One Piece: The Eternal Flame

As soon as the ship stopped at the port, many vigilant people surrounded them, holding shotguns and aiming at all the pirates who got off the ship.

Pointed at the muzzle of the black hole, Gray raised his hands and said with a smile: "We have no malicious intentions. I wonder if we can inform the leaders of the island?"

There is no leader in O'Hara, and everyone generally assumes that the curator of the Tree of Omniscience is the most authoritative person on the island.

The civilians looked at each other and finally decided to send someone to the curator.

The curator of the Tree of Omniscience is a man in his 40s. He has a strange hairstyle that looks like a clover. When he heard pirates coming from the port, he immediately winked at the other people in the library, and then quickly went to the port.

"What kind of pirates are they, have you seen the flag?" the curator-Dr. Keluoba asked on the way.

"I-I was too anxious, so I didn't look carefully." The person came with a bitter face, "I just remember it looks like a flame."

"Flame?" Keluoba said with a sullen face. As far as he knew, none of the pirates in the West Sea had any connection with the flame. Could it be that they were from other sea areas?
No matter what, O'Hara is just an inconspicuous small island in the West Sea. Pirates hate literary books and classics, and rarely set their targets on their islands.

Gray was impatient, and within a moment he asked the onlookers: "Do you have any places to drink and eat here? What about the special dishes?"

"Eh, there are places to eat, but special dishes and special books count?"

"Oh, forget it then, I want to go eat."

Gray is not interested in reading at all, "Where is the restaurant? Let's wait while we eat, don't worry, if we want to do something, we have already done it."

Everyone looked at each other, and the last person raised his arm, "My family runs a restaurant, and it's nearby."

O'Hara has a strong learning atmosphere, and even the walls of the restaurant are lined with various books, not just decorations, but genuine books about knowledge.

"I don't even feel like eating well." Ace complained.

When Keluoba arrived at the port, the pirates had already left for a while.

Keluoba looked up at the black flag raised by the pirate ship. The pattern was very distinctive, and his expression changed drastically at just one glance.

The Black Firework Pirates of the New World?Why did they come to O'Hara?

It is true that things about the historical text and blank 100 years are taboo all over the world, but the pirates in the new world are different from the pirates in the four seas. They stand higher and naturally know more.

Had O'Hara's study of history given away?Keluoba's back was covered with cold sweat. He thought about all the staff of the Tree of Omniscience, but he couldn't figure out what went wrong in the end.

They are all scholars who love history, and they have sworn to the Tree of Omniscience, it is impossible for anyone to reveal the secret.

Ke Luoba rushed to the restaurant again, and just as he got closer, he heard laughter from the restaurant.

That group of familiar pirates has completely become one with the civilians who monitor them.

"Oh, Dr. Keluoba!" Someone saw Keluoba standing at the door, immediately got up and greeted him, and said kindly: "These pirates have something to do with you, hahahaha, you don't know how exciting the adventure they just talked about."

Keluoba looked at the group of pirates, his eyes swept over one by one, and finally fixed on a young face.

"Captain Black Yan Gray, I don't know if you have anything to do with a small island like O'Hara?"

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, doctor." Gray was helpless, anyone who saw them was so vigilant, did he have the face of a villain?

After dispelling the onlookers, when there were only pirates and Dr. Koloba left in the restaurant, the latter asked vigilantly, "Can we talk now?"

"Do you want to drink some water?" Gray put the water in front of Keluoba, thought for a while, and said straight to the point: "I heard that you are studying the blank 100 years."

Ke Luoba's heart skipped a beat, and this matter was finally found out by others.

But he remained calm, "What blank 100 years? What we study is just ordinary history."

"Since I said that, I must have got some clues." Gray touched his chin, and took out the rubbings of Wano Country's black stones from his arms, "This is it."

The square and square characters with a certain mysterious color, after studying them for so long, Keluba can recognize at a glance that these characters are definitely not counterfeit.

He stood up excitedly the first time he saw it, and the chair fell to the ground with a loud noise. He stretched out his hand, trying to snatch the rubbings from Gray's hand.

"Hey, don't snatch things from the pirates, you'll die." Gray shrank his hands back, and Keluoba woke up like a dream, and at the same time, the expression on his face was particularly ugly.

Ah, I'm so excited to see the main text of the history, isn't it just self-inflicted now.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Keluoba sighed, raised his chair and sat down again, "Pirate, where did you find these words?"

"Historical text, blank 100 years, we found several stones and rubbed the text on them." Gray said: "I know you are researching, to save trouble, tell us everything you know."

"You said it lightly."

The corner of Keluoba's mouth twitched, "It's the efforts of several generations of us, how could it be given to you so easily. The text of history is of great importance, and you are pirates, so don't even think about it."

"What's the matter with the pirates? At least it's much better than the world government coming to you. Are you not afraid of bringing yourself a disaster by studying the history that the world government has banned in private?"

"History should be known." Keluoba said firmly: "As scholars, we have the right to study the past, and knowledge is the past!"

"Okay!" Everyone was shocked by Ke Luoba's attitude, dedicating everything to what they love, this spirit is worthy of admiration.

Keluoba embarrassedly raised his hand and pressed it down. When he realized it, the old man blushed and coughed lightly: "In short, pirates, it is impossible to get clues to the main text of history from us."

Gray sighed, shaking the rubbing with regret, and stuffed the rubbing back into his pocket when he saw Keluoba's gaze following the rubbing involuntarily.

"Hey—" Keluoba stretched out his hand uncontrollably.

