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Rayleigh said it would take 3 days to finishes coating, I stayed back to watch the coating process along with hawk who was interested in it since he was a shipwright, while others went to shopping and have fun.
The coating gave me an idea, if I could turn the liquid into a bubble which can act like the coating then I could swim in the sea.
I remembered kisame using a water shark technique to get inside a water shark and swim away, I tried the same way and after a lot of tryouts I was able to form a liquid shield around me and I was able to submerge into the sea a little before I was too afraid to continue.
But I found new ways to power up; just imagine a devil fruit user who can swim in the sea and control it; simply put I'll have enough power to destroy any island I want, I can make tsunami whenever I want. 'Take that whitebeard you are not the only one who can destroy the world'.
"That is some Great power you have, if you can truly master your ability you can have the strength to achieve what you desire" Rayleigh spoke, impressed by my power. "Yes, how could the previous user be so useless with such awesome power" I said remembering that honey queen was caught by name so easily.
"You can say that again" Rayleigh said while smiling, 'Does he know someone who used this power before'.
"Rayleigh do you know someone who used to have this power" I asked curiously, "You can say that, it was very long time ago, at that time we were still fresh new pirate, I believe a friend of my caught this person in jar he gave us quite a trouble at catching him" He said laughing.
"What you dealt with him so easily, Pirate king crew was really on another level" I said while stars appearing in my eyes.
"Arya, your eyes are sparkling again please focus on getting our ship Coated" Hawk asked, I sighed and went back on coating.
Coating is actually rather simple, we just had to make a thick bubble solution 'very thick' before that we had to measure and check the ship and fix all the sharp edges so it would no puncher a hole in the coating. Then blow a big bubble which would envelop the whole ship, then slowly make a partition bubble which can hold the air.
We attach a device which would make air to flow from one bubble to another, and the coating is finished.
I was glad that I learned it, since I just had to inject the solution into liquid and I can create a huge coating bubble by blowing in it like a balloon.
The evening ace and others returned but not in good mood.
"What happened you look so dull" I asked feeling something wrong, "It is nothing" Lily said while maintaining a smile while others Ace and borodo had their faces down.
"Don't want to tell me, because something unwanted happened" I asked, since there was no celestial dragons at present I could not think of anything which might have upset my crew.
"Joke" I said, "Captain", "Tell me what happened", "Nothing captain, we just saw few slaves being treated unjustly and could not help but feel down and we saw one of the slave trying to escape and his collar Blew up killing him".
"Sigh, again why is there so much unjust here and marines staying quite like its natural. I don't like it" I spoke while looking at them.
"Joke, hawk and borodo collect some information; I want to know everything from those who wants to buy slaves to those who are hunting them. Since we don't like it we will change it, and others don't cause trouble till we are ready and go enjoy until then" I said while thinking on a brilliant plan and mostly thought on how much money I would get looting all of them.
Meanwhile a small cat was also listening to their conversation as it looked at them with fear and terror.
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Joke did a nice job as he possessed a slave hunter and found their hide outs, while also similarly checking out on all the slave dealers.
While Hawk hunted down a minor pirate and submitted him to the local marine base to collect bounty, since he was still know for joining the red rose he easily moved in and found out why the marines did not take actions on the slave traders and obtained much more information on who controlled these things.
Borodo was on look out for searching big shots who would visit to buy the persons, and he just hated it since he cannot punch those ba**** and teach them a lesson.
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Later that day
"Arya, there will be a human auction at grove 1 we should start from there, it is under one of the warlords who operates under the name of joker. And is also the place where all the scum come to buy people, you won't believe it but there were few royal families coming to here" Borodo spoke, "Captain I have already found all the hunters base in this island and all the shop which sells slaves, I'll share the information to you" Joke used his memory memory fruit ability to share his experience to us.
"Well I found something good news; there will be a Reverie next month so all the officers in marine headquarters are away if we strike now we can even leave unhindered by marines" Hawk said, that was indeed a good news.
"Alright, then Ace and Liana will be in charge of handling marines and attackers, Borodo and I will be in charge of looting freeing the slaves. Hawk, joke, meroie and lily will be in charge of dealing with slave hunters and finally Deuce you will be with us acting as scout and information. Remember it will take only one hour for the marine to reach here from headquarters so we have to occupy the whole island within an hour" I explaining my strategy in a simple way for them to understand.
There are nearly a million people living in here so occupying it with only us 9 would surely be troublesome, then my gaze focused on hawk as I got another plan.
"Hawk I want to say something, you may call me crazy but I want to ask you something" , "What is it arya", "Actually I want you to act as a separate member and capture all the people with bounty, do you get it what I want to say" I said with a cunning smile.
