Chapter 625 "I am ashamed of being born a noble"

[Series at the beginning of the chapter·Heart Pirates 30·"The Good Years"] [Law's body needed to recover, so the three of them went to Wolfe's house outside the town. Baby5 wandered around Wolfe's house, which was full of strange inventions and props. Law used the power of the surgery fruit to help Rosinante deal with the gunshot wounds all over his body... Just like that, they temporarily settled on this Petrel Island. There were no pirates, no navy, and of course no Don Quixote family...]——

To the north of the Windmill Village is the Korpo Mountains...

In the woods of Mount Korpo, Ace carried his water pipe and continued north along his usual "cultivation path".

Along the way, we encountered many ferocious beasts.

Alligators, porcupines, wild wolves...

They are all of huge size. If Ace can defeat them, he will do so. If not, he will use his nimble body movements to fight and drive the opponent away - anyway, he refuses to run away.

"Wow!!"

A scream came from behind. Ace stopped and turned back unhappily and asked, "So, why did you follow me?"

Luffy was entangled by a huge vulture from behind, and was pecked black and blue. He angrily stretched out his rubber arms to hug the vulture, without much strategy, and just swung it around and threw it hard... Bang! Bang! Bang! The vulture was stunned by the throw, and thought it was really strange that this human boy could stretch his arms. After thinking for two seconds, he quickly flapped his wings and retreated.

Luffy panted and gasped, and said in fear: "There are more animals on this road than when I went back to the village, and they are even scarier!"

In response to Ace's question, he pressed his straw hat and grinned, "What's the matter? Aren't we friends? I also want to make friends with the person you are looking for! Hehehe..."

"..." Ace crossed his arms and said calmly, "You're a little better than at the beginning. Just a little bit."

Luffy smiled brightly, "Because my mom trained me!"

Ace said nothing, turned around and continued walking north. Luffy trotted and hurried to catch up.

On the way, Luffy kept chattering and bothering Ace, like a little follower.

Ace didn't find it annoying.

After picking up a rare beetle, Luffy showed it to Ace. When he met a colorful python, Luffy was not afraid at all. Instead, the python seemed to be a little close to him... Ace noticed the snake-shaped pendant around this guy's neck, and remembered that there was a colorful snake next to Luffy's mother. The freckled water boy couldn't help but think of a picture above his head. Luffy and Tulip shed their human skins, revealing the appearance of snake heads and human bodies...? After intimate exchanges with various wild animals on Mount Korpo along the way, Ace was unharmed, Luffy was covered in dust, and the two finally walked out of Mount Korpo.

A strong and strange smell came towards me, as if the rotten water at the bottom of the garbage dump was concentrated and piled up all over a mountain, and the smell lingered in the wind.

“It stinks!”

Luffy looked at the garbage-filled place in front of him with disdain. The garbage mountain emitted a fishy mist visible to the naked eye in the breeze... In the mist, human figures were faintly swaying, and houses built of garbage could be seen.

"There are people living in a place like this." Luffy was shocked.

As they walked, Ace introduced the city in a casual manner: "Further north is the city of the Kingdom of Goa. The people living there dump all their garbage into this 'Uncertainty Terminal'. Because of the sunlight, there is always thick smoke and a foul smell here... But even in such a place, because many people in the city don't need it, the poor regard it as something they can use to survive, so many people live here and make a living by picking up garbage."

As the two walked, they saw two people sitting in the garbage in the fog. They seemed to have heard Luffy's previous exclamation and were looking at him coldly.

"I'm sorry," Luffy apologized, putting his hands on his hips and laughing, "But it really stinks in here! It's really hard to live here."

No one knew what the two passers-by at the garbage mountain felt after hearing this. Anyway, they ignored Luffy and got up and left.

"Be careful." Ace said, "This is a real lawless area. Even children and women may be villains who have killed several people. Don't talk to people you don't know."

