One Piece: Online

Amidst the ocean of flame and the havocing chaos, a single man moved as if he was dancing, as he rescued, and evacuated the people on the spot.

His movement, one may call it refined, and another may call it graceful, but no one will ever misunderstand it lame or uncool.

Combined with the fluttering golden hairs shining radiantly and his slender body that trailed the skies, he was easily the dream of many women... if he didn't open his mouth that is.

"Ahyahyahyahya," what was let out of his mouth was a somewhat vulgar high-pitched laughter unbefitting of his entrancing voice.

As disappointing as it is, it was the laughter filled with energy as if to give light in the name of hope to the deepest abyss in the name of despair.

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I lost myself in the crowds of walking people.

On my left was a man with a mullet hairstyle a leather jacket, and brown jeans. On my right was a bouffant woman wearing a garment of a popular brand, Junko Shimada, or whatever it was.

As a war orphan, I lacked an interest in fashion of this age. I had no money to buy it anyway.

'In front of me... behind me... This is dizzying!' My head started hurting from the amount of people gathered in one area. 

I inserted my finger inside my mouth and began licking it before pondering what I could do with my undeveloped mind.

In the end, I decided to run away from this place. 'Many people! But too many people! No food!' 

The reason why so many people gathered in this district was shown in the thick television that don't even have a remote control.

'After years of construction, The Tokyo Big Egg has finally been built! The Big Egg is said to enable to support the hostage of 57,000...' and so on was written on the television although slightly blurry.

Well, even with the TV as clear as a freshly Windexed window, I still can't decipher those letters, though! 

Whilst I walked away from the crowds, snot, and drool unconsciously gushed out of my 3 holes as the snots entered my mouth.

'Salty!' I thought before picking my nose and consuming the boogers I picked up.

Addicted to my current action, I continued walking toward unknowns in search of food... until I found a strange object dropped on the ground.

"Ua?" I made a silly noise before picking the object.

It was the triangle-shaped, nonexistent accessory of this era. 

Not only was it shaped strangely, but it was also glimmering in blue light, efficiently, neither too bright nor too dim. 

Even as a child, I was instinctively aware that this triangle object shouldn't exist in this kind of place, at this time. 

Before I do anything, I licked it to confirm its taste. 

'Not bitter! A little sweet!' Like the 3 years old I am, I inserted the triangle-shaped objects that were glinting more efficiently than the cutting-edge LED in my mouth.

*gulp*

As soon as the triangle-shaped object entered my mouth, it smoothly slid down my throat and I had no trouble in gulping it without bitting it.

In the next instance, my entire body gleaned in blue, and I only noticed it after the distracting light that entered my vision.

My arm was radiating blue luster. No, rather than just one of my limbs, my leg, torso, and even my eyes were a show of blue illumination.

"Fuck!" I spoke one of the few words I learned. 

'F***' was like some secret grown-up code for expressing their anger, panic, or plain old loathing. Despite the words I've learned barely filling up my word dictionary page, adults used it so much that the words remained on his dictionary page without a sign of disappearing.

"What the fuck is this guaaaaahhh!" I aggressively shook my hand up and down, left and right in hope of it disappearing.

During the process, I saw my body glorious radiating blue light and for instance, the thought of helplessness overcame me as I held back from sobbing and violently wriggled my body like a worm.

I tried every single means within my knowledge.

"Help me Doraemon!!" The most used sentences of the most popular show today.

"Kamehameha!!" The most iconic technique of the grossing anime today.

"Omae wa mou Shindeiru (You are already dead)," a random word I heard on one of the TVs.

[Ding! Connection to the Year 1988 & Host, Heylail succeeded!]

[Cherry Blossom Software welcomes you to One Piece Online!]

[Would you like to launch the Blossom Ejector to enter the world of One Piece?]

"Ua?" Unironically, I failed to comprehend the complicated words used by the system.

