Four months and a few days have passed since I left Sabaody by boat.
I've gotten used to this life on the open sea and traveling from one place to another.
...
Well, I lied.
No one could get used to being treated like a god, to someone just asking them to help clean the bathrooms or maintain the pipes.
I'm asking for it anyway, so I can't stay. At least not for long.
But thanks to the Sarmonei crew, I was able to gradually adapt, as everyone treats me well.
At first, everyone thought I was some kind of warrior or something like that. But when they learned I was a writer, they asked me almost every day to tell them stories, morning, afternoon, and night.
You could say I became a bit of a bard or poet, even before I became a hero.
Well, you have to start somewhere.
Every three nights, there's a feast and they celebrate until the wee hours.
Food, feasting, and women. I'm still a virgin, but I think one of the women on the ship is looking at me with fuck-me eyes.
I can't blame her. With this face and this body, it's impossible for any woman to resist.
Married MILFs, abandoned and sexually frustrated, here I go.
On another note, since I left on the ship, we've only encountered two pirate ships. It's worth noting that we've kicked their butts.
Whenever we stopped to rest, buy, or sell on the smaller islands, I always dedicated myself to training.
I had to pull off the flying energy slash as soon as possible.
The reason I haven't managed to do it so far is because of my real-life logic. I can't imagine pulling off a flying energy slash out of nowhere. Or rather, from the blade of my sword.
The training in the six naval styles was well explained, and the logic behind how all of this was achieved was explained.
It didn't really make sense to me, but it didn't come out of nowhere.
At the end of two months of training, I did it.
I was able to perform the flying energy slash that comes out of nowhere.
It felt like I was trying to burp.
I knew it was there inside me; I couldn't see it, but if I made the effort, I could get it out.
Thanks to that, I managed to get 100,000 more LP points.
And with this, I was able to buy the Body Cultivation Pill.
Waiting for the ship to be on an island for a few days, I told them it was going to be a very demanding training and hid near a river.
I knew from those Chinese stories that these things draw out impurities from the body, so when I eat it, I'll be really smelly and all that.
So, to avoid being the stinky one on the boat, I decided to do it this way.
When I ate the pill, I had no idea what the difference was. My whole body started to hurt, from my brain to the points on my feet.
At that moment, I despaired.
And when I woke up, it was all dark. Thank goodness I was hiding somewhere; maybe a monster had eaten me.
I took a shower because, guess what, I was all dirty and smelly.
When I got out of the shower, I looked at myself, and if I was perfect before, now I was three times as perfect.
I checked my strength and I was three or four times as strong, both in strength, endurance, and speed.
Afterward, I returned to town, and it turned out I had only been gone for a full day at most.
Later, I started looking at the Devil Fruit catalog.
I told myself there were only two Devil Fruits I'd eat, just one of those two, and nothing else.
Those were Whitebeard's Gura Gura no Mi and the Moa Moa no Mi from a guy in Impel Down.
The Whitebeard thing is obvious, but I don't think I have a chance of getting it.
The other fruit gives the ability to increase or multiply something in an item.
Very broken in my opinion. It's one of the good fruits that has a bad user.
There's also another exception, and that would be the Hero Hero no Mi, but sadly it doesn't exist.
I already checked it in the store, and it's not there.
It's possible to buy those two fruits, but for now, it's not possible since the users are still alive.
While looking, I also found a potion that neutralizes Devil Fruit weaknesses, but I can only buy it when I leave this world.
I see that it forces me to play the game by this world's rules. Nothing too fancy.
While we were traveling, I was also able to develop other skills, such as cooking and weaponry. This also gave me enough PL to compare a manual of different fighting styles with different sword styles.
And during the remaining time, I've been practicing some of these styles. My plan is to learn a few and then combine some ideas and develop my own. That's all that happened. Everyone was happy and content.
Suddenly, a storm hit. The waves were moving, the ship was pitching from side to side. Everyone was helping to keep objects from falling into the sea. I couldn't help but feel that something bad was approaching.
Someone out of nowhere shouted, "A ship is approaching."
Some went to look, and I was among them. A very large and luxurious ship was coming. I opened my eyes when I saw them take out the cannons and fire.
Everything turned into chaos. The cannon fire from that ship is more destructive than any ordinary vessel. It just so happened that the ship was flying the flag of the World Government. At that moment, my blood ran cold.
I heard screams all around. Some tried to respond to the attack with another, but they repelled the attempt very easily.
I was at a loss for what to do, and just as I was about to help my companions, I saw him. Standing at the front of the ship, wearing armor, a sword, and a posture that commanded presence.
I recognized him immediately. I saw him raise his sword and...
He launched a black energy attack. I saw the ship destroyed, people falling dead, pieces of wood flying from one side to the other. The moment it fell into the sea...
I faint.