"Oh." Luffy accepted the advice and followed Ace with a smile.

Soon, the two came to a remote corner of Garbage Mountain where there were fewer people and close to the woods.

Ace approached a tree and whispered to it, "Sabo, are you there?"

"Oh, Ace." A young man wearing a top hat appeared, holding a broken water pipe similar to Ace's. "You're finally here. I've already been to the town to 'work'. Hehe, I must be the winner today!"

Ace looked up and said, "Sorry, I'm late. Sabo, I have something to tell you..."

"Hey, who's that guy behind you?" Sabo squatted on a thick branch and asked in confusion, "What's the matter? - I thought you were going to work since you were late, why did you come empty-handed?"

Ace smiled and said, "He is the 'thing' I am talking about."

Luffy held up his straw hat, looked up and said with a smile: "My name is Luffy, and I'm Ace's friend!"

"..." Sabo said, "You're smiling so silly... Never mind, my name is Sabo, and I'm also Ace's friend."

A few minutes later, the three boys were sitting together on the thick branch. There was a square hole somewhere on the branch. When they opened the grass-covered cover, they could see gold, jewels, and stacks of Bailey's banknotes buried in the hole.

Luffy exclaimed, "That's a lot of money! Is this your treasure?"

Sabo trusted Ace very much. Since Ace brought this kid here, he didn't shy away from it. He smiled and said, "Yeah, the two of us have been saving up for five years. One day we are going to use this money to buy a ship and go out to sea as pirates!"

"Wow, that's great..." Luffy was a little envious and said with a grin, "I want to be a pirate in the future! But I don't have any money, hehehe."

Sabo smiled politely at Luffy, then turned to Ace and complained, "You didn't bring any money today. Let's go to the town to 'work' together later."

Ace looked at the gold, jewelry and banknotes in the tree hole and said thoughtfully, "I don't want to use these to buy a ship."

"What did you say?" Sabo was surprised and a little angry. "Hey, you seem to be acting weird today! Is it because of this guy?"

"No..." Ace stared at the treasure he and Sabo had accumulated over the past five years, "It's because someone told me a story..."

"Story?" Sabo didn't understand.

"..." Ace was lost in thought, and finally sighed, "Sabo, the ocean is too vast!"

Sabo was even more confused. Isn't this nonsense?

"We are too insignificant." Ace said to himself, "We can't make it in such a vast ocean just by dreaming... So, I want to use this money to become a disciple and make myself stronger first!"

Sabo was shocked. "What on earth happened..."

"The master is this guy's mother." Ace stretched out his hand and pinched Luffy's cheek, stretching it thinly. "I came here today to invite you to join me. You should also come and receive training from that woman!"

"His face...?!" Sabo was shocked. "It's like ramen..."

Ace smiled, "I was right, the world is big and the ocean is vast!"

Sabo was stunned and said: "Maybe you are right..."

…

"So, the other kid Ace was talking about was you?"

In front of the wooden house on the hillside, three young men stood in a row in front of Tulip. A large colorful snake stood at her feet, and she folded her arms and looked down at Sabo.

Sabo took off his hat, revealing his short blond hair, and said politely, "Hello, my name is Sabo, and this is our apprenticeship gift."

He kicked a large bag of treasure at his feet.

"However, I have some doubts as to whether you are qualified and worthy of so much treasure?" The blond boy looked up at Tulip with a smile.

"Hey..." Ace held his forehead with his hand. This guy has been hanging around in the terminal for too long. Is it possible that he can no longer greet people normally?

Luffy was so scared when he heard that that he instinctively moved a little further away from Sabo.

Tulip smiled, a beautiful and bright smile, squinting at Sabo, "Very good, Sabo, right? You are very good..."

Sabo's smiling face froze a little, and a big drop of sweat hung behind his head. Did he do something wrong? That night, Sabo lay on the ground with a bruised face, muttering to himself unwillingly: "I can't even beat one of her snakes..."

