Chapter 7 - Ketch!
"YAHOO!! ZORO JOINED US! LET'S PARTY BY EATING ALL OF THE MEAT WE HAVE!" Luffy threw his hands on the air to celebrate Zoro's recruitment.
However, Zoro didn't respond. He was already sitting and leaning over near the Cabin Door, he was already asleep.
Luffy just laughed out loud while Ame just shook his head and went inside the Cabin to check on the Screen since it has been making beeping sounds for quite a while now, he was pretty sure there was something in store for him there.
[ Quest Alert! Return Shells Town's Justice ]
Description: You heard everyone's cries for Justice and Hope, carry it and deliver your punishment upon that Marine Captain Scum. A disgrace to the Justice of Seas, Marines.
Rewards: 60 SP, Ship Modification, 3x Luck of the Sea Fate, Random [Blue Skill]
Additional request: Bash the Head of the disgrace's son.
Rewards: 20 SP, Random [Green Item]
Note: There's no such thing as a good or bad occupation, only good and bad people.
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"Woah, so it can still give out quest even if I wasn't there to look at it, that's pretty neat!" Ame continued scrolling through the notifications right after.
[ Quest completed! (Return Shells Town's Justice) ]
Rating: Flawless!
Rewards: 70 SP, Ship Modification, 3x Luck of the Sea Fate, [ Plant Bind {Blue} ], [ Hard Snapping Turtle Summoning Ticket {White++} ] . (Bonus reward has been applied due to a Flawless work!)
Additional request: Bash the Head of the disgrace's son. (Great Success!)
- Hidden condition: Make Helmeppo turn over a new leaf. (Complete!)
Rewards: 30 SP, [Spear (Blue Item)] (Bonus reward applied for Great Success and Completion of the Hidden condition.)
[ Total Rewards: 100 SP, 3x Luck of the Sea Fate, 2x Random [Blue Skill or Item], Random [White Item], Ship Modification. ]
Note: Well would ya look at that, A Turtle, not just a turtle but a Snapping one! How did it get there?!
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"Where am I even going to put the Cow when our Ship can barely fit 3 people? Maybe the Ship extension can do miracles?" Ame continued to read the next notifcation.
[ Trait unlocked: Fool's Kindness ]
Condition: Risking your life to save a total stranger, even if they were your enemy.
Effects: Slightly increases your physical capabilities when helping or saving someone.
- Makes you unable to discern a person's personality and alignment.
- Gains [ Fool's protection ] while conducting a life threatening rescue. Able to withstand any physical attack once.
- Your Friends/Allies won't feel at ease to let you go off on your own.
Reward for unlocking: Strength Enhancement (Blue) Lv.1: 0/100
• Strength Enhancement (Blue) Lv.1: 0/100 - Increases your strength by 1.3x for 1 minute.
Note: Maybe try not to save enemies next time, but I doubt you'd listen.
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"If they really are bad then I won't, but if they were like the marines earlier who just had no choice since they were being threatened by their Captain then I'd still do it." Ame turned off the screen after reading everything, he was really satisfied and pleasantly surprised by the unknown request he didn't know he completed till now.
Ame wanted to use his SP's and Ship Expansion Item but held off until Zoro and Luffy were totally asleep at night, since he thought that Zoro might not notice it tomorrow.
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{Night time}
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Night has fallen, after Zoro, Luffy, and Ame finished eating the simple roasted meat, eggs and soup, the crew finally fell asleep after a long day of fighting and action.
Ame was the exception though, he took this opportunity use the rewards he has received from his quest.
Feeling excited, Ame wanted to use the Ship Extension first so he read the description of the item just in case there was some information that he missed.
[ Ship Modification (Unique) ]
Description: Upgrades all of the ship parts, compartments, and structutes by 1 Level!
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[Use? Y/N?]
Ame's answer was already obvious, "Yes!"
[ Upgrading the ship... ]
[Congratulations, The requirements for the ship's Type upgrade has been met!]
[Transforming from Sloop - Ketch]
The entire boat was enveloped by a blinding light from out of nowhere, the ship was becoming bigger and wider.
The first old mast became taller and much more refined, while a new second mast has appeared behind it with new quality and structural integrity problem, as usual.
The ship finally has a helm for a new and improved directional and steering movement, a much better solution for moving instead of the usual paddles.
There's a new small cabin behind the Captain's cabin, inside of it are 2 empty cabinets, 3 shelves, and a single empty wine rack, indicating it to be the official storage area of the ship.
Some of the areas on the ship have been reinforced with metal sheets, and wooden fence or railings have been created on the main deck, something that is important for Luffy's survival on the ship.
Finally, it appears as if the screen had heard about how I got a live turtle as an award. A small terrarium was created inside the captain's cabin placed above another newly added bedside table just behind Luffy's bed.
"We should've bought some beds or other decorations, food, spices or even some wines from the 20,000 bellies that the marines gave us for assisting their arrest on Morgan, but it can still wait until on the next town." Ame looked around the Captain's Cabin for what was new, and aside from an empty picture frame, the terrarium and bedside table, there was a direct doorway towards the Storage cabin, and 4 windows, 1 on each side, 1 on the front and 1 placed just in front of a new table and a stool.
