I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 623 Straw Hat’s Promise

Thirteen years ago, the Roger Pirates arrived at the Final Island, and Roger was called the "Pirate King" by the world - or the extremely vicious "devil".

Twelve years ago, Roger was publicly executed on Rogue Island in the East China Sea, and the life of the great pirate in his prime came to an abrupt end.

From being famous all over the world, and shocking the world... to disappearing, everyone is calling for beating...

What happened to the arrogant Roger Pirates in that short year?

Roger, who was extremely famous and unparalleled in the world, had never suffered any losses in front of the navy back then. How could he be suddenly captured by the navy?

The year that the Roger Pirates, unknown to outsiders, left the world's sight, gave rise to countless mysteries, aroused speculation, and even triggered a series of conspiracy theories...

Even Garp once thought about why Roger... surrendered. Is it just to say what he said before the execution?

But how should the execution be carried out? Should he be executed publicly in front of the world, or should he be executed secretly and then have his head cut off and spread around the world, and whether he had a chance before the execution0

But he didn't expect that the answer was so simple.

Suffering from a terminal illness, God has no false promises and time is running out. Obviously I have witnessed the truth of the world and learned some kind of prophecy of the future, but I really don’t have time.

Faced with such a trick of fate, perhaps no matter how open-minded a person is, he will regret that he was born at the wrong time... So, what about you, Roger?

Hey, what do you think?

The dancing firelight swayed on Garp's wrinkled face, which was dim and unclear. He chuckled and said: "Roger, before he died, he played a trick on our navy!"

This guy who has always loved pomp and circumstance, who wants to make a big scene in everything and create earth-shattering scenes, used his last bit of ember-like life to make a big splash in front of the whole world...

It’s so chic...

You bastard, are you a naughty kid?

Feeling unwilling to be able to participate in the future era?

So in the end, in that mischievous way, your Gol D. Roger's name was forever branded on the head of this era after your death?

It’s really...

It’s very similar to your style! Garp grinned silently.

"The next person to disembark was Captain Roger himself..." Shanks recalled the past in front of the fire, with tears in the corners of his eyes, "Although no one wanted to admit it, that day... everyone cried miserably. Only Captain Roger, who asked for the last bit of medicine from Mr. Koulokas and hugged Mr. Reilly, the oldest deputy captain on the ship, to say goodbye, did not cry himself... Speaking of which, I have never seen him cry, not even at the end. The day of execution also..."

Ace stared blankly at the much smaller flame. Of course he had found the newspaper where Pirate King Roger was executed and read it. He clearly remembered the look of the man who was his biological father in the execution photo that almost took up the entire newspaper page.

He is laughing.

Even though he was wearing swords and shackles, he was kneeling on the execution platform...but he was still grinning.

What's so funny?

He is obviously a criminal who is about to die... tell me, what is so funny?

Abandoning your wife and unborn son, leaving them in this world that is full of malice towards them... You are dead, what about them? What's so funny about this? !

"None of us knew where the captain ended up... Of course, I know now."

Shanks raised his head and looked at the dark night sky, "Ace, do you know how old the captain was at that time?"

"..." Ace said nothing.

"When he got off the ship, he was already fifty-two years old. Generally, if someone is willing to leave his bloodline, he wouldn't be delayed to this age, right?"

Shanks murmured to himself, "I think it was when the captain heard the prophecy on Fish-Man Island that he felt for the first time that he should have a child... Captain Roger, many people said , he is conceited and arrogant, he tramples on everyone he sees, and kills anything that displeases him. But you know what? They are not wrong."

Ace was startled when he heard this, Garp snorted, but Shanks laughed, "'I am the number one pirate in the world. If it is predicted that a more powerful guy will appear in the future, of course it will be My son, captain, he is 100% like this. Hahaha..."

As Shanks laughed, the campfire gradually became quiet.

Shanks lay down and looked at the starry sky that had not changed much compared to years ago.

Ace looked cold.

Luffy was sleeping peacefully on Tulip's lap.

Garp sat on the ground with his arms folded, his eyes lowered, not knowing what to think...

"Garp, do you still remember," Shanks said while lying on the grass, suddenly looking at the night sky, "that day in Rogge Town, the last words our captain left in this world..."

"..."

That paragraph was published one after another in the original newspapers - not just the World Economic News, but newspapers and pheasant magazines all over the world were reprinting it crazily. People also spread it by word of mouth, even if the world government wanted to stop it. Can't stop it either. Even on Nine Snakes Island, a windless zone with little information, Tulip had read such a newspaper and knew that paragraph.

"..." Garp chuckled, "'Do you want my treasure? Then go find it on the sea, I put everything there.'"

Tulip said to herself: "Because of his words, all the ambitious pirates from all over the world flocked to the Grand Route like crazy..."

