Chapter 52

He was not the only one who was embarrassed. Cheng Xi's mind was blank.

She coughed softly and tried to change the subject. She pointed to the clear blue sky and said, "The weather is really nice today."

Ace looked up along her line of sight and saw the endless blue sky, pure and gentle, with dense white clouds floating in the sky, gathering or dispersing, like snow, waves, or sweet cotton candy, drifting freely into the distance.

There was a trace of undetectable tenderness in his voice: "Well, the sky is beautiful today."

On the sea, such beautiful weather is rare, but it is not rare. Ace didn't care much about it before, and didn't have much emotion. But now it seems that perhaps he met someone who can't be repeated. He always feels that today's wind and clouds are particularly romantic.

It's incredibly beautiful.

At this time, Cheng Xi noticed the man next to Ace. She had a vague impression of this man in her memory, but after all, it had been a long time, so she was not sure, so she asked hesitantly: "Hey, you are..." "

Yes, it's me, the most popular and famous prince in the whole sea..."

Cavendish held a rose in his hand, posed, immersed in his own world, surrounded by the atmosphere of various flowers blooming and shining little stars.

"Marco!"

Cavendish's movements froze instantly, and the whole person was stunned in place, exuding a kind of angry and collapsed aura.

It seemed to be broken.

He was ignored. The super popular Lord Cavendish was actually ignored by the woman who came out of the old forest on the lonely island. It was too much!

The man who was finally noticed was not angry, and said to her in a good temper: "I didn't expect that you can still remember me after so many years. You have a good memory."

Cheng Xi spread his hands: "There is no way. Although your appearance looks much more mature and stable than before, this conspicuous pineapple head hairstyle and the purple shirt that has been worn for twenty years are really iconic."

Sometimes she really doubted that she was living in a hot-blooded comic book. The reason was that the characteristics and symbols of the people in this world were too obvious, such as Ace's orange hat, Marco's pineapple head, Mihawk's black knife night, etc.

If the environment was too dangerous and there were fights every other day, this place would be very suitable for people with face blindness.

Joking aside, she still gave a thumbs up and praised Marco's aesthetics sincerely: "But your strappy sandals and flow speed leg rings really suit you, super cool!"

"Yoi..., thank you for the compliment, Miss Cheng Xi is still as beautiful and dazzling as she was back then."

This was true. Time seemed to have left no trace on her. Even the expression between her eyes and eyebrows was exactly the same as he remembered. Perhaps it was because she was no longer a navy, and she had fewer things to worry about. She was even more vigorous and energetic than before.

Marco praised Cheng Xi, but his eyes unconsciously glanced at Ace. He had heard Cheng Xi's name from Ace many times in the past two years.

According to common sense, he and Cheng Xi had only met twice and had been together for less than a week, but Ace talked about wild flowers in spring, cicadas in summer nights, and ripe wild fruits in autumn. The topic was like a sponge full of water, and there was no end to it.

Sachi once asked Ace out of curiosity which magical island could experience four seasons in three days, and Ace actually said it was in a dream.

As a result, no one on the whole ship believed him except Deuce.

What is this new game? Marco felt like he was out of touch with the times.

After Cheng Xi adopted the mutual praise mode with Marco for a while, he asked them why they came to this remote island.

Marco replied that it was because a vicious and brutal pirate group attacked the island protected by Whitebeard nearby. He and Ace chased here, but found that this pirate group had not waited for them to deal with them, and actually clashed with the handsome pirate group next to them and started fighting.

Ace was going to teach these ignorant guys a lesson, but was stopped by the leader of the handsome pirate group. Even in the deserted wilderness, the gorgeous and flamboyant prince didn't want others to steal his limelight, so he told Ace that he would teach them a lesson himself. Of course, Ace would not agree, so the quarrel happened.

The three forces were unwilling to submit to each other, and they hated each other. If Cheng Xi didn't know that the protagonist was Ace, she would definitely take out a handful of melon seeds from her backpack and watch them fight.

Watching the fun is a gene engraved in her DNA.

"Anyway, Cheng Xi, take care of yourself. I will beat them all away."

After the boy said this, he put his orange cowboy hat on Cheng Xi's head. The wide brim of the hat immediately blocked half of her vision. When she adjusted her sight, she found that Ace had rushed into the crowd.

