[Chapter serial series·Heart Pirates 30·"The years are quiet"]
[Luo's body needed to recover, so the three of them followed 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 Rosinandi deal with the problems all over his body.
Gunshot wounds and the like... In this way, they temporarily settled on this Petrel Island. There were no pirates, no navy, and of course 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.
Crocodiles, porcupines, wild wolves...
They are all huge types. If Ace is able to defeat him, he will fight with strength. If he is unable to defeat him, he will use his dexterous body skills to fight and defeat the opponent. He will not escape anyway.
"Wow!!"
There was a scream from behind. 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 nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He angrily stretched out his rubber arms and hugged the vulture. Without much planning, he rounded it up and threw it hard... Bang! Bang! Bang! Vulture
I was stunned by the fall, and felt that it was really strange that this human boy could extend his arms. After thinking for two seconds, he quickly fluttered his wings and retreated.
Huffing and puffing, Luffy gasped and said fearfully: "There are more animals on this road than when I returned to the village, and they are even scarier!"
Regarding 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.
Along the way, Luffy kept chirping and annoying Ace, like a little follower.
Ace didn't feel annoyed.
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-shaped pendant in this guy's neck.
Then he remembered that there was a big colorful snake next to Luffy's mother. A picture couldn't 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 Colpo along the way, Ace was unharmed, Luffy was disgraced, and the two finally walked out of Mount Colpo.
A strong and strange smell rushed towards 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!"
Luffy looked at the place filled with garbage in front of him with disdain. In the breeze, the garbage mountain exuded a smelly mist that was visible to the naked eye... In the mist, there were faint figures of people moving, and you could also see buildings made of garbage.
room.
"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 sunshine, there are always risks here.
There is 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 and pick up garbage as a means of survival.
born."
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, putting his hands on his hips and laughing, "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, but 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 admonished and 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 definitely 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 in confusion, "What's the matter? I thought you were going to 'work' because you came late. Why did you come here empty-handed?"
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'm Ace's friend!"
"..." Sabo said, "You're smiling so stupidly... Forget it, my name is Sabo, and I'm also Ace's friend."
A few minutes later, the three teenagers sat together on the thick branch. There was a square hole somewhere in the branch. When you opened the cover covered with grass, you could see the gold, jewelry, and stacks of shells buried in the hole.
Interested banknotes.
Luffy exclaimed: "That's a lot of money! Is this your treasure?"
Sabo trusted Ace very much. Since Ace brought this kid, he didn't 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 to buy a car."
Ship, go out to sea and 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?"
"No..." 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, "Saab, the sea is too broad!"
Sabo was even more dizzy. Isn't this nonsense?
"And we are too small." Ace muttered 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 stronger first!"
Sabo 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 here today because I wanted to invite you to come with me, so that you can come and be trained by that woman.
Bar!"
"His face...?!" Sabo was shocked, "It looks like ramen..."
Ace raised a smile and said, "I'm right, the world is big and the sea is very broad!"
Sabo said in a daze: "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, with her arms folded and she looked down at Sabo.
Sabo took off his hat, revealing his short blond hair, and said politely: "Hello, my name is Sabo, 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 smiled and looked up at Tulip.
"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.
Tulip smiled, very beautifully and brightly, and looked at Sabo with squinted eyes, "Very good, Sabo? You are very good..."
Sabo's smiling face froze a little, and he sweated profusely 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 was the pet snake that Tulip had raised since childhood, which was also a fighting partner and a portable weapon. He was holding the snake's head high and hissing at the disgraced Sabo, as if laughing at him. Tulip accepted Sabo's challenge.
Then a finger flicked on the forehead of the rushing boy who was a water pipe, sending the latter flying away from the hillside... Luffy was fine, but Ace was immediately dumbfounded, thinking that Sabo had been killed directly.
Sabo came back dejected, already knowing that he was wrong, but Tulip pretended not to hear it, and didn't want to let the kid 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, mentally lighting a candle for Sabo.
