The crowd : Who is that he was able to send that Hody Jones flying with only a kick .
I paid them no mind and went back to the shocked kid with the doll i can already tell that he didn't expect to see me here this fast .
Hey kid we meet again how have you and your mother been doing ? .
Mister is that you is that really you , coooool .
Your name is Zururinright and yes Zururin it's really me , cool ?! you were way cooler than me just now .
I was ?
Yes my friend you are more courageous than all the people here compined it took a great amount of courage to be able to talk back to someone who are way bigger and more stronger than you are .
He looked at me weirdly i guess he didn't understand all of that .
Hooooooy , that was a nasty move your did there .
Ooh , you are lucky that i only wanted to send you flying or those bruises on your stomach would have been socked in blood instead of those superficial wounds .
You are quite courageous for a human i will give you that but don't forget where you are now you're in our territory the Fish-man District .
At his words more Fishmen began to gather around him the amount was 500 or so all equipped with some basic weapons some had knives some had a stick with a knife sticked to it to make it to look like a spear .
But those numbers don't matter that much too me i have an ace up my sleeves but my calm was translated to cowardice in Hody understanding .
What , want to repeat the words you said before or are you too scared now ? .
I still didn't response i was sensing something weird here now that i'm using clairvoyance together with Observation Haki some people was there in some kind of camouflage with camera snails as they were taking pictures of what's happening , some of them were Fishmen and some were humans , what exactly are they trying to accomplish by taking a picture of me or they wanted pictures of what's happening here trying to sow discord the two parties already are hating each other maybe they are just journalists anyway i'm a pirate now image doesn't matter that much to me .
So that's who you truly are a coward i thought i found a courageous human and was about to make an example from you but i lost interest, guys you can beat him as you like but i will be the one to give him the finishing blow now squish him .
And they ran towards me and surrounded me let's warm up a bit before my showdown with Ace , i was in the center of barrages of different kinds attacks some were punching and some were kicking some was trying to pierce my skin with their weapons knives and the likes but i was evading for some time to check on my reflexes also having some fun then i wanted to check something and increased my blood pumping speed by 30 and felt it the rush of adrenaline if i'm able to see my body right now wait i easily can i was now fuming as if i'm angered and my skin color began to turn to more red like and i felt it the thing that Rayleigh and Ace said that i lost my fighting spirit was now fully awakened i then began my retaliation .
A simple punch was now sending an adult fishmen out of the scope of his comrades vision completely i was really enjoying his battle royal more and more a kick and a punch was enough to give those Fishmen some needed rest .
Half of the Fishmen were already down in just 30 seconds now the relaxed Hody was gritting his teeth while ordering the other half to attack since my fighting spirit awakened i wasn't interested in those untrained fellows anymore so i let them chase me to some distance away from the civilians and zzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeggggggghhhhhh unleached my Conqueror's Haki the second half lost conscious and fall one after another .
Most of the people who saw this scene were perplexed not having any clue of what just happened i then returned to Hody with a smug smile on my face .
You are reaaaaaarrrrrggggggg .
Sorry , but i already had enough of you , and another kick but this one was still under the effect of my increased blood pumping speed which also increased the temperature of my body by a large margin the result was the footprint of my sandals on his abdomen and he was sent flying again remind me of that weird leader of the Flying Fish Riders with spiral eyebrows Duval don't know why .
Hooooooy , are you still alive Hody san ?
Worthless human , i would kill you a hundred times for this , he said this and grabbed something from his jacket a half red half black pill and swallowed it then his body began to swell with his body tensing the drug must have the reason for the sudden transformation but it won't really matter much right .
Fish-man KARATE : droplets of pain, weirdly he was able to shoot something akin to water bullets at me but with my increased Adrenaline and my reflexes they weren't even able to touch me but the people behind me wasn't this lucky the shots continued on their way towards those other Fishmen like him i looked at his eyes and yeah he lost his ability to think clearly His eyes took on an appearance similar to those of the Sea Kings , with my speed i was able to intercept those water bullets easily but Hody suddenly launched himself towards me then stood at some distance from me and stood in a weird stance and said Fish-man KARATE : water sorrow and punched towards me i was expecting a normal punch but from this distance it was really hard to tell what was going inside his mind .
Ugghhh i felt something huge crushing my insides like a bomb or a shockwave bursting inside my stomach and chest that left me groaning in pain with as a result for the state i was in when i got attacked i was literally vomiting a massive amounts of blood now i really remembered one of Rayleigh's first lesson to me Ryuu the sea and especially the New World is massive and dangerous people with special traits are everywhere so you need not to underestimate anyone you face and he again was absolutely right i really underestimated this guy let's wrap this up i didn't use my healing as the power that was crushing my insides already have withdraw but the biggest reason is to use this pain to engrave Rayleigh lesson into my mind and body .