There was a large area of ​​​​hot flames. The flames he used when facing his friends were warm and comfortable, but the flames he launched at the enemy were extremely dangerous. One after another, the enemies were beaten away and wailed in pain.

Cavendish would never allow himself to be overshadowed, so he also joined the battlefield with Durand. The two of them were more eager to fight than each other. The difference was that one was inexplicably excited, while the other was simply trying to snatch fans from Ace.

The two of them were so excited that it seemed that Marco and Cardish's crew were doing nothing.

Marco didn't even go to the battlefield. He squatted beside Cheng Xi and watched Ace fight with her. As he watched, a pack of biscuits suddenly appeared in front of him. In order to prevent him from choking, Cheng Xi also gave him a bottle of milk.

"Thank you."

Marco was a little hungry after running around for a whole morning, so he took the food from Cheng Xi. After a closer look, it was written on it that it was pineapple jam sandwich biscuits.

Time is really magical. Marco sighed in his heart that the little girl who was so irritable before has become a little considerate now.

After teaching these pirates a lesson and sinking their pirate ship, Ace returned to Cheng Xi. Cheng Xi had completely forgotten that the person squatting next to him was the doctor of the Whitebeard Pirates, and stood up to check if Ace was injured.

Marco:...

Never mind, Ace looks lively and the atmosphere between the two seems quite happy and harmonious, so he rarely ignores his duties as a doctor and continues to sit next to him and eat cookies.

This brand of cookies is quite delicious.

After the battle, Ace did not suffer any serious injuries, at most minor scratches and slightly dirty clothes.

Seeing Cheng Xi reaching out to brush off the dust on Ace's body, Marco silently turned his head to the side.

I shouldn't have followed Ace here today. I might as well have stayed in the room reading a book and had some free time.

Cheng Xi: "Oh, by the way, Ace, have you received a call from Sabo recently?"

"Sabo!?" Hearing this name, Ace was very surprised at first, then reached out and rummaged around in his backpack. He finally found his Den Den Mushi, but found that he had forgotten to water it for too long. The Den Den Mushi dried up due to lack of water and automatically turned off.

Cheng Xi complained in his heart, this is indeed Ace's usual style, and then told Ace about her encounter with Sabo in the store that day and his amnesia.

After saying that, she suddenly sighed that she was also a careless person. At that time, she was only concerned about giving Ace's Den Den Mushi number to Sabo and forgot to ask for Sabo's number. It's

so annoying. Can the ghost team of Vegapunk stop researching those dangerous war experiments and first research mobile phones and 5G to benefit the public? Even if there are no various entertainment apps, at least research a video call first, right?

Ace watered the Den Den Mushi enough, and after making sure it was recovering, he told Cheng Xi that his father's fleet was nearby and invited her to visit the Moby Dick. Marco did not stop him from doing this, and he could even guess the gossiping expressions of the brothers when Cheng Xi went to the Moby Dick.

Cheng Xi only thought about it for a while and agreed.

But she suddenly realized another important problem.

She said weakly; "That... I came out in a hurry and didn't bring any gifts."

The first time you visit a friend's house, you always have to bring some gifts, but today she came out in a hurry, with only two newly captured proto-lancehead vipers and a backpack of cake snacks.

If you send a venomous snake directly, there is a high probability that you will be thought of as picking a fight, but if you send snacks...

Whose Four Emperors pirates love bread, potato chips, chocolate toffee and strawberry milk!

This just sounds like a ridiculous thing.

Whitebeard is also old, and eating too much sweets will cause high blood sugar and osteoporosis.

Although Marco and Ace sincerely advised her to just go out for fun and not bring any gifts, saying that her father had a very kind temper, she still took advantage of the time they were cleaning up the battlefield to go into the woods.

When she came out again, Cheng Xi had two more ginsengs tied with red ropes in her hands! ?

As a ship doctor, Marco had a good understanding of the properties of some medicines over the years. Judging from the appearance, the two ginsengs had deep old skin and excellent color. He guessed that they should be at least several hundred years old.

The key is that she had wild ginseng in her hands, which has various magical effects such as replenishing qi and blood, calming the mind and improving intelligence. It can even be said that when a dying person is dying, as long as there is still a breath, it can save his life. This kind of precious medicinal material is hard to come by, and even her own infirmary does not have it.

She went into the woods and found two after searching for a few hours. It seemed easy and effortless. Isn't this incredible?

