Chapter 58 What are you doing?
Ace, who drank heavily, soon got drunk, and after getting drunk, the habits he developed in front of his former partners also came back to him.
Previously, when he was drinking with the people from the Port Mafia, he was concerned about Mori Ouwai's identity and every time he wanted to speak, he held back. It was very uncomfortable. Now the person in front of him is a stranger, and he doesn't know that his face belongs to Mori Ouwai, so Ace immediately got excited!
As soon as he got excited, he started to brag about something he had said countless times in the Whitebeard Pirates, something that even his companions disliked as a brother-con: "Let me tell you, my brother is really successful now! He got a bounty of 30 million berries just after he went out to sea! Ha! The last time I met him in Alabasta, he was already going to challenge the sand crocodile! Isn't my brother amazing?"
As he spoke, he reached into his pockets, trying to pull out a wanted poster for Luffy, but after finding nothing, he remembered that he was now in another world and not using his own body.
But this did not stop him from continuing to show off his younger brother!
Ace burped and continued, "You don't know, he even dared to break into the Pushin City! He actually broke into it and came out again! The last person who escaped from the Pushin City was the Golden Lion!"
At first, Verlaine listened to what he said in a disjointed manner, until he started to brag about his brother. Verlaine's attention was involuntarily focused and he listened carefully.
He was not interested in Perry's currency, which came from some small country he had never heard of. He also did not care whether Alabasta was some small place he had never heard of. All his attention was focused on this "little brother".
Of course, Weilun knew the face of Mori Ogai among the people on his assassination list, and he even investigated him in advance. He didn't kill him right away because he had made a deal with Dazai Osamu before, and promised him to kill Mori Ogai in the end.
He seemed to come to the bar to drink, but in fact he was re-sorting his assassination list, and then he saw the final target bump into him and sit next to him.
Different from what he had found out about Mori Ouwai's personality, this man did not seem as smart as his profile said. And seeing that he was chatting with him without knowing anything, Wei Erlain became interested.
…and somehow the topic of our conversation turned to my younger brother.
Weilun's ultimate goal in coming to Yokohama is to take away his own experimental data and his younger brother "Arabato", also known as Nakahara Chuuya, who is also a supernatural experiment subject, to prevent him from being used as a weapon by others like himself and ignoring his personality.
In short, it is to make the other "self" no longer walk his tragic old path, and let him completely stay away from these conflicts of interest. To this end, he plans to remove all obstacles that may hinder Nakahara Chuuya!
First is his partner Dazai Osamu, then the leader he is loyal to, Mori Gugai, his close friends the members of the Flag Association, the members of the Sheep who once betrayed Nakahara Chuuya but were still able to be used by Mori Gugai to control Nakahara Chuuya after the betrayal, and the researchers who are hiding Nakahara Chuuya's experimental data without even knowing it.
After all the ties were severed, Chuuya Nakahara could only follow the only person he still had a relationship with.
It doesn't matter who is the first one, just save Dazai Osamu and Mori Ogai for last.
The assassination list he had come to Yokohama with was drawn up with this purpose in mind. Verlaine had no intention of canceling the plan, but that did not prevent him from learning from the experience of his predecessors.
Although the information he found did not include the information that Mori Gugai had a younger brother, his focus of this investigation was originally on Nakahara Chuuya, so it was not surprising that there would be some omissions in Mori Gugai. Moreover, he believed in his own judgment that Mori Gugai did not look like he was lying when he said these things.
Verlaine raised his glass to clink with Ace's while listening, but after clinking glasses, Ace drank at least half of the glass, while he only took a sip. In this way, he made Ace drink a lot more, and after confirming that the other party was a little confused after drinking, he began to ask for advice.
"From what you said, you have a good relationship with your brother?"
"Of course! We are best brothers! We have fought together, slept together, drunk together, eaten free meals together, and been beaten and burped by Grandpa together... When I was locked up and pushed into the city, he also tried his best to save me. Even though his opponent was Grandpa, he never backed down... He is my proudest brother!"
The more Verlaine listened, the brighter his eyes became.
This is a successful example!
He began to ask humbly: "If... I have a younger brother whom I have never met before, and I have been looking for him for a long time before I finally found him, but he has never seen me and does not know that I am his brother. How can I build a good relationship with him and make him willingly follow me?"
When the bartender heard this, he realized that this seemed to be the beginning of a private conversation. He took a few bottles of rum and placed them on the bar, then quietly left.
"Haven't you seen me before? Didn't know you existed? Hmm..." Ace's thoughts had become a little dull due to the accumulation of alcohol. He thought for a long time before he came up with his own opinion: "Maybe... you're just being stubborn?"
He hesitated for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, no, it's really annoying when Luffy followed me everywhere. I almost threw him to the tiger! Isn't the dead-end attack a reverse sprint?"
