Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 13 Ace sets sail, the agreed age of 17

Chapter 13: "Ace set sail, the promised 17-year-old" + sequel: "I promised, I will protect you!" "

——The time is two years after Encore came to Golpo Mountain, Ace was 17 years old, Luffy and Encore were 14 years old (Encore's appearance and height still did not change, and he still looked ten years old).Lieutenant General Garp occasionally came back to guide Encore to practice two kinds of domineering, and taught Ace and Luffy to become excellent navy, although they ended up being very angry with them.The three of them have become very good friends and often practice or chat together.The preferred location is on the cliff facing the sea.

After training as usual, Encore and Luffy, who were resting, found that Ace was no longer there.Looking for him around, I saw Ace standing alone on the cliff where the three of them often went together in a daze.

Standing next to Ace, Luffy and Anke didn't bother him, and looked at the blue sea like him.

The gentle sea breeze was blowing on the three young faces, the waves on the sea beat against the shore, and the seagulls skimmed gently over the sea, occasionally making crisp calls.

After staring blankly at the familiar scenery for a long time, Ace let out a breath slowly, then lay down on the ground, looking at the blue sky.

Luffy seemed to know something, and without saying a word, he also lay down next to Ace.

"What's wrong?" Encore sat next to Luffy, keeping his eyes on the sea, and asked softly.

Ace put his right hand in front of his eyes, looked at it for a while and said, "I'm already 17 years old..."

Luffy looked at the blue sky, as if thinking about something.

"Then?" Anke continued to ask, his eyes still fixed on the sea.

"The appointed time has come! I'm going to sea soon!" Ace's slightly excited voice sounded, but it was hard to hide a little sadness in it.

"When is the appointment?" Anke tilted his head slightly, looking at the 17-year-old boy.

Ace didn't answer, Luffy sat up, held the straw hat in front of him and said, "Ace, Sabo and I made an agreement, we will go to sea when we are 17 years old, Sabo will go first."

Anke lowered his eyes, and after a while, he broke the silence with a smile: "So, when do you plan to leave, Ace?"

Luffy also suddenly became happy, and asked Ace with a big smile: "Yes, Ace, when are you leaving?? I will send you a bunch of meat!! Although I am a bit reluctant..."

Ace laughed, sat up and punched Luffy, "You don't need to say the last sentence, Luffy."

Then, he stood up, opened his hands towards the sea, raised his head and said loudly: "I will definitely become an excellent pirate!!! So strong that the world can't ignore me!!!!"

Luffy showed a bright smile, put the straw hat back on his head, jumped up and stood next to Ace, and shouted with open arms: "I am the man who will become the One Piece!!! Hahahahahaha..."

Encore looked at their energetic figures, pursed his lips and smiled, stood up and walked to them, looked at the boundless sea, and gently showed a sincere smile: "The sea is free, no matter who is Find the meaning of your existence in the sea..."

Ace and Lu Fei turned their heads to look at Anke, watching the sea breeze gently blowing her long hair, revealing that smiling side face.After a while, they looked back at the sea and responded, "Yes! The sea is free."

The three were silent for a while, before Anke asked Ace again: "So, when are you leaving, Ace?"

Ace was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and thought for a while and said, "A week later, probably..."

Lu Fei flattened his mouth and said, "It's so fast, Ace..."

Ace scratched his head stiffly, and said, "Really?? It seems a little fast, ahahahaha... don't worry about such trivial things!!"

"Yes, anyway, Ace will go to sea sooner or later, ahaha..."

An Ke looked at the two brothers who were smirking in embarrassment from the side, and secretly thought: "I just thought of it just now, so I'm really embarrassed to say it, Ace..."

In the town, Luffy and Encore are preparing gifts for him without telling Ace.

"Hey, Encore, you can just buy meat~~Why do you have to go to such trouble??" Luffy put his hands behind his head in boredom, and followed Encore, who was half shorter than him, yelling boredly.

"No way, Luffy," Anke walked ahead with his overly long skirt carefully, looking at the shops on the side of the road while answering Luffy's question: "Meat is important, but I want to buy a gift for you." Ace, because he has troubled him a lot in the past two years."

"Is there?" Lu Fei tilted his head and thought for a while, but he got a headache because of thinking too much, so he gave up decisively.

"In short, follow up quickly, if you get lost again, I will ignore you."

