Chapter 79 The Confident Child
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 to look at Luffy and smiled, "Luffy...Luffy, I won!"
Luffy's face was full of reluctance.
"Damn it, burp~ I lost again!"
"Hahaha... Luffy, if you want to beat me, you need to practice more! Hiccup~"
"Ace!" Xia Chen whispered softly, his eyes falling on Ace.
The resentment from his past life was now sitting right in front of him, and Xia Chen was a little excited.
Ace has always been a character he likes very much, but unfortunately he was killed by Akainu while saving Luffy in the Battle of Marineford.
At that time, he, like countless other Haimi, covered himself with the quilt and cried inconsolably.
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?"
"Um... I want to change the taste!" Luffy said guiltily, lightly touching his two fingers.
"Then why didn't you tell us?" Sanji also asked.
"I forgot!"
"In that case, you'll 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 any money!" Luffy quickly put on a pitiful look hoping to gain Nami's sympathy, but Nami didn't even look at him.
Just then, Ace next to him spoke.
"Excuse me, you are Luffy's companions, right? My brother has caused you trouble!"
"Huh?" Everyone who heard this turned their heads involuntarily, and then they discovered that Ace, who was sitting next to them, seemed to know Luffy. They thought he was just a passerby!
"Your brother? Do you mean Luffy?" Usopp asked in shock.
"That's right!" Ace nodded.
"I've never heard him say he has a brother!" Sanji asked puzzledly.
"Is that so?" Ace showed surprise on his face, then turned and looked at Luffy with dissatisfaction.
"Luffy! You've been with your friends for so long and you haven't even mentioned your brother, have you?"
"Uh...I forgot!"
Everyone fell down at once.
"You really are..." Ace was a little speechless. 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 take care of something!"
"Going after Blackbeard, huh?"
At this time, Xia Chen, who had been silent, spoke.
"Hmm?" Ace turned to look at Xia Chen, then asked uncertainly:
"Demon King Xia Chen?"
"It's me!" Xia Chen nodded.
"How do you know about this?" Ace did not give a direct answer, but asked Xia Chen curiously.
"I have a wide range of information channels, so I know a little more!"
"That's right, Xia Chen is very powerful, he knows everything!" Luffy said excitedly.
"Is that so?" Ace thought for a moment. Then he said:
"Forget it, it doesn't matter how you knew it. It's not something that needs to be hidden!"
"I am indeed hunting down Blackbeard. He used to be a member of the Whitebeard Pirates and he is also a member of my team!"
"But he broke an unforgivable rule on the ship!" At this point, Ace's eyes turned cold, and he continued:
"He killed his companions and then fled"
"That guy is absolutely unforgivable!"
"As the captain, I have the obligation to hunt him down and kill him to comfort the soul of my fallen comrade in heaven!"
"That……"
"If I say you are no match for him, will you still chase him?" Xia Chen looked at Ace quietly and said.
"How is that possible? Xia Chen, Ace is very strong. That Blackbeard is definitely no match for Ace!"
Before Ace could refute, Luffy jumped out and said angrily.
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, took a sip of the 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'm very strong!"
Ace's tone contained confidence in himself and distrust of Xia Chen.
In his opinion, Xia Chen might have seen Blackbeard take action at some point in his life and thought he was very strong.
But the problem was that he was sure that this was the first time he met Xia Chen, so there was no way Xia Chen could know his strength.
He felt that Xia Chen should have inferred Luffy's strength based on Luffy's strength, and felt that he was not very strong, but only he himself knew his own strength best.
The gap between him and the current Luffy is extremely huge.
However, he did not directly refute Xia Chen. After all, he was Luffy's partner, so he still had to give him some face.
When Xia Chen saw Ace's expression, he knew that he didn't trust him, and he couldn't help feeling helpless.
But think about it, if he were in Ace's shoes, he probably wouldn't take it to heart if a newcomer who just came out of the East China Sea told him that he couldn't beat so-and-so.
In this case, it seems that only strength can speak.
If possible, he still didn't want Ace and Blackbeard to fight each other. Blackbeard was indeed not someone Ace could defeat.
What's more, his Dark-Dark Fruit has a great restraint on Devil Fruit users.
Thinking of this, Xia Chen said directly to Ace:
"Ace, let's have a fight! If I win, you won't go looking for Blackbeard, how about that? Because if you can't even beat me, then you're definitely no match for Blackbeard!"
"Huh?" Ace narrowed his eyes upon hearing this, stood up and stared at Xia Chen seriously.
After a while, he said, "Forget it, there's no need for that!"
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 suddenly asked.
After all the time he had been with Xia Chen, he thought he had a very good understanding of Xia Chen's strength. At least in his opinion, Ace could not beat Xia Chen.
When Xia Chen first 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 the black beard was really not simple, otherwise Xia Chen would not take him so seriously, so he asked this question.
"Very strong!" Xia Chen nodded.
"You may not have any idea of what I'm saying, so I'll give you a specific example and you'll understand..."
