Set Sail

"Hsssss." Eileen hisses as she holds her side. Looking at her waist, she sees her clothes were cut through but her skin is still intact; Bruised along her entire waist, but intact nonetheless.

Nora sighs with relief when she sees Eileen is okay. She's found her life quite interesting in these few months, and the girls have grown on her.

Looking back at her life before, she felt as though she was wandering through a haze. Living every day in vanity and pride just waiting to die.

She feels Sol has given her a new lease on life, a chance to start over. She's already de-aged from a woman in her thirties to the body of a twenty-year-old. She's starting to develop in a more perfect direction as she exercises.

Making her look even better than she did before.

"How long are you going to lay there? Are you waiting for me to attack you again?" Sol spins his swords while waiting for Eileen to get up.

Eileen stands back up and grabs her intact sword with both hands.

"Good." Sol nods. "Women are naturally weaker than men, unless you have a special physique or a devil fruit."

"Never block a blow if you can dodge. If you can't dodge, deflect. Never take a hit head-on." Sol rushes forward and begins attacking slower than before.

Eileen starts deflecting and dodging the best she can. Sometimes, Sol will hit her arm or chop her shoulder when she performs poorly.

Nora tries to cause interference with shooting, but Sol just chops or dodges the bullets.

"You will never hit me if you're just trying to shoot me. Instead, try and limit my movements with your bullets. Cut off my retreat or block my path forward."

Nora's eyes brighten when she hears his words. Instead of shooting at him, she shoots in front of his hand to stop him from attacking.

Sol continues giving instructions as the three of them spar. The two of them soak up his advice like a sponge and constantly improve.

Hours pass until all the girls return. Ending their training, he sends everyone to the library to learn except Jasmine and Vivian.

"Vivian, did you find anything interesting from their treasury?" Sol wipes the sweat from his brow as he turns towards Vivian.

"Nothing! They're a bunch of poor ghosts! They pretend like they're rich but most of their money is wasted. Maybe a tenth of our total wealth."

"It's ok." Sol nods. "How much do we have now?"

Vivian starts counting on her fingers as she estimates their wealth. "Around 400 million Beli."

Hearing the number, he turns towards Jasmine. "Did you get the Den Den Mushi?"

"Yes, Master. I gave one to Janet as well. This is her number." Jasmine takes out two baby Den Den Mushi. "They only had three."

Sol waves his hand as Jasmine tries to hand them to him. "You and Vivian can keep one each. I can't see to use one and it's pointless to learn for now."

"Gimmie!" Vivian snatches one from Jasmine's hand and absorbs it into her cleavage.

"Let me know if you need me to call someone, Master." Jasmine looks at Vivian with slight jealousy before placing it in her pocket.

"We should continue to develop quietly for a while." Sol shakes his head before leading them out of the basement.

Without the nobles to make a fuss, time passed quietly. With the Noble ladies to fill in the gap, no one missed the noblemen or cared if they were gone.

Everything on the island functioned normally and the year soon arrived at 1475.

During this time, Janet picked twenty of her best girls and Sol charmed them all.

After Janet trained in the castle she took what she learned to teach them. Mainly to build up her experience in leading and giving instructions.

He plans to use Janet for years to come. If he's using Jasmine as his right hand, Janet is his well deserved left.

The girls were then split up into ten teams of two and sent to nearby islands after training for five months.

They've only been on mission for a month, but they've reported back every three days.

None of the surrounding islands have a Kingdom. The nearest Kingdom takes over two weeks to arrive on the fastest boat.

With the nobles out of the way, no one could cause Janet much trouble on the island. He sent out his girls to clear all the bandits and thieves on the island. While they aren't strong, it's the best way to get hands-on experience.

His observation haki now spans 6km. With the island over 600km across, he still has a long way to go. The capital is only 30km across and his range barely covers a fifth.

The most exciting thing is he finished his tunnel. After hammering through the ground with armament haki, it's improved his proficiency by leaps and bounds.

The tunnel cuts diagonally through the island until it hits the sea. When he hit the sea, he had Jasmine use her wax to build a massive underwater base.

The base will be used for one thing, to build their ship. He plans to use all the metal on the island to make a 400 meter long 80-meter wide submarine with 20 decks.

Vivian has transferred all the metal into the base and all nine of them work together to build it.

When he was an assassin, their base was on a mobile sub so he knows a lot about them. It made it easier to travel between countries for missions.

The castle is only used for sleeping and eating while most of their time is spent in the underwater base.

