Where is this flying axe heading to let's use the Thinker Mode while following its trajectory right with observation Haki all the informations about this axe would be accessible informations like its target and how was it even flying .
I got it now so it's flying by the use of a devil fruit ability and it's target was somewhere in the Ryugu Palace but by this trajectory it will clash with the steel gate of some tower in the palace is the devil fruit user inside or something of the should i really follow it humans aren't that welcomed in the town just imagine if they find me sneaking around in the Royale palace .
I stopped my Thinker Mode and activated my clairvoyance and enhanced it and i saw a shark in front of that tower gate and it kept nudging its head on the steel gate as if knocking and the gate opened just before the weapon clash with the closed gate it suddenly opened and both the shark and the axe dashed inside the tower .
I wasn't interested at first but now i'm intrigued to understand what was happening and it will only be a problem if they were able to discover me .
I got on the air passage leading to the palace and with enhanced speed and the continuous use of Geppo i was already standing in front of that tower and guards who were positioned at the gate were now coming back so i decided to go inside but the more clear reason i heard someone sobbing and crying for help so i enhanced my strength and got inside the tower or should i say room the inside of the tower was a well decorated room with the color pink being the dominant color in the room decorations .
And finally saw who was the one crying for help a giant-sized mermaid, approximately bigger than the size of the shark and way taller than an average human not by a small marginbut by a lot she looked cute even when she was crying but still also huge this makes her roughly six to eight times the size of an average human , She had a very long, flowing pink hair with an anko-filled taiyaki hairgrip , and much of her upper body is exposed. Her broadly striped tail ends in a ruffle around her waist , her cheeks was now red i guessed from crying , she was a beauty ,She wore a cleavage-baring yellow halter top covered in pearls with a strap that widens and sticks out on the back of her neck , She also wore clam earrings and belly chains with a cloth hanging down in front , She had a very long light red and pink striped tail .
But even this huge mermaid was crying for help not for her own sake but for the shark now trying to save her from getting hurt by biting on the axe but weirdly his teeth wasn't strong enough to break it might be due to a special effect of the devil fruit user who throw it in the first place .
The shark kept clashing with the axe with the axe being the one to force the shark back as if it's only jop is to reach the mermaid wait a beautiful mermaid in a room inside a tower at the Ryugu Palace don't tell me was she really that mermaid princess that Wallace told me about the one that was born the last and was even bigger than her brothers .
But who was targeting a cute girl like her and for what reason i guess i will know all that after saving her i used Soru and appeared between the axe and the shark and increased my strength by 20 and punched towards the axe and another weird scene appeared the head of the axe exploded directly but the wooden stick continued on its way towards the body of the princess or at least tried to as i caught it swiftly in my hand and noted that it was still struggling in my hand to break free and hurt the princess obviously you aren't greating someone with a flying axe to the chest i clenched my hands and luckily the debris that remained didn't fly towards her as well i guess after the thing that the fruit ability of his or her affected getsdestroyed the fruit ability effect is also got nullified .
Megaloyoushould have told me that there was an axe ~sob~sob~flying towards the gate~sob~ before you knock ~sob~ the guards were already in their rest time so no one would be able to reach us in time ~sob~sob~sob , the giant mermaid princess was blaming the shark and the shark Megalo responded by began to circle around her while shaking his hand in denial trying to calm the crying mermaid .
I believe he is saying that he wasn't able to see it and i can justify that he really wasn't able to see it as it just so happens that it entered from behind his back from a blind angle when the gate was opened .
The shark Megalo looked at me for a few seconds maybe trying to comprehend what i just said or just confused about me being here he knew i was trying to help it and it kept on nodding and circling around the cheeks of the giant mermaid who was finally beginning to stop crying and looked at me curiously and asked : are you a new Fishman guard appointed by my honorable father , guard sama ?
A Fishman did she never saw a human before i'm not even in my hybrid form now that i think about it it would have been a great idea if i used it to disguise myself as a Fishman but no helping it now i shock my head and said jokingly : i'm a human pirate now that you have seen me i will have to eat you , i don't know why i did that but i felt good about teasing her a bit and how wrong i'm she covered her head and cried even harder than when the axe was attacking yelling about how she didn't want to be eaten and that mermaids taste bad while Megalo was trying to hit me with his tail .
Princess is everything okay ? The question from the guards now standing in front of the room .
I was joking i was joking before neither pirates nor humans eat mermaids you are such a crybaby , calm down or i will get caught and i will be in a serious problem .
Luckily she was easily swayed and again stopped crying with her cheeks still red .
