Chapter 54: Fishermen’s Exchange Site

Yumeno Hisasaku was eventually handed over to Dazai Osamu. While he was with him, Dazai Osamu made full use of him to complete many tasks.

Ace would go check on him from time to time. The child's reactions when seeing him and Mori Ou Wai were completely different. When he saw him, he would actively run over to pounce on him, but when he saw Mori Ou Wai, he would stand still and would not approach him at all without Mori Ou Wai's instructions.

Dazai Osamu didn't know what he did to him during this period. In short, the two of them just disliked each other. Fortunately, they could still get along, except that every time he saw Ace, Yumeno Hisasaku would complain and want to change a temporary guardian.

Generally speaking, children of this age should start learning cultural knowledge, but Yumeno Hisasaku's situation is special. Ace, who has never been to school and only relied on people he knows to teach him, didn't even think of sending him to school. Instead, Nakahara Chuuya bought Yumeno Hisasaku several introductory Chinese books for him to study on his own.

…Although the efficiency of self-study is very low.

Soon, it was the end of the year.

Ace booked an entire restaurant the night before Chinese New Year and invited all the senior executives to a banquet. There was no other way. Mori Ouwai was online on the first day of the new year, and Mori Ouwai would definitely not do such a thing.

——Senouwai will only take advantage of the time when others are on vacation to encourage everyone to work harder and create benefits for the company's performance.

Of course, on the second day of the New Year, Ace gave everyone a day off, and then he took advantage of this rare sunny day to go fishing by the Tsurumi River.

There are too many things going on with the Port Mafia, and Ace hasn't gone fishing for a long time.

Yokohama was still very chaotic a year ago, but it is much better now. At least there are fewer fatalities on the streets. Now ordinary people are willing to go out and do some leisure activities.

Ace skillfully placed a folding chair by the river, selected a fishing rod suitable for this season, hung the bait on it and threw the hook out, then sat quietly by the river waiting for the fish to bite.

A bald man who was also sitting on a small stool not far away and fishing glanced over here a few times, but Ace didn't pay any attention. He held the fishing rod in one hand and his mobile phone in the other, browsing the local news idly.

After a while, the bald man glanced over here again. After several times, Ace turned back to look at him: "What do you want?"

The bald uncle looked at him subtly for a while, then said in a casual way, "It seems that your work has been going well recently."

Moriou didn't say anything, and Ace didn't understand the hidden meaning of his words, so he smiled and said, "It's okay."

Who knew the other person's expression would become even weirder, "Yeah, we all have the time to go fishing. I never realized you have a hobby of fishing before."

Ace: "...? What are your recent interests?"

He answered perfunctorily, then turned around and asked, "Mr. Ouwai, do you know him?"

[…Hmm.] Moriou was not interested. If he were online, he might want to fight with the opponent to the extreme to gain some benefits, but now it was Ace who was online, and there was no point in relaying the argument.

However, although he knew the person opposite him, he was not familiar with him. After thinking about it, Mori Ougai decided to tell Ace about the relationship so that Ace would not reveal the secret when he opened his mouth.

[He is from the Special Powers Division. In other words, he is from your navy. Although the relationship is a bit more complicated and there may be some cooperation from time to time, he is still an enemy in general.]

Mori Gugai's teacher wanted to implement the "Three-Hour Plan" to balance the power of the entire region in Yokohama. Mori Gugai is on the side of the night (the port mafia), his senior brother Fukuzawa Yukichi is on the side of the dusk (the Armed Detective Agency), and the chief of the special power department, Taneda Santoka, is on the side of the day.

They are connected because of this, but there are more. Taneda Santokao will let him go when it is not necessary because of this, but in general, the relationship between White and Black is still hostile.

The Port Mafia, which is under the control of the Yokohama Darkness in the "Three Moments Plan", has only recently stabilized its internal situation. It still has a long way to go to completely control the dark side of Yokohama. The Armed Detective Agency is still in its early stages of development. There are only five members in the agency, including the newly recruited secretary of the president and a hacker with special powers.

Except for the Special Forces Division, which originally belonged to the official government, the other two corners of the plan are still collapsed. Even if the Special Forces Division wanted to suppress the underground forces, they would not choose this time.

Even though Mori Ougai was blamed for the incident after the superpower war, he still had a military background and had many acquaintances and connections in the government and military. Compared with other underground forces, the official tolerance for Mori Ougai was relatively high.

Ace thought for a moment and said carefully: [I understand. We are the Seven Warlords of the Sea.]

[…?] After hearing such an unfamiliar concept for the first time in such a long time, Mori Ogai asked, [What are the Seven Warlords of the Sea?]

[They are seven powerful pirates recruited by the government. They are still pirates at ordinary times, but when the government calls them, they need to accept the government's call and work for them. Before I joined the Whitebeard Pirates, I was invited by someone from the Navy to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but I refused at that time. What kind of pirates are pirates if they are recruited by the Navy? Ah... Come to think of it, Jinbe seems to be the Seven Warlords of the Sea. 】

Mori Ougai roughly understood it, and then retorted: [There is still a difference. After all, we, the Port Mafia, do not need to accept official summons. We only cooperate for interests when necessary. ]

That's true.

