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章 65: World Of Pirates: Part 03

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life: it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Recap: In the last chapter Hector participated in the Marineford War, making a name to himself as he defeated the three Admirals and even killing a Tenryuubito afterward. He copied many powers and in the end helped Whitebeard in having a tranquil ending, different from his conturbed life as a pirate.

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The World awoke with mixed feelings after the day of the battle in Marineford.

The News of the events on the Marine Headquarters arrived at all corners of the world.

To the world, pirates are the absolute evil, so the death of one of the four Emperors of the Sea is something Worth a celebration.

But at the same time, an even more terrifying figure appeared. And the little information that is known about this individual left almost everyone with a feeling of uneasiness.

The News is not all pleasant to the world...

A man appeared out of nowhere and shocked the world.

This man defeated the high powers of the Navy, the Admiraqls one by one.

He saved Firefist Ace from certain death with mysterious healing abilities.

Captured two Warlords of the Sea.

Fought to a stalemate with Fleet Admiral.

Controlled the sea.

Apparently has in his power one of the Anicient Weapons.

And has powerful subordinates that ignore the combined power of various platoons of the marines, fought against the best swordman in the world, and killed a World Noble.

This made this man who only appeared for a day have the record of the highest first bounty in the history of this world.

The probable new Emperor of the Sea after the passing of Whitebeard...

• Oak "The Devil" Hector, Bounty: 1.500.000.000 B

• "Sword Princess" Saeko, Bounty: 500.000.000 B

• "The Mountain that Moves" Gigantomachia, Bounty: 500.000.000 B

• "God Killer" Cassandra, Bounty: 500.000.000 B

No one knows where he comes from or what his motivations and this only make him more terrifying.

-World Economy News, Morgans

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Onigashima

In a dark big room, a clashing sound reverberates.

Pieces of a broken giant jug of sake fall on some men's heads.

"That damn, Whitebeard! How could he die like that!?! Uaaah!" Kaido, of the Hundred Beasts and one of the Yonkos cries like a baby while covering his eyes with his forearm.

Then suddenly his mood shifts and he is angry.

"Lucky Bastard!!!! How can he die like that???" He shouts to the ceiling and the whole Onigashima trembles.

The nearby Beast Pirates all tremble and try to look as small as possible to not attract the attention of their captain.

They are already used to his mood swings, the best course of action is to do nothing.

"That Red Hair too!!! If he didn't get in my way, I would have so much fuuuun!!!" Kaido's fists meet the ground in fury, making Onigashima tremble again.

He keeps his fists buried on the ground for some time, his face a scowl and his eyes obscured by his anger.

All beast pirates hold their breath, waiting for another outburst

Then, he finally exales a laugh.

"Pfft Wororo..." He makes a silly face while laughing in a good mood. He looks at the newspaper again, and at the bounty poster attached to it. "The Devil, huh? Worororo! A strong guy like that will be fun!"

Then he looks like a maiden in love, with dreamy eyes, looking at the horizon waiting for her beloved's return, even disgustingly blinking his eyes "cutely".

"I can't wait for him to come..." He says with his fingers interlaced behind his chin.

"Are you sure that he will come?" A voice that is not afraid to break Kaido from his reverie cuts the silence.

"King..." Kaido greets his right-hand man, with a more normal expression.

The giant man clad in black leather and with huge black wings on his back walks close to the King of the Beasts.

"We don't know much about him... Maybe he will never come. If you want to fight him, the best option would go find him yourself." King suggests.

"Worororo. He will come." Kaido releases a big grin "The path to the top is narrow. And anyone with the Ambition will have to come to Wano eventually! Worororo." Kaido says with certain.

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Whole Cake Island

"So Newgate finally kicked the bucket? Took him long enough... Mamama!" Another Yonko, Charlotte Linlin, also known as Big Mom comments to her eldest son.

"Perolin! Yes, it was confirmed by many of our people inside the Whitebeard pirates and the Navy." Perospero answers while licking a huge lollipop.

"You know what to do, Perospero." Big Mom says while a big hand goes to grab some sweets.

"Yes, Mama. But what about this new guy?"

Big Mom's eyes go to the posters of Hector's group.

" 'The Devil'... Mamama. What a pretentious title to this brat. But if he really fought with Sengoku he is really not weak. Let's wait and see for now... Maybe we can bring him to the Family! Mamama!" Big Mom laughs

"..." Perospero keeps himself in silence at this. He is the one who makes the plans for Big Mom's crazy ideas. If she really went forward with this he would need to think in which of his sisters to arrange a marriage.

"But I am more interested in this one..." Big Mom grabs a poster "Gigantomachia... A giant... But his appearance is different. Could he be a hybrid of a giant and with a fishman? And he has a fruit to increase his size too? Mamama! Maybe we should push forward our plans to the Vinsmoke Family. Judge can't be so much behind Vegapunk, right? Mamama!" She continues with her eyes shining in anticipation

"..." Perosperos stays in silence, thinking about the heavy work he will need to do.

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Hector P.O.V.

Some Island in the New World

*Atcho* I sneeze loudly

"Haah~ This anime world... Someone is talking about me." I comment.

I know that I'm probably famous now, but I don't want to spend my days sneezing.

Should happen only in relaxed moments anyway.

I continue to walk to the enormous ceremony with Saeko, Cassandra, Tsukasa, and Machia at my side.

We are here to the funeral of Whitebeard.

There's a huge crowd of people on this cliff with a good view of the sea, all here to pay their respects to the Old Man.

After waiting for everyone who knows the guy better than me, I walk to pay my respects too. Saeko decides to follow me while the others wait by the side.

I stop in front of his tombstone. His famous naginata is stuck on the stone, White his flag on the pole and holding his coat that he used on the Marineford war.

Exactly like I remember in the anime and manga.

Well, at least this time Ace's Tombstone is not here too.

"I really didn't want you to die, Old Man..." I say while taking two bottles of sake from my inventory. "I even prepared a lot of good sake from my world to have a good talk with you..." I say while pouring the Junmai Danjio and the Dassai on the ground.

Edward Newgate taught me a lesson...

I had plans...

Talk with the guy, cure him, bring him to avenge Oden... Would be cool as heck.

But plans can go downhill as fast as you create them.

I'm very good and pulling strings, and knowing the people and their motivations, desires, and traumas is easy to get my way in most of the things. But...

People are not characters that will follow the script that I wrote.

I will keep that in mind.

I turn to give space to the rest who want to pay their respects.

"This reminds me of the Banana Myth..." I comment sighing at the sky "Do you know it, Saeko?"

"I think I heard somewhere..." She turns to me and frowns, trying to remember. Then I decided to refresh her memory.

"It's the myth to explain the short lifespan of the humans. Long ago, a god appeared to the people and ordered them to choose between a banana and a stone. People choose the banana. It was delicious, will fill their stomach... Much better than some rock." I say

Without waiting for her to say anything I continued "That choice decided our short lifespan. Instead of the perpetual dull life of a rock, we choose to have a short but sweet life. This world made me remember this myth..."

It really does. Talking about how living a short and fulfilling life sticking to their ideals is better than living without them. Without a dream...

Hmm~ Now that I'm thinking about it, it really goes deep...

There isn't that theory that Imu, the secret ruler of the world, and the Five Elders are immortal and living since the Void Century?

They are keeping the world stagnated, like a rock.

They spoil the Tenryuubito because they don't need descendants. They will live forever.

In this world, the child inherits the strength and the strong will of their lineage. Luffy speedran the first part of the Grand Line as 17 17-year-old rookie. That was impressive.

Saint Charlos, the world noble that Cassandra killed lasted a lot after his organs turned to mush. And he trashed around... he had a crazy amount of endurance and vitality. And that guy is scum that never trained in his life.

They are keeping these guys useless to not be dethroned...

Doflamingo is a good example of the crazy potential they have if raised properly.

Hm~ The more I think the more makes sense...

So Luffy would be the antithesis to them in ideals. Similar to how he is to Blackbeard.

Luffy lives a short and adventurous life. A life worth living. A life of a pirate, a life of freed-!!

Wait fucking a minute...

I side-eye the guy... Monkey D. Luffy. Monkey... Banana... His whole lineage hates the world's nobles.

Oda, you bastard! It's on our faces the whole time!

Luffy even lost a lot of lifespan recently... Is Luffy gonna die young at the end of the manga??

I was taken out of my thoughts by Saeko.

"Oh, in Japan there's an equivalent to this myth... But is a flower(Hana) instead of a banana." She says in sudden realization

"..." Hana? The only person capable of reading the Poneglyphs and the key to Laugh Tale ate the Hana Hana no mi. "Robin..."

And the whole "I want to die" and "I want to live".

I sigh again. This world is full of layers.

I'm glad I came here.

....

I look at the horizon waiting for the guy to arrive...

"Thank you for helping with everything-yoi." Marco, the Phoenix, says to me while we watch the waves.

The sky is clear and the day is beautiful, like it doesn't care about the sadness of the people here. A reminder that the world is heartless.

We and other important people are reunited here.

I copied his power, by the way.

His, the Diamond power from Jozu and many others for the Whitebeard pirates.

"That was nothing. The Old Man deserves..." I say with a shrug "By the way, how did you guys will do with the 'Whitebeard Pirates' without Whitebeard? If you don't mind me asking..."

"..." They look at each other in uncertain

"We will continue with Oyaji legacy." Marco says after some time

"..." Ace probably will be the new captain in the future... Interesting. "Be careful out there... I recommend that you guys 'group' tightly." I say.

In the New World, the Four Emperors have their territories. They receive tributes for protection.

Kaido has his territories to produce weapons and create strong people.

Big Mom has her territory for food mostly.

Whitebeard and Shanks apparently are the ones who are not tyrants and really protect the people in this place where the World Government doesn't reach.

After all, to receive help from the Marines you need to bow to the World Nobles... It's not hard to guess why many small countries don't want it even with all the benefits that come with being an ally of the World Government.

And most can't pay the tributes too.

My advice to them is to give up on some of these territories and protect the most important ones.

"We will see what we will do-yoi." Marco scratches his cheek a little sheepishly

"..." They will absolutely not retreat.

I sigh at these people...

"When I get my Den Den Mushi we will keep in touch. If Big Mom or Kaido attack you guys, don't hesitate to call me." I say, but then I smirk "But don't worry too much, I plan to level the game a little..."

I let my words hang in the air. Some shiver when they understand my meaning.

I'm still not sure what I will do with these guys. Aren't they important opponents to be surpassed by Luffy?

Here we are again... How much of the plot should I change?

Meh, I will think about it later.

"He finally arrived..." I comment to them all of a sudden.

They look at me in surprise before focusing on the horizon.

Something is getting close at high speed. Someone...

"That is..." Marco stares at the person cutting the water swimming.

Is shipwreck his trait? Like Zoro getting lost?

Maybe all first mates of the pirates kings have something like that.

Finally, a shirtless old man emerges slowly from the water and walks to us dripping wet like it was a normal occurrence.

There's no ship in sight, so he must have swam for a looong distance.

"Oho~ Raylegh, huh?" I smile seeing the guy. "This guy is strong..." I commented to Saeko, that maybe she would be interested in fighting him.

From my side-eye, I noticed that he paused a little seeing me. Having a flashback, Old Man?

"Rayleigh..." Marco and the others greet him. Even if they were rivals long ago, it appears that there's no bad blood between them.

Funny how Marco is much younger than the guy. Whitebeard really has his crew full of his "sons and daughters". He must have carried these dead weight in the beginning. Especially when his crew was compared with Roger's one.

"I imagined that you guys would be here." Rayleigh comments while he twists his shirt and jacket to extract the water.

To save time, I extended my hand and with a motion of my wrist, I use waterbending to pull the water off him. Drying him instantly.

I learned that bending, beyond the motions, uses spiritual energy too. And if you have a lot of spiritual energy, fewer motions you need to perform.

And I have a lot.

If I trained more with it I would be capable of "bending with my mind"

"In your age, it's preferable to keep your bones dry, Old man." I say to him after he gives me a look.

"Thank you." He says slowly. Hm, is he wary of me?

In this world, being capable of controlling water is very impressive for obvious reasons.

I'm still waiting for the logia or mythic zoan that can do that... Maybe is with Imu. And maybe is because of that, that he is Looking at me strangely.

After greeting the rest of the Whitebeard Pirates, Luffy and others he walks to pay his respects to Whitebeard.

I observe the guy... Weird...

He doesn't seem close to Ace. Isn't he like his nephew in some way?

In truth, he seems to like Luffy more...

"..." I narrow my eyes at this.

Could be that he sees Roger in Luffy, his charisma... But I smell something more...

Maybe he doesn't like the fact that Ace entered in Whitebeard's crew. Like a betrayal of some sort...

Well, can't blame Ace on that. The guy is a victim of bad planning and parenting.

This world is full of bad parents, huh? Except when they are not the real fathers... Sanji, Chopper...

And now that I think about it, to the men only. Nami's stepmother is cool. Robin's mother too. Vivi's Father. And Rebecca's Father. Shirahoshi Father...

Now... Yassop...

I'm seeing a pattern here, Oda.

Absent fathers is an anime cliche after all.

I decided to mouth my doubts. After all, I'm not afraid of hurting people's feelings.

"I would expect you to show up in Marineford, Rayleigh. Like... Your captain child, you know?" I say to everyone

"..." He looks at me in silence

The mood gets heavy.

But silence will never bother me

"I mean... It's not your obligation." I make a face "But you know... Whitebeard and Garp treated the boy better than anyone from the Rogers Pirates. Where are the other guys again?" I make a pensive expression.

Who knows if they have some OP devil fruit, after all.

Before I didn't think much about Rayleigh not going to Marineford. But now I have a clear idea of the map of the Grandline. Sabaody is close...

The Redline and Fishman Island are between the two, but...

To a guy as strong as him?

Luffy was in Amazon Lily and he arrived on time.

"..." He continues to stare at me in silence. His face betrays nothing.

Sorry buddy, your title as Dark King can't scare me.

People around us look a little tense, but I can't feel anger from this guy. Just some sort of resignation.

He finally sighs "It's complicated..." He says simply

"..." Yep, really there's something more about this.

Externally, I shrug and let the matter rest. But I look at him. He is talking with Luffy again...

There's something special about the rubber boy?

That's blatant favoritism!

I also remember that he is guarding Sabaody... The entrance to the New World... It can't be just because he likes the climate, right?

This world is really full of little mysteries.

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"Don't worry, the leg was cut clean... No side effects. But he should rest, he lost a lot of blood."

While I'm having a little talk with Marco, assuring him that Oars Jr. Will be okay after I reattached his leg, Luffy shouts at me.

"Oooy, Wavy-hair!!" He comes at me waving his hand.

"What?" I turn to him

"Give us a ride, we don't have a boat." He says like it would be obvious for me to help.

"Okay." I answer instantly. This is a good opportunity. "Let's go now." I don't hesitate and start moving to my ship, Dawn.

Luffy and Rayleigh follow my group.

"Not coming, Jimbe?" I ask the fishman.

"No, I have matters to attend." He answers seriously.

"I see, If anyone gets too comfortable in Fishman Island you can call me too. Racism is dumb... And I want a peaceful place to go sightseeing with my people" I smile at him and shake his hand.

