《Cheating Life in One Piece》 1 C1 : Rebirth Two people is seen at the side of a hospital bed with a young man on it. The two people are the parents of the young man, and they''re crying due to the ''accident'' he was in. The accident was but a cover for attempted murder. The young man was a popular man in his university, with a lot of young women chasing him. Excelling in mathematics, science, physical education, and so on, along with his gentle and carefree personality and looks, has him being the number-one-husband/boyfriend object for the young women. Never did they expect him to be poor. His family was rich, however due to betrayal of their blood relatives, they lost a lot of their money. That only helped the young man to start changing from his old personality, snobbish and arrogant, to his new personality, gentle and carefree. He started to work hard for a better future for his family and himself. His name... - "Mother, father, I''m sorry I couldn''t obtain a better future for you guys...", the young man said to his crying parents at his side. Looking at them, he couldn''t help but regret all of his past actions to them when he was such a snob and arrogant. They had overlooked his actions a lot of times due to their love towards their son, yet he did nothing for them. By the time he lost everything but his parents, it was too late for him to repay their feelings, even though he tried hard to change and worked hard to be successful. Thinking of how he got into the so-called ''accident'', his hatred for his ''blood'' relatives started to burn harder and harder. His mother started to cry harder, "It''s okay, just please survive this! I don''t care if we can''t have better future as long we''re together!" "Mother, you know that I can''t.. I''ve only few minutes until I pass away.. I''m sorry." His voice shaking, he replied to his mother. He turned his eyes to his father and said, "Father! You have to protect mother and yourself from ''them''! They''re the reason why I''m like this!" His father nodded angrily while sobbing, for he knew who they were and why they did this. Seeing this, the young man smiled and closed his eyes in his passing. "No! Don''t go!", his mother yelled hysterically. "I swear to you, I will take revenge for our family!", his father shouted angrily. "Ryu!", both of them shouted. - *Ding* A sound resounded in Ryu''s mind. Starting to awaken, his conscious was confused. He was sure he died. ''What the hell? Shouldn''t I be dea- Wait, is this the so-called reincarnation!?'', Ryu started to get excited. A gray transparent tablet appeared in his conscious. [One Piece System is connecting to the host, g6-2329sr...] [5...4...3...2...1] [Connected! Host is now a ''member'' of the system.] ''F**k! One Piece!? Damn, so I won''t be in the same world as my parents, eh?'', he was happy and sad at the same time. Sad because he couldn''t help his parents. Happy because he knew One Piece, after all he was secretly an fan of anime and fictional novels. [Host, would you like an tutorial of what is happening to you or do you not give a shit about it?] [Tutorial/Don''t give a shit] ''...'' [...] ''Uh.. I''d like an tutorial.'', he said in his conscious. [Very well, host. Your soul was chosen by the God of Systems to reincarnate along with me, One Piece System, he created casually.] ''Oh... Well, I''m glad and all, but I''d like to know what happened to my parents'' life.'' [Requesting from the God of Systems about it...] *Ding* (MESSAGE FROM GOD OF SYSTEM) [Open?] ''Open.'' [Message from God of System: Ryu, your parents'' life after your death was difficult in the beginning, however, it started to get better due to me choosing you. I didn''t want you to worry about them, so I decided to change their luck a bit. They''re living well, and don''t worry about the relatives who caused your death, they''re living miserably now. As for your reincarnation, it''s just a whim of mine I wanted to do for an experiment with One Piece System. Live well and do whatever you want to. Also, I''ve given a little gift for you.] ''So they''re fine. That''s good.'', Ryu was satisfied. [Host, would you like to open the gift?] ''Yes.'' 2 C2: A gift or a bug? - At last! One Piece, here I come! [Opening the gift...] [Gift has been opened!] ''So, what''s the gift?'', Ryu asks. [Gift is the gift.] ''...what?'' [Gift is the gift, host.] ''F**k you mean?! Is this a bug?!'' [Checking for bugs in the system...] [5...4...3...2...1] [Bug found! Attempting to fix...] [Fixed by giving host an increase to his System rank, from ''member'' to ''administrator''!] ''Ohhhh! Nice! I''ve got administrator abilities now!'', Ryu got excited. ''Say, isn''t the God of Systems going to do anything about that?'' [The God of Systems has already stated this is an experiment and you could do whatever you wanted, so... it should be okay, I guess?] ''Uh, alright then. Am I gonna be put into a fetus or am I going to be in another dude''s body?'' [You may decide that. You can be born as a baby or straight away be a young man spawned somewhere.] ''What about my character features?'', Ryu asks. [The God of Systems has already chosen how you will look like, either it be, as a baby or grown-up. Before you ask, host, this feature is the only part you may not be able to adjust to your likings, as it is also an experiment.] *Ding* [Host, time is running out, please quickly decide on your rebirth.] [30... 25... 20...] ''Uh! I''ll be an 6-years-old boy and let me be at Loguetown where the timeline is at Roger''s execution time!'', he hastily decides. [Very well. Starting...] Ryu started to feel tired, his conscious starting to sleep as he feels a strange strong tugging on his soul. ?(Above Loguetown)? A transparent white firey ball-like appears above the Loguetown to no one''s awareness. *Ding* Ryu starts to awaken after hearing the ding. [Host, you are currently above the Loguetown, do not worry about others seeing you as I have made you invisible at the moment.] Looking around, he sees the Loguetown from above-view, ''Wow, I really am in One Piece..'' Tears starts to form at the rims of his eyes. [Host-] ''Shut it! I''m crying because I''m happy that I got to enjoy my life in One Piece okay!'', Ryu starts to shout at the system, thinking that it was looking down on him. [No, host, I was trying to ask you if you have any plans on going in Loguetown, to watch the execution or stop it?] ''Huh?'' [...?] ''What do you mean stop it? I''m freaking weak right now, aren''t I?'', confused. [Yes, you are currently weak. However, that''s because you did not use the system to give yourself boosts/powers/abilities, yet.] ''Oh.'', said Ryu, ''well, it''d be interesting to see what would happen in the future if I were to stop it... However, I don''t think I should do it. Otherwise, it wouldn''t start off the ''Era of Pirates'', right? I''ll stick to watching it above.'' [Alright, host.] Looking down, he sees a lot of people in Loguetown. Pirates in disguise, marines, normal citizens, they''re all there. In middle of the town, the execution stand is there, where Gol D. Roger will make his final words. Ryu starts to get excited and impatient to see the start of the era. ''Ohh! They''re bringing Gol D. Roger!'', he sees him being walked by the Marines to the stand. "King of Pirates! You''re finally going to die!", "Where''s your treasure?! Tell us!", "Cursed blood, let it end with you!", the crowd starts to yell at Roger, as he kneels at the execution stand. Gol D. Roger grins at them, "You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now you''ll just have to find it!" Both two executioners stabs their swords into him as he said his final words. The crowd went silent for a while. Then the crowd starts to get rowdy, some cheerful, some fearful, many different emotions goes throughout Loguetown, the place where Gol D. Roger died and started the ''Era of Pirates''. 3 C3: Body Created - Making Myself Stronger than Whitebeard? *Ding* [Host, your soul will begin to obtain a body of your own.] [Moving host to a safe location for body creation...] Ryu suddenly sees the scene literally change, from Loguetown to a island in middle of nowhere...? The island looks smaller than the Loguetown, and unoccupied. It has sand around it and flat land from sand to center, no trees or plants. ''What a desolate island!'' [Host, during the body creation, you will be unconscious as it would be very painful process. Oh, right, the unconscious state will be a long time, as you are an ''Administrator'', benefits will be added to your body.] ''About how long will it be?'' He asks. [About 5-10 years.] ''What the actual f**k?!'' [Starting body creation for host...] *Ding* ''Damn...!'', He feels a slight pain before going unconscious. ? A young man, looking to be 9, lying on the small island, seemingly to be lifeless. He has a lean and compressed muscular body, and sword-like brows on his chiseled cute and handsome face, that would cause ladies, young or old, to want him for themselves. His skin is not too white and a bit tanned, making him look manly. His hair color is pitch black, slightly unruly and long to his shoulders. *Ding* A sound awakens the young man, Ryu. Opening his eyes, he looks at the clear blue sky, with warm and comfortable sun rays upon him. If one could saw his eyes, they would show green color, seemingly to have a lot of potential to enchant women. "Mmm..." He groans. "System, how long has it been?" [It has been about 6 years. Host, would you like to see yourself?] "6 years... Nah, I''m going to guess I''m above average handsome man in this world now." , Ryu said, stretching. ''At least I hope so...'' [...] Men in the world would spit out blood if they heard him saying above average when they would give their right nut to be him. Above average? Who you kidding?! You''re going to be devilishly handsome man in future! "Let''s get all of Hakis, Rokushiki, and basic swordsmanship, marksmanship, and combat skills", he lazily commands. [Yes.] *Ding* [Obtained Observation Haki] [Obtained Armament Haki] [Obtained Conqueror''s Haki] [Obtained a set of Rokushiki skills (Soru, Geppo, Kami-e, Tekkai, Rankyaku, Shigan)] [Obtained Basic Swordsmanship] [Obtained a durable sword, now in ''Inventory''] [Obtained Basic Marksmanship] [Obtained a durable gun, now in ''Inventory''] [Obtained Basic Combat] [I have set the mastery of those abilities and skills to 100%.] "Let''s try it all out then.", closing his eyes. Basic knowledge of swordsmanship, marksmanship, and combat movements comes into his mind. ''Seems easy to understand.'' "Hey system, can you bring out a dummy for me to test those skills on?", itching to try these combat movements. [Summoning a dummy...] *Poof* A wooden human-shaped dummy appears in front of Ryu. ''No hard feelings, mister dummy'', Ryu thought. Walking closer to the dummy, he punches his right fist to it. "Haah!" *BOOM* A wind blast comes out of his right fist, literally obliterating in front of him. "..." Shocked, he didn''t move for awhile... "Hey system?", with a deadpanned expression, he talks to the system. [Yes?] "What the f**k just happened?!" [Due to your rank being ''Administrator'', you are now strong by default. For example, if you were to fight Edward D. Newgate, Whitebeard, you would be able to hold your ground against him, not defeating him. Though, if you were to heal his body, you wouldn''t be able to then.] "I''m definitely healing him, alright. Well, it makes sense I would make a wind blast just by punching the air with all my might... However, now I have to be careful not to accidentally kill anyone." [Would you like a tutorial on controlling your capabilities or a new interface that will restrict it by percentage?" "What''s the pros and cons between those?" [With the tutorial, you will be able to control your abilities at will, however, it will take you awhile. With the new interface, you will receive restrictions upon your body depending on the percentage you put into it, but you will have to spend a little time to change it (which is bad, cause doing it in middle of battle gets you abused into being a masochist no prob.) I''d recommend the long-term option one, as it will kill time for you before the storyline starts.] "Mhmm. I see. Yeah, definit- WAIT, F**K YOU AND YOUR ''MASOCHIST NO PROB''!", he shouts at the air. "A-anyways, I''ll take the the tutorial then. I don''t particularly have any plans either way." 4 C4: Meeting ‘Sashgee’, the cute tiger? *Ding* [Initializing the custom-made ''Control Your Capabilties'' plan for ''Administrator'' Unnamed...] [Teleporting host to an island...] Ryu sees the scene change before him. ''Bye ruined dummy...!'' ? (Unknown Island) The self-proclaimed ''above-average handsome'' young boy finds himself at the edge of the unknown island. He sees sea behind him, grass below him, edges of the island at both of his sides, and a huge red-striped tiger in front of him. "..." The huge red-striped tiger stares at the newcomer in front of it. ''Who is this puny creature? It''s standing on two legs... A human?'' "..." Outward, Ryu looks tranquil, however, inwardly, he''s freaking out as he yells at the system in his mind. ''SYSTEM! WHAT THE F**K HAVE YOU DONE?! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME? IS THAT IT?!'' [Please start fighting the cute tiger in front of you.] ''Don''t ignore me, damn it! Cute tiger?! What f**king cute tiger!?'' Exasperated at his system, he inwardly cries. "Hey, human. How did you get here?" The ''cute'' tiger talks to the little human. ''Holy f**k, it spoke! System, it spoke!'' The ''little'' human inwardly shouts. [...Maybe we should find another savag- cute animal that will attack you on sight.] ''What have I, your handsome host, done to you!'' He yells. The huge red-striped tiger starts to get annoyed. ''Did I use the wrong language? I''m sure the humans has only two language, one ancient and the commonly-used one...'' "E-erm, I-I got here by teleporting...?" Ryu finally gets the courage to talk to the tiger. "Oh! So you do understand me! Couldn''t you reply back quickly? For a few seconds, I had thought the great me had used the wrong language to speak to you little human." The tiger replies back. Inwardly, ''Heh, ''the great me.'' Bawahahaha!'' Finally actually calm now, Ryu asks the tiger, "where am I at?" "Well, you''re on a island that''s full of beasts. I, for one, have not seen a human on this island for awhile... Oh right, what''s your name, little human?" "Ryu-, wait" He stops suddenly, thinking of a better and cooler name to use for the future. *Ding* [Host has finally named himself. Setting name as ''Ryu-, wait''...] ''Wait, no! Just Ryu!'' In panic, he yells his name to the system. [Name has been set as ''Ryu''. I shall now call you Ryu from now on.] "I bet you''re thinking of a cooler name to use, right?" The tiger suddenly spoke. ''I would''ve done that too, if I were in his position... Wait, he doesn''t know mine, so...'' "Y-yeah." Clearing his throat, he starts to speak, "so, my name''s Ryu. What''s yours?" The tiger starts to think furiously, to the point the tiger starts to sweat. ''Sh*t, what should I call myself?!'' ''Pfft! The tiger''s sweating furiously! Is it actually that serious, telling others your name?'' The handsome young man thinks. The animal sees the littl- Ryu looking at itself weirdly, ''she'' decides to use ''it''. "Puny little human! You dare to try ask me, the great me! For my name!?" The tiger suddenly starts to get angry for no reason at the puny human. [Puny human, how dare you.] The system speaks emotionlessly to its host. ''F**k you system! You never cared for me anyways!'' Ryu sweats. "I-it''s just a name, t-though?" Looking like a sudden realization dawned on the tiger, it then spoke. "You''re right. It''s just a name. My name''s Sashi" The puny human sweatdrops. ''The damn tiger scared me and then suddenly acts as if nothing happened! Wait, a female tiger?'' "R-right. Nice to meet you Sashgee." [*insert facepalm emoji*] "H-huh?" Ryu sees ''Sashgee'' looking angry again at him now. ''What the f**k did I do now?!'' ''Woe is me! Calm down, Sashi, he just accidentally said it wrong.'' The tiger tries to calmly tell him, "It''s Sashi, not Sashgee, mister Ryu." ''You don''t look calm with that face and teeth grinding itself!'' Ryu inwardly thinks. "U-uh, Sashgee?" *ROAR* "It''s SASHGEE- Ah!? I mean SASHI!" The hotheaded tiger roars at the puny little human in front of it. ''What the f**k!? I know it''s ''Sashgee''! Why the f**k are you roaring at my face?!'' Ryu started to get angrily annoyed now. [Ah... how blissfully ignorant you are, my host... I shall await you at heaven, my dear, dear, host.] The system suddenly musically states to Ryu. 5 C5: 3 Years Training! Time Skip (3 years later : 13 years before Monkey D. Luffy starts his journey ) *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* Three wind blasts can be heard in the unknown island, scaring the beasts on it. A young man can be seen near the center of island, punching the air with his fists. A red-striped tiger is nearby, watching the human doing his training. *Ding* [The tutorial is over, puny little human.] ''F**k you too'', he retorts. "Phew... Finally done!" Suddenly, ''Sashgee'' strikes at him with her big paw. *Woosh* He dodges, and attacks back with a right kick to her shoulder. "Hmph. Your Observation Haki is good as usual." Sashi states. ''*Sigh* I still couldn''t touch him...'' "Yeah." Ryu spoke. "..." "..." A sudden sad atmosphere comes around them. "So, you''re finally leaving." Sashi starts. "Mmm." He nods softly. "That was the deal we had." "Yes... That was the deal we had..." The tiger sadly tells. ''Only because I wanted to keep you here longer...'' ? ? "Well, uh, I came here to train myself and learn how to control my capabilities.", Ryu told Sashi. "Oh, I see.", the tiger suspiciously thinks he''s a masochist. ''Who would like to come here to train, a island full of beasts potentially able to kill the little human?'' "So, where exactly is this island at?" He wonders out loud while looking around. "Mmn. It''s in New World," Sashi tells him. "Oh. New World." Ryu says, before it hit him. "Holy f**k, New World!?" "Yes. The island is in New World. Only few humans has come to this island, though." "Then where are they?" "In the stomach of the beasts that ate them at the time, where else?" She bluntly states. Ryu sweatdropped at that. "Y-you''re not gonna eat me, right?" "Hahaha! Why would I? You''re small, so I wouldn''t have enough then." ''System, I hate you.'' He announced in his mind. [Love you too, Ryu.] Rolling his eyes inwardly, he asks the system, ''so how am I gonna learn how to control my power?'' [Oh, you know, just piss off those beasts here and there then learn it. Ya understand?] ''...'' "Hey, so, want me to help you learn control?" Sashi suddenly asks him. "By that, I mean by fighting me, of course. I haven''t had fun since the beasts around here are afraid of me and decided to crown me as the strongest in here." ''...She''s kidding me right?'' Sweating, he replies, "as long as I don''t die, I w-w-wouldn''t mind." "Huh?" She became confused, "wait, are you really an masochist?" [Yes, my host, Ryu, is an masochist.] The system replies, even though she wouldn''t hear or see. ''F**k you!'' Ryu mentally retorts. "No, no. I''m not!" "Oh, ok. Well, I was serious about training you anyways, to kill time." Sashi starts to plan his training mentally. "First, let''s find you a weak beast to spar with on this island." ? {1 Month Later} |Observation Haki Training?| "F******k! Stay away! Damn you dog! W-wait! I''m sorry!" A 6-yrs-old boy can be seen runni- dodging the attacks from the ''dog''. The ''dog'' is actually an wolf enlarged to about the Earth''s elephant''s size. *ROAR* The wolf roars angrily. *WOOSH* Ryu dodges the right paw. *WOOSH* And then, left. *WOOSH* Then, right. *FLAP* And finally, the tail. ? {3 Months Later} |Armament Haki Training?| "So, do you get it now?", the red-striped tiger said to the young boy in front. Looking at the huge-ass rock that Sashi brought to him, "I''m to demolish the rock with my finger, the pinky one at that." Ryu states. "Yes. Good, you do understand." She happily said before walking away. ''How the f**k am I supposed to crush it with my damn pinky?! Your pinky is bigger than mine, you dumb cat!'' Ryu mentally shouts. "Hmm? Did you say something bad about me, Ryu?" The cat turns her head and look straight at the boy''s eyes. "N-no! I did not say anything bad, ma''am!" ? {5 Months Later} |Conqueror''s Haki Training| The tiger, Sashi, looks at the human in front of her, Ryu. They had been like this, without moving since the morning came. All of sudden, a huge pressure came out of Sashi and came upon Ryu massively. Ryu, of course, couldn''t deal with it and fell onto his knees, but not before he sent out a bit of his own Conqueror''s Haki roughly. "*Sigh* As expected, you can''t deal with mine. I''ll go find a beast that''s third to my Conqueror''s Haki. Rest for now." Sashi tells Ryu, while leaving to search. "Mmmn." He stiffly nods. ''I didn''t expect the beasts to be able to have the Conqueror''s Haki! Just how much of hell are you going to make me suffer though?!'' ? {1 Year Later} |Sword Training| Two hawk-like eyes stare straight towards the green eyes. "You''re the brat, huh?" "Yes..." Ryu dramatically nods slowly. Inwardly though, ''Holy f**k! It''s Dracule Mihawk! How the f**k does Sashi know this sword-obsessed bastard?!'' "You have a nice sword intent, though it looks new... as if you never used it. I don''t understand." Mihawk states. "Ah, I see..." Ryu replies with an dramatic thinking look. Mihawk still stares at him questioningly. ''Wait, you expected me to know?!'' ? {1 Year 6 Months Later} |Combat & Rokushiki Training| *BOOM* A young boy flies through the sky. ''It''s a bird, wait no, it''s a plane! Wait, it''s f**king me, Ryu!'' He mentally shouts. As he landed on the ground roughly, a old yet healthy man comes walking towards him. "Hey, you alright there? I kinda overdid it, haha!" ''F**k you and your ''overdid''! You screwed me to the damn sky, Rayleigh!'' Ryu inwardly retorts angrily. Yes, the old man''s Silvers Rayleigh, the former first mate of the Rogers Pirates. "I''m fine, let''s continue." Ryu replies. ''Otherwise Sashi''s would beat me up to the death for a whole week, while you would do it for 3 days a week. Not hard to decide, right? Wait, how the f**k did Sashi know this guy again?!'' ? {2 Years Later} |Marksman Training| *BANG* "Dahahahaha! You missed by a whole feet from the target, brat!" A red-haired man laughs at the young boy who tried to shoot the apple on top of the red-haired man. "Shut up! It''s because you kept moving around too quick!" Ryu angrily shouts at him. ''Damn Shanks is too quick, otherwise with my Observation Haki, I would''ve sho-'' "Brat, don''t rely on your Observation Haki too much, you''ll need to rely on your guts." A dreadlocks-haired man told him. ''Hurry up and let me finish training you! That f**king tiger scares me!'' "Dahaha! Ryu, why don''t you join us? Our crew''s going to be strong and huge, we''ll have fun partying and traveling freely!" Shanks tried to get him to join his currently small crew. ''This brat''s definitely going to reject it no doubt.'' "No! I''d rather travel alone!" As expected, Ryu quickly declined it. "Why alone?" Shanks asks. Suddenly, a serious atmosphere comes upon them as Ryu takes his time to reply dramatically, "I''d rather to travel alone, because..." "Because...?" The currently small Red-Haired Pirates awaits his answer. "Because it''s such a hassle to deal with others!" He bluntly stated. "..." The whole Red-Haired Pirates were astounded at such answer. ''F**k! You had us waiting dramatically just because for that answer!?'' "Bawahahahaha! You''re funny! Let''s party up!" Shanks suddenly broke it up. ''Damn it Shanks! Stop wasting my time to train Ryu! Are you trying to get me heart attack the next time the red-stripes comes out of nowhere?!'' Yasopp cried indignantly inward. ? {2 Years 6 Months Later} |The Day The Deal Started| "Alright! I''ll finally leave the island in 6 months!" Ryu shouted as he checked the calendar in the system. "So you''re going to leave soon in the end." Sashi suddenly appeared and spoke. ''Why am I feeling sad? I already knew he only came here to train himself...'' "Yeah. I''ll miss you though." He replied back. ''It''s been nearly 3 whole years on this island.'' "Hey Ryu, let''s make a deal." The tiger asks him. "A deal? What is it?" Ryu looks at the tiger questioningly. "Ok, so the deal''s like this", Sashi tells him a deal, so that she can keep Ryu around her a bit longer. ... "So, if you touch me, I''ll have to stay here longer?" Ryu asks for a confirmation. ''I don''t mind that, to be honest. Still have several more years before Luffy starts his journey...'' "Yes. So? Will you do it?" The red-stripes hopefully looks at him. "Mmm." He dramatically delays his answer, until Sashi looks like she''s about to beat him up. "W-wait! I''ll do it!" *BAM* "Hahaha! I touched you! Now you have to stay here another 6 months!" The tiger successfully touched him. "Damn you cat! You ambushed me!" He starts to fight back the tiger. ''Heh, I bet Sashi missed me so she wanted to keep me here.'' ? "I had a lot of fun times around you, Ryu." Sashi tells him. "Come visit me sometimes, alright? Otherwise I''ll come out New World and hunt you down!" Ryu sweatdrops at that. "Alright! I will!" ''Wouldn''t want people at the Grand Line to die of heart attack at the sight of the red stripes.'' *Ding* [Teleporting ''Administrator'' Ryu to the Grand Line...] "See you, Sashi!" He yelled at the red stripes, teleporting away. "See you!" Sashi yells back. "Yes... See you soon. *smirks*" The unknown island that the handsome host was at suddenly disappears where it was at. 5 C5: Three Years Training Completed ? (Unknown Island in New World) {Year: 9.6} ? *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* Three wind blasts can be heard in the unknown island, scaring the beasts on it. A young man can be seen near the center of island, punching the air with his fists. A red-striped tiger is nearby, watching the human doing his training. *Ding* [The tutorial is over, puny little human.] ''F**k you too'', he retorts. "Phew... Finally done!" Suddenly, ''Sashgee'' strikes at him with her big paw. *Woosh* He dodges, and attacks back with a right kick to her shoulder. "Hmph. Your Observation Haki is good as usual." Sashi states. ''*Sigh* I still couldn''t touch him...'' "Yeah." Ryu spoke. "..." "..." A sudden sad atmosphere comes around them. "So, you''re finally leaving." Sashi starts. "Mmm." He nods softly. "That was the deal we had." "Yes... That was the deal we had..." The tiger sadly tells. ''Only because I wanted to keep you here longer...'' ? ? "Well, uh, I came here to train myself and learn how to control my capabilities.", Ryu told Sashi. "Oh, I see.", the tiger suspiciously thinks he''s a masochist. ''Who would like to come here to train, a island full of beasts potentially able to kill the little human?'' "So, where exactly is this island at?" He wonders out loud while looking around. "Mmn. It''s in New World," Sashi tells him. "Oh. New World." Ryu says, before it hit him. "Holy f**k, New World!?" "Yes. The island is in New World. Only few humans has come to this island, though." "Then where are they?" "In the stomach of the beasts that ate them at the time, where else?" She bluntly states. Ryu sweatdropped at that. "Y-you''re not gonna eat me, right?" "Hahaha! Why would I? You''re small, so I wouldn''t have enough then." ''System, I hate you.'' He announced in his mind. [Love you too, Ryu.] Rolling his eyes inwardly, he asks the system, ''so how am I gonna learn how to control my power?'' [Oh, you know, just piss off those beasts here and there then learn it. Ya understand?] ''...'' "Hey, so, want me to help you learn control?" Sashi suddenly asks him. "By that, I mean by fighting me, of course. I haven''t had fun since the beasts around here are afraid of me and decided to crown me as the strongest in here." ''...She''s kidding me right?'' Sweating, he replies, "as long as I don''t die, I w-w-wouldn''t mind." "Huh?" She became confused, "wait, are you really an masochist?" [Yes, my host, Ryu, is an masochist.] The system replies, even though she wouldn''t hear or see. ''F**k you!'' Ryu mentally retorts. "No, no. I''m not!" "Oh, ok. Well, I was serious about training you anyways, to kill time." Sashi starts to plan his training mentally. "First, let''s find you a weak beast to spar with on this island." ? {1 Month Later} |Observation Haki Training?| "F******k! Stay away! Damn you dog! W-wait! I''m sorry!" A 6-yrs-old boy can be seen runni- dodging the attacks from the ''dog''. The ''dog'' is actually an wolf enlarged to about the Earth''s elephant''s size. *ROAR* The wolf roars angrily. *WOOSH* Ryu dodges the right paw. *WOOSH* And then, left. *WOOSH* Then, right. *FLAP* And finally, the tail. ? {3 Months Later} |Armament Haki Training?| "So, do you get it now?", the red-striped tiger said to the young boy in front. Looking at the huge-ass rock that Sashi brought to him, "I''m to demolish the rock with my finger, the pinky one at that." Ryu states. "Yes. Good, you do understand." She happily said before walking away. ''How the f**k am I supposed to crush it with my damn pinky?! Your pinky is bigger than mine, you dumb cat!'' Ryu mentally shouts. "Hmm? Did you say something bad about me, Ryu?" The cat turns her head and look straight at the boy''s eyes. "N-no! I did not say anything bad, ma''am!" ? {5 Months Later} |Conqueror''s Haki Training| The tiger, Sashi, looks at the human in front of her, Ryu. They had been like this, without moving since the morning came. All of sudden, a huge pressure came out of Sashi and came upon Ryu massively. Ryu, of course, couldn''t deal with it and fell onto his knees, but not before he sent out a bit of his own Conqueror''s Haki roughly. "*Sigh* As expected, you can''t deal with mine. I''ll go find a beast that''s third to my Conqueror''s Haki. Rest for now." Sashi tells Ryu, while leaving to search. "Mmmn." He stiffly nods. ''I didn''t expect the beasts to be able to have the Conqueror''s Haki! Just how much of hell are you going to make me suffer though?!'' ? {1 Year Later} |Sword Training| Two hawk-like eyes stare straight towards the green eyes. "You''re the brat, huh?" "Yes..." Ryu dramatically nods slowly. Inwardly though, ''Holy f**k! It''s Dracule Mihawk! How the f**k does Sashi know this sword-obsessed bastard?!'' "You have a nice sword intent, though it looks new... as if you never used it. I don''t understand." Mihawk states. "Ah, I see..." Ryu replies with an dramatic thinking look. Mihawk still stares at him questioningly. ''Wait, you expected me to know?!'' ? {1 Year 6 Months Later} |Combat & Rokushiki Training| *BOOM* A young boy flies through the sky. ''It''s a bird, wait no, it''s a plane! Wait, it''s f**king me, Ryu!'' He mentally shouts. As he landed on the ground roughly, a old yet healthy man comes walking towards him. "Hey, you alright there? I kinda overdid it, haha!" ''F**k you and your ''overdid''! You screwed me to the damn sky, Rayleigh!'' Ryu inwardly retorts angrily. Yes, the old man''s Silvers Rayleigh, the former first mate of the Rogers Pirates. "I''m fine, let''s continue." Ryu replies. ''Otherwise Sashi''s would beat me up to the death for a whole week, while you would do it for 3 days a week. Not hard to decide, right? Wait, how the f**k did Sashi know this guy again?!'' ? {2 Years Later} |Marksman Training| *BANG* "Dahahahaha! You missed by a whole feet from the target, brat!" A red-haired man laughs at the young boy who tried to shoot the apple on top of the red-haired man. "Shut up! It''s because you kept moving around too quick!" Ryu angrily shouts at him. ''Damn Shanks is too quick, otherwise with my Observation Haki, I would''ve sho-'' "Brat, don''t rely on your Observation Haki too much, you''ll need to rely on your guts." A dreadlocks-haired man told him. ''Hurry up and let me finish training you! That f**king tiger scares me!'' "Dahaha! Ryu, why don''t you join us? Our crew''s going to be strong and huge, we''ll have fun partying and traveling freely!" Shanks tried to get him to join his currently small crew. ''This brat''s definitely going to reject it no doubt.'' "No! I''d rather travel alone!" As expected, Ryu quickly declined it. "Why alone?" Shanks asks. Suddenly, a serious atmosphere comes upon them as Ryu takes his time to reply dramatically, "I''d rather to travel alone, because..." "Because...?" The currently small Red-Haired Pirates awaits his answer. "Because it''s such a hassle to deal with others!" He bluntly stated. "..." The whole Red-Haired Pirates were astounded at such answer. ''F**k! You had us waiting dramatically just because for that answer!?'' "Bawahahahaha! You''re funny! Let''s party up!" Shanks suddenly broke it up. ''Damn it Shanks! Stop wasting my time to train Ryu! Are you trying to get me heart attack the next time the red-stripes comes out of nowhere?!'' Yasopp cried indignantly inward. ? {2 Years 6 Months Later} |The Day The Deal Started| "Alright! I''ll finally leave the island in 6 months!" Ryu shouted as he checked the calendar in the system. "So you''re going to leave soon in the end." Sashi suddenly appeared and spoke. ''Why am I feeling sad? I already knew he only came here to train himself...'' "Yeah. I''ll miss you though." He replied back. ''It''s been nearly 3 whole years on this island.'' "Hey Ryu, let''s make a deal." The tiger asks him. "A deal? What is it?" Ryu looks at the tiger questioningly. "Ok, so the deal''s like this", Sashi tells him a deal, so that she can keep Ryu around her a bit longer. ... "So, if you touch me, I''ll have to stay here longer?" Ryu asks for a confirmation. ''I don''t mind that, to be honest. Still have several more years before Luffy starts his journey...'' "Yes. So? Will you do it?" The red-stripes hopefully looks at him. "Mmm." He dramatically delays his answer, until Sashi looks like she''s about to beat him up. "W-wait! I''ll do it!" *BAM* "Hahaha! I touched you! Now you have to stay here another 6 months!" The tiger successfully touched him. "Damn you cat! You ambushed me!" He starts to fight back the tiger. ''Heh, I bet Sashi missed me so she wanted to keep me here.'' ? "I had a lot of fun times around you, Ryu." Sashi tells him. "Come visit me sometimes, alright? Otherwise I''ll come out New World and hunt you down!" Ryu sweatdrops at that. "Alright! I will!" ''Wouldn''t want people at the Grand Line to die of heart attack at the sight of the red stripes.'' *Ding* [Teleporting ''Administrator'' Ryu to the Grand Line...] "See you, Sashi!" He yelled at the red stripes, teleporting away. "See you!" Sashi yells back. "Yes... See you soon. *smirks*" The unknown island that the handsome host was at suddenly disappears where it was at. 6 C6: Years Of Time Skip |Part 1| ? (A Small Island) {Year: 9.6} ? [Teleported ''Administrator'' Ryu to an island in Calm Belt, near the Grand Line.] Landing smoothly onto the ground when the system tried to roughly throw him into the ground, "Hm, what should I do next now... There''s at least 11-12 years when the storyline starts." (AN: Meaning the storyline would start at ''{Year: 20-21}''.) [0 points on your awful landing.] ''Yes, yes, thank you for showing your blatant love for your handsome host.'' He drily replied back to his beloved system. "Well, I guess I''ll just travel around during the time before it starts." He decides his plan simply. [What about healing Whitebeard while you''re at it? You did say you were going to heal him at some point.] ''Yeah, but not during this time period. I''d rather do it after Portgas D. Ace joins the family. Now, can you buy a durable dinghy? One which I can freely control with a thought.'' He asks the system. [Yes.] *Ding* [Obtained Speedy Dinghy.] [Speedy Dinghy: A durable dinghy with the speed motor set behind it. Reinforced with bronze. Can be controlled and stored with a thought. However, the dinghy will only hold two people at maximum.] [You may bring out the Speedy Dinghy when you are near the sea, just imagine it appearing.] "Great! Time to set out." He said, walking to the sea. With a thought, it appeared above the water and then splashed onto it. The dinghy looked small, but it was suitable to hold two. It had brown coloring along with gray color on its rims. Ryu sat in it and became comfortable as he leaned back, placing his legs in front. Moving his legs while his right leg crossed over left knee freely and resting his arms behind his head to support it, he willed his dinghy to move wherever he wanted. Closing his eyes to rest, he asked the system, ''wake me up when there''s anyone near me then slow down the dinghy to make it seem like it''s moving along the water for them.'' [Understood, Ryu. Please have a wonderful nightmare as you rest.] His mouth twitched. ''Ah, whatever.'' ? (An Island near Marine Geoise) {Year: 9.8} ? "Hide over there!" A young frail woman wearing torn slave clothes told her two sisters while running. ''Quickly! We need to escape those Marines hunting us!'' "S-sis! My legs hurts!" One of her sister, a bit taller than her, told her. "Okay, let''s rest for a bit," The frail woman told the group. "But we need to lea-" "Hey." A childish yet cold voice sounded out behind them. In panic, the group turned andfrantically attacked towards it. They saw his green eyes coldly looking at them while they were trying to attack, but somehow those eyes calmed them down. He looked like a cute boy, 8-9 years old boy, unruly black hair and he wore a blue short shirt with a brown pants. He dodged them while trying to calmly ask, "you''re Boa Hancock, right? Do you want me to help you escape?" "W-who are you?! Stay away from us!" Hancock yelled at him. ''H-how did he get behind us without us knowing?!'' "I''m Ryu." He replied. "I''ll help you girls escape." "W-what can a little kid do?! They''re Marines! You can''t help us and," one of Hancock''s sister frantically shouted at him, "I also don''t trust you." "So? I don''t care. I''ll still help you, after all..." He told her, "they harmed the innocents, being the dogs of those damned Celestial Dragons!" The group of three girls looked at him for a while. Until a light flashed behind him then, "Oooh~? A bra~t with bri~ght gre~en eye~s? And tho~se gi~rl~s..." "Kizaru..." Ryu slowly turned and looked at him coldly with his green eyes glittering, and while bringing out his pressure on the Light-Man, "Scram the f**k out of here... or suffer." ''What?! This pressure is Conqueror''s Haki! This brat needs to die!'' The Light-Man speedily thought. "Die here, brat!" He brought out a shining light sword and then slashed it towards the brat... *BAM* "W-what!?" Hancock looked at the Light-Man surprised and speechless. Kizaru was speechless too, but he couldn''t help and crouch holding his crotch tenderly. ''D-damn! He also has Armament Haki... it hurts!!! The brat got my crotch!'' Kizaru cried speedily mentally. ''I couldn''t dodge, no, I couldn''t see his attack at all!'' "Tch. Pathetic, dog of Nobles." Ryu coldly stated. "Let''s go, I''ll take you girls to someone safe." "What are you?" Hancock tried to stay away from the dangerous person, now that she saw the little kid easily beating the Light-Man. "How did y-you beat that light guy?" ''What an annoying girl,'' he said inwardly. Ignoring her questions, he knocked Kizaru unconscious and threw him far somewhere in an unknown direction. Then he went closer to the girls and told the system, ''hey system, can you heal them?'' *Ding* [Obtained a batch of ''Blessing of Phoenix''s Tear'' drops.] [Blessing of Phoenix''s Tear: The tear from a Phoenix will heal any injuries inflicted on their physical bodies. Cancer, disease, bones fractures, you name it, it will heal them. However, it can not heal any soul-damages and mental traumas.] Pointing his index finger towards each of them, "first, I''m healing you girls and removing those brands." Three drops of Blessing of Phoenix''s Tear went towards them and quickly healed their injuries, exterior and interior. "T-thank you," they told him. "Where are you going to take us to?" "I''m taking you all to Rayleigh. There''s a woman that''s from Amazon Lily with him. She should be able to take care of you all while going back to there..." Ryu told them slowly, but still cold. ''But then, Hancock would become cold in future, hiding her true personality... Eh, whatever, not my problem anymore'' *WOOSH* The three girls and Ryu disappeared from where they were at. A little later, groups of Marines came there, "Vice Admiral Kizaru! We''re here! Vice Admiral?" ... "Where the f**k am I?!" The said-Vice Admiral spoke quickly in far somewhere else. ? (Where Silvers Rayleigh, Elder Nyon, and Shakuyaku is at) {Year: 9.8} ? *WOOSH* The thee girls and Ryu appeared in front of the other group. Ryu, however, looks annoyed now. Clinging to Ryu unconsciously due to the safety she felt around him and he''s a child, Hancock shouted. "W-wh-where are we?! Who are they?! Protect us, child!" "..." The other group. (Rayleigh, Gloriosa, Shakuyaku) "Pfft! Hahaha! Child! Y-you-" Rayleigh laughed, but suddenly stopped because he went flying somewhere. *BAM* "They''re escapees of those damned Nobles and they''re also from Amazon Lily," the ''child'' told the other group. "Take care of them, Gloryi- Glorsi- Glois- Rayleigh." "Brat! How dare you ignore my presence just because you can''t say my name!" Elder Nyon angrily yelled. "Who are you anyways? You''re pretty strong to be able send Ray flying." "Of course he is! He''s the one I trained in combats," Rayleigh told her while walking to them with a bleeding head. ''Though, I was technically forced... I somehow got teleported there and then the tiger... *shudders*'' "I see, what an cute child." Shakuyaku then told Ryu, "We''ll definitely take care of the girls... However, how did you save them and appear here?" "I happened upon a island near Marine Geoise and saw both escapees and Marines running around. So I joined in, saw them first, and remembered who she was, so I saved them." He replied while pointing towards Hancock who is now blushing due to clinging to him. "Y-yes. How did you know who I was, though?" Hancock asked of him. "Oh... I..." He dramatically stalled answering. ''Shit, I just said her name because I wasn''t thinking with my brain. I was angry at the ti-'' [So you were thinking with your c*ck?] "No! With my heart, you bastard!" Ryu indignantly shouted. "Ah!" "..." All of them. "W-with your heart?!" While ignoring the rest, Hancock blushed and said. ''With his heart?! Does that mean he knew from his heart or did he fall in love with me at first sight? But...'' "I''m sorry! I don''t want a husband..." she ''answered'' his indirect ''confession'', "...yet." Hearing the first part, Rayleigh had a hard time holding back his laughter. But when he heard the rest, he thought, ''damn, he bagged a girl at such a young age!'' "...Anyways, I''m leaving. I''m just traveling around the sea for now." Ryu informed all of them. "Take care." "W-wait! You aren''t going to stay with me?" Hancock panicked and quickly told him, "I-I''ll find you in f-future when I''m r-ready!" Hearing that, he nearly tripped over air. Then he teleported away. "...what was his name again?" Hancock asked Rayleigh, the disgusting man, while glaring at him. "It''s Ryu." Rayleigh responded. ''Why didn''t you glare at Ryu when he''s also a guy?!'' ? (The North Sea) {Year: 10} ? "Wow, my first bounty, huh." A young boy said, looking at his bounty paper while riding his dinghy. On the bounty paper shows a kid with sword-like brows, chiseled cute and handsome face. With an unruly black hair to his shoulders, he has enchanting green eyes. Also wearing the old blue shirt and brown pants he had back then. "Heh, 100M just for helping them escape... Oh wait, I also beat a Vice Admiral." [Congratulations, Ryu. You have obtained your first Bounty. Set Bounty from - to 100,000,000. You now may assign your own title to yourself.] "Huh?" He didn''t know it had such feature. [Setting title as ''Huh?''...] ''Wait, don''t! Explain to me first!'' [Tch. Upon receiving a bounty, you may assign yourself a title of your own or the others will create one for you on your second bounty update. If you create one yourself, the others will subconsciously think of the title you created, and give you it.] Ignoring its tongue-click sound, ''a title, huh.'' [Suggestions: Loner, The King of Loner, Thinking with his C*ck, Masochist Pirate, Cold Child, Bic Boi, ...] ''What''s with those lame titles?!'' Ryu cried at the system. ''Loner... I an indeed alone... how about the ''Solitary Pirate''?'' [Setting title as ''Loner''...] ''F**k you! Set it as ''Solitary Pirate''!'' *Ding* [Title set as ''Solitary Pirate''! The world will now know you as the ''Solitary Pirate''. Pathetic title, indeed.] ''Yeah, yeah.'' He mutters. ''Now, back to resting. Don''t lead me into trouble next time, system..'' ... "Dahahahaha! Guys! Ryu got his first bounty at 9 years old!" A red-haired man, Shanks, told his now-huge crew. "100M for helping three women and beating a Vice Admiral! What a guy!" "Who''s Ryu?" New crew-mates asked. ''Damn, a bounty at 9-years-old!'' "Ryu is my student, who I taught how to shoot accurately." A dreadlocks-haired man, Yasopp, announced to his crew. ''Luckily the training didn''t take too long. I''m glad we left the way we came too, otherwise... *shudders* ...we wouldn''t survive there at the time!'' "Let''s party up for him!" Shanks told them. "Yeah!" Everyone. ... "Hmm..." A hawk-eyed man, Mihawk, said while looking at Ryu''s bounty paper, "I wonder how far he''s gone in sword training... I want to fight him again." He smiled a little and then went back to stoic look. ... "Hoh... 100M, huh?" A bruised-faced man, Rayleigh, said. "Hey, Shaku, take a look at this bounty paper!" Shakuyaku came walking to him and then took a look at it, "what a nice picture, it shows how cute he is..." "Let me see it!" A young lady, Hancock, suddenly took it away from them, but not before punching the disgusting man once more. "*Sigh* Now he''s going to be hunted by the Marines... I''ll become strong and protect you, Ryu!" "What a love-stricken girl you have become, Hancock." The old lady, Elder Nyon, said to her. "I was like that too... *wears an unfitting face of her*" "Go away old hag!" Hancock blushingly yelled back. "You look disgusting like that!" "What did you say brat?!" ? (Near Minion Island, in North Blue) {Year: 10.6} ? "Wow..." The young boy, Ryu, said, looking at the Minion Island. He was watching the Birdcage covering the Minion Island, while on his dinghy afar. "So that''s what Birdcage looks like." The Birdcage happened after the Doflamingo killed his brother, Rosinate. He could''ve saved him and stopped Doflamingo, but he didn''t. "Mmn. I kinda wanted that Ope-Ope fruit..." Muttering to himself, he said. "But I''d rather be a fruitless pirate for now. I can always get a devil fruit from the system..." [Yes. Currently, there are 27 devil fruits out there somewhere. However, the already-eaten devil fruits can be copied and used for you.] "Wouldn''t that just ruin the World?" He asked. [Yes, it would. However, the God of Systems did call us an experiment, and told you to do whatever you wanted. So, you don''t really should worry about it.] "Ah. Right," he remembered. "Well, I still want the same future to happen anyways, more fun that way. But... waiting for it to happen is taking forever!" Ryu complained out loud to the world. 7 C7: Years Of Time Skip |Part 2| ? (Near Cozia, in East Blue) {Year: 11.4} ? "Damn it! Why do you keep bringing me to trouble!" A 11-years old boy shouted at the air while in his dinghy. He just had left the Cozia after saving Sanji and his sister from an ambush and then took Sanji to a cruise ship called ''Orbit'' while his sister went back. "He''s definitely different now, though I hope he still joins his crew..." [No worries, Sanji will still join Luffy''s crew, only a bit different personality.] "What''s changed?" He worriedly asked. [He doesn''t love women excessively anymore, but still likes them.] "..." Ryu wonders if he should go back and beat it into him he should fall in excessively love with the every ladies to fix it... ?(Shaku''s Bar in Sabaody Archipelago) {Year: 11.10} ? *WOOSH* Ryu appeared in front of Rayleigh and Shakuyaku. Due to him suddenly appearing, Rayleigh quickly attacked him on the basis of being scared. Kicking out his right leg, he brought it upon the kid''s face. *SWOOSH* Leg comin'' at you! Dodging his kick, Ryu moved backwards a bit and then clenched his fist. He quickly punched him away. *POW* *SW~ISH* Bye-bye twirly Ray boi~! (AN: A moment of silence for the abused Ray boi.) "Hey." Ryu greeted Shaku, after he went flying somewhere. Shaku greeted him too. Then she asked, "did you come here to ask how the girls are?" "Not really," he told her, declining it. "Came for Rayleigh for information." "I see. Well, the girls are doing okay, especially that Hancock girl," she told him. "She seems to be crushing on you, o'' savior." Twitching the corners of his mouth, he replied, "it''s just a short-term crush on her savior. Anyways, a drink while we wait for Rayleigh to come back." "Yes, yes~," walking to grab a drink, she nonchalantly told him, "it doesn''t seem to be short-term." Interrupting at the conversation, a fish- no, a octopus-man came in where they were at. "H-hey, I found Rayleigh outside while coming here," he told them, showing unconscious Rayleigh on his back with his six-arms carrying him. It seemed that Ryu overdid it, even though he didn''t activate his Armament Haki, leaving only passive... "Ah, put him on the bench over there," Shaku told the octopus-man, while pointing to the bench nearby. "He''ll be awake in a bit. Now, why were you coming here, Hatchan?" "Oh, I wanted to see you two for the last time before I go with Arlong out the sea..." He soon stopped after seeing who the 11-years-old boy was. The boy was handsome, with light tanned skin, unruly black hair, sword-like brows, and most importantly, he had green eyes. ''Holy f**k! Is that Ryu?! Why is he here?!'' "What is it?" Ryu coldly asked when Hatchan kept staring at him. "I-I, y-you''re Ryu!" He shouted suddenly. "I know my name, what of it?" He played along, bringing out a bit of his pressure on him. He then menacingly asked, "Is there something wrong?" Shaku interrupted at that moment, "now, now, Ryu, stop playing with him." "Hmph, you''re boring!" Ryu stopped suddenly, changing from menacing to childish. He muttered, "Would''ve been fun to watch him squirt out his black ink..." Sweating profusely, Hatchan, ''if you just asked me to do it, I would''ve! Heck, if you told me to roll my ass away, I would have done it too!'' ? (Somewhere in the Grand Line) {Year: 12} ? "So she still became the Empress, huh," Ryu said while reading the newspaper given from news coo. {Boa Hancock becomes one of the Shichibukai, the Pirate Empress of the Kuja Tribe. For the sake of her island, she decided to accept the Marine''s offer to protect her island.} Throwing the newspaper at a red-haired man, he asks him, "so, you enjoying your travels?" "Yeah. I had a lot of fun, going islands to islands." Shanks said, while the crew around him was still partying. Drinking a sake, "I also found a interesting brat." Knowing who it is, he still continues, "oh? A interesting brat other than me?" "Dahahahaha! Yeah! Someone other than you,his name''s Monkey D. Luffy. He had the same eyes as my former captain..." He told him. "I have a feeling he''ll become someone like him. So I gave him the straw hat." "Mmn." Ryu only made a sound of acknowledgement. "Well, I''m going. Have fun." "What? Stay here and party with us!" He yelled at the brat, raising his left arm towards him. He didn''t lose his left arm to the mere sea king at Foosha Village because of his time with Ryu in New World. ? (Foolshout Island, in the Paradise of the Grand Line) {Year: 12.4} ? A young boy, looking to be 12, walked around the Foolshout Island. He wore a hooded cloth covering him fully, except his green eyes. He came here without remembering that Fisher Tiger died here after bringing Koala at first. Now that he remembered, he''s asking himself questions. ''Should I save him? But if I do, Arlong wouldn''t be at Cocoyasu Village to build up Nami and to die...'' Having a difficult time on what to do, he didn''t expect to bump into a skinny tomboy girl, having a unkempt brown hair and large round eyes, about at 7-years-old. "Ow..." She muttered. "Hey, you ok?" "Y-yeah. Sorry, I was thinking." Ryu replied surprised, not expecting it to be Koala. ''Was I too late?'' "Oh, what were you thinking about?" Patting off the dust off her clothes, she asked him with an forced smile. "Wanna talk about it?" "..." Ryu started to feel weird. ''Ugh! I''m starting to feel depressed now.'' "My name''s Koala, what''s yours?" Not having seen his bounty paper, she asked the green eyes in front of her. "It''s Ryu." He told her his name, and then he coldly asked her, "hey, can you wipe out that forced smile off your face?" For a good while, her face cracked. Bringing out tears at her rim of eyes, she started to cry quietly. *Hic* "You look like you need someone to talk to," Ryu stated, not wanting to deal with a crying child. "I-I do." She stuttered quietly. "So talk. I''m here, and I won''t tell anyone else about this conversation as long as you don''t tell anyone I came here." He coldly told her. Even with his cold attitude, she still decided to talk to him. "I-I think I got my s-savior killed when they rescued me..." Looking up, she saw that he was listening. Deciding to tell everything, "I was taken away by the Celestial Dragons and then enslaved. Until my savior came and freed countless slaves, one of them being me. Later, I found them when I was on a island with no way back home, so they took me and I joined their crew." "Sun Pirates, right?" He suddenly interrupted, "I saw them freeing the slaves of those damned Nobles." "Y-yes," she was surprised that he saw them, wouldn''t that mean he was younger? Then- "w-were you also one of the slaves?" "No." He quickly shot that down, "I was involved in rescuing three of them... Anyways, back to you." "Oh, um," stuttering because he quickly changed the topic, "then I finally came back to home, here, I met my mother again. She was glad I was safe... but.. she didn''t look like she was happy that my savior were fish-men, especially when I told her he was Fisher Tiger." "They reported them to the Marines, didn''t they?" He told her when she started to look down and stopped. "And you were kept away from that information, so you didn''t see them being killed." Looking up to him, she saw that he had took off his hood. He looked cute and handsome, but his green eyes were cold, like they were looking through her soul. "Yes." "Mmn." He only made a sound. And then, "is that all?" "Huh?" What does he mean by that, she questioningly looked at him. "Look, you didn''t expect that they would report your saviors to the Marines, and how would you have stopped them? They were afraid of being involved of Nobles'' anger. That''s survival, they will only think of themselves to survive." Ryu spoke to her. "But, not everyone is like that, they would''ve learned from that. There are other people that would think of others who they care about. So, what about you? Are you one of them who thinks of others or yourself?" The 12-years-old Koala didn''t fully understand it, but she understood the point. ''Don''t blame them, they were only thinking of their survival, just like me in the past.'' "I want to be the one that would think of others that I care about." She resolutely decided. Wanting to thank the boy who helped her, she looked up and didn''t see him. He had already left. ''I''ll thank him the next time we meet then.'' ? (Somewhere in Paradise of the Grand Line) {Year: 12.4} ? [That was a lame preaching, you loner.] ''Shut up! I only said what I was thinking at the time!'' Ryu shouted at his system. Back in the dinghy, he decided to go to a place. "Set sail for the Sky Island, Skypiea!" He shouted, standing on his small dinghy and pointing his finger to no one in particular. [Embarrassing.] The system emotionlessly stated. ''F**k you too!'' ? (Under Skypiea) {Year: 12.8} ? "Why?! Why won''t it come out?!" Ryu cried to the air. "Please let me experience the Knock-Up Stream at least once~!" [Just suck it up, and let me teleport you to the sky island already. It''s been 4 months since you''ve arrived here, waiting for it.] He had been waiting for the Knock-Up Stream since he arrived at the spot where it should''ve came. Yet, it didn''t come at all ever since then. He even found two devil fruits while traveling around the nearby islands. "System! I demand you to summon the Knock-Up Stream now!" He shouted back. [No. Give me another 4 months and I''ll do it. Or we could just teleport.] "F**k! Why 4 months?!" [I just felt like it.] ? (Finally on sky sea, near Skypiea){Year: 13} ? "That was amazing." Ryu announced after having finally experienced the Knock-Up Stream. [Y-yes... *snickers*] "Shut it! I thought I was going to fall off!" He indignantly yelled. ? ? "Woo-hoo~!" A young boy yelled to the world while riding the Knock-Up Stream, waving his arms to the air. All of sudden, the dinghy felt like it was about to fall off the stream. "O-oh f**k! No no no, you ain''t dropping me!" Holding the dinghy in place, he commanded to his dinghy as he felt like he was falling to the below, "Stay on the stream! N-noooo~!" *WHOOSH* *Plop* Dinghy, ''we on sea clouds, dumb Ryu.'' Still having his eyes closed and holding onto the dinghy, he didn''t know he had the dinghy upside down. He had gone to the sky sea while facing the wrong direction. ? ? "Alright! Let''s go-" He suddenly stopped at the sight in front of him. *RUMBLE* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* Blue neon thunders suddenly came down upon the Skypiea. And then a loud voice came after, "HAHA! GAN FALL! I AM NOW THE GOD OF SKYPIEA! MEN, KNEEL BEFORE ME!" Ryu, "..." Dinghy, *stops in middle of the sea clouds and then turns around*. System, [*whistles*]. "Damn you system~!" Ryu yelled at his system. "That was why you didn''t summon the Knock-Up Stream!" [What do you mean, my dear handsome host? I don''t understand.] It innocently stated. "Don''t lie!" He retorted. "You knew I would leave the moment Enel would take over the Skypiea just to ensure the character building for Luffy''s crew!" [Y-y-you''re slandering me, host!] The system suddenly brought out its imaginary trembling finger, pointing at Ryu and stated that without shame and emotion. "*Sigh* Now we have go back down..." the young boy slowly said while ignoring the system. ... "AHHHHHHHHHH~!" A crying young boy on a bronze dinghy can be seen yelling while falling out of the sky, "I WAS ON SEA CLOUDS FOR A FEW MINUTES!!!" *WHOOSH* *Plop* Dinghy, ''we on ground sea now, boi.'' 8 C8: Years Of Time Skip |Part 3| ? (In Sabaody Archipelago) {Year: 13.5} ? A hooded figure walked through the busy street near slave market. People around him moved away from his path unconsciously, due to his aura. All they could see were his green eyes inside the hood, but that was all they needed to know who he was. "It''s Ryu!", "What''s he doing here?", "A trouble''s coming for sure..." There were mutterings around him that recognized him. The Marines had been searching for the green eyes child who helped three slaves of Celestial Dragons and easily beat a Vice Admiral at 9-years-old. ... "What?!" The Fleet Admiral, Sengoku, shouted at the messenger in front of him, "are you sure it''s him?!" "Yes! He''s been sighted at the Sabaody Archipelago, walking around. It doesn''t look like he has a goal there." The marine messenger reported to his boss. "However, there''s a World Noble and his guards near the area. It seems they will bump into each other soon!" "Shit! They''ll no doubt cause trouble for him if they meet!" Sengoku was in a panic, "Admiral Kizaru, take a fleet and protect the Noble quickly!" "Ye~s, Fle~et Admi~ral." Admiral Kizaru in the room, acknowledged the order. Walking out, he muttered, "R~yu... I~''ll ge~t yo~u thi~s ti~me!" ... A crowd kneeled around a group of 15, not daring to look up at them. The group were of Celestial Dragon and his guards. They didn''t want to incur his anger in any way. "Huh? The bastard with green eyes is near by?" The World Noble, Saint Chad, received information from one of his guards. "Is he the one who helped the escapees?" "Y-yes! The Marines are requesting us to stay away from him, not wanting Saint Chad to be harmed in any way!" One of the guard reported to him. "Hmm..." He pretended to be thinking in his large air-filtering bubble around his head. After a minute of false thinking, he ordered him, "no. Let''s go get him! I want to torture him and get his rare green eyes!" "W-what?!" The guard shout surprised. "You''re so slow." Bringing out his gun, he aimed it at him, "die." *BANG* *Plop* "You," he then pointed towards another of his guards, "take over the command. Now finish my orders, take the brat with green eyes." ... "Sabaody Archipelago looks amazing when you''re actually there." Ryu had no idea a World Noble was near him. The people near him moved away to make path for him. Later, he saw a sort of guard shouting something to the other guards, pointing at him. Then they ran towards him, encircling him. "Hmm?" He simply stopped and stood. "What are you guys doing?" "Little brat with the green eyes! You''re Ryu, the one who helped the escapees back then, aren''t you?!" One of the guards asked him rudely. "No." Ryu lied without any shame. Everyone else, "..." ''Bastard, how can you lie without any shame when you have the similar green eyes?!'' "So, I''ll be on my way," he told them walking straight, not stopping. The guards didn''t move away from him, instead they brought their weapons upon him. Suddenly, as if the time moved very slow, Ryu turned his eyes toward them, making them look like they were the preys. Widening his green eyes slightly, he brought out his Conqueror''s Haki coated with king characteristic. The colors around them went colorless for a second, as if fearful of Ryu. A small wind burst out of him, focused on the ones who were attacking him without involving the innocent. *Whoosh* Then the time went back to normal as Ryu resumed walking away. As he walked away, the guards who were attacking started to fall down as if a sudden heavy gravity increased upon them. *Thud* *Thud* *Thud* *Thud* *Thud* "W-what was that?!", "They just fell all of sudden?", "Wait! They look like a Celestial Dragon''s guards!", "Crap, a World Noble''s close by, and since the trouble started, the Marines are coming!" The crowd started to panic when they recognized who the guards were of. They quickly ran away to hide from the conflict, being fearful for their lives. ... "Hm~m," A light flashed near the guards'' position. "Se~ems I w~as la~te..." Taking out a snail, he started to talk to it, "Fle~et Adm~iral, we wer~e too la~te." "Damn! Just protect the Noble, make sure he doesn''t get hurt!" Sengoku''s voice came out as the snail mimicked him. "Ye~s." ... "Mmn, looks like I brought trouble upon myself this time," Ryu nonchalantly said as he looked at the World Noble in front of him. "So those guards were yours, huh?" "Heh, that''s right! You brought trouble on yourself again, the Marines are coming!" The World Noble boldly announced, "now I''ll be having the fame of capturing you in the Celesital Dragons community!" "...Insignificant bug, you think you would live if you try to capture me?!" The after-effects of using a king-coated Conqueror''s Haki lingered within him. "You forced this upon yourself!" Unconsciously bringing out a bit of pressure on Saint Chad, he walked towards him. Saint Chat, receiving the pressure, felt like he suddenly went from earth to hell. Then, Ryu brought out the durable sword out of nowhere. His cold green eyes were looking straight at the Noble''s eyes, scaring him. Raising the sword slowly with his right arm, he coldly said, "Die, scum." "Y-you can''t do this!" The Noble suddenly went weak in his legs and fell down as he leaked a disgusting pungent smell. "I-I''m a Celestial Dragon, y-yo-you can''t kill me!" "Pathetic!" He made one quick slash, about to cut the Noble in half, but suddenly a light projectile flashed towards him. He quickly encased Armament Haki on his sword, causing it to have pitch black color with green glowing around it. He then repelled the light projectile with a trajectory and jumped backwards. *BOOM* A explosion happened at the spot Ryu was at after he jumped back. Then in a very fast speed, a voice came out as another light flashed in front of the World Noble, "Ryu! We meet again! You''ll die this tim-" He never got to finished his sentence as he started to dodge Ryu''s sudden attacks. Ryu was never one to let the enemy stall for time, with the powerless like Saint Chad being the exceptions. *SWISH* *SWOOSH* "I see you made Admiral," he spoke as he kept attacking with his Armament Haki-coated sword, "even though you couldn''t get me when I was younger, Light bastard!" Bringing out a light sword, he used Soru to get Ryu, "I''ll get you this time!" As he soru''ed behind Ryu, he brought down his light sword in a light speed. Ryu however disappeared as it was about to get him, leaving behind only a cut hood cloth. Kizaru looked around quickly to find him, only to see him behind the World Noble that was running! He had used Soru, a skill of the Marines''! "Don''t think I''m letting you leave here without suffering!" Ryu yelled at the pathetic Noble. His eyes looked like a predator hunting down the prey. He quickly cut off the prey''s legs. The Noble started to squeal like a pig, "AHHHH! MY LEGS!" "Damn." Kizaru was late saving the pi- Celestial Dragon, but the Marines finally arrived and surrounded Ryu heavily. The amount of the Marines were close to a thousand, with several Vice Admirals leading. Armed with heavy weapons, they began to charge towards him. "Tch! I''ll let you suffer being legless, pathetic bug!" Not wanting to harm the innocents in The Noble''s dilemma, he decided to leave. Uncasing the sword of his Armament Haki, Ryu threw back the sword into his storage again, "I''m leaving!" Widening his eyes wide, he took out 5% of his Conqueror''s Haki, instead of king, he used the custom-made one with god''s characteristic. The world stilled as if time stopped for a God, and went colorless for everyone to see. A huge circular burst of wind came with Ryu being the center, pressuring onto all of the Marines and around the world, with the closest taking the most. *BOOM* Sudden burst of wind comes! *WHOOSH* Pressure spreads out, pow pow the marines! After that, the world returned to normal, colorful and time present. All of the Marines couldn''t take the pressure of a God, so they quickly went unconscious, few foaming at the mouth. Ryu disappeared without a trace except a sword-like beam flashed towards the sky, moving quickly. ? (Far Away from Sabaody Archipelago, in a unknown island) {Year: 13.5} ? "KU-AHHH!" Ryu started to feel painful all over his body, as if his body was breaking and cracking everywhere. [Warning! You will go unconscious for awhile, due to you being unable to take the after-effects of using the god-coated Conqueror''s Haki. Your body and soul can''t handle the power of Gods, even though it''s false power. Length of being in Unconscious State: 6-8 months.] "Shit. I only used a small portion of it and I already need to rest." Ryu tiredly said. "Protect me, system...", he said as he started to fell unconscious. [Yes.] Unlike any time before, the system replied with determination. ? {Year 13.6} ? In Mariejois... Five old men sat around the chairs. They looked serious. They had also experienced the pressure from a far, it was as if he was commanding attention. "We need to increase his bounty," a white-gi wearing glasses samurai started. "Yes." The baldie with birthmarks on forehead agreed. "However, how high should we increase it?" the samurai asked the others for their opinions. "He''s helped three escapees of the Nobles, embarrassed the Nobles by cutting off the legs of the one Noble, and showed such power at a young age," the gray dreadlocks man with a walking cane listed out the deeds Ryu did. "We gave him 100M bounty because the Celestial Dragons wouldn''t let him go away with the three women who ate the devil fruits...", a tall, thin bearded man with long white hair told him. "Also the Germa Kingdom has requested us to increase his bounty as well, for some reason." the samurai added. "Wouldn''t increasing his bounty only make the others fear him and not hunt him?" The youngest-looking blond man questioned. "That''s precisely why we''re increasing it," the samurai explained, "but only to reasonable amount." "Increase it to 500M and title him the ''Solitary Pirate''," a hollow voice came out of nowhere in the room. "Also change it to Dead only." "...Yes, IM," all five of them replied. ? {Year: 13.8} ? News Coo spreaded out the news of Ryu''s actions and new bounty paper. [The Solitary Pirate, a Super Rookie, Ryu Attacks A Celestial Dragon!?] {A Celestial Dragon gets his legs cut off by a infamous pirate, Ryu! It is said that he attacked the Celestial Dragon''s guards first, before finding the Celestial Dragon! His bounty has increased from 100M to 500M. Originally, he had 100M for helping three escapees from the Celestial Dragons. Is it possible that he has a vendetta on the Celestial Dragons? It was said that he easily defeated a Vice Admiral, embarrassing the Marines at that time. However, he has embarrassed the Marines once again, they couldn''t stop and arrest the Solitary Pirate, Ryu! He escaped from a thousand Marine soldiers led by several Vice Admirals and a Admiral. Admiral Kizaru fought valiantly against the Solitary Pirate, holding him off successfully while the other Marines encircled him into a pinch! Forced to escape, he ran away, but not before he showed his full power and caused every Marines there to fall unconscious, it is said he had used Conqueror''s Haki. However, is that really it? His location is currently unknown.