"Oh…………"

The two wandered around for a while, and suddenly
"Luffy, did you see that???" Encore excitedly pointed at a shop.

Luffy walked quickly to her side, looked at the place her finger was pointing at with wide eyes, and asked curiously: "Where is where?? Meat??"

The corner of Anke's mouth twitched, how could she forget Luffy's foodie character.However, Encore, who was already used to it, froze for a while and then came back to his senses. He directly pulled Luffy to the shop window, pointed to an orange hat with a string of red beads on it and said, "This, this, this, How do you feel??"

Luffy propped his chin thoughtfully for a moment and said, "It doesn't look delicious!! Meat is better!!"

Encore, who had been waiting for Luffy's answer, staggered when he heard it, and hit the window directly.

Luffy looked at Enke who was stuck on the window and laughed gloatingly: "Ahahaha!! Enke, what are you doing?? It's so interesting!! Ahahaha..."

Anke slowly climbed down from the window, looked at Lu Fei and said grimly: "Lu! Fei! Jun!"

Lu Fei's smile froze on his face, and cold sweat broke out.Looking at the blackened Encore, Luffy stepped back stiffly, and said tremblingly, "I...suddenly..."

"Lu! Fly! Jun!" Anke suddenly raised his head and smiled cutely at Lu Fei: "Come here~~~~ Hurry up! Click!"

Seeing Encore like this, Luffy instinctively wanted to run away, but he was afraid that Encore would settle accounts in the future, so he directly banned him from eating meat.I had no choice but to dawdle with my mouth.

Satisfied to see Luffy coming in front of him, Anke was about to give him a good punch, and found that even if he stretched out his arms, he couldn't reach the top of Luffy's head.

Luffy looked suspiciously at Enke who called himself in front of him without doing anything and taking the cross.Just as he was about to speak, he heard Encore's emotionless voice: "Lu! Fei! Jun! Bow your head!"

Lu Fei lowered his head obediently, and Anke hit me twice on the head, "It hurts!!! Encore, why did you hit me twice?!"

Seeing Luffy clutching the two big bags on his head, Anke regained his balance, calmly withdrew his hand, turned around and walked into the shop and said, "It's nothing, it's just not pleasing to the eye." Will tell Luffy to use a little domineering when beating him~~
Luffy shook his head, not quite sure why Encore suddenly didn't like him.After thinking for a few seconds, Luffy gave up without an answer, covered the big bag on his head and followed Encore into the shop.

After a while, Encore came out of the store holding a box, followed by a dazed Luffy.

Lu Fei rubbed his aching head, and asked suspiciously: "Enke, why are you so fast? And where did you get so much money from?"

"Let's go after shopping. Didn't you say you're going to eat meat?? As for the money," Anke suddenly turned around when he said this, the hem of his skirt drew a beautiful arc, and he winked playfully when he turned in front of Lu Fei He glanced at his left eye, then returned to the original direction, and continued to walk forward, leaving a light sentence in the air: "The illusion is ok~~~"

"Yeah, there is another way!" Luffy suddenly realized that he knocked on his head, and then... "It hurts!!!!"

Feeling that Luffy didn't keep up, Anke turned around helplessly, and saw a single-celled creature covering its head, screaming and jumping desperately on the spot.Anke shed a drop of cold sweat silently, and then thought worriedly: Did I make such a heavy hand? ?Obviously the strength has been relaxed a lot...

An Ke reluctantly walked in front of Lu Fei, looked at this clown who was taller than him, and said, "Low your head, Lu Fei."

Thinking that Encore was going to beat him up again, Luffy clutched his head reflexively and shook his head desperately.

An Ke rolled his eyes to the sky in his heart, and said lightly: "Lu! Fly! Jun!"

Satisfied to see the black head obediently appearing in his line of sight in the next second, Enke held the box with one hand and put his right hand on Luffy's head.A flash of blue light flashed, and Anke moved his hand away, "Okay, let's go." Then he turned and left.

Luffy felt the pain on his head disappear all of a sudden, and only belatedly realized that Anke was helping him to heal his wounds. He smirked a few times with a "haha" and found that Anke's small figure was about to disappear into the crowd, so he hurriedly chased after him. Go up, "Wait for me, Encore!!!"

The crowd covered the figures of the two children in a short while. No one saw the unbelievable scene that just happened. All they noticed was that a girl patted their partner's head lightly.This is just a small episode, isn't it?

