12 Chapter 12

[T/N]~ Please read the note at the end of the chapter. Thank you.

There's a chance of you finding some mistakes because I edited this in a bit of hurry.

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Just when Arata was worried about whether he would have to stay in the "One Piece World" until he died, The system responded.

[Ding, Discovery Task 1: Successfully join a certain faction, and get a chance to draw a card.]

[The optional factions are Pirate Faction, Marine Faction, Revolutionary Army Faction].

(PS 1: After completing three missions, you can return to the world of One Punch Man. The timeline of this world is too long, Thus the host will be traversed several times. You can choose to return each time you complete the main mission.)

(PS 2: When in other worlds, The time passed in the One Punch Man World will slow down. No matter how long the host is away, the time passed in the main world will always be one week.)

This time the system was very user-friendly, It gave Arata a lot of explanations making Arata relieved.

Fortunately, there was no need to overthrow the World Government to return to the One Punch Man World. Otherwise, Arata might have struggled for a lifetime to return.

Although the strength of the One Piece World was a little lower than the One Punch Man World, the safety factor should be higher. But Arata didn't have "thighs" in this world.

The first mission appeared, but Arata had no way to complete it at all now.

He was now a "slave", no matter which of three factions he wanted to join he had to get out of the sticky situation he was in first.

And the system just said that the One Piece World was divided into several main missions, and he had to complete three main missions before he could return.

Considering that he might come to this world in the future, Arata felt that he should be in One Piece way before the canon started.

But to what extent? Arata didn't know, after all, he had too little information now.

But thinking so much now was all in vain. After being drugged, he didn't have much strength left in his body. He couldn't even break through a mere iron cage.

"*Sigh*, it seems that I can only pretend to have given up for a while. Only when the effect of the medicine is over will I have the ability to resist."

Arata was also helpless in his current situation, His start was very unlucky. Now he could only hope that the person who buys him would be an ordinary guy, so he could escape from him.

In this way, Arata and two human traffickers floated on the sea for two full days before arrived at the legendary "Chambord Islands."

During the period of the journey, the two human traffickers also continued to drug Arata's meals, keeping him in a weak state.

Either he ate or starved to death but Arata had no say in the matter. Although Arata tried to stay away from food for two days to see whether the effect of the medicine would be reduced or not.

But it was a pity that the medicine seemed to last for long periods. And even though Arata could endure the hunger, he couldn't endure his thirst for water.

"This is such a good product and yet you actually gave us brothers only half a million Belis, which is too little. You should know that if you sell this kid to some rich lady, you would easily make millions of Belis."

Two human traffickers started bargaining with the person in charge of the slave market.

"Five hundred thousand Belis are quite a lot, although the boy looks very good. But just look at his state, maybe he will die in a few days. This is just detrimental to the reputation of our slave auction house, Okay? "

The people at the slave auction house threw a bag of Beli directly at them. To be honest, if Arata didn't look really good, they really didn't want to take the chance of selling a product that might just die in a few days.

"It's just our bad luck!"

The two human traffickers also knew that the other party was right, so they could only helplessly pick up the Beli and leave. Before leaving, One of them couldn't help but kick Arata's cage to vent his anger

Arata was currently in a really bad state now, but not weak enough for him to die.

Part of the reason was to prevent Arata from escaping. The two human traffickers gave him very little food. The other reason was that he deliberately showed weakness so that the people who bought him would remain relaxed.

But because Arata's condition was not very good, the person in charge of the slave market didn't put him much in his eyes. After all, he was just a "Slave."

He was just an ordinary human not a rare slave like a "Mermaid" or a "Giant". The person in charge just casually threw Arata to the backstage, completely ignoring the fact that he might just die at any moment.

Arata was quickly taken out of the prison and then thrown into a large iron cage, where he was locked up with other "Slaves".

As for the little hidden knives he had in his pockets were long been confiscated by the two slave traders.

