I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 624 “I feel ashamed that I was born into a noble family”

[Chapter serial series・Heart Pirates 30・"The years are quiet"]

[Luo's body needed to recover, so the three of them followed him to Wolfe's home outside the town. Baby5 wandered around Wolfe's house, which was full of strange inventions and props. Luo used the power of the surgical fruit to help Rosinandy deal with gunshot wounds all over his body... In this way, they temporarily settled on this Petrel Island. There are no pirates, no navy, and certainly no Don Quixote family...]--

To the north of Windmill Village is the Corpo Mountain...

In the woods of Mount Corpo, Ace carried his water pipe and continued northward along his usual "practice road."

Along the way, we encountered many ferocious beasts.

Crocodile, porcupine, wild wolf...

They are all huge types. If Ace can match him, he will be able to fight with strength. If he is not, he will use his dexterous body skills to fight and chase the opponent away. He will not escape anyway.

"Wow!!"

A scream came from behind, and Ace stopped and turned back angrily: "So, why are you following me?"

Luffy was entangled by a huge vulture from behind, and was pecked until his face was bruised and swollen. He angrily stretched out his rubber arms and hugged the vulture. He didn't have much plan. Anyway, he rounded it up and threw it hard... Bang! boom! boom! The vulture was stunned, and felt that it was really strange that this human boy could extend his arms. After thinking for two seconds, he quickly flapped his wings and retreated.

Huffing and puffing, Luffy gasped and said in fear: "There are more animals on this road than when I returned to the village, and they are even scarier!"

In response to Ace's question, he pressed his straw hat and grinned: "What does it matter? Aren't we friends? The person you are looking for, I also want to make friends with him! Hehehe..."

"..." Ace crossed his arms and said calmly, "You are a little better than you were at the beginning. Just a little bit."

Luffy smiled brightly, "Because my mother trained me!"

Ace said nothing and turned back to continue walking north. Luffy trotted away and quickly followed.

On the way, Luffy kept chirping and annoying Ace, like a little follower.

Ace wasn't bothered.

He picked up a rare beetle, and Luffy showed it off to Ace; when he met a colorful python, Luffy was not afraid at all, but the python seemed to be a little close to him... Ace noticed the snake in this guy's neck shaped pendant, and remembered that there was a big colorful snake next to Luffy's mother. A picture could not help but appear on the top of the freckled water pipe boy's head. Luffy and Tulip had shed their human skins, revealing the appearance of snake heads and human bodies...?

After having close interactions with various wild animals in Mount Kolbo along the way, Ace was unharmed, Luffy was disgraced, and the two finally walked out of Mount Kolbo.

A strong and strange smell came over me, as if the rotten water at the bottom of the garbage dump had been thickened and doubled to fill an entire mountain. The smell lingered in the wind.

“It stinks so much!”

Luffy looked at the place filled with garbage in front of him with disgust. In the breeze, the garbage mountain exuded a smelly mist that was visible to the naked eye... In the mist, there were faint human figures moving, and you could also see the A house made of garbage.

"There are people living in a place like this." Luffy was shocked.

As he walked, Ace introduced it as usual: "Further north is the city of the Kingdom of Goa. The people living there discharge all garbage to this 'Uncertain Terminal'. Because of the sunlight, here There is always burning smoke and a stench... But even in a place like this, because many city people don't need it, but the poor regard it as something they can use to survive, so many people live here, Collecting trash for a living.”

As the two of them walked, two people sat in the garbage in the mist. They seemed to have heard Luffy's previous exclamation and were looking at him coldly.

"I'm sorry." Luffy apologized, put his hands on his hips and laughed, "But it really stinks here! It's really hard to live here."

The two passers-by in the garbage mountain didn't know how they felt after hearing this. In short, they didn't talk to Luffy anymore, got up and left.

"Be careful." Ace said, "This is a real lawless zone. Even children and women may be villains with several lives on their hands. Don't talk to people you don't know casually. ”

"Oh." Luffy replied as he followed Ace with a smile.

Soon, the two came to a remote corner of the garbage mountain near the woods where there were relatively few people.

Ace approached a tree and whispered to the tree: "Saab, are you there?"

"Oh, Ace." A young man wearing a top hat appeared in a flash, holding a broken water pipe similar to Ace's. "You're finally here. I've already gone to town to 'work'. Hehe, I must have won today!"

Ace raised his head and said: "Sorry, I'm late. Sabo, I have something to talk to you about..."

"Hey, who is this kid behind you?" Sabo squatted on a thick branch and asked doubtfully, "What's the matter? I thought you were going to 'work' because you were late. Why did you come here empty-handed?" La? ”

Ace smiled and said: "He is the 'thing' I want to talk about."

