I stayed in Ace and Luffy's treehouse for the night and the next morning I opened my eyes to the sound of the brother's panicking. 'What have they done now?'
Looking down from the treehouse I was met with the very humorous sight of Justice chasing after Luffy on foot, who was carrying a massive chunk of meat (No, seriously like twice his size.). Meanwhile Ace was trying and failing to get her attention by flailing his pipe around behind her. It was quite a sight considering that Justice was so massive in comparison to them that half of Ace's body could comfortably fit in her mouth.
Sighing deeply and shaking my head I hoisted myself over the small wall of the treehouse and jumped down. The impact caused by my landing finally caught the attention of the three running around.
"So," I looked directly at the chunk of meat. Which was now in Justice's mouth. "What happened?"
"Your crazy lizard tried to take all the meat!" Ace shouted as luffy could not answer as he and justice had begun a tug of war with the meat. Somehow, Luffy was standing his ground after latching his jaw around another part of the meat.
"And where did the meat come from?" I asked. I was certain the massive chunk of meat had not been here last night so I was genuinely curious as to where the hell it came from.
"It appeared this morning and then your dragon tried to take it!"
I just stared at the dumbass. I had to take a serious look at myself to confirm that I was not in fact still asleep. Had he really just said that?
I facepalmed and looked back at him like the idiot that he was. "So. Let me get this straight. You woke up to find that a large piece of meat had suddenly appeared. With my dragon, who you last saw fly off, nearby. And don't think that the meat belonged to her?"
'Roger. I swear I will find a way to resurrect you. Just so I can punch you in the balls for creating such a dumbass.'
I could see the gears slowly turning in his mind as he started realising that Justice had hunted the meat herself for breakfast and they had stolen it. I saw it finally click in his head and whipped around to get Luffy to drop the prize only to immediately be struck by the flying form of Luffy, having been thrown off the meat by justice lashing her head around.
I looked back over to where Justice was and to my delight she was now scarfing down her prize with a smug look on her face.
'I guess even Luffy's iron jaw couldn't hold on against a Dragon.'
"Alright dumbasses." I addressed the groaning boys. "Since you decided to steal from Justice, she gets to participate in your training today."
The boys stiffened in fear and turned to me with eyes full of unmasked horror.
"Y-you're not serious. Tell me you're joking!"
"New-aniki! Please! We're sorry!"
I heard their pleas but I wasn't having it. This was as good a time as any to teach them the consequences of eating random food. Heck I was doing them a favor. In the series, Luffy even got into multiple confrontations with BIG MOM over food. And unlike in the series, Luffy had no plot-armor. So it was up to me to ensure he survived until he became the new Joyboy.
"You boys have to learn about respecting other people's food." I said matter of factly.
"Justice" she looked over to me, chewing the last bite of her breakfast. 'Non-lethal only, cuts and bruises are fine. The one in the strawhat is the only one you can use full physical strength on. When you're done, cocoon them. They won't get food for a few hours.' I mentally directed her.
She swallowed her meal and nodded. Then she attacked. For the next several hours, the two boys tried desperately to hide or escape but Justice always found them with her mind reading and blocked them from leaving. The boys had to dodge and weave between controlled flames, metallic spines, amber projectiles, and blasts of wind from Justice's four massive wings.
What was I doing while my little brothers were being tortured by my dragon? I was meditating with two stones in my hands. In my left was the black garnet shard, in my right was the stone of gelel. If you had seen me during this process you would have witnessed red markings glowing with magic making their way across my body from my left hand while on my face green markings appeared around my eyes and on my forehead.
I was simultaneously absorbing natural energy from the stone to train sage mode while also resonating with the shard. According to the system I was now 12.4% of the way to fully resonating with the shard. 'Damnt, this is taking so long.' it was too bad the specific otherworldly token was for a skill or i would have wished for a scroll on fuinjutsu. Sealing the gems inside my own body would be so much better than having to carry them around.
The thought of implanting them inside my body with my devil fruit had occurred to me but I dismissed it just as quickly. Having foreign objects in my flesh could be more dangerous than advantageous in this world.
After a few hours more, Justice flew up and broke me out of meditation. She snorted and gestured down towards the ground where Luffy was encased in a cocoon up to his ears and Ace was stuck to a tree upside down.
"Thanks for the help, girl." I said as I gently patted her snout. She made a sound of protest but then melted into the pats. Try as she might to seem aloof, my little dragon was a tsundere and a sucker for attention.
After a few more moments I pulled my hand away and Justice got embarrassed. She shot a small flame at me and flew away. I chucked and jumped down to my brothers.
"So, have you learned your lesson?" My question was met by a nod from Ace and a desperate cry from help from Luffy. "Good. If I ever hear about you taking food that is not yours, I will step in myself." I said with a cold smile that I could tell freaked them out. Just for good measure I also made dark lighting bounce between my fingers for dramatic effect.
