Chapter 79

When Xia Chen and others entered the restaurant, they saw Luffy and Ace lying on the chairs with big bellies, looking like they were full.

Ace turned his head and looked at Luffy and smiled: "Luffy… Luffy, I won!"

Luffy was unwilling.

"Damn it, burp~ I lost again!"

"Hahaha… Luffy, you need to practice more if you want to beat me! Burp~"

"Ace!" Xia Chen whispered softly, his eyes fell on Ace.

The regret of the previous life was hard to let go, and now he was sitting in front of him alive. To be honest, Xia Chen was a little excited.

Ace has always been a character he likes very much, but unfortunately he was killed by Akainu to save Luffy in the battle of the top.

At that time, he was like countless Haimi, covering his quilt and crying.

It's great to see Ace alive now!

Xia Chen didn't hesitate, and walked over and grabbed Luffy's mouth.

"Luffy, can you explain why you are here?"

"That… I want to change my taste!" Luffy said guiltily, touching two fingers lightly.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Sanji also questioned on the side.

"I forgot!"

"In that case, you have to find a way to pay for your meal yourself!" Nami turned her head away and said lightly.

"Ah~ No, I don't have money!" Luffy hurriedly put on a pitiful look in the hope of gaining Nami's sympathy, but Nami didn't even look at him.

At this time, Ace next to him spoke.

"Sorry, you are Luffy's companions, right? My brother has caused trouble for you!"

"Huh?" Hearing this, everyone turned their heads away and found that Ace, who was sitting next to him, seemed to know Luffy. They thought he was a passerby just now!

"Your brother? Are you talking about Luffy?" Usopp asked in shock.

"That's right!" Ace nodded.

"I've never heard him say he has a brother!" Sanji asked in confusion.

"Is that so?" Ace showed surprise on his face, and then turned to look at Luffy with dissatisfaction.

"Luffy! You've been with your friends for so long and you didn't even mention your brother, right?"

"Uh… I forgot!"

Everyone fell down together.

"You really are…" Ace was a little speechless, and he felt a little tired of having such an idiot brother.

"By the way, Ace, why are you here?" Luffy asked curiously.

"Me? I'm here to deal with something!"

"To hunt down Blackbeard, right?"

At this time, Xia Chen, who had been silent next to him, spoke.

"Huh?" Ace turned his head to look at Xia Chen, and then asked uncertainly:

"Demon King Xia Chen?"

"It's me!" Xia Chen nodded.

"How do you know about this?" Ace did not answer directly, but asked Xia Chen curiously.

"My information channels are quite wide, so I know a little more!"

"Yes, Xia Chen is very powerful, he knows everything!" Luffy said excitedly on the side.

"Is that so?" Ace thought for a moment. Then he said:

"Forget it, no matter how you know it, it doesn't matter, it's not something that needs to be concealed!"

"I am indeed hunting down Blackbeard, he was once a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, and he is also a member of my team!"

"But he broke an unforgivable iron rule on the ship!" At this point, Ace's eyes turned cold, and then continued:

"He killed his companions and then ran away"

"That guy is absolutely unforgivable!"

"As the captain, I have the obligation to hunt him down to comfort the souls of my dead companions in heaven!"

"Then…"

"If I say you are not his opponent, will you still hunt him down?" Xia Chen looked at Ace quietly and said.

"How is it possible? Xia Chen, Ace is very strong, that Blackbeard is definitely not Ace's opponent!"

Before Ace could refute, Luffy jumped out and said indignantly.

Xia Chen ignored Luffy and continued to stare at Ace, wanting to hear his thoughts.

Ace also looked at Xia Chen in the same way, as if he wanted to see something from his expression, but unfortunately, he found nothing.

After a while, Ace looked away, drank a sip of water on the table and said:

"Well, I don't know how you came to this conclusion, but… you may not know much about my strength!"

"Like Luffy said, I am very strong!"

Ace's tone was full of confidence in himself and distrust of Xia Chen.

In his opinion, Xia Chen may have seen Blackbeard take action at some point, and then thought he was very strong.

But the problem is that he dared to be sure that he was todayThis was the first time he met Xia Chen, so Xia Chen definitely couldn't know his strength.

He thought Xia Chen should have inferred Luffy's strength from Luffy's strength, thinking that he was not very strong, but only he himself knew his own strength best.

The gap between him and the current Luffy is not ordinary.

However, he did not directly refute Xia Chen. After all, he was Luffy's partner, so he still had to give him some face.

As soon as Xia Chen saw Ace's expression, he knew that he didn't trust him, and he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.

But think about it, if he stood in Ace's position, a newcomer who had just come out of the East China Sea told him that he couldn't beat someone, he would not take it to heart.

In this case, it seems that only strength can speak.

If possible, he still doesn't want Ace to fight Blackbeard. Blackbeard is indeed not an existence that Ace can fight.

What's more, his Dark Dark Fruit has great restraint on Devil Fruit ability users.

With this in mind, Xia Chen said directly to Ace:

"Ace, let's have a fight! If I win, don't go looking for Blackbeard, how about that? Because if you can't even beat me, you are definitely not Blackbeard's opponent!"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Ace narrowed his eyes, stood up and stared at Xia Chen seriously.

After a while, he said: "Forget it, there's no need!"

Xia Chen was a little speechless. It seemed that Ace still didn't believe him!

Confident child… When you suffer a loss, you will know the value of your brother Chen's words!

"Xia Chen, is that Blackbeard really as strong as you said?" Luffy asked suddenly.

He and Xia Chen have been together all the way, and he thinks he knows Xia Chen's strength very well. At least in his opinion, Ace can't beat Xia Chen.

At the beginning, when Xia Chen said that Ace couldn't beat Blackbeard, he subconsciously stated that Ace was very strong.

But now looking at Xia Chen's expression, he felt that Blackbeard was really extraordinary, otherwise Xia Chen wouldn't take him so seriously, so he asked this question.

"Very strong!" Xia Chen nodded.

"You may not have any idea of ​​what I mean, so I'll give you a specific example and you'll understand…"