Reg, Herman, and Labster were almost frightened to the point of cardiac arrest. Is that "Pluto" Rayleigh? They thought he wasn't here just now, but why did he suddenly appear again!?
"Don't be like this, Mr. Reilly..." Marco smiled, "If dad comes to see you, the Admiral will probably not be able to sleep well."
As he spoke, he looked at the woman beside Rayleigh who had entered through the door. She was tall, beautiful and calm, walking straight towards them.
Kongtiao Xu Lun...
The name flashed through Marco's mind.
"Finally here." Lynch said, "I thought I was going to stay up all night today."
"Because you haven't been back for a long time." Robin nodded and looked at Marco.
Marco was stunned, suspicious, and looked back and forth between the woman Xu Lun Kujo and the "tequila" he had been eating next to him.
At this time, the long-legged race Legge, the human He-Man, and the fish-man Labster had all stood up, with excited expressions on their faces.
"Is that you?" Robin quickly recognized these three people as the three slaves he released at the door before entering the auction house on Island No. 1.
Both Leg and Herman were a little at a loss, "I haven't thanked you for your kindness yet..."
"The kindness of rebuilding will be unforgettable!" The fish-man Labost said solemnly, his eyes slightly red.
Robin sighed softly: "You don't need to thank me..."
"If you have anything to say, let's go out and talk." Riley took a sip of wine at the door.
Pluto spoke, and everyone left the hotel one after another.
Marco and Reilly walked side by side, "I didn't expect you to live in seclusion here."
"You didn't expect it, didn't you? I didn't expect it either!" Lei Li drank and laughed, "I almost died at sea and was rescued and brought here, so I have been living here..."
Marco was silent.
Many years ago, after the Pirate King Roger was executed, "Navy Hero" Garp and "Black Arms" Zefa teamed up to ambush "Pluto" Rayleigh. He had also heard of it...until the news that broke out a while ago
, most people in the world, including Marco, thought that "Pluto" Rayleigh and the remnants of the Pirate King had been wiped out by the navy in certain corners of the sea.
Unexpectedly, after being rescued by others, Rayleigh has been living in seclusion in the Chambord Islands under the nose of the navy.
"Why do you keep looking back..." Rayleigh followed Marco's line of sight and saw the young couple Xu Lun Kujo and Giorno walking side by side.
Marco said slowly: "To be honest, I'm not here for you this time..."
Rayleigh took a sip of wine and asked strangely: "If you are here for Giorno, why are you still standing here?"
"What?" Marco didn't understand for a moment.
Rayleigh raised his voice: "Giorno!"
The young man wearing a scarf who was walking and chatting with Robin over there raised his head.
"Kujo Xu Lun or Boya Hancock, which one do you like more?"
"You're so old," Lin Qi rolled his eyes, "Can you stop gossiping?"
Reilly laughed loudly, and Marco was shocked and looked at the scarfed young man over there in disbelief...
"Are you Giorno?" Marco came to Lynch. The trio of long-legged tribe, fishman, and human who were following Robin thought they heard wrongly.
"Yeah." Lin Qi asked strangely, "What's wrong, doesn't it look like it?"
Do you have any resemblance?! Reg, Labster, and Hermann were all shocked.
Did he use some appearance-changing Devil Fruit ability? Marco naturally guessed.
Robin reminded: "It's not like that."
Lin Qi touched the scarf around his neck and suddenly realized, "It seems like..."
As he spoke, his figure swayed, and he rose higher and higher. His whole body inflated several times like a balloon, and the clothes on his body were stretched to pieces...
"...It feels a little uncomfortable to hold it in!"
His facial muscles twisted and returned to their original appearance. He rubbed his face and his voice became slightly louder than before.
Is your reaction too slow? Herman was shocked. No, would a normal person hold back like this?!
Monster... Legge from the long-legged tribe was a little stunned when he saw this scene of being transformed into a living person.
Marco breathed a sigh of relief, "It's really you. It's shocking... Is this some kind of devil fruit ability?"
Rayleigh drank the wine and said with a smile: "You are wrong, he is not using some devil fruit ability!"
"Huh?" Marco was stunned, and subconsciously used the domineering force of knowledge.
When he was about to look at Giorno, his eyes suddenly froze and he looked next to Giorno and Kujo Xuren. He saw a dark shadow like a ghost, lingering beside the two of them!
"...?!"
When Marco was startled, a pair of narrow eyes that lit up on the black shadow's face were also watching him quietly.
Reilly patted Marco's shoulder from behind with his big hand and said with a smile: "How is it? He's a very nice young man, isn't he?"
"..."
Marco's eyes moved between Kujo Xu Lun, especially Giovanna Giorno, and the black shadow next to him of similar height and build. Finally, he let out a long sigh with a complicated expression, and murmured with a smile,
"I now believe that...Zefa was dealt with head-on by Giorno..."
"What's wrong with him?" Lynch wondered.
"It seems..." Robin said calmly from the side, "I discovered how powerful you are."
"What a slow response!" Lin Qi lamented.
What is your reaction? The trio of long-legs, humans, and fishmen shouted in their hearts, that is the captain level of the Whitebeard Pirates...
Robin smiled at the corner of his mouth and whispered to himself: "So, do you prefer Xu Lun, Kujo, or..."
Lin Qi's big hand reached out, pressed her pretty face, and rubbed it involuntarily.
…
Under the leadership of Lei Li, the group quickly arrived at Xia Qi's rip-off bar on Island 13...
Marco said seriously to Lynch and Robin: "I came to you because I have something to ask for."
…
…
No. 30 to No. 79 of the Shampoo Islands, as well as the warships docked in the surrounding waters, were full of sailors holding telescopes to observe the sky.
Suddenly, a sailor shouted: "He has appeared!"
From the perspective of his telescope, there was a big bird with blue flames in the sky, rising from the Chambord Islands and flying towards the Red Earth Continent.
"Confirmed to be Marco, confirmed to be Marco!"
While the sailors were communicating with each other, Marco, who transformed into a blue flaming phoenix, spread his wings and flew through the sky.
Next to him, there was a black shadow, holding a phone bug in his hand, following him leisurely, flying together like a wingman.
Huh? "B.I.B" was suddenly surprised.
Marco flapped his wings to lead the way, but the direction of flight was close to the cliff-like wall of the Red Earth Continent. He deliberately took a long detour before vertically raising the altitude and moving upwards against the Red Earth.
Behind the portal of the Bug Castle holding the phone in the hand of the stand-in, Lynch glanced at the side that Marco had deliberately avoided, and asked curiously: "Why did you take the long way around?"
"..." The blue flame phoenix was silent for a moment, spreading its wings and passing over the top of the red earth continent. In an instant, the sky and the sea were vast.
The sea level and the Red Continent are vaguely formed into an arc, while at the top of the Red Continent a few thousand meters to the side, behind the heavy fog, is an ancient city sleeping quietly, which is... known as the "Holy Land"
"Marie Gioia.
“Back then, before Roger was executed, he and his father had a last-minute drink.
"It was also after that day that my father told me something with a serious face..."
The blue flame phoenix led the black ghost across the thick and towering red earth continent, and its slow voice was almost drowned in the passing wind, and floated slowly to the ears of Lynch and Robin behind the door of the Telephone Bug Castle.
"Never fly directly over Mariejoia!"
Robin was a little surprised when he heard this, while Lynch and "B.I.B" holding the phone bug were thoughtful.
The narrow eyes shimmered, and as the avatar armor flew past the blue flame phoenix, he looked back and saw that the "Holy Land" standing at the top of the red earth continent was hidden in the thick mist.