Ch.36 (Un)Expected Passenger

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　On the third day at dawn, Koby came with another half-eaten bread and a bottle of water. He greeted smilingly towards Rei, "Hey, we're gonna arived soon, I'll try fo find a way to break you out from there."

　In the past 3 days, Rei and Koby relationship had gotten closer. Koby felt Rei wasn't a bad person nor criminal, he was just a poor man captured by Alvida like him.

　Alvida demands her crew to clean her ship all the time, and the task to clean the lower deck actualy fell upon Koby.

　In fact most of the cleaning tasks were given to Koby as the rest of the pirates were slacking off without Alvida supervision.

　Before meeting with Rei, Koby resented his jobs to the bone without any chance to retaliate. But now, he took the cleaning work gladly, especially the brig's area.

　Rei smiled as he took the bread and water bottle. with Koby's help, Rei recuperating rather quickly as he feels how much chakra he currently have.

　「Chakra : 547.89/2074.04」

　Thanks to his unexpected level up, Rei chakra repository had increased towards 2000 plus points, as Rei himself could feels his chakra reservoir had gotten bigger.

「HOST NAME : Rei

AGE : 25, Male

LEVEL : 3 ↑

STR : 108 ↑

AGI : 131 ↑

MIND : 119 ↑

CHAKRA : 547,89/2074,04 (x500%)

EQUIPMENT : Chōkuto (Kusanagi)

(new)INVENTORY : Tailed Beast Core (2 tails), Kiseru x1, Hirashin Kunai x8, Hyorogan x8, Blank Scroll x2 (D-Rank), Blank Scroll x1 (B-Rank), Battle Needle set x1, Shuriken x127, Kunai x34, Bandage x36, wound ointment x18, Ration x46, Special Box Level up Reward x1 .

Storage : 210.000 Bellies, jewelry x13, gold 30kg

TECHNIQUE MASTERY:

(Ninjutsu)

(New) Suijinheki (water)

(New) Kirigakure no Jutsu (water)

Chōkajugan no Jutsu (earth)

Shunshin no Jutsu

Kawarimi no Jutsu

Henge no jutsu

(Taijutsu)

Nawanuke no Jutsu

(Genjutsu, Sage. etc)

none

BLOODLINE : Otsutsuki (94% pure)

(Details)

Kekkei Mōra (0.021%)

(Details)

Master & Disciple Panel :

Master : Rei (Early Stage Jōnin)

　　　　Disciple : Apis (Early Stage Genin)

G-POINTS : 1pts」

　Last night, Rei finaly checked his own status panel after his conditions improved. Noticing he had leveled up, he finaly came to a conclusions. The only way to increase his level was only by rolling the gacha from the system!

　Rei had calculations about how many he had rolled the gacha from the system, the recent time he rolls it was when Rei got stranded on his boat which was 10 times. and he had already rolled 53 times before his encounter with Zoro.

　Which means, he got 3 level up after rolling the gacha system 63 times. At this juncture, Rei finaly arrives at the conclusions, his first level up was when he rolled 10 times, and the second time was after albeit he didn't remembered in details when he rolled for at least 20 times! And so, Rei knew that he would gain level up after 10 rolls and its multiplier!

　By using this theory, Rei was sure he would get another level up after rolling 40 times more in future.

　Returning to the scene, Rei finished his humble meal which Koby gave him, actualy he still had the ninja rations. However, rather than eating those 'sawdust', Koby's half eaten bread was much more preferable.

　"We're gonna land?" asked Rei.

　Koby nodded and said, "Yes, Lady Alvida has her own port in East Blue, it's quite hidden."

　Rei raised his eyebrow and looked towards Koby, "Lady Alvida?"

　Koby bowed his head awkwardly as he grinned, "Hehe, hehehe. can't be helped, its already been engraved on my mind."

　Rei shook his head, just as he wanted to speak something...

　"HARBOOOR! PREPARE TO MAKE PORT!!!"

　There was a loud voice from the upper deck! Koby widen his eyes and stood up immediately.

　"Sorry Rei, i need to go now!"

　"Don't worry about me Koby, go ahead."

　Seeing Koby left, Rei shook his head. However, "Just wait! I'll find a way to break you from there!!! Just wait!"

　Koby voice trailed behind as he ascended the stairs to gathers with the rest of the pirate crews.

　"Helmsman! Ease to fifteen!"

　"Aye! Ease to fifteen!"

　"All haands! Clap on!"

　"AYE!!!"

　"All haand! Stow 2nd and 3rd sails!"

　"AYE!!!"

　Rei could heard the ship's commanding jargon echoed loudly into the lower deck. In fact, he almost broke out from the brig and seeing the crews bustling around.

　Rei was captivated by how the people in this era comanding the sailships ever since he was being kept as a 'prison' in Hardy's Warship until now, it never failed to amaze him.

　"HELMSMAAN, STEADY! BRING HER ABOUT!"

　"STEADY!"

　Rei could feel the ships speed had getting slower and slower, until finaly.

　'Bam!'

　The ship went to full stop at the harbor, Rei could hear the pirates began to cheers.

　"SILENT! ALL HANDS UP ANCHOR! AND STOW THE CANVAS! AVAST!!!"

　"SET THE GANGWAY!"

　The docking process actualy took quite a long time, and the crews activites after that were varies. Some crew began to clean up the ships vital tools and equipment, some could be seen disembarking the ship's cargo and many more.