Damn, brand new historical text, I really want to read it
"Hey, doctor, do you know that the historical text costs about 30 yuan, and we have about ten yuan here, and there are four historical texts for road signs. Alas, I wanted to share it with you. Since you are so determined, let's forget it."

Gray stood up and walked out of the restaurant first, "Let's go, brothers, when we reach the final island indicated by the historical text of the road sign, all the secrets can be easily solved, let these scholars figure it out slowly."

"You, you!" Keluoba listened to Gray's words, tormenting like ants on a hot pan.

What to do, what to do, they seem to know a lot more than us.

"Wait! Don't you want us to interpret the historical text?"

Kloba originally thought that Gray took out the historical text and wanted them to translate it.

After all, in the whole world, the only people who can understand these words are the masons who created them. Even O'Hara didn't understand the meaning of some of these words until after several years of research.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you that we have a descendant of the orthodox Kozuki clan in Wano country here, and the text of history is not a condition to limit us."

Mitian stood with his hips akimbo, and said triumphantly to Keluoba: "That's right, I can fully understand these words, so I don't need you to translate them at all."

"You are from the legendary stonemason family." Keluoba's body was trembling, and he finally asked: "May I take the liberty to ask, what exactly do you want to do?"

"Know the real history, as you say, history should be known."

"Okay, okay, I believe you." Keluoba looked at Oden, as if a pirate saw countless treasures piled up.

If they can know the real interpretation method of the historical text, then their research can take a big step forward.

Keluoba knew that his decision was a bit risky, but after thinking about it, these pirates didn't get much from them at all.

It is worthwhile to take risks for history, anyway, they have been burdened with the awareness that they will be discovered by the world government and will be silenced.

Having said that, in order to verify whether Oden could really understand these characters, Croba borrowed a pen and paper and wrote a paragraph of the historical text they had.

Oden translated it accurately, and at the same time expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Keluoba's distrust.

Now, what Oden says is what he says, and Keluoba can't wait to take Oden to the basement of the Tree of Omniscience immediately.

The Tree of Omniscience is a giant pod-like tree that houses precious texts from around the world.

"You can read the books here as you like, as long as you don't destroy them." Keluoba happily took Mitian away.

The latter felt that he finally had a place to use, and he might have been coaxed by Keluoba's attitude to be particularly happy. He didn't need Keluoba to speak, so he ran over.

Immersed in the ocean of books. How is it possible!

When the people on the island came into the library to read, they saw several people sleeping on the table.

Just when everyone couldn't bear to accuse them of disturbing the people, Dr. Keluoba walked out of a room with a smile on his face, "Everyone, the library is closed today. There are important guests. I'm really sorry."

Everyone respected Ke Luoba, but they didn't say anything after hearing the words.

When everyone left, Keluoba said to Gray and the others: "Come with me."

Entering the hidden basement of the Tree of Omniscience, the most striking thing is a huge celestial model and the black historical text in the wall.

"Yes, yes, this is the translation."

"The meaning of this word is not very accurate, it should be like this."

Oden was surrounded by a group of scholars near the historical text, and he pointed to the words on it, pointing out the mistakes of the scholars like a teacher.

"Any one of them is more knowledgeable than Oden." Alder said with his forehead.

"Hahaha, it's rare to see that Yu Tian also has such a bright moment."

Keluba said with emotion: "Learning will never end. Anyone who is better than us can become our teacher."

"Hahaha, it's hard work for you to study so much without the World Government behind your back." Gray looked at the room full of things, "But, aren't you afraid of being discovered by them?"

Keluoba looked at the scholars who were taking notes seriously, each of them fell into a state of frenzy, "We are ready to die."

"Although the courage is commendable, what about the other people on the island? They probably don't know the content of your research either."

"Of course we won't implicate innocent people. If the world government knows, it will only kill us."

The pirates expressed their helplessness to Croba's firm words.

Even if they don't know about O'Hara's future, everyone can imagine the fate of O'Hara who violated the rules.

"Haha." Gray laughed inexplicably, and he sat down on the chair casually, putting his legs on the table next to him.

Such a casual behavior made Keluoba frowned, but he didn't say anything, but moved the research materials on the table to the side.

"Scholars are scholars, no matter how smart they are, they will never understand the ruler's mind."

"What do you mean?" Keluoba didn't quite understand.

The others also paused their explanations and all looked here.

They stood behind Croba, waiting for Gray to finish speaking.

"If I were the world government, I would send warships to eradicate you immediately after learning that you have illegally studied the text of history."

"That's why I said, we're ready to die."

"Not only you, everyone on the island must die!" Gray interrupted Keluoba.

He just sat there casually, but the pressure crushed the naive scholars like a tsunami.

Keluoba opened his mouth, wanting to deny, "It is impossible for the world government to destroy an island."

"Why is it impossible? Your island has studied the forbidden historical texts, which violates the rules of the world government, so shouldn't it be destroyed?"

"But there are so many people on the island. They are all innocent civilians. They don't know anything. We are the only ones involved in this matter!"

"What does that have to do with me? It's just an insignificant island in the West Sea. A human life that is worthless compared to this world. I would rather kill by mistake than let it go. Is there anything wrong?"

"Cocoa"

Keluoba naturally knows this truth, but as scholars, they don't think about things according to the ruler's thinking.

Therefore, they just felt that if they were discovered, they would be the only participants who would be sacrificed.

They never thought of involving the civilians in O'Hara who didn't know the truth.

"Well, I have a once-for-all solution here." Gray raised a smile.

In the eyes of Keluoba and the scholars at this moment, Gray's smile was enough to hook up with the devil in their impression.

"What, what method?" Keluoba asked.

"Since you don't want to involve innocent civilians, then you all go to die now."