Preparation for the Journey and the Start of the Journey

The weeks following up on the meeting with the Royals was filled with a lot of writing for Green. His father wanted the plans for his other designs as such he had to transform some sketches of different designs he knew would work from his old world into full building plans with highly detailed instructions. The annoying part for Green was just the time it consummend as with his Nanobot-System it was already fully drawn out in his head right after he finished breakfast of the first after the visit in the palace.

Two weeks after the visit Green got notified from his father, which had it from the King, that the marines agreed to escort a couple people. As he was told he would go onto the ship as the kid of a buttler of a royal for which the journey would be booked. Nobody was supposed to know who he was, only the royal would know his actual name. The marine captain on the ship would be told that he was a bastard kid of a noble and was shipped with the royal to Karakuri Island for the things here to die down.

His father instructed him on important things if something would go wrong on his way to his destination. Green was very surprised that if he would strand in the West Blue he would have a really easy time getting back. The family businesses were spread out across the entire Blue as such getting to an office of it would not take long.

As soon as his father got to the Grand Line part of his instruction it basically came down to if the Island would be allied to the World Government otherwise I would have to pray that he would get a ride to one of them. It narrowed down to getting a Den-Den Mushi capable of international calls which were expansive as such only owned by rich people. It made Green realize that he could get really easily into dagner as soon as he exited the West Blue.

Nonetheless the preparation for his journey continued. To hide that Green was leaving his father would at the same time leave to another island to inspect an important branch opening of the Kent Trading Company(KTC) which would be crucial for their new balloon business.

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Six weeks after the visit to the palace it was time to leave. Green had to cut it close with finishing the plans for the balloons as the day of the departure came closer. He hoped that the instruction was good enough until his father informed him that he would be able to call him in case that they would run into problems. Green was slightly annoyed at himself as he did not think about that and that he stressed himself too much over it.

The day before the departure by ship, Green and his father made a short journey by carriage to one of the sea ports of the kingdom. It then dawned Green that he had never left the Capital City completely. His testing ground for his balloon was only a short 20 minutes walk from the main entrance. The thought made him excited and giddy like an actual nine year old.

He watched the outside from the windows in the carriage passing by. The greenery reminded him of a typical middle European countryside. They passed multiple villages, forests, plains and fields until Green was starting to be able to smell the salt in the air. He leaned out of the window and saw the big sparkling blue on the horizon becoming bigger. They arrived in the late afternoon at a small mansion, Green refused to call that a 'house', which belonged to his family. After an early dinner his father sent him to his room early to get rest as they would leave tomorrow morning at the first sunlight.

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Waking up the next morning for Green was not hard- no he had a really big problem falling asleep. After an hour of trying he instructed his system to knock him out so he could fall asleep faster and wake him up in case he would oversleep.

After a quick breakfast, he and his father boarded another carriage and made their way to their port. Silents came over the carriage as soon as they left the mansion ground. Green's father broke it after a short moment.

"I had Jonathan already placed your belongings in the marine ship you will take. It is mixed with the luggage of the royal just in case.", his father explained. Green nodded to signal he understood where to look for his stuff as soon as he boarded the ship.

"This will be the last time we will see each other for at least three years so I want you to know that I am proud of you Green." Green looked at his father and saw him making a sad face.

"After your mother died I did not know how to be a good father and just let you do whatever you want. Despite me having kids already, I never thought that I would actually start to care for one. The last months I felt powerless over the fact that I could no longer keep you safe" Green saw his father balling his fists so hard that they turned white. "I promise to work hard to create a safe environment here so you do not have to leave your home again because it is not safe."

Allen said the last sentence with a lot of confidence. "But let us get to some of the other important stuff." Green's father pulled a metal slip out of the inside of his jacket and gave it to Green. "This is an international nobel identification badge. You will have this on your person until you come back here. I want you to sleep, shower, change clothes and go to the toilet with it. Do you understand?!" Green nodded quickly, understanding that this is a lifeline in case something went wrong.

Duke Kent then pulled a suitcase, which looked reinforced and had a lock on it, out underneath his seat. "This is a suitcase we use to do big cash transfers". He then fished a key out of one of his pockets. "This is the key to it." Green received the suitcase and key combination. The key he hung around his head and the suitcase he placed next to it.

"How much is inside, father?" Green asked to know, so he does not have to open and count by hand.

