3-Strange accident, Arrival, Meeting

As always, it was a sunny morning. Shortly after setting off, the sea water was still the dreamy light blue of the shallows, and groups of small fish and sometimes larger underwater predators were clearly visible, setting the scene for a survival challenge worthy of a film.

After saying goodbye to Koushiro and his wife, Wright, aged 14, left the village of shimotsuki aboard a merchant ship.

"Huh..."

Stretching his knuckles, Wright swung his legs over the edge of the ship, his long sword resting on his head, and relaxed.

Having spent two years in the dojo, Wright is finally no longer a 'little brother' - there are younger children who enter the dojo to study. As the strongest of the dojo's disciples, Wright is unsurprisingly admired by the new apprentices, and his popularity is extremely high.

just...

"Little ghosts from all over the dojo came to see me! It almost made me want to stay!" Rubbing his eyes, Wright took a deep breath.

He was dressed in new clothes specially prepared by his mother, his long blonde hair was tied back in a ponytail, and his handsome face revealed Wright's firm, confident, energetic look.

The increase in his height over the last two years has also made the use of a long knife less awkward.

Before leaving, Master Koushiro deliberately took Wright's original sword, saying that he was going to prepare a farewell gift for Wright.

While Wright wondered why he had to take anything as a gift, Koushiro had already finished: the longsword had been strengthened, and it had been transformed from an ordinary sword into one comparable to the meito. Although Wright was pleasantly surprised by this, he had been somewhat expecting it.

After all, this was the famous family of swordsmen and blacksmiths from the land of Wano!

Once the weapon has been created, it is finished in its final state.

It is difficult to improve the weapon using pure forging techniques. In other words, the body of the long knife that Wright usually uses is just an ordinary weapon. There's really no special blessing for the forging process. So it can only be slightly improved.

There are many famous knives in the world, but the sea is so big that basic famous knives are inaccessible. It's not easy to find a famous knife that suits you.

So Wright gave it a name: Ashes.

I stayed at the dojo for two years, and I was the same (secondary) boy as before!

Although the long knife from Pirate World and the blade from Sacred Light are weapons, there's no similarity.

But Koshiro's words worried Wright even more:

"Wright, I feel your 'spirit' in that knife, just as... your unique 'mark' can be linked to your abilities, and I think that 'mark' is where we need to start with you. It's like the aura of ability. On the surface, it's just a big knife, not even as fierce as some of the fierce swords that have been through many battles, but in reality, if you use it, it shouldn't be weaker than the 'Ryo Wazamono' the 50 Blades of superior quality in general. '."

"The footprint is still very weak, but after discovering the existence of the footprint, I focused on maintaining that feature for this upgrade. As a result, the improvement that was originally intended to be stronger can only be achieved at the current level of excellent knives. As your use and abilities increase, it is very likely that this knife will become a special weapon that belongs only to you, and no one but you will be able to use its abilities."

"Although its lower limit has been determined, its upper limit is made up of infinite possibility. It all depends on how you train it.... Wright, the truly powerful "great swordsman", is likely to "refine" ordinary swords into powerful "black knife" swords.

"Among the famous Saijo Ô Wazamono and

Ô Wazamono, there are powerful weapons made by the hand of a blacksmith, but there are also swords that weren't so powerful before, because they come with a powerful user. The person has reached this level after many battles."

"..."

What is this? Spiritual? A soul blade? A demonic sword?

Eighty percent is the cause of the power of the sacred light. This knife was originally an ordinary long knife. It was originally chosen because it was the longest and most beautiful of the alternative knives, but it has often been used to infuse the power of the sacred light into the knife in order to project the effect attached to it. Strike it.

"Refining ordinary swords into "black knives," This reminds Wright that in the original work, the world's greatest swordsman, "Eagle Eye" Mihawk, described this sort of thing, and shimotsuki Onimaru, from the land of Wano, gave an example. --The sword of the 'god of blades' Shimotsuki Ryuma, the 'shisui' classified as 'O Wazamono', is the powerful 'black sword' that Ryuma forged in the course of many battles!

Could it be that Hawkeye's supreme knife, the "Black Knife Yoru", was not found by Hawkeye, but was created by himself after he became a great swordsman?

