"You want to coat your ship?"
"Yes."
"Okay, one billion belly."
Shinra didn't waste his time and quickly stood up, ready to leave along with Robin and Carina.
One billion bellies?
Don't be kidding!
They might need someone to coat their ship, and if possible, a skilled one, but they wouldn't want to be taken advantage of.
'Hmm...'
At worst, Shinra thought to learn the knowledge of coating from the book, hypnotize the master coaters on this island, or, if the situation forced him, he was thinking of making a hole in the Red Line by using his Suna Suna no Mi.
Yes, Shinra had this idea before, creating a large hole on the Red Line, a vast ring-like continent that wraps around the entire Blue Planet, separating the oceans within this world.
If it was anyone else, they would have had trouble creating a hole, but for him, while it took time, he believed that he could turn the reddish mineral wall that divided the oceans partly into a sand, and created a large hole, which connected the first and the second parts of the Grand Line, so that way, the two places could be connected without diving into the Fish-Man Island or climbing up to the Mary Geoise.
"Stop! Stop! I was just kidding! But the price depends on the size of the ship! Let me see your ship first!"
The elderly man quickly begged Shinra to stop when the mature woman stared at him in anger.
Still, the man and the woman could tell that Shinra wasn't weak, and while they weren't sure about his identity, it wouldn't be good to become Shinra's enemy, especially when they saw his tricky ability to become invisible.
Was that Shinra's Devil Fruit?
More importantly, Shinra also had that special ability!
Yes, just as the man released that tremendous pressure that caused people to lose their will and submit, Shinra also released the same pressure. While it couldn't defeat the man's pressure, it matched him, despite being Shinra's first time to awaken that power.
"Though, I can teach you the power that you can awaken for one billion bellies."
The man suddenly said, looking at Shinra with a hint of teasing.
Haki.
This was the name of the special ability that was owned by the people in this world.
While many types of Haki existed, the one Shinra had just used was the Supreme King Haki, the rarest form of Haki that was only awakened in one person out of millions.
The man was surprised that Shinra was able to awaken that ability, but he was sure that Shinra was curious about this ability.
However, Shinra only looked at this man as if he were a comedian before he left, holding Robin and Carina in his arms as they were still weak from the pressure that exuded by the man.
Still, Shinra would be lying if he weren't curious about the man's ability, and if possible, he wanted to get them since he knew the man's identity well.
Dark King, Silvers Rayleigh.
Unexpectedly, the one that Doll had recommended to him was the Vice-Captain of the Roger Pirates, which made Shinra speechless.
What kind of Marine recommends a pirate?
While Shinra was helpless, he also couldn't deny that Rayleigh's ability as a coater, since this man was the one who coated the original MC's ship, Thousand Sunny, so it swam swiftly to the Fish-Man Island.
However, this was because Rayleigh understood that Luffy was the one who had inherited his acquaintance's will.
On the other hand, Shinra was just a stranger, and he would be lying if he wasn't worried about letting the coater's process be taken care of by a stranger.
"Sorry," Robin suddenly apologized.
Shinra looked at Robin, speechless, and put his forehead against hers. "What are you apologizing for? It's better to rely on myself than entrust our lives to someone that we don't know."
With his experience in the world of Naruto, it was weird of him to trust Rayleigh so easily, even if he had remembered the story of One Piece more or less.
No matter how much Luffy had tried to make the image of a pirate great, a pirate was, in the end, a criminal.
Or rather, instead of a pirate, Luffy was more or less an adventurer, someone who sailed along the ocean.
However, Rayleigh was different since this guy was a pirate, someone who robbed others to live.
Shinra wasn't sure whether Rayleigh had stolen from others or not, but he was certain that someone who could follow Gol D. Roger, the one who had caused the Golden Age of Pirates, where pirates were everywhere, bringing tragedy and terror to everyone, was definitely far from a good person.
Still, as for why Robin wanted to apologize, it was because she knew that Shinra wanted to fight Rayleigh, and if possible, rob Rayleigh of everything, but as Rayleigh's level was higher than any of the enemies that he had to face, while Shinra wouldn't be defeated, as Robin and Carina were around, they would become his burden.
Yet, even if Shinra didn't fight Rayleigh and didn't even get the coat that he needed, his gain was quite good as he had awoken his Supreme King Haki.
As he thought so, Robin looked at Carina, whose eyes couldn't look away from her man as she rolled her eyes, then leaned on him, resting and became even more addicted to the sense of peace that she gained by his side.
"YOU ARE STUPID! WHAT ARE YOU DOING PROVOKING OTHERS SO CARELESSLY LIKE THAT!"
However, as Shinra left, the mature woman was in wrath as she looked at the elderly man.
"Can you blame me? They use their ability when they come! I need to be careful!"
"Then, why do you have to provoke them?"
"I never thought the young man was so tricky..."
"....." The woman sighed. "You should erase your habit as a pirate, or do you want to live like a pirate till you die?"
Was there even a future for a pirate?
The future of a pirate was being killed on the ocean, as they died being forgotten, and loneliness as they sank into the deep ocean became the nutrients for the fish.
Rubbing his temple, Rayleigh wondered whether there was a way to solve all the problems. As he thought so, he thought of leaving, thinking of a countermeasure, but all of a sudden, his neck was grasped by the woman.
"Take all of your money! I need to repair my shop!"
"..."
Yet, Shinra, who had left, realized that he was luckier than he had thought since he discovered another master and really found several books about the coating technology. This technology was quite easy to learn, far easier than learning navigation on this harsh sea, but to make sure that everything was okay, he decided to do a test with several ships that he stole from the nearby criminal organizations, doing a test to see whether they could successfully go to the Fish-Man Island.
Still, watching Shinra, who did the test and experiment for several days with genuine pigs (the criminals) to enter the sea, Robin and Carina thought that they should soothe his heart and body.
"Boss, drink this cold orange juice."
"Thanks."
Shinra didn't turn as he made a record, letting Carina feed him with a straw, ignoring her moist yet tempting gaze, as he was about to reach the critical point, learning everything about the coating until finally, he fully coated his ship.
"Done."
As he said, the one who gave him an answer wasn't Robin or Carina, but someone else.
"...you really did it. You really learned how to coat a ship..."
The voice was filled with disbelief, yet Shinra didn't have a good feeling and just asked coldly, "Do you want to die?"
"..."
Still, Shinra didn't waste his time and said softly, "Haboob."
At that moment, as his voice fell, the world was covered in a massive sandstorm.