“Well then, Hugo, see you in a week!”

  “Hey hey hey! Wait! No, don't! Listen to me dammit!”

  “Bwahahaha!!!”

  Of course he didn't listen to me… and threw me high up in the sky as if I was a damn pebble!

  “AAAAGHHHHHHHHH!!! FUUUUUUCCCKKKK!!!”

  I screamed my lungs out as I flew through the sky, I was going really fast. I saw the forest below, becoming a blur of green and brown. After about a minute or two of this ‘thrilling’ ride, I saw the Lane Vilge ahead enter my view as I started descending.

  ‘Am I gonna die again now?!’

  I closed my eyes out of pure fear of crashing. But what I felt next wasn't a hard impact of me crashing on ground, but someone catching me.

  As if on cue, the 7 feet tall Chief Yuhon saw me flying towards him and caught me like a doll. In his strong and thick arms, I felt like I was a princess …

  I, still held in his arms, looked up at him and said, “Thanks for saving me, but could you put me down now? Please?”

  “Of course.” Yuhon said and put me down without any drama.

  “Uh well, I'm Hugo and I suppose you are Yuhon?” Fuck he's taller than even Garp.

  “That's right. Garp threw you?”

  “Haha… you're right.”

  “What did he say?”

  “He said that he'll train me after a week. And told me to stay in this vilge for the meantime.”

  “Alright. Follow me, I'll show you to the pce you'll be staying at.” He started walking and signaled me to follow him.

  I called out to him from behind “Ah, thanks but I don't have money or anything else to pay with!”

  Yuhon stopped and turned around, raising an eyebrow, he asked, “Did I ask for a payment? If Garp told you to stay here for a week, then it means that you are my responsibility for a week.”

  “Oh… so that's how it works…” Right, Munro mentioned that Yuhon was a marine. And he must be a pretty high ranking one before he retired, considering how easily he caught me earlier.

  Yuhon resumed walking again. I had to jog upto him to get near him as he was a few meters away. And his steps are much wider than mine, so I had to walk quickly to keep up with Yuhon.

  Still slightly left behind, I looked up at his head and asked, “Were you a Rear Admiral?”

  Yuhon didn't look at me, nor did he stop walking, but replied nonetheless, “Correct.”

  “So Garp was your direct superior?”

  “Correct.”

  “I see.” Walk slower damnit!

  He didn't seem to like talking too much, so I respected it and kept quiet, though he seemed lively when I saw him ughing with Garp earlier. And not to mention, I was already busy trying to keep up with his rge steps.

  Soon enough, he brought me to a pce he wanted to. It was a 2 story house, quite big, and much better than that of Munro.

  And finally Yuhon said, “This is my house. You'll stay with me for the time being.”

  “Are you sure? I don't wanna be a burden…”

  “You already are one.” And he went inside the house, and I followed quickly behind him.

  ‘You fucking rude bastard!’ I wouldn't say it out loudly of course. Wouldn't want to offend a man built like a damn grizzly bear.

  Then he stopped mid step and turned around, looking down at me. This time his eyes held a previously absent intensity. I live with my 2 daughters. Don't try anything funny with them.

  “Oh no I wouldn't dare, Sir!”

  A shiver ran down my spine, this time though less intense compared to when Garp suddenly looked at me. But this one felt much more… real.

  “Good. Yuhon resumed walking.”

  ‘Holy-! This guy is scary! No reason to doubt that he was a Rear Admiral!’

  I quietly followed behind him in the hallway. He then turned right to enter the living room, and so did I.

  “Welcome back dad.” I heard this as soon as I entered the living room with Yuhon.

  I looked for the source of this sound and found a gorgeous young woman, probably in her early 20s, sitting on a chair. Fair skin, rge breasts, slim waist, wide hips, wearing a t-shirt and a long skirt, she sat on a chair while reading a book. She had greeted Yuhom without even looking up from the book, and obviously unaware of my presence, for now.

  ‘Holy mother of God those curves are unreal! Stacy doesn't even come close! Ah right… this is how average One Piece women are… but her clothing sense is a bit… I mean who wears a long skirt on a t-shirt like that?’

  I sensed a cold gaze on me and found Yuhon gring at me. Oops, looks like he found me ogling at his daughter… and I averted my gaze and turtled up my neck.

