The next day, we went to visit the Straw Hat Pirates. I imagined their red ship, The Sunny, and all of the weird things on it, like the lion figure head, the trees on board, the crazy things powered by soda, the Grandline, and we arrived on the deck of their ship, and it seems we arrived at a bad time. The skies are dark, and we are in very choppy waters. Everyone is yelling and running around in a panic, controlling the ship. I use my ability to wrap us three around the mast to keep us from going overboard and keep the cuff on, attaching me to Ms. Midnight. I look around and see that the ship is going into a whirlpool, and it isn’t looking good. Ms. Midnight asks, “Was it like this last time you two were here?” Ayaka said while shaking her head, “Not quite, though we did fly in their ship a very long way, which scared the crap out of us.” Ms. Midnight says, “Hold onto me.” We nod, all holding each other. Luffy makes himself a trampoline for the others so they can jump to safety. He waves us over, and just when we are going to use him to jump off as well, an octopus grabs all of us, pulling us into the abyss of the sea so quickly that I didn't have time to react.
We washed up on a beach with The Sunny (on its side) and Luffy, but we don’t see any of the other straw hats here. Luffy’s stomach is rounded out, and I see Ayaka, who is naked and is barely conscious, pressing down on his stomach, making water pour out of his mouth. She turned his head to the side so he could expel the water safely. I groan and sit up and join her and press on his very rounded stomach. It appears that Ms. Midnight is currently unconscious, and we are still attached by the cuffs. When we expel all of the water from Luffy, Ayaka passes out. Ms. Midnight probably lost the key to the cuffs in the chaos, so since I can’t rely on them to break me out, I make a skin blade attached to my pinky and use armament on it and break the chain.
The Sunny is on its side, and I won’t be able to get it upright by myself. So I quirk-walk to the girls' room to borrow an outfit for Ayaka, so she isn’t naked. Both Robin and Nami have very revealing outfits, but I guess it is better than being naked. I grab Ayaka a bikini top and bottoms and one of those asymmetrical skirt/wrap thingie. I take and make my way back to Ayaka and dress her while she is lying on the sand. By this point, Ms. Midnight is waking up, and she asks, “Where are we?” I shrug and say, “Your guess is as good as mine.” She looks to Luffy and asks, “Is he one of the pirates?” I nod, “He is the captain of the Straw Hats, Luffy. He has a stretchy quirk similar to mine, but instead of just skin, he can stretch his whole body.” Ms. Midnight nods in understanding, “Got it.”
By now, Luffy is coughing himself awake, and he sees me. He points and smiles, “Heeeeey! I remember you! You stretch like me! What was your name again? Sekoy? Sekade? Sikai?” As he thinks of my name, he scratches his head. I sigh and say, “Sekai. So, Luffy, where are we?” Luffy says, wearing a big smile, “I think we are in Wano, and we are here to kick Kaido’s ass!” I asked him, “Who is Kaido?” Luffy says, “I have a friend named Momo, and his father was killed by him. He is also hurting people here, so I have to beat his ass!” I smirk, “You guys are really heroes of the sea.” Luffy gets irritated and yells, “I am no hero! Heroes share their meat, and I want to eat it all by myself!” I chuckle, “Alright then, Luffy. Oh. Hey, so I borrowed an outfit from Robin’s room from The Sunny so Ayaka wouldn’t be naked. Can you let her know?” Luffy nods, “You bet!” He starts picking his nose in an almost unconvincing manner.
Luffy sees Ms. Midnight and asks, “Who are you?” Ms. Midnight introduces herself, “I am Midnight, and I am their teacher. I wanted to come and thank the ones who helped my students personally, but it seems like everything went to shit.” She says, looking around, scoffing at the crazy circumstance that we find ourselves in. Luffy says with his eyes sparkling with excitement, “Your name is Midnight! That's so cool!” I open my pocket and pull out my ziploc bag with my jawbreakers and pop one in my mouth to get rid of the salty taste. Luffy sees this, and he starts drooling. I grab a handful and hand them to him, knowing that he is a garbage disposal for food. I tell him, “That is all you are getting. I can’t use my ability reliably without these, ok?” Luffy groans and starts pounding the sand like a child throwing a tantrum, “But I’m so hungry!” I sigh and say, “Well, then, how about we hunt or something for food?” Luffy jumps up and yells, “YEAH! LET’S GO!” and I ask Ms. Midnight, “Can you stay with Ayaka? I don’t want her to wake up alone.” She nods, and I follow Luffy.