The night before Ace went to sea, the three children gathered on the cliff where he often went to bid farewell to Ace.

On the cliff with lush green grass, there is an exquisite small table made of encore crystal, with four bowls containing sake placed on it.The three children sat around the table, staring at the sea in the dark in a daze.

After a long time, Ace, who couldn't bear it anymore, reached out and picked up a bowl of wine, and said with a smile, "Don't be so depressed, tomorrow is my first day of sailing, why don't you be happy?"

Anke also smiled, knocked on Luffy's head with his right hand, then picked up a bowl of wine, and said, "Yes, Luffy. Aren't you going to sea in a few years? You will see Ai at that time." Si."

Lu Fei flattened his mouth and said, "I haven't defeated Ace yet..."

Ace and Anke were speechless, looking at Luffy with dark clouds.After a long time, Anke managed to hold back a word to comfort Luffy: "Probably, when you go to sea at the age of 17, you can defeat Ace, because now Ace is three years older than you......"

Luffy got excited when he heard this, jumped up and said, "That's right, Ace won't be my opponent by then, hahahaha!!!"

Ace shook his head, didn't break Encore's words, just stood up and raised the wine bowl and said, "Then, let's toast now."

"Hmm!!" Luffy bent down to pick up the wine bowl, and lifted it up too.

Encore stood up, held the wine bowl and said, "Then I wish Ace a smooth journey tomorrow!!"

"Beng" three bowls of wine collide, compatible drinks, sincere smiles, telling the unchanging friendship of the three

After drinking, Ace suddenly discovered an incredible thing: Anke was shorter than him and Luffy, how could she touch the wine bowls they were holding at her height.When Ace asked this question, Anke pursed his lips and smiled, motioning him to look at her feet.

Ace and Luffy looked down and understood in seconds: Encore's feet were padded with high crystals.A realization flashed in the heads of the two at the same time: "It turns out that devil fruits can still be used in this way..."

Suddenly, Ace put down his wine bowl, picked up another bowl of undrinked wine, walked to the edge of the cliff, looked at the vast sea, and said in a deep voice: "Sabo, although you took a step first, I will abide by it." Our promise. I, will definitely become an outstanding pirate! I will become very strong!!"

Smiling at each other, Luffy and Encore put down their wine bowls, walked to Ace's side, and watched him slowly pour the wine into the sea.The sea breeze was blowing, and Anke watched the wine draw a messy arc under the agitation of the sea breeze.

Anke held down Luanwu's long hair, and said quietly: "Sabo must be very happy, because your dream is also his dream..."

Luffy opened his hands towards the sea and shouted: "Sabo!!! We must work hard!!!!"

After drinking, the three of them lay on the grass and looked at the stars in the sky with their hands behind their heads.Ace is on the far right, Luffy is in the middle, and Encore is on the far left.The three of them didn't say a word.

"It's so quiet..." Ace said slowly.

Luffy had already started to doze off, his head was shaking.

Anke raised one hand and stretched out to the sky, as if she was going to grab the stars, then she took her hand back, sat up and said to Ace: "Want to watch fireworks?? It feels like everyone will set off fireworks before sailing. "

"Really??" Ace's eyes sparkled with excitement, and he slapped Luffy awake.Luffy sat up in a daze, rubbing his eyes and still not knowing what happened.

Anke smiled and unlocked the illusion of the left eye.In an instant, under the sky full of stars, countless gorgeous fireworks bloomed, and colorful colors dyed the sky above the sea.Not only that, the meadow where the three of them were sitting slowly turned into a meadow full of flowers, and a few pink cherry trees suddenly grew behind them, and the petals that shone in the dark night fell with the wind, gently The ground floated around the three of them...

"It's so beautiful!!" Ace looked up at all the beautiful things, and sighed with emotion, and Luffy woke up completely, and happily stretched out his hand to catch the flying cherry blossom petals.

Ace tilted his head to look at the girl who made this miracle. Suddenly, he noticed something was wrong, and he pushed Luffy in the middle to the ground with his palm, while he himself passed Luffy and approached Encore, carefully sized up.

"Woooooo..." 'Ace, let me go...' This is Luffy who was pushed down by Ace.

"What's wrong?" Encore looked at Ace's scrutinizing eyes and asked suspiciously, and patted Ace's hand to signal him to let go of Luffy first.