Luffy pressed his straw hat, looked up with a smile and said, "My name is Luffy, I am Ace's friend!"

"..." Sabo said, "You look so stupid when you smile...Forget it, my name is Sabo, and I am also Ace's friend."

A few minutes later, the three teenagers sat together on the thick branch, and there was a square hole somewhere in the branch. When you opened the cover covered with grass, you could see gold, jewelry, and a piece of jewelry buried in the hole. Stacks of Baileys banknotes.

Luffy exclaimed: "That's a lot of money! Is this your treasure?"

Sabo trusted Ace very much. Since Ace brought this kid, he did not shy away from it. He smiled and said: "Yes, the two of us have been saving for five years. One day we will use this money. Use the money to buy a boat and go out to sea to become a pirate!"

"Wow, that's great..." Luffy was a little envious and said with a smile, "I will also be a pirate in the future! But I have no money, hehehe."

Sabo smiled politely at Luffy, turned to Ace and complained: "You didn't bring a penny here today, let's go to the town to 'work' together later."

Ace looked at the gold jewelry and banknotes in the tree hole, and said thoughtfully: "I don't want to use these to buy a boat."

"What did you say?" Sabo was surprised and a little angry, "Hey, you seem to be acting weird today! Is it because of this kid?"

"It's not..." Ace looked steadily at the treasures he and Sabo had accumulated over the past five years, "It's because someone told me a story..."

"Story?" Sabo didn't understand.

"..." Ace was stunned, and finally sighed, "Sabo, the sea is too broad!"

Saab is even more dizzy. Isn’t this nonsense?

"And we are too small." Ace said to himself, "We can't survive in such a sea just by relying on dreams... So, I want to use this money to become a disciple and make myself better first. Strong! ”

Saab was shocked, "What happened..."

"Master is this guy's mother." Ace reached out and pinched Luffy's cheek, which was like a normal person, and stretched it, "I came today just to invite you to come with me. You should also accept that Women’s training!”

"His face...?!" Sabo was shocked, "It's like ramen..."

Ace raised a smile and said, "I'm right, the world is big and the sea is very broad!"

Sabo said in confusion: "Maybe you are right..."

……

"So, the other kid Ace was talking about is you?"

In front of the wooden house on the hillside, three teenagers stood in a row in front of Tulip. A large, colorful snake stood at her feet, looking down at Sabo with her arms folded.

Saab took off his hat, revealing his short blond hair, and said politely: "Hello, my name is Saab, and this is our apprenticeship ceremony."

He kicked a large bag of treasure at his feet.

"However, I have some doubts, are you qualified enough to deserve so much treasure?" The blond boy looked up at Tulip with a smile.

"Hey..." Ace held his forehead. This guy has been hanging out at the terminal for too long. He no longer knows how to greet people normally, right?

When Luffy heard this, he was so frightened that he instinctively moved a little away from Sabo.

But Tulip smiled, very beautifully and brilliantly, squinting at Saab, "Very good, Saab, right? You are very good..."

Saab's smiling face froze a little, and a drop of sweat hung on the back of his head. Did he do something wrong?

That night, Sabo fell to the ground with a bruised and swollen face, and said to himself unwillingly: "I...can't even beat one of her snakes..."

In front of Sabo is the pet snake that Tulip has raised since childhood. It is also a fighting partner and a portable weapon. He was holding his snake's head high and hissing a message at the disgraced Sabo, as if he was mocking him. Tulip accepted Sabo's challenge, and then flicked a finger on the forehead of the rushing water pipe boy, sending the latter flying straight away from the hillside... Luffy was fine, but Ace was immediately dumbfounded, thinking that Sabo Was killed directly.

Saab came back dejected, already knowing that he was wrong, but Tulip pretended not to hear it, and did not want to let the boy go like this, so he released his own war snake to educate him, so the current scene happened...

Ace and Luffy ate their dinner in silence, lighting a candle for Sabo in their hearts.

And Tulip was sitting leisurely on a wooden chair in front of the house, sipping a glass of wine, crossing her legs, dusting off her long skirt, "How about it, handsome boy, am I worthy of you?"

"..." Ace and Luffy ate in sync while looking at Sabo who was jumping in front of the snake a little worriedly. This is a good opportunity, so give in quickly and don’t be impulsive!