In the woods here, we come across some wild boars. I teleport by two and teleport them straight up high enough to kill them when they fall. Luffy takes care of the others and dodges the boars effortlessly as they fall using his Observation Haki. I have come to not really worry that much about these guys when they are awake, since they can handle themselves just fine. We take our haul back to the beach, and Ms. Midnight sees us and says, “Hold on, let me get some firewood to cook that.” I stretched my finger skin into a knife and cut the boars on their necks, and I was going to suspend them from the air so the blood could drain, but they were a little too heavy for me to pull ALL of them. Luffy, seeing what I was trying to do, uses his power to do that for all of them.
While he is holding the boars effortlessly, he closes his eyes and asks himself, “Now where is everybody? Hmmmmm, let me think. What happened to us again?” I tell him, “We got sucked into a whirlpool or something and got spat up here. As for the others, I haven’t seen them yet.” Luffy sighs, “Well, darn. Guess we will have to go find them… After we eat, of course! Can’t find my friends on an empty stomach!” As we are sitting here, we hear some loud bangs in the distance that catch our attention. We continue to look, and then we see a weird, large hybrid lion flip onto the sand and roll into the Sunny. I teleport to Ayaka and teleport her still unconscious body away quickly so she isn’t caught up in whatever the fuck is happening right now. Luffy is yelling at it and drops the boars, and the lion hybrid thing is ignoring him and barking at the treeline, where we hear steady thuds approaching.
The next thing we know, a giant sword-wielding monkey comes out and faces down the lion-hybrid thing. They start walking in circles, staring at each waiting for an opening. They jump at each other, and the monkey swings his sword once, and the lion hybrid dodges and when the monkey tries to swing the sword back to the lion hybrid thing, it puts its paws on the sword hilt, preventing the monkey from swinging it then bites the monkey on the arm, which disarms it making the giant sword stick into the sand. The monkey then punches the lion hybrid thing in the face. They look like they temporarily stop fighting and are arguing with each other in animal sounds. They resume fighting, grabbing each other's hands, and start pushing each other.
Luffy, who was looking at the fight initially, starts looking seriously towards the tree line briefly and dodges what looks to be a gunshot. He stretches and swings his fist around and swings it around to smack a dude that is mounted on an incoming creature, knocking him off of his mount, leaving the other apparent villain holding a bag. I see the bag moving on his hip, and I think there might be someone or something in there, possibly a child. I teleport behind him and yoink the bag that was tucked into his waist while he was shooting at Luffy, and once it does not touch the dude, I jump and teleport off of him with the bag while he turns to yell at me. While he was turned, Luffy punched the shit out of him, knocking him out. I look inside the bag and see a little girl, and I let her out.
I reach into my pocket and give her a jawbreaker and say, “This is a piece of candy that lasts a long time if you suck on it.” She cries while accepting my offering, and the lion hybrid and monkey are still fighting and getting closer and closer to The Sunny, and Luffy uses his Conqueror’s Haki on both of them, saying seriously, “Don’t mess up my ship.” The bigger villain wakes up and sees the girl next to me and comes running, “Don’t think you can run from me, you brat, without letting me sell you!” I pick up the girl and teleport us away while Ms. Midnight uses her quirk to put the villain to sleep. The little girl says, “Thank you for the candy. I was so hungry.” Her eyes are crying, and feeling how light she is, she feels like I did back when I was her age. I reach in one of my vest pockets and get a whole Ziploc of jawbreakers and hand it to her and say, “Those candies won’t fill you up, but they should give you some temporary relief.” I have a few bags in my vest pockets, so I can part with one. She gets distracted by the candy, and Luffy sees this and is drooling. I held him at bay and pointed to the boar meat we recently acquired, and he said, “Oh, yeah, MEAT!”
