Chapter 742: Sister Yi, don't be so shy
[Chapter head serialization · Deck from the world 9 · "Vacation Island"]
[The dilapidated stage of the swordsman competition is still preserved and has become a tourist attraction on this island. Many admirers of the world's greatest swordsman, admirers of the world's highest bounty pirate Ripple Messenger, and even fans of the Devil's Son will come to admire and tour, and buy some decorative swords and souvenirs similar to Lynch's golden iron rod... Tourists come and go, and Lynch's 5 billion bounty is posted on the wall, but no one dares to touch it, and the onlookers subconsciously stay away from it.]——
"Lynch!"
Chopper's eyes lit up, and he jumped over and jumped into Lynch's arms.
"I saw your bounty," Lynch said, grabbing Chopper by the scruff of his fur neck. "One hundred million bounty, almost as much as the first bounty I put on you. That's incredible!"
"Hehehe, it's not that great~~" Chopper, who was being carried, twisted his body shyly.
"Brother Hei!"
Meli seemed to be imitating Chopper. Like a little ghost, she flew towards Lynch, stuck to his face like a facehugger, and giggled.
"You've used the Mirror Fruit quite well!" Lynch touched Merry's little head with a sailor hood on it.
"Hehe..." Mary lay on his shoulder and smiled shyly with her eyes narrowed.
Lynch's big hand covered Mary's head, dark energy surged in his palm, and Mary squinted comfortably.
Chopper stood on Lynch's other shoulder and saluted, "I'm Commander Chopper, piloting the battleship Lynch. Go! - Usopp, am I handsome?"
"Hehe, the transparent ghost Usopp battleship is the coolest~~" Usopp put his hands on his hips and rubbed his long nose.
"5 billion plus 100 million, surely it would be more handsome than 20,000, right?" Sanji's suit was baggy, his blond hair was messy, and he looked like he had just recovered from a serious injury. He bit a cigarette and saw Usopp standing beside him with a shocked look on his face, and he couldn't help but laugh.
Zoro said: "Finally you woke up, I thought you were going to sleep till death."
"I'm really uncomfortable when you say that." Sanji said unhappily. On the boat, Zoro was the king of sleepers. In a blink of an eye, he could fall asleep while holding his sword.
“Damn it!!!”
Not far away, a scream was heard from Cavendish. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw him holding several bounty warrants, looking extremely shocked.
"How come I only got 330 million?! Marian, you got 500 million Baileys!!!"
Marian, carrying her drawing board on her back, said innocently, "It's no use complaining to me."
Besides, among the new bounties issued this time, aren’t the ones that attract the most attention, and the ones that you cannot tolerate for stealing the attention that you should have received, those pirates worth over 1 billion berries?
Especially Lynch, whose bounty is as high as 5 billion Baileys and tops the world's bounty list...
Marian waved to Lynch and Robin in the crowd. Cavendish also looked over there with a look of resentment. He had long since stopped considering Lynch, or Giorno, as his competitor. Although he was indeed jealous of Lynch's dazzling and invincible appearance on the stage watched by the whole world, that was Lynch after all. This guy was always like this, either disappearing or becoming famous. What was the point of being jealous?
"What is this little guy?" Tulip curiously touched Mary on Lynch's shoulder.
To Zoro's surprise, Meili did not avoid the touch of Tulip, the "stranger". Sanji and Usopp were surprised and said, "How strange!"
"What's so strange about that?" Nami came over and asked with a smile, "Hasn't Meili seen her?"
"Have you seen him?" Brook and Franky also came over. Even Tulip herself was a little confused. Robin explained: "This kid is the ship spirit of Luffy's first pirate ship."
"Ship elf?" Tulip was a little unfamiliar with this. Dragon unexpectedly looked at Merry a few more times. This was a creature in the legend. The probability of its birth was very small, which could be called a miracle... He couldn't help but look at Lynch. Could it be that because of his black ghost clone at that time, which stayed on Luffy's ship over time, it led to the birth of this ship elf?
Merry looked at Tulip and Dragon and asked curiously, "You guys... look like Luffy!"
Chopper said: "Because they are Luffy's parents."
"Oh~~" Meili suddenly realized it and tilted her head in confusion, "What are mom and dad?"
"Hahaha."
The cute and adorable look of the boat elf made everyone laugh.
