Chapter 7: Learning Bang Technique And Something Is Coming

It's been a few months since Bang explained his backstory to me, and since then, nothing has changed except my training. All he has been doing is training my body's physical condition by throwing me into an extreme, crazy workout routine every day, morning and night. I then have a little bit of free time, during which I just make plans for the future on what to do and who to recruit on my crew, and then I read a bit about the world: plants, animals, islands, and a little bit both of navigation and medical knowledge, in which I'm no expert but I understand a little, I guess.

I feel like Bang's being here in the one-piece world, teaching me and training me, is due to my luck; otherwise, I would have no idea what to do if I was here all alone. I'd probably just do some training, build a small raft boat, set out to sea, and then get killed. I'm not sure, but I'm grateful for him being here on the island, teaching and training me.

By the time I'm old enough to set sail, I'll probably be the strongest rookie pirate ever to sail through the East Blue and Grandline, but once I'm in the Red Line, I'll have to get a devil fruit by then. otherwise, I can't face big mom or kaido. I mean, I can be as strong as Garp, Shanks, Gol Roger, Oden, Mihawk, and Reyleigh, as well as my teacher, Bang, who hasn't consumed a devil fruit and is only strong with haki and skills, and they become figures in the world who are the strongest and people fear them.

But I don't want to waste a good wish that I've gotten, and two devil fruits are good enough for me, but there is a catch. I need to find the right devil fruits to combine, and the ones I thought of will have already been consumed by the user by the time I set sail, so my only option is to choose wisely and take my chance with whatever I find, and I can only hope they will be the ones for me.

As of now, nothing has changed, but Bang did say something to me about how he's going to teach me a technique or techniques he developed through many years of training; if it's that technique he beat me with when we first met, and if I think what it is, then I'll gladly accept it. But now that I have to go to sleep to get ready for my morning training, I wonder how I'm going to do it.

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As of now being morning, a new day starts, and the sun is rising on the horizon. It was a beautiful sunny day with snowflakes falling from the sky everywhere on the island, which was almost covered in snow, the same as on the mountain too. As we see Bang House in sight, everywhere is covered in snow, beside the concrete walkway on the floor.

We hear a loud snore as we enter the house, and coming from a room inside, we see V sparrow on the floor like always, with a snort bubble coming from her nose. loud thumping coming from behind the door as the door opens aggressively with a figure leaping in the air towards V with a rolled up piece of paper and swinging downward aiming for her head, to which she grabs it then tosses it over to the side of the room.

She performs a reverse kip up as she rises from the ground, now being wide awake. "Hey sensei, good morning." She waves at him, then yawns. "Well, good morning to you too," he says, then turns around and says, "Your reaction time is on point. You've made progress really quickly," he says as he walks out of the room. "That's good, right?" she says as she follows him and quickly ties her white krate gi, which was sleeveless, to her waist while wearing black pants.

"Yes, all I'm saying is that it normally takes about two years or so, which is impressive," he says as they step outside, feeling the chill in the air. "What's today's lesson?" She says as they walk toward the courtyard training ground, she sees wooden torches placed around in a circle, giving the area a bit of light while snow is falling around it and melting.

As they keep walking toward the circle, they now stand in the middle of the circle with V on one side and Bang on the other; as he hasn't faced her yet, Bang turns around to face her, saying, "Well, I think it's time I teach you a technique of my martial art, the ultimate defensive art, and the perfect blend of offense and defense." He says this as he takes off his shirt, showing off his lean and very muscular body covered in scars.

"This is the result of my testimony to the harshness of my training and the intense battles I surmounted. This style involves understanding and re-creating within one's body the flows of torrential and undulating forces, then putting this into the user's fists. When used by a skilled fighter, this martial art is very effective and powerful, especially against any opponents, and as long as the opponents are of a certain size, martial arts can still affect them." He says this while pointing at his scars on his chest.

He says this as he starts to move his arm and, with his palms flat, brings his left leg back, then bends his knees, as a blue aura starts to show from the movement of his hands, almost resembling "this will lead your enemies around the nose by moving like a calm stream, and finishing them off with a punch strong enough to smash great rocks like a raging river," Bang says as the blue aura forms like a small steam of water around him in his final pose with his left leg planted forward and his right leg back, with his palms forming a snake-like shape, "this is called Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist," he says.

'Heh, I knew it. I mean, I did have a feeling that it was it when I got my ass kicked,' she thought as Bang straightened himself up and crossed his arms over his chest. "Now that I've shown you, it's time for you to learn for yourself," he said with a smile on his face.