Cheng Xi held the two ginsengs, with a serious and sincere expression, and a bit of regret, and looked at Marco: "When I was a child, I lived in the mountains. There was a lack of entertainment. I had nothing to do but dig herbs all over the mountains. I barely learned the skill of finding ginseng. Unfortunately, the time today was too short, and I only dug these two."

Marco sighed, Marco was speechless. When she said this, her tone was very understated, as if she was talking about what she had eaten for lunch today. She didn't realize how powerful this skill was.

It's like a bystander who carries a huge treasure chest but doesn't realize it.

His eyes moved back and forth between Cheng Xi and Ace. The two grew up in the mountains when they were young. As a result, one learned to dig ginseng, and the other trained wild animals every day to exercise his physical fitness. It seems that the deep mountains and old forests are really a magical place.

He was considering whether to throw the interns who just joined the Whitebeard Pirates to this island for a trial.

When setting off from this isolated island, Cheng Xi saw the pirate ship with a white horse-shaped bow and a mast full of fancy decorations. Then he remembered the pirate leader who had been chattering all the time but had zero actual presence.

Out of politeness, and of course a large part of the reason was that she was in a good mood today, Cheng Xi greeted him politely before leaving.

"Goodbye, um..." She suddenly realized that she didn't know his name yet, which was embarrassing, so she had to change the pronoun.

"Goodbye, this pirate captain."

After saying that, she left the island with Ace and the others and galloped on the sea.

This sentence instantly made Cavendish's dissatisfaction with being coldly treated disappear. Looking at her back, he began to think about it himself and talked to his beloved horse Faruru.

What did she call me just now! ?

Cavendish automatically omitted the word pirate. She called me captain!

That woman must have been shocked by my swordsmanship and voluntarily became my fan. She even wanted to join the handsome pirate group and become a member of my group to go on adventures with me, but she reluctantly gave up the decision because she didn't want to disturb me!

In the end, it's because I'm too handsome and charming. Any woman in this world who sees me, even if she has only seen the bounty order, will be fascinated by my charm...

On the way to the voyage, Ace took out a bounty order and showed it to Cheng Xi, boasting to her: "This is my brother Luffy. Although he always causes trouble for me, he is the best brother in the world."

The boy in the picture was wearing a straw hat, and his black hair looked a little messy. He should have just finished a battle. There were some scratches on his face, but he smiled brightly, his eyes became curved, and his white teeth were exposed, showing a confident look.

Just a few months after going to sea, the first bounty reached 30 million. He must be a very powerful boy.

But...

her eyes looked at the boy's life, Monkey D. This last name is the same as Uncle Garp, which is quite a coincidence.

When Cheng Xi and Ace arrived at the Moby Dick, they happened to catch up with the captain of the fourth division, Thatch, who led the team to finish a battle. The man with a pompadour hairstyle was distributing the rich spoils. Seeing Ace return, he greeted him casually as usual.

"You guys came back so quickly, you are indeed Ace and Marco, and the beautiful girl next to you should be Cheng Xi who was reported in the newspaper."

After saying this, he immersed himself in his own affairs and continued to distribute the spoils. It took him about half a minute to react.

Wait, who is next to Ace?

Cheng Xi! ?

The famous Cheng Xi who has many magical powers, is watched by various forces, mysterious, and has been mentioned countless times by Ace! ?

Thatch quickly threw away the treasure in his hand and turned to look at Cheng Xi. Although he wanted to observe carefully from top to bottom in his heart, it was too impolite. He still resisted his curiosity and waved to her and said hello: "Hello Cheng Xi, my name is Thatch, I am Ace's good brother, the chef of the Whitebeard Pirates."

After introducing himself, his eyes quickly swept around the surrounding environment, trying to find a few good brothers who could eat the same melon as him, such as Marco, such as Joz who also tried hard to look at this side, or Namur who was hiding in the water with only one head exposed.

Does this count as bringing the girl to meet the parents?

Cheng Xi's face bloomed with a bright and brilliant smile, with curved eyebrows and eyes, a smile, and a clear voice: "Hello, my name is Cheng Xi, I'm Ace's good friend, nice to meet you."

She was originally a beautiful girl, and with such a smile, she was even more lively and cute, making Sachi unable to stop the aunt's smile on his face.

