One Piece: Divine Bird Phoenix

Windmill Town.

After these years of development and the conscious development of the Windmill Kingdom, the original small mountain village has evolved into a prosperous town.

When the town is prosperous, the gulls that rarely visited it naturally come more frequently.

"Ah, thank you!"

"Touch" a newspaper from the gull's newspaper bag, ignoring the gull pecking at his head, Luffy looked at the newspaper seriously.

"Wow! This is my sister," counting An's bounty, excited Luffy threw the gull on his head aside and ran towards Mount Korpo.

Lying on the ground, the gull's eyes were as big as copper bells, and its mouth was wide open.

"Ace!" Come and see this, Luffy, who was running around, quickly rushed back to the villa.

In the yard, the boy was naked, wearing a brown cowboy hat with a crying and laughing expression on his head, and a slightly larger fiery red round bead necklace hanging around his neck. It was Ace who had grown up.

Ace did not respond to the shouting behind him, but closed his eyes and felt the world.

In the dark consciousness, a light spot appeared, and it became bigger and brighter.

Gradually, Ace's thoughts seemed to break through a layer of restraints and be reborn. The whole world began to become clear from blurry, the original darkness disappeared, and the familiar courtyard appeared in his mind.

"Observation Haki, open!"

Pulling out the scimitar dagger on the outside of his thigh, Ace threw it back without even looking.

"Keng!"

The dagger stuck straight into the ground in front of Luffy.

Opening his black eyes, Ace turned around and said helplessly: "Luffy, why did you sneak out to play again."

"Ace, look at this," Luffy passed the dagger and presented the spread newspaper in front of Ace.

After a few breaths, Luffy said loudly: "Ace, see clearly, my sister has become a pirate, and the bounty is as much as 150 million Baileys!"

"Luffy, it's 1.5 billion Baileys!!" Ace has long been helpless about his brother's cultural knowledge.

When his sister was around, Luffy could still pretend to learn, but when his sister was not around, he just let himself go. Ace didn't know how to explain (fool) his sister when he met her in the future.

"How much is 1.5 billion Baileys," Luffy asked blankly.

"Oh my God," Ace covered his face and said with despair: "About 1,000 Baileys you hid under the quilt."

"Ace, how did you know I hid money under the quilt."

Halfway through his words, Luffy suddenly looked at Ace eagerly, "Have you awakened your observation Haki?"

"Yes, I just awakened my observation Haki, Luffy, you have to work hard," Ace said proudly.

"If you are still lazy like today, you will be finished when my sister comes back."

"Hehe! I'm not afraid, my sister likes me the most."

"Oh, right, right! Let's go, let's go to the Adventurer's Guild today to take a high-bounty mission."

Before leaving, Ace glanced at the wooden sign "AASL" that Luffy hung at the door of the villa.

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The Adventurer's Guild was founded by Doug Sheen, a member of the Windmill Kingdom's royal family. The Adventurer's Hall, where the quests are issued, is a famous building in the Windmill Kingdom.

Anyone who has come here to accept or issue quests will never forget the special sculptures of long swords and hammers placed in an "X" at the entrance of the hall.

There are two types of quests in the Adventurer's Guild. One is daily quests, which is to help the quest issuer complete some ordinary daily work.

The second type is combat quests, which is to encourage some people with a little strength to fight against pirates by increasing additional rewards for pirates to prevent them from going out to sea and becoming pirates.

Of course, the strong who have the strength to fight against big pirates will not come here to accept quests, so most of the combat quests of the Adventurer's Guild are pirates with a reward of no more than 10 million.

If you encounter a really powerful pirate, the Windmill Kingdom's Ministry of Finance will issue a special quest or dispatch the Windmill Guard to solve it.

At the entrance of the Adventure Hall, a young man wearing a black windbreaker, a hat with diving goggles on his head, and a white "cravat" around his chest stood at the door.

"Why did Mr. Dragon come out?" the young man muttered, while raising his head to reveal his handsome face, giving people a feeling of being bathed in spring breeze.

"Huh? I found someone walking towards me," the young man tightened the water pipe in his hand.

"Don't be nervous," I am the guide of the Adventurer's Guild, I just saw you standing here and wanted to ask if you need help.

"Thank you, I'm just waiting for someone," looking at the blushing girl in front of him, the young man politely refused.

"What's wrong with Sabo," Dragon, who had just come out of the Adventurer's Hall, asked.

"Mr. Dragon, the matter..."

Before Sabo could explain, the girl in front of him ran away.

"Let's go! Sabo, let's look at other places."

Not long after Dragon and Sabo left, Luffy and Ace walked into the Adventurer's Hall.

"Mr. Dragon, I didn't expect that there would be earth-shaking changes here after just a few years of not coming back," Sabo said with emotion while walking on the street.

"Compared to the Goa Kingdom where even the air was disgusting, this country is what Sabo longs for.

"Not only was Sabo surprised, even Dragon himself did not expect that his hometown would change so much. If Koshiro hadn't told him, he would probably have to wait a long time to discover it.

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In the crowded adventure hall.

"Hello, please help me check if there are any high-paying tasks recently," Ace asked the young receptionist politely at the reception window.

"Lord Ace, there is a task that meets your requirements."

As a rare young strong man, Ace's existence is naturally well known.

"Tell me about it," Ace said to the female receptionist with a handsome smile.

"Okay!" The overjoyed female receptionist said all the information in one breath.

"The Maxim Pirates were washed into the East China Sea by the tsunami due to the bad weather on the Grand Line. Captain Maxim offered a reward of 150 million Baileys, First Mate Oleg offered a reward of 100 million Baileys, and Second Mate Eski offered a reward of 95 million Baileys. They recently appeared near Orange Town."

The issuer of the task is the Ministry of Finance of the Windmill Kingdom, and the task reward is 300 million Baileys.

"Wow! 300 million Baileys!" Before Ace responded, Luffy beside him exclaimed first.

"Let's take this mission! Ace," Luffy put his head in front of Ace.

"Hey! I know Luffy," Ace, who is obsessed with his younger brother, agreed reluctantly.

"Okay, Ace, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Finance, after killing the target of the mission, you only need to take a photo and bring it back as evidence," the female receptionist smiled and reminded after registering Ace.

After taking the mission, Ace took Luffy out of the Adventurer's Hall.

On the crowded streets, countless people went to the Adventurer's Hall to find a suitable commission for themselves.

"Please wait a moment!"

Ace and Luffy had not walked far when a girl in a white short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans called them.

"Excuse me," Ace and Luffy asked in confusion when the person approached.

Taking off the sun hat on her head, revealing her short black hair, the girl asked: "Excuse me, did you accept the mission to defeat the Maxim Pirates?"

"Yes, we accepted this mission, is there any problem?"

"In that case, please let me join you," the girl asked with her hands clasped together.

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