12 Chapter 12 : Meeting Ace

Since Youta had met that witch doctor, it was only natural that he would also meet Chopper.

As for why Chopper was afraid of his "rations"? After eating the Gobble Gobble Fruit, Youta's sense of taste became completely different from normal people's, having two completely different modes.

When he wasn't using the Gobble Gobble Fruit, his sense of taste was almost the same as a normal person's. But once he used the Gobble Gobble Fruit, his sense of taste became quite peculiar.

That guy, Wapol, after eating the Gobble Gobble Fruit, his taste buds mutated to the point where he even liked eating things like baked houses, showing the strange taste of the Gobble Gobble Fruit.

So when Youta was making those "rations" that were more like medicine than food, he never considered their taste and only focused on making them in a way that could maximize their nutrition.

After all, regardless of what he ate with the Gobble Gobble Fruit, the taste wouldn't be much different.

Of course, this was tough on those who tried his medicine, and Chopper was the victim of his medicine. Both Youta and the witch doctor were very interested in Chopper's expression when he ate the rations, so poor Chopper became the plaything of these two unscrupulous doctors.

After playing around with Chopper for a while, Youta sat on a rock by the seaside, staring blankly at the distant ocean, sighing, "I'm about to set sail soon. What are you going to do in the future, Chopper?"

"Sail?" Chopper's eyes suddenly lit up with longing. "That's great! I've always wanted to set sail too."

Youta shook his head. Our roles overlap, don't they? What's the use of having two ship doctors on one ship? If Youta didn't understand medicine, he would definitely take Chopper with him on the sea. But now, taking Chopper with him would be a waste.

"You'd better wait a couple more years. I believe there will be... Huh! It's a pirate ship!"

On the distant sea, a not-so-large pirate ship was sailing over. The pirate flag on the ship was quite fancy, with a skull wearing a hat inside a red heart, and there were two small laughing and crying face symbols on the skull.

"Oh no, the pirates are coming, the pirates are coming, the pirates are coming, run, run!" Chopper panicked when he saw the pirate ship, his whole body starting to bristle.

Youta rolled his eyes. "I also want to be a pirate and set sail. What's there to be afraid of? Besides, you're a reindeer, not a human. What are you afraid of pirates for?"

"Oh! Right, I'm not even human, why should I be afraid of pirates?" Chopper tilted his head, suddenly puzzled.

Seeing Chopper finally relax, Youta said with a sinister smile, "Speaking of which, although you're not human, you might still end up as provisions on a pirate ship."

"Ah! I see, being made into provisions and taken on a pirate ship... Isn't that worse?" Realizing this, Chopper's eyes welled up with tears, and he hid behind Youta.

Youta wanted to tease Chopper a bit more, but he saw a string of fire suddenly appear on the pirate ship in the distance, and then that fire headed towards Youta's direction.

"Are they firing?" Youta furrowed his brows slightly, immediately clenching his fists and activating his chakra. The earth and rocks on the ground instantly gathered on his fist. With a punch, like a cannonball, it smashed towards the string of fire.

This move looked somewhat like a variant of the Rock Fist Technique, but in reality, it was just condensing a stone on his fist. The power depended on the size of the fist swung. In essence, it wasn't much different from throwing stones, just more convenient.

These ninjutsu that Youta came up with on his own basically didn't have much power. After all, he had learned too few ninjutsu, so trying to develop ninjutsu on this basis naturally couldn't produce any powerful moves.

But his physique was already very strong now, and with the boost of chakra, the power increased significantly. The stone swung out by his fist was no different from a small catapult, making a whistling sound as it smashed into the string of fire.

However, although the stone smashed through the fire, the fire seemed to have no reaction at all. Soon, the fire landed in front of Youta and condensed into a figure.

"What a powerful fist! If it weren't for the Flame-Flame Fruit, it would have been bad." The figure made of flames wore a hat and was bare-chested, smiling at Youta.

At the same time, he had someone clamped under his arm, the person's face flushed, looking dazed, seeming to be seriously ill.

Youta's expression twisted at once. Even though it had been more than ten years since then, his impression of the Pirate King was somewhat fuzzy, but he could still recognize the guy in front of him, wasn't he Fire Fist Ace?

He looked like a protagonist but died very casually.

At this moment, Ace had just entered the Grand Line not long ago, but under Youta's Observation Haki, he could already feel the immense power contained within him.

Even though Ace hadn't learned Color of Arms yet, he still gave Youta a considerable sense of oppression. Youta could guarantee that even without using the Flame-Flame Fruit, Ace could probably beat him to a pulp.

In the end, Youta's talent was just too ordinary. Even though he had eaten the Gobble Gobble Fruit, giving him the physique of the One Piece world, it was still just an ordinary physique compared to prodigies like Ace.

And that was with Youta having a chakra system. Otherwise, the gap between the two would probably be even greater.

Seeing Youta's expression, Ace felt a little strange and asked, "What's going on? Do you know me?"

Shaking his head, Youta replied, "Fire Fist Ace, a supernova pirate with a bounty of over a billion berries as soon as he debuted. I've seen your wanted poster."

He looked at the man under Ace's arm, the man wearing a strange eye mask and dressing like Zoro. Youta frowned and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out his identity.

After all, he hadn't read Ace's spin-off. Although he had seen some information in Oda's materials before, now, he had completely forgotten about it.

Seeing Youta's gaze, Ace helped his first mate up. "This is my first mate, Thuz, don't worry, we're not the kind of pirates who cause trouble. The Black Spades Pirates are here to treat Thuz's illness."

Youta wasn't sure which route the Black Spades Pirates were taking on the Grand Line. After all, this was something outside of the original work, so he was quite curious. "Don't you have a ship's doctor on your ship?"

Ace wasn't as confused as the Straw Hats, right? There couldn't really be no ship's doctor on the ship, could there

?

Ace smiled somewhat embarrassedly. "Thuz is our ship's doctor, even though he's just a medical student."