Chapter 13: CH 12
"Just hold in to your positions and don't move too much" said the orange haired girl while gripping tightly on the boat which was keep tilting right and left from the weight of the individuals. Rei who was wearing a white shirt and denim jeans was sitting calmly beside her and rowing the boat to the shore.
A young man of average height, having a slender build. He was wearing a black long sleeve shirt resembling a gakuran over a red hoodie, black pants, and red shoes. He had light brown eyes and spiky pink hair styled in undercut fashion.
Second was the elderly man with a slight hunch in his back. He had light blue eyes and tan skin. He had spike white hair, thick white eyebrows, and a thick white mustache, wearing a long-sleeved black martial arts jumpsuit, light-colored pants, and Tai Chi slippers. Despite his old age, his body was lean and very muscular.
Lastly the little girl in their group was wearing a classical witch attire such as a black cloak, a red robe, orange boots and a black wizard's hat, all with gold border and trimmings, alongside black choker, belt and fingerless gloves. Her right leg was wrapped in white bandages and a black stocking on the left one. She was carrying a brown staff with a floating blue gem. She was
The groups were divided into the Nami, Itadori, Rei and Bang, Megumin to balance the weight of the boat, to let it sail safely to the shore. Prior to this moment, Nami was in the moment of celebrating her victory over the pirates, from whom she stole the treasure and boat having a skull faced logo with a long red nose. All of a sudden, four individuals appeared on her boat making her scream in surprise and shock. Everyone had different looks on their faces upon seeing the fellow members of the chat group.
"Bang, you are an old man?!" said Itadori in surprise when he found about the identity of old man in front of him. In his response, Bang just nodded at him and then his eyes landed on the girl dressed up in a magician outfit, "And Megumin is a kid?"
"I am not a kid! I am ArchWizard of Crimson Demons. Show some respect to me!" retorted Megumin when she was compared to a kid. Itadori immediately apologized as he saw her getting angry and didn't want the problem with 'strongest' member of the chat group. She was someone who could turn him into ash with just a snap of her finger and making her agitated will only bring calamity to him.
"Rei you're just like I thought you would be. A highschool student" said Itadori with a smile as he greeted the fellow member who helped him and lended him the light weapons for the protection. He held him in high regards, after getting help from him.
"It's nice to meet all of you. I can't believe that we all are from different worlds and still hold the appearances of normal humans" said Rei showing his 'amazement' to the other members. He had already seen them so seeing them in person, was like an other level of experience for him.
"You guys are totally different from what I imagined about all of you" Nami told the fellow members and then her gaze landed on Rei, who was playing with the fishes in the river, "Out of everyone, I am surprised by the appearance of Rei. I thought you were some sort of maniac adult carrying a big weapon on back, but you're just like us"
Rei turned to the orange haired girl while wiping his wet hands. Bang and Megumin, were on their own world, totally out of their conversation. Both of them had their backs turned on them, while having the fishing rods in their hands to catch the fishes that Rei fed a moment ago.
"Just because I slay devils doesn't mean I will be having a scary appearance. Is that how you generally think, Nami?" teased Rei as he questioned about her thinking to deduce their appearances. She caught onto his tone and immediately replied with a retort.
"I thought like any other person would do" She shrugged her shoulders and asked with a side look and a little smirk on her face, "Besides, where is the weapon that you use to kill the so called devils in your world?"
The later one was more like a jab at him to prove whether he was telling the truth about slaying the devils that he used to talk about in the chats. From his appearance, he did look like a powerful individual and deep down, she considered him a handsome boy with a very good physique but didn't believed his words about his feats in his world.
Itadori chimed in and asked excitingly with starry eyes, "Yeah. Show us your weapon, Rei! I want to see the cool weapon that you have, Is it a gun, dagger, cross-"
"Would you let him speak, Itadori!" Nami screamed at Itadori to stop his rant, so that Rei could show his weapon to everyone. Both Bang and Megumin were also curious to see it now, since they heard a lot about him slaying devils in his world.
He extended his arm out and a sword summoned in his hand out of nowhere, taking everyone by surprise, aside from Megumin.
"How did you do this?" asked Nami in amazement, not believing what she just saw from her eyes. A sword appearing in his hand, how could it be possible? No normal human could do something like this was the thought she had in her head, "Are you really a human?"
