Part 9 Pain Tears and Awareness

Gray Terminal

Ace and Luffy got out of the ropes binding them and headed for the forest that led to Mount Korba, but there was a fire blocking the way.

Ace – "Damn, I didn't think that the fire had already reached here hey Luffy, how are you?", Ace asked his brother, who was now moving only due to willpower.

Luffy – "I can go, don't worry Ace.", – "Damn, the system doesn't work, and my chest is so colicky eh, that's not about it now," thought Luffy and ran after Ace that grabbed him by the hand.

Ace – "I think we could go out to the Forest between Korba Mountain and the Gray Terminal while you were out, I found out the location of all the fuel barrels that they had guided around the area."

Bang!

Then they were both stopped by the sound of a shot and turned around to see Bluejim's pirates and the captain himself out of breath.

Bluejim – "This king deceived us, he did not give us what he promised.", – Bluejim said angrily.

Ace – "YOUR BUSINESS DOES NOT CONCERN US BLUEJIM!!", – Ace said angrily, covering Luffy with himself.

Bluejim – "Haha, you told us where your treasures are, but for some reason you're still alive, little bastards like you may be chasing me for the rest of your life and therefore nothing personal."

Bluejim pointed the gun at Ace.

Ace – "YES YOU ARE!!"

VVzzz

Suddenly everything went dark, and the fire died down as if an invisible shadow had come to the entire area in the aisles of 30 meters.

Luffy – "So it's the King's Will!"

Bam

Bam

Bam

All Bluejam's pirates fell from unconsciousness, and Bluejim himself watched in shock.

Bluejim – "You brat what did you do!"

Pointing the gun again, Bluejim wanted to shoot, but an axe flew out of nowhere that knocked the weapon out of his hands, and then a big shadow appeared that kicked Bluejim in his groin.

Bluejim – "KYA!!" – Bluejim turned around when he saw the head of the mountain bandits.

Dadan – "Don't you dare touch them, sea creature", – after these words Dadan sent him to a knockout with a baton.

Bandits – "THIS IS OUR BOSS!!", – said the Bandits who had just arrived.

Magra – "Luffy, Ace are you okay?!"

Luffy – "Yes we are relatively normal how did you find us?"

Dogra – "About this later, it's time for us to get out of here."

Dadan – "Let's start the second stage of the plan RUN!!!", – after these words Dadan took over Ace and Magra Luffy and everyone ran out of the gray terminal.

At this time, in the outer ring of the capital, there is a place where lawlessness lives.

Sabo, after learning about what could happen, sent a message to the house of Mountain Bandits and himself trying to pass through the gate was beaten by the police, but because of the mask that he wore after escaping from the house he was not recognized.

Now Sabo was lying in a night alley with bruises on his face.

It was as light that night as it was during the day due to massive fires in the gray terminal.

A shadow approached the lying child, it was a man wrapped in a black cloak and a red tattoo was on the man's face. The man bent down and picked up the Clogs, bringing him to his senses.

Sabo – "Sir, this city, this fire, it was all planned by the royal family, it was they who caused all this CHAOS, but the people from the highest ranks and the nobles knew it was me... I can't forget how easily they said that hundreds of people would die today... I AM ASHAMED OF BEING A NOBLE!!!"

A person hearing these words was horrified by how rotten this kingdom is already. They are so rotten that they force such children to say similar words.

??? – "I understand I heard everything, but I don't have enough strength to change this country yet, but in the future I will."

Sabo – "You really believe me," Sabo said weakly and lost consciousness.

??? - "Yes I do."

After these words, the man laid the Clogs wrapped in a cloak.

??? - "Dragon, baby, we are ready!!", – said the new arriving figure.

Dragon – "Yes, it's time to leave," – after that, Dragon and the new "face" disappeared from the alley, leaving the sleeping Sabo.

The next day The house of the Dadan family mountain bandits

Ace – "It hurts!!", – said Ace Dadan who changed the bandages on him from burns.