} |WANTED| [*Picture of Ryu* (A young 14-years-old boy, shoulder-length unruly black hair, bright green eyes, chiseled handsome face, and lean muscular body. Wearing grey shirt and a black shorts, he was amidst fighting an Admiral with a sword.)] [Solitary Pirate, Ryu] [DEAD ONLY] [B500,000,000] ... In Marine Headquarters... "Have we found him yet?!" Sengoku yelled at the Admirals and Vice Admirals around the table. "Those damned Celestial Dragons wants his head!" "Justice will always prevail," Admiral Akainu simply stated. "No~pe, hav~en''t fou~nd him," Admiral Kizaru slowly reported. Admiral Kuzan said nothing, as he was sleeping with his eyes mask covering them. Vice Admiral Garp laughed boisterously, "Haha! That brat''s got balls!" The rest of Vice Admirals only sweatdropped. Looking at this group of Admirals and Vices, Sengoku couldn''t help and think, ''how did they become Admirals or Vice Admirals again?'' ... In Sabaody... "*Sigh*... I still couldn''t find him..." The former first-mate of Rogers Pirate said depressingly. "He''s alive, Ray," Shaku consolingly told him. "That''s all it matters." "Yeah... But that pressure was heavy and probably everyone felt it," Rayleigh said, "he didn''t have that back then. He also left right away after using it as if he had overdid it." "Well, if he needed help, he would''ve came to us," she replied quietly, "...right?" "Probably not..." Ray wondered, "he''s just that kind of person. He''d rather do it alone without any burdens." ... In New World, on a island... "Hmm..." A red-haired man looked at the newspaper that was telling about Ryu. "So it was him..." The other crew-mates of the Red-Haired Pirates looked at each others as they didn''t think it was serious. It was Ryu! So, we should be glad that he was strong, but their captain, Shanks, looked so serious. "What''s wrong with that?", one of them asked him. "There''s nothing wrong with it. I''m just worried..." Shanks replied back. "Just what are you hiding, Ryu...?" ... In East Blue... "Seems he''s surpassed me already," a hawk-eyes man with a black goatee muttered. "But I still want to fight him with swords only..." Slightly smiling, he said, "I hope he''ll come to me sometime soon." ... In Amazon Lily... "Ryu..." A beautiful young woman said worriedly, "I hope you''re safe..." Her two sisters were at her side, also hoping that he would be okay or else Hancock wouldn''t be able to take it. A short old lady came in and sighed, "he''s strong, so he''ll be okay. *sigh* I used to be like that... *puts up an unfitting face of her*." "Go away disgusting old hag!" Hancock threw objects at the disgusting old hag. "What did you call me?! I''m the one who took care of you and brought you here!" Elder Nyon shouted back while flying out of the window. "Ryu... I''m ready for you." Hancock said. Suddenly, she blushed furiously while imagining, "Ahhh~! Ryu and me in wedding suits, ki-kissing!" Her sisters at the sides, ''Good luck, sis! We''ll support you no matter what in your one-sided relationship!'' 9 C9: Years Of Time Skip |Part 4| ? (Unknown) {Year: 14} ? A young teen laid on a bed in a room, he looked at least 14. He had longer than shoulders ruffled black hair, sword-like brows, along with his chiseled handsome face. His body was quite muscular, only in leaner form, as if he was a god in human form. He wore white clothes, with a blanket covering his body up to neck. *Ding* [Progress of Healing: 100%] [Awaken, Ryu. You have been unconscious for 7 months. Had you been left alone from any outside help, you would have slept for one more month.] The familiar sound and system woke up Ryu from his unconscious state. As he tried to get up, he found that he was in a bed room... "Ah! He''s awake! Get Queen Otohime and tell her he''s awake," a voice said. "Hey, are you alright?" Automatically on guard, he replied and asked, "Yes, I''m alright. Who are you guys and where am I?" [I brought you to Sea Forest of the Fishman Island originally, however it seems that a goldfish-mermaid found you and took you in.] ''Fishman Island?! And a goldfish-mermaid... Otohime...'' He tried to remember, something about this Otohime sounded familiar. "You''re in Fishman Island," another voice came, "I found you in the Sea Forest. You were bloodied all over, as your body was also nearly broken everywhere." A golden blond hair goldfish-mermaid wearing very long white kimono with a cream-colored carp-scale design along the hem and a sash around her shoulders that floated, came in and told him. Her golden blonde hair was partially held up in two loops by an orange headpiece. She also had green eyes, but it was different from Ryu''s which was bright glittering green. There were also three large figures behind her ready to act should anything happen. The first one behind her was an enormous, muscular shark merman, with a wide chest and large arms. He had wavy fair blue hair flowing down to his shoulders, and a dot of some sort printed on the middle of his forehead. He has a dark blue tail with light blue polka-dots and blue fin. The second, an oarfish merman, was an extremely tall and thin merman, with long wavy dark pink hair. His tail, also similar to the first''s, was colored in purple with white polka-dots and red fin. Finally, the third, an opah merman, was a rotund, stocky and large merman with brown hair and red fins on his head. His tail was similar to the other twos but with red tail with white polka-dots. "Queen Otohime," the voice back then, a fish man doctor, reported, "his body right now is as if he never experienced the damages before. He''s completely healed, although I''m not sure about his trauma..." While they were talking, Ryu was also talking mentally. Figuring out who they were, ''Queen Otohime and her three sons! So she hasn''t died yet.'' [I''ve had taken liberty of shielding your ''heart'' from that person''s power. Her power has the ability to probe another person''s heart, like mind reading.] ''Mmn,'' Ryu then looked like he had a difficult time saying something. ''T-thanks for protecting me, system.'' [...Who are you and what have you done to my Ryu?!] It replied. ''Bastard, I thanked you and you''re going to be like this?!'' Feeling the mood lifted, he chuckled. However... While he was talking to his system, to the others he looked like he had a massive trauma and went insane. He had just blankly looked at no where specifically, then looked like he was suffering, and now he laughed. "It seems he''s suffered a mental trauma..." Queen Otohime pityingly looked at Ryu. "Let''s keep him for a bit longer!" The three sons was about to object to that, but they stopped after a look of hers. They also felt a bit of pity on Ryu, just a bit. ? (Fishman Island) {Year: 14.6} ? Ryu had already checked out around the Fishman Island during his stay here. After a long time convincing Queen Otohime he wasn''t mentally traumatized, he finally got to see the sights. "I also found the Gyoncorde Plaza where she''ll die in..." He muttered. "As a repayment for speeding up my healing and benefits, I''ll save her. After that, I''m going to leave for New World." Suddenly, a voice shouted out his name, "Ryu-sama!" The 14-years-old Ryu quickly went exasperated, he had always kept her accompany only because she kept coming to him after they met. He often tried staying away from her, only to be met by her crying out for his name. He couldn''t just leave her crying in middle of the Plaza, right? "I''m here!" He shouted. Finally finding the person, 6-years-old Shirahoshi, still huge, yet cute mermaid, went to where he was. She, an smelt-whiting mermaid, has her pink hair, similar to her mother, held up in two loops with a headpiece. She wore a light colored crop top with floating straps. Seeing the subject of her search, she quickly asked him to play as usual, "Let''s play together again!" "Ugh..." Groaning, he asked her, "why do you always want to play with me, not someone else like your family?" "Haha! It shows that she likes you!" The bulky huge merman, King Neptune, said as he walked in. "I also like you too! After all you saved her from Vander Decken IX!" Yes, Ryu saved Shirahoshi when Vander Decken IX was about to touch her, but it was only because Vander Decken was attacking him too. He had thought Ryu was Shirahoshi''s future husband, when he only stood beside her... It seemed that Vander already discovered her power, so Ryu simply blasted him out of the Fishman Island before he could even touch a single strand of her. Fortunately or unfortunately for Ryu, only Shirahoshi had saw that and thought him as the prince charming she read in stories and so, she started to develop a little crush on him, only not excessively like Hancock''s. Ryu not only looked handsome, he was also strong and was nice if you disregard his cold attitude at start. He would become nice to those who were nice to him, cold to those who weren''t. Blushing because her father outed her, she yelled, "Father!" Not knowing whether to be happy or cry that King Neptune didn''t act like a menacing father when he discovered that she liked him, he muttered quietly, "Shouldn''t you be sad that your little girl''s already liking someone else other than you?" He muttered that quietly but King Neptune heard it. "I am indeed sad, however during your stay, though indirectly, you''ve had helped us out in politics and personal matters. And-" "I''d get mad at him if he had objected even a bit," a certain blond goldfish-mermaid came with her three sons. "He wouldn''t want to make his daughter sad, right Neptune~?" "R-right." He replied quickly, even though he still had some grievances about it. He silently cried, ''*sob* I''m the king and yet I have no control over my queen!'' "And Shirahoshi, have you forgotten that you wanted to come with us to Gyoncorde Palace for the petition?" Otohime reminded her daughter. Smirking, she said, "Looks like Ryu is more important, huh?" Now blushing profusely, she yelled embarrassed, "Not you too, Mom!" Fukaboshi and his other two brothers also had some grievances about her liking Ryu at start, but as time went on, they started to like him too and even started looking at him as a brother. "Besides, Shirahoshi has never been this happy for awhile since Vander Decken IX had been bothering her," Fukaboshi said. "Anyways! Ryu, do you want to come with us to Gyoncorde Plaza to ask people sign the petition pages?" "...Sorry, I have somewhere to be," Ryu told them. He broke the news to them, "I''m leaving tomorrow..." "W-what?" Shirahoshi suddenly spoke ever since she stopped because of embarrassment. Gathering tears around her eyes, she started to cry. She whimpered, "D-don''t leave." "We always knew you would leave soon or later," Queen Otohime sadly said. Turning to her daughter, she tried to calm her down, "Shirahoshi, you also knew that. We can''t always hold him here." "B-but I want him to stay," she defiantly told her mother for the first time. "Shirahoshi," Ryu spoke before her mother could continue, "I''ll come visit and play with you again in future. For now, you''ll need to grow stronger along with your brothers." Turning to Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, and Manboshi, he told them, "Grow strong to protect your sister. I can''t always stay here to protect her from her power forever." Surprised that he knew of Shirahoshi''s power, Queen Otohime silently looked at Ryu. He only shook his head and mouthed that he was not after her power, calming her. "Of course!" Slightly tearing, all three brothers replied at the same time. "Well, go on! Go get more people to sign your mother''s petition," Ryu shoo''ed them all away, even though Shirahoshi looked like she still wanted to stay with him. All of them but King Neptune left, with more determination. King Neptune seeing them like that, he thanked Ryu. "Thank you, Ryu. For not leaving without saying good bye to us." "Well, originally I was going to, but over time I changed my mind." Smiling, he replied. "Huh, originally?" King Neptune looked at him questioningly. "Why?" "...You''ll find out you receive news soon." He mysteriously told. "Good-bye, Neptune." Ryu disappeared on spot, surprising Neptune. He knew that Ryu was stronger than him, but he didn''t know to what extent. ''And what did he mean, receive news soon? Is Ryu going to do something?'' He suddenly got worried for Ryu. ... Later that day in Gyoncorde Plaza... "Thank you, for signing!" Queen Otohime shakily shouted, she had finally got the full support for immigration to above. She cried happily along with her children. Her daughter and three sons were also happy at her side, but they still looked like they wanted to tell a certain green-eyes person about it. Suddenly, the petition papers started to burn out of nowhere. Commotions spread out the crowd, "Who did this?!", "Quickly stop it!", "Somebody stop the fire!" In amidst the commotions, a gunshot was heard. *BANG* At that moment, a figure wearing a hooded cape hiding everything but green eyes, came in front of Queen Otohime, quickly took out a sword in middle of air and stopped the bullet coming towards at the queen. *CHHH* Stunned, Queen Otohime, her children, and the others could only look at the figure as it jumped to where the gunshot was heard from. As the figure got there, they all heard a cold voice sending shivers into everyone who heard it. "Hody Jones..." ... Standing in front of Hody Jones dressed in a Royal Guard outfit for fishmen, Ryu coldly said his name. "Hody Jones..." Surprised that he knew him, Hody didn''t react when Ryu took him by neck as he broke the gun and threw him in middle of the crowd where Queen Otohime and her children were at. Whispering so that only his voice would be heard by Otohime and her children with his system, "I''ve completed the debt I had with you, for saving me." ''Surely Otohime would hate him for being in her way of cooperation of humans and fishmen and his assassination attempt.'' He thought as he looked at her and the children. They were also looking at him with realization on who he was. They were about to talk but Ryu interrupted them, "I promise to visit again in future." He disappeared into a sword-like beam going upwards. "W-wait!" Queen Otohime yelled in vain. "Thank you for saving me!" ... As the sword-like beam, Ryu, went upwards... "It was Hody Jones that shot at her?!", "Why did he do that?", "Probably to stop us from going above..." The fishmen and mermaids were talking as they angrily looked at Hody Jones holding a broken gun in front of Queen Otohime. "Why? Why did you do this?" She asked of Hody. Seeing that his plan failed and he had no way out, he decided to tell the truth. "Why? Because I don''t want fishmen to cooperate with humans! If that green-eyes bastard hadn''t ruined my plan, you would''ve died along with your ideals!" Shocked gasps were heard as he truthfully yelled at Queen Otohime. Queen Otohime had intended to try change him, but hearing him insult Ryu, her and her family''s savior, she got angry, "Guards! Take him away! I would''ve tried to forgive you but you had to insult our family''s savior!" Hody fought back the guards only for it to be in vain, "Stay away! I''m only doing this for a better future!" As they took away Hody Jones, the 6-years-old Shirahoshi wasn''t paying attention, instead she looked at the beam as it went up. ''I''ll definitely get you fall in love with me when you come back!'' (AN: Boi b'' gettin'' girls right n'' left. Tee-hee~) ... Back to Ryu... "Woo-hoo! This is fun, I should do this more!" He shouted as he swam through the ocean in a sword-like beam. ''Hey system, why didn''t you tell me about this?'' [Because you didn''t ask.] ''Ugh...'' He couldn''t retort to that. ''Any other features?'' [There are several more features.] After waiting for awhile for it to tell about it, he received nothing. ''And?'' [And figure them out yourself. Price of me healing you.] ''I''m at the admin rank! You should tell me them!'' Ryu mentally shouted at his system. [Just because you''re at ''Administrator'' rank doesn''t mean I should tell you my three sizes, you naughty pervert.] Twitching his mouth, he yelled in the water, "Why did I get you as my system~!" 10 C10: Years Of Time Skip |Part 5| ? (New World) {Year: 14.6} ? "That was fun," a young boy said as he appeared above the ocean and summoned his speedy dinghy. Jumping onto it, he cut his hair to shoulder-length once again and washed it. He started to rest on the dinghy as he sat back. "Right then, let''s just let the ocean lead the way." ? (Unknown Area in New World) {Year: 14.7} ? Ryu stood in his dinghy in front of a huge island. To be more accurate, it was an extremely huge animal, Zunisha. He had chanced upon it while letting the ocean lead him aimlessly. "Seeing it in person makes it look even more huger," he said as he approached one of its leg. "Time to visit Zou!" Jumping onto the front-left leg of Zunisha''s, he put away his dinghy into his storage and started to run upward like a ninja. ... In Zou... "Hmm?!" A huge grizzled canine mink and a huge yellow feline mink suddenly stood up at the same time in different spots, they both sensed someone powerful rapidly approaching Mokomo Dukedom. The huge grizzled canine mink quickly shouted at the citizens to hide, "Citizens! Quickly hide in the shelter, we have a powerful visitor coming!" While the citizens ran to the shelter, the Inuarashi Musketeers Squad assembled with their leader, Duke Inuarashi, the huge canine mink. Duke Inuarashi, an huge grizzled canine mink, had a small pair of blue sunglasses and shoulder-length black ears, a beard showing hints of white, and a large bushy tail. He wore a dark-colored striped suit with a frilled collar, a belt, a light-colored cape, and a helmet, prepared to fight the powerful visitor. While they assembled, the huge yellow feline mink, Nekomamushi, told his Guardians to prepare for a battle should the Inuarashi Musketeers Squad need assist or if the newcomer approaches the Whale Forest. Nekomamushi was a large, yellow feline mink with sharp teeth, claws, and a very thick striped tail. He has wild, bushy blonde hair resembling a lion''s mane running around his neck and down his back, and there is a scar running from the left side of his forehead down to his cheek. His outfit consists of a large robe decorated with circles, a haramaki around his waist, sandals, a light-colored shirt, and pants. "Hmm, I hope that dog bastard won''t be able to handle him..." Nekomamushi muttered out loud. Those around near him sweatdropped, their leader was still thinking about their feud even now. ... Back to Ryu... "Alright!" He shouted as he finally got on top of Zunisha. As he walked towards entrance of the forest leading to Mokomo Dukedom, he sensed several minks prepared to battle, there were also few spies in the forest to check on who he was. He whispered to himself, "Heh, should I pretend to be a villain?" ... The spies... "Alright!" They heard the newcomer shout as he appeared in front of the forest. He looked 14, had shoulder-length black ruffled hair, chiseled handsome face, with bright green eyes that seemed to glitter. He wore a hood-cape without his hood up, hiding his body up to neck. He was the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, they confirmed. When they heard him ask himself if he should pretend to be a villain with their hearing, they automatically also confirmed he didn''t come with ill intent. So leaving two spies to watch him, the others went back separately to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi to report. ... Taking a casual stroll in the forest, Ryu looked around while still on guard against the spies should they attempt to fight. He felt like fighting, but only against Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, as they would give him a good fight. "Maybe I should make both of them make up..." "No matter, let''s see how it goes," he said as he finally saw Mokomo Dukedom, and the Inuarashi Musketeers Squad with Duke Inuarashi in front, prepared for anything. Waving his right hand casually, he greeted him. "Yo!" "How did you find Zou, Solitary Pirate, Ryu?" Duke Inuarashi disregarded his casual greeting. Seeing that he looked like he was prepared to fight to the death, Ryu chuckled. "Don''t worry, I didn''t come here with purpose of destruction. I only happened upon Zunisha as I rode my dinghy." Seeing that he was saying the truth, Inuarashi relaxed his stance. "So you only came up here to visit?" "Yes...", he replied. "And to have a fight with you, Inuarashi and your night counterpart, Nekomamushi." The Inuarashi Musketeers Squad quickly took out their weapon and was about to yell how he knew their names, but Inuarashi stopped them with a wave of his hand. "Oh? Why''s that?" "I just felt like it," Ryu nonchalantly replied, then he taunted him. "Oh, don''t worry, I''ll hold back." Inuarashi wasn''t fazed by his taunt, but he still wanted to see how strong Ryu was. "Musketeers! Stand back and allow us space to a duel!" Surprised mutterings were heard from Musketeers and the few Guardians hiding from their sights. They still obeyed and moved back enough for a battle. Smirking, Ryu took out his durable sword, it looked like a normal sword to others but it had a strong durability. Inuarashi also took out his rapier, he knew that Ryu was stronger than him, so he decided to go all out. Both of them stared at each other for awhile. Suddenly, Ryu looked cold in his eyes from his casualness, making him look like a murderer. He disappeared from his spot and quickly moved in front of Inuarashi. Then he swung his sword lightly but swiftly. *Swoosh* *CHHH* Inuarashi, seeing him disappear, quickly put up his rapier in front and took his sword attack with it. Though it looked light, it was like a heavy force went on him, as cracks appeared on the ground below him. Ryu then twirled around and swung his sword at his rapier again and again, pushing Inuarashi back. "U-ugh!" Being pushed back, he used Electro and channeled it through his rapier in attempt to shock his sword. Ryu, seeing the Electro, didn''t look surprised but stopped his twirls as he jumped back. He then encased his left leg with Armament Haki, covering it with pitch black color with green glow, and kicked it towards Inuarashi''s right shoulder, as he dodged the rapier with his Observation Haki. *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* The huge grizzled canine mink felt like a huge boulder struck his left side and he flew toward the trees, hitting them down with his body. Spurting blood, he tried to stand back up to continue, but in the end he could only stay like the way he is. Panting, the bloodied canine mink started to look fearfully at Ryu, he knew that he held back and yet he was still too strong! "That was short..." Ryu begrudgingly stated. The Musketeers, seeing their leader, quickly got angry and tried to move in and attack Ryu, but as they moved, Ryu coldly looked back as if they were insignificant people. "Oh? Going to interrupt your leader''s duel?" "Bastard! You overdid it!", "It was just a duel!", "Why?!" They yelled at him, though still scared of his cold look as they encircled him. "Hmph, exactly, it''s just a duel." Ryu removed his cold look and went back to his casualness as he put away his sword and walked towards Inuarashi, disregarding their angry glare. They couldn''t stop him from going to Inuarashi, but it seemed like he was about to do something. Pointing at him with his index finger, he sent a drop of ''Blessing of Phoenix''s Tear'' towards him. Inuarash started to feel relief from pain, and then his injuries healed visibly. As he healed, Ryu stated, "I don''t kill people in a duel, only when they have the intent to kill me." Seeing Duke Inuarashi being healed at rapid rate, they were agape. They thought he was going to die and decided to move in, but Ryu didn''t kill him and instead he healed their leader. Finished healing, Duke Inuarashi felt better, he even felt like he was stronger than before... "Hey?! What was that liquid, it not only healed me, it also made me stronger!" "Oh? It had such benefit?" Ryu honestly didn''t know. "Well, it''s just a special liquid I found. Looks like you benefitted, huh." "Isn''t it a rare commodity?! Why did you use it on me?!" He yelled at him. "...So you''d rather suffer than be healed?" Ryu weirdly looked at him. "Are you..." "Huh?" Inuarashi got confused at his look, waiting for him to finish. "A masochist?" He finished. Inuarashi, "..." Everyone else, *Suspicious too, turns to look at their Duke weirdly too.* ... "Hoh, I thought so, Inuarashi couldn''t defeat him." A certain huge yellow feline mink muttered after a spy reported to him the results of the duel. "Wait, he''s coming here to duel me as well?" "Yes." The spy mink dressed in all black said. "Ryu is coming. A-also..." "Hmm?" The cat looked at the spy mink, it looked like there was more. "What is it?" "R-Ryu is dragging Duke Inuarashi along with him by force..." The spy mink stuttered. The spy silently added mentally, ''And by his ear too!'' "What?! That damned dog is coming here too?!" Standing up quickly, he yelled, "Guardians assemble to the front of our base!" ''Why is the damn dog coming too?!'' ... "Y-young Master Ryu, p-please let go of my ear. I-I''ll walk with you to the f*cking cat!" Duke Inuarashi cried as his ear started to throb painfully. His Musketeers also saw this sight, but unfortunately he ordered them to stay back and tell the citizens that everything was okay before they could get worried. "You won''t run away on sight of the cat?" Ryu stopped and turned to look at him. His head was about at his height now that he was pulling his ear, and he was crying due to embarrassment. "Fine, as long as you don''t run away or be annoying." Finally being let go of the ear, he softly rubbed his ear while crying, ''it hurts! Only Oden and Ryu can do this to me! Luckily the damn cat didn''t se-'' "Pfft! Hahahaha~!" A certain huge yellow feline laughed. He had been around, watching the dog being pulled by his ear. "Damn dog, how does it feel, to be pulled like a pet dog!" Swiftly turning to angrily look at the damn cat,he brought out his rapier. "F*cking cat! I''ll beat you right here and now since I got stronger!" "Dog bastard! I''ll kill you this time for sure!" Nekomamushi yelled back as he brought out his staff resembling a jumonji yari with a fire-shaped blade on each end. As both of them moved to approach face-to-face, they stared each others down. The Guardians behind Nekomamushi was sweatdropping, ''Master! That isn''t Ryu! He''s behind Duke Inuarashi! Please forget your feud for once!'' Nekomamushi started to trash-talk his day counterpart, but he got interrupted literally. "Damned dog, you lost to a mere hu-" *PUUU* He suddenly got smacked on face, knocking out his sharp teeth. His eyes bulged out seeing his precious teeth falling out of his mouth. Kneeling down to his teeth, he cried, "Mai prekous teth~!" Duke Inuarashi was surprised, he had forgotten that Ryu was with him. But he quickly forgot him again as he laughed at the damn cat losing his precious teeth. Crouching while holding his stomach with one hand and pointing at Nekomamushi with the other. "Bawahaha~! Y-you look ridiculous!" The Guardians was shocked at first but now they had to stifle their laugher inside. Nekomamushi quickly glared at the forgotten human, Ryu. "Yu bestard!" "Huh?" Ryu innocently looked back. "What?" "Yuu knuked mai prekous teth!" Pointing his trembling finger towards him, he incoherently yelled at him. But suddenly he realized something, he healed Inuarashi, wouldn''t that mean he could heal him too? Swiftly changing 180 degree from his past attitude, he kindly requested him, "Yaung Mai-ser Ryu, culd yu heal me pwease?" "Sure, but after we have a fight." Ryu casually put out a condition easily. "Yesh! Sur nu prubem!" Nekomamushi quickly brought his staff and impatiently said, "Les star nao!" *Swoosh* Swiftly, the huge yellow feline mink jumped towards Ryu as he slammed his staff on him. Ryu didn''t move and instead stopped him with his hand, grabbing it. "Now now, don''t be impatient to be beaten up." Twitching their mouths, the minks around the duel started to worriedly think that their master and the duke was masochist... "Ai wan be healed quikly!" Neko yelled as he channeled his Electro through the staff, he turned around to force the staff out of the hand and slammed it towards Ryu''s right side. Ryu quickly encased his right arm with Armament Haki and swiftly moved it to block the staff causing sparks to appear. Cracks appeared below him as the force behind the staff wasn''t soft. Then he jumped up to punch the teeth-ridded yellow cat in face once again. *BAM* "Naiioooo~! Nawt mai faic agai!" Neko yelled as he flew backwards, slamming down the Guardians onto the floor. He went unconscious right there as he became bloodied. Duke Inuarashi watching this took a cold breath, even if he teamed up with Nekomamushi, they still wouldn''t beat him. Ryu just casually walked to the yellow feline mink and pointed towards him, sending a drop of the ''Blessing of Phoenix''s Tear''. Like Inuarashi, he was also quickly healed and strengthened. His precious sharp teeth were also restored, Inuarashi noted. "Well..." he prompted, "anyone going to move him?" The Guardians quickly snapped out of their daze and started to move their heavy master to his bed. ? (Mokomo Dukedom in Zou on Zunisha) {Year: 15.3} ? *Clang* *Clang* *Clang* *CHHHH* *BOOM* *BOOM* Battle sounds were heard every afternoon ever since Ryu came visiting Zou. When Nekomamushi discovered that his sharp teeth were restored, he thanked Ryu even though he was at fault. But instead of taking the thank, he punched the newly-added sharp teeth out of the huge yellow feline mink once again. After that, Neko got angered and yelled at him while fighting at the same time. Ryu only simply taunted him, "if you were stronger, you wouldn''t have lost them again." Since then, Nekomamushi had lost his sharp teeth over a hundred times now. Inuarashi had even started to think it was not even funny anymore and instead only looked at his night counterpart pityingly. His teeth were restored only to be destroyed over a hundred times. But Nekomamushi wasn''t the only victim of Ryu''s mischievous abuse, Inuarashi was also involved. Whenever Inuarashi went out in city with people around, he would get embarrassed in front of them by Ryu. Out of fear, he had stopped going outside at some point, but he couldn''t just stay inside forever, could he? So he decided to confront him about it. The response? The same as Nekomamushi, "if you were stronger, you wouldn''t have been embarrassed easily." And so, he began fighting Ryu after Neko got tired for the day. The routine continued since then. At some point, Ryu had somehow managed to taunt both of them into working together, forgetting their feud, to fight against Ryu. Finally, they both had started being best friends again, along with Ryu too. Both of the grizzled canine mink and yellow feline mink had already knew that Ryu purposely taunted them into fighting him, eventually leading to both them reluctantly forgetting their feud and strengthening both of them for the better future of their mink tribes. The routine finally finalized as: wake up, breakfast, fight against Ryu individually, lunch, fight against Ryu together, dinner, shower, drink together, and sleep. Their day-offs were weekends, on Saturday and Sunday, where they would hang out, drink, and tell stories together. Ryu was satisfied with that, he gained more experience in using the skills he hadn''t often used in the past. Also, he got to hear stories in their point of view and new informations he didn''t know of. He also hinted several things that would happen in future to them, if they were smart, they would take it serious. The mink tribes were happy that Duke Inuarashi and Master Nekomamushi finally returned to being best friends, forgetting their feud. They also started to like Ryu, even calling him a savior because he resolved the feud, and he made their life easier and better. He helped heal Zunisha and reinforced Zou better. Zunisha no longer looked like a dead elephant walking, though it always closed its eyelid, his eyes and skin were restored, and most of his injuries were healed. The forests were now more easier to walk through since the skins has become flatter, so the Musketeers and Guardians requested for help on reinforcing Zou. Ryu accepted helping them, because he also gained benefits while being in Zou. Zou''s defense were now stronger than ever, Jack in the future wouldn''t be able to break in unless a insider helped out. He also asked his system if there was a better filtering for air and water/food, and there was. He set that up, and now there''s a strong bubble-like dome covering the Zou. It could filter out any dirty air and gas into a clearer air, the water still could go into the dome, but it would be more cleaner as it went through. Fishes would be cleaned automatically going through the bubble-like dome. Ryu decided to call it ''Filtering Dome'' for easier name. The others living in Zou, though, called it ''Ryu-Dome'' much to Ryu''s dismay. He had even threatened to take it down if they didn''t stop it, but they knew he wouldn''t do it. Sighing, he decided to leave it be. If they were going to embarrass themselves, they could just say, "Hey look up! That''s called Ryu-Dome!", he thought. Ryu had been staying in Zou for 8 months now. It was time for him to leave. ... "No!" A crisp voice yelled out as Ryu was held back. The voice belonged to a short rabbit mink, she looked around 6-8 years old girl. Carrot was a white-furred, blonde-haired, and at least 3-feet tall rabbit mink with brown eyes, rabbit ears, a rabbit-like nose, and a large round fluffy tail. "I don''t want you to leave! If you''re leaving let me go with you!" Smiling wryly, Ryu looked at Inuarashi for help, and help Inuarashi tried. "You can''t go with him. You''re not strong enough." "Then Ryu has to stay until I''m strong enough!" Carrot ordered Ryu cutely as she hugged his head while on his back. Carrot had been following Ryu ever since she found him in a forest with Inuarashi and Nekomamushi. He normally looked cold to everyone at start, but he would be nice to those who were nice to him as well. Carrot, being a a bold mink, followed him everywhere and she started to rub off him. One day, Ryu started to train her at some point, which she happily accepted, even though it was tough. Inuarashi and Nekomamushi had often joked her that she fell in love with