Bab 18: “Opportunity”
Yamamoto underestimated Eric's speed which was greater than his, especially of the fast long-range attacks Eric could launch, and almost had to use his logia power. If he had done so he would consider it a defeat, as using such a power to defeat someone from the weaker seas he saw as shameful. In addition, it would be rare that late to end up with this weakling, since he noticed that Olvia had come and was watching the fight. And she had seen how he faced an admiral and knew that he defeated a buster call.
*I have to train and improve my stats...* thought Yamamoto with some urgency while looking at his 10 measly points in speed.
Nelson's face contracted and you could see a clear expression of horror and fear towards Yamamoto, he never thought that this old man had such firepower and was so agile, in a fraction of a second he saw how this old man made a millimetric jump, and passed through the two wind blades without being cut.
The two marines who were carrying him also had fearful expressions on their faces, as they witnessed how Eric's face was burned and kicked to death.
Olvia looked worriedly at the two girls as they witnessed this scene, and noticed that they had somewhat frightened expressions, to their luck being away from the scene, they could only hear Eric's piercing scream and see how Yamamoto was kicking him, but they did not get to see his deformed and burned face.
"That old man sure doesn't care about his surroundings" said a voice with some mockery towards Yamamoto, as it wasn't the first time he murdered someone so brutally in front of some girls.
"Clover-sensei! Well his devil fruit is fire its destructive power is very high" said Olvia trying to defend Yamamoto as she turned to Clover.
"By the way were you able to escape that man's stories?" she added.
"I wasn't as lucky as you, he's already finished telling his lengthy stories, so I told the others that the ship was conveniently ready to start the move. Since I didn't see them anywhere, I began to look for them" Clover replied, sighing at Bokuden's stories, which were quite boring even for someone like him who enjoys history.
"B-bastard! Do you even know who my father is? I-if he doesn't find me he won't rest until he finds the culprit of my death" Nelson shouted nervously, drawing everyone's attention. This time it was noticeable that his tone was not authoritative as before.
Yamamoto looked at Nelson with some disdain since, if he couldn't even walk on his own, his strength must be less than that of the five marines he defeated.
He started walking towards Nelson slowly and when he was closer he stopped, the two marines carrying the chair were shaking and sweating, "R-relax I'll help you get the Dragonite so you can have a not-so-old... younger body" Nelson said fearfully noticing Yamamoto's gaze on him.
"Dragonite?" whispered Yamamoto not understanding what this fat man was saying.
Hearing Yamamoto's question, Nelson had hope that this way he could save himself, then with his father's help he would snatch the Dragonite and Yamamoto's life, "Yes the Dragonite is a miracle elixir that is created through the bone of an adult thousand year old dragon. If you take it it will grant you eternal youth" Nelson replied with longing and greed in his voice.
*So that was their goal and that's why they captured Apis who is a friend of a dragon and must know where she is...* thought Yamamoto understanding the whole picture.
Without answering, Yamamoto pointed at Nelson with his index finger which he created and concentrated a small fireball the size of a marble, after a few seconds he shot it reaching a great speed.
BANG!
Nelson's forehead was pierced by this fireball killing him quickly, unable to react to the speed of this attack, his obese body did not allow it.
The marines who were carrying the chair quickly released it and when they saw the small hole in Nelson's forehead and that he was no longer breathing, they put on ugly expressions and did not know how to proceed.
*As if being immortal was so easy* thought Yamamoto, remembering Imu who was one of the founders of the World Government 800 years ago and is still alive.
This fireball, he was practicing it while traveling on the ship since it did not require a large space, the most difficult thing was to concentrate the fire on such a small scale and give it this shape, but after a short time of practice, he managed to master it.
Another of what he practiced was the ability to reform one's elemental body if its structure is disrupted in any way, usually by physical attacks such as Eric's. Although he still didn't manage to become his element by reflex, which leaves him open to surprise attacks.
With this little training of two days, he managed to raise 3 points in his devil fruit mastery getting 28 points out of 100, although it was not much, for only two days it was decent.
Yamamoto stared at the two remaining marines thinking about how to take care of them. Noticing the old man's gaze the marines looked towards their 5 unconscious companions, looking for a way to manage to save them, although they knew it was almost impossible.
