I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 622 Let me tell you a story about your father

In front of the cabin in the woods deep in the mountains of Kolbo, there was a banging sound of fighting...

To say it was a "fight" may not be accurate, because it was just one person "beating" the other one-sidedly.

Bang!

The broken water pipe was stained with blood and slapped Shanks **** the face.

Bang! boom! Bang...

Blood spattered, and Shanks was beaten with stick after stick by the angry Ace, leaving his head badly bruised and dripping with blood.

Shanks is not Lynch. He does not have the instinct to turn iron into bones. He almost turned it into a passive skill... When he did not use his weapon color and gave up all defenses, facing a person like Ace, although A boy who was only ten years old but had been "training on the road" in Mount Korbo and was even able to fight wild beasts. If he attacked like crazy, Shanks would be beaten with bruises and bruises on his face.

Luffy looked angry and clenched his fists tightly.

Huh? Tulip found that although her son was angry, he only glared at Ace who beat Shanks violently, and restrained the urge to step forward and stop Ace.

Hehehe... Tulip raised a smile at the corner of her mouth.

It’s not a relief or a relief, after all, people with different personalities have different choices. Not stopping Ace would not necessarily make her appear greater than running to stop Ace from beating up Shanks; but she did have a special impression of her son.

The Bandit Dadan and his gang stood at the door of the wooden house in shock and bewilderment, looking at everything that was happening in front of them, "This kid Ace is too scary..." "He is indeed the 'bloodline of the devil'." " Fortunately, it wasn’t me who hit me!”

"..." Garp just crossed his arms and stood watching and listening without making a sound or stopping him.

"Huchi... Huchi... Huchi..."

After fighting for a long time, Ace finally got tired. He stood on the spot holding the water pipe, breathing heavily. He looked hatefully at Shanks, who was lying in a pool of blood with a bruised nose and face, and said coldly: "That **** who abandoned his wife... is not my father. Don't mention him to me!"

His hands trembled slightly, and blood dripped along the water pipe onto the grass, dripping into a pool of blood.

Pa, a pair of leather shoes stepped on a pool of blood. Garp walked over with his arms folded, looking down at Shanks lying in the pool of blood. The latter was already covered in scars all over his body and face, and was beyond recognition. There was a hint of sadness and pity on his face.

Garp said calmly: "Roger surrendered and handed Estor to me in prison."

Huff...huff... Ace's eyes were covered by shadows, he was panting, and he tremblingly clenched the blood-stained water pipe.

"Later, I found Ace's mother in the South China Sea who was still pregnant with Ace at the time." Garp slowly talked about the past many years ago, "In order not to be hunted down by the World Government, he killed Roger's bloodline, Lujiu I managed to stay pregnant for twenty months before giving birth to Ace..."

After hearing what Garp said, Ace pursed his lips and turned around to leave.

"Are you going to run away?"

Suddenly a voice made Ace's pupils shrink and he stepped on his feet with a bang.

"..." Ace suddenly turned around, "Who do you think will run away?!"

He glared at the guy who was a few years younger than him, "He's just a weak coward."

"You are so weak!" Luffy made a face, "I think people who can laugh even after being thrown a drink are great! You have no idea how powerful Shanks is. If he wants to hit you , a hundred, no, a thousand, ten thousand, you are no match for him!" He stuck out his tongue and said disgustedly, "But he is willing to be beaten like this by you! Now you have to leave, isn't it very good? Strange? ”

Luffy's words made Garp, Tulip, and Ace all look at him. Shanks was still lying in a pool of blood.

"..." Garp sighed softly, "As if he had burned everything he had, after giving birth to Ace successfully, Lujiu died. Later, I brought Ace to this remote country in the East China Sea... ”

Ace finally did not turn around and leave. He stayed on the spot, stubbornly holding the blood-stained water pipe with a gloomy expression.

"..."

Lying on the ground with a **** head and unrecognizable Shanks listened, silent, suddenly raised his **** hand and grabbed it towards the dim sky outside the gap in the woods, "I... once asked Roger Captain, a question: Is it really okay for me to be born?”

"...?!" Ace never thought that the man who was beaten with blood all over his body would say such a thing.

A simple sentence made Ace's heart, which was pretending to be strong, tremble violently.

The freckled boy opened his mouth slightly and looked at the man holding up **** hands in the pool of blood. The latter said to himself: "I am the son of Captain Roger's enemy... My father is The biggest villain in the world at that time... Later, he was eliminated... Captain Roger adopted me on the ship... For a while, I was confused, with such a bloodline, would anyone really want me to live. ?"

"The captain answered me like this..."

In the pool of blood, Shanks slowly sat up. In the gap between the bruises and swelling, you could vaguely see the corners of his mouth raised and the tears in his eyes, "'What nonsense are you talking about? You've already Born into this world'..."

