"Ace, you're here again." Walking on the greenery of the ground, Marco walked slowly, he raised his head and looked at the tombstone belonging to Whitebeard, his eyes full of sadness.

"It's Marco." Ace didn't look back when he heard the voice, he just sat down on the green ground, quietly looking up at the cross in front of him, and the cloak on top of it swayed in the wind, it was Whitebeard's cloak when he was alive. He was silent in the good old days, the towering tomb seemed taller than he was, and he seemed a little shorter in front of the tomb, like a child who was forever a little shorter in front of his parents.

"There's a lot of stuff that you need to deal with, and you can't go on like this." Marco reminded. "We're about to fight the Blackbeard Pirates, and now we need a backbone in the fleet."

The Whitebeard Pirates, since Whitebeard's death, have had more people like Blackbeard. They reneged on their promises, and when they learned they were going to fight, they abandoned the pirates. The situation intensified with the appearance of the emerging birds.

"Aren't you?" Ace asked, his hand resting on his cowboy hat.

Marco frowned when he heard this, he was not satisfied with Ace's attitude, his tone was a little tougher, "The backbone is you!" You're now the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace! ”

"Captain?" Ace laughed at himself, noncommittal to this answer, "Daddy's decision always makes people feel strange, it's obviously you who is more suitable for the captain's identity, have you ever seen a captain fall asleep while eating?" Obviously, I can't take that responsibility. ”

Marko's tough tone seemed to be suddenly cut off, he knew very well why Ace would say such a thing, right in front of him, Daddy Whitebeard died to protect Ace. This is undoubtedly a blow to Ace. He still vividly remembered the scene when Blackbeard Tichy's hand went through his father's chest. Ace is up to you, he shouted at him in the blood-soaked battlefield. The scars all over his body and the huge wound on his chest drained his strength, and she was so angry at the moment. Only then did Marco realize the fact that the white-bearded father who had been in the sky with the pirates was already decrepit.

After he sobbed and reassured, a smile appeared on Daddy's face. The decadence of imminent death was swept away by him, and he showed the last moment of his life, which was the brightest light on the battlefield, the light that belonged to Whitebeard. The entire battlefield was divided by him, and he used his life to create the conditions for his sons to escape.

"Ace, you're running away." Marco sighed.

"I didn't." Ace denied, a far-fetched smile on his lips, "Do I look like the kind of person who would choose to run away?" After the smile, his face revealed loneliness, "If it weren't for me, Daddy.. Maybe he won't die. ”

"It's not your responsibility." Marco clearly understands that even without Ace, the victory or defeat on the battlefield will not change, and the ending of Daddy is the same. Those people won't let Daddy go, this is another premeditated conspiracy, and no one can stop it. Ace was just used as a fuse to trigger this series of things.

"That's my responsibility!" Ace said, blaming himself deeply, and he still couldn't forget the scene until now, he looked down at his clean hands, but under his eyes was dirty blood—it was the blood of Whitebeard's father.

"Don't overthink it." Marco comforted, "You have only one responsibility, and that is to shoulder this pirate group, and this must be what Daddy wants to see." ”

"Can I really carry it?" Ace said uncertainly, his tone revealing hesitation and dazedness.

"Yes." Marco affirmed, "If you can't, who else can, that's Daddy's judgment." ”

Ace was silent, he could refute a thousand words, but only the judgment made by his father, he couldn't refute this sentence.

Seeing Ace's reaction, Marco also knew that this exhortation had worked, and he continued: "The urgency of the delay now is to prepare for a war with the Blackbeard Pirates, kill Titch to avenge Daddy!" ”

"Yes, I haven't killed Titch yet, even if I want to be decadent, I'll have to wait until then." Ace seemed to have found a point for him to struggle, he said in an impassioned tone. "Marco, I'm going to prepare for a fight with Titch!"

Marco breathed a sigh of relief, although he didn't understand whether Ace was good or bad in such a state, it was better than him being lifeless. Besides, the hatred between pirates was so direct. Regardless of whether or not the Whitebeard Pirates launch an attack on the Blackbeard Pirates, a fight between the two is inevitable.

"It's time to prepare, and the first thing you have to solve is to have a good meal. You have a big appetite, it's been a long time since you've eaten a decent meal, how can you have the strength to fight. ”

"Let's throw a party." Ace said suddenly.

This sudden change made Marco a little stunned. The previous meeting was a battle, but this one is a party? He smiled, "It's worthy of Ace, and the sudden change of style is always hard to imagine." Malcol paused and quipped, "Then the captain of the first team of the Whitebeard Pirates is following Captain Ace's orders. ”

"Horse .. You.. Branch.." Ace dragged out his voice, but Marco had already turned into an immortal bird and ran away.

After he left, Ace looked back at the place and whispered, "I will make the reputation of the Whitebeard Pirates resound throughout the world once again." ”

The breeze was blowing, and the green ground was calm, but the hanging cloak kept shaking, as if in response, and the long knife representing an era stood beside its owner.

……

The attacking fleet is like a brilliant river made of wood and steel, marching mightily on the sea. They are a fleet of hundreds, led by the first captain of the Chishas Basas Blackbeard Pirates, plus a large and small group of pirates who have taken refuge in the Blackbeard Pirates.

Bashas happily waved his fists at the ship, and many of his subordinates became sandbags for him to vent his emotions, and they staggered to the ground.

"Captain Bashas, Captain Bashas.. You calm down first. A pirate suggested.

"As the vanguard of the attack on the Whitebeard Pirates, how can you calm down?" Bashas didn't heed the advice at all, and he continued to swing his fist, which shattered the plank.

