34 Chapter 33

Chapter 33

In a certain area in West Blue,

A gorgeous blue ship, named enterprise, is sailing through the storm. All the people on board are doing fine even in the middle of strong winds and rains as the ship is made with strongest materials and advanced technology.

In the captain room, six people are gathered and they are discussing their future encounter with the pursuers. A huge hologram showing the two warships is visible in the middle of the round table where six people are sitting around. They are Esdeath, Senjumaru, Grayfia, Izumi, Morgiana, and Krul.

"Humu. So, from the rate they are going, it seems, we will meet each other in approximately tomorrow at 8 or 9 p.m, right?" (Krul)

"Yes. Though, rather than meeting with than, I am really wondering how did they managed to find us. They are coming straight at us. So, did they trail me?" (Grayfia)

"Although this is my speculation, it is likely impossible that, they followed you. It is true that, they are using the same route you used to get here via submarine, there should not be no trace they could pick up. So, it is likely that..., they followed this ship, Enterprise. You should look at the route they have taken these two days." (Senjumaru)

They are currently discussing how did the two warships, carrying Cp-0 members, an admiral, three vice-admirals, and two thousand marines are heading straight towards them. The attack on Illusia Castle happened the night at 8 p.m of three days ago. Esdeath and co escaped the island at 9 p.m and reached the island where Krul is at 3 a.m in the morning.

Of course, if they have taken the straight route, they would have reached there under four hours but, as cautions as Esdeath is, she detoured around some island before making it to where Krul is. And, 15 hours after they reached 'the temporary base' of Krul, they departed again to face the pursuers. At first, they decided to head straight to the two warship but, Embra stopped them as Embra wanted the battle to happen in the sea. So, instead of catching them, Esdeath decided to waits for them while putting out the engine.

So, the ship has been sailing only with sails but, because they don't want to prolong this, they are also heading to the two warships as slow as possible. And so, it has been two days they are out on sea and three days since their assault on Illusia Kingdom. The warship has been going around West Blue, visiting the islands that, Esdeath detoured around when she escaped the Illusia Kingdom. Senjumaru pointed that out and the hologram on the table changed to a map of West blue with a certain line drawn on it. Esdeath begins to think seeing the route shown on the hologram.

"Now that, you pointed out, indeed they have been going around the islands that I detoured to. Do they have some kind of animals that can trace our smells or something? HAha" (Esdeath)

Saying so, Esdeath laughs as she joked about it. The others in the room smiles a little but, they also could not figure out the reason on how the marine got on their trail. However, while they are thinking of the possible way on how they tracked Esdeath, a huge hologram appears on the screen, showing the face of Ichihara.

"Hello, everyone. Greeting" (Ichihara)

"Oh, Hara, how are you doing?" (Esdeath)

"I am doing well, Esdeath-san. Ten minutes ago, you reported that, the warships have been following your trails, right? Can you elaborate about that?" (Ichihara)

"Yes. I am ashamed as the one leading the IG team but, I noticed only because of my subordinate, Tsugumi. It seems, the warships are following the exact route that Esdeath-san took to reach the temporary base. At first, we thought the marines were checking out each islands of West Blue but, we become to suspect yesterday and today it is now confirmed that, they are following the exact route. Though we have made sure that, their destination is not the temporary base but, this ship. " (Grayfia)

Grayfia sounds a little weak saying that, and Ichihara mouths twitched as she thought that, she may have hurt Grayfia's feelings but, she coughs to gather the attentions of all the people present here.

"*cough* So, I have done a bit of analyzing on that part too as it intrigued me. And, I found something as the result. The warships are following the route of the ship, Enterprise but, they are not exactly following it. This have the 75% possibility but, I think, they are using -" (Ichihara)

On a certain warship,

A meeting is happening in one of the rooms of the warship and suddenly, an afro man slam his hands on the table angrily after hearing a certain words from a red masked man.

