Hello everyone, here is another chapter. This is a missing scene

This is how Ace got his fifth brand

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Ace tried to drag his foot out of a bear trap, while his hands tried to pry the teeth of it apart from each other and get loose. But this wasn't a random trap for bears in the woods, this was a modified one, made to trap people, especially devil fruit users as it was made from seastone. Had it been a normal chain, he might have a chance, but this was a bear trap, meaning it had teeth digging into his legs, and even though he had some power, the bear trap was strong and managed to keep the hold on his leg. And every time Ace managed to somewhat open it, his strength would fail and it would snap back again, causing immense pain as it tore deeper into the already mangled leg, Ace feeling it actually hitting his bone, making him give a shudder a the feeling.

Ace had walked through a small garden, heading the way he thought the cellar where. He would have used his powers, but it was a dense garden with a lot of trees, large flowers, bushes and so on, making so he didn't have clear sight of where to teleport. He would have used Dust, since he could just fly over everything, but the raven was helping Daisuke out with some things, as this was going to be an easy assignment. Ace had not anticipated the person, a not too well known noble, would have this modified trap. Very few had it, Ace had only seen it a couple of times, and it was a perfect way to trap unwelcomed people like him. As Ace tried to pry it off, he did notice it was also lying other traps around, most likely covering most of the ground here as one needed to go through here to get to the main house.

As Ace was trying with all his might to get the damned trap loose, he felt something hit him in the neck, and grabbed at it, taking a dart away. Ace managed to utter a small curse as he fell unconscious.

When Ace came to, he first noticed he hung upside down, both feet and hands tied together, the chain around his ankles chained to the ceiling.

Next thing he noticed was that he still had his mask on, as well as most of his clothes. His cape, gauntlets, belt and some holsters missing. Ace always wondered why the ones that managed to capture him never responded with dragging the mask off, taking a picture, and making sure they kept it safe. They always wanted this 'big reveal', which made it so Ace always managed to get away before they did know who he was. The few who had been smart enough to take his mask off, had never taken a picture or told anyone, and therefore never getting the information out. People where stupid.

Ace noticed a draft on his upper body, and carefully looked up, seeing that without the belt, the shirt had slid down, or rather up his body. As he had his neck somewhat bended, he saw a man not too far away, doing something as he was most likely preparing to get information out of him, and Ace tried to think how to get out. The chains on his legs were seastone, but not his arms. So if he got loose from them, he was safe. As the man, most likely the noble, was still busy, Ace looked at the lock at his legs, seeing it was a completely regular one, nothing too hard to lock pick. But he couldn't do it now, he would need to wait for an opening.

As he decided for that plan for now, he heard the man move, and Ace pretended to be weaker. No use in making things harder for himself.

The man turned around to watch him, having a sick grin as most had. And it was the noble Ace was supposed to kill, and he was alone in the room with him, a door close by was the only exit, and it was closed. And Ace could only thing this was a person who had no idea who he dealt with, no one would do this to any assassin, much less him. and the reason for that was that Ace wasn't trapped in here with him, but he was trapped in here with Ace.

The noble started a story on how he was going to have his fun, torture him and make sure everyone knew who he was, the regular things really. Almost everyone did the same speech, so Ace didn't listen to it, instead he looked around and tried to see how he could get a hold of the noble and kill him or at least make him unconscious or injured, so he could escape. The noble walked around him, keeping at a safe distance. When the noble was behind him, he heard some movement and stuff being lifted, the noble speaking. ¨Normally I wouldn't do this before later, maybe when I decide to sell you. But who could keep the urge to not add to the magnificent collection you have here.¨

As Ace understood what that meant, it was only a second later he felt the same searing hot pain in his back, not far away from his shoulder blade.

People rarely branded early, and Ace actually weren't prepared for that. He still managed to not make a sound, knowing how the pain would feel. And if the man was going to sell him as he said, this would only make him more valuable. The more brands, the more special one were. But there had only ben one other time he had been branded this early, and that had been with Theodore, the branding being in his sick and twisted game.

