opinion, with the invincible attitude of "Burning Fruits", he must have a way to defeat the girl named Kella this time.

At that point, his "Adventure in Spades" can officially be renamed "The Pirates of Spades".

In fact, for Ace, the "Adventure Group" and the "Pirate Group" should not matter, whether it is under the banner of adventurers or pirates, there will be no obvious changes in their behavior.

But Ace's dream is to become the King of the Pirates, so he must reclaim the title of "Pirate".

After all, if a person wants to become One Piece, then the premise is that he must at least be a pirate first, right?

"Ace, how many times have I told you, you have to bring your wallet when you go out, why can't you remember?"

The two young men chatted as they ran, and Dios's voice was full of helplessness.

Ace ran fast while pressing the cowboy hat with one hand, and he grinned at Dioce, showing his white teeth: "What's the panic, isn't the problem solved?" ”

In fact, Ace should have been a very polite teenager, after Sabo's "death", in order to be a good brother, Esther learned the etiquette of being a man from Magino, the proprietress of the village tavern.

I don't know if it's because Magino forgot to teach Ace the simple truth of "paying the bill for eating", or because Ace himself didn't take this matter to heart.

In the past four months or so that Ace has been at sea, even he can't remember how many "overlord meals" Ace has eaten.

Ace's behavior of eating the "overlord meal" is actually related to the "freedom" he pursues.

In Ace's view, the so-called freedom is to do what he wants to do, and he doesn't want to do boring things such as "business" and "work", which leads to his lack of a source of income.

In addition, Ace didn't want to rob civilians and merchants, which cut off one of his sources of income.

So his money can only come from other pirates, and it has to be a pirate who is hostile to him, after all, he is not a navy, and when you meet like-minded pirates, you can still sit down and drink two cups.

Defeating a pirate can grab millions of Baileys at most, and hundreds of thousands at least.

That sounds like a lot.

But according to Ace's consumption level of hundreds of thousands of Baileys for this meal, as long as he eats a few more meals, the money will be gone.

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic.

In order not to go hungry, Ace had to master the skill of "eating overlord meals".

Where there is any quiet time, but someone is carrying the weight for him.

Ace's freedom requires countless restaurateurs to pay for him.

"Don't run, those two bastards who eat overlord's meal!"

Ace didn't show any great strength, so the restaurant's security guards dared to chase him.

Ace grinned, and the feeling of being chased made him feel that his heart was truly free, like a gust of wind.

This is the common mentality of those pirates who go to sea in order to chase their dreams, and Luffy in the original book is the same, when he was on the Sky Island, the Straw Hats "stole" the gold worth 300 million Bailey from the Sky Island and Luffy also felt very happy when he escaped, in fact, Luffy didn't have to do this at all, the gold pillar that the Sky Island people planned to give them was worth far more than 300 million.

Although they are different from those pirates who burn and loot, Ace and Luffy both know that they are still pirates after all, and as long as they are pirates, they should always do something that pirates should do.

"Redhead" Shanks also knows that he is not an adventurer at all, and in the original book, when the redhead is pointed at the head by a bandit in the East China Sea, Rakki Lu shoots the bandit with one shot.

When the pirates shouted in surprise, "I actually shot", the redhead reminded the bandits, "Don't forget, it's the pirates standing in front of you."

No one in this world has ever been so naïve as to confuse "adventurers" and "pirates", it's just that they are different pirates, and their bottom lines are different.

This is also the reason why Ace still does not want to call himself an "adventurer", because he knows that what he wants to do is still a pirate after all.

People like "big liar" Norland are real adventurers.

"Overlord meal?"

As he walked along the road, Smoker, who was escorting Bartolomeo back to the naval base in Rogue Town, with his soldiers, heard shouts from the street next door.

"You guys go back to base first, I'm going to do something else."

"Yes!"

The soldiers were ordered to continue to escort Bartolomeo, the ruffian of Rogue Town.

