Chapter Twenty-Three: The Invitation of the Seven Martial Seas
"Speaking of which, Ace's dream is to become the King of the Pirates." Yuna, who was walking alone on the street with Ace, asked Ace, who was looking left and right beside her.
"Ah, because my two younger brothers used to always argue about becoming One Piece, and over time, I was also infected." Ace sneered, remembering Luffy and Sapo... I don't know how the two of them are doing, I guess they have been training all day and want to live themselves!
Looking at Ace with the corners of his mouth upturned, Yuna knew that he was nostalgic for the past, and there was no exit point, and the two continued to walk forward. As for why the two are together, we have to start from the day before...
"Let me reintroduce you, I'm Captain Portcas D. Ace of the Spades Pirates, and Jenny Bonnie, my co-captain." Ace introduced the situation of the personal pirate group with a big grin.
There was a drop of sweat hanging from Yuna's head on the opposite side, this guy... Kicked in the head by a donkey, right? A two-person pirate group? also dared to argue with the Baroque Walker Work Society, although there were four people in total.
A group of four pirates··· It's the same as the two of you!
Instead, he shouted "have a character" or something excitedly, and Ace burst into tears when he grabbed his hand. It's not easy for this buddy, and I finally met my soulmate! Looking at the two ladies directly, the corners of their eyes twitched.
"Alex Yuna, now a sniper of the Spade Pirates, please advise!" Yuna smiled and bowed to Ace, and the inadvertently exposed snow-white in front of her almost made Ace's nosebleed gush, of course, there are ladies around, cough cough, pay attention to quality!
"Alex Doda, Ace's chef, from today onwards, my sister and I will be handed over to Ace!" As much as it is frank, it's just... Big brother, don't you need to be so direct? It makes me feel like I'm in the underworld...
After a night of tossing, Ace's pirate group has finally doubled in numbers, although only two people have joined...
The next day, in the town called Fast Island, the four of them began their own division of labor, Bonnie and Doda were responsible for buying supplies and some household utensils, while Ace and Yuna went to inquire about the nearby news, and when the record pointer was finished, they began to make their way to the Great Voyage. Why did you ask Bonnie to buy supplies? Women, compared with men, bargaining is always a matter of heaven and earth.
"Huh?" Ace glanced at it and let out a surprised sound.
"Huh?" Yuna noticed Ace's strange appearance and followed his gaze, it was... A hat?
Orange, with a pattern of smiling and complaining at the front, isn't this the top of Ace in the original book?
Thinking of this, Ace walked to the hat and asked a person next to him who looked like a boss, "Boss, how do you buy this hat?" ”
The person in front of him raised his head, and it was a very... How so? Treachery has reached a high level.
At first glance, you can tell that it is an old fritter! Ace gave the following evaluation.
Sure enough, I just listened to the "hee-hee" evil grin in his mouth, and replied, "A thousand Baileys." ”
"What?" Yuna on the side couldn't stand still, "An ordinary hat is generally four or five hundred Bailey, you are blackmailing!" "It seems that the concept of naval justice is deeply rooted in her bones.
"Hee-hee, you can choose not to buy it, we are a fair deal." The boss replied unhurriedly, as if he were doing something very ordinary.
Old sparrow! Ace scolded to himself. Hanging people's appetite is the favorite trick of profiteers, so that customers have a scale of anger will make people subconsciously buy it, and then he will talk to you again, even if in the end he is "aggrieved", come to a "big bloodletting", and the customer will suffer.
Dealing with this kind of person... Huh!
Ace spread out his right hand, and a basketball-sized flame suddenly appeared, and the face of the profiteer boss was instantly burned and blistered. "Boss, I'm sorry, I didn't hear it clearly just now, how much Bailey did you say?"
"Eight hundred... No, five hundred Baileys..." Looking at the high-temperature fireball near him, the boss understood that the master in front of him was not the object of his blackmail.
"Clams?" Ace looked like "I still didn't hear clearly" and leaned forward.
"Three hundred... No, a hundred, just a hundred Baileys! The boss almost squeezed out these words with a crying voice.
"Yo, it's so cheap, thank you so much! I bought it! Ace happily dispersed the flames in his hand, threw down a hundred Baileys, picked up his hat and left, leaving only the limp profiteer boss in his place.
Yuna looked at Ace's "self-directed and self-acting" angrily and funny, but she didn't say anything and walked up.
The town of Fast Island is huge, and the two of them walked around for two or three hours and were ready to return to the boat. Ace looked at Yuna beside him and suddenly spoke.
"Yuna, do you think I was too much just now?"
"Huh?" Yuna didn't expect Ace to speak suddenly, and asked the question, "No, I..."
"You don't have to explain, I understand!" Ace pulled down the front end of his hat, "It's just, have you ever thought about how you can make that profiteer compromise if you don't use the coercion of great strength?" Lil? The current law only exists for nobles, even if it is a commoner, as long as he has money, he is the uncle! ”
Yuna looked puzzled, not understanding what Ace meant.
"What I want to say is how we can protect our own rights and interests in the absence of fairness and justice. Power is just a way to protect our own weapons, absurd, but practical! Ace didn't say any more, knowing that Yuna needed time to digest what he had just said.
Isn't the so-called companion to understand each other?
Now that you've become a companion, don't care about your personal style. What may seem to be a disadvantage in one person may be an advantage in another. Ace wanted Yuna to understand that pirates weren't what the Navy portrayed, and that it might be better for her to accept them sooner.
"Is that so?" After thinking about it for a while, Yuna muttered, looking at Ace on the side, "I'll have my own way!" ”
Ace didn't speak, he knew Yuna had already crossed this hurdle.
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"What's going on?" Seeing his ship blocked by two warships, Ace's heart was shocked.
Bonnie, who had been waiting at the dock, was overjoyed when they saw Ace and Yuna returning, and then, there was a serious and nervous look in their eyes, "Ace, there is a navy looking for you, the leader has a high rank, but they didn't make a move on us, but they didn't let us go, what the hell is going on?" ”
Navy looking for me? Ace's heart is full of waves, is it possible that his identity is a goof? But why did they not fire on our ship?
Ace walked ahead with a lot of questions, and glanced at Yuna, who nodded in understanding, and then boarded the ship with Bonnie Doda, but the three of them never left Ace.
"Stand upright!" A loud voice sounded, "pop", and the neat sound of the gun landing did not slack off in the whole process.
These navies are definitely the elite of the headquarters!
There was a sound of military shoes stepping on the ground, and two burly admirals walked out of the ranks.
These two people are... Vice Admiral of the Navy Headquarters Oni Spider and Flying Squirrel!
Ace was shocked, what are these two high-level tricks doing?
"Portcass D. Ace." The first to speak was the flying squirrel, "Although he is a newcomer, he has a strong group and unlimited personal potential, for this reason, the world government specially invites you to join the legal organization of pirates established by the government - 'His Majesty the Seven Martial Seas', are you willing?" ”