Chapter 821: Gardino and Natsu's First Meeting
Somewhere in the small garden, a man and a woman were strolling in the woods.
The man's appearance could not be described as ordinary, but rather as being exquisitely ugly. He wore a pair of frog-shaped glasses on his face, and his eyes revealed a sinister and cunning look that was rarely seen in ordinary people. His rectangular face and thick lips showed that he was intelligent and lucky.
He was thin and looked extremely weak. He wore a blue and white short shirt, a purple bow tie, beige trousers, and a record pointer on his left hand, but what caught people's attention most was the "3" hairstyle on his head.
He is Mr. 3 of Baroque Studio, whose real name is Gal Dino, and the vice-captain of Buggy, the Joker, one of the future Four Emperors!
Looking back on Gal Dino's glorious life, he has outstanding military achievements and countless heroic deeds. However, he is not like Luffy, who has been a supernova in the eyes of the public since his debut. Instead, he is the type of person who has accumulated a lot of experience over time. He was a latent dragon in the abyss in the first half of his life, and only in the second half of his life did he rise like a dragon in the sky.
He used a clever trick to end the century-long confrontation between the Blue and Red Demons; he fought one against five, and made wax figures of the Blue and Red Demons, Alabasta Princess Vivi, "Pirate Hunter" Zoro, and "Thieving Cat" Nami, and even forced Zoro to almost cut off his legs; he saved the future Pirate King Luffy and the future Navy Admiral Smoker; he launched the Impel Down Prison Break and provided weapons to countless pirates; he fought side by side with the future Pirate King, helped his fellow inmates escape from Impel Down, fought against the Impel Down Prison Warden Magellan, and made an indelible contribution; he saved the Pirate King's son Ace from the hands of Navy Marshal Sengoku and successfully escaped...
Gal Dino's life experience is so legendary and colorful. The only person in the whole era who can compete with him is probably the man he is willing to follow, the only person in the world who possesses the domineering luck, the 'Joker King' Buggy.
But at this time, Gal Dino was just a small agent in the Baroque Studio.
"I told you a long time ago, don't drink too much black tea, it will make you go to the bathroom more frequently."
The person who spoke was not Mr. 3, but the petite girl next to him, also an agent of Baroque Studio and Gal Dino's partner, Miss Golden Week.
Miss Golden Week was born in Beihai. Her original name is Marianu. She is only 16 years old this year and looks childish. She wears a pink wide-brimmed hat, big eyes, twin ponytails, blushed cheeks, a light blue floral shirt, a dark red skirt, blue and white striped socks and red sneakers. She wears a few girlish jewelry on her right hand and holds a senbei in her left hand and puts it into her mouth.
After hearing what the girl said, the future vice-chairman was not angry, but smiled elegantly: "Even if we don't drink black tea, humans still need to go to the toilet regularly, so don't blame the black tea for diarrhea!"
Gal Dino couldn't help but hold his stomach as he spoke. "Besides, you also had diarrhea after drinking green tea, so I'm more inclined to think that the problem is with the senbei."
"Miss Golden Week, are the senbei you just took out expired?"
"Impossible! There won't be any problem with my senbei!" Miss Golden Week denied it expressionlessly and in a flat tone, while taking another bite of the senbei, which made a crisp sound.
"Then how do you explain the fact that we both had diarrhea at the same time?"
"Didn't you just say that? People need to go to the toilet regularly!" Miss Golden Week said calmly.
Still trying to be tough!
Gal Dino pondered in his mind but did not say it out loud because he had just had diarrhea and his legs were still shaking. He had no mood to complain about his partner.
Besides, little girls are very sensitive, adolescent girls are rebellious, and they have to give face to their teammates. If they continue to delve into it, it would be a waste of their own intelligence.
"roar--!!"
Just as the two men were walking side by side towards the candle house, accompanied by a loud roar, a huge figure suddenly jumped out from the woods next to them, and attacked the two unarmed men, one big and one small, with a loud gust of wind.
Tyrannosaurus Rex!
The undisputed overlord of ancient times!
However, even though the Tyrannosaurus Rex was very powerful, it would not be able to gain any advantage against these two people.
Gardino was feeling depressed at the moment because of diarrhea. Since there was a guy who dared to come to him without knowing how to live or die, he would naturally not let him go easily.
He just waved his arms forward, and suddenly a large amount of white liquid gushed out. These were liquid candles. The liquid candles started from the feet of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and quickly spread upwards along the two limbs that were on the ground, covering its entire body in an instant, wrapping it into a Tyrannosaurus Rex wax figure!
Gardino is a candle man who ate the Wax-Wax Fruit. He can convert his physical strength into liquid wax. These liquid waxes will solidify in a very short time after being exposed to the air. The solidified liquid wax is as hard as steel!
The Tyrannosaurus Rex wrapped in candles stood motionless in an attacking posture. At this moment, it had lost consciousness and would soon die completely, becoming a complete wax figure.
Gardino, who had withdrawn his hand, acted as if nothing had happened. He continued to walk towards the candle house he had made with Miss Golden Week beside him. Neither of them said anything, as if the danger they had just encountered was not worth mentioning at all.
