One Piece: Gambling to The Top
Chapter 165 - 165

A new day arrived, and Josh had gone back to Water 7, resting and taking a long break. For the first time, Josh wanted to go to bed alone. 

The day he had was wild. He fought Mihawk, and it wasn't easy. After, he had sex with Stussy, before an epic battle against Blackbeard, ending up killing him. 

"He is sleeping like a baby." Said Mikita, putting a blanket on him. 

"Can he get hard when he is sleeping?" Marianne asked curiously. 

"Hushh… let him rest." Robin cut them. 

Josh hugged the pillow and rested, not wanting to think about anything else. 

There were many things that are going to happen that Blackbeard is dead, and Josh has to prepare for the worse. 

But without a clear mind, one can't think of the worse. 

He slept like a panda. 

-x-X-x- 

The new day arrived, and at a bar, a young topless man was snorting, an orange hat on the top of his head. He was sleeping while sitting in front of his food. 

The people at the bar were talking. 

"Have you heard? The Gambler and Mihawk clashed." 

"The Gambler, you mean the man who fought an Admiral to death and then appeared to be alive."

"Yep. Moreover, Mihawk is the Strongest Swordsman in the World." 

The people were talking. The sleeping young man opened his eyes slowly. He stretched his arms up and turned his head in one direction. Ace looked in front of him, an innocent smile was drawn on his face when he noticed that there was some food left on his plate. Although people were talking about Mihawk, it was something you hear every day and Ace didn't care, and he clapped his hands, taking a chicken wing and eating it. 

"Mihawk is no longer the Strongest Swordsman in the World." 

"Pfftt…" Ace spew his food. "What!" He rubbed his throat as he turned his head. 

The people continued speaking. 

"He lost in a duel with the Gambler. Mihawk had admitted defeat, and a journalist who was at the Warlords meeting said that." 

Ace couldn't hold his curiosity. He knew Mihawk, a very strong man who saved his brother and used to rival one of the pirate emperors. 

Ace stood up with the chicken wing and walked to the other table. "I am curious guys. Did they have a meeting to fight?" 

The customers looked at Ace, strangely wondering why this guy is just approaching them. 

One of them noticed that tattoo on his back, and he almost jumped up. 

"Ahem! No." That guy brought a newspaper from the table and showed it to Ace. "It says that meeting was with the New Warlord, Marshall D Teach. At that meeting, Mihawk and Josh left to have a duel." 

Another customer yawned. "I bet they were bored." 

"Marshall D Teach." 

The carefree expression on Ace's face vanished. 

Although his vision was quite fussy, Ace could still read the headlines. As he noticed Blackbeard's name, he couldn't help but click his tongue. Blackbeard had been his teammate until he had killed their crewmate and escaped. As his captain, Ace is required to kill Blackbeard.

"Oy, where is he?" Ace asked the people sternly. 

The people felt some strong momentum coming from him. 

One of them pointed in one direction and said, "Ask him, the man had been drinking. He had lost his wife, yesterday, and he says it's the darkness motherfucker who picked up a fight in their town." 

Ace walked to the table. "Hey." 

"Leave me alone." Said the man, drunk. 

"Tell me, what's with you. I may want your help." 

That man gulped his drink in one gulp, and he almost fell. He started talking, unaware of who is with him. He had been here since the last night. He was there, when Blackbeard and Gambler started fighting, with his family, far away. When Blackbeard did destroy their town when that darkness had absorbed everything, a big rock flew toward him and had killed his wife and his kid. 

"Sorry old man, I can only promise to avenge you." 

"Why do you even apology." 

"Because I should have killed that man." 

The drunk man chuckled a bit, and he brought the drink to his mouth. "Can you kill him?" 

"I'll do it, even if it meant death to me." Said Ace, determined as he stood up. 

"It's too late. The Demon killed him. He had cut his arms, but the man turned into a huge dog, before turning into three people. All of them are ashes." 

"Oy man is your memory fuzzy." 

"No. I'm just asking you," he stood up and put his hands on Ace's chest. "Can you kill a dead man? Because if you can, tell me how. I want to kill him myself." 

"Sorry for your lost." Ace held the man's wrists and put him in his seat again. 

After enquiring about the island that things happened at, Ace took his leave.

He had a duty to confirm that Blackbeard is dead. 

'So, the Gambler could kill him…' Ace raised his eyebrow, leaving the tavern and picking up his boat. 

-x-X-x- 

Admiral Kizaru was in his office, holding the paper and reading. That man who is known to be as fast as light was surely taking his time reading this. "Wooo… reports of Blackbeard picking up a fight with Warlord, and ending up dying… delivered by an agent from CP0." 

His vice looked at the 3 meters tall man. "Yes, sir."

"This is bad… very bad…" Kizaru said with a very slow tone. 

"What should we do? Admiral Akainu demands we head there and replace any evidence of a violation of the Warlord Code." Said his Vice Admiral. 

"Akainu, that man is very hot-tempered." Kizaru lifted his head and thought for a bit. "Although it's a good chance to troll him, I'll leave it." Kizaru had a habit of annoying Akainu when he is angry, but this isn't the time. 

"Prepare me an Eternal Log." 

"Admiral, you are…" the vice-admiral said. 

Kizaru was still looking at him, and vice was waiting for Kizaru to interrupt him. "Any moment, sir." 

"I'm heading there personally. This way, we win time." Said the Admiral slowly. Once the vice brought him the Eternal Log, Kizaru turned into a light beam, heading in one direction.. The fastest man alive was on the move.