The flames clinging to the boiling seawater twisted and spread, and the thick clouds and mist also disappeared.
Only then did Luffy see the figure on the blue ketch clearly. Compared to three years ago, Ace had become taller and stronger. He still wore his favorite orange cowboy hat.
He wears a hat, black cropped trousers on his lower body, a delicate dagger and a brown gun holster on his waist, his bare upper body only wears a string of red bead necklaces, and an 'ASCE' tattoo on his left arm, with the 'S' in it.
Cross, with a big dark blue "V" tattooed on the back.
"Ace!!"
Luffy was overjoyed, waving vigorously and shouting. Ace was also happy, and waved to Luffy with one hand on his hip.
"Is he the brother you often talk about?" Nami, who was wearing a cool midriff-baring shirt and slim jeans, with long orange curly hair spread behind her, looked at Luffy standing on the fin deck in the distance and raised her eyebrows:
"Well, I do look a lot like you...in every sense of the word."
Zoro and other companions also looked at Ace Karina curiously and asked in surprise: "Luffy, do you know this super powerful Flame Man?"
"Yeah! His name is Ace, and he is my brother!" Luffy said with a proud face: "I didn't expect that he also ate the Devil Fruit, hahaha! But he is super powerful. I was not him before I didn't eat the Devil Fruit.
I have never beaten him even once against my opponents. It seems like he has become even more powerful now."
"Who... is that guy?" Sanji felt that he was greatly shocked. Can [people's] combat effectiveness reach such a level? It is simply a natural disaster!
Zhefu glanced at Sanji: "Stupid boy, you claim to have a photographic memory of beauties. You have seen that orange-haired girl before."
"Huh? Why am I not impressed?"
"Think again, who gave you that revolver?"
"Uh... it's her!" Sanji then remembered that the little girl with orange hair and sharp tongue who had no apparent appearance and was following the vicious chain back then had unexpectedly turned into such an outstanding beauty. That is to say...
…
He quickly took out an old booklet from his pocket and flipped through it quickly, then looked up at the two people on the boat and murmured: "It is indeed them. One-star weather hunter 'Weather Princess' Nami, one-star weather hunter 'Weather Princess' Nami, one
Star bounty hunter ‘Fire Fist’ Ace!”
Zoro, who was standing aside, heard Sanji's words and turned to look at Ace and Nami, his eyes shining brightly. [Hunter], and a hunter with a 'star'! If you pass these two people, you may have a chance to find '
Hawkeye'!
Luffy stretched out his arms in excitement, and his rubberized arms extended infinitely to grab the edge of the Beagle's deck and then contracted his arms to carry him over. As soon as he got on the ship, he happily ran towards Ace
He went over and laughed loudly: "Ace! I miss you so much! I haven't seen your reward order since two years ago...ugh!"
Before he could finish speaking, Luffy was knocked to the ground with a hammer.
As a superhuman rubber fruit user, Luffy should be immune to most blunt force blows, but the hammer blow just now made him feel severe pain. With tears in his eyes, he rubbed the back of his head and sat up from the ground. He suddenly realized that
A little girl stood in front of her holding a hammer.
This is a beautiful little girl with short blue hair. She looks to be less than ten years old. She is wearing a long golden raincoat with a hood and is holding a small wooden hammer in her hand. Her beautiful and delicate face is full of indifference.
She glared at Luffy and said crisply:
"Get out of here!"
"Huh?" Luffy looked confused.
"Get out of here!!" The girl's voice became sharper, and she raised the small wooden hammer in her hand in a demonstration.
Nami rushed over and hugged the little girl, comforting her and saying, "Calm down, little Berger, he is Ace's younger brother, he is not a bad person."
The little girl known as 'Little Berger' narrowed her eyes and looked at Ace, who looked innocent, and then glanced at Luffy. She glanced back and forth several times before threatening Luffy: "...Don't come near the kitchen!
"
After saying that, she grabbed her one-size-fits-all rubber shoes and ran towards the kitchen.
Luffy scratched his head, wondering if it was an illusion. Just now when the little girl swung the wooden hammer at him, the cables on the deck seemed to be moving on their own, as if they were alive, but now everything has returned to calm.
No matter so much, Luffy happily ran to Ace: "Ace, you have become so powerful now!"
"You don't look bad, Luffy." Ace looked at Luffy with a smile: "Are you officially going to sea to become a pirate?"
"Well! I am now the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates! By the way, why is there no news about your Spade Pirates? Dadan and the others are very worried about you."
"Well... in fact, I stopped being a pirate a long time ago." Ace scratched his cheek.
"Hey!?" Luffy opened his mouth wide.
"Moreover, I am now a [Hunter], a bounty hunter who pursues wanted criminals."
"Hey——!!??" Luffy's eyes almost popped out: "So, Ace, you want to arrest us?"
He immediately put his posture into perspective: "I'm completely different from before Ace! Even if my opponent is you, I won't lose!"
"You've never beaten me once, where do you get your confidence?" Ace looked at Luffy with his hands on his hips in a funny way.
"Maybe I can beat you now!" Luffy said with a confident smile.
Not to mention the two brothers who were reminiscing about old times, the leader, Creek, who was standing at the bow of the huge pirate warship, had bloodshot eyes, and his heart was filled with fury to the extreme. He roared: "Aim all guns at that brig! Give him to me.
Blast to smithereens!! Open fire!!"
"But, Admiral, the other party has devil fruit power..."
Bang--!!
Before he could finish speaking, the hesitant man was shot through the head with a musket, and his brains and blood sprayed out all over the head and face of the men behind him.
Crick held a smoking flintlock gun in his hand, with a cold look in his eyes: "I said, fire."
"Yes, yes!!"
Everyone immediately took action and signaled to the other remaining warships. The warships sailed through the sea of fire, all targeting the Beagle.
"No, they are in danger!" Sanji subconsciously wanted to jump into the sea and swim towards the Beagle, but he was caught by Zeff as soon as he made a move: "Silly boy, these two don't need your help. Look good.
See, the [Hunter Association] can compete with the world government not only by relying on the powerful combat power of the vicious chain, but those [Hunters] are also a powerful force that cannot be ignored."
On the deck of the Berger, Ace and Nami looked at each other: "If the boss is not here, who among us will come?"
"Come on, I'm a climate hunter, not a bounty hunter."
"Okay."
Ace suddenly jumped into the air lightly, layers of fierce flames floated on his body, and then turned into a huge vortex of flames, constantly circling in the air with Ace as the center.
"Fire!!"
Following Crick's order, an overwhelming barrage of shells struck in the direction of the Beagle.
"Great Flame Ring..."
The flame vortex continued to expand and spread, and surged more and more rapidly. The core flame in the center was an ominous dark red. With a loud noise, an extremely huge dark red flame arm with a diameter of tens of meters blasted out from it, carrying a wide area.
The huge foehn wind blasted towards the incoming cannonballs and pirate warships!
"[Red Lotus Giant]!!"
Creek only felt a dark red light flash before his eyes, and then everything went dark. The huge arm of dark red flames extended infinitely forward, and all the pirate warships headed by Creek's flagship were vaporized at the moment of contact.
All gone! The surface of the sea was cut off several meters high, and the clouds in the sky also collapsed.
The nearby maritime restaurant Barati and the customers' boats were protected by a thick fog that appeared at an unknown time, and they were all safe and unaffected by the aftermath.
The flames came and went as quickly as they came. The whirlpool of flames in the sky quickly shrank and condensed into a human shape, falling steadily onto the deck of the Beagle.
Ace held up the orange cowboy hat on his head, turned to look at Luffy who looked dull, and asked with a smile: