One Piece: The Long Road

.Well, please ignore the chapter name---!

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After laughing for a while, it seemed that he realized his gaffe. The smile on Simon's handsome face gradually dissipated, and he returned to his usual calm look. However, the excitement in his heart could not be suppressed.

Finding a shortcut to increase his strength is undoubtedly great news for Simon, and it is no wonder that he is so excited.

Turning around, hanging the epee on his back, Simon walked towards Smog with a dull face.

"You seem very happy?" Seeing Simon walking towards him, Smog finally couldn't help but ask: "What is the reason for you to be so rude when you are calm."

Shaking his head slightly, Simon did not intend to tell Smog about this, and said lightly: "It's nothing, just when I killed the sea kings just now, I had a different feeling than before, maybe, just find out this feeling. , my strength can rise to a level."

After finishing speaking, Simon leaned on the railing casually, hugged his arms, looked up at the sky, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, but he laughed silently.

Hearing Simon's explanation, Smog frowned obscurely. Obviously, he saw that what Simon said was not the truth. How could a person who can deal calmly with whatever he encounters be an illusory person? Feeling a gaffe. For a long time, Smog has seen Simon's inner desire for power. This desire is understandable, but if he falls into a morbid attitude, then this desire is hidden in the heart. There is a devil in the depths of my heart, but this is what Smog doesn't want to see.

He sighed lowly, but Smog didn't ask any further. He just took a sip of coffee from the cup, and there was a hint of dissuasion in his words: "Power is something that accumulates bit by bit over time, I hope you A strong person must have the attitude of thirst for power. Only in this way can he have the opportunity to be involved in the world of the strong, but at the same time, this desire must not be too extreme, otherwise, it will only become ruined. The devil of his own way."

"Heh..." Listening to what Smog said, Simon slowly lowered his head and smiled slightly: "I don't think so. If you don't have the ultimate eager attitude, how can you take every step resolutely?"

At this time, Simon, who was extremely excited, couldn't hear the meaning of Smog's words at all, and retorted with a smile.

Putting the cup on the table, Smog's eyes flashed with worry, looking at Simon with a smile on his face, and said lightly: "If you have an extreme mentality, then one day you fall hard. After you fall, if no one reaches out and pulls you, you will never get up."

Hearing Smog's words, Simon was very strange, but he didn't care, smiled and said: "I have a dream that must be fulfilled, how can I stop because of a hard fall, if one day I stop In place, that's only when I lose my life."

After speaking, Simon's dark eyes gradually lit up, his tone was a little arrogant, and he whispered: "Besides, even if I fall hard, then I don't need someone to pull me, as long as I still If you take a breath, you can definitely stand up.”

As if he had re-acquainted with Simon, Smog suddenly felt that the subordinate in front of him at this time was very unfamiliar. He thought he already knew Simon a little, but suddenly found that what he understood was only superficial.

Smog's resolute face gradually became serious, looked at Simon seriously, and said solemnly: "No matter what happens in the future, remember what you said today."

He glanced at the serious-looking Smoker in surprise, and then smiled slowly and restrained. After hearing the seriousness in the words, Simon nodded slightly, indicating that he remembered.

Old Smoking Gun... How can you say such a strange thing?

Simon always felt very puzzled about what Smog said just now, but he still remembered it in his heart.

At this moment, a crisp female voice interrupted.

"Colonel Smog, do you still want coffee?" Dasqi walked down the wooden ladder with a glass jug filled with brown liquid in her hand, smiling as she walked.

Glancing at the cup that was close to the bottom, Smog looked at the utensil filled with coffee in the hands of Dasqi who was going down the stairs, and nodded involuntarily, then, as if he had noticed something, he shouted loudly: " Don't look ahead and go down the stairs, idiot."

After speaking, the arm suddenly turned into white smoke, extending not far from the stairs.

Hearing Smog's words, Dusqi still had an inexplicable look. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly stepped on the air, and after screaming, he fell forward, and the glass pot in his hand couldn't help but be thrown into the air.

"Sure enough!" Smog, who was familiar with such scenes, secretly said, and his arm that turned into white smoke firmly caught the glass pot that was falling. After that, he heard the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Dasqi, who fell into the air, slammed into the deck below the stairs, and the pink glasses hanging from the bridge of her nose also flew into the air. Fortunately, Smog was already prepared and caught the glasses firmly. Saved some money.

"Ah." Painfully rubbed his head, Dusqi was very resentful that Smog didn't catch him, and immediately complained: "Colonel Smog, why didn't you catch me, it's all your fault, Why do you suddenly talk to me and make me fall?"

Before Smog could speak, Simon slammed in, "Idiot woman, after falling down in one place countless times, still can't change, I'm so surprised."

"Bastard!" Listening to these ironic words, Da Siqi suddenly ignored his complaints against Smog, and habitually said it, and immediately, as if for his own sake Behaving like a sophistry, Pretty blushed slightly, and retorted loudly: "It's all because of the strange structure of the stairs, plus Colonel Smaller suddenly talking to me, so I stepped on the air."

Hearing what Dusky said, the navy on the deck all looked towards the staircase, and then all looked at Dusky with a puzzled look, wondering what was so strange about the staircase.

Aware of the gazes around her, Da Siqi suddenly felt hot on her pretty face and didn't know what to say.

"Cut." Simon sneered, his face full of sarcasm, and said lightly: "Don't make excuses for your disconnection, okay?"

"You paralyzed man!" When Dusqi heard this, the flush on her face suddenly turned into an angry color, she glared fiercely at Simon who looked indifferent, and threw it away with a very impolite sentence.

Although the tone of Simon's speech made people unable to hear the irony, the sarcastic expression on his face clearly showed that he was very slanderous for Dusky's off-line behavior. Although he was accustomed to such verbal attacks, Dusky was still uncontrollably angry.

"Facial paralysis man?" Glancing casually at the angry Dasqi, Simon suddenly sighed meaningfully and said in a low voice, "It's better than going offline, at least, you don't need to change a pair of glasses from time to time. Woolen cloth."

After speaking, Simon raised his head expressionlessly and did not look at Dusqi. Although his voice was low, everyone on the deck could hear it clearly.

"You...!" Undoubtedly, facing Simon's language, the nervous Dasqi was no match for him at all, and the white knuckles that pointed forward were trembling slightly, unable to speak.