Chapter 875 Gildarts and Ace
what happened??
Who is this man? ?
Why did he fall from the sky?
Is Captain Buggy okay?
What is the space channel he is talking about?
A series of questions arose in everyone's mind as the man appeared.
The man was about forty years old, with short brown hair and a short stubble. He was strong and muscular, with a black cape draped over his shoulders.
You can tell from the looks of it that he is no ordinary middle-aged man!
Gildarts was very depressed. He didn't expect that after entering the space channel, he would end up on the sea. Fortunately, he was saved by this ship, otherwise he wouldn't know what to do in the endless sea.
"It was a close call... I should have been well prepared before coming here."
Gildarts couldn't help but feel a lingering fear at the thought of himself falling into the sea with no one around to rely on. He murmured softly, "Fortunately, the old man didn't come in to stabilize the situation. If I had fallen into the sea, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on for long at that age. Hahaha..."
While laughing, Gildarts' eyes finally met Ace and others on the boat, and the laughter stopped abruptly. The scene was actually a little awkward for a moment.
"Brother, do you still want this meat?"
Pirates: ? ?
"You are too familiar, aren't you?! Are all the people on the sea so rude nowadays?"
"Looking at his clear and stupid look just now, it's obvious that he doesn't know where this place is, so shouldn't he ask around to find out where he is first?!"
"Hey!! Uncle!! You just attacked our captain, we can't pretend nothing happened!!"
"That's right! You have to pay compensation! You smashed our captain's face and made him red!"
Before the brothers could finish their words, Bucky instantly stood up from the ground and shouted angrily, "Whose nose are you talking about is red and big?!"
When the boss got angry, the younger brothers could only lower their heads silently, nodding in fear and not daring to speak.
Just then…
Gildarts came up to Buggy and looked at his face from left to right. “Hmm? They must be talking about you, right? Your nose is the only one that’s big and red. It’s really weird…”
As he said this, he couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and flick the red nose lightly.
Buggy: (Angry)? ? ! !
All the younger brothers: (shocked)? ? ! !
"It's over. This old man actually said Captain Buggy's taboo! He's dead now!!"
"No, look at him, he suddenly fell from the sky, maybe he has some origin. Just like Ace, if he is also a big pirate, or a crew member of a big pirate..."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! This ocean is so vast, and there are only a handful of pirates out there. How is it possible to encounter two of them in one day? What kind of luck would that be?!"
Just when Kabbage and others were in confusion, Gildarts had already arrived at the banquet, eating, drinking, chatting and laughing with Ace.
"Hahaha... So you guys are pirates? You're very different from what I remembered!"
"Really? Uncle, you've never been in contact with pirates before? By the way, my name is Ace!"
"My name is Gildarts! In the past... I rarely came into contact with pirates, but I did encounter some merchant ships engaged in human trade and slavery."
"Slave merchant ships... there are many of them in this sea." There was a hint of melancholy in Ace's voice.
With the coming of the Great Pirate Era, more and more people became pirates and headed to the sea, so more and more dark corners were exposed, resulting in the fact that in the eyes of most people, the phenomenon of slavery became rampant with the coming of the Great Pirate Era.
Of course, this is true, and the Great Pirate World did make the slave trade more serious, but this phenomenon cannot be blamed entirely on the Great Pirate Era!
We can't just say that just because the slave trade rate increased from 50% to 70% during the Great Pirate Age, that 70% is the pirates' fault, right?
In fact, the slave trade has a long history, but when Roger opened the Great Pirate Era, it was basically buried in the dark , where most people could not see.
Ever since humans mastered mature maritime navigation technology, the culture of slave trade began to appear throughout the entire Grand Route, and even within the four seas.
The weaker the place, the more people were captured as slaves; the more noble the place, the more people were sold as slaves. And one of the biggest participants was the world's nobles, the Celestial Dragons, whose style of disregarding life was known to everyone in the entire ocean.
But as far as Ace knew, there was basically no such thing as slave trading in the Whitebeard Pirates' territory.
"What? From your tone, it seems that you have never done this? I thought pirates did this!" Gildarts looked surprised. He had originally planned to wipe out this group of pirates after dinner.
"No!"
Hearing that Gildarts actually had such a prejudice against pirates, Aston became anxious and immediately turned around to show Gildarts the tattoo on his back that represented Whitebeard. "The Whitebeard Pirates never trade in slaves!"
"Really? I misunderstood! Sorry..."
When people reach middle age and come to a new world, even a thick-skinned man like Gildarts is no longer as confused as before, and his eyes have become more vicious. He can see at a glance that the guy named Ace in front of him is not a bad person by nature, but just a hot-blooded fool at most.
"I say, do you two still take me seriously?!"
Listening to the two people talking and laughing, Buggy felt extremely angry: How dare these two people laugh at my red nose and eat my food unscrupulously on my ship, the great Buggy?
Arrogant! So arrogant!
The most important thing is that this man named Gildarts gave Buggy a sense of déjà vu - that face, that temperament, that way of speaking... He was extremely similar to his lifelong enemy, Red-Haired Shanks!
This is exactly why Bucky is so excited and angry!
At this moment, Gildarts's exclamation calmed the anger in Buggy's chest in an instant.
" What? Devil Fruit? Can you gain magical powers by eating it? There is such a thing in this world??"
"Yeah, uncle, don't you know?"
Ace ate the seafood sauce noodles on the plate and looked at Gildarts with a puzzled look: "You are already this age, and you don't know about devil fruits?"
Gildarts smiled and scratched his head: "Hahaha... Because I just came to this world! I used magic before!"
"magic?!"
Ace suddenly thought of Natsu whom he met in Alabasta before, and the news he just read in the newspaper, and couldn't help asking: "Uncle, are you... a wizard?"
"yes!"
Gildarts answered subconsciously, but in his heart he thought: "Could it be that there are magic and wizards in this world too? ? "
Ace's eyes lit up instantly, and he continued to ask: "Do you know Natsu?"
"The Natsu you're talking about, is he the boy with cherry-colored hair, a white dragon-scale scarf, and who doesn't look too smart?"
Ace nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes! He can also eat fire, so cool! Oh, and he has a flying and talking blue cat with him!"
"That's Happy! So you know Natsu??"
"Yes, I met him in Alabasta not long ago, and he owes me a meal!" Ai Si smiled brightly, then raised his right index finger and ignited a flame.
Now Gildarts understood that it must be Natsu who got angry.
"I am a user of the Flame-Flame Fruit, which allows me to release flames at will. That's how Natsu and I met."
"Hahaha... Really? Then you're really unlucky to be facing Natsu!"
Gildarts laughed loudly, not wanting to keep the secret at all, and directly revealed all of Natsu's magic, "Natsu is a Fire Dragon Slayer Mage, and can consume fire and turn it into magic and physical strength in his body. This should be considered an ability to restrain you in all aspects."
“That’s right!”
Perhaps because of their similar personalities, Ace did not get angry at Gildarts for saying 'Natsu restrained himself'. Instead, he recounted the process of how he and Natsu met, and then said with tears in his eyes: "That guy suddenly appeared and ate all the fire I created. I was also shocked at the time!"
"But I think he's afraid that the fire will burn down the town..."
Ace said embarrassedly, "Although I was trying to protect my brother from going out to sea, it was definitely my fault for wantonly setting fire to the town!"
"No, I think Natsu is just hungry..." Gildarts waved his hand.
Natsu is worried about the fire burning down the town?
Are you kidding me?!
