The Legend of Longinus

Alubarna, outside the royal palace;

After listening to Robin's explanation, Luffy said with righteous indignation, "So that's how it is! The World Government is really a bunch of scum!"

Sanji was patting his chest and said, "Do not be afraid, Robin-chan, from now on I will protect you!"

Robin subconsciously opened her mouth round, "You really hear what I said? That is the World Government, the master of this world!"

Luffy said thoughtfully, "To protect their nakama, does it also depend on who the enemy is?"

Robin couldn't understand and asked, "Nakama? But we haven't even known each other for a day!"

"Really? But I think you are very nice, Robin!" Luffy giggled and rubbed the back of his head, and then turned his head to look at the crowd, "You must think so too?"

"Yeah, yeah! Robin is super nice!" This comment came from a confident "raccoon cat" who was bribed by two marshmallows.

"Me too, I like Robin-chan very much!" This comment comes from a sure curly eyebrow with red hearts in their eyes.

"You ..." look at the sincere gaze in the eyes of the crowd, Robin slightly vainly lowered her head, somewhat panicked, "we are not still going to catch that tomb raider ..."

Robin's panicked gaze abruptly rested on a specific figure and asked, somewhat incredulously, "Did that guard say that the grave robber was a man with his bare upper body and an orange cap on his head?"

"Yes! What's wrong?"

Robin pointed down ahead with some laughter and tears, "Look, is that the man?"

Following the direction Robin pointed to, the crowd found a youth exactly as described looking left and right on the street.

"This, this is too much of a coincidence, right?" Nami was a little dumbfounded.

"Are all thieves so bold now?" Usopp, on the other hand, was puzzled.

"Sneaky, at a glance is not a good person, except, how this back looks a little familiar?" Luffy first frowned in contemplation but soon decided to give up thinking, "Whatever, fight first! Damn thieves, give me back what you stole!"

Robin, on the other hand, noticed the tattoo on the back of the youth.

"That is, the tattoo of the Whitebeard Pirates ..." Robin's pupils contracted violently, hurriedly stopped, "Luffy, wait, first do not rush ..."

However, Luffy's fist has hit up.

"Luffy?" After a start, the topless youth heard Robin's voice turned his head to look, just in time to see Luffy's stretched fist.

"Oh ~ the moment we meet, you want to fight against your brother, Luffy you have really grown up a lot! In that case, Enkai - Hibashira!" Ace mouth slightly upward, the right fist into a flame-like fierce punch.

"Eh? How is it you? Ace!" Luffy now also recognized the identity of Ace, but he did not stop, but is more and more hot battle intent up, "this time, I definitely win!"

Boom!

Half a minute later, the head full of puffy Luffy with a proud face introduced to the crowd, "This is my brother, Ace, he is very powerful, right?"

The crowd is a little speechless; this is what you said will win?

But then they were astonished; Luffy is already the strongest pirate in the East Blue, but in front of this man, he can not even fight back!

Also, why would the rubber man be beaten with bruises all over his head?

"You guys are Luffy's friends, right? Thank you very much for taking care of him." Ace thanked.

"No, no."

"You're too polite."

The crowd muttered a bit in their hearts; such a polite person, really could be Luffy's brother?

After some exchanges, Ace asked, "You guys said that there was a person dressed like me who stole the Poneglyph of the royal palace?"

Luffy giggled and nodded, "Yeah, what a coincidence."

"Coincidence? Can it really be a coincidence?" Ace said darkly in his heart.

But he wasn't willing to say much in this regard, so he went along with the conversation, "So where are you going to catch the thieves next?"

"I don't know!" Luffy first a sad face but soon jumped to ask, "Ace, you want to come along? I heard that it is the Poneglyph that points to ONEPIECE!"

"The Poneglyph ..." Ace's mouth twitched slightly, recalling some not-so-fond memories, "or not, because of this, three years ago I was almost killed!"

"What? Luffy's brother so strong will also be defeated? The Grand Line is really too dangerous!" Usopp shivered and said.

Sanji shook his head, "Luffy's brother three years ago should also be just a newcomer to the sea, right? Would not be surprised to fail."