What are you doing here pirate sama ?
My name is Ryuu and i got here by following that flying axe what is the deal with it anyway it can't be coming out of nowhere like this .
I'm princess Shirahoshi daughter of ~sob~sob~ the honorable father and Fish-man island ~sob~sob~ Ryugu kingdom king Neptune .
I already told you i'm not going to hurt you so why are you crying again .
Because ~sob~ just now it was really scary , Ryuu sama ~sob~ .
Idiot if you want to cry lower your voice you will get me busted like that .
Ryuu sama is yelling angrily at me it's scary whaaaaa .
We are coming in princess .
I was about to use Soru but a hand pulled and hid me behind her back or tail .
Are you okey princess we heard your crying voice is everything okay ?
Yes honorable guards of Neptune i'm just missing seeing my venerable father and honorable brothers .
We will note them that you want them to visit you but it's all for your own protection .
I know i'm just feeling bad all of sudden maybe a good sleep would turn my mood up again .
We will leave you to rest your highness call us if you need anything .
Why did you do that i thought you said i was terrorizing you ? .
You are the first human person to come and talk to me since i have been asked to stay here and you also saved me and Megalo and you also said you weren't here to hurt us .
You trust my words this much maybe i'm lyi yes yes i'm not hear to do you any harm , i was going to question why did she trust my words so easily and that i might be lying but saw the tears gather in her eyes so i changed my words but she really is carefree .
Could you tell me about the surface what does it look like and about the sun and trees up there ? .
You ask a lot of questions related to the surface don't tell me you didn't even see it once how long have you been in here .
I was asked to stay here when i was 6 years old ~sob~ sob ~ i stayed here for 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ,5 years i'm now 11 years old whaaa .
Why are you crying now ?
I remembered my late mother don't be angry with me Ryuu sama ~sob~ .
I'm sorry for your loss , i lost my mother too at a very young age .
You too Ryuu sama how old were you when that happened ? .
Surprisingly i don't know i was separated from both of my parents when i was 5 to 6 years old and only found about them having already died when i was 12 years old .
Whaaaaaa Ryuu sama also had to deal with the loss of his dear parents too sob sob sob this is really sad and how old are you now Ryuu sama ?
Sigh you really need to stop crying already else you will suffer from wrinkles in the future answering your question i'm 13 years old now , can you stop crying already we all going to die at some point so it's better to live our lives to the best we can for the sake of ourselves and for our parents too .
I'm sorry but i'm always able to find reasons to cry i don't understand why .
You know that nobody like a crybaby maybe in the future you will meet someone that will tell you that he hate you just because you are crying a lot .
Will i be to nobody liking people will hate me no i wanted to be liked i don't want to be hated Ryuu sama is a bully , she said while sobbing even more intensively while Megalo has rage like words all as if they were painted on top of his head
I didn't say no one will like you i said no one likes a crybaby you aren't a crybaby , are you ?.
No , i'm not shesaid still sobbing but was trying to hide her eyes so that she can wipe her tears .
She is a crybaby but at least she is trying to do her best .
Ryuu sama ?
Huh , what is it now ?
I'm not a crybaby so do you like me now ? .
Does my opinion really matter to you ? .
Hmph , since you didn't answer me i won't answer you .
Alright alright , i like you a bit more now .
Hooray he now likes me a bit more Megalo , she said and clapped hands with her shark pet , the same shark pet who was crying as if he was a proud mother .
So you really were staying here for 5 years and it has something to do with that flaying axe ?
She nodded and Megalo did too as if he was verifying her words .
The maids and guards come occasionally to bring me food and clothes , my father sama and brothers sama used to come to visit me frequently but now they are busy with their work so their visits became less frequently but those attacks only kept increasing .
So her father and brothers kept from visiting her because the increased frequency of the attacks and that may increase the risk of her getting hurt or worse or as she said they might be just really busy .
So mind telling me now who or what is responsible for that flying axe from earlier .
She was depressed for some reason at the question with Megalo taking the lead to try and tell me who was the mastermind behind those attack by trying to create a scene of how all this started and i found his acting funny although i didn't understand anything other than that their attacker was a male pirate with a devil fruit ability related to control or throwing weapons as Megalo kept on taking tools and throwing them then catch them midair and kept leading them towards the mermaid princess then even recreated the scene when i destroyed that axe he is really an interesting shark .
Stop Megalo your acting is just funny i can't understand much from it hey , Shirahoshi a man is the one aiming for your life did i get that correctly .
He is a Fishman Ryuu sama his name is Vander Decken IX ?
A Fishman attacking the mermaid princess what for ?
