One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The sea breeze was blowing, and on the light blue sky, a few thin white clouds floated slowly with the wind, as if they had been melted by the sun.

Roger was lying on the bow of the Orr, with his hands behind his head, and asked without thinking: "Hello! Raleigh, has it been many days?"

"What?" Of course, Silbazz Raleigh couldn't understand the meaning behind the captain's words. He was sorting out the supplies on the ship now—there were several banquets held before, which made their current supply of ingredients stretched.

He went on to say, "Roger, it's hard to get the supplies on the ship to the next island. Banquets are banned recently."

"I'm not talking about that." Roger ignored the meaning of Rayleigh's words and said, "I mean we haven't seen Cap for a long time, right?"

Duolingo leaned out half of his body on the observation deck, echoed his captain and said, "Yes, captain, since Sky Island, that group of dog-headed navy hasn't appeared again."

"Hahahaha, we must have scared you." Jabba laughed loudly, "But without that navy, sailing has become boring."

"That's right." Roger sat up, scratched his cheek, and asked again seemingly casually: "It's been a long time since I saw Lu Jiu."

In order to show his confidence, his voice was even louder than before.

When everyone heard his question and saw the captain showing a gesture that they didn't know about, they burst into laughter and began to tease and laugh.

"Oh~ I thought the captain was bored and wanted to fight, so that's why~"

"It's been a long time since I saw Lu Jiu~ Hahahahaha, will the captain beat around the bush like this?"

"A man in love is unreasonable. Hey, we're thinking about fighting and he's thinking about women."

"Hey! How dare you laugh at your captain like this, do you believe that I will let you clean the deck!" Roger jumped on the bow angrily, and bluffed: "We are friends, let's take care of what's going on!"

"Oh, it's friends, everyone is friends." Mr. Momola finished laughing, and was hit by the captain's slipper.

Roger jumped off the bow and fought with the crew. For a while, slippers, wine bottles, and even clothes were thrown into the sky.

Rayleigh took a deep breath, and when he saw someone throwing a piece of bread, his heart burned.

After a while, the pirates with big heads were kneeling neatly on the deck, all lowered their heads and apologized loudly: "I'm sorry Raleigh, we were wrong."

Looking at the messy deck, Rayleigh said angrily, "The deck will be cleaned up later, if you dare to waste food, I will feed you to the fish."

Everyone—including the captain, all shrank their necks. The deputy captain said that he would feed them to the fish, so he would definitely do it.

After tidying up the deck obediently, Roger smiled so exaggeratedly that he grinned almost to the ears, and he walked up to Lei Li, pink surfaced on his rough face, "That." He scratched the back of his head, "Ray Li, I sneezed several times yesterday, do you think Lu Jiu is looking for us?"

There was a smile on Rayleigh's face. He felt that his captain was very pitiful now, and the rare burst of sympathy made him no longer choose to tease him.

He said: "Didn't Lu Jiu say when Judiciary Island was separated that she was going to the capital of water?"

"Water City?" Roger pricked up his ears like an animal, "Where is Water City?"

"An island famous for shipbuilding. If my guess is correct, Garp and that Ace should be there."

"why?"

"The Admiral of the Navy is stationed on that island, and the only opponent waiting for him is Black Fireworks who has occupied the Fishman Island. As a reporter, Lu Jiu must have gone to record the news. Garp should have been transferred there too, so he couldn't escape to catch us."

Relying only on the speculative news in the newspapers, Raleigh's guess was close to ten.

Roger became anxious after hearing only a few key words, "The water capital is not very dangerous! Lu Jiu is too dangerous there, let's go to the water capital to rescue people!"

"Ha, Lu Jiu is not a fool. She will definitely leave when the battle starts. Pirates like us are the most dangerous!"

"Rayleigh, knowing that our friends may be in danger, how can we be indifferent!" Roger gave his most trusted buddy, the first blond man who invited him on board, a blow in the back of the head. "We have to go to the capital of water, right, guys."

Before Rayleigh could speak, he heard the active voices of support from all the pirates on board.

"For the captain!"

"Oh oh oh, there is a fight to fight!"