"Hum, you want me to get the bounty of those people" hawk asked as he just did the same thing today.
"Yes, there are few slaves who were previous pirates and they also have a huge bounty, and there are a few rookies here who have good bounty. If we put it all together we can claim at least 1 billion belli or more I just cannot bear to lose that much money" I said, "Agreed" Borodo stood up first, while others gave a nod.
"I disagree, just for money we have to make a friend to take such a great risk" Ace shouted, strongly disagreeing "Say ace do you know how much does your food cost per meal" meroie asked with eyes shaded.
"I don't know" Ace replied with irritation, since he has turned around he could not see meroie but I can so I hid behind liana.
"You don't know", "Does it matter" ace said still angry and turned around only to shut his eyes.
"How could you know, you eat like a pig, a giant pig. Do you know how there are a lot less fishes in grandline, it is because your bottomless stomach stored it. If you don't want to get money like this then get out and earn money for your food at least" Meroie is scary when she is like this, 'I mean nami scary'.
"You are not getting any food today go and eat what you earn" she ruthlessly kicked him out.
I waved to our fireman who was standing out in front of the inn, as he slowly went away.
Well it was not even an hour before he was back begging meroie.
While I spoke with hawk in privacy, "Hawk, I wanted to speak with you privately. What I am about say would have to stay between only us" I spoke.
"Sure", "Having you collect bounties is only one part of the plan, what I actually want is for you to join marine as an undercover for us" I said finally saying what I wanted.
"What if I betray you after getting all the money" he asked, "funny thinking but I do trust you more than some money" I said.
"But why me I had only joined you but you want to kick me out already" hawk asked, "Hawk do you know the power houses of the world", "I know the marine, Seven warlords and the four emperors".
"Then do you know what all other power houses who can compete against them" I asked as he thought for a bit and shook his head.
"The revolutionary, four underworlds groups but the most powerful is joker also one of the seven warlords, and many kingdoms like germa 66 and others. In the paradise we can be strongest next only to marines, but in new world we are nothing special and frankly I don't think we can survive with our present condition" I spoke while looking at the few marines watching us from a distance.
"Arya I think you are just over thinking" Hawk said while drinking a beer.
"Hawk we already met two people who could wipe us out if they wanted, and the new world has many such people and I am not foolish enough to think that we can overcome them just because we want to. So I want someone to provide information for us to stay safe till we are strong enough" I said, trying to explain my point of view 'I am not a super genius with system, if I was I would have already established my name in new world, and what is more I know the full strength those yonko's are at and I am scared to face them this early'.
"Arya I think it would work out just fine" hawk said not believing that there could be more people at the same level as mihawk. "Sigh, Hawk do you know what is the bounty of whitebeard" I asked this is the only method to make him realize his strength.
"How much two or three billion" Hawk said and felt ridiculous for saying such high amount, "No Whitebeard Edward newgate has a bounty of over 5 billion and other yonko's also above 4 billion bounty" I said while hawk dropped his beer with his eyes nearly popping out.
"That cannot be real" he spoke in stunned voice, "now do you get it, how terrifying our opponents will be. Whitebeard would beat us to dust even in his sleep, without a plan it will be not possible to even stay independent in new world" I said as hawk finally saw how important this matter was.
"Ok I agree what should I do" Hawk asked, "Tomorrow you will take out all the slave trades as planned and help out few marines and citizens and put a show that you are a nice guy, and collect the bounty as planned. The marine won't be able to leave you freely afterwards so they will ask you to join them, then you can join whatever way you want. The marines have a strong body building procedures and strengthening techniques you can learn, you can grow strong and improve yourself while we maintain connections to be in touch. It won't be long I say two to five years we will all be ready to take on the new world" I explained.
"Is two to five years enough to grow that strong" Hawk asked doubtfully, "hahaha don't worry we may not be strong yet, but we are very fast learner. We shall take the world with a storm and before long the whole world will acknowledge us as the strongest and I would be the pirate king, ace surpass his father, borodo would have become a rich thief and everyone would have completed their goals as we sail across the world with our flag on our ship flying proudly" I spoke and left, 'Hawk may have know us for only a little time, but you met such fools who would think of others as their most special friends and do whatever to help them. It might be very difficult on earth but you can see a few in this world'.
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Unknown to Arya all the crew members were listening to arya through a den den mushi, and an unknown feeling filled their hearts, especially ace who was feeling very tensed for the few days and unknown to even them a black cat also heard the whole conversation.
They all felt a resolve as they focused more on tomorrow.
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