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 Orochi with a little worry. This is a good opportunity, give in quickly, 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 couldn't be serious and walked towards Tulip. When Ace and Luffy wanted to rush over and drag him back, they saw Sabo kneeling down respectfully and kowtow.
, 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 snatched the bowls from Ace and Luffy's hands.
, poured the rest together, and ate it with a slurp.
Ace and Luffy were speechless the whole time. Why are they trying to steal our food?!
"Hehehe..."
Tulip stood up with a smile and returned to the room leaving a message, "Start training tomorrow."
"Oh!" Sabo, who was snoring while eating, raised a fist and was punched by Luffy and Sabo. "Go and serve yourself! Mom (aunt) left a portion for you!"
…
In this way, the three teenagers followed Tulip to practice.
They were all teenagers, ordinary children other than Nine Snakes. Tulip didn't rush to tell them about domineering right from the start, but instead examined the characteristics of these three children first.
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. Therefore, Tulip had to teach him basic skills first... This is also
It just so happened that Luffy ate a rubber fruit that seemed to be detrimental to the performance of physical skills. If he laid the foundation from scratch, it would be easier to integrate with the ability of this devil fruit and create Luffy's own fighting system.
Sabo 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 small dragon riding on the wind with high morale, while the latter seems to be unpredictable but always burning people.
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 fighting snake Xiaowu to play with the three teenagers...
Their practice 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, their faces were swollen, and their bodies were covered in injuries. Good
The herbal medicine made in Tulip is very effective, and the recovery of these three teenagers is also very good. Basically, as long as the injuries suffered yesterday are not too serious, they will be fully recovered after waking up.
He concentrated on listening to the class for one day and got beaten at the same time; then he went to the mountains the next day. After hard training in the mountains, the beasts became kind-hearted. Ace actually felt like he was on vacation. By the way, Sabo and Ace also liked to take Luffy into the city on this day.
"Work", although they no longer save their pirate treasures, they still have to save money if they can. It's not bad to go to the city to eat Overlord meals. Ace always never forgets to pack a city meal.
Take the delicious meal in the bag back to Aunt Tulip; on the day when it was their turn to duel, Luffy suffered the most, because no matter it was Ace or Sabo, he could not beat either of them, and he was at the bottom of the scoreboard...
Although he was unwilling to defeat Ace and Sabo, what was even more terrifying was the sight of his mother who was watching from the side... It really made Luffy super stressed! His mother was obviously smiling, but he 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 kid and said thoughtfully: "Saab, are you a noble?"
"Um?"
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 someone who is very dissatisfied with the aristocratic class. It should be coming soon...
"
Over there, Ace and Luffy were 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?
Sabo then honestly confessed that he was indeed the son of a noble in the Kingdom of Goa, but because he saw clearly the faces of his noble parents, he ran away from home and decided to become a pirate. He didn't want to be a noble, he just wanted to be free.
By yourself, make a Saab.
"Oh." Ace and Luffy pressed their noses together, looking bored.
Sabo put the water basin on the heads of the two losers, and said angrily: "If you don't care, why do you keep asking questions?"
The three boys were having fun again like at the Water Splashing Festival.
…
I thought that life would continue like this, but Ace and Sabo decided from 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 against each other in the open space on the hillside. There was a standings standing next to them. Ace and Sabo were evenly matched, while Luffy had 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."
Saying that, he easily dodged Sabo's fist, but Sabo chuckled and kicked Ace in the waist with a change of moves. Ace also smiled, "It's still too obvious. You think I can't guess that you want to join the change?"
?"
Ace did a somersault and stepped on Sabo's hat. Sabo got into a fight with him angrily.
Luffy was sitting paralyzed on the sidelines. It wasn't that he was beaten, but he was just tired... He was a rubber man, and even Sabois couldn't hurt him, but he couldn't hit them either, so Luffy ended up being tired.
No, I was forced to fall down and admit defeat.
"Oh, it's a tie again!"
Saboais struggled with each other and finally announced the result.
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.
Sabo looked at the front page news of the newspaper in his hand in shock, "The Draco...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's nobles'... It can be said that they are the nobles among the nobles... They are the group of people who enjoy the highest privileges in the world!"