"The capital of water, the capital of water!"

Ugh. These idiots don't know anything.

Raleigh sighed, and exchanged glances with the slightly calmer Jabba, who shrugged helplessly and mouthed 'resign to fate' to him.

Going to the Water City this time is probably a real resignation, Black Firework and Admiral. If the Roger Pirates experience a few more years at sea, Raleigh is still confident that he can resist these two behemoths.

But now, they have been at sea for less than a year, and there are not many people on board, and the bounty offered by the entire ship is even less than that of Heiyan Gray alone.

After the Battle of Judiciary Island, Raleigh clearly felt the strength of the navy and the world government. Although they won in the end, they suffered a lot of losses. Some crew members have not recovered from their injuries.

"Lei Li, don't worry, we won't rush in this time." Roger suddenly said to Lei Li seriously: "We will sneak into the water capital, and run away when we find Lu Jiu."

"Only when you say that, I won't believe it." Rayleigh shook his head, putting aside the worries in his heart, forget it, since they all want to go, then he has no reason to stop.

Ever since he decided to go out to sea with this man, Raleigh never thought that it would end well. Whether it was the entrance to hell or not, they would have to venture to find out.

But, if you want to go to the capital of water, you have to record the pointer. Now they record the direction the pointer is pointing. The royal family on Shangzuo Island told them that it seems to be called Qiancheng Island.

Now, they can only go to Qiancheng Island according to the original route, and then find a way to go to the capital of water.

The current in front of it suddenly started to surge, and the sea water suddenly swelled up a huge bag, and the bow of the Aurer also continued to rise with the sea water. Soon, the sea water broke through, and a huge sea beast drilled out of it.

Everyone immediately took out their weapons and prepared to fight, but when they saw the appearance of this sea beast, everyone was stunned.

There were more than a dozen knife marks all over the body of the sea beast exposed to the sea, and the blood stained the surrounding sea area red, which was very frightening to watch.

"What's the situation?" Roger didn't know, so when the other party had no intention of attacking, he would not attack a scarred guy, even if it was a sea beast.

The sea beast roared and wanted to dive into the sea. At this moment, a white light flashed, and its body spattered blood again, smashing hard into the sea, pushing the Aurer away by a distance of more than ten meters.

A small sloop sailed out from behind the sea beast, and a cold and beautiful woman stood on the deck, telling with the bloody dagger in her hand that the death of the sea beast was her masterpiece.

Cynthia stared at the sea, as if she saw something, approached the ship's side, stretched out her hand to the sea, "Give me your hand."

In the scarlet water, Murloc Tom stretched out his hand, and Cynthia pulled him up.

The excitement of the aftermath made Tom panting heavily. He lay down on the deck as if exhausted, and said gratefully: "Thank you so much, Cynthia, if it weren't for you, I would have been eaten by sea beasts."

"Idiot." Cynthia cursed angrily.

Going to sea to fish but being killed by sea beasts, it would be too embarrassing to say such things.

"Hey! You two, are you pirates too?" Roger shouted excitedly as the Auer leaned over.

Cynthia glanced at the Pirate Flag and found that it was not the big pirate she was familiar with. She was relieved—she didn't have time to read newspapers recently, and the Lockes Pirates always focused on the New World, so she didn't know the name of the Roger Pirates, let alone that the pirate ship in front of her had just defeated Judicial Island some time ago.

She answered Roger with silence.

But Tom got up and greeted in the same friendly manner, "Hello, we... are not pirates."

His lies still run through in a style that can be broken at a glance, and Rayleigh can't bear to expose it. The woman's face, he has seen in the reward order, is a member of the Rocks Pirates. As for this murloc, maybe it is a handyman?

Roger easily believed the words of the murloc. He smiled and said, "I am Roger, the captain of the Roger Pirates."

"My name is Tom, the shipbuilder of the Water City, and she is" before Tom could finish, he was grabbed by Cynthia and dragged behind him. At the same time, the short knife in the woman's hand was raised, and she looked warily at Roger who jumped onto the deck.

Roger raised his hands to indicate that he was not threatening, and asked excitedly: "You are from the capital of water, aren't you?"

