One Piece: Adopting Akainu at the beginning, adopted son Barrett

Chapter 51: Mona’s two gifts, fighting against sea kings!
"Barrett? What a weird name. You're really boring, so Mona doesn't like you. But I'll give this to you as a meeting gift!"

Mona took out a small black iron ball with Mona's little face and two cute little ghosts printed on it:
"This is the failed product of my first bomb-making. Although it didn't explode, my father said that failure is the ladder of progress and the driving force for continuous progress, so this is a very precious souvenir!"

She floated beside Barrett, smiled, and handed him the small bomb with both hands.

Barrett looked up, paused for a moment, then reached out to take it. He only needed one hand to hold something that Mona needed to hold with both hands.

"Ah."

Nodding was his way of responding.

"Humph! You are such a jerk! I gave you something so precious and you didn't even say thank you!"

Mona floated in the air, her hands on her hips and her teeth bared, very dissatisfied with Barrett's reaction at the moment.

Thank you? What is that?
In Barrett's mind, there is no word "thank you". There is only acceptance or rejection, and at most a response.

"Thank you."

He said calmly that since the little girl needed it, he would just give her the OK.

Mona felt a little discouraged when she saw Barrett's dull appearance. As expected, she shouldn't have had any expectations for this fool that his father brought back.

However, she noticed Barrett's empty ear out of the corner of her eye, and seemed to understand why he was so bored.

Those brothers who only knew how to fight would have more or less injuries on their bodies when they got on board. She didn't know what impact this would have on communication, but she understood that Barrett's injury was just more serious.

The missing left ear might just be a scar that he couldn't hide. His clothes might have been riddled with holes for a long time.

"Happy Ghost!"

Mona said this, and with a wave of her hand, she pulled out a white ghost in the shape of a water drop from the air. It had no hands, and an exaggerated smile was painted on its face:

"Well, your ear must be hurting a lot, so I'll give this to you. I hope it makes you happy. I have to go back, otherwise grandpa will nag me again. It's so annoying!"

Throwing the Happy Ghost into the air, Mona floated towards Rossburg.

She had just finished today's training and play, and only came to see Barrett because she happened to meet him. She had to hurry back.

Watching Mona leave was like watching Tokos leave.

After a long time, Barrett stretched out his other hand and tried to touch the magical ghost.

When the fingers touched the spirit, the ghost seemed to have intelligence and took the initiative to drill into Barrett's body and began to wander around.

Barrett only felt that some of his emotions were being aroused, but soon, the ghost that was originally smiling ran out of his body crying, and then disappeared with an angry look.

He tilted his head, not understanding what was going on.

But he felt that his missing ear seemed less uncomfortable.

He stayed in the small garden for the rest of the time, quietly waiting for time to pass, just like he used to sit alone in the military tent, waiting for the next mission to arrive.

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The next day, at 8:40 in the morning.

After eating and drinking, Barrett came to Roseburg, found a place to sit down, and waited quietly for Rose to come out.

"Well, let's go."

Ross called out to Barrett as he went out, then they took off the cloud and flew directly out of the island.

In the sky, looking at the seagulls flying by from time to time, he suddenly asked Barrett a question:
"Barrett, do you know why birds fly?"

"what?"

Barrett looked up and looked at Ross with confusion.

No matter in the past or now, he can often see birds flying through the sky and flying into the distance. He only thinks that it is beautiful, but he also knows that this beauty will not belong to him. But he doesn't understand why Ross asked himself this question.

He can't even think about right and wrong! He only follows the rules set by others and obeys the orders given by others. This is the awareness that needs to be trained as a tool.

But since Ross asked, he had to answer:
"I don't know, maybe because they can fly."

"No, because they have to fly!"

"Ah."

Barrett didn't ask why, because it didn't make sense to him.

Suddenly, he felt as if he was losing weight, and a cloud of hands lifted him up. He turned around and looked at Ross, who said:

"There is a small sea king below. Your goal today is to kill it. If you don't want to experience the feeling of being on the brink of death again, try to fly high like a bird."

After he finished speaking, Yunshou loosened his hand, and Barrett's body, which was more than two meters tall, fell straight down.

"puff"

He fell on the soft clouds. It didn't hurt, but it wasn't comfortable either.

Several cloud platforms had appeared around him at some point, and in front of him, a sea king with a tiger head and a snake body was looking at him ferociously.

The saliva flowing from its mouth and the madness in its eyes all proved that it was extremely hungry!

Looking up, Ross was nowhere to be found and it seemed that only one man and one beast were left at the scene.

There was no cursing or scolding. To Barrett, this was actually the same as any other mission he had ever carried out, except that it had changed from a battlefield to a fight.

Besides, he won't die!
He understood the meaning of Ross's words. At this moment, he only needed to kill the guy in front of him who was several times stronger than himself, and he would pass!
Clenching his fists, Barrett's keen combat instincts told him that he could only wait for an opportunity to defend.

"Roar!"

With a tiger roar, the huge creature, which was nearly fifteen meters long, swung its tail, raised its head upwards, and then fell straight down into the water.

This sea king can clearly feel Barrett's strength, which is enough to threaten it. In order to eat, he must respect this prey as a hunter!
On the cloud platform, Barrett looked alert. The huge shadow surrounding the water surface was irritating his nerves all the time.

If the platform under his feet was not large enough, the sea king might have attacked directly from below, and he would have been in real danger.

Barrett was silent. He was very calm at this moment. Even though his heartbeat was accelerated and his nerves were tense, his mind was still extremely clear.

Pfft!
"Roar!"

behind!
The moment the sea king broke out of the water, Barrett's only ear that could still recognize sound told him its exact location.

Superman's intuition made him dodge sideways.

boom!
The huge tiger head smashed onto the hard platform.

Barrett seized the opportunity and threw a punch, but before he could hit the sea king's head, the opponent twisted his body and swung his tail with the force to crush him!

not good!

The unprecedented danger made Barrett's pupils shrink, and the crisis of death enveloped his whole body in an instant.

"Bang!!!"

A white cloud ball was blown away, and Barrett landed safely on another platform.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the sea king happily chewing the corpse of another sea king in its mouth, looking at him greedily.

Damn, it’s so cruel, I’ve caught up with a thousand of them, brothers!
I will be so exhausted that I will die from sudden death if I put this on the shelves!

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(End of this chapter)