3 The Toxic Relationship Between The Morning Star & The Sun

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List of Traits: 

Voice of All Things - The traits to hear the voice of specific creatures.

Conquerer Haki - The traits to unlock the usage of Conqueror Haki

Natural Charisma - The charismatic traits naturally attract all person, regardless of their gender.

Natural Pain Tolerance - The traits to become strong against pain.

Environment Adaption - The traits to naturally adapt to any environment the player is in.

Self Understanding - The traits to easily understand oneself's desires, needs, and thoughts.

Others Understanding - The traits to understand others.

Limitless Traits - The traits to extend your growth potential to limitless heights but slow your growth rate by twice and introduce a bottleneck.

Hope - The traits to give hope to the player's friends and allies whenever the player is nearby.

Despair - The traits to implement despair in the enemy's brain whenever the player is nearby.

Feather-Light - The traits to make the body of a player feather-light, making it easier for them to increase their speed, at the expense of physical offense.

Enhanced Regeneration - The traits to give players the ability to regenerate most injuries, even the lethal ones, with a treatment to some extent, within a week.

Optimistic - The traits to give the players to look forward to the future.

Quick Thinking (Dire Situation) - The traits to give the players to think quickly in the heat of battle.

Reasonably Bad Sense of Direction - The traits to make it harder for the player to remember the cardinal directions.

Unreasonably Incompetent Cook -  The traits of an extraordinary talent for turning even a simple egg into a black hole.

P.S. This chapter caused me a headache. No, not because of a story. Because of math.

*SKIP*

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23 Years Ago

[Rookie Pirates, Straw Hat Gold Roger Causes Havoc in Shells Town]

A single marine was reading a newspaper when a shout suddenly echoed the entire place.

"GARP! Today marks the day that I defeated you! Don't blame me for suddenly attacking you! In the battlefield, anything is fai- bleh" 

Whilst talking, the man bit his tongue because Garp, a promising young man punched him in the face.

"Too long! Complete it in 3 letters," Garp who was sleeping while eating his food after coming back from a mission, suddenly woke up and spoke to him.

"Heh! You fell for it! [Ghost Thrust]." 

The young man who ambushed Garp, who was supposedly punched by him in the face, disappeared at the spot like an illusion as if what Garp punched was a piece of cloud.

However, what the young man did in the end, was disappear and reappear in a different space.

The process may be good but compared to when he used it against Heylail, the follow-ups were lousy. Whilst the young man was thrusting his fist forward, Garp just reacted to him and counter-attacked him by...

Well, punching him back. That is what Garp was at the best at.

"Bugya." failing to even attack Garp when he was taken aback, the young man crashed to the tables before stopping.

"Dang, that was Rokushiki, no, not just Rokushiki but a Rokushiki implemented on your style, right? That's cool," even Garp couldn't process how the young man moved to another spot. 

As carefree as he was, Garp was also honest and pushed by his force of youth, he honestly complimented the young man.

"It's Karate... Not a Fish-man Karate, nor a Human Karate. Just a normal Karate... *halt!* y, you! Even if you praise me, nothing will come out! You little shit!" the young man blushed and smiled like an idiot.

Garp may be Garp, but the people around him had other thoughts. 

The other marine trainee who was watching the battle directed their ego and jealousy toward the weaker of the two and whispered to those nearby.

'But it's a fighting style based on Fish-Man Karate, right?'

'If he just stops using the fighting style of an inferior race, he may be able to fight against Garp on par.'

'Sigh, why does that idiot won't ever listen to us.'

The young man stopped smiling and turned toward Garp, "Garp, I'll be back when my style is done."

"Just you wait until the day my Karate becomes the fighting style that will end it 'all'" The young man showed a promising style before closing the door and heading to his first mission as a marine.

The young man, in fact, never came back.

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1493

"Uah" Immediately after waking up, I was greeted with great discomfort.

I removed my shirt after a stretch to find the source of my discomfort.

