[Chapter serial·Deck 9 from the world·"Vacation Island"]
[The dilapidated stage of the swordsman competition in those days is still preserved and has become a tourist attraction on this island. Many admirers of the world's greatest swordsman and the pirate Ripple Messenger with the highest bounty in the world,
Even fans of Son of the Devil will come to pay their respects and visit, and buy some decorative swords and souvenirs similar to Lynch's gold and iron rods... Tourists come and go, and Lynch's 5 billion reward is posted on the wall.
No one even dared to touch it, and the onlookers subconsciously stayed away from each other.]
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"Lynch!"
Chopper's eyes lit up, he jumped away and jumped into Lin Qi's arms.
"I saw your bounty," Lin Qi held Chopper's fur by the scruff of his neck. "The bounty of 100 million is equal to the price of the first bounty I received back then. It's amazing!"
"Hehehe, it's not that amazing~~" Chopper squirmed shyly while being carried.
"Brother Hei!"
Merry seemed to be imitating Chopper, like a little ghost, flying towards Lynch, clinging to his face like a facehugger, giggling.
"The mirror fruit is very useful!" Lin Qi touched Merry's little head wearing a sailor hood.
"Hehe..." Meili lay on his shoulder, smiling shyly.
Lin Qi's big hand covered Meili's head, and the dark energy surged in his palm, and Meili narrowed her eyes in comfort.
Chopper stood on Lynch's other shoulder and saluted: "I am Commander Chopper, piloting the Lynch battleship, rush duck! - Usopp, am I handsome?"
"Hmph, the transparent ghost Usopp battleship is the most handsome~~" Usopp put his hands on his hips and rubbed his long nose.
"5 billion plus 100 million, he must be more handsome than 20,000, right?" Sanji's suit was baggy and his blond hair was messy. He looked like he was just recovering from a serious injury. He was chewing a cigarette and saw Usopp beside him in shock or2, and couldn't help laughing.
Already.
Zoro said: "I finally woke up. I thought you were going to sleep until you die."
"I'm really unhappy when you say that." Sanji said angrily. On the ship, Zoro was the king of sleeping kings. In the blink of an eye, he could doze off with his sword in his arms.
"Damn it!!!"
Not far away, Cavendish's screams were heard, and everyone followed the sound, only to see the guy holding a few reward orders, looking extremely shocked.
"How did I get to 330 million?! Marianne, you got to 500 million!!!"
Marianne carried the drawing board and said innocently: "It's useless for you to complain to me."
Besides, among the new bounty orders issued this time, the ones that attract the most attention, and the ones that make you intolerable and steal the attention that you deserve, aren't they the big pirates with more than 1 billion beli?
Especially Lynch, whose bounty is as high as 5 billion Baileys, ranking first in the world's bounty list...
Marianne waved to Lynch and Robin in the crowd over there, and Cavendish also looked over with almost resentment. He had long stopped considering Lynch, or Giorno, as his competitor.
Although I am indeed jealous of Lynch's dazzling and invincible appearance on the stage where the whole world is watching, it is Lynch after all. This guy is always like this, either disappearing or making a splash, so what's the use of being jealous?
"What is this little guy?" Tulip curiously touched Mei Li on Lynch's shoulder.
To Zoro and the others' surprise, Merry did not avoid the touch of Tulip, a "stranger". Sanji and Usopp were surprised: "How strange!"
"What's so strange?" Nami came over and said with a smile, "Hasn't Meili seen her before?"
"Have you seen it?" Brooke and Franky also came closer. Even Tulip herself was a little confused. Robin explained: "This kid is the ship spirit of Luffy's original pirate ship."
"Ship Elf?" Tulip was a little unfamiliar with this, and Dorag unexpectedly looked at Meili twice. This was a creature in the legend. There was only a very small chance of being born. It was a miracle... He couldn't help but look at it.
Lynch, could it be that his black ghost clone stayed on Luffy's ship at that time, which contributed to the birth of this ship spirit over time?
Merry looked at Tulip and Drago and said curiously: "You... look like Luffy!"
Chopper said: "Because they are Luffy's parents."
"Oh~~" Meili suddenly realized something serious, tilted her head and asked in confusion, "What are mom and dad?"
"Hahaha."
The cute and cute appearance of the ship elf made everyone laugh.
Suddenly, there was a tremor on the ground, and Zoro said unexpectedly: "It's the sound of fighting." He held the knife on the handle and put the knife out of its sheath with his thumb, "Is there a fight?"