Too bad he is not coming, I want to ask about Fishman Karate. Well, it's not like I will not have another chance.

We get on board of Dawn.

"To where?" I ask

"Amazon Lily." Rayleigh answers "I have never seen a ship like this before." He comments Looking at the deck. There are no sails.

"It's advanced. Only Vegapunk probably could have something similar." I comment.

Amazon Lily, huh? Good. I need to copy Hancock power, better to tag along now. If not I will have to fabricate some conflict later, to have the chance.

"It's... On that direction..." I use my powers to locate her. And with the layout of the world that my other body is creating, I deduce that she is already on Amazon Lily.

"Hold tight" I warn with a huge smirk.

The back of the ship opens and a huge propulsor ignites.

*Boom*.

And we broke the sound barrier, cutting the ocean at high speed.

"Oooh~ It's like the Sunny!" Luffy shouts animatedly, an elongated arm grabs a part of the ship.

"Ah, Luffy. I forgot to tell you and Ace... Sabo is alive." I say casually while driving my ship.

"..." Luffy pauses for a moment to look at me "WHHAAAAAAAATTTT?!!!"

Oh, is that Enel's face? Rubber powers really morph his body like a cartoon, huh?

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Later we already disembarked on Amazon Lily

Very nice tropical Weather, and those snakes probably are carved by someone really strong.

'Lily...' The name passes over my head... Like a blocked memory. Lily... Amazon Lily? So what? Why is important?

Whatever, I shake my head to go back to the present.

Right now, we are close to the beach.

Luffy is still bawling his eyes out after the reveal that Sabo is alive. For some reason, he didn't doubt my words.

But even if tears and snot run over his face, he is still stuffing himself with the food that the Amazons brought to him.

Beyond Luffy, Rayleigh and my group, Hancock, her Sisters, that old lady, and a group of amazons are here too.

And the Heart Pirates too, I pulled them Half of the way here.

"Oh, so this is the legendary island of women! So it's real..." One of Law's crewmates comments.

Only two of them, plus Bepo and Law himself are here. A little away from us.

I raise the two crewmates telekinetically with a finger "Go swim to clean your thoughts..." And I yeet them a kilometer away in the ocean.

"..." Law deadpans at me

"What? First part of the training. Building Endurance... You're like 99% of the fighting force of your crew. This can't go on." I shrug

"...I will make sure that they don't drown." Law sighs and stands up to go to the beach. Bepo follows him.

"Anyway, it's funny that you want to follow in Roger's footsteps, Ace's Father, and Sabo is following your dad. To be more strange than that only if Ace wanted to become a noble like Sabo's Father." I comment to Luffy while eating from the big pile of food at his side. "It appears that fathers in this world can be anyone father except for their real son."

"I don't know... I never met my father. *Munch* *Nom* *Nom* But Ace and Sabo don't like their fathers. *Munch*" Luffy says lightly while stuffing his mouth with food

"Your people take too lightly this parenthood thing..." I say while reaching for a strawberry the size of an apple.

*Thud*

Something hit my head, I saw it a mile away but decided to let it happen.

I move my eyes to look at Hancock who just kicked me.

"I'm not that down bad to the level that enjoys being stepped by women. *Munch* "I say while ignoring her

"That's was Luffy's food!" Boa Hancock declares pointing at me with anger on her face

"Food tastes better when you share." I say "You should be careful when raising your leg with this slit on your skirt. I'm almost seeing it." I comment lightly. Looking at her crotch.

"You disgusting man-pig!" She shouts outraged and starts releasing a furry of kicks at my head.

I dodge all of them by moving only my head while I continue to eat.

"You had a bad personality..." I eye Saeko, signaling her to put the sword away "...no one will want to marry you like that."

And that makes her freeze. I can almost see the lightning hit her.

In the next moment, she is crying in the arms of her sisters.

"How could you be so mean with Onee-sama!" Marigold, the fat sister with Orange hair, shouts at me while Sandersonia, the one with green hair, placates Boa Hancock.

I just ignore them and continue to eat with Luffy.

I'm almost finished copying the Gomu Gomu n Mi...

"Tsukasa, try these things... Look, a banana with flakes. It's crunchy..." I present the weird fruits to my cook. Not only there's a lot of different things, the fruits are big and natural. I will take samples...

"It's true that you killed a Tenryuubito?" The old granny Nyon asks me while she holds the newspaper.

"Hm? Yeah... Oh! Are those the bounties?" I take the posters with my telekinesis and make them float in front of us.

"Heeh~ They cut my 'D.' Pfffft..." Fifth grade never left me. "Your bounty is 400 million now, Luffy." I comment.

I think they downgraded my bounty a little. Natural... And they put the same bounty to everyone of my crew. They didn't even try.

"Sword Princess... The Mountain that Moves... God-killer... Only cool names. Nice..."

Heh, The Devil... I like it. The natural enemy of the gods.

"Don't take this too lightly, boy! It's a Tenryuubito!" Elder Nyon says loudly at me.

"..." I turn to her calmly. "They are only insects... And don't worry, I'm the strongest."

"..." She is tonguetied now

Saeko appears at my side and grabs the posters to take a close look

"He only made that whole show of being the enemy of these nobles, so that they will be scared of leaving their home and hurt fewer people." She says

"..." I look at her. No need to defend myself or explain my motives.

The whole Devil thing and scaring the Tenryuubitos are somethig that I thought in the moment. But I think they're too dumb to catch the message.

"Did you really do it?" this time is Hancock that is asking while staring me down seriously.

"...*Munch*" Oh yeah, she was enslaved by them "More like a group effort with Cassandra over there." I say pointing at the girl who is stuffing her mouth like a squirrel with the sweets.

"..."

"..."

Okay, now what? Are you going to say thank you?

"Eh... If you want I can solve that... 'curse' on your back. Get rid of it." I say slowly, being discreet while referring to the slave mark on her back.

The other amazons are nearby.

Her eyes widen at my words

"You know about it...!" She says half asking and half accusing.

"Yep... Wanna my help or not?" I act like is no big deal.

Will be a good opportunity to copy her power.

She doesn't answer immediately, only stares at me before going back to her sisters.

"Who are you really?" Rayleigh asks me seriously

"... *Munch*" People are really curious about this, huh?

Well, it's expected... Out of nowhere an unknown person appears and destroys the top Fighters of this world.

Normally, people start from the bottom. With some exceptions, like Big Mom that was soloing Elbaf as a six-year-old.

"I am..." I pause dramatically, and put down the food "...Luffy's descendant from the future. I came back to the past to save Ace. Didn't you see the similarities between me, Luffy and Hancock?" I say seriously

Everyone's eyes widen at the revelation. I notice they pay a more closer look at me. Black hair, blue eyes like Hancock, the smile...

"Kyaah!" Hancock squeals in delight with her hands on her cheeks "My and Luffy descendant!? Then we... Then we... Is this real??" She looks feverish from the fantasies already.

"No, I'm lying. *Much* *Munch*" I cut her delusions mercilessly.

She and everyone, with the exception of Luffy, falls to the ground.

"I should expected this much..." Elder Nyon sighs and shakes her head

"You bastard! Give back my dream!!" Hancock advances at me to try to kick me again. Aiming lower this time, at my torso.

But I ignored her and became intangible, while I continued to eat.

"A logia?? But why I can't hit you with Haki?" She asks seeing her ineffective attack.

Sorry, girl. Kitty's power is low-key op. The most I can feel is a tingling sensation where she hits me.

"The truth is... I came from the past." I reveal, but this time people are not taking me seriously. The cheeky of these people. Let me show how well I can lie.

"In the past, the Ancient Kingdom had such good technology that was capable of replicating Devil Fruit powers in items. One-time use items..." I say with a distant look "I don't know if any of you met Toki..."

From my side-eye I notice Rayleigh's eyes widening.

"She can go to the future with her fruit. I came after her, because she failed..." I sigh regretfully "I'm the son of the one that you guys call... Joyboy."

The wind moves my hair while I look at the horizon "I'm here to finally accomplish the promises of my Father... To the Princess... To the rest..."

I look at Luffy. "This strawhat..." I don't complete it because I don't even know the full story.

The rest have some confused expressions but Rayleigh is listening to me with extreme focus

"Is this...?" He asks starting shocked

"A lie obviously... *Munch* *Munch* " I complete to him

Everyone falls on their butts again.

Even the Always Chill Rayleigh has a vein popping on his forehead. But he laughs, sighs, and shakes his head.

"Let it rest, Old man. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction..." I say to him more seriously now "If I told you that I came from another universe, where civilization is much more advanced, crossing Time-and-Space to have a vacation in this world, would you believe in me?"

I look at him seriously.

"..."

"..."

"How would anyone believe in you now?" Hancock snorts at the side and turns her head.

But the eye contact between me and Rayleigh continues uninterrupted.

He is an experienced old man. He must be having various conflicting thoughts because he can't read me.

I finally go back to ignore him and eat and talk with Luffy.

I can feel his eyes on me even after the matter is put to rest.

.....

Sometime later, Law and the rest returned. But they still keep a respectful distance from the rest.

Maybe afraid of me. Maybe afraid of Rayleigh.

"I'm confused... Do men stretch or not?" Margareth, the blond amazon with short hair that saved Luffy one time says while she curiously pulls my ear.

After some time, the cautious amazons are more comfortable with us.

"I already told you guys that only Luffy could do it because of a thing called Devil Fruit." Elder Nyon exclaims helplessly.

"But He is also stretching! Look!" Margareth comments from my side showing it at her.

"This can't be..." Elder Nyon frowns at me, the others also look at me in confusion

"Did you also eat the Gomu Gomu no Mi?" Luffy asks, just for asking.

"No. I just have all the powers in the world." I answer

"Oh, must be cool." And he continues to eat like is no big deal

To punctuate my words I detach my arm to grab some food far away.

"Oh! Buggy power!" Luffy exclaims only mildly surprised.

It's Setsuna Tokage quirk to be exact. It's funny how One Piece has many upgraded versions of the My Hero Academia Quirks. Like that Yo Shindo guy who can also use vibration like Whitebeard, but only in contact.

I will try fusing powers later...

"This is impossible... There's no two of the same devil fruits in the world." Elder Nyon comments flagerbasted.

"You're wrong... There are fruits that do the same, but one is superior to the other. And I'm the Devil, Granny. How could I be bound by the laws of this world?" I say cockily "Do you want me to swim too? You would have a heart attack..."

"..."

Rayleigh sighs again "You're not gonna answer seriously if I ask who you are, right?" He shakes his head

"Obviously I will answer!" I say outraged by the lack of trust in my words. Where did it come from? "The list is big, by the way... But I'm a student, a hero, a villain, a scientist, a doctor, a king, pirate king, hokage/ninja, alien, ogre, samurai, sith/jedi, sorcerer/mage, ghost..." And the list goes on and on.

My diversion tactics to tire them enough to not ask anything works great.

"Are you a ninja?" Luffy's mind tunnel focuses on only one thing

"Yes," I answer

"Can you Katon? Do you say 'nin-nin' at the end of your phrases?" He asks excitedly with a twinkle in his eyes

"Luffy doesn't believe in him. He is a liar!" Hancock shouts, pointing her finger at me, and turning her head high in the air to look down on me extremely

Nice breasts, by the way... Underboobs are always great.

But I can't let her slander me like that

"Luffy, punch me." I say seriously

"Okay." He doesn't even hesitate and delivers a punch at my cheek

*Puf*

In a small explosion of smoke, a piece of log is in my place

"Woooah! Substitution!!" Luffy exclaims with his eyes shining like the sun.

The Corazon pirates are also paying attention with great interest, even Rayleigh has curiosity in his eyes and a smile on his face.

"I'm here." I say calmly, attracting their attention

"He... He is walking on the tree!!!" One of Law's crewmates exclaims

"OOOOOOOOHHHH!" They and Luffy exclaim

I jump and after a backflip in the air, I make a hand sign and five more Hectors appear in the air with me.

"Clone Jutsu!!!" Law exclaims this time

Still, in the air, each clone makes the hand signs and releases a Jutsu of all the five natures of chakra.

"Oh! It's Suiton!"

"A Katon! Sugoi!"

"That's Doton!"

"So we can see the wind of the Fuuton..."

"The Raiton is cooler!"

The boys admire my show.

To finish I spin on myself, releasing a lot of kunai and shurikens. They hit each other in the air, changing the trajectory, and then I pulled a string when some Kunais hit a tree.

A big cloth with the word "Shinobi" in Japanese is hung by the kunais.

I and my clones land in front of it. Each clone does a pose with a handsign while I do the iconic Jiraiya Pose.

"Ninjaaaaa..." I say in a whisper

"Ooooooohhh" All the boys clap at me with their eyes still Looking like the sun.

"..." On the girl's side, it's different

"I... I really didn't understand..." One of the amazons asks around a little confused

"Me neither..."

"Isn't there a lot of useless moves on that?"

Hmpf. Women...

Only Margareth is clapping together with the men.

So Margareth is a tomboy, huh? Nice...

"Anyway, didn't you have something to say to Luffy, Old man?" I turn to Rayleigh while showing a Rasengan to the boys

"..." He didn't move

"Don't worry, you probably want to train him, right? I will do the same to Law there. He is a D. by the way." I reveal, making Rayleigh take a closer look at Law.

"Train?" Luffy looks at me tilting his head

"Yeah, because you're weeeaaaak. You're not ready for the New World. Have you forgotten what happened in Sabaody?" I tap his head with my finger to try to put some sense there.

At first, he was angry when I called him weak, but the memory of his miserable defeat made him shut up and put on a serious expression.

"He is not wrong, Luffy. The second part of the Grandline is a completely different world with another set of rules. People call the first part of the Grandline a Paradise, in comparison with the New World." Rayleigh says from his seat

"The first part... is a Paradise?" One of Law's men gulps loudly

"There's still order here on Paradise. But in the New World is where the law of the jungle rules." Elder Nyon adds

"The Emperors of the Sea rule the New World, dominating vast territories. Not even the Admirals can engage in a fight with them in fear of things escalating into an all-out war." Rayleigh says

"The recent Marineford war was very well planned and took all that the Navy has to offer. They prepared a lot before making that move, so that their losses didn't give an opening to another Emperor." Elder Nyon looks at me "The World is in a fragile balance now... Or was."

Elder Nyon then sighs and shakes her head "Till now I don't know if the Navy's decision was right, only the future knows the consequences of this war. Without Whitebeard... Chaos can engulf the New World."

Everyone stares at them seriously

Even Luffy is in silent comtemplation... But I know the guy, so I will help.

"Long story short, at the moment that you enter the New World, you will enter into conflict with the Emperors. And you are nowhere strong enough to deal with them." I say

"Oh, I see." Luffy nods at me.

"..."

The guy really only has two brain cells and they only connect in special circumstances.

Luffy is the extreme version of low I.Q., but high E.Q.

I raise three fingers to continue my explanation "Three things can happen if you go to the New World right now."

"First, if you're lucky you can avoid the Emperors at the beginning. Do you want to continue to rely on luck?"

"No..." He answers slowly

"By the way, if your goal is to find the One Piece you can't avoid a confrontation with the Emperors forever."

I lower one finger "You will stumble into the territory of one of the Emperors, what's like 90% of the New World, be defeated, and be given a choice or enter they fleet or die. Ace went through that, but he really adopted his new Family." I explain

Rayleigh "..."