Forging steel is a great workout replacement. While he had everything set up, he created a few weapons. His main focus was on three swords, using thousands of years of tried and tested techniques developed on earth.

Using a haki infused hammer to fold the metal, he obtained a much better result than he ever got on earth making his weapons.

For Eileen, he made two katanas he named Soyokaze and Keikan. Soyokaze has a gentle, wavy blue hamon pattern leading to the name gentle breeze. Keikan's hamon came out with a mix of green and brown so he named it landscape.

The sword he made for himself is fashioned after a scimitar from a game. The sword is called Cruel Barb. Towards the tip of the blade is a curved slice recession that forms a hook. This makes it great for catching swords in a duel and ripping through flesh.

"Belip belip belip, belip belip belip."

While working together to build the sub, Jasmine's Den Den Mushi rings.

Stepping to the side, she pulls it out of her pocket. "This is Jasmine."

"Jasmine, I just got a report from my girls. Of the ten islands, only three of the red light districts are run by women."

As Janet is reporting, Sol walks over. Jasmine places the snail in his hand and takes a step back.

"For those seven islands, I'll have to take the radical approach. Tell the girls there to find 10 girls with the most influence. We'll take it over from the inside."

"That shouldn't be a problem, they've already mixed in quite well. Noone seems guarded against a common prostitute"

"Yes, the World Government is too comfortable. No one has truly threatened them in hundreds of years. Not until Rocks shows his fangs will they realize how much control they lost. That Pirates are a much bigger threat than they realized."

"Only then will they realize they need a way to collect information on future threats."

"Master, do you think the World Government will take over the red light district?" Janet can't help but ask with a bit of doubt.

"Of course." The corners of Sol's mouth rises. "Only they won't realize they've entered a snake's nest." Taking a breath he decides to get back on topic. "Tell me about the other three islands."

"The first two are Aswell and Enmont Islands. The islands aren't very big and consist of a large port town and one or two small villages. The last island is called Lonforte, a medium-sized island."

"This island also has a port town and few villages, but the main thing is the 344th Marine Base."

"Oh? A Marine Base is located so close to us?" Sol rubs his chin. The fact he didn't know this shows how much he's lacking in information.

Thinking of his girls, he has to sigh. Each of them is starting from nothing and will take time to train. Give him five more years and he can get them to a decent place.

"If that's the case, I'll hit Aswell and Enmont first. Then I'll go to Lonforte before visiting the other seven islands."

"Let me know if you need anything." The Den Den Mushi changes back to its normal expression as Janet hangs up.

"We'll leave tonight." Sol hands the snail back to Jasmine.

She looks curious as she tucks the snail back into her pocket. "Is everyone going?"

"Yes, this is a good chance to go out and experience." Sol nods after thinking about it for a moment. He doesn't have to worry about exposure if he kills everyone who sees them.

After telling all the girls, everything preceded smoothly. The route was planned out and charted. He has a lot of ships docked at the capital's pier, confiscated from the nobles.

When night fell, the nine of them went to the port and boarded a ship. Sol lays back on a recliner while the girls put everything they learned in books to the test.

The ship leaves the docks with the sails wide open. All the flags that represent the kingdom have been removed so no one will recognize the ship.

"Master, it'll take us three days to reach Aswell." Jasmine walks over to report after making sure everything is okay.

"Everything is up to you girls this time. I won't help unless it's an emergency." Sol kicks his feet up and watches everything through the girls' eyes.

Jasmine nods heavily when she hears the meaning in his words. She turns her head and her eyes sweep over the others.

"Look alert! This isn't the safety of the castle, we can run into danger at any moment!"

"Hmph! Enjoy being bossy for now, I'll definitely replace you." Vivian crosses her arms across her chest, pushing up her massive boobs.

"Sol said Jasmine is in charge, so stop complaining." Eileen glances at Vivian before moving to a better place to observe.

"Weakling!" Vivian sticks out her tongue as Eileen walks away.

Julie and the girls listen to Jasmine without worry, they know their position isn't very high.

Nora sees all this before walking to Jasmine. "Maybe it's better to work in shifts? You can't have everyone watch all night."

Jasmine's face turns red in embarrassment, realizing she messed up her first command.

"Wait! Vivian, Julie, Eula, Krista, and Nora can rest and take the day shift."

Nora pats her on the shoulder before walking into the cabin. Vivian looks at Jasmine with a mocking smile as she walks inside.

Jasmine sighs with relief when she sees Eileen and Diana didn't complain about taking the night shift.

A smile hangs on the corners of Sol's lips as he listens to everything. Most of his thoughts are actually on food, scanning the sea for any large fish.