Dadan – "SHUT UP LITTLE PIECE ?*:% (%", – after these words Ace obediently began to endure the pain.

Magra – "Calm down boss."

Dadan – "YOU SHUT UP TOO!"

Magra– "Yes ma'am!"

Dogra – "She seems to be on edge.", – Dogra quietly spoke to other Bandits and those noticing the evil look of the boss immediately began to do something.

Luffy – "Ha I still feel like shit."

Dogra – "With such a wound in the chest of course!"

Ace – "No you don't know, but there's a sea stone bullet in Luffy right now."

Everyone – "UH!?"

Dadan – "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT IT!!!"

Ace – "I was unconscious, as I would say, in short, we urgently need a doctor, otherwise stand weak that Luffy's wound won't heal now."

Luffy – "Ace, how do you know that?" asked Luffy weakly.

Ace – "Well..."

Memories Bluejim's ship the day before the arson

The doctor – "Even though you are little monsters, but you are still children," said the doctor who put Luffy on an IV while he was unconscious.

Ace – "I don't need your snot, let's treat my brother and get out of here," said Ace, who was near Luffy all the time.

Doctor – "I will say only once he has a serious wound and the bullet did not reach the heart only by a miracle, then he is a fruit grower and the properties of the sea stone will block all the processes of regeneration and development by 88% and even though the bullet was disinfected, it's only a matter of time, so if you want your brother to survive, he urgently needs surgical help specialist."

Ace paled with every word he heard from the doctor.

Ace– "But can't you."

Doctor – "If I try to do this, either Bluejim or Sabo's father will kill me, and if I try, the chance of survival is infinitely small."

The doctor – "Here you go." - the doctor handed Ace a roll of paper.

Ace – "What is it?"

Doctor – "This is a prescription medicine that will help your brother relieve chest pain and remove the first stages of infection from a bullet.", – after these words, the doctor packed up and left the ship.

Real

Ace – "Here's the recipe for Magra prepare the medicine," – gave the sheet to Magra, who began to read it.

Magra –"All these ingredients can be found in the forest," he replied, and after showing the recipe to other Bandits, they went for herbs.

Another day passed after that

System

System

Luffy ran through this monologue in his head many times trying to call up the system screen or inventory, but nothing happened.

Luffy had 2 reasons for what happened.

1. He died and therefore the system disappeared.

2. The sea stone blocks the system as its fruit.

After that, Luffy began to understand.

It die.

And came back to life again.

When he first woke up, he didn't have that incredible weakness when Bluejay shot him.

His current weakness is from the fact that a 7-year-old child like him survived after this and now walks with a wound that is unimaginable for a child of his age.

Luffy – "It seems like I'm not Joy Boy anymore."

At this time in the city, Dogra was going to get test tubes for medicine for Luffy.

??? "I'm telling you it's a devil fruit."

Then Dogra's ears pricked up, and he looked at two merchants discussing the type of purple fruit with patterns on it.

Merchant 2 – "Don't talk nonsense there are no devil fruits."

Merchant 1 – "I'm telling you, my daughter found it in our garden where apples were growing and it's clear that this fruit is not ordinary."

Merchant 2 – "Yes, he is unusual and definitely not diabolical."

Dogra decided to play big and not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Approaching the stand with the products, he spoke to the merchants.

Dogra – "Yo cho like guys."

Trader 2 – "Oh Dogra, we haven't seen each other for a hundred years."

Merchant 1 – "Your wife finally let you go."

Dogra was known in the outer ring of the capital as a good trader that mostly learned about the movements of caravans for Dadans, but no one knew about it.

Dogra – "Yes, I just went out to buy groceries by the way, what kind of fruit is in your hand.

Merchant 1 – "I don't even know myself, probably some kind of defective apple."

Merchant 2 – "He said it was the devil's fruit."

Dogra – "Haha, so it's a myth."