Ryu at such young age whenever Ryu was somewhere else as to avoid his wrath. Carrot, being a child, was embarrassed and told on them to Ryu, which caused them to be more beaten up and scared of him more. Carrot looked satisfied at that, making Neko and Inu a bit afraid of joking with her, they didn''t know whether she would take it seriously or not. Sighing, Ryu decided to try a different plan. He adopted a cold demeanor, "Carrot." His voice sent chills to anyone who heard it. "Stay here. You''ll only be a burden for me, if I didn''t know any better, I would''ve assumed you were trying to get me killed." He stiffly scolded her. But unfortunately for him, Carrot was used to his cold attitude as she had been together with him for a while. "No! I don''t care! I want to go with you, no matter what!" Twitching his mouth, Ryu looked like he couldn''t believe that his cold demeanor didn''t work on a child. That caused Inu and Neko nearby to laugh at him. Normally they wouldn''t have and held it back, but they had gotten used to him and became comfortable as a best friend would. "Fine!" Ryu suddenly became childish. "If you can take my Conqueror''s Haki, I''ll let you come with me!" Suddenly, both Inu and Neko went fearful, "W-wait!" (AN: Will he really, tho? Find out next time after guessing the Pok¨¦mon!) 11 C11: Years Of Time Skip |Part 6| ? (In New World) {Year: 15.4} ? The 15-years-old boy, Ryu, is seen resting on a bronze dinghy in middle of the ocean. Once again, he let the ocean lead the dinghy aimlessly. He looked like he was contemplating about something. ''Hey system, I''ve been feeling like I''m on verge of breaking through with my Sword Intent,'' he started. ''But I still can''t manage to pinpoint on how to exactly advance on it.'' [Well, breakthoughs of your skills, intents, etc. can only be done by you. Any exterior help would only weaken the benefits gained. Your Sword Intent''s next level would be very powerful, so it''s recommended that you breakthrough it by yourself.] ''*Sigh*, I guess I''ll have to let it be for now.'' Ryu groaned. He had finally left Zou alone, leaving Carrot there, she was probably already mad when she found out about it... ? ? "Fine!" Being childish, Ryu told the little rabbit mink, "if you can take my Conqueror''s Haki, I''ll let you come with me!" Being fearful suddenly, Inu and Neko quickly stopped him in vain. "W-wait!" "Okay!" Carrot excitedly accepted the challenge, as long she would stay conscious, she could go with him! "Do it!" There was only Duke Inuarashi, Master Nekomamushi, Carrot, and Ryu in the area, so it was fine to use the pressure a bit. But Inu and Neko was worried about Carrot, it was still too excessive even if it was a bit. "Ryu! You can''t do it! She''ll be hurt!" Duke Inuarashi tried to convince him. Master Nekomamushi stood at his side, nodding. "So?! That''s how it is in New World!" Ryu retorted. "If she can''t take it, she''ll have to suck it up." "Grrr~," Carrot gritted her teeth. "Let''s do it now!" "Alright." He said. Appearing to be preparing the pressure, he moved slightly. "Here it comes!" Suddenly, all Carrot could see was black. She swiftly went unconscious, not by pressure... but through foul play. Ryu had knocked her unconscious with a strike to her neck... Inu and Neko were agape. Both of them were shocked and pointed their trembling finger towards Ryu. ''He- he just did a foul play!'' Though they would never say it out loud, otherwise he''ll beat them up before leaving. Both of them silently pitied Carrot. However... "Well, I''ll hand the placating job to you, Inu and Neko." Ryu suddenly reminded them. Both of them quickly changed their faces from pitying to horror, Carrot would beat them up after getting mad! They could fight back, but they couldn''t do that to a little kid, right? So all they could do was either run away and let her destroy trees/buildings or let her beat them up. Carrot had gotten stronger due to Ryu''s harsh training, where she was now at least below both of them in power and ability. Inu and Neko silently teared up, ''Just what have we done?!'' Both of them were about to ask Ryu for a better solution, but when they turned to look at him, he was no longer there. He left. Their human best friend ditched them. Turning to look at each others, a silent mental message was made through twinkling eyes. ''Who''s going to take the beatings? You?'' ? ? [That was a rude thing to do to Carrot, Ryu.] ''I know, but she''s too young for New World, and she''s not me.'' Ryu told his system. ''Besides, she''ll eventually leave in the future anyways.'' [So far, you have attracted four females: Empress Boa Hancock, Young Tomboy Koala, Young Princess Shirahoshi, and the little cute Carrot. Are you trying to make a collective?] ''...'' Ryu didn''t know how to answer to that. A part of him wanted a collective of beauties, but a other part of him wanted only one or two wives. He didn''t feel like handling a lot of women at same time. He decided to ignore the question and went back to sleeping on the dinghy. Besides, he was focused on traveling, not the potential wives for the duration of before storyline starts. (AN: Only 5-6 years left till the storyline starts!) ... Meanwhile on the Kuja Pirate''s ship in South Blue... "It''s been 6 years and 4 months ever since we met him..." A feminine voice sounded out. The voice belonged to ''Pirate Empress'' Boa Hancock, the captain of the Kuja Pirates and the only female Shichibukai. She had grown to become more beautiful than before. She was now 21 years old. She has a well proportioned figure compared to her abnormal and huge sisters. She is very tall and slender with long black hair that extends past her waist with locks of hair that frame her face down to her chin and shows off her high forehead, dark brown emotionless eyes with long, voluminous eyelashes and pale skin. She wore a revealing red blouse that showed much of her large breasts and a loose sarong that exposed her long, slender legs with the green symbol of the Kuja adorned on it, along with a white cape sporting epaulettes more commonly found on the jackets of high-ranking Marines, and red high heel pumps. Currently, she is on her Kuja Pirate''s ship, looking for a certain someone. She had traveled around the Paradise in the Grand Line, the East Blue and South Blue in hopes of finding him. She started a year and 8 months ago, searching for him. The only clue she had was that he had been at Sabaody Archipelago before escaping in a sword-like beam. The Kuja Pirates around her also knew she was searching for someone, a man, Ryu, but they didn''t know why. They were curious about who this man was to her ever since then. But whenever they tried asking her or her sisters, they''d reply that it was none of their business. They accepted that and respected it, why? Because she was the most beautiful woman! "It seems he''s not in the South Blue, as well..." Sighing, she told the Kuja Pirates to return to Amazon Lily. "He''s probably in New World then. Kujas! Set sail for home!" Her two huge sisters were behind her, trying to ease her sadness, "Sis, Ryu will be back! He hasn''t forgotten you, after all didn''t Shaku say that he had come to her for information on our wellbeing?" When Hancock came to Shaku in her bar at Sabaody Archipelago, Shaku did tell them that, but it was just a fib. She had joked that Ryu came to her and Ray back then, and asked for their wellbeing. "You''re right," Hancock looked determined. ''He''s bound to leave a clue on his whereabouts eventually!'' ... In Baltigo... An 14-years-old young girl walked inside a hall with a soldierfish Fish-Man. They were Koala and Hack. Koala grew up looking better than before, she no longer looked malnourished and had joined the Revolutionary Army. Hack, a soldierfish Fish-Man, has yellow skin that has brown spots on the upper part of his head, along with scales under his eyelids, sharp teeth, and gills on the sides of his neck. The Fish-Man has a muscular stature, with long light blue flowing hair and a thick blue mustache. He wore a white open gi with a black belt. "Hey, say, do you know someone with bright green eyes and looks handsome?" Koala prompted. Hack quickly knew who it was, after all, there was about one person with bright green eyes and looked handsome at same time. Curious, he asked her. "Why do you want to know?" "Because I wanted to thank him!" She happily told him. "He helped me when I was feeling down." "He helped you? How and where?" He asked again. "That''s a secret," Koala said quietly. "Hey, why are you asking me those questions? Do you know him? Tell me!" "Y-yes, he''s Ryu." Suffering her quick questions, he stuttered. Taking out a bounty paper of Ryu, he showed her. "Is this the guy you were looking for?" "Yeah!" She excitedly confirmed as she took the bounty paper. Looking at the picture, she found that he became even more handsomer. Suddenly she blushed, and mentally shouted, ''What am I thinking about?!'' After that little antic, she saw that the paper she was holding was a bounty paper. She saw that Ryu had 500M bounty, she was surprised! "Wait! How did he get 500M bounty?" Hack had suffered her quick questions, watched her get red suddenly, and then she asked him a question finally acknowledging him. "Oh, he had 100M at the beginning for helping three escapees of the Celestial Dragons and beating a Vice Admiral. Then he got another 400M increase because he cut off a Celestial Dragon''s legs, embarrassing both Marines and the Celestial Dragon. There is also a possibility that it may increase again due to Germa Kingdom..." "Wow! So strong!" She yelled. "What happened to him afterward?" "He managed to escape nearly a thousand Marines, several Vice Admirals leading them, and a Admiral by unleashing some unknown power," Hack thoughtfully replied. Rubbing his chin with his right hand, he told her, "But after that, no one knows where he is now..." Worried, Koala asked him, "do you think he''s still alive?" "He''s definitely alive." Hack quickly rejected the idea that Ryu might be dead. "Though I said no one knows where he is now, we, the Revolutionaries, have found several clues on where he has been after the Celestial Dragon incident. After all, we had been trying to confront him about joining us, but he always managed to leave before we could talk to him." "Really? Then where has he been after?" "He went to Fishman Island, under the Red Line." He started. "There he..." ... In Shaku''s Bar at Sabaody Archipelago... "Haha! Seems he got a ''Ryu-Dome''!" A healthy old man laughed sitting on a stool. He had received news on Ryu from a secret source. "I''ll have to use this when Ryu comes!" "I wouldn''t recommend that, Ray," Shaku told him. "You would only be incurring his wrath, like usual." "A-ah..." Ray became depressed. But suddenly, he gained courage from nowhere, "No! I can dodge him with Observation Haki!" ''Then why didn''t you dodge him the past times he hit you...?'' Sighing, Shaku retorted silently. ? (Hot-Hot Sea) {Year: 15.6} ? As Ryu went into the Hot-Hot Sea area, he felt a bit hot, but nothing intolerable. So he just simply opened one eye to watch out for Big Mom Pirates, just in case they come by and attack him. "Ugh, what should I do when I arrive at one of the islands in Totto Land..." The native animals in Hot-Hot Sea, Armored Stonefish, had tried to attack the bronze dinghy, but they were repelled by a sword-like aura on it. The sword-like aura felt like it was would burst out if they had gotten any closer, so from their instincts, they ran away and didn''t disturb it. There were also several Pawn Soldiers in the sea, but they didn''t come close like the Armored Stonefishes. That''s precisely why Ryu was worried, he couldn''t control the sword-like aura for some reason. His system wasn''t even trying to help him with it either, it had instead only replied the same thing. [I refuse to help you with your Sword Intent. It is simply on verge of breakthrough, which is why a sword-like aura appeared from your body suddenly.] He was worried that those of Big Mom Pirates would consider his aura as a ''Prepare for a war!'' aura instead. Sure, he could easily kill them all, but with the sword-like aura being uncontrollable, he could even accidentally cut the whole Totto Land into halves, even the Whole Cake Island in the center, causing innocents to die. Sighing, he decided to move his dinghy with a thought for the first time after awakening in the Fishman Island. ''Oh, right. System, how long will the sword-like aura stays like this?'' [I''ve had estimated it ever since it started. The length of that state is at least 2.5 years, the minimum being a whole year.] "F*ck! I have to be extra careful in battling for at least 1-2.5 years?!" He yelled out loud in shock. In daze, Ryu said nothing for awhile. "Actually, this could be considered as a training I guess. Learning how to accurately control the sword intent would also help increase my control over other skills." ... In Whole Cake Island... "Hmm, it seems he''s not coming in the Totto Land after all." A tall man said, as he received reports from Pawn Soldiers. He had sensed a powerful being in Hot-Hot Sea, so he told the Pawn Soldiers to discreetly investigate. It turned out to be the Solitary Pirate, Ryu. They also reported that his aura was very fearful, as if a sword would burst out if they had gotten any closer, like the Armored Stonefishes in the sea. He thought Ryu would come into Totto Land, so he told his brothers and sisters to be ready in case of a attack. But it was for naught as Ryu in his bronze dinghy turned and went away from them. In amidst his thoughts, he heard a voice calling him out, "Katakuri! Big Mom wants to see you!" Katakuri stood up and nodded in acknowledgement. ''Probably related to Ryu approaching.'' - Katakuri approached where Big Mom was. She was covered in a huge shadow, not showing anything but her eyes and the outline of her figure. "You called for me, Mama?" "Dogtooth!" The huge shadow voiced out. "Did you sense the powerful being in the Hot-Hot Sea too?" "Yes, Mama. It was Ryu, the bright green eyes Solitary Pirate." He reported to his biological mother. "However it seems he turned around and left, not coming into Totto Land." "I see, so it was Ryu," she said as silence came after. The silence continue for awhile, however Katakuri didn''t move either, he knew that she was thinking. Big Mom was thinking about what to do with Ryu. She wanted to take him for her collection as she also felt his unknown power from the other side of world. If she couldn''t have him... Finally the silence ended as Big Mom ordered Katakuri, "Dogtooth, recruit him, in any way possible. If he doesn''t accept, then bring him here by force! I''ll deal with the rest." "...Yes, Mama." Katakuri hesitated for a slight second. It didn''t take a genius to know it would be hard to take him to her by force... He already knew that the Solitary Pirate would reject outrightly for the recruitment. He stood up and left while thinking of plans to take him to Big Mom. "Hey, Big Brother Katakuri! What did Mama want with you?" A child voice came to him. 12 C12: Years Of Time Skip |Part 7| ? (A unpopulated island in New World) {Year: 15.9} ? A young handsome man stood on the unpopulated island, where there''s no one on it except him. He had his sword out and held it horizontally with his right hand. With his sword-like aura infused in his sword, he made a light horizontal swing. *SWISH* A horizontal slicing wind was made as the island''s debris was cut in half. The horizontal cut kept continuing out of the island, splitting the sea away from the island. Slight spatial cracks appeared as it split the sea and then disappeared. The cut was strong enough to almost cut space itself! Ryu had tested out his out of control sword-like aura with his durable sword, making a horizontal wind slash. "...This is going to be hard." "Even without the sword, I still could cut the ocean with a finger if I casually make a movement..." He complained. His sword-like aura kept manifesting sword intent within his body, causing him to be essentially a sword. His sword intent was at the seventh level, which was the final level before advancing to the next realm of sword will, but he didn''t know that. Taking the sword back into the storage, he decided to start training with controlling his body power. He didn''t know that people with their Sword Intent found out about him, though not about specifically who. ... Everywhere in the world... All of the swordsman with their Sword Intent felt a burst of power from other side of the world. Old people with sword intent, new people with recently acquired sword intent, anyone with sword intent, they felt it. They went fearful, it felt like a sword was hanging on their necks! The closer one was to the source, they would have nightmares of being cut in pieces. The farthest would only be fearful. But while it was fearful, most of them obtained benefits from experiencing it. Some broke through their bottleneck, advancing to next level, some gained enlightenment, and the rest only wet themselves, most of those were newbies. All of the old men and women, that owned Sword Intent longer than the newbies, realized one same thing, the source had received the legendary trial of the Sword Intent''s final level! Now they had to guess who it was. ''Is it Dracule Mihawk, the strongest swordsman in the world? No... He was at least 5th level of the Sword Will, then who was it to have attained the 7th and final level of it?!'' (AN: 1-Newborn, 2-Learning, 3-Understanding, 4-Manifestation, 5-Refinement, 6-Attaining Abstruse, 7-Rebirth) ... In Gloom Island... Suddenly standing up from resting, a hawk-eyes man turned to look in the direction that he felt a powerful sword intent from. The sword intent felt like it would burst out and cut everything even the world if it wasn''t properly controlled. "I see, so he has reached that stage!" Smiling slightly, he said. There was only other man that had stronger Sword Intent than him he knew of, and it was Ryu! "Seems he has to overcome the legendary trial of the Sword Intent''s final level. No one in several centuries has done it since that old man..." Turning back to focus, Dracule Mihawk started to fight the other residents on his island. "Let''s continue, Humandrills!" ... In Mariejois... "What?!" A white-gi wearing glasses samurai shouted suddenly as he swiftly stood up and turned in the same direction. "Someone has received the legendary trial of the Sword Intent''s final level?! It''s not Dracule Mihawk either..." "Hmm?" A grey dreadlocks man with a scar on left side of his face prompted, "what''s this about the legendary trial?" Ignoring him, the samurai told someone with a Den Den Mushi to find out who it is. "Find out who received it! He''s in the New World, near North Blue, investigate the islands there!" "Y-yes!" The receiver stuttered, he didn''t know what''s the big deal with it. Then he hung down, and started to search. "Hey! Tell us what''s this about the legendary trial!" The grey dreadlocks man yelled at the white-gi wearing glasses samurai. Turning to look at the other four Elders, he started explaining. "...The legendary trial of the Sword Intent''s final level, is to test your capability of receiving powers that has the potential to destroy everything! Once, there was a man in the Void Century that had possessed it, and he was considered the strongest true swordsman in the world! He had the ability to cut everything, even the world itself, but for some reason history didn''t reveal information about him. Only those who had stories of him passed those to their descendants." "What?!" The other four Elders realized who he was talking about now! They had also heard stories of him from their parents, but they didn''t believe it because no one else had attained the power at his level. "You mean to say someone is going to receive power like his?!" "No, it may be beyond than his!" The samurai once again clarified, "they''re only going through the trial. If they fail, they won''t receive it. But if they pass..." He stopped there, but everyone else knew what the unsaid words were. ''Even if they pass, they won''t be involved in villainous acts! We could recruit him for the World Government and control the person!'' "No." A hollow voice resounded in the room, like before. "We won''t be able to control him..." "IM!" They greeted quickly. "He is the Solitary Pirate, Ryu..." the voice informed them. "Increase his bounty again. Even if he fails, he will still gain benefits of going through the legendary trial. If you see him, either kill him or stay neutral around him. Don''t attempt to recruit him, for it will be pointless..." After that mysterious order, they stopped all the thoughts of controlling him. After waiting awhile, the samurai started. "Well, it was the Solitary Pirate once again..." "Yes," a tall and thin bearded man with long white hair said. "Now, how much should we increase it by?" "Seeing he has the potential of receiving power equivalent to or beyond than the three Ancient Weapons from the Void Century..." The baldie with birthmarks on his forehead told them, "Let''s increase it to-" ... |WANTED| [Picture of Ryu (*15-years-old, young boy, shoulder-length ruffled black hair, chiseled handsome face, bright green eyes that seems to glow, lean muscular body, wearing nothing but orange shorts, showing his sculpted chest. He looked lonely due to his sword-like aura.*)] [Solitary Pirate, Ryu] [DEAD ONLY] [B800,000,000] ? (In Calm Belt connecting to the West Sea) {Year: 16} ? A young handsome man sat crosslegged on his bronze dinghy with eyes closed, as the dinghy swayed lightly on the ocean. There wasn''t even a sound, not even a bird. The sea beasts, fishes, and animals were afraid of the sword-like aura threatening to burst out. Suddenly... *Hum~* A humming sound was heard as Ryu attempted to hide his sword-like aura after a countless tries. As if the sword was being sheathed, his Sword Aura, he decided to call it officially, suddenly disappeared. "Haha! At last, it worked!" Ryu laughed excitedly as he finally did it, but suddenly the Sword Aura burst out once again. *CHHH* "...F*ck!" He angrily shouted. He found out that it was like straining his muscle to hide it. Sighing, he can only keep practicing it. "At least I found a way to hide from the peoplef*cking chasing me." Ryu had been chased down for 3 whole months ever since he unleashed his Sword Aura on the unpopulated island. It was like it was commanding attention to it. There were other organizations aside from the Marines chasing him too. They were Revolutionaries, Big Mom Pirates, Beasts Pirates, the Underworld, and the Cipher Pol. The Revolutionaries, he understood. They only wanted to recruit him for their cause, to rid the world of the Celestial Dragons. But he didn''t feel like doing political business, he''d rather just simply travel around and have fun. So he rejected them when they finally had the chance to even talk, from a distance because of his Sword Aura. Ryu was afraid of accidentally harming them. The Big Mom Pirates, he found that Dogtooth, a Sweet Commander of theirs, wanted to take him to one of the Yonko, Big Mom... He wouldn''t mind going to Big Mom himself, but not when he could potentially kill innocents should they attack him there. So, he just rejected and said he''d come later. Dogtooth took his word for it, he also use Den Den Mushi to inform Big Mom. Big Mom didn''t mind because she understood that Ryu could easily destroy her utopia. Her dream was the most important, well, second to a important person to her. The Beasts Pirates, led by Kaido of the Yonko, wanted to recruit him. One of the All Stars had come to him and said that Kaido wanted to recruit him, even giving anything he wanted. Well, he wanted them to scram the f*ck away. That All Star person got enraged and attacked not thinking of consequences. Ryu only dodged, but his Sword Aura had manifested air swords in defense, so the All Star got injured heavily and had to run away. He didn''t need to escape because Ryu let him go. The Underworld had chased him down due to a certain person''s request. The requester was called Joker. Joker wanted him alive, for some reason. But Ryu wasn''t about to play along with him, so he just casually ignored them and left. Finally, the Cipher Pol, the secret organization of the World Government, were chasing, no, more like hunting him down. They received orders to either hunt him or stay away from them, but it was an optional order. They could hunt him or not. Only few had chosen to hunt him. Ryu just ignored them, they couldn''t kill him anyways. He also found that his bounty increased for some reason... Getting out of his thoughts, he started to focus on subconsciously hiding the Sword Aura. "Back to practicing, then." ? (New World) {Year: 16.4} ? After practicing four months, he finally could hide his Sword Aura, like sheathing a sword. He no longer needed to do it consciously, he could do it subconsciously. But the Sword Aura still existed there, if anyone is in a certain range of him, they''d feel like a sword was hanging on them, but don''t know who''s doing it. But at least he was no longer easy to find. "Just 5 more months until the minimum is reached." [Remember, it''s not guaranteed to be a year, it could be 2.5 years instead of 1.] "Mmn." He grunted in acknowledgement. "What about between those?" [No, it won''t be between 1-2.5 years. It will be exactly one whole year or two years and five months.] "Alright," Ryu then returned to focusing on controlling his Sword Aura. He could hide it, but it didn''t mean he could control it. He wanted to learn how to control it completely, because of two reasons, the abstruse he chose and the offensive Sword Aura could be. First, the abstruse he chose for his Sword Intent was Desolate. It made him look lonely, he noted that when he received his bounty paper... He didn''t realize his abstruse was manifesting in his Sword Aura until he saw his bounty paper. It would affect his battles if his Desolate abstruse energy fused with him during the battle, it''d be too excessive to the point he thought it wouldn''t be funny. The enemy and anything near his attacks would simply rust away, leaving him desolate. Secondly, the Sword Aura would sometimes automatically manifest swords offensively without him knowing, causing cuts to appear on his body and around him while sleeping. Whenever he was awake and felt like it was going to go offensive, he''d either dodge it or take it with his body. Thankfully, his body and soul were refined during the unconscious state he was in back after using a false God-tier power. He had managed to successfully added in Laws into his will, one of the requirements to be a God. With Conqueror''s Haki, he infused Law of Emotion in it, which is why he had suddenly looked down on the Celestial Dragon instead of ignoring him. He had also fused laws with his other Will abilities, like Armament Haki and Observation Haki. But using it when your body wouldn''t be able to take it, the results would involve him suffering for it. As of now, due to the refinement of his body and soul, he could use 5% of his false God-tier power for an hour, while he can use his other powers for about two months at full percent usage. (AN: Guess which laws he infused with for Armament Haki and Observation Haki? (; ) ? (Wherever the f*ck Ryu is at) {Year: 16.9} ? "It''s been a whole year now." Ryu said to his system as he still retained the Sword Aura. But that didn''t matter anymore, he could control his Sword Aura at about 75%. The remaining 25% involved his abstruse energy, Desolate. Trying to control the Sword Aura was like trying to hold in your urination from baby stages, Ryu thought chuckling at the comparison. [Yes, it has been a whole year. Looks like it''ll be 2.5 years, so just a year and five months left.] (AN: {Year: 18.2} will be when Ryu finally finishes the trial. {Year:20-21} will be when the One Piece storyline finally starts!) "Well, that''s fine. I gained benefits from this little event." He said as he looked around. If it was him a year ago, he definitely wouldn''t have called it a ''little'' event. The island he was on was huge, yet he could see the ocean from the other side of it. He had abused the unpopulated huge island, there were a lot of cut debris on the ground. There were trunks of originally large forests around the island, and cut-into-pieces of originally huge boulders that were about Sashi''s size. If the island were alive, it would''ve cried due to its balding. "It''s weird that I haven''t met the Whitebeard Pirates since traveling in the New World..." Ryu noted. He had traveled around the world, and yet he hadn''t met then at all, only in news and bounty papers, but they didn''t count as in person. [That''s because I made it so. Remember me hijacking your dinghy to go the way I wanted?] "Yeah... Wasn''t it because you wanted to lead me to trouble?" He remembered naturally, most of time in the Paradise in Grand Line, the system had led him... [Yeah, that was one of the reason, of course. But that''s not the point, if I hadn''t done that, you would''ve met them in the Paradise. Right now they''re in New World, but it turned out that I didn''t need to hijack it once again, the dinghy personally moved itself away from them... Probably because of me hijacking it too often and it''s now learnt avoid the Whitebeard Pirates. Tee-hee~] "Ah..." Ryu simply nodded, not angered by that at all. In fact, it didn''t matter because he wasn''t going to heal him until Ace joined him anyways. [Tch. You didn''t get mad.] Ignoring his system''s message, he decided it was time to pity the huge island he had nearly refor- okay, maybe he already reformed it. He started to leave on his dinghy, letting the dinghy lead aimlessly. "Time to focus on conquering my Desolate abstruse energy in the Sword Aura-" "Wait, conquering?" Ryu suddenly stopped as if he understood something. He had finally find out why the abstruse energy in the aura kept resisting him. He was too focused on conquering the abstruse that he didn''t notice. "I shouldn''t conquer it, instead I should let it flow, along with me and my intent." Closing his eyes, he sat crosslegged on the dinghy, as it led the way. He started to let Desolate abstruse to flow by itself, and then led where it should flow. *CHHH* *BOOM* Quickly opening his eyes, he noticed that he accidentally broke his dinghy! His durable dinghy! "Holy f*ck!" Ryu shouted as he went into the ocean. Swimmin, he started to crazily laugh, "HAHAHA! IT''S STRONG ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE DURABLE DINGHY!" [...Yes, now you will have to get another Speedy Dinghy, you crazy bastard.] The system weirdly said. It wouldn''t say crazy bastard unless he really was. It was because the system''s host had nearly killed himself and his soul, essentially nearly ending his reincarnation with his abstruse-infused Sword Intent. The system was shocked when he successfully destroyed the dinghy on accident. The thing about the dinghy the system didn''t tell was that it was strong enough to withstand five attacks from Gods, but Ryu did it in one move, without any false God-tier power, only merely sword intent fused with abstruse energy. It seemed that Ryu was going to be stronger than Gods soon. Well, not that Ryu was going to know all that anyways. The system wouldn''t dare to inflate his ego. "Ah, right. Get another one then." Ryu told it, coming back from his momental of craziness. "Right, how much percent did I get from that?" [You ha- Huh?] The system stopped suddenly. "What?" He asked. [Nothing. You have gained control of 0.025% of the abstruse energy in Sword Aura.] "What?!" He shouted angrily. "Just a small percent? Are you kidding me, system?" [No.] Believe the system, it also doubted itself for a second, he used merely 0.025% and it destroyed the strong dinghy? F*ck, Ryu could easily destroy the system''s creator if he gained control over all the 25% abstruse energy! Not like Ryu would do that unreasonably. Should it tell its host about the destructive power''s potential or not? "Ugh! Taking control over all 25% is going to be harder than I expected..." Ryu unreasonably said... That was to be expected, he didn''t know of the dinghy''s secret and the system''s dilemma. "Maybe there''s a way to gain them faster." "Whatever, as usual, I''ll just keep doing it until I find a better way." He decided as he started to rest on his new silvery dinghy instead of bronze color. Resting was the best way to let something inside you flow freely, so he decided to do that all while leading the flow and gain control over it. Ryu was sure he won''t destroy the dinghy again, he had managed to find out how to set a path for its destructive power, so he could aim it to upwards when he gained the small percentage. While he was doing that, all the Sword Intent owners once again felt his sword powers. ... Everywhere in the world... All of people with Sword Intent once again finally felt ''his'' sword powers, but it felt different, like it made you feel like you would rust away into dust. They hadn''t felt anything from ''him'' ever since he learned how to hide his Sword Aura several months ago, causing a widespread search for several Cipher Pol that were hunting him, which they eventually gave up on. He was impossible to assassinate anyways, they thought. The world also didn''t know of what had happened, only the swordsmen/swordswomen knew that someone very truly strong swordsman had appear in the New World. Select few organizations only knew of who it was. Heh, if those old bastards/hags with low-middle level of Sword Intent knew it was Ryu, they''d die of anger or depression. Ryu was so young and yet he attained the final level of Sword Intent! But all of them had one same thought, old or young, and man or woman. ''F*ck! Can you not do that again? I nearly wet myself!'' 