Rokushiki

The boat traveled to the next destination as we continued our adventure.

The sailors continued their training, lifting heavy weights and doing physical exercises.

Ace joined their training from time to time, removing his hat and cape, but keeping his bandana in order to keep his identity a secret.

Since the Marineford War, Ace has decided to train fervently. He started with his Haki, since he already had a level of training in it. He showed a fast rate of progress, showing the talent of the son of Gol D. Roger.

(He didn't use his Haki that much even when he died. Most likely because the idea of Haki wasn't that polished yet.)

Apart from me who was always seen training or giving tips to others, the rest followed the routine of work-train-sleep.

They nicknamed me "The training monster" but that was only an inside thing. In truth they liked me due to my vast knowledge in all fields. Even Ace was curious. The reason I gave them was that, since I always traveled alone, I learned to do everything by myself.

We made our way to Organ island and from there we went to Shimotsuki island. Our plan was to circle the East blue first while looking for the beast, since we don't have any clues on where it was.

If we don't find it, it's fine. We plan to sail through the area quickly.

We plan to go to the South blue after and then to the Grand line.

All the while training, and possibly looking for some better performing crew members.

…

/Over three and a half months latter/

It has been around 4 months since I came to this world.

We went all around the East Blue, but we didn't find anything. We visited many interesting areas, from talking sharks to flying frogs. We met a lot of strange and interesting creatures and things.

We passed and visited many islands, from Luffy's hometown to the island of rare animals.

If you looked at our crew you might not even be able to recognize it anymore.

Thanks to the Seed-Seed fruit, everyone looked well kept and clean, as if we were a noble group. Everyone had a mouth full of white teeth, and a strong physique. With the exception of our doctor who still seemed rather frail.

She didn't have that scared expression on her face though. But she still seemed rather shy.

During these three months we had many fights. And to tell the truth, they were underwhelming. It's to be expected of the East Blues, but that was only to me and Ace. The others found the battles to be difficult.

An example was when we met a random pirate group…

-PIRATE SHIP AHEAD! Screamed the man in the bird nest.

-Again? Said Ace

-Our reputation isn't enough to stop these minor characters from getting greedy. On the contrary, since we aren't a pirate group nor pirate hunters, they think we are just a group of rich kids playing around. Said Loodwick Felps our navigator.

-Who is going this time? I said towards Ace.

-It's me… He said without any motivation

-Can't we just pass through them? Said Frindin, the doctor

-Young girl, we need to keep a strong front. Else we are going to meet with even more pesky pirates. Said old lady Fryed the cook.

-Exactly! We can't just run away like cowards! Much less to a no-name pirate group! Said Popeye George, our sniper, from one of the masts above us.

(No-name as in no reputation.)

-Just don't break everything like last time. At least see if there is something of value on the ship. Or someone hostage. Said Fedrum Bibos from far away in the deck.

Ace finally accepted defeat and got ready. I grabbed him by the arm and…

Threw him all the way to the other ship. What? It's much better than risking damage from cannonfire.

And as expected the pirates didn't have a chance and were defeated in a few moments.

They didn't have anything of value so we just gunned down the ship and took the pirates with bounties with us. The ones that didn't have a bounty?...

They went to sleep with the fishes.

Forever.

…

We left our crew to handle some pirates from time to time, in order for them to grow stronger and more proficient at working together.

We got several levels of injuries.

But thanks to our doctor we didn't lose anyone.

We dismissed some sailors and hired stronger sailors with more potential, and after 3 months of training. Here we are.

We hunted many pirates but since that wasn't our focus, we never went after them, but sure enough, many pirates were not scared of us and seeked us out in order to "put us in our place". They are now in Impel Down probably.

We managed to acquire a single devil fruit though… They are incredibly rare, I still don't know how we got our only two on the same day...

Ace mastered some fighting techniques and stopped relying only on his fruit, mixing Haki with his fighting style.

I have yet to fully train in Haki though, as I have been occupied with training these techniques, and my body.

I knew I was too weak, so I had to increase my body fitness first.

And finally! I could use all 6 Marine techniques.

It went like this:

In the first two weeks after leaving the first Marine base, I practiced Tekkai and Shigan to a point where I could clash my finger against a sword and pierce weak metal.

But my progress got slower and slower in the fundamentals of the technique, since the ones I used were made from analysing other people instead of the manual books.

This caused my techniques to acquire the mistakes of other people so I had to fix those into something I believed to be better. And after repeating that sometimes I am now stuck.

The only way to progress is by increasing my strength. So I stopped them for now and went to the other techniques.

Fast forward a week of body training.

3 weeks after leaving the Base I started to train Geppo,Soru and the harder Rankyaku. Three techniques that had the same origin. The legs.

Geppo was all about kicking the air with immense strength and speed, allowing something akin to flight.

Soru is about kicking the ground super fast in order to semeraly "blink" from another person's perspective. From a stronger person perspective it's akin to a person just running around really fast.

Rankyaku is the very first inborn projectile technique!

(Since Shigan can be used for long range if you know how to do it. It's like this, you point forward and someone dies.)

It's all about kicking the air at fast speeds and strength sending air blades/projectiles at your opponents.

All techniques have their advanced versions and are capable of being fused together to create something greater, you just need to have the necessary creativity and proficiency to do it.

And talent, a lot of it.

It's the start of leg day!

For the next week I got used to the movements of the technique and finally, after a month and a half of training. I became decently proficient at it.

It's necessary to say that I only achieved such a fast training rate due to the mind power and the clones to train greatly, decreasing the time needed for a technique to be mastered.

And this raised many doubts in the crew.

They asked me constantly about what my fruit was. Even if they were just joking or making small talk, I could feel their curiosity.

I just said that my techniques are a result of my fruit. And I said the clones were just an advanced application of its abilities.

Of course, they also asked about my Hamon(they didn't know the name.). They kept asking what sort of sparks were those who always seemed to seep out of my skin.

I told them the truth, that it was a martial technique from my hometown.

Some wanted to learn, so I told them if they were capable of fully breathing in and out 10 times in a second then I would train them.

All of them failed. But some had potential.

But they already had a lot to do, so training another technique would take some time.

And as such in two months I achieved decent progress in the Marine martial arts.

With the exception of Kami-e…

It took me around an entire month only in this technique, because no matter what I did, I never managed to properly perform it. So it took an entire month of experimentation to achieve a basic level of proficiency.

The rest of the way I mixed my training between the 6 Marine arts.