The gourmet among pirates

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While Maureen was studying the power of faith in his office.

A coastal edge on Rogue Island.

Ace practices day and night until midnight every day.

He was naked and felt something with his eyes closed.

I don't know how long it took, but Ace's whole temperament suddenly changed, as if a peerless sword had been unsheathed, with an awe-inspiring edge that pierced people's hearts.

At the next moment, Ace slowly drew his sword, really slowly, inch by inch, but as the famous sword "Deadwood" was unsheathed, Ace's whole body seemed to turn into a sharp sword that was slowly unsheathed. , an astonishing edge slowly emerged from his body.

"cut!"

Suddenly he shouted loudly, waved the famous sword "Deadwood" in his hand, and slashed out at the sea in the distance.

The next moment, everyone felt their eyes blurred, and then they saw a dazzling red sword energy burst out, tearing apart the air and the earth, and sweeping towards the sea in the distance.

In the blink of an eye, it crossed a distance of hundreds of meters and landed heavily on the sea surface a hundred meters away.

Chapter 312 Ace becomes a swordsman

boom! ! !

After a loud bang.

The water column empties and waves splash.

On the rough sea, Ace's sword cut a huge sword mark tens of meters long, which did not heal for a long time.

Seeing the results of his sword attack, Ace's lips raised an excited smile.

"Flying Slash, I finally succeeded. From now on, I will also be a swordsman traveling everywhere with my sword."

For Ace, inheriting part of his teacher's legacy and becoming a swordsman is something that is very worth celebrating.

But what excited Ace even more.

Morin once promised him that as long as he became a swordsman and had a certain ability to protect himself, he would take him to the South China Sea, to the beautiful island where his mother was buried, to pay homage to his mother, Portgas D. Luju.

The Portcas D. Luju who sacrificed himself to allow Ace to be born.

Ever since Garp learned the truth about his birth, Ace has always had a deep admiration for his mother Lujiu, who sacrificed herself to let him live. Deep guilt.

Many times, Ace believed that it was precisely because of his birth that his mother died in her prime.

If Ace had a choice, he would definitely choose to let his mother live instead of himself.

of course.

Portcas D. Lujiu probably thought the same way back then.

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After a year of hard training, Ace finally broke the mirror.

I could no longer suppress the excitement in my heart.

He put the famous sword "Dead Wood" on his waist, jumped up, turned into a jet of fire, soared into the sky, and flew quickly towards the End Fortress.

A ball of blazing human-shaped fire cut through the sky at an extremely fast speed and fell towards the top floor of the End Fortress.

This amazing sight attracted countless people's attention.

Upon seeing this, some navy recruits subconsciously picked up their weapons and shouted hurriedly: "Alert, enemy attack!!!"

"Enemy attack!!!"

Suddenly, the entire Final Fortress was filled with the shouts of the new recruits.

But in contrast to the new recruits, the veterans were not surprised and looked indifferent.

Soon, some of the recruits discovered something strange about the veterans. A slick recruit secretly took out a cigarette, handed it to the veteran who was familiar with him, licked his face and smiled.

"Brother, why didn't you react to such a big movement? Did you just let the fireball hit our fortress?"

The veteran took the cigarette from the recruit, put it under his nose, took a deep breath, and said intoxicatedly: "Hiss, high-end cigarettes produced in the Kingdom of Morocco in the East China Sea. I haven't smelled the smell of such high-end cigarettes for a long time. Boy, you can afford such good cigarettes. It seems that your family is well-off?"

After the veteran said something meaningful, he took another drag on the cigarette, showing an intoxicated look, but avoided answering the recruit's question.

[Bah, you even refused to say anything about a high-quality cigarette. Greedy bastard, after my recruit training is over and I go to sea to make meritorious deeds, you, this guy, must spit out everything you have cheated on me during this time... ·】

Although he was cursing in his heart, the recruit showed a flattering expression on his face, then he went deep into his arms, took out all the box of cigarettes in his hand, stuffed it into the veteran's pocket and said with a smile: "Hahaha, I didn't expect the veteran Brother is actually a person who understands cigarettes. It just so happens that I don’t know much about cigarettes. Brother, please help me taste this box of good cigarettes brought by the trustee to see if they are genuine..."

After giving the new recruit a look that said "You're on to something, kid."

The veteran calmly took out the special-grade cigarette produced in the Kingdom of Morocco from his coat, then took the single cigarette and the cigarette case out of his coat and stuffed it into Uchimura's pocket.

He then said slowly: "Our Final Fortress is the strongest naval fortress in the East China Sea. If there is really an enemy attack, how can we veterans react like this?"

"Then this is..." the recruit said in confusion.

"You new recruits! Before you came, you didn't pay attention to a few celebrities in our Final Fortress. The flame flying in the sky was not an enemy, but the eldest disciple of Governor Morin, the famous natural The user with the Burning Fruit ability, 'Fire Sword' Ace!"

"Boy, do you know what a natural devil fruit is? You don't know. I'm kindly telling you that today's three navy generals are all natural devil fruit users. Now you know how powerful this thing is. Bar."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, if you also have a natural devil fruit ability, you might be able to be accepted as a disciple by our Governor."

"what!"

While they were talking.