His lack of reaction was annoying the noble, which was good. Annoyed people did rash decisions, especially people like this who already weren't careful, making this much easier for him in getting out. When the noble walked around him, most likely to see if he was still conscious, Ace closed his eyes, thinking this was going to be way easy. When he felt the noble standing in front of him, going closer to see if he could force him awake,

Ace threw his head forward and upwards when the noble was close enough, hitting him in the jaw.

The noble stumbled and fell to the floor unmoving, and Ace rolled his eyes. Weakling. Ace used the time the noble was unconscious to move his cheek to the shoulder, dragging his mask off. When it was off, Ace wiggled and tried to make his pants move enough so the thing in his pocket would fall out, Ace feeling the noble hadn't emptied his pockets, only taking the most noticeable weapons and things away. In some seconds, a pin fell from the pockets and Ace managed to grab it with his teeth. He moved it so he held onto it at the end, before bending his body and moving his head to the chins at his legs. It was seastone, but he still had enough strength to do this, having been trained how to do this exact thing.

With some small struggle, Ace managed to lock pick the chains so they opened. The moment they were opened, Ace moved so he landed on his feet, and felt his entire body flinch as the mangled leg he had hurt. He had almost forgotten about that. The noble had been lucky in managing to capturing him, Ace knowing he wasn't a known one and wasn't very smart, causing him to be somewhat careless. As

Ace didn't let the pain in his leg get to him, he favored it as he walked over to the noble, grabbing the ironing brand as he did, and with one move, smashed the man's head in.

Ace had promised to not keep the man alive for long, therefore giving him this quick death. As Ace knew he was dead, the his being strong enough that it had smashed the skull and even moved somewhat down in his brain, Ace ripped the shirt open, marking him. when he was finished with that, he looked around the room, seeing his things lying on a table, and walked over to take them. The man had probably brought him here at once, the sleep drug not being powerful. The man didn't have a lot of slaves, subordinates or anything. He didn't have the power or reputation for that. But h had been terrorizing the village not far away, the reason he was here.

After grabbing his things, he disappeared, appearing back at Amegakure, Dust not having left the place.

Dust was in Daisukes meeting room, the man being the only one there. Daisuke lifted an eyebrow at him, and Ace made a small sigh. ¨Modified bear trap.¨ The man gave a small hum, ¨Haven't seen those in a while.¨ Ace gave a nod, favoring his leg as he made his way to a chair. ¨Me neither, and I didn't expect him to have it.¨ The man nodded, and handed him a piece of paper and pen when Ace motioned for it. Ace wrote a quick report on what had happened, to give to the man wanting him to do this assignment. When he had finished it, he gave a small sigh as he motioned for another paper, and wrote a quick note to Whitebeard he would be gone for some more hours, around half a day. Daisuke, seeing this, gave him a look. ¨You staying here?¨ Ace nodded. ¨The leg is pretty bad, and there is a brand too.¨ Ace said as he handed to papers to Dust, giving a mental order to go to the pirates first. Daisuke nodded, ¨I'll call Moira.¨ Ace nodded at that, glad he didn't make more around it. Not that he would, this was a normal occurrence here.

Ace would rather be here for some small treatment, especially since one of the injuries were a brand, which he knew should be looked at. Burn marks, especially brands, was tricky.

He wasn't ready to show the pirates he had a mangled leg and a fresh brand. To show up like this, knowing he couldn't hide this as he couldn't walk well with the leg. And he had twelve more hours at least, and would ask for some small dosage of drugs from Moira, to make sure it healed faster. He did trust the pirates more, but not on a level he was okay with showing up injured. it was bad enough he had a new brand, knowing he couldn't hide that forever, especially from Marco.

But he would take that when the time came. For now, he would just relax here and make sure the leg healed as fast as possible, hopefully completely, before he had to return to the boat.

And that's the chapter, hope you enjoyed

This was more on how things still can happen to Ace, no matter how much he had done this, he can still get trapped and branded. And show how he still doesn't like to be injured and show others, especially the pirates, wanting to rather tell them he's going to be late so he can recover. Trust is hard

And I'm sorry to tell the Ace of Spades chapter won't come up this week, I'm really sorry for this

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