13 C13: Years of Time Skip |Part 8| ? (New World) {Year: 17} ? "Portgas D. Ace should be leaving Foosha Village this year..." A handsome young man with bright green eyes said on his silver dinghy. He wore a white kimono, that had light blue snowflakes all over it, revealing his a bit of his sculpted upper top of his chest. On his right side of hip, he wore a durable katana he got from the system, attached to a white belt. He was preparing to go to Wano Country, he thought it''d be nice to stay in there for a while. ''System, is there a eye mask that would cover my eyes?'' He asked, his bright green eyes was a dead give away to who he was. If he wanted to be left alone from the Beasts Pirates, he''d have to hide his eyes. After all, didn''t he piss off one of the All Star? [Yes. Obtaining it for you...] *Ding* [Customizable Eye Mask: Hide away your eyes from all those eye fetish perverts! Can be customized, just use a thought to do so. Also, it only hides your eyes, not your whole face.] ''...What the f*ck is with ''eye fetish perverts''?!'' He mentally shouted at his system. ''Whatever, let''s check it out.'' He brought out the eye mask, and looked at it. It was just a white cloth with light blue snowflakes on it. ''No, wait, I can customize it.'' With a thought, he saw the white cloth morph into a cute eye mask for kids. It had flat white cat ears on top, with light blue color inside them. There was two smiling eyes closed on it. "Hey!" Ryu shouted out loud, "isn''t this for kids?! And it changed differently from what I wanted!" [Oh, whoops. Meant to say ''Changeable Eye Mask'' that changes to two different looks, cutesy one and a cloth.] "F*ck you!" He flamed his system. Deciding to use the white cloth with light blue snowflakes over on it, he tied it on his head. It fit his light blue snowflakes kimono, anyways. "With this, they won''t see my eyes. I''ll pass as a blind person." Even if they would view him as a blind person, he wasn''t. He still could see through the cloth, without his Observation Haki. "Right, then." He then led his dinghy, "Time to go for Wano Country!" ? (Wano Country, in New World) {Year: 17.2} ? "Haha!" The ''blind'' swordsman laughed as he forcefully rode the giant koi he found. The unfortunate koi was crying out of misery, though. ''Why did the blind bastard choose me? You''re the reason why I feel like there''s a f*cking sword hanging on my neck!'' "Up, up, little fish!" He commanded the giant koi. ''Pfft! What little fish! It''s a f*cking giant one, hehe~!'' If the giant koi had known that he was getting into commanding it, the koi would definitely wail, begging him to show mercy. It had its pride to other fishes! ... A bit after the giant koi happily sent the bastard away from him... "Whew~," he heaved a breath. He got too into enjoying his personality he set for the Wano Country. His personality was supposed to be a blind man who had a pranking sadism personality. A man who would enjoy pranking people because he liked watching them cry in indignant. He probably would bring that along when he left the Wano Country... "Anyways, it looks like I arrived in the Kuri." He looked around. It didn''t look like a wasteland because they haven''t started building the weapon factories. Kuri looked beautiful he noted. It was a pity that it''d become a wasteland because of the Beasts Pirates. Muttering, he tried to decide, "Should I just make them scram the f*ck away from the country...?" "Hey!" A feminine voice was heard shouting. Turning to look at the voice''s direction, Ryu saw a beautiful woman in a pink kimono. She looked like she was in early 20s. "Who are you? I saw you riding that giant koi as if it was nothing but fun! You must be strong." He was surprised that the beautiful woman didn''t feel anything from his Sword Aura. Normally, they''d at least feel like something fearful inside him. Getting into his set personality, he responded as he rubbed his chin. "Yeah, that little fish was fun to ride. Though, it could''ve been more quicker..." Twitching her lips, she nearly laughed. ''What little fish? It was a giant prideful koi! It''d probably die of depression if it heard him.'' "W-well, where did you come from and who are you?" She asked, trying to stop the laugher inside her. It''d be rude manners to laugh at the koi, though it was gone already. "Ah, I''m a wandering swordsman. My name''s..." He realized now that he didn''t decide a name... Thinking of a name in an instant, he continued. "Ichigo." ''Gonna borrow your name, Ichigo from Blea*h.'' He thought. "Oh, Ichigo!" She repeated. "My name''s Rin." "I see." He simply said. Forgetting he had his eyes covered. "Huh? Do you really?" She jokingly said, pointing out that he was wearing a cloth over his eyes. "..." Suddenly, Rin felt like the temperature around her went ice cold. Shivering, she saw that ''Ichigo'' turned and looked directly at her head, as if he had eyes and looked at hers! Probably because he indeed did. Menacingly with a smile that didn''t look like a happy one, he said, "Wh~at?" "I-I d-didn''t m-mean to-" "Pfft! Hahaha!" He interrupted her, laughing. "What? You got scared?" Realizing he had played around with her like the giant koi, she beautifully pouted. "Hmph! I''m leaving you alone!" She ran off to near forest, looking back once a while to see if he would chase her and apologize. She realized he wasn''t even there anymore. She angrily stomped her feet, ''Am I not beautiful?! Why didn''t he follow me to apologize!'' "Idiot~!" She shouted, not knowing ''Ichigo'' was above her on a tree''s branch. ''Ichigo'' had intended to follow her, because seeing her mannerism, he knew she was a descendant or disciple of someone important. But she had suddenly shouted, confusing him until he realized what she had expected. But that only confused him even more, why did she expect me to do that? [...] The system wanted to facepalm, its host had completely forgotten that the cloth only covered his eyes, but not his devilishly handsome features. Not like he knew he had devilishly handsome features, thinking it was at least above average... ... Later that day, with Rin... ''Hmph hmph!'' Rin hmph''ed for the fourth time ever since Ichigo left her alone. She was in her family''s mansion, sitting in her room. She was the eldest young miss of a high-class family. But there was other families that had been trying to pressuring her family into supporting Kumozumi Orochi. Her family refused because he collaborated with Kaizo to take over Wano Country, and betraying Kozuki Oden. Rin also herself didn''t want to support him either, it was also because Orochi wanted her to be a mistress of his. She hadn''t fell in love with anyone. She felt like the men around her were boring... until she saw him, Ichigo. She saw him enjoying playing around the giant koi, like a prankster. She wanted to be like him, free and fun. When Rin approached him, she noticed that he was handsome, even with a cloth covering his eyes, causing her to assume he was a blind man. Wearing a fitting kimono to the cloth covering his eyes, he looked like he had a lean muscular body. She felt her heart beat go faster when he smiled roguishly, he looked so free. While she was chained, restrained by her mannerisms she learned as child. As she talked to him, it was like she was freed, like she was being true to herself. ''Is this love?'' Rin thought, going red in face like she would drip blood out. She cupped her face with her hands and rolled on her bed causing the maid standing guard outside to think, ''Ah, is she bored today too?'' ... Back to Ichigo (Ryu)... "Hmm, seems like Rin is from a high-class family." Ichigo noted. "Well, time to find a place to settle around here." Walking into the Okobore Town, where Rin went to, he saw there were a lot more citizens since Kuri hadn''t become a wasteland. There was a lot of residents from other poor towns in Kuri gathered in this town. It was bustling because of Rin''s family. The family had provided money to help support the town they escaped to, to avoid the pressuring. They would''ve been surrounded and wiped them out if they had stayed in Bakura Town any longer. Ichigo understood why he didn''t know of her family or her, because they were wiped out eventually. He decided right there and then. He''d definitely make sure Wano Country changes. He couldn''t just watch them be wiped out when he was going to stay in Wano Country, could he? Ichigo was going to help in his way. Looking for a place to rent to stay in, he asked a passing-by person, who happened to be a woman. "Excuse me, do you know where I can rent a place to sleep in, like an inn?" The passerby stared at him for awhile. Then he waved his hand in front of her face, snapping her out of daze. She blushed when she realized she had stared at him. "A-ah, yes. There''s an inn over there, which happens to be where I work at." "Oh, then I guess we''re going the same way then." He stated as he started to walk beside her. "Right, I''d like some information on what''s happening around the Wano Country, do you mind?" "No, I don''t mind." She replied quickly. Looking at his handsome face, even though his eyes were covered, she didn''t mind it. ''As long I get to stare at you longer.'' ''Woman, you''re making me think there''s something on my face aside from the eye mask!'' Ichigo thought. ? (An inn in Okotobe Town, in Wano Country) {Year: 17.3} ? "It''s time for me to leave, innkeeper." Ichigo told the innkeeper. He had stayed in the inn, gathering information as much as possible. He got a lot of them from the residents around. "Ah? That''s too bad. I thought you''d start living in Okotobe." The innkeeper told. He then added, "come visit again when you''re around, alright!" "See you, Ichigo!" The woman who led him to the inn back then, shouted. Walking to the exit, he waved his hand to him. "Yeah." ... In Rin''s room... "Young miss!" The maid shouted as she barged in. "The man you told us to watch, he left the inn, it looks like he''s leaving the town!" "Oh, then let''s go meet him again!" Rin decided. Thinking, she hmph''ed. ''Hmph, try and run away from this young miss!'' The maid, ''I''m glad she found someone!'' ... Later that day... "Ichigo!" Rin shouted from behind, with the maid chasing her. "..." Turning around, Ichigo ''looked'' at her. "Yeah?" "Hmph! You thought you would leave here without apologizing to me!" She boldly said as she blocked him. ''Woman, I nearly forgot about you.'' He mentally retorted. "I''m still leaving." He said as he turned and walked away. "...Hey! Don''t leave without apologizing!" Rin ran to him and nearly fell. As she almost fell down, Ichigo stopped and appeared before holding her up. She blushed at the almost skin contact, ''So close!'' "Be careful, otherwise you''ll dirty yourself." He warned. Letting her go, he saw that she had a disappointed face for a second before it changed. "Anyways, it''s not like you won''t meet me again in future." "Huh?" Rin looked up only to see him already far away. She then blushingly yelled, "What do you mean we''ll meet again in future?! Who wants to meet you again!" ... Back to Ichigo (Ryu)... "Well, time to start my plan of overthrowing the shogun and corrupted officials." Ichigo said as he coldly smirked. "This is going to be fun." He then increased force in his feet, swiftly speeding up. He was going straight to the Bakura Town, where its residents were mostly of officials and the Beasts Pirates. From the information he had, Jack the All Star were out in the sea somewhere, doing something. So this was the best time to ''clean'' the Kuri. ... In Bakura Town... *BOOM* A young handsome man with a cloth covering his eyes barged into the town, scaring people suddenly. He unleashed his Sword Aura by 25%, making people around him feel like the Death was looking at them. "Hehe~!" Ichigo scarily laughed. Then with a shout that sounded out in whole Bakura Town, without any going out of it, he yelled "Get your asses here, dirty pet bastards!" *CHHHHH* Many visible sword blades appeared, making a barrier of swords appear on the Bakura Town, no one could get in or out now. The corrupt officials and Beasts Pirates came out looking fearful, they never knew of anyone like this in Wano Country or even the whole world! One bold official stupidly yelled at him angrily, "Who are you?!" "Who am I?" Ichigo chuckled eerily. "I''m your Death!" *PSSH* A large cut was made on that official''s body. The others didn''t follow his lead and shut up, while looking at him fearfully. "I''m going to kill the corrupt officials who has r*ped, murdered, or kidnapped illegally! But I''ll let few live to spread the word." They all paled instantly, as they all had at least done one of those deed, the officials and the pirates. But when they heard only few would live to spread the word, they instantly begged to be chose, swearing they''d spread word. "Hmm, who should I choose to live...?" He wondered out loud. "Oh! Wait! Weren''t there innocents around here? They can spread them!" Turning to look at the innocents, he told them in a booming voice. "I, Ichigo, declare a war on all of the corrupt officials, the current Shogun, and the Beasts Pirates residing on Wano Country!" ''F*ck! We''re dead!'' The dirty officials and Beasts Pirates thought at the same time. Taking out his durable katana, he swung them in one slice. Then he put it back and walked away. The heads of those people dropped as a line was made on their necks. *Thud* *Chhh* The barrier of swords disappeared as did Ichigo. ... After that day... "Hey, did you hear of the word that a strong swordsman declared a war in Bakura Town?" A man asked his company at the table. Ironically, it was Ichigo. He had just casually sat at a random one and then this man joined him, he didn''t mind that though. Both of them hit it off and started chatting. "Yeah, I heard that a lone blind man killed off the corrupt officials and Beasts Pirates." "Shh, let''s talk quietly," the man said in a very low voice, luckily Ichigo had better senses that exceed minks''. "Yeah, it looks like we got a new hero, huh?" "Pfft!" Ichigo sputtered his rice out. "Y-yeah, a hero..." ''I was thinking of more like vigilante!'' He mentally said. "Well, he''s not really a hero, but us citizens are thinking of him as one. We never liked the way those bastards did. Heck, they''re saying that those able-bodies citizens would soon be placed in a factory. Forced to work, in exchange for protection..." "Ah.. Is that so.." Ichigo didn''t know that they were already thinking of making the weapon factories already. It was time for him to speed up the plan. "Well, I''m going, here''s the money for your food and mine." "Thanks! Even though you''re blind, you''re a good man!" The man shouted. But as he shouted that, he paled instantly. A blind man with a katana at his right side! ''Holy f*ck did I just eat with him?! No wonder he didn''t bother asking for my name, he didn''t want to tell his! ? (Somewhere in Kuri, at Wano Country) {Year: 17.4} ? "Finally done!" He said as he burned away the bodies he just killed. "Now Kuri''s ridded of corrupt officials and the Beasts Pirates." *Ding* [Conquered a land for yourself, now establishing the land, Kuri, as your land...] "Huh? What?" [Land ''Kuri'' established as your own! Due to your rank, ''Administrator'', now setting up defenses, border defenses, and sea defenses!] As the system told its host, there was a huge rumbling on Kuri. Defenses were erected on the borders, the seas, and each villages, towns, and cities now owned a minimal defense. [Requesting ''Administrator'' Ryu for confirmation, produce offense weaponries?] "...Uh, decline." In daze, he replied. He had just watched a defense be erected before him, he was near the border between Kuri and Kibi. Snapping out of it, he yelled at his system. "What the f*ck was that?!" [An territorial conquest that was added in the system, me. It''s an another feature you discovered! Congratulations, Ryu, or should I say, Ichigo.] The system emotionlessly replied. "Ugh, should I even be anymore surprised by now." He mentally scolded himself, the system had kept surprising him, making him expect them. But this territorial conquest feature surprised him for sure, it even erected defenses! "Uh, anyways, onwards to the next land for conquest!" [Wow, 10/10 points on your adaptability.] It emotionlessly embarrassed its host. "Hmph!" He hmph''ed. ... The residents in Kuri... "What are those things?!", "They don''t look harmful...", "Are those defenses?", "How did they suddenly appear there...?" Commotions were heard all over Kuri. The defenses had suddenly appeared after a huge rumble. The defenses didn''t look harmful, only just like a wall shielding them. "Is it possible that it''s related to that lone blind swordsman, Ichigo?" A citizen suddenly asked. It was heard by every citizens despite the commotions. They all were suspicious about that, but nevertheless, as long the defenses didn''t harm us or shoo us away, they didn''t care. "Come to think of it, the air feels like it''s more better..." A woman with sensitive skin said to the others. They began to agree as they tested it out. It seemed that the defenses had a filtering shield, a mini Ryu-Dome covering Kuri. "Haha! If it was Ichigo, I wouldn''t mind him overthrowing the current Shogun!" A man boldly declared loudly. The others quickly looked at him as if he was a dead man, but later they realized that there weren''t a lot of dirty officials or any sightings of the Beasts Pirates. "You''re right! I wouldn''t mind either!" Another person declared, prompting a chain of agreements and made a group. ... Rin... "Ichigo..." Rin thoughtfully said. "Did you do this...?" The maid standing beside her looked proud. "The young miss has a good eye for finding a future husband candidate!" Rin hearing that blushed that blood looked like it would drip out. "S-shut up! Who''s marrying that bastard!" ... In Flower Capital... Inside a castle, a rather large man with a big head and stocky build stood silently. He appears to be balding, with his dark hair being mostly seen on the sides and back of his head, and he has a long topknot in the back, as well as a thin mustache that sticks upward. His two upper canine teeth are longer than his other teeth. He wears a kimono with a fan-shaped pattern on it, as well as a crown on his head. He was Kurozumi Orochi, the current Shogun! "So that lone blind swordsman managed to take over Kuri and already erected defenses?" Orochi asked a ninja nearby. "Yes!" The ninja confirmed, and continue to report. "It looked like the defenses suddenly appeared out of the ground, and looks harmless. But when we tried to get in, a barrier blocked us out. It seems to be a barrier made out of the defenses as the cornerstones!" "I see." Orochi nodded in acknowledgment. He then thought for awhile. Finally deciding, "Inform Kaido I want his assistance. His Beasts Pirates should''ve had already reported about him, so he probably will agree." "Y-yes..." The ninja obeyed hesitantly, it was Kaido they were talking about! ... With Kaido... "So this Ichigo appeared out of nowhere and came in saving Kuri?" The Yonko Kaido said questioningly. "And he appears to have some sort of unknown power, making defenses appear out of the ground suddenly, Kuri-wide?" "Y-yes." The messenger said. "Hmm..." Kaido appeared to be looking thoughtful. But he wasn''t. "Fools! He''s Ryu, the Solitary Pirate! Why do you think he covered his eyes?! It''s a huge give away!" He instantly squashed the messenger, as his three All Stars came in looking like they just recently realized. He had made a barrier of swords in Bakua Town, it reminded them of the Solitary Pirate''s sword-like aura. "Boss, we couldn''t break into the barrier he made." All Star, King, who looked like he was still healing. It was him who had tried to kill the Solitary Pirate when he got enraged at his response. All Star, Queen, ''helpfully'' added, "And this guy is probably the reason why ''he'' came to Wano Country." Though that wasn''t why, Kaido was looking from his point of view so he also assumed that too. "Jack, you will assist King in dealing with his business with the Solitary Pirate." "Yes." All Star, Jack, obeyed. 14 C14: Years of Time Skip |Part 9| ? (Kibi of Wano Country) {Year: 17.6} ? Two months after Ichigo(Ryu) conquered Kuri, he finally took Kibi next. It for some reason had a lot of outlaws that pillaged, r*ped, murdered, and dealt with illegal things, even humans were considered as a ''thing'' if they were used. Ichigo had a hard time not getting angered and wiping out the world itself. Luckily, he had cultivated and comprehended the Law of Emotions, letting him control his emotions, but he still boiled over the sight of them. It nearly made him view the pirates as them, but he understood that everyone had their own views on what a ''pirate'' was. So with that, Kibi was conquered by him being brutal, killing ALL of the outlaws, dirty officials, and the Beasts Pirates that resided in there. He thought he would eventually be viewed as a brutal tyrant man, killing them. But he didn''t care, he''d take over as the Shogun, until the real Shogun would come back from the 20-years time travel, Kozuki Momonosuke. "As long as he comes back and learns how to rule as a good Shogun, I''m willing to give away the Shogun position to him..." Ichigo announced to no one in particular as the defenses started to erect around the Kibi land. *Ding* [Conquered the land, Kibi. Establishing land, Kibi, as your own. Due to your rank, ''Administrator'', now erecting defenses. Confirmation needed for production of offensive weaponries?] "Decline." He declined. He didn''t want powerful weaponries to go in wrong hands, even if the system could make it not so. Ichigo still didn''t want people, children growing up, anyone to see him using offense to block people from going in his lands. He''d rather them to see that defenses would block them, letting them know they''re safe from the pirates or dirty officials. However, there was one problem. The people inside could leave the barrier if they wanted, just by walking out of it, but they wouldn''t be able to enter back in. Except for villages, towns, and cities that had their minimal defenses, they couldn''t re-enter if they left it. So, basically, leave Kibi or Kuri, you won''t be able to enter again. But you still could re-enter Kuri if you entered Kibi from it, and vice versa. There were word spread about him all over the Wano Country, as the current Shogun announced publicly that he received the declaration of war from the Lone Blind Swordsman, Ichigo. The citizens in the Flower Capital looked outraged at that, but secretly, they were celebrating when they heard how the lands he took over were looking better than the Flower Capital itself. Kuri and Kibi now had a better and cleaner air, along with more children looking healthier than before. They also heard that the Lone Blind Swordsman were very brutal towards the outlaws, corrupt officials, and the Beasts Pirates that had done any crimes Ichigo listed out, who were basically all of them. Ichigo also had left alone the good and innocent officials, saying that they should continue their moral. Once, one of the good officials asked him why was he overthrowing the current Shogun, he only replied. "I didn''t want a family to die because they didn''t want to support the current Shogun, so I thought, why not overthrow him and his dirty corrupt officials?" When Rin heard this particular rumor, she blushed thinking he was doing this for her because her family was one of the few families left to not support Orochi. The good officials, though, were astounded at such answer, just overthrowing a Shogun because he didn''t like him? While they thought he was doing a good thing, they were a bit fearful of him being brutal tyrant due to the rumors they heard. So they decided to test him when he finished taking over the whole Wano Country, they agreed secretly. Now there were a group of good officials with good moral beliefs, supporting with what left they all had for Kibi and Kuri. Maintaining order was easy, as there were righteous groups hiding secretly, who just recently became not-so-secretive groups, and there were the barriers. The barriers would immediately cause a bit of pressure upon whoever commits a crime as a warning. Should they not accept it, the pressure would increase and the criminals would fall to the ground, not able to get up until the order comes near. They discovered that when a criminal had tried to do something. Learning from that example, not a lot of criminals had appeared. As of now, the criminals were held in a secret place. No one knew what Ichigo was going to do to them, but from the rumors they heard, they expected he''d be brutal. Ichigo wasn''t going to be brutal to them though. He was just simply going to tell the citizens to do what they usually do with criminals, after his conquest. ... In Flower Capital... "Are you telling me that Kaido sent both Queen and King?" Orochi, the current shogun, asked again surprised. He didn''t think that the Lone Blind Swordsman was too strong that needed two of the Disasters. "Yes, right now they''re at the border of Kiri and Ringo!" The messenger reported. "However, it seems even they can''t break the barrier. They also kept saying the ''Solitary Pirate, Ryu'' instead of the ''Lone Blind Swordsman, Ichigo''...?" Standing up immediately, Orochi shouted at the messenger loudly. "What?! Are you sure they said the Solitary Pirate, Ryu?!" Surprised, the messenger confirmed stutteringly. "Y-yes!" Paling, Orochi just realized he had accepted a war declaration from a true monster! Not even Kaido could beat him. Orochi had also experienced Ryu''s Sword Intent! He knew who obtained the legendary trial from the dealings he made with the Cipher Pol. He heard legends about such power, one man had owned it in the Void Century, and he was declared as the strongest true swordsman! He believed in it, because his ancestors had personally experienced that man''s powers long time ago. "S-shit..." He muttered. "No! Tell Kaido that we need to think of a trap to kill the Solitary Pirate when he comes to the here, the Flower Capital, to conquer it!" The messenger got confused, what was that about? Who''s the Solitary Pirate, Ryu? The messenger didn''t know of any news outside of the Wano Country, like most of the residents. - Somewhere else in the Flower Capital... "Hoh, so he''s took over Kuri and now Kibi..." A man said as he read the report from one of lower-ranked man of his yakuza group, the Kyoshiro Family. "Looks like he''ll go to Ringo next, meeting Queen and King there. Interesting. Kaido sent two of the All Stars." The man was Kyoshiro, the leader! Kyoshiro was a large man whose hair is pulled back in a topknot that forms a massive faux-pompadour. He wore a kimono with circles and target patterns on it, as well as a dark, high-collared cape. He then said while looking out of the window, "I can feel it... The Lone Blind Swordsman will defeat them and come here soon..." A door slide slid open, as a beautiful woman came in. Turning to look at her, he said her name. "Komurasaki." ... Near Kiri''s border defense between Kiri and Ringo... "Damn!" King of the All Star shouted as he punched the damn barrier in front of him. "How am I supposed to deal with the Solitary Pirate when we can''t even get through his f*cking barrier?!" "I don''t know, maybe seppuku yourself in front of him when he leaves." Queen of the All Star ''helpfully'' suggested. Turning to glare at him, King angrily shouted. "Not helping!" "Actually, he suggested a good one." A voice came as the Solitary Pirate, Ryu in his disguise suddenly came out of the barrier! They didn''t even sense him at all. He was wearing a light blue-snowflakes kimono with a similar cloth of it covering his eyes and a katana at his right side. "We meet again, little Kingie." King was in no means little. He was an extremely tall and large man. He wore mostly dark clothes that completely covered his body, including a mask over his face and a spiked hat with goggles on it. He also wore a buttoned jacket studded with small circles that has skull designs on its collars, pants with studded rings around them, and gloves with small spikes at the forearm. The jacket also has medium spikes coming off the shoulders. He also has a pair of large dark wings on his back resembling angel wings. Flames also appear to be emitting from the back of his head... While Queen was an extremely large and obese man with a somewhat female/male appearance. He wore vertically striped pants held up by suspenders. His left arm was cybernetic, at least below the elbow, and he had a long scar running along the right side of his upper chest. His bald head had a dark hair being gathered into a long braid, and he has a fu manchu mustache. He also had a tattoo running across the top of his head that formed an X shape, as well as a tattoo of the Beasts Pirates'' Jolly Roger and his name on his upper right arm. Ichigo thought both of them were just... emo, somehow. Everyone else near King quickly scrammed away from him, twitching their lips. Holding back their inner-guts-wrenching laugher, they all thought, ''Bastard! Are you trying to kill us without even moving?!'' "Don''t call me little Kingie, you bastard!" Losing his rationality, King the Disaster angrily dashed and punched towards him. *SWOOSH* "Now, now," Ichigo ''patiently'' scolded the ''little Kingie'', "Good things happen to those who wait. Ah, wait, not like anything good was going to happen to you in near future anyways." *BAM* *BAM* *Woosh* *Woosh* Swiftly using Armament Haki on his right hand, he punched both King and Queen away from the area they were in. They flew away in the direction of Onigashima. If he accurately calculated, they should be landing in front of Kaido, himself. He laughed at the thought of his face, "Hehe~." The remaining Beasts Pirates were agape and suddenly felt chills go down their spine when he creepily laughed. They sweatdropped, ''Sh*t! We need to run!'' "Hey, wait!" Ichigo suddenly shouted. They didn''t wait for him at all, ignoring him. Sighing, he could only let them go, after all "Oh, well. They''re bound to die if they stay in Wano Country, anyways. Time for Ringo next!" ? (Ringo of Wano Country) {Year: 17.7} ? "That was quick." Ichigo said as he finished conquering Ringo, where the Northern Cemetery were at. Due to Ringo having a winter climate and rumors that it may be haunted, only few corrupt officials and Beasts Pirates resided there. *Ding* [Established land ''Ringo'' as your own! Now setting up defense. Declined confirmation for offensive weaponries. Requesting if want to change climate?] "And of course, you''d have a way to change the climate." He chuckled at its system. Thinking for awhile, it''d be nice if they at least had a winter climate land so they could experience snow... "No, don''t change climate, keep it as is. But, if there''s any citizens in Ringo, take them to Kibi. I''m going to use Ringo as a battlefield soon..." [Yes.] He started to walk towards the Hakumai. Ichigo was thinking of his plans when Momonosuke came with his retainers. He often got somber and chuckled while thinking, it repeated for awhile. He then started to think of different plans of conquering Flower Capital due to his Sword Aura thing almost ending soon, in about 7 months. ''Hey system, is there a way to have a clone of me?'' He mentally asked as he didn''t want to risk anyone listening in. [Yes, there are several ways. But for the plan you were just thinking of, there is one for a half of a year usage, it should be long enough for your plan.] ''Good.'' He smiled, as he thought of the reaction of that Kaido and Orochi when they discovered it. Finally arriving at the border between Ringo and Hakumai, he started to focus on the conquest. ... In Onigashima of Wano Country, with Kaido... "Has the plan finalized?" Kaido asked of Queen of All Star. Usually, he''d ask King, but recently he had start to be useless related to the Solitary Pirate, Ryu. "And is Jack close by?" "Yes, Jack should be coming soon, he has been blocked away from Kuri''s sea barrier. So he is going around to Udon, and then go to Flower Capital." Queen replied, while having a smug smile that was very visible to King. "As for the plan, Orochi has agreed to it, so it has been finalized. We can prepare before the Solitary Pirate goes to the Flower Capital." "Very good..." Kaido the Beast Emperor got excited at the thought of Ryu falling for it. Even Kaido himself would fall for it if he wasn''t prepared for it. "Prepare the trap now!" "Yes, Boss!" Both of them shouted. ? (Hakumai of Wano Country) {Year: 17.8} ? *Ding* [Established land ''Hakumai'' as your own! Erected defenses, declined the offensive weaponries production. Close off the ''Hapu Port''?] "Close it off." Ichigo accepted. He didn''t want anymore Beasts Pirates to come now. He''d rather keep them on Onigashima, as he planned to. After another month, he conquered Hakumai. It was weirdly fast and smooth. He almost didn''t see any corrupt officials, actually, he didn''t see any of them. But he saw a lot of the Beasts Pirates going to the Flower Capital, as if taunting him to go there too. "Seems they planted a trap, huh?" "No matter, I''ll figure it out anyways." Ichigo nonchalantly stated. Suddenly he heard a weird voice coming. He decided to listen, eventually regretting it in the very near future. "Ahh~ The Lege~ndary Lone Bli~ind Swordsm~aaaan, I~Ichi~gooooo~! Taki~nngggg~ ove~r la~nds~! I''d~ I''d~ I''d~ woul~dn''t mi~iiind if he~ want~edddd~ to~ conquer~ meeeee~!" A f*cking male geisha appeared out of nowhere, Ichigo saw. "My name''s Tonoyasu, to everyone who''s listening!" Tonoyasu was a short man with a thick build. He had a bushy dark hair gathered into a topknot as well as a stubble on his face. He wore a light kimono with stitches on the arms and legs, a polka-dotted bonnet around his head, and a dark bag that he carried on his back. Overall, he was one f*cking creepy geisha. Ichigo got f*cking creeped out by him and swiftly ran away to Udon''s border in his fastest speed he''d ever ran in his two whole lives. *BOOM* A wind blast appeared when he ran, destroying everything in his path. Ichigo didn''t give a single flying f*ck about destroying the land, as long as he wasn''t near that f*cking male geisha, Tonoyasu. He knew that a geisha was to entertain people, but did that bastard have to use his false name and ''conquer him'' in the same damn sentence?! ''At least be a damn female! I wouldn''t care if you were fat and ugly, as long as you were a f*cking female!'' Ichigo cried, regretting not being able to erase his memories, he could but there''d be side effects to it. In short, why the f*ck was Tonoyasu in Hakumai instead of his damn hometown, Ebisu Town?! If Rayleigh or Shanks had been here, they''d die of laughing so hard that they bust their guts. Ichigo swore that he would never tell about this to anyone at all, not even his torturers! ... In Udon... *BOOM* *Swoosh* Finally stopping, he landed somewhere in Udon in a distance he considered safe from that male geisha. Then he shouted after he closed off his area so no one could hear him at all, "F*ck!" [I''m going to add him into ''Attracted Females'' list I made back then.] "NO!" He shouted horrified. "Don''t remind me of him again!" [...Okay.] It also agreed, because it also found itself creeped out. It had only intended to tease him, but it backfired, the system also remembered him too. Wishing to purge its memories of him, but couldn''t, made it feel as if the Heavens were punishing it. At least it wasn''t alone, it had its host sharing the punishment. Heaving a breath, he focused again. "Okay, okay. Let''s get back to the conquest..." ... Somewhere else in Udon... "What the f*ck?!" A man in prisoner''s outfit shouted angrily. He was looking at one of the building that had ceiling, but now it no longer had it. "Who the f*ck did this?!" He quickly assumed someone inside the Prisoner Mine did it, not realizing that it was Ichigo who had done it when he was running at a fast speed. ? (Udon of Wano Country) {Year: 17.9} ? *Ding* [Established land ''Udon'' as your own. Defenses erected, also added a different kind of defense for Prisoner Mine. Rejected offensive weaponries request.] "Hmm? A different kind of defense for prisoners?" Ichigo thought that the Prisoner Mine wouldn''t get a defense at all. "What is it?" [Prisoners'' Defense: Prisoners in the area will now experience nightmares of the crimes they have done, however they are the victims inside the nightmare. There are also safety for those who intended to inflict pain on fellow prisoners, the gravity will increase in the whole Prisoners area stopping them, all of the prisoners will lay flat on the ground. Any riot attempted will only cause them to receive diarrhea.] "...Damn." He said after trying to think of something to say. The prisoners will regret committing any crime now, small or big. "But what about those wrongfully imprisoned?" [I''ve taken the liberty of setting each prisoners in a room alone separately, after rebuilding the whole Prisoner Mine.] "You rebuilt the whole damn building?!" Ichigo shouted. "I gotta check it out after I finish my conquest. It''ll be a place for the criminals that the order captured." ... In the Flower Capital... There were a lot of people in the capital, as expected. But they were mostly composed of the Beasts Pirates and Orochi''s samurais. The citizens had already moved away, going into Hakumai. The Lone Blind Swordsman made it so that citizens could enter into the land, but they couldn''t go into Ringo or Udon, effectively keeping them there, at least until the battle was over. Back to Orochi. He stood before all three Disasters and All Stars. "Has the trap completed?" "Yeah." King said. "The moment he comes, Kaido will appear along with us and you. Be prepared for any unexpected, pathetic shogun." Orochi was already used to their disdain. "Alright." "S-sir! The Solitary Pirate''s coming!" A spy reported weakly. 