Bab 46: Part 5.4
I beckon to the bird perched above me in it's roost with my hand, making sure it can see the breaded fish I'm holding. It tilts it's head and squints it's eye, but I don't think it's impressed.
"Here birdy birdy. Come down a have some of this fish. I promise I just want to feed you. I promise I won't snap your neck when you get really close. There's no way I want to eat you because someone told me that seagulls are delicious and I want to see if they were telling the truth."
The bird squawks in fear, almost as if it can understand me, and flies away. I give an exasperated sigh and lift my mask up slightly so I can eat the fish instead. I hate wasting food, and if the bird won't eat it I will. While I'm eating, I hear Klahadore walking up the stairs behind me. I know it's him because he's always carrying around this suitcase that clanks with every step he takes. I quickly scarf down the rerst of the fish and turn around so I can speak to him.
He walks to the deck I'm on and locks his eyes on me. He pushes his glasses up, even though they aren't falling down, and makes his way over closer. He gives a ashort and polite bow and says, "Good morning Captain. May I bother you for a moment?"
I shrug. "Go ahead, but you won't be bothering me. There's a lot of things that bother me, but you aren't one of them." Even if he does act smug, and I saw him murder a few guys a couple of days ago. Those guys really didn't matter to me. They were assholes in Impel Down and they were assholes outside of Impel Down. As far as I know, they had it coming. Then again, what do I know? Not much, that's for sure.
"I want to talk about our plan-"
I cut him off. "Plan? Our plan? What about the plan."
He pauses, and I can tell he's carefully considering his words. Finally he asks, "What is the plan?"
I just stare at him for a few moments and wonder if I should tell him the plan. Well, let's think about it like this. There's no reason to tell him the plan, but there's also no reason for me to not tell him the plan. Screw it. The more the merrier, and I like being merry. It's fun.
I bring my fist up to the side of my head and push until my neck cracks loudly. Klahadore flinches but I give a big sigh of relief, my neck had been killing me.
"Alright. The plan. At first I wasn't sure, but now we're sailing to Diz-Harmony like before and we're going to-"
I stop talking when I hear a squawking noise. Before I can turn and look at it a very large seagull lands on my head. At least, I assume it's a seagull. I can't tell because I can't see it. To be fair, it could also be a pelican. Both are oceanic birds. I think there's another kind of bird that likes the ocean... Osprey maybe?
"Hey Klahadore, is there an osprey on my head?" I ask the butler.
He pushes his glasses up and calmly responds, "No Captain. It's a news-coo."
"Oh." I think about it for a few moments then ask, "Those are the ones that deliver newspapers right?"
"Yes Captain."
"And newspapers are the things that you read and tell you all kinds of stuff happening around the world and have the comics right?"
The news-coo squawks and lightly taps my mask with it's beak. Klahadore responds, "That's right Captain. I believe that the news-coo wants you to pay it and it will then give you a newspaper."
Ahh. Yah, that's a thing. Forgot about that. I reach into one of the large cargo pockets I have a search around until I find a large coin. I retrieve it and hold it above my head. I feel a beak lightly poke my hand and I gently toss the coin. I hear the coin landing somewhere, a pouch maybe, and then I hear the bird rooting around inside one of the bags I've seen them wearing before.
"It's a shame news-coo. If you were here at least two minutes ago I would've had a nice piece of fish to give you. Oh, and keep the change."
The bird squawks and drops a newspaper in my hands. I hear it flapping away and I unfold the newspaper to get a good look at the front cover. Sure, I can't read, but that doesn't stop me from looking tat the pictures. Or the comics even.
When I see what's on the front cover though I'm surprised. A little shocked even.
"Hey Klahadore... I hate to ask but would you mind reading this for me?"
I hand him the newspaper and watch as the veins in his head begin to burst out and his jaw clenches. He begins to sweat, and I'm afraid he's about to have a stroke or something, but then he calms down. He takes a deep breath and begins to read.
Tragedy On Brakka Island:
A New Terror On The Seas!
'A group of marines doing routine patrol found a scene of horror and desolation on Brakka Island. The city there had been completely destroyed, and it's inhabitants slaughtered. Marines arriving found hordes of children crying over the corpses of their parents. Their homes looted and burned to the ground. When questioning the survivors amongst the ruble, Marines found the perpetrators. When Straw Hat Luffy committed the breakout of Impel Down, he did know about the true monsters held within the prison. A beast, rather than a man. This individual took advantage of the situation Straw Hat Luffy had made and escaped the prison as well. This man doesn't even have a name. He is just known as Prisoner 10013, wielder of the Moa Moa fruit. The last individual to use the Moa Moa fruit was Byrnndi World with a bounty of 500 million Beli.'
Klahadore stops reading aloud and flips ahead a few pages before stopping. He pulls a brown sheaf of paper out from in between the pages and puts the newspaper to the side while sighing. "The rest is just a smear campaign, it seems they're making you into a terrifying monster by drawing parallels between you and this pre-Roger pirate, Brynndi World. Oh, and your bounty."
I grab the bounty he hands me and look at it. I don't know how, but someone got a really good picture of me. It's from when I was sitting on my loot pile with Brakka village burning behind me. Oh, there's also some of the dead villagers that tried attacking me in the bottom of the photo. Well, what's left of the villagers anyways. On the bottom of the picture is my bounty.
Two hundred and fifty million Beli.
I whistle. That's probably a lot of money. "Did they give me a title? Pirates with big bounties get titles from the World Government right?"
"Yes. You have two. One is what they're probably going to call you and the second is just to enhance the similarities between you and Brynndi World. One is 'The Second Destroyer Of Worlds', seeing as how Brynndi World was just 'The Destroyer Of Worlds'. The other title is 'Demon Of Impel Down'."
I frown. "Hey, that's not fair. I'm nothing like a demon. Demons walk around with red skin and a cane, making deals for people's souls and having gigantic horns and stuff."
As I fume about the world literally calling me a demon Klahadore speaks up.
"Does this change the plan Captain?"
I wave it off. "Nah, the plan is still the same. Actually, Gurry knows the plan. Go ask him. I'm going to see if I can decipher these mystic runes in the newspaper."
"That's just Japanese Captain."
I ignore him, and after a minute he walks away. When he's gone I look at my bounty again. To be honest, I barely recognize the guy in the photot. He's scary looking as hell. I'm not afraid of myself though, so maybe that's not me? Nah. My name is on the bounty. It's me.
I guess I'm scary.
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
stone