Luffy gets a fire going and starts roasting the boars, and he is making Ms. Midnight’s mouth drop at the volume at which he is eating. I eat some, too, and the little girl is panicking seeing us eat these boars since she isn’t distracted by the jawbreakers anymore, as the smell of the meat brought her attention back to us. She asks, “Did you get that from the forest?” I asked her, “What is wrong with that if we did?” She says, “The animals here are not good. You will get sick.” I ask, “Why?” The little girl says, “They drank bad water, and now we can’t eat anything, and we are so hungry.” By now, Ayaka was waking up, and she heard what she said. She wiped her face with her hands and said, “If the land animals drank bad water here, then how about I get something from the ocean instead?” The girl got stars in her eyes and asked, “You can do that?” Luffy continued to eat the poisoned boar, not caring at all, and I was going to eat some more since it smelled good, so I reached for some. Ayaka popped my hand, saying, “What did I tell you about not eating anything that would make you sick?” I sigh and say, “B-b-ut-” Luffy smiles, “MORE FOR ME!” and laughs that goofy laugh of his.
Before I can give her a rebuttal, she bonks me on the head, “I am an octopus, let me fish for us.” I sigh and nod, “Ok, fine.” Ayaka bends down to kiss me and says, “Good, I will be back.” She turns to Ms. Midnight and the kid, “Make sure she doesn’t eat any more of that meat, please.” They nod, and then they ask what about Luffy, so I say, “Because of how unbothered he is, he must have an iron stomach like me, so I wouldn’t worry about him.” They nod a little apprehensively, not really understanding how someone could eat that much poisoned meat and be alright. Luffy then says with a mouthful, “-oison doesn’t affec- me anymo-” Aha. He has been poisoned before. We bonded a bit over food, and I told him my story as he told me his. Apparently, he has not only ingested poison several times, but he was also completely covered in it when he was in prison to try and rescue his brother. Apparently, one of the big guys there had a poison quirk.
Ayaka comes back after a few minutes and says, “There is a huge thing that I can’t possibly kill by myself. Ms. Midnight, can you help me?” Ms. Midnight says, “Let me slip into something more comfortable.” Then she proceeds to take her clothes off, glancing at Luffy. He apparently has only eyes for the meat in front of him, and Ms. Midnight was mainly relieved, but slightly annoyed that he wasn’t curious about her naked body. I really want to help her, too, but my body doesn’t listen to me when it submerges in water. Before the fruit, I would probably struggle (never got the chance to actually try). Now, it is like I am paralyzed again. Ayaka sees my depression, and she approaches me and hugs me, “Just knowing that you want to help means the world to me.” I grab her tightly, and Ms. Midnight says while removing her underwear as well, “How far down is it?” Ayaka says, “I think you should be able to hold your breath. If not, I can give you some of my air since I can replenish my lungs with my gills." Ms. Midnight nods and says seductively, like she often does, “Alright, let’s put this beast to bed.”
The next thing we see is a massive fish that looks like it could swallow The Sunny whole, floating on the surface, completely asleep. I ask, “How in the fuck are we supposed to bring that on shore?” Luffy puts his poisoned boar meat inside his cheek like a cartoon hamster, and he winds his arm back and stretches forward to grab onto the large fish thing and pull it onto shore. Ayaka and Ms. Midnight come back to shore, and Ms. Midnight says, “It isn’t dead, just asleep.” Ayaka is blushing, and she is muttering, “I just put my lips on my favorite hero’s lips. I just put my lips on my favorite hero’s lips. I just put my li…” Ms. Midnight sees her reaction and chuckles in amusement, which makes Ayaka blush harder. I never thought I would be jealous of Ms. Midnight, but I find myself teleporting to Ayaka and kissing her to make her stop muttering about another woman's lips.
After our kiss, she looks at me and sees my jealous pouty face, and she giggles, “Don’t worry, I only have eyes for you.” Her saying that makes me blush, knowing that a very attractive woman who happens to be her hero is right here with us. I clear my throat and turn away and decide to distract myself from the flustered feeling, since I don’t like others (Besides Ayaka) seeing me like this. So I make a sword from my pinky and use armament and teleport a decent distance above this giant fish and use gravity to help me slash its neck. I hurt it deeply with the cut, but it doesn’t die and wakes up from its slumber and starts wailing around, causing the ground to shake. I teleport myself to safety since I will become a pancake if it lands on me. Luffy gets angry and wraps his rubbery arms around his neck and chokes the fish thing, saying, “You interrupted my meat!” Once it stops moving, he goes back to his poisoned boar, and I sigh and make a knife of armament and carve enough fish for the girl.