"Of course I am" said Rei making a small cut on his hand to show the color of his blood to everyone. It was to clear all the doubts that they might have about him "Look my blood is of human, and no devil is hiding inside me"
Bang and Megumin were used to seeing this kind of stuff in his world, so they didn't question too much about how he did it. Itadori on the other hand, was muttering exciting under his breath.
"This is amazing!" Itadori gawked at the sword with starry eyes and just as he was about to touch it, he felt a powerful electrical shock causing him to retract back his hand from the sudden pain that he felt, "What was that?!"
"This sword doesn't let anyone touch her, beside me" replied Rei vanishing the sword out of his hand and showing off his empty hands like a magician.
Itadori caressed his hand to ease the pain and said with a sweatdrop, "You should have told me about that, Rei"
"That's what you get for jumping in recklessly" said Nami with a tongue mocking Itadori. Both of them began to argue with each other about how she was stupid for her one way thinking and him being idiot to jump in without thinking.
"It looks like we've reached the town that you were talking about" interjected Rei to calm down the scuffle between Itadori and Nami. Everyone turned their heads to the town which was now getting into their sight.
'It looks like I'll be meeting the almighty Buggy D Clown in the beginning of this quest. ' While everyone had their eyes on their destination, Rei was getting excited to see the clown in person. He was in dark all this time about which timeline Nami was in, but seeing the familiar pirate sign on the boat, he was sure that it was the town in which she met with Luffy and Zoro. 'Luffy, Zoro, Buggy, so interesting!'
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Reaching at the dock of town, the boat was parked there but not before Nami warning everyone on the boat. She jumped off the boat and landed on the ground safely, and turned around to face them and said, "You guys stay here and wait for me, until I return back with the stealing treasure of evil pirates staying in this town. Don't even think of following me or else I will lose all the treasure"
"Steal? Are you a thief, Nami?" inquired Megumin about the identity of orange haired girl, who was fixing her hair after tying her boots. Behind Megumin, the three of them were playing rock paper scissors for deciding who will be the next one to step out of the boat, since they were arguing with each other about it.
Nami looked at her with a smile and replied, "Yeah. But I only steal from pirates and stealing from pirates isn't bad"
Itadori like a plane with no pilot, crashed in the conversation and asked the orange haired girl with hand over his chin, "But stealing is still stealing no matter how you put it"
"I don't care what you think of it. I believe it's right, so I am doing it!" said Nami storming away inside the town for her treasure hunt, leaving behind the other members to themselves. As soon she was out of their sight, Rei jumped off the boat and landed on the ground and stretched his arms in the air while muttering I win under his breath.
"Come on guys, let's look around the town" said Rei motioning them to follow him for wandering the town. He couldn't help but get excited to see rest of the one piece characters and ask rest of them to join in with him.
"She told us to wait here, Rei" reminded Megumin about Nami's earlier instructions to them. She held her hat tightly to save it from the gusts of wind, "What if she comes back and we are nowhere to found, she will get angry at us"
"Don't worry Megumin. We will not go too far in the town and will be back, before she reaches here with her treasure. So come on, let's explore this town" said Rei with a smile and continuing to walk ahead without waiting for their responses to him.
Seeing him go away in the town, rest of them joined as well since waiting here will only bore them to death. On the way, Itadori was asking Megumin to teach him some magic, while Bang and Rei were talking about the exercises that will give them more pump in their muscles, as if they were long lost gym buddies met after a long time.
It was almost an hour, but still there was no sign of any human in this town. They began to wonder if this town was abandoned or just few people live in here. Soon enough the later one assumption was seeming to be false as well because no human was in this town. After walking for too long, all of a sudden there was a loud sound of stomach growl broke the silence of the street they were in.
*Growl*
Boys turned their heads to Megumin, who covered her face with the hat to hide her embarassment and muttered, "I am hungry, can I get something to eat?"
"You should have told me back there in boat, I would have gave you the cup noodles" Rei turned to the little wizard and said with a sigh, "Let's go to that restaurant, we will find something to eat there"
Itadori took out his wallet and nodded in confidence while thinking about blowing the cash on best meal he could get. But Bang's voice stopped him in his tracks and causing him to turn around to know why he was stopped by the old man.