"Wait, why aren't you supposedly teaching me how to use it?" she says with a confused expression. "Hmm, yes, this isn't something like how to throw a punch, kick, or walk; but I'm going to teach you something from my home that is used in every training; it is called inner peace; it is the ability to harness the flow of the universe, enabling one to do the seemingly impossible."

'Shit didn't think it would be like this. I guess I don't have a choice. Here goes my training montage moment' she thinks as Bang puts his shirt back on. "So what's first?" She says as Bang then looks at her intently, "The first thing is to close your eyes and breathe in." She does as she is told, closing her eyes and breathing. "Now I want you to clear out your thoughts in your mind and imagine a blank image, just a pure blank inside of your mind," Bang says as V clears her mind and imagines a pure blank image.

"Now I want you to open your eyes and exhale while doing that. When you open your eyes, I want you to start looking at the world in a new way." Bang says as V opens her eyes, now open, as she starts to feel... "Nothing happened," she says as she was quickly hit with a chop in the top of her head. "I'm still not done explaining to you, brat." Bang says as he stands right behind her.

"Now watch as I do ok." Bang says as he goes around, now standing beside her. "Alright," she says as Bang closes his eyes and then brings his arms up in front of his chest as he takes a deep breath and exhales out a white cloud. He opens his eyes and turns his head to the side, seeing as V copied him, and then turns her head as well. Both nod at each other.

Bang then faces forward and drags his right foot behind him on the ground as he raises his left arm around him in front of him and raises his right arm in front, bringing his palm forward and bringing his right palm together as he raises his left palm in the air as a snowflake falls on his palm, forming a small pool of water.

He then brings his arm down and lets the water drop on his right palm. Bringing his arm down, where the water drop falls, he waves down his left arm, where the water drop falls on his arm as it slides down onto his palm. This keeps on going for a while.

Bang, then stop, and he turns to see if she has made progress, but nothing has happened as she still continues the movement with grace and no problem at all but hasn't shown signs of a blue aura: "It's not working, and I don't understand it," V says with anger in her tone as she still continues to do the movement. Bang grabs her shoulder, which she stops for a moment when she hears Bang sigh.

"Don't let your emotions interfere with your inner peace. By letting that happen, it interferes with the whole process of your state of mind and ruins the blank image. Don't try to understand it; just feel it as if you were in a calm river," he says as he lets go of her shoulder and backs away from her and watches as she takes a deep breath and exhales as white clouds form.

V then faces forward and drags her right foot behind her on the ground as she raises her left arm around her in front of her and raises her right arm in front, bringing her palm forward and bringing her right palm together as she raises her left palm in the air as a snowflake falls on her palm, forming a small pool of water. She then brings her arm down and lets the water drop on her right palm.

Bringing her arm down, where the water drop falls, she waves down her left arm, where the water drop falls on her arm as it slides down onto her palm, and then suddenly a faint but noticeable blue aura starts to appear from her palms, as if it were a calm water stream.

"Hey, I did!" V yells in excitement with a smile on her face as Bang watches her, then chuckles. "Yes, yes, congratulations, but that's only a mere step; you have a lot more to cover and more teachings to offer. I'm going to show you the way, and I'm hoping you are ready," Bangs says to her as he starts to walk away with his arms folded behind his back. "Heh, hell yeah, I'm ready," she says as she follows him.

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Three years have passed, and I'm now probably the strognest at my age, which sounds ridiculous but I'm serious. Even at a young age, there are those who are strong, like big mom, kozuki oden, kaido, the Vinsmoke Siblings, and Ace. I learn a lot from Bang. I learned Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, Six Powers, also known as Rokushiki up to Rokuogan, a lot of martial arts, and Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist. All the techniques that I learned, I have at least mastered, but not to their full potential. In a few years, according to Bang, I'll reach a somewhat similar level as him, and along the way, Bang taught me how to use weapons. Of course, I always respond, "I like using my hands instead of weapons; it feels boring to me," which Bang always chastises me for, but I still learned how to use a wide range of weapons, not mastering them but just learning the basics of how to wield and use them.

There are sometimes some dark lessons that should never be taught to a child, such as how to kill, how to make people talk, and how to use an enemy's weakness against them. Things like these are what assassins learn, but Bang's words seem to teach me a lesson: "As more and more I keep hearing about your desire to sail away, there are always dark times when these lessons are needed. The world may appear to be enjoyable, but it has a dark, cruel side, so please bear with it." I, of course, knew about the world's dark side, so I just went along with it.