"It's over there." There were two little guys standing on Lynch's shoulders. He turned to look over, "Three people are fighting, and a bunch of people are watching. The people fighting are Luffy, Ace, and the other one..."
"Then it should be Saab." Tulip smiled, "They are three brothers."
"Ah?" Sanda and Hancock were startled when they heard this, and looked at Tulip and Dorag. "Three brothers?"
Ace is Roger's son, they know it. Where is the other one?
"The three are sworn brothers." Tulip shook her head and said, "Having one child is enough trouble. If you two want to have children in the future, you must be mentally prepared..."
Out of the blue, Tulip actually pulled Hancock and talked about this in a low voice with Robin, which made Hancock blush.
The pirate empress stood uneasily, and from time to time she glared at Lynch with shy eyes, which directly dazzled most of the people present... Even Robin, who was always calm and capable of joking, couldn't help but blush slightly.
Sanji bit his handkerchief, his face full of the sourness of lemon, and looked at Lin Qi with silent tears.
"Let's go take a look." Lynch led the way, "Shanks and Rayleigh happened to be here too."
"Wait!" Cavendish led his men to chase after him and keep up.
On the way, Nami asked in confusion: "Since they are brothers, why are they fighting when the current situation is so complicated?"
"It's just because the situation is complicated and I don't know how to describe it in a thousand words," Lynch said with a smile, "So it's better to have a fight and communicate with fists, which is more efficient."
"That's right." Zoro walked leisurely and said with a smile.
"There is such a thing." Sanji chewed on his cigarette.
"Nami, you don't understand!" Usopp said proudly, "This is manly romance!"
"Inexplicable..." Nami muttered, turning to look at Robin, and found that she also smiled helplessly. Obviously, even Sister Robin is not very adaptable to men's brain circuits. But Hancock and Sanda from Nine Snake Island
Tulip and the others seemed to agree and appreciate what Lynch said and Luffy's approach. They nodded slightly and said, "Fighting is the best way to communicate."
"I don't understand you!"
Nami sighed and hugged Robin's arm. Sister Robin is better.
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When everyone arrived, Marco, Jozi, Bista and other remaining members of the Whitebeard Pirates were scattered in the woods. Not far away were the Red-haired Pirates and others, as well as Rayleigh.
Xia Qi is over there.
In the middle of the field, in the open space, lay three panting teenagers. Well, the oldest was only 20 years old. Luffy was only 17, and in Lynch's previous life, he was a high school student.
"Haha, there's no winner this time...no winner..." Sabo picked up his hat and sat up, panting and laughing, "It seems like this is the first time that three people have tied together, right?"
Luffy lay on the ground, looked at the sky and smiled: "You two are still as powerful as before! However, I will not lose! Sooner or later I will surpass you! Hehehehe..."
Ace forced himself to sit up, and the despair and depression in his body was vented a lot because of this scene.
"You two... really like to make trouble for my big brother..." Ace sniffed, wanting to cry, but also wanting to laugh.
"Why did I cause trouble?" "Hey, I'm the eldest brother!"
Luffy and Sabo were angry, one on the left and the other on the right, with their fists on Ace's cheeks.
But soon, Luffy and Sabo pulled Ace up, patted him on the back with a smile, and pushed him towards Marco and the others in the woods.
"You..." Ace was moved.
"Ace!" A familiar voice came from not far away. Ace turned around and saw Teacher Tulip, whom he hadn't seen for many years, making gestures on his cheek under his eyes, making a mockery of him crying.
Thinking of his previous days at Mount Colpo, and remembering that although it was short-lived, Teacher Tulip had given him mother-like care, and Ace couldn't help but have tears welling up in his eyes.
"Dad is gone, and it's almost time for our pirate group to disband."
Ahead, in the woods, Marco and the others all had a look of vicissitudes of life, and many of them had grown short, hard stubbles that they had no time to clean up.
It was originally a pirate group that gathered in the name of father, son and family. Now that the leader, White Beard, has fallen, everyone seems to have lost their morale.
Different from the comics, in the battle at the top in the comics, the traitor Blackbeard stood up and assassinated Father Whitebeard in the end. Objectively, this also left Marco and others with an object of revenge, or common hatred.
But now, because Blackbeard did not show up, and in the battle on top, Dad and Lynch also worked together to kill Akainu and Sengoku.
The war is over, everyone has casualties, and that's it.
