Rayleigh put out the cigarette butts and looked at Navy Marshal, the youngest in the history of the navy, with lingering emotion in his eyes.
He shook his head and let out a chuckle, "In terms of pure achievements, Roger really cannot be compared with you. What's more, one of you is a pirate who turned the world upside down, and the other is Navy Marshal who wants to end Great Pirate Era. There is no comparison at all."
"I am here just to coat the ship." Akira's tone was very calm, as if he was stating an ordinary thing, "As long as you are content with the status quo, you will live a more stable life than anyone else on this sea for the rest of your life."
He changed the topic and there was a hint of amusement in his eyes.
"Not to mention anything else, just because Shakky has been willing to accompany you, an old guy, and live such an ordinary life for so many years, you have already surpassed the countless so-called big pirates who fell under her pomegranate skirt. After all, she was the most beautiful woman in the world who made countless heroes become her servants."
Rayleigh's movement while holding the cigarette suddenly froze, and the ash fell down.
He looked at Akira in astonishment. After a long while, he blew out a puff of smoke and said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect you to even know these old things."
"I have said that in my eyes, there are not many secrets in this world." Akira's answer was calm and gentle.
Rayleigh was silent.
He looked at Akira, and an extremely strange feeling came over him. It was obviously the first official meeting, but the look in the other person's eyes seemed to have known him all his life. No, it wasn't just him, he looked at everyone like this, as if their life trajectories had already been written in his script.
"Indeed." Rayleigh nodded thoughtfully, "You give me a very strange feeling, as if you know all of us well."
Akira just smiled without comment.
Rayleigh saw this and stopped asking. He changed the subject wisely. "You can directly enter New World from Holy Land through Red Line. Why do you have to take a long way to Sabaody Archipelago coating and enter New World through Fish-Man Island?"
"Bringing interns out for training will naturally lead to a complete flight."
"Let you personally bring them out for training?" The surprise on Rayleigh's face became even more intense, "It seems that these brats are not simple at all."
"It's really not that simple." Akira raised the corners of his mouth slightly, but the words he spoke were like dropping a depth charge into the sea.
"One is the posthumous son of Pirate King Gol·D·Roger, Portgas·D·Ace."
"The other one is the son of the Revolutionary Army leader Monkey·D·Long, Monkey·D·Luffy."
"..."
All the expressions on Rayleigh's face solidified at this moment.
At the same time, at the edge of a certain forest in Sabaody Archipelago.
"Ha... ha... it's out! It's finally out!"
Sanji put his hands on his knees, breathing heavily, looking at the familiar commercial street not far away, almost crying with joy.
Beside him, Ace and Sabo also looked exhausted, their clothes covered with dirt and grass clippings.
Only Zoro still carried the three knives with his usual expression, and even smacked his lips with dissatisfaction. "Tch, it's really boring to come out so soon."
"It's not interesting how big you are!!" Sanji instantly exploded and rushed over with a flying kick, "You damn Moss Head! You call this fast?! We walked around in this broken forest for almost an hour!!"
"Shut up, curl your eyebrows!" Zoro easily dodged it and retorted with a serious face, "If it weren't for me, we would still be spinning around here! It was me who led you to the right direction!"
"You call that the right direction?!" Ace couldn't help it anymore. He pointed to a big tree that was burned black in the forest, "We walked back and forth around the tree I marked, seven times! Seven times!"
"That's right," Sabo held his forehead and let out a desperate sigh, "Zoro, I beg you, never say you know the way when you go out in the future, okay?"
"Humph, a bunch of mortals who don't understand my superb sense of direction." Zoro curled his lips and stopped arguing.
The four people walked into the commercial street noisily.
On the other side, "Shakky's Rip-off Bar".
The door of the bar was pushed open with a bang.
"SUPER! What an exciting bar!"
Franky strode in with a classic pose.
Behind him, Brook leaned on the sword in his staff, his empty eyes sweeping over the women in front of the bar.
"Oh hoo hoo hoo, the stars are really shining! Beautiful ladies, although it is a bit abrupt, can you let me admire your underwear?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold murderous aura instantly locked onto Brook.
Hancock was sitting at the bar, his beautiful eyes full of disgust. If it weren't for the crew of Akira, this skeleton would have turned into stone slag by now.
"You shameless skeleton, if you dare to say another word, I will make you immortal forever."
"Ah! She is as beautiful as Iceburg! I feel like my heart is going to stop beating! Although I have no heart for a long time! Yo ho ho ho ho!"
Shakky looked at this group of living treasures, just smiled and shook his head, and continued to wipe the wine glass.
Hawkins silently found a corner to sit down and took out his tarot cards.
"Hey, Diviner, what are you talking about?" Franky walked over curiously.
Hawkins turned over a card with an expressionless face.
"The probability of a bloody disaster in this bar is 90%."
Coated pier.
The smile on Rayleigh's face has long since disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented shock and confusion.
Roger's posthumous son?
He slowly lowered his head and looked at the long-burned cigarette butt between his fingers, with huge waves rising in his cloudy eyes.
After a long time, he raised his head and revealed a wry smile that was uglier than crying, "You can know so many secrets that we don't know, and it is indeed reasonable for you to find Roger's son."
"It's just that what I didn't expect was that instead of executing him, you threw him into Marine Headquarters, and now you personally brought them out for training."
"Akira Marshal, maybe this era will really become great because of you."
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