Chapter 291: Training Ace, Changing Color of Flames
After reading the newspaper, it was time for the Orn Pirates to return to the New World.
Because they were no longer Shichibukai, they could no longer use the official waterways of the World Government.
Therefore, they could only put the Luxiang into the mobile castle and use the Nautilus to dive 10,000 meters below the seabed and revisit the old road of Fishman Island.
Amid the chatter of the little rabbit Carrot, they appeared on the Fishman Beach of Fishman Island again.
Orn, who had just parked the Nautilus and walked out of the submarine, couldn't help but laugh.
On the Fishman Beach, King Neptune's family, Jinbei, and the Whitebeard Pirates were all waiting for him.
"Hey, Shirahoshi, long time no see."
"Ah~ Mr. Orn~!"
Shirahoshi smiled brightly at Orn.
Before he could make any further moves, he heard several voices in succession:
"Ah~ Sister Shirahoshi, I miss you so much."
"It's been a long time since we last met~"
"This is the mermaid princess who is said to be as beautiful as the fourth sister, she is really beautiful."
"Hey? Mermaid princess, your lower body is really a fish tail, so magical~ Mermaid Princess Kaluchu~~~~"
Looking at the beautiful women who came up to him one by one, Shirahoshi couldn't help but smile happily and shyly:
"Well, everyone, please come one by one, I miss you too."
There was such a lively crowd of beauties here, but the people of the Whitebeard Pirates didn't even bother to take a second look.
A group of people were looking forward to the Nautilus, looking at Orn with expectation and asking:
"Mr. Orn, the body of my father..."
"It's here."
As Orn said, he took out the moving castle from his arms, and the moving castle quickly enlarged. After it was enlarged to its full form, Orn walked into the castle under the shocked gaze of the Whitebeard Group.
Not long after, Orn came out with a large block of ice on his back.
"I asked Yamato to use her ability to freeze Whitebeard, so that Mr. Whitebeard's body can be preserved for a longer time."
After saying this, Orn carefully put down the huge block of ice.
The moment the ice was put down, everyone subconsciously came over.
Looking at Whitebeard lying in the ice holding Kusugawa Kirei as if he was asleep, the Neptune family and Jinbei bowed their heads in silence, and the Whitebeard Group shed sad tears together.
Suddenly, there was a commotion at the end of the crowd.
Amidst the clamor, a figure separated everyone and rushed to the front of the ice.
"Dad, what happened to you? I'll save you now!"
This person was none other than Ace.
Ever since Ornn came, he had been self-isolating, not eating or drinking, and his whole state was extremely bad.
Perhaps it was the excessive ups and downs of his emotions that caused him to behave a little crazy at this time. He even mistakenly believed that his father was not dead, and tried to break the ice to wake him up.
Seeing Ace pick up the fire fist and smash it on the ice, everyone in the White Group was shocked and tried to stop Ace.
But before they could make any move, a loud shout came:
"Don't move, let him smash it, let him remember who killed Whitebeard!"
Everyone looked at him and found that it was Ornn who looked at him with a cold face.
His words were like a sharp spear, instantly piercing the heart of Ace, who had been deceiving himself before.
The fire fist in his hand went out with a puff.
Ace's fist gradually loosened, and his palm pressed on the huge ice block, as if he wanted to touch his father's face through the ice block.
His face was covered with tears and snot in an instant:
"You are right, the person who killed my father was me!!!"
Ace knelt in front of Whitebeard's body, slapping himself hard again and again.
This was not acting, but a solid slap.
He used all his strength every time, and after only five or six slaps, his face turned into a pig's head, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Dad, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, open your eyes and beat me up, then look at me again..."
Everyone looked at Ace's appearance and showed an expression of pity.
Only Orn still had a cold face:
"Now you know you regret it, what did you do before? Dad has been telling you not to chase Teach, did you listen? Now that things have developed into what they are now, who can you blame?"
"Hey, Orn..."
Joz couldn't stand it and wanted Orn to give Ace some dignity.
But before he finished speaking, Marco on the side reached out to stop him and shook his head gently at him.
