Too Easy

[West Blue, Marine Branch 12, Year 1506]

''I challenge you, Ethan 'The Devil' '' A pink haired beauty mockingly challenges to a boy around his age. The boy is around 5'10 tall with long black hair that comes to his hips. He has a handsome appearance with his green eyes and charming face. They are Ethan and Hina who are 15 years old now.

''You better have improved yourself, or this won't be much of a challange.'' I answers back with an arrogant smirk.

''... Hmph, you are too arrogant for your own good, Hina will win this time!'' She charges towards me with this last sentence. She throws punch after punch towards me, all of which are dodged by me easily. This keep going for a few minutes.

''Y-you stop fooling around and fight Hina!'' Hina exclaims with anger, her cheeks flushing red which looks rather cute on her.

''Fine~ I won't fool around anymore.'' I dodge another of her punches and ''Soru'' I appear behind her with a dagger on her neck.

''My win... for the 286'th time.'' I whisper to her ear with an amused tone. She grits her teeth before muttering something in an inaudable voice.

''Eh? What are you saying?'' I ask to her confused.

''Y-you win! Now release Hina already!'' She shouts with a red face.

''Eh... Okay.'' I release her and she runs off to who knows where while muttering things like 'unbearable' and 'arrogant'.

''... Crow, this girl can't take a loss at all!'' I tell towards my friend who is on a tree watching us bemused.

'' You tease her too much.'' İs all he says as we enter the marine base.

İn these 8 years many things happened in west blue and the world in general. I trained the moves that I have seen ın my dreams, greatly enhancing my strength. My reputation as a devil has risen as I killed every criminal around the villages and Rodos City. I killed criminals worth tens of millions in bulks, none of those who faced me were left alive. As my reputation grew the Rodos City and the villages surrounding it slowly became 'Forbidden Areas' for pirates.

While talking about their numbers, they grew exponentaly because of an event that shook the world, marking the beginning of a new era. 'Pirate King' Gol D. Roger was executed at year 1500. Just 2 years after that in 1502 incident another incident created many waves in west blue, The Ohara İncident. I now know many things from my dreams , things that has already happened or things that has yet to happen. İn these 8 years I realised not only pirates are evil, there are scum hiding in world government, nobles and even marines as well. İf I want to change this world I need an extremely high influence.

İn the future the people that will have the biggest inflence are: Yonkous, Schibukais, Admirals and Revolution Army. The only big influence in revolution army is Dragon and working under him won't give me much influence so I eliminated this route.

Being an Admiral would have been feasible but I need to compete with people like Kizaru, Akainu and Aokji if I choose that route. They have insane devil fruits and they are 10's of years older than me. Also being an admiral would make me under scums like world nobles, so I eliminate that route as well.

Right now there is not any schibukai, most of the schibukais are rookies fighting against stronger pirates, except for Boa Hancock who is imprisoned by celestial dragons in marijeois. But schibukais have really limited influence which does not satisfy my needs. So, that route is also eliminated.

Being a yonkou is the choice that gives you the most freedom and influence but it is also the hardest. It has been years after Rocks Pirates has disbanded. Their remnants such as Whitebeard, Big mom and Kaido are already labeled as 3 emperors of the new world. There is not a 4'th yonkou yet, but many great pirates are already fighting for that spot. However none of these great pirates will be able to get that spot as a cabin boy from Roger's ship will make his way from a rookie to the top of this world in just around 10 years defeating many people along the way. 'Red Haired Shanks' he will be my biggest opponent if I want to grab that 4'th spot or I should replace one of the other 3 yonkous. 'Should I leave the marines?' I think deeply as we enter the base. Many people look towards me as I am already famous around this City.

''İs there any pirates worth going after?'' I ask casually towards Maynard who is at his desk, reading a report while frowning. he puts the report aside as he tells me , expecting me to visit:

'' İron Body Guran with 60 million bounty. You up for it?'' He asks towards me with a smile.

'' Do you even have to ask?'' I reply with an excited smile. ' 60 million. Barely enough to test my skills.' I look at the location in the report, smiling a little. 'Green Valley Town. How nostalgic.' I frown as I remember my sister. I haven't seen her after that incident 8 years ago. She appearantly take someone as her 'master' and go to explore the world with Golden, leaving me with a note. I even used Maynard's influence in marines to search for her in west blue, but I couldn't find a trace. ' I am getting furious just thinking about it. That, brat! How dare she leave like that, leaving me with just a note.'

'' Let's go Crow. I am kind of angry now, I need to kill some scum to relieve my anger.'' I tell him before taking off.

Crow sighes deeply as he understands what I'm thinking from my expression before following me.

