Sabo made the right bet. With people like Whitebeard, he should not only be straightforward, but also take care of his face...

Although his straightforward words were not immediately accepted by Whitebeard, Whitebeard also took the opportunity to express his own ideas - after he passed away, Ace would take over the Whitebeard Pirates!

Throughout the ages, the more powerful the pirate group, the less they need an heir...

This is probably because the more powerful the pirate group, the greater the cohesion of the leader. In this way, even his deputy often cannot pull the team up independently, so often the powerful pirate group will be disbanded on the spot when the boss dies. However,

the Whitebeard Pirates are an exception. After all, they are connected by the bond of "family affection", and in the original work, "Dad" died in Marinford to cover the retreat of his sons. Therefore, after Whitebeard's death, the name of "Whitebeard Pirates" still stands in the New World.

Unfortunately, although everyone was willing to inherit the title and there was no conflict, Marco, as the successor, failed to lead his brothers and sisters in fighting. Instead, he was burdened by his past fame. After Whitebeard's death, he was beaten to pieces by Blackbeard Teach and Little Whitebeard Weevil...

Now Whitebeard named Ace as his successor. Apart from Ace, even Marco had no complaints. On

the contrary, Ace was very indignant - he had always hoped that "Dad" could become the Pirate King, but now "Dad" said that he hoped he could become the Pirate King in the future.

Ace's indignation was useless. Whitebeard ignored him. Instead, he told the other captains and some captains of the branch groups present about Ace's life experience, and...

"But I want this kid to be my successor and the Pirate King, not because of his bloodline, but because I feel that the person Roger is waiting for may be like this kid. If you want to be the Pirate King in the future, try your best. But if you fall into the hands of others, I will not forgive you. Anyway, the Pirate King will be my son! Gulala..." Whitebeard laughed in a very distinctive way. Sabo

looked strange on the side - the Pirate King is your son? Why do I feel like you are discrediting Roger in disguise?

"Ace becomes the Pirate King? I support him!"

"Hehe, then I need to think about it. Last time when I asked him to go back to the East China Sea, he gave me the bell melon from Momota Island and was still nagging me... If you bring it to me once every six months in the future, maybe I will agree."

"Hahaha, it's nonsense to say that I'm talking nonsense. I don't think it's a problem for Dad to live another 20 or 30 years. Ace is so stupid, maybe he will be killed one day."

Although it sounded like everyone didn't have many good words to say, one came over to fiddle with Ace's head, another pointed at Ace and told him embarrassing stories, but in the final analysis, they all supported Dad's decision...

However, at this moment, Whitebeard seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly stopped laughing. Instead, he picked up the wine bowl at hand and smashed it to the side!

With a bang, two wine bowls were smashed. One was thrown by Whitebeard, and the other was in the hands of a skinny, long-haired man with a spider tattoo on his forehead.

After hearing about Ace's life story, Spider-Man drank in silence, but when his father found out that he had knocked it down, he immediately showed an expression of grievance and anger.

"Squard, if you have something to say, just say it. Why are you looking so stinky?" Whitebeard said.

The banquet was silent, and some veteran captains and captains remembered that Squard seemed to have a grudge against Roger in the past!

After all, everyone is a pirate, and colleagues are enemies. In Roger's era, there were countless colleagues who were defeated by Roger, but Squard was more unlucky. He encountered a shipwreck when he was just defeated by Roger and his fleet was weak. The weather at sea in the New World is not reasonable.

As a result, 90% of the entire pirate group died, and it was not wrong to put the debt on Roger. Later, the entire Squard group joined Whitebeard and became a branch of Whitebeard's large fleet.

In the original work, Squard was even instigated by Sengoku and Akainu for this, and attacked Whitebeard in the Battle of the Top, stabbing the first knife for Whitebeard's death in the Battle of the Top...

However, because Whitebeard was frank after being stabbed, and Squard himself had a good relationship with Ace, and they had trusted each other behind the scenes, he repented.

Now that Whitebeard directly revealed Ace's identity, although Squard was a little unhappy, he did not have the feeling of "Dad is fooling us" in the original work, so he just drank and said nothing.

But Whitebeard saw it and knocked down his wine glass. When

Squard heard what Whitebeard said, he stood up under the influence of alcohol and said: "Ace! I'm not targeting you..."

Hearing what Squard said, Sabo looked at him in shock and admiration, but then Squard continued: "It's just that your father and I have a grudge. If you want to be my captain, you have to convince me, otherwise... I might leave the group and compete with you for the Pirate King!"

Sabo's admiration faded at this time - it turned out that not everyone is as courageous as the teacher...

"Tsk, don't give me that, I only have one father, my dad, and I don't want to be the Pirate King... But you kid are not convinced? Let me tell you... You want to leave the group? If I can't convince you, I will... beat you until you are convinced!" Ace said drunkenly.

"Ah? Little Ace is getting tough?"

"Hahaha... Big Spider wants to be the Pirate King? Hahaha..."

"Oh my god... Why are you so slow to laugh?"

Ace and Squard stared at each other, and the others did not forget to "add insult to injury".

However, Squard's words made the original gap disappear a lot.

"Speaking of which, we really need to test Little Ace... Well... Marco, do you have any ideas?" Flower Sword Vista thought for a while and turned to ask Marco.

Little Marco shook his glass and said, "As for the test, why should we think about it? As long as Ace's identity is revealed, there won't be too many tests in the future..."

Squard also reacted at this time. If the identity of "Son of Roger" is announced, who knows how many No. 2 will come to the door!

He, "Big Whirlpool Spider", could only be said to be a nobody back then. Although he was defeated by Roger, he dared not say that he was No. 2. However, if Ace said... I'm afraid it will really attract a lot of big pirates.

"Hmph, you want me to obey you? Good! If you can defeat those great pirates Roger defeated back then, I, Squard, will obey you!"

The others also followed suit, and Whitebeard laughed, saying that the test by Marco and Squard was really exciting...

This time it was Ace's turn to be unconvinced, and he immediately said that he would go out to sea and find a few No. 2 pirates to make them bow down to him!

So... he appeared on Cake Island!

The boast has been made, and Ace doesn't think he can't do it, but... he may need some help.

Guan Liyuan also understands that this is not just a "test" for Squard alone, but also a test for other captains to see Ace's potential - otherwise, although everyone has a good relationship, which captain on Whitebeard's ship doesn't have more experience than Ace? Without the test, Ace would not have the face to command other captains.

The reason why he came to Guan Liyuan was not to cheat, but since Ace was not going to rely on the power of the Whitebeard Pirates in the test, he naturally needed help from others...

Not to help directly in the battle, otherwise how could Ace be convinced?

But Ace is not stupid. If he really goes it alone, he might be tricked by the enemies of the dead Roger one day... Besides, it involves intelligence matters, so necessary assistance is still needed.