《One Piece : Devil Eyes Pirate》 Chapter 1 - A deer out of nowhere !!! Ding ... a message pops out on the screen while Carl reading his favorite manga that is One Piece. "Yo Carl where you at?" Says the message from his friend. "I''m at home you dumbass, where would I possibly be at." Carl quickly replied then back reading the manga. "Seriously dude? It''s Saturday night and you just waste your day sit at home doing nothing, come let''s grab some coffee, I''ll introduce you to my girlfriend''s friend, I''ll wait at the usual cafe." "Yeah...yeah whatever, I''ll go after I finished reading my manga." Carl finished after 5 minutes then take a quick shower to freshen up. After a quick shower, Carl suit up then hop in his F40 Ferrari then floor it heading to downtown, on his way speeding downhill from his house he got another message from his friend asking him to buy a pack of cigarette on his way because he forgot to buy one. While Carl replying to the message on his phone suddenly a wild deer appear in front of his car, panicked seeing a deer out of nowhere trying to avoid it slammed his wheel. He avoided the deer but his car jumped into a cliff instead, Carl dives freely with his car then BOOM the car exploded immediately after it reaches the bottom. *gasp* Carl suddenly wake up gasping for air. He looked down checking his body and touching his face. "Did I survive the crash?" He looked around but only see white endless empty space. "Then what is happening to me right now, where am I, who are you?" Carl asked the voice inside his head. "Some people from your world called me God some others you can call me anything you want, you are now inside my realm, your body that you are looking right now only a projection of your consciousness." "Then what now? Am I just going to stay like this forever or what? Is there an afterlife or I''m just going to die out then vanish into nothingness after a while?" "Usually, after you die your soul gonna get cleanse then sent for reincarnation to your old world. But this time I have another option for you, the thing is your death is actually should not happen for another 50 years, but one of my apprentices fu?k?d up when he''s trying to create a life and spawn a deer in front of you while you driving." The god smile wryly while explaining his student mistake. "Well that''s sucks, so what this other option you speak of?" Carl just shrugged his shoulder accepting his death. "Welp that was easy, the first option is to get cleanse then reincarnated to the old world and restart your life as a whole new person as I told you earlier, the second option is as an apology from me you can get reincarnated into any world of your choice and 5 wishes as a bonus for making this easy for me." "Hmm that sounds interesting, what kind of worlds can I choose?" Carl cups his chin while thinking. "Anything you can imagine, go wild, I can grant anything you want as long as it does not an omnipotence power." "Well, I want to get reincarnated into the world of One Piece then." "I want to be born 10 years before the start of the great pirate age era on Louge Town." "For my first wish, can I get the Rinne Sharingan on my forehead and Rinnegan on both my eyes just like Hagoromo?" "Wow ... wow ... wow, hold up there champ, seriously? You want the third eye on your forehead? I know that on One Piece world there are lots of strange things, but a third eye still is seen as a freak of nature by the people there you know? Not that I can''t grant your first wish, just saying you know" "Meh, I think it''s cool tho, I don''t care what people think, and also those eyes are OP asf man!!!" "Yeah ... yeah, whatever but I''m taking the Infinite Tsukuyomi and God: Nativity of a World of Trees abilities from the eye, I don''t like them, and your first wish count as 2 wishes because they are 2 different eyes." "Fair enough, the third I want to have a system or something similar to the LN shits with shop and other stuff. Fourth is I want a body that can eat lots of devil fruit without exploded into tiny bits, and for the last is I want for my learning and training progress is ten times faster." Carl smile after stating his wishes. "A little greedy are you." The god chuckle a bit. "You want to change something before I sent you away?" "Nah I''m good, I''m ready to go." Chapter 2 - Rebirth !!! Carl wakes up and trying to move and open his eyes but can''t. "Hello there Carl, I''m your system, I''m going to be your guide in this life." said a robotic voice inside his head. "Damn you sound awful, change your voice into like Jarvis the AI from Iron Man but less robotic and your name is Jarvis now." "Downloading voice pack of Jarvis from Iron Man, 5%...15%...45...70%...100%... download complete, installing voice pack, install complete." "Cool, can I get an explanation of what is happening right now?." "You are now inside your mother w?mb, and still in the early phase of pregnancy." "Just great, I am conscious inside my mother''s w?mb, am I going to be like this for the whole 9 months?" "Actually you can just let me take over your body until your birth." "Cool, see you in 9 months or so good night Jarvis." "Carl you better wake up, it is time for you to be born into the world." "Damn, time goes so fast it feels like I''m just asleep for 5 minutes. Welp world here I come" After 30 minutes of intense childbirth, the child is finally born. The child is healthy and got scarlet hair with pale skin. Carl feels huge hands holding his body and try to open his eyes but still can''t, all he can do is cry just like a normal baby would do. "Damn that feel awkward, the huge hands I mean, got conscious the moment you born also awkward I guess. Say, Jarvis can I go to sleep again until at least it''s normal for a baby to say like conscious of their surrounding?" "I think I can do that, how long you would go to sleep then?" "Hmm, I''d say like 2 months enough maybe?" "Alright, good night Carl" "Good night Jarvis" 2 months later "Good morning Jarvis, let''s observe stuff first." "You are currently inside your room, and not in Louge Town anymore." "What do you mean not on Louge Town? what happened while I sleep?" "Well, after your birth your parents knew about your ''abnormal'' eyes and immediately hide you from the WG." "Welp, that''s okay I guess. First thing first tells me about this system of yours." "Usual system stuff nothing fancy, you got status, inventory, quest, and shop. You can just command mentally then it will pop out." "Cool ... cool, let see ''status''." Status: Name: Carl Williams Age: 2 Months Title: Attributes: Strength: 1 Agility: 0 Stamina: 1 Intelligence: 10 Will: 10 Chakra: 100 - Limitless Body - Chakra Control: Level 1 Active Skills: - Bansh Ten''in: Level 1 - Chibaku Tensei: Level 1 - Shinra Tensei: Level 1 - Limbo: Border Jail: Level 1 - Six Red Yang Formation: Level 1 - Amenominaka: Level 1 - Amaterasu: Level 1 - Kamui: Level 1 - Kotoamatsukami: Level 1 - Izanagi: Level 1 - Izanami: Level 1 - Susanoo: Level 1 "Damn that''s a lot of stuff, and there''s chakra too!!!" "Yes, because you need chakra to use all the Jutsu from your eyes then the system adds chakra to your body." "But why my chakra pool is freaking small?" "Ooh yeah almost forgot about that, well things got boring pretty fast. Say, Jarvis on what island are we right now?" "I have no idea, Carl." "Yep, another override then Jarvis until, hmm say Jarvis, on what age kids normally can walk in this world?" "2 years old I guess?" "2 years it is then Jarvis." Carl wakes up after 2 years, hearing the sound coming from near him when he wakes up he sees a couple standing next to his left and right side wearing marine uniforms. ''Are these couple my parents?'' Carl thought. "Your guess is correct Carl." came from Jarvis. "Well fu?k, my parents are marine!!!, on second thought, it''s not actually that bad right Jarvis?" "Yeah so so Carl, on the bright side you can ask them to teach you the Rokushiki techniques." "Good thinking positive Jarvis." Carl gives a thumbs up to Jarvis inside his head. "Mama...papa" Carl fake a cute baby sound. "Ooh, Jack looks our little Carl calls us mama and papa." The woman looked at Carl and picked him up. "Yeah I can see that Rose, *sigh* I think it''s the best decision for you to quit from the marine and stay here to take care of Carl." Jack shook his head while massaging his temple clearly frustrated thinking about his child. "Yes, I think so too Jack, I''ll send my resignation letter to the marine base at Louge Town tomorrow. Don''t worry about Carl, I''ll take care of him for us so you can focus on working until we got enough money to buy a house on that island you tell me." 10 months later "Happy birthday Carl!!!" both Jack and Rose surprising Carl who just gets back home from training. "Thank you, mom and dad." Carl jumps to both of them and hugged them. "Blow the candles and make your wish," said Rose while leading Carl to the dining table with a birthday cake on top of it with 3 candles. Carl closes his eyes to make his wish, then blow the candles. "Now let''s put aside the cake because mommy, cook for you your favorite food." "Yaay, thank you mom, I love you so much." Carl hugged his mom and starts eating his food. After he finished eating Carl get to shower immediately after he gets out of the shower he puts on his clothes and begins training on his chakra control while simultaneously enlarging his chakra pool. After 1 hour of training, he heard a knock on his door. "Carl, your father is calling for you," said Rose through the door. "Just a minute mom, I''m getting dressed," replied Carl while changing his wet clothes with a new one. "What''s up dad, what do you want to talk about?" Carl gets down from his room then took a seat in front of his father. "I''m going to tell you that I''m leaving tomorrow, my 10 months leave is up and I got moved to marine headquarter. So I can''t visit you and your mom like when I put on Louge Town, I don''t know how long I will go but I''ll make sure I''ll visit every time I can. So be a good boy and protect your mother alright, and don''t neglect your training." "Don''t worry dad, I''ll protect mother and never neglect on my training." "Good, you can get back to your room now." Carl just nods and get back to his room. "Okay Jarvis, let''s see what do we got after 1 year of training, ''status''." Status: Name: Carl Williams Race: Human Age: 3 Years Title: Attributes: Strength: 50 Agility: 40 Stamina: 50 Intelligence: 100 Will: 100 Chakra: 10000 Passive Skills: - Limitless Body - Chakra Control: Level 5 Active Skills: - Bansh Ten''in: Level 3 - Chibaku Tensei: Level 1 - Shinra Tensei: Level 1 - Limbo: Border Jail: Level 1 - Six Red Yang Formation: Level 1 - Amenominaka: Level 1 - Tsukuyomi: Level 1 - Amaterasu: Level 1 - Kamui: Level 3 - Kotoamatsukami: Level 1 - Izanagi: Level 1 - Izanami: Level 1 - Susanoo: Level 3 "Hmm, not bad for a year training." Carl nods slowly looking at his progress. "Say, Jarvis can you compare my stats with the admirals?" "Well, I''d say the admiral''s stats are on the average 1500 and the emperors are 2000 ish? well, around there." "Holy shitzel, how the fu?k I can reach that numbers? I trained for one year only got increase on stats between 40-50." "Umm, ever heard of Haki? Haki can strengthen your body FYI." "Ooh yeah, teehee I almost forgot about Haki because we''re living on the East blue. So how high can I reach without Haki?" "Around 800 tops ish I think, with stats average in 800 you can rest easy on the first half of the grand line." "Yeah ... yeah, that''s cool I can just find someone to teach me Haki before entering the new world." "Good idea Carl." Chapter -1 - Some Info and MCs weapons list that he owns. "Talking normally" ''thinking and talking with the Helper inside his head'' The Helper talking/The helper text on the interface ??The old man talking directly to MC''s head?? Weapons owned currently: 1. Head Chop Chop > Chokut 2. Handy Long Shuriken > Wakizashi 3. Norimitsu > dachi 4. Tetsugendo > Tanto 5. Flintlock Pistol (6) 6. Myh Muramasa > Uchigatana 7. M2010 ESR > Sniper Rifle 8. Sandai Kitetsu > Katana Order of the list follows the weapon''s time of when they were bought. Money spent on weapons: . 4.340.000.00 Chapter 1 - Long talk, with some sake Warning Before you read this chapter, I just want to say that this particular chapter is religion s?ns?t?v?, so if any of you got offended by it it''s your opinion, I also got mine. Also in the future chapters, there might be a similar s?ns?t?v? topic in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waking up from his sleep, Koujiro found himself laying on top of a sandy beach instead of inside his apartment. ''''Urgh, where the fu?k am I?'''' Koujiro grunted while shielding his eyes from the bright sun, he felt the sand with his other hand and immediately realized that he''s not anywhere near his apartment. "Did the goons prank me again after I passed out?" He looked around to find out where he was, but all he saw was an vast sea in front of him. Beach as far as his eyes could see and a thick jungle behind him. Before he''s able to stand up and explore the area, a blue screen popped out in front of him with a mail sign in the middle of it. "What the fu?k? Am I still dreaming?" He slapped his face to make sure. Surely enough it hurt. "Not in a dream for sure, but what fu?k is this? Is this the new smart glasses that those kids keep talking about? But I''m not wearing any glasses." He poked the blue screen to try to figure out things, but his finger just goes through it. He tried to tap on the mail sign, and the mail opened showing a pretty long letter. "Hello there Arima-kun, I took the liberty of ..... if you want to ask me some questions tap here to summon me." He skimmed most of the content because it''s too long and immediately tapped the screen to summon the person who sent him the message. "Well, that was long." Koujiro hears someone talking behind him and immediately turns around to face the person. "Woah, who the fu?k are you old man? You almost gave me a heart attack there." "Who are you calling an old man ha? You''re also an old man yourself" The unknown old man said while pointing at Koujiro and scoffed, both annoyed being called old. "First of all, look at your white hair and beard, also those wrinkles, definitely an old man look at yourself. Meanwhile, me, look at these muscles, shining black hair, and zero wrinkles. If a woman would see me she would think I''m in my early thirties ha!!!" Koujiro flexes his muscle and combs his ''natural'' shining black hair with his finger. Before the old man replied, Koujiro continued "And also you old bastard, the only one who can call me Arima-kun is Oyaji, the last man who tried, got both his legs broken." "Calm down kid, I thought you summoned me to ask some questions not to fight. Also, you have zero chance of winning a fight with me, you''re too green." The old man just waves his hand and Koujiro is sent flying hundreds meters to the sea. "WHAT THE FUCK OLD MAN !!! THAT HURT." Koujiro shouted after stabilizing himself while swimming back to the beach. After a few minutes of swimming, he reaches the beach and laid down on his back breathing his lungs out because he rarely does heavy work out and just lifts some weights daily to keep in shape. "Well, you''re the one who started it. Now if you have questions ask away, I don''t have much time for childish fights." "The only question I have right now is, where the fu?k am I? And what is that? Is that magic or some shit?" "Well, you should read the letter thoroughly." The old man replied nonchalantly while summoning two chairs for them to sit confirming the question about magic. "Too long old man, I had enough of that at my office, you should make it short and simple. Now explain what the fu?k is going on." Koujiro takes a seat and spreads his leg using his usual intimidating Yakuza style. It doesn''t seem to even faze the old man. "Well, the one who writes the letter is not me, don''t blame me for that, and the short version is, you''re dead, and I''m giving you a second chance to live the life that you always wanted." "How the fu?k am I dead if am I breathing and talking right now? Is this hell, does not look like one to me." "You only heard the part that you''re dead did you? What the fu?k is wrong with you? I can tell clearly you''re not deaf, what''s this? Short attention span problem? Man, you''re dumb." The old man laughing his lung out realizing that the one he chooses to become his spare time entertainment is dumb. ''This is going to be fun'' he decided to help him a little bit. Koujiro just sat there awkwardly because he''s been figured out, back when people on the Yakuza said that to him he just pummeled them down and show them who is dumb, but he can''t do that to this old man who clearly can just beat him with a flick of his hand. "What''s this? Cat got your tongue? Realized that you can''t beat me up like the other people who called you dumb? Not so tough now are you?" The old man chuckled after tired laughing his lungs out. "You don''t have to rub salt on the wound okay, I know I''m dumb, the only thing I can do is beat people up. Can we get back to the explaining stuff?" "Alright, so like I said, you''re dead then I ''give'' you a second chance to live out your life that you always wanted. You know what I''m getting at here." "What do you mean give me a second chance? Are you a god or something?" "Well, you''re right and wrong at the same time, you can call me god or old man or anything you want, but what I am is not a thing you can comprehend ''yet'', one thing I''m going to tell you is, I am the one who created everything that exists." "Woah fu?k!!! I''ve been an atheist my whole life, am I going to hell right now? Never thought that really existed though." Koujiro tense up and worried about his fate. "Man you''re dumb, I told you I''m giving you a second chance, but if you want to go to hell that much I can create one for you." The old man slapped Koujiro''s head, annoyed by his stupidity. "Ouch...what the hell man, what do you mean create a hell? Don''t those things heaven and hell always exist? That''s what I heard from the religious people though, not that I cared." Koujiro said while rubbing a bump on his head while confused on what the old man said. "Man, this will take a while." "Let me make it simple for you, I created things that ''exist'', everything that you saw back on earth. All those things that humans said exist without a concrete proof don''t exist, well except me." The old man paused to let it sink in, then took a sip of tea that appeared out of nowhere. "Have a drink, I know you need time to process things out." A sake bottle appears on the table between them with a small cup with it. After a few minutes of thinking and a half bottle of sake later Koujiro lifts his head to ask more questions. "So, if heaven and hell do not exist, what is the purpose of our creation then?" Koujiro asked with a wise kind of attitude, even though it doesn''t suit him at all and the wise attitude just lasted a second after he asked the question. "That''s deep coming from you hehe, well, I create stuff, doesn''t mean I created humans and the whole universe the way it is right now, they evolve, everything is changing and evolving as we speak right now. I thought you were an atheist that believes in evolution." The old man chuckled at the one-second wisdom that appears out of Koujiro that seems a one in a thousand years occurrence. "Well, as you said, I''m dumb, I don''t understand those science thingies, I just live the way I want and don''t bother with complicated stuff." Koujiro shrugged and played it cool like always. "That''s the keyword, science, specifically the brain, human thinking. Billions of years of evolution on earth, only one species made it to the top by using their brain, again back to the topic of humans saying stuff that this and that exist without concrete proof with the exception of me. Some humans use their head to think rationally, they think something exists then they look for a concrete proof first of said existence before they tell it to other people. On the other hand, some humans think something exists out of their dependency of needing a figure to lead them, a perfect leader to worship, hence appears the word ''god''. They make rules about almost everything to rule their life, not that I''m saying it''s a bad thing. People that don''t believe in gods also create their own rules, they do so to feel safe and have something like a purpose to live. As for myself, I don''t care about good and bad that you humans keep enforcing, I just create stuff, watch them grow, evolve, and maybe find something interesting like your species human." The old man listed out his opinion on humans'' way of doing things. "Wow, that''s a lot to take in, can I have another bottle or two of this? It tastes great, what kind of sake is this? I have never drunk one like this." Koujiro dumbfounded from the old man''s explanation about the whole scene of things while showing his almost empty bottle of sake. "Not bad, you can drink, it''s a super-strong liquor I got from some other planet I forgot its name, that got me thinking, how the fu?k you''re passed out last time if you can handle a bottle of this just fine?" The old man replied while summoning a crate full of the special sake. "Hehe, I was drinking ''a lot'' and some drugs too, it''s my 40th birthday after all." Koujiro scratched the back of his head embarrassed of what he did. "Dumb ?ss brat." The old man said, slapping Koujiro''s head again. A few minutes and another bottle of sake later. "Hehehe, I''m imagining all those religious peeps face back on earth if they hear these things you just said, that would be hilarious." Koujiro chuckled while downing the last cup of sake from his second bottle and almost choked from his laugh. "Well, continue old man, I understand the gist of what you''re saying, what''s the catch of this ''second chance''? There''s no free food that''s for sure, shoot your condition." Koujiro returned to his Yakuza mood asking the old man. "As I said, live your life the way you always wanted, I don''t mind any killing, just do it moderately, also keep the mating stuff on the low side, I don''t like watching the mating act, especially humans" "Heh, I didn''t know you were a v?r??n that got annoyed by people having s?x." Koujiro snickered and found out the old man''s secret. "Shut up brat!!! Don''t cut in while I''m talking, and also I don''t need to mate, I don''t have the need of human''s d?s?r?." The old man slapped Koujiro again on the head making a third bump. "As I said earlier, keep the killing on the low side, they also got rules and stuff in this world, it wouldn''t be fun if you got killed early." "Woah...Woah, hold it right there, what do you mean in this world, are we not on earth right now? It''s not heaven or hell, I''m sure it''s not your place either." "That''s why you should read the whole letter you dumb ?ss." *whack* another bump appeared on Koujiro''s head. "It''s a new universe that I created, well not created more like a copy, it''s a huge one, much bigger than the universe you came from, I just put hundreds of universes into one to make it easier to watch and manage." "What do you mean copied? I thought you are the creator, are there other creators just like you out there?" "I am the one brat, I copied from the humans, some humans got creative minds and created their own universe even though it is just in the medium of writing, pretty creative nonetheless." "Understand what I''m getting at here?" "Hai...hai chatty old man, hehe." *whack* "Shut up brat, you''re behaving like a child, not liking it one bit." The old man was still raising his hand preparing another slap to the head. "Understand, oyaji." *whack* "Also not your Yakuza boss, moving on, I don''t know what the planet or world called since the creator never gave it a name, but his book is called One Piece." "Hmm, what book is called One Piece? I think I heard something about One Piece from somewhere. Where does it come from?" "Umm, Japan, same as you, it''s the most popular book!!! How the fu?k you don''t know this? The guy name called Oda or something." "What the fu?k old man!!! It''s a manga, not a book!!! Of course, I know it, my nephews never stop talking about it when they come to visit, stupid old man." *whack* "What do I care about brat!!! It''s a book if I said it''s a book!!!" "Ouch, chill old man, what''s with the head slap, you''re just like my jiisan." Koujiro pouted while ??r?ssing his bumps, the old man gave him the look with a hand raised because he acts like a child again. "Okay...okay, damn it, old people and their scolding." "Said a forty years old man. Moving on, the world got rules and stuff, you know it if you read the book, do what you want, just make it interesting because I''ll be watching." "What the fu?k old man, my purpose just to become your entertainment? Go watch the original stuff then, there are thousands to watch from Japan alone old man." "Where is the fun in that you dumb ?ss, you can''t interact with the stories, but I can with this world and you, hehe." "What do you mean can''t interact with the stories, you''re the ''one'', you can do whatever you want I ?ssume." "It''s against free will you dumb ?ss, I designed your universe with a free will for the species, that''s why when shit happens on your planet, no god or miracle happens, you solve it by yourself." "What about my free will then?" "You''re dead." "What the fu?k?...on second thought, fair enough. Can I get some help from you then?" "Already designed a helper for you." "What helper? I don''t see anyone besides us here." Koujiro looks around him to find the helper, the old man said. "You''ll know soon enough, you want to say something before I go?" "Can I get clothes and shoes? I''m only wearing short pants here." Koujiro said, spreading his hand showing that he''s half-naked. "I''m not your nanny, figure out that yourself." "Awww bummer, can I at least get some of that sake? Like a crate or two more, or maybe a lot more than two if you feel generous enough for this poor man, hehe." 10 crates of sake appear on the beach just like that. "Naisuuu, you''re the best old man." Koujiro gets down to get a bottle with a thumbs up with his one hand while the other grabs a bottle. "Alright then, don''t get too drunk and kill yourself again, hehe." "Wait...wait...wait old man, one last thing, can I get a pack or two of cigarettes? Hehe." Koujiro grinned asking the old man like a kid. "Ask your helper, I''m heading out, I want to see your funeral and look at their expression after knowing how you died, hehe." "Not funny old man!!!" Koujiro shouted to the old man before he disappeared like he''s never been there. "Great, now the old man is gone, I''m gonna chug these bottles of sake like water hehe, maybe try a crate first to test the waters." Koujiro gets down and sits on the sand while a crate of sake between his legs, but before he can open his second bottle, he hears another sound again, but this time the sound is inside his head. I wouldn''t do that if I were you. "Who the fu?k are you? Are you the helper? Where are you?" Yes, I am the helper that creator had designed for you, I exist inside you, specifically your brain "What the fu?k, that''s kinda creepy, and also I don''t like a sound inside my head, just sent a text to me just like the old man did, and also explain everything to me, the old man said you will help me, but I don''t see how a sound inside my head can help me, make it short and simple." A text appears in front of Koujiro just like when he was woken up. Helper text mode initiated Chapter 2 - Trio troublemakers Helper text mode initiated Helper feature is simple, if you played