In front of Sabo was Tulip's pet snake, a fighting partner, and a personal weapon. The snake was holding its head high, hissing at the dusty Sabo, as if mocking him. Tulip accepted Sabo's challenge, then flicked a finger on the forehead of the plumber boy, sending him flying off the hillside... Luffy was fine, but Ace was stunned, thinking Sabo was killed.

Sabo came back dejected, knowing that he was wrong, but Tulip pretended not to hear him. Not wanting to let this kid off like this, she released her war snake to teach him a lesson, and the current situation occurred...

Ace and Luffy ate dinner in silence and lit a candle for Sabo in their hearts.

Tulip sat leisurely on a wooden chair in front of the house, sipping a glass of wine, crossing her legs and brushing her long skirt, "How about it, handsome boy, am I worthy of you?"

"..." Ace and Luffy ate in sync while looking at Sabo who was lying in front of the big snake with a little worry. This is a good opportunity, hurry up and admit it, don't be impulsive!

Sabo stood up with a bruised face and walked towards Tulip with a serious face - although he couldn't look serious with his bruised face -. When Ace and Luffy wanted to rush over to pull him back, Sabo knelt down respectfully, kowtowed twice, clapped his hands and apologized devoutly: "I'm sorry, I was rude." After that, he patted his trouser legs and stood up, walked to sit between Luffy and Ace with a Buddhist face, snatched the bowls from Ace and Luffy's hands, poured the rest together, and started to eat.

Ace and Luffy were speechless the whole time - why did you steal our food?!

“Hehehe…”

Tulip smiled and stood up, leaving a message and going back into the house, "Training will begin tomorrow."

"Oh!" Sabo, who was slurping his food, raised a fist, but was punched by Luffy and Ace on both sides. "Go get your own meal! Mom (Auntie) left a portion for you!"

…

In this way, the three young men followed Tulip to practice.

They are all teenagers, and ordinary children besides the Nine Snakes. Tulip did not rush to tell them the domineering part right away, but first examined the characteristics of these three children.

Although Luffy had experience of being trained by Garp, he was just thrown into the mountains to roam free. His tenacious vitality was trained out of him, but his basic skills were the worst, so Tulip had to teach him the basic skills first... This was just right, Luffy ate the rubber fruit that seemed to be not conducive to the use of physical skills. If he started from scratch to lay the foundation, it would be more convenient to integrate with the ability of this devil fruit and create Luffy's own combat system.

Sabo and Ace's skills have obviously improved a lot, but Sabo prefers to attack head-on, while Ace's style is more agile. The former is like a little dragon riding the wind with high morale, while the latter is like an unpredictable but constantly burning fire...

In front of the hillside, the three little guys were fighting with Tulip. Tulip sometimes stood, sometimes sat bored, and sometimes directed her war snake Xiaowu to play tricks on the three boys...

Their training was basically to practice with Tulip on the first day, train in the mountains on the second day, and fight freely with each other on the third day... But no matter which day it was, they would be bruised and swollen, and covered with wounds. Fortunately, the herbal medicine made by Tulip was effective, and the three boys had good recovery ability. Basically, as long as the injuries from yesterday were not too serious, they would be almost healed after a good sleep.

He concentrated on listening to the class for a day and got beaten; then he went to the mountains the next day. The once hard training in the mountains made the beasts look kind and gentle. Ace actually felt like he was on holiday... "Luffy, just let this guy take your rotten fruit away!" One day the three of them were wandering around the garbage mountain and picked up an old newspaper from eight years ago. On it was a news report that a man named Giorno had stolen the devil fruit of the genius scientist Kai. Ace then laughed at Luffy along with Sabo. Luffy was so angry that the straw hat on his head and the snake-shaped pendant under his neck flew up. He raised his fist and shouted angrily: "The rubber fruit is not rotten! I will prove it to you!!"... When they went into the mountains to practice together, Sabo and Ace also liked to take Luffy to the city to "work". Although they no longer saved their pirate treasures, they still had to save money. It was also nice to go to the city to have a free meal. Ace always remembered to pack a delicious meal in the city and bring it back to Aunt Tulip. When it was their turn to duel, Luffy was the most uncomfortable, because he couldn't beat either Ace or Sabo, and he was at the bottom of the scoreboard...

