"I don't know where the next Dark Fruit will appear, and if there will be another person like Tichy."

After Blackbeard's execution, Marco and the others gathered the current Whitebeard Pirates, announced Blackbeard's fate to them, and buried him at sea.

Pirates, born in the sea, also return to the sea.

After Blackbeard's body sank completely into the sea, Marco said something like this.

"As a 'pirate', Titch is very qualified, but too qualified."

"I hope that in the next era, there will be fewer 'real' pirates like him."

"The dignified king of the Seven Martial Seas...... Oh, it's supposed to be the predecessor of the Seven Martial Seas, and he died like this in the end......"

"I don't know when we'll be as strong as Whitebeard......"

The people who spoke were different, including the Whitebeard Pirates, Ivankov and the others who escaped with them, Hancock, and others who escaped from the prison in Advance City, such as Bucky the Clown.

The dignified "Blackbeard", one of the Seven Martial Seas, is the conspirator who almost killed both Ace and Whitebeard by secretly manipulating the situation, and eventually became the food of the Sea Kings.

This kind of fate made many pirates who were not very determined have the idea of retreating, and they are ready to take a withdrawal certificate.

Take "Joker" Bucky, for example.

"It's over, it's over, I've said I'm going to kill Whitebeard before, no one should hear about it, right?"

"Damn, as a result, not only did the hottest not kill him, but he was forced to get on his boat and evacuate together, which is really ......"

"I hope Whitebeard doesn't hold too much grudges, no matter what I say, I'm helping Ace escape from prison, isn't it......"

"However, now that this situation is in place, is my Captain Bucky not fit to be a pirate? Why don't you go to the whole courier company......"

Ace stood at the bow of the ship, looking out to sea in the distance.

He does this move a lot, but this time it's different.

After becoming the human body of Ultraman Ace, his horizons were instantly broadened, and he no longer looked at the sea, but the sky above the sea.

"Daddy."

Ace suddenly turned around and said with a firm look in front of the entire Whitebeard Pirates, as well as Hancock, Ivankov and others who had not had time to leave next to him.

"I'm not a pirate anymore, Daddy."

“……”

"Ace, what are you talking about? How can it be ......"

"Ace, are you going to betray Daddy?"

"Ace, why are you the same as I think......"

“？”

Ignoring the appearance of the group of pirates around him dropping their jaws and eyeballs in surprise, as well as a guy who didn't know what he was talking about, Ace naturally buckled his nose.

"Well, actually, if you think about it, I didn't want to be a pirate when I first went to sea, I came out to 'surpass One Piece'."

"But then the navy saw that I was going to sea without permission, so they directly regarded me as a pirate, and I didn't care at the time, so I let them say it."

"One Piece is something I don't want at all."

“……”

"Kulalala, worthy of being the old man's son!"

The first to break the awkward atmosphere was Whitebeard, an old-school pirate who could almost be said to be a "living fossil of a pirate", smiled heroically, and didn't care about Ace's words at all.

In fact, what Ace said is the most understandable thing is Whitebeard.

He was born in a small village on an island in the New World.

That small village belonged to a non-member country with a weak power that could not pay the "heavenly gold" provided by the World Government to the Draconians.

And the world government not only ignores such small countries that do not obey their jurisdiction and cannot satisfy their greedy needs, but even takes the initiative to capture their citizens as slaves.

It didn't take long for more and more orphans to appear in that small village, who became "pirates" in order to earn a bite to eat, in order to oppose the exploitation of the world government.

Whitebeard is one of them.

Therefore, his name of "One Piece" is not uncommon, what power, wealth, fame, he just wants a family, a hometown, and a belonging.

It is very appropriate to use a sentence in martial arts novels to describe it.

"That's good, good, but I don't like it."

After that, he smuggled back to the island almost all the treasure he had from his adventures, although he no longer had any family on the island and the island did not welcome him much.

As for whether the world government would call him a pirate, a pirate, or a pirate or something like that, he didn't care at all.

This is actually what Ace said.

What he wants is definitely not a simple and crude goal like "becoming the king of the pirates", but to have his own ideas.

However, this is only a change in the heart of the individual, and the navy will still be self-centered, and they should be called pirates.

Even if it is to induce the people to be hostile to Whitebeard, it has to be said that way.

After Whitebeard let out a hearty laugh, the people of the Whitebeard Pirates also somewhat understood Ace's words and laughed along.

"So, Ace."

After laughing, Whitebeard looked at Ace seriously and asked.

"What do you want to do now?"

In the past, Whitebeard had always wanted to train Ace to be the next One Piece, after all, his talent was there.

He thinks that Ace should inherit Roger's will, D's will, even if Ace is reluctant. But unexpectedly, what Ace inherited was his will, and he was even strong enough to be willing to burn himself.

In this way, Whitebeard also plans to stop forcing it and ask Ace what he thinks.

"I don't know yet, but I'll go look for it with Mr. Altman."

"Mr. Altman said that there is something wrong with the world we live in, and I want to investigate with Mr. Altman."

Ace didn't say anything empty about saving the world and protecting peace, he knew that he didn't have this kind of consciousness yet, and he was still far from Ultraman's realm.

But people can grow, and when he was a child, he changed his personality because of Sabo and Luffy, and it is the same now.

"Really? Not bad either. ”

Whitebeard nodded, as if remembering something.

"This world really shouldn't be like this, if it's Ultraman...... Maybe it could really be corrected. ”

"It's like one piece......

“One piece？ Daddy, you mean ......"

"No, nothing."

Whitebeard didn't respond to Ace's question and shook his head.

"It's up to you to explore this by yourself."

…………

The ships of the Nine Snake Pirates came quickly, perhaps because it was not too far from Daughter Island.

Before leaving, Ace told Whitebeard, Marco and the others the news of the Saint Quartz, and asked them to try to help investigate if they could.