"A GUESS? So, you have been giving me fake information all this times and the real information comes from that man who can guess? Are you being serious right now, Cp-0?" (Sengoku)

Tsuru who is sitting not far away from the afro man wants to tell him to calm down but, she is also a little pissed off. Garp and two other vice-admirals are also feeling the same way as they cannot believe what the man is saying. Three days ago, marine pursuing squad is formed with Garp and Sengoku at the lead and their priority is to hunt down Esdeath. They come out from headquarter with three warships but, one of the warship was used to escort the family of C.D to Mariejois. And so, in the place of a warship, five members of Cp-0, the strongest agents of Ciper pol, offered to board on one of the remaining warship and hunt down Esdeath together.

After a bit of dispute, they boarded the ship with two conditions; sharing information on Esdeath and the direction of the warships decided by Garp and Sengoku. Cp-0 members easily agreed to it but, they have been doing nothing but, pressuring Garp and Sengoku to direct the warships in the direction they want. They pressured Sengoku especially, using the 'absolute information' they get from other WG agents. Till now, Sengoku has been following their informations as the marines could not gather any information on Esdeath and her crew.

Granted, they have information on where Esdeath usually is in the four months she has been pirating in West Blue but, they have already searched that place with nearby marine bases and Esdeath could not be found there. So, Sengoku and Tsuru decided to trust the information of Cp-0 in the end and it has been three days since then.

"We have been going North, West and East by following your information and there is nothing remotely close to that woman Esdeath and her pirate crew. And now, you are telling me, that woman is coming straight at us. And, that information comes from a man who guessed it? I am asking you, are you serious right now, Cp-0? (Sengoku)

The tension in the room is rising and the table in the middle of the room is starting to creak under the pressure that both Sengoku and red-masked Cp-0 member releasing. Sengoku is pissed off because of the attitude of Cp-0 member who has been looking down on them and using them as they wish by giving false information while the red-masked Cp-0 member is pissed because he could not rebut back Sengoku using words.

Before the tension in the room get worse, a white-masked men sitting beside the red-masked man intervened. He has not once spoken through the talks before but, this is the first time he spoke. And, that brought attention form both Garp and Sengoku as both of them acknowledge his strength.

"Certainly, our information on that woman comes from a guess of a man but, he has never been wrong. I will tell you this as a compensation for leading you around in the sea for two days. Of course, it goes without saying that, you must keep this information secret. A member of Cp-0, ate the fruit called hunt-hunt fruit and his ability enables him to become the best hunter. And, after awakening it, he got an ability to vaguely tell the direction of someone he remember clearly or has a picture of. The distance doesn't matter to his ability but, there is a certain interval between each uses of that ability.

Moreover, there is one fatal flaw to his ability. It is that, he can only tell one direction which means, if the target suddenly changed direction from original West to South, his ability only shows us the West direction. In the past, we hunted an uncatchable criminal for one month and in the end, we found the criminal because of that man's ability. We had also caught several criminals using his ability. So, the credibility of his ability is guaranteed.

I am saying this to you again, do not let out this information, or I can promise, the consequences won't be small." (A white masked man)

Sengoku frowns but, he sits back down before thinking whether he can trust this white-masked man or not. He looks at Tsuru, who also appears to be thinking about the white-masked man's words. His words are vague, as expected of a Cp-0, the best information gathering agents of WG. They gave the information but, not the identity of the person who ate the fruit. Others in the world feels that, his words cannot be trusted but, this doesn't matter for now. After all,

" ... You said, that woman is heading here, right? How far are we?" (Tsuru)

"As early as tomorrow sunrise or maybe before noon unless they change their direction again." (White-masked Cp-0)

"For now, we cannot believe your reasonings and explanation before. But, we shall see whether that woman will come tomorrow or not. And, if she didn't arrive after tomorrow sunset, I am sorry to say this but, I can no longer let you on board. We will have to part our ways. I hope you don't mind this decision of mine. After all, we have been used these three whole days. We cannot let ourselves be ordered by you again. We also have our pride as a marine." (Sengoku)

Threatening aura comes out from the red-masked man again but, this time, the white-masked man stopped him. The aura immediately disappeared from the red-masked man. All five of the Cp-0 members stands up and white-masked man says while looking at Sengoku.