Suddenly, the ground shook. Zoro was surprised and said, "It's the sound of a fight." He held the hilt of the sword and pushed the sword out of its sheath with his thumb. "Is there a fight?"
"It's over there." There were two little guys standing on Lynch's shoulders. He turned his head and looked over. "Three people are fighting, and a bunch of people are watching. The ones fighting are Luffy, Ace, and the other one..."
"Then it should be Sabo." Tulip smiled, "They are three brothers."
"Ah?" Sanda and Hancock were startled when they heard this, and looked at Tulip and Dragon. "Three brothers?"
Ace was Roger's son, they knew. What about the other one?
"The three of you are sworn brothers." Tulip shook her head. "It's hard enough to have one child. If you two want to have a child in the future, you must be mentally prepared..."
Suddenly, Tulip pulled Hancock and Robin aside and started chatting about this in a low voice, which made Hancock blush.
The Pirate Queen was standing uncomfortably, and from time to time she glared at Lynch with shyness in her eyes, which made most of the people present dazzled... Even Robin, who was usually calm and able to make jokes, couldn't help but blush.
Sanji bit his handkerchief, his face full of the sourness of eating lemons, and looked at Lynch with tears in his eyes silently.
"Let's go and take a look." Lynch led the way, "Shanks and Rayleigh are here too."
"Let's go too!" Cavendish and his men chased after them to catch up.
On the way, Nami asked in confusion: "Since they are brothers, why are they fighting when the situation is so complicated now?"
"It's because the situation is so complicated that I don't know where to start," Lin Qi said with a smile, "so it's better to just have a fight and communicate with fists, which is more efficient."
"That's right." Zoro said with a smile as he walked leisurely.
"That's true." Sanji bit his cigarette.
"Nami, you don't understand!" Usopp was proud, "This is the romance of a man!"
"Inexplicable..." Nami muttered, turning her head to look at Robin, and found that she also smiled helplessly. Obviously, even Sister Robin was not used to the man's way of thinking. Hancock, Sanda and Tulip from Nine Snake Island seemed to approve and appreciate what Lynch said and what Luffy did. They nodded slightly, "Fighting is the best way to communicate."
"I don't understand you guys!"
Nami sighed and hugged Robin's arm. Sister Robin is still the best.
…
When everyone arrived, the remaining members of the Whitebeard Pirates, including Marco, Joz, Vista, etc., were scattered in the woods. The Red Hair Pirates and others were not far away, as well as Rayleigh and Shaki.
In the middle of the field, in the open space, there were three panting teenagers lying. Well, the oldest was only 20 years old. Luffy was only 17, which would have been a high school student in Lynch's previous life.
"Haha, this time there's no... no winner..." Sabo picked up his hat and sat up, panting and laughing, "It seems like this is the first time that three of us are tied?"
Luffy lay on the ground, looked at the sky and laughed: "You two are still as powerful as before! But I will not lose! Sooner or later I will surpass you! Hehehe..."
Ace forced himself to sit up, and his original despair and depression were relieved a lot because of this fight.
"You two... really like to mess with me, your big brother..." Ace sniffed, wanting to cry, but also wanting to laugh.
"Why am I causing trouble?" "Hey, I'm the boss!"
Luffy and Sabo were annoyed, and they punched Ace on both cheeks, one on the left and one on the right.
But soon, Luffy and Sabo pulled Ace up, patted him on the back with a smile, and pushed him towards Marco and others in the woods.
"You guys..." Ace was touched.
"Ace!" A familiar voice came from not far away. Ace turned his head and saw Teacher Tulip, whom he had not seen for many years, gesturing with her fingers on her cheek, as if mocking him for crying.
Thinking back to the days at Mount Korpo, and how, although those days were brief, Teacher Tulip had given him motherly care, tears welled up in Ace's eyes again.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Dad is gone, it's almost time for our pirate group to disband."
Up ahead, in the woods, Marco and the others all looked haggard, and many of them had short, hard stubble that they had no time to groom.
The pirate group was originally brought together in the name of father and son and family, but now that their backbone Whitebeard has fallen, everyone's morale seems to have dispersed.
Unlike the comics, in the Battle of Marineford in the comics, the traitor Blackbeard openly stood up to assassinate Whitebeard, which objectively left Marco and others with an object of revenge, or common hatred.
But now, because Blackbeard did not show up, and in the Battle of Marineford, Dad and Lynch also worked together to kill Akainu and Sengoku.
