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When he saw someone he seemed to recognize, he realized it was Cobra, the king of Alabasta.
And next to Cobra was Pell, commander of the royal guard.
'I guess he's here for the water,' Kozue thought as she appeared in the shop.
As he headed toward the entrance, he realized he had left the small shelf full of unsold products, so he immediately sent it to storage.
Now with the tent empty, he opened the door and found himself standing before the king of this country, Nefertari Cobra.
"Mr. Cobra, come in," Kozue said as he stepped aside.
Cobra, for his part, hoped this meeting would go well.
"I assume you're here because of my water selling activities," Kozue said as she pulled out three chairs for them to sit on.
He had just bought these chairs using his money at the store.
'A devil fruit?' Cobra and Pell thought.
"Yes, with the situation in the kingdom, water is of utmost importance to everyone, so I had to come when I heard someone was selling bottled water."
"I want to know if you can get more water," Cobra said in a dignified voice.
"Yes, I can do it"
"I don't know how much you need to distribute to the entire kingdom?" Kozue replied and immediately asked how much water the kingdom needs.
Obviously Cobra came for this, so he wouldn't waste either of their time asking the reasons for his visit.
Cobra's expression softened when he heard that Kozue intended to help the kingdom.
"We currently use about 50 million liters of water daily, so our reserves are being depleted without being able to replenish them in time with rain and underground rivers."
"If circumstances continue like this, Alabasta will run out of water to supply the population in eight months," Cobra said, his voice hurt.
His kingdom was bleeding to death and as king he could do nothing to solve the problem.
At least he hoped the young man in front of him could help.
Hearing the amount of water Cobra wanted, Kozue's eyes widened in surprise as she learned for the first time how much water is used daily.
Thinking about this, he wondered how much water was consumed in his world daily.
"Obviously I can't get that much water daily, let alone for free," Kozue said, making Cobra's shoulders slump in disappointment.
"But at least I can sell you water at very low prices so you can distribute it throughout the country and use it for basic needs," Kozue finished, rekindling Cobra's hope.
Quickly scanning the store on the screen that only he could see, he saw how much it would cost to get large quantities of water.
"How about 25 million berries for 25 million liters of water?" Kozue finally said when he did the math.
It must be very easy for the dimensional store to get drinking water so they can sell it so cheaply.
Cobra also thought the price was cheap as he showed surprise on his face.
"Can you get that much water?" Cobra asked hopefully.
25 million berries?
That was nothing for a kingdom as large as Alabasta.
Although Alabasta is mostly desert, they had many minerals and had a very large fishing industry.
They could easily spend 50 million berries a day to supply themselves with water.
"Yes, I can do that."
"But I must clarify that your soldiers must come to collect the water and I have an additional condition," Kozue said finally.
"Of course, I will send my soldiers to receive the water."
"And regarding your condition, as long as it's reasonable, I'll agree to comply with it," Cobra said with a serious look.
I hoped Kozue wouldn't ask for something outrageous.
"It's not that difficult for you to fulfill and I don't want it for free."
"I just hope to pay it monthly," Kozue said before declaring her request.
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It had been 2 weeks since the meeting with Cobra.
In these 2 weeks, Kozue's store in the city of Alubarna had undergone a drastic change.
Gone is the small shop that only covered the first floor of his previous home.
Right now the store was a whole shopping center that covered the entire block that was previously here.
People came and went seeing so many products and so many styles of clothing for the first time.
With so many people entering her mall, Kozue earned about 80,000 points a day, and that number increased daily.
Seeing so many people coming in daily, Kozue was happy to see all these people leaving with the products they bought.
According to the agreement he had with Cobra, the entire block would be sold to him and he would pay a certain amount of money monthly.
Of course, the dimensional store immediately transformed the entire block into a huge shopping center when Cobra handed over ownership of the block and the residents had moved out.
Aside from that, Cobra directly paid for 1 week of water, money of which Kozue owned 10% and with which Kozue bought several products that he immediately put up for sale.
It's been 10 days since the mall opened and it's been packed from day one with people shopping for different things they felt they needed.
Of course, water continued to be a product widely consumed by the population.
It was very common to see people going out with several gallons of water to use for their daily consumption.
Regarding the kingdom, the water shortage has stopped for the moment with all the water that Cobra distributed to the entire kingdom through his soldiers.
The 800,000-strong army that was a source of pride for Alabasta was now acting as water distributors and was very happy to do so.
They knew that many people needed this water and they felt good about bringing this water to different cities.
Seeing that everything was fine, Kozue retreated to the central part of the mall where her resting and training place was located.
With the points earned, he spent 100,000 points to purchase a training space with various weights ranging from tens of kilograms to hundreds of kilograms.
According to what he learned from the dimensional store, his body had changed to adapt to the laws of this world that allowed him to become stronger through extreme training.
Of course, the dandelions he bought at the store were very helpful in helping his strength progress quickly.
Aside from that, he bought the Life Return skill.
1000 points for level 1
2000 points for level 2
4000 points for level 3
And 8000 points for level 4
In total, he spent 15,000 points the day after he bought the training facility so that his body could recover quickly and also better absorb the food he ate.
For the past 2 weeks he hadn't taken advantage of the fact that time stood still in his world, but instead waited until the school year was over and thought about training in the One Piece world during the holidays.
Since the school year had ended yesterday, Kozue now had a lot of free time to train and was planning on training hard.
He knew that next year he would be going to Kuoh Academy, where the problems would start and he would have to be ready to overcome them.
It didn't occur to him to ask his parents to change his school.
He knew he would encounter the supernatural world in the future anyway, so he might as well do it when he meets Rias and Sona.
He had no plans to join the nobility of any of them, but they might be on good terms.
After spending another 3 weeks of extreme training and using hundreds of dandelions, Kozue felt that his body was strong enough to learn all 6 marine styles and not suffer while using them.
He first learned Soru, spending 10,000 points to learn level 1.
With Soru at level 1, he could kick the ground 10 times to boost his speed.
He spent another 11,000 points to upgrade his Soru skill to level 2 and 12,000 points to level 3, where he could kick the ground 12 times in an instant.
He didn't buy the next level because his body wasn't strong enough.
Of course, he could train himself to increase the level of his Soru skill on his own, but using points to directly purchase the skill saved time.
In addition to the Soru skill, he also purchased the Tekkai and Paper Body skills.
The Tekkai ability allowed him to harden his muscles so much that it would seem like he had armor under his skin.
The Paper Body skill worked the same way when controlling muscles.
But instead of hardening them to increase defense, the paper body skill made you relax your muscles so much that it made it easy to move like paper in the air to dodge any enemy attack.