After the heavy rain, the sky cleared up, the sun shining brightly as if washed clean by the rain, clear and transparent, without a single cloud, and even the air was fresh and sweet, with rainbows appearing in some places.
Water 7, Commercial Street.
Sephiroth stood in front of a weapon shop's window, looking at the knives, guns, swords, shields, and armor inside with great interest.
After a moment, he pushed open the glass door and walked into the shop filled with various weapons.
In front of the counter, a middle-aged man with an eight-character mustache, wearing black trousers, a white shirt, a black vest, and a red bow tie around his neck, smiled slightly and said:
"Welcome!"
"What would you like to buy, customer?"
"I want to buy a good sword... preferably a famous one."
Hearing this, the man with the eight-character mustache sized Sephiroth up and down, then tentatively said:
"A famous sword? I do have two fast swords in my collection, but the price of each sword is over a million Berries..."
"A million Berries, I can barely afford it. Show me the quality of the swords first."
Sephiroth nodded slightly, not showing much surprise at the high price.
Actually, a million Berries for a sword is not expensive.
In this weapon shop, there are several full sets of armor priced from over two million Berries to five million Berries.
For most ordinary people, the value of armor is actually higher than that of weapons. Armor can not only prevent cuts from swords, but also block the penetrating damage of bullets.
Therefore, in general weapon shops, the price of armor is usually much higher than that of weapons.
To buy a good sword, he searched his house thoroughly and finally found 2.6 million in cash in Karl D. Pal's bedroom.
As for the bank deposit of over 150 million in the other party's savings book...
His father, Karl D. Pal, although already on the list of sea casualties, his body has not been found.
According to the laws of Water 7, to declare him dead, it would take another year, only then could Sephiroth inherit the inheritance...
Mr. Eight-Character Mustache didn't drag things out. He walked to a shelf nearby, took two sheathed Sabers, and placed them on the counter.
Sephiroth picked up one of them and, with a 'clang', drew the Saber.
On the straight blade, strange purple patterns spread, making people feel an inexplicable chill from the bottom of their hearts.
"This fast sword is called 'Ghost Slayer'. The blade is 84 centimeters long, 1.7 centimeters wide, the edge is about 0.8 millimeters thick, the handle is 23 centimeters long and 2.2 centimeters wide. The price is one million Berries..."
As he spoke, Mr. Eight-Character Mustache's tone hesitated for a moment.
Then, he continued:
"However, I must also remind you, young man, this sword is a cursed sword. Its previous three masters all died tragically..."
Swish!
In Mr. Eight-Character Mustache's surprised eyes...
Sephiroth, expressionless and silent, quickly and incomparably sheathed the Saber in his hand, threw it on the counter, and directly picked up the other sheathed Saber.
Mr. Eight-Character Mustache: "..."
Clang!
Sephiroth casually drew the second Saber.
The fiery red, straight blade was like an Autumn Leaf, and it was slightly heavier than the previous one.
"This fast sword is called 'Autumn Leaf'. The blade is 96 centimeters long, 1.8 centimeters wide, the edge is about 0.7 millimeters thick, the handle is 25 centimeters long and 2.3 centimeters wide. The price is one million five hundred thousand Berries..."
Sephiroth lightly swung the fiery red Saber a few times, then tentatively asked:
"This one isn't a cursed sword too, is it?"
Hearing this, Mr. Eight-Character Mustache quickly shook his head and explained:
"No... This sword is of excellent quality and its sharpness is very close to the Fifty Good Blades."
Sephiroth thought for a moment, extended his left hand to pick up a pencil from the counter, held it in front of him, and with his right hand holding the Autumn Leaf Blade, he swung it towards the pencil.
He felt almost no resistance, and this fiery red Saber directly split the pencil in his hand into two.
Not bad!
It's much stronger than the Saber I used for practice before.
That broken sword had trouble even cutting a wooden stake...
It was only when he couldn't bear it anymore that he came to the weapon shop to spend a fortune and buy a good sword.
Anyway, that Lieutenant has already called and said that his identity check was completely fine, and in three days, he will go to the Marine's G3 Branch to participate in recruit training.
Therefore, he didn't need to save too much money, since the Marine would provide him with food and lodging in the future...
"Alright! I'll take this sword."
Sephiroth opened the inside of his blue suit, took out two stacks of ten thousand Berry bills, counted out one and a half stacks, and handed them to the weapon shop Boss.
"Hehehe! Young man, you're straightforward!... By the way, I have other very good weapons here, including high-powered firearms.
As the saying goes, ten years of martial arts is not as good as a single bullet... I wonder if you're interested?"