any game before then you''ll catch on immediately, there are only 2 features, a shop and an inventory. The shop is where you can buy almost anything, it uses Japanese currency which is Yen. The inventory is where you can store all of your belongings, the capacity is unlimited, the only restriction is you can''t store living being inside the inventory. To access the features and communicate with me you just have to send command or talk by thinking inside your head. Also you can ask any help from the helper obviously, range from the simplest thing of calculation to almost anything. ''Well, that''s convenient, say, what would you suggest I should do right now?'' I would say you should check your inventory first, the creator had gifts to start off your journey. ''How do I do this again? Open inventory?'' ''Woah, that''s nice.'' A blue screen like before appearing with rows of empty boxes in it, on the first rows there''s a box wrapped just like a gift that the helper told him, exploring the inventory first before checking what his gifts are, he noticed that on the bottom right corner of the inventory there''s a symbol of Yen currency showing that he has zero money right now, on the left bottom corner written a word that read ''exchange'' that he ?ssumes to exchange the current world money into Yen. Tapping the gift box to retrieve it from the inventory, a circle like portal appear in front of him with the flat side facing down dropping the box. "Heey, what if whatever inside is fragile?" Koujiro complained like an old man he is. "Got it chief." Koujiro opened the box and find his stuff inside the box. "What the fu?k? These are all my shits, gifts my ?ss, the box is cool tho, the small box can fit so much stuff." Pulling out everything inside the box he laid down all the stuff that he has right now. "Hmm, at least the old man put some pack of cigarettes in it, what do we got here, pair of pants, some shirts, pair of boots, thank god its boots so that it can last longer than the normal shoes, ooh lookie here, my dear Chokut is here to cut some heads hehehe, and a Wakizashi for utility might do." Koujiro sorted out his belongings and put back all his stuff inside leaving a pack of cigarette, pulling one out and putting it in his lips he realized that he doesn''t have a lighter. "Fuck!!! The old man must do this on purpose, giving me cigarettes without a lighter, fu?k sake man, hey helper, you there?" Yes, I ?ssume you want a lighter from me? "Duh yeah, you got one?" It''s available on the shop though "You know I don''t have any money right? Can I pay for it later? Pleaseee." Can''t do Arima-san, the shop function just like a vending machine, you should know how it works. "Can I sell one of my shirts? Its an expensive shits you know." We don''t have that feature yet Arima-san, maybe the creator will add it in the future. "FUCK YOU OLD MAAAAN!!!" Koujiro shoves two middle fingers to the sky, a moment later a lightning strike a nearby tree burning it down. "Well, that will do, much appreciated old man, next time just drop some cash or a lighter." In the sky, the clouds moving to form some words that read ''fuck off brat''. "Heh, have fun watching me drink my ?ss off, old man." "Aah that''s nice, a crate full of sake on a nice white sand beach, life never been better." Even though the day still bright he keep drinking like an alcoholic he is. Few hours and a crate of beer later, the sun is going down, and Koujiro lying on his back watching the sunset. "Urgh, what a nice sunset, just lack a girl to bang though hehehe, just you wait old man, I''m gonna fu?k the first hot woman I see." Getting up after the sun is down, taking off his pants and he takes a nice swim to freshen up because the drinks make him a little bit tipsy. ------------------------------------------------------------- POV Change Three kids are chasing a rabbit inside the forest when suddenly they hear a thunderous sound not far from them. "Ace, Sabo, do you guys hear that?" "Yeah, it sounds like a thunder strike that way." The boy named Ace pointed to a direction that led to a beach. "Want to take a look?" The first boy asks his two friends. "I don''t know Luffy, whatever it is might be dangerous, the sky is clear with no clouds at all, its either strong people or very powerful beasts are fighting to make a sound like that." The other boy named Sabo telling them not to go there. "Come on Sabo, are you scared? We could just take a look and we will immediately get back if its dangerous, what do you say Ace?" The boys look at each other waiting for Ace who seems the oldest between the three. "Well, we could go and take a look real quick, it''s still bright, we''ll make it back before it got dark, follow me I''ll lead, you stay in the middle Luffy, Sabo watches our back." The two boys nodded and follow along, after few hours of walking toward the sound they heard, they reach the edge of the forest and found a man lying down on his back with some crates that look like sake that Dadan used to drink lying around the beach. "Look ace, there''s a man lying on the beach." Luffy pointed out towards the man he''s talking about. "Do you think he''s dead?" Luffy asked his two friends. "No, he''s alive, look, his hand just moved, I think he''s drinking those sakes, he''s probably pass out soon, we can steal some of the crates to sell later." The boys decided to wait for the man to pass out then steal his drinks. "Nee Ace, do you think that man is dangerous?" "He probably is, but if he passes out we can take the crates safely." After waiting for few hours the man is still drinking, bottles lying around him, pulling out the last bottle from the crate near him, the man chug the last bottle in one breath like its water. "Look, he probably will pass out after that last drink." "You said that every time he pulled a new bottle Ace." Luffy complained to Ace obviously already getting tired of waiting for this man to pass out. "I don''t know he can hold his liquor alright, we''ll see after this one, if he still drinking we will leave him alone, but I''m pretty sure its the last bottle." "But its getting dark Ace." Luffy wh?n?d to Ace, but before he said another word the man who has been drinking stood up on his feet seems not drunk at all. "What the hell, this man has been drinking a crate of sake but still stand like that, even Dadan would pass out." "Woah, look at his back, its full of tattoos." Luffy surprised by the man''s back. "Keep it down Luffy, he might hear you." "Do you think he''s a pirate Ace?" The boy Sabo asks his friend. "He might be, but I don''t see any ship around, but we have to be careful not to draw his attention." "Maybe we should get back Ace, that man looks dangerous." "Wait, look, he''s going for a swim, maybe we can take that crate near us, we will move once he got into the water." ------------------------------------------------------------- While Koujiro is having a swim, he heard a sound of bushes rustling. ''Yo H, can I get a scan of the surrounding?'' While he was drinking on the beach earlier he got bored, so he asked helper what are the things that the helper can do, after hours of reading instructions out of boredom, he already know most of the things that will useful for him in the future. Scanning...there are three heat signatures near the edge of the forest, they seem like moving towards the beach, from the measurement of the heat signatures, they are kids, age around 10. "What do you mean kids? I thought the island was empty, can you take a look at what are they doing?" They seem to be trying to steal one of your sake. "WHAT THE FUCK!!! HEEEYY!!! DON''T YOU DARE STEAL FROM ME YOU BRATS!!! Koujiro immediately jumped out of the water after hearing that someone is stealing his precious sake. "Crap, he knew, run Luffy, Sabo." "COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE TURDS!!!" ''Summon Wakizashi'' Koujiro summoned his swords then immediately throw it to one of the boy who running near a tree, the sword fly right beside the boy chipping his shoulder a little bit, making he stumbled, surprised by the attack and tripped at the same time. "Aah fu?k I missed." Koujiro clicked his tongue and immediately catch up to the boy who had tripped. "Got you brat hehe, come out you two, or I''ll cut this friend of yours and feed him to the sharks." Koujiro held the boy with his left hand while he summoned his Chokut on the other hand. "Help meeee, Ace, Sabo!!!" The boy cried and struggling to get off the man''s grip. "Look brats, I would hate to kill a kid on my first day here, but if you won''t give me back the shits you stole I would cut this kid." Koujiro put the blade on the boy''s neck making him froze feeling the cold steel that touching his neck. ------------------------------------------------------------- POV Change "What do we do Ace? He might kill Luffy, you see his tattoos, he''s definitely a pirate." "I don''t know Sabo, he might kill us too." "What do you mean Ace? You just going to leave Luffy like we did to him when he was captured by the Bluejam pirates?" "I know Sabo, but that man is different from the Bluejam pirates, he throws that sword with the intent to kill." "Look Ace, just give back his sake and maybe we can apologize to him, we can''t let him kill Luffy, he might be a reasonable person." "Alright you stay behind me, if anything goes wrong, you immediately run, I''ll try to distract him and help Luffy." Ace walked out of the forest holding the crate while Sabo following him. ------------------------------------------------------------- Smiling at the two boys walking out of the forest with the boy on the front holding his sake, he lifted up the boy he''s holding. "There we go, smart move, simple trade, a crate of sake for this boy''s life." Koujiro grinned making the two boys in front of him shivering in fear. "Aww don''t be scared, I''m not biting, I like kids just so you know, I got few nephews myself, I just don''t like my stuff got stolen." "Can you let Luffy go? I''ll give you back your sake, we''re sorry." "Can''t do young man, you get over here, put down the sake, and you''ll follow what I said before I change my mind." He pressed the blade against Luffy''s neck indicating that he''s not playing around. "Okay...okay, just don''t kill him, we''ll do whatever you say." "You, the one on the back, pull out the sword that stuck on that tree." "Y-yes, sir." Sabo jumped in fright after being told by the scary man, he gets to the tree that the sword is lodged into and try to pull it out, after few tries and few positions of pulling later he couldn''t pull it out. "Stay put, don''t try to run or I''ll cut your legs, you sit near him." Koujiro sighed dropping the boy and walk towards the tree to pull it out himself, the Wakizashi is a 30 cm sword, the blade is entirely buried into the tree leaving only the handle hanging. "Man you''re pretty weak for a wannabe thief." He said to Sabo and easily pull out the sword with one hand. "Go sit near your friends." Looking at the boys make him remember of his childhood friends, they were also a trio trouble makers playing Yakuza, all three of them grew up together and also join the same Yakuza clan when they grew up, out of the three only he''s the one who survived and lives long enough to reach age forty. It''s true that living as a modern-day Yakuza is not as dangerous back the golden time, but it''s dangerous nonetheless. Taking a bottle of sake and opened it, he sits in front of the tree kids that still shivering from fear. "Aaah, this shits is good, never get tired of it, now kids, let me ask you a question, do you know what happens to thief if they get caught?" The kids just shake their heads not knowing what to say. "Well, we from the Yakuza like to cut people fingers." The man grinned making the kids shaking while the kids that look like the youngest already leaking tears. "I-is t-that what your pirate crew called sir?" The one who was holding his sake asked. ''Hmm, this kid is pretty brave, most kids would already pee themselves and can''t even utter a single word.'' "Pirate? Aah, you thought that my crew name is Yakuza? I''m not a pirate though, why I would want to be a pirate? Do I look like one?" "W-well you''re full of tattoos and drinks a lot, seems like a pirate to me." "You got guts kid, I like you, what''s your name?" "The name is Ace sir." "Cool name, you two what''s your name?" "Sabo sir." "Luffy." The kids starting to calm down seeing the man is not so scary anymore. "So you brats never heard of Yakuza before?" The kids shook their head again not knowing what the word means, Ace decided to raise his hand wanting to say something. "Shoot." Koujiro saw Ace''s raised hand. "Umm, can you wear some clothes? It''s kinda awkward talking to you while you''re n?k?d." "Ghahaha, what do you mean awkward brat, we''re all men here, besides we Yakuza always do this kinda thing in saunas and bathhouses." "B-but we''re kids old man, and we''re also not a Yakuza." The youngest kids who got caught earlier talked back. "Hmm, fair enough. WHO THE FUCK YOU''RE CALLING OLD MAN YOU BRAT!!!" *wack* Seeing the kid''s head wobble after getting hit and not hearing any complaints from the kid he was surprised, did I hit not hard enough? He thought while he raising his hand to slap the kid again. *wack* "Heey, what''s the second time for?" "How the fu?k you''re not hurting after getting slapped like that?" "Oh, I''m a rubber man, I''m made of rubber." The kid, Luffy saying he''s a rubber man like it just a normal thing. ''Wait, rubber man, Luffy, kinda sounds familiar'' "Say brat, what''s your full name." "What do you want my full name for old man." *wack* "Stop calling me old man, I''m still on my early forty, tell me your full name." "Forty is an old man for me." Ace murmured under his breath but Koujiro heard him easily and earn him a slap to the head, he gave Luffy a look signalling to tell him his full name. "It''s Monkey D Luffy." Koujiro got silent for a moment to connect the dots, after thinking for a while and half bottle of sake later the dots were connected, he realized the kid named Luffy is the main character of his current world. Meanwhile in an unknown realm, the old man who sent Koujiro to the world of One Piece laughing his lungs out watching Koujiro dumbfounded sitting there cross-legged and but n?k?d. "Man this is going to be fun." Said the old man while munching popcorn. Chapter 3 - Shopaholic? ''Ooh shit, I almost butchered the main character of the world, say H, am I even allowed to kill these kids?'' Well, there''s nothing written about no killing the main character of the world, aside changing the whole plotline and the original story that you even b?r?ly know, nothing bad going to happen I ?ssume. But, based on ''general'' moral compass, killing kids is bad. ''No shit Sherlock, I never killed one myself, but I will if I had too.'' You do you Arima-san, I''m just a helper with some morality conscience. ''Did the old man put some sprinkles of ''righteousness'' in your design? If so he did a bad job making a helper that suitable for me.'' Actually no, the creator create me as a blank canvas with self-learning function to adapt the way my partner needed me. ''Well, you adapted the wrong way there chief.'' As I said, you do you Arima-san. "Are you okay old man? You''ve been spacing out like that for five minutes." Luffy waves his hand in front of Koujiro''s face to check if he still there or not. *wack* "What did I said about calling me old man you brat?" "Geez, what''s with the head slaps, we don''t even know your name to begin with, what should we call you then?" Luffy said while rubbing his head feeling annoyed by the head slaps even though he didn''t feel them. "Ha, listen carefully you brats, the name is Arima Koujiro, Oni of Kanto region." Koujiro proudly introducing his name while showing the Oni tattoo on his back. "Cool name heh, people start calling me by the name after I cut my 10th head." Luffy gulped while covering his neck with both of his hands, the other two also did the same. ''This old man is scary.'' The trio thought the same thing and nodded to each other in agreement. "You kids live around here? I thought the island was empty." "Umm, yeah, we live on top of the mountain with the mountain bandits." "So you guys bandits then? Are there any villages or cities nearby? I would prefer going to a village or city rather than a bandit''s camp." "Yeah, there''s Foosha village nearby, and also the capital of Goa Kingdom not far from here and we''re not bandits, we will become pirates when we grew up." "Whatever kid, show me the direction where the city is." "That way." Ace pointed out the general direction of the town. ''Scan the area that the kid pointed at H.'' Scanning...found the city, it''s a big one, surrounded by a wall, with approximately hundreds of thousands population. "Alright, so you brats are going home now or what? It''s already dark though, you can stay with me for the night, I''ll be staying here for tonight and head towards the city early morning tomorrow." "Can you put your clothes on first? Its weird enough talking with you while you''re n?k?d, now you''re asking us to stay with you here while you''re still n?k?d." Ace pointed out that Koujiro is still n?k?d and told him to get dressed before thing getting weirder, the other two just nodded agreeing on what Ace said. "Fine...fine, you brats want to see a magic trick?" Koujiro grinned thinking about showing these kids the inventory works. "What kind of magic?" Luffy immediately interested hearing about magic, koujiro stand up then thought the command to wear his clothes, and right that second the clothes immediately appear on his body as if they were always there. Now Koujiro wearing a white silk shirt bu??oned only halfway showing his two tiger paws tattoos on his ?h?st, a pair of black tailored pants and pair of boots made from alligator skin. "Woah that''s soo cool old man." Luffy shouted with eyes shining like a pair of stars, Koujiro about to slap the kid''s head again when he remembers that he will not feel any pain from the slap and just sighed and move on. "Pay attention, the next one is way cooler." Koujiro smiled and sent a command to store away all of the crates of sake while leaving a bottle on his hand. "Where all those crates go? How did you do that?" The kids amazed and barrage him with questions while Koujiro just stands there smirking. "It''s magic brats." "Can you teach us?" Luffy asked with puppy eyes. "I''m not going to teach some kids, go prepare a fire or something, I''m going to catch some foods, I''m starving." Koujiro folds his sleeves then pull out both his Chokut and Wakizashi, holding the Chokut on his hand and shoving the Wakizashi through his belt on his back. ''Scan the forest for animals H.'' Scanning...found a deer 200 meters north of you. ''Show me where is north, I''m not a compass.'' An arrow showed up on his peripheral showing the direction, moving quickly towards his target he saw the deer and tried to get close for a clean head cut. Before he even gets close, the deer notice him approaching and immediately leaps away. "Shame, you choose the hard way to die." Koujiro said then pull out his Wakizashi from his back and throw the sword with all his strength and struck one of the deer''s leg. "Hah easy, Luffy would''ve been a corpse right now if I was not tipsy from the drinks earlier." Still trying to run away after one of its leg struck by a sword making it basically a three-legged deer, he caught up to the dear easily and immediately cut its head in one swift motion ending the deer''s life." ''Store and clean weapons, store deer corpse, point way back.'' Following the pointer from the helper to get back, after a few minutes of walking he saw the kids already prepared the fire and tents for the night. "I thought you were hunting, I don''t see anything on you." Ace noticed Koujiro walking out of the forest and saw he bring nothing with him. Koujiro drops the deer corpse from the inventory and also give him the Wakizashi for processing the deer. "Here, I ?ssume you know how to skin and cut up a deer, careful the sword is really sharp, you might lose a finger or two if you do not handle it carefully hehehe, I''m going to drink by the fire." "That was fast, you brats got skills." Seeing the kids already finished prepping the deer just in an hour, only experienced hunter or butcher can do it that fast. "Well, we hunt most of our food ourselves." Ace shrugged and give a portion to Koujiro to grill himself. They sat around the campfire eating the meat, even though it''s not seasoned the meat still tastes good, most of the deer meat eaten by the three kids, especially Luffy, Koujiro just eat the meat that Ace handed to him the first time because he''s not a big eater, he just sat there enjoying his sake while watching the three kids eating and chatting happily reminding him again of his childhood friends. Most of the night they spent talking to each other, telling stories, talk about themselves, mostly Koujiro boasting about his few adventures that he got during his time on the Yakuza, also he asks the kid about the pirate and stuff, even though they are children they have much more knowledge about the world than himself. Few hours of talking and a crate of sake later, the kids already asleep in their tent, Koujiro just lying there on his back sipping his sake while watching the stars, he never saw the sky so full of stars like this, back on his world the stars are covered by the light pollution. After a few hours staring the sky and thinking about what would he do tomorrow in the city, he needs money for sure, he would try to maybe find a job first before doing something criminal-ish like robbing people or just straight up cut people and take their stuff. He chuckled at the thought of he cutting people up without getting hunted by the police, there''s law enforcement here like marines and probably the city guards, but you can almost do anything in this world compared to his old one. The world is basically still in medieval times, judged by the pirates and stuff that exist here, hell even he got targeted by the marines the world is a huge world full of islands to hide from the marines. Maybe being a pirate not a bad decision to make, he down his last bottle before going to sleep under the night sky. Next day in the morning the kids and Koujiro say their goodbyes, even though he almost kills one of them Koujiro starting to like these kids after spending the night talking about their life. After saying their goodbyes the kids and Koujiro awkwardly walking toward the same direction, feeling the awkwardness they just walk along until they separate with the kids heading to the mountains while Koujiro takes a turn heading towards the capital. After walking slowly for a few hours enjoying the scenery and killing some monsters every now and then, he reaches the edge of the forest, walking out of the forest he saw mountains of garbage instead of a city wall. ''What the fu?k is this? I thought we''re heading toward a city here H, you''re pointing the wrong way here or what?'' Koujiro covered his nose smelling the awful smell and immediately turn back to the forest. We''re heading toward the city Arima-san, the city is on the other side of the scrap yard. ''What kind of city got a scrap yard right next to it? The king must be stupid, can we go around it? I''m not walking through those trash.'' Koujiro complained about the king''s stupidity, still walking away from the scrap yard to get some fresh air. You can go around it, but estimating the distance and your speed of travel, you will reach the city around afternoon. "Man, I need to find a way to earn some money, I can''t do that if I reach the city when the sun is almost going down, I don''t want to sleep on the street either, YO, OLD MAN, CAN YOU HELP ME OUT HERE?" Koujiro shouted towards the sky hoping the old man would hear him. ??Shut up brat, I can hear you clearly without shouting.?? "Hehehe, can I have some money, please? I don''t want to walk through those trash, and I also don''t want to sleep on the street." Koujiro shamelessly asks for money out of his selfishness. ??This is the first and the last time, there will be no more help from me.?? The old man sighed then give him some money to make him shut up and stop whining. Checking his inventory he saw that he got one million Yen now, grinning like a kid that had given pocket money, he immediately checks out the shop for the first time. "Hehe, thanks old man, you''re the best." ''Now, what we got here, open shop.'' The shop interface shows up with endless categories of things that he can buy. ''Hmm, what should I buy.'' Browsing through the lists, Koujiro starts walking towards wherever the pointer guide him into. After a few minutes of looking through the lists, Koujiro found a weapon section, after looking through the endless choice of weapons and the other weapon-related stuff, stopping at a display of relatively large swords, he taps on it and takes a closer look. ''Hmm, I''ve been wanting one of this huge dachi, the lame-ass government decided that owning one is illegal, well, now there''s no such rule here, sooo buy.'' Buying the sword like buying a candy without even looking at the price tag, Koujiro immediately summons his newly bought sword. Opening up the portal in front of him and slightly above his head, the portal opened facing down dropping the sword. "Woops, heave-ho." *BAM* He caught the sword with both of his hands, then he swung down the sword as hard as he can, making a huge crater on the ground. "Woah, what the fu?k!!!" Stumbling around before falling on his but because he just shattered the ground where he stood, he takes a closer look at his new weapon. "What the hell? Is there a hidden rocket booster on the blade or something? I don''t think I can swing a sword that hard, the sword not even that heavy to begin with, to destroy the ground with its weight alone seems impossible." Koujiro standing up and dusting off his clothes still not realizing his strength is not the same as he was back on earth, putting back the sword into his inventory, he takes a closer look at the sword using the inventory interface for more detailed information about the sword. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Norimitsu Grade: Supreme Grade Meito Description: Norimitsu is known as the largest dachi ever existed, with length over 3 meters and weight over 14 kilograms, some says that its wielded by a giant, some says its created as an ornamental, but the one thing that true is, this sword was crafted by a highly skilled swordsmith. Passive: The sword will automatically adjust itself depending on the wielder needs. Ps. I modified most of the swords to make sure you can use them ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "What the fu?k!!! I know this sword, it was the huge dachi from Kibitsu Shrine in the Okayama Prefecture." He takes out the sword again to take a closer look making sure that it is the same Norimitsu. "Hmm, it''s definitely shorter from the one I saw back on the shrine, is this a fake?" It''s not fake Arima-san, you should read the whole description of the sword. "Ooh, the old man modified the sword, neat ability though." He said it with a flat tone then command the sword to extend to its original length. "Woahahaha, it''s the real huge sword from the shrine!!!" Koujiro amazed by the abnormal long sword and laugh like a kid while swinging it like a twig still not realizing his new strength. A few minutes and a few sliced trees later, Koujiro finished his swinging sword session and put the sword back into his inventory, opening the shop again, he browses the weapon section again like a kid in a toy store. After a few minutes of browsing, he found a sleek black tanto with a small fan symbol on its handle, golden carving on the edge where the handle meets the sheath with another golden carving on its pommel, and wrapped with a white snakeskin pattern rope on the middle of its sheath. Immediately buying the small sword without seeing its price tag, he takes out the sword and takes a closer look at the simple yet beautiful decorated tanto. The Tanto named Tetsugendo. Storing away the sword and getting back to his shopping spree, he browses the weapon section yet again. While scrolling through the infinite amount of weapons, a familiar name flashes right before his eyes, scrolling back up he found it, the name of the sword is Myh Muramasa, the only Muramasa''s sword that designated as an Important Cultural Property, with eyes full of stars thinking about sword crafted by The Muramasa himself is within arms reach to become his, he taps the buy bu??on, instead of a successful purchase notification, the letter that written on his screen is ''Your money is not enough to proceed''. Checking his remaining money, he found out that he only got . 