Seeing that he didn't seem to have any desire to talk, Zhongtian Santouhuo just fished quietly on the side, and chatted a few words from time to time.

Fishing in winter is difficult, unlike the Grand Line. If you don't catch any fish, you might still catch a sea king. There are really few fish to catch in Yokohama in winter. After a whole morning, Ace only caught a small fish the size of a thumb, and Taneda Santouko, who arrived earlier than him, only caught a fish the size of a palm.

Just as the two were about to pack up their fishing rods and go back to have lunch, Ace suddenly pulled the rod and said in a serious tone, "I think I caught a big fish."

When Zhongtian Shantouhuo heard this, he was not in a hurry to leave. At this moment, they had no disputes over their positions, just a forum for fellow fishermen to communicate. He came over to take a look at Ace's straightened fishing line and the strength of Ace's pulling on the rod, and exclaimed, "Wow!", and said, "It looks like it is indeed a big fish...Do you want help?"

"No need!" Ace held the fishing rod tightly and exerted force. A large black shadow was pulled out of the water and drew an arc in the air. Ace grinned, "Maybe I can treat you to a fish feast at noon today!"

"Bang."

The shadow fell to the ground, and Ace's smile froze on his face. The two of them stood around the big guy, speechless. A suffocating silence spread.

After a while, Ace laughed awkwardly: "Hahaha, looks like I can't treat you to a fish feast today."

It's a whole fish feast, but I'm afraid even the whole body is gone.

Taneda Santoka looked silently at the already swollen and rotten corpse that had been caught, and gave the same awkward smile: "Yes, I'll call the police station to come and deal with it."

Although Yokohama has more vicious incidents than other cities, Yokohama's underground forces prefer to sink corpses into Yokohama Bay rather than Tsurumi River when dealing with corpses. In comparison, the water depth of Tsurumi River is much shallower, and it is easy for a corpse to be accidentally pulled up by someone else, so people generally do not throw corpses here.

I don't know what luck this Morigu had, someone really sank a corpse here and he was able to fish it out. Today, he was unlucky to encounter such a rotten corpse, and he almost lost his appetite for lunch.

"Okay, I'll go first then."

Taneda Santohuo watched Ace walk away with the fish basket, but he didn't call him. Although according to the normal police procedure, the witness must be kept to take a statement, but it's still the same sentence, Yokohama is different.

Yokohama has been in chaos for the past few years, and it is not uncommon for people to die. Whenever there is a mafia fight, there are piles of people who die. Most of the time, the organizations to which the deceased belong will handle the matter themselves, and the police don't have to intervene, and they can't intervene. When there are many deaths, the police station in Yokohama doesn't take it as seriously as other places.

That's it...

Zhongtian Shantouhuo looked at the palm-sized fish in his fish basket, then looked at the highly swollen and rotten carcass at his feet. He suddenly felt his feet were a little heavy, and he didn't know whether he should carry the fish back or throw it back into the river.

If you're taking it home to eat...

Taneda Santouka looked at the corpse at his feet again. A faint stench of decay was already starting to penetrate his nose. He could not help but take two steps back, his stomach churning.

It’s better to throw it back. I think he won’t be able to eat this fish even if it is cooked.

Let's not go fishing today.

Taneda Santoka poured the fish back to the Tsurumi River, and then thought of the thumb-sized fish that Ace had taken away, and he couldn't help but feel confused - did he take it back to cook it or raise it? No matter which one it was, it didn't look good!

If he was going to take it home to eat, why did he have to cook such a small fish? Wouldn't he think of the carcass and find it hard to swallow? If he was going to raise it, wouldn't it be worse if he would think of the carcass every time he saw the fish! ?

Zongtian Shantouhuo had no doubt at all whether the resources other than Senou would be saved to this extent. After all, apart from the slums, who would be willing to let go of such a small fish, even if it was caught head-on with a highly decomposed corpse?

He just thought that after not seeing Mori Owl for such a long time, maybe he had developed some strange habits.

Morio had no idea what Taneda Santouki was thinking, but he was now extremely troubled and anxious, because Ace actually wanted to roast and eat the thumb-sized fish that had been soaked in the same water as the corpse!

Why? It's so small, why do you have to eat it?

Sen Ou Wai didn't understand and was panicking. It's not like there's nothing to eat, why is this kid so stubborn! ?

But Ace, who was in high spirits, ignored him because he didn't understand Moriogai's aversion to food.

He found a place in the wilderness and built a fire. While grilling fish, he boasted: "I didn't have such trouble grilling fish before. I just grabbed the fish and grilled it. In the past, when my friends wanted to grill meat or fish, they would just ask me to stretch out my arm for them."

[So, for just a small fish, do you have to go to such great lengths to build a fire to roast it? ]

"I haven't grilled fish like this in a long time. I just want to get a feel for it."

[…It doesn’t matter if you don’t try to find this feel! ]

"Fish are meant to be grilled!" Ace, who hadn't grilled fish for a long time, was in high spirits and didn't listen to such irrelevant advice. "Hey, let me show you my cooking skills!"

Mori Ougai: […I won’t taste it!!]