Vol. 01 Ch. 08 - Inheritance

Previously ...

Arthur opened his fourth birthday gift box from his grandfather Saint Adam, and Arthur can see a small lychee fruit with seven colors and have white color swirl line. It turns out that the devil fruit that Arthur wanted so far was only as big as a thumb. Seeing the devil fruit Arthur immediately jumped hugged his grandfather and gave a kiss on his grandfather's cheek. Arthur ran to bring the devil fruit to his room and shouted thanks with a big smile on his face.

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Maria: "I am escaping from Mary Geoise because sick of seeing the behavior of the Tenryuubito and failed to convert them with words alone. Residents are citizens of world governments, and without citizens, there is no point in becoming the leader of world government."

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Maria: "The ring on your necklace is your father's ring which he never took off. Your father's name is Phantasm D Alpha, captain of the ALPHA pirates."

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Arthur: So my name is Phantasm D. Arthur, and whether I have to be happy or something, but it seems like {LUCK} is working. Most owners of the name 'D' have Haoshoku Haki which is a sign of the owner's quality of a king.

Maria: "Because you often read books in the library, surely you know about the relationship between Tenryuubito and the owner of the name D." Arthur nodded his head to answer the question from his mother.

Maria: "So don't tell anyone before you can protect yourself, Arthur. And yes, I know you trained with Sebas because you wanted to leave here and venture out in the open sea."

Arthur: "Mother..." Call Arthur in a low voice.

Maria: "It's OK, I will support your decision. But you must have the strength to protect yourself or your crews during your adventure and beforehand Sebas must acknowledge your ability to be able to go on your adventure in the free sea." Say Maria with a loving smile to Arthur.

Arthur: "I will make mama proud, and when I go sailing on the sea I will look for news about my father."

Maria: "Do what you want. But you have to bring home and introduce me to my future daughter-in-law, maybe two or three daughters-in-law will make home atmosphere not boring anymore." Maria's explanation made Arthur look down embarrassed.

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These past few days, after Maria told Arthur about his father's ring. Arthur continued to experiment with the ring between his training, he wondered what made it special.

Arthur: According to the usual novel story, it is necessary to shed blood to activate an artifact. I tried it several times until I was pale but nothing happened.

Sebas: "Arthur, focus while practicing. If not then there's no point in you doing the training."

Arthur's training menu is now 5 times the initial training menu, making him double the Saitama 'secret' training menu that makes Saitama invincible. After doing meditation at night, Arthur refreshed himself and climbed into bed. On the bed, Arthur returned to play with the ring in his bag. He tried to wear it and focus on the ring, but nothing changed. Then suddenly he thought of something, all this time he was wearing the ring on his thumb because the ring was still too big. And now he tries to wear it on the index finger of his right hand and then focuses his mind on the ring.

Arthur: This is... maybe this ring... a storage ring?

It was true, Arthur had to wear the ring on the index finger. For whatever reason, Arthur was angry because he thought that he was dripping blood to make his face pale was a futile act. Arthur refocused his mind on the ring, and it was true he could see a room with a size of 20x20x20 meters. In the storage ring seen a lot of gold jewelry and other precious stones, weapons, food supplies, the treasure box and a letter which was right in the middle of being surrounded room. Arthur tried to think of getting the letter out of his storage ring, and the letter miraculously appeared suddenly in his right hand.

Arthur: Really, my {LUCK}.

Arthur opened the letter, but he was surprised after seeing the bloodstain and the blood was still freshly attached to the letter. It seems like this ring can stop time in its storage space or time is running very slowly inside the storage ring. Arthur felt the need to experiment more about this storage ring.

[Arthur my son,

If you read this letter it means that Maria has told you about me, Phantasm D Alpha, is your father. I find this ring when stuck alone in Rainbow Mist, and with pure luck, I can get out. Because if at that time I could not get out then it would be useless to collect all the valuable objects while in the Rainbow Mist. And I leave all these treasures for you because I cannot accompany and guide you to the path of your choice. If you decide to stay at Mary Geoise then that is better. But if you choose to sail on the sea off, then you do not need to look for me. Live your life for your adventure. I did not have much time of writing this letter, so I hope you find your life path, don't you make a decision that will you regret later, and need you to know that I will always support you.

Love from your father, A ----]

The words at the end of the letter were cut off and covered by drops of blood, making Arthur think what blood was Arthur's father. Arthur immediately took the letter to the hospital to do a DNA check, but before he tore the part of the letter that was exposed to the blood so that no one knows the contents of the letter. Sebas always followed Arthur and was surprised to see him go towards the hospital. Not long after Arthur came out carrying a piece of paper, the blood test report. And it turns out the results of the examination were negative, the blood was not blood from Arthur's father. The report from the examination at this hospital made him smile a little.

Arthur: As I recall, Rainbow Mist is a mist that has 7 colors and inside there are other dimensions that space and time it was not bound to the laws of nature. So these 7 gems might have absorbed the Rainbow Mist which made it have dimension inside and the time has stopped or is very slow compared to the time here. I want to see what's inside this ring but... I have to tidy it up first.

Arthur: "Sebas."

Sebas: "What can I do for you, young master Arthur." Sebas answered who suddenly appeared behind me after I called.

Arthur: Maybe need a long time enough to get used to Sebas who always suddenly appears behind me like this.

Arthur: "I need lots of shelves, wooden boxes, and red-yellow-green color paint. When you can prepare it?"

Sebas: "Apart from paint, everything is in the basement warehouse. Where you want me to place it, young master Arthur?" Sebas answered without questioning why Arthur needed all of that.

Arthur: "Just take me to the warehouse now, and you can bring the paint later."

Sebas: "But young master Arthur, the basement..."Sebas answered who had become less enthusiastic but still showed the way because Arthur had asked for it.

Following Sebas from behind, Arthur tried to open a box in the middle of the ring room. Without difficulty, Arthur opened the box and found an apple fruit shaped like an apple and had a motif like a butterfly's wings. And this devil fruit is not included in the list of devil fruit encyclopedias that he has memorized.