The gourmet among pirates

On the contrary, after he touched the famous sword "Frost Dew" with his fingers, a strong desire to eat rose up in his body again.

Driven by the aroma of "delicious food", Mo Lin, who had had this experience before, without much hesitation, put his mouth to the back of the sword, kissed the blade and sucked on it.

Suck.

With this suction, a tangible and intangible substance was sucked out by Mo Lin from the blade of the sword and swallowed into his stomach.

The cool and refreshing taste is like iced jelly, cool and refreshing.

"This tastes like mango pudding?"

【Ding! 】

[Host detected, enjoying special food, nutrition +1+1+1+······】

[Ding, congratulations to the host for getting a piece of happiness. 】

[Joy of the Heart (Frost Dew): A special artistic conception that has accompanied many swordsmen for most of their lives and infected their sword intentions. 】

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[It is also a precious delicacy. It records the swordsmanship of the swordsmen, and also records the scene before their death. Will the host consume this inner joy and learn the sword skills in memory? 】

[Remarks, this is a rare swordsmanship experience. After learning it, your swordsmanship experience will be improved to a certain extent. 】

Of course, Mo Lin readily agreed to the benefits of this free prostitution.

"determine."

The moment of certainty.

Maureen seemed to be lost in time at that moment.

Become a different swordsman.

Some people are respected by thousands of people and have a great reputation.

Some are solitary, with only their sword accompanying them throughout their lives.

Some people kill countless people, and wherever they go, there is a bloody storm. He is a demon that everyone respects.

There are also some people who are high-ranking and powerful people. Although they never leave their swords in their lives, they actually kill people with their swords only a handful of times.

Life after life, life after life, different experiences, different reincarnations.

But they have one thing in common, that is, the swordsmen all hold a long sword called "Frost Dew" in their hands.

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call!

I don’t know how long it took.

Mo Lin took a deep breath and opened his eyes again.

"not bad!"

Maybe it's because the owner of the "Frost Dew" was stronger than the owner of the demon sword "Gitetsu", or maybe it's because Molin's current state is different from what it once was.

This time, Mo Lin realized the joy of his heart and gained far more than before.

Although he still has not broken through to the realm of swordsman, he has made a big step forward in this realm.

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After fastening the famous sword "Frost Dew" and "Ki Te" on his waist, Mo Lin took this unexpected gain with him.

Satisfied and ready to leave the Kingdom of Qurifus.

As for what the old king of Qiu Rivers Kingdom had in mind or what his plans were, Molin didn't care.

When Maureen finished counting the number of people and prepared to set off.

But he found that there was one person missing on his boat.

"Huh? Where is that guy Ace going? Buddy?"

Maureen originally planned to take Ace with her to the banquet last night.

But I don't know if it was what he saw during the day that had a great impact on Ace, or if he was disgusted with those noble officials.

Ace refused to attend the banquet and chose to stay in the hotel instead.

Ace didn't like it, and Maureen didn't push him.

Anyway, there were people in the hotel helping to keep an eye on Ace to prevent him from getting lost.

But when she came back last night, Maureen saw that Ace was still in the hotel, but he had disappeared early this morning.

"Ace? He borrowed some money from me in the morning, and then ran to the outer slum street. I heard the soldier who saw him yesterday said that when Ace passed by the slum street yesterday, he saw some children. ,so······"

So what, Buddy didn't say, but Maureen almost guessed it.

Ghetto, kid!

These two words alone were enough for Mo Lin to create a big drama in his mind.

But knowing that Gui Gui knew it, Mo Lin still frowned and said: "He asked you to borrow money, and you lent it to him? And you are all here, did he go to the slums alone?"

Buddy nodded: "Yes, he is indeed the only one."

Molin looked at Buddy speechlessly after hearing this, raised his forehead and said: "You can't worry about Ace so much! He is a problem child who dreams of becoming a pirate, otherwise Lieutenant General Garp would not get rid of me to discipline Ace. Yeah, if you let me go like this, maybe this brat will run away from me."

"Besides, even if he doesn't run away and lets a kid take money to the slums where people live together, you'll really be there, Buddy."

Regarding Mo Lin's complaints, Buddy smiled indifferently and said: "It is precisely because he is a problem child that I think he needs to see the true depression of this society. After all, there are many people who are persecuted by pirates." ordinary people."

"As for Ace's safety and whether he will escape, colonel, don't worry. I specially asked someone to keep an eye on Ace."

Mo Lin glanced at Buddy in surprise: "Looking at Ace? Do you actually have an acquaintance here?"

Buddy nodded: "Haha, when I came back yesterday, I happened to bump into a naval intern who was at the same time as me and a good brother of mine. He was forced to retire from the Navy because he wanted to come back and inherit the family business. Now he is the leader of the Qiu Rivers Kingdom. With him watching over Ace, you can rest assured, Colonel."

As soon as Buddy finished speaking, outside the hotel, two guys in plaid shirts ran into the hotel in a panic and started yelling.

"It's not good, it's not good, Lieutenant Buddy, that kid you asked our boss to look after, he...he...had an accident?"

