Cocoxia Port.

A broken boat arrived with a merchant ship flying a bat flag.

Ace jumped onto the dock. The pieced together boat was already creaking and seemed to disintegrate at any time. Many people on the dock looked sympathetic, because people who had sailed on the sea knew how torture such a ship had suffered and could survive such a severely damaged boat. The boy in front of him was also a respectable man!

"Does, this is Cocosia Port! It's so prosperous, right?" Ace blinked his eyes and looked around curiously.

Another man walked out of the broken boat, with light blue hair, a mask and a worn jacket.

His name is Mascud Dius. He didn't call it this name at first. He had another name. It was just that for some reasons, he was unwilling to say his real name, so Ace gave him this name.

Mascud Dius looked at the bustling crowds and couldn't help but open his arms and hugged the entire city. Tears of emotion were squeezed out in his eyes and said loudly: "That's great, it's great, I can see so many people!"

"Hey, Dius, is that what?" Ace said.

Dius walked up to the dock and said, "I have been in an uninhabited island like Sixis for more than half a year! Can you understand how I feel?"

"Hey, did you hear it? What is he talking about, Sixis?" the people at the dock started to talk.

"Are you a lie?"

"Sixis, the island with treasures that were rumored to have many pirates entered that island, but no one survived. I heard that there are quite special currents around that island. As long as you enter that island, you cannot leave and you can only be trapped in it."

"Young people today really like to talk big!"

People did not take Thoes' words to heart, but just regarded them as boasting of young people.

"Okay, okay, aren't you leaving now?"

Ace smiled brightly.

Dius let out a sigh, too lazy to defend himself with passers-by. He looked at the port and said, "I ran out of my house a year ago, just to come here to see it. Who knew that when I encountered a storm, my boat capsized and stranded to that island. Fortunately, I met you."

Dius sincerely sighed that fate is so strange.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, why do you want to come here?" Ace asked curiously while walking in the bustling street.

"I heard that there is the best hospital in the East China Sea, which is highly praised by my bastard dad. He wants to send me here to study, but, you know, I don't like being a doctor. My dream is to write great ocean adventure novels, like Mr. Louis Arnold's "The Liars", with all kinds of adventures, novels about giants and small gardens. So I ran out."

Dius said happily: "But I am still full of curiosity and yearning for this place. The trains that can drive on the sea, the paradise island of the fishman, and the medical island of the most powerful hospitals in the East China Sea... aren't these also part of the adventure?"

“Yes, yes!”

Ace laughed, sniffed his nose and said, "Oh, I smelled delicious food, barbecue, barbecue!"

Ace and Dius sailed all the way and were already hungry, so they ran straight to the entrance of the restaurant.

“Barati Restaurant?”

Dius was born in a wealthy family, his parents were both doctors, and he turned out to be a medical student, so he naturally read newspapers a lot. He said: "This is the most famous restaurant in the East China Sea. It was a sea restaurant opened by the big pirate Red Foot Zhepu who had traveled to Great Way for a year and had a bounty of 30 million Bailey."

"Sea restaurants shouldn't be on the sea?" Ace was curious.

The guest lined up at the door smiled and said, "The real sea restaurant, Balati, is naturally on the sea. This is just a branch of Balati restaurant located in the city of Cocosia. Every day, there will be a chef from Balati restaurant who comes to take care of the spoon. Sometimes, you can also meet Zhepu himself!"

"The Big Pirate Zhep?" Ace scratched his chin.

"The person who is in charge today is Sanji, the sous chef of the sea restaurant Balati," said the guest.

After a queue for a while, it was finally Ace and Dius' turn. They sat on the table. The fierce waiter with a fierce expression squeezed out an awkward and kind smile and said, "Dear guests, what do you want?"

This is also the feature of Balati Restaurant. Other restaurants are fashionable and cute beautiful waiters. Balati Restaurant is full of fierce evil men, but some customers like this tune.

"I want all delicious food!" said Ace.

"In this way, what we are promoting today is the romantic sweetheart package. Should the two guests come with one?"

"Then let's get one!"

In the kitchen, Sanji rolled up his sleeves and cooked the food calmly. After following Zhepu, he received careful cultivation of Zhepu's either beating or scolding. In addition, his hard work and cooking skills are increasing day by day. It can be said that his current job as a sous chef is worthy of his reputation.

And this Balati restaurant branch is where Zhepu practices for him.

Ace has a big appetite, and is like Luffy, but Sanji is not an ordinary chef. He handles various ingredients quickly, even special ingredients from Great Way and Windless Belts. This is also one of the reasons why Jepu and Sanji are willing to cooperate with the Arkham Group.

Whether it is Zhepu or Sanji, they all have dreams about the "ALL Blue" that brings together ingredients from all over the world in the chef's legend.

After the Arkham Group opened the waterway to the Great Road, it could always bring back some ingredients that were not found in the East China Sea.

In addition to the great route and special ingredients without wind belts, there are also various seafood from Paradise Island Marine Ranch, such as sea fish, kelp, seaweed, etc., which are something that Jepu and Sanji have never seen before.

