Pirates? So What?

'The Krieg Pirates? Why are they causing trouble here,' Leo thought to himself. He was dressed in a cloak that covered his entire body. He didn't want people to recognize him, so he learned to disguise himself.

He is sitting at the back of the restaurant to avoid drawing any attention to him. But it seems impossible today not to draw any attention to himself. He was enjoying a nice dinner here today, and the food tasted better than he thought. And from tasting the cooking he ate here, he could know and copy the exact recipe and techniques into his head.

By now, there was already a mountain of stacked plates in front of him since he decided to taste all the food they had here to make them for himself one day. But he was not expecting that there would be pirates that would cause trouble for him, especially not the Krieg Pirates.

'It could be some stupid butterfly effect,' Leo was coming up with ideas in his mind as to why the storyline had changed. 'I didn't know that my existence had already begun to change how the story was headed. But it is okay, just some lousy pirates. I am planning to change the world one day anyways.'

"Hey, you over there with the cloak! Haven't you heard what was said? Take out your valuables!" A man stepped over to the table where Leo was sitting at the back.

Now that the customers are all huddling their heads with their hands and kneeling on the ground, Leo's figure begins to catch everyone's attention.

"Is that man stupid?"

"If he doesn't hand over the valuables, the pirates might kill him."

But Leo didn't respond at all and just sat there in silence. The hoodie of the cloak entirely produces a shade that disguises his appearance.

"He must be too scared even to say or move. Poor guy, they will probably kill him today."

"Wait a minute! Look, he is still eating!"

Everyone then began to notice that it wasn't because Leo wasn't moving. It was just that he was using the fork to curl up the spaghetti on his plate.

His right hand's movement was so small that they couldn't notice any activities until he put the fork with the spaghetti into his mouth.

"He must be crazy!! So he is still eating, even when someone is going to kill him?!"

A pirate came up to Leo with a face that fully expressed his anger. He felt outraged that someone dared to defy his orders.

"How dare you dare not to listen," raising a blade into the air and swinging it down on the table where Leo was sitting.

All the eyes in the restaurant were looking over in their direction. Nobody dares to say anything or even move. They could feel this high-wired tension as adrenaline ran through everyone's veins.

But what they were expecting didn't happen at all. There wasn't the loud sound of the plates being destroyed, nor was the table cut in half by the blade.

Instead, there came the loud sound of the pirate's scream that cut through the tensioned atmosphere. The shriek speaks of the intense pain and horror stabs into their ears.

Before their eyes, the arm with the blade flew into the air. And the pirate about to cut the table fell on his knee to the ground.

He is clutching his arm as blood spewed out all over. The color of the red blood was all over the white fabric covering the tables as the arm flew in the air.

Time seemed to slow down as everyone's eyes tried to make sense of what had happened. And the dark vanilla floor now has blood stains, little dots of blood all over.

"What happened?"

"Did that cloaked guy do that?"

The pirates asked each other, pulling their guns out and holding them still as their hands shook.

"What are you idiots doing? Shoot your damn bullets into that man's body!"

But the pirates couldn't seem to move for some reason, and it is like their bodies are frozen in place as their fingers touch the trigger. Yet, no sound came out of their gun. It was like something made them immovable.

"Fine! If you guys don't do it, I'll do it for you! Bunch of spinelessness men!" The man aiming a gun at Sanji's head turned his weapon to face Leo. Sanji saw that the firearm was lifted from his head and that the members who were frozen in place immensely puzzled Sanji.

Before the pirate could pull the trigger, Sanji swept his feet in the air and knocked the man down to the ground. It was an instant knockout as the man fainted on the floor after the kick landed him on the ground.

When the men's body was finally able to move again, they all dropped their gun from their hands out of fear and grabbed the fainted pirate with them out of the door.

There was a hint of terror in all of their eyes, and it was like they saw the scariest thing from their worst nightmares. It made them all lose their will to fight.

"This ship is cursed! Run!"

"I'll never come back again!!"

Leo was looking at their fleeing backs, and there was a slight grin on his face. Then, he went back to eating the warm spaghetti on his dish.

Sanji slowly walked, lit a cigarette, and peeked his eyes at the cloaked individual at the back. Something from his mind tells him that what happened that caused all of the pirates to freeze on their feet had to do with that guy.

He came over to where Leo was sitting, asking him, "Was it you that done that?"

Leo didn't answer his question. Instead, he asked, "Can I ask for seconds? The spaghetti is delicious, and I need another refill. I can eat spaghetti daily and never get tired of eating it."