Sabo stood up with a bruised nose and a swollen face. He walked toward Tulip with a serious face. Even though his nose was bruised and swollen, Sabo could not be serious and walked towards Tulip. When Ace and Luffy wanted to rush over and drag him back, they saw Sabo kneeling down and kowtow respectfully. He nodded, clapped his hands and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, I was rude." After saying that, he patted his trouser legs and stood up, walked back to sit between Luffy and Ace with a Buddhist look, and grabbed Ace and Luffy's hands. He poured the rest into the bowl and started eating.

Ace and Luffy were speechless the whole time. Why did they steal our food? !

"Hehehe..."

Tulip stood up with a smile and returned to the house leaving a sentence, "Start training tomorrow."

"Oh!" Sabo, who was snoring while eating, raised a fist and was punched by Luffy and Sabo. "Go and serve the food yourself! Mom (aunt) left a portion for you!"

……

In this way, the three teenagers followed Tulip to practice.

They are all teenagers, ordinary children other than Nine Snakes. Tulip is not in a hurry to tell them about domineering right from the beginning, but first examines the characteristics of these three children.

Although Luffy had the experience of being trained by Garp, he was thrown into the mountains to let loose. His tenacious vitality was tempered, but his foundation was the worst, so Tulip had to teach him basic skills first... ...It just so happens that Luffy ate a rubber fruit that seems to be detrimental to the performance of taijutsu. If he lays the foundation from scratch, it will be easier to integrate with the ability of this devil fruit and create Luffy's own fighting system.

Saab and Ace's skills are obviously much better, but Sabo prefers frontal attacks, while Ace's style is more dexterous. The former is like a little dragon riding on the wind with high morale, while the latter seems to be unpredictable and unpredictable. Burning fire...

In front of the hillside, three little guys went back and forth to deal with Tulip. Sometimes Tulip stood, sometimes sat bored, and sometimes commanded his own fighting snake Xiaowu to play with the three teenagers...

Their training basically consisted of practicing with Tulip on the first day, practicing in the mountains on the second day, and free duels with each other on the third day... But no matter which day it was, they would practice until their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, and their bodies were covered in bruises. hurt. Fortunately, the herbal medicine made from tulips is very effective, and the three teenagers are also very resilient. Basically, as long as the injuries suffered yesterday are not too serious, they can be fully recovered after waking up.

Listen to the class for one day and get beaten at the same time; and then go to the mountains the next day. After hard training in the mountains, the beasts have become kind-hearted. Ace actually feels like he is on vacation. By the way, Sabo and Ace also like to lead the way this day. Flying into the city to "work", although they no longer save their pirate treasures, they still have to save money if they can. It's also good to go to the city to eat Overlord meals. Ace always doesn't forget to pack. A delicious meal from the city was brought back to Aunt Tulip; on the day when it was their turn to duel, Luffy suffered the most, because neither Ace nor Sabo could beat him, and he was at the bottom of the scoreboard... …

Although I was very unhappy that I couldn't defeat Ace and Sabo, what was even more terrifying was the sight of my mother who was watching from the side... It really made Luffy super stressed! Mom was obviously smiling, but she felt so terrible.

The three teenagers were taking a bath and playing around. Tulip was drinking wine by the window and admiring the moon. He glanced at the slick Sabo boy and said thoughtfully: "Saab, are you a noble?"

"Huh?"

The three people who were fighting stopped, especially Sabo, whose body was stiff, "Ah? Aunt Tulip, what are you talking about..."

"You can still see traces of good care on your body..." Tulip took a sip of wine, looked up at the moon, and said to herself, "There is a person who is very dissatisfied with the aristocracy and should come here soon. Already..."

Over there, Ace and Luffy are asking Sabo, what's going on? Brothers eat together, make trouble, and go to the city to work. Why did you suddenly become a noble?

Saab then honestly confessed that he was indeed the son of a noble in Goa Kingdom, but because he saw clearly the faces of his noble parents, he ran away from home and decided to become a pirate. He did not want to be a noble, but just wanted to be a pirate. Free to be yourself, to be Saab.

"Oh." Ace and Luffy pressed their noses together, looking bored.

Sabo put the water basin on the heads of the two bad friends, and said angrily: "If you don't care, why do you keep asking!"

The three boys started playing like a water-splashing festival again.

……

I thought life would continue like this. Ace and Sabo decided at the beginning that they would go to sea at the age of seventeen. After all, they were the same age.

But after a while...

This day was the day for the internal duel between the three of them. They were fighting each other in the open space on the hillside. There was a standings next to them. Ace and Sabo were evenly matched, while Luffy lost both sides and was at the bottom of the list.

"Look at the punch!" Sabo yelled.

Ace smiled and said: "The action is too obvious."

