(4 months later.)
It's been 4 months since Kaizo has arrived in the One Piece world, he's been adapting relatively well. The most remarkable thing that's happen is that he managed to get the basics for: Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Karate and Taekwondo.
Aside from that is that Kaizo has started to focus mostly on his agility since he realized that while being a child his strength wouldn't rise above one of adults so, he should at least be more agile than them.
He also discovered about a famous pirate crew known as the Roger Pirates, apparently, they're the ones closer to the One Piece. This makes Kaizo realize something.
From the few things Wexof allowed him to remember was the original intro of One Piece.
"Wealth. Fame. Power. The man who had everything in this world... The Pirate King, Gold Roger. The great treasure he left behind, One Piece has opened the curtain on a grand era! It is a time when eager pirates set sail, battle, and become great! The Great Age of Pirates! Words he spoke drove countless men out to sea. And so, men set sights on the Grand Line, in pursuit of their dreams. The world has truly entered a Great Pirate Era!"
That paragraph contained a heck ton of information. 1st. Luffy would be born around that era, 2nd. Gold Roger will die to start the Great Pirate era.
This makes Kaizo anxious as he cannot predict when will Roger conquer the Grand Line. Eventually he overwhelms himself with these thoughts and decides to meditate to rest his mind.
As he sat on a rock in the woods, he heard some steps behind him but pays them no mind. The steps get closer but just walk past him and sets behind a tree. Kaizo keeps meditating to ease his mind as the birds continue to chirp until something, or more specifically someone, bugs him.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the no dad and no mom." An ugly kid spoke.
Kaizo only sighed at the comment but didn't care too much, it's not like he had any actual family here anyway. I mean, couldn't they get at least more creative with their insults? They've been using the same once since they met.
(A/N: They're currently in April 30th and Kaizo's birthday is April 25th)
As Kaizo kept ignoring the kid's rants, one of them takes a rock and throws it at him bit Kaizo easily dodges it by slightly moving to the side. The kids get angry at that and throw more rocks but Kaizo kept dodging them, albeit he had to leave his spot.
"AARGH!! You think you're better than us?!"
"Jerk!"
"Aren't you guys tired?" Kaizo spoke.
They looked at him bothered but also angry.
"I don't mean about throwing rocks, I'm talking about this overall situation. I mean, you always do this. You bother someone, get punished, cry to your mom about it, she gets mad and gives an earful to whomever retaliated and the cycle begins once again."
"Worst yet, if someone ignores you, you just try again and again until you get a rise out of someone, it's really tiring if I'm being honest." Kaizo sighed as he massaged his temples.
"W-well, at least we have a father and a mother." Retaliated the kid thinking he won the argument.
"If I were to have a mother and father such as yours then I'm eternally grateful to be an orphan. I mean, have you guys looked in a mirror, you look like the fusion between a cancerous toad and donkey stool." Kaizo retaliated while covering his mouth in disgust.
"You...!" The bigger kid out of the three couldn't handle the heat and ran towards Kaizo to give him a beating.
Only to fail each and every time thanks to Kaizo being more agile. The kid eventually grew tired and rested on the floor while Kaizo looks at him with disdain.
"Well, if the daily pathetic performance is over, could you leave this place? Is as far as Rito-san allows me to leave the town and also you should really leave, like right now." Kaizo.
"Oh yeah? And why's that?!"
"Because at this hour is when the wild animals are hungry and begin to lurk around these parts for food." Kaizo explain while covering his mouth.
"Ha! There are no wild animals around he---" the kid got interrupted.
*GRRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRWWW*
A roar was heard in the forest as the birds flew out of the area in fear. The three ugly kids were stunned for a moment before they both pissed their pants and ran out of the forest.
Kaizo lowered his hand and laughed a little, he couldn't have imagined that such "trash skill" would be useful in this situation. Ventriloquism: The art of emitting sounds without opening or moving your mouth properly.
Its one of the miscellaneous skills that Wexof gave Kaizo but he couldn't properly use it at first. It wasn't until a few weeks back that he decided to put some effort in the ability in order to draw animals in and then hunt them for meat, whenever he was hungry.
"Now that that's taken care of..." Kaizo looks at a particular tree.
"I know you're behind that tree, show yourself." Kaizo.
A person did come from behind the tree but to Kaizo's surprise, it wasn't from the tree he was looking at, but the one at its left.
The person is a small girl with onyx hair and blue eyes and she was holding a book. She noticed that Kaizo was looking at the wrong tree and a small laugh escaped her mouth.
"H-hey! I was somewhat correct!" Kaizo tried to save face, and failed miserably.
The girl laughed a bit more loudly as Kaizo felt embarrassed by his performance.
"Tch! What are you doing here... Robin?" Kaizo.
"You know my name?" Robin asked taken aback.
"You're the only other kid that actually learns something from Prof. Clover. I would be a fool to not notice you." Kaizo.
"Yes." Robin said while hugging her book tightly.
"I won't bother you so, you can keep reading as you were." Kaizo.
Robin nodded and Kaizo returned to meditating. They spend the whole noon reading and meditating until Kaizo decided to resume his training.
"Hey, Robin." Kaizo.
"What?" Robin.
"I'm about to start my training so, things might get a bit loud. If you wanna move to a quieter place, I'd recommend you do it now." Kaizo.
"No need, I'm already comfy here." Robin.
"Suit yourself." Kaizo.
Kaizo began to kick and punch the tree at different paces in order to train his techniques. Even though he has finished the basics in the fighting styles mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, he still needed actual combat experience.
As the saying goes "too much information is bad unless you know how to handle it." Kaizo took that advice and is solely focused on polishing his fighting style.
As he kept punching the tree, Kaizo began to notice that his punches were wearing the tree bark down. Something that Kaizo realized was that his body was unusual, not like I have a third eye kind, but rather that he heals extremely fast and his pain tolerance is also high.
How did he find that out? He had the "brilliant" idea of fighting a bear to test his strength, yeah at 4 years-old, the rest is self-explanatory but the bottom line is that he was fully healed in less than 3 weeks.
Of course, he didn't suffer any life-threatening wounds but he did break both of his arms, it was an uncomfortable week.
Little Robin kept reading her book in peace but she had to admit that hearing Kaizo's punches and grunts wasn't all that pleasing, still it was better than reading by herself. Despite her lonely nature and abusive childhood, Robin is quite a nice girl, longing for the love and care that her adoptive caretakers didn't gave her.
And just like that, time passed until it was time for lunch, Robin got up and stated to leave but she noticed Kaizo was also leaving.
"You're gonna eat at your home?" Kaizo asked.
Robin didn't answer but shuddered a little at the thought before replying.
"No, I'll just go and bring another book to read." Robin.
"Cool, I'ma gonna hunt for something to eat. I don't mind sharing if you're ok with that." Kaizo.
Robin's face lit up.
"That'll be nice." Robin.
As Kaizo went to hunt for something to eat, Robin walked around towards her home, it's been quite some time since her mother left. So much in fact that she can't remember her face well, or even her voice.
Just as she arrived her "home" she was immediately dissed by her aunt.
"Hey, Robin! I told you to only return by night!" The ugly ass woman yelled.
"I'm sorry, aunt, I'm just hungry since you haven't fed me since yesterday." Robin.
"Ah?! you're freeloading here and still dare to ask for something!?"
"S-sorry!" Robin.
"Get out and don't you dare to come back unless it's 8 o'clock, understood?!"
Robin trembled a little until she balled her fists.
"Yes." Robin.
Robin left the place she slept at night and began to walk the street asking some adults if they had something to spare, but most of them acted quite rudely against her due to her mother.
Yes, while Robin was unaware of who her mother is, the rest of the residents are fully aware and have tried their best to prevent her from knowing. However, due to Nico Olivia's actions tarnishing the good name of Ohara, the residents take their frustrations on an innocent Nico Robin.
In short, they're pussies with misdirected anger.