Ayaka sees me and nods, and grabs a stick to pierce the fish meat and cook it over the flame. I say, "That fish is huge, I can't even imagine the local ecosystem." Ayaka says as she roasts the fish for Tama, "There was an even bigger one deeper that looked white. We didn't even try that one." The girl is drooling at the smell of roasting fish meat. It looks like she finished the jawbreaker I gave her earlier. She must have used her teeth on it. I ask her, “Hey kid, are your teeth ok?” She nods, “I bit that candy once and it didn’t feel good, but it is just fine now. I was able to bite it later without it hurting.” I sigh and nod. I ask her, “What have you guys been eating?”
Tama says, while drooling, “The lord tries to make us eat fruit that makes us not able to swim and makes us laugh constantly, even though we are sad. So I usually try to make myself sick by drinking the water and eating bugs instead. Master lets me have rice twice a year.” I grit my teeth, really pissed off on their behalf. I ask with a furrowed brow, “Is this Kaido person responsible for this?” She starts crying and nods. I ask Ms. Midnight while Ayaka gives the fish to the girl, “Can we help these people fight this villain, Ms. Midnight?”
Ms. Midnight furrows her brow and pinches her nose bridge, “I want to help them, too, but we will need to ask the Principal first. We can't just disappear again. It all depends on what he says. You have to remember, we have our own problems in our world, too.” I grit my teeth and then say, “Then let's not go back until we deliver this fish to some of the hungry people in this country. I'll come back by myself without permission if necessary.” Ms. Midnight sighs. I turn my attention back to the girl eating the fish, and it makes me cry on my scowling face. Her happy tears stream like faucets down her face as she eats voraciously, filling her stomach. I think I looked just like her when eating my first meal with them, judging by Ayaka's crying face. She sees me and she sees the determination in my teary eyes, and she nods to me like she knows I want to help them. I teleport by her side and hug her, and cry. Ayaka says, “I won't be satisfied until we kick that villain's ass.” I squeeze her tightly. Luffy says, accidentally spitting out some meat, “NO! I WILL KICK HIS ASS!” We giggle at his enthusiasm, and Ayaka says, “Alright, we will leave that fight to you then.”
Luffy says, looking at the girl who looks still hungry, “Hey, what's your name? I'm Luffy, and I want to be King of the Pirates.” She tries to slow her tears in vain and responds, “Tama. My friend over there is Komachiyo.” She says, pointing to the lion hybrid thing as I cut another piece off the giant fish. What I removed from the fish almost doesn't seem like I removed any, since this fish thing is so large. I took this over to Ayaka so she could cook it for Tama, and then we introduced ourselves. Ms. Midnight told us to give her our hero names, so we did. Luffy says excitedly while still eating, “Flustrated? Hops? Those are so cool! I wish I could have one, too!” I wave him off and turn to hide my blush. I know that idiot really is honest and surprisingly innocent for a pirate captain, so I know he isn't trying to flirt or anything. Ayaka said teasingly, “I thought you said you couldn't be a hero because you don't want to share your meat.” She starts giggling, and Luffy groans, “Awww, man, you’re right!” as if he forgot and continues eating.
Luffy ate all of those boars, including the bones, and we were all amazed, and his body grew very large, like from an anime or something. I think he may love food more than I do. Tama, I think, ate too much because she could, similar to me, from how she is holding her stomach. She has a huge smile with watery eyes, “This is the best birthday ever!” Ayaka and Luffy say in unison, “Happy birthday, Tama!” Ayaka asked me, “Hey, that reminds me, Sekai, when is your birthday?” I shrug, “I don’t know.” Ayaka then says with that hero smile of hers, “Well, if you don’t know, then you can share mine. Mine is on Halloween.” Luffy asks Tama while patting his fat stomach, “So, I have been meaning to ask, but are we in Wano?” Tama says, “Yep! We are in the Kuri region of Wano, big brother!” Luffy asks, “Why are you calling me your big brother?” Tama says, “Well, a big brother is a big brother!” Ayaka giggles and asks Tama, “Can you show us to your village? We would like to escort you in case you run into more trouble.” Tama looks a little sad and says, “My village is gone, and it is only me and my master. Though I can show you the nearest one, instead. I can’t stay long because I have to go back and wait for a friend who is a pirate back at my master's house.” Luffy asks, “Who are you waiting for?” Tama says with a huge smile, “Ace.”