80.000 left, dropping on his knees, he can''t utter a word, one million Yen just poof to thin air like that. Back on the old man place, he''s laughing so hard that he almost choked on his popcorn. Shopping list for today: 1. Norimitsu: . 900.000 2. Tetsugendo: . 20.000 Total: . 920.000 Remaining Money: . 80.000 Chapter 4 - Info dump incoming!!! Gomenasai in advance Gathering his thoughts, Koujiro stand up then continue walking toward the city. ''H, how much the two swords I bought cost?'' The dachi cost . 900.000, the Tanto is . 20.000. ''What the fu?k? The dachi cost 900.000 yen? That''s a little bit overpriced in my opinion.'' Its a Supreme Grade Meito, considering the rarity of a weapon with such grade, 900.000 yen is quite cheap. ''What the fu?k is a Supreme Grade Meito? the sword was an ornament on a shrine.'' Meito is literally a famous sword, you should know that I ?ssume, but in this world, they call the highest quality swords a Meito, the Meito are categorized by three grades depending on their craftsmanship. ''Hmm, I''m kinda interested in these Meito swords, tell me more about them.'' Currently, there are 12 Supreme Grade swords, 21 Great Grade swords, and 50 Skillful Grade swords, but there are also Grade swords, they are the lowest in the Meito categories, the number of how many of these swords exist are unknown. ''What makes the dachi a Supreme grade one? The sword is known as an ornament back in Japan.'' Yes I''m aware that the dachi was crafted not for a combat purpose, but the one you own right now is tempered by The Creator himself using the highest grade materials that even this world doesn''t possess, according to this world standard of craftsmanship, the dachi should be the second or third on the Supreme Grade list, that is evaluated by the overall quality of the sword since the passive of the sword only works when you are the one who wields it, the sword capability in combat is limited from its length alone. "Alright, I''ve got my goal for now, I''m gonna collect all the Meito, how many was it again? 80? Whatever." 83 swords, FYI, there are only 3 Supreme Grade that are known, 5 Great Grade, and 3 Skillful Grade, before you ask why, the information I possess comes from the Manga itself, so far only 11 Meito are revealed by the author, I''ll let you know if there is any new information about the Meito. "Fair enough, 8 swords to collect, first thing first, let''s head to the city then look for a place to sleep." Before you reach the city, I suggest you buy a belt or a harness for your sword, using the inventory will attract unnecessary attention. "Fair enough, I''ll see what I can buy with 80.000 yen left." Browsing the shop once again, to buy some weapon''s attachment this time, after a while he found a particular black sword''s strap with a scale pattern that he never saw before, reading the strap''s description, he found out that the strap is made from a dragon''s skin. Checking for the price this time before buying it, the strap price is 100.000 Yen, almost shedding a tear because he''s broke he decided to buy a regular leather strap instead and another short leather strap for his Wakizashi. Pulling out his Chokut and Wakizashi he ties the long strap on both ends of the Chokut''s scabbard and he ties the Wakizashi using the short strap on his belt left side. After a few hours of walking around the grey terminal, Koujiro found himself on the edge of a cliff, looking around he found the city wall on his right side, walking along the cliffside towards the city wall for another few minutes he reached the end of the city wall. "What the fu?k is this? How I''m supposed to get into the city with a wall in front of me and a cliff on my left side? Am I lost?" Koujiro just stands there scratching his head with nowhere to go besides going back to the scrap yard. No, you''re not lost Arima-san, you are on the right path, you just have to jump down and swim towards the city beach. "Wait what? What do you mean jump? Look at how high is this, I''m good as dead if I jump down, and by the way H, you suck as a navigator." Don''t worry Arima-san, I already calculated everything, and you will not die from jumping down from the cliff, as a guarantee The Creator himself will revive you if you die. "That''s not helping, how about this, tell the old man to make me feel no pain, dying from a fall this high will hurt like a bitch, and also if I died, I want the Muramasa sword to compensate of your shitty calculation." "I don''t want to hear it from you, I want to hear it from you old man." ??Shut up and jump brat, I already turn off your ability to sense pain.?? "Alright...alright let me do some stretching." Lightning up a cigarette to ease his nervousness, he does some stretching, a few minutes later and half pack of cigarettes, he pulls out a bottle of sake and chugs it in one breath. "Here goes nothing, you better keep your word old man." Putting the weapons he carried back into the inventory, he smashed the bottle on his head to test if he really can''t feel pain resulting in some blood dripping down his head, he jumped down. "FUUUUUCK I HATE YOU BOOOOTH!!!!!" He screams as loud as he can while falling down towards the water. *Bam* ''Damn that feels strange'' Grabbing to a rather tall rock, he pulls himself to get out of the rocky area, thinking that he got lucky because he missed all those rocks. Feeling that he''s rather heavy or maybe his hands are still on a shock from the impact, after all, his position when he was hitting the water is not good, he can see that he was landed flat with his face facing the water. Leaning on the tall rock after a few minutes trying to get out of the water, he jumped back down into the water then begin swimming towards the beach. ''What is this weird like itchy feeling on my ?h?st H? Scan my body for permanent injuries.'' You''re fine Arima-san, it''s just your muscle reacting to the impact earlier, you''re only feeling some muscle ache, nothing worse. Reaching a rather remote part of the beach a few minutes later, Koujiro pulls out his two swords that already fitted by the straps he bought earlier, hanging the Chokut on his left shoulder just like hanging a bag, he ties the Wakizashi on his left side belt. While he was walking on an alley, he noticed a hobo leaning on the building wall staring at him with a pale face, just when Koujiro about to ask the hobo a question, he immediately screams out and running away from him, thinking maybe the hobo scared of him because he''s carrying weapons he just shrugged and walks down the alley. Few turns here and there he finally see the main street, while he''s walking down the alley, he glanced toward a big glass window out of curiosity, noticing something wrong from his reflection on the window, he turned around and takes a closer look at his reflection, seeing a gaping hole on his ?h?st, he instinctively touches his ?h?st and looks down to make sure he''s alright, what he sees is his ?h?st literally caved in, and he can feel it too from his hand that touching the edge of the hole on hist chess. Shocked from the realization of what''s happening, Koujiro immediately collapses and lose consciousness. A half-hour later Koujiro found himself lying on an alleyway surrounded by some hobos trying to take his clothes off, realizing that he''s being robbed he immediately grab one of the hoboes who''s trying to take his shirt off and slammed his face into the ground making a splat sounds destroying the poor man''s head, the others got startled and immediately run away while screaming something about the zombie is still alive. Kicking the dead body away from him, Koujiro sits up and lean on the wall to gather his thoughts. Looking down on his ?h?st he found the hole, still quite big but compared to the first time he saw its definitely shrinking. "OLD MAAAAN, YOU BETTER COME DOWN HERE AND EXPLAIN THIS SHITS OR I''LL SLAUGHTER THIS ENTIRE CITY!!!" He screams on top of his newly regenerated lungs clearly pissed of with the old man while startling the people who''re walking on the main street. "Calm down brat, you''re being emotional just like a hormonal teenager right now, there''s no need to make a problem out of this." The old man appears in front of him and immediately summoned two chairs for them to sit on while talking. "Alright, I''m calm now, explain." Koujiro takes a seat and pulling out a bottle of sake and a cigarette. "Well, remember when I said you are dead?" The old man pauses and looks at Koijiro to make sure he''s paying attention. "Yeah, go on I''m all ears." Koujiro nodded then down the sake and light his cigarette resulting in some sake leaking and smoke escaping from his ?h?st because his ?h?st is not fully healed yet. "The thing is, you are neither alive nor dead, actually more leaning towards dead, but the point is I never revived you, I just take your body before your consciousness is gone from your brain, then modified your dead ''body'' to stay functioning just with your consciousness alone." The old man pauses again making sure Koujiro understand. "I only got the I''m still dead part, make it simple old man, my weapons got stolen, my finger is itching wanting to cut someone." "Don''t worry about that, your weapons have a tracker in them you can look for them later. It''s going to be a bit long, so pay attention, usually, the human brain can last for ten minutes after the body died, but on your case, all the drugs and alcohol already making your ''body'' dead before I sensed your death through your consciences that was fading away, the simple version is all the drugs and alcohol you consumed that night, is so lethal that it''s instantly killed your body right after you passed out, simultaneously the drugs were going after your brain but before you were truly dead that is stated after your brain is dead, I sensed it, then saved your brain by stopping the drugs from reaching your brain, I put a barrier to stop the drug then take your body then put you in this world." "Okay correct me if I''m wrong, so, tons of drugs, I passed out, then poof my body dead from the drugs, right after that the drugs coming for my brain then you saved me, well half of me, then you drop me at the beach, but why can''t you just like give me a new body or something like that?" Koujiro impressively read back using the simple/dumb version then opened a new bottle and immediately chug it to cool down his overheating brain. "Ouch, why the fu?k I feel pain on my ?h?st, I was fine a minute ago." "I turned back on your ability to feel pain, you have to get used to it. Before you ask what do I mean by getting used to it, I''m going to tell you a part of the letter I gave you that you never read. So, I dropped you at the beach, left you there for I don''t remember how long after your body was clean from the drugs and other harmful substances, well some parts of your body, I modified your ''whole'' body including the brain giving you a really strong regenerative ability. Again, before you ask me why your ?h?st is not fully healed yet, your whole body is still healing from all the damage the drugs done to you, I would say you have to avoid getting lethal injuries for 3 to 4 months because you can still be killed if you got a major injury to your brain, depending on what part of your brain got hit, my point is, protect your head until your body is fully recovered, as for giving you a new body, I''m just too lazy to find a suitable body that can connect perfectly with your brain/consciousness, altering your body with a ready blueprint is way easier." "Umm, fu?k old man!!! That''s a lot to take in, can you heal me up real quick I need to take a really nice long sleep for this." "Alright, remember to protect your head, I will not giving you any help if you die by your own recklessness." "Heard you loud and clear old man, see you later." He waves to the old man then walks out from the alleyway and head towards the tall buildings that he ?ssumes the town centre to find a hotel or inn. 2nd shopping list of the day: 1.Black leather strap (long): . 4.000 2.Black leather strap (small): . 1.000 Total: . 5.000 Remaining Money: . 75.000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extra Author Note, can''t fit the few disclaimers and an explanation with the usual A/N First of all, don''t quote me on these brain and body dead things, I''m not a medical expert, just google some things then put them in there to BS my through the plot. And about the Meito, I write what I found on the Wiki don''t quote me on that either. The MC hang his Chokut just like on the cover if you don''t understand my description, I suck at it can''t do anything about that, and I know the cover is too dark, I will try to fix that when I got extra free time. Chapter 5 - Heist After half hour of walking towards the town centre, Koujiro found a tavern on the border of slum area and the town centre, entering the tavern, he noticed the tavern is full of mercenaries like men with at least a weapon or two hanging on their waist. Walking straight to the bar while all the eyes are looking at him because he''s not a familiar face, he takes a seat on the barstool and waves his hand to the burly male bartender. "What do you want?" The bartender approaches and asks him while cleaning a mug. "Give me a bottle of your best booze and do you have any vacant room?" "We have a room, five hundred berries per day without food, the drink is one thousand five hundred berries." The bartender replied giving him a bottle of whiskey and putting a room key on the bar table. Shoving his hand into his pocket and taking a few thousand berries from his inventory, he pays for the drink and five hundred berries for a room. A few minutes and a half bottle later, while Koujiro talking with the bartender mostly asking information about the kingdom, a group of men entered the tavern. Your ''Head Chop Chop'' is nearby, it''s in the tavern vicinity. A text appears warning Koujiro about his sword. "Does one of the men just entered carrying a black straight sword with no handguard?" He asks the bartender while the bartender just nodded answering him. "Well, that''s made the job easier, sorry about this, I''ll pay for it later." Koujiro apologizes to the bartender earning him a raised eyebrows from the bartender while Koujiro getting off from the barstool and bring it along with him towards the group of men that were just arrived. Spotting the man that carrying his sword, he approaches him and smashes the man''s head with the barstool sending the man flying out of the tavern. Before the others could react, Koujiro already outside the tavern pummeling the man, surprised by what just happened the rest of the group and some men from the tavern head outside and found a man got beaten half-dead lying on the ground with blood all over his face and the other man picking a sword from the ground with blood dripping from his hand. "Heeey! Who the fu?k are yo...AAAAHHH!!!" One of the man''s friends who got beat up approaches Koujiro and throws a punch, but before the punch could land, he screams on top of his lungs because of his hand just got cut off by the man who he was about to punch. Right before the man could run towards his friends, Koujiro cut his head off then also cut the man''s head who carried his sword. "Heh, thanks for bringing my sword to me." Koujiro said after cutting his head and sheathed his sword simultaneously storing the sword into the inventory then cleaned it using one of the inventory''s convenient features in a split second making the sword flickered on his hands. The rest of the group panicked after what happened and scattered running for their life, walking back into the tavern, some men got scared by him while some men who just sitting on their seat calmly looking at his sword because the sword is really sharp thinking maybe it''s one of the Meito. "Sorry about that, my swords got stolen when I was passed out drunk earlier, let me know if you heard about my other sword, it looks the same as this, just shorter." Koujiro said while taking a seat again on the bar and giving the bartender some money to pay for the broken barstool and door then drinks his half bottle of whiskey. ''This man is crazy.'' The bartender thought and took the money without saying anything back then ordered his employees to throw away the bodies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Walking downstairs after a good night sleep, he heads straight towards the bar area while sipping a bottle of sake, taking a seat on one of the barstools, Koujiro hollered at the bartender. "Yo, got any food?" Asked Koujiro then sip more sake earning a raised eyebrows from the bartender noticing a bottle of liquor that doesn''t come from his bar. "Umm, you can''t bring foods or drinks from the outside sir." The bartender hesitates to warn Koujiro after what he did yesterday. "Relax, here take a sip, it''s really good." Koujiro ignored the warning instead he offered the drink to the bartender, the bartender got curious and approaches Koujiro bringing a small shot glass with him. Pouring some of the sake just one-third of the small glass, he sipped just a little bit to taste it first, after tasting the strange sake, the bartender''s eyes immediately opened wide clearly surprised by its taste. "Woah, what kind of sake is this sir? It''s really good." The bartender can''t believe what he just tasted, he already tried every kind of drinks from around the world when he was a pirate but never taste a drink as good as this. "I know right, how about this, I will give you one bottle of the unopened bottle, all I want is, I want to know everything, about this kingdom and area around it, and depending on the information you gave me, I might add extra bottles, I can tell that you were a pirate from a glance alone, so tell me everything you know, and also give me your best food." "Wait, we should talk on the back, I will tell you everything I know, some might change your mind about the extra bottles into a whole crate." The bartender gladly accepts while guiding Koujiro into the staff room and tell his cooks to make some foods. Taking a seat on one of the sofas, Koujiro plopped down and spread his legs and arms entering the Yakuza mode he usually uses to make himself look intimidating in negotiations. "Let me hear your informations that worth a crate of these sakes." "I heard rumours about a Celestial Dragon that will visit the Goa Kingdom around one or two months from now." "Is that it? I don''t give a fu?k about some dogs playing god, that''s not even worth half bottle, you better have something good or you will lose your head wasting my time." Koujiro already learned about the important things about One Piece world last night and some of his powers from The Helper. "Wait...wait...wait, that''s not all, I heard this information from a pirate, he said that all the nobles from the high town and the royalty will be welcoming the Celestial Dragon at the city ports, they will also bring a lot of guards with them, leaving only a few guarding the palace and high town." "I get where your information going to, so this pirate, you know him?" "I never see his bounty poster, he''s probably a new pirate, he''s quite young he always bringing this long rifle everywhere, he usually visits the tavern around noon, I heard that he''s recruiting for a heist on the high town, initially he was going to rob the royal palace, but no one wants to join him, then he changed his target to just robbing some of the mansion on the high town." "Why the fu?k are these dogs afraid of robbing the royal palace while all the guards are at the ports? What a bunch of pussies." "Whatever, if the pirate you said come to the tavern, tell him that I want to talk to him, I''m going to look for my other sword first, after some breakfast that is, where the fu?k are my foods?" Koujiro chugs his sake then pulls out a crate for the bartender while grinning to him clearly surprised seeing the crate appear out of nowhere. Chapter 6 - Arisaka Jin After the foods arrived Koujiro ate them while listening to the bartender talks about the Kingdom and the sea where they are at. Few hours of stories and information gathering later, when they walked out of the staff room, Koujiro noticed a man with a long rifle leaning on the table eating alone on a table placed on the corner of the tavern. "Is that the pirate you were talking about?" Koujiro whispered to the bartender interested in the gunner who''s clearly a Japanese but dressed like a cowboy, the bartender just nodded as an answer and get back to the bar. The man is from Wano, it''s a country just like Japan when it was in the Shogunate era. The Helper informed him while he''s walking towards the table on the corner of the tavern. "I heard that you are recruiting for a job." Koujiro said then takes a seat in front of the man. The man glanced towards the stranger who suddenly sat on his table and asks about a job. "Yeah I do, you want to join in?" The man replied then get back to his food. "I already heard about you from the bartender, I''m not interested in the high town, I''m more interested in the royal palace one, I ?ssume you had some kind of plans for the royal palace before you scrapped them then go for the high town instead." "What if I did have some plans?" "Well, let me see them, I''m gonna do the royal palace while you and your people do the high town, I''ll pay for them if you want, how many people have you gathered anyway?" "Around ten people including me, and 2 carriages to haul the stuff, how many people do you have?" "One, only me no one else, more money for me, I thought you are a pirate, where are your crews?" "Going into the royal palace alone, are you a devil fruit user? I don''t mind letting you go alone though, more distraction for me, and I''m not a pirate, some people saw me get off from a pirate ship a few months back then the rumours just spread." "Not a devil fruit user, but I''m good at cutting people heads off." Koujiro said while showing the man his sword. "Whatever, I have the castle''s blueprint, here no need to pay for it, just make it noisy up there when we''re doing the job." The man pulls out a scroll from his jacket and put it on the table. "Nice, I''m gonna study it later, I need to find my sword, its got stolen yesterday, its look like this just shorter, heard anything about it?" "Umm, yeah I think I saw something like that yesterday, a homeless man offered the sword to me, but I don''t use a sword so I told him to fu?k off because I knew it was stolen, you should search around the slum area, he might still have the sword." "Alright, see you later, YOOO BARTENDER, PUT THIS DUDE DRINKS AND FOODS ON MY TAB." Koujiro shouted to the bartender then walked out of the tavern. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A half-hour after walking around the slum area, Koujiro found the hobo that stole his weapon talking to a man offering the weapon to him, Koujiro does a quick job on the thief cutting all his limbs then left him bleed to death. "What? You want some of this?" Koujiro asks the other man while picking his Wakizashi from the ground. "Nah I''m good, I knew it was stolen anyway." The man just shrugged and walked away not wishing for trouble from the crazy man. ''Show me the way to the beach H, I need to clean this blood from me.'' Koujiro told The Helper then walks towards wherever The Helper points him into. Arriving at the beach he noticed a man sitting on top of a rock with a long rifle leaning on it, the man immediately turned around and grabbed his rifle when he heard someone approached behind him. "Woah there cowboy, calm down it''s me." Koujiro said while raising his arms still walking towards the beach. "You found the thief?" The gunner asks noticing blood all over Koujiro''s body. "Yeah, found him trying to sell my sword to a pirate, cut all his limbs off then left him there bleeding to death, what are you doing here?" "Woah man, could you not? I like woman, I don''t swing that way." The gunner surprised at Koujiro taking his clothes off in front of another man. "What do you mean swing that way you fu?k, I like woman myself, I''m just going for a swim, can''t you see my clothes are drenched in blood? I thought you are from Wano, you never been to saunas or bathhouses back in Wano?." "I did, but we just met you weirdo, at least say something before you get n?k?d." "Jeez, what a drag, it''s not like I''m swinging my d??k in front of you or something, shut up and let me clean this blood off of me. Koujiro just shrugged it off then swim around while scrubbing his body cleaning the blood. Swimming towards the beach after cleaning himself, Koujiro walks toward the gunner who still sitting on top of the rock. Before the gunner said anything, Koujiro''s n?k?d body flickered then a set of fresh outfit appear on his body making the gunner surprised. "I thought you said you are not a devil fruit user?" The gunner asks pointing at Koujiro still walking towards him. "Duuh, did you not saw I was swimming just fine earlier?" Koujiro said while picking up his swords then stare at the gunner. "Uuuh, yeah you should have drowned back there if you are a devil fruit user, so what is that? Your clothes just magically appear on your body." The gunner asks still confused. "It''s magic, but everyone who saw me did it never survived, sorry man I liked you but you saw me using it." Koujiro said then opened a portal above him summoning the Norimitsu, holding the huge sword above him, Koujiro grinned at the gunner. After hearing what the weird man said, the gunner immediately grabbed his rifle and aim at the man''s head, before he pulls the trigger, he saw the man pulled out a familiar huge dachi out of thin air surprising him and hesitate to shoot or ask the man where did he get the sword from. "Woah...woah not the head!!!" Seeing the gunner aiming at his head Koujiro instinctively shouted, but strangely the gunner moved his rifle and shot at Koujiro arm instead. *BANG* The shot was fired and hit Koujiro''s left arm punching a hole through it, feeling his grip on the sword slipping he immediately put the sword back into the inventory before grabbing his arm that got shot. "WHAT THE FUCK, THAT''S HURTS LIKE HELL!!!" Koujiro shouted at the gunner while grabbing his arm. "You were about to kill me, and who the fu?k shouted ''not the head'' when he was aimed by a rifle, what a weirdo." The gunner stands up then lower his gun seeing the weird man not going to attack anymore. "I was kidding man, what the fu?k, I was going to swing the sword just next to you." Koujiro said already sitting on the ground still complaining how hurt it is getting shot by a rifle on point-blank range. "Who the fu?k joking about killing someone then pulled out a huge dachi out of nowhere." The gunner said also already sitting back on the rock. "Fuck you, you have no sense of humour, we did this almost every day back in the Yakuza, especially to a Yakuza with a stick up their ?ss like you, I saw it, your tattoos and your way of looking at me at the tavern after noticing I''m also a Yakuza from looking at my tattoos, you suck at hiding your expression." Koujiro babbling to the gunner still hurting from the hole in his hand. "Fuck your sense of humour, your old fu?kers jokes are lame. I saw your dachi, is that the Norimitsu?" The gunner said not wanting to argue anymore with the weird man. "Umm yeah, you know about it?" "Of course I know about it, it''s one of the Supreme Grade Meito, someone stole it from Flower Capital a hundred years ago and fled from Wano, where did you found it?" ''Umm, care to explain H?'' Koujiro confused after hearing that the Norimitsu came from Wano. It''s The Creator''s doing Arima-san, he made the story up for the sword to looks legit, just say to him you found it somewhere on your journey. "Uuh yeah, I found it on north blue, I think it was from some pirates." "I''m glad you found it, it was one of the country''s national treasure along the Shusui which is also stolen like around ten years ago." ''H?'' Shusui is one of the Great Grade Meito, say to him that you heard about it. "I heard about Shusui a few years back." "Really? Are you sure its the same Shusui?" It''s a black sword with a flower shape crossguard, say it''s somewhere on Paradise. "Yeah, I heard someone said that some pirates saw a black sword with a flower-shaped crossguard somewhere on Paradise." "Anyway, how about we talk about this on the tavern with some sake? I have a perfect sake, I bet you would like it, and what''s your name cowboy? Mine is Koujiro, Arima Koujiro." Koujiro said trying to distract the gunner from asking any more questions about the swords then puts his arm around the gunner''s shoulders dragging him towards the tavern. "My name is Jin, Arisaka Jin." Chapter 7 - First Mate Arriving at the tavern, both ex Yakuza take a seat on the table Jin used earlier and ordered some snacks and drinks to accompany their conversations. "Well, tell me about yourself Jin." Koujiro started the conversation while handing out Jin a bottle of sake and opened one for himself. "Where should I start, I came from the Arisaka family, you probably never heard of us, we were just a small family back then when Wano still ruled by the Kozuki family, but when Orochi and the Beast pirate take over, we Arisaka family become gunsmiths, but I''m better at using a gun rather than making one, so I joined the Yakuza, that''s pretty much it I guess." Jin said then opened his sake, taking a sip, his eyes widened for a moment then just shrugged it off because he is more a whiskey kind of guy. "Yeah, I never heard of you family before, so what makes you leave Wano? Your boss was Kyoshiro, right?" "Yeah, you know about him? I left Wano because I want to see the outside world looks like, nothing personal." "Nothing much, I left Wano pretty much after boss Hyogoro got captured by Orochi''s men, so that rifle of yours made by your family?" "Yeah, my father made it, it''s the best rifle he ever made, but I modified it a little bit so I can fight with it in close combat, I actually fight better at close combat rather than the usual sniper style, but I still can shoot target few kilometres away, so what is that magic you showed me at back at the beach?" "Eh, it''s just something I learned back on New World on some island, I forgot what the island called." Koujiro said bullshitting about his inventory. Both men talked back and forth about their journey for hours, mostly Koujiro''s stories came from The Helper. "Let me know when the dogs are coming, I''ll clean up the palace''s treasury hehehe, I''ll stay here in the meantime." Koujiro said getting up from his seat then walked towards the bar to continue drinking. ------------------------------------------------------------- A month and a half passed, Koujiro spent his time mostly on the tavern drinking and works as a bouncer for the tavern, aside from getting drunk and kicking some troublemakers out of the tavern, he spent his spare time getting used to his new strength and learn few tricks helped by The Helper. He now can lift up to a few tons and crush a boulder with the size of a house with few punches and a single swing with a full-size Norimitsu, and his regeneration speed also improved although he still has to reattach his limb if got cut instead of growing a whole new limb. While Koujiro drinking on the bar, as usual, Jin visit the tavern and took a seat next to him, and ordered few shots of whiskey. "My informer said that the dogs are coming tomorrow, I and my men are ready, you''ve studied the palace''s blueprint?" "I''ve taken a look at the blueprint, I know where the goods are." "Alright, I just came to tell you that, I have to prepare some stuff and round up the men, remember, make it noisy up there." "Got it, pick me up first before you going to the high town, I could use a ride there to save time." Koujiro said before Jun walks out the tavern. Next day early in the morning, Koujiro already sitting at the bar waiting for Jin and his men, few minutes of waiting and a sake bottle later, Jin arrived in front of the tavern with driving a carriage. "Yo, hop in, the other carriage already on its way to the high town." Jin said while standing on the door. Koujiro walked out of the tavern then hopped on the carriage sitting next to Jin. A few minutes later they arrived on the almost empty high town, passing through a gate with two guards, they checked the carriage and ask what is their purpose entering the high town, saying that they''re doing a construction job on a noble mansion, the guards let him pass. Dropping Koujiro near the Royal Palace, Jin drive the carriage towards the inner area of high town. "Hold there and drop your weapon!" Shouted one of the guards after spotting a man running towards them while holding a huge sword. Koujiro ignored the guards and run through the guards swinging his sword cutting the guards in pieces and destroying the gate. Sounds of walls and buildings getting destroyed from the Royal Palace can be heard throughout the high town making all the guards around the high town heading to the Royal Palace. Koujiro cut and destroy everything in his path and heads straight towards the treasury. Meanwhile, on a mansion, Jin and his men are unloading their stuff from the carriage a scroll dropped from the carriage''s seat, picking up the scroll Jin opened it and see the Royal Palace''s blueprint that he gave to Koujiro with a straight line from the main gate towards the treasury drawn on it. "Hehe, what a crazy man." Jin said after seeing the straightforward plan that Koujiro sketch on the blueprint. On the Royal Palace, Koujiro kill everyone that blocking his way, after a few minutes of destroying walls and killed some guards, he reached the treasury, destroying the huge metal double doors after few swings of his huge swords, there he sees a mountain of gold and money inside the treasury. "Yoo Jin, you guys better hurry up, I saw some soldiers running towards the high town from the town centre, meet me at the tavern, I''ll kill the guards on the gate." Koujiro shouted while standing at the doorway then run towards the high town gate killing the guards there. Leaving the high town area, he found an empty house and take a quick bath cleaning all the blood from his body. After taking a bath, he wears his last set of clean clothes and stores his weapons into the inventory, exiting the house he walks slowly towards the tavern while a bunch of soldiers running towards the high town. After an hour of waiting for Jin on the tavern, he arrived on the tavern wearing a big smile on his face. "Heh, you met the soldiers?" Koujiro said while handing out a bottle of whiskey to Jin. "Yeah we did, we killed them all though, you didn''t hear the gunshots?" Jin replied then opened his bottle of whiskey and chug it halfway. "Nah, it''s too noisy in here earlier, they were talking about some kid on a boat got shot by a cannon on the port and the grey terminal got burned down last night I just heard about it from these goons, you got nice loot?" Koujiro just shrugged not caring about what happened. "Oh yeah, I heard about the grey terminal this morning, when we get there to hide the carriages everything is burned down." "Got any plan where to go after this?" Koujiro asked Jin. "I got no plan for now, just waiting for things to cool down then sell all the loot and split it with the boys." "How about sail with me? I got a ship on the gulf near the grey terminal, it''s a frigate so we can operate it with ten men, bring along your heist crew, I don''t know if there are a witness or not, but it''s better to flee from the kingdom after what you guys did." Koujiro already bought a ship on his way back from the high town using the money he took from the Royal Palace. "Sail like a pirate?" Jin asked him. "Umm yeah, you''re already a criminal anyway, you can be the first mate if you want." "I would go with you, but I''ll talk with the men first." Jin accepted and both men handshake to seal the deal. "Wait, also bring your loot to the ship tomorrow, I can help you sell them." Koujiro said to Jin before he walked out the tavern and Jin just waved his hand. Drinking his ?ss off until the tavern close, he fell asleep on the bar like every other day. Waking up early in the morning from the alarm sound inside his head, he gets out of the tavern and walks toward the grey terminal to take out the ship he bought and place it where he agreed to meet Jin yesterday. Arriving at the gulf area on the grey terminal, he takes out the ship by placing the portal above the water dropping the ship. The ship is a three-masted frigate. Her stern was decorated in crimson-red and gold colours, along with the name of the vessel. The bow and the sterncastle were decorated with numerous miniature skeletons, while the outer walls of the captain''s cabin were decorated with numerous skulls, with fifteen cannons on each side and two chase guns in front of the ship. Hopping on to the ship, Koujiro look around then take asleep on a hammock hanged near the ship mast. Shopping list for today: 1. Frigate Class Ship: . 500.000.000 Remaining Money: . 1.500.070.000. Chapter 8 - Queen Annes Revenge + Sword of Triton (Blackbeard Pirate Pack) Jin''s POV After meeting with Koujiro, Jin walked back towards the inn where he and the other men he did the robbery stay at. Arriving at the inn, he gathered all the men in his room to talk about the offer Koujiro gave him to sail with him as pirates. "Alright, I gathered you all here because Koujiro, the man who cleans up the Royal Palace by himself gave me an offer." Jin said to the men in his room after all of them gathered. "He got a ship, and he invited us to sail with him, I accepted the offer, I just telling you guys this to ask if you want to join us or not, it''s your choice to make, and he also can help us to get rid off the loots from the high town." Jin continued and tell the men about Koujiro''s offer. "Do you believe in this man Jin?" One of the men raised his hand and ask Jin the question. "I believe him, he will kill people without hesitation I can tell you that, but he kills with a reason, and he also came from the same place I am, so I can guarantee you that he''s a decent man." "I''ll join as long as I got paid." Another man said then the rest nodded along agreeing with him. "You guys can talk about that with the man himself tomorrow, he docked his ship on the gulf near the grey terminal." Jin said to them while the men just nodded and get back to their own room. Next day in the morning, Jin wakes up and do his usual stuff, doing some exercise then some breakfast, he met with the others at the Great Gate right before the grey terminal. Entering the grey terminal together, they pick up the carriages where they put the loots in, after a few minutes of driving with their carriages to the gulf area where they agreed to meet, they saw a black ship with black sails docked near the inner gulf. Driving the carriages closer to the ship, they got near the stern of the ship where the ship''s name is written, the ship is called.... "Queen Anne''s Revenge" All of them said at the same time after noticing the ship''s name. "Permission to board captain!" Jin shouted towards the ship after he gets next to the ship. ------------------------------------------------------------- Koujiro''s POV I''m Detecting ten people approaching the ship. The Helper warned Koujiro and wakes him up from his sleep, Koujiro gets off from the hammock while grunting from the headache he got from the hangover, he pulls out a bucket of water from his inventory and washes his face to freshen up. "Permission to board captain!" Koujiro heard someone shouted from below the ship, he walked towards the starboard side and he noticed Jin and his men are on the ground below his ship with two carriages with them. "Permission granted." Koujiro simply replied after seeing who was asking for permission to get on the ship. "Rather an odd ship you got here capt, it''s suits you though, hahaha." Jin said while shaking his hand after noticing the bones decorations up close. "Funny Jin, is that all your loots?" Koujiro said while pointing at the two carriages. "Yeah that''s all of them, but before you take them, the others want to talk with you about something." Jin said while gesturing a hand sign of money to Koujiro. "Well, say what you want." Koujiro turns to the others asking what they want making them a little bit intimidated by him with his almost two meters height and what he did yesterday. "W-well, we were wondering if we will get paid by sailing with you." "Duh, of course you dumb ?ssess will get paid, if you do your work properly that is, what do you expect? I''ll talk to you about how fun our adventures will get and fulfilling our dream type shits? Of course no, we''re pirates, we pillage and rob and some other shits, then we go to the grand line to join the big boys up there." "Fair enough." Said back the man with a pair of balls. "Alright, prepare to sail you dumb fu?kers, we''re going around the island to get some supplies on Foosha village." Koujiro said then jump off the ship to put the carriages into his inventory. "Yoo Jin! You want to eat some horses?" Shouted Koujiro after storing the carriages into his inventory. "You can cook horses?" Jin replied back while looking down from the ship. "No, you?" "No, just let the horses go then." "Alright, I''m coming up." Koujiro let go the horses then jumped back on to the ship and head towards the helm with Jin following behind him. "Queen Anne''s Revenge heh, kinda cool name." Said Jin while standing beside Koujiro. "I know right, she''s also a cool ship, I''ll show you around later." Replied Koujiro while steering the ship out of the gulf. Arriving on the shore near Foosha village, the crew gathered on the deck after docking the ship on a small pier. "Here some money to buy supplies, we need supplies for around a month on the sea, I and Jin will stay on the ship to guard the ship, don''t make any trouble while you''re on the village." "Don''t forget to buy some liquors." Koujiro said before the men get off the ship. Taking Jin around the ship, he led Jin into the room where the flamethrower is located, the room is in the lower deck and on the bow side. After a few minutes showing Jin around the ship, they get into the captain''s cabin, the cabin got a normal small size bed, a couch on the side and a table for maps in the middle of it, but on top of the table, there''s a large sword embedded into the table. *Whistle* "Would you look at that, nice sword there capt, I never thought you are also a broad sword guy." Jin whistled after seeing the broad sword that is embedded into the table. "I''m not a fan to be honest, but I would use a broad sword, besides the sword is just a bonus that came with the ship." Koujiro replied then pulled out the sword from the table, the sword hummed when it was pulled out from the table simultaneously the ship was shaking the moment the sword got pulled from the table. "Well, that was weird." Jin said after the ship stops shaking. "Remember when I said something about magic?" Koujiro said having a good idea after finding out what sword he''s holding right now. "Yeah, is this one of those magic?" Jin is curious about what would Koujiro show to him now. "Let''s head outside, you''ll see something cooler than the thing you saw at the beach." Koujiro said while walking out of the cabin. "Pay attention to the ship." Koujiro said then holding up the sword while focusing on the sword to make the ship and its components move, after focusing on the sword for a few seconds, a rope on deck begins to move on its own, not long after everything on the ship starts to move on their own. "Damn that''s cool, what kind of sword is that?" Jun amazed by what just happened. "It''s called Sword of Triton, the one who wields it can control all vessels at sea." Koujiro replied while sheathing the sword on its huge scabbard then put it into his inventory. "Neat power, it would really helpful on a battle." "Definitely helpful, that''s why we''re stocking for a month of supplies, we''re going to plunder any ships that we can find hehehe." Koujiro laughed while rubbing both of his hands like an evil mastermind. After showing Jin around the ship, they sat down on the deck drinking and playing cards while waiting for the crew to come back. A few hours later the crew come back from the village carrying various supplies with them, after storing the supplies away Koujiro gathered the crew again on the deck. "Alright, now we have supplies we need to arrange who will do what task around the ship, who can steer and navigate a ship?" Koujiro asks the crew after they''ve gathered on the deck. Jin and another man raised their hand indicating that they somewhat know how to steer or navigate a ship. "Jin is a no, you''re on crow''s nest duty, here''s a telescope." Koujiro gave Jin the crow''s nest duty then hand him a telescope which he just bought when they were playing cards. "You, what''s your name?" Koujiro asks the other man who raised his hand. "My name is Robert cap." Replied Robert. "Alright, Robert is our Sailing Master, for the rest ask Jin since he''s the First Mate and knows all of you longer than me, after Jin appointed your task set sail immediately and head south, I will be on my cabin if you need me, here Robert catch, remember, south." Koujiro said then throw a compass towards Robert before entering his cabin. Today shopping list: 1. Supplies: . 9.000.000 2. Handheld Telescope: . 4.000 3. Compass: . 2.000 Total: . 9.006.000 Remaining Money: . 1.491.064.000 Chapter 9 - Do you fear death? After giving out orders to the crew, Koujiro gets into his cabin then walked towards the table that placed in the middle of the room. Pulling out a map of the east blue that he got from the Royal Palace treasury, he spread it down the table then takes a look at the map. According to the map, south of the Dawn island should be only a vast ocean with small islands here and there along the way, calculating how long it would take for them to reach the next island if they continue heading towards the south with The Helper ?ssistance, The Helper stated that they will reach an island after two weeks sailing straight towards the south. Leaving the table after knowing their destination, he takes a seat on the couch then learn some stuff about navigation and a few more things about One Piece world with the ?ssistance of The Helper. ------------------------------------------------------------- Crow''s nest officer(Jin) POV "Alright, you heard the captain orders, each of you take your own post, Robert steer us away from this island and head south as the captain ordered, get ready to set sail men!" Jin said after Koujiro entered his cabin then he climbed up to the crow''s nest to look around the surrounding. The crew get to work rolling down the sails then pulled up the anchor, the sails immediately pick up the wind and Robert steer the ship away from the island while looking at the compass. Sitting on top of the crow''s nest, Jin sat there alone accompanied by a bottle of whiskey and his rifle. Looking around the horizon every 30 minutes and playing with his rifle in between, time passed by and the sun is going down behind the ship, having the best view on the ship, Jin saw a beautiful sunset on the edge of the horizon. "Jin, there''s a thunderstorm heading to us, should we avoid the thunderstorm?" Robert shouted towards the crow''s nest after noticing the thunderstorm approaching the ship. "No, maintain the heading, we can take the storm, warned the men to standby on their posts to keep the ship head straight to the south!" Jin said after looking into his binocular, seeing the size of the storm, he knew that they better go straight through it rather than going around it. "Men! Get to your post! We''re entering a thunderstorm! Standby and watch the sails!" Robert shouted out the orders after hearing Jin''s reply. Entering the storm, the ship immediately got hit by a strong wind and huge waves hitting them rocking the ship left and right. Sailing straight through the storm with full sails opened, the Queen Anne''s Revenge gain speed and cut through the waves that towering above ten metres tall. After half hour entering the storm, Jin spotted a ship got thrown around by the waves few hundred metres away from them. Jumping down from the crow''s nest, he told Robert to change heading towards the unknown ship then jumped down to the deck and knock on the cabin''s door. Jin knocked on the door. ------------------------------------------------------------- Koujiro POV *knock...knock...knock* Koujiro wakes up from the sound of someone banging on his door, looking through the window on his side, he sees that they are in a storm, getting up from the couch, he walks towards the door then opened it. "Cap, I spotted a ship few hundred metres from us also got caught up in the storm, and we''re currently pursuing the ship from behind." Jin said as soon as the door opened. "Pick a position to shoot from Jin, I''ll coming up in a second." Koujiro said and Jin only nodded then climb up back to his crow''s nest readying his rifle. "Fold up all the sails! And man the starboard cannons you dumb fu?kers!" Koujiro yelled then the crew scrambling around trying to fold up the sails while some busy carrying cannonballs and place them near the cannons. Pulling the Sword of Triton from its sheath after all the sails are folded up, he controlled the ship to move toward the side of the unknown ship, lining his ship with the starboard side facing the unknown ship, Koujiro stopped the ship using the sword''s power. "Aim at their mast men! Fire when ready!" *bang* Multiple cannons blasted while some hit the mast and the rest punching a hole through the ship''s deck. "Prepare to booaaard!" Koujiro yelled after seeing the mast fell down, some men threw hooks with a rope tied into them then pulled the ship closer while some men carrying a plank to make a bridge between the ships. Sounds of a gun being fired from on top of the crow''s nest, Jin from on top of the crow''s nest shooting down the sailors one by one while the crew board the ship and begin killing the sailors. Watching his crew fights from the helm of his ship and helping them a little bit here and there using the sword''s power, the sailors gave up after ten minutes of fighting a losing battle. *fweeep* Koujiro whistled and the crew immediately turn their attention towards their captain with Jin jumping down from the crow''s nest. "Order cap?" Jin asked after getting down and stand in front of Koujiro. "Gather the survivors on our ship and line them up, I got a plan for them hehehe." Koujiro said thinking about what he will do, with the stormy weather in the middle of the night, a perfect scene for a fun little play, thought Koujiro while walking towards his cabin. Opening the shop after he entered the cabin, he bought an item called ''Super Realistic Halloween Costume'' in the miscellaneous section. Buying a costume of a character from a pirate movie, he wears the costume transforming his entire looks into an entirely different person, Koujiro now has tentacles as beards, a crustacean style claw as his left arm, and his right leg resembles a crab leg. Wearing black boot on his left leg, a red pirate coat with golden trimmings, an orange waistcoat, and a tricorn hat which had the same light blue colour as his coat and a similar thin golden brim along the edge. Its front corn was bigger than the other two and divided so that its silhouette resembled the devil''s horns, the name of the character he''s wearing is "Davy Jones." Jin said with a naval sound unlike his original one, the costume has a voice changer and nerve connectors to the brain for extra limbs. "Jin, come here!" Kohjiro yelled at Jin after changing his voice back while peeking his head out of the door. "Whoa, what the fu?k?" Jin surprised after entering the cabin and saw a humanoid tentacle monster inside his captain''s cabin and aim his rifle towards the tentacle monster. "Yo...yo...yo, calm down, it''s me, I''m wearing a costume." Koujiro said while moving to the side avoiding the gun. "What the fu?k are you doing? I almost shot you, you weird fu?k!" "Hehehe, relax man, I got a plan, tell the crew about my costume, and did the captives already lined up?" "Yeah, they are lined up, I''ll tell the men about your silly play, I''ll whistle at you after everything ready." Jin said then walked out from the cabin and whispered to each crew about their captain''s little play. *fweeep* Jin whistled loudly signalling Koujiro. Hearing the whistle from Jin, he changes back his voice into the naval sound that Davy Jones has. *thump...thump...thump...thump" Sounds of his crab leg thumping on the ship''s floor, standing in front of the lined-up captives with the crew standing behind them, he looks at the frightened sailors after seeing his monstrous figure, approaching one of the captives, he holds the sailor''s neck with his claw-like left arm and said. "Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid b?r?. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape." Koujiro quotes Davy Jones''s signature line. The poor sailor got so scared of the monster in front of him, he can''t utter a single word and just kneeled there shivering from fear. Seeing the man doesn''t respond at him, he looks at one of the crews that stood behind the captives then tell him to cut the captive neck and dump his body into the sea. Doing the same to the rest of the captives, out of ten sailors, nine joined his crew after seeing what happens to the first man. "Gentleman, welcome aboard to the Queen Anne''s Revenge! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Koujiro imitates Davy Jones laugh and walks back to his cabin. "Men, show your new crewmates their job around the ship and continue heading to the south after we finish moving the loots." Jin said taking over after Koujiro went back to his cabin. Additional shopping list: 1. Supplies: . 9.000.000 2. Handheld Telescope: . 4.000 3. Compass: . 2.000 4. Davy Jones Costume: . 10.000 Total: . 9.016.000 Loot: . 1.000.000 Remaining Money: . 