"Colonel Smoker! UFOs spotted in the sky!! ”

On the Navy warship, a scout wearing a navy uniform and an unremarkable appearance noticed the landing of the Hope for the first time, and immediately reported loudly to Smoker.

"Huh??"

Smoker frowned, looked up at the sky, and saw a huge silver-white iron box, which covered the sun above the warship's head, slightly relieving a trace of the hot summer heat.

"Who is that? Pirates? Hey, Dusty! Don't be there in a daze, get ready for battle!! ”

"Yes...... Be!! ”

Dusty hurriedly put away the newly captured Huazhou, pressed his hand on the small night rain on his waist, and looked up at the large iron box slowly falling above his head: "I have never seen this type of ship......"

Smoker took two cigars in his mouth and said solemnly, "This doesn't look like a ship!" And as far as I know, there is only one person in this world who has this ability to make objects fly! ”

Dusty was instantly alert: "Are you talking about the legendary sea thief?" ”

As one of the legends of the last era, even though the Golden Lion Shiji has disappeared for more than 20 years, his prestige has not diminished in the sea at all, and even young juniors like Dusty have heard his story.

Smoker nodded and said, "Yes! He's ......"

However, before the two of them could say the name of the 'Golden Lion', a familiar blue figure emerged from the iron box overhead, a cute blue cat with a white belly, spreading a pair of snow-white wings, flying down from the sky.

Dusty was stunned for a moment, and then there was a touch of joy in his eyes: "Harpy?!" ”

Hearing the conversation between the two, the young naval soldiers behind them were all confused: What?? The legendary sea thief, whose name turned out to be Harpy?? How could anyone take such a cute name?? It's not powerful and domineering at all!!

Harpy's flight speed was very fast, and the height of a few tens of meters fell on the warship in less than three seconds: "Long time no see, Dusty!" ”

Smoker waved his hand behind him, temporarily dismissing the warning, and Dusty also let go of the hand that was holding the night and Yu, and greeted Harpy: "Harpy? Why are you here? The one above...... Belch...... Boats, what's going on?? ”

"That's our guild's airship!"

Dusty was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what Natsu and Harpy had said to them when they were in Rogue Town before: "Guild...... Is that what you said earlier, 'Fairy Tail'? ”

"Yes!"

"So it's not a pirate?"

"Of course! We're magicians! ”

Getting an affirmative reply, Dusty breathed a sigh of relief, she actually liked Natsu and Harpy in her heart, if they were pirates, ......, of course, out of justice in her heart, she would still draw her sword in the end, but it was definitely not an easy task.

Kira sent Harpy down first, just to prevent the two sides from making a move due to misunderstanding, but he didn't think that the combat power of the navy was high, mainly because he was afraid that they would attack rashly and then be destroyed by the automatic defense system of the Hope.

In order to ensure the safety of the sea voyage, Kira applied an automatic counterattack magic to the Hope, which can bounce back the attacks made by others on the Hope - the 'attacks' here include elemental energy attacks, purely physical attacks, and invisible mental attacks.

With this layer of automatic counter-attack magic, not to mention cannonballs and slashes, even the ability of Sea King, Domineering, and Devil Fruit will not hurt Hope in the slightest.

It's just that the Hope is an airship, which can only fly in the sky, not into the water, so most of the defenses are actually useless, and more often, this layer of defense is used to ensure that it can sail normally in bad weather.

Not...... Although every time there is bad weather, Kira will use magic to dispel it directly.

"Airship...... It's the first time I've seen anything like this......"

Dusty looked at Hope, his eyes full of curiosity, "How does it work?" Electrical energy? Wind energy? Solar energy? Or Devil Fruits? ”

Harpy glanced at Dusty like a fool and complained, "Why is you stupider than Natsu?" We're magicians, and of course it's magic! ”

“……”

was complained about by the cute Harpy, but Dusty was not angry, but felt a little embarrassed: "The original ...... Is that so......"

It seems normal for a sorcerer to use magic...... But the principle of the airship is magic? It's impossible for a normal person to think of this, right?!

Smoker on the side didn't say anything, just complained: "This airship is so ugly, and the shape is also very bloated, if a ship is in this ratio of length, width and height, it will not be able to sail on the sea at all!" ”

Harpy instantly snorted, looked up, and found that the Hope giant warship was still some distance away, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Actually, we think so too......

"Is Natsu's imp up there, too?" Smoker asked.

After a few days of getting along in Rogue Town, he was very optimistic about this cherry-haired boy, although he was a little idiotic, a little playful, and a little noisy, but he was indeed an upright person.

"Yes, there are other partners too!"

"Other partners...... Are the two girls who came to Rogue to ransom you? Smoker thought of what his subordinates had reported to him, and it was a blonde woman with big breasts, a blue-haired ponytail, and a white Harpy.

"In addition to Lucy, Wendy, and Xia Lulu, there are several other partners, some of whom came to pick us up at the beginning, and some of whom we found during this time."

Dusty covered her mouth and exclaimed, "So you really have a partner?!" ”

Harpy complained speechlessly: "So you haven't believed it all along?!" ”

During the conversation, Kira had lowered the Hope to about the height of the warship, with the decks level and about the same position where they could see each other.

It was only then that Kira suddenly discovered that a naval warship was so big, that it was three to four times as long as the Hope, more than four times as wide as the Hope, and even that it was much higher than the ten meters of the Hope.

But think about it, a naval warship can live with hundreds of people, and its own Hope is a little too many people to live, and the two sides are not at the same level at all.

Kira knew that she had no talent for shipbuilding, but the moment she saw the navy warship, she couldn't help but feel a little dwarfed in her heart, but this feeling was quickly dispelled by another thought.

'There are so many warships here, why don't you grab one?' …… Forget it, if you are treated as a pirate, it will be troublesome, so it is better to hurry to the capital of the seven waters and find someone to build one. Anyway, I'm a little tired of taking an airship during this time, and I don't know if I can take their downwind boat? ’

"See you again, Navy!"

"It's you?! Hoplet?! ”

Smoker recognized at a glance the red-haired man who had been making a lot of noise in 'Rog Times Square', and he thought that this man was extraordinary and would inevitably become a man of the sea in the future.

Later, Kira reported himself to his home, saying that he was a magician, and when Smoker returned to the naval base, he received the news that Natsu had been ransomed, and the two events were connected, and he quickly deduced that Kira might be Natsu's partner, and now it seems that it is true!

"Oops, oops...... My name is Kira, not Hopelet! ”

Kira deliberately smiled as sinister as a poisonous snake, and waved her hand at the same time: "Our culture in Aslant is different from your side, the first name comes first, and the last name comes last!" ”

Kira...... Hoplet ......"

Smoker kept tasting Kira's name, and his surname was 'Ray of Hope', but his name was 'Killer', and for a moment his mind was thinking: What is this guy hinting at? What is being alluded to? Want to subvert what? Who directed his actions? What is his purpose?

Kira, however, didn't know what Smoker was thinking, so she just pointed to the warship in front of her and asked, "What's that......?" Can you give us a ride? ”

(End of chapter)