"Oh, Aunt Tulip was right," Escud said, "They are indeed rubbish."
Luffy asked strangely: "Since it is garbage, why do you want to burn the garbage mountain?"
Sabo said in disbelief: "The non-recyclables terminal... there are still many people living there! Are they going to burn it all down? Have they notified everyone to move it?"
"..." Tulip looked down at Sabo. Sabo suddenly understood something in her gaze. He shuddered all over and murmured: "The nobles feel that...those who live in the terminal...so do those who live in the terminal."
Is it part of 'trash'..."
Ace looked gloomy, and Luffy was indignant. He crossed his arms and said angrily: "That's too much!"
Tulip asked Sabo: "What are you going to do? Are you going to inform the people at the terminal to leave?"
Ace said gloomily: "It's useless. Before it is really burned, the people in the garbage mountain will not believe a word of our words. The people there will not easily trust others."
Sabo 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."
"I'll come 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 was a high-rise area where upper-class nobles lived. People dressed like the three of them couldn't get in, but wherever Tulip went, the guards would foam at the mouth and pass out... Sabo was in a wrong mood and didn't pay attention.
Then, 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, Ace and Luffy stood outside the second floor window. The sound of fierce quarrels between Sabo and others soon sounded from the window.
It wasn't until nightfall that Sabo put on his own clothes, opened the window, took 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.
The wind blows.
"The wind is getting stronger," she said to herself.
"They are all crazy." Sabo looked at Ace with tears in his eyes, "Do the nobles... regard themselves as another kind of creature... a monster? I don't understand..."
Ace said calmly: "You should have understood it a long time ago, right? Isn't it always like this?"
Sabo lowered his head and wiped his tears...
At dawn, 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.
"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 this 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 took Ace, and Luffy followed Sabo, who was running ahead. "They are a class born to enjoy. They can be high up because they exploit the bottom to support them. But they are
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, and Luffy was even more surprised, "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee?! I have a father?!!!"
Boom! Before Tulip could make a move, Ace punched Luffy first.
He respected Tulip very much and said angrily: "What 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 lowered his head to look into Ace's eyes, and suddenly smiled and said: "Men are all the same, they are all heartless. When he is my man, let him be so-so."
"Oh." Luffy pressed his nose, not caring.
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?"
"I want you 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 in a graceful manner, and said with a smile, "This is something that everyone agrees on. But don't make it public... If people outside the 'High Zone' know about it, it will cause trouble in vain."
Necessary twists and turns. You have to know that we are special... Aren't you also a child of a noble? 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!
With tears in his eyes, Sabo turned around and ran away.
"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.
Sabo 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 very well what is going to happen outside the city...
What sent chills down Sabo's spine was that not only were they very clear about it, but they all agreed with the idea of burning 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 measure was originally proposed by these nobles! Of course they would not deny the measure they 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, foamed at the mouth, and fainted on the roadside.
Not far away, Tulip stood behind Ace and Luffy, and the two children nervously licked the ice cream in their hands...
"Is Sabo okay?" Luffy asked.
"Probably..." Ace said.
…
It was getting dark, and a raging fire was lit outside the city wall, making the city darker and deeper.
In the living areas of ordinary civilians outside the high-rise area, more and more people heard about what was happening outside, and some confusion arose.
"The wet garbage mountain actually caught fire. This has never happened before!"
"Have you heard that the culprits of this fire are the Brugam Pirates from the 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, holding guns to those who approached to persuade them to retreat: "It's very dangerous here. Everyone, please stay away from the 'border area'. All citizens are asked to rush to the city. Leave the work of rescuing people and putting out fires to us."
army!"
Flames were leaping outside the city wall behind them, but the soldiers were just 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?"
Sabo 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 is worse than garbage."
The mountain smells even worse!! The nobles here are already rotting inside. Now I feel like vomiting when I think of them acting as if nothing happened!!!! Staying in a place like this... there is no freedom at all!
!!!”
Sabo raised his head and cried bitterly: "I feel ashamed that I was born into a noble family!"