Tom poked his head out from behind Cynthia, "Yes, we are from the city of water."

"Oh, can you take us to the capital of water?"

"What are you doing in the capital of water?" Cynthia asked this time.

Roger didn't care about the fluff in the other party's words, and said with a smile: "We have friends in the water capital, and we will leave as soon as we meet them."

"They seem to be good people," Tom whispered to Cynthia, "shall we go with them?"

Cynthia looked at Roger silently for a while. The latter smiled silly and stood with his hips akimbo, allowing her to look at him. The rest of the pirates were lying on the side of the ship, watching the situation here curiously.

She weighed it, nodded in agreement, and added: "We can lead the way, but we need supplies in return."

"Of course!" Roger readily agreed, "Then brothers, let's go tonight."

"No! We don't have much supplies on board, Roger." Raleigh quickly stopped, "We can't have a banquet, but we can distribute the supplies."

"Well, okay." Roger and the crew lowered their arms in disappointment.

Although there is no banquet as a bridge, Roger, who is warm and forthright by nature, gets acquainted with Tom.

Cynthia sat on the side of the boat and did not participate in the noise of the other boat. The moonlight shone on her face like a delicate white veil.

"What's the matter?" she asked the uninvited man.

Lei Li didn't hide his aura, and smiled politely: "I'm sorry, I just want to know why you Rocks Pirates are going to the Water Capital?"

"I'm the only one from Rocks, not the murloc." Cynthia said, "He's just a shipwright in the water capital."

"What do you mean?" Raleigh was slightly surprised.

"You don't need to be wary of him, because he is really just an innocent ordinary person."

"Okay, let me take your word for it. Then, as a member of Lockes' ship, why did you go to the capital of water?"

"Don't you know yet?" Cynthia sneered suddenly, "The Rocks Pirates were wiped out by the Black Fireworks. This incident was not reported in the newspapers. Even with a powerful intelligence network all over the world, no one would want to touch the bad luck of the Black Fireworks. It's normal for you to ask."

The veins on Rayleigh's forehead twitched, and the sudden heavy news made him stop thinking for a while. They regarded the Rocks Pirates as the biggest obstacle they might encounter in the first half, and they were wiped out without a sound.

No, it shouldn't be group destruction. The Rocks Pirates are a large group, and there are some small followers under their banner. No matter how powerful the Black Fireworks are, they will not defeat all of Rocks' troops in such a short period of time.

Cynthia continued: "You can check whether my words are true at will. Everything will come to a conclusion when you reach the capital of water. My goal is to rescue the captain, and your goal is to find your companions. This is not a conflict. On the contrary, the chaos I caused may help you."

Lei Li didn't answer. He lit a cigarette and frowned, as if something was wrong. He overlooked a very important point, but he strung things together again and again, and Lei Li didn't want to understand what he had overlooked.

Cynthia didn't speak anymore, she didn't want the other party to be wary of Tom, because the latter was an innocent person implicated by her.

Even if she is a pirate, she has to repay the favors received from others, and she doesn't want to be an ungrateful person.

Raleigh returned to the Orr, and heard Tom say that he would build a world-class ship with a loud voice.

Roger also imitated Tom's catchphrase, saying that he would also become a famous big pirate.

These guys are leisurely, they don't have to think about anything, they just rush forward, but here he wants to think about what important clues he has overlooked.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, Rayleigh kicked Roger viciously.

The latter got up from the ground with a blank face, and looked at Lei Li with aggrieved eyes, "Why did you hit me all of a sudden, Lei Li?"

"Because you really deserve a beating, bastard!"

Everyone couldn't believe their eyes and didn't know how to react.

Rayleigh is a very stable and mature person, and this kind of behavior of beating people for no reason has never appeared in him.

"What did I do again?" Roger asked.

"You still have the nerve to ask, do I have to throw the whole list in your face?"

"It looks like a couple having a fight," Spencer muttered to Jabba next to him.

Jabba nodded, understanding Raleigh's outburst, "The vice-captain is really worried. We must give him some tolerance and understanding. If beating the captain can make him vent his anger, I support that very much."

"Hey, me too."