Kazuki watched as the boiled capsule jumped out the pot, then into the ocean as it exploded into a puff of smoke.
'Poof'
He learned that he only had to boil the capsule once to break the seal, he also learned that there was a special button that turned it back into a capsule that he had to find.
After the smoke cleared, he saw a yellow boat with a with a large forty-eight in blue paint.
After admiring it, he found a manuel on the controls and sat down, enjoying the cool breeze as he read on how to operate the speed boat for a couple hours.
"Okay, that's simple enough." Kazuki nodded with a laugh as he grabbed the wheel and started the boat up, and began driving around while getting a feel for the speed as he went around the island in circles.
"Man this is fun and it's super fast, let's see how far I can go." Kazuki grinned as he felt the wind blow on his face, he increased the boats speed whipping him forward.
~Rock Boil Island-Broil town-West Blue~
"Get back here you dirty thief's!"
"Hey watch wearing your goin, you tweebs!"
A merchant yelled at three kids wearing hoods running down the crowd street, bumping into people as a man with a with a large scar on his face chased after them.
The three kids split apart midway causing the man to yell out in frustration, he then followed one child but soon lost sight of the kid as the place got more and more crowded.
"Damn, fuck, fuck, move!" The man yelled as he pushed and shoved people out of his way, but soon got frustrated at losing sight of the thief's.
"Boss is going to kill me, damn." The man rubbed his forehead in frustration and fear.
"But those kids are going to die with me if it's the last thing I do."
~Hidden alley~
"Jess, Udon, come here, here." A young red haired girl yelled from a dark alley as she waved the two hiding kids over.
"Shh Beany keep it down, we don't know if that asshole is still following us." Jess, a blue haired girl said as she removed her hood along with the boy who had black hair.
"As the oldest, I'm the leader so just follow my lead." Beany huffed annoyed.
"Shut up, your just twelve and I'm just a year younger than you."
The boy Udon just smiled as he watched both girls yell at each other. "Hey, what did you guys take for that scary guy to be chasing us?" He asked with curiosity.
He wasn't with them earlier when they went to go steal from some low pirates, as he was securing food at the time.
Jess grinned wide as she grabbed the bag she hid under her shirt and set it on the ground.
"I heard the pirates talking about how their going to get millions of berries after selling this fruit." She grinned holding the bag like the greatest treasure.
Udon eyes widened as he looked at her with bewilderment. "M-millions, what is it?" He asked looking at the bag.
All three of them were orphans who had only each other to depend on, so scrapping just a hundred berrie was a miracle.
"W-were rich?! We can open up the orphanage again." Udon said with delight as he clenched his trembling fist in excitement.
The orphanage that they used to live in, along with other kids without guardians, was unfortunately burned down due to unknown causes.
And the town didn't pay for another one to get built, leaving numerous kids homeless and defending for themselves.
Beany squealed in delight and grabbed Jess's hands as both girls jumped around in delight.
As the three kids naively celebrated they were unaware of the dangers they just brought upon themselves.
~Pirate ship-Captains cabin~
"Ugh I told you what they looked like! Ple-agh." The scared man yelled in pain as his index finger was severed with a rusty blade, causing him to cradle his hand now with just a thumb remaining, as tears ran down his face he gritted his teeth in pain.
Sitting in front of him was a brown skinned man with gold jewelry, covering his face and ears. studs and earrings glittered in the light as he looked down on the bleeding man.
"So you let a bunch of children steal my fucking fruit." The man's grinned widened, as he leaned down lifting the scared men's chin up.
"Pl-please it was a accident, I already told you what they looked like. Just give me time to find where those kids went, I can-ugh." The scared man was desperately pleading when his body sudden froze and he began to tremble as blood flowed out his mouth and eyes while the man in gold chuckled in amusement.
"Go find those kids he mentioned and get my fruit back." The man said grinning as he licked the blood on his hands while the men behind him saluted.
"Yes sir Captain Devon!"
"Oh and bring them back, I need something more to drink." The man chuckled as the blood pooling around the dead man, moved and became a dense ball that he then ate with a gulp down.
"Mmmm delicious." Devon moaned in pleasure licking his lips as the men around him cringed at the sight.
[Delouy Devon - Vampier|Blood drip pirates- 2,000,000 Berry]
~Somewhere at sea~
"Damn, definitely shouldn't have gone out this far." Kazuki muttered as a large shadow covered him and his boat, causing him to look up in awe.
A giant green snake beast glared at him, as it was rising from the water in front of him and towing over the area, it flickered its fork tongue out its mouth and hissed. It then suddenly opened its mouth wide, showing rolls of sharp teeth as it lunged forward.
"Oh, so you want to fight! Let's go!" Kazuki grinned, as he grabbed his red staff spinning it around him.
He then jumped off his ship high into the air, facing the snake as it opened its mouth wider to swallow him, Kazuki held his short staff to his side with both hands before swinging it sideways.
"Power pole, extend!" Kazuki yelled as his staff glowed a bright red before it suddenly began extending to long lengths.
"Take this!" Kazuki yelled as the long staff landed on the side of the snakes head and body, causing its eyes to pop out and blood to spurt out its mouth.
Kazuki sent the beast flying back, making it skid across the ocean till it disappeared from his sight.
"Hehe, power pole return!" He yelled causing his staff to glow a bright red before shrinking as Kazuki flipped mid air and landed back on his rocking ship.
Kazuki grinned as he patted his staff, at first he didn't know how to use it properly, but once he got comfortable changing its length, it became a fun way to fight.