Garp snorted coldly: "That **** wants to cause trouble even before he dies, so that our navy has to focus on the first half of the paradise, leaving Newgate and Charlotte's gang in the new world. How many loopholes have you exploited? ”

"That day, I was also in Roger Town and saw with my own eyes that Captain Roger was executed after saying these words..."

Shanks took off his straw hat, gently covered his face, and murmured to himself, "Who are the captain's words meant for? Are they meant for us? ? No, we have witnessed everything with him... Are you telling other pirates in the world? I was sure it was the latter before, but now I am a little unsure..."

It was quiet in the forest for a long time. Until Ace's cold voice broke the silence, "What do you mean?"

"..." Shanks sighed, "It's not interesting. I just think that Captain Roger likes to be in the limelight so much. Even if he is a father, he will definitely want to do something that no one else can do. At that point, even if he wants to leave something to his son, it must be in a way that no father in the world can replicate..."

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Luffy woke up from peeing.

He opened his eyes in a daze, lifted up the hem of his mother's skirt covering his body, jumped off her lap, wandered to the roadside in the woods in a daze, unbuttoned his pants and started to pee...

Woo~! The boy with the scar under his left eye trembled, shushed, and suddenly said "ah" and said in surprise: "Oops, I accidentally fell asleep and didn't hear the story of One Piece - forget it, I didn't hear it Didn’t you hear it?”

He didn't care, and even felt a little lucky that he didn't hear it.

After draining the water, Luffy turned back and saw that only ashes and a pile of white bones of a wild boar were left in the campfire.

The sky has become slightly brighter, and the mountain air in the morning is slightly cold, with the humidity of morning dew.

Grandpa Garp has gone somewhere, and Shanks has disappeared... Only my mother is still there. She stretched, closed her eyes, opened her arms in the direction of Luffy and smiled: "Come on, let's Mom hugs."

Luffy walked over and was hugged, looking over his mother's shoulder, he saw a distant figure in the woods over there.

"It's Ace." Luffy broke away from his mother and wanted to chase her, but Tulip grabbed his ear, and his ears were pulled back as thin as ramen noodles.

Luffy was pulled back, rolled over, covered his ears and shouted in pain: "Mom, what are you doing?"

Tulip pulled him into her arms and ravaged him, saying softly: "Let him stay alone for a while."

"..." Luffy was pressed into his mother's arms and blinked, as if he understood something, but also as if he didn't understand anything.

"..."

Chichi, chichichi, chichi... Ace dragged his broken water pipe, leaving a long and thin trace behind him on the ground stained with morning dew.

["What if Goldo Roger had a child?" In the hotel, the passers-by on the street, the young Ace, who had also longed for his father, heard those people say so matter-of-factly, " Of course he must be executed!"]

Ace was walking alone in the woods, his eyes bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept all night.

["We are really here too early... Who will really get the big secret treasure? That 'voice' is the 'truth'. Someone will be born and surpass us!"]

[On the pirate ship, Roger smiled confidently, "Haha, that must be my son!"]

[Rayleigh was speechless, "Where did you get your son?"]

[Roger laughed and said: "It will happen next!"]

……

Dadan's mountain hut was not far from the seaside, and Ace quickly walked out of the forest.

["Hey, old man..." Ace, who had fought with others in the town again, stared blankly at the sea, "Should I really be born in this world?"]

As soon as Ace looked up, he saw the coastline in front of him.

["If that devil has blood in this world, I hope that when he is caught and executed..." The people in the tavern laughed loudly, "He would cry and confess like this: 'I'm sorry, I am a Trash, shouldn't live in this world."]

Ace slowly walked to the shore alone.

[Garp said behind his back: "Don't you know this kind of thing if you see it alive?"]

The sea breeze ruffled Ace's black hair.

[The red-haired man who was beaten all over by himself lay in a pool of blood and said: "The captain answered me like this: 'What are you talking about? You were already born in this world...'"]

The waves hit the shore, splashing up waves of crystal mist, brushing against Ace's face, bringing a chill.

He looked at the almost arc-shaped horizon in the distance, and a fiery red sun rose slowly at the end of the sky.

[Many years ago, young Gol D. Roger pressed the straw hat on his head and came to the port of Rogge Town. He said with a smile: "Hey, Rayleigh, come with me to mess up the world." How about earth-shaking? ”]

The rising sun smeared the sea at the end, as if it showed the image of a grinning Roger with a raised beard, looking at Ace on the shore from a distance.

【"Do you want my treasure?"

【"Then go to the sea and look for it..."

["I put everything there!"]

Boom!

The waves crashed against the shore, raising whitecaps and drowning out the wailing voice of the freckled boy.

【"What do other people do?"

【"Since you are still alive, even if there is only one day left, live with your head held high!"]

"Asshole..."

Facing the boundless sea, Ace cried so hard for the first time since he was born, as if he was crying out all the sadness, unwillingness, and endless grievances that had accumulated in his heart.

