"I'm so hungry~ I'm starving!"

As soon as it was dawn, a ghostly wolf howl sounded from the jungle.

The guy who will shout that he is hungry at this time, except for Ace, who has just regained consciousness, naturally there will be no second person.

"Tsk~"

Noticing that Robin and Yamato, who were sleeping next to him, subconsciously frowned, Orn, who had not intended to pay attention to Ace, jumped down from the windowsill of the moving castle, and raised his hand to throw out a blazing magma ball:

"Shut up, it's noisy!"

Ace finally recovered from the overdraft at this time, but unexpectedly felt a strong sense of crisis.

Following this instinct to survive, he subconsciously used the elemental transformation to open a big hole in his body, and immediately after, he felt that something that made his flame body feel extremely hot flew past the big hole he had opened.

That feeling, his originally confused head was instantly sobered up.

However, it didn't seem to be useful to come to his senses, because after throwing the magma ball, Orn raised his leg and struck a knee covered in armed domineering.

Boom!

The knee slammed into Ace's face, and two nosebleeds flowed down immediately.

"Shh~ You bastard, I just woke up!" Ace covered his nose with a long nosebleed, and tears of pain were about to fall.

"That's not a reason for you to wake me up." Orn glared at him, and what stood out was that he was unreasonable.

"Sorry, sorry! Our captain has troubled you. ”

The vice-captain of the Spades Pirates, Dius, was also awakened by his captain's movement at this time, and he was obviously very afraid of the powerful Orn, so he came up in three or two steps and apologized to Orn.

Mutter~

As he spoke, a strange sound came from Dious's abdomen, and Ace's stomach began to rumble as a result of this sound.

"I said Dios, didn't you eat dinner either?"

Ace glanced at Dios, who was becoming more and more embarrassed by the screams of his stomach, and asked the question in his heart very indiscriminately.

It's good that he didn't say this, but as soon as he said this, the word "well" immediately exploded on his forehead:

"I'm embarrassed to say that if it weren't for the captain, you had to show your hand to everyone, and as a result, you burned up the ship's rations for seven days in one go, and we wouldn't have had to land here in advance to look for rations before we arrived in the Chambord Islands!

As a result, after landing, you don't wait to enter the town because you hear the cat's meow and run to save the cat, and then you talk to the ...... In short, where do we have time to find food! ”

was reminded by Dius, and Ace also recalled the previous incident.

Having obtained a permanent pointer to the Chambord Islands by chance, they wanted to quickly travel to the Chambord Islands and become the first supernova pirates to arrive in Chambord this year.

But because of his "whim" had to transit on the island of Montros, as a result, just after landing on the island, he heard the sound of the "cat", so he rushed over with his men to prepare for hunting, and then because he found out that it was the poaching gang that was poaching the precious white lynx and decided to save the "cat", and then attracted the people of the Orne Pirates, and the whole process really did not let them have time to buy food.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll pay attention next time."

When facing his crew, he didn't have any saf, and when he was yelled at, he hurriedly laughed and touched the back of his head, and apologized vigorously.

Orn looked at the scene in front of him and shook his head helplessly:

"It's really exaggerated to be a pirate to do your part......"

With that, Orn reached out and pressed on the Moving Castle, instantly enlarging the Moving Castle to its original normal level.

Reaching out and pushing open the castle gates, Orn looked back at the two poor creatures:

"For your sake, come in and get something to eat."

He moved the food stored in the castle, to say the least, enough for him and the crew to eat for more than half a year, but he was not worried that he would be eaten up by Ace, the big stomach.

At this moment, Orn stood in the brilliant halo of lights, and in the sight of Ace and Dius, there seemed to be a halo unique to a saint behind him in a trance.

"Aligado!"

The two of them bowed to Orn with a 100% synchronization rate, and then without Orn greeting him, he turned his head and shook the members of the Spades who were sleeping in hunger, and a group of people squeezed into the castle like starving ghosts reincarnated according to Orn's guidance.