"Maybe I should get check out the Ship section on the screen now, maybe there's something new there." Ame grabbed the Screen and opened it.
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Name: S.S. Ame R. Ica (Changeable)
Type: Ketch (Requirements not met!)
Durability: 500/500 (+250 from the overall Ship extension upgrades.)
SP: 111
SP Gain: +10/Day
State: Crude/Unpolished.
Facilities/Structures/Parts:
• Hull (Bad)
• Keel (Bad)
• Main/Mizzle-Mast/Sail (Lousy/Loose/Stitched)
• Captain's Cabin {Small} (Bad)
• Main Deck (Bad)
• Helm (Inadequate/Loose)
• Rudder (Inadequate)
Upgradables:
• Hull Lv.3 (50 SP)
- The armor and protection of the ship. Improves the hull's endurance. Reinforces and Enhances the Endurance and Armor with metal plates. (Requirements: Keel upgrade.)
• Keel Lv.3 (40 SP)
- The backbone of the ship. Increases the Ship's overall durability. Increases the Overall ship weight support limit. Slightly increases the size and coverage of the Keel.
• Mast/Sail Lv.3 (40 SP)
- The ship's legs and feet. Slightly increases the speed of the ship. Adjusts the length sail's fabric, Slightly increasing Wind Speed Conversion efficiency.
• Captain's Cabin Lv.3 (30 SP)
- The Captain's Cabin. Slightly increases the Cabin's space and size. Reinforces the frame with steel plates and bolts, increasing its endurance. Creates a Murphy Bed (Wall Mounted Bed).
• Deck Lv.3 (20 SP)
- The floor of the ship. Slightly increases Deck weight support limit, and durability. Enlarges the Floor Deck Space.(Requirements: Hull and Keel upgrade.)
• Rudder Lv.1 (20 SP)
- The ship's navigator. Slightly increases steering speed, and repairs its broken parts.
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[ Alert! New schematic unlocked! ]
[ You can now construct {1} schematic ]
"Huh, neat! I forgot that it can build things too because i've never received one thus far." Ame naturally navigated towards the [ Construction ] Section.
[ Construction ]
Schematics:
• [ NEW! ] Tiny second floor bedroom (Captain's Cabin) Cost: 100 SP
• Tree n'Hammock (Space insufficient) Cost: 100 SP
• Weakest dummy (Locked - Requirements not met!) Cost: 300 SP
(More schematics to be discovered!)
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"Since when did I even get these Schematics? I don't recall them being a quest reward, maybe when my Ship's type was upgraded?" Ame proceeded to build the tiny second floor bedroom.
A small structure appeared on top of Captain's cabin with a ladder outside and inside leading to it with a large glass window on front to watch the ocean's view.
Ame climbed up the second floor bedroom, wanting to see what was inside of it and he saw a small cozy room with 2 single person beds together with their own respective bedside tables, 2 pots with different flowers and a single lantern outside and inside the room for visibility, there was also 2 chests in front of beds for storage.
Ame was incredibly satisfied with his gains today that he decided to sleep on the newly constructed bedroom immediately and worry about the explanation tomorrow when he wakes up, it was quite a wild journey today for him after all.
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{Next Day}
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Luffy and Zoro woke up ahead of Ame since they slept earlier than him, only to see that the entire ship has changed drastically, even the Captain's Cabin they were currently staying on had another door that led to a storage cabin, the bed Luffy was sleeping on became decently comfortable, a bedside table appear beside the bed with a weird aquarium looking thing with no water, and there were 4 windows inside it now.
Zoro was very surprised and shocked that the entire ship has underwent such an exaggerated and drastic change in just one night.
Luffy wasn't that shocked since he got pretty used to Ame's "Devil Fruit" Powers so he explained to Zoro to help him understand what was happening.
Eventually Zoro was able to understand Luffy's explanation after 10 tries since Luffy didn't know how to explain anything to other people. "So basically, the Vice-Captain has the powers of a Boat, and the reason as to why the ship has changed so much overnight was because he can control and change the ship through his powers?"
Luffy nodded and left Zoro in the cabin to explore their new and improved Ship and left him pondering about Ame's powers. "So with that being said, can he float on the water? A devil fruit user that can swim, now that's a first for the world." Zoro didn't think about it for too long since the powers of a boat didn't sound all that interesting for him.
Zoro and Luffy continued to walk around the ship to check out what was new and they found that there were now 2 masts/sails, a helm, railings around the Main deck, and the new second floor of the cabin.
The both figured out that since Ame was missing on the Captain's Cabin earlier then must've fallen asleep on the second floor.
When they entered, they found Ame deep asleep on one of the beds in the second floor, but they didn't disturb him and instead left him there to rest, although they have already subconsciously decided that their beds are going to be the ones on the second floor.
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{Soon after}
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Ame woke up feeling very refreshed and energized, he looked out of the window from the second floor and he could already see Zoro doing push-ups while Luffy let his hands stretch along with the winds.
