Chapter 29: Voyager
<span style="font-weight:400">*sigh*
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick was looking at the sky right now.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Damn Akainu. You’ll pay for screwing me over, you asshole.’
<span style="font-weight:400">When Rick fled Marineford, he went straight to Sabaody Archipgo. To lose anyoneing after him by mixing into the crowd.
<span style="font-weight:400">After some time he then defeated a pirate crew, stole their ship and set sails.
<span style="font-weight:400">His n half worked and half failed. He did leave the marine as intended, but not as white as snow, thanks to one big asshole.
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick knew that now he was in trouble. He didn’t know how much until a seagull delivered the new wanted posters.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘World’s worst traitor…’
<span style="font-weight:400">*sigh*
<span style="font-weight:400">‘At least it’s a cool nickname. Way better than Rookie Rick’.
<span style="font-weight:400">He was in a bind, he was wanted now and could not move as freely as he wished.
<span style="font-weight:400">That means he would not be able to stay in the same ce for long anymore. He would have to be on the move constantly for the next 10 years or so.
<span style="font-weight:400">He had looked at his system.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘So ever since I bought the Mini Mini no Mi and the imperfect body V2 I got close to 400k Karma points. The scums from basta really gave me a lot. What should I do with the points now’.
<span style="font-weight:400">He wondered if he should buy and keep under lock some devil fruit that would fall into the hands of Luffy’s enemies But he didn’t remember them well enough to do that. So in the end he decided to stockpiles points and to use them in an emergency.
<span style="font-weight:400">He did use some of them for Doctor Vegapunk’s research. There were no new entries for the imperfect body series to his disappointment.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Hurry up mad man! I want to be able to use Haki!’
<span style="font-weight:400">There was a new project that caught his eyes.
<b>[Artificial Devil Fruit Project]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Well since, he started this project, not all is lost.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Devil fruit contained a fragment of the sea devil’s soul. Since Vegapunk seeded at creating some in the future, he had to have, somehow, made progress with his soul research.
<span style="font-weight:400">That meant hope for Rick, to one day use Haki.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘If I only knew where that mad man was… I could pay him a visit and make a deal. No that’s stupid, even if I knew, he’s on the marines side. He must be protected. Besides, even though my bounty is not that great, I must be one of the most wanted people in the world. I would be captured before even making a step in the ce Vegapunk is.’
<span style="font-weight:400">He thought about his next step. He didn’t really think about this part of the n. Actually if it had worked perfectly, he would just travel through the Grand Line, exploring the many inds that the original story didn’t show.
<span style="font-weight:400">But now that he was wanted dead by the pirates ( he did send a lot of them in impel down over the years) and wanted by the marine too....
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick didn’t have this luxury anymore.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘What to do ?’
<span style="font-weight:400">He needed to hide, but at the same time didn’t want to do nothing for the next decade or so…
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Safety first, boredom second. Where can I go ? I need a ce that no one wants or needs to go to. From both the marine and pirates. A ce that won’t have any trouble for the next 10 years and more…’
<span style="font-weight:400">He tried to remember the events of the original story as best as he could. Especially the little details.
<span style="font-weight:400">Finally a light bulb went on above this head.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Of course! There is only one ce in the Grand Line that I know of that meets all the criteria! ‘
<span style="font-weight:400">His destination was set! Direction O….
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Wait! How can I get there? I don’t even know where I am.’
<span style="font-weight:400">He pondered for a moment and opened the system’s store.
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Is there a tab for…. Oh! There is! Wow that’s freaking expensive! Howe the difference in price is so big from one to another. Is it because nobody goes to this ce hence why it’s pricey and this one is cheap because a lot of people do? Well, doesn’t matter anyway.’
<span style="font-weight:400">Rick bought what he was looking for.
<b>[Eternal Pose - Ohara] 200 000 Karma Points</b>