I Have No Interest In Devil Fruit

In front of the hut in the woods in the remote mountains of Korpo, there was the sound of fighting...

It may not be accurate to say that it is a "fight", because only one of them is "beating" the other unilaterally.

boom!

The broken pipe was stained with blood, and it slapped Shanks hard on the face.

boom! boom! boom……

Blood spattered, and Shanks was beaten with a stick by the angry Ace, dripping with blood.

Shanks is not Lynch, and he does not have the instinct to train iron blocks into muscles and bones, which has almost turned into a passive skill... When he did not use armed colors and gave up all defenses, facing someone like Ace, even though he was only ten years old At the age of 10, but he has been "practicing on the road" in Korpo Mountain, and even a young man who can fight fierce beasts, if he attacks like crazy, Shanks will be beaten with black nose and swollen face.

Luffy looked very angry and clenched his fists tightly.

Huh? Tulip found that although her son was angry, he just glared at Ace who beat up Shanks, restraining the urge to go forward to stop Ace.

Hehehe... A little smile appeared on the corner of Tulip's mouth.

It's hard to say whether it's comforting or not, after all, people with different personalities have different choices. Not stopping Ace may not seem greater than running to stop Ace from beating up Shanks; but she does look at her son with admiration.

Bandits Dadan and his gang stood in shock and bewilderment at the door of the wooden house, looking at what happened in front of them, "Ace is too scary..." "As expected of the 'devil's blood'." "It's a good fight It's not me!"

"..." Garp just folded his arms, stood by and watched and listened, without making a sound or stopping him.

"Huchi...huchi...huchi..."

After beating for a long time, Ace was finally tired from beating. He stood still holding the water pipe, gasping heavily, looking at Shanks with large characters lying in a pool of blood, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he said coldly: "That abandoned man The bastard who lost his wife...not my father. Don't mention him to me!"

His hands trembled slightly, and the blood trickled down the water pipe to the grass and into the pool of blood.

Slap, a pair of leather shoes stepped on a pool of blood, Garp walked over with his arms folded, and looked down at Shanks lying in large characters in the pool of blood. With a hint of sadness and pity.

Garp said indifferently: "Roger turned himself in and paid Estor to me in prison."

Hugh...hugh... Ace's eyes were covered with shadows, panting, tremblingly clenched the blood-stained water pipe.

"Later, I found his mother who was still pregnant with Ace in South China Sea." Garp slowly talked about the past many years ago, "In order not to be hunted down by the world government and kill Roger's blood, Lu Jiu insisted She was pregnant for twenty months before she gave birth and gave birth to Ace..."

After hearing what Garp said, Ace pursed his lips, turned and left.

"Are you going to run away?"

Suddenly a voice made Ace's pupils shrink, and he slammed on his footsteps with a "bang".

"..." Ace turned his head sharply, "Who do you think will run away?!"

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

"You're weak!" Luffy made a grimace, "I think people who can laugh when they're splashed with alcohol are amazing! You don't know how powerful Shanks is. If he wants to hit you, he'll be a hundred One, no, one thousand, ten thousand you are no match for him!" He stuck out his tongue and said in disgust, "But he would rather be beaten like this by you! Now you want to leave, isn't it strange? !"

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

"..." Garp sighed softly, "It seems that I burned everything in myself. After giving birth to Ace, Lujiu died. Later, I brought Ace to this remote country in the East China Sea..."

Ace finally didn't turn around and leave. He was nailed to the spot, stubbornly holding the blood-stained water pipe with a gloomy expression.

"..."

Shanks, who was lying on the ground with a bloody head and a face beyond recognition, listened and remained silent. He suddenly raised his blood-stained hand and grabbed at the dark sky beyond the gap in the woods, "I... once asked Captain Roger a question. : I was born, is it really okay?"

"...?!" Ace never thought that this person who was beaten up by himself would say such a sentence.

A simple sentence made Ace's pretending to be strong heart tremble fiercely.

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

"The captain answered me this way..."

In the pool of blood, Shanks sat up slowly, in the gap where the bruises piled up, he could vaguely see the corners of his mouth and the tears in his eyes, "'What are you talking about, you were born in this The world's gone'…”

Whoops... whoops...

Ace's breathing became heavy again.