Ace, you boy, we obviously have the same schedule and activity trajectory, and you often sneak into my kitchen to eat food. How can you suddenly bring back a beautiful and cute girl, and I still don't even know what the face of the destined girl looks like?

But since he is Ace's brother, he must prepare some gifts and red envelopes for the girl. He began to think about what in the spoils he just got that would be suitable for the beautiful girl, but he couldn't think of anything, and finally decided to give her two gold bars directly.

When she saw Whitebeard, he was receiving intravenous treatment due to his physical weakness. Cheng Xi maintained a well-designed, perfectly angled smile on her face, bowed to him politely, and said, "White..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she was stunned, and then realized a very serious problem.

How should she address this powerful Four Emperors in front of her?

If Cheng Xi was a navy and Whitebeard was a pirate before, she would not need to consider any polite address issues, just call him Whitebeard directly.

But now Ace is her friend, and Whitebeard is Ace's father. Regardless of age, seniority, or experience, the person in front of her is her elder, but she is not his crew member, and she certainly cannot call him dad like Ace, so... Cheng

Xi thought about it, combined with her experience in her previous life, it would be fine if she didn't speak, but once she spoke, it was shocking.

"Hello, uncle!"

Whitebeard didn't expect how she would call him. He has been galloping on the sea for so many years, and no one has ever called him uncle. This is the first time he has heard someone call him this name, and it feels... pretty good.

"Hello, uncle. I'm Ace's friend. I'm on the island of Furrens..."

She first introduced herself, and made sure not to mention the past with Whitebeard. Then she handed over the ginseng in her hand, "I came in a hurry and didn't prepare a gift for you. These two wild ginsengs are good for your health. Just consider it as a little gift from me..."

Her tone was gentle, and her words were impeccably polite. Everyone who had seen Cheng Xi more than a decade ago, including Marco, was stunned. They couldn't connect her with the rebellious navy who said he would kill everyone with one sword.

"Kulalala." Whitebeard grinned, and it was obvious that he liked this quirky little girl very much.

At this time, the other captains on the ship also came to talk to Cheng Xi. As Ace said, everyone in the Whitebeard Pirates was very enthusiastic and had a good personality.

Vista's eyes stayed on the gold bracelet on Cheng Xi's slender white wrist. Because her skin was very white, she looked particularly good wearing this kind of gold and red jewelry. The interweaving was gorgeous and stunning.

"Don't look at it." Izang interrupted his gaze, his tone serious, "Her identity is not ordinary, and she is Ace's..."

Because he was not sure what their current relationship was, he only said half of his words, but this was enough. The meaning was very clear. Cheng Xi and Bista, the playboy, had different targets before. They were girls that their brother Ace liked, so it was best not to use the same tricks on Cheng Xi as they did on other girls.

"Oh, Izang, I think you misunderstood."

Of course, he would not go so far as to flirt with the object of his brother's affection.

Bista explained: "I just sighed a little."

Izang: "What are you sighing about?"

Bista gestured to Izang to look at the gold bracelet on her hand. Izang had an impression of this bracelet. It seemed that Ace exchanged it from Bista with treasure two years ago. Unexpectedly, it was now worn on Cheng Xi's hand.

"At the beginning, I wanted to give this bracelet as a gift to the girl I liked, but Ace took it away. Now two years have passed. The girl broke up with me a long time ago, and Ace was able to stick with Cheng Xi for two years."

For this playboy known as the Flower Sword, life at sea is full of danger and killing. Sometimes when he is under great pressure, he will go to the bar to find a girl. Everyone knows each other well and part ways amicably.

"You said, it is really strange that Ace, this kid, actually talks about pure love in the pirate world."

Before Izo spoke, Harta, who was eavesdropping on the side, complained: "But as long as both parties talk about pure love, it is not strange."

"I think it is very likely that Ace did not realize that he liked her at all, and Cheng Xi was also in a state of ignorance."

After he finished his guess, Vista was curious, when did Harta, who had been single for a long time, analyze emotional problems better than himself?

"Hey, Ace, look." Thatch, who was sorting out the spoils, took a purple fruit found in the treasure chest in his hand and motioned Ace to look over, "Devil Fruit."

"I just don't know what kind of devil fruit it is." Thatch said with some regret.

Ace and Cheng Xi were not very interested in this devil fruit, but Teach, who had been dormant beside them for a long time, was shocked when he saw this fruit, frowned, and broke out in cold sweat.

