A Joke
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One Piece: Desperate
🕑 Added 2021-10-09 08:40:17 +0000 UTCChapter 131
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Reiju was quite skilled already with the usage of her new Gas-Gas Fruit. Though, unlike Caesar, she doesn't seem to even bother using it to harm anyone. Instead, she had already thought of a couple ways on how to help people.
"I don't think you have ever shown so much enthusiasm, ever," I remarked, getting Reiju's attention and a smile from her.
She marveled at my sight. "So what? Do you think I don't care for you? Unlike what most might think, I am not with you just to survive. Or my self-interest."
Chuckling at her defensive behavior, I acknowledged her feelings. "Well, what can I say? Sometimes, I can be tricked and not know some things."
The look she gave me afterward doubted my words. But it was true because while I would feel due to my Observation Haki that she cared about me before, many people can trick them to feel certain things. That was why this ability wasn't something I overly relied on.
"You know now," she pouted and flew behind me, grabbing my neck and putting me in a soft chokehold.
"Uhhh… Reiju, I am not into S&M play." I jokingly looked at her worryingly. Negan's snort as he tried to hold his laugh is heard even from the other side of the ship. He was supposed to keep an eye on any attacks, but his fruit also let him hear everything that was happening on the ship. It seemed like this situation was funny to him.
Well, it seems like Mero, the mermaid who is still infatuated with him, will have her sleeping quarters moved right next to Negan. I will make sure of it as soon as we get him back. He knew how petty I could be even to my friends, yet he still acted like this.
Suddenly, I felt my body behave strangely as something was pulled out of it. My first instinct was to grab Reiju and break her neck like a twig, she was doing something strange. But once again, I stopped those thoughts and let her do what she wanted. If she wanted me dead, she wouldn't have warned me of the poison years ago. While her thoughts on me might have changed, as people changed all the time, I decided to believe in her right now.
And my trust wasn't betrayed, as soon I noticed that what was being sucked off my body wasn't the good thing. Instead, it was the bad oxidized air and I experienced a maximized energy body as pure oxygen-filled it.
She let go and with a proud smile winked at me. "So? How do you like that?"
My body's power, defense, and speed probably increased around 10%. Every human body had those bad things in them that piled up as they grew up, and the air they breathed wasn't always clean.
Now 10% might not sound much, but at the level I was right now any little increase even as small as 1% was welcomed. Because while my power had grown these last few years, my basic physical power only had small improvements naturally. Sure, when I fused with my clones, my body got stronger slightly. But that wasn't a natural improvement.
Reiju read my mind as she smiled seductively. "See~ I can be useful in many ways."
I sighed and gave her a bear hug. She flinched at that in surprise. "Reiju, if you ever want something, tell me. I will give it my all to accommodate you."
"What if I want something that might interfere with your plans?"
"Well, I will still try my best to complete that wish of yours. Though I won't lie if you ask something like becoming a farmer and stopping all this. I won't accept." I clarified, but she shook her head.
"No, I want you to open a shelter for the poor and homeless in Wano."
What? That's it? Why would that even remotely interfere with my plans? Did she think I was just a guy who did evil things to just be evil?
"That's an easy thing to do," I reaffirmed her worries. Plus in Wano, while it still had poor people and homeless people, most things had still gone back to the way they were before Oden died. Homeless and the poor would be everywhere in the world, for where there are winners, there will need to be losers too. Of course, not in the normal sense of a loser, there are many homeless who had a hardworking life. Thinking otherwise would be naive. But sometimes, the winners have to take actions that put the losers in terrible states.
It was the circle of life, just like human life and wither with time. For the rich to exist, there need to be the poor too. Perfection in society is a realistically impossible theory.
But Reiju's wish, I will gladly complete it and even put her name on the charity buildings.
"Anyway, we will go to a vacation island before we arrive in Wano, this will be my reward for the crew. I will contact Gion and have her start building homeless shelters and hospitals in each city and small town in Wano." This will cost quite a lot, but money had no worth to me. I won't be able to spend all of it in a hundred lifetimes even if I tried. So I had a lot of it too.
Keeping Reiju and my main subordinates happy was something that I would easily spend money on.
**
It didn't take long to reach a vacation island. But once we were there, an unexpected situation occurred. Since the vacation island was close to Wano, it also was under my protection and control.
So when a Yonko appeared in my territory, it would be a bad thing. Well, there is only one live Yonko out there nowadays.
Shanks was currently in normal clothes eating a bowl of ramen in a street stall. I knew that because he was doing so right in front of me. He looked like a deer caught in headlights. "Would you believe me if I said that I was here just for a vacation?"
"…" I kept staring at him with an emotionless gaze, which made the man look even more nervous.
"I also paid for the ramen. So I didn't steal." He said as if that was going to help his case.
The smirk on my face might have shown too much because Shanks paled when he saw it.
***
On Fishman Island, Luffy looked at Joey with a smug expression. "I beat you, skinny man!"
"Well, I have never really been able to beat strong people. Anyway, cya~" Joey shrugged and walked off with a yawn. This annoyed Luffy since it made the win that he put effort into seem worthless.
But as he walked off, Joey looked at his hand and sighed regretfully. "Ahh~ I should have used my Devil Fruit too."
Suddenly a fishman with a giant body and white hair walked by, he had jagged teeth and red eyes.
Joey stopped. "Oh? Is that you Hody Jones? What's up with the appearance?"
Instead of answering, Hody took a stance and punched the human in the chest, sending a ripple of power through his body.
[10,000 Tile Punch]
BAAAM!!!
Joey was slammed into one of the buildings.
"We will no longer be ruled by humans! This is a revolution from now on!!" Hody yelled out, raising his fist in victory.
But suddenly, the rubble of the building that Joey had smashed into moved. "Oy, oy, oy… you guys, I am kinda angry now. I just lost an arm-wrestling match. Sorry, but I will be using you to relieve my stress."
"Huh?" Hody Jones was confused. When suddenly, a long neck, white and wooly creature came out of the ruble standing on two legs. It had the arms of a human, and its legs were hooves.
{Soru}
Fwish!
Within an instant, Joey disappeared from Hody's view and the next thing he felt was as if a hundred bullets pierced his body.
"{Shigan}" Joey whispered, looking at Hody with a murderous gaze.