As I learned more, there were some techniques I wanted to try, but my body isn't ready to handle them yet since I'm still a kid. I'll do them when I grow up more. I have enhanced my physiology even more, which includes my durability, endurance, immune system, recovery, stamina, mobility, lung capacity, flexibility, reflexes, speed, senses, and strength.

So far, if I keep this pace, I'll become the strongest rookie pirate ever, and nothing can go wrong whatsoever.

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Right, nothing can go wrong whatsoever, and how wrong can she be? right? There is a storm approaching, so the skies are dark gray at night. Meanwhile, out at sea, as we can see two battleships traveling through the seas, nothing can be seen, but one notable thing is that there is a figure in front of the deck who is smoking a cigarette and looking at the skies with his head raised.

"purururu"

"purururu"

The figure then removes the cigarette from his mouth and holds it with one hand while the other gets something from his packet jacket as the figure pulls a snail that is roughly the size of a regular house cat with some sort of dialing mechanism and receiver built into its shell. As the snail keeps making the "purururu" sound, the figure puts the snail on the railing of the deck.

The figure then picks up the receiver, on which the snail has stopped making noise, and says "clank" as the snail opens its eyes facing the figure and someone speaks through it. "Have you found him yet?" The snail says with a deep and calm voice, to which the figure lets out a smoke puff and responds, "We are nearly there." A moment of silence passes, then the snail responds. "Alright, remember to find him and kill him," the snail says, then the snail says "gacha" as it closes its eyes and lowers its head.

The figure then flicks the cigarette into the sea as a lightning strike rip through the skies, revealing its deep, emotionless, dark green eyes looking ahead and seeing an island that looks familiar—the island that V and Bang are at. "We will be seeing each other soon, Bang-sensei," they say and turn to the left as another figure stands beside them as they look at the island ahead of them.

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Meanwhile, back on the island, at the top of the mountain in the dojo, Bang is in a room where he is sitting on the floor doing meditation while crisscrossing with his eyes closed and a single candle lit. One door is open, which is the view outside, which would have been a beautiful sun set on a cloudy day, but instead it's a storm, and the skies are dark gray at night. A strong gust of wind entered the room as the candle burned out, leaving only a small amount of moonlight to illuminate the room. "So they are here," Bang's voice echoes in the room. "Good thing I sent V down to train below the mountains and not here," Bang says with a relief-filled voice as he stands up. "I guess it's time to meet my old students," he says as he walks through a door.

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Down below the mountain, near a waterfall and a lake, is the same place where V and the pronghorn have their little race. V can't be seen anywhere, but close by, as there is a satchel bag and water flask near the edge of the lake going underwater, is where we find V, who is training, doing a boxing stance with her arms raised, then throwing a left and right jab punch, then a push kick forward and a right hook, as suddenly the force of the impact shoots through the water from each of her attacks.

As the lake calms down, V then swims up for air, making it to the surface as she pulls herself up from the lake and sits on the edge of the lake. "Who knew Muhammad Ali's training would help me in this one-piece world? It's almost funny to think about," V says as she gets up, then proceeds to get her satchel and water flask, putting the satchel over her shoulder and grabbing the water flask, then opening the cap off as she was about to take a sip of water, suddenly feeling something in the atmosphere. "What's tha-"

*BBBOOOMMM*

An explosion can be heard through island V. She looks up at the mountain as everything is caught in flames, hearing the sound of crying animals, and drops the flask in shock with her eyes wide and mouth gaping, processing everything in her mind as her legs started to move on their own as she muttered, "Bang, Kong bobo, and everyone shit shit shit!" As she runs to the mountain, making for the wall, she then digs her fingers through the wall as well as her feet as she starts to climb up like an animal to the dojo. 'Please be alright when I get there' she thought as she continued to climb in a flash.

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[AUTHOR NOTE]

Okay, so my upload schedule is a complete mess, and I swear on my life that I'm not trying to do this on purpose to make y'all wait for this long, but the good news is that I'm reaching the end of the school year and to those who were waiting for new chapters, so guess by the next week I'll be uploading not two chapters but three chapters in total for my absents, and don't worry, the story is getting to canon story, so this isn't going to go forever. I'm so glad that you're waiting for a new chapter, and I'm sorry if this was boring or the writing was quick or not enjoyable. I just wanted to post something for those who were waiting. I'm sorry for how the story is going, but anyway, that's all for today. I'll see you in the next chapter.