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"You're finally here!" Magellan was still moved to pat the back of Longinus, making the latter all a bit confused. Was their relationship this good?

"Haha! Magellan you ..."

"Since you're here, I can go to the toilet in peace!"

Hearing Magellan's following words, Longinus' smile froze on his face.

"You must keep an eye on Vice-Admiral Garp, don't let him do anything stupid." After whispering an explanation in Longinus' ear, Magellan held his big belly and hurriedly ran to his mobile toilet.

Longinus rubbed his somewhat stiff face and walked towards the front.

In front of the prison where they held the Fire Fist Ace, Garp sat cross-legged, with a stranger's appearance, and even the guards stood far away.

"Vice Admiral Garp." Longinus greeted out loud.

"What are you doing here if you're not at the headquarters preparing for the war?" Garp's tone was a bit low, a state that was extremely rare in him.

"I was just going to talk to Jimbei, I just didn't expect to run into you here, old man."

"Want to sit?" Garp shifted his butt.

"Then I'll make myself at home." Longinus sat down openly.

"That Magellan brat sent you to spy on me, didn't he?"

"Yes." Longinus admitted straightforwardly, "Magellan, after all, is not familiar with you, old man, and will do so out of duty."

"Heh! He indeed did not do wrong, without him here, I might really impulsive." Garp did not shy away from saying at all.

"Grandpa, you ..." said a shocked Ace in the cell.

"What's all the fuss about? Look at Langinus, who is not as reactive as you are listening as an admiral." Garp said discontentedly, "In terms of mentality, you should learn from him in the future."

The most unstable one is yourself, right, and where will he have the future?

Longinus was shaking his head, "People are not gods, it is normal to be affected by emotions, at least, Vice Admiral Garp did not turn his impulses into action."

"Hahahahaha! See? This guy says things with so much more standards than you guys!" Garp laughed so hard that even tears came out, pointing at Longinus and sighing, "I was planning to train you and Luffy to become such a good marine like him, but I never thought that you would end up becoming the marine's nemesis."

"Perhaps, this is fate!" Ace first sighed, then laughed, "Moreover, I have heard from my old man that the one who really trained this Admiral Hitsujiza... should be that Admiral Zephyr, right?"

"What do you know?" Garp blew his beard and scolded, "Zephyr's right is mine!"

Ace speechless, "Grandpa, how are you more like a pirate than me?"

The two glared at each other for a while and surprisingly laughed at each other.

In the distance, Hannyabal's eyebrows flying muttered to himself, "Great, a Marine hero and a prison felon all crazy, this is a major dereliction of duty of Chief Warden, I will soon be promoted to Chief Warden!"

Longinus was silent; of course, he could see that these two were laughing at each other.

After laughing for a while, Garp said with somewhat sadness, "That's it, you bastard, enjoy the last part of your life's journey!"

After saying that, Garp got up and walked towards the lift.

Longinus remained seated, looked at Ace, and asked blandly, "Regret?"

"Regret what?"

"If you hadn't escaped from me three years ago, you would be reforming yourself right now, instead of waiting helplessly for death!"

Ace yelled with some emotion, "How can I possibly regret it? If I hadn't escaped, I wouldn't have been able to challenge Whitebeard, I wouldn't have known Father, I wouldn't have realized the meaning of my existence. To be Whitebeard's son is the proudest thing in my life!"

"This aura, and that little guy named Luffy is indeed very similar." Longinus said, "If not for Vice Admiral Garp said, I would have thought you were brothers!"

"Luffy?" Ace's emotions slowed down, "I did not hear grandpa talk about Luffy, it seems, he was not captured by you here, right?"

"Oh? You knew I would capture him?"

"You're different from the average marine, and different from Grandpa, I've heard Uncle Shanks say that your stance is never swayed by emotions!"

"Is that a compliment?" Longinus chuckled lightly, then said, "He was lucky, when I was about to capture him, Aloof Red suddenly jumped out."

"Aloof Red?" Ace asked, quite surprised, "Why would he save Luffy?"

"Save him? It's more like harming him." Longinus shook his head, "Labor rehabilitation in the Impel Down, is his salvation!"

Ace firmly said, "Breaking the wings of the dream, can not be considered as a salvation!"

"Ahh~ Yes!" A long sigh interrupted their conversation; Magellan came from the distance, rubbing his stomach, smelling of something "fragrant", "Hey? Where is Vice Admiral Garp?"

"Vice Admiral Garp has gone back." Longinus held his breath and said.

"That's great." Magellan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Since there is no business for me, then I will go over to see Jimbei." Longinus smiled and shifted out of the Knight of the Sea Jimbei, intending to leave the killing range of that strong breath quickly.

Ace, however, suddenly called him back, "Admiral Longinus, please be very careful of that man who calls himself Blackbeard!"

"I don't need you to tell me that the fellow is not simple." Longinus stopped, "But the problem is that the Headquarters cannot voluntarily give up a powerful warrior just because of my attitude, especially at this juncture."

Ace fell silent.

To a single prison, Jimbei is sitting inside.

Due to the existence of the fish partisans, plus the position is not entirely biased towards Whitebeard, the treatment of Jimbei at this time, compared to the original story, is much better.

Seeing Longinus came, the blue Fishman lowered his head in shame, "Admiral Longinus, I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize, if you would have agreed to confront Whitebeard, it would not be Jimbei."

"I am too reckless to give you trouble, Admiral Longinus!"

Longinus sighed, "In fact, not to mention you, even many admirals, including me, do not want to fight this war."

"Admiral Longinus, you ..." Jimbei's eyes widened in disbelief that such words would come out of Longinus' mouth.

"I am not resisting the war, and battling the Whitebeard Pirates, it is the right thing to do. But we do not want the war because of that ridiculous reason for such promotion, not to mention I do not want the Marine to fight such kind of an inappropriate war in the promotion of a pirate!"

"Then is it possible to stop this war?" Jimbei asked hopefully.

"Impossible, the cogs of fate have begun to turn, in front of the wave of the times, no one can stop!"

Published in Qidian, October 09, 2019

Translator: Hello, guys; I tell you, readers, that I have finished translating this novel including extra chapters. And I have auto-publish maximum ten chapters a day. But I didn't publish ten chapters at once because I was afraid that there would be many chapters out of order. And I can only set up auto-publish for a maximum of 5 chapters. Notify me as soon as possible if the chapter order doesn't match. That's all, happy reading.