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It's been three days since Doma joined us, and frankly he was too violent and always picked fight with me since he become a Red Rose pirate (Saying that he will win back his freedom).
I asked him to stop but he won't listen so I let others take care of him, since he was strong the crew would grow stronger by fighting against him.
With the addition of doma our power ranking once again changed, at the third place both doma and borodo were competing. Borodo was able to master soru and coupled with his tools and haki, borodo was strong (strong enough to fight a vice admiral head on) while Doma has already honed his skill in the strongest sea of the world and was without a doubt powerful.
We thought they both will fight each other for the sport but borodo just gave up as he was least interested in it and was reading books on weather and new world climates.
Liana was taking borodo place instead since she was defeated by doma once, she was the one I would dump doma on whenever he came to fight me.
Leaving the crew detail we were presently heading towards winter islands since Ace was nagging about meeting shanks. He wanted to thank him for saving luffy.
So presently we are going to Yukiryu Island since doma informed that Shanks would be there and also inspecting our new bounties.
My bounty was 450 million, this shows that I am on the same rank as worst generation pirates after time skip.
The second was ace who had 400 million, this one really shocked me I had only 50 million extra only because I was his captain.
Third was our new recruit who had a bounty of 280 million.
Fourth was borodo with only 200 million a huge difference which he was glad for.
Next was Liana and surprisingly not deuce may be because she used haki she had a 120 million bounty.
Followed by deuce at 100 million, Joke 72 million and lily with 50 million, Meroie was last with only 25 million, while punz was our cute little pet so he was not wanted yet.
Hawk was already showing progress as he was already an Ensign and was presently serving under Draw, unfortunately Draw was appointed to petrol the paradise so hawk was not able to give Intel on new world pirates.
So we had to take Doma's words and search shanks in Yukiryu Island.
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"I see the winter island" Joke reported while seeing the island full of ice, "We have travel on ice or cut through the ice to reach the island" borodo said, while looking at the ice blocks in front of us.
"Ace make way", "Roger".
Ace melted the icebergs as the ship made way to the island.
It was very cold so much that Arya was starting to freeze, Drum Island was much better compare to this, luckily ace's flame made everyone warm.
"Ace I am so glad that you are my friend" I hugged ace, who kicked me away. "Let's get going arya, we have to search shanks as soon as possible".
"Yes then we can leave this damn island at once".
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We searched the island thoroughly but unfortunately shanks and his crew were not in this Island so we had to search for other winter islands.
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'Damn you shanks why can't he stay in one place' I cursed him as I was exhausted from this frequent winter islands this was the 4th island and we still could not find him.
While ace does not look like is will give up, shivering with cold we set out to the next winter Island.
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It has been a week since we started our search for shanks and we are heading for the 6th winter Island, I was inside the room with a heat dial warming me up. I decided to never allow ace to lead us again.
"Arya, when will we be going to a warm place" meroie asked who was covered in layers of blankets along with the other two girls.
"I don't know, may be after we found shanks then we can finally shut ace up" I spoke while warming myself up constantly.
"We see them, that is definitely the flag of red hair pirates" Joke who was on scouting duty informed us what he saw to us.
"Finally we can get back to our journey after today" I said hopefully
It did not take long before we meet up with the infamous pirate crew; we had to send a signal to request for an audience and after they accepted three of us went to their ship just to be caution I used my liquid dragon to carry ace and liana along with me.
Shanks was not drunk so now so he looked a bit more imitating, as we three landed on his ship.
"Thanks for accepting our request, ace just say what you wanted" I said while looking around with my guard up.
"HOo, say the infamous rookie crew have something to speak with me, Is it that you want to challenge me" Shanks asked with a curious look, while the atmosphere become tensed.
"No no, I just wanted to say thank you for saving by little brother, LUFFY. He always speaks about you so I just wanted to thank you in person" Ace said.
"Luffy!!!!" .
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We are currently having a blasting party as shanks forced us to party with him, as soon as ace said he was luffy brother all the tension vanished and red haired pirates started to through a party.
It was a mess, shanks group was certainly different then many pirate crew I had seen till now. It looked more like luffy crew with more people.
"This is no fun, all of you are not drinking alcohol, how can there be a pirate who don't drink" shanks pouted, while trying to force ace to drink.
Meroie hit shanks on his head "What are you teaching to a kid you drunkard, he is under aged so don't even think about it" she basically shouted in his ears till he felt dizzy.
"Geez whats with your crew, did you bring your mother with you" he asked, then he felt cold sweet on his back as meroie drilled holes with her glare.
It was comical to see an emperor apologies to meroie, girls are extreme creatures don't mess with them unless you have what it takes to apologies for hours.
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"So you are the captain of this crew" Ben bechman asked me while we observed the others enjoying themselves.
I nodded and stared at the crew, "Would you like to join with us" he asked suddenly. I blinked at him few time before saying NO.
"Tch, well take it as an advice from a senior with your current strength you would only be a drag to your crew." He said, 'I do not understand his problem'.
"I will decide on that" I said, 'I was already on a bad mood because of this winter islands and now a person is saying bullshit'.
"Kid you have potential to grow but you are still early to make your name spread to this much extend. A person needs to be smart if he wants to survive in this world for a long time" Ben said.
"The life is too short to think on about future old man, I just want to leave a legacy on the history before my life ends" I said while my mind was thinking way faster. 'Ben bechman was consider smart, if he says something then there will be a meaning. I did not want to let others figure me out easily so I decided to say few bullshit words so he would think I am a unpredictable type'.
"You are an optimistic only and here I was sure that you are the intelligent type" he murmured before going back to others.
'Crap he figured out how I was thinking', I looked at the walking figure and shivered a little. 'Ben bechman a frightening man indeed'.
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After the lovely party we were back on the journey.
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"So Ben what do you think of their red rose's captain" shank asked while watching the red rose ship sail away.
"The kid is not an idiot, but is an optimistic, he tries to live the moment and has little plan of his future. Beside with his current strength I doubt he can keep his crew in check, a weak captain like him will not be able to handle his crew who are more powerful than him" Ben said.
"Really, but you know ben that ace kid said he never won a fight against his captain and I can tell ace has strong haki. It was strong enough to cause the snow to melt where ever he walked" shanks said while drinking alcohol.
"The kid might just have high battle IQ, but the difference will slowly start to show up soon and he cannot control his crew" Ben said, clearly believing in his assessment while shanks had a second thought as he stared at the wanted poster of sea king arya.
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