The war is over, with casualties on both sides, that's all.
After this, all that was left for Marco and the others was an endless void...
Now that Whitebeard is gone, is there still any meaning for the Whitebeard Pirates to exist?
Just when Marco and the others were turning around, or thinking about leaving, or looking sad, they suddenly heard Ace shouting, "The Whitebeard Pirates haven't disbanded yet!!!"
“……?!”
"Ace..."
Joz, Marco, Vista and a group of demoralized pirates turned around to look. Ace wiped his face, looked at the blood on his palms, and clenched them tightly.
"Now that dad is gone, the pirate group is going to disband? What a joke!" Ace had tears in his eyes. He looked up and scanned the faces of Marco and the others, and shouted, "If we disband, who will remember his name in the future? If we don't mention him anymore, the world will gradually forget the name 'Whitebeard'!"
When does a person die? When the blood runs out?
wrong.
Is it the time when the breath stops?
wrong.
It's when you are forgotten by others.
"Ace..." Luffy and Sabo muttered in shock.
Plop! Under the moving or sentimental gaze of Marco and others, Ace knelt down on the spot and kowtowed heavily to the brothers of the Whitebeard Pirates with a loud "bang!"
"Everyone, for loving me who has always been hopelessly willful... and for me who has inherited the blood of the devil... I am extremely grateful!!"
Blood flowed from his forehead onto the grass. Ace, who was kneeling on the ground, shouted tremblingly, "So, please give me a chance to make amends. I want my father's flag to continue flying over this sea!"
Looking at the tattoo of the grinning Whitebeard Pirates' logo on the kneeling Ace's back, Marco, Vista and the others could no longer hold back their tears.
"I absolutely cannot let my father and you all take me in and make it a mistake..."
Ace's voice echoed in the woods.
"You actually cried like that..." Cavendish pouted and pretended to be disdainful.
"I think he's very frank," said Marianne.
"Ace." Shanks sighed with a smile.
Rayleigh took off his glasses, squeezed his brows, and put them on, "Newgate, you got a very good son."
Marco and the others rushed over, and Ace hugged them one by one, patting their backs and comforting each other.
Watching this scene, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp and others who had personally experienced the tragic Battle of Marineford were speechless and sighed - Franky was even more moved to the extreme, crying his eyes out, and even soaking his handkerchiefs.
"..." Luffy clenched his fists and pressed down the straw hat on his head. Because of what happened this time, his eyes became more determined and he said, "Ace, Sabo, I don't want to lose any of my partners."
But the cruelty of the battlefield, the frost giants, the lava hell, the golden light, the irresistible golden Buddha... and the iron fist of his grandfather, and even those equally powerful admirals, are almost as powerful as the ocean, constantly appearing in front of Luffy. What would happen if Ace's situation was replaced by himself next time? Would he also have to watch his companions fall one by one to save him? "Marco, do you want to eat the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"
Suddenly, Lynch over there shouted loudly, attracting everyone's attention.
Lin Qi said: "You should be able to guess how Whitebeard died in the end. Knowing that there would be such a risk, would you still eat the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"
Marco's pupils shrank, and he asked loudly: "Lin Qi, I don't know! Can you tell me now? What happened? Dad replaced my Phoenix ability at that time, why...the Phoenix's power was suddenly taken away?"
Is this how Whitebeard died?
The power of the devil fruit on his body was forcibly taken away? For a moment, Shanks, Rayleigh, Dragon, Tulip, Marco, Ace, Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Franky, and even Merry on Lynch's shoulder opened their eyes curiously... Everyone's eyes were focused on Lynch, waiting for his answer.
"Didn't Whitebeard say at the end? There is an immortal person..." Lynch's eyes were covered with a shadow, and he smiled, "She can forcibly 'tear' away the power in the body of the ability user by creating an identical devil fruit. Unless the stolen devil fruit power is returned to the body in time, this kind of injury cannot be reversed... So I ask you, do you still want to eat the Tremor-Tremor Fruit?"
Boom! In the sky of the Sabaody Archipelago, the wind and clouds rolled and thunder surged! Dragon frowned, and was about to use the power of the weather fruit to disperse the wind and thunder in the sky, but was stopped by Lynch holding his arm.
"Sister Yi, don't be so shy!" Lin Qi raised the golden iron rod and pointed it at the vortex of wind and thunder in the sky, "Can't we just chat casually?"
(End of this chapter)