He ... he wants to marry me but i don't want to marry him .
Huh , what ?
She then began to explain how the things get to this point by saying he was very keen on marring her as he kept on sending love letters and marriage proposals to her since she was 6 by using his curse power i guessed that's she wasn't aware of the devil fruits power and when he found no response he began to send marriage proposals bearing life threats inside them so her father asked her to stay in her quarters at the hard-shell tower try to protect her from Vander Decken curse .
So wait a minute you really didn't get to set outside of your quarters for 5 years straight .
Yes ~ sob ~ sob i only have Megalo to accompany me and tell about everything he sees outside that is the reason i'm curious about the surface .
A young girl confined here for 5 years just somehow like the me from those last years but at least had my clairvoyance to see all that is happening around me but she only had Megalo as her eyes and ears outside , and all that because some idiot wanted to forcefully marry her and she didn't want to .
Hey princess Shirahoshi , if you were able to go to any place you wanted safely , where would you go ? .
I really wanted to go to the surface but i know that i can't without my dear father and brothers permission but i dearly want to visit Forest Of The Sea .
That place it looks cool but the number of shipwrecks there are covering its beauty but since we are here for a day might as well enjoy it all .
i was heading there just now want to accompany me .
But the curse on me might put Ryuu sama in danger and my dear father sama and brothers sama might get worried i really wanted to go to the Forest Of ~sob~ ~sob~ The Sea but i can't whaaaa .
I soothingly told her to calm down and that i'm able to push back that curse of here and will be able to protect her and that if we hurry up we will be back before anyone realizing that we left in the first place and she was finally persuaded but asked how would we be able to leave the palace unknowingly with guards in front of the gate i told her to leave this to me .
Do you trust me ? .
I trust you Ryuu sama and the shark nodded as well .
I walked to the gates and unleashed my Conqueror's Haki thud thud thud thud without opening clairvoyance i can tell already 4 guards were knocked out and opened the gate she was afraid that i have done something bad to them i told her that they will be asleep for a few minutes at most and then opened my Thinker Mode and got two options one was easy and the other would be difficult to some extent due to the need of cooperating with Shirahoshi to stealthily leave the palace .
The first one it is i stopped the Thinker and began to implement my plan by enlarging my size and height by 20 and almost reached the ceiling and looked at the shocked face of both Megalo and the mermaid princess i was like a giant to them now i increased my speed by 20 too and opened my arms to her and she hesitate for a few seconds then sat in the palm of my hand with Megalo i used Soru and even with my size my speed was still the same but due to my increased mass i had to readjust my height while passing through the air tunnel and created a small sonic boom that made the air as if whistling and i was seen by someone on my way out for just a second .
The person i suspected him to have discovered me was a big muscular shark merman, with a wide chest and large arms. He has a long face, framed by wavy fair blue hair flowing down to his shoulders, a sharp and pointy nose, and a dot of some sort printed on the middle of his forehead, He has gills on his massive neck and a dark blue tail with light blue polka-dots .
He wore a dark garment around his waist, held up by an extremely long sash. He also donned a light blue long band, which was passing over his shoulders, drawing a circle around the back of his neck, and falls down to his waist, seemingly floating behind him his appearance seem to perfectly showcase his noble demander and of his roylaity .
( Pov of Fukaboshi the prince of Ryugu kingdom ) :
Was something there just now or was i just imagining it .
(End of the pov)
We arrived at the Forest Of The Sea and i changed back to normal letting both the princess and Megalo out .
Wow Ryuu sama is a giant and we arrived here quickly too .
I'm a human it is just an ability of mine we are here you can do whatever you want without worrying about someone coming to attack you .
Thank you Ryuu sama i really wanted to visit my late dear mother tomb . Her voice turned grave all of a sudden and she began walking towards a hill at the Sea Forest, where a graveyard with several regular-looking graves was there, but the largest grave marker i was able to see so far was the grave of the former queen of the Ryugu Kingdom, Otohime that's Shirahoshi mother grave , It was an enclosed crypt with a small wall around it , On top of it was a stone and a vase-like sculpture with curved handles better to give her some space .
big axes were already coming from above her but all got intercepted by me using Haki as i noted it can remove the power on those axes more effectively .
An unwanted encounter in the sea forest was the last thing i wanted to have especially with an unknown foe as i Saw a huge spooky ship as if haunted nearing our position being pulled by a giant fishmen and a big sea king trying to force its way through the Sea Forest 's bubble and actually succeeded .
Good job Wadatsumi , Ankoro , Shirahoshi you will be mine , i think .