After meeting with shanks one of the four emperors we surprisingly felt a bit relaxed. And set out to our next destination wano kingdom.
Our navigator was having a tough time guiding us as the three needles were shaking irregularly pointing to a destination.
We had been travelling for two day but we still could not get on to any island, now we are currently stuck in a place where there are multiple whirlpools trying to sink our ship.
I was getting a bad headache, the princess and her maid are with meroie as they were doing some girly stuffs.
While ace and deuce were helping barudo. Joke was trying to calm down doma who was having a nightmare on the thought of to entering kido's territory 'well sucks to be him'.
Our cute punz was sleeping on my shoulders.
The sea was so rough that I was not able to use my ability to control the ship, just great.
Before long we are in front of a big waterfalls, even though it was nowhere near as big as the redline it was still enough to kill anyone who clashes with it.
"Everyone get alert" barudo shouted as everyone just came forward to witness what we saw, the whirlpools were making our ship to move forward to clash with the waterfall and it is now not possible to control the teddy.
Then we saw two big fishes climbing up the waterfall, "Alright everyone hold on tight" I said as I made long liquid arms to wrap around the fishes and pull the ship.
And miraculously our ship started to climb the waterfall, (not to brag but the amount of weight teddy is holding is huge, because we had half of the dials in this we got, then many cannons which were just left out in the basement and not to forget the food which we have in stock as a precaution 'it would be enough for luffy to last for whole month').
Then as soon as we were up our ship collided with a octopus and many of us were thrown into the sea, the only on remaining in the teddy was ace.
I too started to drown, since I fell suddenly I did not activate my ability and hence I am going to die, the death was suffocating and slow.
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"Cough, cough, cough" I felt someone trying to break my ribs, I opened my eyes to meet the bright sun light.
"The bastard is alive, how lucky of him to survive or not" a man with a long beard said, "chain him, as he truss passed without permission he is a criminal, take him to udon" a fat balloon like man said as I was dragged to some place.
I was in a prison and so I was got caught by the kido people.
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"Hey brat start making the blocks if you want to eat something" a person with weird laughing face said while whipping me.
I felt dead weak as I fell due to weakness of sea stone, shit just turned real. meanwhile in different locations,
Ace and deuce were in KURI village where the teddy has also crashed.
The three girls along with joke are in the bakura town, barudo and doma were in kibi. While the little punz was presently in the flower capital, stunned by the city glory.
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I was just made to realize just how weak I was, and luckily no one seems to identify me so for now I am saved, just thinking of the seeing others laugh at my conditions made me irritated and embarrassed.
"No one can know about this" I made a promise for myself, just imaging my crew laughing at me for this made me shiver.
I see a prisoner fall down not being able to make a block, than the guard without a notice whipped him like crazy, and dragged him away.
'Man I should try to get out of here as soon as possible' I thought, without much choice I was subjected to labor may be this will be a good time to train my body.
I would sometime help other prisoners, but I must say the prisoners here are lifeless, I have not seen even a single person trying to escape from here. I felt it was suffocating to be here, I don't like it.
'Maybe I should try to takeover wano from kaido, hahaha just kidding. I am not strong enough yet'.
"Man it sucks only if I can use haki, I would not have to fear for my life like this, I am pathetic" I become very depressed, "Man that new prisoner is weird, he is hyperactive at a time then he suddenly becomes depressed", "Yes he is very weird but at least he looks like a good man. He helped renji yesterday to buy his food" the prisoners murmured to themselves.
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Meanwhile in kuri, ace and deuce were trying hard to not act on impulse and instead tried to help the villagers to live a little better.
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Not far from there in bakura town a storm was going on three ladies were beating the crap out of the local thugs, there were nearly 100 people on the ground unconscious.
"Who are these she devils, they are beating the crap out of kaido-sama's men" the people who saw this scene were terrified and ran away.
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Then in the region of kibi, borodo and doma were inspecting the factories and the sea stone forging process that they have not seen before.
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Even if they are all in different locations they have only one thought to find arya and change this country.
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After one month.
Udon prison.
"Man this sucks, how the hell am I suppose to beat a dragon if I cannot even learn haki" I cursed as I made a large stone block.
The angrier I get the more I started to make big blocks, this prison was quite good as I can get food for the work I have done.
