A Choice

If anyone else had asked him this question—even the other members of Ye Mu's Sky Pirate Crew—he would have avoided speaking of the future as much as possible, at most offering a warning. But as he looked at the mother before him, at her slightly swollen belly, he thought for a moment before finally speaking.

"His name is Ace..."

"Ace!!!"

The moment she heard that name, a bright light shone in the woman's eyes. With a mother's unique tenderness, she stroked her belly and said,

"Is it a boy?"

"That's right!"

"He'll become a fine, admirable man in the future, won't he?"

"Yeah!"

At this point, Ye Mu hesitated before continuing.

"He'll have two wonderful brothers, an adoptive mother who takes great care of him, and a grandfather who loves him deeply. He'll grow up healthy, until the day he sets out to sea..."

As Ye Mu spoke, the woman's expression became increasingly gentle. But at his final words, her face changed slightly.

"Setting out to sea... does that mean Ace will follow the path his father once took?"

"Yes. He'll become a pirate and quickly make a name for himself across the seas. But two years later, just like Roger, he'll go to meet his fate!"

In an instant, the woman's body stiffened. Even the hand stroking her belly froze, and her eyes filled with pain.

Freya and Ayala, who had listened to their conversation from beginning to end without saying a word, seemed to understand something at that moment. While shocked, they also looked at the pain-filled woman with sympathy.

Seeing this, Ye Mu tried to comfort her.

"Of course, because of my arrival, many people's fates have already changed. So I can't be sure whether the future I saw will truly come to pass. You don't need