While eating fried rice, Ace suddenly fell into the rice, which scared the guests around her. But Dius was not surprised. This problem occurred after Ace ate half of the fruit. As a doctor, Dius could not find the cause, and could only be attributed to the side effects of the devil fruit.

Yes, the devil fruit.

Just on Sixis, the overly beautiful island, the hungry Ace found a fruit.

They didn't know it was a devil fruit.

Ace generously gave the fruit to Dius to eat, but Dius felt guilty of his selfishness and refused.

But Ace still divided the fruit into two halves. He took a bite first, and Dius also ate it. It was the most unpalatable and delicious food he had ever eaten. After that, Dius became Ace's partner, and Ace also awakened the ability of the devil fruit. After a brief training, with the help of Ace's flame ability, he rushed out of the special current surrounding Sixis Island.

Whenever Ace falls into a bowl, Dius will recall that time in the isolated island and smile knowingly.

However, the waiters at Balati Restaurant didn't know that they thought Ace fainted because of eating the restaurant's food, and was so scared that he was no longer looking.

"Sanji, go ahead and take a look, something happened!"

Sanji put the cooked dishes on the plate, turned off the fire, wiped his hands with a towel, and walked out of the kitchen. He found cigarettes from his pocket, lit matches, and walked around the waiter's table, picked up a spoon, scooped a spoonful of fried rice, and fed it into his mouth.

Sanji swallowed the fried rice and calmly said in the surprise gaze of the guests: "My cooking is fine!"

The guests nodded subconsciously because they were eating the same fried rice plate. If there was any problem with the food, Sanji would not be so calm.

"ah!"

Ace, who was lying on the table, suddenly sat up straight and continued to eat as if nothing had happened. While stuffing food into her mouth, she looked at Sanji and the others and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's obvious that you have something to do, okay?" The waiters glared.

Ace smiled and said, "Sorry, sorry, don't care about such trivial matters!"

"It's all a trivial matter that almost died? Your heart is too big, right?"

Sanji vomited out smoke and said, "Since it's okay, let's settle the account, it's a total of 1.4 million Baileys!"

"How many?"

Dius couldn't help but raise his voice.

"One and four hundred thousand Baileys! This is the bill!" Sanji took the list from the waiter and put it on the table.

Dius subconsciously glanced at the piles of plates and plates on the table, swallowed, and suddenly felt that his future was dark. With Ace's appetite, how much pele they had to earn every day to afford it?

"Hey, Ace, do you have Bailey?" Dius asked in a low voice.

Ace puffed his cheeks and said loudly, "Ah? What did you say? Bailey? How could I have that kind of thing?"

Dius: "…"

He also knew that he had asked nonsense, and he couldn't help but regret why they didn't bring some treasures when they left Sixis. There were many dreams of finding treasures, but instead they lost their lives to the pirates' property left.

"Hey, aren't you going to eat a tycoon meal?" Sanji said calmly. He followed Zhepu, but from the waiter, he could see which guests are rich and which guests are not. When Sanji saw Ace and Dius, he knew that these two people were poor, so he threw out the bill before they finished their meal.

Ace looked up, grinned and said, "So what? Chef, we are pirates, pirates! Isn't it normal to eat a tycoon meal?"

"Oh? He is so brave. He dares to say that he is a pirate here. But do you know that even if he is a pirate, he must abide by the law here! A bastard who eats the King's meal!"

Sanji raised his leg high, pressed it down, and kicked Ace and the dining table to the ground.

Seeing Sanji come out, the guests around him were not afraid, but instead whistled happily.

"well played!"

"Brother Sanji kicked this beautifully!"

The guests started to cheer and came to Balati Restaurant to watch the chef fight with the guests, which was also a favorite show after dinner!

"Ace, how are you? Are you okay?" Dius quickly pulled Ace up.

Ace patted the dust on his body and smiled and said to Sanji: "It's not bad, chef, this kick is very powerful! How about being my partner? We just miss a chef!"

"boring!"

Sanji spit out the smoke ring and said, "If you can't afford the meal, you must stay here to work until you pay the meal."

"That won't work. I'm going to Great Route, how can I stay here?" said Ace.

"Great Route? Just a guy like you?"

Sanji shook his head and said, "You really know how to talk big!"

"It seems that I was underestimated!" Ace's eyes burned, and then he burned the flames.

The hot temperature suddenly made the restaurant feel like it was next to the stove, and the guests were so hot that they could not bear it.

Even the staff of the Balati restaurant who picked up the folding stools, spatulas, and prepared the dry racks, all retreated unconsciously.

Dius raised his arms confidently. He followed Ace these days, but he saw Ace's true power, coupled with the characteristics of the natural devil fruit, and suddenly elevated Ace's strength to a level that surpassed most pirates in the East China Sea.

"Devil Fruit? Flame?"

The fire was burning in front of me, but Sanji was not afraid at all and looked at Ace calmly.
To be continued...