As he said this, he easily dodged Sabo's fist, but Sabo chuckled and kicked Ace in the waist. Ace also smiled, "It's still too obvious. Do you think I can't guess that you will?" Want to add a twist? ”

Ace somersaulted and stepped on Sabo's hat. Sabo got into a fight with him angrily.

Luffy sat slumped on the sidelines, not because he was beaten, but simply because he was tired... He is a rubber man, even Sabois can't hurt him, but he can't hit them either, so it all ends with Luffy I was so tired that I was forced to lie down and admit defeat.

"Oh, it's a tie again!"

Saboais struggled with each other and finally announced the result reluctantly.

At this time, Tulip, who had gone out, came back. After watching their duel for a while, he reminded: "You three, it is best not to go to the 'Non-recyclable Terminal' again recently."

"Why? What's wrong? What happened?"

The three of them patted their clothes and patted them clean before running to Tulip and asking.

Tulip found a newspaper and handed it to Sabo, who was the most literate, "There is garbage coming to Goa Kingdom, so some people want to burn down all the terminals..."

Only Luffy didn't understand, and a question mark appeared on his head.

Saab looked at the front page news of the newspaper in his hand in shock, "The Celestial Dragons...are coming here..."

"Celestial Dragons?" Ace also came over to take a look, but he had never heard of what a Celestial Dragon was.

After all, Sabo had received a noble education, so he explained: "They are a group of people called the 'World Nobles'... It can be said that they are the nobles among the nobles... They are a group of people who enjoy the highest privileges in the world. ! ”

"Oh, Aunt Tulip is right," Esquire said, "They are indeed rubbish."

Luffy asked strangely: "Since it is garbage, why do you want to burn the garbage mountain?"

Saab said in disbelief: "The non-recyclables terminal... there are still many people living there! Are they going to burn it down? Have they notified everyone of the transfer?"

"..." Tulip looked down at Sabo. Sabo suddenly understood something in her gaze. He shivered all over and murmured: "The nobles think...those people who live in the terminal. ...Is it also part of 'garbage'..."

Ace looked gloomy, Luffy was indignant, crossed his arms and said angrily: "That's too much!"

Tulip asked Sabo: "What are you going to do? Are you going to tell the people at the terminal to leave?"

Ace said gloomily: "It's useless. Before we really burn it, the people in the garbage mountain won't believe a word of our words. The people there don't trust others easily."

Saab gritted his teeth, raised his head and said, "I want to go home, and I want to know! Why...why do you do such a thing?!"

Tulip smiled faintly, "Okay, let's go."

"Me too." Ace went to get two broken water pipes and threw one of them to Sabo.

Luffy shook his rubber arm, "Hey, I'll go too."

……

The three teenagers followed Tulip into the prosperous city of Goa Kingdom.

Before entering the city, they passed by the non-recyclables terminal and found that everyone in the garbage mountain acted as if nothing had happened and continued to live as before.

They tried to remind everyone that the nobles in the city were going to burn the place down, but no one wanted to believe them.

"Want to take my place?" A homeless man picking up trash sneered.

"..." After entering the city, Sabo gritted his teeth and ran quickly, and soon found the home where he once lived.

His home is a high-rise area where upper-class nobles live. People dressed like the three of them can't get in, but wherever Tulip goes, the guards will foam at the mouth and pass out... Sabo is not in the right mood. , did not notice, but Ace and Luffy noticed this abnormality, and couldn't help but look back at their mother/aunt. Tulip smiled back, and the two of them turned back obediently, with even more awe in their hearts.

Sabo rushed into his original home, while Tulip stood outside the second floor window with Ace and Luffy. The sound of a fierce argument between Sabo and others soon sounded through the window.

It wasn't until nightfall that Sabo put on his own clothes, opened the window, carried the broken water pipe, and slipped out.

As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw the three people waiting outside. Ace was holding the water pipe and looking over calmly, Luffy was curled up in a ball and had fallen asleep long ago, and Tulip was standing on the roof, looking up at the night sky. , it seems that the wind is blowing.

"The wind is getting stronger." She said to herself.

"They are all crazy." Sabo looked at Ace with tears in his eyes, "A noble...does he regard himself as another kind of creature...monster? I don't understand..."

Ace said calmly: "You should have understood it a long time ago, right? Isn't it always like this?"

Saab lowered his head and wiped his tears...

As soon as day broke, Sabo ran around the city. When he met a well-dressed noble, he asked him if he knew that the non-recyclable terminal and everyone living there were going to be burned to death outside the city. matter?

"I know, so what?" the aristocratic man drinking coffee at a street table said casually, "Whose child are you?"

He knew... Sabo couldn't believe it, but the man still lived his life as usual as if nothing had happened.