Then he showed an evil smile.

After searching for so many years, he finally waited for this dark dark fruit. Today is really a good day, not only the dark dark fruit, but also...

He looked at Cheng Xi who was surrounded by everyone.

The makeup fruit that is said to have self-awareness and can develop powerful healing abilities.

Cheng Xi keenly noticed that there was a very hostile look on the ship cast at her. She followed the gaze. Teach saw her looking at herself, and hurriedly pretended to be honest and smiled at her very friendly.

Marshall Teach, Cheng Xi had a deep impression of him, but it was a negative impression. She didn't like this person when she first met him. For example, just now, he was smiling, but in Cheng Xi's eyes, it was like being stared at by a venomous snake peeping in the dark.

This feeling is not good.

She found a gap, walked to the stern where there were fewer people, leaned against the railing, took out the Den Den Mushi and called Rosinante, who answered quickly.

"Hello, Rosina."

"Yes."

"I've caught what I wanted, but I met Ace in the middle, and he invited me to play with the Whitebeard Pirates, so I may go back a few days later than expected, don't worry about me."

"Yes."

"I thought it would be bad to visit empty-handed, so I dug two wild ginsengs in the mountains as gifts..."

"Yes."

Cheng Xi: "Then..."

Rosinante: "Yes."

Unlike before, this time no matter what she said, Rosinante simply replied "Yes." There was also a joy in his tone that could not be ignored.

She suggested: "Is there something wrong with your language system? Why don't you go and see Xiao Shinobu?"

Rosinante: "No need."

Something was wrong, too wrong. Cheng Xi was just guessing why he became like this, when he suddenly heard the helpless voice of Little Wizardmon on the other side of the Den Den Mushi.

"Rosinante, you've been reading newspapers for the whole day. You really won't die of laughter reading the newspapers?"

Cheng Xi asked curiously, "Newspaper? What newspapers? What's written in them?"

This time he finally didn't just answer "hmm". On the contrary, he kept talking, and his words were ridiculous.

Rosinante: "According to the latest report from the Economic News Agency, the Navy's G18 base on the Grand Line was destroyed and severely damaged. The culprit is the cruel and cold-blooded, deep-minded North Sea pirate Trafalgar Law, who is known as the surgeon of death..."

He read the newspaper tirelessly, and then began to nag Cheng Xi about how Law has become a very strong pirate now, and there is a cute white bear on the ship, who is also a pirate. He is looking forward to meeting Law and doesn't know what the personalities of Law's crew will be. He said a lot of things, blah blah.

In the end, Cheng Xi's mind was full of Luo, Luo, Luo...

Cheng Xi complained: "Gouzi, you have changed. Why is our friendship so shaky?"

Rosinante: "Didn't you secretly call Yushula a few days ago?"

Cheng Xi: "Who secretly sent so much health tea to Will!"

Rosinante: "Hancock!"

They began to expose each other's shortcomings. People say that the best friendship cannot have a third person in the middle, but Cheng Xi and Rosinante's pitiful friendship is almost being pierced into a sieve.

Cheng Xi: "If Luo and I fall into the sea at the same time, who will you save first?"

Rosinante was not to be outdone: "If Ace and I fall into the sea at the same time, who will you save first?"

Cheng Xi: ...

Before she had time to think, the intolerable and irritable voice of Wizardmon came over there: "Shut up, all four of you are devil fruit users. If you fall into the sea at the same time, the result is that none of you will survive."

Not far away, Ace saw her raised lips and flying eyebrows when she was on the phone. The setting sun melted gold and coated her with a hazy halo.

A tiny ripple rose in his heart, but then it was like a spider web spreading everywhere and covering his entire heart.

He felt that the temperature on his body was very hot.

He asked the ship's doctor next to him: "Marco, why do I feel so hot on my body?"

Anyone who understands can see that he has fallen in love. Marco was about to answer him, but was beaten to the punch by Thatch next to him.

"It's windy at sea, you have caught a cold, let Marco prescribe two fever-reducing pills for you later."

Humph, you brought a girl to the ship without telling your brother.

Ace put his hand on his heart: "My heart beats fast too."

Sachi: "You have an irregular heartbeat, just take a rest."

Marco: ...

Sachi, a chef who wanders between a mediocre doctor and a genius doctor.