That meant that Orn should handle it and no one should interfere with him.
After Whitebeard died, Marco was almost the brain of the Whitebeard Group.
He knew better than anyone that the people in their Whitebeard Group were not suitable and could not bear to preach to Ace.
Only Orn was the most suitable and qualified person to teach Ace a lesson.
"You are right, it's all my fault. I killed Dad. I can't blame anyone. It's all my fault."
Ace was completely overwhelmed by guilt at this time, and even gave up thinking completely.
After realizing that slapping him in the face was no way to atone for his sin, he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist and pointed it at his throat.
"Yes, just like that, stab it in, and then go to heaven and tell Whitebeard, Dad, you never expected that you risked your life to save me but I just don't want to live, oh, just for fun~!"
Ornn continues to be weird.
Listening to his sinister words, Ace couldn't stab anymore.
As Aoun said, his life was given by his father, so how could he let the life he bought from his father go to waste?
Finally, with tears streaming down his face, he walked in front of Aoun, grabbed Aoun's pants, looked at him and asked:
"What should I do? Tell me, what should I do?"
Aoun looked at this guy with disgust and kicked Ace away.
Ace didn't need to use his elemental form to resist, he just let Orn kick him away. The broken teeth he spat out could even be clearly seen in the air.
"If you even ask me the answer to this kind of question, then I can only say that Whitebeard is indeed wrong. I will still lead the Whitebeard Pirates from now on, at least I will not let Whitebeard's name be ruined. Shame on you."
Hearing Orn mention the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace finally woke up from the chaos. A flash of lightning seemed to flash through his mind, and his father's last instructions rang in his ears:
Ace, the future of the Whitebeard Pirates is in your hands...
"The future of the Whitebeard Pirates, the future of the Whitebeard Pirates..."
Ace repeated this sentence, and his eyes shone brighter every time he repeated it. Finally, his eyes regained focus.
"Don't even think about it! Fire Fist!"
The huge fire fists attacked Ornn overwhelmingly.
Feeling the temperature coming from behind, Aoun didn't even look back, only a ball of magma condensed on his body.
Under his absolute control, the magma turned into a giant palm, firmly grasping the fire fist, and then crushed it into sparks all over the sky with a bang.
"What qualifications do you have to stop me? With your ridiculous flames?"
Aoun still didn't look back, his voice full of sarcasm.
"hateful!"
Ace looked at Ornn's back and used all the moves he could use again and again as if to vent his anger.
Yang Yan!
Shiranui!
Mirror fire!
Ring of Fire. Pillar of Fire!
Great Flame Ring. Emperor Yan!
Ace used all the moves he knew how to use.
The last Great Flame Ring. The heat wave set off by Emperor Yan directly drove Neptune and others into the sea.
But Aoun remained unmoved.
He just covered his body with a layer of magma.
This layer of magma is like a barrier that Ace can't break through in his life. No matter how hard he tries, he can't break through, let alone hurt Ornn in the slightest.
After realizing that the flames couldn't do anything to Ornn, Ace rushed in and tried to use Haki without giving up.
But his Armed Haki is pitifully weak compared to Ornn.
Ornn didn't even need to use his armor to resist. He could withstand all Ace's blows just by relying on himself and his physical strength that was comparable to Kaido's dragon scales and Big Mom's steel balloon.
The anti-armor he wore even achieved the feat of making Ace's fists drip with blood before Ace could break through his defense.
Hiss~
Seeing Aoun standing completely still and unable to be harmed at all, Marco and the others took a deep breath unconsciously.
They know that Ornn is very strong now and can easily win against Teach and Akainu, but they have always lacked a specific understanding of Ornn's specific strength.
But now, they have finally seen it clearly.
Aoun's strength is completely comparable to Kaido's and even his father in his youth.
The kind of power that can make the opponent feel what despair means by standing still and letting the opponent attack with all his strength!
"Marco, nothing will happen to Ace..."
Looking at Ace's bloody fists, Jozi couldn't help but frown.
He was not worried about Orn at all, but worried that Ace would beat him to death...