The prison was the only good place I think, as the prisoners were truly punished here. But this prison was punishing the innocents that I don't like.
I felt this irritating sensation, as I was helpless to turn wano into a better place. But I am a pirate so I don't have to bother with how this place is but man I am a hypocratic 'I want to free them and let kaido group kill them'.
I shifted the blocks and obtained the coupons to the food, after eating my fill I gave away the remaining to the old and sick prisoner.
"Young man, I thank you for your kindness" a short old man said and bowed to me, this old man would always bow to me whenever I gave him food. I felt irritated again.
"Shut up old man, me giving you food is not kindness. I just want to find a way to escape from here as soon I unlock myself, at that time I don't want to feel sorry for causing you all trouble" I said and walked away.
I felt a tug on my selves as I turned around to see the old man. "Young man, it may be as you say but to me this type of kindness I have long since forgotten" he said, I looked at the old pitiful man before walking away.
'Calm down Arya, this is kaido area you are not strong enough to beat him yet. You will just be done in one shot at your current strength'.
"If only I can use haki, I would not even care about anyone" I was frustrated as I began punching the ground to cool down.
"Hey you brat, you with a lot of strength, how dare you give away those tickets" a huge human hippo hybrid man shouted and my ears almost burst.
"Ho if it isn't the wardon, ho sorry I forgot assistant vice wardon" I shamelessly complimented the hybrid fatso.
"HHum, don't you know that giving away those tickets will get you punished. Seeing that you are new here I will let this one time slide, hahaha" he had a huge smile as he went away laughing.
'Idiot'
"I heard kaido-sama is on a expenditure, is that true", "Yes, since no one is even daring enough to stand against kaido-sama he was bored and went for some exploration. This time I hear they got a treasure map of Leonardo, when they return they would have huge money. I am so glad I joined under kaido-sama", two guards were talking to themselves.
'Is this some kind-of plot armor', 'my mind was running fast'. Since kaido is not here, I don't have to fear anyone.
The next thing I did was obviously to steal the key for the handcuffs.
'Now I can just leave from here but before that, since this is the new world and that too kaido's base. There should be some prisoners who use haki and would be willing to teach me if I can free them' I pondered for a while before trying my luck.
As I was walking I saw that old short man again, 'maybe I should ask this old man first'.
"Alright, Hey old man I want to ask you something. Do you know how to use haki" I asked even though my hopes are low.
"Haki what is that" the old man asked, 'Great'.
"Well, it is fighting technique. It is something like an invisible armor which will increase my combat ability by a large margin" I told him, and turned around.
"I don't know this haki, but I do know a similar technique the one you said. We use it to cover our swords to make it into a black sword. If that is what you are trying to learn I can teach you" the old man said.
"What the hell, I really do have a lot of plot armor" I spoke out loudly, causing few prisoners to look at me weirdly.
"OK old man I have been trying to learn this for few months already but I still cannot use it. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong" I asked.
'Ace, lisa, borodo were able to quickly learn haki. But I was left behind; No matter how I tried I simply cannot use it. Then I understood I am not like the talented fighters like luffy and ace. So I have to see the means through which I can gain power'.
"Hum, then show me how you do it" the man said as I showed him what I can do.
The punch was not strong, but was able to break a rock. "you are very strong, but I can feel that you did not use your haki naturally. I felt like you are forcing your haki to fight for you. I cannot say much but normally when we use our ryoui we let it flow freely to take the shape it feels good. But you are trying to make it appear as you like" Old man said.
"Let your heart feel free of any restrains, then I think you can use it" the old man suggested.
"Let my heart free of worries, and just focus on freeing my haki. More like going into power rangers mega mode" I thought.
"Ok I will try" I let my mind go blank, and how to do that simple think of death. I felt lightheaded and then I looked at my hand. I felt a magic is happening and then I simply punched another rock. Only this time the rock was destroyed.
"Hooooo! I did it. Old man today is my lucky day" I felt a sense of relief, and confidence.
'Everyone I am the captain and I am the strongest' I felt the urge to shout but thought I would look stupid so I punched few more stones in my happiness.
"Ace and that stupid princess would not dare to challenge me again after a friendly match" I tried to feel cover my fist with haki again but it did not work.
"Old man I need a lot of training, more than anyone" I said while sensing haki again.
"That is true, learning it requires patience and hard work young man".
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