Smoker leaned back, exhaling a stream of smoke as he adjusted the Den Den Mushi in his hand, connecting directly to Fleet Admiral Sengoku. His tone was serious, almost grim. "Marshal Sengoku, I have some urgent news," he began.
"Go ahead, Smoker," Sengoku replied, his voice was calm, he was just about to get something to eat but a sudden call from Smoker stopped him.
"When I was tracking down the Straw Hat, I came across something… unexpected. I ran into Fire Fist Ace, the commander of Whitebeard's second division."
"Whitebeard's second division?" Sengoku's voice grew sharp with interest.
"If I am not wrong then you are currently in Alabasta right !" Asked Sengoku with curiosity. Wondering what a Pirate who is supposed to be in the second half of the grand line is doing there. Though he was aware of the current matters with Blackbeard, this still intrigued him.
"I see, please continue."
Smoker nodded, though he knew Sengoku couldn't see him. "Turns out, Ace and Straw Hat Luffy are brothers. It's more than just coincidence that they crossed paths in Alabasta."
"Brothers?" Sengoku repeated a hint of surprise in his voice. He hadn't expected that connection.
'That Bastard Garp, he was hiding this all this time.'
"But that's not the biggest news," Smoker added, his expression darkening. "There was someone else there, a kid around fifteen years old. No bounty, no face known to any of us. He was with Ace, and he's strong. Can't say whether he is a Pirate or not but he is strong for his age."
"What do you mean?" Sengoku asked, his curiosity now fully piqued. Wondering whether that bastard Garp is hiding another grandson.
Smoker took a deep breath before continuing. "This kid managed to defeat both Ace and me without much effort. He didn't just hold his own—he beat us easily. And considering both Ace and I are Logia users, it means he can use Haki. He took us down like we were nothing. Ace was certainly holding back in the fight as he didn't use his fire at all but I still can't say about him. I can only describe my fight to you. I did use my Logia fruit and was beaten by him. That boy isn't normal, maybe a devil fruit or Haki but when I fought against him, I felt myself weakening as time goes, it's hard to explain honestly. I wasn't going all out but still, I was beaten easily. "
The Den Den Mushi's face reflected Sengoku's shock, his usually stoic expression now alarmed. "A new face who can use Haki at that level? You say he is only 15 years old and he was able to beat both you and Ace…That's… troubling."
"More than troubling…it is just the start, the real troubling part is yet to come." Smoker said with a solemn tone, Sengoku had a bad feeling about whatever Smoker was about to say after this.
"What it is," Sengoku asked.
"That boy has the same power as Whitebeard, the shock ability." Smoker said with a little hesitation. Though even he was sure that it was impossible, saying this is equal to saying that the strongest man, the emperor of the sea, Whitebeard is dead. But he has to, becuase they have seen it with their own eyes, that boy using that power.
"I see Whitebeard's power, make sure you are keeping an eye..."
Unknown to what kind of commotion he has caused, Yuta was playing pirate along with the Straw Hats.
The current topic of talk among the Straw hats was Yuta's countless amount of tales which he was really good at telling and Haki. Latest content publıshed on novęlfire.net
After telling others that Haki is needed for anyone to learn his version of Shock shock fruit power, it was like everyone wanted to learn it.
It was really hard for him to change the conversation to something else or he felt that sooner or later Luffy's plot armour would come into play and he would master the Armament Haki out of nowhere, later on asking him to train him in shock fruit ability.
Naturally, Yuta wasn't having it so he ended up telling the stories of many Anime he remembered to distract them. Starting from Dragon Ball Z to Naruto. He spent telling the stories of both gods and Ninja to Luffy, Chopper, Ussop and even some other members of Straw hats were interested in this.
Ace decided to travel with them, half for the fact that he was too moving towards Yuba and half was that he wanted to keep an eye on Yuta for a little while.
Yuta was strong, he didn't just want to leave him alone with Luffy just like that. He was honestly worried, he knew Luffy was an idiot, though his instincts were better than anyone he had seen but still he was worried.
And that is how all of them finally reach Yuba.
"So then what happened to Rock Lee, did Gaara win the match, what happened to his leg. Will he continue to be a Ninja ?" Both Usssop and Chooper asked, furiously throwing one question after another at him.
"That… well that has to wait for later, Let's get some rest before we reach the desert, we gonna need it." Yuta said with a smile on his face.
"What… but it was getting so good." Chopper whined.
"Hey Sanji, I am hungry. Meat…." Luffy shouted. Yuta could have sworn that he heard the same thing just 15 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago, and 45 minutes ago.
How come this boy needs food every 15 minutes.
"He is right Chopper, I have heard that the desert gonna be quite big, we better rest while we can, or else it will be harder for us to travel in the desert." Ussop said, though he too wanted dot know whether Naruto kicked Neji's ass or not but right now he should take some rest and also get ready for the harsh climate of the desert ahead of them.
Yuta just smiled at this and got up, he had long looking for some free time where he could read the manga to know what was about to happen after this. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he went to a corner and took out his Manga.
"It's pretty strange reading this while I am standing on Going Merry and am among the real Straw Hat Pirates." He can't help but muse as he takes out the manga and starts going through the Alabasta arc.
In the rain base, Finally, Robin finally arrives there with her mind still wondering about a certain boy she met.
"You are late." a cold and harsh voice came the moment she entered the casino.
"Ah, I can't help it, something delayed my arrival." Miss All Sunday said, looking at the man who had a cigar in his mouth and was looking at her with disdain.
"What happened to the Eastern outpost. Who the the intruder you talked about." The man who many knew as Crocodile, a Hero, A Shichibukai or to some Mr. Zero, he asked as he made a gesture to Robin to keep moving inside, to somewhere more pirated away from the crowd.
"It was a boy, strange boy, found nothing on him when it comes to his affiliation but…" Robin was saying but pause in between.
"But…?" Crocodile was obviously not patient enough.
"But he was strong, he was able to break free of the shackles, they weren't sea stones but still. There is also something strange about that boy. He was able to copy my Devil Fruit…" Robin says, not sure whether she should even say this to the Crocodile or not.
"What… are you joking. How is that possible ?" Crocodile at this was taken aback, even for someone like him, one of the seven warlocks of the sea, this was completely unheard of.
"Since when have you seen me joking Mr Zero. That boy was able to copy the power of Hana Hana Nomi from me and use it against me to get out of there. Not only that but he quickly was able to use how to use the fruit power as well." Robin said, though she said about him being able to copy her power, but still for some reason didn't say that the boy used some kind of power which worked very similar to the sea stone on her and she immediately lost all her strength when she came in contact with him.
Even she wasn't sure why she didn't say it but she just didn't.
Hearing this, Crocodile was frowning. Robin had no reason to lie to him about something , so then why.
Is there really a fruit out there which can copy other devil fruit abilities? Can that boy copy his own logia power?
Now he was getting both worried and interested in that boy.
His plan was very close to completion and right now was the least time when he wanted this kind of hindrance.
"Send Mr 1 to find out about the identity of that boy, if possible bring him here. I want to see him." Crocodile said after a little thought if he can have that boy under him then it's fine, if not then it's better to just get rid of him.
Here is the problem which come with not concealing his powers. People start to target him.
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