"A small loan of 100 Million Berries." His father replied back calmly, sounding even dismissive about it.

"Ah, yes 100 Million that shou…. What!?" It took a second for Green to realize how much he was just handed over. "You do not have to be surprised. It is calculated from your allowance plus the amount of money you would have gotten from the sale of all the balloons. Of course the last part was like 90% of it but that was our lowest prediction…. And it fitted neatly in one of these suitcases."

"Thank you, I will try not spend it on useless stuff"

"Oh you can spend it on whatever you want. I have already opened a bank account at your destination which will get a monthly refill."

"Then why did you give me so much extra money?" Green asked, confused.

"The journey will take 10 weeks according to the marines and you will stop at nearly 25 ports as the ship you take is an inspection ship which collects documents from each base. If you would do the journey point to point it would take less than 4 weeks at maximum speed. So see this money for all the stuff you want to do on the journey and do not hold back."

Further questions from Green were shut down as the carriage stopped.

"Sir, we arrived", the coachmen informed them.

"This is where we will part," Green's father said. Green stood up and went to the door. He had already his hand on the carriage door but then turned around and quickly hugged his father. "Thanks for everything" Green whispered to his father and as quickly as he engaged the hug ended it, and is out of the carriage.

Outside the carriage he was able to see the marine ship he was about to board. It was massive. Bigger than any wooden boats would have been in his previous life. It has the classic movable big cannons on each side, while also having normal cannon rows below.

Green snapped out of his trans because he heard the carriage behind him move away. He looked after it for a good moment, before readying himself, to now keep taking care of himself. Green tried to not lie to himself; so he tries to fully impress the uneasiness coming up from having his entire safety net removed.

After a good minute of not moving he took a deep breath and moved forward.

"Let me find the officer I was supposed to find." Green moved around the ship where marines were currently loading supplies onto it. There was a lot of shouting involved apparently.

Green looked over these people and tried to spot one with the traditional captain cloak. He found the person he was looking for and made his way towards her. He had the suitcase his father gave him in one hand and in the other he had a document which he was supposed to give to the officer.

The closer he got to the officer the better he was able to see her. She was also currently shouting instructions towards various marines. She had long, dark purple hair, which looked black from a distance, tied behind her head with only two strands of hair on each side of her face. She wore tight, short, black pants, which stopped at her thighs, and a pink sleeveless blazer which showed off her growing breasts. The traditional officer cloak had pink sleeves and shoulder pieces.

Her face looked young, with the bright red lipstick and a mole on the right side of her face below her mouth being the things that stuck out the most. Overall she looked like a beautiful young woman.

When Green was around 10 meters away from her she turned fully towards him and he was now fully able to see her. A big black spider was tattooed on her left upper leg.

(A.C: make a guess who she is before reading the next part)

Green saw the women studying him. When he arrived in front of her he just handed her the documents. She raised an eyebrow to that but quietly took the papers and begann reading over them.

"Ok, so you're the special one. The captain had already informed me about you so you do not have to keep up your act before me. Wait here, I will lead you to your room after everything is taken care of with the loading", the officer informed Green.

Green waited for a half an hour until everything seemed to satisfy the officer. She led him up on board the ship. There were a lot of men running around getting things ready for the departure.

"First let me introduce you to the captain", the officer told him, as they walked through the ship. "Oh, my name is Gion and I am a Commodore", the girl introduced herself while walking towards, which Green assumed was the captain cabin. "The captain will not care about you as long as you will not get in the way of anybody, she is really easy going in that way to civilian passengers."

They arrived in front of the door to the captain's cabin and the officer knocked. "You can come in, Gion with our special passenger." An older female voice invited them inside.

Gion opened the door and they both stepped in. The captain's cabin had a bed to the side, a bookcase to the other. To the right side was a table with a lot of maps and on the left was a rough globe which looked like the ones Green saw in the geology part of the royal academy's library. At the opposite side from which they entered there was a big table with a good amount of documents on it.

When Green looked at the women sitting behind the table he had only one thing in his mind.

"Already?", he questioned.

The woman who was sitting behind the table was a semi important character and Green easily recognized her.

"Oh? Do you recognize me? I did not think I would be recognized in a rather far away place in one the Blues and that by a little boy. But still, my name is Vice Admiral Tsuru."

{Tsuru and Gion}