"Do you want to be subordinate to someone?" I ask

"Of course not!" Luffy practically shouts

"This is what I thought... Last" I show the last finger "You will be captured by the G-5 and have a fate worse than death."

Luffy looks confused but Law's group face pales a little.

"The G-5..." One of Law's crewmates trembles

"I heard that they eat the pirates after roasting them alive." Another one comments

"Yes, Luffy. Being sincere, you can't go far with your strength in the New World right now." Rayleigh says "I already told you that your friends are alive and well. The final decision will be yours but..."

He pauses and fixes his glasses. Staring directly at Luffy to convey how serious he is "Why didn't you train and prepare before continuing your journey? Roger navigated for years before finding the One Piece, you're on it for months."

"..." Luffy thinks hard, probably remembering the despair of the time when his strength was insufficient. As a leader, must be crushing.

In the end, he obviously accepts and asks about his friends.

This... This is where I enter...

"I can pass the message." I raise my hand "I can travel fast around the world and I know where they are, I will talk with them before delivering Kuma to the Revolutionary Army. By the way, do you have some message to your Father or Sabo? Or to your crew?" I grab the opportunity

...

Now a Pro Tip... The key to going through an awkward situation is to keep a straight face and act normal

"Take off your top..." I say to Hancock

Me and the Boa Sisters are in her room. Only the four of us.

In the end, she accepted my help after being clear that she would "allow me to help her". Prideful as ever, but I think the fact that I'm an Enemy of the World Nobles helped her trust me a little.

"If you are tricking me, I will kill you." She glares while holding her top tightly

"You can't even if you try..." I scoff "Turn around already so that we can begin." I act dismissively

She bit her lips before turning around and letting her upper clothes fall on her pillows.

I look seriously at the slave mark, seeing all the details

"So they put a special ink on the marker... It's a brand and a tattoo..." I comment before extending my hand and touching her back.

Okay, let's take it out of my chest already.

Right now, I have no interest in Hancock.

She likes Luffy, so she is a man for all intents and purposes.

I have mixed feelings about her Character... Not her person, I don't know her yet.

On one side, Hancock embodies everything that I don't like in a woman.

Entitled and arrogant. Thinking that she can get away with anything because she is beautiful.

This is so exaggerated that becomes a caricature and few people take it seriously, but she is like that.

Then, on the other hand, I understand where she came from. It's a defense mechanism because of trauma. Exaggeratedly misandry because she lives on an island where only exist women and her few experiences with men must have been horrible.

And then she cares about the people that she likes greatly, like her sisters and Luffy.

And when reading or watching One Piece, it's almost impossible to not like her seeing her help Luffy in exchange for nothing.

'A person can be bad to other people but if treats me well, this person is good to me...'

It's come to the point where I think she deserves better. Assexual Luffy will never give her what she wants... Well, ChiChi accomplished with Goku so maybe nothing is impossible.

"If you want to ensnare Luffy, try baiting him with food." I say suddenly

"Where did this come from?"

I shrug my shoulders and don't elaborate.

"You can see the result already..." I comment and the two sisters look over my shoulder.

"It's disappearing..." Marigold says slowly in disbelief

"It's slow but is absolutely disappearing!" Sandersonia exclaims, watching the edge of the mark slowly fade.

Yep, I only need to slowly kill the cells on the skin and help it grow again new.

The keyword is "slowly" because I'm copying Hancock devil fruit too. As a fee...

I can feel their gratefulness even without words.

Hm~, It's wrong to me to think that in the case of me going back here in another timeline, I can do this before she meets Luffy so that I can make her fall for me instead?

I mean... Like...

She is physically totally my type. Tall(6'3''. 1,93) and busty Amazon woman with long black hair and blue eyes...

I think I thought about that loudly because Cortana comments sarcastically in my mind

'Tall Amazon women, redheads, goth, tomboys, villains... What is not your type, Master?'

"..."

Okay... I hate how right she is. But is not about the biotype... Is the whole character. A true man of culture would understand.

But I feel that I would spiral into some long talk trying to explain myself so I will use my rizz to escape.

'You forgot about blue A.I.s...' I say in my mind.

Cortana: "..." (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)

....

Third Person P.O.V.

Now on the porto of Amazon Lily, people are giving their farewells to the visitors.

"So you really can swim..." Elder Nyon comments after seeing Hector jump into the sea and return with a giant snake in his grip.

Yudas are extremely venomous sea serpents that are also used to pull the Kuja Pirates' ship through the Calm Bet. Not only allowing them to travel through the region that has no wind, but also keeping the Sea Kings way because of their nature.

"But why are you grabbing a Yuda?" Elder Nyon asks

"I'm gonna use it to make sake..." Hector answers with a straight face

*Pah* And receives an attack of her snake cane on the head. "Yudas are the guardians beasts of Amazon Lily! Don't use them to make sake!!" Elder Nyon says fuming

"Really? My bad..." Hector says and releases the serpent after taking some blood from it.

"I thought that you don't drink." Saeko says at his side

"And I don't. I'm only curious. A good Habushu can be made from highly venomous serpentes. Must be tasty... If the person survives. Could be a good gift too..." He says nonchalantly

"We are going now." Rayleigh declares, taking Luffy with him in a small boat. They plan to train on an island close by.

"Bye, Hancock! Wavy-hair! Everyone!"

"Luffyyyyyy~ I don't know if I can survive far from you~" Hancock practically cries seeing the boat getting further from them.

"Why are you ignoring Rayleigh? He is your savior..." Elder Nyon deadpans close

Hector waves at Luffy "I will deliver the messages..." He says, maybe seeing the guy for the last time. "Well, we are off too. Don't miss me, girls." Hector kisses two of his fingers and blows at the Amazons, even at Elder Nyon because he doesn't discriminate.

He says goodbye to everyone except Hancock.

"Good riddance..." Hancock huffs before crossing her arms beneath her bosom.

"Onee-sama, he helped us." Marigold tries to admonish her older sister

"Bye, Hector!" Sandersonia and the other amazons are much warm in their goodbyes.

Hector copied the three devil fruits of the Gorgon Sisters

Hector and Hancock are not on good terms on the surface, acting like they hate each other. But they are rude to each other without meaning it.

On Hector's side is because he doesn't want to give her the satisfaction of acting like everyone else and Hancock is too prideful to be the first to act nice.

"Goodbye, I hope to never see you again!" Hector shouts at her with an innocent smile on his face

"And I hope you die eaten by a Sea King!" Hancock shouts back

Hector and his group finally board Dawn. Law's crew joined them because Hector "confiscated" his submarine

"You two are emanating sibling energy." Saeko says with mirth after they take off

"Sweet Home Alabama..." Hector jokes "By the way she was pretty strong. Wanna try to fight her?" Hector turns to ask

He is a little surprised. Normally, people would forget that Hancock is super strong. Because of her low bounty and how she acts around Luffy.

But she was one-shotting Pacifistas during the war.

Her bounty is low because it was her first and then froze because she became a Shichibukai.

She has Conqueror's Haki.

And now that Hector can see firsthand, he can attest that she is probably stronger than Doflamingo!

And is trained. While she was kicking his head, even with such a high cut on her skirt, nothing was shown to Hector. She has a good control over her body.

"Would be good." Saeko comments with a glint in her eyes.

...

Dawn docks at an unpopulated island. On the Calm Bet, relatively close to Amazon Lily and where Luffy is training.

"That should be good enough..." Hector comments while disembarking with Machia and Law's crew.

It's a summer island, with a huge mountain and forests.

"This is where I will train you guys... First, run till that mountain, climb it, and come back here." Hector points at the huge mountain in the Middle

"Climb that?" A crewmate of Law asks shocked

"Yes, then you will punch this till you can't anymore." Hector says before pulling a giant metal block, two meters and ten meters wide to them.

"..." Law stares at him waiting for him to tell that is a joke.

"This is serious. I want to see your limits... By the way..." Hector turns to him and in the next moment, Law is handcuffed by Seastone.

The captain of the Heart Pirates can already feel the strength leaving him.

"Are you serious? Can I really become stronger like that?" He asks in doubt

At this moment, the light mood evaporates when Hector clicks his tongue and stares at them with narrowed eyes.

"You guys complain too much..." Everyone trembles seeing Hector without any goofiness "I'm doing you a favor, Law."

Hector waves his hand and Law's submarine appears on the shore

"You guys can go away if you want. I'm only doing it from the goodness of my heart and because I have time... If I feel that you guys are slacking off and wasting my time I will go kill Doflaming in the next instant and you will never have closure." Hector looks down on them still pressuring the pirate crew with his presence

"..."

"In one month we are gonna speedrun the training. Accomplishing what Rayleigh wants to do with Luffy in two years. I can only guarantee that you will not die. But maybe your mind will break." Hector says seriously

Law stares at him more seriously now

"Is this gonna make me stronger than Doflaming?" He asks

"No way in hell. But will make you one of the top 100 fighters in this world. You will have a chance." Hector comments "I can only give any details alter." Hector doesn't care anymore and turns around

If when he comes back, they are training he will use his methods to teach Law Haki.

Before he goes he gives a huge block of Adamantium to Machia to train.

'Now it's time to meet the Strawhats' Hector thinks a little giddy

Isn't it like a childhood dream come true?

...

Kuraigana Island

This is a dark and gloomy. Dawn floats above the island and Hector, Saeko, and Cassandra go down to meet the first in the list.

They stop close to a bloodied fallen man. All around them, baboons are unconscious, and the whole place reeks of a big fight.

"Oho, it's Zoro. Cool~" Hector says "This guy uses 3 swords, Saeko. One on his mouth..."

"On his throat?" She asks

"...no. Between his teeth." Hector says feeling strange by the mental image provided by Saeko.

"My teeth hurt just by imagining it." Saeko says while looking at the fallen man

"You probably could use even more..."

"What?"

"What?"

The two pause but suddenly a shout cut the funny moment

"Aaaah. Who are you guys?" A feminine voice can be heard nearby

"Oh~ A gothic Lolita..." Hector looks at Perona up and down.

The pink-haired woman is floating in the air, surrounded by two ghosts created with her powers.

When she arrives close to them, she stops and stares at Hector.

Suddenly her face morphs into one of terror. She screams like a banshee and tries to fly away.

But when she only fled by 20 meters a hand grabbed her ghostly form by her shin.

Like in a horror movie, she slowly turns back to see Hector smiling at her innocently.

"Why are you going so early?" He continues to smile creepily at her, but eventually releases her.

'So touching her soul doesn't count...' Hector sighs after failing to copy her power

When he releases her, he goes back to Zoro.

The guy looks worn down, but is awake.

"Who are you all?" Zoro asks staring at them, he is standing up slowly

"Just stay down for now..." Hector forces him down telekinetically before slapping a newspaper at his face.

"You...-" Zoro was ready to curse before he noticed Luffy in the newspaper.

Hector gives time to him to read

"Luffy's brother was captured?" Zoro asks more to himself

"Yep, nasty thing. The world will pass through some changes, not that it matters to you." Hector leans on a broken wall.

Saeko is at his side, and Cassandra is poking some fallen baboons on the ground.

"It appears that I need to thank you for saving my captain." Zoro stares at Hector seriously

Hector waves his hand dismissively "Think nothing of it. Only doing what I wanted to do." He comments "Now, to business... The plan to reunite in 3 days on Sabaody is off the window obviously, right?" Hector says

Originally the Strawhats had planned to separate to run from Kizaru and then reunite 3 days later.

But they didn't count on being separated at this proportion. Each one is being sent to a corner of the planet practically.

"You must have noticed that your strength is severely lacking." Hector says without a care

Zoro grits his teeth but can't argue.

"So, following Rayleigh's guidance, Luffy decided that the crew should train for 2 years before you all reunite in Sabaody." Hector raises his hand, showing two fingers

"Two Years..." Zoro murmurs to himself, thinking about something

"Kuma was a good guy..." Hector comments lightly "He even sent you guys to appropriate places."

"..." Zoro keeps himself in silence, he has his personal experience with Kuma. The man spared his life once.

After some time, Perona returns with Mihawk in tow.

"So you're here." Mihawk says looking at Hector.

"Yes, I'm here."

Mihawk gave Hector, Saeko, and Cassandra a look before turning to Zoro.

"Let's talk inside." He invites

....

Inside the castle

'The guy really likes the vampire theme...' Hector thinks looking around

"Did you think about it thoroughly, Roronoa?" Mihawk stares down at the man kneeling on the ground

"I thought about that and I need to get stronger." Zoro says determinedly

"I saw that you defeated the baboons, but did you give up on surpassing me?" Mihawk asks with a hint of disappointment in his voice

"No..." Zoro says slowly

"?"

"I still want to surpass you, but right now I need to get stronger for my captain." Zoro says "And then I will defeat you."

The people look at him strangely.

Perona and Cassandra look at him like he is some sort of idiot.

Saeko looks at him with a little of respect.

Mihawk and Hector smile a little.

Then Mihawk releases a full-blown laughter "You want me to train you so that you can defeat me? Aren't seeing how ridiculous that sounds?"

"Yes." Zoro answers seriously

Hector chuckles at his response.

"Alright..." Mihawk finally answers "In two years I will make that you will not be an embarrassment anymore."

Hector then raises his hand to interrupt

"Well, now that you two are on it... Why don't you let Saeko learn with you a little too?" Hector says

Mihawk and Saeko turn to look at him

"This is not a dojo. And on her level would be better for her to find her own path." Mihawk says

"Heh, don't be like that... Just let her watch how you two train."

With Saeko's genius, there's no need for direct guidance. She can catch only by observing them

"It's rare to meet people that have the same interest, let her have some fun." Hector says lightly and then pulls a paper sheet "That would be her schedule. I will get her on those days to go sightseeing. It can change in the future." Hector gives the paper at Mihawk

"Are you taking me lightly?" Mihawk frowns at him

The two stare at each other, Hector with a carefree smile on his lips

"Not at all. I respect you... a bit. Don't reject so fast, I haven't talked about the payment..." Hector raises his index finger "In the end of her 3-month short training I will give you... A fight with me." Hector's smile morphs into a smirk while his eyes become a crescent

"..." Silence falls on the precinct

"You're offering a fight with me as a payment?" Mihawk asks

"More like a spar really, I will limit myself to get interesting. You can learn a lot." Hector says in his carefree way.

A pity that Mihawk doesn't understand that he is not mocking him

"So you're really mocking me..." He says slowly and starts standing up from his seat.

A battle is about to happen.

"I'm not mocking you. Do you want a free sample now?" Hector asks and slowly starts to raise his hand "Do you mind if I borrow this then?"

In his hand, Yoru.

"!" Words can't describe Mihawk's Shock at seeing his prized sword in Hector's hand.

Hector took Yoru and Mihawk didn't even see when or how he did it.

This is a great blow to any swordsman's pride

"These markings... Heh, they're interesting." Hector smiles mysteriously while analyzing Yoru "Will not be wasted to Saeko to do some training here."

He turns the handle and presents the sword to Mihawk.

The greatest swordsman in the world slowly takes his sword back.

"So... Do we have a deal?" Hector asks innocently

Mihawk doesn't answer. He puts his sword behind his back and turns around to leave.

