章 71: The Waifus are complicated (Part 2)

'JACKPOT' Fred thought, that after closing that deal with his Pact Magic couldn't help but make those thoughts of victory visible with one of his typical creepy smiles and malevolent faces 'MUA HAHAHAHAHA!!!'

Creepy smiles and malevolent faces that created a great impression on the people around him, including Po

"AAAHHHH!

SO SCARY!!"

"Now I know how pirates feel when they see him..."

"Yes, I felt a chill just now"

"Apart from his terrifying face...

He has tamed that demonic girl"

"Yeah...

That's good right?"

"If it weren't for the fact that he's Fred and I have the context of the situation, I would think he's a pedophile luring a girl with cute little animals."

"No way, Fred wouldn't do something like that!

He once said in an interview that he likes women with good curves like me."

"Never underestimate a man's strike zone daughter...

Never underestimate it..."

But Fred turned a deaf ear to those somewhat harmful whispers for his person...

HE HAD FINALLY RECRUITED A NAKAMA BESIDES STEPHEN! ON TOP OF THAT, AN OFFICIAL ONE PIECE CHARACTER!

Although until now he had been working as a bounty hunter alone...mainly not to split the bounties...and very successfully, this needed have to change If he wanted to expand his business, exactly what he intended to do soon

That was why he had been trying to recruit people with a proper personality, moral and competence like Hina for the past few weeks. Fred needed Nakamas with different skills and specializations that would help him in what he couldn't do, either because he didn't have the skills or knowledge for it... or because he simply couldn't multiply himself, like Luffy and his tribulation.

Unfortunately, the competent Hina rejected his offers on countless occasions... but fortunately Fred had managed to recruit another pink-haired girl with potential!

"Hang on a minute!

What does that mean that I have to work for you!?" Perona asked, a little more lucid after having hugged and caressed the little panda a dozen times "Are you joking?"

"It means exactly that..." Fred answered with a big smile after his fraudulent child recruitment "From now on I'm your boss and you can't back down now!

You swore it in the name of Mr Po"

NO WA..." Perona tried to refuse for more than obvious reasons... before realizing that she couldn't refuse for some strange reason 'Why can't I say no?

So weird...'

It didn't matter if she wanted to or not, Fred's Magical Pact had decided her fate, which couldn't be undone unless Fred wanted to. His principles prevented him from treating a worker badly, especially when the worker is a minor that planned to keep her by his side for a long time.

"Don't worry, the conditions are pretty good

The work will be fun, the pay will be high, the food will be free, you will have plenty of holidays and..." Fred said as he used his powers again to materialize in the ground… "All the little bear cubs you could want!"

"I'M IN BOSS!!!" Shouted Perona, who rushed to the ground to hug them all at the same time "I love you little cuties"

In this way the labour contract was closed for the second time, but this time without tricks, deception or magic involved... or at least in part...

'Children...

They're so simple 'Fred thought with some satisfaction as he saw Perona enjoying… like a child… his summoning creatures "Enjoy for now…

We will finalize the details in my office in Narhad."

Fred was happy to be able to recruit his first Nakama out of the family... and Perona was very happy to be cuddled and pampered by multiple panda cubs. Both were so happy that almost forgot that there were more people around them visibly less happy than the two minors with Akuma No Mi powers.

"This...

Mister Freed...

Sorry to interrupt, but...

Is everything okay?" Asked Murphy, the ship's captain who, after asking the passengers to return to their rooms to sleep, waited for Fred to finish [negotiating] with Perona before asking for his collaboration again.

"Oops, sorry captain" Replied Fred, who again adopted a more serious attitude to talk with adult people "Yes, all good.

"Yes all ok.

The Hulk pirates have been eliminated and I have calmed Perona's tantrum

Don't worry, she won't cause trouble anymore and...

Please try to forgive her, she's just a silly girl."

"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SILLY GIRLD!!??" Perona yelled somewhat annoyed... to immediately melting due to a cuteness overload "Horo-horo-horo!

The pandas are giving me kisses!

They love me!"

"...

...

If you say so, the rest of the crew and passengers will surely understand...

..." Answered Captain Murphy, who was doing his best to ignore Perona... who seemed to be under control... and deal only with serious matters "As for the dead pirates, do you want to do something with them?"