　Time passed quickly, at midday. Rei's eyes flashed with interest when he saw Koby coming down the stairs while rolling a wooden Barrel seemingly filled with liquor over.

　Koby stopped just right beside the brig, he wiped out his sweat and adjusting his breath.

　"Where did you bring this Barrel, Koby?" Rei almost couldn't calmed down when he scrutinized the barrel.

　"Ah? I found this Barrel just floating outside, so i took it. Maybe there's rum inside." Koby answered while grinning, however soon he was stunned when he saw Rei's pupils turned red!

　Just when Koby wanted to asks, Rei blinked and his pupils returned to silvery white like usual.

　Seeing Koby just stood there with blank face, Rei called him, "Koby?"

　"Ah? ah, yes?"

　"What wrong?"

　"Ah, ah. Nothing, nothing..." Koby continued to roll the Barrel inside.

　Earlier, when Koby saw Rei with red eyes, actualy it was when Rei used his Sharingan to peer at the wooden Barrel. Sharingan didn't have ability to see through things, it could however perceive the surrounding chakra.

　With sharingan, Rei could see the nature chakra fluctuate around the barrel, just like the nature chakra would fluctuate near a living beings like human or animal. By his sharingan, Rei knew that the Barrel didn't contain any kind of liquor, but something else!

　Rei smiled meaningfully as he lean on the Brig's wall once again. After Koby put the barrel somewhere on lower deck, he returned to the brig and chatted with Rei for a while.

　Just when Koby went away, Rei heard three pirates voices coming from the stairs.

　Pirate A, "Hey, dude. Are you sure about it?"

　Pirate B, "Yea, i saw it myself! Koby brought wine Barrel from outside. it looks full!"

　Pirate C, "But, theres 'him' down there! what if..."

　Pirate B, "Stop worying! 'he' was dehydrated before, and none of us give 'him' anything for the past week! I'm sure 'he's' dead by now."

　Footsteps resound descending the stairs into lower deck. Hearing the pirates coming closer, Rei slumped down and closed his eyes pretending to appeared unconscious.

　"See? 'He's' dead!" said Pirate B with glee as the trio halted in front of Rei's brig.

　"I, i think 'he's' still alive!" denied Pirate A.

　"Bullshit! Even if 'he's' alive, i'm sure 'he' is weak as hell! Lets go! Before that old hag finished her makeup!" Rebuked Pirate B.

　The trio went further inside to look for the Barrel Koby brought before.

　Rei opened his eyes as he leaned over the wall once again, he murmured, "What a coincidence?". He had a hunch of what would happened next after seeing the three pirates went inside.

　After quite a while, suddenly...

　'Craash...!'

　"Uwahahahahaha! What a good sleep...!!!"

　Rei smiled faintly as there was suddenly a young man laughter coming from further inside the lower deck!

　A few seconds earlier, the pirates trio finaly found the peculiar wine Barrel Koby had brought. As one of them pried it open, who would have thought there was suddenly an energetic young man abruptly jumping out from it!

　Pirate A, "Who! who are you!!!"

　Pirate B, "Intruder? Damn it! It must be Koby who bring him here!"

　Pirate C, "Le, lets report this to lady Alvida!!!"

　The trio just dashed from there leaving the young man alone,

　"Eeh? Whats wrong with those guys? Are they stupid?" The young man rubbed his head dumbfounded by the pirates action.

　The young man then strided along the lower deck while humming, his strawhat swaying in his back by string, and suddenly.

　"Eeh? Why are you being tied inside there?"

　The young man paused on his track as he saw there was someone being kept inside the ship's brig, his round eyes were twinkling with interest!

　He squated while holding the iron bar and exclaimed, "Woah! Is that horns on your head? Is it real? It looks awesome!!!"

　 Rei didn't knew whether to laugh or cry seeing the young man barrage of question and his expressions. From inside the brig, Rei saw his sunny appearance clearly, black shaggy hair, round black eyes with slim muscular build. he also had a scar with 2 stitches mark underneath his left eye.

　He wore a sleeveless red vest, blue shorts with cuffs and sandals.There was also a trademark straw hat on his back hanging by a string.

　Rei still couldn't believe his eyes and ears as he saw the one and only OnePiece main character squating just outside the brig, showing interests towards him.

　'Monkey D. Luffy' thought Rei as he smirked towards the familiar figure. Rei already had a thought when he saw Koby at the first time, and it seems Fate wants them to meet.

　"Hey, are you alright? need me to open this jail?" said the young man once again.

　Rei tried to adjust his breath as he was too agitated when seeing Luffy in flesh! Then he asked calmly,

　"Who are you?"

　"You okay? Ah, i'm Luffy, Monkey D. Luffy! Nice to meet you."

　"I'm Rei..." Said Rei short as he heard Koby's footsteps coming down the stairs.

　"Why are you being kept here? are you a bad guy?" Asked luffy curiously as his eyes keep darting around Rei's horns.

　Rei smirked, "Maybe..?"

　Luffy tilted his head seemingly confused, "But you don't looks like a bad guy?"

　Rei chuckled, "Is that so?"

　"Yeah, i think...."

　"Rei? what hap..., WHO ARE YOU?" Koby finaly showed up and couldn't help but exclaimed loudly as he saw the weird young man squating besides the brig.

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