Ok?

As soon as these words came out, Buddy suddenly opened his mouth!

He had just made a promise to Mo Lin, and now he was slapped in the face. The slap in the face was too fast!

But at this time, Buddy didn't care whether he was slapped in the face or not.

He hurriedly ran up and asked, "What's going on? What's wrong with Ace?"

The two men in flower shirts took a few breaths and said hurriedly: "We don't know what's going on? He was fine just now. We also took him to an affordable store, bought food and fruits, and distributed them to the slums. That group of kids.”

"Later, there was a fruit of inferior quality left. Ace happened to be thirsty at the time, so he ate it by himself. But as soon as he finished eating the fruit, something started to go wrong with Ace."

Fruit of inferior quality?

After hearing these words, Mo Lin's eyes suddenly became wandering.

[Fruits of inferior quality? Could it be again...】

Next, before Maureen spoke, Buddy asked anxiously: "Something's wrong, what's wrong, what's going on with Ace now?"

The two flower shirts looked at each other, then swallowed their saliva and said fearfully: "I don't know what to say, anyway, the temperature of Ace's body is frighteningly high now, and a few small flames burst out from time to time. It looks scary. ”

Hearing this, Mo Lin, who was behind Buddy, first breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought with a wry smile.

[The fruit, the body feels hot, and there are small flames. It seems that this time I guessed correctly. The fruit Ace ate was definitely a devil fruit? It might even be Ace's natural devil fruit - the Burning Fruit. 】

[But was this fruit eaten by Ace during this time period? Or is it some damn butterfly effect? 】

While Molin was dumbfounded, he speculated on a certain possibility. On the other hand, he was not idle either. He and Lieutenant Buddy, led by the colorful shirt, quickly rushed to Ace's location.

At this time, Ace was carried to a stone table by someone unknown.

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A circle of people gathered around him, pouring water on him to extinguish the small flames that burned from time to time on his body.

After Maureen arrived at the scene, he took a brief look at Ace and then started rummaging around.

After a while, in the basket in the corner, I saw half an orange-red spherical fruit that smelled bad and seemed to have rotted.

Seeing the countless small flame-shaped spiral fruit patterns on the skin forming a Devil Fruit coat, Mo Lin was speechless.

[Here I go, it’s really a burning fruit! ! ! 】

Molin stretched out his finger and poked the burning fruit that Ace had bitten off most of.

As a result, this half of the Devil Fruit, which seemed to be severely spoiled, quickly turned black and rotted into a mud-like thing.

Looking at this pile of rotten things, Mo Lin, who always had a big appetite, felt a rare nausea.

"Sure enough, the true essence of the Devil Fruit was transferred the moment it was first eaten?"

After shaking his head, Maureen pushed through the crowd, picked up Ace, and walked back.

Buddy: "Colonel, Esther..."

Mo Lin waved his hand: "It's nothing serious, it's just the sequelae caused by eating a terrible fruit! It's okay, everyone should leave!"

In this way, Maureen carried Ace and walked out of the slum.

Along the way.

Maureen saw many children in the slums, or women hiding in corners, looking at Ace with worry.

From their slightly bulging pockets and the fruits on their hands, Molin seemed to understand something.

When walking out of the slums.

He said to Buddy who was following behind him: "I remember that we have enough reserves on board for a month!"

Buddy paused for a moment, then said: "What you said is too little, our reserves are enough to last for one and a half months, and... this is calculated according to your standards, according to our reserves of warships of the same type Calculated, our reserves are enough to support the soldiers on board for three months."

Maureen turned her head expressionlessly, stared at Buddy and said, "I know I eat a lot, you don't need to remind me of this!"

After giving Buddy a "cold" look, Maureen turned back and sped away.

After Molin walked away, a voice that belonged to Molin suddenly sounded in Buddy's ears.

"After replenishing the half-month lack of reserves on our ship, don't increase the load on the Sturgeon. By the way, let people distribute the remaining food to these people in the slums. We won't need it anyway. , don’t waste it.”

He heard Molin's restrained voice ringing in his ears alone.

Mr. Buddy was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his steady face.

After tightening his coat, Buddy scanned the slums and thought.

[Winter is coming soon. With this batch of food, many people will die in the slums of Rivers Kingdom this year! 】

[By the way, we need to tell those little cubs to do their work quickly. There is so much food that can’t be divided in a while. 】

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Next, return to your hotel.

Maureen threw Ace into the hotel bathtub and ignored him.

This lucky guy was able to get a priceless natural devil fruit so easily, and even if he suffered a little, it was easy for him.

Although the natural devil fruit initially took a lot of time because it had to completely transform the user's body to give the user the elemental ability.

But it’s not exaggeratedly long.

About half an hour after Maureen came back with Ace.

Ace woke up slowly in the hotel bathroom.

After waking up, Ace looked at himself naked, and couldn't help but let out a panicked cry.

"what!!!"

boom!

A few seconds after Ace shouted, Molin, covering half of his ears, threw them in.

He said with a headache: "Why are you making so much noise? I'm so annoyed."