"Mother, what will happen to those marines?" asked Robin.
Olvia did not know what to answer to this question, although they did not seem to be happy with Nelson's orders, they allowed Nelson to almost kill Robin and capture Apis.
Besides, if they let them leave the island, their location would be exposed and this would be the most dangerous thing of all, so they could not let this happen, she could only think of one option to solve this situation.
Clover also thought the same as Olvia and knew the difficult decision Yamamoto would have to make, when he was about to take Robin and Apis away, Yamamoto spoke, "I will give them a chance" he said slowly while looking at these two marines.
This pleasantly surprised them and gave them some hope, Olvia and Clover looked at each other somewhat surprised by Yamamoto's sudden kindness, "You will stay on the island and obey my orders as slaves or you will fight me and die a pathetic death along with your comrades" said Yamamoto while scratching his beard.
*It was strange that this old man had good intentions* thought Clover with a strange expression.
The two marines stood in thought and after a few seconds on their knees exclaimed, "We'll do it!". Yamamoto smiled, for he knew that guilt was destroying them inside as they followed Nelson's orders which were worse than those of a pirate or criminal. And they felt they had to perform a kind of redemption to expire their sins.
Besides, in their confrontation he noticed that the 5 marines never went to deal him a mortal blow, even so, if they did it would still be useless. On the other hand, he found it strange that Apis can escape from these marines, so it is not so crazy that they let her escape.
In this way, they would see him as a benevolent person and would happily follow his every command. Besides, he didn't want to look like a ruthless killer in front of Apis and Robin who were watching.
But mostly he chose this option, to have manpower, since they would need people to do the heavy work such as hunting, building the odd building, etc. And he couldn't trust the wimpy archaeologists.
"Well get that fat guy out of that chair and carry those five who are unconscious while they follow me" ordered Yamamoto as he turned and walked towards Olvia and the others.
"I didn't think you'd be so benevolent old man" Clover said with a smile as he noticed Yamamoto's arrival.
"It's just free manpower, someone has to get food among other things and I don't think you or the others can" replied Yamamoto to which Clover nodded in satisfaction as she just wanted to continue studying the Void Century.
Olvia felt a bit embarrassed as she only thought the only option was to assassinate them and this hadn't occurred to her.
Another idea that Yamamoto came up with was to train them so that in the future they could serve to protect the archaeologists if they made a trip and he could not accompany them, since he noticed that even though they were not very strong-most of them were young and with good training they could be of some use.
"Apis tell me well about Ryu and what you want me to help you with" said Yamamoto while looking at Apis.
Apis began to tell her the whole story of how she met Ryu, how she became his friend, and how Ryu made one last wish before he died, which was to take him home to rest in peace. Listening to this story, Ryu's home is most likely Lost Island, the story Bokuden told them.
*So that was all real...* Yamamoto, Clover and Olvia thought about Bokuden's stories.
*So I have to find Lost Island in less than 24 hours...* thought Yamamoto.
This island is supposed to emerge every thousand years, but if the system gives you such a mission it means that this has to be the day for such an event to happen. So they will have to scour the entire island in search of Ryu's home.
Clover told Yamamoto that Bokuden suggested they use the old library of the village to store the books and research, but before they can use it they should clean it and fix some things, as it is not in a very good condition. So the others were cleaning the library so they could store the books and have a place to study as soon as possible.
"Well first we'll go to the ship" said Yamamoto as he started walking.
"Aren't we going with Ryu?" asked Apis uncomprehendingly.
"Who do you think will be in charge of carrying your giant dragon?" said Yamamoto returning the question.
"Mm, you?" replied Apis with some hesitation.
"No, my bones are old. This task is better for Saul" replied Yamamoto.
Finally understanding why they were heading to the ship, "Oh that makes sense, let's go Robin!" said Apis with a smile as she started running ahead of the group.
Clover and Olvia looked blankly at Yamamoto, since from what they saw his strength was superior to Saul's, still, they said nothing and kept walking. The two marines followed them from behind carrying Nelson's old chair, where their 5 unconscious companions were now.
Status Power Mingguan
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