The Black Duke of the Pirate

"Of course, hahahaha." Ace immediately laughed, but his smile suddenly stopped. He was silent for a while before saying, "Uncle, Sabo... is dead."

When Ace finished speaking, he didn't notice any surprised expression on Reinhardt's face, so he asked with some confusion: "Aren't you surprised?"

Reinhard shook his head. As a person who traveled through time, he certainly knew about this series of things, but he had no interest in pretending to be surprised, so he said in a deep voice: "There is nothing to be surprised about. On this sea,

Many people die every day."

Ace was slightly shocked, then smiled and said: "Yeah, if you can't live according to your own ideas, what's the difference between dying and dying? If you can live according to your own ideas, even if you die, it's worth it."

Reinhard nodded and continued to smile: "It doesn't surprise me that you understand this."

"However, it has not yet been determined whether Sabo is really dead. As long as you have not seen his body with your own eyes, there is a glimmer of hope."

"That's it..." After hearing Reinhard's words, Ace was startled for a moment. It seemed that this was true, but he imagined that it might just be Reinhard's domineering words out of comfort. After all, most people who died in the sea were

No bones left.

Reinhard smiled: "No matter what, with this hope, work hard to create your own name in this ocean."

"Well, my goal is One Piece, how about you, uncle?" Ace nodded thoughtfully.

"My goal..." Reinhard said softly, "I hope to stand on the top of the world one day..."

"What kind of goal is this?"

Ace murmured, as if he didn't understand what he was saying, so he continued to ask, "Uncle, why did you accept the World Government's invitation?"

"I am a pragmatic person. If I can get an invitation from the Shichibukai, I will certainly accept it. Moreover, I also need the identity of the Shichibukai to do something major that will affect the world in the future."

"A major event that affects the world?" Ace was surprised, "Is it related to your goal?"

Reinhard had no intention of continuing to reveal this plan to him. He just smiled and picked up the bottle to drink with Ace and the members of the Spade Pirates.

"Are you going to enter the new world next?" Reinhard asked.

"Of course, the New World is the real stage." After Ace finished speaking, he asked with a puzzled tone, "Where is uncle? Shouldn't he stay in the New World? Why did he appear in the Shampoo Islands?"

"I'm going back to Beihai to deal with something."

Ace nodded, and everyone drank happily. Soon after, a group of people got drunk, and Reinhard shouted to the boss.

The boss came over in fear.

"Let's settle the score."

Hearing Reinhard's words, Ace drunkenly said to the blue-haired young man who was also drunk next to him: "Deus, you guy, hurry up and check out."

"Where do we still have Baileys..." Deus shouted, "Didn't you distribute all the Baileys to the civilians?"

After hearing this, Ace giggled, then yawned, and suddenly fell asleep sitting down.

"Boss, how much is it?" Reinhardt shook his head helplessly and asked the boss next to him.

"No, no need." The boss looked at Reinhardt and said in panic, and then whispered, "This bar is owned by Lord Doflamingo. Between you and Lord Doflamingo,

Between us, everything is free here.”

"It's natural to pay for drinking." Reinhard smiled and shook his head, "More importantly, I don't want that turkey to know one day that I, Reinhard, don't pay for drinking.

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"No, I won't spread the word."

"Check out!" Reinhard shouted, and then two guards carrying knives walked out of the bar. They walked up to Reinhard and shouted respectfully: "Your Majesty the Duke."

"Settlement these accounts." Reinhard pointed to the wine table.

"Thank you for your patronage...a total of 580,000 beli."

After a while, Ace slowly woke up.

"Let's go." Reinhard stood up with a smile, and everyone walked towards the outside of the bar.

"What time is the auction house?" he asked the guard beside him.

"Eight o'clock." the guard replied.

Reinhard took his pocket watch and looked at it for a while. There were still twenty minutes until eight o'clock, so he thought about it and said to Ace, "Would you like to go over and join in the fun at the Chambord Islands auction?"

"Ah...auction?" Ace's eyes lit up and he immediately said, "Go."

"Sir, the auction here is owned by Doflamingo. Wouldn't it be inappropriate for us to rush there like this?"

The guard said something worried.

"It doesn't matter, Doflamingo and I have business cooperation."

With that said, Reinhard led Ace and others towards the auction.

Reinhardt showed up at the auction, but no Devil Fruit appeared that night, so Reinhardt left in disinterest.

Reinhard said goodbye to Ace the next day. He invited Ace to visit Redding next time. Ace did not refuse. After that, the two separated.

Reinhard left the Shampoo Islands that day and headed towards the North Sea. Mozer took his guards to the East China Sea because during the voyage, Reinhard used the authority of the Shichibukai to commandeer a navy.

Warships use naval warships to cross the windless zone heading to the East China Sea.

Half a month later, Reinhardt also successfully arrived in the North Sea. Gass brought a mafia fleet composed of five sailboats to personally greet Reinhardt, and then everyone sailed in the direction where the vortex current was discovered.

Somewhere in the North Sea, the weather was clear and cloudless, and the sea in the distance was extremely calm.

"Boss, this is the sea area." Gass walked to the deck and observed the surroundings for a moment.

"Is there no movement?" Navigator Weiss was also observing the sea surface everywhere, but he did not find the huge vortex of sea currents.

"It shouldn't be wrong, it was discovered in this sea area at that time." Gass said firmly.

Reinhard looked at the surrounding sea for a while, and then recalled the memories deep in his mind. After a while, he saw that there was no movement in the surrounding sea, so he took moon steps and reached an altitude of nearly a thousand meters.

Looking towards the sea.

Um?

Reinhard's eyes paused, and he saw a turbulent flow composed of undulating waves appearing in the distant direction. The turbulent flow was motionless, and in the center of the turbulent flow, what appeared was a huge vortex of sea water.

Surrounded by fast ocean currents, it is rotating in a spiral.