48 An Old Acquaintance

As Ori crashed into the ground he couldn't help but let out a faint smile.

[Her strength is just as monstrous as it was in the anime!]

When they saw Ori flying through a wall landing in the middle of the road, the samurai had his hands on his katana's preparing to react as he saw Roman and Shaya were about to attack till they heard Orion's voice.

"Wait! Everything's fine!"

As he said that, the blonde's figure could be seen walking through the man made entrance.

"Fine your arse!"

Ori stood up and dusted himself off as if nothing had happened.

"Was there a need for violence? We were only talking."

When they saw him stand up without so much as a bruise the samurai and the green haired youth were both shocked as they were aware how monstrous her strength was, Roman and Shaya on the other hand were completely unphased as they knew how strong Ori was. The blonde looked at Ori with momentary flash of surprise before her face went back to normal.

[To think he negated most of the force of my punch in an instant whilst jumping back making it look like my punch was what sent him flying… He's strong!]

"If you keep ogling at me like that, I'll blush!"

"Who's ogling at you, you shameless bastard!"

When they heard the way they were speaking, Roman and Shaya could only roll their eyes helplessly as they were used to Orion's shameless antics. The samurai and the green haired youth on the other hand were speechless as this was out of character for their little princess.

"What's your name shameless one?"

"Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's only polite to give your own name when asking for someone else's?"

When she heard him attempting to educate her on manners it took everything she had not to bite, but she somehow managed to keep her cool. She took a deep calming breath as she replied.

"Kozuki Tsunade, Princess of Wano country and the future first woman to be queen of the pirates."

Orion smiled as he replied.

"Orion, Captain of the Heavenly Demon Pirates, the man who'll be the next king of the pirates and your future husband!"

"Bastard!"

"What? You said you wanted to be the queen of the pirates, being the wife of the king of the pirates would make you the queen of the pirates by default!"

Hearing his shamelessness made Tsunade speechless. Not just her, both her followers were also rendered speechless by his comment.

Just as she was about to say something else, she was cut off by the samurai behind her.

"Princess, we need to go!"

Tsunade looked as if she wanted to say something else but knew that he was right. She snorted before turning around.

"We'll finish this in the grand line!"

Ori didn't reply, he merely chuckled watching Tsunade and her crew mates disappear. He then turned around and said.

"We should go as well. We need to go say hello to an old friend."

As he said that Roman looked in a certain direction before nodding his head. Shaya on the other hand had no idea who this mystery person was but still followed them.

5 minutes later the trio arrived outside a run down bar. On the sign out the front it read "Bar Gold Roger". When they arrived Roman looked up at the sign in confusion.

"Gold, Roger?"

Ori nodded as he replied.

"The world government started calling him Gold instead of Gol D. to keep people from looking into the will of D."

As he cleared up Roman's confusion he proceeded to step into the bar. The inside of the bar was dark and desolate with there being only 4 people inside.

In the corner was a man with long dark green hair on one side of his head and bald on the other, beside him was a unicycle leaning against the wall. Sat across from him was a slender man dressed in a cream lion outfit and at his feet was a lion with green fur and a pink mane.

Behind the bar was a rather large man with grey hair serving a man with blue hair and a red nose.

When Ori and Roman saw him they smiled as they took a seat on either side of him, with Shaya taking a seat just beside Roman.

"Ehh who's so tired of living they've come and disturbed my drinking time."

When he heard that Ori smiled as he replied.

"C'mon Buggy, that's no way to treat 2 old friends now is it?!"

As he said that Buggy looked up and saw Roman sat on his left and Orion on his right. It took him a few seconds, but his eyes opened wider than ever with shock as he recognised the duo.

"Yo… You're… Orion and Roman?!"

They just smiled in response at his question.

"Woah look at the size of you 2 now, I almost didn't recognise you! How old are you guys now?! Let's see, last time I saw you was 12 years ago, Roman you were 5 making you 17 and Ori you were 2 making you 14! Wait 14?! You look like a post pubescent teen, what are your parents feeding you guys?! How are your parents doing now anyway?!"

They were trying to get a word in to answer his questions but he didn't give them the chance as he fired one question off after another.

When they heard him bring up their parents Roman subconsciously let out a fearful killing intent, scaring everyone in the bar.

When he realised what he was doing he immediately retracted his aura. Ori didn't say anything he just clenched his fists as a cold light could be seen in his eyes.

Seeing their reactions to his bringing up their parents Buggy could guess that something bad had happened. He turned to the bartender who had walked over to another corner of the bar to allow them to talk in private and said.

"Old man Raoul, four of your finest for me and my friends here."

"Coming right up."

Buggy then turned to the boys and changed the subject as he said.

"This bar serves the best alcohol on the whole island. Captain Roger himself use to come here all the time whenever he was on the island."

When the drinks arrived he placed one in front of each of the trio and raised his own as he said.

"A toast to those who've fallen… Gone, but never forgotten!"

As he said that, he downed the contents of his glass. The trio all raised their glasses before downing their drinks, paying their respects to the fallen.

Seeing them drink their drinks Buggy asked.

"Who's your friend by the way?"

Ori replied.

"This is Shaya, the 3rd member of our pirate crew. Shaya this is Buggy, one of the two apprentices on our uncles ship."

Shaya nodded towards Buggy. Buggy on the other hand paid no mind to her greeting as he seemed to be racking his brain over something.

[Shaya… Shaya… Where have I heard that name before?... Ooh that was it…]

"Bloody Rain; Monkey D. Shaya, bounty of £200,000,000? That means the Orion and Roman from the incident in North Blue 9 years ago really was you two?!

But you would've only been 5 and 8… You 2… No all 3 of you are little monsters! As expected of their descendants.

What are you doing here anyway?"

Ori looked at buggy as he replied.

"We came to take a rest and pay our respects to uncle before setting sail. We didn't expect to find you here but when we realised you were here we couldn't not say hello."

As he said that he stood up leading Roman and Shaya towards the door.

"Buggy, take care of yourself."

"Haha you too. I look forward to reading about your adventures as you create a stir."

Ori smiled as he replied.

"Count on it!"

As they left Raoul looked at buggy and asked.

"Who were those 3 brats, I've never seen you look so pleasantly surprised to see someone."

Even the two at the back perked up at the sound of the question.

"Yeah boss… Normally if someone disturbs you when you're drinking here you won't hesitate to blow them to kingdom come, but with them you looked happy."

Buggy threw 3 knives towards the wall full of bounties. As the knives went on and pierced 3 specific bounties he replied.

"Those 3 little monsters are the children of the future!"

Back on the road Ori lead Shaya and Roman back to the port when they heard the sounds of gunfire and cannons in the distance. As they spread their haki to see what all the commotion was about, their eyes widened in shock!

"Tsunade's in trouble!"