Chapter 495 Dark Fruit

"Skyler-chan~ You're in a bad mood~"

At the recruit graduation ceremony, the Warring States Period was conferring titles to batch after batch of navies, and the yellow monkey looked at Schuyler, who was clearly squinting, but was sitting extremely straight, and said.

Skyler was awakened by the words of the yellow ape, blinked his eyes, and refocused his eyes, and then remembered what the yellow ape said just now, and replied: "Just thinking that after today, I will become a Mesozoic, the same as yesterday's." you are as old.

You said, can I feel better? "

Hearing this, Huang Yuan showed a crooked smile, but he didn't say anything, but Aokiji on the other side of Huang Yuan suddenly woke up with a tremor, and then continued to sleep.

Huang Yuan turned around and looked at the team of recruits who had not yet ascended to the high platform to be awarded the title. Seeing that behind Zefa was not the best Luffy of the past two years, but the kid from the fur clan, a trace of doubt appeared on his face.

But when he saw that neither Skyler, Garp, Sengoku, Zefa, or even Akainu showed any doubts, the yellow monkey seemed to have figured something out, and sat back loosely again.

At this time, there were only two people who couldn't figure it out, that is, Ace and Luo who were about to be promoted to generals after the recruits were awarded the rank.

The two, who could not find Luffy, cast their eyes on Bepo, and kept hinting at Bepo with their eyes. Bepo turned his head, seemed to understand the meaning of the two, and shrugged in a dazed manner.

In fact, Beipo discovered Luffy's absence earlier, half a month ago, because it was almost impossible for Luffy to no longer appear in the training ground or cafeteria.

In the later assessment process, Beipo also discovered this, but Luffy did not refer to this, and Zefa and other instructors did not show any abnormal behavior.

Just like... In the past two years, Luffy hadn't joined the recruit camp at all. If Bepo hadn't confirmed from the recruits of the same period that Luffy had indeed trained with them for two years, Bepo would have doubted himself.

But Luffy just disappeared. He even asked the instructor and Chief Instructor Zefa, but they all agreed that there is no such person as Luffy, and they will never say this name again.

It's as if there is an eraser in the dark, erasing Luffy's existence from the navy.

Seeing the recruits go up to accept the title of the Warring States Period, Bei Bo was extremely helpless, and finally he was pushed up, but he was only awarded the title of lieutenant colonel.

After all, when Luffy was there, he could pull him away by more than one level, so Luffy is in this class, the out-and-out graduate is the colonel, and Bepo can only go down one.

Luffy did not participate in the assessment, and it seems that the ending did not change. Perhaps in Zefa's mind, the first place this year should be reserved for Luffy.

After Warring States awarded Bei Bo the title, he originally planned to let Bei Bo give a speech. After all, the most outstanding graduates in previous years had this benefit.

But perhaps it was because Beibo didn't put himself first at all, he just saluted, and then walked towards the end, Zhan Guo was stunned for a moment, and his face trembled when he realized it.

He just wanted to call Beppo back, but Beppo had already walked to the end of the stage, and was scribbling with Robbie who was about to go on stage.

Seeing this scene, many generals laughed, but the other navies did not dare to laugh. After all, the graduation ceremony is considered a relatively important occasion, so you can't lose your composure.

Warring States was extremely speechless, adjusted his glasses, and then said: "It seems that our Lieutenant Colonel Bei Bo is a navy with the utmost practicality. Compared with it, the old man is a little ashamed."

It was very blunt to make amends, but the generals still applauded very sensiblely. After all, no matter how blunt it was, it was the leader's speech.

However, some generals who have been paying attention to the situation of the new barracks due to the lack of personnel in the detachment also showed doubts. After all, Garp's grandson Luffy did not show up at all for the highlight of this session.

Therefore, many generals turned their attention to Garp. Although Garp hurried back this morning, he had already learned the news from Skyler, so he was also a master of silence at this time.

Seeing that there was no trace on Garp's face, the others also looked at Skyler. After all, everyone knew the relationship between the two of them and Luffy. However, Skyler also turned into a wax figure at this moment, quietly and motionless.

It's a pity that they are still far away from Skyler. If they are sitting in the position of the yellow ape, they can see Skyler closing his eyes and falling asleep again.

Skyler isn't sleepy, it's just that it's boring here, and the Monchi family has a must-learn skill, which is to find a time, no matter the time is right or not, they can fall asleep.