Although he was unwilling to defeat Ace and Sabo, what was even more terrifying was the gaze of his mother who was watching from the sidelines... It really made Luffy feel very stressed! His mother was smiling, but it felt so scary.

The three boys were bathing, playing and frolicking. Tulip was drinking and admiring the moon by the window. She glanced at the naked Sabo and said thoughtfully, "Sabo, are you a noble?"

"Um?"

The three people who were playing stopped, especially Sabo, whose body was stiff. "Ah? Aunt Tulip, what are you talking about..."

"You can still see the signs of having been well-maintained..." Tulip took a sip of wine, looked up at the moon, and said to herself, "Someone who is very dissatisfied with the aristocracy should be here soon..."

Over there, Ace and Luffy were asking Sabo what was going on. The brothers ate together, played together, and went to the city to work together, so how come you suddenly became a noble?

Sabo then confessed honestly that he was indeed the son of a noble in the Goa Kingdom, but because he saw the true colors of his noble parents, he ran away from home and decided to become a pirate. He did not want to be a noble, he just wanted to be free to be himself, to be Sabo.

"Oh." Ace and Luffy sniffed, looking bored.

Sabo put the basin of water on the heads of these two bad friends and said angrily, "If you don't care, why do you keep asking questions?"

The three boys started fighting like they were at the Water-Splashing Festival again.

…

Thinking that life would continue like this, Ace and Sabo decided to go to sea at the age of seventeen - after all, they were the same age.

But after a while...

This day was the day for the internal duel among the three. They were fighting each other in an open space on the hillside. There was a scoreboard next to them. Ace and Sabo were evenly matched, while Luffy lost on both sides and was at the bottom of the points.

"Watch my fist!" Sabo yelled.

Ace laughed and said, "It's too obvious."

He dodged Sabo's punch easily, but Sabo chuckled and changed his move to kick Ace in the waist. Ace also smiled and said, "It's still too obvious. Did you think I couldn't guess that you would want to add some changes?"

Ace somersaulted and stepped on Sabo's hat, and Sabo angrily fought with him again.

Luffy was slumped on the sidelines, not because he was beaten, but because he was simply tired... He was a rubber man, and neither Sabo nor Ace could hurt him, but he couldn't hit them either, so the ending was that Luffy was too tired and was pinned down to admit defeat.

"Alas, it's a tie again!"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Sabo Ace wrestled with each other and finally announced the result reluctantly.

At this time, Tulip, who had been out, came back and after watching their duel for a while, she reminded them, "You three better not go to the 'Non-recyclable Terminal' recently."

"Why?" "What's wrong?" "What happened?"

The three of them patted their clothes clean before running to Tulip to ask.

Tulip found a newspaper and handed it to Sabo, who was the most literate. "There is garbage coming to this Kingdom of Goa, so some people want to burn down the terminal..."

Only Luffy didn't understand, and a question mark appeared on his head.

Sabo looked at the front-page news in the newspaper in his hand in shock, "The Celestial Dragons...are coming here..."

"Celestial Dragons?" Ace also came over to take a look, but he had never heard of what Celestial Dragons were.

After all, Sabo had received aristocratic education, so he explained: "They are a group of people called 'world aristocrats'... They can be said to be aristocrats among aristocrats... They are a group of people who enjoy the highest privileges in the world!"

"Oh, Aunt Tulip is right," Ace pinched his nose, "It is indeed to help the garbage."