15 C15: Years of Time Skip |Part 10| ? (Near the Flower Capital, on Udon''s border of Wano Country) {Year: 17.9} ? The young handsome man walked to the Flower Capital''s circular wall. He still wore clean light blue kimono with a similar cloth hiding his eyes, with a katana attached right side of the white belt around his hip. The kimono and cloth covering his eyes only helped to increase his devilish charm, revealing his upper of sculpted chest. Ichigo nonchalantly ''looked'' at the entrance of the Flower Capital, as if he was just there for a tour. He ignored the Beasts Pirates and Orochi''s corrupt samurais standing guard. They didn''t get in his way at all, instead they stood in a way where there was only a path for him to go through. Ichigo, being a ''kind'' man, followed the path. The people around them twitched their mouths, it was as if he really was here for a tour... Suddenly! *CHHH* His Sword Aura burst out heavily, causing those around them to wet themselves. Taking back his Sword Aura, Ichigo scrunched his nose. "Ugh, I didn''t know that the Flower Capital had such awful smell, no wonder only dirty people are in here..." Veins popped up on their heads. ''Bastard! You''re the one who f*cking scared us into wetting ourselves!'' As much as they would like to angrily shout at him, they couldn''t because of the consequences. They could only glare angrily at him. Ichigo took that in as if they were nothing, making more veins to pop up. Deciding to stop playing with them, he started to continue walking the path. ... After a very slow walk to the end of the path... "Oh, is this the end?" He said as there wasn''t any other path other than back. The people behind him were tired and pissed off. Ichigo had walked so slow that they had to stand longer than expected, he didn''t even start attacking, and yet they were already tired. ''F*ck! At least he''ll be weakened now!'' "Hey~!" He lazily yelled, waiting for something or someone to appear. He already knew what their plan was now, he had used his Observation Haki while slowly walking. It took him some time to understand what the f*ck those chains were. They had the potential to weaken him, he agreed. But he still didn''t understand how it was possible, or what kind of material it was. *Rumble* A rumble was felt as Ichigo watched around him. The buildings around him had moved away from him, creating a spacious arena. After that, there was now a second circular wall, outlining the spacious arena. *Woosh* *RUMBLE* A booming voice came as a huge eastern dragon appeared from the sky. "Haha, you willingly came in without making things difficult for us, Ichigo! Or should I say, Ryu!" ''Can this f*cking villain get anymore cliche?'' Ichigo(Ryu) thought, snickering. "Yeah, why not? You all had worked so hard on making a trap for me. I can''t just up and ruin it in one move, could I?" Twitching his right eye, Kaido commanded his Disasters and Orochi to appear. "Disasters, come! Orochi, start the plan!" *Boom* *Boom* *Boom* All of the three Disasters appeared from the sky, looking menacing. Well, at least to others, not Ichigo. King and Queen looked the same as before. Jack was a man of massive stature, however, while still being immensely muscular, Jack''s limbs were small when compared to his enormous torso. He wore a metallic jaw mask and has a pair of horns on each side of his head. His blond hair is worn in a ponytail and a pair of long braids. He wears a dark, sleeveless, feathery coat similar to Kaido with spiked pauldrons on his shoulders, circled by a belt bearing his crew''s Jolly Roger. Ichigo just casually brushed off their cool appearance. "Hey, little Kingie! Skinny boy! And whoever that little stupid blondie is, maybe your illegitimate child?!" "...Bastard!" Both King and Jack shouted angrily at him as they started to morph with their devil fruits. Queen just stood away with Orochi, preparing for something. King changed into a full black pteranodon, and started to fly in the mid aid, while Jack changed into a huge mammoth. His metallic jaw mask somehow disappeared... Ichigo thought that this was related to logics of the world, chuckling to himself. "Now, hold on!" Ichigo shouted, as he brought up his 75% full Sword Aura out. The world seemed to go colorless, black and white around him. Anyone in his vicinity felt like they would die if they moved a single bit, not daring to breathe. Ichigo controlled his Sword Aura so that only those in Wano would feel it, not the whole world. Kaido was shocked at this! He, a eastern dragon, was fearful of Ichigo! They immediately expected that their trap wouldn''t work. (AN: No shit, Sherlock.) "I came here to willingly be trapped by you all, so no need to attack me, yeah?" Ichigo''s voice came out as a chilling sharp voice, as they all felt like they were being stabbed by his voice itself. But they got confused, was he saying he''ll let them use the trap? Seeing their confusion, Ichigo continued. "Yes, I''m here to willingly take your trap. Go ahead and use the chains." Taking back his Sword Aura, he made his durable katana to rust away, disappearing into air as dust. He then stood still, with his arms like a T. Ichigo stood like that for awhile, no one else moved either. They were doubting him, why would he just surrender himself? He must have a plan, they thought. Starting to be impatient, he shouted. "Are you guys going to f*cking do it or not?!" Taking that as a challenge, Kaido boomingly commanded Queen and Orochi. "Do it!" "Yes!" They started to bring the unknown golden chains, but they were also wearing a different kind of gloves as they held it. They then started to put force into the chain as they aimed the chain''s sharp ends to Ichigo''s body. *PUU* Ichigo really didn''t move as it went into his right shoulder. Blood didn''t come out of it strangely. He felt like his strength was being sealed as his body was fighting it. Kaido seeing that it looked like it worked and he really didn''t move, started to laugh crazily in his eastern dragon form. "Haha! Looks like it works! Continue!" Orochi then started next, he aimed for his left shoulder. It went in, Ichigo didn''t move at all! He just simply stood there, taking it. Queen and Orochi continued took turns aiming, making sure they completely rendered him immobile. *PUU* *PUU* *PUU* *PUU*... ... After that day... "Hey, have you heard rumors of what happened to the Lone Blind Swordsman?" A man said to people in the restaurant he was eating in. He was the very same man who had eaten with Ichigo, at the same restaurant. "It seemed that he surrendered himself there for some reason..." "What?!", "No way!", "Why would he surrender after conquering all lands but the Flower Capital and Onigashima?!", "Where did you get this rumor from?" Commotions were heard in the restaurant. They couldn''t believe that at all, why would he surrender? They started to be angry at the man who said it. The man receiving those angry glares didn''t falter at all as he continued. "I heard this from a reliable source, who had saw Ichigo himself going into the Flower Capital. Didn''t you all feel a burst of immense power from there a week ago? That was him! But after he released such power, his katana dusted away and then he just stood there with his arms out. He looked like he was willing to surrender, as if he planned this." He told the others in the restaurant, as more people started to gather there to listen to his story. They for one, knew who the man was, he was reliable for information gathering, but they couldn''t believe that the conqueror just willingly surrendered. Wanting to know more, someone told him to continue. "And?" "Kaido the Beast Emperor ordered Queen the Plague and Orochi the Shogun to shoot out some kind of large gold chains that seemed to glow gold too at him. Guess what happened? The Lone Blind Swordsman just stood there, taking it! When they realized he was serious about surrendering, they started to ridicule him as the Shogun and the Plague kept shooting the chains towards his body!" "No way...", "H-he just took them?", "What happened next?!" The people started to tear up. Their savior had willingly took the golden chains for some reason! They couldn''t understand why, so they could only draw up assumptions of their own. Weak-willed people had already cried hearing him. "Yes... He just took them, standing in the same spot. He now had chains in his hands, shoulders, legs, feet, arms! After the eighth chain, the blood didn''t come out of his body at all, as if the chain had made it so! But when the ninth chain struck him into the center of his torso... he finally splurt out blood out of his mouth! He then went down, on his knees in front of Kaido the Beast Emperor. Ichigo didn''t look angry, he just looked tranquil as he stared back at Kaido!" The man looked around as he spoke. The people had quietened down, listening carefully and tearing up. He himself teared up too when he found out, but he didn''t want to embarrass himself in front of the others as the person who told them. "After they finished chaining him, Ichigo just did nothing the whole time. He just kept staying on his knees as b-blood kept fl-flowing out of h-his mo-mouth only..." The man finally choked up as he had tears rimming his eyes. He swiftly looked up, not wanting them to see. Unfortunately for him, the people listening had paid attention carefully that they had already noticed it. Clearing his throat, he continued. "H-he was left there as Kaido and Orochi wanted him to stay there and use him for themselves... Then! That bastard King started to torture him as if it wasn''t enough that chains had already harmed him!" He shouted angrily at the end, boiling the audience''s blood. "King kept torturing Ichigo as he enjoyed it! Ichigo just stayed motionlessly, taking it! I don''t know why Ichigo didn''t resist at all, but it boiled me so hard that I got angered at King the bastard!" "Damn it!", "So cruel...", "Why didn''t he resist at all?!", "Damn! I feel so weak than before now!" Everyone had similar emotions as each others as they voiced out their thoughts. They wished they had some power to save him, and yet, miracle wouldn''t just suddenly happen. "Apparently Orochi and Kaido has been trying to make Ichigo turn over to their sides... There was also a rumor that Ichigo was being made mindless, forced to follow their every orders." The man calmed himself as he continued telling more of informations. "But... I myself think that Ichigo has planned something huge, for himself to willingly surrender to those bastards..." The large audience started to voice out their assumptions to each others. The group were united in this moment, discussing. ... A certain young lady... *Sob* Sobbing sounds were heard from inside the young lady''s room. The maid were also tearing up, but she forced herself to stay strong for her young miss, trying to ease their emotions. "Why?!" The young miss hoarsely shouted as she cried. "Why Ichigo?! Why did you willingly surrender yourself!" She had received accurate reports about him, from a very reliable source. She knew those were true, because the past reports about Ichigo she had received, were all accurate. "Y-young miss, he might had planned something huge..." The maid sputtered out a thought just to try ease her. Unfortunately... "Then why did he have to sacrifice himself?!" She angrily roared at her maid. The maid cowered before her, she had never seen her young miss like this! It seemed that she really fell in love with him. Realizing what she just did, she just turned. "G-go away, leave me alone." Sighing, the maid obeyed. Bowing, she left the room. "Yes..." "Wait," The young miss stopped the maid when she was about to close the door. "If any more reports comes, immediately bring them and.. sorry for my outburst." "Yes." The maid didn''t mind it, as she fully closed the door-slide. "It''s alright. after all, we''re childhood friends right, Rin?" ? (Wano Country) {Year: 17.11} ? Near the Kuri''s Border Defenses... "Damn!" A Beasts Pirate shouted as he kept punching the indestructible barrier. The Beasts Pirates kept trying to break into the border barrier, but they couldn''t break it a single bit. When they remembered that Hakumai had letted the citizens going there in, they also tried to enter, but they couldn''t. The Beast Emperor and the Shogun now realized they had been effectively trapped in the Flower Capital! Ichigo had lured them into one spot and they fell for it. They could fly, but they still couldn''t get into any land that Ichigo had conquered, except Ringo, for some reason. They now only could either stay in the Flower Capital and Onigashima or leave the Wano Country. They had tried to force Ichigo into releasing the barrier, but he didn''t respond at all. He just stayed quiet, ignoring them. The residents in Wano, who kept a watch out for more information, started to respect him heavily, he refused to let the citizens be harmed at all, taking the torture! Kaido, Orochi, King, Queen, Jack, anyone who had personally experienced his stubbornness for keeping the citizens safe, had even already started to respecting him. Which is precisely why Kaido the Yonko had wanted Ichigo to join him, he would be a valuable asset for his crew. Such loyalty and toughness made anyone wish that he was on their side. They also found out Ichigo refused the citizens to leave the barrier out of their free will too! He had made the border barriers prevent anyone from leaving. It seemed that he had expected that people would try to save him, so he changed it. The respect seemed to keep increasing as they started to realize his goal bit by bit. Unfortunately for them... Ichigo just simply didn''t want any annoying pests to ruin his plan. They''d regret the tears they had shed for him if they find out about his plan. ... In the Flower Capital of Wano... A disheveled bloodied man kneeled on the floor that had his dried blood on it. He had golden chains in his body. Two in hands, two in feets, two in both shoulders, two wrapped around each arms and legs, and one in the center of his torso. 13 golden chains in total. They seemed to be weakening him in overall, as his body was full of cuts. It wasn''t easy cutting his skin, it was like cutting a iron skin to them. After countless tries, they finally became able to cut him with cursed swords. The Beasts Pirates had kept torturing him, more specifically King took a lot of pleasure into torturing. King had been ridiculed by Ichigo a lot, and here he was! Being tortured by him, King! But even he started to respect him for having such iron will. The samurais and Orochi at start at enjoyed watching Ichigo be tortured, but as time went on, they started to respect him. They started to feel like they did something wrong, so they left, not wanting to see him at all otherwise they might change to righteous. Ichigo had a huge effect on them, showing such iron will, stubbornness, and not showing any signs of breaking down! "Hm." King said as he walked in the Beasts Pirates torturing Ichigo currently. "Enough! You fools can''t even properly do it!" Backing off, the torturers heaved a sigh. They had been awake, torturing Ichigo for almost a week never sleeping. They all had their fair share of torturing people, but they never met someone like Ichigo. He even willingly surrendered himself. ? (Flower Capital of Wano Country) {Year: 18.2} ? ''It''s coming!'' As a glint appeared in Ichigo''s bright green eyes, he moved for the first time ever since he surrendered himself. He turned his head to the direction of Ringo. There he saw a huge thundercloud hovering there as the center. The pitch black cloud seemed to cover the whole Wano Country with Ringo as the center. Golden thunders manifested as crackles were heard. *RUMBLE* *CRACKLE* Ichigo seeing that, he finally understood why the Sword Aura had appeared back then! His Sword Intent was preparing him for the tribulation of next realm of the Sword Intent! If the Sword Aura hadn''t appeared, he wouldn''t have been able to take those thunders. But now? He could easily dominate it! He had successfully took over all of his Sword Aura, even the remaining 25% abstruse energy (Desolate), making him more stronger than ever. *CRACKLE* A golden thunderbolt came striking down the Ringo! *BOOM!* Ichigo started to laugh crazily much to the fear of those around him. "HAHAHAHA! IT''S STARTING!" 16 C16: Years of Time Skip |Part 11| i dunno why, but i feel like this particular chapter had me feeling like its bad xd ### ? (Ringo of Wano Country) {Year: 18.2} ? A huge pitch black thundercloud appeared above Ringo of Wano Country. It implemented fear to anyone looking at it! However, those with strong will would dare to take it on, defying the Heavens. A gold thunder started to manifest, looking closely, one could see golden runes on them. It seemed to be centered on a young handsome man in Ringo, putting a huge pressure upon him. However, the handsome man took it on as if it were nothing, as if angered, the heavenly tribulation increased the pressure into a massive one! Unfortunately, it was for naught as the man still stood, smiling roguishly towards it. How could he not smile? The massive pressure were helping him refine his body, taking advantage of the heavenly tribulation! *RUMBLE* *CRACKLE* *Ding* [WARNING!!! - The Heaven''s Law has spotted your Sword Intent''s attempt of ascending to next realm! It couldn''t have that happening as it would be immensely powerful, so it decided to put a stop to it by sending a powerful heavenly tribulation. Your system, me, is not capable of assisting you of overcoming the heavenly tribulation. Please be careful!] *CRACKLE* "I see!" The young handsome man finally understood why the Sword Aura appeared back then. It had been his Sword Intent''s way of warning and preparation for him of the next realm of Sword Intent! "Haha! If the Sword Aura hadn''t appeared, I would''ve suffered harshly from this tribulation! With my Sword Intent as it is, I could easily take advantage of it!" *RUMBLE* "Luckily I decided to move to Ringo just in case anything happened when the duration ended!" If there were anyone else in Ringo, they would''ve been squashed as if they were mere flies. Ryu was glad he told his system to move the citizens away from Ringo. "Alright, now let''s use the heavenly tribulation to refine my body even more!" *CRACKLE* [...] The system just couldn''t believe he was casually waving it off as if it was nothing. Ryu didn''t know that the heavenly tribulation could destroy those of Mid-Gods! Then, the system realized that the heavenly tribulation should''ve appeared 2.5 years ago, but his Sword Intent had delayed it! *RUMBLE* Ryu''s Sword Intent was of a rare type, it had its own will from the beginning, growing together with Ryu from the beginning. Counting from the Sword Intent''s birth, it was at least 12 years old. *CRACKLE* The Sword Intent had successfully delayed the heavenly tribulation by changing its power into a new type of power, which created the Sword Aura. Ryu''s Sword Intent had created a new type of power by itself without any help. Due to it being a new type, Ryu had to practice from the start all over again. The Heaven''s Law had thought the Sword Intent suddenly became weak and uncontrollable that it would destroy itself, so the Heaven''s Law ignored it. *SHIII* A gold thunderbolt came striking down towards where Ryu was at! As soon the thunder neared him, suddenly! *CHHHH* The Sword Aura appeared by itself, taking a huge portion of the thunderbolt, as if it knew that Ryu''s body wouldn''t be able to take a Mid-God Destroying thunderbolt. The system had to applaud its host for having such a smart and thoughtful Sword Intent. Finally, Ryu took on the weakened thunderbolt with only his body. *BOOM* *PUU* Ryu was shocked as he became bloodied, splurting out blood! He didn''t expect the gold thunderbolt to be so strong that his body very nearly went dust. He fell down on his knees, as he looked at his body. He looked so burnt, his skin seemed to be melting off, revealing his insides. It was agonizingly painful, he noted as he gritted his teeth. He had to stay conscious otherwise he''ll die refining his body! *CRACKLE* A second gold thunderbolt started to manifest. It looked even stronger than before, Ryu was now panicking. But then... *CHHH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* Hundreds of swords started to manifest by itself, encircling Ryu as if protectively. Ryu started to understand that his Sword Intent had intended to deal with the rest. He started to grit even harsher, not wanting to be outdone by his Sword Intent! He then screamed for the world to hear as he stood back up. "HEAVENS! I, RYU, WON''T FALL DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!" As if hearing his declaration, the heavenly tribulation shockingly changed to blood red! The gold thunder changed to pitch black, glowing red, as if it was sent from the devil himself. *RUMBLE~* Tens, hundreds of pitch black thunders started to appear in the blood red cloud. If other gods were taking that, they would''ve paled instantly and wet themselves. Never had they ever saw such fearful tribulation in their life! Ryu, though, only just stood still and looked upwards as if waiting for all of them to come down. His Sword Intent seemed to be waiting along him too, creating more swords to take on the heavenly tribulation. *RUMBLE* At last! *BOOOOOOM~!* A deafening sound came as the whole hundreds of pitch black thunderbolts came striking down on Ryu at the same time! Ryu looked up screaming angrily as it neared him, he suddenly widened his eyes larger, unleashing a huge power! The swords started to swiftly move together above Ryu, layer by layer. *CLANG~* White came next. ... After that fearful day... A kneeling bloodied man kept scrunching his face. He had expected his original to come and start the next step of plan. But he hadn''t come for awhile, a week in fact. ''Did something happen?'' ''He definitely didn''t die, otherwise I would''ve wither away.'' He thought. Starting to get worried, he visibly showed it on his face. "Oh? You look worried," a huge man said as he walked in. He was Kaido of the Beast. Ichigo immediately went back to stoic. He stopped being tranquil after such powerful clash, it even affected him. "Hehe, I heard that you had crazily laughed shouting it''s started. But what exactly happened?" Kaido once again tried getting information out of him. He was scared of such amazing power he felt from Ringo. Kaido had went to Ringo when it was over, but all he could see was molten lava there. Ringo had became reformed, no longer cold anymore. But he felt like there was a very strong predator was asleep in there, he immediately left then. Seeing Ichigo still not talking, he sighed. "Well, I can tell you that a strong predator is asleep in Ringo now. Like it suddenly appeared there when the blood red cloud dispersed." Ichigo''s eyes started to brighten, as he thought. ''So he was asleep! He must''ve overdone it. But, predator? What is he, a beast now?'' "Anyways, I''m going to spread word you''re being executed in the next month." Kaido informed his prisoner. "Do you still refuse to join me? We could take over the world!" Finally talking, Ichigo spat at him. "You won''t get me to change my mind. Just execute me, kill me off. The barrier still won''t disappear!" "Haha!" Ichigo started to laugh, thinking that Ryu will awaken and come on the day he was to be executed. "I will disappear soon, anyways." "Hmm?" Kaido was confused at that, what does he mean he''ll disappear anyways? But seeing Ichigo not talking anymore, he decided to leave it be and commanded the people to spread word about the execution. ... Later that same month, somewhere in Ringo... A shell-cased of swords started to crumple away into dusts, as if they were real swords not of will. Inside was a naked young handsome man. He looked even more handsomer than before somehow. Opening his eyes, he started to look around as he stood up and stretched, not caring he was naked for the world to see. ''System, how long have I been unconscious? Oh and give me clothes.'' Ryu asked its system. [You have been unconscious for 21 days. Your clone, Ichigo, is near the Kibi''s border. It seems he is to be executed in front of the residents living behind the borders in Kibi, in the next month.] The people who wanted to save Ichigo but couldn''t had built a town behind the border barrier that was blocking them. "Ah, so they finally decided to do the execution. That took awhile." Ryu said as he wore the clothes his system gave. "Well, it''s time to move onto the next step." *Woosh...* Taking a step, he disappeared into the air. ? (Near Kibi''s borders in Flower Capital of Wano) {Year: 18.3} ? Ichigo kneeled in front of the residents from the other side of the border barrier. He could see them as they can see him. Ichigo had his hair messed, dried bloods with torture marks were all over his body, and he only wore a pant, revealing everything upper other than his lower. Ichigo closed his eyes, as to continue their assumptions of being blind. Golden chains were connected in him too. Kaido had intended to remove them but they for some reason couldn''t, it was stuck inside his body. The residents on the other side were angered at such sight. They wanted to save him, but could they even fight such powerful organizations? Rin in particular cried heavily when she saw Ichigo. She called for his name, only for Ichigo to render motionless. Righteous samurais had started to attack the very border barrier that were ''protecting'' them, wanting to do nothing but wage war with the enemy and save Ichigo. ... Above the execution place... A handsome man stood in the air. Ryu became shocked as he looked at his clone, he looked so... pitiful. Ryu started to get somber, he had told the clone to play his part... Ryu never expected for him to actually be so weakened that the body would get cut easily. "I have to do it today." ... Ichigo ''looked'' up and saw Ryu, though no one else could. Ichigo then smiled. The others saw his smile as if he was glad to die. Orochi the Shogun started to talk. "The Lone Blind Swordsman, Ichigo, will be executed here and today. However, there is something you all should know... Ichigo is not who he says he is!" The audience of other side got confused at that. "Ichigo, no, Ryu. He is the Solitary Pirate, Ryu!He is an outsider, not of Wano Country!" Orochi announced, expecting a outrage of a outsider. He didn''t get anything but hateful glares toward himself, so he could only ignore it sweating and continue. "The outsider had decided to take over the Wano Country for his terrority! Such action was befitting an pir-" *CHHH* - A sudden barrier of swords appeared around the Beasts Pirates, including Kaido of the Beasts who had been there in respect of Ichigo. He was shocked as he got encircled with his crew. Then a icy voice that seemed to literally talk swords came inside the barrier, not a single sound coming out of it. "Kaido, stay inside or die." It said. Kaido was angered that someone dared to say that to him, so he tried to break the barrier. "Bastard, you dare to talk like that to me?!" *BAM* *Swiiish* *Plop* Kaido looked at his left hand that was on the floor. His hand had been easily cut off! The people around him especially the three Disasters, King, Queen, and Jack were shocked at that. They refrained from touching the swords, not wanting to suffer it. Kaido tried regenerating his hand, but something was stopping it, like when a regenerated cell appeared, it would disappear after. His left arm was doomed to be without a hand, unless he cut his arm entirely and regenerate it. He refused to do that now, it would take a lot of energy to do so. - Outside of the sword barrier, Ryu appeared before Ichigo. Ichigo ''looked'' at him, smiling. Ryu start to talk. "I''m sorry." "No, I''m feeling alright. Actually, I never felt anything at all. I had already cut off my nerve system." Ichigo replied to his original. "Besides, I''m you. You''ll experience what I have. So, I should be the one apologizing." Orochi could only stand frozen, he felt his danger sense screaming at him not to move or he''ll die. The residents on other side stood shocked, they thought Ichigo would finally be rescued, but the person looked the same as Ichigo without any blemish! Ichigo then opened his eyes, showing bright green eyes like his original. The Lone Blind Swordsman wasn''t blind at all, the residents saw. Ichigo began to shine brightly. "Finally... Wano Country will now have a different and better future." He then disappeared along with the gold chains into Ryu''s body, merging them. The residents were shocked and agape at that sight. Were they split into two? Who were the real Ichigo? They got confused now. "Yes..." Ryu agreed slowly, as he finished merging. He started to experience everything the clone had experienced. He trembled slightly. His Conqueror''s Haki started to leak out a bit, but it was enough for the people closest around him to faint. Most of them were the samurais that worked for Orochi. Surprisingly, Orochi stayed conscicous, staring at Ryu fearfully. Ryu turned into his cold demeanor. It was so unlike before, he looked like he could freeze you with a glance. "I see... so you all tortured me..." "N-n-no! It was the Beasts Pirates that tortured you!" Orochi stuttered out quickly out of fear. "I know." Ryu replied as he aimed towards the Shogun. "I was still going to kill you, the current Shogun." "No!" Orochi quickly transformed into an eight-headed serpent. Only one head had his eyes and crown, while the others have more generic looks by comparison. In this form, he had the ability to attack in multiple directions with his strong jaws. Unfortunately, it was still useless before the true monster in front of him. Making a horizontal line with his index finger, Ryu cut all of his heads off. *Swiish* *Thud* "Weak." He said. Next, he turned to look at the sword barrier with Beasts Pirates inside. Releasing a bit of pressure so that they wouldn''t move much, he dispersed the sword barrier. "Decide, Onigashima or leave Wano Country alive." The Yonko, Kaido, glared hatefully at the Solitary Pirate, Ryu. He was not about to leave without a fight! Transforming into a huge eastern dragon, the dark clouds started to appear above where they were. Luckily, the barrier were protecting the citizens on the other side, so they watched the battle. "Solitary Pirate, Ryu! I, the Strongest Creature of the World, won''t go down so easily!" Kaido shouted as he started to inhale afterward. He then exhaled a heat breath towards Ryu. *ROAR* Putting his hand, front to the heat breath, Ryu muttered. "Annoying." The heat breath disappeared after he muttered. Kaido went agape, along with the other people. Ryu just decided to move the Beasts Pirates with Kaido to Onigashima for the real Shogun to deal with if they still stayed there. Ryu would protect the Wano Country with the barrier, till then he''ll wait for the real Shogun. "I''ll just move you all to Onigashima." He coldly informed the Beasts Pirates. Kaido looked like he was about to go against that, but he disappeared along with his crew. The citizens'' jaws went wider, after all they just watched them disappear. Ryu turned to look at them. The citizens felt like glacier came, as he still wore cold demeanor. He looked around, and saw Rin there. He smiled slightly at her, causing her to blush a bit, but she smiled back too, glad he was safe. Ryu then decided to announce in a voice where the whole Wano Country would hear. "I, Ryu, now declare the Wano Country to be under my protection! I also will take over as the Shogun, however, it won''t be official! I will be only simply be holding it for a certain person I''m waiting for!" All of people in Wano Country heard that, they had mixed feelings about that declaration. They all were happy that Orochi were overthrown, but they were worried about Ryu, what if he would be a brutal tyrant and what about that ''real Shogun''? ... "Damn! Damn!" Kaido shouted as he destroyed and killed around him on Onigashima. He now couldn''t get into Wano, that wasn''t Onigashima. "...I swear I won''t forget this, Solitary Pirate!" ... *Ding* [Conquered the Flower Capital. Discovered rare items, stored them into the storage. Defense now merged together, however the border defenses will still stand. Congratulations, Ryu, you have partially conquered Wano Country, with the exception of Onigashima.] [Received a message from God of Systems!] [Open?] 17 C17: Years of Time Skip |Part 12| ? (Wano Country) {Year: 18.3} ? [Received a message from God of Systems!] [Open?] ''Huh, wonder what it could be about.'' Ryu thought. Maybe it was about the tribulation he had overcame? ''Open.'' *Ding* [MESSAGE FROM GOD OF SYSTEMS: Congratulations on overcoming the mutated heavenly tribulation. I''ve never seen such tribulation, however there are records of it in the past. No matter, I can''t talk about it when you haven''t ascended to godhood. I had never expected for a experiment to deal me such trouble with other gods when they felt the mutated heavenly tribulation. As of now, you''re the strongest person in the world, so you may choose to either go to another world or stay there and enjoy peacefully. Anyways, be careful and enjoy.] ''...'' Ryu didn''t know what to feel now. He had become too strong that the world would want to eject him. ''Does this mean I''m currently the real strongest man in the world?'' Sighing, he decided to stop getting any more stronger. ''Let''s just focus on enjoying, anyways.'' Turning, he looked from the window. The Flower Capital looked bustling as usual, as if the overthrow never happened. Wano Country had become better than before. It had cleansed air, easier growing food, farms, a stronger prison, better order, and most importantly, better unification of the community. *Knock Knock* Someone knocked his doorslide, Ryu turned towards it and knew who it was. Sighing in exasperation, he invited her to come in. "Come in, Rin." Rin had been coming to him once a day, ever since Ryu told her about his plans of leaving Wano Country. She also worked as a official, helping in politics. Rin had been trying to persuade Ryu into staying here. She knew that Ryu had looked at her as a sister, but that didn''t discourage her. Like this, she kept going to Ryu. (AN: yes persaude. ''persaude'' with her bodi11!! jus kidding, me n my dirty mind teehee~) ... Later in Mariejois, "The Solitary Pirate was still at Wano Country the whole damn time!" The youngest looking of the Five Elders, he had blond hair, a beard of the same color, and has a scar on his chest. He also worr his suit with the shirt buttons open, and without a tie. "For some reason, we hadn''t received any information about Wano Country, except that it suddenly had defenses." "Yes, it may be because of Ryu." The bald man with large birthmark spots on his forehead and has a large white mustache assumed. "It must be, I felt a restrained sword intent usage over there." The oldest looking man agreed. He was bald, with glasses and a white gi. He also held a samurai sword with him. He is the only one of the five to not wear a black suit or tie, and the only one without facial hair. Sighing, the tall and thin bearded man with long white hair mentioned. "We need to once again increase his bounty after his declaration." "Right, his declaration..." The samurai remembered. "The Wano Country is now under his protection, huh?" "According the information we gathered, Kaido and his crew has been left on Onigashima of Wano. But we couldn''t gather any information from the other lands, as the defenses blocked out the spies..." The gray dreadlocks man prompted. The man had scar on the left side of his face, a hat over gray dreadlocks, and wields a walking cane. "From what the spies gather from the Beasts Pirates, it seemed that several huge events happened inside Wano Country that the whole world was kept away from." The samurai added, he couldn''t believe that such many huge events happened without their knowledge. They had hidden spies inside the Wano Country, but they suddenly had no connection to their side. Must''ve been the work of the Solitary Pirate, he thought. "Then," the tall and thin man suspiciously asked, "the huge blood red thundercloud must''ve been because of him?" "Yes, apparently it was the tribulation signaling the end of the legendary trial." The samurai hesitantly said. "But according to the stories we heard, it was supposed to be black, and smaller than that huge one." "Does this mean Ryu has become too strong if he passed it?" The youngest blond man asked too. "Yes, the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, has overcome the heavenly tribulation... He has become too strong for the world to handle, but it looks like he will stop getting stronger as he wants to enjoy the life." The hollow voice came. The five Gorosei greeted him as usual whenever he spoke. However, they never understood how IM knew such information... "Increase his bounty to B1.5 and do not make him a Yonko, as he does not want it." IM ordered them before silence came. ... |WANTED| [Picture of Ryu (*18-years-old, young man, shoulder-length ruffled black hair, chiseled handsome face, bright green eyes that seemed to glow, wearing light blue-snowflakes kimono with a katana on his right side. His kimono revealed his sculpted chest a bit. They received the picture of him from the Beasts Pirates.