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Chapter 23 023. Return the gift!

Hearing something heavy fall at the door, Dadan ran out to check.

I took a breath of cold air.

"Hiss, it's such a big bison."

Hearing Dadan's surprised words, Moses smiled and said to her:

"I heard from Ace that you, Dadan, like to eat bison meat. I just happened to come across this when I went up the mountain, so I brought it to you. Let's have it for dinner."

Dadan looked at Ace helplessly, "Why are you so talkative, brat? Bison are dangerous. What if your brother gets hurt?"

Ace pursed his lips and looked at Messer nervously:
"Hello? Are you okay?"

"Are you worried about me?"

Moses turned around towards him, his body clean and without any problem, and then said:

"What are you thinking? This stupid cow needs to be at least five or six meters taller if it wants to hurt me."

"Just keep bragging. If you grow another five or six meters, I can crush you into a pancake with one foot."

Ace looked incredulous.

Mercer smiled and said nothing more, but turned to Dadan and said:
"Do you have a big basin? I've dismembered this cow."

After hearing this, Dadan waved his hands repeatedly:
"No, no, how can we let you come here, Mercer? Leave it to us."

He immediately shouted to Dogula and Magula who followed him out:

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and grab your weapons."

Magula is a big, strong man with a simple face. His head is bald except for a tuft of red hair like a cockscomb on top.

Hearing this, both of them went back happily to get the dismemberment tools.

Big bison don't eat it often.

I'm in for a treat today.

Seeing their enthusiasm, Moses let them do as they pleased.

He walked to Ace's side and looked at him with a smile.

After a while, Ace's face turned red and he yelled, "Why are you looking at me?"

"My eyes are on my body. I can look at whoever I want. What's wrong with me looking at you twice?"

"What? You're a woman and you're not allowed to see it? Or do you want to charge for seeing it?"

Messer raised the corner of his mouth and looked at him with a smirk.

When Ace was about to turn red, Messer patted his shoulder and said, "Want to go out for a walk with me?"

Ace was startled.

I didn't expect Moses to say that.

He looked at Moses intently.

Finally, he nodded calmly, pouting and saying, "Since you've asked me so, I'll reluctantly agree to your request."

Messer slapped Ace on the back, causing him to grimace in pain.

"Will you die if you're not arrogant?"

"You weird little brat."

"You scolded me again? You're the one who's awkward. Don't move. Stop right there."

After slapping someone, Messier just picked a direction and walked over.

Ace caught up and wanted to fight back, but he couldn't hit him. It was as if Messier had eyes on his back and he always dodged at the right time.

The two of them disappeared from the house and went into the forest, playing and laughing.

Dadan opened his mouth and wanted to say "It's dangerous in the forest", but when he saw the big bison being dismembered in front of him, he stopped talking.

Walking in the lush forest, the sunlight in the sky shines through the leaves, casting patches of light on the ground beside you.

As the two walked along, Moses used an axe to chop away the branches of trees that blocked the way from time to time.

Ace felt a little jealous when he saw Messier's strange axe, and he glanced at it from time to time along the way.

Boys like to wield swords and sticks.

Not to mention a handsome axe.

Moses pretended not to see it.

The grass and leaves are lush in the mountains and forests.

Rich in species.

really.

Not long after, Moses discovered a herb in the mountains.

This is a depression with a large pool of water, surrounded by dense reeds.

"Do you know what that is?"

Messer asked Ace, pointing to the reeds.

"Isn't that just a reed?" Ace rolled his eyes and said, "Don't treat me like an idiot, okay?"

Moses smiled and walked over, grabbed a few reeds and pulled them out with mud.

Pointing to the bamboo-like rhizome at the root, "Reed root is a common herb that has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, stopping vomiting, and promoting diuresis.

While Ace was confused, Messer dropped the reed in his hand and continued to wander in the mountains with him.

From time to time, he would find some common herbs and explain their effects clearly. As time passed, Ace's face became a little irritated.

finally,
Ace grabbed Messer's arm and glared at him, "Messer, what on earth do you want to do?"

Stopping his body, Moses looked at him with pity and shook his head.

"My stupid brother, haven't you figured out what I'm doing yet?"

Ace's eyes flickered and he looked at Messer stubbornly.

She reached out and tugged at his face, and said to him as he bristled, "Of course, I'm going to teach you some wilderness survival skills."

"Although Dadan and the others can keep you from starving, there are some things they can't teach you."