So, if you continue to infuse the power of the sacred light, and even if you infuse it with advanced weapon haki: emission and internal destruction" or maybe even infuse it with conqueror haki, while refining a "black sword", is it possible to make a supreme sword?

Is it a weapon that can evolve without being replaced? It was the most appropriate sword!

Wright was really looking forward to it!

...

The merchant ship sailed steadily on, the aroma of food already wafting across the deck...

After eating and drinking, Wright yawned and returned to his room. He intended to meditate and practise his observation haki. In fact, he was trying to imbue the 'ashes' with the power of sacred light. On the one hand, he was exercising the power of sacred light. On the other hand...

"Doctor... ! Is there... a doctor here? Help...! Help!"

" ? "

Wright's attention was triggered by the noise outside the cabin. Pupils flashing red, he saw on the merchant ship people eating together not so long ago were foaming at the mouth and falling to the floor. It looked as if they had been... poisoned?

Arriving at the cabin, Wright quickly found the person calling for help, and a healing technique instantly brought that person back to normal. It turned out that the man was a cook in the merchant ship's restaurant. Wright finally understood what had happened.

Strange floral incident: Ingredients from the merchant ship were accidentally mixed with poisoned fish, which was unfortunately mixed into the soup to supply the passengers, so the passengers and crew who ate the fish soup were recruited.

Unfortunately, the merchant ship's doctor has also been recruited. He was particularly fond of fish soup. After drinking more, he was poisoned and fainted...

And Wright...

"Fortunately, I still only eat fish directly and I don't like fish soup."

To stop the crying and thanking, Wright ordered the fainting intoxicated people to be rounded up in their rooms or on the cabin deck, and then to go to the restaurant to be cured.

...

The power of the Holy Light is also first-rate for detoxification. Fortunately, thanks to the perception of the observation haki, every poisoned person was clearly perceived by Wright, wherever they were, and passed on to him in time.

After Wright's swift treatment, the poisoned personnel on board finally returned to normal.

Although the angry crowd couldn't shake the trembling chef, Wright still enjoyed the fanatical gratitude of the crew.

"You're so young and medically competent, it's amazing!"

"A doctor of genius! Brother Wright, thank you for saving our lives!"

"The genius doctors in my hometown are not worthy to lift shoes for you! So many unknown people and symptoms are cured so quickly. He is the genius doctor!"

"The doctor of genius! Allow us to reimburse you!"

...

After escaping the fanatical crowd because he had grown tired of it, Wright finally calmed down.

At first, Wright didn't really understand why these people were so fanatical, when it was just a rehab. But then he thought about it. In the situation just now, where the whole ship had been poisoned and the ship's doctor hadn't been spared, if there hadn't been an accident, the shipowner's end result would be to float out to sea and wait to die, with all the passengers on board.

Whether civilians, sailors or pirates, with the exception of a few, most people in the pirate world value affection.

It's no exaggeration to be congratulated on such an act, which saved the lives of a boatload of people, simply and cleanly.

After thinking about it, Wright realised that since he had mastered the power of the Sacred Light, he no longer seemed to care about life and death, because unless he was killed in one fell swoop, it was very difficult for him to die, and the multiple powers of the Sacred Light amplified that.

This kind of mentality, which ignores life and death, is obviously not conducive to controlling the power of the Holy Light.

Wright suddenly realised this, but was frightened after a while. If it hadn't been for this bizarre event to wake me up, would I have become slowly indifferent and ruthless, would I have become a server of holy light instead of a controller of light, and would I only act according to basic logic, like... the so-called 'Mother of Holy Light'?

"This way, the corpse will probably be broken into pieces and used to reinforce the weapons..."

"To control power, not to be controlled by power, is a general rule in any system of power."

"So the next step, deepening the mindset is the most important thing, maybe I should experiment with more things..."

Having secretly made up his mind, Wright began a routine meditation to adjust his state as best he could, "Let's check the previous thoughts."

Sitting cross-legged, he took out the long knife and placed it horizontally on his leg, Wright used his observation haki and began to concentrate on perceiving the long knife "Ashes".

As his haki focused on the sword, Wright seemed to be able to see the structure of the sword, and could perceive that there was indeed a slight link to himself in the knife.

"Is this the 'mark' the master spoke of?