Mr. Eight-Character Mustache quickly counted the bills with both hands while smiling and staring at the remaining five hundred thousand Berries in Sephiroth's hand.
"I just got a new type of revolver called 'Python'. At close range, even an elephant can be killed with one shot, and it only costs one hundred and fifty thousand Berries.
If you buy now, I'll also give you sixty rounds of ammunition..."
"Uh!? No need..."
Sephiroth shook his head, refusing the Boss's offer, and had no intention of buying.
He had confiscated a pile of firearms on the slave ship, and they were now gathering dust at home.
Although firearms were very helpful to him now, excessive reliance on them was not a good thing for him at present, as it would make him feel complacent and neglect the training of his physical fitness.
The top powerhouses in this world basically have an extremely powerful Armament Haki protecting them.
For example, in a normal state, as long as Big Mom Charlotte Linlin doesn't have a mental breakdown, she can be shot and shelled without any harm.
As for Kaido of the Beasts, there's even less to say. He routinely courts death, jumping from a height of ten thousand meters and still being fine, at most a little dizzy...
While Sephiroth was lost in thought, he unknowingly arrived at the market area.
Sephiroth thought that it was already close to noon and time to buy groceries and cook, so he took the opportunity to purchase food, preparing to go back and cook...
As he passed by a mutton shop, he stopped and walked into the shop, bypassed the glass counter in front displaying dried goods such as cured mutton and sheep blood sausage, and walked to the back, to a corner with several iron cages.
Sephiroth pointed his right index finger at an iron cage, which contained three white goats.
He turned his head and asked the blond young man standing in front of the slaughtering table, who was wielding a cleaver and dismembering a whole sheep:
"Excuse me, how much is a live sheep?"
"If you buy by the head, it's 500 Berries per jin...
Lilith, a customer wants to buy a sheep. I'm busy right now, come out and help."
"Got it, brother!"
A graceful blond girl pushed open the back door of the shop and walked in.
Although she had a few freckles on her cheeks, it still couldn't hide her youthful and lovely appearance.
Overall, she was a very beautiful woman.
Lilith opened the iron cage, tied a white sheep with a rope, and led it to the large iron scale.
The blond girl added weights to the scale bar while asking:
"Customer, do you need us to slaughter your sheep...?"
"No, I just want a live one."
Sephiroth shook his head, refusing the other party's suggestion.
In fact, he bought live sheep simply to extract lifespan from them to replenish the reserve lifespan consumed during his recent training.
During this time, through his development and research of the fruit, his reserve lifespan had increased from three hundred years to five hundred years, and he was also pleasantly surprised to find that the range of his life force extraction was not limited to humans.
As long as it is a creature with blood, he can extract life force. Fish, chickens, dogs... and other animals are all possible, but the amount that can be extracted is far less than from humans.
In addition, he also found that compared to normal eating for energy, using blood absorption to satisfy hunger was actually more efficient.
This was a good thing for Sephiroth, at least he wasn't limited to extracting life force only from humans.
In the original plot, the Celestial Dragons had a very strong obsession with eternal life!
For this, they even extensively used CP0 to search for a vague legend that circulated hundreds of years ago, claiming that obtaining "Pure Gold" could grant eternal life...
God knows, if Sephiroth's Vampire Fruit's ability to obtain eternal life and youth by extracting other people's life force were discovered by the World Government, would he be captured by CP0 and thrown to Vegapunk for various researches!
That scene was too beautiful, he couldn't even imagine it!
Therefore, he had to be cautious and carefully hide his true abilities.
Sephiroth's thought of joining the Marine also had this consideration in mind...
The Marine's talent cultivation system was the most promising path to becoming stronger that he could access now!
He estimated that when his strength reached the Shichibukai level, the World Government wouldn't be able to do anything to him...
After all, the Ope-Ope no Mi has always been something the Celestial Dragons dreamed of, but Trafalgar Law, the user of the Ope-Ope no Mi, after his strength reached a certain level and he openly joined the Shichibukai, the World Government didn't directly capture him for research, which is a good example.
In other words, as long as Sephiroth's speed of becoming stronger is fast enough, strong enough that others dare not provoke him, then trouble will directly disappear into thin air!
Lilith looked at the weights that had reached a state of balance, and she said with a smile:
"Exactly one hundred jin... A total of fifty thousand Berries!"
"Okay!"
Sephiroth nodded, took out a small stack of bills from inside his suit, counted out five ten thousand Berry bills, and handed them to the blond girl.
"Why did a Pirates ship suddenly appear in the commercial street?"
Bang bang...!
Several consecutive gunshots broke the peaceful atmosphere on the street, and people fell into panic.
"Pirates are here!"
"Run!"
...
"Help!"