He didn't want to cry at all, but his eyes were full of heat and soreness, so he could only grit his teeth desperately, put on a vicious look, and squeezed out words, "I said...don't mention that, you bastard! "

"'Never mind what other people do...'"

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

Like the final blow that pierced the heart, Ace went completely mad.

"I told you to stop talking!!!"

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

boom!

Cap grabbed the bloody broken pipe. The force with which the water pipe fell down...wasn't much at all, and it was easy for him to hold it.

Ace was still clinging to the broken pipe, his head bowed, his shoulders trembling. He dared not raise his head, dare not speak, dare not make a sound.

"..."

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

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

"..."

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

"What the hell is going on..."

Bandit Dadan's family was completely dizzy, and they always felt like they heard a lot of big things that they didn't understand but seemed to be very powerful.

Gululu, a sudden sound of stomach rumbling broke the atmosphere.

Everyone looked at Luffy, Luffy rubbed his belly, looked at the wild boar that Ace was sitting on at the beginning, the corner of his mouth was drooling, and pointed at it with a smile, "Can I eat it?"

Garp smiled, turned around and said, "Dadan, Ace treats us today, and we're eating outside."

"Oh, okay, then we—" Dadan's family nodded, they have been coveting the wild boar that Ace hunted back for a long time, but they heard Garp say: "Oh, not including you. Let's have a roast together tonight Boar."

The meat was gone, Dadan said angrily: "Why don't you include us?!"

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

Dadan and the others stopped talking. Indeed, Ace lives here, and what they provide Ace every day is a bowl of thick rice, a glass of water, and a floor on which he can lie down and sleep. Compared with the meat that Ace hunts back 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 big risk! !

Obviously, Garp is not someone who would pay attention to how they settled accounts. He smiled and said to Ace who bowed his head: "You didn't refuse, so I will treat you as a kid who agreed to treat."

"..." Shanks smiled slightly with a bruised nose and swollen face.

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

………………………

"Eh?!!!!!! Ace's dad is the One Piece?!!!!!!!!!"

At night, a bonfire is lit in the forest, and the wild boar is on the grill, and the golden fat drips continuously, dripping on the fire tongue of the firewood.

Luffy gnawed on the wild boar barbecue, his mouth was full of oil, and his eyeballs were about to pop out in shock.

Ace was sitting opposite, the flames of the bonfire flickered, and his dim expression could not be seen clearly.

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

"Eh?!!!!!!!"

Luffy gnawed on the delicious barbecue meat cut by his mother, and was so shocked that his eyes almost jumped out again, "Shanks is the crew of One Piece?!!!!!!"

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

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

The sudden words not only made Ace's pupils constrict in an instant, and he suddenly looked up at Shanks, but also surprised Garp and Tulip on the opposite side, and they all looked over.

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

Garp murmured: "So that's the case... No wonder that guy would choose to surrender himself..."

If he could live to witness the era, how could a guy like Roger be willing to use his dying words to open up some shitty "big pirate era"?

Before the so-called "Great Pirate Era", there were no pirates chasing and fighting for supremacy in the sea?

If there is still life left, Roger would certainly prefer to witness some kind of future foreseen in his eyes... Garp held his forehead and said nothing.

Shanks picked up a branch to stir the bonfire, looked at the flames and said to himself: "Although Garp has been chasing Captain Roger for a long time, although he is called an enemy, he is actually a friend, but he is a navy after all, and he knows a lot of things. are also limited.”

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

Ace pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

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

Ace lowered his head slightly, with the dancing fire reflected in his eyes, and next to his ears was Shanks' recollection of One Piece and his pirate group...

...

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

He began to talk about it from when the Roger Pirates completed the great voyage for the first time and arrived at the Mercury Star Island but found that the way forward was cut off. Thirteen years later, the captain Roger was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

...

"When the doctor said that Captain Roger only had a year or two to live..."

Shanks recalled the past many years ago. Although it was only sixteen years ago, it seemed to have happened in the previous life. "Lieutenant Captain Rayleigh, Jabba, Spencer... It's hard for everyone to accept it, but the captain said..."

【"Haha, there's only one or two years left," Roger said with a hearty smile, looking at the blood coughed up in his hand, "Guys, every day of my life is precious! Hahaha... let's go , find a more powerful doctor first!\