"You got a deal, Sengoku. We shall part our ways when that happened." (The white-masked man)

Everyone in the room frowns at the attitudes of Cp-0 but, they could not say anything because they could not measure the strength of the white-masked man at all. Except for Garp and Sengoku, all the marine in the room could not measure the strength of the white-masked man with their haki. In terms of body size, the white-masked man is short compared to the red-masked man and the man with yellow flowery beard but, the gap of their strength are too far apart that, it is making even Aokiji to avoid battle with that white-masked man.

"So, you heard the man. It is still night right now but, always ready for a battle. Garp. When we meet the woman, you and I are going to step forward first. That Cp-0 is too much." (Sengoku)

"Of course. My fist has been itching for a while now, too." (Garp)

And so, the meeting concluded with all the high ranking members on high-alert all night while nearly a hundred people are taking a lookout.

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Meanwhile, in the room where Esdeath and others are in,

"This have the 75% possibility but, I think, they are using some kind of 'Past seeing' ability that can see which direction you are traveling in. No, the direction you have traveled in. Please look here. I have marked the Illusia Kingdom as Point A and the temporary base as Point B. That night, Esdeath-san changed direction for seven times before reaching from Point A to B. We will mark that seven points from letter C to I, C being the first turn point that, Esdeath-san took.

And now, when we compare this to the route of the warships, you can see that, they also traveled from A to C but, they went past more than 20 miles of Point C before changing direction to Point D. This time, they changed direction to Point E before they reached Point D.

There are also similar examples in all of the seven turn points. So, from that, I deduced certain possibilities but, the one that is most possible is the 'Past seeing' ability.

Though, I cannot tell to what extent that ability can see, I can sure that, the ability cannot be used consecutively and if my calculation are not wrong, there are five to six hours of time lag between each usage.

According to the information we have on marine personnels, there isn't someone like that in Marine as long as we knows of. So, there is a possibility that it is a member of Cipher Pol." (Ichihara)

After Ichihara finished telling her result of analysis, everyone in the room become awe at her ability and some started to respect her intelligence. After all, they could not think of it even after six people has gathered together. After a few seconds, Senjumaru started to talks,

"Hara, I understand that, your deduction and the reasoning you reached that conclusion but, for the reference, can you tell other 30% possibilities?" (Senjumaru)

"Ah that. They are not 30% because the World Government do not possess the technology advantages. That is one thing and second, the ship Enterprise, and 'Pirate' Esdeath do not comes from West Blue or any kind of Blue. In short, they cannot background check on the ship or the peoples. So, some possibilities are eliminated. Though, *chuckle* there is an absurd possibility of mine that I thought of. Well, actually three.

First absurd possibility is, they find the ship route using the satellite images. The second is, they find the ship route from the underground sensors. Third, the King of empty throne used his ability to manipulate World Laws to find the ship route. It is absurd isn't it? That is why, those three happening are less than 1%. So, I did not mentioned it before." (Ichihara)

All the people in the room feels like they are going to roll their eyes at Ichihara's absurd analysis. Meanwhile, a certain man who is listening to their conversation from the throne room is quietly chuckling while thinking in his mind,

'Wow, it seems my wife has P.hD in fictional theories. *chuckling* Is she nearing the level of Oda in thinking fictional stories?' (Embra's thought)

The meeting continued with some small talk after this and in the end, they reached the conclusion that, they will ascertain the possibilities tomorrow when they met the pursuers. After the meeting, all the people went to rest in their room fr tomorrow's battle. They have already received information from the drones that, Garp, Sengoku and two vice-admirals are on the ship but, they haven't seen the Cp-0 members because the Cp-0 do not get out of their rooms at all, much less than the ship deck or other visible place.

The drones watching the warships also do not dare to go more than 500 meter of the warship in case someone find the existence of the drones. So, they could not make definite decisions but, now that, they knows that there maybe the possibilities of Cipher Pol being on the warship, all six of them are preparing everything they can to survive tomorrow with all the abilities they have.