Luffy’s expression changes to a more solemn expression, and he asks, “Was the pirate’s name Portgas D. Ace, Tama?” Tama gets a look of excitement in her eyes and asks, “Do you know him?!” Luffy grits his teeth and says, “I do, but he is dead now.” Tama’s expression turns into despair, and she starts hitting Luffy’s fat stomach in anger. Tama says, “Big bro, that’s a lie! He said he would come back! You liar!” She starts sobbing loudly. Luffy’s eyes water, and he says, “I wish I were. I am glad to have met a friend of my brother, though. Will you be my friend, too?” He smiles as tears fall down his face, and Tama stops hitting him and hugs him and says, “I’m sorry that I said mean things to you and hit you!” Luffy holds her and says, still crying, “I didn’t want to believe it either, but it happened right in front of me.” Tama’s crying got even more intense as they bonded over a deceased loved one. Luffy shrank back down to his original size so he could hug Tama better, leaving Ms. Midnight, Ayaka, and me jaw-dropping and speechless. Luffy told us the story from over two years ago, when there was a war, and a marine admiral using a lava quirk killed him. To help him feel better since his wound is fresh, I get a jawbreaker and use my stretchy skin to deliver it, and his eyes sparkle a little.
When the mood changes, Ayaka asks, “Tama, do you want us to deliver some of this food to your master on the way to that village you were speaking of?” Tama perks up and wipes tears from her face and says, “Yeah, let’s go.” She says with a smile. Luffy then says, “Let me hide The Sunny first.” He goes off and puts The Sunny in a cave off the coast. Tama asks her friend, “Komachiyo, can you help carry the sea beast for us, please?” The lion hybrid thing barks in obedience, and Tama pulls off a ball of her skin from her sunken cheeks from hunger, like it is a quirk, and she offers it to the monkey, who growls aggressively. She hides behind Ayaka, and then she throws it inside the monkey’s mouth, who eats it and starts acting like Tama is his master. She pets him and asks him the same thing, and they both pick up and drag the very large fish thing. By now, Luffy has finished hiding The Sunny and has returned.
On the way on our scenic route to the village (Since we are stopping by the mountains first), Tama told us why the men took her and how she said illegal words about how the Kozuki clan would come back and make the villains pay. Apparently, Momo, who is Luffy’s friend, is the son of the late Shogun, who was a Kozuki who was terribly put to death. Tama was dancing with a huge smile, “Yay! The Kozuki clan will save us!” She giggles adorably, and I clench my fist, pissed off at this villain, Kaido. He is treating all the people here like Japan treated me. She looks at the monkey that Luffy is riding and says, “You will be Hihimaru!” The monkey likes the name, and Luffy asked why she picked it, and she gave the cutest answer, “Because he just looks like it,” while wearing the cutest smile. Ms. Midnight is sitting next to Tama in front of us, and she glances back at me and smiles at me, and says, “You know, you look more at ease when we are not on our home planet, Sekai.” I stammer, “W-w-well, that is because I hate everyone back home. The people of Japan, villains and heroes all treated me like garbage, and only Ayaka reached out to me to save me.” Ayaka, who is behind me, squeezes me tight.
Ms. Midnight seems worried and says, “I am sorry to hear that.” We continued to ride in silence (except for Tama’s giggles) while we appreciated the gorgeous bamboo and weird tree scenery. Ms. Midnight asked how Luffy shrank after eating all that food earlier during part of the silence, and he answered, “I just digested it.” We stared at him in disbelief, but he was sitting there picking his nose nonchalantly, so he must be telling the truth. I go back to watching the scenery, and there are some ridiculously large trees here. When we get close, Tama says that we should probably leave the sea beast on the path since it would be hard to take it all the way to the house. She gets a few large leaves, and understanding what she wants without the need for words, I cut slices of the beast up and place them on the leaves.
