Ch 5 : Joining hands

Later that night, Rei opened his eyes.

" Where am I... If I'm not remember it wrong, the last thing.."

The last thing he did was to faint after defeating Miss DoubleFinger. However, that was not important.

The important thing was now he was in an unknown place with a blanker and a fire right in front of him to keep him from the cold.

Rei was pretty weirded out with this situation, but then a voice came from the side.

" Have you woken up? Wait a minute, I'll try to make up something. You must be hungry!"

It was a beautiful clear voice, and just one sentence, and Rei could already distinguish whose voice is it.

' Vivi!??'

Rei clearly never thought that the one he thought to leave was the one to save him when things came to be mattered.

He felt a bit guilty for Vivi, and at the same time, he blamed his selfishness.

Not long after, Vivi came with something that looked like a food..

Wait, no... A burned pot...

" Here, this is a special food I make for you!"

Said Vivi as he handled the pot toward Rei.

In all his life, this was the first time Rei saw someone so bad at cooking.

Heck, even dog's cooking could be said as better than this.

Rei was about to turn it down, but when he saw Vivi was looking at her with that glimmering look in her eyes, he felt his will was shaken a bit.

' Wait, no, I must reject this! Lord Kazuma said I yearn for true gender equality. I have no patience for one who talks about female privilege when it suits them, and then complains about someone "not being a man" when it's convenient.'

Rei was trying to convince himself, but when he saw Vivi was hiding her hands behind her back, he knew that he could not avoid this predicament.

' Well, a real man should know when to submit...'

Using his hand, Rei took a bite on the burned pan.

' .....'

' Fuck, all I could taste is charcoal....'

Still, there's no way Rei could say that to Vivi.

He gulped everything in one go as he tried his best to quickly swallow them, then he looked at Vivi.

" That's delicious.. Thank you for the meal."

Then, he fell unconscious once more.

. . . . . . .

The next day, Rei woke up still in the same place.

Vivi's food really left a deep trauma for him, and he vowed that he would be the one that cooked food when they traveled together.

Yup, after the last event, Rei's conscience just could not leave Vivi alone.

Blood must be paid by blood, but kindness would always be returned 10x. That was Rei's life motto.

But then, Rei noticed something strange. His shoulder felt very heavy, and it somehow was a bit wet.

He looked to the side and saw Vivi was sharing the blanket with him while leaning on him as she slept soundly.

And as for the wet thing in Rei's shoulder..

Let's just not talk about it.

Fast forward, Vivi woke up not long after, and the two prepared for their next journey.

" Hey, where are we going next?"

Asked Rei to Vivi, as he was a bit clueless on where to go.

His original body, other than some not very useful knowledge, it didn't contain much knowledge about One Piece world, and even Rei knew a lot more about One Piece world just by reading the manga.

Vivi heard Rei's words, and a frown appeared on her face.

It seemed that she was as clueless as Rei.

" *Sigh* I know it will be like this.."

Rei suddenly regretted his decision.

This girl is just way too stupid. In the anime, he could already see that Vivi is pretty stupid, but it was even more the case when they were together.

For her to be able to infiltrate the Baroque Works for so many years, Robin must have wiped her ass a lot of time.

At the end of the day, the two who had no idea where to go decided to just walk straight to the north.

Even though pretty safe, their current location didn't have any food supplies on it, and if they wanted to survive this desert, they definitely needed food and water.

Then, the journey of a man, a woman and a bird soaring through the desert began.

Based on his interference, Rei could see that this town was pretty far from everywhere, and even if they started to walk now, they would only reach the next city after the sun set.

Along the way, they didn't find a lot of danger, so while they were resting under a big stone, Rei decided to do his daily steal.

' System, I want to use my daily steal.'

Just like before a small portal that looked like a glory hole appeared right in front of Rei.

However, different from before, Rei's luck was pretty bad today as he could only get a black lace underwear from the daily steal.

[ DING!!! Get Tsunade's used underwear.]

[ Tsunade hate value +5]

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