One Piece: Dark Sky

"You are very like him, Ace, and you will definitely become a man as powerful as him."

Ace slowly opened his eyes wide and looked at Bahn, who was sitting next to him with a smile on his face, and said.

Bahn's smile contained a deep meaning, as if he was recalling something.

"Actually, I didn't see this scene. I heard Rayleigh say, ah, Rayleigh is your father's deputy captain. He has been an old brother for many years. He is also a very good person. If you have time, you can go to Chambord. Find him in the Earth Islands."

Bahn said with a smile, as if he saw the old guy holding a wine bottle and swindling around again.

"Even if the enemy in front of him is too strong to fight against, Roger will not run away. This is very similar to you."

As Bahn said, Ace looked at the smile on his face, lowered his head silently, retracted his legs on the ground, and hugged him in his arms.

"I was very young at the time, that's what Rayleigh said to me after the decisive battle between me and Roger in the Chambord Islands. I didn't understand what he was thinking at the time, so I asked Rayleigh, 'Is that why he wants to die? Escaping is also a kind of fighting.’ Now it seems that I was superficial at the time, and I still remember what Rayleigh said later.”

"Having said that, if 'not running away' is because there is someone he loves behind him, then once he escapes, his partners will be in danger."

"To be correct... it should be 'cannot escape' in order to prevent the enemy in front of you from catching up with your partner, but it actually means 'to prevent the enemy from escaping'."

Bahn still had a smile on his face, facing the silent Ace, his out-of-focus eyes softened.

"At that time, Roger was simply a 'devil'. If someone spoke ill of his partner, he would even destroy a country's army for it."

"It's true that if you provoke him, he will become violent, impatient and reckless, but his actions are always as simple and direct as a child's."

Bahn put his hands on Ace's body, patted twice and said.

"He probably had the same experience as you. What he hates the most in his life is losing the one he loves..."

"Of course, his strength is still quite tyrannical. I have a deep understanding. That kind of life of doing whatever he wants allowed him to survive by luck, and finally became the One Piece King."

"Even though the world judged him extremely badly, his companions trusted him immensely."

"Perhaps this is his charm. Because of this, your mother, that strong woman, fell in love with him without hesitation, and made Garp, who is a navy, agree to take care of you, the enemy's son."

Dadan on the side remembered that Garp had said this to her before, turned his head to look at Ace with effort, and said silently in his heart.

"Even if you hate it to the bone...the blood relationship is beyond doubt."

Ace retracted his legs together again, but there was a very deep look on his young face, like a pool of stagnant water, bottomless.

"The devil..."

Ace said silently in his heart, at this moment, he has greatly changed his view of this father whom he has hated for ten years.

Bahn looked at Ace in this state, didn't say anything, just sighed, stood up, walked up to Jiger who was still sleeping, and stabbed him in the face with the scabbard in his hand, knocking him cried out.

"Hey! Wake up, brat."

Jiger slowly opened his eyes, saw Bahn, and immediately said happily.

"Ah! You're back, Master Barn!"

"Well, I've heard about everything, and you did a good job, brat."

Bahn also gave him a smiling face, very satisfied with the performance of this apprentice who he had taught for five years.

"hey-hey."

And Jiger twitched and touched the back of his head, and let out an embarrassed smirk.

At this time, Dogula came back, and Luffy, who was watching the two unicorns fighting outside, found him.

"Dogula!"

"Didn't you go to Ace and Jiger, they all came back safely."

"Ah... yeah, that would be great..."

Dogula squeezed out a smile on his face when he heard the news that Dadan and the others were safe, although his smile was very far-fetched.

As soon as he entered the room, everyone noticed something wrong with his face, but he still told what he saw, about Sabo...

"Liar! You bastard! Not even a joke!"

Ace went berserk, pushed Dogula to the ground, and shouted, while Jiger was ashen-faced, and Luffy was completely shocked by the news just now and couldn't speak.

"It's not a joke! It's not a lie! It was too sudden for me, I couldn't believe my eyes, I even suspected that I was dreaming or hallucinating!"

Ace let go of Dogula, but he fell to the ground.

Dogula took a few breaths first, and then spoke.

"Sabo was taken back by his aristocratic parents...Luffy must have said so. We punks know this best. There are places where we don't want to go back no matter what."

As soon as he said this, Jiger interrupted him loudly.

"If he is happy, will he still go to sea? Will he raise the pirate flag and go to sea alone!"

Ace heard Jiger's words and remembered what he said to Luffy in the tree house.

"Didn't you say that you can forget about Sabo temporarily? Perhaps that is his happiness."

Luffy also remembered what Ace said at that time, opened his big mouth and wailed.

"Sabo... was not happy..."

Ace held his head in frustration. After a while, he rushed out suddenly, grabbed Dogula by the collar, and asked loudly.

"Where is the person who killed Sabo! I'm going to tear that bastard into pieces!"

"At...at the port..."

Dogula trembled and said the location, Ace immediately left him and was about to rush out the door.

"I want to avenge Sabo!"

Jiger also pulled out the knife in his hand, and was about to follow, but was stopped by Bahn.

Bane knew that Sabo was not dead, but he refrained from telling Ace and others, including Jiger, because he believed that it was because of Sabo's death that Ace and Luffy's growth was promoted, and now they have to count Jiger, so he grabbed Jiger who was about to follow, and in a flash, he appeared in front of Ace.

"Get out of the way! Bastard!"

Ace swung the iron rod in his hand and hit Bahn, but Bahn easily reached out to block the iron rod in Ace's hand, and slapped Ace hard with the other hand.

"Are you awake, boy?"

Bahn looked at Ace with a gloomy face. The previous smile had long since disappeared, and he said in a cold voice.

"Do you only have this level? What can you do even if you go like this? You just die in vain!"

"After you die, you will be completely forgotten the next day!"

Ace finally calmed down, sat on the ground, still covering his face slapped by Bahn, without saying a word.

Bahn squatted down, put his hands on his shoulders, and said earnestly.

"Listen, Ace, it's this country, this world that killed Sabo, and there's nothing you can do about it."

"After your father died, the era changed! When you become that kind of man, no one will be able to control you anymore."

"Now you should calm down first, believe me, there will be an explanation for Sabo's matter."

Bahn stood up, walked towards the door silently without saying a word.

And Luffy over there finally cried out

"Sabo!"

"It's so noisy! If you're a man, don't cry! Luffy!"

Ace yelled at Luffy, and Jiger came over and put his hand on his head and said.

"Don't cry, Luffy, Sabo doesn't want to see you like this either."

Jiger said this, but there were tears in his eyes...

"Hey! Barn!"

Ace suddenly yelled to Bane who hadn't walked out the door, Bane stopped and only listened to Ace.

"If he is a devil protecting his companions, then I, too, would rather become a devil! Protect the one I love!"

Bahn didn't look back, listened to Ace's words, smiled slightly, and walked out the door without saying a word.

Bahn, who walked out of the door, took out a small phone bug from his arms and said.

"Dorag, I'll find you later."