Under Smoker's notification, the navy in the town took collective action and began to encircle and suppress the Straw Hat Pirates.
At the crossroads ahead, Li Xiao saw the Straw Hat Pirates escaping.
"Li Xiao, run quickly, Yan Nan is chasing you!"
Luffy shouted and ran towards Li Xiao.
"I'll go, don't run towards me, you idiot!"
No one noticed him originally, but when Luffy shouted, the navy all ran towards Li Xiao.
"Run, run, run!"
Luffy quickly ran past Li Xiao, attracting a large number of marines, including Smoker and Dusky.
"Xiao, it's you!" Smoker noticed Li Xiao.
"It's me." Li Xiao calmly blew out a smoke ring.
"How come your cigars are the same as mine?"
"Is it the same? What a coincidence."
"You bastard, you stole my cigar, White Fist!"
Smoker's fist sprayed white smoke towards Li Xiao.
"fire punch!"
"fire punch!"
Ace appeared out of nowhere and used fire fists with Li Xiao.
The fierce twin flames dispersed Smoker's smoke and knocked them back dozens of meters.
"Ah~"
Li Xiao and Ace looked at each other, and Ace looked shocked and confused.
"Isn't Devil Fruit the only one? Why can you also control fire?" Ace didn't understand.
"I'll talk about this in detail later. Let's get rid of them first."
Under Ace's shocked gaze, Li Xiao punched out a fierce fire punch, knocking Smoker and the others back again, and leaving a blazing wall of fire in place to prevent them from moving forward.
"Let's go, let's talk as we go."
Li Xiao ran towards Luffy.
The battle here certainly attracted the attention of everyone in the Straw Hats. When Luffy saw Ace, his surprise was no less than the expression on Ace's face when he saw Li Xiao using Fire Fist just now.
"Ace!" Luffy exclaimed.
"You haven't changed at all, Luffy."
Ace pushed the brim of his hat with flaming fingers and said.
I don’t know what material his hat is made of, so I can’t light it.
"Ace, you ate a Devil Fruit!" Luffy said.
"Well, after eating the Shashao fruit, let's get on the ship first. The navy is coming after us." Ace said.
"Okay, get on the boat!"
The Straw Hats came to the shore with Ace and boarded the Merry.
By the time Smoker and the others arrived, the Merry had already set sail.
Except for Li Xiao and Luffy, no one on the Meri knew Ace.
"I said Luffy, who is that?" Nami asked.
"Ace is my brother. He is very strong. Although he has never eaten the Shao Shao Fruit before, even so, I have never defeated him once. In short, Ace is very strong." Luffy said.
Nami said: "Have you never won once? Against an ordinary person."
Usopp complained: "Sure enough, the monster's brother is a big monster."
"Yes, I always lose, haha, but now I will definitely win." Luffy was full of confidence.
The current Luffy has not learned Haki and can't even touch Ace's body, let alone defeat Ace.
Ace tied up his boat and jumped out of the boat.
"Who can you beat?" Ace asked while standing on the fence.
"Oh Ace, these are my friends!" Luffy said.
Ace nodded politely to everyone: "This is true. My brother is under your care. This kid is a bit uncultured. You may also find it difficult. Please take care of me."
Li Xiao took a puff on the cigar. The taste was very mellow, thanks to Smoker.
Li Xiaodao: "Anyway, you still have a lot to say, so you two brothers can catch up on old times."
Ace suddenly stared at Li Xiao intently, with a hint of provocation in his eyes.
"By the way, why do you use the same moves as me?"
"You don't have to eat a Devil Fruit to use fire, Luffy's brother."
Li Xiao snapped his fingers, and a flame appeared on the glove.
Sanji explained: "Akatsuki's profession is a treasure appraiser. His fire ability comes from the gloves on his hands. Don't be surprised."
"Yeah, yeah, don't be surprised." Luffy laughed.
He also uses the ability of fire. It's like you are walking on the road and find someone wearing the same clothes as you. This makes Ace's heart ignite the idea of competing.
It's not scary to wear matching clothes. Whoever is ugly is embarrassed, so let's compare who has stronger fire power.
"I want to compete with you." Ace suddenly said.
Li Xiao also didn't expect that Ace would be so competitive and compete to see who was afraid of whom. The Flame King's gloves had the ability to absorb flames, so flame attacks had no effect on him.
"OK!"
Li Xiao put on his gloves and touched his fists. He was satisfied to have a fight with Ace.
"Hey Luffy, does it matter? They are going to duel." Usopp swallowed.
Luffy said calmly: "It doesn't matter, just have a fight."
The duel took place on the sea, with the two men each riding a small canoe ten meters apart.
Ace's body was covered in flames, full of fighting spirit, and Li Xiao was also protected by flames, bursting with fighting spirit.
Everyone in the Straw Hats stood on the Merry, watching the showdown.
Zoro said: "Hey Luffy, who do you think will win?"
Luffy said: "I don't know. Although I lose to Ace every time, I have never seen Li Xiao use his full strength."
Sanji said: "I think Li Xiao may have the upper hand in this duel. His Flame King gloves can absorb flames, which means Ace's attacks cannot cause damage to him."
"The Flame King's gloves are very good at restraining flames." Usopp said.
While everyone was talking, the battle began.
Li Xiao took the lead and struck out with a fierce fire fist.
The flames rushed along the sea surface, as if they were going to swallow up Ace and the canoe at his feet.
"Kagero!"
Ace's hands and feet turned into flames, and then he shot out a thick pillar of fire, resisting Li Xiao's attack.
"Musket!"
After resisting Li Xiao's attack, Ace stretched out his index fingers of both hands and fired continuous small flames from his fingertips like a pistol.
The small flame hit Li Xiao and was completely absorbed by the protective flame.
"What!" Ace found that his attack had no effect.
"It's my turn!"
This time, Li Xiao used an enhanced version of the Fire Fist, the Spiral Fire Fist.
The rotating flames bombarded Ace at an extremely fast speed, and Ace was swallowed by the ferocious flames before he could dodge.
"Ace!" Luffy exclaimed.
Sanji said speechlessly: "Hey, he ate the Shashao Fruit, how could he be injured by the flames?"
Zoro said: "In other words, neither of them can hurt the other. The Flame King's gloves can absorb flames, and the Burning Fruit itself is not afraid of flames."
Usopp breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that this is a battle with no winner."
Nami covered her head and didn't know what to say: "Let him come up two times. There is no point in fighting like this. We are going to the next location."