Even if Ace and Luo's awarding ceremony is next, she doesn't have much interest. After all, they just become generals. If they can't even do this, they need to be paid attention to.

Of course, Skyler originally just wanted to rest his mind, but he fell asleep in a daze and missed the awarding ceremony of the two.

When the entire graduation ceremony came to an end, Ace found Luo and Bebo, and after confirming the news from Bebo that he didn't know about Lu Fei, Ace suddenly found that Skyler was still sitting where he was.

Ace pointed in Skyler's direction and said, "It seems that Auntie is waiting for us and plans to tell us where Luffy went!"

When Luo and Beibo heard what they said, they thought it made sense, so they walked towards Skyler quickly, and many admirals on the way greeted them, but Beibo was ignored.

However, most of the generals only greeted one of them. After all, Ace and Luo had a good relationship, but they belonged to different factions.

The Hawks used to reject the existence of Ace, but after Ace became a member of their Hawks two years ago, they gradually let go of their inner stereotypes and looked at this recruit who was favored by Akainu with the eyes of other navies. .

And Ace's performance in the past two years, to be precise, the performance of the last one and a half years has convinced many hawkish generals, and Akainu has repeatedly hinted that Ace is his student, so most hawkish generals The general also let down his guard.

Instead, they are sincerely happy to have fresh blood like Ace in their faction. Therefore, when they walked towards Schuyler, most of the generals who greeted Ace were the generals of the Hawk Faction.

Naturally, the one who greeted Luo was naturally the dove general.

Of course, unlike Ace, the label on Luo is not obvious, and there seems to be no clues leading him in the direction of doves, but this happens to be the characteristic of doves.

Compared with the hawks, the doves actually do not have obvious group behavior. The most obvious characteristic of the doves in them is that they are not united enough.

Compared with the hawks, the doves seldom stick together and work together for a common goal. They just don't like the style of the hawks, but it doesn't mean that they have another consensus view.

It's as if Drago was actually a member of the Dove faction back then, but when he opposed the Hawk faction and said that One Piece's wife and son were innocent, the other generals of the Dove faction did not join forces to support them.

Because they are just as opposed to the hawks who strongly believe that One Piece's family and descendants should be exterminated, but whether his wife and heirs are really innocent or not, everyone's judgment is different.

And even if occasionally there are a few who have the same opinion as Drago, they will not stand up and express their views, because in this case, it means confronting the hawks, which will only increase the internal friction of the navy, and it is not necessary.

It is also for this reason that Skyler has been more concerned with winning over and maintaining the friendship with the generals of the hawks along the way. On the contrary, it is the doves that he belongs to, and he has no intention of taking care of them at all.

Some dovish generals are worthy of respect, but ... this faction does not need respect, this is Schuyler's view.

And in the greetings of these generals to the two, it can also be seen that most of the hawkish generals who greeted Ace were encouraging him to make persistent efforts.

The dove general who greeted Luo was really saying hello, but he just felt that there was another person on his side, and he said hello to leave an impression.

The two came to Skyler together, and Ace said, "Auntie."

Skyler didn't respond at all, and Ace was taken aback. After all, Skyler had never treated them coldly. Although he hit them hard, it was just training.

Luo observed Schuyler at this time, and after a while, he said, "If I read correctly, Lieutenant General Schuyler should be sleeping."

Ace: "."

"Auntie! Auntie!"

Ace turned up the volume, but he still couldn't wake up Skyler. At this time, Luo said: "If you want to wake up Lieutenant General Skyler, it's useless to make a sound with your mouth, so you stand in front of me Come."

As Luo said, he pulled Ace to stand in front of him. Ace didn't understand, and he didn't know how Luo wanted to wake up his aunt, but he did it anyway.

It's a pity that Ace forgot how Luo entrapped the two brothers back then.

"Zheng~"

There was a sharp, but pleasant sound like a plucked string, and Ace suddenly became stiff all over, because at this time a black knife stopped in front of his neck.

"Gulu~"

Ace subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but when the Adam's apple rolled, the fine hair was cut off by the black knife, Ace stepped back half a step, and Luo, who was standing behind him, stepped aside at this time, looking at the awakened Skyler, said:

"Lieutenant General Skyler."

"Huh? It's you? Is the graduation ceremony over?"

