Ralph Drew, Roughtale, literally interpreted, is "hard rumor".

It's just a misty sea filled with a rich and mysterious atmosphere, as if it is detached from Ed Wohai, from the second half of this great voyage, and even not belonging to this world, but there is indeed a wonderful throbbing in the depths of my heart, as if to remind myself that the last island of legend, it does exist here! It's just that I can't see the mysterious place that is almost isolated from the world with my eyes, so I can only touch the flow of air here with my hands, and I can't even feel the exact existence.

That's why Ace is so sure that behind the fog here must be the location of Ralph Drew, and although the weather is unpredictable, it doesn't actually pose much of a threat to him, and what really makes him hesitate is the invisible fear.

It wasn't for nothing that he was here, there was no fourth person talking in the first place, but he found that he really seemed to hear some strange voice, a voice that called to him, and that's why he came here.

Even Ralph Drew himself seems to be looking forward to his visit!

However, he hesitated.

According to the only man who has ever entered Ralph Drew, Ace's biological father, One Piece Roger, there is a way to enter Ralph Drew, and he also wanted to tell Whitebeard about this method, but was rejected by the other party on the grounds of "no interest".

Without this method, no matter how you cultivate to the heavens, you will be helpless after all, but if you have this method, you can come and go as freely as Bucky, who is as weak as the clown.

As for this method, he may not have been sure before, but when his feet set foot on this last sea, he had a very ridiculous sense of unreality, as if he knew how to get in from the beginning!

In addition to Roger, Ace's biological father, the other two of the three sea pirates who once stood at the top of the pirate pyramid, Whitebeard has failed, and the Golden Lion has also failed, they have not yet conquered this last island, how can Ace be exempt! He wasn't arrogant enough to think that he could already compete with those two, on the contrary, through the previous battle between the child and Whitebeard, he saw the gap between himself and those two more clearly.

Ralph Drew is not unconquerable, what is really unconquerable is the fear of the unknown in people's hearts!

So, he hesitated.

The attentive Lilith naturally noticed that there was something wrong with Ace, slowly moved her face to Ace, narrowed her eyes strangely, stared at him carefully with a smile, and spit out a conclusion that she couldn't believe, "Could it be that you are afraid?" ”

Even if she was worried and anxious at the moment, she couldn't show it so obviously in front of Ace, so she had to pretend to be calmer than Ace, but what surprised her was Ace's honesty.

"Scared? Perhaps, before fighting Whitebeard, I also had this feeling, I don't know what kind of future awaits me, maybe the next step is death, hehe, it doesn't sound like a good thing······ It's only a short step away from that boundless legend, but I can't make up my mind! I'm ready to bear everything, but for some reason, I'm suddenly a little reluctant······"

Ace took a deep breath slowly, as if he had thrown away all his baggage, relaxed and free, and regained his freedom.

"Well, let's be honest, I really feel this way, although it is a very inexplicable premonition,—— if I go in, something important will be lost, life? Probably not, I'm not sure what it was, but it's definitely very important, something that is or is indispensable to me! ，”

"Temperance!?" Lilith burst out of nowhere and choked Ace half to death.

"It's not this!!" A very ungraceful complaint, Ace continued with some embarrassment.

"It may have been impulsive before, but to be able to go through this life without regrets with the people I cherish, this is my biggest dream, compared to Lovedrew, it seems to be a little less attractive, haha, is this an excuse to retreat?"

"No, no matter what you do, it's your own choice, it may be dominant, or it may be in vain, but the most important thing is that you have the best reason to do what you really want to do, to be the person you really want to do, it's never too late!"

Lilith sighed leisurely and looked at him in a daze, looking at this other half who had not been with her for a long time, but now she was inseparable, thinking about what had happened at the beginning, a kind of amazement that seemed to be another world spread in her heart.

"But I'm very interested, who is the person you cherish the most?"

Ace was slightly stunned, and almost blurted out "you" was forced down, because he thought of Yuna, who has been by his side for the past two years and never abandoned, even if he has had a relationship with Lilith, he still cherishes that ordinary but warm relationship.

Looking at the silent Ace, Lilith felt a pain in her heart, but she still smiled lightly, "Sure enough, that woman is more important······

She straightened up, gently cupped the other party's cheek, and stared at Ace with her scarlet eyes without blinking, not letting go of his every expression, and the elegant and sweet voice in the past turned into a slight sobbing sound at this moment.

"She's the one you hold most dear, but what about me? What am I in your heart? ”

After a short silence, Ace said solemnly, "You are, the child's mother······"

Child's mother······ Lilith turned her head, looking at the black rock with her hair fluttering, her heart jumped, and her breathing became slightly short, although everything happened too inexplicably, but it did not prevent her from accepting the existence of this "daughter", but Ace's words were really ambiguous, so that she couldn't determine the true meaning of her heart, she was just about to speak, but was interrupted by Ace's gentle eyes, under the eyes that she had never seen before, all the words could no longer be spoken.

"Countless strong enemies, countless battles, countless miracles, every battle of life and death, I seem to have seen the end of death, but I still face it! Because I'm Fire Fist Ace! Fighting a way to become stronger from the mortal ending, isn't this the path of the strong that I have been pursuing! ”

Once a person has something to protect, he will become strong, but if he is not determined enough, this belief in wanting to protect others will become a burden that makes him weak.

Hesitation is not cowardice, fear is not a sin, only hesitation, only fear, can really face yourself, Ace seems to understand a little now, why the golden lion and Whitebeard have the strength not inferior to One Piece Roger, but they have never taken this step, because they can't be like Roger, stick to their ideals first, be fearless, regard life and death as idle, ruthless to themselves, and even more unrighteous to themselves, abandon the heart of toleration, and even abandon the heart of being a 'relative' and 'ambition'!

"Disasters always follow, this is the truth of the world, and if it falls, it only proves that I am a man like that, so I will never run away! I must get onepiece, not only because I am the heir of the One Piece bloodline, but also the inheritor of the will of the Golden Lion, but also the hope entrusted by Whitebeard! ”

His "eyes" ignited a vast blue flame like a nebula, and his "ears" climbed with a certain mysterious aura.

"Ralph Drew's test, I'll take it!"