02 Door

One day, he was approached by his butler, Bunta.

"Dante, why have you been training so hard?"

"To get stronger."

"Kekeke.. Isn't it obvious? I've never heard anyone train to get weaker. The question is why?" Bunta laughed

"To determine my own fate." Answered Danted as he finished his last squat.

"Fate huh..." Bunta looked at Dante who started to do push ups.

After a few minutes, Bunta sighed as he rubbed his head. This young master in front of him didn't know anything except improving his muscle.

He saw Dante was doing good on exercising his physical, but the moment he started training his punchs and kicks, they were sucks. The boy in front of him surely didn't know what he was doing. Well, what can he say? No one ever taught him anything about it. It was good already Dante had a proper exercise routine.

Dante on the other hand, had never learnt to fight before. Whether in his past life or his new life he had never done any of it before. He read about it, he watched the videos but never did he practice any of it. He did know some proper stance for body exercises routine and that's it. He just increases the amount of exercise to increase his strength.

As for real fights? He had none. Neither did he have experience in his past life, nor did he live in a wild environment like Luffy, in this life. Zero combat experience. He was only a rich man in the past and a rich boy in the present with some theoretical knowledge.

"Dante." Bunta called as he looked towards him

"Yes?" Dante stopped his 'training' and turned to Bunta.

"Do you really want to learn how to fight?" Bunta asked.

"Hmm? Grandpa Bunta knows how to fight?" Dante's eyes glittered. While Dante wasn't sure if there was any fighting master on the island or not, he didn't go to find any of them yet.

"So, what do you think about my moves?" Dante asked with a wide smile.

"Err.." Seeing Dante asked confidently, Bunta hesitated.

"It wasn't that bad right?" He asked again.

"Trashy moves." Bunta finally dropped the boom.

"No wayyy." The judgement was a thunderstruck to Dante.

"Tch, first of all..." Bunta started to point out the mistake in Dante's moves. Then he showed some of his moves and asked Dante to try it.

After a few hours, Bunta and Dante stopped their training session.

Dante left his training room with a wide smile. Having a teacher was completely different compared to trying to figure everything by himself.

Even though he had a lot of loopholes in his skills, Dante believed, he will soon improve his skills.

The next few days, Bunta started to correct all Dante's postures and moves. How to throw more power, how to add more strengths and controls. The whole month was dedicated to building his foundation on basic martial art.

Then he started his combat lesson from Bunta. Daily sparring was a must. Bunta's concept of training was easy. Learning from being beaten.

Everyday, he would let Dante to attacked him first and then he would beat him to the ground.

As for Dante, he was required to find his mistakes from his loss. Everytime he fails to find it, the second sparring will be continued.

Unknown to Dante, his progress had shocked Bunta. As a four year old boy, to find his mistakes after a few sessions showed him how talented he was. Dante's abilities and instinct to really sharp for a four year old boy.

At the same time, even if he knew that Dante's brain was more than a 20 year old man, he would still be surprised by the combat instinct and Dante's abilities to learn from his mistakes.

After half a year, the sparring lesson had changed to normal sparring. And of course Dante would be beaten to the ground. However, the question of where his mistakes were never been spoken anymore.

Bunta only told Dante, to increase his strength and his combat responses.

****

A year passed.

In a room, a five year old Dante was reading a newspaper.

The huge title told the world that the pirate king, Gold Roger was caught and executed. Putting down the newspaper, Dante looked outside of the window.

"Looks like the peace period is over. The age of pirates is coming. The sea will soon become more dangerous than before. Not only that, the marine and world governments will come for sure." Dante stood up and walked to a door.

<UNIVERSAL STORE (trial)>

Suddenly a column was seen floating in front of the door.

"Hmm?" Dante's eyes blinked repeatedly as he looked at the door.