*)] [Solitary Pirate, Ryu] [DEAD ONLY] [B1,500,000,000] ? (Wano Country) {Year: 18.5} ? In the end, Ryu decided to spend his time with Rin during his stay. Rin was glad, but still sad as she knew he would still leave. Both of them were now traveling the Wano Country on feet, side by side. Ryu looked like he was thinking about something as Rin watched him scrunch his face a couple time. "What are you thinking about?" Finally deciding to ask him, she started. Stopping, Ryu turned to look at her and told her. "I was thinking about the future Shogun." He didn''t mind telling her about the future a bit. "He should be coming in 5-6 years later." "You already know who will get the Shogun position to lead Wano Country?" Surprised, she asked. "Is he any good?" "W-well, not yet. He''ll be 8 at the time..." He had forgot about his age, increasing the time needed for him. "Ugh, I''ll still be leaving the Wano in 2 years, anyways." Rin became down, she knew he was going to leave in two years, and she wanted to go with him. But she couldn''t, Ryu didn''t accept either. He didn''t accept because he would be traveling about everywhere once again, bringing trouble. Rin was a young eldest miss of a high-class family in Wano, so she didn''t know how to fight and only knew politics. She had been helping him handle politics, with the officials. Ryu was in name, the Shogun, not actually doing the job. He was only protecting the Wano Country. He blocked out any outsiders from Wano, deciding that the job to open its gate to the world should be done by Kozuki Family. Speaking of the Kozuki Family, Ryu had made a new personal graveyard for them at the Kozuki Castle. The graves were now looking better and safe. He kept the rest, who weren''t dead, still there as to keep them thinking so. There were still a lot of supporters of the Kozuki, and they had believed in Toki, who said they would come back in 20 years back then. At first, they thought Ichigo was one of the supporters, but as time went on, he was too strong to be a mere supporter so they decided he was an outsider who wanted to help. Now that Wano Country was free of the Beasts Pirates and Kurozumi Orochi, they didn''t have to hide anymore and had already set up a building for the retainers of Kozuki. Surprisingly, Kozuki Hiyori was actually alive the whole time in hiding! She was now 20 years old beautiful young woman. Momonosuke would die of embarrassment if he found that she was taller, older, and bigger than her own big brother, Ryu chuckled. Orochi had destroyed Kozuki Family''s reputation, so the community weren''t easily swayed by them at first. The Kozuki''s retainers and Kozuki Hiyori had tried asking Ryu for help, but he refused to help. Saying that they had to work for it, not by using someone else''s help. It would solidify their reputation if they gathered them. Learning that as a lesson, they decided to work hard into building a new reputation again. Their hard work wasn''t for naught, as they began to garner good reputation. There was one particular trouble Ryu enjoyed, that was Shutenmaru, the man who stole for himself. Shutenmaru had tried stealing from Ryu... only to find nothing but his kimono to steal! Ryu laughed at Shutenmaru''s attempts trying to find something important of his. After countless tries, he gave up and found a different target, Rin! Ryu didn''t take that easily, he nearly beat Shutenmaru to the death. Scared of Ryu now, he no longer wanted to steal from someone close to him. There were also events where Ryu just casually walked around the Wano Country, buying from shops and eating in restaurants, as if he was a tourist. People around twitched their mouths, he was the Shogun in name and yet he''s being a tourist. But they at least got to meet him. Ryu didn''t actually need to protect Wano Country, as he had the defenses do its job. ... Standing on Mt. Fuji, he looked at the sight in front. It was, in one word, beautiful. He could see the Flower Capital, new towns/farms built around it, and people happily doing their jobs. Rin stood by his side, hugging his left arm. She and Ryu traveled around the Wano Country, without any transportation except walking. Both of them had gotten close enough for casual physical contact. The officials now could handle themselves without a Shogun but they still needed a leader who would decide matters final, so they temporarily voted for someone until the real Shogun came back. Ryu had told them that the future Shogun would come in about 5-6 years later, they trusted him so they accepted that. He also told them that they would need to help educate the real Shogun on new matters as well, they accepted not thinking it would be difficult. They''d regret thinking so in the future, it was a f*cking child! They had expected a menacing bastard who could lead for the good! Ryu chuckled thinking of their reactions when they find out. He also had started to let information about outside Wano Country to be spread out in Wano, letting them learn more and about devil fruits they considered as magic. At his side, Rin was having her thoughts. She thought of secretly going with him, but Ryu would easily find her out. She thought of forcing an marriage with him, but Ryu wouldn''t like a forced marriage. Sighing, she decided that it wasn''t time for both of them. Rin knew that Ryu would have other women falling for him, so she had intended to be the first woman. Unfortunately, Ryu didn''t want any wives now. (AN: srsly tho, wat should i do wit those relationships?!) ? (Flower Capital of Wano Country) {Year: 18.7} ? A gathering of important people was being hosted in the Flower Capital. Only important people were invited, not permitting even the guards. The heads of important families that were considered for management of particular lands were invited. The gathering were for the officials and heads of important families to discuss about the land management and new system prioritizing the wellbeing of residents in Wano Country. The officials, including Rin, were already in the private room, awaiting for the rest. There was delicious food on each tables there, geishas performing for them, all while waiting.The head of families started to come in, each alone, some with their future heads of their family, they were permitted as they would take over their families respectively, so they''d know the information eventually anyways. There was a slight commotions when Kyoshiro brought Komurasaki. Several objected to her being here because they knew of her manipulations. But the rest just ignored her as, if the host didn''t want her here, she wouldn''t be allowed then. Komurasaki was a young girl who Kyoshiro had begun teaching to become a top oiran of the Flow Capital. But they were interrupted by Ryu''s conquest, so they had to move to Hakumai for awhile and then come back up only to find that their life would change for good. The female officials, who recently became officials due to their political skills, were annoyed at her flashy kimono when they looked at it. They weren''t easily swayed by skin-deep beauty, rather they focused on the beauty inside them, their true personalities. The male officials were also annoyed but they didn''t act exaggerated like the females. They had iron wills and strong good moral beliefs that Ryu had personally allowed to either stay or join officials. Ryu didn''t want any corrupted official right after he conquered Wano Country. In total, there were 7 officials, 3 females and 4 males. The heads of their families were mostly composed of males, as female head were a rarity due to discrimination against women being weak. However, Ryu had personally announced to the officials that females were also strong, using Rin as an example causing her to blush at him but stoic at others. The officials started to agree, as most of them were married and were henpecked but not out of their home. When Ryu found why they agreed easily, he swore not to be henpecked in front of the officials, causing them to admire him and pity him in future. They didn''t believe him at all. Anyways, the female heads started to show up, showing they were the real head of their families. When the residents heard about that, they began to think of equal rights for both males and females. There were almost 15 family heads, mostly males. There was Kozuki Hiyori as the temporary head of her family, Kozuki Family wouldn''t have been invited if it weren''t for their hard work during those past months. The other heads and officials agreed with that, as they started to view Kozuki Family in good light again. The people in the private room were waiting for two more people to show up, the Shogun Ryu and the citizens-elected representative. The citizens living in Wano Country were allowed to choose a representative to participate in the discussion for the community''s sake, not the country''s. Ryu announced that he wanted a community where they could all be united as one, like the Minks Tribe. Though they didn''t know what the Minks Tribe was, they understood he was letting them to voice out their opinions. Finally, both Ryu and the citizens-elected representative came in. The female geishas took that as the signal and started to leave, all while giving flirtatious glance at Ryu. It only made Ryu chuckle, but that prompted Rin to pout, wishing she would be the first already. ... The start of the discussion... As both of them came in together, causing other people inside to have their own assumptions, they quietened down and went to their chairs. The circular room was spacious, with short chair and their own side-tables aligned circular. There was one chair that looked taller than others. The officials, family heads, and the representative sat in the short chairs. While the future heads or invited guests of their own sat behind them. Ryu twitched his mouth as he looked at the taller chair. Beside it was a short chair with Rin on it, with the representative on other side. Sighing, he could only sit in the taller chair. Ryu thought it made him look like he was looking down on them all. The others though, thought that him sitting in that chair made him look menacing instead of arrogance. It made them nervous to the point they thought they couldn''t lie in front of him, not like they were going to. Starting the discussion, Ryu spoke. "Now, we have invited you all because we wanted to discuss about the land management and new system prioritizing the wellbeing of the citizens. Know this, if you have opinions about them, you may voice them. However expect that we may rebuke you or agree. Also, remember that I am only here to oversee the discussion as the officials will finalize your and their decisions together." They nodded in understanding. Even Kyoshiro who usually was cheerful. The future heads and invited guests only watched silently, either nervous, learning, or admiring the menacing Ryu. If Ryu had heard them, he would''ve just played along and bring out his pressure. He had gained a sadism personality during Wano. "Good, now I''d like to introduce the representative that the community has picked, O-Tsuru." O-Tsuru stood and bowed greeting them all. She was chosen because people knew her as a kind and compassionate woman who can be quite stubborn when set on helping other people. She hadn''t expected to be chosen, but she accepted the temporary representative, so she was going to make sure the community was not let down. 18 C18: Years of Time Skip |Part 13| ? (Wano Country) {Year: 18.9} ? Compared to the future Ryu had watched in his past life, Wano Country was now in for better one. Well, unless the next Shogun screws it up. If any organizations were to attack Wano, they''d be in for a surprise if they ever break in the barrier. The community were now almost united and had a lot of people who were stronger than high-ranked Marines. Thanks to several families who had invested in making dojos all over the Wano Country, people had learned different martial arts. Even women were allowed to learn them due to the gender equality. O-Tsuru, the temporary representative, had not let the community down with her amazing persuasion and stubbornness, she had ensured that anything decided at least had benefits for them. The officials had been working and deciding hard ever since Ryu overthrew the Shogun, but now they could work peacefully and easily due to the new system for the community. Unlike before, the new system valued the wellbeing of the citizens in Wano Country instead of money. Ryu had to help here and there, but it was minuscule. People could vote for new officials when the officials'' terms were over or retired. As for the prison, it was difficult to break in or out, but there were still prison wardens and guards to ensure nothing would happen. The order were called Polices due to Ryu calling them. They took care of criminals, by arresting them and taking them to the court for decision on their punishment. However, there were still people who didn''t want a united community. They had start to appeared ever since Ryu had announced he would leave Wano Country in 2 years. Ryu checked them out in secret and found that they were only bluffers who had done so to keep Ryu in Wano... He sighed in exasperation, they were like Rin, only excessive. The community also didn''t want him to leave, but they couldn''t stop him, could they? It seemed that the community were confusing that if he left, the barriers would go down. So, Ryu clarified to the community, that the barrier won''t go down when he left, but they would go down when the next Shogun came. Even if the barriers went down, the community itself would easily take out any people who had bad intents. That only calmed them slightly, it showed they were reliant on him and his barriers. He decided that the barriers definitely had to go down some day, otherwise they''d be too reliant that they went rusty in defending themselves, though not in internal strifes. The internal strifes happened rarely, but they did indeed happen in Wano Country. They were mostly about the Shogun, who should have it. Most of them aligned with Ryu becoming the actual Shogun, but Ryu had told them that he only took Shogun in-name, and held it for a ''friend'' in the future. So there were now three sides in that debate, Ryu-Becomes-Shogun, No-Shogun-Don''t-Need, and neutral. The No-Shogun-Don''t-Need contained of people who thought that a shogun wasn''t needed, they could continue without one. Ryu had scolded them, if they didn''t need a shogun then why did the officials have to decide for a temporary leader to decide final and approve? They retorted that they''d rather him to be the Shogun, making Ryu cringe, it was still about him after all! Ryu had become too popular that there were even legends about him and assumptions of where he was from. They already knew he was from the outside Wano Country, but not where exactly. Being too popular also involved a lot of fans, specifically women. He was the number 1 bachelor, he found out from Rin some day. Ryu was devilishly handsome, stronger than the whole Wano Country itself, could handle himself, and he could be diligent when needed. He was often shown as a cold person, but that only made masochist women wet in their groins. ... Ryu was now teaching several people about Haki. Those several people actually had managed to somehow gained Armament Haki and Observation Haki. So, he decided to help them learn more about them and advance them. With Ryu and his system, the several people understood what he said one way or another, making their lessons easier. After several months, he decided that they should start teaching others about the Haki they owned. As expected, no one had Conqueror''s Haki in Wano Country. There were starting to be more people with Armament Haki and Observation Haki, though basic. Ryu was thinking he may have overdid it, that Wano Country could easily become a group of crew that could hold their ground against each Yonko''s crews. Thankfully, the community had no such intention, they wanted to protect their own and stay peaceful country. They had enough of corruption and oppression in the past. Wano Country was now one of the strongest countries in the whole world. Ryu decided to let a bit of information to be sent out from Wano Country, they can protect themselves now. ? {Year: 19} ? News Coo had spread out shocking news about the Wano Country that was said to be isolated and about Ryu. Everyone in the world was shocked at Ryu taking Wano Country in his protection, but they understood after reading more. He was strong and had the capability to protect a whole country by himself! His defenses were nearly impenetrable, Ryu had himself overthrew the Shogun alone, and Kaido of the Beasts couldn''t stop him. Ryu was too strong, they agreed as they started to understand why his bounty paper kept increasing. It turned out that the World Government had found out about this long ago. Wano Country was now considered as one of the strongest countries in the whole world. People with the strength stronger than higher-ranked Marines were almost common in the country. The community there could easily be on par as a Yonko''s crew. Their community were nearly united, which were unheard of due to piracy, but they understood it was due to the Isolationism, oppression in the past, and most importantly Ryu, that they became united. The World Government had confirmed those information when Ryu let their spies send information to them from inside Wano Country. It turned out that his barriers could cut off the connection between Den Den Mushi and any animals carrying notes would be turned into dusts when they passed through the barrier. People were now thinking of Ryu as the uncrowned Yonko. In fact, if Ryu wanted, he could easily wipe out the World Government, even the Gorosei. As for IM, Ryu wasn''t sure ifhe could fight him due to no information on him. ... Somewhere in New World... "Haha! It seems that Ryu is considered as an uncrowned Yonko now. Even though he could easily be the Pirate King." A certain red-haired man said as he read the newspaper. "My student has grown up..." A tear came out of a dreadlocks man with sniper gun behind his back. "But why doesn''t he show off his marksmanship?!" "He must''ve been embarrassed to use it, dahahaha!" The red-haired man jokingly said. After he laughed, he muttered. "But... what is he going to do next?" ... In Sabaody Archipelago, Shaku''s Bar... Sitting on a stool near the bar, the healthy gray-haired man held his newspaper to Hancock who was glaring at him as if he was an insect. "H-haha, I wasn''t going to read it before you." Boa Hancock, the Pirate Empress and female Shichibukai, had been visiting Shaku''s Bar often ever since she found out that Rayleigh had somehow received informations on Ryu and kept it away from her. Hancock was angered that he dared to keep it away from her, so she kept beating him up every time she saw Rayleigh. Grabbing it out, she immediately ignored him and read it carefully. "Mm... I see... Wano Country in New World...?" "I should go visit him there..." Hancock muttered, thinking of visiting him. Elder Nyon heard that and immediately told her not to much to Hancock''s annoyance. "You can''t!" Elder Nyon shouted. "You have your job as the Shichibukai and the Empress of Amazon Lily! What is the World Government going to think of you and Ryu when they see you both together?!" "I don''t care old hag!" Hancock retorted angrily. "I only care about myself and my sisters and R-Ryu!" Hancock blushed and stuttered at the end as she added him. Her sisters were still outside, keeping a watch out. ... Somewhere in Paradise of the Grand Line... "Wow! Ryu is too strong," A orange-haired woman said as she read the newspaper while on mission. "Hey Sabo, look at this!" Sabo, the No. 2 and Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, took and read the newspaper as Koala handed it to him. "Hmm, he has the power to easily deal with the whole Celestial Dragons... Have we tried recruiting him for the Revolutionaries?" "Yeah! He declined though, he didn''t like to deal with the World Government''s politics. Hmph! He said he didn''t like politics and yet there he is, doing politics in Wano Country!" Koala had excitedly spoke of Ryu until she became angry at him for declining... Sabo sweatdropped at that. "I-I see. Well, as long as he doesn''t bother our goal." Sabo muttered. He had joined the Revolutionaries because he lost his memories and he was apparently saved from the World Noble''s wrath. He felt like he was missing something ever since then, something or someone important. Suddenly, a glint appeared in his eyes, as he remembered what Koala said before. Ryu had helped her when she was down, perhaps that meant helping her find her moral beliefs? Sabo was always smart, so he could deduce several things from a simple sentence. Looking down at Ryu''s picture in the bounty paper, he hoped to meet him. ''Perhaps this man can help me find what''s missing from my heart...'' ... In Fishman Island... "And now people are calling him the uncrowned Yonko!" A human-sized goldfish mermaid said as she finished reading the newspaper for her huge and cute daughter. Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi and Shirahoshi circled around their mother, Queen Otohime as she read. They were amazed and happy that Ryu was enjoying his life. Otohime was shocked though, such power could easily deal with Poseidon. She had been confused as to why Ryu had said he had been stopping Shirahoshi''s power, but now that he left, they''ve been seeing Shirahoshi starting to gather pressure a bit. They now understood Ryu had done something to her, she could now handle her emotions and power more smoothly. During the times Ryu had accompanied Shirahoshi, he had been telling emotions-inducing stories to her, causing her to either cry or get angry. But after awhile, she managed to start understanding the point of the stories, which in turn helped her to understand other people''s goals similar to her mother''s Observation Haki. "Wow! Ryu-sama is amazing!" Shirahoshi said, slightly blushing after. Her mother and three brothers looked at her knowingly, smiling. "W-what!" "You would always say that for your beloved~!" Fukaboshi jokingly said, causing her to blush even more. They then laughed together. "Oh? What are you guys laughing together for?" Smiling, a giant-sized and muscular coelacanth merman came in. "Father-sama! You have to stop them from embarrassing me!" His darling red-faced daughter yelled as she swam to him. "Is it about Ryu?" King Neptune smiled knowingly, just like the other four did to her. His daughter froze and looked like blood would drip out of her face. He then laughed boisterously. "Hahaha!" "Not you too!" ... On a certain huge elephant in New World... *Sob* A huge yellow feline mink sobbed as he read the newspaper shakily. A huge grizzled canine mink had tears in his eyes too nearby. Their human best friend had saved Wano Country! They were so thankful that Ryu existed at this very moment. Both of them had failed in helping their savior, Kozuki Oden, back in the past with Wano Country. They originally had planned to help him open the Wano Country but they three got betrayed by Orochi! "Thank you, Ryu!" Duke Inuarashi said, even though Ryu wasn''t there. "Yes, thank you! We will remember this forever!" Master Nekomamushi announced. Turning to his day-counterpart, he said. "Ryu has helped and saved Zou, and now he saved Wano Country! We''re forever indebted to him once again." "Yes!" The grizzled canine mink agreed resolutely. Their Mink Tribe were forever indebted to Ryu and Kozuki Family now! If they were to sacrifice for either of them, they would willingly do so! Suddenly, both of them looked in the eyes at the same time, as if they had accidentally forgot something! A certain white rabbit mink were standing behind them, angered. She was pushed away from reading the newspaper about Ryu. Carrot had received the newspaper and was about to read it when it had the word ''Ryu'' in it, only to be pushed away by Duke Inuarashi and Master Nekomamushi because they had seen Wano Country in it! She was so angered that she felt like they stole her carrot. The only person who were permitted to take carrots from her were Ryu! Trembling, both yellow feline mink and grizzled canine mink turned to her. "A-ah..." "GRRRR~!" ... In Marineford... "Damn that Ryu bastard!" The Fleet Admiral, Sengoku, yelled for the world to hear. "He alway brings me trouble from those five old bastards!" "Hahaha! That''s your fault! If you had left him alone, they wouldn''t had troubled you," Vice Admiral Garp laughed boisterously, while eating rice crackers on the table. "Ugh! What''s going to happen of the World Summit, Reverie?" Sengoku muttered wonderingly. "Those old bastards wouldn''t happen to be thinking of inviting the pirate, would he?" Garp suddenly looked serious at that senseless thought. If they really did... "Ahahaha~!" He cried tears of laughter at that. "A pirate being the Shogun of a huge strong country, and it''s Ryu at that!" Sengoku even teared up slightly. But he suddenly stopped. ''Crap! Knowing them, we might have jinxed it!'' ... In Mariejois... "Should we attempt to invite the Wano Country to the World Government?" The white gi samurai started. "But Ryu is a pirate!" The youngest blondie rebutted. "However, he has Wano Country under his control..." Tallest and thin bearded man stated. "We should be looking at him as a king leading a country for now." "Actually, would he even accept our invitation?" The baldie with birthmarks on forehead retorted. "Besides, if he were to come... I''m sure the other kings or queens would wet themselves..." "Hahaha!" The white-gi samurai agreed. "You''re right! Such powerful man they heard of would cause them to wet themselves when meeting in person!" "Let''s just try anyways," sighing, the gray dreadlocks man ended the debate. "I hope he doesn''t accept though..." It''d be embarrassing if a pirate came into the World Summit in a year, the gray dreadlocks thought. The World Summit was for kings and queens that the World Government were affiliated with. They were deciding whether to try affiliate with the Wano Country. Ryu would definitely laugh at them, did they even want to be a part of a larger body? No way! The Wano Country''s community would rather be on its own, not wanting to be a subsidiary group of another. And especially when a pirate was essentially the King of a large country. ? (Wano Country) {Year: 19.4} ? Near the sea defense of Kuri''s... "Damn! What''s with this f*cking thing that''s blocking us!" A tall and slightly muscular man yelled as his crew tried to get in. The man wore a open-front shirt with a tattoo on his upper left arm, ASCE, with the S crossed out. He was Portgas D. Ace, the captain of Spade Pirates. "Captain! We can''t go in at all, it seems we have to move on!" A crew-mate shouted at him. Sighing, he was about to tell them to turn around when he saw a sword-like beam flying towards their ship''s deck. "Everyone be prepared! Something''s coming!" All of the crew brought out their weapons, and watched out for the sword-like beam. The sword-like beam went to their deck, and just when they thought it was gonna crash, it stopped and out of it came a bright green eyes man. ''Wait?! A f*cking bright green eyes man?! Isn''t he the Solitary Pirate Ryu?!'' Sweating, it looked like their captain recognized him too. How could Ace not when Ryu was basically the very man who he idolized! Ryu had saved a country, helped people, traveled freely, and was very strong! He wanted to be like him, but with a goal of being the Pirate King! "Mmn." Ryu grunted as he looked around, glaring daggers into every single person on the deck. While he was doing that, he mentally spoke. ''I made such a damn cool entrance, haha! But what''s with that sweating starry eyes man, wait, isn''t he Ace?'' "You," Ryu pointed towards Ace. "You look like the captain of this crew. Now tell me why were you guys trying to get into the Wano Country?" As he spoke to the end, Ryu brought out a slight pressure on them all. He wanted to rest them out, to see how strong they currently were. The crew feeling the pressure shook with their legs, but they refused to fall. Seeing that, he was surprised. It turned out that Ace found good men. "W-we didn''t know it was the Wano Country, sir Ryu!" Ace spoke while suffering the pressure. He wasn''t angry that his idol pressured them, instead, he was amazed! However, that wasn''t the point. Bowing, Ace apologized to Ryu, surprising him and the other crew-mates. "We apologize for trying to get into the country." Ryu only simply stared quietly for awhile. Suddenly, he took back his pressure and laughed, different to his cold demeanor. "Haha! You''re just as expected of his brother!" Ace and his crew was confused at that. His brother? "Do you know Luffy?" "Yeah, in a way." Ryu replied, smiling slightly. Taking out a New World Log Pose, he threw it to Ace''s bewildered face. "Take that, you''ll need it to not get lost in New World. You can come back to this country later." Ace was surprised that his idol gave him something, he had to keep it safe no matter what! Ryu looked like he was about to leave, so Ace quickly spoke. "Thank you, sir Ryu! But I want to ask you something!" Ryu turned to look at Ace questioningly, prompting him to continue. "Why do you not become a Pirate King? You''re already strong alone to be one." "Eh?" Ryu didn''t expect that, he thought it was something else but it was just that. Chuckling, he told them while leaving. "Because I already am, in my way. I''d rather stay a pirate, being the freest man, traveling anywhere, and doing whatever I want! To me, a Pirate King is that. Everyone has their own views on what a Pirate King is... so what is your view on it?" Ryu didn''t wait for him to answer as he went sword-like beam to Wano Country. He came in such a cool entrance and left in the same way. Ace was in a daze, he didn''t expect such answer. ''What is a Pirate King to me?'' Then Ace resolutely looked up and at his crew, determination burning in their eyes. Ryu had such charisma that he easily boiled their blood. They all shouted at the same time. "So f*cking cool!" 19 C19: Years of Time Skip |Part 14| ? (Wano Country) {Year: 19.7} ? In a half year, the Wano Country had been decided as the second strongest compared to Elbaf, the country of giants. Wano Country now had almost over a thousand of people