Soon, I found the bandages tied too tightly around my belly. It was so tight and compressed that it could replace an actual armor vest that is reliable for at least 3 knife strikes.

'What is this!!!' I then struggled to remove the armor ve-, the bandage tightened around my body and it took half an hour before I was called but a feminine young voice.

"Dad~ He's awake!" too focused on removing the bandage I hadn't noticed but I was inside a wooden building, built by a single person using the limited resources around this island.

Befitting of its name, Nanimonai Island originally had nothing above its land. After all, its true identity is that it was actually the feces of a certain giant goldfish. 

The method is unknown, the old man somehow grew a tree above the island and even built a house out of it.

Whilst I was busily taking the bandage away, ignoring the girl's call, the old man who punched the guts out of me arrived at the place.

"Oi, you little brat! If I were you, I wouldn't take that bandage off," 

'Hm? That old man is saying something?' I wasn't listening.

"Not only does it protect your fractures and broken bones... it also can absorb the fluids oozing from your wounds..."

After bountiful chattering from the old man, I've finally found a way out of the puzzle and loosened the bandages.

"That's why, to also prevent the wounds from infection... LISTEN TO ME!" The old man finally had it and shouted.

Just as the bandages were about to fall to the ground, the girl from before ran toward me and leaped into the air. 

Then with the momentum to crash into me, she swiped her leg, launching me to the other side of the wall, causing a few dusts to fly around.

"You shithead! Listen to Grandpa Ban!" 

The voice from before sounded angry.

'Who was it!' In return for suddenly getting hit, I looked for the person who kicked me in the head in fury

Although I am a war orphan, I was a smart child and knew common sense! People don't suddenly hit someone!

I may complain but normal people also don't ignore someone. Instead, I was too childish to look at my own faults and blame someone else.

In the original place where the bandages were scattered around, the woman, or rather, a girl landed. 

Looking at her characteristics carefully (to get my revenge in the future), surprisingly, she was young. Possibly as young or even younger than me.

The person standing in the middle of the scattered bandages was like a tiny sun that drew the other stars like in the solar system. Her tiny yet chubby baby skin, at first sight, looked flawless but once one took a deep look at her, one could see injection marks around.

Her blue eyes were as deep as the sky, and as mysterious as the space above it, drawing me in. Although I didn't know her name as of the moment, if I were to name her, I'd name her Meteo

Currently, she wore a white piece of cloth that covered her entire small body, displaying only her arm.

Whilst I was focused on remembering her feature to forever mark the enmity I felt at this moment in my heart, the old man, or what she called Grandpa Ban knuckled her head.

Conveniently, I forgot my grudge as I laughed.

"Ahyahyahyahya! Fuck you! Ahyahyahyahya!" I clapped while mockingly laughing at the girl.

I wanted to say 'serves you right' but then I didn't know the words for it.

In that sense, the words, 'Fuck You' was truly a useful word. You can use it when you're angry, happy, surprised, and sad.

As I held my stomach in laughter, Grandpa Ban finally noticed that it had surprisingly healed, leaving scars that spread like cracks in the ground when kicked hard.

He then carried the girl who he just knuckled before approaching me and then knuckling me.

What a bad adult he was! Ban was quick to retort to violence.

"Language, kid! You shouldn't be cursing. Has no one taught you that?" 

I covered my head in pain and the young girl who was carried by Ban by the waist laughed at me.

"Gishishishishi serves you right for laughing at me," 

'So that's how you say it' I added another vocabulary in my dictionary and marked this girl as 'a person I hate.'

"Response?"

Ban expected a response from me but no words came out of my mouth. After all, I didn't know what to say.

I wanted to say 'fuck you' as a response but then I felt like I would really die if I decided to say so.

"You, a mute?"

I shook my head.

"You, a deaf?"

I shook my head.

"You don't know how to speak?"

I shook my head.

'What is this guy saying?' was my thought ever since he started questioning me.