1.492.054.000 Chapter 10 - First Encounter After the storm on their first night, Koujiro and his crews sail on the sea heading south for two weeks with a clear sky. During those two weeks they encountered all kind of ships, they met pirate ship, mercenary, passenger ship, and they plundered them and sink all the ships leaving no survivors to tell the tale, they either join the crew or got killed then dumped into the sea. After two weeks of robbing ship and recruiting the lucky souls who survived from the battle, the Queen Anne''s Revenge now got fifty people on board including the first eleven crew member Koujiro, Jin, Robert and the rest of the goons. The nine goons who joined with Jin become the senior among the lowly crew member including Robert as the Sailing Master. ------------------------------------------------------------- Jin Mini POV Jin wakes up from the bright sunlight hitting his eyes, he has been sleeping on the crow''s nest for the past week because he got tired climbing up and down the crow''s nest to sleep on his hammock on the lower deck, he instead stayed there for 24/7 unless the captain is looking for him. Taking a sip of whiskey after he wakes up, he then took his binoculars to scout around for any ship nearby, squinting his eye because he''s looking towards the east where the sun is rising, he noticed a green ship with big ''Marine'' written on the sails. Immediately jumping down from his spot, he runs towards the captain''s cabin to tell Koujiro about the Marine ship, because they never encountered a single marine ship on their two weeks of journey, so Jin doesn''t want to make a decision before asking Koujiro first. *knock...knock...knock* Jin knocks on the door. ------------------------------------------------------------- Koujiro POV Koujiro was reading a handbook that he got along the flintlock pistols he just bought this morning when he heard a knock on his door. "Come in." Koujiro said still reading the handbook because he knows the only people who dared to knock on his door is either the cook who is carrying his food or Jin. "Have a seat, no need to rush." Koujiro said again after seeing Jin opened the door, then he put away the handbook after Jin seated in front of him. "Fancy seeing you here on the deck instead of up there Jin." Koujiro grinned mocking his first mate newfound habit. "Haha, funny capt." Jin talked back at his captain. "So what do you want to talk about? Is it another brig?" "No capt, it''s the marine, there''s a marine ship few clicks away, while I can take on the marine captain myself, I can''t say the same with our crews, the marines are trained soldiers, while our crews are just some thugs swinging around their sword." Jin said calmly because if his captain joins on the fight, their victory is absolute. "Ooh yeah, we haven''t met any marine ship for this past two weeks, haven''t we? It''s the perfect time to weed out the useless crew actually, I''ll just observe the fight as always, and for you Jin, don''t kill the marine captain, just shoot down some other marines, I''ll handle the captain myself when it''s the right time." Koujiro told his new idea that he just got, having too many crews that can b?r?ly fight is just wasting foods and booze he thought. "Alright, I''ll get back to my post then capt." Jin said while walking out of the room. ------------------------------------------------------------- Marine POV "Sir, there is an unknown vessel coming from the north, sir." "Is it a pirate?" The captain asked while closing his newspaper. "No sir, the ship doesn''t have a Jolly Roger, but it''s certainly not a merchant or passenger ship, sir." The officer said while handing out his binocular to the captain. Looking through the binocular, the captain sees the black ship with black sails heading towards them at a fast speed. "Hmm, they''re coming in fast, tell the men to standby and ready for battle, they might just hiding their Jolly Roger to trick the civilian ships, from the looks of it, it''s most likely a pirate ship." The captain concluded after seeing the ominous-looking ship. "Sir yes sir." The officer does a salute then head back to his station. Walking out from his cabin wearing his usual white silk shirt, tailored pants, and a pair of boots, the Sword of Triton hanged on his left side belt as usual. "I''ll take over for now Robert, gather everyone on deck." Koujiro said taking over the helms. "Listen up! We''re approaching a marine ship right now as we speak! You all know the rules here on this ship, we plunder every ship that we found! No exception! I know some of you pussies are afraid right now, but all of you already know, on this ship, either you die fighting the enemy or die by my hand! So prepare for battle!" Koujiro yelled at his crews making sure all the crews know what is the consequences if they tried to run away from a fight. Hearing the captain''s order to prepare for battle, the crews scrambled and unload all the cannonballs, hooks, guns and swords from the storage on the lower deck. Speeding up the ship''s speed using the sword, Koujiro and his crews approach the marine ship in no time, lining up with the marine ship, the crews who manned the cannons immediately blasted down the marine ship mast. All hell broke loose after the marine ship mast fell down, hooks flying towards the marine ship then pulled both ships closer, planks were placed to bridge the crews between the two ships, both sides begin their attack with both sides boarding each other ships. Sounds of guns blasting and swords hitting each other filled the sea, both ships got fifty crews on them, on paper both sides are equal, but actually, the marines are currently winning, some of the pirates who can''t fight properly got cut down easily by the trained marines. After half hour of battle, the crew who still alive got pushed back to the Queen Anne''s Revenge with the marines following them into the ship. Seeing the useless crews are already got killed and the one who can decently fight still alive, Koujiro ordered them to retreat to the ship which is bait for the marines. Once most of the marines get on board of the ship, the ships come to live and attack the marines, in seconds all the marines who board the ship got captured and hanged upside down while the marines on the marine ship also got captured and hanged upside down including the captain. Lining up the marines while still hanging upside down, Koujiro approaches one of the marine officers. "Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid b?r?. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape." Koujiro as always quotes Davy Jones signature line which is now his without the tentacle costume. "Go to hell you pirate scum!" Barked the marine. "Wrong answer." Doing the same to the rest of the marines, he left the marine captain for the last. "Well...well...well captain, I''ll save the bullshit for you, how about sailing under my flag?" Koujiro said to the marine captain with blood all over his body after cutting quite a few of the marines who too prideful to become a pirate. "I will never join a cruel pirate like you, I would rather kill myself than joining a scum like you!" The marine captain yelled at him. "Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?" Koujiro smirked feeling good because he got to say another Davy Jones famous line. "Never!" *ptooey* The marine spit on Koujiro even though its missed. "You made your choice." Koujiro said after dodging the spit then cut the marine''s neck spraying blood everywhere. He left the captain''s corpse hanging there on his own ship. "Alright gentlemen, welcome aboard to the Queen Anne''s Revenge!" He welcomed the new recruits who are the marines just minutes ago. Out of the fifty crews including Koujiro and Jin, thirty are dead, but out of the forty marines that got captured, ten of them join the crew, making the crew reduced in size by twenty people, but increased its fighting capability by a lot. Today shopping list: 1.Flintlock pistol (6): . 270.000 (45.000 each) 2.Six pistols leather holster: . 6.000 Total: . 276.000 Remaining Money: . 1.591.778.000 Chapter 11 - Myōhō Muramasa Jin POV "Alright, listen up! I''m the vice-captain of this ship, the rules on this ship are simple, do your works, follow the captain''s orders, he says jump into the sea, you jump, no questions asked, the moment you joined the crews your life is on the captain''s hands, he knows everything on this ship, he hears everything, your senior will show you your works around the ship." Jin said to the new recruits after Koujiro enters his cabin. "For the rest of you, take everything from the marine ship, weapons, cannons that still work, take everything." Jin ordered the old crew members. The crews start working and plunder everything on the marine ship. The marine ship got cleaned up in an hour, they got several standard marine rifles and swords, two cannons that still work, and tons of supplies. "Sir, we finished looting the marine ship, and we already placed the explosives on the lower deck as usual." One of the crew said to Jin after they store everything away. "Sink the marine ship then prepare to sail." Jin ordered then climbed up to his crow''s nest. *BOOM!* The ship exploded once he gets to his post, ignoring the sinking marine ship, he looks around the area with his binocular and he can see a small dot-like island on the southeast. "Change heading to the southeast!" Jin yelled to Robert who''s already on the helms. After half hour of sailing slowly towards the island, Jin now can see the island clearly, zooming on the island with his binocular, he sees a small town near the beach and a lot of pirate ships docked on the harbour. Getting down from his post, he took one of the new recruits then bring him to the captain''s cabin. *knock...knock...knock* Jin knocked on the door with the new recruits standing behind him. "Come in." Replied Koujiro from inside. ------------------------------------------------------------- "Come in." Looking at the opened door, he sees Jin entering with a new recruit following behind him closing the door. "Have a seat, Jin. What can I do for you? And why the recruit is here with you?" Koujiro asked Jin while offering him a glass of whiskey. "I spotted an island, but the island is full of pirates, and the recruit here will explain the rest capt." Jin replied then turned his seat around to look at the recruit who''s standing behind him. "Well, got anything to say, boy?" Koujiro asked the young ex-marine. "W-well, we were ?ssigned by Commodore Nelson to watch a pirate crew who is based on this island capt." The new recruit said. "And what makes this crew so special that they are being watched by the marines?" "T-the captain of the pirate crew is a zoan user sir, a rhino type zoan, and his bounty is nine million berries." "Nine million? Pfft, that''s pathetic, I bet Jin can one-shot him easily, what is his name?" Koujiro almost laughs out loud hearing a pirate with nine million berries bounty is being watched by the marines, imagine if the words would spread about his doing for this past two weeks only. "His name is Rhino the impaler sir, his pirate crew is called Zoo pirates." "Wait...wait, his name is literally Rhino? And his crew is called Zoo pirates?" "Yes sir." "Bhahahahahaha, that''s stupid and ironic at the same time, the dumb ?ss got a rhino zoan and his name is Rhino." Both Koujiro and Jin laugh their ?ss off hearing the silly pirates while the new recruit just standing there awkwardly. "Hah...hah...hah, fu?k I thought it was someone scary or some shit, but it''s a bunch of animals." "Same capt, shits got from hundred to zero real quick, I''ll tell Robert to dock the ship on the town''s harbour, I''ll let you know if we''re docked." Jin said while wiping tears from his face. "Let''s go, get back to your station boy." Jin said while walking out with the new recruit. A few hours later they reached the island, Robert steer the ship towards one of the empty piers, some people on the harbour seen running around towards the pier where the Queen Anne''s Revenge is closing in. Seeing the people on the pier are already waiting on the moorings to help the crews tie the ship, the crews onboard throw them the ropes down. "For a lawless island, the harbour is pretty organized heh." Said one of the crew members on board. After they tied the ship secured, they immediately left the pier with only one man staying on the pier holding some kind of a ledger in his hands. "I''ll be damned capt, is that the Myh Muramasa? Don''t tell me you have all the Meito." Jin said seeing his captain new sword "Hahaha, no I don''t have all the Meito ''yet'' Jin." Koujiro replied to his first mate. "Yet? Are you saying that you''re going to collect them all? You know some of the Meito owners are monsters right?" Jin replied indirectly mentioned Hawkeye Mihawk and Whitebeard who own Yoru the black blade and Murakumogiri the naginata who is used by the strongest man in the world. "Relax my friend, we wouldn''t go after them anytime soon, we have five seas to plunder first, then we will visit them in the new world." "Whatever man, can I see the sword? I''ve never seen it before, I just heard it from stories about the one who crafted it, Sengo Muramasa, they said he''s the best swordsmith alive." "Ooh, I never heard such stories, care to tell me?" "Yeah, you definitely never heard him, he''s a very talented young swordsmith, actually I knew him when he was ten years old, our age is roughly the same actually I don''t know who is older, but he came from a renowned swordsmith family while I''m just the son of a gunsmith, but we occasionally met when our fathers were summoned to the flower capital by Orochi, other than that I never saw him, I heard he always stayed at his home and learning the art of swordsmithing from his father." Jin said while looking at the sword. "Hou interesting, how about we continue our talk in a bar? I need some fresh beer to wash my mouth after two weeks of drinking shitty rum from the loot." "Yeah you''re right I need some nice fresh whiskey too." Jin said while handing back the sword to Koujiro. "Nah...nah...nah, you can look at the sword as long as you want, knock yourself out, I never thought a gun freak like you would staring at a sword like that, hehehe." Koujiro chuckled while walking down from the ship. "What do you mean gun freak, the correct word is a gun enthusiast and anyone who knows Muramasa would do the same, his works are literally perfection." Jin said correcting his captain while walking beside him then looks at the sword again. "Welcome to Tortuga gentleman." Said the man who has been standing on the pier holding a ledger. "Who are you?" Asked Koujiro to the man. "I''m the Tortuga harbour administrator, every ship that is docked here must be registered on my ledger and pay a fee depending on how long you will dock your ship here." Explained the man. "Huh, I thought this is a pirate island." "Actually, it''s not a pirate island, Tortuga is lawless, but we have our own rules here, this island is under lord Joker jurisdiction, we allow pirates and other criminals on our island, and they pay to us because they are protected here from the marines." Joker is a Broker on the Underworld and his real name is Donquixote Doflamingo, he''s the captain of Donquixote Pirates. The helper explained before Koujiro asked who Joker is to the man in front of him. "Whatever, how much is the fee?" "It''s ten thousand berries per day, it includes protection for your ship in case some pirates try to rob you, and we also provide a resupply service." Explained the man with a smile. "Hmm, that''s convenient, how about our supply Jin, do we need to resupply?" Asked Koujiro to his first mate. "Uuuh, I don''t know, let me call the one who does cargo duty." Jin replied while looking at the sword then runs back to the ship. "You! Get whoever on cargo duty here right now." Jin pointed at one of the crews. One minute later a young man is running from the lower deck area towards where Jin is. "You''re looking for me sir?" Said the man panting out of breath. "Umm yeah, how much supply do we have?" Jin said still looking at the sword. "Uuuuh, we have roughly one month of supplies left sir." "Hmm, get back to your post." Jin said while walking back to his captain. "One month of supplies capt." "Hmm, should we resupply?" "I don''t know, you''re the captain, not me." Jin replied still looking at the sword. "Ceh, useless fu?ker, here the fee for docking, I''ll let you know if we need to resupply." Koujiro spat at his first mate and give the man in front of him twenty thousand berries. "Her name sir?" Asked the man halting Koujiro step who is walking up to the ship. "Queen Anne''s Revenge." Replied Koujiro then walks up to the ship. The man writes down the ship name on his ledger then leave Jin on the pier alone, still looking at the sword. Today shopping list: 1.Myh Muramasa: . 2.000.000 Total: . 2.000.000 Remaining Money: . 1.589.758.000 Chapter 12 - Battle of Manliness Ok quick notice before you read the chapter. My dumb brain decided to upload this story using a dropped story book, so I kinda reuse it, and after the first week I noticed that my story doesn''t show on the new FF rank list, then I remembered that I used an old story template to post my new one, I know, I''m stupid, that''s why my MC is dumb. So I just want to ask you guys to please maybe if you generous enough to help me out and review the story to help the story reach a wider audience. That''s pretty much it. Enjoy the chapter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Robert!" Koujiro yelled at Robert. "Yes capt." Robert comes down from the helms. "How many people on the crew excluding me and Jin?" "Twenty eight capt." "Here a hundred thousand each for the men, tell them that they can visit the town, and tell them that they only get two days of vacation." Koujiro gives Robert three million berries. "Uuuh, you gave me three million capt." "Duh, I said a hundred thousand each for the men, the rest is for you, you''re the Sailing Master you dumb dumb." Koujiro said then walk back to Jin who is still looking at the sword. "Alright give me back my sword before you marry it." Koujiro said taking his sword from Jin. "Haha, funny." Jin replied then follows Koujiro who''s already walking towards the city looking for a bar. Finding a rather high-class bar after walking a few minutes into the city, Koujiro and Jin entered the bar and immediately sit on the barstools. "Give me your best beer." Said Koujiro to the bartender. "Here, give me your best whiskey." Jin followed sitting beside Koujiro. "Ten thousand for the beer sir and fifty thousand for the whiskey." The bartender hands them both their orders. "Damn that''s a great whiskey, another!" Jin said after down the fifty thousand shot like it''s nothing. "I don''t know you are loaded Jin." Koujiro said after seeing Jin down a fifty thousand shot like it''s a hundred berries shot. "What do you mean loaded? You haven''t cash in the high town job yet, I thought you are paying here." "What the fu?k? I''m not paying if you chug those fifty thousand whiskeys like water, my fu?k?n? beer only cost ten thousand you fu?k." "But you''re rich, I mean you literally cleaned up a kingdom treasury by yourself, don''t be a stingy old man." *wack* "Who the fu?k you''re calling stingy old man, I got thirty dumb fu?kers including you to feed and pay, you either drink cheaper shits or you pay it yourself." Koujiro slapped Jin''s head. "Alright...alright jeez, I''ll take the same beer man." Jin said rubbing the bump on his head while ordering the same beer Koujiro had. "Better, now tell me more about this Muramasa." Koujiro said while sipping his beer. "Ooh yeah Muramasa, where were we again?" "Uuh, the kid was a shut-in and never leave his house." "Ooh yeah, so, this damn kid, forge a Grade sword when he was twelve." "But it''s just a mere Grade sword though, nothing special for me." "The fu?k you mean a mere Grade sword, even for an experienced swordsmith, a Grade sword is considered the finest human can craft. Those who can forge swords above the Grade sword are freaks, especially Muramasa, do you even know how much people would pay for a Grade sword?" Jin furious hearing Koujiro''s words. "Alright...alright chill, you''re going off track, back to Muramasa." Koujiro said try to calming down his first mate. "As I said, that Muramasa kid is a freak among freaks, do you even know the story about your Myh?" "Nah, what story?" "You know Kaido right?" "Well, I heard that a CP-0 agent approached his father and made an order for a sword, they said that the CP-0 agent pays a huge amount of money for this sword, for whom this sword is, no one knows, but the one who forged the sword is not him, but his son the freak Muramasa, hold on my throat is dry." Jin said stopping his story then chug his beer. "Damn, the beer actually taste good, can I have another?" Jin asked Koujiro for another glass of beer. "Knock yourself out." "Yo bartender refill!" Jin yelled at the bartender while holding up his empty glass. "Alright, where were we? Uuuh, yeah, the freak forged this gazillion berries sword, then on the night of the transaction is happening, the CP-0 and his father who are the only doing the transaction got ambushed by Kaido himself, and as Kaido as usually do, he smashed the CP-0 agent to a pulp before even got the chance to flee, and here''s the best part, the sword which is already on the CP-0 agent''s hands fell from his hands towards Kaido''s body, well Kaido, being immortal can''t be killed and shits didn''t even pay attention to the sword, and guess what happened? The sword stabbed his body quite deep, just from the momentum of falling on him, you understand how crazy sharp that sword of yours is?" "Wait, I thought Kaido is a fu?k?n? giant? He''s like how tall again? Ten metres? How the fu?k a sword fell and stabbed his body?" "Do you even ever saw a CP-0 agent?" "No?" "Well, they also have some freaks in their rank, a man with heights reaching ten metres isn''t that rare either." Jin just shrugged his shoulders and sip his beer. "So, you said that this kid is alive right?" "Ooh yeah, almost forgot the last part. You''re thinking after what happened his entire family would get slaughtered right?" Jin paused and sipping his beer again while Koujiro nodded his head. "Well uuuh, Kaido got stabbed, then he pulled out the sword he shrugged it off, throw the sword towards the Muramasa old man and leave, weird right? But the next morning, every Muramasa clansmen found dead in their houses, but they never found the freak''s corpse, and better yet, the sword that able to stab Kaido easily gone missing with the boy, interesting right?" "Huh, interesting indeed." ''You were having fun in this world huh old man, or should I call you Muramasa? Hehehe.'' Koujiro chuckled inside his head. ??I also got bored once in a while you know, and everything is still alright, so no harm done?? The old man replied inside Koujiro''s head. ''Uuuh, Muramasa clansmen are dead?'' ??I created the Muramasa in this world, no biggie.?? ''Whatever old man, but really? Two million for a crazy ?ss sword?'' ??Its collecting dust with me anyway, consider it a discount, now shut up and let me watch you in peace.?? ''Old fu?ker.'' Koujiro cursed then chug his beer. After the story, they talked about different things for hours spending millions drinking their ?ss off. "I''m sorry sir, but we''re going to close soon." Said the bartender interrupting the drunk duo who laughing and talking some drunk talk to each other. "Huh? What time is it?" Koujiro asked the bartender. "It''s three AM sir." Replied the bartender while cleaning the bar. "Aww bummer, I thought the bar is open 24/7." "We''re a high-class establishment sir, we don''t operate like other low-class bars." The bartender replied with a professional smile. The duo walked out of the bar after drinking some water to wash their mouth. Standing in front of the closing bar, the duo doesn''t know where to go. "Got any idea what to do now capt?" Jin asked his captain while Koujiro pulling out a cigarette light it then offers him one, taking one out he also light the cigarette. "Let''s chill here a bit, clear our heads first." Koujiro replied puffing a smoke. After half hour of just standing in front of the now-closed bar and a few cigarettes later, an imaginary light bulb appears on top of Koujiro''s head. "Jin, when was the last time you had s?x?" Koujiro asked Jin suddenly breaks the silence between them. "Uuuh, are you still drunk? Because I don''t swing that way, remember?" Jin said confused by his captain sudden question. "I''m not asking you to have s?x with me you dumb fu?k! I was asking when was the last time you had s?x!" *wack* "Ouch, damn man chill, I''m still a little bit drunk ok." Jin said while rubbing a bump on his head. "Whatever dumb ?ss, let''s find where the brothels are." Koujiro said already walking towards wherever he thinks the brothels are. After a few minutes of looking where the brothels are, they found the red light district which is quite easy to find, entering the red light district, Koujiro walks straight towards the centre of it where the high-class brothels usually at while Jin just following him. "Welcome to the house of p???sur? gentlemen, how can I help you two fine gentlemen this evening?" The duo welcomed by a really outrageous curvy and beautiful milf class woman(typical One Piece woman) when they entered the biggest building in the district. "Bring us your best girls." Koujiro replied with a big grin on his face. "Please follow me to the waiting room where you can wait while we getting the girls, and please leave any weapons to the security for safety reasons, don''t worry we will keep them safe." The woman replied with a seductive smile then guide them down the lobby. Leaving their weapons with the security first before entering the waiting room, they received a small paper with their weapons listed on it. After waiting for a few minutes sitting in the waiting room, the girls started entering the room one by one, there are ten girls lining up in front of them, all wearing seductive lingerie of different colours. "I''ll take this on" *wack* Jin said about to choose a girl but got slapped on the head by Koujiro. "Where are your manners you fu?k, let your captain choose first." "I choose her." Koujiro said pointing to a fair-skinned brunette girl with long legs, D cup br??sts and nice ?ss proportion with her br??sts, she''s wearing a white and quite minimalist lingerie. "Hold on man, I was also going to choose her before you pulled out a rank card on me." Jin interrupted before the girl could move towards Koujiro. "Well, I choose her first, get another girl then for fu?k sake, don''t be a child." Koujiro retorted clearly won''t give up. "But you used a rank card on me earlier interrupting me from choosing her, cheap move capt." "What do you suggest then?" "Umm, actually I''m fine with two men play." The girl who is being fought for said to them. "Hell no." Koujiro instantly replied hearing her suggestion. "Same mind here capt, I''m still straight." Followed Jin. "How about we let the girl choose who she wants to have s?x with?" The milf from earlier cutting in their bickering. "Fair enough." Koujiro replied not wanting to prolong any longer. "Alright, I''ll go with that." Jin followed. "Well Vivian, choose who you want to have s?x with." The milf said to the girl who is called Vivian. "I''ll choose the young one." Vivian said after looking at the two men back and forth for a few seconds. "Hah! Suck it old man! It must be suck to be an old man, hehehe." Jin immediately stands up and walk towards Vivian putting his hand around her waist and grab one of her ?ss cheeks, he walks out of the room with a big eat shitting grin on his face after winning the battle. "Fuck off kid." Koujiro pissed off losing the battle. "You, come on." He immediately chooses the second best girl and walks out of the room with the girl. Additional shopping list: 1.Myh Muramasa: . 2.000.000 2. Beer (a lot): . 