[...Really? A kid? Is this junk malfunctioning?] Something besides the robotic voice groaned in defeat.

[It took a lot to find even 1 candidate from the past. I have no choice, don't I?... I just have to improvise it.] 

[Would you like to launch the Blossom Ejector to enter the world of One Piece?] After a short while, the robotic voice sounded out again but this time, I could understand it.

The robotic voice spoke in no language. For example, if a mute, blind, deaf person thought something, in what language would they think?

  'If I enter would this blue thing disappear?' I thought but didn't know how to speak out my thoughts due to the lack of vocabulary.

Even if I tried, at best it would turn out like: "Motherfucker, this shit-fuck gone I go?" And this is even the politest I could go.

[Yes. If you enter the world of One Piece, that blue twinkle vanishes. But if you don't, it'll be your lifelong companion!] The robot replied.

'Lifelong companion!' For some reason, I hated how this sounded out.

"Ua! (Yes)" Prior to the question, I nodded, indicating my agreement to whether 'I would like to go to the world of One Piece."

[The candidates from ancient have agreed!]

[The millennium quota has been accomplished!]

[Advancing to the next quota... There is no next quota!]

[The stage has been set. Attempting the test to reincarnate the candidates from the fallen future.] 

[Test succeeded!] 

[Ta@^*no @$Fu*(yu is to be reincarnated!]

[We look forward to the day the two meet!]

Incomprehensible words began ringing in my ears once again, and just as I felt a headache coming on, my consciousness became distinct before my body vanished from the spot.

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- 1493 -

[Welcome to the world of One Piece!]

[Benefits will be awarded to the first player to ever log in to the One Piece Online.]

[The list of benefits is as follows: spawn location selection, access to the entire race database with the ability to choose any race, unlimited specialty/traits, and 1 inventory slot.]

[To begin with, please enter your username.]

"Username?"

[Your username is the name other players will use to address you in the game.]

"?" I tilted my head in confusion.

However, since it mentioned 'name' I conveniently entered my real name in it.

"Heylail!"

[The username, 'Heylail' does not exist yet!]

[The username has been set to Heylail!]

[Please enter the name of your character?]

'Character Name? Why do they have to make it this complicated.'

"Heylail!"

[The name is available.]

[Character name has been set to... the process has failed.]

[Randoming the Character's first name.]

[The character name has been decided.]

[Character name: Leon A. Heylail]

[Now, Player Heylail. Where would you like to spawn?]

'How should I know?'

"Japan!"

[Ding! Japan does not exist in the world of One Piece. However, a location based of Japan, Wano Country does exist. Would you like to set your spawn location to Wano Country?]

"No." In the end, I just said Japan on a whim because that's the only location I knew.

In truth, I was tired of Japan because it was boring aside from the shows running through the TVs outside.

'What location does exist?' I thought in no language.

As if it was the most normal thing to do, the system read my thoughts and showed the location and the looks of many islands.

Starting with a division into six categories: East Blue, South Blue, North Blue, West Blue, Grand Line, and Calm Belt, some location was excluded from categorization such as Mary Geose.

'I don't know! Random it.' I thought expecting the system would read my mind.

And in fact, it did.

The next instance, an extremely huge wheel capable of easily crushing me if it fell, appeared in front of me.

Without warning, the wheels started spinning at astonishing speed before slowing down to the point where I could read the name running through.

When it reached the point where I could read it, it spun as follows:

Birka...

Mirro-World...

Totto Land...

Uta World...

Shimotsuki Village...

Ohara...

Amazon Lily...

Loguetown...

Impel Down...

Laugh Tale...

Nanimonai Island.

The indicator stopped at Nanimonai Island.

'Nanimonai! I am familiar with that word!' I'm not bragging but those around me and angry at me used to say that I am 'nanimonai (nothing)'.

It has been decided that I would stay at Nanimonai Island, a perfect island for someone with nothing.

After my location was set, the system progressed to the next section.