"Don't worry, Orn is measured." Marco shook his head slightly, and then motioned Oz to look at Ace's fist:
"Have you noticed? Ace's armed color has become much more solidified to the naked eye, almost reaching the point where the armed color is entangled."
Ace had previously used Armed Color Coil when fighting against Teach because of his anger.
Now that he was driven to attack Ornn again and again, he found the feeling he had before.
Bang!
Finally, Ace punched out, leaving a shallow punch mark on Ornn's body.
Although the fist mark only appeared for less than a second and then disappeared without a trace, it still left Rhea and others stunned.
That was armed with color entanglement. The power that they had been able to master after practicing for a long time was actually used by Ace so easily.
Aoun felt the entanglement of weapons from Ace, and the corners of his mouth finally curved a little:
"Armed color entanglement? It's indeed interesting, but it's not enough."
As he spoke, Aoun finally turned around, his fists visibly burning with purple-black weapon-colored aura, and punched Ace hard in the chest.
This punch directly dented Ace's chest, and Ace vomited out a large mouthful of blood, during which fragments of internal organs could even be seen.
"Marco, are you sure there is nothing wrong?" Bista and others couldn't stand it anymore.
Marco was also somewhat hesitant.
But before he could speak, Aoun himself spoke:
"Garrett."
"Understood~"
Garrett looked at Ace helplessly, and she didn't understand why this guy who was so cowardly compared to her brother Katakuri deserved such generous advice from her man, but she still obediently took down the shield Shun Liuhua.
Under the effect of the double heaven return shield, the injuries on Ace's body, who had previously vomited blood crazily, healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It's far from my approval to only do this level. Go on, let me see what else you can do."
Hearing this, Ace didn't refute it, and really rushed towards Ornn again like a bull.
After using the armed color entanglement to hit Ornn a few times, he gradually found that his armed color domineering was gradually not enough to support his continued attack.
So he turned to continue using his Flame-Flame Fruit, while chanting frantically in his heart:
"Higher temperature, higher temperature, even if I can't fight against Ornn, at least I should be able to fight against the admiral named Akainu!"
With Ace's persistence that was almost like praying, as the flame was gradually used, Ace's flame changed visibly.
At first, only the outermost circle of Ace's flame was yellow, and the inside was completely red.
But as Ace frantically squeezed the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit, the red part of the flame became less and less, and the yellow gradually occupied the main body.
But even so, Ace still didn't feel satisfied, and continued to wave his fists, even though it soon became bloody.
Although Ornn's magma made him grimace in pain, he still desperately punched his fists again and again.
Finally, in the process of another punch, Ace's flame changed again, and the outermost circle of the flame that had completely turned yellow actually showed a platinum-like color.
The moment this platinum outer flame hit Orn, Orn couldn't help but reveal a... somewhat comfortable expression.
It wasn't that he awakened some strange attribute, but that he finally felt the warmth similar to his own magma.
This shows that Ace's temperature has finally undergone a transformation, and the temperature of the flame has definitely exceeded a thousand degrees.
This magma temperature is still very different from the golden magma that Orn can control, but it is not much different from Akainu's red magma.
If he continues to practice, it is only a matter of time before the temperature of the flame exceeds Akainu's magma!
With this thought, Orn finally nodded with satisfaction:
"Not bad, I reluctantly recognize you. From now on, you will continue to lead the Whitebeard Pirates. Don't slack off. If I find that you are stagnant in the future, I will replace you at any time and bring the Whitebeard Pirates under my command."
As soon as Orn finished speaking, Ace rolled his eyes and fainted completely, but then a slight arc finally appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Dad, I saved the Whitebeard Pirates.
Don't worry, I won't let you down, I will definitely shoulder the future of the Whitebeard Pirates!
I feel that this chapter may make some readers who don't like Ace feel unhappy, but Coconut Juice thinks that since Ace has been saved, he can't keep being a jerk. He should work hard to become stronger and play a role in the later ending, so that the efforts of Ornn and Whitebeard will not be in vain. In this way, the protagonist's previous behavior will be meaningful.