Skyler said in a daze, and sheathed the black knife at the same time. Luo was about to ask about Luffy, but just as he opened his mouth, Ace's two hands grabbed his neck.

Ace yelled ferociously: "What the hell did you do?! I almost died, you know?!"

Luo was choked by the neck and shaken by Ace, but Ace obviously didn't have much hostility. After being choked for a long time, Luo didn't even change his breathing, but he was a little dizzy from being thrown.

"Huh~huh~"

Ace let go of Luo, Luo pretended to touch his neck, and then explained: "Hostile, at the level of Lieutenant General Skyler, the perception of hostility has far surpassed the sensitivity of the five senses.

so."

"So you pulled me in front of you to block the knife?!"

Ace finally came to his senses, pointed at Luo, trembling with anger, no wonder Luo just pulled him in front of him, it turned out that Luo was going to show hostility and find someone to block the knife for him.

Luo showed a shy smile, nodded, and admitted directly.

Skyler looked at the two lively people, as well as Bebo, who hadn't figured out the situation until now, and sighed helplessly. It seemed that she was really old and couldn't keep up with this kind of children's interaction. .

"Okay, Ace, he put you in front of him, just to punish you on purpose, if I touched you just now, I will be in vain."

"Auntie! Look, look!"

Ace raised his head suddenly and kept gesturing to his neck. Skyler glanced at it, but couldn't say anything more. After all, she really didn't do it without hurting Ace.

Fortunately, Ace was impatient and didn't wait until he finished setting up the flag to say these things. With a wave of his hand, Skyler directly changed the subject and asked:

"You two don't go to the celebration banquet, and you don't go to bribe Lieutenant General He. Find some better members for you. What do you want me to do?"

After being reminded by Skyler, the two people who were playing around came back to their senses, and Ace was no longer in a hurry to turn pale, but returned to seriousness, and asked:

"Auntie, where's Luffy? Bepo said he hasn't shown up for half a month."

Bepo nodded, and Luo also looked at Skyler. Although he often said something that looked down on the two Ace Luffy brothers, he still cared about them.

Skyler thought for a while, and said, "He chose a path, a path different from yours. Maybe one day, he will emerge from the sea."

Skyler spoke in a cloud of mist, Luo frowned and pondered, while Ace asked puzzled, "Where did he go?"

"To be honest, I don't really know."

Scratching his head, Skyler continued: "He set off from Marin Vandor to the Chambord Islands half a month ago, and I don't know what happened after that, but...don't worry.

I can only tell you now, no matter what he does in the future, you should not judge lightly, especially you, Ace, you have to trust Luffy enough. "

Ace wanted to say something, but Luo directly grabbed his arm and gave him a look, but Ace frowned and asked, "Are your eyes uncomfortable?"

Luo: "."

People cannot be generalized. Whether it is physique, IQ, EQ or anything else, different people will behave differently, but Ace is relatively straightforward.

Luo had no choice but to say: "Luffy should have joined the secret army, am I right? Lieutenant General Skyler?"

"Well, you can understand it like this, but don't talk about it everywhere. If you meet Luffy one day, you don't need to ask or make sure. Besides, you only need to do what you want to do. OK."

Skyler was affirmative, but she still didn't answer directly. After all, it seemed that many people knew about the Sword Squad, and even Skyler used it as a bomb to blow up Dauberman and the ghost spider.

But if you want to know about this matter, you still need certain authority, such as becoming a core member of the Hawk Faction, such as entering and stationing in the New World, in order to know this news.

"SWORD troops?"

Ace spoke suddenly, Skyler had a speechless look on his face, and said, "Didn't I tell you not to say it?!"

When Skyler said it, Ace scratched his head in embarrassment, and Luo's eyes became very complicated.

Ace knows about the sword unit. After all, he is the adjutant of the red dog. No, it should be said that he is the former adjutant of the red dog.

During the Alabasta incident before, Ace still docked with Drake, so it is normal to know the existence of the Sword Force.

Just knowing the existence of the Sword Army and understanding the Sword Army are two different things, and he blurted out that it was the Sword Army, not because he analyzed all of them.

It's that he has been in contact with the Sword Army before, and he doesn't know the Night Emperor's army where Luo is, because compared with Ace, Luo's mouth is very tight, and he never talks to Ace about it.

"Lieutenant General Skyler, I recently invented an operation that can remove part of a person's memory in a targeted manner."

