Ch 9 : Fire Fist Ace

Lake followed Cade, and they explored the bustling street.

They wear masks, so their identity is hardly recognized by passersby. Nonetheless, when Cade walked among the civilians in his kingdom, he could not help but once again be proud of his own masterpiece.

There were people everywhere, and the street was bustling with businesses.

Previously, Sullivan Kingdom was known as one of the best places for vacation and usually was only crowded during high season.

But today it was still in your ordinary day, but the place was as bustling as ever. It seems the news and traffic brought by the Illusion Brothel had brought a new life to this place.

Of course, there were also sounds of dissatisfaction, like how some civilians didn't like it when now their kingdom was known more for the brothel industry than its beautiful scenery.

Still, Cade believed once they realized the benefit the brothel had brought to the kingdom, they would slowly change their mind.

About hundreds meters away from Cade, a man was wearing a strange cowboy hat, and his face looked a bit loss.

The moment Cade saw this person, his eyes shone with glimmer.

"Is him...your goal?"

Lake's eyes are sharp, and he vaguely sees the tall and thin cloak figure, but he hasn't been able to guess his identity directly through the cloak.

Even though Lake has not been able to manifest observation Haki yet, he was still one of the best in the Sullivan Kingdom, and subtly he could also tell this person was not your regular person.

It's just… why did he find this person's face pretty familiar.

It was like he had seen his face in the newspaper not too long ago, except…

The moment he hit this realization, Lake's eyes grew widened, and he looked at Cade in shock. But who knows that at this moment, Cade had already left him and gone in that person's direction.

" Wait, my liege!"

Lake was a bit taken aback, but he quickly went to catch up with Cade.

On the other side, as if feeling that he was being watched by something, Ace slowly raised his tired-looking face.

Just now, he followed his crewmate to the illusion brothel, but who thought he would welcome a big surprise there.

Originally, Ace didn't want to go there. But because Masked Deuce kept teasing him, he eventually followed them in.

Inside of the illusion brothel was a dark, strange room with a single orb there. And there was a sign: "Please Imagine the most beautiful woman you could think of."

And since Ace had not really seen the world before and had not yet met a lot of beautiful women, he unconsciously thought of Makino. And there was when the miracle happened.

Makino's figure appeared in front of Ace before she suddenly began to strip and *Beep*

' No Ace… stupid. You must not think of Makino like that..'

Still, no matter how hard he tried, the more Ace tried to not think about it, the more he obsessed about the illusion brothel and could not help but want to come back to the illusion brothel.

But at this time, two people had already waiting for him.

" You two, what do you want?" Ace said, not even turning his head to look at the two-person behind him.

He also knew that he was no longer a small pirate, and his name had been put on the bounty poster by the world government.

But when he thought that the other party was a bounty hunter and marine that was going for his head, he was unexpectedly met with words he did not expect.

" You over there, do you think you could just run away after eating in my restaurant?"

" Uhhh…"

Ace was speechless.

He was just preparing himself for a brawl, but he did not expect this would be the owner of the restaurant he had dined and dash before.

He turned his head, and now he saw two men looking at him with a bill in their hand.

" To even dare to dine and dash, who do you think you are? Son of Roger?"

" …. "

" Boss, it was just a few thousand belis. How about this? I will take the money first before I pay you…"

Ace was helpless. When faced with his dine and dash, he didn't really know what to do. After all, though he was a pirate, he was not that lawless one who would kill just because the other party gave him his bill.

Cade heard Ace's response and secretly smiled at his heart.

Ace's response was just like what he predicted. This guy, he is basically the same as Luffy.

But obviously, Cade would not let Ace go that easily.

" Bah, I don't care. If you don't have money, then you should pay by working for me. Lake!!"

Then, before Ace could even respond, Lake had already gone next to him and put a seastone cuff that he got from Vice Admiral Tokikake into Ace's hand.