The pirates on board also knew that if Captain Bashas continued to attack like this, it was likely that the ship would be completely destroyed. They had to move closer to the other ships to try to avert the impending catastrophe.

"Bashas."

It was a distant sound, which stopped Bashas's wanton movements, and he was stunned and remembered the task given to him by Captain Titch. 、

He looked at the ship in the distance, a richly decorated ship, and at the bow stood a man dressed like a merchant, with a well-defined face and thick ring glasses around his eyes.

"It's Giguera." Bashas pronounced his name according to his impression.

This time, he traded with the organ merchant Jigla. He is a trader specializing in organ trafficking in the dark world, has established alliances with the nobles of many countries, and is even a common figure in war. He bought corpses during the war, took usable organs from them, and kept them in ice cellars. And this time the war between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates is undoubtedly a war that can be cooperated. Captain Titch made a special confession to entertain this person.

"Would you like to sit on the boat?" Bashas smiled as much as he could, but his size, combined with his cheeks that were not suitable for a smile, this smile was so oozing.

"Forget it." Gigra made his refusal clear, and his eyes gestured to Bashas, did the ship look safe?

Bashas also looked at the results he had caused, and instead of being embarrassed, he laughed.

"I'm here just to establish a cooperative relationship." Jigra expressed his friendliness. The Blackbeard Pirates can bring them much more than that. Although this battle seems to be indistinguishable from the outcome, the discerning person has long known the outcome of the victory, and the Blackbeard Pirates have a far greater chance of winning than with the Whitebeard Pirates. And investing in advance is always something that a good businessman should do, especially if Blackbeard is a greedy pirate, he will not have that kind of moral restraint and stop trading with him. The war caused by the cooperation of the Four Emperors can be expected to produce huge benefits in the future.

"Captain Titch, let me entertain you, would you like to come over?" Bashas asked stupidly.

"Of course." Gigla didn't refuse, he nodded in agreement, "It's just that I don't think your ship is safe, so let's come to my ship to discuss some things, and I still hope that you can convey things to your captain, such as some matters of cooperation." ”

Bashas laughed and jumped onto Giguera's boat, not worrying about any traps hiding on the ship, but rather worrying that it was too calm on board, and that he had to look at the cumbersome documents calmly.

"Is there any wine?"

"Yes, it's a fine wine, and the price is almost as big as a liver." Gigra said using his conversion method.

Bashas didn't understand this, and he didn't understand the specific price of trading a liver underground in the dark world, but he understood one thing, and that was that wine was good wine, and that was enough.

However, the course of events seemed uneventful, and contrary to what Bashas had hoped, the matter was reasonably settled, and he was forced to listen to Gigra's nagging.

"Whether there are any objections to the price, the price is different depending on the organ."

Bashas had no objection, which was much higher than the price floor estimated by Captain Titch, so he naturally had no opinion. According to Gigra, the organs of an ordinary person taken together are about hundreds of thousands of Baileys. At this price, a few hundred people can create the value of 100 million Baileys, and if a war is fought, excluding the parts damaged by the battle, at least billions of Baileys can be accounted for, and Bashas can't think of any reason to refuse.

"So nice to work with." Bashas couldn't wait to put an end to this, and what he wanted to do now was to go straight to the territory of the Whitebeard Pirates and fight.

As if in response to his thoughts, there was a loud noise of battle outside the door, and the specially modified and stable ship suddenly shook, which made Bashas suddenly arouse his interest.

"There's trouble outside, I'll go fix it." Bashas Road.

Jigra nodded, "Then I won't keep you, and I'll send someone to send it in detail." After saying that, he was ready to leave, and a qualified merchant would not be directly involved in the war.

Bashas walked out directly from the plank, and the sound of guns and cannons was mixed together, and the formation of the original hundred ships was disrupted by something, and they bombarded the bottom of the sea with artillery indiscriminately. Bashas didn't understand what was going on, and in the time he was gone for about an hour or so, what had happened to cause this? He didn't think much of it, and instead of thinking about it, he jumped back on the original ship, and his men were constantly controlling the cannon bombardment of the sea with panic, and they were relieved to see him.

"What's going on?" Bashas asked.

"The bottom of the sea .. There are monsters at the bottom of the sea! The pirates said.

"Monsters?" Bashas muttered, and instead of being frightened by the description of his subordinates, he found it amused. What kind of monster can make such a large fleet panic like this?

"It's a sea king, and it's not an ordinary sea king, he looks like an island, and it suddenly rushes in, and it just overturns a few ships and dives again." Someone gave a detailed description.

"That's definitely purposeful, we just tried not to make a sound, not to anger this behemoth, but he is happy to carry out such actions, it is taking us as prey!" Someone said in despair.

Bashas understood what had happened, it was an island-sized sea king, and his men just now did not notify him immediately for fear of angering him. And now, after discovering that the opponent's target is them, they counterattack with artillery fire.

"Bashas." Another man was calling his name, but the voice was not coming from the sea, but from above.

Bashas raised his head, the figure in the air was no stranger to him, it was someone that Captain Tigg had specially explained.

"Fang Xing.." Bashas said in a deep voice, "What are you doing by yourself?" Could it be that you have finally discovered the greatness of the Blackbeard Pirates and are ready to join it?"

"You're really imagining." Fang Xing said, "Have you ever seen someone else's fleet destroyed before it was built? ”

"Do you mean you brought the Nakking Class? It's so much fun, it makes my blood boil. Bashas said that he didn't care about the situation of the fleet at all, all he cared about was fighting a bloody battle.