I stood up and said : now that i have tasted your shockwave you need to taste mine too i enhanced my blood pumping by another 10 times to make it 40 times total while enhancing both my strength and speed by 20 for each of them and used Soru and appeared in front of Hody Jones in a blink of an eye and punched him the moment my fist made contact with his skin a shockwave bubble entered his body completely and let's just say that a few sections at Coral Hill will need renewal as Hody went there crashing everything in his way luckily he was repelled when he crashed with the bubble after losing so much momentum and he stopped there unconscious having uncountable number of sever wounds his body was dyed red that he wasn't even recognizable any more but he will live maybe .
I looked around to see the Fishmen looking at me weirdly and whispering about where did Hody Jones go he was fighting me just now right did he ran away but wasn't he holding an advantage over the humans those were some of the questions that were being whispered among those Fishmen and i heard them all but paid them no mind as i returned to my red skinned friend Zururin .
devil san where did Hody san go ?
You see that smoke coming from the Coral Hill .
No, you can't be serious .
I just nodded and pointed at the place where the merfolks were now gathered around at .
He just opened his mouth enough that i could have fitted the whole mecha doll in out of astonishment .
Zururin , you mentioned queen Otohime .
Ohh, yeah she was the most kind person i have ever met beside my mom and i hadn't had the chance to meet mister devil either i was running to meet her with a snot hanging from one of my nose's hole she slapped me and berated me and told me that i looked like an idiot like that and told me if i would have my snot hanging down it should be hanging from both holes so after her unfortunate death i made a promise to not let my snot be hanging down from that day see . He said trying to show me but i pushed him away and told him that i believe him .
So even Shirahoshi mother had a side like that too but she might have indirectly helped Zururin a big time if he was still doing this when he visited the Sabondy Park i wouldn't have decided to help him just kidding .
I will have a good story to tell Shirahoshi about her mom the next time we meet .
Zururin , it's Ryuu .
What is it ?
My name isn't mr devil that was a nickname of sort my real name is Ryuu .
Sorry Ryuu san .
Stop the san already i'm not that much older than you and before you ask i'm 13 years old .
Waaoooaah , i thought you would be at least 10 or 20 years older than me devil san sorry Ryuu san is this strong and only 13 years old that's awesome .
I can tell he was quite excited but there's something i needed to check with him .
Zururin what had happened to your mother.
All the excitement he had on his face now vanished completely and he began sobbing for a while then told me that Hody Jones told him that he saw his mother getting kidnapped by some human pirates and when he tried to interfere they run away to the surface .
Hody Jones lied to Zururin that much i can tell so he was either the one responsible for the disappearance of his mother or worse he might have harmed her directly because she like Zururin believed that not all the humans were the same which was contracting to the hate human regiment that Hody tried to force on the Fishman district i should have asked Zururin sooner maybe i would have gotten a few of my questions answered Hody Jones was the only witness .
Don't worry Zururin i will try to find your mother whereabouts do you know where Hody's entourage are ? .
He pointed at one direction and i used my clairvoyance in the direction he pointed and just like i thought Hody was really responsible for the Zururin mother disappearance i saw her body completely chained to a wall with wounds all over her body as if she had been tortured and i was enraged to the point that my Conqueror's Haki began to be unconsciously released but i vanished from my place and went to Coral Hill to ask Camie if i could borrow her bubble maker you see Hody chose a good place for his gang den a place completely submerged in water would be hurdling to reach if you aren't a Fishman and not only i'm not a Fishman but i'm also a devil fruit user so some means are needed for this rescue mission .
Camie didn't ask why did i need it she just looked at me for a few seconds and handed me it i created a bubble around myself and i thanked her and give it back to here and i appeared in the gang den like a storm and unleashed my Conqueror's Haki to not be wasting unnecessary time Zururin mother was already severely injured .
Who is out there , please no more .
Don't worry madame i'm here to take you out of this place , and with a pull i shattered the chains that bound her she flinched but as if recognizing who am i she just collapsed directly into my arms i hold her and with a swoosh i appeared again in front of Zururin asking him where is the nearest hospital here luckily he was more concerned about the severe state his mother was currently in so he didn't ask any unnecessary question and just pointed towards another direction near Coral Hill and i took him with me as there's no need for them to stay here anymore anyway .
We reached the hospital and Zururin informed the doctor about his mother information hurriedly while crying and asking them to hurriedly save her , Zururin mother name was Dorna and as he and i both found out that she was a celebrity here in Coral Hill as she used to be the only Fishwomen to be allowed to work in the Mermaid Cafe she was kind to all those who she have served and she was even noted to be the most beautiful Fishwomen in Fish-man Island i guess her husband death and the malnourished state she endured all this years took a toll on her body she was second only to madame Shyarly at The Mermaid Cafe but she suddenly quit working there and married some delinquent Fishman .
Luckily the last part about Zururin father being a delinquent wasn't being heard by the boy but i guess Dorna really fixed his father delinquency to the point he risked his life just to grant his birthday wish he was a good dad in the end i wanted to wait for her to recover before i took my leave but an idea came to my mind that could this whole situation if it worked ofcourse .
I asked Zururin to stay with his mother and went for the Mermaid Cafe wanted to meet madame Shyarly asking her for a favor .