[Green Valley Village, Midnight]

As we arrive at the village I can already hear the pirate's voices thanks to my predator's mind ability enhancing my senses. I start walking towards them while I listen to their voices:

''Let's go guys, we will turn this village upside down!'' A voice shouts probably their leader Guran.

''YEAHHH'' The others rejoice as they enter the village.

''C-Captain, are you sure, I heard that this place is in that Devil guy's protection.'' a pirate cautiously asks.

'' You idiot! These are just rumours, to think that you believe such...'' Before he can finish his sentence I reveal myself just in time, making him freeze:

''Hello there! What are you guys doing here?'' I ask with quite a happy tone.

They analyze me for a while, noticing the gun and sword at my belt before answering me:

'' I don't know who you are young man, but you should leave if you know what is good for you. Do you even know who I am?'' He talks to me sternly. 'I know who you are but it seems you don't know who I am!?' I think dissatisfied. 'So there are still people who doesn't recognize me in west blue.' I toss these thoughts aside as I answer calmly:

'' Well, I can't leave since this village is my 'territory'. I have been protecting here for a while, you see... And I am not about to make an exception today.''

Pirates look at me confusedly before getting my message:

''You mean... you are that devil guy?'' Guran before looking at his underlings. There is a few seconds of silence before they burst out laughing crazily.

''Ryahahaha, this is the funniest thing I heard today. Kid I will let you of today, because you are funny.''

''Grahahaha, what an idiot, if you are going to impersonate someone, at least choose wisely.'' One of them advises between his crazed laugh.

''Everyone knows that the devil guy is an extremely ugly, 3 meter giant with razor sharp teeths. People say he is using his teeths to rip his opponents necks before eating them.'' One of them informs me.

'WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE BASELESS RUMOURS.'' I think furiously my face flushing red with anger and emberesment. ''You guys... I was going to go easy on you, but you really made me mad today. Prepare yourselves.'' I tell them coldly before flashing away from their sights. ''Soru''

I arrive near a few pirates and thrust my finger into their hearts, beginning the massacre. '' Shigan'' Their screams and the smell of blood creates a chilling atmosphere.

''Shoot him down!'' Guran shouts at them. I watch the bullet's trajectory and flash away with a 'Soru' I took out my pistol and start shooting them as I dodge around, each of my shots killing one pirate. My body is resilent but I can't use 'Tekkai' yet, so still need to dodge bullets. I can tank them if I must but it will hurt me a bit. I want to master tekkai soon I think as I am still killing the pirates with ease.

''STAND BACK GUYS! Leave this guy to me'' Guran screams as his underlings escape. He looks at me frowning:

''You are not simple, young man. I have underestimated you. But my name is Guran with a 60 million bounty on my head.'' He declares proudly.

''... And my name is Ethan, they call me 'the devil around here'' I answer casually.

''Young man... İt is not good to bullshit so much!'' He answers angrily. Before swinging his iron coated arm towards my face. I casually dodge it and answer with a full powered fist to his chest which is also covered by his full body armour. Boom! My punch makes a dent in his armour and make him take a few steps back before he is able stabilize himself.

He looks at me shocked but I also look at him with an amazed expression. 'This guy can take my punch, and he does not look injured. His armour also didn't crack. His armour and strong body is admirable.' '' You can sure throw a punch... now take mine!'' he shouts before throwing me an another punch, which ı easily dodge again. 'Too bad he is too damn slow. He can't hit me at all, unless I let him.'

I use another attack on him after my dodge, 'shigan' Crack! This manages to crack his armour and a finger sized hole appears on his chest dripping blood. '' Uarrgh, you damn boy!'' he shouts before rushing towards me again. 'Well, I managed to test my strenght. I better finish it now before it gets boring.' I draw the sword that is tied to my belt. I have trained with my sword more than anything in the past 8 years, so I have full confidence in my sword skills. I have tried replicating the moves I have seen from my dreams, which I failed miserably. But I managed to gain many inspirations and created my own moves. ''One sword style, Fury of The Great Tiger King'' I start rushing towards Guran as well, my blade carries the wind with it. As I rush forward more and more wind is gathered towards my sword, just before we clashe my sword catches fire, marking the completion of my technique. I slash it vertically to the pirate. Clang! Clang! 2 metalic voices are heard as his armour is split in 2 pieces and there is a deep wound in his chest, blood gushing out. He looks towards me, probably to plead for mercy before seeing my ruthless eyes filled with coldness, freezing him to his core.

''Y-you are...D-devil..?'' He asks looking at me with shocked and fearful eyes.

''... Yeah.'' I answer before cutting his head off. There is a chilling silence as the leftover pirates and villagers watch me with fright. '60 million... too easy' I think before turning towards the leftovers. 'Let's end this already, this was such a letdown.'