Wright's hands are covered in a thick layer of sacred light, gently brushing the blade, and perceiving the blade's situation through dominating gaze and hearing....

Although it is very weak, some of the power of the sacred light has not escaped, but is being absorbed by the blade, but it takes more effort to slow down the speed of the power of the sacred light.

Wright concentrated quickly! Then, use the rest of the time until the next island to exercise the power of "control" of the sacred light.

...

"Doctor Wright, arrived in Orange Town!"

Wright emerged from the cabin with his bag and "ash", and everyone on deck quickly bowed and thanked him, which made him a little embarrassed.

"You don't need to be so polite, and I'm not a doctor, I'm a swordsman.... Hey ! What kind of eyes do you have !? Can't you see that sword ?!"

It took a lot of work to get rid of the enthusiastic people, and Wright entered the third stage of World Contact - Orange Town.

Leaving the village of shimotsuki, Wright didn't have a specific destination, but he didn't expect the first stop to be the special place that is Orange Town.

The town of Orange was recently built, the scale is not very large, many facilities are incomplete and there is a greater dependence on merchant ships. The town's inhabitants are well aware of the merchant ships that often come and go from Orange Town. So it wasn't long before the town's inhabitants knew that a very, very powerful genius doctor had appeared in the town !

"Luffy is capable of finding a very talented navigator here, but I don't know what I can find one of!"

Wright was thinking good thoughts in his heart, and practising his Haki observation at the same time , but he suddenly saw an unexpected figure.

"That straw hat! Am I dazzled?"

"No, even if I am dazzled, I shall not be deceived!"

Wright's observation haki is suspected to be enhanced by the power of sacred light, not only does it possess one of the legendary hallmarks of high-level derived abilities - emotion perception, but the coverage is not small, and will cover almost a city shortly after awakening. It expands even further with practice.

"'Redhead' Shanks!"

The other part didn't turn up, and Wright's heart was very strange. A few days ago, news broke that the Shiki, the 'Golden Lion' had escaped from Impel Down.

Shanks shouldn't be here right now...

"God knows! Even though I'm a transmigré, I can only remember a few major events, but who can remember such fine details as that!"

As expected from haki observation... You can feel the emotions and voices of creatures when you see and hear them, and you obviously get the impression that it's much stronger than listening to the voice, and that you can 'hear' it without it even speaking.

Was Shanks drinking happily in the bar? Did he form a pirate group at that time?

Shanks: "Oh, that sniper is such a shame, I didn't expect to go there on a special trip or I was rejected."

"But that's all right. I can see he's a person who longs for the sea. One day he'll get on my boat, hahaha!"

Wright: "Oh ?... The redhead Shanks, known as the haki killer, will also be rejected..."

"Sniper ? He doesn't seem to be very far from Silob village~ Is that yassop ? Haha shanks should be depressed, right ?"

Shanks: "I heard there's a genius doctor in town. He's still a kid. It's very interesting. I really want to see him... I've just rejected my sniper. Can I at least get an on-board doctor ?"

Wright: "..."

What is this situation ? Has the thinking not changed ? What's the problem with recruiting this guy ? Don't you want to take a break ?

But...

Shanks looks about seventeen or eighteen, without the three scars left by the black beard in his right eye...

Maybe ? possible ? feasible ?

He's a powerful man who boarded the Pirate King's ship when he was born, and he's also the son of the commander of the Divine Knights, Saint Figarland Garling.

He must still be a long way from being at the top of his game right now, but as an official member of the Pirate King's crew who took part in the 'Battle of the Sea of Ait-Wal', in the future he'll be taking part in great sword battles against Mihawk, so he should at least be a great swordsman of the highest rank...

In the "weakest sea" of the East Blue Sea, it's rare to come across a strong man like Shanks, so it's a shame to miss him.

In Orange Town's only tavern, Shanks has already faced a few barrels of beer and a few tables of alcoholic drinkers. He's a terrible physique.

"Squeak~"

The door to the tavern was pushed open, Wright probed inside, eyeing the crumbling drinkers with a black streak, and the soaring alcohol nearly made him do a somersault.

"This one..."

"Wow! Doctor ! Do you come to the pub to have fun too? You can drink it. Today I've got all your wine !"

A loud voice called out with infinite surprise.

Wright: "Eh merde !"