The flames attached to the boiling waters twisted and scattered, and the thick clouds disappeared with them.

Luffy saw the figure on the blue brig clearly. Compared to three years ago, Ace is taller and stronger, he still wears his favorite orange cowboy hat, black cropped pants on his lower body, a delicate dagger and brown holster pinned to his waist, a red beaded necklace on his bare upper body, and a 'ASCE' tattoo on his left arm, in which the 'S' is crossed, and a large dark blue "V" is tattooed on the back.

"Ace!!"

Luffy was overjoyed and shouted while waving his hand vigorously. And Ace was also overjoyed, and waved at Luffy with one hand on his waist.

"He's the brother you often talk about?" Nami, who was wearing a cool crop top shirt and slim jeans, and her long curly orange hair was scattered behind her, looked at Luffy standing on the fin deck in the distance, and raised her eyebrows: "Well, I do look like you...... in every sense. ”

And Zoro and the other companions also looked at Ace curiously. Karina looked surprised: "Luffy, do you know this super powerful flame man?" ”

"Hmmm! His name is Ace, and he's my brother! Luffy looked proud: "I didn't expect him to eat the Devil Fruit too, hahaha!" But he's super powerful, I wasn't his opponent when I didn't eat Devil Fruits before, and I didn't beat him once. Looks like he's got better now. ”

"That guy...... Who the hell is it? "Sanji felt that he had been greatly impacted, could the [human's] combat power reach such a level? It's a natural disaster!

Zhuofu glanced at Sanji: "Stupid boy, you boast that you have never forgotten beautiful women, but you have seen that orange-haired girl." ”

"Huh? Why am I not impressed? ”

"Think about it, who gave you that revolver?"

"Uh...... It's her! Only then did Sanji remember that the little girl with an inconspicuous orange-haired poisonous tongue who followed the murderous chain back then didn't expect to become such an outstanding beauty. That is to say......

He hurriedly took out an old pamphlet from his pocket and flipped through it quickly, then looked up at the two men on the boat, and muttered, "Sure enough, it's them." One-star weather hunter 'Weather Princess' Nami, one-star bounty hunter 'Fire Fist' Ace! ”

Zoron, who was standing on the sidelines, heard Sanji's words and turned his head to look at Ace and Nami, his eyes shining. [Hunter], and a hunter with 'stars'! If you pass through these two people, maybe you will have a chance to find 'Hawkeye'!

Luffy excitedly stretched out his arm, the rubberized arm stretched out indefinitely, and grabbed the edge of the deck of the Beagle tightly before retracting his arm and carrying himself over. As soon as he got on the boat, he happily ran towards Ace and laughed loudly: "Ace! I miss you so much! I haven't seen your bounty since two years ago...... Belch! ”

Before he could finish speaking, Luffy was put to the ground by a hammer.

Luffy, who is a superhuman rubber fruit ability, should have been immune to most blunt weapon blows, but the hammer just now made him feel severe pain. He sat up from the ground with tears in his eyes, rubbing the back of his head, and was shocked to find a little girl standing in front of him with a hammer.

This is a beautiful little girl with short blue hair, who looks to be less than ten years old, wearing a long golden raincoat with a hood, carrying a small wooden hammer in her hand, her beautiful and delicate face is full of coldness, she stared at Luffy and said crisply:

"Get out of the g!"

"Huh?" Luffy looked confused.

"Get out of the g!!" The girl's voice became sharper, and she raised the small wooden hammer in her hand demonstratively.

Nami hurriedly rushed over and hugged the little girl, and comforted: "Calm down, little Beagle, he is Ace's younger brother, not a bad person." ”

The little girl called 'Little Beagle' squinted her eyes at Ace with an innocent face, then glanced at Luffy, and glanced back and forth several times before she threatened Luffy, "...... Don't go near the kitchen! ”

After saying that, she pulled on her rubber shoes and ran towards the kitchen.

Luffy scratched his head, I don't know if it was an illusion, the cable on the deck seemed to be wriggling on its own when the little girl swung the small wooden hammer at herself just now, as if it was alive, but now it was all calm again.

No matter how much it was, Luffy happily ran to Ace's side: "Ace, you're so powerful now!" ”

"You don't look bad, Luffy." Ace looked at Luffy with a smile: "Are you officially going to sea to be a pirate?" ”

"Hmmm! I'm now the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates! By the way, why is there no news from your Spade Pirates? Dardan, they're worried about you. ”

"Well...... In fact, I've long since stopped being a pirate. Ace scratched his cheek.

"Huh!?" Luffy's mouth opened wide.

"And, I'm now [Hunter], a bounty hunter hunting down wanted criminals."

"Hey——!!??" Luffy's eyes were about to pop out: "So, Ace is going to arrest us?" ”

He suddenly put on a posture: "I'm completely different from before, Ace!" Even if the opponent is you, I won't lose! ”

"You haven't beaten me once, where do you get your confidence?" Ace looked at Luffy with his hands on his hips amusedly.

"Now I may be able to beat you!" Luffy had a confident smile on his face.

Not to mention the two brothers who were reminiscing about the old days, the leader of the giant pirate battleship, Crick, whose eyes were bloodshot, filled his heart with fury to the extreme, roared: "All the guns are aimed at that brig!" Beat him to smithereens for me!! Fire!! ”

"But, but the Admiral, the other party is a Devil Fruit ability......"

Bang——!!

Before he finished speaking, his hesitant subordinates were shot through the heads with muskets, and their brains and blood sprayed behind them, and their heads and faces were all over their backs.

Crick held a flintlock pistol with green smoke in his hand, and his eyes were cold: "I said it, fire." ”

"Yes, yes!!"

Everyone sprang into action, waving flags at the rest of the remaining ships, which sailed through the sea of fire, all aimed at the Beagle.

"Not good, they're in danger!" Sanji was about to jump into the sea and swim towards the Beagle, but as soon as he made a move, he was stopped by Zhuofu: "Silly boy, the two of them don't need your help. Take a good look, the [Hunter Association] can compete with the World Government not only by relying on the powerful combat power of the murder chain, but also those [Hunters] are also a powerful force that cannot be ignored. ”

On the deck of the Beagle, Ace and Nami glanced at each other: "The boss is not here, who will come?" ”

"Come on, I'm a climate hunter and not a bounty hunter."

"Okay."

Ace suddenly jumped into the air lightly, and layers of fierce flames floated on his body, and then turned into a huge flame vortex, with Ace as the center, constantly circling in the air.

"Fire!!"

With Crick's order, an overwhelming barrage of shells struck in the direction of the Beagle.

"Great Flame Ring ......"

The vortex of flames continued to expand and surge, and the core flame in the center was an ominous dark red. With a loud bang, an incomparably huge dark red flame arm with a diameter of tens of meters burst out of it, bringing a huge foehn wind towards the incoming cannonballs and pirate warships!

"[Red Lotus Giant]!!"

Crick only felt a dark red glow flash in front of him, and then it went black. The huge dark red flame giant arm stretched infinitely ahead, and the pirate warship led by the Creek flagship was all evaporated in the moment of contact! The surface of the sea was cut several meters high, and the clouds in the sky broke and disintegrated.

Barati, a nearby restaurant on the sea, and her patrons' boats were enveloped in a thick fog that appeared at some point, and all of them were unharmed and unaffected by the aftermath.

The flames came and went as fast as they could, and the vortex of flames in the sky contracted rapidly and coalesced into a human form, landing steadily on the deck of the Beagle.

Ace lifted the orange cowboy hat on top of his head, turned his head to look at Luffy who looked sluggish, and asked with a smile:

"What did you just say?"