Luo suddenly said sullenly, with his dark circles that could not fade away at all, and his naturally fierce eyes, Luo at this time was just like those mysterious but evil scientists.

Hearing Luo's words, Ace shuddered all over, knowing what Luo was implying, and Skyler knew that Luo was joking, but she still asked, "Is there any sequelae?"

Although I know that Luo is joking, I don't know who I learned from, so I really need to restrain myself, so it's good to scare Ace.

Luo shook his head and said, "There are no side effects, do you need to try it?"

Skyler nodded, Luo immediately raised his left hand, and the circular position instantly covered several people, and his right hand was also very quickly pasted on Ace's face, and Ace didn't even have time to elementalize.

But when Ace came back to his senses and was about to turn into elements, Luo withdrew his hand, looked at Ace, and asked, "Can you realize what you forgot now?"

"Huh? Here I am."

Ace's face changed from doubt, to doubt, to panic, and he couldn't remember what he had forgotten!

Today is his awarding ceremony, and then he found that Luffy was missing. After the awarding, he came to Skyler, and because of his big mouth, he asked his aunt to agree to Luo's amnestic surgery on him.

All of this seemed complete, but Ace looked at Luo's determined and slightly smug face, and always felt that something was wrong, he must have forgotten something.

"Damn! What did I forget?!"

A trace of panic appeared on Ace's face, and Luo retracted the circular position covering several people at this time, and said, "Ace, this is a small punishment for you. Regarding the matter of the secret army and military affairs, I will Not directly removed.

But if you are still like this in the future, I will cut off that part of your memory. Of course, if you behave well enough, I don't mind returning this memory that originally belonged to you. "

As he spoke, Luo flipped his left hand again, and a cloud of soft white mist fluttered in his palm. Ace subconsciously reached out to grab it, but when Luo clenched his fist, the mist disappeared instantly.

"Okay, Ace, behave well in the future, and I will let Luo return your lost memories to you in the future."

Skyler stood up, patted Ace on the shoulder, and said, "Now. Let me invite you to dinner!"

Although Ace nodded, he kept crying, thinking about what memory he had forgotten, but he couldn't remember it at all.

Skyler looked at Luo, and then showed a bastard smile. It can be said that Luo really knows Ace well enough to know how to make this idiot remember the lesson.

As for the performance just now, Ace, the authority, couldn't see it, but Skyler, the bystander, could see it clearly. Luo just motivated his ability, but the ability didn't affect anyone.

What's more, if Skyler read it right just now, Luo is only using a silent wall. Unlike when it was just developed before, Luo's current silent wall has been developed to a very good point.

At least there will be no feeling of oppression from the eardrum when wearing noise-cancelling headphones, and sound distortion in the silent wall.

Skyler also felt a little sympathetic to Ace Luffy and the brothers, and actually made such a friend. Even if Luo didn't have any bad intentions, this kind of deception from time to time was still hard to deal with.

However, with the personalities of Ace and Luffy, if a real bad embryo like Luo restricts them, it would actually be a bad thing for them.

After all, according to the ability of Ace and Luffy to do things. If no one restricts them, they will cause a lot of trouble. For them, it is just doing it casually.

People from the Monchi family are really disturbing.

After attending the graduation ceremony and conferring ceremony, where she didn't know the process at all, Skyler finally returned to the new world. For her, the new world was the place she was most comfortable with.

Because it's never boring here, every day there are Lengtouqing rushing indomitably from Murloc Island to this side, and finally broke the halberd in his hands. This process is actually quite interesting.

The time came to the end of the year. Since Schuyler took a vacation in September, she offered to be stationed in the New World during the Chinese New Year this year, and Warring States had no reason to refuse.

"Logistics team! Reconnaissance team! Collect stolen goods!"

In the sea area of ​​​​the G-5 branch, Nurkic nodded to Jinbe and Kuina who led the melee members back, and then gave orders to other teams.

The logistics team and the reconnaissance team also responded quickly, boarding the pirate ship to collect and collect the stolen goods!

After a while, a reconnaissance team with a box quickly returned to the warship. Seeing this, Nurkic frowned, because the team's actions should be uniform.

Just let a team member come back, which means there is an accident. The member of the reconnaissance team also quickly came to Nurkic, opened the box, and said: "Colonel Nurkic. Devil Fruit!"

"This is? Dark Fruit!!!"