When he is far enough "After you heal we Wills tart your training, Roronoa. Busujima go practise with the baboons, defeat them without Haki." Mihawk says

Hector smiles seeing that.

"Men are such weirdos sometimes..." Perona comments

"So, should I pay my respect to my new master?" Saeko asks, genuinely curious

"No... You only kneel to me, Saeko. This is only a transaction," Hector answers seriously and then turns at her with a smile "Now you have a place to pass the time while I do boring things like researching. I will come back for you when I have something fun to do." He smiles and pats her head

"And this fight against him?"

Hector scoffs "I will destroy him. But will be good to ignite a fire. You swordspeople get better under the pressure of someone stronger. And he is one of those... Limited by their world." Hector says before saying his goodbyes and taking Cassandra with him

....

On the sky

Hector is flying alone, his senses working full time to locate the sky island. Weatheria.

Weatheria is an artificial sky island where its inhabitants research the Weather. And is also the place where Nami was sent after being separated from the rest of the Strawhats.

"This is the trickiest place to find because it's moving, but there's a fixed route..." Hector thinks to himself before continuing his search.

Some time later he finally found the island in question. Annoyed by wasting time, he uses his senses to scan the island. already.

Only old people live there, so feeling the young and female form of Nami he instantly teleports to her location with a Blink.

Appearing at the home where she is, Hector pauses.

'Okay... I should have seen this coming...' He thinks while staring at the nude form of the navigator of the strawhats that is taking a bath.

"..." 'Is Yuuki Rito making me dumber? Or I am relaxed because of this world?'

He thinks while Nami finally notices him.

Almost everything is exposed, only some bubbles and soap poorly protect Nami's wet and curvy body from Hector's eyes.

In an instant, Nami screamed, then tried to shield her body in embarrassment with a towel, and then went to the attack trying to punch Hector in his head.

Hector doesn't defend himself "Okay, I deserve that..." He says feeling nothing after the punch. Naomi can't hurt him, and he is even considerate enough to make his body softer so that she doesn't hurt her hand too much.

Nonetheless, Nami still feels like she punched a car tire.

"Ouch! Ouch! What you are made for??" She shouts while nursing her hand after turning around

"I'm just trying to see if the Power of Anime Gag can really hurt me..." Hector says confusing her

"Huh? Whatever, you saw, right? You owe me 100 thousand belis!" She points at him and declares, always trying to profit.

Unexpectedly to her, Hector really pulls out a lot of gold bars.

The gold shines on her face making the sign of money appear in her eyes

"This should be 200 thousand, so can I see it again?" Hector asks with a straight face

"NO!" Nami shrilled at him like a demon with pointed teeth while she bent over to hug the gold bars "I said wrong before, it was exactly this amount!" She says shamelessly.

"..." Hector doesn't comment and doesn't care, because...

...When she bends over the pile of gold... She exposed herself even more to him.

Hector covers his mouth with his hand

"I see... A smooth swimmer style, huh? Makes sense... I thought it would be orange down there too." He comments, feeling the effects of the Happinness Punch

Nami straightens herself hearing his words, noticing the position she is in.

She really turned around and practically went on all fours to him at the sight of money.

Embarrassment turns into anger and she goes for another attack "You Bastaard!!" She goes for another Punch

But this time, Hector is not buying it. He sidesteps, making her lose her balance. Hector grabs her forearm spins her around and catches her by the waist, holding her form in a somewhat romantic position.

Hector clicks his tongue playfully at her while their face are close "Dear Cat Burglar, you're good... Stealing my heart like that..." He smirks roguishly at her

"You...!" Nami blushes a little

"So you can't get angry if I steal a kiss from you now, right?" He slowly approaches her face with his.

Nami's eyes swirl seeing his actions, but...

...he kisses her cheek.

"Eh?"

Seeing her confused face, Hector smiles and pulls her to her feet again, spinning her.

"Sorry, gorgeous. I'm still figuring out where to draw the line when dealing with other women..." Hector says to her, talking about Shego and his harem "When I figure out, maybe I will come back to have my due." He winks at her

Nami's face morphs into one of anger and embarrassment again.

After that, and after some fun teasing her, Hector passes the message of the reunion in 2 years and says his goodbyes.

....

Boin Archipelago

"I told you that there's an island like that..." Hector comments at Tsukasa while he grabs a corn on the ground.

Strangely enough, the corn is already cooked and seasoned and has butter on it for some reason.

The whole of Boin Island is like that. Almost everything is food.

Tsukasa looks at the lamen waterfall, there are even some giant boiled eggs on it.

"I'm really surprised..." Tsukasa says while he grabs some grass, that is in truth licorice.

"The truth is that the whole island is a huge carnivorous plant. The food is to attract people and beasts." Hector explains to the surprised Tsukasa

"Oy oy! Did Luffy really tell you that? Two Years, are you serious?" The sniper of the strawhats asks Hector.

Instead of his usual scrawny form, Ussop is as fat as he can get now.

"Yep, it's time for you to blast on the Inspirational Remix Soundtrack and go in a training montage, Ussop. You need it." Hector says while grabbing the guy's belly and shaking it like a jello.

"This is muscle!!!" Ussop tries to argue but he can't fool anyone

"Whatever... You have two years to not be a burden anymore. Luffy and Zoro will become really strong because they are training with Rayleigh and Mihawk." Hector says

"..." His words make Ussop pause.

Hector can almost see the engines rolling on his brain while he thinks about how to get stronger.

....

Momoiro Island

That's the queer island, led by Ivankov. It's all full of pink, love, and gay men.

Hector and Cassandra are staring a little speechless at the next member of the strawhats.

Sanji broke down under the trauma and is wearing a pink frilly dress and makeup.

"Sanji snaps of it..." Hector says slowly

"Hehe. Snap off what, silly?" Sanji acts cute and girly at him.

Hector sighs, Thankfully he predicted that and came prepared.

He slowly removes something from his clothes. A Picture... And shows it to Sanji.

It was something from his recent memory. Nami is in a towel, with wet hair, sexy even though she doesn't want to be.

Sanji paused seeing the photo, it looked like his whole body was electrocuted. In the next instant, his body literally catches fire and he rises in the air like a rocket.

"...weird." Cassandra says while Shield her eyes to look at the fiery man in the sky

"Just go with it..." Hector says with a deadpan face

Sanji spins in the air in a wheel of fire, his dress becomes ashes and he goes back to the ground in his black suit.

"Nami-swaaaan!!" He shouts, moving at Hector all wiggly and at high speed "Hey, why do you have a Nami-swan picture like that?" he suddenly gets serious and looks at Hector.

"..."

"You bastard! What you did do to Nami-swan??" Sanji rages, catching fire again.

Hector shuts him up by throwing the Picture away, making Sanji throw himself too to catch it before hits the ground.

"Don't treat this treasure like that!!" Sanjo rages

"Eto-chaaan!!"

Hector ignores Sanji when he hears Bon Clay calling from him at a distance

"Bon-chaaan!!" Hector meets Bon Clay with a matching enthusiasm and hugs the okama.

"Oh, if is not Eto-boy. Bon-chan told me about how you helped my Okams in Impel Down. Thank you for that!! IHAAAH!" Ivankov the queen of the okamas shouts animatedly.

Accompanying Ivankov and Bon Clay, is Inazuma. The Orange and White okama that has an interesting Devil Fruit.

"It was nothing, but I have a favor to ask." Hector says dismissively while thinking of ways of copying the Devil Fruits of Ivankov and Inazuma. (Hormone and Scissors fruits)

"Oh, and what is that? Let me tell you, that a favor of the Okama Queen is precious beyond belief!!!" Ivankov says dramatically.

"First... Luffy sent a message to Sanji." Hector turns to the man worshipping the Nami's image.

He explains about the two-year training period and how Sanji should train with Ivankov.

Ivankov chuckles with his hand covering his mouth "Yes, this is a good idea. I can train Sanji-boy for these two years." Then Ivankov puts his face very close to Hector's "So you're the one that captured Kuma, huh?" Kuma and Ivankov are part of the Revolutionary Army.

"Yes, I will deliver him to Dragon."Hector says nonchalantly. He even silently mouths the place where the Revolutionary Army is hidden.

Ivankov retreats in surprise "You know a lot, Eto-boy!!"

"Ou, I didn't agree to train with these Okamas!" Sanji says in rage.

Hector kicks him in his shin "Don't be ungrateful and homophobic. They saved your captain! And you can learn a lot with them." Hector beats some sense in Sanji

He then turns to Ivankov

"By the way, my favor is to you to train my friend in cooking." Hector says

"Oh, but I'm already going to train Sanji-boy and Bon-chan! I will have too much on my plate, Eto-boy! I don't know if I can do that." He laughs

"..." Hector stares at him for an instant with a deadpan face.

Then he pulls Tsukasa from a portal

"What a cute boy!! Accepted!!" Ivankov says immediately

"All according to Keikaku..." Hector whispers, suddenly putting on his glasses and making them shine with his powers.

"Eh... Hector-san, I'm not sure about that..." Tsukasa apprehensively looks around at these weirdos

Hector smiles at him and gives him a thumbs up.

"For your dream, you need to make sacrifices...Keep an eye open and your buttcheeks clenched."

"Hector-san?"

Hector doesn't answer, he starts to run away at high speed while carrying Cassandra under his arm.

"Hector-san?!?" Tsukasa tries to shout but he is already being smothered by a lot of Okamas

"Your sacrifice will not be in vain!!!" Hector cries, tears flying while he can't bear to look back.

"...fun." Cassandra says expressionless

"Do you think? They're are weirdos but are good people. Maybe you can train with them sometime. The Newkama Kempo." Hector says

He then remembers something and smirks

"Saanjiii!! While you fell here, Luffy fell in Amazon Lily and Ussop on an island full of food!" Hector shouts back

The last thing they hear is an anguished scream, full of sorrow, like that of a pig.

...

Torino Kingdom

On this island, the locals cohabited with Giants Birds.

Normally they are in constant dispute, but thanks to Chopper who can speak both human and animal languages they solved their differences and are living in harmony now.

"Seriously? So everyone is well? That's good!" Chopper practically cries in happiness after Hector told him the news.

"Yes, now the best you can do is train and study so that you all can adventure in the New World prepared." Hector comments while watching Cassandra hugging a giant fluffy bird

"Yes!!" Chopper nods determinedly "Oh! I saw on the News that you saved Ace from certain death!" The small reindeer suddenly says

"Yes, I'm a doctor too." Hector answers "But I bet that I can learn a lot from someone who studied on the famous Drum Island" Hector compliments

"Pfft! Your bastard! Don't think that your words can make me happy! Hehe" Chopper wiggles around with his eyes and mouth in a silly crescent "Come, come... Let's talk about medicine. Hehe" He puts some te to Hector and cleans a sit at his side

Hector chuckles seeing that and engages in an interesting talk of two doctors.

And copying Choppers' Human Fruit while doing this.

'Oda once joked about what would happen if a human ate the Human Fruit. Saying something about Enlightened Human, let's see how far this joke goes.' Hector thinks.

...

Tequila Wolf

Only Hector comes to rescue Robin from her captors on this huge bridge.

Nico Robin the archaelogist of the Straw Hats reads the newspaper given by Hector with rapid attention, trying to update her on the happening of the world.

Around her, many guards have fallen on the ground, unconscious.

"Hector puts a blank over her shoulder and unceremoniously lays on the ground on his side, his hand supporting his head.

"I heard that you're searching for the Void Century... I know what is..." Hector starts with a smile

Robin takes her eyes off the newspapers to look at him

"A Void Century will be my life without you, my dear. What about marrying me?" He awakens his unused rizz and winks at her.

Robing chuckles at him, but smiles gently and rejects his offer politely "Fufu. Sorry, but we don't know each other very well."

Hector clicks his tongue but accepts without insisting "Tch. Your loss."

He obviously is not serious but, in his own words...

'You always need to flirt with the mature women of the anime worlds... It's the law.'

After assimilating some "playboys" characters he discovered that flirting is a good exercise for self-confidence and self-esteem.

The secret is not starting flirting expecting to get in the woman's pants. Expect nothing and you will not be disappointed.

He engages in these playful flirting with Ororo and others sometimes. Just for the sake of it

"The Revolutionary Army is almost arriving, they will treat you well." Hector says to her "But if not, just shout and I will save you."

"I thank you for your help." She says

He is only taking his time to copy her power. 'One of the most sexually creative powers of all fiction... This will be fun.' He thinks

"By the way, you're good with languages, right? Can you read this?" He stands up and delivers her a small paper

Robin looks at the paper curiously, not noticing Hector's evil smirk. 'Record...'

She looks at it and reads it out loud, confused.

" 'Ara ara~' ?"

Hector smirks widens "Ladies and Gentleman, we got her." He looks like he is breaking the fourth wall

[Objective: Make a 10-hour "Ara ara~" Compilation of anime mature women through the Omniverse.]

"This is only the first step!" He shouts before moving quickly to the edge of the bridge and making a swan dive on the water like he is escaping something "Hector's out!"

"..." Robin stares at him confused, before she bursts into giggles.

Being part of the Strawhat Pirates, she is used to weird people's antics.

....

Karakuri Island

That's the winter island. Where the greatest mind of the One Piece world, Dr. Vegapunk, was born.

Hector arrived there to find a weird Franky.

Weird because he is acting proper and normal instead of his usual perverted way.

Hector then takes some Cola from his inventory and chugs it down his throat. And just like he had been electrocuted Franky was back to normal.

"SUUUUUUPEEEEEEERRRRR!" He strikes his iconic pose, putting together his forearms. "I'M BAAAAAACK, BABYYYYY! AOOO!!"

Hector shakes his head and passes the message.

After that, he went around the Vegapunk laboratory.

He finds some interesting there, making him even more interested in meeting Vegapunk in person.

...

"Yohohohoho! That's some good lyrics, Hector-san!" Brook laughs while playing on his guitar, Hector by his side "You don't mind if I use them, right?"

"Of course not." Hector smiles after teaching Brook the "Never Gonna Give Up" song. "You need to let me record 'Binks no Sake' though."

"Deal! Yohohoho" Brook laughs before he starts playing again

"After that, I will teach another animated song... It's started like that 'I put the new Forgis on the Jeep~'" Hector smiles evilly

....

A.N.:

Ahoy.

After te action-filled chapter, a calm before the storm. Our MC showing that he can go copying power discreetly, but going big is more effective.

Also settling his people in places where they can grow.

A small calm before he starts creating chaos again. He realizes some childhood dreams of meeting his favorite characters.

I hope you guys get a good laugh of this chapter.

It's necessary, next he will be a little more forceful when taking what he wants from the villains.


章 66: World Of Pirates: Part 04

Disclaimer: I own nothing. This story has no interest in offending any party. Having the sole objective of only entertaining the readers. Enjoy~

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"Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other."

-Eric Burdon

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Recap: In the last chapter, Hector copied discreetly many powers, took Law under his tutelage and went on a little questo to meet the Strawhats.

.....

A little note to clarify some things:

Some people mistakenly believe that Hector knows nothing about Wano. Nope, he stopped a little before the "rooftop battle". So he knows about Oden... I will make a little list.

He doesn't know:

- Nika Nika no mi

- The Seraphim

- Admiral Rokugyou

- King being a Lunarian(But he can guess)

- He wouldn't know about Advanced Conqueror's Haki either, but he assimilated Roger and Oden, so he learned from them.