2.000.000 3. Girls (2): . 3.000.000 Crew wage: . 3.000.000 Total: . 10.000.000 Remaining Money: . 1.581.776.000 Chapter 13 - Give me your heart Jin POV with a little bit backstory The sun is rising on the horizon, Jin and Vivian are cuddling on the bed with Jin as the spoon, Jin asked Vivian if she wants to cuddle after having s?x an hour ago, yes, Jin bang her for a full two hours, he was so full of energy and went super horny mode because the last time he had s?x is months ago. Jin is an emotional guy, Koujiro already knows about it since they met on the Goa Kingdom. Seeing a fellow ex Yakuza ran away from his home country because his boss was captured. He knows that the old generation Yakuza treat their boss like their parent. He can relate with the middle age ex Yakuza, he also ran away from Wano because his father was sent to prison by Orochi''s men. His father was a great gunsmith, but he''s past his prime, he''s now old and the precision needed to craft a gun is really high. Just because a single gun miss fired and explode when being shot, his father is sent to the prison. Having no successor, his family privilege got stripped off, the men become slaves and workers in the factories, while the women were sold to the brothels. Jin already joined the Yakuza when it happened, as soon as the news about his father reached his ear, Jin immediately ran away from Wano, from Orochi''s men. Watching the sun rising through the window, Jin and Vivian just cuddle silently sharing each other body warmth. "Thanks for the amazing short night, Vivian." Jin said while dressing up. "Don''t mention it Jin, it''s my job." Vivian replied also while dressing up her minimalist lingerie. Walking out of the room and the hallway together, they separate when they reached the lobby. "Meet me outside later, I''ll give you an extra tip." Jin whispered to Vivian then turn to the security and weapons station to pick up his weapons. "I''m here to pick up my guns." "A single bolt action rifle, a blunderbuss and a dagger. Please check your weapons before leaving the building, once you leave the building we will not acknowledge any complaints or claims regarding missing weapon, damaged or switched." Said the security while sliding out both of his guns and a dagger through the small window. After checking his weapons, Jin walks down the lobby. While walking down through the lobby, Jin feels there''s something missing. "Rifle...check, bb...check, dagger...check, wallet...check, hmm, what is missing?" Jin rechecks all his belongings if he''s missing something. "Eh, if I don''t remember it, it''s nothing important." Jin just shrugged it off then walked out of the building. Once he''s outside he noticed Vivian standing on the side of the road already dressed properly, then he remembered something. ''Aah, it''s Vivian, I promised to give her extra money.'' "There you are." Jin said to her playing it cool pretending that he remembers about his promise. Pulling out his wallet to give her the money, he looks down to his wallet about to count the money, but his wallet is empty. Shocked by the realization, he stood there in front of Vivian while holding his wallet like a human mannequin. "Jin, are you alright?" Vivian waves her hand in front of his face to check if he''s still alive. ''Fuck!'' Jin cursed out lout inside his head. "Aah...hahaha, it''s kinda embarrassing to say, but I forgot that my money is with the captain." Jin said while scratching the back of his head sheepishly. *chuckle* "No problem Jin, your captain is still inside the building anyway." Vivian chuckled at the cute embarrassed man in front of him. "Ah...haha, I''ll find my captain first then, see you later." "See you later." Vivian waves at him then he walks back into the building, once he''s on the lobby, he hears someone yelling loudly in the direction of security and weapons station. "For fu?k sake man, how the fu?k do you even didn''t notice the difference between a flintlock and a blunderbuss?!" ''Huh, sounds familiar.'' Jin thought then walks towards the commotion. ------------------------------------------------------------- Koujiro POV Last night was the worse s?x ever for him, after taking a blow to his ego and manliness, while he was having s?x, the old man keeps chuckling and muttering word ''old man'' inside his head making his mood worse. Walking through the hallway, he takes a turn after reaching the lobby to the place where he can retrieve his weapons back. Sliding his piece of paper without saying anything to the security guard, he waited for his weapons in front of the station with a grumpy face and crossing his hand in front of his ?h?st. "A black and golden engraving sword, a black short sword and six flintlock pistols. Please check your weapons before leaving the building, once you leave the building we will not acknowledge any complaints or claims regarding missing weapon, damaged or switched." The security said while sliding out his two swords and pistols through the small window. Taking his weapons from the counter, he ties both swords with a leather belt on his waist, but when he''s about to lift the pistol holster above his head, he noticed that the colour of the leather is different, his holster is black, while the one he''s holding right now is dark green, taking a closer look, he also notices the guns are different, the one he has are flintlocks while the one on the holster he''s holding are small blunderbuss. "Yo, I think my guns were switched." Koujiro said while putting the holster on the counter. "Let me check it first sir." "Umm, I''m really sorry sir, but I think the person who got your guns has already left the building an hour ago." The security said after checking his registration book. "For fu?k sake man, how the fu?k do you even didn''t notice the difference between a flintlock and a blunderbuss?!" "I''m really sorry sir, I don''t know much about guns." "Whatever, just tell me the name who got my guns." Koujiro said not wanting to make things complicated. "Umm, about that sir, I can''t disclose any personal information about our costumers, but I can ask my boss first." The security replied then taking out a Den Den Mushi to call his boss. "She''s on his way, sir." "Capt? What''s happening?" Jin said while walking towards his captain. "My fu?k?n? guns got switched." Koujiro replied. "Welp, that''s not good, isn''t it? What you''ll do? Look for the dude who got your guns?" "No shit, I''m waiting for his boss to come here so she can tell me what is the name who got my guns." Koujiro replied while rolling his eyeballs after hearing what Jin said. The boss of the brothel came to the lobby a few minutes after Jin came, and it turned out that the boss is the milf from last night. "I''m really sorry about this incident gentlemen, the security is new, maybe we can talk while having a drink on the bar? My treat of course." Said the milf inviting them to the bar. "Just give me the name who got my guns." Koujiro instantly refused the invitation. "Give me the ledger." Said the milf to the security while stretching her hand towards the counter. The security immediately gives the ledger to her, she opened it and flip through the pages. "Ah, here it is, his name is Rhino, the impaler? Weird name." The milf said stopping at one of the pages. "Pfftt...hahahaha, that''s funny." Jin laughed after hearing the name who got his captain''s guns. *sigh*"Give me his guns, I''ll try to talk nicely with him first." Koujiro sighed and take the blunderbuss then he walks out of the building leaving Jin behind. "Capt...capt wait, can I have like a hundred thousand?" Jin said after catching up to his captain. "What do you need a hundred thousand for?" Koujiro asked him. "Umm, you see, I''ve promised to this girl from last night to give her a tip hehe, please? It''ll be embarrassing if I bail on her." Jin whispered to his captain. "Tch here, it''s your pay, I''ll give you the money from the high town job later." Koujiro said then gave Jin five hundred thousand berries. "Thanks capt, I''ll catch up after I give the money to her." Jin replied then ran back to the milf to ask where Vivian is. After exiting the building, Koujiro walks towards the town centre to find a bar where he can ask around about where he can find Rhino the Impaler. Once he finds a random bar, he asks the bartender about Rhino the Impaler, and the bartender tells him where he can find him after sliding ten thousand berries to the bartender. Walking out of the bar, he was about to walks towards wherever the bartender told him where Rhino is when Jin suddenly appeared in front of him. "Oh hey capt, I''ve been looking for you, here your guns, I accidentally met the Rhino guy and asked him if he can give back your guns, but he attacked me, so I blew his head off and took your guns from him." Jin said giving his captain his guns back. "What the fu?k? I spent ten thousand berries for that fu?kers information,*sigh* here, you can have his blunderbuss." Koujiro replied taking his guns from Jin, then he gives him Rhino''s blunderbuss. "Eeh, the blunderbuss is a pistol one, and also its piece of shit too." Jin replied while looking at the blunderbuss, his blunderbuss is the one with a longer barrel that can fit a nice mini cannonball. "What do you expect from a nine million berries pirate, let''s go to the bar from last night." Koujiro replied then starts walking towards the bar from last night. "Meh, I can just give them to the crew later, wait for me capt." Jin said then run towards his captain. Few minutes passed after the duo started walking toward wherever Koujiro think where the bar from last night is, they reached a small beach instead of the bar. "Uuh capt? Are we lost?" Jin asked after found out that they are on a beach instead of the bar. "No, we''re not, I''m just taking a detour around the town." Koujiro replied then walked back towards where they came from. "Yeaaah suuureee, wait capt, there''s a body on the beach." Jin called his captain then he walked towards the body to check if he''s still alive or not while Koujiro just waits for him on the edge of the forest. He pokes the body a few time with his rifle. "Meh, he''s dead." Jin said then turned around and walks towards his captain, but when he''s about to take his third step, the body jolted and puking out seawater from his mouth. "Whoa, what the fu?k! he''s still alive!" Jin yelled turning around to see the man who''s puking out on the beach. "Bhahaha, nice surprised face you got there Jin." Koujiro said while walking towards Jin and the man who just came back to life. "Who are you, young man." Koujiro asked the stranded man. "Uurrgh, my name is Marcus, what island is this?" Replied the young man named Marcus. "You''re on Tortuga, what happened to you? You got some nasty wounds there Marcus." Jin cutting in before Koujiro could answer. "I was on this slave ship, I snuck in after they caught my wife and some other women from our village. When I was sneaking around the ship to look for my wife, they found me and try to catch me, I fought them back but they outnumbered me and I fell to the sea." Marcus explained to the duo. "Well, good luck finding your wife, she''s probably sold to one of the brothels on the town, let''s go Jin, I''m starving." Koujiro said then walks back to the forest to find the bar from last night with the help of The Helper this time, Jin just shrugged his shoulders, throws some money to Marcus then follows his captain. "Wait, please help me, I''m aware that I''m weak, I''ll give you anything you want!" Koujiro just ignores him and keep walking, but Jin stopped and look back and forth between Marcus and his captain. "Look, pal, I''ve given you some money, go patch yourself and buy some weapons, and then maybe hire some pirates to help you out, the money I gave is enough for all of that, okay? My captain is in a bad mood right now, soo yeah good luck." Jin said to Marcus then walked to his captain. "Wait! Please, I''ll give you anything, even my life, I just want to save her, she''s the only thing I have left, please!" Marcus won''t give up and yelled at them again. Koujiro suddenly stopped, then turned around and walks slowly towards Marcus with both if his hand inside his pocket. "Everything? Even your life?" Koujiro asks him in a low intimidating tone making Marcus shivers and rethinks what he said, but he steels his heart and mind and nodded his head. "Then, I will help you, but I won''t help you fight the slaver and save your wife, you have to do it yourself, but I''ll give you the power to do it, give me your heart, and you will receive the power to save her." Koujiro said offering his help with a menacing grin on his face. Chapter 14 - Cursed Captain "My heart?" *gulped* Marcus swallowed his saliva after hearing what the man in front of him said. "Uuh capt? You''re kidding, right? It''s not like he has to literally cut his heart out and give it to you right?" Jin asks shocked by what his captain said. "Shut up Jin, let him makes his own choice. So, Marcus, would you give up on your humanity and bound to the sea and only will able to step on land for one day once every ten years?" "Yes, I will do anything to save her!" Replied Marcus. "One last question. Do you fear...death?" Koujiro asked Marcus while pulling out his sword from its sheath. "I do...that''s why I asked you for your help, I''m afraid of dying and leave her being slaved by those people." "Very well, state your full name and vow to me that you will serve me under my flag as a loyal servant, and I will grant you the power to save your beloved, the power...to rule the sea." "I''m Marshall D. Marcus swear, that I will serve under your flag as your loyal servant." Marcus swore as he kneeled on one of his knees in front of Koujiro. Koujiro nodded then close his eyes to make a dramatic scene while he can talk with The Helper. ''H, buy the Flying Dutchman and drop it on the seafloor near the beach.'' Buying the Flying Dutchman, . 300.000.000 taken from your inventory, *Warning* the ship need a captain before it can be taken out from your inventory, register a captain. ''Can I register Marcus as captain?'' Yes, just make him say that he will take the duty of becoming the Flying Dutchman''s Captain. Opening his eyes, Koujiro looks down on Marcus who''s still kneeling waiting for him. "You, Marshall D. Marcus, are you willing to become the captain of the Flying Dutchman and become part of her, cursed to sails the sea for eternity?" "Yes, I will." Marcus replied. "Then repeat after me." Koujiro paused and Marcus nodded. "I...Marshall D. Marcus, am willing to become the captain of the Flying Dutchman." "I, Marshall D. Marcus, am willing to become the captain of the Flying Dutchman." Captain of the Flying Dutchman is registered, deploying the ship on the seafloor, the ship deployed. "Now, show me your loyalty by giving your heart, careful you''ll die if you stab your heart." Koujiro said then throw his Tanto to Marcus. Marcus takes the Tanto and slowly cutting his ?h?st to make sure he doesn''t accidentally stab his heart. After a few minutes of gruelling pain, Marcus takes out his heart and hold it on his hand with the heart still beating then give it to Koujiro. "Stich him up Jin." Koujiro said to jin after wrapping the heart with a cloth. "What the fu?k" Jin muttered under his breath and begins to stitch Marcus'' ?h?st. "Alright, now go get your ship." Koujiro said after Jin finished stitching Marcus'' ?h?st then he grabs Marcus by his neck and throws him to the sea. Few minutes after Koujiro tossed Marcus into the sea, the Flying Dutchman in all her glory bursts out from the sea. "Damn capt, you never cease to amaze huh." Jin said seeing the huge galleon ship that just resurfaced like a submarine. "You would die from shock if you know what I can do Jin." Koujiro replied then Jumped over twenty meters across the sea and landed on the ship, Jin followed behind him. "Welcome to the world of monsters Marcus." Koujiro said to Marcus who''s walking down the stairs from the stern. On top of the Kraken Hammer that is located on the middle of the ship''s deck, a small black ?h?st with a heart shape carving on the front of the ?h?st where the keyhole is, with the key stuck on the keyhole. "I''ll take this ?h?st, for safekeeping, you can dock your ship here or the harbour, I don''t really care, and also what will you do on the island is not my problem, do as you wish, but remember, you only have time until the sunset, you should already on your ship once the sun is touching the horizon." Koujiro said while walking towards the ?h?st, turning the key, the ?h?st lock mechanism opened, he put Marcus'' heart inside the ?h?st then locked it again. "Remember, you only have time until sunset." Koujiro said already standing on top of the ship rails and then jumped back to the beach followed by Jin. "Why are you still holding that ?h?st? I can hear its beating inside, it makes me feel weird, can''t you just do your magic?" Asked Jin still hearing the faint sound of the heart beating. "I can''t do it because the heart is still beating you dumb fu?k, shut up and let''s go to the bar before Marcus wreak havoc on the town." Koujiro said then the duo dashed through the forest to reach the bar before Marcus run wild and destroy the city. Once the duo arrived at the bar, they sat on the bar and ordered their drinks. "Soo, what the fu?k was that back there? Marcus is still alive with his heart taken out." "I made him become an immortal, he still can die, but only by getting stabbed on the heart, and the ship is called Flying Dutchman, she''s a cursed ship, the captain and his crew will be cursed to sail the sea for eternity only able to touch land for a day once every ten years, and whoever joins Flying Dutchman, they have to serve the ship for a hundred years and eventually will become part of her, once you joined the Flying Dutchman, you already became a part of the ship." Koujiro explained to Jin. "That''s kinda harsh, isn''t it? Surely almost everyone wants to become immortal and lived a long life, but only able to touch land once every ten years? I''m gonna pass on that." "Ooh yeah, the can''t touch land part is only for the captain, the rest of the crew can freely go on land, you can join Marcus if you want to, I don''t mind, but as I said earlier, once you joined the Flying Dutchman, you become one with the ship." Koujiro shrugs his shoulders while sipping his beer. "Uuuh, that''s not good right? Becoming one with the ship? Queen Anne''s Revenge doesn''t have a curse like that right?" "Umm, not that I know of, but the previous captain had this hobby of doing Voodoo magic where he turned his crew into undying zombies, wanna try that one? He left his Voodoo books on the cabin, I can learn it if you want, hehe." Koujiro said while giggling trying to scare Jin. "Hell no! Throw that vile thing away man, I''m fine with being a normal human." "I''m just asking, I''ll maybe try to offer the crews if they want to become one, who knows, maybe someone would." "Whatever man, just don''t include me to your magic Voodoo experiments." Jin said and sips his beer, not long after they finished talking, an explosion sound can be heard from the direction of the harbour. "Ooh, that must be Marcus, let''s get back to the ship, and also look around for the crew, if you see them, tell them to also get back to the ship." Koujiro said while paying their drinks and he walks out of the bar. "It''s too fast for the ship to circle around the island capt, don''t tell me the ship fly, does the ship literally called the Flying Dutchman because she can fly?" Jin asked while walking beside his captain. "Of course a galleon that huge can''t fly you dumb, let me ask you this, do you believe in ghost?" Koujiro said then asked back to Jin. "Uuuh, after what you showed me what you did to Marcus I think I kinda believe in ghost now, so the ship can phase through things?" "Uuh no? The ship is a ghost ship you dumb, she doesn''t need wind to sails, and on top of that she is fast as fu?k, faster than our ship." "Damn that''s one hell of a ship, shame she''s cursed though." "Yes, she''s a great ship, now let''s get back to the ship before Marcus destroyed everything on the harbour, he doesn''t know which ship is ours yet, I got a hunch that he will go wild just to save his wife." The duo picks up their speed and dashed through the town while stopping here and there when they meet their crew and tell them to get back to the ship. Being the fastest and abnormal on the crew, the duo arrived on the harbour first, and they see that the harbour is already in shambles and one big galleon ship full of holes clearly receiving the full wrath of forty six cannons from the Flying Dutchman. "Damn Marcus went wild, how the hell he fired all those cannons?" Jin said seeing the cannons on the Flying Dutchman blasting nonstop destroying the harbour and other pirate ships. "Ooh fu?k, one of the cannonballs is flying towards our ship!" Koujiro yelled and jumped towards the cannonball and cut it in half, while Jin jumped towards the Flying Dutchman. "Marcus, stop! You almost hit our ship!" Jin yelled towards Marcus when he landed on his ship, the cannons immediately stop blasting, and then Koujiro also landed on the ship a second later. "Get your ?ss to the island Marcus, you have a few hours left, I''ll take care of the pirates that try to run." Koujiro said while walking towards the helms where Marcus is at. "Umm, I''ll go find my wife, sorry for shooting at your ship capt." Marcus said then jumped out of the ship and swim his way to the island. Koujiro pulls out his Sword of Triton then move the Flying Dutchman and dock her near his ship. "Jin, want to play who got the most kill using a rifle?" Koujiro said to Jin after both of them get on their ship. "Are you sure? Do you even have a rifle?" "Ooh, I have a rifle alright." Koujiro said then quickly buy a modern sniper rifle from the shop, he bought an M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle and a big case full of 7.6267mm ammo already loaded into a bunch of magazines. He climbed up to the crow''s nest then pulled out the rifle followed by Jin, the crow''s nest is big enough for them to stand side by side and aim their weapons towards the town and harbour considering they only have to shoot towards one angle. "Nice rifle capt, so what is the bet here?" Jin said once he reached the crow''s nest and saw the rifle in his captain''s hand. "Umm, how about if you have more kills than me, I''ll add a hundred thousand for each kill you have to your high town job loot, but, if I have more kills, then I''ll take a hundred thousand for each kill I have from your money." "Uuh, I don''t get it." Jin said confused by what his captain means. "Umm, let''s put it this way if you have say fifteen kills and I have ten kills, I will add five hundred thousand to your high town loot because you kill five more people than me, but if I kill fifteen and you kill ten, I''ll take five hundred thousand from your loot, got it?" "Aaah, I got it, soo you sure about this? You know I''m really good at this right? Want me to give you a handicap?" "Are you for real? You don''t believe that I can shoot a rifle?" "Hehe, it''s not like that capt, I''m just saying, I don''t want to rob you you know, how about I''ll only shoot every five seconds?" "Don''t come crying to me when I clean up all your loot Jin." "Hehe, the chance of I''m losing in a shooting contest with you is pretty low capt." "Alright, you''re the one who suggests the handicap, not me, let''s begin before Marcus kill the whole town." "Alright...alright, you ready capt?" Jin said then readying his rifle to shoot, Koujiro just nodded already locked in his first target and following his movement through the scope. "Alright, 3...2...1 let''s go!" Jin yelled and both of them pulled the trigger. *bang* Jin shot his first target and followed by Koujiro also shot his first target, but his rifle only produced a muffled sound, not a loud one like Jin''s. Today shopping list: 1. The Flying Dutchman: .300.000.000 2. M2010 ESR: . 1.100.000 Jin''s Paycheck: . 500.000 Total: . 301.600.000 Remaining Money: . 