11.Much Needed Peace

Getting tired, Darren sat down picking fruits from the tree beside him. Eating it, he felt his body come to life, but it was minuscule, "even with the recovery boost I get from eating, it'll take me months or even up to a year to heal fully without any hidden injuries."

"Well this island will be my humble abode then" Darren got up as slow as a snail, laughing at his situation he continued walking further into the forest.

"I have no strength whatsoever, so if even a deer attacks me, it stands a high chance against me" Darren shook his head chuckling.

He then carefully manoeuvred around the forest, finally finding a place he felt comfortable in. "I can't even use my devil fruit powers right now, so it's better for me to wait abit till I recover enough".

An hour passed, he got up pointing his finger at a gaint tree beside him, a hole opened up inside as a dome like roof appeared, he built a door at the front.

"This'll do for now, nights coming in an hour". Darren picked up fruits as he walked in sitting down on his ice bed, he ate his meal.

Staring into the distance he thought 'from watching one piece, I know that I've attracted the attention of the World Government, my bounty should be above 700 million now."

'My clothes are nonexistent now, so tomorrow I'm going to look for a clothing shop here.' Darren looked down, the bottom half of his robe was full of blood.

"I look homeless", Darren feeling groggy finally called it a night as he slept with his haki reserves filling up slowly.

He woke up in the morning, his whole body ached "ughh" standing up slowly he done his daily routine.

Stretching ever so slowly he loosened up his muscles, "ok it's time to go to the market". He then walked outside as he picked up a tree branch and used it as a walking stick.

After 10 minutes of walking he came across a town, walking through the town, he realised it was pretty busy so he asked a person walking by "hello do you know of a place that sells clothes?".

"Uhh yes, if you keep walking along this road and turn right you should see a shop called comfy wear".

"Ok thank you" Darren then walked along the rode that the civilian showed him as he came across the shop, "comfy wear is an odd name, especially here". Walking in he was greeted by the store owner, "hello there son, you look like you could be doing better".

"Ahaha" chuckling awkwardly Darren asked for a pair of white and blue t-shirts and some black pants. He then went into the small changing room as he put on new clothes over his bandages.

"Mister, as you can see my robe is in tatters, so i would like to ask for a favour, would you be able to repair it for me?".

"Sure kid, no problem it'll only take 2 days". "That's perfect thanks, also do you sell hats that can shade you pretty well?".

"Yeah, their on the second row over there" the store owner pointed at the wall near the front of the shop. Darren then browsed as he looked for a hat he liked, he then picked a floppy hat that was blue in colour, "mister I'll take this".

"Ok, come back in two days for you robe". "Ok see you". Darren then gave him the 1000 berries and walked around the town.

Finding a pub, he walked in with his hat as he ordered sake along with some food, the original sake he bought back at Sabaody was destroyed along with the boat.

Sitting down he heard a commotion, intrigued he listened as he heard "did you watch that broadcast?".

"Yeahh, that fight was crazy!!!", 'hmm?, what fight are they taking about?' Darren thought, then he saw a newspaper with him and Aokiji in the center.

'What?!' His eyes widened as he realised that the thing the people in the pub were talking about was his fight. 'I'm sure before I even fought him a extended my observation haki range to its limits? No one was there?'.

Baffled Darren read the title "Admiral defeated!! End of Marines?!!", "heh, they think an Admiral losing by not much means the marines is over? what fools".

'If that were the case, then the Four Emperors would've done it along time ago'. He continued reading the newspaper as he listened to the conversations.

"The fight was like a fight I had never seen!", a drunk man with long arms said, alcohol dripping from his mouth.

"Yeah although the young man is a criminal, I have to applaud his strength, he looked no older the 16 and he fought and beat and Admiral!".

"But he left with sever injuries!, another man lashed back defending the marines, "heh, the Admiral still lost even if he severely injured the young man".

"What did you say?! You wanna fight!", Darren listening couldn't help but have his ego stroked a little bit, he had a tiny smile creeping up on his face.

After eating and taking the newspaper along with him he decided to walk around the place, so he could keep his body active even if he couldn't train.

(Author- currently Darren can at most use 10% of his physical strength not including haki)

Walking along multiple streets he often saw people with incredibly long arms, 'they must be the Longarm Tribe', 'but this place looks awfully similar to china back on earth, the mountains have a sword shape to them'.

After an hour walking he went back home as he walked through the valleys, greeting the people passing by him, he got weird looks as he didn't have long arms but Darren didn't mind as he entered his house.

"Looks like there's a new face here on Kenzan Island" a woman with long arms said as her and her group were the ones that greeted Darren.

"Indeed, did you notice he doesn't have long arms like us".

"He might have a disease dad" said a little boy.

"Boy! Where did you learn this from!" He then looked at his wife as she looked into the distance.

"Husband, the valleys look incredible today" she said with sweat coming down her forehead, she tried whistling too look innocent.

"…." The husband just looked at her, he then turn to his son and said "son, you mustn't say that, what if at night the monster comes to take you! So it's good to be kind". Scared the little kid nodded.

Back at his house, Darren sat down as he continued to read the news paper wondering how it was even recorded.

He was sure from Aokiji's personality he had no reason to lie, so he wondered who the third party was as they even hid well from both his and Aokiji's observation haki.

'That's really weird, I should get to the bottom of this when I recover' Darren's eyes squinted, 'after the battle they could've taken both me an Aokiji out I wonder why they didn't'.

It was evening and half of his haki had recovered, so he decided to relax atop of the sword mountain close to his house.

Getting up there after awhile, he sighed "haah, this was some much needed peace", the wind moved his hair as he enjoyed the breeze.

"I have to admit, the One Piece world is beautiful, adding to the fact that it's bigger than earth, I have so much to explore" smiling he looked around, whirlpools surrounded the island, occasionally he'd see a sea monster come out.

"Hehe HAHAHAHA, I can't wait to meet you".

"Ace".