Nukikiki

After resurfacing from the bottom of the ocean Kenshin and his group immediately set sailed towards Aurous Island where Tesoro was currently staying.

A few miles before reaching Aurous Island, Kenshin was inside a specialized training room with reinforced walls that can't be easily destroyed.

Kenshin who was currently surrounded by space was practicing controlling his devil fruit powers, he already mastered the most basic usage of the fruit and is now trying to master the usage of the spatial rift.

A few days ago, Kenshin opened a human-sized space rift and asked Jinbe to enter but as soon as his arm got closed to the spatial rift it suddenly turned into a black hole sucking everything that was close to it.

Kenshin immediately pulled Jinbe back and ran for cover as the black hole continued to suck in the equipment that was placed in the training room.

"Phew, that was close haha" Kenshin laughed nervously as he glanced at Jinbe who was glaring at him.

"Kenshin, don't ever make me a guinea pig again, you can just catch a random animal and use them as test subjects!" Jinbe said angrily as he stormed out of the room.

Shaking his head to remove all of the distracting thoughts, Kenshin gathered the spatial power that was surrounding him and focused it on his sword.

Holding the sword with both of his hands Kenshin was about to open a spatial rift when suddenly. . .

*Purururu* *Purururu*

Kenshin frowned as he dismissed the spatial power around his sword, he then took out a pen sized den-den mushi inside his clothes and answered the call.

"What is it? did someone from the world government tried to capture you guys?" Kenshin asked, you can clearly tell that he was worried for the other party's well being.

"Nukikiki, nothing happened Boss!" A cute voice was heard coming from the den-den mushi.

Kenshin sighed in relief hearing this but then he rubbed his glabella and asked, "Then why did you call me? didn't I told you to only call me if you are in trouble or you guys started working for another pirate"

"I just called you because we were surprised to see you having such a high bounty, Boss." The cute voice replied.

"Okay, okay, where are you staying right now," Kenshin asked changing the topic.

"We are currently in Alabasta because my partner heard that one of the things she was looking for is here."

Kenshin was about to ask more questions when suddenly another voice was heard coming from the den-den mushi.

V1: "Pato, didn't I told you not to contact him anymore we already separated 4 years ago."

V2: "I just wanted to congratulate Boss for his bounty."

V1: "Alright, give me the den-den mushi."

Pato the one with the cute voice gave the den-den mushi to his partner only for her to end the call.

*Kacha!*

Kenshin who was listening to their conversation could only shake his head and smile wearily, he then stood up and exited the room.

"You done with your training?" Hiyori who was talking with Izo on the deck asked when she saw Kenshin exiting the training room.

Nodding his head, Kenshin sat beside Hiyori and said, "Mastering spatial rift is pretty hard, I don't think I can master it anytime soon."

Hiyori smiled as she held Kenshin's hand and comforted him, "You don't need to feel pressured we still have a lot of time."

Izo who was at the side nodded his head in agreement and said, "Trust in the samurai's of Wano, I know that they are waiting for us to take back Wano and kill that d*mn Kaido."

Hearing Izo speak, Kenshin turned his attention towards him and asked, "Aren't you itching to kill Kaido? knowing what happened to Wano country and to your friends."

Clenching his fist, Izo looked at Kenshin and replied, "Honestly when I learned about the death of Lord Oden I immediately wanted to go back and avenge him but Hiyori who was still 6 years old back then told everyone in the crew not to."

"*sigh* we already waited for a long time but we still need to wait a few more years for Momonosuke and other scabbards to appear," Kenshin said.

Hiyori seeing Kenshin talking about Wano Country again could only lean her head at his shoulder as she closed her eyes.

"We have company!"

Jinbe who was manning the ship shouted as he spotted 3 ships up headed their way.

Standing up, Kenshin focused on the eastern side and saw 3 ships with a G on top of a star emblem design.

"That's Tesoro's emblem," Izo said when he saw the design on the enemy's sail.

Kenshin nodded his head and told everyone to stand by as they waited for their guests to arrive.

A few minutes later the 3 ships arrived and surrounded Kenshin's ship, a man with a huge head jumped from the opposite ship and landed in front of Kenshin.

"Sorry for the sudden intrusion, my name is Tanaka and I am security head of Aurous Island." The huge head Tanaka said as he introduced himself.

Kenshin gave a welcoming smile and replied, "Nice to meet you, Tanaka. may I know why you suddenly barged into my ship?"

Tanaka bowed his head and said respectfully, "I just wanted to know why 4 pirates with a bounty exceeding 200 million are headed towards Aurous Island."

Kenshin was surprised at Tanaka's scouting ability, they were still far from Aurous Island but they were already spotted.

"The truth is, I wanted to meet your boss Gild Tesoro because I wanted to discuss some important matters with him," Kenshin replied stating the reason for his visit.

"I understand, I hope that you will allow us to escort you to Aurous island," Tanaka said as he looked at Kenshin waiting for his answer.

"That sounds great, we'll be under your care then," Kenshin replied as he allowed the 3 ships to escort them.

Tanaka then bowed his head as he jumped back to his ship and started escorting Kenshin's ship from the side.