12 One Piece (1)

"That is so cool!"

The five years old boy was practically beaming with glee at the simple display of power. His eyes were sparkling as he stared unflinchingly at the arcs of electricity jumping between my outstretched fingers.

"How did you do that!? What else can you do!? Can I learn how to do it as well!?"

A plethora of questions soon assaulted my ears, resulting me chuckling in amusement.

Yep. I was right to come here and met him in person, and honestly, getting to see him on the big screen was a lot different than seeing him in person.

Not that it was a bad thing. Nope. Not really.

He was easily one of the few fictional people that I had a good impression of. If anything, I was inclined to support him than stood in his way.

"Slow down, Luffy. One question at a time. I can do it because I ate something called a devil fruit. With dedicated training, I can do a lot of things with it, but mostly, I can just generate and shoot lightning."

It was close enough to the truth.

I actually did not eat any devil fruit since there was probably a real danger of having eaten one myself, and there was also the nagging problem of becoming a hammer in water.

Although I could understand why it was a weakness to all devil fruit wielders, I rather liked to keep my swimming ability, thank you very much. It might come handy sometime in the future.

I demonstrated by letting a relatively weak bolt of lightning leaping off the tip of my fingers, flying off and slamming into the nearest metal rod. Sparks exploded and dissipated into the surroundings.

Luffy dropped in jaw in astonishment. Winning him over to my side was pretty easy. Just show him all the cool shit and… yup. That was it. He was a simpleton, but he was a loveable simpleton.

"Sorry, Luffy. This is something you cannot learn, but I can teach you other things if you want. I will be like your teacher."

I spoke up before he could ask me to teach him. It was pretty obvious in his eyes.

"Really!?"

���Yes," I responded with an affirmative nod, "but not right now. I will come back when you have eaten a devil fruit yourself."

"Cool! Huh? What is a devil fruit?"

Luffy questioned, having never heard of it before. He would not until like another year or so. That was when Shanks, one of the four Emperors, visited the island with a devil fruit in his possession. In some sort of twist, Luffy would eaten that one and gain a power.

"You will learn all about devil fruits eventually," I assured Luffy. There was no need to explain anything to him at this moment. Not when he was too young to truly understand. Besides, he would eventually acquire that information from the proper people.

"Oh."

Luffy responded, seemingly disappointed. His disappointment did not last more than a few seconds. I liked that characteristic about him. Nothing would truly get him down. Well, not nothing. The deaths of all of his comrades would definitely unhinge him.

I had seen it for myself, and somehow, seeing that made even a monster like me emotional. Maybe it was because I just freaking love One Piece.

The manga had never lost its charm despite running for so fucking long.

Like a fucking really long time.

Anyway, I patted Luffy on the head and stood up at full height once more.

It was fucking difficult meeting Luffy without alerting anyone else on the island, especially his badass grandpa, Vice Admiral Garp.

Or more commonly known by his epithet as Garp, the Fist.

His power and badassery were far above his station. He should be like the top Admiral. Admiral being a rank in one of the dominant organizations in this universe: The Marine – which was part of the World Government.

Garp would drop by the island every so often to see his grandson right until a wild Shanks appears and instill the dream of being a pirate to Luffy. Well, it was better than Luffy becoming a marine.

The World Government was kind of corrupt. Scratch that. They were fucking corrupt. I would probably fit in just fine.

In any case, I would do the same thing as Shanks but with the value of being a true pirate.

Or maybe not. Not the raping, pillaging and murdering part. No. More like making Luffy a bit more of a lunatic and suicidal. More suicidal than he was already is. Wouldn't that be more fun?

Mwuahahahaha!

Ahem.

"I have to go now, Luffy. If you don't tell anyone about me, I will see you in a few years or so. Then, I'll teach you some awesome things like… I will tell you then," I promised the boy. I was going to basically teach him Haki and Rokushin, arming him before he set out into the world on his dream of becoming a Pirate King.

Cliché – yes, but I always enjoy watching him beating the shit out of all of his foes. This time, he would seriously utterly destroy them without any remorse.

Maybe I should teach him how to be a man too, capturing some of the hot babes on his adventures. I think I should just because it would be fun. Besides, there were plenty of fishes to go around.

"Okay."

Luffy answered with joy. I left him alone after that since there was no need for me to hang around any longer.

Meeting him and creating the best first impression was the goal. I had achieved that.

Once I was far enough away from the island, my body transformed into a bolt of lightning and surged into the sky. Being made of pure electricity was fucking awesome.

Such a power was wasteful on that idiot with a god complex.

And how did I managed to get it, the Goro Goro no Mi in the first place? Well, it was pretty easy. Find a fiction that had it in the consumable fruit form. One where the idiot with god complex was killed in whatever horrible ways. After that, it was just smash and grab.

The hard part was utilizing the power of the devil fruit myself.

From my own understanding, my body constitution was not the same as those who were born within this universe. I was from the real world, you see. And as such, eating a devil fruit would probably have no effect on me.

Probably make me vomit due to how disgusting all devil fruits taste.

This was the same reason to why I could not use Haki or practice Rokushin myself.

Therefore, it took a bit of thinking, but a crossover would allow for some things. The crossover universe of One Piece and Highschool DxD meant that the former leader of the Youkai, Yasaka could be of used.

I could still remember the look on her face when I forced her to eat probably the most disgusting thing in all of existence, just so I could have access to the lightning power and become a Logia-class threat.

Well. I was more now thanked to also being equivalent to an Ultimate-Class devil. Pretty sure with just these two powers, I was unstoppable.

Then again, it was always a good thing to get more powers.

Mwuahahahaha!

Back to the Haki and Rokushin problem. Rokushin could be learned normally, considering I have Yasaka under my control.

Since this was a crossover universe, Yasaka could probably learn Rokushin, and therefore by extension, me. She also could learn Haki, at least the first two. The third, Conqueror Haki could not be learned.

One had to be born with it. Like Luffy, for example.

Luckily, I kind of knew where I could find a person who could granted me that privileged. It was also a good thing that she was on my list of acquisition.

Checking on the storyline hovering before my eyes told me where she was. She was still in the captive of the Celestial Dragons. Oh boy. Fisher Tiger had not climbed the Redline and started wrecking shit.

I would have to wait until he does. It would not be a long wait, considering I could now skip forwards in the storyline. Could not skipped backwards, however due to some sort of causality events.

Whatever. Still good, considering I did not have to live in this universe years after years to acquire the most beautiful woman in the world. At least, that was what everyone said about her.

Well. I supposed I would see whether that was true for myself.