"Wow~"

As soon as they entered the hall, everyone couldn't help but be amazed by the luxurious decoration style of the castle, and the white lynx was even more embarrassed and didn't even know where to put its feet, so it could only circle around the door.

Affected by their past experiences, Robin and Peyton have always slept lightly.

Hearing the voice at this time, the two of them subconsciously walked out of the room on the second floor and looked at this side with some curiosity.

"You're welcome, just sit down."

In this case, Robin naturally took on the posture of a hostess, and politely and gently beckoned everyone from the Spades Pirates to sit down at the long table in the restaurant.

"No, don't bother!"

Seeing that Robin was still preparing dinner for them, Dioce, who was obviously from a noble family, was ashamed and hated to find a crack in the ground to get into, and he stretched out his hand to stop Robin's movements and said in embarrassment:

"Just give us some dry food like biscuits and water."

"Is that so?" Robin saw the embarrassment of Dius and the others, so he didn't insist, and only turned to look at Orn.

Orn smiled at her, and then his mind flickered, and the door to the warehouse opened automatically, and a large bag of biscuits and jerky was "pushed" to the dining room by the churning floor—because he had 100% control of the mobile castle, to do something to that extent was nothing more than a pediatric of pediatrics for Orn.

"We don't often prepare these dry rations on the ship, so you can take them and eat them first, and then talk about them if they are not enough."

This is indeed the truth, because before he met the master of the country of flowers, he and Yamato Rhea ate dry food for a time and left a psychological shadow, and the Orn Pirates rarely prepared this kind of dry food with a long shelf life.

After recruiting the five masters of the Flower Country, they have never eaten a single bite of this dry and hard food, and only store a small batch of small batches every time they land on the island for emergencies.

Dius thought that the bag might contain the kind of biscuits that were black and hard, and maybe there were a lot of mold, but when he opened the bag, he found that the biscuits inside were still very fresh, and the stacks were wrapped in oiled paper, exuding a sweet smell.

Even the surface of those jerky is not moldy, and it will never last more than a month.

Staring at the large bag of jerky and biscuits, the people of the Spades Pirates couldn't help but look at each other - the food was many times better than what they usually ate on the ship.

With trembling hands, he picked up a cookie and handed it to his mouth, and although the texture of a bite was not as crispy as a freshly baked cookie, the taste could still be described as sweet.

Tears unconsciously flowed down the corners of his eyes, and for the first time, Dius felt how foolish it was for him to encourage Ace to give up becoming the Seven Martial Seas and continue their sailing adventures.

Dius couldn't help but think in his heart that if one day the captain encountered an insurmountable difficulty at sea, it seemed good to persuade the captain to join any big force...... At the very least, you can eat a full meal, and you can even enjoy the top cuisine of various chefs.

Although this thought only existed in his mind for half a second before he threw it out, the gears of fate had already slowly turned at a certain moment - this day was July 27, 1517 in the lunar calendar, less than five months before the members of the Spades Pirates started a new life!

…………

After about half an hour, all the biscuits and jerky were eaten cleanly, leaving not even a single scrap left.

"Thank you for your hospitality!"

Swallowing the last cookie in his mouth, Dius stood up and bowed solemnly to Orn and Robin.

"You're welcome." Orn waved his hand somewhat casually.

But Dius was unexpectedly polite, not only saluting himself, but also wanting to drag Ace to salute together.

It's just that Ace didn't salute with Dius, but said to Dius without a beginning:

"You're waiting for me here."

Then he strode out of the moving castle, leaving the crew of the Spade Pirates looking at each other.

"Hey, your captain isn't going to run away, is he?" Leia, who didn't know when he woke up, subconsciously asked.

Maybe it's because there's a lot of movement in the kitchen, but everyone in the Orn Pirates has woken up at this time.