Ace has hidden the flames on his body.

It returned to its original appearance and landed just outside the glass on the upper floor of the Fortress of the End.

The veteran pouted in that direction, "Look, this is the 'Fire Sword' Ace, a celebrity in our Fortress of the End."

talking.

The veteran glanced at the recruit who was looking up at the window sill and was in shock.

He silently took the pack of cigarettes and left with satisfaction.

[Hahaha, what a cigarette. I can enjoy it when I have a rest in the next few days. Well, but I can’t let those old guys see it, otherwise this pack of cigarettes will at least be divided by those guys. half. 】

I don’t know how long it took.

When Ace disappeared from the window.

In the Fortress of the End, there are a group of navy recruits who have never seen Ace and don't know the devil fruit, a secret treasure of the sea.

Only then did he slowly recover from the shock.

When he was about to ask something else, he turned around and realized that the veteran who had spent a pack of cigarettes and finally got through to him had gone somewhere long ago.

Suddenly, the recruit's face darkened and he cursed secretly in his heart.

[This profiteer, with just a few words, cheated me out of a pack of cigarettes. 】

Especially when he walked through most of the training ground and found that many veterans were giving free introductions to the new recruits, even more detailed than what the veterans gave him.

The recruit's face suddenly turned darker.

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the other side.

Molin, who was sitting in his office, writing and drawing on his notebook with a pen, felt the movement coming from the window.

He cursed without raising his head: "I won't leave until there is a door. I have to climb out of the window. Why, I have to leave a few black marks on my windowsill!"

Ace, who had just climbed in through the window, curled his lips and said, "Teacher, please stop looking at the almanac. Now I can control the power of the burning fruit freely, so I won't burn your window sill anymore." Woolen cloth."

"Heh, don't tell me what you said to those stone slabs that were burned black and cracked by you before!"

(Slate: I cracked...)

"what!"

Molin, who was about to continue teasing Ace, suddenly raised his head in surprise.

After looking at Ace carefully, a dazzling light flashed in Mo Lin's eyes.

After seeing this light, Ace's body seemed to be stimulated, and he emitted a sharp energy uncontrollably.

After seeing the condensed sword energy on Ace's body, Mo Lin smiled happily and said:

"Good boy, isn't it good? In less than a year and a half, you have reached the level of a swordsman."

Upon hearing this, Ace said proudly, "Of course, I am your disciple, Master. You are already a great swordsman, so I must be a great swordsman as well. Otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing for you?"

Mo Lin rolled his eyes when he heard this and said: "Haha, pull it off. I have never seen you work so hard before. You have been working so hard for more than a year just to worship your mother early."

Talk about this.

Molin found that Ace, standing in front of him, fell silent for an instant.

It seemed that his cheerful appearance before was just a disguise.

Seeing this, Mo Lin stood up.

He patted Ace on the shoulder and said, "I just don't have anything urgent to do recently. Let's get ready. We will set off to the South China Sea in a few days to pay homage to Lu Jiu."

Upon hearing this, Ace immediately raised his head and asked with surprise:

"Ah! Really?"

Mo Lin rubbed Ace's head and said with a smile: "Of course, I can still lie to you."

"Teacher, I'm not a child anymore. Don't rub my head. It's embarrassing if someone sees it..."

Ace said it was embarrassing, but he showed no intention of slapping Molin's mischievous hand away.

He even squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

In fact, Ace really liked the feeling of having his head touched.

This made him feel unusually friendly, having lacked the company of his family since childhood.

But if someone saw it, the arrogant Ace would feel very ashamed of himself.

"Hahaha, yes, Ace has grown up."

After smiling and retracting the big hand that twisted Ace's hair into a mess, Mo Lin seemed to remember two or three meters, and suddenly said: "By the way, Lujiu liked flowers when she was alive. I remember that there was a time when she still Decorate your hair with hibiscus flowers, and when the time comes, we can prepare some when you go to worship your mother."

flower?

Or hibiscus?

Under the influence of veterans in the Navy, Ace is no longer the novice who knows nothing.

Hibiscus!

The floral language and symbolic meaning of hibiscus flowers: fresh love and subtle beauty.

Between men and women, sending this kind of flowers has many hidden meanings.

Subconsciously.

Ace turned to look at his teacher, with a hint of vigilance, and said solemnly: "Teacher, I will prepare the flowers on my mother's side. Forget it on your side..."

"It's been so many years since my mother passed away, and it's time for you to step out."

"Besides, you have Sister Taoyao. If you still miss my mother and send her flowers, it would be inappropriate if Sister Taoyao finds out about this!"

For Ace.

He has never forgotten the persona that Mo Lin originally set up to be his father's love rival.

Fortunately, Mo Lin suddenly said that he wanted to send flowers to his mother, or hibiscus, a flower with a hidden flower language. Even though Lujiu had been dead for more than ten years, Ace still felt a little inappropriate.

It's not that Ace thinks that Maureen is not worthy of his mother.

Compared to his cheap father, the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, Ace actually recognized Maureen as his father.

even.

In Ace's heart, Maureen has long been regarded as both a teacher and a father figure.

Master, Master.

Both teacher and father.

Maureen has always played the role of Ace's father to some extent.