"I will never... forgive you..."

The golden sun rose slowly over the horizon, smearing the sea like a long-haired woman emerging from the water. She looked back at Ace and smiled.

"Mom..."

Ace allowed himself to be weak and cried until he almost collapsed. He choked with sobs and even murmured to himself indistinctly, "I really want...to see you...just once..."

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〖Another day, windmill village, port——〗

The pirates carried the goods to the ship and they were ready to leave.

The village chief was very happy and drank two more glasses.

Mackino and some people came to the port. Shanks' face still had bandages and band-aids applied by Maginot herself.

As for Garp, he left here long ago and returned to his headquarters. He originally wanted to throw that kid Luffy to Dadan and Ace to raise together...but with Tulip around, it was obviously not possible to throw him away.

Tulip came with Luffy.

As agreed, Shanks informed Luffy before leaving.

"Luffy!" Beckman, **** Bu and others greeted each other on the boat and asked with a smile, "Can we talk now? Why did you give up on our boat? Do you not want to be a pirate?"

Shanks was about to get on the boat, and looked back at Luffy with a smile.

"Of course I want to be a pirate!" Luffy shouted energetically to his friends on the boat, then walked up to Shanks, raised his head and grinned, "But, a ship can only have one captain, right? ? So I don’t want to get on your boat!”

["It's one thing to throw a drink at me, but it's another thing to bet on my life! It's one thing to bet on my own life, but it's one thing to bet on my friend's life..."]

[Standing in front of the bandits, the red-haired man under the straw hat looked seriously, "That is another matter! I will never let go of the guy who hurts my friends."]

"I see, you want to be the captain."

Hearing this, Shanks smiled. He had expected what Luffy would say, but he was still touched when he heard the young man say it.

Luffy chuckled and said: "I will find a group of friends who are not inferior to you! Then I will become a pirate myself! Shanks, I want to surpass you-"

The boy raised his fists and announced with high spirits.

"I want to become - the Pirate King!!!"

"..." Shanks smiled, "You want to surpass us and become the Pirate King... Ace will be unhappy when he hears it, right?"

Luffy stuck out his tongue and made a face and said, "I don't care!"

"That's right!" Shanks chuckled, and then took off the straw hat on his head, "This hat... was given to me by Captain Roger. It is my most cherished treasure. I will keep it with you now. Here..."

Poof, he put the straw hat on Luffy's head and pressed the boy's head, "When you don't need it, leave it to me like Captain Roger."

It was really time to say goodbye. Luffy finally couldn't help crying under the straw hat, and heard Shanks's smiling voice: "Do you have any objections, the future Pirate King?"

Luffy choked and said: "No..."

Tulip looked at this scene quietly with a smile from behind.

Shanks handed the straw hat to Luffy, turned around and boarded his own pirate ship. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a black-haired boy under a tree on the shore not far away, carrying the broken water pipe from a distance. He raised his fingers as if waving goodbye.

"..."

Shanks smiled slightly, raised his fist in that direction, and continued on the boat.

"Weight anchor! Raise sail!"

"Let's go!"

"Oh ho~~~!!!"

The red-haired pirates' ship gradually moved away. At the port, Tulip walked up to Luffy, held down the straw hat on his head, and leaned against her side.

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In the afternoon, Luffy and his mother returned to their cabin in Mount Kolpo, only to find a freckled boy carrying a water pipe already waiting for them on the hillside.

"Ace!" Luffy smiled and waved from afar.

Ace did not sneer at his enthusiasm like before. He nodded to him and looked up at the tulip beside Luffy.

Tulip asked: "What's wrong? Do you have anything to do with me?"

"You are training him..." Ace was of course referring to Luffy. He said sincerely to Tulip, "Please train me too, I want to become stronger!"

Tulip said strangely: "Oh? I have never made a move in front of you, how do you know..."

Ace was also startled, but Tulip smiled, "It seems that you, who are as delicate and emotional as a girl, may be better at seeing, hearing and seeing."

Ace didn't understand what eroticism was, but being said to look like a girl made him feel embarrassed - of course, mainly because Luffy was very rude after hearing his mother's comments about Ace. He pointed at Ace and laughed wildly "Hahahaha".

Ace glared at Luffy, who quickly shut his mouth.

"If they are Luffy's friends," Tulip said to herself thoughtfully, "then it's not impossible to train together..."

"..." Ace was speechless and looked at Luffy. Slowly remove the straw hat from the other person's head, look into the other person's eyes, and then stretch out your hand, "My name is Ace, Portcas D. Ace."

Luffy, who was wearing a straw hat, didn't mind at all. He held his hand and said with a smile, "My name is Luffy, Monkey D. Luffy."

Tulip looked at the two teenagers holding hands and smiled happily.

But Ace raised his head, thought of something, and asked sheepishly: "Well... I've already taught two people anyway, how about teaching one more?"