"White Hunter" Smoker turned into a puff of white smoke, his legs accelerated like a jet, and he flew quickly into the street next door.

Nami's big amber eyes, which had followed the navy, flickered and soon disappeared into the streets.

"Ouch!"

Ace and Dius, who were running, snorted, feeling like they had hit something, as if it were a spring bed.

"Are you two the ones eating the overlord meal?"

Smoker, with two cigars in his mouth, stared coldly at Ace and Dius, looking like he was about to hit someone at any moment.

"Who are you?"

"Navy."

"Oops...... We met the Navy. ”

Obviously, being able to say this sentence means that Ace and Dius also know that eating an overlord meal is not the right behavior.

Ace pressed the cowboy hat and smiled confidently: "Navy, I advise you to get out of the way quickly, I don't want to hurt you." ”

"It's really a little ghost who doesn't know how thick the sky is."

Smoker's sight and hearing was not very domineering, but he could clearly sense the trouble in front of him.

That blue-haired kid isn't a big problem, and that black-haired kid with a cowboy hat is very strong.

"White vine!"

Smoker's two arms turned into two puffs of white smoke, and like vines, they instantly bound Ace and Dioth.

Dius was shocked: "The same ability as Ace!" ”

Ace and Dius don't know much about the Devil Fruit, they only know what they see, Ace can turn into flames, and this navy can turn into smoke!

"Yan Jie. Pillar of Fire! ”

Flames rose from Ace's body, like a stone pillar rising from the ground, easily dispersing Smoker's white vines.

Smoker's face sank: "Natural ......"

He quickly realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Let go of my partner!"

Ace roared and rushed towards Smoker.

"White Wind!"

Smoke's body was full of smoke, and in an instant, it swept towards Ace like a monstrous wave.

"Fire Fist!"

Ace threw a punch hard, crimson flames quickly stirring up in his right fist, and an oversized flaming giant fist collided with Smoker's waves of smoke.

"Not good!"

Smoker was shocked.

He didn't expect this little imp to be so destructive.

He had nothing to fear, but this was a busy city, and once the two of them let go to fight, all the civilians on both sides of the street would suffer.

In order to protect the civilians, Smoker had no choice but to let go of Dius, who was captured by the White Man, and used the power of smoke to cover the street.

Ace didn't continue the pursuit, and he didn't want to affect civilians if he could.

"There is no winner in fire and smoke."

Ace pressed his cowboy hat and smiled casually, "There will be a meeting later, Uncle Navy." ”

With that, Ace gradually disappeared from Smoke's gaze with the freed Dioth.

"Nature-based Burnt Fruit ......"

Smoker's face still looked so fierce that it was difficult for others to capture the change in his mood.

"Uncle of the Navy."

"Imp!"

Smoker heard the sound and saw the girl with short orange hair from earlier.

"Give!"

Nami drops a purse into Smoker's hand.

"What is this?"

"This is the money that those two pirates left to make up for everyone's loss."

It was stolen by Nami from Dius.

Some talents will not be buried because of different identities.

Even if she doesn't want to be a thief as an agent, Nami is definitely at the top level.

……

Half a month later, the G5 branch of the Navy.

Hai Lan held a telephone bug receiver in her hand, and her eyes glanced at the reward order that the fax bug had just printed out: "Ah, I saw it." ”

Pirate Supernova, "Fire Fist" Portcas D. Ace, a bounty of 180 million Bailey!

Karp on the other side of the phone bug said helplessly: "Hailan, didn't you say that Ace won't be a pirate?" What's going on here? ”

"Don't worry, old man, I'll help you find out the situation."

"Okay, I'm still relieved of you."

Karp breathed a sigh of relief, and added: "But you come to the headquarters before you look for him, if there is really no way, I asked Ace for a position under the Seven Martial Seas, even if he has to be a pirate, he must be under the banner of the World Government." ”

An old man in his seventies broke his heart for his seventeen-year-old grandson.

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