Luffy was surprised and asked, "If it's garbage, why burn the garbage mountain?"

Sabo said incredulously: "The non-recyclable terminal... there are still many people living there! Are they going to burn it down? Have they notified everyone to evacuate?"

"..." Tulip looked down at Sabo. Sabo suddenly understood something as she looked at him. He shuddered and murmured, "Do the nobles think that... those people living at the terminal... are also part of the 'trash'...?"

Ace looked gloomy, and Luffy was indignant, crossing his arms and angrily said: "That's too much!"

Tulip asked Sabo: "What are you going to do? Are you going to tell the people at the terminal to leave?"

Ace said gloomily, "It's useless. Before the fire really starts, the people in the garbage mountain won't believe a word we say. The people there don't trust others easily anyway."

Sabo gritted his teeth and looked up, "I want to go home and get to the bottom of this! Why...why would you do this?!"

Tulip smiled faintly, "Okay, let's go."

"I'll come too." Ace went to get two broken water pipes and threw one to Sabo.

Luffy shook his rubber arm, "Hey, I'll go too."

…

The three boys followed Tulip into the prosperous city of the Kingdom of Goa.

Before entering the city, they passed by the non-recyclables terminal and found that everyone in the garbage mountain was still living the same repetitive life as before, as if nothing had happened.

They tried to remind everyone that the nobles in the city were going to burn the place down, but no one was willing to believe them.

"Want to take over my place?" A homeless man who was picking up garbage sneered.

“……” After entering the city, Sabo gritted his teeth and ran as fast as he could, and soon found the home where he once lived.

His home was in a high district where the upper class nobles lived, and people dressed like the three of them shouldn't have been able to get in, but wherever Tulip went, the guards started foaming at the mouth and passed out... Sabo was in a bad mood and didn't notice, but Ace and Luffy noticed the anomaly and couldn't help but look back at their mother/aunt, and Tulip smiled back, and the two of them looked back obediently, their awe growing even stronger.

Sabo rushed into his original home, while Tulip, Ace and Luffy stood outside the second-floor window. Soon, the sound of Sabo and others arguing fiercely could be heard from the window.

It was not until the evening, when night fell, that Sabo changed into his own clothes, pushed open the window, and slipped out holding the broken water pipe.

When he looked up, he saw three people waiting outside. Ace was holding the water pipe, looking at him calmly, Luffy was curled up and had fallen asleep, and Tulip was standing on the roof, looking up at the night sky. There seemed to be wind blowing.

"The wind has grown stronger," she said to herself.

"They are all crazy." Sabo looked at Ace with tears in his eyes, "Are the nobles... monsters who see themselves as another kind of creature? I don't understand..."

Ace said calmly, "You should have understood this a long time ago, right? Isn't it always like this?"

Sabo lowered his head and wiped away his tears...

As soon as the sun rose, Sabo ran around the city. When he met a well-dressed noble, he asked him if he knew that the non-recyclable terminal and all the people living there were going to be burned outside the city. "I know, so what?" The noble man drinking coffee at a street table asked casually, "Whose child are you?"

He knew... Sabo couldn't believe it, but the man continued to live his life as usual as if nothing had happened.

It's not just this person in front of me...

There is nothing unusual in this whole city...

"This is the nobility." Tulip, Ace, and Luffy followed closely behind Sabo who was running in front. "They are a class born to enjoy life. They can be so high up because they are supported by the exploiters of the lower classes. But they take it for granted..."

Ace was speechless and Luffy didn't quite understand.

"Luffy's father wanted to do something because he was dissatisfied with this reality." Tulip said softly.

Ace was surprised, and Luffy was even more surprised, "Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh?! I have a father?!!!"

Bang! Before Tulip could make a move, Ace punched Luffy first.

He respected Tulip very much and said angrily: "What are you talking about? Of course you have a father! - Auntie, what kind of person is Luffy's father?"