Ace let go of Luffy, returned to his seat, propped his chin and continued to look at Encore.

"What are you doing? Ace!!" Luffy yelled at Ace as soon as he was let go, and when he found that he didn't respond, he imitated him and stared at Encore with his chin propped up.

"What... what's the matter??" An Ke, who was stared at by the two brothers, was a little creepy and asked slowly.

"Hmm..." Luffy nodded deeply, and then said, "I don't know, you can ask Ace..."

The corner of Anke's mouth twitched, and he ignored him, turning his questioning gaze to Ace.

Ace stretched out his hand and gestured for Encore, before hesitatingly said: "Encore...haven't you grown up?? Why do you feel that you haven't changed from two years ago?"

"Ah! That's right!!" After Ace said this, Luffy realized this, jumped up in surprise and walked around the encore a few times, saying: "Really!! Ace, it seems that nothing has changed , I just said how I feel that Anke is getting shorter and shorter..."

Ace punched the person who disturbed his sight back to his original position, and warned him not to move around. Luffy sat on the ground with his head covered in aggression.

An Ke chuckled, reached out to help Luffy heal the bag on his head, and said, "What did I say, it turned out to be this."

Anke turned his eyes to the gorgeous fireworks in the sky, and then said bitterly: "I...may be like this forever."

She looked at the extremely gorgeous fireworks that disappeared in the sky in an instant, and said lightly: "I... don't know who I am and where I come from. Since I can remember, there have only been endless human experiments and endless killer training. Like a white Like a mouse, I was given eyes that didn’t belong to me, and then I was ordered to kill people. Whether it’s a partner or an enemy, it’s just a victim of reincarnation. In order to survive in that world, I’ve done almost everything. I managed to escape I came out, only to find that the whole world is my enemy. No matter who it is, they want to kill me, either for a high bounty, or for this ominous eye..."

Listening to Anke's expressionless words, but could feel the despair in them, Ace and Luffy didn't say a word.Luffy didn't say a word, and lowered the brim of his hat to cover his eyes, while Ace bit his lip, regretting that he had uncovered the scar in Encore's heart, and when he was about to apologize to Encore, Encore suddenly turned his head to face him. They smiled sweetly and comforted: "Don't worry, it's all right now."

Seeing Anke laughing more than crying, Ace didn't know how to comfort her, but saw Lu Fei suddenly raised his head and took off his hat and put it on Anke's head forcefully, instead of looking at Encore, he stared at the sea, He said quietly: "I told you not to laugh so sadly!! Those who come to kill you, I will definitely beat them away!!!!"

Anke slightly lowered the brim of his hat, tears slowly streaming down his face, and responded softly, "Mmm..."

Seeing Encore's tears through the gap, Ace smiled, continued to lie down, put his hands behind his head, looked at the continuous fireworks in the sky, and the cherry blossom petals flying in front of him, thinking: It's really beautiful Well, this parting scene...

The next day, Anke sent Ace to the starting point, followed by a group of bandits, except Dadan.

"I'm sorry, Ace, I forgot to give you a gift yesterday." Anke smiled and handed over a beautifully packaged box.

"Oh? Where did it come from?" Ace started to unpack the package as soon as he took it, and said pleasantly after seeing the orange hat inside: "It's a beautiful hat, thank you Encore."

"Try it?" Anke smiled and took the box and suggested.

Ace put the hat on his head according to his words, and Anke stood on tiptoe (there is a very high crystal cushion under his feet...) helped him straighten the hat strap, tilted his head to look at it, and concluded: "Well, it's pretty handsome !"

Ace looked around with a smile and asked, "Where's Luffy?? Why isn't he here?"

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud noise from the nearby woods, and An Ke laughed: "Isn't this here? He just prepared a gift for you."

"The gift...could it be..." Ace, who knew Luffy's character well, looked a little ugly at this moment, "Could it be..."

Ace stared stiffly at the sound getting closer, and then saw Luffy jumping out of the woods dragging a big bear: "Ace!! I brought you a gift!!!"

Ace slapped his head speechlessly, lowered his head and thought sadly: "I knew..." But he couldn't refuse Luffy's rare gift, so he could only twitch his mouth and say, "Thanks. Luffy..."

By the sea, Ace is standing on the boat, and there is still a gift from Luffy on the boat.

