"Ace!".

Ace saw a blonde kid in a top hat and goggles from a distance, and a tooth was missing from his mouth.

It was Saab of the three ASL brothers.

"Ace! It's a pity that you haven't been here for three days, and I'm going to look for you in Gorber Mountain. "

Sabo was relieved to see Ace coming, and his eyes were still full of worry.

In his impression.

Ace had never missed an appointment.

Even if Ace was sick sometimes, he would definitely come to their secret base to meet him.

But this time, Ace didn't show up for three whole days.

It's hard for Saab not to worry, and he has thought of a lot of bad endings in the past three days.

But he didn't know where Ace lived.

Or he would have run to find someone when Ace first broke his appointment.

Now that Ace has finally appeared, Sabo's heart has finally returned to his stomach.

But at this time, Ace's condition was really not good, not to mention the scars, and his face in the hardest-hit area was swollen.

"What's going on? How did you become like this?".

Saab asked worriedly.

Ace's strength is very strong now.

It's even a little stronger than Saab now, and it's impossible to get hurt when you fight those thugs in the city.

“...... Sabo, the pirates we want to be, is it good?".

Seeing Sabo, Ace hesitated for a moment and said.

"Pirates? I don't know. "

"But not everyone at the end of the uncertain thing says that pirates are a symbol of freedom, the most unrestrained people on the sea!".

"I want to be free!".

"So I want to be a pirate and I don't want to be at the mercy of other people!".

Sabo said seriously.

"Hmm!".

Ace looked at Sabo for a long time before nodding seriously.

Neither of them had the intention of robbing the thugs today, they just looked at their pirate fund, and then Ace left.

Sabo looked at the back of Ace leaving, and there was worry in his eyes.

When Ace and they chatted, Ace always staggered the source of the wounds on his body, intentionally or unintentionally.

It seems that he doesn't want to say it.

Sabo saw that Ace didn't want to say it, so naturally he wouldn't force it.

They are now partners at best, and it's nothing to have their own secrets.

Doesn't Sabo himself have a secret he doesn't want to tell?

Though...... That's not something he can control.

"As long as you can get out of here, as long as you can be free!".

Sabo's eyes lit up, and he looked at the endless sea.

As long as he gets out of here, he's a blue bird out of the cage!

Night falls.

Ace returned to Dadan's house exhausted.

But as soon as he put his hand on the door, he was alert to a malicious gaze.

Tang Ying sat on a stone and looked at him with a smile.

Ace was shocked.

"Is this kid trying to hit me again?"

Ace's body subconsciously assumed a defensive posture.

"Hard bones also soften one day?".

"Isn't the rumored Ace the one who will never back down once he fights?"

Seeing Ace's subconscious desire to escape the battle, Tang Ying only felt funny.

Ace's face changed.

"How do you know?!".

This kid knows too many things, the blood that flows in his body, and even the persistence he has always had.

Such a person will only make Ace feel ......

Terrible.

It was as if everything about him was impossible to hide in front of this kid.

"Calm down, it's too much to say what I know, that's where it goes. "

Tang Ying smiled and spread his hands.

Strike a leisurely posture to let Ace let down his guard.

"What the hell do you want to do!".

Ace didn't show any relaxation because of his current posture.

After all, the psychological shadow left by the three-day violent beating is indelible.

"What do you want to do-".

Tang Ying dragged out his voice and whetted Ace's appetite, and finally looked at him with a smile and asked

"Do you hate Roger?".

"Or rather, hate?".

"Bang!".

Ace hit Tang Ying with a water pipe, as if he had overcome the fear brought by the past three days.

His face was black and dripping.

"Don't mention that name to me!".

Since Ace was born, he hasn't encountered a few good things, but every bad thing has something to do with that man.

This made Ace how could he not hate him.

The hatred that has accumulated over the years has exploded at the rebellious age of ten.

"You really hate Roger!".

Tang Ying easily dodged Ace's blow and said leisurely: "That's right, after all, Roger is just a scum of the sea." "

Ace: ?

Ace couldn't help but have a trace of doubt when he heard Tang Ying's words.

"What the hell is he trying to say?".

Ace still didn't understand why Tang Ying targeted him in every way, especially after Tang Ying said this.

"You have the blood of One Piece in your body, and you hate him. "

"Then you want to be a pirate now, don't you still recognize him?"

"Ace, do you want people to recognize your identity as the Pirate Prince, or do you recognize Ace himself?"

"Don't you just want revenge on those who think you're the son of One Piece and are going to die?"

"Then why do you want to be a pirate!".

"Even if you become the next generation of One Piece in the future, it will only be the second generation of One Piece, and the evaluation you get is nothing more than that, Tiger Father has no dog!".

"Is this what you want?".

After listening to Tang Ying's words, Ace couldn't help but be stunned.

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