Castelia

It has been a month and half since I started training Bartolomeo in Rokushiki.

He has achieved basic mastery over 3 techniques of Rokushiki. He has mastered Geppo to which he can stay in the air for a prolonged time. Not as much as me, but it's still alright.

The second technique he has become alright at is Ranayaku. This technique is where you kick the air so fast, you create an air slash that has some pretty good attack potency.

He didn't learn the basic version of it.He learned the variation which I use. It's the Ranayaku: Sword Style.

It's when instead of your legs you kick at intense speed, you swing your sword and create an air slash. Bartolomeo uses it with a dagger that he's very proficient in using.

The third and last one he has become alright in is Soru. Soru allows Bartolomeo to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater power.

The way it works is that Bartolomeo has to kick off the ground at least 10 times to move at the high speed.

Bartolomeo has become a capable fighter in the last few weeks. If I had to give him the strongest person he could beat, it would be a Daz Bone level character or someone a little bit higher.

The strongest character I think I could beat is a Kaku level character. I could give Rob Lucci some trouble but I think he could beat me, especially if he uses Rokugan, a Rokushiki move I don't know.

Bartolomeo and I are a pretty dangerous duo to anyone in the East Blue.

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The auction is going to take place in 2 weeks. Bartolomeo and I, are packing are stuff in our new ship, The Reborn Nova, in order to get there early.

Once again, I reminded myself how big the ship was! It was truly a place to call home when your out in the middle of the sea.

Bartolomeo had his men be on the ship with us too. There was a cook, a shipwright and many other roles on the ship fulfilled by ,strength wise, fodder.

That's what I want my crew to be. I want my main crew to be full of combatants and the roles that we don't have, fulfilled by henchmen or fodder. If one of the combatants can do something to the crew like a doctor, that's just perfect.

It's how most of these Yonko crews are. Kaido, Big Mom and Blackbeard. Their crew are usually combatants mixed in with workers/henchman

On another note though, we just got done packing and we are ready to head out. Bartolomeo told one his most trusted man to stay back and keep the civilians in check.

As we departed, I could only think of what challenge will be there at the auction.

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After a week of sailing, we finnaly made it to Castelia , the island where the auction will be held at.

We docked our ship and ordered for our men to guard the ship and not let anyone in. As Bartolomeo and I got off the ship, we explored the island.

I saw a multitude of ships docked at the island. I guess everyone else wanted to be here early too.

I wanted to scout out the competition and the people I will be fighting, so I went to the only place I could think of where multiple pirates would conjugate.

I went to a Bar.

I walked into the most popular bar of Castelia. There were a ton of pirates drinking together and the bar was packed up. I sat at the front of the bar near all the other pirates.

There were 3 pirates that got my attention the most. It was a pirate I recognized.

The man in question was fairly tall and burly. He had dark skin and a red liberty-spikes-like hairstyle.

It was the future Red Hair pirate, Rockstar. I forgot he would join Shank's crew a year later and was still a pirate.

Rockstar's strength is underrated as to be recognize as a heavy hitter on Shanks crew and have a bounty of 94,000,000, you have to be strong.

He'll be a formidable opponent.

I was in my thoughts until a pirate walked up to me. The man was around 7'6 and looked like a behemoth.

"Just because I leave for a few minutes doesn't mean you can sit in my seat", his voice boomed. It sounded so deep it was unnatural.

All the people in the bar silenced the drama. They looked at me as they awaited what I would and started whispering between each other.

"Is that dude really messing With Goliath"

"Doesn't he know he had a 98,000,000 beli bounty"

"Poor guy, he's screwed"

I looked at the behemoth before getting up and letting him have my seat.The bar stopped holding their breath as they thought I wouldn't get killed.

I'll remember his face. It's just that I don't want to have enemies or eyes on me before I steal from the auction. When I initiate my plan, I'll be sure to get revenge for embarrassing me.

I sat at the other end of a bar after the altercation.

I left an hour later, still mad about how I was punked. If I was ounce less dedicated to the mission, I would have killed him right where that behemoth was standing.

I met back up with Bartolomeo before going back to our ship.

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(Unknown Man's Pov)

As we finally made it to Castelia, I kept a straight face., wanting to complete this mission as fast as possible.

As we docked our ship, one of my friends walked over to me." I can't wait to finish this mission. This is the first one where Hack doesn't have to supervise us. If we do this well, we can be our own bosses forever."

My friend always likes to look at the good side of things, even when we are dealing with something horrible. I liked that part about her and I wished I could be like that too.

We were going to crash an auction here at Castelia, in order to free some slaves. We heard report there would be Fishman slaves being ported here for the auction. It was our job as Revolutionaries.

"Yeah I guess so. Let's do a flawless job and bring justice for these people, Koala", I responded to her sentiment.

"Me and you are on the same page, Sabo"

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The chapter is done. Comment what you think

The Castelia Arc is just starting.