It was an open secret that Fred used to [dispose of] the bodies of the pirates he killed. That, coupled with his reputation for being rather greedy for money, made it even clearer for almost with intelligence how Fred used to [ disposed of] those bodies...

Obviously the captain had no intention of throwing his rescuer's money overboard for not asking... although he certainly didn't like the idea of Fred [emptying and packing] those bodies on his ship...

"Don't worry

I'll just need the captain's head to deliver to the next Marine station I find...

With the rest you can do what you want" Replied Fred with practically total indifference

Now thanks to his Akuma No Mi he could create all the organs he wanted from any garbage he found on the street

With this great convenience why the hell would he have to go to the trouble of carry the bodies, dissect them, store the useful organs in special containers to avoid the deterioration and transport large shipments to his buyer in time record?

Now he could sell them wholesale with hardly any work and without killing pirates!

If there was one thing he wanted to do with the bodies, it was to turn them into birds to get rid of them easily, but Fred preferred to use an even more comfortable method for him at least "Captain Murphy

Without intending to interfere with your work, if you like my suggestion...

Could the ship's security team clean up the rest of this whole mess?

Today I have stolen practically all their work, I think it would hurt their pride not to have been able to... contribute... this night"

"A fantastic suggestion

In fact, I was going to propose something similar" The captain replied with a kind smile at Fred… before turning to the security team with and orgre face "FAST! MOVE YOUR ASS AND CLEAN UP!

USELESS TRASH!"

"YES SIR!" The members of the security team responded, who began to clean the entire deck with care despite being fully aware that they would be fired after this trip... but if they didn't, they would have to face Fred, who was looking at them with hostility.

It was better not to tempt their luck

"Perfect, cleaning solved" Said Fred, who after [supervising] the bouncers for a moment mischievously with Murphy, both returned to discuss other issues "This only leaves one issue in the air, what to do with the boat..."

"You mean the pirate ship is moving away?" Captain Murphy answered, who was the first to turn around after a few seconds of supervision.

"Yeah, the...

EEEEHHHH!!!??" Fred yelled as he saw how the pirate ship was really moving further and further away from the cruise ship "What the hell!!??"

That was a distance that couldn't be settled with just one leap of his powerful legs!

He couldn't understand why this just happened

'IMPOSIBLE!'

Precisely to avoid this kind of scenario, he had left someone watching

Someone who didn't seem to have done the job of notifying him of suspicious movement on the ship.

"Captain McNugget!

Why didn't you tell me that the ship was leaving?"

However, the [person] in charge was neither in a position to listen or respond

"..."

The diurnal bird of prey had been sleeping on the ship's mast for several minutes, although less comfortably than in its favorite bed.

"Damn sleepy bird...

Next time I'll leave this job to an owl."

Nevertheless, there was little point in finding and punishing the guilty right now. They had a hostile pirate ship on the run and had to do something about it.

"I don't think that ship set sail and weighed anchor by itself...

There must be someone still on board operating it, although I don't see anyone on board from here." Said Captain Murphy, who took his telescope out of his pocket to observe the deck of the enemy ship

And Fred did the same, but concentrating hard on his ears to listen to what might be happening on that ship "I hear activity... but what I hear is quite strange...

Not the normal sound of people operating a ship...

Maybe that's why I didn't realize...

Even though it's too far away, it's hard to hear clearl"

"Do you want us to chase him Mr. Fred?" Captain Murphy asked once again, knowing Fred's habits.

Everyone knew that the now legendary Demon Slayer wasn't used to letting a pirate get away from the gang he had decided to hunt if he could help it. If he didn't kill them, he would hand them over to the Marine with a severe trauma, but he always tried to catch them one way or another. And now the only way to catch up with that ship on which there was surely a fugitive pirate was to chase it with the cruise ship loaded with passengers and with a journey to complete.

"No, the pirate ship is faster than this and we can't risk endangering the passengers in case they fire their cannons at us" "Fred answered while warming up "I'll go for it and finish off the scum that's still inside"

A strange response that made virtually everyone on the ship's deck turn to face him.

"You?