"In the next few years, when you grow up a little, given your personality, you will definitely go hunting in the forest. But there are many poisonous things in the forest. Teaching you these things is just so that you can protect yourself.

"That would be foolish of you to find a herbal detoxifier when you need it, but you don't know what it is. "

Ace fell silent, and Messer sighed and rubbed his head.

"We may not be together for a long time, so you have to live well." Mercer said with a smile: "You are my brother, I don't want to hear the news that you are dead one day."

Ace shook his head, shook off Messer's hand, glared at him and said arrogantly:

"You're the one who's going to die. Mount Korpo is very safe. You're the one who's going to die. I heard the Grand Line is a sea that eats people."

"You don't want to hang up."

Mercer nodded and said with a smile:
"Then we can all live freely and happily."

Ace nodded heavily, and then began to listen more carefully to Messier's introduction of various herbs to him.

time flies.

It's getting dark.

The two came out of the forest and walked to Dadan's house.

At this time, the lights were on inside and a strong aroma of meat appeared.

Mercer's eyes lit up, and he said to Ace, "Let's go, let's eat meat."

Ace nodded heavily, his face full of anticipation and joy.

inside the house.

As soon as I came in, I saw Karp sitting in the main direction.

Seeing the two men return, Cap took a bite of the beef in his hand and laughed, "Messer, I heard that it was you who shot the bison. Not bad, you are worthy of being my grandson."

"Ace, you have to work harder too. I'm not wrong, am I? Mercer is much stronger than you."

Cap laughed cheerfully.

Ace's face flushed with anger, "The stinky old man wants you to talk too much."

Garp's face darkened, and he angrily pointed at Ace and cursed, "You little bastard! I'm your grandfather, and you dare to call me a stinky old man?"

"Ahhh, I'm so mad, Messer, please don't pull me in. I'm going to beat up this guy Ace today."

Moses found a place to sit down, picked up a piece of prepared bone and meat and started eating. Without even looking up, he said, "Whatever you want, as long as you don't kill him."

Cap got even angrier.

Ace squeezed next to Messer with a cocky look on his face and started eating the meat.

"Beat me up if you want, just let me eat first."

Garp laughed in anger, turning his anger into appetite, and ate while laughing and cursing:

"You little heartless bastard, if you have something to say, call me grandpa, if you have nothing to say, call me stinky old man."

……

The happy time lasted for a week. Cap would "disappear" every morning and come back almost at night.

During this period, Messier asked Cap to deliver the fishing rods on the warship back to the village chief's home.

Every morning, Messer would take Ace for a run and help him strengthen his breathing.

I took him into the mountains and taught him various survival skills in the wild, how to use some tools, and how to find food.

Climb a tree to dig out a bird's nest.

Go down to the river to catch fish and shrimp.

Various wild vegetables and fruits.

Or edible insects like scorpions that live in cracks in rocks.

break off both ends.

Charcoal grilling sterilization.

With his identification ability, Messer can be called an encyclopedia in the wild.

From morning to night.

Like Karp, he would go back at night and bring the prey he had caught with him.

Have dinner together, chat together, then wash up and go to bed.

A week later,

morning.

After finishing breakfast, Messer and Garp said goodbye to Ace.

"Grandpa's vacation is almost over, and he has to go back to the Navy Headquarters to work. Let's stop here for now."

"Don't miss me, Ace." Mercer looked at Ace who looked reluctant and said with a smile:
"By the way, this is for you. It's a gift for you."

Messer took off the axe and axe sheath from his waist and handed them to Ace.

"Give it to me?" Ace's face lit up with joy at first, then he frowned again: "If you give me your weapon, what will you use?"

"It's okay. It's not a famous sword or anything like that. It's just an ordinary refined weapon. I can have someone forge another one later."

Mercer waved his hand and said, "This multifunctional axe is for you to use for self-defense. Don't refuse it anymore. Just take it."

Ace nodded with red eyes and sniffled, "Well, I'll see you next time then."

Messer smiled and waved his hand, "Well, see you next time."

And Karp left in style.

along the way.

Mercer and Cap walked together in the forest, breathing in the flavor of nature.

"What do you think of that kid Ace?"

Listening to the voice beside him, Moses thought for a moment and said:

"He's thoughtful, shy, and sometimes stubborn, but he's a good kid."

Garp smiled and agreed.

"Yes, he's a good kid, but his shortcoming is that he's stubborn, just like your father, sometimes he can be incredibly stubborn.

But you, Moses, are different; you are not as stubborn as they are."