1.280.156.000 Chapter 15 - The Tortuga Massacre After the first shot by Jin was fired, the people on the street just ignored it, thinking that it''s just a usual fight between pirates, but right after the first body fell, five more people were shot dead but no gunshot was heard, the people who were nearby the five who got shot were immediately panicked, they only hear one shot was fired, but there are six people dead by getting shot on their head. Koujiro seeing the people on the street started panicking and running for their life, he quickly reloads his rifle and shot another five people in a row. He constantly emptied out his magazine and reloading killing as many as he can in the span of five seconds before Jin can fire his rifle again. *bang* *boom* Jin shot his second shot, instead of targeting a person, he shot a gunpowder barrel that being carried by a poor soul, the barrel instantly exploded and killing several people nearby. "Heads up capt, some pirates already spotted us and aiming their gun towards us, they''re at two o''clock on top of a building." Jin warned his captain after he saw some pirates spotted them and already aiming their guns towards the ship. Koujiro moved his view towards the position Jin pointed and saw ten people on the roof of a building, he quickly fired five consecutive shots killing four of them with one shot missed. "Duck!" Koujiro warned, both of them immediately ducked and several bullets flew above the crow''s nest while some bullets hit the side of the crow''s nest. "Welp, we''re busted hehe, how many kills you got capt? Mine is around 10? I can''t see clearly how many got caught by the explosion earlier." Jim asked his captain still ducking in the crow''s nest while bullets flying towards them and hitting the side of the crow''s nest. "I got nineteen, I missed one guy from the rooftop." Koujiro replied also ducking inside the crow''s nest not wanting to get shot, even though he has a powerful regeneration, getting shot is still hurts. A few minutes later, the rain of bullets still raining on their ship. While they''re talking inside the crow''s nest mostly Jin asking about Koujiro''s rifle, they heard a bunch of people boarding their ship. "Fuck, they''re on the ship, It looks like we have to continue the competition another time Jin, here use my rifle, it got five bullets per magazine just pull this lever here to unlock the magazine, then you just insert the new one and the rest is the same with your rifle." Koujiro said after peeking down the deck and saw few pirates already on their ship, he gives Jin the rifle then he jumps down and cut one of the pirate''s head that trying to climb up the crow''s nest Once he landed on the deck, he instantly attacks the pirates starting with the one near him, killing the pirates on board his ship with ease in seconds, Koujiro jumped down from the ship to intercept the others who are trying to reach his ship. "Capt! They''re using swivels!" Jin warned his captain below while reloading his rifle. *boom* Multiple swivels were fired and a bunch of small cannonballs flying towards Koujiro and his ship. Koujiro quickly cut some of the cannonballs, but he can''t cut them all because there are too many of them and their size is also quite small, some of the cannonballs hit his body and throw him off the pier. "Capt! Goddamnit." Jin yelled then throws both rifles over his shoulder, taking some bullets for his rifle and magazines for the other, he jumps down and pulls out his blunderbuss then shoot one of the pirates that try to board the ship. *boom* The blunderbuss explodes in mid-air, Jin immediately holsters the blunderbuss then grab one of the rifles and shoots another pirate, Jin''s hands blurred switching between the two rifles and the blunderbuss while also reloading the guns in between, he gracefully dodging the bullets and cannonballs from the swivels showing a high level of observation haki while shooting them back with three guns simultaneously. Meanwhile, after getting hit by multiple cannonballs even though they are small, his mind is blank for a second from the gruesome pain, he is bleeding all over his body, even worse he''s currently drowning and all his wounds are exposed by seawater. The pain is so bad that he can''t even think. Enduring the pain, he pulls out the Sword of Triton from his inventory, he commanded the ropes from his ship to go down into the water and wrap around his body then lift him up. Dropping himself gently on the deck, Koujiro lay down on his back still enduring the pain all over his body, meanwhile, Jin still fighting the pirates alone, guns and swivels constantly blasting. A few minutes later, most of his injuries are almost completely healed, hearing the sounds of cannonballs hitting his ship, he calms himself down and begins to concentrate to control the cannons aboard the ship, moving all the forty cannons to the side of the ship that faces the town, he then moved all the cannonballs to each cannon and load them, once they are loaded, all the forty cannons blasted towards the town with a thunderous explosion sound. The cannons keep blasting for full ten minutes until there is not a single cannonball left, in ten minutes, half of the town was burned down to the ground leaving a huge sea of flame, wether his crew survived from that or not, he really didn''t care. Once the cannons stop, Jin who''s already killed the pirates on the pier minutes ago, jumped on to the ship and saw his captain laying on the deck with a body full of blood and he can see the wounds on his body are slowly healing itself. "Damn capt, I thought you were dead." Jin said while walking towards his captain and sit down next to him. "I''m not going to die from a mere fu?k?n? swivel, but it hurts like a bitch though." Koujiro replied while trying to sit up and lean his back on the mast. "Soo, what now? You burned down the town, well, half of it, I don''t even know if Robert and the others are still alive or not." "We''ll just wait till Marcus get back, just standby for any attack, I need time to heal up." Koujiro replied while taking out two bottles of sake and a pack of cigarette, giving a bottle to Jin, he lights his cigarette with Jin doing the same after taking a cigarette himself. The duo sat on the deck face to face and just playing cards while waiting for Marcus and their crew to come back, when the duo playing cards on the ship like the usual sunny day, sounds of people shouting, guns being fired and swords hitting each other can be heard from the town. A few hours later when the sun about to touch the horizon, Marcus comes back with a woman walking beside him. His body is full of wounds and covered in blood, climbing the stairs on the side of the ship, Marcus and the woman board the ship and they see his captain and Jin playing cards on the deck cross-legged with some cash on their side as a bet. "Aah, you find her." "Congrats man, have a drink, here." Koujiro and Jin said while holding cards in front of their face, and Jin offers Marcus a drink. "Thanks, so, where are the crews?" Marcus said then grab the bottle and sit down near the duo with his wife followed. "Uuh, I don''t know, we met them on our way to the ship and already told them to get back, who knows, maybe they died from the rain of cannonballs, hah! I win, straight flush capt." "Royal flush . Boy, get your hand off my money!" Koujiro showed his cards then slapped away Jin''s hand away from his money. "Impossible! You must''ve been cheating capt! I want a rematch!" Jin yelled at his captain slamming his hand on the floor. "Shut up punks, don''t be a sore loser, we have to set sail, it''s almost sunset." Koujiro replied and then stands up on his feet and does some stretching, looking down on his torn and bloody shirt, he tore it away and throw it into the sea. "What about the crews capt?" Jin asked his captain he also stands up and does some stretching. "What about them? We have told them to get back to the ship, but they''re not here, aren''t they? We can look for new crews later." "So, Marcus, what you''re going to do about your wife? Where we will going is not the place for a faint heart." Koujiro asked Marcus. "Well, if I can capt, I want to take her back to the south blue." Marcus said then hug his wife with one of his arms. Chapter 16 - Experiments "Jin, you''re the new Sailing Master until we can find a new one, set sail towards the west for now, I believe there are some islands west of us, I''ll chart a course for us to find an island for resupply." Said Koujiro then he walked into his cabin to chart a course. Jin just nodded and walked upstairs towards the helms while Marcus and his wife climb up to the Flying Dutchman. Once he reached the helms, Jin just realized that the ship is still tied to the pier and their sails are still folded. When he was about to walk down to deck to untie their ship and do the other works, the ropes untied themselves and the sails dropped. "Welp, I forgot that the captain can do that." Muttered Jin and get back to the helms. When the ship almost exits the gulf, he heard some gunshots and someone yelling from the harbour. Jin takes out his telescope and he peeks through the telescope to see who is firing the guns and yelling on the harbour. "I''ll be damned, Robert and the boys survived." Muttered Jin seeing the crews shooting their guns to the air and waving their hands towards the ship. He tied the helms to make sure the ship won''t turn on its own, he leapt towards the Flying Dutchman and landed on the ship''s stern where the helms at is. "Yo Marcus, turn your ship back, our crews are still alive and they''re on the harbour." Said Jin to Marcus then he jumped back to his ship to tell his captain about their crews. Jin knocked on the cabin''s door. "What''s up." Said Koujiro opening the door. "Robert and the boys are alive capt, they are on the harbour right now, I''ve told Marcus to pick them up." "Alright, let''s wait for them then." Replied Koujiro then he walked out from his cabin and he pulled out the Sword of Triton and fold all the sails up and dropped the anchor to stop the ship. A few minutes later, Marcus stopped his ship beside the Queen Anne''s Revenge. The duo immediately boards the Flying Dutchman to see the crews condition. "Where were you dumb fu?kers? Didn''t Jin already told you to get back to the ship?" Said Koujiro to the crews once he boards the Flying Dutchman. "I''m sorry capt, I was gathering all the men, and when we already group up and about to get back to the ship, the town went chaos and we need to walk around the town to reach the harbour and avoid the fights." Replied Robert while bandaging his wounds. "Damn, how the fu?k you still alive after hundreds of cannonballs raining on the town? And I don''t think most of you will stay alive for two days with those injuries unless a doctor treats you, but we don''t have a doctor though." Said Jin while inspecting the crews'' injuries. "Eeh, they can stay alive if they want to, but if they want to make the choice is up to them." "What choice? Is it another magic of yours capt?" Jin asked his captain, curious of what his captain will do this time. "I can''t help them, but Marcus can." "Me? How can I help them?" Marcus confused by what his captain just said. "Of course you can, take them as your crew members, the curse will also affect them and make them immortal like you, but only for one hundred years and then the sea will claim their souls, it''s their choice to make." Koujiro shrugged then sit down on the stairs and pull out a bottle of sake. "Well, I''ll take them." Replied Marcus and look at the injured crews. "Umm, I want to stay alive, so I''ll join captain Marcus." Said one of the boys and then the others followed. "Is that it?" Marcus asked and look towards Koujiro. ''Little help H.'' Said Koujiro inside his head. Just make them say ''I will serve'' and the ship will take them. The Helper replied. "Let me ask this again, will you serve the ship?" Koujiro stands up and said to the boys. "I will serve the ship." Robert said it first, then the rest followed. Once they said that they will serve, their injuries healing up at a visible rate. "Alright, I''ll take Robert to my ship because I still need my Sailing Master, the rest is up to you Marcus. Let''s go Robert." Said Koujiro after the crews healed and jumped back to his ship with Jin and Robert following him. "Head west Robert and coordinate with Marcus or whoever he picks as his Sailing Master." Koujiro ordered then he entered his cabin and immediately fell asleep when his body touches the bed. Meanwhile, on the deck, Jin curious about the crews new immortality and walks up the stairs to the helms where Robert is. "Yo, how do you feel?" Jin asked Robert. "Hi Jin, I feel great actually." Robert replied, Jin nodded at his reply then takes out his dagger and stabbed Robert''s hand with it. "Fuck! What the hell man! That''s hurts!" Roberts yelled and covering the stab wound on his hand with his other hand, but strangely enough, there''s no blood coming out from the wound, Robert also feels that there is no blood coming out and remove his hand that covering his stabbed hand. "Damn, that''s creepy." Jin said after seeing Robert''s hand that got stabbed has a hole through it and he can see the bone inside Robert''s hand. "Damn, it is creepy, but why it''s not closing like before though?" "Uuh, I don''t know, let me try again on a different spot." Jin said then thrust his dagger again towards Robert''s ?h?st, but Robert dodges the stab as soon as he heard Jin said about stabbing him again. "Fuck off man! Could you not?" "Hehe, alright . alright, I''m just curious ok?" Jin said then turns away and starts walking towards his crow''s nest. A few minutes later Koujiro came out from his cabin and walked up the stairs towards the helms. "Change course to the north-west." Koujiro ordered Robert once he arrived on the helms. "Roger capt." Replied Robert while changing the ship''s course. "Alright, I''ll go back to my cabin, let me know if you need anything, and coordinate with the Flying Dutchman." Said Koujiro then he walked back into his cabin. Once he entered his cabin, Koujiro approached one of the bookshelves inside the cabin, pulling one of the books from the bookshelves, he takes out a black thick book with the cover that is likely made from dried human''s skin with nothing written on the cover. Opening the book, Koujiro discovers that he doesn''t understand the language that was used to on the book. It''s most likely using the Haitian language. ''Hmm, can you translate it?'' Yes, I can, just put the book into your inventory and I''ll copy the book with the Japanese translation in it. ''Cool, how long would it take to translate?'' Asked Koujiro inside his head while putting the book into his inventory. A few minutes, half-hour maximum, depends if the book is still in good condition and doesn''t have any damage if some text is missing, I need extra time to reverse the damage. ''Cool, wake me up when the book is ready.'' Said Koujiro then he fell asleep on the couch. Hours passed since the book translated and Koujiro have been reading its content while trying to practising the Black Arts which is actually the book is about, inside the book written various kinds of Black Arts and how to practice them. Interested in the Black Arts, Koujiro takes all the books from the shelves and translate them for him to read later and he read the books until he fell asleep on the couch with all kinds of books littered in the cabin. *boom* Koujiro is woken up from a sound of cannon exploded, he annoyed by it and get up from the couch while getting rid off the books on top of him. Walking out of his cabin and opening the door, bright sunlight greeted his eyes and smoke from cannons filled the deck indicating that the crews are fighting someone, sounds of yelling, guns, swords, cannons can be heard making Koujiro almost want to yell and tell them to shut the fu?k up, but he can''t do that. He walks up towards the helms to look at the fight, once he arrived on the helms, he sees that most of the crews are divided into three groups, one group manning the cannons on the Queen Anne''s Revenge, another group manning the Flying Dutchman cannons and the last group board the poor merchant ship. They basically sandwiched the merchant ship with Queen Anne''s Revenge and Flying Dutchman on both sides of the merchant ship, still annoyed because he was woken up from his nice sleep, he takes out his sword and catches all the sailor on board the merchant''s ship making the fight immediately stops and the crews instantly turn their heads toward the Queen Anne Revenge and they see their captain standing on the helms holding his sword with an annoyed face. "Eeey, the hero has arrived!" Jin yelled while jumping down from his crow''s nest. "Haha funny, gather the one who still alive on Marcus'' ship." Said Koujiro dropping the caught sailors, once they were freed the sailors immediately surrendered after what happened to them. The crews guide the sailors to the Flying Dutchman and lined them up like usual and wait for their captain. Koujiro board the Flying Dutchman not long after they lined up the sailors. "Bless your poor soul sailors, that you meet us instead of other pirates." Said Koujiro while walking towards one of the sailors. "Watch and learn Marcus, because this will be your job from now on." Said Koujiro to Marcus who is standing in front of the sailors. "Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid b?r?. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape. I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?" Said Koujiro while holding his sword with his right hand while clutching the sailor''s neck with his left. "I-I w-will s-serve." Replied the sailor while stuttering on his words. "You do it for the rest Marcus, I''ll take ten sailors with me, bring ten of them to my ship right now, I don''t care if they want to join us or not." Said Koujiro to Marcus then he ordered the crews to take ten sailors to his ship. Once the ten sailors brought to his ship, he tied them up with the ship''s ropes and kill each of them with a simple cut on their necks and wait for them to bleed to death, because he needs intact bodies for his experiments. Chapter 17 - No Rest for the Wicked It''s the middle of the night, the crews were asleep on the lower deck except for the few who was doing the night shift. The sky was full of stars with the light from the moon illuminating the ship and the sea was calm as it gets, the only sounds that can be heard were the sounds of snoring from below deck and the small waves hitting the hull of the ships. The crew who was ?ssigned to watch on the crow''s nest sat alone on top of the crow''s nest with a bottle of rum in his hand, suddenly sounds of something being dragged and slow steps with faint sounds of someone growling came from the deck below him. Standing up from his seat, he peeks down from the crow''s nest and saw a bunch of people walking around the deck, some of them dragging one of their foot while some walking slowly like they have been drinking a barrel of rum each. ''Huh, did the crews partying on the lower deck?'' He mused while looking at the people who he ?ssumed his fellow crew members. Ignoring the people on the deck, he sat back down on the crow''s nest and sip his rum. Meanwhile, on the captain''s quarter, Marcus asleep with his wife was woken up from the sound of knocking on his door, but the sound didn''t sound like someone knocking on it but more like randomly hitting the door. Getting up from his bed, Marcus put his pants on and grab his sword from the table and walks towards the door, opening the door, his sense of smell immediately ?ssaulted by the smell of rotting flesh, once he slid the door a little bit to peek out, the door got pushed from outside throwing Marcus a few metres across the room. Marcus didn''t expect it to be that strong of a push, because the one who got the strength to throw him back across the room is either Jin or Koujiro, but the two monsters would have yelled at him from the outside instead of knocking on his door. Standing up on his feet, Marcus expected to see a drunk Koujiro or Jin on his door, but the man who is standing on his doorway is none of the two, the stranger walks into his room while dragging his feet and growling like a heavily drunk man would do. "Get back to your post," Marcus ordered while sheathing his sword. Moving quickly towards the strange man, Marcus kicked him on the ?h?st making the man flying out of his room. He immediately followed the man outside, once Marcus exited his room and about to chase the man he kicked, he saw that the intruder is not alone and they are currently staring at him like predators looking at their prey. "Intruders! Prepare for battle men!" Marcus immediately yelled and attack one of the intruders with his sword while the intruders simultaneously moving slowly towards him. One of the crews who on the night shift ran up to the deck and saw his captain is fighting a group of intruders, running towards the alarm bell, he grabbed the rope that attached to the bell and rang the bell a few times before helping his captain. *ding . ding . ding . ding . ding* The bell rang five times waking up the crews. Jin who was asleep on his crow''s nest on the Queen Anne''s Revenge woken up from the bell sounds and immediately grabbed his rifle then aim towards the Flying Dutchman. The rest of the crews immediately wake up and rushing to the deck then fight the strange group of people, they would cut them, shot them on the head, but their opponents keep getting back up and attack them with a hole in their head and body. Meanwhile, on the Queen Anne''s Revenge stern, Koujiro watching the battle while sitting on the railing, a bottle of sake on his right hand and a cigarette on his left with a box full of dolls on the floor, giggling from watching Jin and Marcus confused face, he keeps watching the fight while moving and healing his zombies through the voodoo dolls. A half-hour has passed since the Flying Dutchman''s crews were fighting the zombies, the zombies kept healing every time they got cut down or shot. Because the two sides are immortal and basically can keep fighting forever, the crews tried to disabling them instead, but the zombie''s strength is surprisingly quite monstrous. Getting tired by the endless fight, Jin being the only one who is not immortal put down his rifle and climb down from his crow''s nest going to his captain''s cabin to ask for his help. When he landed on the deck, he can see his captain sitting leisurely on the railings while holding a doll on his hand, a bottle of sake on the other and a cigarette hanging on his mouth. "Capt, why the fu?k are you playing with a doll?" Jin walked up to the stern. "Oh hi Jin, remember about the voodoo books I told you back on the island?" Koujiro put down the doll and take another from a box below him. "Uhh yeah, is this your doing?" Jin takes one of the dolls from the box and examines it. "Uh-huh, I just finished making the last zombie and take them out for a test, they''re surprisingly strong, I just have to get rid of the smell and peeling skin and maybe find a way to make them able to heal by themselves." Koujiro shrugged while repairing the broken dolls. "I thought we were being attacked, I guess I''ll join you watching them fight then, both sides are immortal and can fight forever anyway, I need a normal crewmate *sigh*" Jin sighed then sat beside Koujiro and took out a cigarette from his pocket. A few hours later, the sun is peeking from the horizon about to rise, they still fighting nonstop from midnight until now, the crews keep trying to restrict the zombies, but every time they succeed the zombies easily broke free with their brute strength. Koujiro was planning to end the fight once he satisfied by the zombies'' performance, but he fell asleep on the deck while watching and Jin didn''t know that his captain planned to stop the fight just keep watching the fight by himself. Once he sees the sun on the horizon, he realized that he lost track of time, then slapped his captain''s head to wake him up and he did wake up from his sleep and look around to find out where he is while rubbing his eyes. "Uuh, what the fu?k, I fell asleep on the deck." Koujiro stands up and does some stretching then takes out a cigarette and lit it up. "Pfft, they are still fighting?" Koujiro choked by the smoke when he saw that the sun is about to rise and the crews still fighting his zombies. He leapt to the Flying Dutchman and landed on the railing. "Stop! Get back to the ship." Koujiro yelled to his zombies once he landed on the Flying Dutchman''s railing. The zombies instantly stopped and started to walked back to the stern of the Flying Dutchman and jumped to Koujiro''s ship while the crews were dumbfounded by what the fu?k just happened. They have been fighting the zombies all night and suddenly the zombies just stopped like that after hearing Koujiro''s orders. It took a few seconds for the crews to register what is happening, then they realized that they have been pranked by Koujiro. "What the fuuuuck man!" The crews yelled at the same time expressing their annoyance, they keep yelling and complaining to Koujiro because he just made them fight the endless fight even though they don''t get tired for the whole night while Koujiro just grinning to the boys still standing on the railing. "Alright . Alright, back to your posts men." Marcus calmed down his crews then they dispersed to their own post while still grumbling and cursing at Koujiro under their breath. "Soo that''s where all the captives went, have fun watching us capt?" Marcus approached Koujiro and asked him. "Hehe, just a new hobby I picked up, see you later Marc." Koujiro jumped back to his ship after the last zombie entered his cabin and then went inside his cabin to improve his zombies further. The zombies he just created only able to follow simple orders, he needed a few materials to do the rituals that will make his zombies at least able to think by themselves and do chores around the ship. If he wants to create an advanced zombie that has its own consciousness, he needs a willing alive volunteer. Locking up himself in his cabin, he keeps experimenting to make at least a functioning zombies that able to act as his crews, after a few days and countless corpses from merchant and pirate ships the crews pillaged, he succeeded creating twenty zombies that able to thinks by themselves and do chores around the ship and fifty zombies that only able to fight even though only with punching and biting their enemy, but their poor fighting ability compensated by their brute strength and durability, he also managed to get rid of the rotting smell and decaying flesh after he got some materials from the ship the Dutchman''s crew pillaged. Getting out from his cabin for the first time after a few days of experimenting with the zombies, he breathes in the fresh air and does some stretching before jumping into the sea making one of the crews on the Flying Dutchman yelled . "Man overboard!" Someone yelled from the Flying Dutchman after catching a glimpse of a man fell into the sea. "Keep going! It''s captain Koujiro, he''s just going for a swim." Jin yelled back from his crow''s nest. The two ships keep sailing side by side with Koujiro following them with ease. "Rope!" Koujiro yelled from the side of his ship after a few minutes of swimming. One of the zombies threw down a rope for Koujiro to climb on, grabbing on the rope, he climbed up the side of the ship and board it in two seconds. "Aaah, that''s a nice exercise," Koujiro said while stretching his body. His ship is now fully operated by his twenty zombies that able to do chores around the ship with the exception of Robert still as the ship''s Sailing Master, the fifty basic zombies are stored on the lower deck where the hammocks are because the zombies basically have unlimited energy, they don''t need to sleep and can operate the ship 24/7 nonstop. Walking upstairs to the stern area where the helms at, he pulled out a beach chair from his inventory and a freezer box full of fresh cold beers inside it. Putting the chair down near the railing and the box beside the chair, he laid down on his back and opened a bottle of fresh beer, enjoying the fresh sea air with a fresh cold beer, he fell asleep on the beach chair after a few bottles of beer. "Laaaand Hooo!" The man on the Dutchman crow''s nest yelled waking up Koujiro from his sleep. "We''re here capt, Polestar island," Robert said from the helms after noticing his captain that just woke up. "Polestar island, the last island on the east blue before we climb the reverse mountain, go around the island and dock the ship somewhere the Marine can''t find us, coordinate with the Dutchman." Koujiro grinned seeing the island far on the horizon and walked down to his cabin. Chapter 18 - Sandai Kitetsu Looking through the window on his cabin, Koujiro noticed that the ship already stopped and currently docking near the island, closing the voodoo on his hands, he gets up from the couch and walks outside. "Oh hi capt, want to go to the island?" Jin jumped down from his crow''s nest when he saw Koujiro exiting his cabin. "Yeah, wanna come? I''m just going to look around, maybe buy some clothes and weapons I like, but we''re climbing the mountain today though." Koujiro replied then jumped to the Dutchman with Jin following him. Once the duo landed on the Dutchman''s stern, they looked around to find Marcus. "Ron! Where are your captain?" Jin yelled at one of the Dutchman crew named Ron. "Oh.hi Jin, the captain is in his quarter, want me to tell him that you are looking for him?" Ron replied and Jin just nodded, he walked down from the stern then goes to the quarter''s door and knocked on it. *knock.knock.knock* "Yes?" Marcus said while opening the door. "Sorry capt, but Jin and captain Koujiro are looking for you." "Alright, continue your work," Marcus replied and walked upstairs to meet Jin and Koujiro. "Jin.capt, what can I do for you?" Marcus asked once he sees the duo leaning on the railing. "I need your crews to go to the town to buy some supplies, I already gave the money and the list to Robert," Koujiro said while offering Marcus cigarettes. "No thanks I don''t smoke.I will tell my crews to help Robert buying the supplies." Marcus declined the cigarettes. "Alright then, see you later. Oh yeah, we''re climbing the reverse mountain today, so tell your crews to do it fast." Koujiro said then jumped down from the ship with Jin following him. Lougetown After a few minutes of walking through the town, Koujiro found a building with ''Arms Shop'' written on its signboard and two swords crossed below the signboard. "Come right in, sir. Please feel free to look around as much as you want. We have antique swords, new swords and the latest swords in fashion. After all, this is a well-established store that''s been in business for over two hundred years." A man on the store counter greeted Koujiro when he entered the store. "You want to buy something Jin?" Koujiro asked Jin while looking through the weapons ignoring the greeting from the store employee. "Ehh, I''ll look at the guns." Jin shrugged and goes to the gun section. While looking around the store, Koujiro feels something eerie from one of the barrels that got swords in it. Approaching one of the