Trader 2 – "You see, even Dogra agrees with me."

Merchant 1 – "Yes, you're probably right, but still what does it taste like."

Dogra – "Let me buy it from you, and then I'll tell you."

Trader 1 – "The truth is then 20,000 white."

Dogra – "YOU'RE ROBBING!!"

Evening House of Dadan Family Mountain Bandits

Dadan – "And where are you going," Dadan asked Ace that he wanted to go to the gray terminal and find Clogs.

Ace – "I have to find Clogs!"

Dadan – "NO, YOU WILL NOT LEAVE THIS HOUSE ONE STEP MORE!!"

Ace – "WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH!!"

Magra – "The boss is worried about your lives while you were away, she was always on edge."

Ace – "Yes, she was afraid that the Old Man would kick her ass."

Dadan – "That's right, I wasn't worried, it's just because Garp will kick a lot. OH, YOU're A DISGRACE."

While there was a battle between Ace and Dadan, Dogra came into the house.

Magra – "Oh Dogra you brought test tubes hmm what's wrong with you.

Dogra looked pale with a bag in his hand and a backpack on his back.

Dogra – "Sabo he Died!"

Luffy – "It seems like it was necessary."

After what Dogra said, Ace tried to kill him, but Dadan stopped him.

Dadan – "In this world, not everything is as simple as it seems, haven't you realized yet now you're just a child who can't change many things.", Dadan said holding Ace so that he wouldn't leave to kill Tenerubito who killed Sabo.

Ace – "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!"

Dadan – "You're not ROGER TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!!"

After that, Ace loosened his grip and began to cry.

And then, amidst all this, Luffy noticed a strange fruit.

A week later, the coast from the side of Mount Korba

Luffy and Ace were looking at the sea.

Gradually the tears left and understanding came.

Luffy knew that Sabo had survived, but he didn't say.

Luffy did not eat the Goma Goma fruit, but left it aside for now.

Luffy – "Ace, I want to tell you something.", – Luffy broke the silence.

Ace– "Yeah? I'm listening.", – Ace was sitting near the cliff looking at the sea, and Luffy was on his right.

Luffy – "It's hard to explain, but I'll try."

After Luffy revealed that he was from another world, Ace's look didn't change.

Luffy talked about his past life, but he kept the fact that they were imaginary characters to himself.

Ace– "So what?"

Such a response from Ace to Luffy's confession made the latter stagger.

Ace stood up and picked up Luffy by the shirt and then hit him in the jaw.

Boom!!

Luffy fell, honoring the pain in his cheek and jaw.

Luffy – "It hurts!"

Ace – "SHUT UP!"

Luffy shut up.

Ace – "EVEN IF IT'S TRUE, YOU'RE STILL MY BROTHER!!" – Ace lifted Luffy looked into his eyes and saw that he was crying.

Ace – "Luffy?"

Luffy – "I'm not him... I'm not even me anymore... I'm like that... so broken..." - Luffy fell to his knees.

Ace was looking at his brother, who was on the verge of a breakdown right now.

Ace – "I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU ARE?", Ace loudly declared, causing Luffy to look at him with shock.

Ace – "YOU WERE THE ONE WHO DODGED MY SPIT AND THE ONE WHO RAN AFTER ME AND THE ONE WHO PROTECTED OUR HIDING PLACE WITH SABO AND THE ONE WHO SAVED US MORE THAN ONCE YOU ARE LUFFY YOU ARE OUR BROTHER, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHO YOU BECOME, YOU ARE MY BROTHER!!!"

A huge royal Will came out of Ace causing the trees to shake in the sea to raise waves.

Luffy was looking at Ace…

And cried…

Who is he…

It doesn't matter to him.

He let go of the past.

Now he has brothers Ace and Sabo,

Grandfather and Dadan.

It doesn't matter who he is or who he was.

He's not a hitman.

He's Monky D. Luffy.