"I'm going first!!" Ace waved goodbye to everyone.

Then I looked around at everyone and found that Dadan still didn't come, and asked Dogula suspiciously: "Dogula, where is Dadan??"

Dogula said with a smile: "She won't come, be careful yourself!!"

"Well, okay, remember to tell Dadan for me, just say 'it's been troublesome for a few years, thank you'" Ace raised a bright smile.

"Ace, when I turn 17 in three years, I will go to you, and the next time we meet, I will definitely be better than you!!" Luffy said with a smile.

"Take care, Ace." Anke waved at Ace, covering her long hair blown by the sea breeze.

Taking another deep look at everyone, Ace punted the boat and said coolly, "Let's go!"

"Take care, be careful all the way!!" The bandits waved their hands, watching the boy slowly leave.

Ace glanced back, focusing on Luffy and Encore, thinking: "The next time we meet, Encore will definitely be with Luffy. I'm looking forward to it, will my future self win?" Encore..."

Continuation: Promised, I will protect you!
The shadow of Ace's boat slowly disappeared into the sky, and the other bandits went back first, but Luffy and Anke were still sitting by the sea and watching the sky quietly...

"Let's go, Ace..." Anke hugged his knees, put his chin on his knees, and said calmly, looking at the blue sea.

"Yeah!" Luffy lay down and looked at the blue sky.

Anke tilted his head slightly to look at the boy wearing a straw hat. His immature face was always innocent, but it could always dissolve the darkness of others and bring light to others.He must be an excellent person.

Encore looked at Luffy, and suddenly remembered what Luffy said when the two met for the first time and the boy's behavior when the eyes of reincarnation were exposed.An Ke smiled, stood up, looked at the boundless sea, and asked gently: "Luffy, you said yesterday, those who come to kill me, you will definitely beat them to the ground."

Lu Fei propped up his body slightly and looked at Encore's small back. His long black hair was blown by the sea breeze, dancing wildly, and said, "That's right!"

"You also said that you want to become the One Piece and the freest person in the sea, right?" An Ke continued to ask without looking back.

"Hmm!" As if he already knew what Encore was going to ask, Luffy sat up and answered affirmatively while holding the straw hat.

"Ha ha..." An Ke chuckled a few times, turned around and looked at Lu Fei fixedly, her small face was covered by her long hair disheveled by the wind, and Lu Fei watched her small mouth grow. Send Weiwei to open:
"Hey, Luffy, can you take me to the sea?"

"Of course!"

"Then, you... will protect me no matter what?"

"certainly!!"

"Then, I want to be your deputy captain?"

"Well, yes!"

She didn't know if the smile in the sun that day would last forever, but she could believe that that boy would stick to his promise, forever!
She smiled.As beautiful as a flower..

"Then, let's take an adventure together!! On the great route!!"

——Then, please give me more advice, Captain~~~~
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For the next three years, Encore has been training with Luffy, and Luffy has become stronger and stronger.Lieutenant General Garp occasionally came to know that Encore practiced two kinds of domineering, and Encore also began to increase the practice of swordsmanship and crystal ability, hoping to be able to use the power of Chiyue and Xuelian proficiently. After all, after going to sea, I need to try not to use the eyes of reincarnation Power, in this case, there is no way to use the trident. Although it can be used secretly, there is still a risk of being discovered.

But this does not mean that Encore has given up the practice of the trident and the eyes of reincarnation. Since the navy has started to develop tools to deal with it for two months, Encore can only let himself fully master the ability of the eyes of reincarnation and how to use the trident.

Although Luffy has begun to become stronger, he still has no way to face those powerful enemies who are chasing Encore. In order not to hurt Luffy, the only thing Encore can do is to hide his identity as much as possible.

Although five years have passed since the Demon Slaying Order incident, the world probably would not believe that the witch was still alive.As a precaution, Anke still decided to use double swords after going to sea, and temporarily set his identity as a swordsman.Even though Chi Yue was seen by Lieutenant General Kuzan and Lieutenant General Borsalino (the current admiral Qing Zhi, Huang Yuan), Anke believed that they would not remember Chi Yue's appearance, after all, at that time they only I think it's just one of the abilities of Samsara Eye.

Besides, who would believe that the witch five years later will still look ten years old, and she hasn't grown up at all?

(End of this chapter)