"Let you down." Ace harrumphed, "Even if I were to fight that man again now, I would only be killed in seconds. After all, that man's name is Longinus!"

The crowd was still surprised because Ace revealed himself to be short, but after hearing the man's name, they nodded as a matter of course, "If that's the case, then it's indeed not surprising. One could even say that it is worth being proud to have escaped through that man's hand!"

"Longinus?" Luffy is again thought back with a face of bitterness, "this name, how seems a little familiar?"

"Idiot! How forgetful you really are!" Usopp could not resist a hand slash on Luffy's head, "Vivi did not mention yesterday, that is her godfather?"

"Oh!" Luffy first looked dumbfounded and then asked in confusion, "But who is this guy anyway? Is he very powerful? Why do you guys look surprised and scared every time you mention him?"

"Uh, although I am not very clear, but we are pirates, ah, fear of the admiral is not a normal thing?" Usopp said with a straight face.

See Luffy again will be curious eyes, Robin with a finger under the delicate chin said, "How to say it? I only say a few of his deeds, you should know what kind of person he really is."

"When he was 14 years old, he alone suppressed the two layers of hell in the Impel Down, specifically, he alone killed thousands of pirates, and the lowest bounty for those pirates was more than 50 million berries."

"When he was 17 years old, he was alone when he broke into the World Pirates and killed the sea pirate World, who had a reward of 500 million, and became world famous for it."

"When he was 21, he also defeated one of the three sea pirates closest to the Pirate King at that time, BIG-MOM, and her bounty at that time was ... two billion berries!"

"When he was 24 years old, he killed Shiki, who used to be known as the three great sea pirates along with Whitebeard and Roger, and was promoted to the rank of admiral in the same year, becoming the youngest admiral ever in the Marine Headquarters!

"There are many other deeds, I'll pick these few to tell it."

Even Robin herself, who narrated this paragraph, was amazed and shocked, and the rest of the people need not say anything.

Each time Robin said a period, their eyes will freeze a minute, and so she finished, the only thing left around the heavy gasp.

If they are the marine, perhaps because these words may also be passionate but replaced by the pirates, there is only fear and trepidation.

Especially Usopp and Chopper have been shivering hug together to keep each other warm.

Other than Luffy, he did not remember, only heard the numbers, "Two billion berries, he is really super powerful! If I defeat him, the bounty will also be able to rise to ..."

Before Luffy finished speaking, it was Usopp hold thighs, listen to his heartbreaking cry, "Do not say nonsense ah, Luffy! That is even the bounty of two billion berries of sea pirates could have defeated by that man, perhaps somebody else with a snap of the fingers, we will be gone!"

This time, no one will laugh at Usopp's cowardice.

Because, they were also shocked by Robin's words.

They all know more or less about Longinus, but those knowledge, are far less shocking than this visual data.

"14 years old can suppress the legendary Impel Down, this guy, is really a monster of monsters!" Zoro recalled the scene ten years ago, "Kuina will become so strong, also because of his guidance?"

"Uncle, he is really powerful! 24 years old to become an admiral! It's just a pity that I didn't become a marine the way he and Aunt Bellemare wanted me to." Nami's eyes were a little gloomy.

Sanji, in turn, is the least shocked among this group; after seeing the battle seven years ago, the name Longinus in his mind is almost equivalent to God.

"By the way, Ace ..." Luffy was about to ask the specific process of that "battle", and found that Ace had long disappeared, "Hey? Where is Ace?"

"He left just as I was getting to the second part." Robin said.

"This guy even sneaked away!" Luffy said depressed, "Robin, you also did not remind me?"

"He made a gesture to tell me not to say." Robin laughed bitterly, "he seems to have something that does not want us to participate in."

"Could it really be that Ace stole the Poneglyph? No, I must get something back to Vivi." Luffy's right hand, chopped in the palm of the left hand, shouted, " It is decided, we will go now to get Ace back!"

PS: The tool man is finished; tomorrow should be able to resume the normal update time ..., right?

Published in Qidian, September 23, 2019