barrels, Koujiro picked up a red coloured sword with a golden rounded cross handguard. "Wait, let make look at that sword capt." Jin suddenly appeared behind Koujiro. "Careful, the sword is kinda weird," Koujiro said while giving the sword to Jin. "Aah, it''s the Sandai Kitetsu, it''s a cursed sword. Eeeh? it''s only for fifty thousand berries, I think you should buy it capt." Jin said after looking at the sword. "Hmm, I guess I''ll buy it for Marcus, you found anything you like?" Koujiro asked and takes back the sword from Jin then walks to the counter. Jin just shook his head and showed his empty hands. "I''ll take this sword," Koujiro said putting down the sword and fifty thousand berries on the counter. "Aaah, thank you for your patronage, sir. Please come again." The store employee said while taking the money. Koujiro put the Sandai Kitetsu into his inventory as soon as he turned his back while walking out the store. "Capt, do you know that this town is where the pirate king born and die?" Jin said to his captain. "Hmm, I didn''t know that and how did this pirate king die again? He must have been strong to be called as the king of pirate but died on the east blue of all blues?" Koujiro intrigued by the story of the pirate king that die on the weakest sea. "Eeeh, I don''t know what happened, but I heard that he turned himself to the marine and the marine decided to execute him here. Ooh yeah, want to see the platform where he was executed?" "Sure, lead the way," Koujiro replied and followed Jin towards the town centre. On his way to the town centre, Koujiro saw a boutique called Robecca Hanberg, seeing that it''s a high-class boutique, Koujiro took a sharp turn and entered the boutique. "Aaah, welcome to our boutique sir, we have all kinds of clothing, just tell me what you want and I''ll get it for you, sir." A man with a weird hairstyle greeted Koujiro, the man hesitated to approach Koujiro at first because of his scary appearance, but he approached Koujiro nonetheless showing his professional attitude. "Hmm, I need some white shirts, preferably from silk and maybe some jackets or coats." "We have some silk shirts in stock, but I don''t think we have one that fits your size.sir, but we can have it custom-tailored for you, sir." "Nah, just show me your other shirts that I can wear." "Right this way sir." The man guided Koujiro to the men clothes section and showed him some white shirts that fit his size. Koujiro picked several white shirts, black coats and tailored pants, he ends up paying 81.500 berries for the clothes. He bought five tailored white shirts and black pants with two black coats. "Oh hi Jin, you want to buy some clothes too?" Koujiro asked Jin who is waiting outside the boutique. "Nah, I still have plenty of clothes." Jin shrugged and walked towards the city centre again with Koujiro following him. "Is this it?" Koujiro asked once they reached the town square and saw the execution platform. "Umm yeah, I was just curious because I haven''t seen it, but it''s so underwhelming once I saw it, maybe for some people the place is.historical? Iconic?" Jin replied awkwardly expecting that the pirate king execution site would surprise him or something, but they saw nothing impressive or amazing about it, it''s just a metal platform where a person got executed the duo thought before walking away from the town square. "Hmm, where should we go next?" Jin asked his captain while walking down the street not knowing where to go. "Hmm, I already bought some clothes and we''ve seen the place where the "pirate king" executed which is a meh, let''s just go back and sail to the reverse mountain," Koujiro gesturing a quotation sign with his hands while talking about the pirate king. A random group of pirates saw Koujiro making the hand sign while talking about the pirate king which they take it as the duo talking shit about the pirate king. "Heey! I don''t like the way you talked about the pirate king Gold Roger." Yelled one of the pirates towards the duo. The others nodded at what their friend said and tried to look intimidating to the two guys who just talked shit about their idol. The duo immediately stopped and looked at the group of pirates that just yelled at them while they trying to look tough. "Heh, is that the "pirate king" name? Gold Roger?" Koujiro does the hand sign again provoking the pirates which is worked and the man who yelled at the duo earlier pull out his sword and swing it at Koujiro. "Hold my bags." Koujiro hands his bags carefully to Jin while dodging the sword. Koujiro drew his Myh and casually swings his sword towards the pirate''s neck, seeing the sword that about to cut his neck, he raised his sword about to block his opponent''s attack. Koujiro sneered after seeing the pirate attempt to block his sword, he sped up his swing and easily cut the pirate''s sword along with his neck, all they can see was the sword suddenly flickered and the sword already sheathed. Seeing Koujiro with his sword sheathed, the pirate raises his hand about to attack again, but when he moved his hand, half of his sword was cut in half and when he was about to turn his head to look at his sword his head fell off his shoulder and fountain of blood gushing from his neck. "Oops, watch my bags Jin, blood stains are hard to wash," Koujiro said shielding his bags from the blood. The rest of the pirates shocked and tried to attack the duo while they were distracted, but Jin saw them coming and shot them down easily with his M2010 ESR, five bullets were fired and five pirates dead lying on the street, the pirates didn''t know what hit them and just feel a short pain in their head before it explodes from being shot on the head from a close distance. The crowd surprised by what just happened, all they saw was a group of pirates yelling at two men and then one of the pirates attack the two men, few seconds passed and the one who attacked first lost his head, then his friends a second later was dead lying in the street also without a head. The duo just walked away from the scene while the crowd avoiding them like a plague. Getting back to the ships, the duo board the Dutchman and found Marcus having a lovey-dovey moment with his wife on the bow of the ship. "Oh hi Marc.having fun?" Koujiro greeted the couple after Marcus turned around noticing someone board his ship. "Ahaha, hi capt.Jin, you guys are done looking around the town?" Marcus said while scratching the back of his head and his wife hiding behind him with red cheeks. "Don''t mind us, we will get back to our ship, take your time." Koujiro and Jin wear a wide smile on their face while walking to the railing and jumped down to their ship. Once they landed on their ship, Koujiro walked straight to his cabin to put the clothes he just bought into the closet, while Jin just climbed up to his crow''s nest where he feels comfortable, the ship is basically full of mindless zombies, with only Koujiro and Robert that he can talk to even though the two are also undying zombies. Today shopping list: 1.Sandai Kitetsu: .50.000 2.Clothes: .81.500 Supplies: .1.000.000 Total: .1.131.500 Remaining Money: .1.279.024.500 Chapter 19 - Entering Paradise Storing his clothes, Koujiro wears one of the shirts with the black coat on top of it. He charted a course to the reverse mountain on a piece of paper for a few minutes and then he made a copy for Marcus. Walking out from his cabin with two pieces of papers in his hand, Koujiro gave one to Robert and the other to Marcus. "Capt. Is that our course?" Marcus greeted Koujiro while pointing to the piece of paper in Koujiro''s hand. "Yep, we depart as soon as the crews have done loading the supplies." Koujiro handed over the paper to Marcus. When Koujiro about to jump back to his ship, he stopped and turned around and walked towards Marcus. "Almost forget, take this, I found the sword on sale for a cheap price, it''s not the best sword around but it''s still better than that piece of junk you are carrying around." Koujiro pointed to the cutlass on Marcus'' hip while handing over the Sandai Kitetsu to him. "Woah, thanks capt, but why does the sword try to control me?" Marcus asked after feeling the sword tried to take over but he easily surpassed the sword. "Ooh yeah, it''s a cursed sword, but the curse is not that bad, only a weak-minded person will succumb to the sword. Besides, isn''t cool? You''re being a cursed captain and wields a cursed sword, not bad heh?" Koujiro shrugged while tapping Marcus'' shoulder and then he jumped back to his ship leaving Marcus thinking by himself. ''Hmm, a cursed captain wielding a cursed sword, it has a nice ring to it.'' Marcus thought while examining the sword. Not long after Koujiro handed out the sailing course to Robert and Marcus, the crews came back from the town carrying various supplies with them. Once the crews finished loading the supplies the two ships immediately depart and head toward the reverse mountain "You know that we could just cross the calm belt right capt?" Jin said while walking up the stairs towards Koujiro who is sitting near the helms on his beach chair. "Yes, I know, but it''s safer and faster than sailing through the calm belt. Besides, not every day you can ride on a reverse current that goes to the top of a mountain." Koujiro just shrugged while giving Jin a bottle of cold beer. "Fair enough, so we''re going to the paradise first then cross the calm belt to the south blue or we stay on the paradise while Marcus goes to the south blue by himself?" Jin said while grabbing the beer and lean on the railing. "Hmm, staying on the paradise seems more fun than going back to the blues, I''ll let Marcus know once we entered the paradise," Koujiro replied while laying back on his beach chair already topless enjoying the sunlight. The duo talked about menial things with Robert chimed in here and there while navigating the ship around the island, Koujiro eventually fell asleep on his beach chair after a few bottles of beer leaving Jin and Robert by themselves still talking. The two ships sail around the island to avoid the marine that patrolling near the harbour, the two ships sailing side by side with the Dutchman covering the Queen Anne''s Revenge if there any attack coming from the marine that patrolling near the island. After half hour of going around the island, the two ships about to leave the island and sail toward the reverse mountain, a marine patrol ship spotted the Dutchman and began firing their cannons at the Dutchman. *boom.boom.boom! Multiple cannons fired by the marine with a few cannonballs hit the side of the Dutchman and waking up Koujiro from his sleep. "What the fu?k?! Can''t a man sleep in peace?" Koujiro standing up from his chair while looking around where the sounds come from. "It''s the marine capt! And they''re closing in fast!" Marcus yelled from the side of his ship towards Koujiro. "Well, sink them, or just outrun the dogs," Koujiro said already aboard the Dutchman while looking towards the marine ship few hundreds of metres away from them and still chasing them with cannons blasting. "I have a clear sight from here capt," Jin said while leaning his rifle on the railing and aiming towards the marine ship. "Fire!" Koujiro yelled then Jin fired his rifle and the cannons also blasting towards the marine ship. "Prepare to board!" Koujiro yelled again after seeing the Marine ship still moving towards them and already closing the distance between them quite fast. The fifty combat zombies from Queen Anne''s Revenge leapt to the Dutchman and readying themselves for combat while some of the Dutchman crews already holding hooks and weapons on their hands. The marine ship approaches them with its bow facing towards the side of the Dutchman planning to T bone the Dutchman. "Heh, good luck on trying to ram the Dutchman." Koujiro sneered after seeing the marine planning to ram them, he knew very well that the Dutchman is a very durable ship, she can even withstand the rage of the Kraken. "Brace for impact!" Marcus yelled before the marine ship hit the side of the Dutchman. *crash! The marine ship hit the side of the Dutchman and destroying their front side of the ship while the Dutchman only got scratch marks on her side where the marine ship hit her. Right after the ships collided, the crews immediately threw their hooks and pulled the two ships closer while the zombies approaching the side of the ship preparing to jump over and board the marine ship. The lower rank marines instantly got overrun by the brute force of the zombies while the marines that a little bit stronger struggling for a bit before they also got overrun by the zombies. The battle finished in a few minutes with the zombies easily ripping the marines apart leaving no survivors. When the last marine fell, Koujiro ordered the zombies to get back to his ship while the Dutchman crews board the marine ships and began to loot the ship clean. "Hurry up! There''s another ship coming." Marcus yelled at his crews when he saw another marine ship departing from the harbour through his telescope. The crews quickly take what they can and get back to the Dutchman as soon as they heard Marcus'' order. Once the crews back on the Dutchman, Koujiro used the Sword of Triton moving the parts of the two ships and instantly the two ships gain speed escaping the marine ship that just got out from the harbour easily. After sailing for around thirty minutes, they entered a storm and not long after they can see the red line ahead of them, the ships gained speed because of the strong sea current and they can see the waterway that goes to the top of the mountain, there are ten square arcs that are decorated with tribal patterns and depictions of sea creatures on the entrance of the waterway. "Capt, we need you on the helms, the current is too strong and Robert is having a hard time lining us up with the waterway''s entrance." Jin barged into Koujiro''s cabin because it''s an emergency and they need to straighten up the ship before they missed the entrance and hit the side of the mountain. "Out of the way Robert, what about the Dutchman?" Koujiro immediately ran upstairs and pushed Robert away from the helms as soon as Jin told him about the situation. "The Dutchman is fine capt, they have zero problems in this weather." Jin pointed to the back of the ship where the Dutchman is. With Koujiro on the helms, he steers the ship away from crashing into the mountain wall then smoothly enters the waterway, they instantly picked up speed from the strong upwards current and reached the peak of the mountain in seconds with the Dutchman following behind them. "There''s a pirate ship ahead!" One of the Dutchman crews yelled from on top of the crow''s nest. Jin took out his binocular and look towards the direction where the pirate ship is, sure enough, there''s a pirate ship in front of them a few kilometres away with a small boat like a coffin following the pirate ship not far from it. "Order capt?" Jin said lowering his binocular. "Full speed ahead, we will observe them first, the pirate and the man on the boat does not seem on the same side," Koujiro replied after taking a look at the situation himself he saw that the crews onboard the pirate ship are panicking and trying to run away from the small boat that following them. "Follow our lead! And wait for further orders from the captain!" Jin yelled towards the Dutchman and Marcus nodded while manoeuvring the Dutchman to the back of the Queen Anne''s Revenge. Chapter 20 - Fucked Up On a marine patrol ship Thirty minutes before Queen Anne''s Revenge and the Dutchman entered the paradise. "Report sir, a pirate ship just entered the paradise." A marine officer saluted at a higher ranked marine officer. The higher ranked marine officer took out his spyglass and peek through it towards the direction of the Twin Cape. He saw a small frigate class ship flying a black flag with two sabres crossed behind the skull. "Just observe the ship for now." The marine officer said lowering his spyglass and back reading his newspaper. A few minutes later the pirate ship began to sailed away from the Twin Cape, not long after the pirate ship left the Twin Cape, a single small boat was seen coming out from the cove area and followed the pirate ship. "Report, sir. Dracule Mihawk was spotted following the pirate ship." The marine officer from earlier reported to his superior while saluting him. "Hmm, what made the world''s strongest swordsman came out from his den? Lookup for info about the pirate crew, there must be something from the pirate that draws his attention." The marine officer ordered once he confirmed that the man on the small boat is Dracule Mihawk. Five minutes passed and the pirate ship has sailed a few kilometres away from the Twin Cape while the marines still observing them from far away. "Report sir, two more ships just entered the paradise.but they don''t have jolly roger on them." Reported the same marine officers who did the earlier two reports. "Hmm, flagless ships. Do we have any info about these ships?" The higher ranked marine officers mused while looking at the two flagless ships that just exited the waterway through his spyglass. "We just got a report from the marine base on the Loguetown, sir. The report said that a single galleon class ship presumed to be a pirate vessel escaped from them and sunk a patrol marine ship while trying to chase them near the Polestar island territory." Another marine officer came with a paper on his hand and a Den Den Mushi on the other hand. He handed the piece of paper to his superior, the higher-ranked marine officer took the piece of paper and read the details of the report from the east blue. "When did the fight happen?" He asked the officer that gave him the report. "An hour ago William." Answered by the voice coming from the Den Den Mushi. "Hmm? They sail from Polestar island and enter Paradise just in an hour? I don''t see any paddle-wheels on the ship." William wondering how the two ships able to sail that fast. "Any report about the two ships from East Blue Marines besides the Polestar island incident?" William asked the Den Den Mushi. "There are two ships? We only fought one flagless Galleon with seaweed draped its rigging." Asked the voice on the Den Den Mushi. "It''s a full blacked-out Frigate with skulls decoration on it." Answered William after zooming in the other ship with his spyglass. Silence.there''s no answer coming from the Den Den Mushi for a few seconds. "Hold on William, flagless black frigate with black sails and skulls decoration?" Asked the Den Den Mushi. "Correct." William answered. "GET THE MARINE FROM THE 8th BRANCH TO MY OFFICE NOW!!!" Yelled the man from the other side of the Den Den Mushi. "Is everything alright Captain?" Asked William surprised by his fellow Captain. "There are rumours about that black ship appearance have been spread around the East Blues for the past few weeks William. I don''t know the exact details, but one of our patrol ships found a Marine officer from the 8th branch floating on the sea a few days ago, she will fill you in with the details." The Captain answered then a faint sound of a male Marine officer can be heard on the background reporting with a female voice following. While William waiting for the other side to speak, another Marine officer came to him bringing a piece of rolled paper in his hand, he saluted to William and wait for his confirmation before giving the report. William nods at the officer and he opened the paper and gave it to William. "From the HQ Captain." Said the officer after giving the paper to William. William took the paper and look at it, what he sees is a bounty poster with a picture of a middle-aged man aboard the black ship topless displaying his upper body full with tattoos while holding up a big broadsword with one hand. Under the picture written, Dead or Alive. The Sea Devil, with a bounty of 100 million berries. There''s a note on the bottom of the poster, it said. Warning to all Marines! Don''t try to board his ship or even approach it, stay far away as possible and deal with extreme caution, use range weaponry if you have to engage with the pirate! "Damn, an unknown pirate from East Blue with a 100 mill first bounty," William said surprised by the bounty poster. "Captain Kidd, my name is Mary Read, a petty officer from the 8th branch East Blue Marine base." A female sound came out from the Den Den Mushi interrupting William''s train of thought. "Go on petty officer, tell me your report," William responded while rolling the bounty poster and putting it inside his pocket. The petty officer named Mary Read explained her encounter with the sinister black ship during their mission monitoring a pirate crew named The Zoo Pirates near the island of Tortuga and suddenly an unknown flagless black ship came towards them with abnormal high speed and immediately board them. She suddenly stopped talking, William waited for her for a few seconds but she still not continuing the report. "Go on petty officer, what happened next." William irritated after waiting but the other side won''t continue her report. "I''m sorry Captain, I was spaced out for a while there." Answered the petty officer. "Once they line up with our ship, they immediately blasted their cannons at us and destroying our mainmast. Once the mast fell, they boarded us like a storm, guns blasted and swords clashed all over the place. Our numbers were even, both ships have roughly the same number of crew members, but we are well-trained Marines while the pirates were only swinging their swords randomly." "We pushed them back to their ship, I stayed with the Captain on our ship while the rest pursuing the retreating pirates. But, as soon as our men step aboard their ship, their ship and our ship came to life, ropes and rigging moving on their own, the ropes caught our feet, but I managed to step away at the last moment and the rope only managed to caught my left foot." "I tried to cut the rope with my sword, but the rope was really hard to cut, it''s like hitting a metal, one by one they started to kill our men while hanging upside down after they talked to the men about something, I can''t hear what the man said because I was hanged on our ship." "After the third Marine was killed, I knew that they were just toying with us and will kill us all anyway, so I tried to cut the rope again to no avail failed again, after the fourth Marine was killed I was getting panicked and out of nowhere the idea of cutting off my left leg came out and I immediately cut my left leg dropping me to the sea, I don''t know if they knew I was escaping or not, but as soon as I hit the water I tried to swim as far away as possible from them despite the pain I was feeling from my left foot." "That is all I got on them, sir." The petty officer Mary Read finished her report. "Very well petty offi" *BOOM* Multiple cannons were exploded interrupting William. --------------------------------------------------------- On the Queen Anne''s Revenge "What is on your mind, Jin?" Koujiro asked Jin after seeing his troubled face. "That man on the boat.looks familiar capt, but I can''t remember who he is." Replied Jin while looking at the man on the small boat for the second time. "If you don''t remember it, it''s nothing important." Koujiro shrugged and sat down on his beach chair. "Wait, that sword on his back, it''s Yoru!" Jin said once the man stood up and saw the sword on his back. "Hmm? Yoru.I think I heard that name somewhere before." Koujiro stood up from his chair and look at the sword himself. Yoru is one of the Supreme Grade Meito. "Yoru is one of the Supreme Grade Meito." Jin and The Helper replied at the same time. A huge grin appears on Koujiro''s face when he hears Jin and The Helper''s replies. He immediately moved to the helms and shoved Robert out of the way then he steers the ship towards the small boat lining up the small boat with his chase cannons. "Marcus! Aim your chase cannons to that small boat!" Yelled Koujiro while pointing at the small boat. Marcus took out his binocular and look at the direction where Koujiro pointed to, he saw the boat and moved his ship away from the Queen Anne''s Revenge stern breaking the formation, he ordered his crew to man the chase cannons and he lined up the bow of the ship with the small boat. "Aim to that small boat!" Yelled Marcus towards the crews who are already manning the chase cannons. The crews on the chase cannons paused for a second from the order thinking that maybe they miss heard the order. "Aim the cannon you fu?k!" Koujiro yelled to the Dutchman crews after seeing they haven''t adjusted the cannons'' angle yet. "Fire!" Koujiro yelled once the two ships'' chase cannons aimed at the small boat. *boom.boom.boom! Three cannons fired towards the small boat. Meanwhile, on the boat, the man about to jump on to the pirate ship when he heard multiple cannons fired from behind him. He turned to the source of the sounds and saw cannonballs flying toward him and his boat, he pulled out the sword from his back and leapt to the air, he slashed a few times with his huge sword sending three black sword waves towards the cannonballs easily destroying them. "Damn, that''s cool." Remarked Koujiro after seeing the man easily destroying the cannonballs. "Reload! Fire when ready!" Koujiro ordered both ships crew while looking at the man falling from the sky with his spyglass. "Wait capt! That is Dracule Mihawk, he is the strongest swordsman in the world!" Jin''s face already pales looking at the swordsman''s eye already looking at them from far away. "Shoot him down Jin! I don''t care who the fu?k he is." Koujiro ignored Jin''s warning and order him to shoot the man down. "Nuh-uh capt, that''s a bad idea." Jin shakes his head while raising both of his hands not wanting to offend the swordsman. "For fu?k sake man, give me my gun!" Koujiro irritated by Jin''s cowardly behaviour and take the sniper rifle from Jin. Before Koujiro got to set up his rifle to shoot the man, Mihawk who is falling towards the sea suddenly kicked the air and he kicked again multiple times towards their ship. "Ooh fu?k! Ready your sword capt, he''s coming to us." Jin panicked at the sight of the strongest swordsman heading to their ship. While jumping through the air, Mihawk squints his eyes and look towards the helm of the black ship and found two Wano people bickering about something with the one on the helm holding some kind of strange rifle and the other raising both of his hands talking to the man on the helm. ''Hmm, two Wano people on the Paradise? Two gunmen? No, the man on the helm has a broadsword on his hip. The coward one is the gunman, while the swordsman is the Captain I ?ssume.'' Mihawk thought to himself while flying towards the black ship. *Thud* Mihawk landed on the deck of the Queen Anne''s Revenge and immediately surrounded by the zombies. "Oh shit, he''s here. He''s the Captain!" Jin pointed towards Koujiro while still raising his hands up. "Fuck off man! Tceh." Koujiro barked at his first mate while dropping the rifle and pulling out the Sword of Triton from its sheath. "Yakuza?" Mihawk said seeing Koujiro''s tattoos and immediately jumped towards the helm readying his sword to slash at Koujiro. Koujiro raised his swords to block the slash, he blocked it but sent flying away from the ship from the force of the slash Mihawk''s did. "Fuck! Shoot him down Jin! Stop being a puss?!" Koujiro yelled before sent flying away from the ship. Mihawk turns his head towards Jin and raised his eyebrows at him. "Uuh.he''s the Captain, and I haven''t shot at you yet, peace?" Jin said still raising his hands and smile at Mihawk with sweats pouring down from his head and back. Mihawk ignored the sweating gunman and jump off the ship to catch up to the flying Yakuza.