Farewell
AN: Double chapter today, since I had to split the previous one. Enjoy
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<Jai POV>
We were all having a roller coaster of emotions. None of us could expect something like this, not even me. Especially Santiago's origins. It seems he has the charm right from his childhood.
Even if he was not a person who was good with combat, he still played a big brother role to us even though he did not hang out with us often. He even used all of his salaries from his initial days in the orphanage. He was a very good and kind-hearted person. This is also one of the main reasons why we felt bad more for him.
I could not help but ask
"What is that celestial dragon's name?"
Dorothea said: "No need to know. You guys will probably kill him and then get killed by an Admiral"
I said "I promise you that I will not fight him as long as we are not confident to fight or escape an Admiral"
Thor: "I promise you that, we will kill him but we won't throw our lives away"
They thought for a while, and finally, Catherine spoke up
"His name is Saint Rosward."
Isn't it the old man in the Sabaody arc? I guess he always stayed a scumbag.
Dorothea: "Also keep this in your mind very clearly. The current Admirals might be logias, but they are very good with their haki and their devil fruits. All of them should be able to use both haki and devil fruit together to their fullest extent"
Jai: "Don't worry grandma, we won't engage with one as long as we are not confident of escaping"
We had a chat and went back to Swallow Island. Once we reached there, we went straight to the orphanage. We also had to explain to everyone else about the incident and captain Hamster's involvement.
We had to depart from the island and we took a group photo with everyone. We had one last person to visit and that was Wolf.
We visited him. Wolf had already got the newspaper and he asked us
"Why did you attack the Valhalla group? Now every faction from marines, bounty hunters to other pirates will attack you people"
We told the entire story again.
Jai: "We are leaving now. We can't stay here any longer."
Wolf: "In that case, let me join you. I know the seas better than you people"
I said, "Sorry Wolf, but we plan to make it big and eventually sail to the Grandline and fight yonkos. At your age, it won't be easy to sail with us. Moreover, unlike your son, we won't cause needless destruction, so don't sweat it"
Wolf was dissatisfied with that, but even he knew that he would hold us back. Even Whitebeard could not survive the onslaught of time and Wolf is just average for any Grandline cannon fodder. At this age, it will be very difficult for him to make any breakthroughs.
He sighed and said, "If you are leaving, then let me give you something. Also, never call that failure of a human being my child. If I have to honestly say, you children are more of my sons than him"
Wolf bought us to his secret lab, which was not a secret for us, but for others. There were many things, but the most prominent thing was the submarine.
He said "As you know, this is my dream project and my entire life's hard work. Even though I would not like to part with it, it will only collect dust here. So I am giving this to you. Name it"
Everyone was shocked other than me. He gave this submarine to Law in the canon and now to us. The submarine also looks different from the canon since we invested more money into it.
The submarine is more like a ship in design. It mainly had 2 modes. One was the ship mode and the other was the submarine mode.
The masts made are with many hollow columns with different radii. The technology used to extend and shorten them is the same as how older telescopes, umbrella handles, and extendable radio antennas can be extended and shortened. Thanks to this world's technology, we could make the masts strong enough.
The top could be covered by many pieces of very flexible and strong glass, found in this world.
The modes can be interchanged by pulling a lever. It runs on electricity. The battery was very good and it could last us 1 week. It could be recharged using the wind and water turbines when in ship mode.
The ship also had its weapons and other mechanisms making it perfect for sailing.
Since we helped build the ship, we knew about every part and feature, to the point of repairing it properly.
Everyone started coming up with names
Law: "Polar tang?"
Thor: "Too boring name"
Penguin: "Adelie?"
Drake: "That is just a species of penguin"
Sachi: "How about Ship of joy?"
Hodur: "That is not even a name"
Drake: "X-Ship?"
Penguin: "The ship does not even have an 'X' anywhere, other than your chin"
Hodur: "The dark vessel?"
Law: "The ship is not even black in color, it's blue"
Bepo: "How about Sumimasen?"
Everyone looked at Bepo and Wolf said
"If you going to name it that then I will rather take it back"
Hercules and Arjun did not participate since they believed that it should be us who names the ship. But I wanted them to participate, so I asked them
"What about you guys?"
Hercules smiled and said, "The strongest ship"
Thor said again: "Very effortless name"
Arjun said: "Brahmastra"
Hodur: "It is a ship, not some ancient weapon."
Thor: "Let me handle this, how about World Dominator?"