Robin returns dejectedly from the town into the forest and sees Kaizo cooking the whole body of a deer with an open flame. Surprisingly enough, not only did Robin didn't find the deer scary, she also thought that it looked a bit...cute.
And that's how sociopaths are born.
"Ah, yo! Didya eat somethin'?" Kaizo asked while rotating the deer.
"Yes." Robin lied as she sat near the fire.
*GRUMBLE*
Robin's stomach betrayed her and grumbled at the smell of the deer. Robin clenched her mouth shut and tried to hide her embarrassment, which didn't work as her stomach kept grumbling.
"HAHAHAHA!!" Kaizo laughed.
Robin felt even more embarrassed but didn't feel that she was being mocked by Kaizo's laughter.
"If you were hungry, you should've said so. I don't have any seasoning other than salt but should still be good to eat." Kaizo.
To be honest, out of every kid in the island he can only tolerate Robin, everyone else seems to be a bit too much of pampered brats, yes, they're 4-5-6 but that's not what matters to Kaizo.
As long as you raise your children to be good people, they'll be respectful to anyone at any age.
Robin smiled warmly as she nodded.
Kaizo cooked the deer some more before he ripped out a chunk for him and another for Robin, who has a plate made out of some washed leaves. Kaizo ate happily the meat as Robin wondered how he would eat that much meat.
She took a bite and to her surprise, the deer was actually good. She kept enjoying her meal by ripping the deer strip by strip until she finished her meal, it's been one, if not, the best meal she's ever eaten.
She looked at the pile of bones of what remained of the deer while Kaizo picks his teeth with one of the bones.
"Not to pat my back but that was delicious." Kaizo.
"It was." Robin.
"Well, time to train again." Kaizo.
He got up and began to ran towards a tree and delivered a low roundhouse kick against it. Robin only watched as Kaizo repeated the barrage of attacks against the poor tree until nighttime arrived.
"Well, I guess that's that for today." Kaizo.
"Why're you training so much?" Robin.
"I have a dream, Robin." Kaizo.
"A dream?" Robin.
"Yes, I dream of becoming the strongest person in the whole world." Kaizo.
"Why?" Robin.
"Just cause." Kaizo grinned.
Robin looked at Kaizo confused but didn't dwell on the matter.
"BT dubs, why're classes being cancelled tomorrow?" Kaizo.
"Professor Clover is going to leave to visit a friend of his, Vega something I think he said his name was." Robin.
"What a weird name, will someone has named their kid Alpha or something exist out there?" Kaizo.
"Hehe, you're curious about the weirdest things." Robin.
"Yeah, well how's this for weird? If you eat from your mouth and crap through your butt, if you eat with your butt, will you crap through your mouth?" Kaizo.
"Eww! That's disgusting." Robin smiled.
"Nah, it's scientifically perplexing." Kaizo laughed.
Both kids laughed hard discussing several topics as the night passed on.
(Days Later. Punk Hazard.)
Clover stands in front of the entrance to Punk Hazard's lab with a cooler at his side. Shortly after, Dr. Vegapunk comes out of the lab with a bothered and confused expression.
"Vegapunk." Clover greeted his friend coldly.
"Clover, what brings you here all of a sudden. I believed you said everything last time we met." Vegapunk.
"I'm aware, but there's something I need to ask you about." Clover.
Vegapunk notices Clover's serious demeanor and changes his tune.
"I'm listening, what's troubling you now?" Vegapunk.
"I need this blood sample tested." Clover.
Clover took a vial from the cooler filled with red liquid and gave it to Vegapunk.
"Make a test of this blood and identify its race, make it as secretive as possible and tell me the results. I'll wait right here." Clover.
Vegapunk knew that the vial contained blood but what shocked him was Clover's eagerness to have the blood identified.
Without a word uttered, Vegapunk returned inside and conducted the test on the blood. Clover remained outside sitting on top of the cooler while brainstorming with a worried look.
Hours later, Vegapunk would reveal something about the blood in the vial that would shake the whole world. Fortunately, this information would only be known by these two men.