And it might not look like it, but it's weight was around two hundred and twenty Kilograms, making it half the weight of the half-ton shell he lifted from the crate.
"Mmm I spotted a island while in the air, let's go! I haven't seen people in a long time." Kazuki muttered to himself in excitement, loving his adventure so far.
He then turned the ship and sailed towards the island he saw in the distance.
~Orphans-Abandoned shack by the ocean~
Beany nervously looked around as she held a rusty knife in her trembling hands.
"Ok, no one should find us here." She muttered looking out the broken window with weariness.
Earlier when they were celebrating they heard loud fighting, and soon learned that the pirates that they stole from were searching for them.
"I'm scared, let's just give it back to them." A shaking Jess muttered as she held her trembling arms.
"We can't! If we can't get the orphanage running again the younger kids will keep suffering." Beany yelled in anger, clutching the bag in her hands.
"And you know pirates, nothing is really there's! Everthing they have was probably stolen! So why can't we take from them too?"
Even if she didn't mind stealing from pirates, it still was dangerous that's why only the three of them were out doing it, but as the oldest she had to look out for everyone else since the adults abandoned them.
Now that she had a way to get food, clothes and give shelter to her family, she couldn't just let her golden goose go.
"That scar guy saw our faces so they shouldn't target any of the other kids." Udon muttered as he tapped his finger anxiously.
Beany nodded agreeing with Udon. "And we know how pirates operate, if they cause a big enough commotion and start attacking people, then the marines will come soon and capture them."
Jess stayed silent holding herself close. "I just want to go home, wonder how the little ones are holding up." She muttered somberly.
Beany looked down as she leaned her back against the shack wall.
"We'll stay here for a couple days, then make sure those pirates are gone before going to the black market to sell this damn thing." She said thinking as she rubbed her chin.
"Do you remember their flag Jess?"
Jess nodded as she looked up. "Yeah it was a skull with red tears coming out of its sockets along with deep red teeth."
Udon looked deep in thought as he heard the description. "That doesn't sound familiar, must be a new group of pirates."
Beany nodded, Udon technically wasn't like the rest of them who were abandoned or grew up in the orphanage.
His dad was a former pirate who left him here temporarily with a promise of coming back, but it's been a year now with no word from him.
Udon would occasionally go visit the nearby marine base and look through bounty's, hoping to find at least some info even if negative.
'Vvrrrrr, vrrrr."
"Shh, what is that?" Jess panicking muttered as a weird sound was heard that was getting louder as it seemed to approach.
They all got up and looked through the broken window as a small dot in the ocean began to become bigger as it made its way toward them.
"Huh, it's a kid." Beany muttered with the best eyesight out of the three, she looked at the boy steering the yellow boat with a with a large forty-eight in blue paint.
"He looks weird, he's wearing a orange sleeveless top and pants, he doesn't look strong but be careful, never seen a boat like that before." She said to the other two as she inspected the boy who just reached shore.
The boy groaned and stretched his arms and back, then he seemed to tinker with his boat but to her and the other two's astonishment it disappeared into a poof of smoke.
"How did he do that? Where did his boat go?" Jess asked in wonder.
Udon was also looking at the boy when he spotted something that froze him stiff. "Oh no the pirates, are here!" He said trembling, alerting the other two.
They watched as a group of twenty men with swords and guns in hand, walked down the beach scaring anyone nearby away as they locked onto the boy they were watching.
"No, no this is my fought, I shouldn't have stolen that fruit." Beany muttered as she clenched her shaking hands, looking as they went to confront the boy.
"M-maybe they won't hurt him." Jess muttered gulping as she watched.
"I have to go save him." Beany said about to walk out when Udon grabbed her shoulder.
"Are you stupid? And do what! Get caught when we're literally avoiding them? We don't know him and we have our own problems, think about the kids, the orphanage." Udon hissed in anger.
Beany looked at him with wide eyes, before lowering her head and biting her lips, as she looked back up and stared at the boy in red with guilt.
"I'm so sorry."
~Beach of the abandoned shack~
"Listen I don't have any change but hope you guys get back on your feet." Kazuki said as he looked at the large group of guys wearing rags for clothes. "Man the homeless problem here is rough."
A fat big belly pirated looked at Kazuki with annoyance as he approached him. "We're pirates not homeless you damn brat, we're looking for our fruit."
Kazuki looked at them with a raised eyebrow as he focused on their teeth. "I can see why, your teeth are disgusting. Hope it's a citrus fruit cause sheesh, your gum disease got a disease." Kazuki said shacking his head looking disgusted.
Some of the pirates growled with anger taking out their swords and guns, they weren't going to bother with the kid at first but now they wanted to beat the hell out of him.
"Ooh hit a sour spot huh, didn't know pirates were so sensitive about their nasty ass teeth."
Kazuki seeing them grip their weapons and approach him, just grinned and took his red staff out and spun it around his body then spread his legs wide while holding his staff under his arm.
"You know what would really help those nasty teeth." Kazuki said teasingly as the group of pirates glared at him.
"What!" The big bellied pirate growled cocking the hammer of his gun back.
Just as the pirates were about to attack Kazuki rushed forward in a blur of motion, he began disarming some of the pirates to quickly for them to react, as he spun his staff around in a whirlwind.
He sent a couple them flying back as their weapons cluttering on the ground began to pile up.
"It's milk man! Hahahaha." Kazuki laughed leaning against his staff as he looked at the rest of the glaring pirates aiming their swords and guns at him.
"Damn pirates really are sensitive about their teeth."
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To be continued…