Ace asked, Tulip looked up and thought for a moment, then looked down at Ace's eyes and suddenly smiled, "Men are all the same, they are all conscienceless. As for being my man, he is just so-so."

"Oh." Luffy ticked his nose, not caring at all.

Ace felt Tulip's thoughtfulness, his nose felt sore and he lowered his head.

Tulip leaned over and teased, "I told you that you are as delicate as a girl, but you still don't admit it?"

"What's it to you!" Ace's freckled face turned red and he turned his head away.

…

"I know about the fire."

An old man passing by stroked his beard gracefully and said with a smile, "This is something that everyone agrees on. But don't make it public... If people outside the 'high district' find out, it will cause unnecessary trouble. You have to know that we are special... Aren't you also a child of the nobility? So you should understand..."

I don’t understand... Sabo looked at the polite old man in front of him in horror, and felt that he was just an alien in human skin.

I don’t understand! Sabo turned around and ran away with tears in his eyes.

"Sabo!" Luffy was eating outside a corner store. Seeing Sabo passing by, he happily greeted him, "The food here is delicious!"

Boom! Ace next to him punched him.

"Why are you hitting me?!" Luffy was dissatisfied and ate two more bites.

If an adult bullied Luffy maliciously, Tulip might still have an opinion, but Tulip would not easily intervene in such a fight between children of the same age. Her son was not that squeamish.

Sabo ran around the city, but no matter where he went, he got the same result...

Everyone... no, all the nobles... all the nobles knew what was going to happen outside the city...

What made Sabo's back shiver was that they not only knew clearly, but also all agreed to burn the garbage mountain outside the city and the people living in it...

No! Sabo's eyes were bloodshot, and he realized sadly that this move was originally proposed by these nobles! They themselves proposed the move, so of course they would not deny it themselves...

But the garbage in the garbage mountain was originally created by the people in this city...

Those who struggle to survive in the garbage mountain... If they really can't survive, who would be willing to live in a garbage dump? ! "Found it, it's him, right!?" A passing policeman saw Saab passing by, and just as he was about to chase him, he suddenly seemed to be mentally hit by a hammer, foaming at the mouth, and fainted on the side of the road.

Not far away, Tulip stood behind Ace and Luffy. The two children were licking the ice cream in their hands nervously and silently...

"Is Sabo okay?" Luffy asked.

"Probably..." Ace said.

…

It was getting dark and blazing fires were burning outside the city walls, making the city even darker and deeper.

In the civilian living areas outside the high-rise areas, more and more people heard about what was happening outside, and some confusion arose.

"The wet garbage mountain actually caught fire. This has never happened before!"

"Have you heard that the culprit of this fire is the Bluegarm Pirates from Garbage Mountain!"

"As expected, only pirates would do this..."

"I heard that they did this to prevent the World Government's inspection team from arriving here smoothly..."

The city gates were closed everywhere, and a large number of soldiers were guarding them. They pointed guns at anyone approaching and said, "It's very dangerous here. Everyone, please stay away from the 'border area'. Citizens, please rush to the city. Leave the rescue and firefighting to our army!"

There were flames leaping outside the city wall behind them, but the soldiers just kept persuading the approaching civilians to retreat and had no intention of leaving the city to rescue.

Sabo watched this scene from a distance, and stumbled to the ground when he was blown by the strong wind. At this time, a cloaked man passed by, looked at him and asked: "Young man, what's wrong with you?"

Sabo grabbed the man's feet, closed his eyes and said in pain: "Uncle... the culprits of this 'fire' are the 'royal family' and the 'nobles'! I'm serious... the smell of this city is worse than a garbage mountain! The nobles here are already rotting inside, and I feel like vomiting when I think of them acting as if nothing happened! ! ! ! ! Staying in a place like this... there is no freedom at all! ! ! ! "

Sabo raised his head and burst into tears, "I am ashamed of being born a noble!"

(End of this chapter)