Chapter 4: Bad tasting awakening

~2days later~

as i was laying on the wet sand belly side down, i weakly opend my eyes wat i saw was just sand and the horizon of water so i tried to stand up but trough the 2-3days without eating any thing my left arm lost its strength.

now laying on my back i looked to my right and saw the small chest with the devil fruit open in it the funky looking black banana, with the fruit laying right in front of me the only thing that came to my mind was 'eat it!' so like every former foode i didn't think long and just ate it without minding the typical bad taste, that every devil fruit has and fainted.

~2h later [2pm]~

as i woke up from my nap i immediately said "man why does Oda had to make that fruit taste like the thing that its eater as most bad tasting perceives, my fruit tasted like the salted coffey mouse mixed with mustard that the guys in the kitchen of my workplace made to prank me filled with slimey cooked brussel sprouts coverd with a cumin " wat i mean is it taste like vomit.

now that i had eaten i slowly stoof up not to lose my balance and falling back in to the sand, now standing i look around to find thing that would help me, i noticed my eyes could see better well i mean i could already see better after my first awakening because of the Mink side but now i can see the Chlorophylle cells in the leafs of the palms that are like 100m away from shore if concentrate enough.

what i didn't realise was that my eyes shined like emeralds while doing that.

well back to survival i first looked how big the island is and if it is inhabited, to my luck it is unhabitatet without a fresh water source, so the next thing i did is to collect some right siced sticks, stones and palm leafs.

to my luck i found a flint-stone so i don't need to rub two sticks together until i faint to get a fire started, i find the luck that i have totaly funny because if i realy need some luck it never happens but i sometimes walk casually on the road and find 10€ withoud needing it like the flint i could make a fire just with wood but wat ever.

so now with a fire started, i build a water filter system like the one in the game Raft i put a big smooth stone on top a stand made out of smaller stones with the chest that i ripped the lid of as make shift pot on top of it while filled with sea water, i spaned a palmleaf over the pot that would stop the vapor and would drip clean water in a dry half of a coconut that i found on the beach. by the way if you are in a tropical island you would sweet a lot, so you should keep like 35gm or 1 tea spoon worth of salt to keep your sodium high if you don't eat something salty like fish.

With water settled now is food well i don't have many options well i have 3, first is grass well it would feed me but the humanoid stomach is not specialised in digesting raw leafs as well it has elements that would ruin my teeth, plus i'm a fox not a cow mink, so eating grass is only if i'm 2 weeks without eating anything.

that leaves me with option 2 and 3 well they are technically the same and that is sea food first is fish well i could try make a fishingpole out of small palm saplings that have sproutet to the hight of my shoulder and palm leafs or i could make a spear and go spear fishing wich i never did but i think would be a lot less challenging with my highent senses. the other option is sea diving for algae or Shellfish, i don't know which algae are edible so that leaves only fish and shellfish.

The only question is which method would be less tiring while contemplating which method i should use, i saw out of the corner of my eyes Mr.Crabs (just a normal Crab) coming out of the sand and slowly walking his way back to bikini bottom (the ocean), so i immediately grabed a stick and jumped in its way with me yealing "food!"while slamming the stick in front of it to startel the crab and grab it wille it's confused.

"hahahahah... i love it when a plan works haah!" i say while dancing on the spot laughing and holding the crab i to the sky. you must know that i never had a fresh crab to eat before so as a junior chef i was realy exited how it would taste.

~2min later~

after 2 minutes my stomach started to growling so i filled the make shift pot with sea water and as it start to boil i sayed to the crab "sorry mr.crabs but i liked squidward more than you" while droping the crab in to the pot.

'now thinking about it grilled squid sounds also pretty good or is he an octopus? hmmm... takoyaki'

while drooling how i realy want some takoyaki i realised that i don't know what power my devil-fruit has given me maybe it something specific like the..." wait a second i ate a DEVIL FRUIT so sea diving is out of questions now i can only try to get fisch, man why didnt i think about it before!"

"well at least i remember it befor i got in to the sea, but i realy wanted to cook some shellfish haah.."

by the time i finished my thoughts, the crab was finnished and i started to eat but as i put my first bite i immediately exclaimed "woha this taste amazing the saltines of the ocean and the sweetness of the crab meat are realy over the top, i know food in anime are alway better looking, but i almost went Soma on a normal salted crab."

at the time i finished eating it was 2-3h until sunset so i started to make a four point spear for fishing and a rope out of palmleafs that nearly had taken me 2h and i was only half way finnished with the rope because with a 3 meter line you don't get far.

i used the rest time to serch for a right siced palm sabling for the pole and palm leafs for the fishingline and an DIY bed out of leafs, after i was done i go sleap right after sun got down to catch the tide in the early morning.

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