The moment the slave traders opened the cage, Arata thought about taking the opportunity to escape. But his weak body made him even struggle to walk, not to mention knocking down several big guys.

He was thrown into the big iron cage, and almost all of the prisoners were like him, either kidnapped or forced.

The people locked in this iron cage were all of the Human Race, and most of them were women. Of course, there were many good-looking boys like Arata too.

After looking around for a while Arata breathed a sigh of relief. Almost all those locked in this iron cage were deemed "Incapable of Resistance", and even had no extra anklets or bracelets that bound them.

After they threw him into the iron cage, they directly left without even sparing him a single glance.

Probably because the price they got was not satisfactory, The two human traffickers didn't remind the people in the slave market that Arata could escape easily if he was left unattended.

The slackness of the slave market made Arata happy for a while. He was kept in just an iron cage and after the effect of the medicines fades away he would be fully capable of running away.

Seeing the hope of getting rid of his predicament, Arata finally relaxed a little and began to look at the helpless guys forced into the iron cage with him.

Most of them had ashen faces, Almost all of them had given up on life, but similar to Arata, there were still a few who hoped for a better future.

Among them were three girls, They were locked in the corner and they immediately attracted Arata's attention. To be precise, it was the one with the long and black soft hair among the three girls who caught Arata's attention.

The three of them were the same age as Arata, and although her face was pretty immature at the moment, there was no doubt that she would grow up to be a beauty, and when she grows up, she would definitely be a country toppling beauty.

She also seemed to be scared to death but she was still comforting her younger sisters in such a state.

But the reason why she attracted Arata's attention was definitely not because of her beauty, nor her attitude towards her younger sisters, but Arata vaguely felt that he seemed to have seen her somewhere.

Throughout the entire One Piece anime, countless characters appeared, but someone whose face Arata seemed to remember could not be a simple person.

So holding on to the idea of ​​probing, Arata stepped forward to talk to the three sisters. Relying on his excellent appearance, and witty conversation, Arata easily gained the trust of the three little girls and learned their names from them.

"Boa Hancock", "Boa SanderSonia", "Boa Marigold", the last two names might have had no impact on him, but the first name was too famous for him to ignore.

The Pirate Empress! The Goddess of all One Piece fans, Damn!

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Sigh, I'm going to be gone for around a month or two. 100% for a month but after that, I might return anytime.

I have this function/celebration/wedding to attend next month and me and my family are leaving early since we are quite close to the hosts of the celebration.

At first, I decided I didn't want to go. I mean what's the point. But my opinion was discarded later on and I was suddenly forced to tag along because I never attended them and it would rude blah blah blah.

The reason why I said 2 months is because the first month is reaching there settling down attending it etc etc. And our family would be staying there for a while even after the celebrations would be over so I don't know when exactly I would return.

I might just forcefully come back after the event ends, They can't really stop me after the events done but this too depends on the situation. As much as I want to translate I think I'll be on a break.

Now you can ignore this little frustrating rant of mine. I'll be back in 1 and half months most probably.

I'm also sorry for not telling you guys yesterday or the day before yesterday because I was shocked by the sudden change of events and I had to prepare for the trip which caused me to be quite busy. I only once or maybe twice came on webnovel in the last 2 days xD.

Since I already had half this draft prepared and edited I decided to complete this and post it before going on a sudden break like this.

Thanks for listening to my little rant, Now time for a little question.

-You might have noticed " Chambord Islands" in the last chapter and this chapter. It's supposed to be the place where boa Hancock was first brought in as a slave or branded as a slave I guess. Is there a proper name for it or never mentioned the exact location? I tried finding it on the net but couldn't and I haven't really watched one piece past 200 or so episodes. It was the Sky island part where ei got bored I guess but that was years ago.

That's all cya and thanks for understanding.

I'll also leave a link to the machine translation in the comments for anyone who has enough big brain to understand Machine translations.