- Vegapunk

- Sanji upgrade(If not he would go to Germa earlier)

- The fact that the Dragon fruit that Momonosuke ate is not defective(If not he would go retrieve it)

And everything after that like Mother Flame, Nefertari D. Lily etc.

Now to the chapter, enjoy.

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Third Person P.O.V.

" "That's what we do with a drunken sailor♫

♫Early in the morning! ♫" "

Hector and Brook end their duet with a big laugh

Hector takes a breath and stands up "Well, the company is good, but I have things to do, Brook. By the way, what are your thoughts on going to see Laboon right now?" Hector eyes the skeleton.

Brook pauses his fingers that are playing on the chords of the guitar

"I can make it happen and bring you back here..." Hector adds.

"I'm grateful for the offer, Hector-san." Brook says seriously after a long pause "But I promised that I would meet him after going around the world..."

"..."

"If you asked me while I was alone in the Florian Triangle, I would have accepted." Another pause, and then Brook looks up at Hector and says with a tone that shows that he is smiling even if his skull face has no lips "But now I have good friends that will help me accomplish my promise."

"...Heh. I expected that much..." Hector chuckles "Don't worry that I plan to visit the Twin Cape, so I will pass the news that you're alive to Laboon and Crocus. I will check Laboon's health too... So don't worry and focus on your travel." Hector gives Brook a thumbs-up

"Yohohoho! I would appreciate it very much, Hector-san!" Brook laughs happily.

Hector then turns to the other three people close by.

"I hope you all take good care of my pal here. Are we understood?" Hector glares at the three members of the Long Arm tribe.

They are the ones that helped Brook become the famous singer Soul King, but are only after profit, after all, so Hector needs to put them in their places

After they all shakily nod while hugging each other, too scared of his reputation to even speak, Hector relaxes and gives them a disarming smile

"Now, the start of anything is always the hardest part, so let me fund you guys a little..." He pulls a sack of gold from his storage and drops it in front of them.

The three long-armed people's eyes go wide seeing that development.

Hector remembers in some cover story from the manga, Brook singing in the rain as a street performer. This much money can afford some good clothes and travel. Maybe even the recording of a disc if they are smart. He doesn't want Brook to go hungry.

'Hm... Are discs here? Maybe vinyl...' Hector thinks

After one last thank you from Brook, Hector goes away.

...

Sea Floor

'Finally found you...' Hector thinks when he finally spots the last Strawhat to visit...

...Going Merry.

He needed to calculate the ocean currents to find Merry's sheep figurehead.

'Your spirit should be on the Sunny, but let me preserve your a little." Hector says in his mind.

Using his powers he creates a makeshift shrine where Merry can rest, he even uses [Crazy Diamond] power to restore any damage on the figurehead.

With effort, maybe he can even restore the ship from cinders.

But now he knows that some endings shouldn't be touched.

"..." Hector gives Merry a last complicated look before going away.

...

Baltigo, Revolutionary Army Base

"I wish I could trust people like you trust this top..." Hector comments on Bello Betty's attire.

Right now the situation in the Revolutionary Army hideout is a little tense.

Hector, who is now disputing with Monkey D Dragon the title of most dangerous man in the world, and Cassandra are sitting lazily and relaxed at a table in this office. Around him, Dragon, Sabo, Koala, Belo Betty, and many other people from the Revolutionary Army are looking at him cautiously.

"Iva told me that you would come." Dragon is the one that broke the silence from the other party

Hector eyes the man, he has a non-friendly face, very different from Garp and Luffy.

'But he is not antagonizing me, he is just like that normally...' Hector thinks while trying to feel if Dragon has a Devil Fruit.

Hector raises his hand and throws something, a green marble that shines, and suddenly Bartholomew Kuma is there, kneeling on the ground. Tied by some metal bindings in a way that gives him no free movement.

"Kuma-san!!" Sabo, Koala, and some others shout and approach the huge guy.

Dragon, different from the others, doesn't move from his spot. Instead, he frowns and looks at Hector

"You just put us at great risk..."

Hector once again raises his hand "I'm the last person that you need to talk about this..." He lets the broken pieces of a tracker fall on the ground "I'm very cautious."

Obviously, he checked Kuma through and through before.

"I couldn't help but notice that his... transformation into a cyborg was very unusual." Hector stares at Dragon's eyes "Do you guys know or have ties with Vegapunk?" He asks

"..." Dragon keeps his silence

Hector snorts "Sorry if I messed with some of your plans... And it appears Kuma will stay as a cyborg with no free will for some time." He comments more to himself.

'I will visit Vegapunk sooner than later...' Hector decided before turning to Sabo "Did you recover your memories?"

"Hm?" The blonde in question turns to him confused

"Oh, so you needed the trauma of Ace dying? Makes sense... Ace was famous before after all and it didn't trigger you..." Hector smiles predatorily "Do you want the manual or the wi-fi recovery?" He asks out of the blue

"What?"

"The wi-fi then...I will not be stabbing my finger in your limbic system." Hector's eyes then glare hard at Sabo. Telepathy used.

"Aargh!!" Sabo clutches his head in pain and falls to his knees.

"Sabo-kun!!

"Sabo!"

"What did you do?"

Hector ignores everyone and doesn't move or explain.

'In the past, I was always annoyed by people that pulls this shit. Why not explain beforehand? For drama? Now I know that is more convenient and fast... And fun too.' He smirks

"What did you do to him?" Hack, a fishman, shouts at him while holding the, now in shock, Sabo.

"Just recovering his memories. Relax... He will explain it to you all later. I'm lazy." Hector says dismissively with a shooing hand motion "So, Belo Betty... Did you use your power in me? I can feel my 'spirit' rising with your presence." Hector gives her a half-flirtatious smile.

"..." Belo Betty pauses "You're weird, you bastard." She says rudely, his flirting with her while Sabo has a breakdown is really weird "But I don't dislike it." She smiles back

"Oho~"

.....

"So you're the sworn brother of Ace and Luffy? Dragon-san's son??" Koala asks, shocked by the twist.

Not only her, but pretty much everyone on this base is surprised by the revelation.

Sabo is sitting with a somewhat lost expression, his elbows supported on his knees "I almost lost my brother... I would have done nothing..." He says while burying his face in his hands, shoulders trembling

"You didn't know, Sabo-kun." Koala tries to comfort him while giving pats on his shoulder.

"That's right, you can't blame yourself. If you knew, you would be there. We too." Hack confirms on his side.

Sabo takes a deep breath and raises his head to look at Hector "Thank you... Thank you for helping me now and saving my brothers in Marineford." He says seriously and, like Ace, bows his head.

"...so what would be my reward if I bring the head of one of the Five Elders to you- Eh? No need... I was doing what I wanted..." Hector who was flirting with Belo Betty while holding her hand turns him disinterestedly "Luffy will train with Rayleigh for some years, so no use looking for him. But you can go reunite with Ace." Hector says

"Heh~ I think that I don't need to search for him. We will meet eventually." Sabo says with a smile

"..." Hector gives him a look before shrugging "Maybe. Destiny works in mysterious ways here after all." Then he suddenly stands up and talks to Sabo and Koala "We need to go, but what about you two spar with my sidekick here." Hector pulls Cassandra by the back of her neck like a cat "I'm very curious about your Dragon Fist Style and the Fishman Karate..." He smiles

The two have no problem in sparing. Hector observed the two fighting styles from the sidelines with great attention, easily engraving them in his mind.

It's a spar with only techniques, Cassandra is equalizing her speed.

Cassandra won relatively easily against Koala. And against Sabo was a draw, because Hector interrupted. If not, the two would go for a long time learning from each other.

Then Hector gives his goodbyes promising to visit his dear Belo Betty and promising retribution if they hurt Robin in some way while she was in their care.

'A little friendship to visit them in the future and copy the rest of the Devil Fruits...' Hector plans before disappearing.

He still needs to confirm if Dragon really has something like the Storm Fruit.

"Belo Betty's Devil Fruit is very similar to that quirk of that guy on the Meta Liberation Army in the Hero Academia World..." He thinks out loud, remembering the guy who can hype people with his voice "But better. It's a trend apparently... I need to work in fusions later."

.....

"..." Right now Cassandra is observing a strange scene.

After Hector visited Laboon and Crocus at the entrance of the Grand Line he coincidentally met an interesting Character crossing the Reverse Mountain.

So right now he and Cassandra are embarking on their ship.

But... The strange situation is...

"Pfft! You?! Their biggest fan? Keep dreaming!" Hector rolls around the deck, Fighting multiple people in a storm of limbs and attacks

"Shut Up, you bastard!! Don't look down on me!!" Bartolomeo, the Strawhats fanboy and user of the Barrier fruits answers while he fights against Hector.

"..." Cassandra is starting to get used to it. And she doesn't know if is a good thing.

"You shut up! I carry on my back the Inherited Will of millions of fans... You simply can't compare!" Hector continues to fight Bartolomeo's crew through the deck.

He is not only fooling around. He is copying Bartolomeo's power too.

"I will eternally thank you for helping Luffy-senpai and Ace-senpai in Marineford!! But on this, I will not step back!" Bartolomeo shouts while delivering a storm of punches.

"Enough!" Hector stops the fight and makes all of them move away with a telekinetic blast "It appears that I need to get serious..." Hector looks down on the Barto's Club crew

"Bring it on, you bastard!" Bartolomeo shouts while putting on a fight stance

Hector smirks. A smirk full of superiority. The smugness is palpable. To Bartolomeo, his face is very punchable right now.

But at the same time, a feeling of uneasiness creeps into Bartolomeo's heart.

Hector starts talking "You accompanied the Strawhat's adventures through the Newspapers... But what about their other adventures???" Hector asks suddenly

"!!!!" It looks like lightning hit every one of the members of the ship

"You... you... You are lying! It can't be... You can't possibly know..." Bartolomeo shouts, full of uncertainty,

"Heeeh~" Hector crosses his arms and the smug smile widens "So you guys don't know about Skypiea and the Florian Triangle? Well, well... And you guys call yourselves fans... Tsk tsk."

"Skypiea?"

"Florian Triangle?"

The crew look at each other

"Could it be...?" One asks with doubt

"The Florian Triangle is said to be very mysterious and no one knows what is inside... If they entered there... Maybe... Not even the government would know what they did." A smarter member says his piece

"~~~~~~" Bartolomeo grits his teeth while looking at Hector's smug expression.

"Skypiea is a sky island...." Hector starts

"An island... In the sky??"

"Something like this really exists??"

Hector chuckles at them "A good part of the people on this part of the Grand Line also doesn't believe in it. So what do you guys think Luffy would do if he caught wind of these News?" Hector asks

"..."

"He would go."

"He would absolutely go."

Bartolomeo looks like he is physically in pain seeing how right Hector can be.

"Well, taking pity you guys let me tell the story..." Hector starts

Everyone on the crew perks their ears with great attention.

"In the Florian triangle there is a Warlord, Gecko Moria..." Hector starts, using some powers to make holo-images of his memories. Showing the most important points.

"He wants to make an army of shadow soldiers..." Hector explains showing images.

"..." Cassandra observes the crew of Bartolomeo sitting on their knees like obedient children while listening. A minute ago they were trying to kill Hector...

"You guys still don't know of the new member of the crew, right? Brook... He is a skeleton because..." And he goes on explaining.

"Had his shadow stolen..."

"Then negatives ghosts... Sogeking..."

"Ancient Giant Oars... Luffy shadow was stolen..."

"They put a lot of shadows in Luffy's body..."

"Big fight... Just before the Dawn!"

Hector told the story like a professional storyteller.

Bartolomeo's crew expression changes with each moment, listening and seeing the scenes without losing anything. Completely transfixed.

"Then Kuma appears! Another warlord just after defeating Moria!!!" Hector pauses dramatically

"!!! No!"

"Then what?"

"How did they escape??"

The crew asks anxiously

"Kuma makes a proposition... 'Deliver Mugiwara and the rest can go' " Hector imitates Kuma's voice

Everyone gasps and shows outraged expressions

"But at that moment, instead of even considering it, the crew shows resolve and stands in the way to protect Luffy!"

"Buuuaaahhh!" They cry loudly

"Best crew in the world!!"

"This is what means to be a Strawhat!"

Hector can see their apprehension while he explains how Kuma easily defeats the Strawhats.

At this moment he pauses. The next is one of the best scenes scenes of One Piece, but is something personal to Zoro.

"I need you guys to promise to never tell anyone about what happened next..." Hector looks at them seriously

All of them nod like chickens pecking the ground.

Hector slowly and dramatically explains everything... The Damage on Luffy... Zoro certain demise... The tension in the air is palpable

"...nothing happened." Hector finishes the story

Silence falls on them before is broken by their boiled emotions

"Wuaaahhh! Zoro-senpai!!!!"

"You're the coolest!!!"

They cry to the sky and in each other's arms

Hector also explains Brook's backstory to the,

"So that Whale!!"

"That's why she has those scars and that drawing of the strawhats jolly roger!!"

"Brook-senpai had it rough too!"

At this moment Bartolomeo fell on his knees. Tears and snot streaming down his face.

"I... I admit..." He starts saying but a hand stops him.

He looks up to see Hector on one knee close to him

"Barto-kun... Stop it. We are wrong from the start. Fandom fights are awful and unnecessary. No need to Petty squabbles..." Hector says with a smile while extending his hand.

The sun on his back gives him a holy halo, Barto's crew's view of him it's like of a merciful Buddha.

"Let's enjoy their adventures together... Like friends." Hector says to them, touching their hearts.

They can't contain their tears.

"Hector-senpai!!!!" Their eyes blur with tears, they almost can't look at his brilliance directly

In the next moment, they are hugging each other and celebrating.

"Skypiea is even more epic... Wait till I tell you guys of MontBlanc Noland. He is like a Roger that comes too early." Hector says while his ar mis wrapped around Bartolomeo's shoulder;

Everyone cheers together.

"..." Cassandra continues to stare at them confused. Her arms crossed around her chest and her head tilted, thinking "...boys are weird." She nods to herself like she just realized something big.

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Somewhere on the Calm Bet

A fleet of Marines ships slowly drifted on the still sea.

"I should've been already in the New World, helping to quench the chaos there... But here I am!" Not for the first time, Commodore Smoker complains about his situation. Grumbling and pursing his lips that are holding three cigars.

"Calm down, Commodore. This mission is an easy one and merely a formality so that you can be 'promoted' to the Leader of Unit 01 in the G-5." Vice-Admiral Tsuru comments calmly while sipping some tea.

The old lady called Smoker and the other marine partnering up on this mission to a relaxing tea party.

"Hina understands the bureaucracy, but Hina also agrees with Smoker-kun that there are more important things to do in these turbulent times." The third person, Hina, seated at the table comments in her characteristic way of talking.

The pink-haired marine looks calmer than Smoker who lets his grievances get out of his mouth unrestrained, but she is also frowning at the decision of the Headquarters.

"If this mission is so easy, only one of us should be enough to complete it... No need to waste so much Manpower." Hina says.

Around them, subordinates of the three high-rank marines surround the table located on the Tsuru's ship deck. Tashigi, Jango, Fullbody, and the many girls who are under Tsuru's tutelage hear the conversation.

