Chapter 58: Hiding out

On that day, bandits attacked the port of Habu in an attempt to steal SMILE fruits, fierce fighting broke out between Pirates and bandits, resulting in the death of 27 bandits and 130 Pirates, 98 of whom were killed by one person.

The bandit leader Ashura was seriously injured and retreated with his surviving followers towards Mount Atama-Yama, they hid there, but things didn't go well.

After cleaning up the mess that happened, Smile fruits were sent to the capital and presented to the Shogun to try on the prisoners, all the fruits failed, as their users suffered severe collateral damage and became hysterically laughing, and from then on the name of the processed fruits was changed to SMILE fruits.

After returning to Onigashima, Jack told Kaido everything he had witnessed during the raid by the bandits, Kaido was perplexed and realized how serious the situation was, so he harnessed 3,000 Pirates of his followers and 1,000 samurai of the Shogun's followers and ordered them to search the entire state of Wano in search of Arthur and his collaborators.

During this operation, several real spies were arrested, some of them for the government and others as informants belonging to Pirates, when Kaido realized that spies filled the country, so he took several countermeasures, including increased security around the crossings and also searched his followers to be surprised that there were many spies among their ranks as well.

After a six-month liquidation process, 100 spies were eliminated, including two members of Arthur's organization, after another six months filled with searches, murders and interrogations, the situation calmed down a little and returned to its usual normality.

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"Uhh!"

"Where am I! why can't I see anything?"

Arthur, who was lying on the ground while his body was covered with blood, got up with difficulty and staggered.

"I can't see!"

Arthur, who had regained his clarity, was surprised to be unable to open his eyes

'I have to calm down now, I don't know my condition at the moment and neither

I know what happened to me, maybe I'm buried or maybe there's something surrounding my body'

After sorting out his thoughts, he moved his body to find himself able to do it 'I'm not trapped, I seem to have lost my vision, at the moment I'm going to try to adapt to it, I can feel my surroundings a little bit but my injury prevents me from concentrating'

Arthur moved his body with difficulty and took an upright sitting position, reached out his left hand, which was trembling violently, and grabbed his black mask, with which he hid his face.

He put some force into his hand and pulled out his mask but stopped because of the intense pain he felt, he put his hand to his face and felt a small wooden stick stuck in his eyes.

Arthur didn't hesitate or think about it, he pulled out the stick quickly, but the intensity of the pain he felt made him scream as loudly as he could.

"Uuuhhhhhhh!"

After he regained his composure, Arthur removed his mask, which had become stiff due to the dry blood that covered it, his face appeared, which had become like a dry stick, his lips were dry and scaly, his cheek was found to have a large scratch that extended to his ear, his left eye split and filled with sticky pus and some white lumps, and his right eye had its eyelid frozen due to the dry blood above it.

After sitting in his position for about ten minutes, Arthur crawled with difficulty and headed towards the sound of water that he heard, after crawling for about half an hour he reached a small stream, the stream was not very far away but Arthur was unable to crawl and it took him a long time to move his body for a few meters.

Arthur held the clear water with his hand, but it immediately turned red and began to creep through his fingers, without any delay he pulled the water towards his mouth and drank it voraciously, after taking several sips Arthur finally quenched his thirst.

Holding water between his palms and washing his face, removing the blood that covered him after doing this operation several times, Arthur was able to finally open his right eye, but his vision was very blurry.

After washing the rest of his body and regaining his clarity a little Arthur cut off his clothes and was in several belts and ribbons and wrapped them around his injuries, after bandaging his wounds Arthur leaned on a bright green tree trunk and listened to the joyful voice of the wild with burdened feelings.

After several minutes of meditation, Arthur opened his eyes and sighed," huh, I survived " there was no expression of happiness on his face, but an empty expression, as if something happened that he did not want.

'What really happened, the last thing I remember is falling and losing consciousness, so how did I get to this place?'

I don't remember anything about my escape, knowing that the chances of my survival are almost non-existent, I don't expect some hero or wise old man to appear out of nowhere and save me, or get a strange power like the shonen heroes and defeat my enemies and then run away, things are not that simple.'

'There's no need to think about it right now, what matters is that I survived, but at what cost?' My condition is pathetic and I will need a lot of time to heal completely.'

Arthur's body was filled with wounds, his right hand was cut off and he was hit by a bullet in his left thigh, a large part of his leg was also cut off so that his foot was moving with gravity, he suffered a severe wound in his chest because of which his breathing sounded like a bellowing, the bones of his rib cage and the bone of his right leg cracked, his eye popped, his face was injured and part of his ear was lost in addition to dozens of scratches.

Due to Arthur's ability to heal, he was sure that he would be back to his former self in a short time, but he needed to head to a safe place first.

Arthur raised his head and looked at the giant snow-covered mountain in front of him, he had an initial idea of his location, after sitting in place for a few more hours Arthur stood up with difficulty and limped away to a safe place.

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[A year later]

[Kebbi County]

Inside a large underground burrow Arthur sat quietly as he read a letter he got from Odrick.

It's been a year since the Habu port incident, Arthur didn't want to return to the bandits because they would bother him with their questions and doubts, so in the end he decided to go to Kebbi province and build a hideout for him, after digging a big underground hole Arthur hid there and spent most of his time training and meditating.

At first, because of his injuries, he could not train, so he spent most of his time reading and meditating. Arthur did not come out of his hole much, he only left when he wanted to steal supplies or hunt and on the day of delivery of reports.

'Heh, finally good news worthy of my attention' Arthur put aside the letter he received from Odrick and there is a small smile on his face.

After searching for about two years, his followers finally found one of the fruits he wanted, its name was a Blood Blood fruit that gave the user the ability to control his blood and make it his own weapon, but the fruit's offensive or defensive ability is not the thing that made Arthur look for this fruit, but its unique features that made its owner have the ability to control and know the state of his body.

'It's time to find out the reason for my strange healing ability'

Arthur sighed deeply and closed his eyes drifting in a deep sleep, he was looking forward to getting the fruit but he had to wait for a short period of time until his followers brought it and handed it to Odrick.

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Blood blood fruit

The Japanese name:

Chi chi no mi

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