We get to her house, and there is a dude with a mask on with a large nose, and Luffy asks, “Usopp, is that you?” Ayaka giggles at him and says, “No, that is someone else, Luffy.” He is surprised to see us, but relaxes upon seeing Tama. He took the leaves of meat that Tama had wrapped in the leaves, and he asked, “What is this?” Tama told him of the beast and how we all wanted to help the people of this land. He then told us of the village north of the wasteland being the closest to where we are, and he points us in the right direction, but he stops us before we go to make sure we blend in with the people here and puts us in kimonos and gives Luffy a top knot. He hugs Tama and pats her on the head and says, “You can guide them for me, can’t you?” She nods, “You can count on me, master!” Wearing that adorable smile of hers.
Luffy, being a nosy idiot, makes eyes at the sword hanging high on the wall and stretches to grab it before we can leave and asks, “Is it cool if I borrow this? It really completes the look!” The old man yells, “Wait, you can’t take that, you fool! It is a precious heirloom that you don’t have the right to gaze upon!” He presses the mask nose into Luffy’s nose and says, “That sword you hold is Kitetsu the second! Heed my words, there are only a few swords in existence that can truly be called supreme grade blades, and this is one.” Luffy runs away before he can finish, and Ayaka apologizes on his behalf. We follow him on Komachiyo’s back. The old man catches up to Luffy, and they go back and forth a bit. He tosses the old man behind him, “See ya later, Grandpa nose!” The old man starts yelling at Luffy on his knees, and we all sigh, unable to stop him if we tried. Something I have learned in the short time of knowing Luffy is how much of a free spirit he is.
Tama says, scolding Luffy a bit, “You heard my master, you have to return that sword!” Luffy laughs while using his stretchiness to pull himself on Hihimaru, who is dutifully still dragging the sea beast with Komachiyo, “Yeah, yeah! Whatever!” After a while of heading north, we arrive at the wasteland the old man mentioned and can see the factories that are causing pollution in the distance. There are loads of animals running around this wasteland, and Luffy licks his lips like he is still hungry, and Ms. Midnight says in disbelief, “You can’t possibly still be hungry.” Luffy laughs and says, “Maaaaybe.” Apparently, there is a thing called a sharkadile that is chasing the boars and ‘smaller’ prey. Tama tells us, as we pass through the wasteland, about how Kaido and the Shogun are hoarding the food and clean water.
We come across a lady in a kimono running from some villains, and Zoro looks like he is about to rescue her. He slices them with a slash of wind, causing both them and those weird lizard mounts to fly. The villains weren’t downed from that and stood back up. Though Zoro cut them down swiftly. Luffy sees him, too, and yells, “ZORO!! HEY, IT’S ME!” Luffy jumps and hugs Zoro passionately. I teleport Ayaka and Ms. Midnight to the distressed lady, and Ms. Midnight asks, “Are you injured?” She shakes her head. I see Luffy sniffing Zoro, and Zoro pulls out a big piece of meat on a bone that looks roasted over a fire, and Luffy starts drooling and snags it. As Luffy is eating, we get interrupted by what appears to be more villains. Ms. Midnight nods to me to get her to safety, and I hold onto the lady and teleport her far away to safety, and make sure she is ok before returning.
I come back when the blonde villain says, “In the land of Wano, you have only two choices: follow the strong or become their prey. What will you choose?” Zoro says, “Our friend isn’t going to like us making a scene.” Luffy laughs, “We can just apologize later, it's fine.” Luffy pulls out his sword and obviously doesn’t know how to wield it properly. Zoro clocks it and asks, “Where did you get that blade? Can I hold it?” Luffy says, “Hmmmm. No! I don’t wanna!” Zoro gets irritated, “You don’t even know how to use it properly!” Luffy yells, “But I want to slash them! I’ll slash the ones in the front, and you get the ones in the back!” Zoro groans, “Ugh. Fine. As long as you let me have some fun with that blade, too.” The blonde villain calmly says, “Kill them.” Then his lackeys started to rush us.
Ms. Midnight puts a cluster of them to sleep. I teleport by the blonde dude that is commanding them and teleport him high enough to incapacitate him on impact with the ground. When he separated from his mount in the air, I teleported to it and teleported it safely to the ground so it wouldn’t be an innocent casualty. Ayaka is using her power that she can use more freely in that outfit to weave in and out of dimensions, weeding out, and she spits out ink into several of their eyes and then grabs them with tentacles and pulls them into 2D and on top of a red Torii gate and throws them down to incapacitate them.