Huchi... Huchi...

Ace's breathing became heavy again.

He didn't want to cry at all, but there was unsatisfactory warmth and sorrow in his eyes, so he had to grit his teeth desperately, put on a vicious look, and squeezed out the words from his heart, "I said... don't mention that, that , bastard!"

"'It doesn’t matter what other people do...'"

Shanks looked at Ace and said slowly to himself, "'Since you are still alive, even if there is only one day left, live with your head held high.'"

Like the final blow that penetrated his heart, Ace went completely crazy.

"I told you to stop talking!!!"

The freckled boy closed his eyes tightly, roared and swung the blood-stained water pipe towards Shanks.

Bang!

Garp grabbed the broken water pipe covered in blood. The force of the water pipe hitting it down... wasn't much at all, and it was easy for him to hold it.

Ace still held on to the broken pipe and refused to let go. He lowered his head and his shoulders trembled. Dare not look up, dare not speak, dare not make a sound.

"..."

Looking at this stubborn boy who especially likes to get into trouble, there was a tear in the corner of Garp's eyes.

He sighed softly, pulled the water pipe over, knelt down and pressed Ace into his arms.

"..."

Luffy stared at all this blankly. Tulip squatted down, hugged her son and leaned on her shoulders, stroking his head.

"What on earth is going on..."

The bandit Dadan's family has been completely dizzy. It seems that they have heard a lot of important things that they don't understand but seem to be very powerful.

Gululu, a sudden stomach rumbling sound broke the atmosphere.

Everyone looked at Luffy. Luffy touched his belly and looked at the wild boar where Ace was sitting. Drooling at the corner of his mouth, he pointed at it with a smile, "Can I eat it?"

Garp smiled and turned around and said, "Dadan, Ace is treating us to a treat today. Let's eat out."

"Oh, okay, then we-" The Dadan family nodded. They had also been coveting the wild boar that Ace had hunted for a long time, but they heard Garp say: "Oh, you are not included. We are together tonight Eat roasted wild boar outside.”

When the meat was gone, Dadan said angrily: "Why aren't we included?!"

Garp picked his nose and said nonchalantly: "Oh, is this your prey?"

Dadan and the others stopped talking. Indeed, Ace lives here, and all they provide him every day is a bowl of coarse rice, a glass of water, and a floor to lie down and sleep on. Compared with the meat that Ace hunts every day, it seems a bit insignificant... But that's not how the account is calculated, right? They took in Ace, but they took a huge risk! !

Obviously, Garp is not someone who will care about how they settle accounts. He smiled and said to Ace, who was bowing his head: "If you didn't refuse, I'll treat you as your kid and agree to the treat."

"..." Shanks, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, smiled slightly.

"Oh! Eat meat!!!" Only Luffy was the most excited, drooling and rushing towards the wild boar. Tulip held him up with one hand and kicked his two short legs in the air.

…………………………

"Eh?!!!!!! Ace's dad is the Pirate King?!!!!!!!!!"

At night, a bonfire was lit in the forest. The wild boar was on the grill, and the golden fat kept dripping down onto the flames of the woodpile.

Luffy was chewing wild boar barbecue, his mouth was full of oil, and his eyes were about to pop out in shock.

Ace sat across from him, the flames of the bonfire swaying, making it difficult to see his dim expression.

"Didn't you listen carefully before?" Tulip was speechless. Is his son a little stupid? She took out her handkerchief, wiped grease on Luffy's mouth, and cut off a large piece of good meat from the wild boar barbecue and handed it to Luffy, "Shanks said he was adopted by Ace's father on the pirate ship... …”

"Eh?!!!!!!"

Luffy took a bite of the fragrant grilled meat cut by his mother. Hearing this, he was so shocked that his eyes almost jumped out of his head. "Shanks is a crew member of the Pirate King?!!!!!!"

Beep, beep, there are explosions from time to time in the bonfire, and Luffy's surprise is like a background...

Looking at the dancing flames, Shanks suddenly said: "Fifteen years ago, Captain Roger contracted an incurable disease."

These sudden words not only made Ace's pupils shrink instantly and he suddenly raised his head to look at Shanks, but also surprised Garp and Tulip opposite, who both looked over.

Of course Tulip has never heard of such a thing; in fact, even Garp has never heard of it.

Garp murmured: "I see... no wonder that guy chose to surrender..."

If he could live to witness the era, how could a guy like Roger be willing to usher in some **** "Great Pirate Age" with his last words before his death?

Before the so-called "Great Pirate Age", were there no pirates chasing and competing for hegemony on the sea?

If he still has life, Roger would certainly prefer to witness with his own eyes some kind of future that he foresees... Garp held his forehead and said nothing.