"Don't you say that about our captain!"

The gentle and polite Dius, who has always behaved, roared in a rare gaffe:

"Our captain is not that kind of person!"

The firmness in his tone was eye-catching, and what was even more unbelievable was that it wasn't just Dius, but everyone in the entire Spade Pirates had the same determined expression.

Orn silently looked at these people in the Spade Pirates, and said in his heart that although these people are ordinary in strength, they have unexpected trust in Ace, the captain, no wonder they will join the Whitebeard Pirates with Ace without complaint in the future.

Just as he was thinking, Ace had run back out of breath, still holding a black thing in his hand.

He gasped violently, but his eyes were fixed on Orn.

Step by step, step by step...... Finally, he came to Orn.

Just as everyone was wondering what he was going to do, Ace bent down extremely abruptly, and then handed the thing he was holding in front of Orn with both hands - it was the pirate flag of the Spade Pirates.

"Captain!"

After seeing the Pirate Flag in Ace's hand clearly, everyone in the Spades Pirates remembered everything that happened in the afternoon, and they couldn't help but let out an exclamation in their mouths.

"Shut up! Do you want me to be the laughing stock of others? ”

Ace turned his head and roared at his crew:

"As a man, you have to do what you say, and since I have made a promise, I should naturally fulfill all this!"

Speaking of this, Ace looked at the pirate flag with spades in his hand, and although he trembled all over his body, despite gritting his teeth, he still held back his tears and said:

"I'm staring at this scene today......"

Speaking of this, Ace looked up at Orn, his expression as persistent as ever:

"Today I am convinced of the loss, but I will not stop there, one day, one day, I will win this flag back, this is also a commitment as a man!"

Listening to Ace's words, looking at the pirate flag in Ace's hand that got along with them day and night, tears and snot had already confused everyone's heads and faces at some point, but they pursed their lips tightly to prevent themselves from making a sound.

Orn, Yamato, Robin, Rhea, Urki...... Everyone looked at the scene in front of them in a daze, and at the corner of the second floor, Peyton also silently put down the mechanical arm in his hand.

Suspecting that such a person would hurt his own captain is not only an insult to the other party, but also an insult to himself.

Orn came back to his senses, looked at the flag handed by Ace, and finally stretched out his hands and solemnly took the flag - this fluttering flag was as heavy as a thousand pounds at the moment!

"Robin, come with me to the study."

Robin glanced at his captain and followed him into the study without saying a word.

After about ten minutes, the two of them walked out of the study again, and there was a new pirate flag in their hands—the pattern was still based on the old spades, except that the original skeleton with two badges of crying and laughing on its head in the spades had been replaced by a fist that was constantly dripping with lava.

At first glance, it looks like the magma fist is about to pierce the spades......

"Take it, your new flag...... In addition, I will take good care of your previous pirate flags, and I am waiting for the day when you come to me to win back your pirate flags. ”

Ace glanced at the pattern on the pirate flag, didn't say anything, only spit out two words in a hoarse voice:

"Definitely!"

After saying this, he picked up the pirate flag, took the people of the Spade Pirates, and left the mobile castle.

Having lost the most important Pirate Banner, Orn could clearly feel that a force called "cohesion" was becoming more and more prominent in this young team.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at the direction of Ace's departure, wondering if this was Ace's personality charm alone, or was it another manifestation of the "king's qualification" he had?

Being born as a "king", in addition to not bowing to everything in this world, every gesture will make the enemy fearful, and it is also an extremely important quality to make one's own side feel at ease.

Myself...... Do you have such an innate qualification?

For a moment, Aoun had such a question in his mind.

But soon, this doubt was overturned by him.

It's not whether he has such qualifications, but that he must have them...... After all, he has a far bigger goal than becoming One Piece.

The fist was unconsciously clenched by Orn, and he silently told himself in his heart:

That day...... It won't be too far!

(End of chapter)