who had Haki, and in Marines, those with Vice Admiral rank and above were said to have a requirement of Haki, meaning there were almost a thousand of Vice Admiral-leveled people in Wano Country. The World Government were astounded at such number they received from their spies inside. Now they couldn''t make Wano Country a subsidiary group of theirs, it alone easily toppled over any kingdoms they affiliated with. However, they decided that Elbaf would still be the strongest one as their armies were composed of giants. The Wano Country didn''t care about that when they found out they were ranked second strongest country. It only helped relieve their anxiousness when Ryu leaves, and their goal of being a peaceful country. Ryu was glad they now started to believe in their survivability in the world. ... Some time after the news were spread, the Wano Country were visited by the World Government. The Marines had sent two admirals and Cipher Pol, just in-case. They were there to ''ask'' the Wano Country if they would participate the World Summit, even if they were not part of the World Council. When Ryu told the officials about this, they were astounded. They never knew of such World Council... They even thought if there was any usefulness in participating when they were strong enough to survive on their own. Ryu snickered at that, he was only the Shogun in-name, but he also agreed that they didn''t need to, however, it would help build relations to other kingdoms. The officials couldn''t decide, so they announced the information to the community for them to vote. Should they agree, they would also have to vote a official that would attend, as well as who would be going with the said official. The community mostly voted that they didn''t need to, as why would they care about other countries/kingdoms? Ryu laughed at that, if only they knew that their future Shogun wanted to open Wano Country''s gates to the outside world. The officials were in dilemma now, so they asked Ryu for help once again. However, he didn''t want to help with that part, he''d rather dump that on the future Shogun as he was just in-name. Sighing, the officials could only just reject it. The World Government wasn''t happy with that, but they couldn''t do anything about it. Ryu alone could easily topple the World Government and its subsidiary groups, actually, the Wano Country alone were very strong enough to be cautious towards, so they also couldn''t attack it. All they could do was accept and leave. ... The young handsome man stood behind the window, watching out of it. He enjoyed his peaceful time. Right now he was thinking of what to do when the One Piece storyline starts. He also wanted to go to Dressrosa and screw up the Joker''s plan, just for gags. All he needed to do was to scare Sugar into falling unconscious, he laughed when he imagined their hard work going down the drain just because she fell unconscious. There was also Whitebeard, Ace should have already joined them by now. Ryu decided to heal Whitebeard when they meet. Whitebeard wouldn''t be able to defeat Ryu anymore, as Ryu had already advanced into the next realm of Sword Will, the Sword Heart realm. In the Sword Heart realm, he could make a domain of his own, but he focused on attaining other abstruse energies. Ryu decided he would find Mihawk later. ? (New World) {Year: 19.9} ? On a huge whale-like ship, Moby Dick... The Whitebeard Pirates looked serious onboard the Moby Dick as a certain red-haired man walked towards their captain, Whitebeard. Shanks looked serious as well, but a bit later when he stood in front of Whitebeard, he laughed and threw a sake to him. "Dahahaha! Don''t look so serious!" "Brat, why did you call for a meeting?!" Annoyed by his antics, Whitebeard shot straight to the point. "Haha, let''s take a drink first!" Shanks responded, but Whitebeard gave him a steely glare and brought out his Conqueror''s Haki. Shanks immediately brought out his too, causing sparks to appear and knocking weak-willed people to faint onboard. "Alright, I called for the meeting about Ryu, the Solitary Pirate." "You know about him?!" A tall and slightly muscular man shouted when he heard Ryu''s name. "Of course you do, he''s amazing right!" Both Whitebeard and Shanks took back their Conqueror''s Haki. Turning to look at him, Shanks rose his right eyebrows. "Ace, was it? You''re the one who thanked me for Luffy." "Yeah!" Ace replied, he had met Shanks before seeing Ryu and thanked him for taking care of his little sworn brother. "But why is the meeting about Ryu?" Shanks became serious and turned to look at Whitebeard directly in the eyes. "Ryu told me he was planning to meet you eventually when my crew-mate was training him." The whole crew and Whitebeard looked surprised, about Shanks'' crew-mate training him. A pineapple-headed man asked Shanks. "Who was training him and in what?" Chuckling, the red-haired man replied. "It was Yasopp, the marksman of mine. He was training Ryu in marksmanship, though now Ryu barely used his marksman skills... Yasopp cried tears at that! Dahahaha!" "And? Why have you told me about this?" Whitebeard asked. He knew of Ryu, the Solitary Pirate, of course. He himself thought that Ryu could easily overthrow the World Government too. Whitebeard was interested in him, but they never met even once. "I think I know what''s he going to do when he meets you." Shanks shifted slightly hesitantly. "He''s probably going to heal you." "What?! Such man has the ability to heal Pops?!" Marco immediately shouted and questioned. The other crew-mates were looking hopefully at the red-haired man. "Yeah. His abilities are weird and different, he doesn''t even own a devil fruit either." Shanks replied. "However, I know for sure he has the ability to heal anyone." "..." Whitebeard looked down, as the shadow covered his face. He looked like he was thinking about something. ''Is Ryu pitying me...?!'' Slamming his Bisento, Whitebeard angrily shouted at Shanks. "Tell that green-eyes brat I won''t accept such pity!!!" "Pops!" The division commanders looked at their Father confused and down. "...I thought you might misunderstand, but he''s still going to heal you. The reason?" The red-haired man wasn''t faltered a single bit, he had expected this. Continuing, he walked back to his ship. "Ryu just wants to. He does whatever he wants, and even if you refuse, he will still one way or another, do it." "...He just wants to?" Whitebeard was surprised at that. To him, a pirate was doing anything they wanted, to be free. He then laughed boisterously. "Haha! I like this Ryu brat!" "Yeah, me too." Shanks smiled as he jumped back on his ship. "Haha! As expected of my idol!" Proudly lifting his chest as if Ryu was his parents, Ace smugly said. Thatch, a tall man with a light brown pompadour hairstyle looked at him pityingly, Ace was about to be in a dilemma. "Ace... Next time watch your surroundings." "Oh? So you would support Ryu instead of me?" Whitebeard menacingly asked Ace as he spoke highly of Ryu. Ace quickly sweatdropped, how was he going to answer when Whitebeard was literally in front of him and Ryu wasn''t? Ryu was still his idol but Whitebeard had became his father too... he was now in a dilemma! "Hahaha~!" The other crew-mates laughed. ... In Onigashima of Wano Country... "You green-eyes bastard! Why are you here?!" The strongest creature in the world shouted angrily as he glared at Ryu. Ryu simply returned icy glares. "To fight. I''m going to use you for experience, I''ll be lowering my capabilities a bit." The green-eyes announced, not caring for his response. Kaido seeing this as a chance, quickly brought out his mace, slamming it to Ryu in front of him. Thunders manifested around the mace, bringing a menacing look. "EIGHT TRIGRAMS THUNDERCLAP!" *CRACKLE* Ryu stood still and took it with his right hand. His body alone easily beat Kaido''s mythical body. *BAM* "Is that all?" Ryu sneered at such weak attack. Quickly disappearing on spot, Ryu moved behind Kaido''s immense body and like Luffy''s Jet Punch, his left hand showed afterimages as he punched Kaido''s back. *BAM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* Kaido felt like his back received a f*cking hard punch as he flew forward and slamming down the trees, or what''s left of them. Spewing blood, he maliciously stared at Ryu. "Damn it! My pride as the strongest creature won''t go down right here and by you!" *RUMBLE* *ROOAAARR* Dark cloud suddenly appeared above them as Kaido enlarged into a eastern dragon. The eastern dragon looked huge enough to surround the whole Onigashima now. It had scales-skinned and flames emitting out of its back. Donning four antlers and a long mustache floating, his dragon head looked menacing to everyone. "I swear on my life I will kill you! SCORCHING MINIATURE SUN!" Inhaling a huge breath, his mouth-cheeks began to grow huger and huger. Just when Ryu thought they''d pop, Kaido exhaled a immense scorching mini-sun towards him. Kaido had nearly burned his throat doing it, he looked slightly exhausted but seemed to rapidly recovering due to his regeneration. *RUMBLE* *SSSSSS* The mini-sun seemed to melt everything near it, however Ryu''s clothes seemed to be of a special fabric as it did not burn. Sneering, Ryu brought his chest out as he began to inhale as well. Suddenly! *HUUUU* The mini-sun was frozen into a ice ball. Kaido was shocked at that, his mini-sun were literally frozen! "W-what?! How can you freeze the damn sun?!" "Haha! Nothing''s impossible with me!" Ryu declared smugly. To be honest, he didn''t expect it to be frozen as well, but he didn''t want Kaido to know. "Let''s keep going!" "Damn bastard!" Moving quick, the eastern dragon brought his horns towards Ryu, hoping to bash him. His prided horns were hard enough to- *CRACK* Casually, Ryu punched with his right fist. Kaido looked at Ryu and his now-in-pieces left horn on the ground with horror. His prided horn was easily crushed! "Y-you!" Blood red eyes began to emit out of Kaido. "ARGHHHHH!" *CRACKLE* Blood red thunders began to manifest around his whole body as it began to morph into something. As if responding to that, the dark cloud began to whirl into the center as it open a hole. *RUMBLE* *WOOSH* *CRACKLE* ''Mmn? What''s going on?'' Ryu looked at Kaido and the dark cloud, a hole in the center. The hole looked like a gate to the hell, he noted. *RUMBLE* *CRACKLE* Blood red humanoid bodies started to come out of the hole, it went towards Kaido who seemed to be afraid of what''s happening. "NO! WHA- ARGGGHHHHH~!" Kaido shouted in agony. The blood red humanoid bodies started to merge with the eastern dragon''s body, enlarging it. The body began to emit blood red thunders, horns shedding for new ones, flames on its back turned into pitch black, and its scales turned into blood red. His claws were pitch-black as were his new horns. Immense pressure were felt from the now-different dragon. Menacingly, Kaido began to laugh eerily. "Kukuhahaha!" "...?" Tilting his head, Ryu thought that Kaido became crazy. Well, not like he was never one. "I have become a devil dragon!" Kaido announced as his pitch-black claws slammed into Ryu. Ryu being now cautious, quickly dodged with his Observation Haki. *BAM* Ryu was shocked as his body flew to the ground heavily. He was still hit! The devil dragon was slightly surprised as well, but taking that as a advantage, he quickly moved towards Ryu and tried to slam his claws again. *WOOSH* However, this time Ryu successfully dodged as he increased the speed. He laughed. "Hahaha! This is getting fun than I expected!" Encasing his right fist with Armament Haki, Ryu dashed to Kaido''s eerily menacing dragon head and punched upward his jaws. *BOOM* The Devil Dragon splurt out blood as his head flew backward. Kaido got angered that he still couldn''t fight Ryu on even grounds! He began to circulate his blood red thunders into the center of both his pitch-black claws. *CRACKLE* *CRACKLE* A pitch red thunder ball showed up, on its outline were pitch-black flames. It looked like an even stronger attack than the mini-sun he made before. As if pushing it, the thunder ball moved in a speed of thunder. "DEVIL FLAMING THUNDERBALL!" (AN: lul i cant think of attack names xd) Ryu watched it near him when he suddenly used his custom Armament Haki to encase his right hand. He brought his right palm towards it, and made a squeezing movement. The Devil Flaming Thunderball suddenly warped as if a hand was squeezed it. *HISSS* The red thunderball began to become smaller and disappear as it made a hissing sound. Kaido immediately slammed his blood red-scaled tail emitting black flames towards Ryu. *BAM* Once again, Ryu dodged as the ground under him show a huge hole. The devil dragon suddenly became smaller and smaller, until it became a humanoid. Kaido looked like a huge muscular man, with long mustache, four pitch-black horns, and his black hair were touching the floor, longer. His hands were claws-like, but as he encased it with Armament Haki, immense pressure came out both of them! "DEVIL CLAWS!" Blood red scales began to show up on the strongest creature''s hands, stopping at the wrists with the nails turning pitch black. He moved so towards Ryu and clawed him. *WOOSH* *CLANG* Ryu brought out a durable sword and used it to block his claws. Sparks appeared as they kept clashing, sword vs. claw. Truthfully, Ryu could easily beat Kaido at the beginning, but where''s the fun in that? ... *CLANG* *CLANG* Both of them continued till it was getting dark. Kaido jumped back and panted. Even with his newfound stamina, he still couldn''t last against the not-even-sweating Ryu. "J-just how much of stamina do you have?!" (AN: enough to last 1 year of permanent sex, teehee~) "Higher than yours," Ryu answered the obvious. Kaido enraged at that, used his Conqueror''s Haki at its fullest. Burst of huge wind came out of him. Ryu also brought out his normal Conqueror''s Haki, clashing against Kaido''s. *CLANG~!* *BOOM* *BOOM* Both of Conqueror''s Haki clashed as the sparks appeared and the ground around them crumbled. Black lightning appeared when they continued, people in Wano Country could see it easily. Small debris that were on the ground crumbled into dust. Ryu looked like he wasn''t even trying, casually standing in the same spot, while Kaido kept stepping back heavily, causing miniature holes to appear. Kaido wielding a conqueror''s traits, shouted angrily. "D-DAMN! I WON''T FALL!" Blood began to drip from his eyes, as blood-red scales appeared from his Devil Claws, covering his whole body. His back now emitted black flames and blood red thunder crackled around his body. Ryu was surprised at that, it seemed that his body morphing also changed his Conqueror''s Haki. But that was just it. Sneering, Ryu started to walk towards the devil dragon in human form. "You think you can beat me in a battle of wills?!" Ryu increased the pressure, shocking Kaido and angered as he started to wobble. "INFINITE THUNDERBOLTS!" *CRACKLE* *SHHH* Countless small blood-red thunderbolts came towards Ryu from Kaido''s body. Though they looked small, they had power to turn a human into dust. Ryu wasn''t not willing to risk taking them when Kaido became a devil dragon. He kept dodging them as Kaido kept shooting them all while both of them were clashing with Conqueror''s Haki. "WHY?! WHY DO YOU STOP ME FROM MY DREAM?!" Kaido suddenly started to cried as he weakened his Conqueror''s Haki. Ryu was surprised at his sudden mood swing... he helplessly took back his Conqueror''s Haki. "Because it was the reason why Wano Country would have gone a wasteland and corrupt." Ryu said as Kaido also took back his Conqueror''s Haki. The devil dragon was shocked that Ryu knew of his plans of making factories. "How did you know of the plans?!" "...See ya later, I hope you get stronger when we meet again." Ignoring his question, Ryu flew back to Wano Country. Ryu had never intended to kill Kaido, but use him as a dummy for him to gain experience or play around with. If Kaido had learned this, he would''ve suicide attack him. What both of them never noticed were the Den Den Mushi placed around the Onigashima by the spies of World Government and other organizations. The organizations had just incase placed them if Kaido really intended to stay there. They never expected for a such battle to appear on their visual transmissions. ... The Revolutionary Army... "This man..." A spiky black haired man with tattoo on left side of his face muttered. "He will be very dangerous, only if we offend him..." A blond haired man with old burn mark on his left eye agreed with his leader. "Yes. As long as we''re neutral or on his side, the Solitary Pirate will not come after us." "Hihi~ it was fun watching Ryu bash Kaido repeatedly! He even made him cry at the end, haha!" A certain orange-haired beauty laughed, making the others sweatdrop at her antics. "My~ Is this your crush?" A tall, slim woman with short and light hair asked. The orange-haired immediately quietened and blushed. "Haha!" ... The Marines... "..." A tall muscular man with long, braided goatee, a black afro, and mustache looked solemn, as were the other people in the room. They had watched Ryu easily deal with Kaido, even when Kaido turned into something new, a devil dragon. "Kaido has become stronger, it seems." *CRUNCH* "Yes. Yet, Ryu easily dealt with him," a tall, broad-chested, muscular old man with a beard and a scar over his left eye added as he ate rice crackers, "he made it look so easy, when truthfully it''s harder." *CRUNCH* "Justice will be served," a tall and muscular man with square-shaped face, very pronounced facial features, and short black hair simply said his catchphrase. "We will arrest the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, one day." *CRUNCH* "Ri~ght. R~yu~ wil~l be dea~lt wit~h on~e da~y." A middle-aged man with slim build, black hair, and a thin beard slowly spoke. *CRUNCH* "Mmn." A another tall man with black and curly hair to chin-length wearing a sleep maskonly grunted. *CRUNCH* "...Damn it Garp! Stop loudly eating your rice crackers!" The black afro man shouted at the man who kept making loud crunches. 20 C20: The End of Years of Time Skip! ? (Kozuki Family''s Personal Graveyard in Kubi of Wano Country) {Year: 19.10} ? Standing on the Kozuki Family''s graveyard, a handsome young man scrunched his brows. He was now tall, had sculpted muscular body, sword-like brows, slightly past shoulders unruly black hair, and bright green eyes. Ryu looked more manly, losing the cuteness he had long ago. He was not saddened by the fact a single bit. Okay, maybe he was, but only because he enjoyed pissing off adults by beating them up as a kid. Rin was nearby, watching him intently. From what she could gather by his actions during the past week, it looked like Ryu was going to leave earlier than expected. "You''re going to leave sooner than expected, aren''t you?" Surprised, he turned and looked at Rin. "...Yes." Not knowing what to say next, both of them descended into silence. They didn''t divert from staring at each others, green eyes to brown eyes. Ryu had started to feel some romantic feelings for her so he couldn''t just leave her like this. He went forward and hugged her, tightly but not painful. Rin was surprised at that, but she melted into his embrace. She felt like Ryu finally accepted her, so she smiled. "I know I won''t be able to stop you, but please don''t forget me and leave me alone." She sadly requested of Ryu. "I won''t. But I might have other women, would you still want me then?" Ryu informed her. He couldn''t hide the possibility of having another woman from her, and it seemed like she expected it. "I already knew I would might have to share you with others, but as long as I''m your first and I have a spot in your heart, I don''t mind." Rin told him, having no bitterness about it. Though when she thought about Ryu being with other women, at first, she was bitter. But as time went on with him, she didn''t mind it anymore, in fact she expected it and would question if he was eunuch if he didn''t. Rin thought that if one was too strong, he would also have a lot of stamina, she couldn''t possibly handle it alone. She imagined her first with him as she blushed to the point where Ryu chuckled at her, as if guessing what she was thinking about. "Heh, thinking about it already?" Snickering, he outed her without any shame. Ryu was in fact worried about his sexual life, as he would have a lot of stamina when he start his first sexual intercourse in this life. But it looked like he didn''t need to. Hugging her more warmly, he told her. "Rin, I love you." Rin was surprised as he told her it. She couldn''t stop a huge smile coming onto her face as she responded. "I love you too, Ryu." Closing in her tender lips, Ryu kissed Rin. Surprising her again, Rin went in a daze and opened her mouth when he put his tongue in. Rin snapped out of it and blushed as she moaned into his mouth, she felt good just from kissing him. Ryu was actually experienced when it came to sexual life, as he had already did it in his past life. Breaking off the sensual kiss much to Rin''s disappointment, Ryu smiled wryly. "I promise you I''ll come back in near future." "...Mmn." Rin blushed as she meekly nodded. "But don''t bring too much of new sisters, okay?" Surprised, Ryu nodded dumbly. Rin giggled when she saw him, he was probably thinking why she was taking it so easily. "It''s because I know I can''t handle you alone and that I can''t keep you here forever, so you would probably attract women who you might fall in love eventually, if you haven''t." "A-ah, I see." Scratching his head because he got read accurately, he started to go back to Flower Capital to announce he was going to leave without a banquet. "Let''s go back then." "Mmn." Rin nodded as she hugged him even tightly. ? {Year: 19.11} ? Near Dressrosa''s South Harbor, there lies Ryu in his silver dinghy. He wore a casual green t-shirt with a black knee-length shorts. His durable sword were placed beside his left hip, connected to the belt he had. "Well, let''s go in Dressrosa and meet Joker," Ryu smirked as he put on a dark brown cloak. ... Ryu said he''d meet Joker but he decided he''d enjoy a bit on Dressrosa. Currently, he was gambling with the others. "Haha, I won again!" The green-eyes shouted for the people to hear. The other people grumbled as they lost their money to him. "What? Get good at gambling if can." Veins popped up on their foreheads when they heard him. They would, but they knew who the f*ck he was, Ryu! They literally sweat bullets when they recognized him as he came into the casino, thinking he was going to do something. "Whatever, I think I nearly wiped out the bank." Ryu nonchalantly said as he stored the Beli. The other gamblers and staff heaved out a sigh of relief, the gambling god was finally leaving! ... "What?! You''re saying the Solitary Pirate, Ryu, is in Dressrosa?!" A slender, well-endowed, light olive-skinned, and tall woman with long, slightly wavy dark brown hair pulled back and held in place by a rose, with a lock hanging to the left of her face shouted. "Why is he here...?" "When he came in, he first gambled and caused others to lose their Beli, nearly all of them have gone bankrupt!" A grunt reported. He sweatdropped that Ryu casually just walked in and took a lot of Beli. "...Does Doffy know of this yet?" Viola asked. "No, not yet!" The grunt shook his head. ''Perhaps with his help...'' A glint appeared in Viola''s eyes and told the grunts around her. "I want to meet this Ryu, perhaps I could trick him." They were shocked. "B-but he''s Ryu!" "So?" Standing up and starting to go to where Ryu was reported to be at, she decided she would use him. "I''m going alone." ... Ryu stood beside a one-legged toy soldier beside him, near the Corrida Colosseum''s entrance. "Hey, what''s your name?" "Hmm?" The toy soldier turned its head to Ryu, and shook at the realization who he was. ''Why is he here?!'' "Well, you don''t have to tell me, Kyros." Ryu whispered so only the toy soldier could hear. Kyros shook again when Ryu accurately knew who he was. Getting his composure back, Kyros asked. "How did you know?" "...Let''s keep that a secret. I have a deal to make with you and the pretty woman over there." Ryu responded as he outed Viola at a distance who were listening in. Viola was not surprised that he found her, but when Ryu said the toy soldier was Kyros, she was definitely surprised. She walked to Ryu and pretended to flirt with him, all to keep up the appearances. Ryu knew she was just doing it for appearances, but he still couldn''t help the twitch in his mouth. Wasn''t she being too exaggerated?! "Ryu, right? What''s the deal?" Viola asked as she placed her hand on Ryu''s chest. She had to admit, Ryu was definitely an eye candy. She also tried using her "Peeping Mind" on him, but... "You won''t be able to see through my desires, Viola." Ryu said suddenly, surprising her. Getting back on topic, he continued. "I''m going to make the toys turn back into humans." "What?!" Both Kyros and Viola shouted before they quickly looked around. Then Kyros brought Ryu and Viola to somewhere safer. "And how do you plan to do so?" "Simple, just scare Sugar into being unconscious." Ryu told. "...What do you mean?" Kyros deadpanned. "Like I said, I''ll make Sugar''s hard work go down the drain by making her unconscious." Ryu deadpanned too. Kyros really wanted to pull his hairs out if he could. "So all we had to do was make Sugar fall unconscious?!" He had been looking for a way to turn themselves back to human, but it turned out that they only needed to knock Sugar unconscious. ''Damn it! Thinking back, it just aggravates me!'' ? (Ruined Dressrosa) {Year: 20} ? Sighing, an elderly, yet well-built and extremely muscular man looked from the King''s Plateau, to see the ruined buildings around it. He was Riku Dold III, now the current King of Dressrosa. He had been forced into hiding his identity by disguising himself as Ricky. Granted, it worked but somehow, a certain green-eyes man he met two months ago, had easily found him out. But unlike what he expected, Ryu made a deal with him. Which led to the Dressrosa looking a ruined country, however they didn''t care as the citizens and his family were finally freed from Doflamingo''s schemes. They were willing to rebuild the country, but gaining the trust from them would provide a tough job, still, that didn''t stop the Royal Family. "King Riku, the World Government is asking your country, Dressrosa, if it is willing to become a affiliated country to the World Government." A messenger reported to King Riku. Turning around, King Riku had already expected this as Ryu told him. "Tell them we will accept, as long as they abide by the conditions we provide." "Yes!" The messenger didn''t even question what the conditions were as he was also there when Ryu spoke to King Riku and the Royal Family. King Riku began to think back to the battle between Ryu and Doflamingo. ''It was too intense and amazing, but... did Ryu have to look so casual?!'' ? ? Dressrosa looked like a huge burning country, surrounded by a cage of strings. The cage of strings were called Birdcage, erected by Doflamingo, the King of Dressrosa. Dark clouds roamed about. The buildings crumbled away as the fire began to diminish slightly. The citizens were crying and had ran near to the center as the Birdcage were moving towards to center. The strings cut through the buildings, which showed that it would cut the citizens easily. Two figures were floating above the Dressrosa, but still inside the Birdcage. One of them wore a hood cloak, covering everything but his piercing cold bright green eyes. He was Ryu. The other was an very tall, light blond-haired, very lean and muscular man with tan skin. He wore flamboyant clothes, which referred to flamingos with his light pink feather coat being the most distinct of all. He was Doflamingo, the King of Dressrosa. Doflamingo roared at the green-eyes man in front of him angrily. "Why did you ruin my plans?!" The green-eyes man didn''t say anything. He only shifted slightly and kept his piercing glare at Doflamingo. Ryu couldn''t just say he did it for gags, could he? "No matter, I''ll just have to do it over." The pink-feathered coats man announced. But he knew he wouldn''t leave uninjured, so he had to at least cut a limb of his opponent before escaping. Moving swiftly, Doflamingo brought out five rainbow strings from his fingers and swiped it towards Ryu. "Five Color Strings!" Ryu was not fazed at all, he only dodged and used his close combat skills with Armament Haki coating his hands and legs. Doflamingo had to keep moving, if he even stopped for a second he would be hit. "Overheat!" *SSSS* A thick burning rope came out of Doflamingo''s right hand and shot towards Ryu. Casually, Ryu shifted left and the burning rope shot through buildings and melted a hole. Doflamingo gritted his teeth, he couldn''t even fight him at all, Ryu was just playing with him. "Black Knight!" A string clone of Doflamingo appeared as it and Doflamingo backed off and shot strings of bullet. "Bullet Strings!" *PEW* *PEW* *PEW* *PEW* Ryu, as usual, dodged. He was starting to get bored. "Hey, can you just use Awakening of your devil fruit already? I want to see it." "You!" Angered that Ryu was casually talking, Doflamingo used the Awakened form of his String-String fruit as he attacked him. "Fulbright!" Five detached strings came out of his left hand and shot towards Ryu while the ground around Doflamingo began to turn into thousands of white strings. "Break White!" Six large and thick sheets of white strings started to wrap around Ryu where he was. As he was being wrapped and trapped, Doflamingo used another move as he began to retreat. "Off White!" Two large masses of strings from the ground near him before swiping at Ryu with them. Ryu stood still and took it, his body alone could easily break the strings if he moved a bit. Nevertheless, he was still disappointed. His strings... they were too weak, and Doflamingo didn''t even put up a fight, but that was to be expected compared to Kaido of the Beasts. Sighing, Ryu decided to attack once. Bringing his index finger towards Doflamingo''s retreating back, he made a vertical slash. "Slice." A compressed arc of air came out and went towards Doflamingo. As if sensing it, he turned and ''felt'' it. "ARGGGHH!" *Thud* "My arm!" Doflamingo shouted and tried to retrieve it, but before he could, it rusted into dust. Shocked, he looked up and shook as Ryu looked back. Ryu released a bit of his Sword Aura and showed a feral grin. "Y-you..." "Go, I won''t kill you." Ryu told him. He knew Doflamingo was still going to suffer anyways. "W-wha- Why?" Doflamingo trembled. "Why are you letting me go?!" "Because you''ll suffer that way." Ryu replied. "Your pride was trampled by me, your missing arm will be the proof of your failure! Hahaha! All of your plans of Dressrosa in future went down the drain just because of a mistake!" Trembling even harder, Doflamingo was never so angered at someone like this. He had never wanted to kill someone so much like this. Like this... he would always remember his failure and the despair of being incapable of killing Ryu! "GREEN-EYES BASTARD~!" As if in a suicide attack, Doflamingo''s body turned into black burning strings. Strings that looked like it would cut through everything. Doflamingo had used a forbidden technique out of anger. "STRINGS OF LIFE FORCE!!!" Widening his eyes, Ryu was surprised. He looked at Doflamingo''s body of black burning strings. His life force were diminishing slowly but surely as he kept Strings of Life Force activated. "So in the end, you still want to keep your pride." Doflamingo began to dash towards Ryu as the Birdcage sped up to the center. Eyes bloodshot, he brought his black fires of life force spread out. "I WILL EITHER DIE HERE OR KILL YOU!" Ryu clad himself into his custom Armament Haki and started to move towards Doflamingo''s body and his burning flames. *CLANG~* White was the only thing that everyone on Dressrosa saw, but a voice came out. "Idiot, you won''t die." ? {Year: 20} ? "In the end, we don''t know where Donquixote Doflamingo went..." King Riku said to no one in particular. When the short blindness they had, Ryu was the only one floating in the air which prompted the people to assume he was the winner and they were saved. However Ryu told King Riku that Doflamingo was actually still alive, but didn''t tell where he was now. Viola was working with the citizens in rebuilding the Dressrosa. A fair-skinned and thin 13-years-old girl with long, light pink braid hair ran towards her grandfather as a one-legged large muscular man, with long, flowing hair and a pointy beard followed. "Grandfather!" Smiling, King Riku turned to his granddaughter. "Rebecca, why are you here?" "She wanted to see her grandfather," the one-legged man responded for her. "I heard that the World Government has finally asked?" Looking up to Kyros as Riku held Rebecca, he nodded. "Yes, it was as Ryu told us. However, I''m not sure how to feel about this when Ryu decided to affiliate himself with Dressrosa..." "Ryu is super strong!" Rebecca shouted in her grandfather''s ear. Riku shook and had to regain his composure as he turned to look at her, seriously. Kyros also got the message and felt like he should play along as if he didn''t know of his daughter''s feelings. "Rebecca..." Riku asked slowly as Rebecca looked questioningly. "Have you fallen for him?" Freezing instantly, she didn''t respond for awhile much to their dismay. Rebecca finally gained a red face. Kyros and Riku cried tears. ''RYU...!'' They were not going to be able to do anything about Ryu, so they could only shout his name angrily in their mind. They were very protective of her. ? (Foosha Village in East Blue) {Year: 20.2} ? "He finally left, Chief" A young woman with brown eyes and shoulder-length black hair smiled. "We''re going to miss him." "He''ll ruin the town''s reputation!" Disgruntled, the chief said. The chief had a cleft chin, wore oval glasses, and has a mustache and a beard. "I never thought he would really leave." A bystander added. All of them were looking at a wood dinghy with a young man in it. He wore his trademark straw hat, which was given from "Red-Haired" Shanks. "Wait, the sea king''s here!" A other bystander shouted worriedly as a sea king neared the wood dinghy. "Be careful, Luffy!" ... "What a nice weather..." The young man said in his dinghy. Then a sea king came out of the sea and roared at him. Grinning, he expected him. "I''ve been waiting for you, sea monster!" Stretching out his right arm as his left hand grabbed on his right shoulder, he shouted. "Rubber... Pistol!" His right arm stretched towards the sea king, hitting him in the head. The sea king immediately went unconscious. "Alright, let''s go!" Stretching out both his arms while standing on his dinghy, Luffy announced to the world. "I''ll become King of the Pirates!!!"