  The young dy finally looked up from her book and noticed my presence. “Who is this?” She questioned her father.

  “Hugo Silverman. He is our guest for a week.”

  “Oh I see.” She closed her book and kept it on a small table beside her. Standing up, she walked upto me and extended her hand. “Hi Hugo! I'm Yana.”

  ‘No way I'm touching her in front of Yuhon! Who knows what he might do.’

  So I just waved my hand at her as a greeting. “Yeah. Nice to meet you.”

  Yuhon's gre on me softened after this. Phew, now I feel a bit better.

  Yana shrugged at my response and took her hand back. She looked at her father, “Yelena already made the breakfast. And she's gone to the library and she'll only come back at dinner time.”

  ‘Yelena must be his other daughter.’

  “Alright.” Yuhon nodded. Yana then walked past me, to only she knows where.

  Yuhon looked at me and asked, “Do you want to have breakfast?”

  “No,” I shook my head, “I already had it with Munro.”

  “Ok.”

  “I'll go and see the vilge.”

  “Ok. Lunch will be in 4 hours. We won't wait for you.”

  “Yeah ok… oh and do you have a spare wrist watch that I could use?” Wait, does one piece even have clocks? I don't remember at all…

  But Yuhon nodded and went to get a watch for me.

  After getting the watch, I bid him farewell and left to explore the vilge.

  And I roamed around the vilge for about 2 hours. The people here are nice by the way, everyone warmly greeted and welcomed me when I said I was staying with the chief. It isn't a big vilge, with the main professions here being fishing and farming. There are also 5 bars, 1 primary and 1 middle school, 1 library, 4 butcher shops, 4 clothing stores and 1 saloon that I saw on my tour. Since the vilge isn't big, it is surrounded by a tall wooden wall by the side where it faces the forest, to keep the wild animals out.

  ‘That's the direction I came here from. But I didn't see any animals.’

  I looked at the wrist watch that Yuhon lent me.

  11:34

  Still 2 hours until lunch.

  ‘Alright! Let's go to a secluded area on the beach and test my devil fruit powers!’

  With my destination set, I asked a few vilgers about such an area, giving the reason that I wanted to ‘practice singing’ and didn't want anyone to hear it. They believed me. I'm proud of my lying skills.

  Sure enough, I soon found such an area.

  Arriving, I looked around. No one near me, a lot of sand, and a few rge rocks here and there. Perfect.

  ‘First, let's check out my bone armour and strength.’ I decided.

  I imagined it, and soon a solid cover of bone covered my right hand. I repeatedly opened and closed it. Movable but slightly tensile and uncomfortable. I'll have to get used to it.

  Walking to a rge rock close by, it was about 1.4 meters tall 1 meter thick. I raised my fist, and struck the rock with all I had.

  Crrackkk!

  A rge crack appeared on that rge rock! And my hand didn't hurt one bit!

  ‘Awesome! And that could even kill a normal person!’

  Gashadokuro fruit is awesome!

  I imagined it and made the bone covering my hand disappeared. Seemingly retracted into my skin.

  ‘Now, the bone bullet.’

  Choosing a target, a simir rge rock, I extended my right hand towards it and pointed out my index finger.

  Next moment, the distal phanx bone present in my index finger tore open the fingertip's flesh and shot out like a real bullet and hit the rge rock, making a several centimeters deep hole in it.

  The blood and flesh from my finger spattered around, my blood dripping on the sand below. An intense pain in my finger hit me.

  “Aaagghhhhh!” I screamed and clutched my gory index finger between my thighs, in an attempt to ease the pain. But it obviously didn't work.

  “Fuck fuck fuck! It hurts!” I jumped around like a crazy man due to pain.

  But then I felt the flesh and bone in my index finger and looked at it with teary eyes. The pain eased and a new, fresh distal phanx bone grew on my finger and soon flesh also grew on it and covered the bone. A nail also grew on it next.

  His finger just regenerated. But the way it looked while regenerating was simply… disgusting.

  ‘Haaaa…. So I got regeneration ability as well… but if everytime I do something like this, and it will hurt this much… how the hell am I supposed to use it in a fight?! Forget the fights, I don't even want to do this ever again!!!’