Some purple stuff starts coming from the blondie after all of the goons are unconscious, and it is emitting some seriously creepy energy. It looks like he is making a large, terrifying scarecrow that has hardware nails attached to the end of its fingers like something from a scary movie. Ayaka likes scary movies, and we sometimes watch a movie when we are bored. This is way different from a movie, though, and it reminds me of the USJ and the pressure of those strong villains. The scary ghost/straw scarecrow is cackling in a very creepy manner. The blonde guy stands up and gets some cards and shuffles them while addressing Ayaka, me, and Ms. Midnight, seemingly unharmed, “You were not depicted in my cards. Why are you here? No matter. My cards will prevail.” He pulls one card and looks to his unconscious villain companions, and it turns out to be a dud. Then he pulls another one that causes the giant ghost scarecrow to turn red.
Zoro steps forward while pulling out two swords and says, “Don’t worry, captain. I will handle this.” He starts engaging in combat with the scarecrow, and it looks like it is mimicking the blonde dude’s movements. Zoro defends against its mighty strikes and wounds it, and slices its shoulder. I see a slice that should have also cut blondie, but it hurt an unconscious subordinate who groans in pain instead. Every strike he does hurts one of the villain’s allies and not him. I tell Zoro, who is a little preoccupied to have noticed this, “Hey, Zoro! When you strike that thing, it looks like it is supposed to hurt Blondie, but it hurts his subordinates instead!” Zoro yells as he continues to fight, “Don’t know how I am supposed to stop that though!” The scarecrow opens its mouth to shoot nails at Zoro, and he blocks all of them with his sword, except a few that graze his body. Though one of those nails sticks into his forearm.
Zoro says while making his swords parallel, “Nigiri.” He does an epic move that slices the big scarecrow in half, causing a huge shockwave similar to what All Might would do, and the scarecrow fades away, and the ominous, colored sky returns to normal. Ms. Midnight yells, “Ignore them and let’s run away! He doesn’t have a mount, and his allies are unconscious. There is no way to defeat him if he keeps passing his damage along to his comrades.” Zoro groans in acceptance, and Komachiyo and Hihimaru drag the sea beast quickly away. We come across the lady we rescued, and Luffy stretched to pick her up. She says, “Thank you all for saving me. I am very grateful.” Tama says to her, “We are going to give everyone food!” The lady chuckles at Tama’s excitement, and she says, “And I am sure that I have you to thank for that.” Tama says, “Well, I didn’t kill it; they did. They said they want to help!”
As we approach their settlement, the lady yells, “OKIKU!” and waves. The lady whom she waved to yelled back, “O-tsuru!” We arrived, and O-tsuru told Okiku our plans with the sea beast, and they made preparations to prepare it for everyone here. The closer we get, I notice that the lady is really tall. There was a huge fat guy, even taller than her, who seemed strong behind her. The only way he could be that big is if he is keeping food from everyone else. It is quite obvious he is a villain. The fat villain yelled, “Hey! I was having an important discussion with Okiku!” I smacked my teeth, “Tsk. Apparently not, fatso, since she is ignoring you.” He yells, “Shut up, you worthless garbage! I am not moving a muscle without talking to Okiku!” Zoro glares at the fatso, and he yells, “Okiku, I have a wrestling match today! I hope you come so you can see my strength!” He leaves, and I chuckle, “You made him change his tune quickly.” Zoro chuckles as well, and then the O-tsuru comes out and dresses Zoro’s wounds.
Ayaka talks to O-tsuru when she is done dressing Zoro’s wounds and before she starts preparing the sea beast for the villagers, and tells her that we want to go back home and help, but we would be gone for a little while. Ms. Midnight joins in, “There might not be much we can do in this situation, if I am being realistic. Though I will do my best to help these kids be your heroes. They have made it known that they will help with or without my help, and I would rather they have supervision.” Ayaka asks, “What do you mean by realistic, Ms. Midnight?” Ms. Midnight sighs, “Well, the cause of their problems is because of a powerful villain who successfully tainted all food and water in a nation. It would have been different if it were just one settlement, but an entire nation is a different story. The principal might have some ideas to help us, so we probably should go back home now.” We sigh and say our goodbyes to everyone, and O-tsuru shows us to a private room where we can teleport home. We told her of the intimate nature needed to activate it, so she is going to keep Tama occupied so she doesn’t interrupt.