Bang! The sky was full of lightning and ice crystals dissipating, as dazzling as fireworks, shocking most of Loguetown.
Faced with Kai and Aokiji in the midst of the exchange, everyone's nerves tightened all of a sudden, and they couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
The first three moves of the warm-up could be fought like this.
What level would the subsequent battle evolve to? It was simply impossible to describe with words.
Especially Smoker, who had been pulled to the side, his face clearly turned ashen.
His Smoke Fruit was indeed also a Logia, but in the fleeting exchange just now.
His little tricks were undoubtedly like showing off his axe in front of Lu Ban, completely not enough to see.
If he had really been unrelenting and found trouble with Kai just now, he would probably have been pressed on the floor by someone right now, rubbing intimately.
Right now, the only thing Smoker desperately wanted to see was Aokiji taking the opportunity to take Kai down.
It could also indirectly vent his anger.
However, just as this thought emerged.
They saw that the atmosphere, which had been tense, quickly melted like ice and snow meeting spring.
The lightning arcs flowing around Kai's body suddenly dissipated. He patted the dust on his body, casually took out a wine bottle, and raised it towards Aokiji and said, "Old brother, want some wine?"
Wine? The sudden scene made the people in the room stunned, unable to react.
In their eyes, what was next should be a life-and-death battle.
However, the next reaction from Aokiji confirmed that this exchange was undoubtedly a friendly match.
"If this wine isn't good, I don't want it." Aokiji shook off the ice crystals on his body, spat out a mouthful of cold air, and regained his lazy expression.
However, his movements weren't slow. As he took a step, he crossed dozens of meters as if shrinking the ground to inches.
In front of everyone's eyes, with seven or eight ups and downs, he appeared in front of Kai.
After casually taking the wine bottle, he couldn't help but open it directly.
In the world of One Piece, wine was an indispensable thing.
Not to mention whether they were Marines or pirates, anyone could drink two or three cups.
However, with Aokiji's identity as an Admiral, the requirements for wine undoubtedly became higher.
"Admiral Aokiji, why don't you capture him? If you want to drink, our branch has a lot of stock."
Smoker's expression froze, and he couldn't hold back his breath and hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"Capture him?" Aokiji raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I've already tried my best just now."
"However, he's not a pirate, and he hasn't committed any major crimes. At the same time, this isn't the sea area I'm in charge of."
Watching Aokiji, who had a matter-of-course expression, Bastille also smiled bitterly all of a sudden.
If among the three Admirals, Akainu was overly serious and Kizaru was clocking in for work.
Then Aokiji was definitely someone who would be lazy if he could be lazy.
Those three moves just now were already pretty good.
Faced with Aokiji's rebuttal, Smoker was speechless all of a sudden.
After all, he was just a small Colonel. If it had been another Admiral, they would have already retorted him in the face.
"Don't worry, if this kid's wine isn't good, I might consider taking action again." Aokiji glanced lazily at Smoker, who was full of dissatisfaction.
Then, he casually opened the bottle stopper, and a rich aroma of wine rushed towards him directly.
It made the people in the room who loved wine couldn't help but be stunned.
After all, in this world, it was always the cheapest barley wine and the most expensive sake that were the main ones.
They had never seen wine that smelled like it had a unique fragrance and a strange meaty and fresh flavor.
Faced with this unknown fine wine, the gazes of the people present, looking at the glass wine bottle in Aokiji's hand, suddenly became fiery.
Feeling the change in the atmosphere in the room, Aokiji, who was also a wine lover, hurriedly raised the wine bottle in his hand and took a sip.
The wine that overflowed along the corner of his mouth even added a strange mellow fragrance to the air.
Along with the sound of gurgling drinking, Aokiji's gulping drink simply made many people's eyes widen.
Their Adam's apples were also rolling up and down quickly.
That appearance was simply drooling.
"Good wine!" Aokiji directly poured down most of it in one breath. The lazy expression also dissipated in an instant. He stuck out his tongue and rotated it 360 degrees on the corner of his mouth.
He looked at the wine bottle in his hand and said, "The wine body is as pure as jade and ice, the taste is mellow, and it's even more mellow, fragrant, and sweet."
"There's also a pure soy sauce fragrance. With the coordination of all the flavors, it's mellow when it enters the mouth, and the aftertaste is sweet and refreshing."
"Although I, Aokiji, am not a wine connoisseur, I've also drunk a lot of famous wines on the sea. It's just that I've never tasted this kind of wine before. What kind of wine is this?"
Faced with Aokiji's question, the people present all felt that this was a tapping of the soul.
Especially Bastille, who loved wine, watched the bottle in Aokiji's hand, which only had a third of it left, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said urgently, "Admiral Aokiji, can you give me a taste? I also want to try what a mellow taste is like!"
"I, I want to too!" Smoker also suddenly spoke. Compared to Bastille, he was even more inseparable from cigarettes and alcohol.
Moreover, when people were drifting at sea, with their heads on their belts, there was no reason not to touch alcohol.
Watching the two who were eyeing him covetously, Aokiji rolled his eyes and said, "Dream on."
"However, kid, don't keep me in suspense. Was this wine bought in Loguetown? Tell me which shop it is. I'll empty it out and go back to the Marine Headquarters. I can also shut the mouths of those three old men."
As these words fell, everyone's gazes locked onto Kai in unison. After all, the aroma of this wine was obvious.
Even the Marine Headquarters Admiral praised this fine wine. Who wouldn't want to taste a few sips?
Feeling the covetous gazes that were cast from all around, Kai helplessly rubbed his nose, considering whether he would be attacked by them if he told the truth.
Two fists couldn't beat four hands!
In case they attacked him in a group and tore his clothes.
That would be too embarrassing.
However, thinking that this was Chinese wine, Kai's sense of national honor made him sigh and say, "Sorry, this wine isn't for sale. I brewed it myself."
"You can call it Yukihira, it's a wine made by brewing and steaming top-grade pork belly."
Use meat to brew wine?
The people present were stunned.
In their eyes, wine could be brewed with various barley, plums, and other things.
But the wine brewed with fatty meat was not only not greasy, but also so clear, mellow, and fragrant.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would have been willing to believe it.
"Kid, did you really brew this wine?" Aokiji was stunned for a moment and said urgently, "How much more do you have? I want it all."
"I want some too."
"I want ten bottles!"
"I want a hundred bottles!"
"Little brother, why don't we talk about the agency rights!"
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