Shanks picked up a branch and stirred the bonfire, looked at the flames and muttered to himself: "Although Garp has been chasing Captain Roger for a long time, although he is called an enemy but is actually a friend, he is a navy after all. We don’t know many things well.”

He turned to look at Ace, "I know I have no right to make irresponsible remarks about your life, Ace. But...let me tell you something about Captain Roger and the former pirate group. experience.”

Ace pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

"Even if you still choose to resent him in the end, you should at least know a little more about him..." Shanks said slowly, "The story of the man you hate, named 'Gol D. Roger' ”

Ace lowered his head slightly, with the dancing fire reflected in his eyes, and in his ears was Shanks recounting a memory about the Pirate King and his pirate group...

……

Of course Shanks didn't start from the beginning, after all, even he didn't know many things.

He started talking about it when Captain Roger was diagnosed with a terminal illness thirteen years after the Roger Pirates first completed the Grand Line and arrived at Suixian Island only to find that the road ahead was cut off.

……

"When the doctor said Captain Roger only had one or two years to live..."

Shanks recalled the past events many years ago. Although it was only fifteen years ago, it seemed like it was a lifetime ago. "Vice Captain Rayleigh, Jabba, Spencer... everyone found it hard to accept, but the captain said..."

["Haha, there are only one or two years left," Roger looked at the blood coughed up in his hands and smiled heartily, "Guys, then every day of my life will be precious! Hahaha... …Let’s go and find a more powerful doctor first!”]

[He shook the pirate captain's coat and put it on his body, pushed open the door and walked out. He turned around and said with a smile, "Why do you look like this? Don't look at me like this. If possible, I would like to live a few more years." , Hehehehehe..."]

……

“We found Dr. Koulokas at Twin Points, the entrance to the Grand Line, and invited him to join us. Later, he also accompanied us throughout the entire journey...”

Luffy had eaten and drank enough and had fallen asleep on Tulip's knees. And Shanks was still slowly telling the past events accumulated deep in his memory.

【"Every day from now on, there will be no looking back!"]

[At the entrance of the Grand Line, the scarred Island Whales raised their heads and chanted loudly, as if to say goodbye to them. Roger stood on the bow of the ship and held down his captain's hat, laughing loudly at the sea in front of him with high spirits. 】

["Guys, let's set sail-!!!"]

【"Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!!" All the pirates cheered, singing and dancing towards the Grand Route. 】

……

"...When the captain was at a loss and thought he was going to die of illness if he couldn't find the great secret treasure, we met the Whitebeard Pirates at that time and luckily got a key figure, so we could reach the final island. ”

["Oden, it's great to have you join us! Hahaha..."]

[Roger stood on the bow of the ship and looked at the rough sea and the thundercloud sky. He raised his beard and smiled, "Destiny, you took away the rest of my life, but in the end I was sent Oden at the last moment, which is not bad for me!”]

Ace stared blankly at the much smaller bonfire, picked up a branch and stirred it to make the flames reignite and grow stronger.

……

"...We came to Fish-Man Island again and got some kind of prophecy about the future..."

【"He's about to be born!" "Our king is about to be born..."]

[At a depth of 10,000 meters, the giant sea kings communicate in their language, "The ocean in the distance... is also about to be born!"]

["The whales are also happy, looking forward to the day when the two kings will meet."]

["There are still ten years until birth."]

["There are still fifteen years before we grow up."]

[On the pirate ship diving into the sea, Roger looked at the deep sea in confusion, "Who is talking?!"]

……

"...Because I had to take care of my sick companion, I didn't go to the Final Island with the captain and the others. I don't know what they saw."

Shanks looked at the clean white bones of the wild boar on the grill, "When the captain came back, he announced that the Roger Pirates... would be disbanded."

After many years, when he read this sentence again, Shanks still felt a little sad, "Although I knew that the captain would only have a few years left to live, when I heard the word "disband" from the captain's mouth... I have never cried so hard as I did that day."

"..." Ace listened to the story he told about the journey of the Roger Pirates, and remained silent for a long time.

Shanks continued: "The captain turned around and returned, passing by the places we had walked along, and one by one our partners got off the ship along the way... On the night of farewell, the captain thought of what we heard on Fish-Man Island That prophecy, he suddenly realized, it seems that we arrived at the final island too early... He was very sorry for this reality, but there was nothing he could do about it. He had very little life left, and he would definitely not be able to see the future with his own eyes. . But the captain is not sad at all..."

Speaking of this, Shanks glanced at Ace who was silent and said, "One day in the future, who will really get the great secret treasure? The captain said proudly-'It must be mine. Son'! ”

As he was stirring the bonfire, he paused, and his fingers were burned by the flames and he didn't even notice.