Tsuru sighs, showing a little tiredness in her elderly face. "We all know why so many of us are here..."

"..." Yes, everyone knows.

The reason can be attributed to the existence of a single man

"...Would be a heavy blow on the marines face if something happens to them again." Tsuru completes

"Do you think he was serious?" Hina asks frowning

"Who knows?" Tsuru shrugs "But if we lose more credibility, more people will think that we are ineffective. Pirates scum will grow bold and innocent people will suffer." Tsuru explains

"Fucking World Nobles..." Smoker grumbles again. His dislike of the Tenryuubito is evident in his voice.

"Be careful with your mouth, Commodore. You're not Garp." Tsusu admonishes making the man grumble to himself again.

"Do we have any idea of where he is? The Devil..." Hina asks to change the topic a little

"The last was heard, he was with the Whitebeard Pirates." Tsuru says

"Do you think he will take command of the Whitebeard group?" Smoker asks seriously

"Hina is thinking that maybe Marineford was for nothing..." The pink-haired woman sighs

"..."

"Maybe, maybe not... But he can be in any place around the world. We all saw his flying ship. Hence the reason why we are here." Tsuru says after a sigh

"Is that really Pluton?" Hina asks

"We don't know. There's no recording that says that Pluton can fly, but we don't know much about the Ancient Weapons either... Nonetheless, I don't know what option I would prefer. If he has Pluton or if exists something like that, that still is not Pluton." Tsuru says and takes a sip of her tea.

"Do you know nothing about this guy?" Smoker hits the table with his fist frustrated.

"If you ask nicely, I can answer any doubt... *Sluurp*" Suddenly they hear a voice impossibly close to them.

A voice that they can't forget that easily.

"Speaking of the Devil..." Hector jokes, amusement evident in his eyes as he smirks at their shocked faces.

There he is, sitting at the table with the three marines and already helping himself with some tea. Cassandra standing at his side with her impassive face.

The situation was so absurd to these people, who trust so much in their senses, that they were shocked for a full second. Someone really sneaked so close to them.

Suddenly all marines on deck are in a battle-ready stance, and they instinctively attack the intruder.

"Wait..." Tsuru tries to stop them but is too late.

Hina attacks arrives first, her arm elongated and whips around Hector, locking his arms and torso together.

"Oh..." Hector acts like he didn't even notice the attack and let it happen.

Smoker's fist is already approaching his face at high speed, being launched by his smoke powers.

Hector eyes the incoming fist "Not in the face, please..." And then he sucked some air and blows in the direction of the incoming attack.

Much like Air Cannon, a huge blast of air is exhaled by him, dissipating Smoker's attack into nothingness. Luckily he didn't use Haki, if not Smoker would have lost his arm.

"See, Cassandra? These 'gaseous-type's may look invincible at first glance but wind was their great weakness." Hector turns to instruct his sidekick without caring about the others "Poisonous gas and others, even Isabella's powers that come from mist... All you need is a good blast of wind."

"..." She nods silently

Hector turns again to the Marines, especially to Hina.

"So~~ Kinky, huh? If it's you I can let myself be caught for one night~" He teases her with a smile.

And despite being used to these types of comments in her career, Hina's heart skips a bit, not that she will show in her face. She shakes her head and schools her features even more, frowning at herself and at Hector.

"Hina will take you in. Don't resist." She says

"Hector is not resisting. But Hector can't be captured right now, Hector has things to do. But Hector only wants to talk and not fight." Hector says calmly, he really is not trying to escape from Hina's cuff-like attack

His arms are still locked so he calmly extends his feet from under the table.

His bare feet start to move around with great dexterity, putting more tea to himself and even grabbing a little spoon between his toes and mixing it.

Then he grabs the tea cup and saucer between the toes of his two feet and drinks it like he is using his hands.

"*Slurp* Bloody hell! I'll tell you what tho folks, that's bloody nice! That's really... *Slurp* That's bloody lovely!" Hector exclaims in his best British accent "Where did you get this tea, mate? One of my people likes tea..."

"..."

The Marines don't know if Hector is messing with them or if he is that weird. Strong people tend to have some quirks in this world.

Hector puts the tea set back on the table with his feet, still gracious, and talks.

"I have to praise you two to have the guts to attack at least, very commendable. Even if futile..."

This is not empty praise. If one looks closely at the rest of the ship, one would notice the situation of the other marines.

With a few exceptions, Every other marine couldn't even put a proper battle stance. They're trembling nervously and gulping down in fear at Hector's mere presence.

All this is because they are exposed to his Conqueror's Haki, Ren, and bloodlust during the war in Marineford.

They're traumatized.

And not everyone is a main character that can bounce back from these setbacks stronger. They subconsciously already accepted Hector's superiority, their broken will will never allow them to muster strength or battle intense against the guy.

And that's why Hector praised Smoker and Tashigi.

'A pity the guy became a cannon fodder after the time-skip.' Hector thinks regrettably. He likes Smoker.

"I will cheer on you becoming an Admiral in the future, Smoker-kun. Ganbare!" Hector says

"Don't mess with me." A vein in Smoker's forehead pops and his teeth crush his cigars.

"Believe it or not, I'm not messing with you... Hector is the type of guy that knows how to separate individuals from the group. So Hector can like people like you, Garp, and others and dislike the Navy and the World Government." Hector says lightly, still tied by Hina and imitating her.

Remembering it when he moves a little, he starts to use her way of talking again.

"..." Smoker stays silent at Hector's declaration. It's true that the guy appears to have no intention of attacking them now.

"Hina doesn't like being mocked." Hina frowns

"Hector is not mocking Hina. Hector is the type of guy who likes to experiment with all sorts of things, so Hector thought of trying to speak like Hina. Hector is finding it weirdly enjoyable." He smiles at her innocently

"..."

"Hina, release him." Tsuru finally intervenes. "The Headquarters still hasn't decided, but he is practically a Yonkou. We can't attack them lightly." She says with a sigh

"..." Smoker and Hina look at her almost incredulously

"Oho~ So Hector is na Empe- Ugh" Hector shakes his head, like to dispel something "Damn, this way of talk sticks... *Ahem* So I am an Emperor of the Sea now?"

Hector makes fun of the situation while he casually breaks his restraints with a flex of his arms "I always thought that was funny how you guys job is to arrest pirates, but do nothing against the biggest threats... Society in a nutshell." He smirks while he mixes his tea with a little spoon

"..."

"Why did you stop here?" Tsuru asks "If you're not looking for a fight, you can go away." She huffs

"..." Hector looks at her and smiles mysteriously "I saw you guys here and decided to stop to say hello. Have a little philosophical talk... An enlightening."

"A philosofical talk?"

"Yep! I heard that your power can wash away people's evil... So I was thinking of giving it a try." Hector extends his hand "Go on. Do it." His smirk widens

"..."

The marines look at him strangely, cautious of any trick that he can pull over them.

"Please... I don't need to resort to trickery. You guys are weak, after all." He continues to smile innocently at them

Even someone as serene as Tsuru gets ticked off by Hector's provocation.

"All right, you brat! Let's see what you're made of!" Tsuru says removing her gloves and advancing fast to use her Devil Fruits powers on him

"Now I'm a brat again... You guys need to decide." It's all he can say before he suffers from the attack.

Tsuru's Wash Wash Fruit can make her interact with people and objects like they are clothes. Allowing her to "Wash and hang out to dry" them. In the process, she can even "Wash away the evil" of people.

A very overpowered ability to use in someone weaker than her, but loses a lot of efficiency in someone strong. Like Law's Op Op no Mi. She is not expecting it to work properly right now.

But it works.

Hector doesn't resist when he is engulfed by her powers, his body becomes thin like a tissue. He falls over the table slowly, his head hanging out of it, a silly smile on his face.

"Aaah~ I see~ I really lost my will to fight~" He comments lightly

The marines around them can't make heads or tails of the situation.

That's it? Is he defeated just like that?

As if...

"..." Cassandra eyes the situation attentively, her fingers twitching, ready to strike at Tsuru at any moment.

High in the air, a clone eyes curiously the situation too.

Hector wouldn't test an enemy's power on himself without countermeasure.

But is all unnecessary overreaction.

His silly and innocent face suddenly frowns in effort and then *Pop*...

Using full-body Haki, Hector cancels Tsuru's power and inflates again and he is back to normal.

"..." He slowly sits down "A very scary ability... Taking someone's will to fight, or will from conflict really would make it impossible to use Haki. A power that can one-shot anyone weaker than you."

Hector finally sits down. Gulps are heard around the marines when they see his face. He is now showing a stone-cold expression. Sending chill on their bodies, there's no shadow of his carefree attitude anywhere.

"Disgusting..." He spat, his voice showing visible distaste " 'Washing away someone evil'... Truly disgusting. Everyone has at least a little of evil in them. Taking it from them is erasing a part of them. It's maybe worse than erasing someone's memories." Hector comments

He slowly turns his head to the Marines, his face makes even Tsuru give a step back unconsciously.

Seeing the effect that he has on these people Hector does a good job shooling his facial features and smiles relaxedly at them.

"Sorry for the trouble. I wanted to know how it feel... As someone who crosses the line between good and evil on a daily base... I was curious." He says and hops off the table.

He stretches his back a little in a carefree way "By the way, taking the opportunity that we are talking about evil..." His carefree smile turns into a smirk while looking at Tsuru

He stretches his hand at the horizon and makes a grasp and pull motion.

"This is what you don't want me to see, right Tsuru?" Hector asks.

In the Horizon something big starts to approach them at a high speed, almost uncontrollably

A humongous ship is being pulled at Hector towards them.

With a motion of his hand, the ship suddenly brusquely brakes, and sea waves are raised by the sudden motion. The ship even crashes a little against Tsuru's one, staying half-tilted to one side, almost turning but ending up stabilizing itself, raising more waves as it does so.

"Sorry... I'm still getting the gist of magic. It's harder than telekinesis." Hector says while stopping his control over the ocean

He looks up to the pole of the big ship.

Tsuru's face fell seeing his smirk increasing.

"Didn't you guys hear my warning?" He asks while looking with amusement at the flags of the World government and the Tenryuubito on the pole of the ship.

...

'That's the worst-case scenario...' It's what Vice Admiral Tsuru thinks while she watches Hector eye the big ship from the Tenryuubito.

She doesn't know what is worse. Seeing his toothy grin of a predator ready to play with his victim or what happened next...

Once again his face fell. Going back to an expressionless mask. His eyes narrow while he looks at the ship, almost as if he is seeing through it.

Hector raises his palm and lowers it, the ship starts sinking together with his movement. The big Tenryuubito ship lowers itself till the deck is on the same level as them.

Now is possible to see the people on the deck.

Beyond the many guards, Cipher Pol agents, and some marines, there are two people who catch the eyes because of their astronaut-like suits.

"You know... I'm evil." Hector declares "But even if the world becomes a fucking dystopian anarchy, we need to keep a minimum of humanity." Hector says hard, glaring at the World Nobles.

People around him have only a vague idea of what made him so angry all of a sudden.

He then raises his index finger and slowly traces a line in the air.

*Ziiiinn*

With the exception of the two World Nobles, everyone else on that huge ship explodes in tiny bit pieces of meat. An ugly rain of gore dirts the deck.

Hector is getting used to the powers, from his new assimilations. Magic Sword Aura.

Seeing the sudden slaughter, Smoker and Hina can't keep themselves still.

Together they attack again.

But this time, Hector is not in the mood to play.

They didn't even notice when he appeared behind them, grabbed the back of their head, and... Slammed them on the floor.

"That's a nice word there... that you two are carrying on your back. 'Justice' " Hector says coldly "I heard that there's many types of justice... Even the Admirals represent them. Thorough Justice... Lazy Justice... Unclear Justice... Heh~ You guys really like those fancy words."

Hector raises them and starts floating. Holding their neck he forces them to look at the World's Nobles

"But I think all of you guys should just go with... Convenient Justice..." He says slowly

The deck of the huge ship explodes, and some people start flying from the interior.

Men, women, children... Hector grabbed all of them telekinetically and put them on the marine ship.

All of them are in bad condition. Signs of abuse, torture, and rape are evident... Some small children even have bite marks on them.

"...!" The eyes of the marines widen seeing that

"I thought that you guys were sworn to protect the innocents... But here we are! Not fighting the Yonkos, enabling these little shits..." Hector points to the Tenryuubito with his face "What type of Justice do you guys employ, if not the 'Convenient' one?"

No one can say a thing against what he just did.

After being a little forceful in copying Smoker and Hina Powers, Hector throws them away. 'It's so much easier simply antagonize everyone... The evil path is really the easy way' He thinks to himself

His eyes have a laser focus on the Tenryuubitos.

"Vice-Admiral Tsuru... Unfortunately, during your mission of retrieving the Tenryuubito, you met Hector. You're outclassed and can only watch helplessly while he massacred the Noble's ship." Hector says slowly as a matter of fact "No survivors."

"..." Tsuru eyes Hector back for a long time. Conflict is visible on her face.

It's her duty and mission to stop what is about to happen, but the aura emanating from Hector is saying that he will kill them if she does so much of saying a word in protest.

"All force away... Move." She says to her crew.

Some look at her in disbelief but she only glares at them and shakes her head.

Hector and Cassandra jump on the deck of the Noble's ship.

Tsuru observes his back for a while before deciding that is better to take care of the slaves, instead of seeing what he is about to do.

On the Noble's ship, Hector gives Cassandra a fleeting glance, almost telling her to go away for a bit, but decides against it.

She has already shown that she is growing. And Hector will not go that far with these shits...

His attention turns to the World Nobles again.

"Hiih~ What are you thinking of doing?!? Guards!! Guards!! Kill him!" The two Tenryuubito can't comprehend the bad situation that they're in and shout for their now useless guards.

More of the ship crew starts pouring into the deck, but they barely appear before being grabbed telekinetically and squeezed like a fruit.

"I always liked to talk with different people... Increase experience in life. Acquiring wisdom..." Hector says approaching "But I only need one of you guys."

Hector raises his hand to the Old Tenryuubito "Monkey Steal Peaches..." He says with an evil laugh

The space above the crotch of the Tenryuubito twists and the man screams like a pig. His White astronaut-like suit is stained with blood, piss, and feces while he contorts himself on the ground.

He just used the same quirk that a High-end nomu used to take Mirko's arm in the Hero Academia story. It's too weak to give damage to people that really matters, and he can replicate the same effect with telekinesis. But sometimes is good to use different powers to stretch them a little. And there's no need to think too much.

"Even criminals in prison despise rapists and pedophiles... It's the basic dude. Even if you throw away most of your humanity, this much could still last."

"You guys are an interesting bunch. A prime example of nurturing trumping nature and what decadency does to someone. You guys can't barely comprehend the world around you, like you're a two-year-old kid. Piaget would love studying you all..." He says approaching the fallen old man slowly

"Deep down, I know that you guys can have some redemption and become a proper human being... There's an example of that, but... I don't have that good of heart and motivation right now." Hector says with a sigh before stepping on the old man's head, making it explode like a watermelon. "Not everyone is Otohime..."

He then turns to the woman. She crawls backwards seeing his attention on her.

"Now you..." He walks at her "Let me ask something." He even uses some powers to force her to speak.