But it's too far away and you shouldn't be able to swim anymore if I'm not mistaken"

It was well known, at least to Captain Murphy, that those who had eaten an Akuma No Mi were incapable of swimming. In fact, even if Fred was able to swim, even knowing about his superhuman abilities, no one would believe that he would be able catch a ship by swim, much less one that was already so far away and fleeing so fast

Fred might be very famous, very strong, and many other things, but he's not a Gyojin

But Fred didn't share his worries.

"Don't worry about those details, you'll see soon" Fred answered before turning to the only human there who hadn't been paying attention "Perona! First mission!

Use your astral form to follow me to the ship!"

"I love you too..." Said the Perona buried by lovely pandas, who almost miraculously could hear the question and almost didn't deign to answer "Astral form? What's that?

I only know how to create ghosts and caress cute bears"

Although Fred didn't know it, it hadn't been many years since Perona had obtained the powers of the Horo Horo No Mi and for now she hadn't developed her abilities in depth. Like Luffy when he was little, he lacked a lot of control, insight and diversitiy that he would acquire over the years with training and patience.

Or by force...

'Hmm...

I don't know if it's true or an excuse, but we'll have to train from now on...' Fred thought a little disappointed. But he couldn't waste any more time or the boat would end up fleeing "Change of plans, stay here taking care of the pandas, I'll go for the boat alone

…

Maximum effort"

After finishing his speech Fred jumped overboard before the stunned face of the captain, the security team, Perona and the bears. Those who could stuck their heads out to sea to see what would happen next, gasping for breath as Fred got closer to falling into the water

Plash!

But they screamed at the top of their lungs when they saw Fred run across the surface of the sea almost as if the sea were solid!

"NANIIIIII!!!!???

SQUECK!?" Everyone yelled, including Captain Murphy, the security team who stopped cleaning, Perona who got distracted from loving the pandas for a moment... and even the pandas "He's so fast he can run over the water?"

All of them had just seen something that seemed impossible!

A human and more specifically an Akuma No Mi user human capable of run on the surface of the sea!

Plash!

A few days ago Fred and Clark tried to find ninja applications for Life Life No Mi and reinvented one of the most famous ninja techniques

Water Walk No Jutsu!

Plash!

The moment Fred was about to touch the surface of the water with one of his feet, he would project the greenish light to turn the water under him into wood and use it as a foothold to perform a powerful almost vertical leap forward.

Plash!

This is a simple feat in principle, but for which someone needs a great coordination, speed, dexterity and balance to perform it perfectly, a combination of traits that not everyone have. However, that wasn't a problem for the agile and dexterous Fred, who despite the waves, wind and lack of light was able to repeat this feat multiple times without any problem and reach the Hulk pirate ship.

"Walk the water is a pretty cool aplication but...

For the return I will turn something into a giant bird

It's much more comfortable and safe, don't you think?" Fred said just as he went up to the deck of the enemy ship, where he hoped to surprise the runaway pirates

However, there was no one on deck... and that's why he looked like a madman talking to himself...

Even so, he did it again after paying attention to each and every little sound produced inside the ship "I know there's someone here, I can clearly hear the sound of your heartbeat…and it's very, very fast.

Get out of here"

But he didn't get an answer, or at least not in the way he had asked.

"Ohhh...

Now that beautiful sound even faster... which makes it easier to know which specific part of the ship you're in

Trust me, you better not waste my time..."

And as he struck fear into the heart of the other only living person on board the ship, Fred walked slowly but menacingly toward the source of those heartbeats, warning of his imminent arrival with a macabre whistle, like a psychopathic killer in a horror movie

"There's no point in running... the ship is small and I'm faster...

There's no use hiding either, since I know exactly where you are.

And as for fighting...

Ha ha ha...

You wouldn't have run away from me or be so scared if you could fight me."

Fred moved slowly, very slowly to continue this fun game of hunter and prey that he hadn't played for so many days.

It's normal to be afraid, after all I just massacred all your friends

But...

Lucky for you I'm a reasonable man

If you surrender, come before me and answer some of my questions... and the answer is acceptable... I promise I won't kill or torture you, I might even release you on the next island

What do you…"

However, the macabre game had to be interrupted since...

"NANNY!?"

While still slowly wandering down a hallway, Fred felt his mobility drastically reduced by several dozen arms that suddenly appeared over his body and the whole hallway.

'This ability is…'

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