"Hold on, kid" Bang walked upto him with both hands on his back and explained to Itadori, "We don't have this world's money with us. So how are you going to pay for the food?"
"Oh right?! I didn't think of that at all" Itadori gasped in surprise to find out that the wallet he was holding on in his pocket, didn't have the currency of this world. This was not the Japan! He slouched down to the ground while holding his stomach like Megumin and cursed his luck for having no money.
Rei smiled at them and went through his pocket and showed the pouch to everyone, "I think gold coins would be valid here since there was a lot of treasure on the boat"
"You stole her money! That's a bad thing Rei, don't become like her" reprimanded Megumin when she found out that Rei had snuck out some gold coins from 'her treasure'. Itadori didn't mind the action of his fellow member since he just wanted some food to eat.
Rei shrugged his shoulders and replied with a grin, "I stole it from a thief and stealing from a thief isn't bad. Don't you agree, Megumin?"
When they heards his reason for stealing from her, everyone burst out into the laughter and joined him to the restaurant to fill their empty stomachs. Entering inside, they found no sign of human existence in their field of vision. It's as if this place was abandoned.
"What's wrong with this town?! Where is everyone?" Itadori started to get irritated from seeing no one in the restaurant. The empty stomach was just adding fuel to this madness he was witnessing all this time in the town.
Bang took one of the chair and sat down to get some rest. Megumin was on the ground while holding her stomach with a ghost of her coming out of mouth, while mumbling 'food' repeatedly under her breath. Rei started to look around to find something to eat, but not before he and every member got interrupted abruptly.
*BOOOM!*
A sudden loud sound of explosion filled the ears of members and everyone immediately got on their guard. Walking out of the restaurant, they met with the sight of demolished houses in the line and a house burning at the very end of destruction. While they were still figuring out what was happening, Itadori noticed something was a miss and he had a look of shock on his face.
"Guys! Where is Rei?!" Itadori pointed out the missing member from their group. He looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him. Megumin began to worry if something bad happened to him in between this. Meanwhile, Bang was looking at the certain direction with a hand over his chin, 'That kid ran so fast from here to that building over there in mere seconds. Is he really a human?'
...….
On the rooftop of a bar, which was far away from the location of Rei and his group. Several people were gathered together to celebrate the moment, after launching another one of their cannon ball at the town. They were laughing loudly while holding the bear jugs and looking at the devastation laid down by them.
"Hahahahaha! Now it's your turn. Go ahead and light up the cannon ball Nami!" A voice ordered the orange haired girl who was shaking in her place from the fear. After witnessing the damage that the cannon caused, the aftermath of kid laughing in the cage that she was ordered to blow up, was showing up in her eyes.
*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*
Everything went to halt when knocks on the door, interrupted their moment. The man sitting on the chair turned to the door with a vein popped on his forehead. He motioned one of his men to open the door and bring whoever was it, to him. As the man, went to open the door, he was felt a powerful force from the other side and got launched far away in the air and crashed to the one of tables, surprising everyone present there.
Now each one of the people on rooftop had their eyes on the individual, who made his appearance in this situation. A black haired boy with an annoyed expression on his face walked out and said with a threatening voice, "Which one of you shot that canon ball?"
'What a perfect timing!' Nami was rejoicing in her mind on seeing the familiar black haired boy here. She had almost lost the hope and thought she would become just like the other pirates, if she ended up killing boy inside the cage. She moved her gaze around the people to look for something, 'He will be able to distract Buggy while I will save the straw hat boy from the cage. Now I just have to find the key of cage'
"I was the one who launched that canon ball" A voice came from behind the group of people looking at him with weapons in their hands. All of them scattered around so that the man behind them, could speak with the intruder face to face. The person revealed as a slim blue-haired man with an appearance resembling that of a clown with big red nose on his face. His face was covered with a makeup.
"Pffttt….He looks like a clown for real!" Rei who had a serious look on his face, couldn't help but say out loud what he was thinking in his head on seeing the appearance of Buggy from his eyes. He tried to control himself but In the next moment, he burst out laughing loudly while holding his stomach, "Hahahhahhahhaha"
There was a dead silence spreaded around the whole roof top. From Nami to Buggy's crew members had a look of horror on their faces. On the other hand, the straw hat boy also joined with the laugh of Rei, leading to the blood boil of Clown faced man sitting on the chair.
"You're dead!"