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East China Sea, Windmill Village.

"Don't send me off, Luffy, you also need to go out to sea as soon as possible!"

"Ah, Ace, remember to say hello to Shanks for me when you see him... hehehehe!"

"Of course. After all, he is my brother's savior. I will definitely meet Red-Haired Shanks and say hello to him in person on your behalf..."

On the beach at the edge of the East China Sea, on a simple bamboo raft, Portgas D. Ace smiled and waved goodbye to the Datz family and the residents of the windmill village behind him.

"Goodbye, Dadan. Thank you for taking care of me all these years..."

"Wuwuwu, you damned little brat, why are you saying these things before you leave, wuwuwuwu!!!"

The burly bandit, who did not look like a woman, covered his face with a handkerchief. The boat raised its sails and officially set off towards the Grand Line.

"Ace! I will definitely go out to sea in two years, wait for me at the top of the pirate world!!!"

Luffy made a trumpet with his hands and shouted loudly until Ace's figure disappeared over the sea level, and then the residents of Windmill Village turned back.

"Really? How come there are so many guys who want to become pirates in this village? It's really a shame for the village. This will bring shame to Windmill Village..."

The chief of Windmill Village, Up Slab, who had been wandering halfway and never showed up, complained in a low voice, which immediately made Makino laugh.

"Ace is gone. Everything went well. The King of the Near Sea was knocked out by him. That kid is very strong. He will definitely come back safely."

"Tsk, I'm just worried that a big pirate will appear in Windmill Village, so..."

Before he could finish his words, seeing that everyone around him could not help but chuckle, Up Slab waved his cane in anger and rushed back to his home indignantly.

Late at night, in the Korpo Mountains.

"Wow, I miss Ace..."

"You're so annoying! Luffy, can you remember that when your grandfather Garp comes, you can't tell anyone that Ace went out to sea as a pirate, otherwise we will be beaten up!"

After being harassed from day to night, Dadan, who couldn't bear it any longer, reminded Luffy again, his eyes wide open, staring at Luffy.

"If Garp asked you 'Where is Ace?' How would you answer?"

Facing the approaching Dadan, Luffy whistled and his eyes wandered.

"No...don't know!"

Snapped!

Putting his hand on his forehead, Dadan became more and more helpless in the face of such awful lying skills.

"No, you should say 'Ace has gone to the depths of the Kolber Mountains to practice and will be back in a few days'. Do you understand?"

"No, no, Ace has gone out to sea as a pirate, how could he come back?"

"Really? Ace went out to sea as a pirate, Dadan, Luffy!!!"

boom!

The already dilapidated door was kicked into pieces by someone. Karp stood outside the door with an increasingly gloomy expression on his face.

Luffy: "Grandpa!!!"

The Dadan family: “Eeheeeheeeh!!!”

Garp: "Don't even think about escaping. Taste my iron fist of love that will correct my thoughts!"

bang bang bang bang bang...

Half an hour later, Luffy and Dadan's family fell to the ground with bruised faces and noses. Garp looked up at the sky, and the bright moonlight enveloped him.

In a trance, he vaguely recalled the night conversations and commissions between Roger and him in the deep sea prison, and the great mother who had saved her child's life.

"Why don't you follow the path I arranged for you, Ace? If you keep going like this, sooner or later you will..."

"I...I...I am the man who will become the Pirate King..."

The familiar shouting sound came to his ears again, and Garp's fist hardened again, causing Luffy to fall into a baby-like sleep again.

"Damn you, Red Hair, what kind of ideas did you instill in my grandson? Luffy, no matter what, I can't let you follow the old path of Dragon or Red Hair..."

Leaving away alone, Garp's figure seemed a little desolate, and his gray hair showed that he was really beginning to age.

Truth will come to light sooner or later. One day Ace's identity will be revealed to the world. When that day comes, it will probably be the beginning of chaos.

Half a year later, at the Navy Headquarters.

When several vice admirals were discussing in low voices which pirates had been in the spotlight recently, a stack of wanted warrants was once again delivered to the meeting room.

"Really? There are more and more pirates wreaking havoc on the sea recently. What's going on? Is a new era coming?"

Wisps of smoke were curling around and the cigar was dancing in his mouth. Vice Admiral Huoshaoshan of the Navy Headquarters looked at the face in the front with a look of great surprise.

"What a young face! Portgas D. Ace! He's not even thirty yet, but his bounty is already 3 million berries, and his pirate group is the Spade Pirates..."

"Not only that, he is also the user of the Flame-Flame Fruit, an extremely rare natural-type fruit. If we don't get rid of him now, he may become a threat to the navy in the future."

Vice Admiral Stoloberry, formerly Vice Admiral Borsalino and now a member of the Admiral's staff, who had caused Fisher Tiger to be severely injured, sighed in a low voice, clearly able to sense that the intensity of the recent battles with pirates had risen to a new level.

boom!

The door was directly opened by someone who stumbled. The major who hurried over had a panicked look on his face and passed the news to the meeting room where several lieutenant generals were.

"Lieutenant General Huoshaoshan, Lieutenant General Stoloberi, something terrible has happened. One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Lizard King Hanafza, was defeated by Ace the Fire Fist. His life or death is unknown!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the two lieutenant generals looked at each other and immediately realized that something was wrong.

"This is troublesome for Ace the Fire Fist..."

"Huh, it's really a newborn calf. The Lizard King Hanafza is nothing special, but the guy behind him is his reliance on dominating the sea..."

Exhaling smoke gently, Huoshaoshan echoed the words with a look of regret in his eyes.

"The strongest creature on land, sea and air, the strongest creature below the fault, perhaps only after a life-and-death battle with Whitebeard can we know who is truly the strongest."

After tidying up the documents on his desk, Huoshaoshan turned and walked towards the Admiral's office.

.......................................

A little earlier in time, in the New World, on an island filled with reptiles.

"fire punch!"

The raging fire wave burned to death all the reptiles that rushed over. Seeing these people who were originally humans now growing reptile scales and being bullied completely transformed into reptiles, Ace's eyes gradually became cold and ruthless.

"Just for such an inexplicable reason, you turned these innocent people into this, you lunatic!"

"Hehehe, hehehe! Crazy? That's a compliment to a genius. As long as I complete this plan, I can use the power of the ancient species to completely overthrow the Four Emperors and the World Government!"

"It has the ability to move in the sea and on land at the same time. It is an ancient species of devil fruit that is not afraid of seawater. How can a little brat like you understand all this?"

The sound of the chain breaking through the air came again, and it appeared in front of Ace in an instant...