Finally!

After finishing their food Seth then spoke "I will give you 1 month of rest before you set out for your own journey, we wouldn't be travelling together because I need trust worthy crew members who could help me expand my fleet"

They all nodded clearly understanding what Seth meant, Tesoro then asked "So the 3 of us would be separate and have their own crew."

Seth nodded and looked at Lazarus "Is it true that you're the hidden guard of Neptune?"

Lazarus smiled wearily and said "I was but I abandoned my position when my wife got captured by some pirates, she was currently pregnant with Cassie at that time. I managed to save her but she died while giving birth to Cassie."

Lazarus continued with tears building up in his eyes "We were supposed to go back to Fishman Island, but we were blocked by some guys with white suits that called themselves "CP0" they captured me and Cassie and brought us to Marie Geoise. there I fought almost everyday because they told me that if I ever lost a single fight they would take my daughter and sell her to the Celestial Dragons."

"It's good that they didn't got Cassie, so did they marked the both of you with their symbol?" Seth asked.

Gerhardt and Lazarus shook their heads "We weren't because the owner of the Colosseum didn't have any weird fetish of branding his slaves"

Seth nodded and said "Because the both of you just escaped from Mary Geoise you two would be teaming up during your journey's so that you could have each others back understood?"

They both nodded and were thankful because they knew that they can't beat many opponents all alone, so having a trust worthy partner is what they needed.

"Tesoro will you be bringing Stella with you on your journey?"

Tesoro shook his head "No, she would be the one who will manage Gran Tesoro on my absence."

"That's good to hear, oh before I forget please liberate those who are forced to pay heavy taxes and let them have a good life. you can give them any jobs so that they could earn some money and ignore their debts we could always make money by stealing from other pirates understood?"

Tesoro immediately complied "Understood Captain, Stella already scolded me last night because of what I have done." he said while scratching the back of his head.

They laughed hearing that Tesoro got taught a lesson last night. Seth then stood up "Okay that's all for now, don't forget that you will be setting sail in a month so be ready."

They all nodded and watched Seth as he left the room. Seth was now walking around the city watching the changes, there were no longer kids who were forced to sell flowers just to pay for their debts.

While walking around he finally remembered something he took out his den den mushi and called Tesoro. *pero*pero*pero* *KACHA!* "Tesoro speaking"

"Tesoro this is Seth, I would like you to bring me a doctor because I would be needing a blood transfusion and don't ask any questions you're not qualified to know it yet." Seth said.

Tesoro swallowed the words he was about say and told Seth that the doctor would be in his room in 30 minutes.

After hanging up Seth then went back to his room and waited for the doctor, a couple of minutes later someone knocked on his door, he opened it and a middle aged man entered.

"Mr. Seth, before we proceed with your blood transfusion we first need to check your blood type" the doctor said to which Seth nodded in agreement.

After finding out that Seth's blood type was AB which wasn't rare the doctor told him that he would be back in an hour.

When the doctor left the room Seth summoned Red. the little guy asked "What is it master?"

"It's time red, extract my devil fruit but be sure to take it slowly because the blood would be arriving in an hour so don't get too greedy and finish it off immediately" Red eyes brightened and he started salivating hearing that he could finally feast on his master's blood.

Seth flicked his forehead and repeated what he said earlier, Red finally nodded and told him that he would surely enjoy his time feasting on his blood.

Red then turned into a scythe and made a small wound on Seth's arm just enough to have a small blood to which red would be feeding. He didn't made a big wound because it would only take him a couple of minutes before he finished feasting on Seth's blood that's why he only made a small wound.

Red then started feasting on Seth's blood, 50 minutes later an apple shape devil fruit appeared on Seth's palm. he knew that it was his wind devil fruit he became dizzy but just as he was about to pass out the doctor entered the room.

When the doctor saw Seth's condition he freaked out and immediately transfused the blood on Seth, a couple of minutes later the blood transfusion was finally finished and Seth has finally recovered. he thanked the doctor and told him that to take his payment from Tesoro.

The doctor bowed and took his leave, Red then appeared when the doctor left "Master are you ready to eat the darkness darkness fruit? Red asked.

Seth nodded "Yeah, give it to me I know that it is a strong devil fruit but it has a lot of weakness so I will only be using it as a catalyst so that I could eat 2 more devil fruits."

Red then gave a purple fruit with tear drop design, Seth immediately bit the fruit and threw the rest of it. he frowned from the taste of the devil fruit when the taste was gone he look at his hands and willed the darkness power.

He didn't know why but when he summoned the power of the darkness darkness fruit something inside of him wanted to create chaos all over the world. he tried to control himself to not destroy anything, after fighting with the fruit for a couple of minutes Seth finally sighed "Haaay, I never thought this devil fruit would be such a pain in the as*"