Chapter 75: Gildas and Ace
What happened??
Who is this man?
Why did he fall from the sky?
Is Captain Bucky okay?
What is the spatial passage in his mouth?
A series of questions surfaced in everyone's minds with the appearance of a man.
The man was about forty years old, with short brown-red hair, short stubble, a muscular and powerful body, and a black cloak over his shoulders.
It looks like he's a middle-aged uncle who is not simple!
Gildas was very depressed, he didn't expect that the place after entering the space passage was actually on the sea, fortunately this ship saved him, otherwise in the endless sea, he didn't know what to do.
"Good risk, good risk...... I should have been ready to come back if I knew it. ”
At the thought of falling into the sea without any support around, Gildas couldn't help but feel palpitations, and muttered softly, "Fortunately, the old man didn't come in the end in order to stabilize the overall situation, so if he fell into the sea, he probably wouldn't last long at that age, right?" Hahaha......"
In the midst of laughter, Gildas's gaze finally met Ace and the others on the ship, so the laughter stopped abruptly, and the scene was a little embarrassing for a while.
"Little brother, do you still want this meat?"
Pirates: ??
"You guys are familiar with yourself, aren't you?!! Are people on the sea so rude now? ”
"Looking at his clear and stupid appearance just now, he obviously doesn't know where this is, so normally, shouldn't he inquire about where he is first??!
"Hey!! Uncle!! You just attacked our captain, we can't pretend nothing happened!! ”
"That's right! Gotta lose money!! You've smashed our captain's face red!! ”
Before the younger brothers could finish their words, they saw Bucky get up from the ground in an instant and shouted like thunder, "Whose nose is red and big?!! ”
The big guy was angry, and the little brothers had to bow their heads silently, but they didn't dare to speak.
That's when ......
Gildas leaned over to Bucky and looked left and right at his face, "Huh??" They're probably talking about you, right? It's weird that only your nose is red and big......"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and flick it lightly on the red nose.
Bucky: (angry)??!!
Little brothers: (surprised)??!!
"It's over, this uncle actually said Captain Bucky's taboo! Now he's dead!! ”
"No, you see him suddenly fell from the sky, maybe what is the origin? Just like Ace, if it's also a pirate, or a crew member of a pirate......"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! This sea is so vast, and the number of sea thieves is only a handful, how can it be possible to meet two at the same time in one day? What kind of luck does that have to be?! ”
Just when Kabaji and the others were in doubt, Gildas had already made it to the banquet, eating, drinking, talking and laughing with Ace.
"Hahaha...... So you're pirates, huh? It's a lot worse than I remembered! ”
"Really? Hasn't Uncle been in contact with pirates before? By the way, my name is Ace! ”
"My name is Gildas! Before...... It is true that I have rarely come into contact with pirates, but I have encountered some merchant ships at sea that engaged in human trade and slave trade. ”
"Slave merchant ships...... There are a lot of them on this sea, too. There was a hint of wistness in Ace's voice.
With the advent of the era of pirates, more and more people became pirates and ran to the sea, so more and more dark corners were exposed, resulting in the phenomenon of slavery becoming rampant with the arrival of the era of pirates in the eyes of most people.
Admittedly, this is true, the world of pirates does make the slave sale more severe, but this phenomenon cannot be blamed entirely on the era of pirates!
You can't just say that 70% of the slave trade is the pirate's pot because the pirate era has increased from 50% to 70%, right?
In fact, the slave trade has been around for a long time, but when Roger started the era of pirates, they were basically buried in the dark corners of the world, in places that most people can't see.
Ever since mankind mastered the technology of sea passage, the slave trade began to appear throughout the great shipping routes, even within the four seas.
The weaker the place, the more people were taken to be slaves; The more noble the place, the more people are sold as slaves. And one of the biggest participants in it is the world aristocracy, that is, the Draconians, whose disregard for life is known to everyone in the whole sea.
However, as far as Ace knows, in the territory of the Whitebeard Pirates, there is basically no such thing as a slave trade.
"What? Listening to your tone, it doesn't seem like it's been done? I thought that's what pirates do! Gildas looked surprised, he had planned to wait until he finished eating, and then served the group of pirates.
"Not really!"
Hearing that Gildas actually had such a prejudice against pirates, Eston was anxious, and immediately turned around to show Gildas the tattoo on his back, which represented Whitebeard, "The Whitebeard Pirates have never done such a thing as buying and selling slaves!" ”
"Really? That's my misunderstanding! Sorry......"
When people reach middle age, they come to a new world, even if it is a rough nerve like Gildas, his brain is no longer as confused as before, and at the same time, his eyes have become vicious, and he can see at a glance that the guy named Ace in front of him is not bad in nature, at most he is just a hot-blooded fool.
"I said, do you two still take me seriously?!!"
Listening to the chatting and laughing between the two, Bucky only felt angry: these two people dare to laugh at my red nose and eat my food unscrupulously on my Bucky God's ship?
Arrogant! It's so arrogant!
The most important thing is that this man named Gildas gives Bucky a sense of déjà vu - that face, that temperament, that way of speaking...... It's just like his lifelong enemy, the red-haired Shanks!
That's why Bucky is so excited and angry!
At this moment, Gildas's exclamation calmed the anger in Bucky's chest in an instant.
"What? Devil Fruits? Can you have magical powers when you eat it? How can there be such a thing in this world?? ”
"Yes, uncle, don't you know?"
Ace looked at Gildas with a puzzled expression while eating the hoisin sauce noodles on his plate: "You are all people of this age, and you don't even know the Devil Fruit?" ”
Gildas laughed and scratched his head: "Hahaha...... Because I just came into this world! I've always used magic before! ”
"Magic?!"
Ace suddenly thought of Natsu, whom he had met in Alabastan before, and the news he had just seen in the newspaper, and couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, are you...... Could it be a magician? ”
"yes!"
Gildas replied subconsciously, but thought to himself: 'Is there magic and magicians in this world??' ’
Ace's eyes lit up instantly, and he continued to ask, "Then do you know Natsu?" ”
"Natsu you're talking about, is it a teenager with cherry hair, a white dragon scale scarf, and doesn't look very smart?"
Ace nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes!" He also eats fire, so cool!! By the way, he's followed by a blue cat that can fly and talk! ”
"That's Harpy! Turns out you know Natsu? ”
"yes, I met in Alabastan not long ago, and he owes me a meal!" Ace smiled brightly, and then raised his index finger in his right hand to ignite the flames.
Now Gildas understood that Natsu must have eaten his fire.
"I'm a person who eats the ability to burn the fruit and can release flames at will, that's how Natsu and I met."
"Hahaha...... Is it? Then you're really unlucky for Natsu! ”
Gildas laughed, without the slightest idea of keeping a secret, and directly revealed Natsu's magic, "Natsu is a fire slayer dragon magician, and he can transform the magic and physical strength in his body by eating fire, which should be regarded as the ability to restrain you in all aspects." ”
"That's right!"
Perhaps because of his similar personality, Ace didn't get angry at Gildas for saying 'Natsu restrained himself', but told him about the process of getting to know Natsu, and then said with a depressed face: "That guy suddenly came out and ate all the fire I made, and I was also shocked at the time!" ”
"But I guess he's afraid of the flames reaching the town......"
Ace said, "Although it was to cover my brother's voyage to the sea, it was indeed my fault to set fire to the town unscrupulously!" ”
"No, I think Natsu kid is just hungry......" Gildas waved his hand.
Will Natsu worry about the flames burning down the town??
Are you kidding?!