He decided to come down and hang out with the crew, and use his remaining rewards later.
Zoro noticed Ame first and nodded, not wanting to stop his training. While Luffy was just blankly staring on the sky.
"Hey Zoro, do you have any ideas what happened to him?" To which Zoro just shook his head, clearly not having any clue behind Luffy's actions.
Luffy who finally snapped out of his staring contest with the sky and noticee Zoro and Ame gesturing for him to go near them. "You guys, I've been wondering where we are going to right now... "
Right then, everyone completely froze as the main problem dawned on them. No one here knows where they are going and where they are right now, at all.
Did the crew panic? Yes, but only for a moment. Shortly after, they realized that nothing would happen if they panicked and just decided to just let the wind carry them while controlling helm from time to time and just hope that they'll get to a land before they run out of supplies.
To change the topic, Ame told Luffy and Zoro that he found them a new "Crew member. "
He slowly removed his hands from his back and moved it in front of Zoro and Luffy to see. Ame slowly removed his right hand that was covering his left palm, revealing a small turtle.
"WOAHOOO?!! WHAT IS THIS?! A TURTLE?! WHAT CAN IT DO?!" Luffy eagerly asked, while Zoro nodded indicating he's also curious about it.
"Well, It's not just a turtle, it's a snapping turtle! It actually has a strong bite force so be careful-" Just as when he said that, Luffy shouted.
It was the snapping turtle biting Luffy'ys finger. Luffy kept touching the turtle's mouth which caused it to be annoyed and aggressive, so it bit Luffy's fingers.
"HAHAHA WHAT AN IDIOT! HE ALREADY TOLD YOU TO BE CAREFUL OF ITS BITES, HAHAHA!!" Zoro laughed while looking and pointing at Luffy trying to take off his finger from the Turtle's mouth.
Ame could only helplessly sigh at the current turn of events and help Luffy from his self-made problem.
After separating Luffy and the Snapping-turtle, everyone agreed for the turtle to stay since it was nice having a pet onboard. Luffy even gave it the title of Ship Protector, which was inspired by the its shell.
Zoro continued training and Luffy started fishing, drawing Zoro's attention since he didn't believe Luffy would fish for his own food.
Ame went inside the Captain's Cabin to use his remaining Luck of the Sea Fates on the screen.
In the Luck of the Sea section, he was surprised since a notification popped up when he visited it.
[ A new promo has appeared for a limited time! Time: 23:56:57 ]
[ 3x Test = 5 Rewards! + 20% Chance for 6 Rewards! ]
[ Disclaimer: The rate of pulling rarer and valuable items are slightly reduced from the normal spin due to the promo, it will revert back to normal after it ends! ]
[ Luck of the Sea ]
- Where a Sailor's dream can come true! Or not. Gamble responsibly, Sailor!
Luck of the Sea Fate: 3
[ How many times would you like to test your fate, Sailor? ]
[ Normal Test - Promo Test ]
"Oh? So there could be events like these too! Now that's very nice." Ame chose the Promo test because he didn't think that the reduced odds would matter since he rarely ever gets something better than Blue.
[ Congratulations! You have received: ]
• 1x Reinforced Small Boat (White+) - Emergency Escape!
• 1x Set of Adjustable 5 Ton Weights (Green-) - From 1 kg to 5 Ton take your pick!
• 1x Reusable Floatation Wristband (Green) - Where would you use this? Oh, not you?
• 5x Weak Healing Potions (Blue+) - Now we are getting into the good stuff!
• 2x Warding Fang (Purple+) - Envelops the wearer with a faint aura of warding, absorbing part of the damage received to itself until it breaks. Durability: 1000/1000
{Lucky!}
• 1x Modified Trigger: Kogetsu-Staff | Senkū (Purple++)
- In contrast to Trion powered Triggers in Border, this Modified Trigger now consumes the energy of the user. Lacking in Offensive power but compensates with its Durability. With a Versatile optional Trigger and its unique structure, it can manipulate length and weight property at will.
"These are... Incredible!! But I got another ship though... Oh well!" Ame took out the stuff he received out unto the Cabin's table, he knew that he managed to be very lucky this time around.
Ame sorted the Items by their purpose, necessity, and who will use them. The boat was never taken out though since once he took it out, he can never place it inside the screen again which is a bad idea considering his ship was too small to store a spare ship.
He placed the 5 potions inside the empty cabinets on the storage room, along with the spear since he thought it would be too dangerous for him to use.
He gave the weights and one of the necklace to Zoro, explaining that he bought them from one of the stalls on Shells Town. "I didn't know there were weights of this kind in east blue before, or atleast i've never heard of one before. Thank you, these will help my training as a warm up at least.
Zoro continued working out while using and testing out the new weights that he got from Ame.
Ame gave Luffy one of the fang necklace and the floatation device. "Thank you, ill try this floaty something by diving straight into the ocean!" Ame and Zoro had to seriously tie up Luffy to prevent him from diving unto the ocean.
Just like that, everyone peacefully spent the day in their own way, training, eating, fishing, playing around, and even joking about Luffy and Zoro's history.
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{Chapter 7 - Fin}