It’s not just the person in front of me...

There is nothing unusual about this entire city...

"This is the nobility." Tulip led Ace and Luffy to follow Sabo, who was running in front of him. "They are a class born to enjoy. They can stand high because they exploit the bottom class to support them. But they take it for granted..."

Ace was speechless and Luffy didn't quite understand.

"Luffy's father wanted to do something just because he was dissatisfied with this reality." Tulip said softly.

Ace was surprised, Luffy was even more surprised, "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?! I have a father?!!!"

Boom! Before Tulip could make a move, Ace punched Luffy first.

He respected Tulip very much and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? Of course you have a father! Auntie, what kind of person is Luffy's father?"

Ace raised his head and asked. Tulip raised his head and thought for a while, then looked down into Ace's eyes and suddenly smiled: "Men are all the same, they are all heartless. When he is my man, let him be so-so." ”

"Oh." Luffy pressed his nose, nonchalantly.

Ace felt Tulip's thoughtfulness, his nose felt sour, and he lowered his head.

Tulip leaned over and teased, "You say you are as delicate as a girl, but you still don't admit it?"

"You have to take care of it!" Ace's freckled face turned red and he turned his head.

……

"I know about the 'fire'."

A passing old man stroked his beard and long beard gracefully, and said with a smile, "This is something everyone agrees on. But don't make it public... in case anyone outside the 'High Zone' knows, It will cause unnecessary troubles in vain. You have to know that we are special... aren't you also a child of a nobleman? So you should understand..."

I don't understand... Sabo looked at the polite old gentleman in front of him in shock, feeling that he was like a stranger in human skin.

I don’t understand!

Saab turned around and ran away with tears in his eyes.

"Saab!" Luffy was eating outside the corner shop and greeted Sabo happily when he saw him passing by, "The food here is delicious!"

Boom, Ace next to him punched him.

"Why are you hitting me?!" Luffy was dissatisfied and took two more bites.

If an adult bullies Luffy maliciously, Tulip may still have objections, but Tulip will easily ignore such fights between children of the same age. Her son is not that squeamish yet.

Saab ran around in the city, but no matter where he went, he got the same result...

Everyone...no, all nobles...all members of the aristocratic class know what is going to happen outside the city...

What sent chills down Sabo's spine even more was that not only were they very aware of it, but they all agreed with the plan to burn the garbage mountain outside the city and the people living in it to death...

No!

Sabo's eyes were bloodshot, and he realized sadly that such a move was originally proposed by these nobles! Of course they will not deny the measures they themselves proposed...

However, the garbage in the garbage mountain was originally made by people in this city...

Those who are struggling to survive in the garbage dump... If they really can't survive, who would be willing to live in the garbage dump? !

"Found it, it's him, right!?" A passing policeman spotted Saab who was passing by in a hurry. Just as he was about to chase him, he suddenly felt as if his spirit had been hit by something, foaming at the mouth, and passed out on the side of the road.

Not far away stood Tulip behind Ace and Luffy, the two children nervously licking the ice cream in their hands...

"Is Sabo okay?" Luffy asked.

"Probably..." Ace said.

……

It was getting dark, and a blazing fire was lit outside the city wall, making the city darker and deeper.

In the living areas of ordinary civilians outside the Gao District, more and more people have heard about what happened outside, and some confusion has arisen.

“The damp garbage mountain actually caught fire. This has never happened before!”

"Have you heard that the culprits of this fire are the Brugam Pirates of Garbage Mountain!"

"Sure enough, only pirates would do this..."

"I heard that this was done to prevent the World Government's inspection team from arriving here smoothly..."

The city gates were closed everywhere, and a large number of soldiers were holding the handles. They held guns and persuaded those approaching to retreat: "It's very dangerous here. Everyone, please stay away from the 'border area'. All citizens are requested to rush to the city to save people and put out the fire." Leave it to our army!"

There were flames outside the city wall behind them, but the soldiers just kept trying to persuade the approaching civilians to retreat, with no intention of leaving the city for rescue.

Sabo watched this scene from a distance, and was blown to the ground by the strong wind. At this time, a man in a cloak passed by, looked at him and asked: "Young man, what's wrong with you?"

Saab grabbed the man's feet, closed his eyes tightly and said in pain: "Uncle...the culprits of this 'fire' are the 'royal family' and the 'nobles'!! I'm serious...the smell of this city , it smells worse than the garbage mountain! The nobles here are rotting inside. I feel like vomiting when I think about them! There is no freedom at all! Yes! ”

Saab raised his head and cried bitterly: "I feel ashamed that I was born a noble!"