"Huh?? Someone entered my candle house?? "
When the two saw the big hole in the candle house, they both showed surprised expressions, because according to the information they received, there should be no pirates coming here recently.
Looking at the big hole in the wall, Gardino frowned, vaguely realizing that something was wrong. After years of using the ability of the Wax-Wax Fruit, he was already familiar with almost all things that could destroy candles, as well as what they would look like after being destroyed. So he could tell at a glance that the thing that dug a big hole in his candle house was not a sword, an axe, a hammer, or a fist, but the only nemesis of candles - fire. And this was no ordinary fire!
Gardino knew that the wax he made was very flammable. Once it caught fire, it would melt quickly due to the high temperature and could not remain solid. If it was an ordinary fire, it would not be possible to leave only such a hole after it was ignited. But if it was extinguished by the person who lit the fire, there was no sign of extinguishing the fire, so the person who set fire to the candle house could control the flames freely!
In Gardino's impression, the only one who can do this on the sea seems to be...
"The Flame-Flame Fruit?! Could it be Ace, the captain of the second ship of the Whitebeard Pirates, the 'Fire Fist'?? Could it really be him? Why is he here? He's not a character we can deal with!!"
As a spy of the Baroque Studio, Gardino had a certain degree of understanding of the changes in power at sea. Moreover, if you want to get involved in the underworld, you must know more about those who restrain themselves.
'Fire Fist' Ace was the only person Gardino knew who had completely controlled himself when it came to Devil Fruits.
Thinking of this, Gardino was immediately frightened. He was sweating all over and trembling. Even his voice was trembling: "MMM...Miss Golden Week...Is there anyone inside?"
"No." Miss Golden Week's calm voice came from the candle room, followed by the familiar 'crunch' sound of eating senbei.
No? No, that’s good!
Gardino heaved a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, then opened the door and walked in, muttering, "I told you, your senbei may be expired. If you eat it again, you may have diarrhea—"
“Yo!”
“Isn’t there someone here?!!!”
Accompanied by a scream of over 200 decibels, Gardino was so frightened that his eyes bulged out more than ten centimeters, his tongue trembled in a wave shape, and even the "3" hairstyle on his head jumped up and fell off his head.
What did Gardino see?
In her own candle room, there were an unfamiliar man, woman and cat. The cherry-haired man and the blue cat were sitting on the candle sofa as if they were at home, eating senbei and drinking their own collection of black tea. It was obvious that the 'click' sound just now was made by them, while the blonde woman sat in her chair, looking at Miss Golden Week who was sitting in front of her and calmly drinking green tea.
The man, woman and cat were Natsu, Lucy and Happy who had not left yet.
Seeing this, Gardino couldn't help but roar at the girl who was calmly drinking tea: "What are you doing? Miss Golden Week?! There were obviously people here, why did you lie to me and say no one was there??"
Miss Golden Week took a sip of the steaming green tea in her hand without any hurry and expression. She slowly put down the cup before saying, "Because I thought it would be fun to scare you."
Gardino was stunned for a moment, with a few tears and snot falling from his nostrils at the same time: How could such vicious words be said in such a calm tone? !
Forget it, this is my own child, I can't beat him up, Gardino immediately turned his attention to Natsu on the sofa. His eyes were cold: "Who are you guys?! Why are you here?!!"
"I'm Natsu!"
"I'm Harpy!"
Natsu and Happy were munching shook the senbei and tea in their hands and asked, "Would you like some? By the way, your hairstyle is so interesting!!"
This casual tone directly broke the tense atmosphere that Gardino had created.
"Those black tea and senbei are mine! Don't talk like they're yours!" Gardino yelled in anger, and then he suddenly realized something was wrong and looked at Happy in surprise, "Wait?! Cats can actually talk?!"
After a brief moment of shock, Gardino came to his senses and shook his head violently: "No, no! This is not the point. You two, get out of here right now!"
Then he pointed at Lucy who was sitting in his seat and roared: "And the woman sitting there, get up quickly, that's my exclusive seat!!"
Lucy had originally felt that it was inappropriate for her and her companions to come in without warning and to rummage through boxes and cupboards to take out senbei and black tea to eat. Now, hearing what the other party said, she felt embarrassed and was about to stand up and apologize, but unexpectedly, Natsu suddenly said "hmm", attracting everyone's attention.
Natsu seemed to have figured something out all of a sudden, and he hammered his palm in sudden realization: "So you built this place?!"
" Even an idiot can see this?! How stupid are you?!" Gardino roared in anger again.
It seems that I guessed wrong. It was not Ace the Fire Fist, but just two young people who came to the small garden unexpectedly. Seeing how young they were and without any guard, they just picked up the senbei and black tea and ate them. They shouldn't be too strong.
Gardino was relieved. His eyes were cold and white wax was dripping from his body. "Listen carefully, little devil! I'll give you three seconds to get out of here, or else..."
boom--!
There was a sound of wind and the flames ignited.
Natsu raised his flaming fist and winked at Gardino, his eyes filled with scrutiny, provocation, and playful interest: "Otherwise what?"
Gardino: “…”
"Otherwise, I can only entertain you well!"
