Chapter 8.

Valentine sighed after seeing the notifications. He never thought he won't feel anything after killing another human being neither he thought it would be this easy as the weakest weapon in his current arsenal, his first stand Emperor which is essentially just a revolver was able to take down the whole pirate.

"What is 'Shunpo'?" Valentine asked in his mind as he found out he doesn't have to talk to the System as it's already part of his body.

[Shunpo is a movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. As speed is the main factor of the technique, the method is best characterized by how fast one can get from one location to another location in the least amount of steps. Also since speed is the main factor, Shunpo will be directly linked to the host's agility stats.]

"Too many things to learn. First White Album, then Cero, Kido, and weapon materialization, then sword technique and now Shunpo." Valentine was feeling quite overwhelmed by all the newly found powers of his.

[I advise the host to stop hasting to level up. Though it's important to level up and increase your stats, you need to learn more about White Album, Cero, Kido, Spiritual Weapon Materialization, Sword fighting techniques, Shikai, and Bankai of your Zanpakuto as well as Shunpo. These are the most basic techniques but can be overwhelmingly strong if mastered fully]

Valentine nodded as he too was thinking of the same thing. Thus he went into the forest since it was the best training ground he currently has access to.

*2 years later*

"Brother, you are really gonna leave?" Koneko who is currently 15 asks.

"Yes. It's my dream to travel around the world." Valentine replies while patting her head. "I will come back after I finish my travel. So be a good kid and help your mother, okay."

"Mm." Koneko nods her head slightly.

"Here take this log pose." Tamaki hands over a bracelet with a glass orb sitting on the top, and a needle floating inside the middle of the orb suspended from the top by a thin piece of wire.

"Thank you, Auntie." Valentine gladly takes the bracelet.

After bidding his farewell, Valentine gets on a small boat, sailing to the endless blue ocean for his new adventure.

During the last 2 years, Valentine almost mastered White Album fully. As for others, they are still in progress.

***

Many days passed since Valentine set sail. Valentine was still on the boat, floating in the vast ocean.

"How long has it been?" Valentine asked the system.

[13 days, 06 hours, 25 minutes]

"Almost two weeks, yet I still couldn't find an Island. Even with the help of the Log Pose. Maybe I'm not the type of person who would be a navigator."

[New quest arrived]

"Quest?" Valentine narrowed his eyes. It was the first quest in the last two years after he received a quest to exterminate the pirates in the Karbakura town.

[Quest: A danger is approaching you from the deep of the ocean. Kill the beast.

Reward: 3 stat points]

"A danger? Approaching from the ocean? Fish?" Valentine exclaimed. "Maybe large fish?"

Suddenly an enormous long fish with a bizarre head and many orange spots on its grey body.

Valentine called out Emperor and shot few bullets to see if Emperor was enough or not. As usual, Emperor wasn't able to injure the fish.

The fish was annoyed and lunged to attack.

"As expected." Valentine pointed his index finger, forming a ball of energy. "Cero"

The fish backs and lets out a screeching noise as the Cero engulfed its head whole.

[Host killed, a medium-sized Sea King, earning 100000EXP]

[Level up]

[Level: 22->23]

[Name: Valentine

Level: 23

EXP: 9459/91200

Spiritual Energy: 852000

Spiritual Energy recovery: 4388 per hour

STR: 786

AGL: 788

END: 788

INT: 788]

[Quest completed

Generating reward...]

[3 stat points added]

"Add all of them to STR"

[STR: 786->789]

"So that was a medium-sized Sea King? How big is a large-sized Sea King is then?" Valentine exclaimed.

***

"Captain. There is a small boat on our way." Some pirate shouted.

"So what? Just go straight and destroy it." A domineering voice came from a large man with a burly build, brown skin.

"Roger." A man shouted back before quickening the pace of their ship.

The ship was able to catch up with the small ship which was moving thanks to the wave, pretty easily.

"There is a man inside the boat." The man showed again, notifying the captain of the ship.

"Man? Catch him. We will sell him to the human traffickers." A devious smirk appeared on the face of the captain.

"Roger." The men shouted back, stopping beside the boat, to catch the man. Then the men put a board between them as access to the boat.

After setting the board, they took the man back to their ship. During the process, they burned down the boat.

"Hmm. What a nice catch. We should be able to fetch some money from him." A skinny man carrying Valentine exclaimed.

"Throw him into the basement." The captain stated before turning back.

"Aaagh. My hand!!!"

Suddenly they heard a person yelling.

When the captain shifted his gaze back, he saw a man who seemed to unconscious a moment ago, carrying a katana with fresh blood on it.

Then all the men in the ship circled Valentine, pointing their swords at him.

"What are you waiting for? Incapacitate him. Maggots" The captain yelled.

"Aaahhh." The men charged at Valentine after hearing the order from their captain.

Suddenly, the person whom they were charging at disappeared and appeared behind one of them, killing the person immediately.

Like this Valentine killed around ten men before their captain finally decided to step in.

"You useless bunch, can't even catch a single person." The captain stated while pulling his large sword behind him. Then he locked eyes with Valentine, smiled creepily.

"I don't..."

The captain tried to say something, but Valentine appeared in front of him, descending his katana.

The captain was surprised at how fast Valentine closed the distance between them. But he was able to block the attack with his large sword.

'How the hell is this guy this strong?' The captain thought inwardly while gritting his teeth, clenching his hands, putting more strength in them.

Suddenly right in front of his eyes, Valentine disappeared.

"What?" The captain opened his eyes to their fullest before feeling cold air behind him. Cold sweat descended from his forehead.

*Swish*

As the captain felt a sharp pain in his back, he jumped to the other side trying to create distance between them, instinctively.

"You!!!" The captain roared to Valentine.

Valentine pointed his hand to the captain, creating Cero then fired it.

As a small beam was hovering to him, the captain instinctively knew that beam was dangerous and jumped from its way.

When the captain jumped sideways, Valentine used Shunpo and appeared in front of him, pointing his index finger against the captain's core of his chest, creating a small Cero, then firing it through the captain's chest, killing him instantly.

As their captain was easily killed, others were shivering. Some collapsed on the spot while some tried to fight back.

Soon after, Valentine killed every single man who tried to fight back. He didn't kill others since he needed them to sail the ship.

"Go to the nearest island." Valentine stated.

"What?" Men asked.

"DID I STUTTER?" Valentine shouted.

"N-no." The remaining crew members quickly rushed to do their respective jobs.