"As a human being... Most of us are bound to have empathy for our fellow humans..." Hector crouches down to talk with her "Didn't you feel anything seeing the fate of those women? They are being raped and all... Like, I would feel a dude's pain if someone kicked his balls. It's the basic!" He asks curiously

"W-why should I fe-eel for them?" It's the simple answer

"..." Hector's eyes bore into hers.

That's the real and raw answer. That's what she truly feels. Nothing more, nothing less.

"Damn... Conditioning of a person can be scary." Hector whistles "You're not even seeing us as the same species anymore."

He pauses a little to reflect. People are really malleable. Especially from a young age.

The man is born good and society corrupts them? No, maybe no one is born good or evil. A blank slate that can be filled by anything... From good morals to the more of vile teachings.

But there are examples of nature winning against nurturing.

Hector turns to look at the closer example... Cassandra.

Taught from an early age to be an emotionless killer, but she escaped that fate.

'What is the rule? What is the exception?' Hector reflects

After some time, he turns his focus to the woman Tenryuubito again

"You know, I'm not one that endorses rape..." He starts "But considering that is only another type of torture... Meh" He shrugs

The woman looks at him without understanding

"I mean, I wouldn't do it personally... But I can imagine myself taking vengeance on a particularly evil woman by throwing her in a pit filled with lust-filled animals or demons as a punishment. It would need to be a very evil Woman and to really get on my nerves... But I can't exclude the possibility that I will do this in the future. I can go that far." Hector comments while standing up "In truth, don't ever need to be a Woman, I can see myself doing the same to a man. A rapist or a pedophile..."

"But I would feel bad, even if I am a man... I had a mom, and a grandma after all... But damn, you feel nothing, huh?" Hector asks again

"..."

Then he extends his hand and a metal cylinder is formed from his palm. He grabs it with one hand and ignites a blue fire in the other.

He heats one end of the cylinder and looks at the female Tenryuubito

"If I shove this in your pussy right now, would teach you a little of empathy?" He asks, while glaring at her. Waving the cylinder close to her face, the heat hurting her eyes.

"Hiiiih! You can't do that!! I'm a world noble!! You can't touch me!!" She shouts and continues to crawl backward.

Hector watches her move around the dirt ground of the remains of people that he just killed, and she still hasn't accepted reality.

It's almost sad...

He shakes his head and says "Lucky to you, I recently discovered that I do not enjoy torturing people. And you haven't enraged me enough..." He throws the metal cylinder.

Hitting her in the chest, killing her slowly.

He then extends his hand, his palm facing backward

...

At a distance, Tsuru and the others watch the Noble's ship be engulfed in a giant Explosion. Nothing remains.

No survivors.

.....

Law's Training Island

"Well, you guys didn't run away at least..." Hector comments while watching the Heart Pirates crew gasp for breath on the ground.

They are in bad shape, but they follow his instructions even if Hector isn't keeping an eye on them.

"Now, Law and you two. Follow me..." Hector points to the Bepo and a huge man from Law's crew, a previous slave that Law saved in Sabaody.

After walking for a bit Hector sits on a rock, Cassandra at his side, while Law's trio sits close.

"Let's go directly to the point... Do you all know about Haki?"

"I heard about it." Law answers

"Me too." The giant man answers

"I know nothing." Bepo says without any shame.

"Hm~ Okay... Let me explain briefly the importance of Haki." Hector starts "I, myself, divide this world into three areas." He raises three fingers

"The Four Seas out of the Grand Line; Paradise, the first part of the Grand Line; and the New World the final part of the Grand Line."

"On the four seas, any Devil Fruit can help you be a big shot. A powerful devil fruit can help you in Paradise. A logia can make you invincible, really... But in the New World, if you're aiming to be more than a cannon fodder... You need to know Haki." Hector says seriously

"Someone without a devil fruit can beat someone that has it. But someone without Haki can't beat someone that knows it... Well, unless there's a miracle."

"..."

"Haki gives many advantages in a fight, the most important is the ability to defend and attack the, previously invincible, devil fruits. Someone with a strong Haki will never be cut by your devil fruit powers, Law."

Law grows serious hearing that.

"There's three types of Haki, with many variations and advanced ways to use..." Hector briefly explains the whole Haki System to them.

"...I didn't make you guys run around in this dangerous forest and punch metal because I am mean." Hector continues after making sure that they understand the basics of Haki "To go through the forest you need to be aware of the many animals ambushing you, and to punch that metal wall, you all are hardening your resolve and will."

"You haven't noticed, but you guys started using snippets of Haki to complete the task." Hector says to their shock

"Continuing like that, by going to these extremes, you three can grasp the basics in six months more or less."

Law appears shocked "Six months?"

"Don't look down on Haki. People train for years to simply be capable of using in battle. This method of brute forcing your train is what Raylegh probably is doing with Luffy right now." Hector says "He is the type to learn with his body..."

"I will use my own method to skip this 'awakening'. Shortening these six months in one night."

"!"

"How you will do that?" Law asks

Hector gives them a toothy grin "I will force myself in your guy's mind. Give you the experience and the feeling of Haki." Hector put his index finger on the side of his skull "Then you will repeat the training of today, running around this dangerous forest and punching metal to hone your mastery of Haki. Then I will heal your body and mind... 30 minutes of sleep should be enough. And repeat... And repeat... And repeat... I will also stimulate your muscle tissues to create artificial muscle memory during your sleep. I will also attack and kill you and restore your body before your soul leaves your body. Over and over again... The death experience will sharpen your mind and strengthen your will." Hector says

"..."

"..."

"That's what you said about our minds breaking?" Law asks with a heavy tone

"Yes. I can guarantee that you won't die, but this method is not to anyone."

The two stare at each other

"How strong I will get?" Law asks the important question.

"If you don't break... In your month, you should achieve what Luffy will achieve in two years." Hector says seriously "But..."

"But?"

"I'm only saying regarding Haki. I will not train your devil fruit, so your mastery should stagnate. But with a strong body and mind, you will find yourself capable of doing more."

"..."

"People have limited time, Law. Rare is the people that master everything... The need to master the three types of haki, a weapon, their Devil fruit... You may find a Random guy on the New World with an Observation Haki stronger than that of a Yonko. Because this Yonko focused in training his Devil fruit or something like that..." Hector explains

"One month, huh?" Law asks

"Yes... One month. Will not be enough to defeat Doflamingo." Hector says truthfully "But will be capable of making your powers work in someone like... Vergo." Hector says eyeing him carefully

Vergo is one of the people that Law hates the most in this world.

"Vergo is a rare Armament Haki user that can cover his whole body... Even some Yonko Commanders can't do it. He is the definition of a brute. If you Haki can cut him... Few people in this world you will not be capable of cutting."

Law pauses

"If you accept, I will not let you quit even if you beg me." Hector adds

"I can't have it in any other way... let's do it." Law says determinedly

Hector smiles "Hehe~ Now officially, you're my Outer Disciple." Hector jokes "Welcome to Hell." He says before making the three of them blackout.

.....

After leaving Cassandra to train on the same island with Gigantomachia, Law and the others, Hector flies high.

Breaking the sound barrier, he arrives at the clouds and starts to look around.

"This should be good enough..." He disappears before reappearing above a vast White field.

He lands on the clouds and tests their resistance. These are a special type of solid clouds present in this world.

"A desert sky island. It's perfect." He comments before taking a huge cube from his inventory. The cube is as big as a trailer and he positions it on the clouds.

Then another. And Another. And dozens of others...

B.B.C... It's how Hector jokingly calls these Big Buildings Cubes.

Like a Lego, each one can connect with the other to make a bigger building or facility.

One cube can be a bathroom, another a living room, the generator room and many other sections of a big laboratory.

Maybe is more like Minecraft, really.

Hector arranges the cubes to recreate a research facility with everything that is needed.

He starts walking towards the big building, a door open in the previous smooth wall.

"I had my fun. Time to work." He cracks his fingers before putting on a lab coat.

....

Hector P.O.V.

As I walk in the inside of the B.B.C. Hehe. I need to change this name.

Better than the BBC inside me. Hehe. Damn! The fifth grade never left me!

Anyway, I was thinking about Cassandra.

The initial plan was to let Cassandra to her own devices.

Saeko and Tsukasa have good places to train and hone their crafts.

Machia can stay in any place.

And while I will be here, holed inside this lab. Let Cassandra do her own thing around the world.

Stretch the wings, socialize, see good and bad people on her own...

But there's a problem... I underestimated(something that rarely happens) the Grand Line climate.

It's completely bullshit!!

The magnetic fields are all over the place, winds change directions and originate from nothing, gravity changes slightly, and temperatures fluctuate without reason.

It's like a god is pressing the Random Climmate Button all the time.

Even I need to go to the stratosphere to check where I'm going sometimes. Mostly because I'm new to this world, but even so...

Cassandra Little Adventure died in the crib.

Now, I feel bad.

I planned some nice places to visit with her and the others, like Fishman Island, Skypiea, The Florian Triangle, Zunesha...

But I really wanted her to go on her own too.

Tch. Hmm~ Now, what to do? What to do?

She didn't have that simple mind of Machia, or great interest in something like Tsukasa and Saeko.

Maybe let her in Amazon Lily... Or should I let her roam the other four seas? They should be interesting enough.

But wouldn't have anything new compared with our world.

As I enter in the big space full of empty capsules, where I will put the bodies of the future experiments, I have an idea.

Maybe give her a pet...

This is also something that makes people grow in many ways.

I made a test in the past, during my visit to the BNHA/MHA world, to see what would happen if I summoned someone during my Travel.

Apparently nothing. No problem.

When I go back to my own world, the Character will be brought with me too.

The only downside is that I would be incapable of using a Background Customization Card on the Character to Marvel. So the Character would be only a "Drop-In".

After all, Background Cards can only be used at the moment of the summon.

So I can't summon someone and leave him/her here to dominate this world or something like that.

But I have some summons that don't need a background.

I pull the card from the Inventory. So many steps that need to be done, I hope to gain a remote control function soon.

"Summon...No background... And no, no genderbend..."

Without further ado, the card becomes motes of light and slowly forms a huge figure in my front.

"Heh~ You're cool..." I smile at him

"Woof!"

[Overgrown Rover

Relationship Loyalty: (0/10)

Assimilation:

-Empty ]

The huge Dragon-Level Threat monster dog from the One Punch Man world is in my front. He has black fur and six Ruby-colored eyes that glow slightly in this dim place.

"Sit." I command and he obeys. "Can you get smaller? In the Web Comic you can..."

And he also obeys.

"Convenient..."

Then I can't resist... I'm a dog person after all.

"Who is a good mass destruction weapon? You are?" I rub his neck and he rolls over excitedly, presenting his belly.

Obviously, I need to rub his belly too.

"Good boy~"

*Ding*

[Relationship Loyalty: (10/10)]

Heh~ Dogs, right?

....

With a mental nudge of my Technopathy the whole facility lights up and starts for real.

"Sorry for the wait, Cortana. Must have been suffocating..." I say while feeling her connecting with the Building.

The low technological level of this world suppress her.

For some reason, she sighs even without a real body "A little... Thankfully I'm connected with your senses, Master." She says

I hum in agreement "This world is really strange, especially the grand line. Radiowaves can't travel far..." I remove something from my pocket

A Den Den Mushi. I acquired one when I stopped on an island.

A hologram of Cortana's torso appears on the armrest of the central chair.

I go sit there while holding the little snail.

"A strange animal..." She comments

"Indeed... It appears that their whole species, the ones used as telephones really, are connected in a hivemind, the telepathic waves can travel in this crazy atmosphere." I say "And Every one of them has a unique frequency. Hence people can call each other."

"Really interesting. An animal that works as a phone. It almost looks like it's artificially made." Cortana says

"..." Yeah...

"Will you add this world species to the Noah's Ark?" Cortana asks while she adjusts the lab.

"Hm~ It's a good idea..."

Project Neo Noah's Ark is a little something that I thought of some time ago.

The name gives away what is about... It's just me taking samples of Every species of animal and plant on Earth and keeping them safe on a moon-shaped satellite somewhere in the Solar System. And on my inventory too.

In the case of Earth's destruction

Not only animals and plants. Keep records of our history, copies of books, arts, and many other things. Basically downloaded everything on the internet. There's a lot of porn there, by the way. But I need to protect the R34 art.

Who knows right? Maybe Earth will explode like Krypton.

But seeing that I can travel to other universes, maybe is not a bad idea to create branches of this Project and collect samples of the many species in other worlds.

Maybe one day I will make a Megaworld with them.

"I will make this a sidequest." I decided "I have Oars Jr. Ancient Giant blood. And there are a lot of other interesting species here. Zunesha... Mink... Three-eyed people... Heck, even the plants here may hold the cure to deceases of my world. I will visit Drum Island, Chopper's Home Kingdom, later and learn their knowledge."

I recline on my chair, caressing Rover's head, and sigh

"I fucking need some biokinetic powers." If Power Manipulation can help me with powers, biokinesis will make me capable of acquiring race physiologies.

It's important to a certain Project of mine...

Overhaul, Cell Activation, and other powers are holding on, but they can't be compared with real Biokinesis.

Joshua Fowley(Elixir), Panacea, Alex Mercer, Kerrigan... If I couplet them with Rogue powers and an Osmosian Physiology...

I wanted their power. I need it.

Damn, my power hunger is showing again.

"If I don't gain any of them on the Gacha and Elixir doesn't awaken till the end of the year, I will visit Worm-verse." I say making plans

...

"What ya gon' do wit us???" A filthy man shouts while he and twenty other people are thrown unceremoniously into a white room by me.

By the attire, it's obvious that they're pirates. 23 males and 6 females.

"Hm~ I doubt that you guys would understand even if I explain..." I say while observing them squirm nervously from a glass wall with a high point of view "But you all are guinea pigs. I will poke you guys with needles and stuff like that." I say lightly while pressing a button on the wall.

The ceiling of the white room opens, and water starts showering on the prisoners at high pressure.

They shout in protest, annoyed by the water before noticing something weird.

"Kyaah! My clothes!!" A woman crouches down to hide her body when she notices her clothes falling apart.

"Don't worry, this liquid only compromises the integrity of clothes... And your hair a little." I explain to them

I look at them without pity even while curses fly from the mouths of these guys. I could've gone away and not listened to anything, but I wanted to be there.

"Ya monster! Ya can't do that!!" The leader of this group shouts at me

"I would feel bad if I didn't see you guys pillaging a small town, and you craving your sword in a three-year-old boy that was throwing small rocks at you to defend his mother and sister from being raped." I say emotionless

My eyes should be very scary, because I can see all of them flinching while looking at me. Not even caring about their modesty "You're all cattle now..." I say.

Then some start to cry, some start to beg. All sorts of pathetic actions

Pride is the first thing discarded in these situations.

"Tch! This is giving me Concentration Camp vibes..." I comment in distaste while the sleeping gas acts and my Shadowkhan take the prisoners away "That's fucked up in some way... I'm really evil, huh?" I comment to myself.

If take out the context and other nuances, there's no difference between what I'm doing to what horrible villains do.

The only thing I can say in my defense is that... Everything is relative.  And Every case is a different case.

"I do not think you're that bad, Master." Cortana says to me "I think you have a too low opinion of yourself."