But, for you, Moses, you don’t care about people or things other than those you care about.

Garp said silently in his heart.

Karp didn't know whether this was good or bad.

This child has a vague sense of good and evil.

Just like those researchers, life is just a number.

Not knowing what Cap was thinking, Messer looked at the forest that was constantly "receding" around him.

At a certain moment, a flash of brown-gray color appeared in his eyes, and the figure suddenly stopped.

The seeing and hearing color is released.

Moses accurately captured a breath.

Suddenly, he glanced at the environment around him and saw a palm-sized stone. Moses bent down and picked it up.

Breathe.

Entering a state of unity between man and nature, the aura in your body becomes peaceful.

Cap, who was standing by, was also a little surprised by the change in Messier.

Just as I was about to ask, I noticed that Moses was behaving a little differently.

Then Moses slowed down his pace and walked to the side.

He immediately stopped talking.

Mercer slowly raised his right arm and stared at a deer in the bushes not far away.

Thirty meters.
Twenty meters.
Fifteen meters.
He bent his body slightly, exerted force with his feet, and when he was ten meters away, his whole body suddenly bounced off.

The sudden explosion startled the deer within ten meters, and the deer suddenly jumped up.

"It's now."

Moser let out a low shout, locked onto it with his Observation Haki, predicted its movements, rotated his arm inward, adjusted the angle, and the stone flew out with a whistling sound of wind.

Bang!
A muffled sound occurred on the deer's head, and its entire body was knocked sideways in mid-air. It lost its balance and fell into the bushes.

Mercer quickly rushed to the side of the deer, grabbed the deer's head with both hands and twisted it. After a "crack", the deer's neck was broken.

Moses loosed the deer's head,

A dozen seconds later, the deer died.

An irregular crystal as big as a grain of rice and emitting a mysterious luster appeared.

[Obtain F-level soul crystal*1]

Karp came over at this time and asked in confusion: "Is this a snack for lunch?"

Mercer shook his head and said to Garp's surprise:
"Return gift."

"Someone treated me to lunch a few days ago. I'm leaving today, so I'd like to give her a gift in return."

Garp's mouth twitched.

"Then your gift is really amazing, a whole deer."

"Tell me, let me hear it, which family of fellows can make you like him so much."

He said this because he knew Moses too well. This guy wouldn't pay much attention to ordinary people.

Whether to pay attention to it depends on your mood.

Just like there were so many people on the warship, over the past few days, only Bogart was talking and laughing with him.

As for the other guys, from the colonels to the errand boys, few could talk to Messiah.

Looking at the deer in front of him, which was bigger than himself and at least 1.6 meters long, Messi thought for a moment and looked up at Cap.

"Master, if I tell you something, will you help me get down the mountain?"

"Speak or not." Karp's face darkened. "You hunted the prey yourself and didn't give it to me to eat. Do you want me to help you? Unless..."

"That's it."

Garp's face froze.

Haven't I finished speaking yet?
But Moses did not look at him again. Instead, he looked around and found a thin vine hanging from a tree and pulled it down with force.

The deer was tightly wrapped with vines more than ten meters long, leaving two shoulder straps on both sides of the deer's body.

Like carrying a schoolbag, he carried the whole deer horizontally on his back, raised his eyebrows at Cap, and walked down the mountain without looking back.

Garp followed behind, twitching his lips and looking strange.

A little kid was carrying a deer that was bigger than himself. If the deer's head hadn't been drooping, it would have been hard to tell who was carrying whom.

Speechless all the way.

Less than half an hour.

Mercer and Cap came to the windmill village.

Ignoring Cap, Mercer followed the familiar road, turning several times, and finally arrived at the back door of a house.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!
Knock hard.

After a few seconds, a clear sound like a mountain spring came from inside.

"Who is it? Who are you looking for?"

"It's me. Makino."

Then I heard hurried footsteps coming from inside, and an urgent voice saying, "Wait for me, I'll be right there." A few seconds later, the door was opened from the inside.

Seeing Mercer carrying the deer, Makino was stunned and covered his mouth, "Little Mercer, what are you doing?"

Rolling his eyes, Messer reached out and pushed Makino aside and walked in.

Keep the deer in the yard.

Clapping his hands, Mercer said to her, "This deer is for you, as a return gift for the meal you treated me to the other day."

Makino's eyes jumped. This gift was too expensive. Just as he was about to refuse it, he found another person coming into the yard.

"Huh? Mr. Karp? Why are you here?"

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