After that, it seems that all that is left to Marco and others is an endless emptiness...
With Whitebeard gone, does the Whitebeard Pirates still have a purpose?
Just when Marco and the others turned around, wanted to leave, or looked sad, they suddenly heard Ace shouting: "The Whitebeard Pirates haven't disbanded yet!!!"
"...?!"
"Ace..."
Jozi, Marco, Bista, and all the pirates with low morale looked back. Ace wiped his face, looked at the blood on his palm, and clenched it tightly.
"Dad has left, will this pirate group be disbanded? Are you kidding me!" With tears in his eyes, Ace raised his gaze and scanned the faces of Marco and others one by one, and said loudly, "If we are all disbanded,
Now, who will remember his name in the future? If we don't even mention him anymore, the world will gradually forget the name of 'Whitebeard'!"
When do people die?
Is it when the blood dries up?
wrong.
Is it when the breath is cut off?
wrong.
It's when others forget you.
"Ace..." Luffy and Sabo murmured in shock.
Plop!
Under the moved or sentimental gazes of Marco and others, Ace knelt down on the spot and gave a loud "Bang!" sound to the brothers of the Whitebeard Pirates, and kowtowed.
"Everyone, I am extremely grateful to you for showing such great love to me who has always been hopelessly willful... to me who inherited the blood of the devil...!!"
The blood dripping from his forehead flowed on the grass. Ace, who was kneeling on his knees, shouted tremblingly, "So, please give me a chance to make up for it. I want dad's flag to continue to fly in this sea."
Get down!"
Looking at the tattoo of the grinning Whitebeard Pirates logo on the kneeling Ace's back, Marco, Bista and others could no longer hold back their tears.
"I absolutely can't let dad and you all take me in and make it a mistake..."
Ace's voice echoed in the woods.
"To cry like that..." Cavendish pouted, pretending to be disdainful.
Marianne said: "I think he is very frank."
"Ace." Shanks sighed with a smile.
Reilly took off his glasses, frowned, and put them on, "Newgate, you have got a very good son."
Marco and others rushed over, and Ace hugged them one by one, patting their backs and comforting each other.
Looking at this scene, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp and others, who had personally experienced the tragic battle on the top, were speechless and felt quite sad - Franky was even more moved and cried.
It was a complete mess, several handkerchiefs were soaked through.
"..." Luffy clenched his fists and held down the straw hat on his head. Because of this incident, his eyes became more determined and he said, "Ace, Sabo, I don't want to lose any of my partners."
But on top of the cruelty of the battlefield, those frost giants, lava hell, the sky full of golden light, the irresistible golden Buddha... and grandpa's iron fist, and even those equally powerful naval vice admirals, are almost as powerful as the ocean.
Power keeps appearing in front of Luffy's eyes. Next time, what will happen if Ace is in the same situation as himself?
Will I also have to watch helplessly as my friends fall one by one trying to save myself?
"Marco, do you want to eat the Quake Fruit?"
Suddenly, Lin Qi shouted loudly over there, attracting everyone's attention.
Lin Qi said: "You should be able to guess how Whitebeard died in the end. Do you still want to eat the Shocking Fruit when you know there is such a risk?"
Marco's eyes tightened and he asked loudly: "Lynch, I don't know! Can you tell me now? What happened? At that time, my father used my phoenix ability. Why... phoenix
Will your power be suddenly taken away?"
How did Whitebeard die?
Was the devil fruit power in his body forcibly taken away?
For a time, Shanks, Rayleigh, Drago, Tulip, Marco, Ace, Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Franky, and even Merry on Lynch's shoulder were also curious.
Open your eyes... Everyone's eyes are focused on Lin Qi, waiting for his answer.
"Didn't Whitebeard finally say that? There is a person who is immortal..." Lin Qi covered his eyes with a shadow and smiled, "She can create a similar Devil Fruit to transfer the power within the body of the esper.
Forcibly 'tear' it away. Unless the stolen Devil Fruit power is returned to the body in time, this kind of injury is irreversible... So I ask you, do you still want to eat the Shock Fruit?"
Rumble!
In the sky over the Shampoo Islands, storms and clouds surged, and thunder surged!
Dorag frowned, and was about to activate the power of the weather fruit to disperse the wind and thunder in the sky, but Lin Qi held down his arm to stop him.
"Sister Yi, don't be so shy!" Lin Qi raised the golden iron rod and pointed it at the wind and thunder whirlpool in the sky, "Can't we just chat?"