I told Ishilly that i wanted to meet with madame Shyarly to ask about if is it possible for Dorna san to work here again and she let me go up to the third floor directly skipping the whole line of people waiting for their turn of meeting with madame Shyarly .
I knocked at the door and heard a nonchalant voice telling me to enter as i entered i saw her she was a large mermaid with purple nail polish, red lipstick, and blue eyes with slanted pupils that resemble shark eyes, she had short black hair that covers over the right side of her face, her tail is dark blue with a dorsal fin on her lower back , a white patch below the dorsal fin, smaller fins on the lower front and back, and a lunate caudal fin , uniquely the dorsal of her fish attribute is the front of her tail, with the usual ventral attribute facing the back , she wore a hooded purple blouse that was only buttoned in the middle and had a belly-chain around her waist , she was smoking a pipe ,
as i entered she began saying without missing a beat and without looking towards the person that just came in : tell me what do you want to know .
I'm sorry but i'm not here to know about the future i'm here to ask you if is it okey for Dorna san to work here again as you see she is in peculiar situation and i won't be able to that much of help since i'm leaving this island after a few hours .
She stopped looking at the orb and raised her head at who was mentioning her old friend and employee she waited for me to finish speaking before saying .
You are a human , it has been a long time since i had a human customer for Dorna she is more than welcome to come back here, but just out of curiosity why are you helping her in the first place .
I began to tell her about our first encounter at the surface and what happened to her in the Fish-man District and all the things that led us to our current situation she nodded but again asked what is your objective human you told me that you already saved her life why do you care about what happens to her afterwards .
Listen lady i'm just doing what i think is right i have no objectives here i came to ensure that you will be able to protect them if that Hody wanted to do them any harm .
I already told you i was just curious no reason to be so agitated but even if you aren't interested in my fortune-telling i'm quite interested in seeing what the future held for you could you touch the orb .
I calmed down and do as she said quite intrigued by seeing how this ability of hers work a few seconds later she opened her eyes and had a blush on her face and even dropped the orb from its place .
You , how old are you .
It's Ryuu it's not you and I'm 13 .
Sorry for that you would have a great future and will achieve many things some good and some bad and you will have a few girls surrounding you Ryuu could you please leave now i'm quite drained .
I'm leaving some money mind give it to her when she woke up I was going to give it to zuriran but he might get target if he were to be discovered carrying that much money with him .
I bid her farewell and went back to hospital to check on Dorna and Zururin and tell them the good news and bid them farewell not noticing madame Shyarly muttering a few words after i left .
Why did i appeared in the shadows that were surrounding him , who is this boy really ? .
Back to the Fish-man District Ace and some of the crew was waiting for me there alongside some Fishman audience that moved out of my way when i appeared .
Ace : Took you long enough i was beginning to think that you were too scared to come , what is with them ? He pointed at the Fishmen that were trembling since i appeared some was from Hody gang i told him what had happened and he and the crew just laughed about it .
You had quite the adventure Ryuu are you sure you are ready for this .
I have a few surprises for you Ace let's began .
Oh , wait a minute you need to choose one of your fruit abilities to make the spar more even and more interesting .
I wanted to use the moa moa power especially that steaming mode but since its a sparring session i will use my Zoan power .
I will use my Zoan power then let's start .
Attack :
Fire fist Ace attacked me with flames shaped and coated in Armament Haki from a distance but i evaded and shot myself towards him in my hybrid form as i was about to punch him he used fire curtain as if trying to stop me in my tracks but i continued my attack while coating my club like hands with Haki and punched towards his chest but he also evaded he is using Observation Haki proficiently too Ace is really brilliant .
His retaliation came with a move he called Fire column a move which he used to limit me from evading but he forgot on thing i can fly too i used Geppo and launched myself towards the sky and coated my foot with Haki and came crashing towards him this time i almost had him but instead he had me as i saw him smiling suddenly and he sidestepped and coat my legs and smashed me into the ground saying knowing your enemy is the key to victoy , you thought i forgot your so called Geppo , right well i didn't what did you learn from this .
With my other leg i caught him off guard and tackled him to the ground and said : something like to never be caught off guard , with a smile similar to his .
Yeah , that too , hahaha this was fun let's do it more from now on .
Sure but we aren't done here are we .
Ofcourse we aren't .
Wallace : No i think you are here Ace the information you wanted about The Red-aired Shanks pirate crew they're currently staying in winter island with some luck we would be able to reach there tomorrow noon that if we left now that is .
Why do we need the information about Red haired Shanks aren't our target is Whitebeard .
Don't worry we aren't going after him for a fight we are just going to show some gratitude as an older and younger brother that it .
Show gratitude why I'm not quite following ? .
I will tell you why later but do you want to see a cool way to declare war against a Yonko come i will show it to you .
We again arrived at Coral Hill there were a tall building that looked more like a tower and on top of that building a pirate flag strapped to the building it was Whitebeard's flag which featured a largely standard skull bearing a large mustache, and vertically arranged crossbones .
This how to do it little brother , Fire fist .