Chapter 33

High up in the sky, Heli was flying above a ship, the ship was fairly cozy, it also had what seemed to he a sheep head at the front of it. At the top of the mast, a Flag was waving in the wind, it was a skull with bones making an X shape behind it. The skull was wearing a straw hat.

"Finally, this dull journey will have some excitement." Vox said when he looked at the ship in the distance, it was of a hubspot for ships as there were a lot of them surrounding it. "The sea restaurant, Baratie!"

It has been some time since he followed Luffy, but Vox was really disappointed. At first he thought he would enjoy a show, but the fights were so dull and boring. Now seeing that he will have some action, he was very excited.

Not long afterwards the Vox saw the cannonball destroying the roof, he could not help but shake his head, just how did this group survive for that long in the grand line.

"Heli, stay here. I will go eat something." Vox then zapped on Baratie, he wanted to taste Sanji's food and he wanted to test sanji's DNA, but that will have to wait. Eating comes first.

Walking inside, he saw the marines, Fullbody was also there but in Vox's eyes, he was a no body. He had a freaking Admiral as a lackey, he himself can fight an Admiral. Why should he care for a Fullbody?

"Waiter" Vox called out to a man in a black suit, the man looked at him for a bit and ignored him, making Vox's eyebrow twitch. "My beautiful sisters are gonna join me soon." Vox raised his voice a bit.

*WOOSH*

"How can I be of service?" Sanji rushed in front of him. 'This guy....' Vox thought as he looked at the heart shaped eyes. He just talked about beautifull girls and he is already like that, it seems being with beauties like Nami and Robin had toned down his perverted mind quite a bit.

"My sisters said that there was a handsome man in black that made great food, would you mind making it for them? They will be here soon." Vox said as he brought up his sisters again, while it was true he had some very beautiful sisters, if Sanji as much as thinks about them he will get a beating.

"But of course." Sanji left and came back a few minutes later with some plates of food. Afterwards he looked at Vox expectantly. "Wow, that girl there sure is beautiful." Vox said looking at Nami. Sanji looked over and completely ignored Vox's existence. 'Holy shit, thank god I didn't let the girls come here.'

Eating his food and ignoring the commotion that was happening. Vox just took his time. It will be a while before Mihawk comes here.

It was not long before a majestic slash happened, Vox involuntarily smiled, he was observing everything and waiting for Kriegs ships to get cut. He stood up and put a 10 million Beli there as payment for the food and for the repairs for the damage he will cause. He might even destroy the whole restaurant.

He walked out to see Zoro fighting Mihawk. 'This man's neck is is always going to be a mystery, not to mention his bite strength, how does the sword stay in place? How do his teeth not get destroyed?' Vox thought when he saw their fight, Zoro was a mystery, if Vox had the chance, he would use an extra DNA Checkup for him.

He had gotten a few of them, he used them on the kids, he also used 2 DNA Surgery's to awaken the Wendy and Wright's potential. Deciding to focus on the matter at hand, he looked at the fine slash Mihawk dealt Zoro and Luffy making a fuss. When Mihawk finished dealing with Zoro, he looked at Vox.

"East Blue sure is lively, for a man of your strength to show up here." Mihawk said as he looked at Vox. His hawk-like eyes looking at Vox's gray eyes that seemed to contain endless lightning. This was a side effect of Using DNA surgery on his devil fruit.

"The strongest Swordsman, Dracule Mihawk. How come someone of your caliber is here." Vox grinned as he summoned his Lightning Blade. 'It has been so long since I had a good fight!' Vox thought as he coated the Lightning blade in a dark blue Lightning.

"I wish to see how far I am from the strongest swordsman, or if I have already surpassed him." Vox dashed at him, he decided to not use the devil fruit powers, not because he believes that he will win, but because Baratie will be nothing but ashes afterwards.

"Very well." Mihawk blocked that strike and went full alert.

Vox swiped his Blade downwards trying to find an opening to land a hit, but it was blocked by Mihawk pushing the blade upward, creating a stalemate.

Mihawk distances himself a bit and slashed horizontally at Vox, as Vox was about to block it, Mihawk change the black blades trajectory and cut accross Vox's arm, giving it a fairly deep cut.

'He has much more expierence that me, my swordsmanship is not bad, but I am lacking expierence!' When you grow arrogant, you tend to fall behind, and Vox had done that. Although he was positive he can fight him to a draw if he were to go all out, he knew he can't beat him.

Vox then grinned and kept exchanging blows with Mihawk, his wounds accumulating at a dangerous pace. 'Is this the man who was shanks equal 10 years ago? Why is a man of his caliber, equal to an Emperor, serving as a Warlord?' Vox thought to himself when he felt his body get heavier.

The others all looked on at the fight between the monsters, unlike what most would expect, the damage was manageable.

'I am so far away from even their shadows!' Zoro thought when he looked at the fight. His dream was to be number 1! yet not only Mihawk, but someone else also was giving him pressure.

"You are strong, but your swordsmanship is sloppy." Mihawk said as he landed another hit on Vox.

"Hahaha, I take that as an compliment from someone who has mastered both Strong Sword and Gentle Sword." Vox wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, the more he fought the better he was getting, but he was very far away from the strongest swordsman. His strength was still his Devil Fruit and his Cards, Swordsmanship was a means to fight off sword fighters like this one.

"Your style is to linear, you will never best me in swordsmanship." Mihawk put his sword back on his back. The fight was over, he was the winner.

"My style works best with my fruit, without it, it is indeed linear." Vox too put away his sword. If he were to go all out, each of his strikes would destroy Baratie.

"I see." Mihawk said and jumped back on his little coffin shaped raft and drifted away.

After having everything calmed down, Vox also zapped away on top of Heli. who was up high in the sky. He saw Mihawk look in his direction but he ignored it, taking out a red potion, he healed himself up. The wounds were not deep.

Mihawk who was looking at the man in the sky was quite shocked. 'So that is what he meant, to have that fruit and that sword. No wonder. It seems like the grand line will soon change.' Letting out a rare smile he could thought of his friend he used to spar with. 'Shanks, you were not wrong to make that bet it seems.' "Kukukuku" he laughed to himself.