Hercules said sarcastically "Yeah an effortful name"
Finally, I said
"This ship is like a miracle and it will do miracles with us, so how about `Mare Miraculum`?"
It means sea's miracle in Latin. Latin is also a language here.
Wolf said, "Sea's miracle eh? Much better name than what I could have given or they could come up with"
I looked at everyone and everyone agreed with a smile.
Thor looked at her and said "Mare Miraculum, let's take care of each other"
Soon we loaded our essentials from the old ship to the new one and boarded her. It was time for us to leave.
We were taking it out to the shore from the secret chamber. After we reached there we saw a few people. It was the people from the orphanage, who came to give us the final goodbye.
There were lots of hugs. We had to leave, but there was another matter of concern for us. It was the safety of the island and especially the orphanage.
The grandmas were already old and who knows how long will they live. So I decided on something.
I went inside and bought out 2 fruits. Everyone was shocked to see them.
I approached Emma and gave her the mist devil fruit. Her talents in [observe] had Trickery [A]. And if you can use this fruit smartly, it is very strong.
As for why did we not use it? It was simple. That fruit will be useless against anyone who can give us a challenge. Its offensive or defensive powers are nothing great, it has a good way of hiding us, but if someone can give us a challenge, they will be good at using observation haki.
The best use can be using it like Katakuri to make holes in the body before an enemy attack with haki, but for that, any other good logia can be used.
In short, it is good for early-game, not late-game, making it perfect for North Blue but almost useless for New World, where we will be spending most of our lives.
Emma was surprised. She knew about devil fruits too. She started refusing it
"Wait, I don't need it. You will need it more. You will be in constant danger, not me. This might be a powerful one"
I smiled and said "It is indeed a powerful one, it is a logia"
This shocked her to the core. Before she said anything, I continued
"It won't suit anyone in our crew. You can use it to its utmost of abilities in the blues, because, in the Grandline, it can be countered with ease"
She was hesitating but still, she accepted it. Next, I moved to Santiago and gave him the iguana fruit. He was nothing of a combatant, but the zoan should still help. If he trains properly, he might be able to use it somewhat properly.
He too refused but I said, "Don't worry, if any of us has to consume a zoan, it will be nothing less than a mythical one"
Dorothea simply said "Forget about mythical zoan fruits, even mythical zoan users are very rare"
She knew our method of extracting fruits, but even then, extracting them is not easy. As per her knowledge, she knows only 4 mythical zoan users and they are Marco, Sengoku, Kaido, and Catarina Devon. No one needs to tell us how difficult it is to kill them. Hell, I doubt if one of them can be killed.
What I said was not a lie, but not the complete truth. I will not allow any one of the current crew members to eat one, in the future, when I gather more crew, I will definitely give the normal zoans to them.
Finally, for the farewell, Catherine and Dorothea said their own pieces.
Catherine: "Don't you dare lose to any no names. It will be a shame to us if you lose there"
Dorothea: "Take care of yourselves children. And never change no matter what the world throws at you"
We bowed down and said
"Thank you for everything, we will make you proud"
Everyone tried to hide it, but we all had tears in our eyes.
Finally going to the sea, Mare Miraculum had 5 people with bounties, who were...
{Wanted Dead or Alive}
Arjun
Epithet: The Hunter
31 M Berry
{****}
{Wanted Dead or Alive}
Hercules
Epithet: Berserker
34 M Berry
{****}
{Wanted Dead or Alive}
Hodur Odinson
Epithet: Child of Darkness
43 M Berry
{****}
{Wanted Dead or Alive}
Thor Odinson
Epithet: Skull Crusher
46 M Berry
{****}
{Wanted Dead or Alive}
Shiv D Jai
Epithet: Red Rain
55 M Berry
{****}
[Skull flag image here]
Yes, everyone did not get a bounty. Even the entire straw hat crew did not get one after defeating Crocodile and his lackeys, we just "attacked" a merchant ship.
Our bounties are also less considering our strength. Even Nami got a bounty of 16 M after defeating Kalifa, and Kalifa could have defeated any of the East Blue pirates, even if they had a bounty greater than 16 M.
Considering all of that, our bounty is actually greater than what we deserve. We could only assume that Thor and Hodur's bounty is this high because Loki probably has figured out their origins. Both of them had many physical features of their dead parents along with their original names.
I probably got a decent bounty because I am the leader. My epithet "Red Rain" was given because whenever I fight, the pirates bleed in such a way that it looks as if blood has rained from the sky.
We set our next destination for another payback.