"..." She wouldn't understand... But even so... "Cortana... You are probably the one that is closer to understanding me. We share a lot. And maybe you're the one I trust the most." I say seriously

"..."

"But even you can't privy in the deepest and darkest corners of my mind... It's not like I enjoy being a ball of angsty. It's just some important self-reflection that I need to do from time to time. Only I know that I can stoop very low... And this can be dangerous."

"It can't be that bad..." She tries to comfort me

I give her a look before opening my mouth again "Once I thought in capturing some thousands of people like that and throwing them in an empty world or universe..." I start

"I would modify their brain and minds so that only their animalistic instincts remain. Giving them powers and letting them breed like cattle so that I can harvest the new, more complex, and stronger powers of their offspring." I say with a deadpan face

"..." Now I can feel that she is shocked "All right, I understand what you're talking about now."

Despite myself, I release a chuckle

"It's on the Black Archives, the plan, if you want to check. I would even transform some people and mindless cyborgs with limited versions of Power Manipulation so that they can harvest the powers for me and keep them in check. Like shepherds."

I shake my head, talking it out loud the absurdity becomes even more evident "In the end I didn't go forward with it for many reasons, but morals and ethics are on the end of the line of these reasons." I confess "It's more like a lack of failsafes in case of something going bad. I'm paranoid after all..."

"..." Cortana keeps her silence for a time before talking again "Well... The fact that you can police yourself is a good sign. You're better than these one-dimensional villains."

"That's the thing! I need to police myself like that. A good person wouldn't even have these thoughts. A true hero like Spider-man, Superman, All Might, and others would do, and be, good naturally. I need to put a a conscious effort for god's sake! For the basics!" I release a sigh after I notice my voice gaining some heat.

" 'Comparison is the thief of joy'..." It's what she says after a pause

Heh, even she is imitating me in quoting people.

"Yeah, yeah... I know. But it's good to admire some people's traits and aim to surpass them." I say "And relax... I'm learning to like my evil side."

She looks at me confused

"During this trip, in truth since some time ago, I reached the conclusion that being a little evil is essential to living a good life. My talk with Blackbeard, experiencing Tsuru's power... It helped me get on terms with it a little."

I continue my explanation "It's obvious, but... A true good person suffers." I declare "If Peter was a little more...Bully Maguire. Heh. Things would go better for him. You would be surprised how much your life could go better if you act a little like a asshole."

"My Brazilian grandfather said that a man needs to have some malice. To not be taken advantage AND take advantage."

"I can impact a lot of people in good and bad ways. But I don't want to sacrifice my own happiness doing that. I can go cracked and help people 24/7, don't sleep, have no social life... But that would be bad for me. And I can prioritize myself, go around stealing the powers that I want, antagonizing everyone to achieve my goals... That would be bad for the world."

"I can't be on the extremes, of prioritizing one over the another."

"There's a thin line that's between the two." I say "I just need to keep an eye open to not go too far... In any of the sides."

"That's my path!"

.....

Some days passed, and my other bodies were copying Devil Fruit powers out of the Grand Line, mapping the world and training law. Hehe~

Beyond helping Law, he is also an interesting subject to see if this crazy training method is effective.

.....

Law's Hellish Training

"Gah!" Law coughs blood when Hector's arm goes through his heart, his eyes bloodshot.

Hector then unceremoniously takes off his arm and the hole in Law's chest closes.

"*Huff* *Huff*" Law pants loudly while clutching his chest, but he has no time to rest.

Law's eyes widen... He moves a little out of the way, dodging to the side, but not enough.

Hector appeared behind him and chops him down, his arm going through his shoulder till his navel.

"Dead again... But at least you saw this coming a little." Hector says lightly before removing his arm again, the huge wound closes like it never happened.

And this is only him training Observation haki.

...

Back to Hector in his Lab

First Person P.O.V.

Well, you can't say that he doesn't have willpower. He didn't complain one time.

It's fun training people.

Now back to my work... I look at the huge medical capsule in front.

I check the vitals of the body inside and nod to myself "Good enough... Using [Gold experience] really accelerates the process. But with Bonney's Devil Fruit will be even faster..." I comment "Open the capsule Cortana" I order

The golden liquid of the capsule is drained. The capsule moves from its vertical position to a horizontal one, and the body inside is deposited in front of me on a table by robotic arms.

"Hello, handsome." I say to myself.

Yes, myself. This is my clone.

A brain-dead clone of mine to be exact. Alive, but soulless.

I remove the oxygen mask on his face and check him again.

Yep, a perfect clone. The only problem... He is completely normal.

No powers, no mutations, nothing... This is me if I never had the essence. I even removed his meta-gene.

Well... I look at his body.

This is a very fit for me if I never had the Essence. The body is at peak human performance at least.

"This will be a game changer..." I say before taking an item from inventory.

The Stone Mask from Jojo.

I put on my clone face, and make a small cut on my palm before smearing the mask with my blood.

*Kachik*

As expected, spikes protrude from the mask immediately and stab my clone skull.

The body jerks a little on the table, before going still.

I check the vitals on the machines... All normal. Good.

I remove the Stone Mask and put it on my inventory again.

Moving the lips away with my finger I see the fangs of the my now Vampire Clone.

"Good..." I say again and take a step back.

And then I propel my soul out of my body.

Yes... Dark Danny power. It's not my complete soul, I notice. But is enough to possess a weak-willed target.

My own soulless clone then...

I delve into him without a problem.

....

I blink...

I'm staring at the ceiling.

Hm~ Yes... This is not my body. Well, it is... But not exactly.

My senses are different. It's weird to not have that many powers.

I sit on the steel bed. I looked at my side and saw my true body resting with his eyes closed. I can feel the connection still... Good.

[Your soul is inhabiting a new body. Do you want to transfer the Character Assimilations to this new body?

Obs.: The assimilation process will restart. You will lose the assimilation progression in any other body.]

Interesting...

I click "No". I will look into it in more detail in the future.

But apparently, if my body was completely destroyed with only my soul surviving, I could recreate my body again.

It's like a game "Continue". But losing my progress... I'm playing a Souls game.

I have Brook Devil Fruit power too... Heh~

I will not die even if I am killed.

"How are you feeling, master?" Cortana hologram appears and looks at me worriedly

"Weak..." I say and hop off the metal bed.

Ugh... So weak. My legs are wobbling a little. I'm not used to this body. 

"It will take time to get used to it." I say

"But it's a success." Cortana smiles

"Yes. Now I can create other personas without a problem..." I say

I then move my arm, and make some tests. Haki covers my arm without a problem.

So even if I lose my physical powers, I keep my spiritual ones...

Well, when Sanji changed bodies with Nami he could've used Haki.

This is good too.

"Now... The last test. Light up." I say to Cortana

"Are you sure, Master?" She asks unsure

"Go for it... Full force." I say and prepare myself

A wall opens and a robotic arm moves close to me. In its edge... A UV lantern.

"Starting..." Cortana warns me.

The next second, The UV lights hit my full body.

Immese pain... To my credit, I didn't scream even while my body was disintegrated.

.....

"Master! Master!"

I open my arms again, I'm back to my body.

"I'm okay." I say, a little out of it by the death experience but otherwise completely fine.

I can hear Cortana sighing in relief while I check my body and spirit.

Yep, no damage to my spirit or soul. My stand, Haki, magic... All of it is working at 100%.

Yone's [Soul Anchoring] works just fine

"Heh~ Hehehe. Hahahahaaha" I allow myself to have a full-blown laugh.

I'm becoming even more of a monster.

.....

Time for some training.

I sat down in the training room, I acquired too many powers recently and didn't test them appropriately.

For the first time in a long time, my control is lacking.

I always had flawless control over my body and powers. So good that even if I gained a new power, would not impact me too much and I would be capable of using said power expertly right away.

But right now... It slipped.

Time to fix that.

My projects are moving nicely. I had a lot of "Blank Slate" bodies ready to receive a certain set of powers and become another persona.

Now I can make a street-level antihero person without a problem.

I can also create bodies of different races. I still had Thor blood... I will not clone him, but maybe I can make Aesir!Hector and see how it goes.

Put different "Builds" of powers in different bodies.

And there's no need for the body to look like me.

Right now, in the capsules, there are bodies with different powersets being developed. A spider-man, a ninja that with luck will have mokuton(After I try to isolate the Senju genes of Tsunade. Trying to force Atavism), a totally "normal human" body but having the Hanma bloodline and developed by the Hercules Method of Luther Strode.

And this is only the beginning...Even without the Essence, I will create the Ultimate Lifeform!

One day... Kars from Jojo, Cell from Dragon Ball, Meruem from Hunter x Hunter. I will have all!

I will start small... I didn't choose the One Piece world casually and only to have fun.

I chose this world because is full of strong races too. A Lunarian!Hector can be cool too.

Haah~ I really fucking need Biokinesis.

Well, let's forget about physiologies for now and focus on powers.

I close my eyes to take a look at my inner world.

As always, I can see the huge pillar of light on the Horizon. The sky is full of stars, in different shapes, sizes, and colors. Each one represents a power.

My focus is on the new additions.

The many stand powers and the many Devil Fruits powers.

I will revise each one of them thoroughly and... Hm?

A certain star attracts my attention. I willed so, and a purple star floats to my front.

"Why the Gomu Gomu no Mi is so big?"

And is pulsing strangely.

Every power has different characteristics that only a Power Manipulator like me could tell.

It's a feeling you know? The taste, how it shines, how it feels when I Touch it... I can say the category of a power this way. The disgustingly slimy feeling of the Master powers, the strong way that brute powers perpetually Shine and others...

This rubber power is weird. It's pulsing, like it's a purple egg and there's a living thing inside, ready to burst out... I can hear it heartbeat.

I saw powers like that... I look around, most of the transformation powers are like that. With the feeling of something alive. Beast Boy's Animal Transformation, Zoan Devil Fruits and animal mutations in Marvel and Hero Academia.

So Luffy really has a Hidden trump card...

I inspect the Gomu Gomu no Mi powers, but it's like it has some lock on it. There are conditions to activation... Like Nen.

This feeling is a little similar to... I pull a golden star to my hand. Sengoku Buddha Devil Fruit.

Yep... I pull an azure flame too. Yes...

The Gomu Gomu no Mi gives the same "vibe" of the Buddha and the Phoenix powers.

It's a fucking Mythical Zoan. Oda kept this a secret for all this time?

I sent Sengoku and Marco's power to the sky again and kept holding Luffy's power.

A Mythical Zoan, huh? The worst part is that makes sense...

Luffy Rubber power doesn't work like how rubber or elastic power should work. Anyone with a little knowledge of physics must understand that Luffy throwing his arm back to Punch forward is useless.

If in a line, someone made of rubber is at point Zero, and throws his arm to the point -10 to hit the point +10, it will not add any force doing that... When the arm passes by the point Zero will lose any momentum again.

That's why Elastigirl and Reed only punch forward. Without Luffy's theatrics...

I always ignored it, attributing that to Oda's lack of knowledge and because is cool.

But Luffy's power is never rubber. So it should be... Some sort of body transformation from the Mythical Zoan.

And I have a guess of what type of Mythical Zoan is... Would be cool if is the Hito Hito no mi, Model: Sun Wukong

Everything would make sense.

His body stretches like the staff of Sun Wukong.

The gear fourth is like animal transformations... Snakeman, Kong... Sun Wukong can transform himself.

MONKEY D. Luffy... Oda also was a fan of Dragon Ball. The clear similarities with Goku.

Sun Wukong was sealed by Buddha's five fingers. Five Elders suppressing the world. He made a Journey around the world...

The more I think about it, the more makes sense.

And damn, that would be cool... Sun Wukong in all media is a menace. There's a Sun Wukong in Marvel? Should be scary.

I stop guessing and focus on the power in my hands. It should reach its potential in an awakening. But my Power Manipulation allows me to notice that there are conditions to it...

And if I force... I can force, by the way. Would be a loss and maybe the power will not work properly.

What is the condition? The anime cliche says that should be a moment of pure rage. It's a classic... Luffy's rage should be a cool moment to watch.

Haah~ So let it be. It's like my Nen power... I can't force it.

If I really need it in the future, it should awaken on its own. No problem.

I allow the purple power to go back to its place on the night sky, now I need to focus.

There's a little problem with Devil Fruit's powers.

The curses, the limitations...

Weakness to the sea, to seastone and the limitation to only one person.

It's not a problem for me.

My stronger-than-most body and soul, coupled with Power Manipulation allows me to bypass these restrictions.

But the same can't be said about others, about my subordinates.

So now... Time for some modifications.

My [Power Manipulation] can do much more than steal, copy, and give powers.

I can modificate to a certain extent and cultivate these powers.

As an example is Bakugou's Explosion quirk. It was fairly easy for me to modify a little so that the explosions could be emitted by the sole of my feet too.

The idea that I will apply now came when I compared Devil Fruits powers with Quirks.

Quirks are basic... Most of them are very uni-directional power. Todoroki and Kaminari can create their respective elements, but only that. They can't control it.

Let's use Ace's Fire Fruit as an example... If I would "dissect" the power, would be like that.

Fire Fruit:

- Fire Generation

- Fire Control

- Fire Immunity

- Fire Body Transformation

- Fire Constructs

- Weakness To the Sea

- Weakness to Seastone

- One Power Limitation

That would be a very simplified version...

Any of these could be a Quirk on its own.

So, I would "break" this power... Unravel it in smaller powers. Like quirks.

Remove the weakness and the one Devil fruit limitation. (That's more of a curse, by the way...) and reassemble it.

If I accomplish it, I will finally be capable of fusion powers of the same type. Till now, I was just using them together. This is an increase in quality.

I could Stack Jean's, Emma's, Xavier's, and many other people's Telepathy and create an even stronger power. (It's possible because every telepathy has a certain frequency and signature. I can't Stack two "Jean's" to double the power that easily)

I could isolate the "power" [Weakness to the Sea] and curse people by giving to them.

Heh~ Imagining myself giving it to Namor makes me chuckle.

Now, time to put in some work... I already made many repeated copies of the Devil Fruits because I can predict that I will destroy a lot of them practicing.

This will be an arduous process.

But what I don't do for my cute subordinates, right?

.....

Marine Headquarters

"So Big Mom finally made her move?" Garp asks Sengoku

"Her children did, but they wouldn't move without her orders." Sengoku massages the bridge of his nose

"How it is going?" Garps asks while eating

"The Whitebeard pirates are still fending off their attacks. But Big Mom hasn't made a move personally yet... If she did..." Sengoku says

"They have no chance unless..." Garp trails off.

"Ugh... The Devil Steps in..." Sengoku groans "We are seeing the beginning of a second war like Marineford. And I don't know if the world is ready yet..."

.....

A.N.: Ahoy

Hector is smart enough to figure out some things about the Gomu Gomu no Mi, too bad he lacks knowledge. He is wrong in two things... It's not Sun Wukong, but a inside world myth and it does not need a "rage moment".

Too bad. Meta knowledge is such a cheat.

If the last chapters there a lot about the world around Hector(You guys can notice a certain lack of his P.O.V.s), now this chapter we focused on his progress.

The Multiple body is a big thing and his increased mastery with Power Manipulation too.

I believe this chapter can be enjoyed even if you don't watch One Piece.

I will not say much more, there will be even more growth on his means and character on this arc.

Till next time.


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