Verlaine, who had just taken out his cell phone to take a note, blankly deleted the word "死麏爛打" that he had just typed.
Ace frowned and thought: "Hmm... maybe fighting together is a good idea. Having a common enemy can quickly build relationships! Well, eating free meals together is also a good choice. We often ate free meals together when we were young. Those are all good memories! Ah, and we also got beaten by grandpa together! When we were young, we established a united front against grandpa!"
Mori Ogai, who was also a bit slow in thinking because Ace had drunk, said: [……]
Although, in addition to the first one, do you think there is another one that can be used? He really finds it hard to imagine that one day Verlaine might take Chuuya to eat a free meal, and it is also hard to imagine that someone can suppress and beat Verlaine and Chuuya at the same time!
However, the inexperienced Verlaine was overjoyed. He briefly summarized Ace's suggestion:
1. Fight together;
2. Having a common enemy;
3. Eat a free meal together;
Then he ignored Ace's fourth suggestion without hesitation.
These are only three. Weilun feels that this is far from enough. He still wants to create more valuable memories with Chuuya, so he continues to ask: "Anything else?"
Ace was very impressed by this new friend who also had a younger brother and who also valued his younger brother very much, so he tried to think about it again and said bit by bit, "Hmm... Collect treasures together?... Have the same ideals? Talk about ideals together?"
Collecting treasures together is fine. The same ideal... What is my ideal? Verlaine was a little confused for a moment, but soon thought, I want to live freely in a small farm in the countryside with my brother, well, then the topic I talk about with my brother is the free and peaceful rural life!
Verlaine took careful note and continued, "Anything else?"
"Ah... and... go on adventures together? Find treasure together? Get beaten by grandpa together?"
Che Gulu repeated his words again, and it was obvious that he had been drunk so much that his mind was a little unclear.
Mori Ogai is like the wife who tries to stop her husband from drinking at a banquet. Although she has tried her best to stop him, the drunken husband seems to have heard nothing and continues to toast with the people who come up to him. What's even more sad is that the wife who tried to stop him from drinking could still stop him with her hands, but now even his hands belong to his "husband".
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Verlaine also realized that he seemed to have drunk too much, so he stopped trying to tempt Ace to drink and signaled the bartender to replace the several bottles of rum on the table with mineral water. He still had questions to ask, how could he let the other person get drunk like this?
Seeing that the topic of strengthening the relationship with his brother could only get the answer he had already gotten, Verlaine decided to change the question.
"How do you think you can make your brother's relationship better after you have severed all other ties with him?"
Weilun was not stupid. He knew that after he cut off the ties between Chuuya Nakahara and Chuuya Nakahara, Chuuya Nakahara would definitely hate him. But this was a necessary process. Only by cutting off all these ties could he be sure to take Chuuya away. Otherwise, even if he took him away by force, he would definitely find a way to come back. He couldn't put something in Chuuya Nakahara's brain that could control him like those researchers did to him back then. This would be completely different from his purpose.
Only by taking the person away first can he have enough time to improve the relationship between the two.
After he became the only person he could associate with, he always managed to make Chuuya Nakahara dependent on him.
Ace was unable to react. His drunken brain was shrunken by this question. He repeated in confusion, "Cut off... all ties with my brother?"
“Yes,” Verlaine confirmed calmly, indicating that he had heard correctly.
"Why?" Ace expressed his incomprehension. He was the kind of good brother who would be happy for his younger brother after seeing that his younger brother had a new bond that he could entrust his life to. When he suddenly heard this topic that was completely contrary to his concept, he just thought that the other person was crazy.
Weilun thought for a moment and replied tactfully, but not so tactfully: "He will only come with me if all those ties are severed."
"My younger brother has his own journey. If you do this, he will fight you to death!" Ace took a big sip of water. "If my younger brother kills my companion just to make me go with him, then we will definitely not be brothers anymore!"
Wei Erlan was startled and immediately alert. But he felt that their situations were different, so he retorted: "That's different. My brother is not a human being like me. They will only use my brother. I want to take my brother back from those people with bad intentions!"
"What's the difference? Aren't most of my companions human?" Ace slammed his wine glass on the table and counted them one by one. "Little Oz is a demon, and then Miel and Jinbei are fishmen. We also have the Fur Tribe and the Long-Handed Tribe on our ship, and there's even a talking elk on my brother's ship!"
This time it was Verlaine's turn to suffer from cerebellar atrophy.
His thoughts were confused for a while, and suddenly he found his blind spot - no, those races that he had never heard of couldn't possibly exist! They were obviously just human imaginations! Or they must be people with special abilities!
He immediately perked up again, thinking that the other party was just drunk and talking nonsense.
However, many of the previous suggestions can be adopted.
Weilun now finds Senou a bit pleasing to the eye. He will try it out first and then come to trouble this guy if there are any problems.