"Alright then, I suppose you get to eat today."
The mention of food seemed to revitalize the kids. ""Food?"" the two muttered simultaneously.
"Yes, food. But you have to hunt it yourself." I said asi i used my devil fruit to disassemble the cocoons surrounding them.
"Eh!? Big bro Carter, how can you do that!?" Luffy asked with question marks floating above his head.
I grinded. It wasn't often I got to brag about my devil fruit. The grand line navy was too full of other fruit users and knowledgeable people. "It's my devil fruit, I ate the Yugo yugo no mi making me a fusion human. I can combine and fuse anything together as well as take anything apart."
"SUGE!" Luffy shouted. It wasn't surprising, this was the first time he had seen a devil fruit other than his own.
After a moment Ace got up and he and Luffy dashed into the forest to find food. I chuckled to myself. ' food, the most important thing in the world to the Monkey D. and Gol D. families.'
Then, suddenly. An idea occurred to me. "When it comes to food. Luffy and Ace have the same problem. As long as it is edible it is eaten. Luffy ate an extremely foul tasting devil fruit entirely because he could.
I had been thinking of a way to get Ace to eat the mera mera no mi without just giving it to him for free. And now I had just the plan. 'If I were to just leave it around during a time where he was hungry I could get him to eat it. And then extort him for eating my very valuable devil fruit! HAHAHAHA!'
I used wood release to create a small treasure chest and placed the flame logia securely inside it. Then I hid it away for a later opportunity.
The boys eventually came back with a large bull. (why a bull was in a forest I will never know) but we cooked it and I gave them the rest of the day off.
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The next morning I was awakened by Luffy's snoring and I placed the treasure chest on the single table in the treehouse in a position that Ace would notice it before luffy. Also, to my great joy my system had come back online.
[-Name: Carter Davil
Race: Human
Secondary race: Ancient Giant, three eye tribe,
Secondary bloodlines: Senju, Uchiha,
Age: 15
Occupation: Marine cadet
Title: Kin of Devils
{stats} {inventory} {shop}
Physique: 82.7 / 500 [sage body]
Devil Fruit: Yugo Yugo no mi
Devil Fruit mastery: 22.0 / 100
Haki: 20.2 / 500
Free attribute points: 19.3
Shop points: 710
System skills: Analyze, Bloodline shift, Perfect memory
One Piece: Skills: Devil fruit infusion, Poneglyph reading, Devil fruit identification, Voice of all things, life return,
Otherworldly skills: Sage body, Wood release, Sharingan, Black garnet connection (12.4%)]
A few things had been removed and a few things added. My unique item had also shown up in my inventory as another ??? but I would hold off on deciphering it. Instead I Bought another item box. I needed more items to give to Luffy and Ace and I had a limited amount of time to get them.
[Opening item box...
Sea stone Chunk: a chunk of rock capable of suppressing devil fruit abilities.
Iron knuckles: a pair of knuckles guards made from iron, enhances attack power
Silver Conch shell: a replica conch shell made from pure silver. Blowing it may reveal a secret at a certain location ]
The items I got were not bad But I only got one enhancement item. But it was an item perfectly suited for Luffy. The boy was an up front brawler. So items that enhanced punches worked wonders.
As for an item for Ace? I'll have to get him one later on in his journey. The boy was fourteen and would depart on his journey next year. I was broken out of my thoughts by the sound of Ace finally waking up. It was still dark so he didn't notice me watching him.
After rubbing the sleep from his eyes the boy finally laid eyes on the chest. "Eh? What's this?" he tilted his head.
I watched in anticipation as the boy opened the chest and took out the orange fruit. "A fruit? Well it's breakfast time anyway." he said causlay as he took a bite of the devil fruit. Almost immediately afterward his eyes widened and he wretched. As I had hopped, swallowed the bite in his mouth before unintentionally chucking the now powerless fruit in my direction.
I allowed the fruit to hit me in the chest and pretended to wake up. Ace however didn't notice me because he was attempting to wash his tongue.
"Bleh! That fruit was terrible!"
I slowly got up and grabbed the fruit with a bite taken out of it. "Ace." I uttered with practiced falce fury in my voice. "Did you eat this fruit?"
Ace finally noticed my presence, and turned towards me with his eyes closed still trying to get the teate out of his mouth. "Yeah, it was terrible," he said, opening his eyes. However he froze solid when he met my gaze.
"C-carter? Why are you looking at me like that?" sweat formed on his brow as he saw my emotionless smile.
"Oh it's nothing really" I said in an ominous tone, on the inside I was chuckling to myself. This kid was so fun to scare. "It's just that you ate the extremely valuable logia type devil fruit I found."
The moment the words devil fruit left my mouth I could see the boy shudder, clearly he realised just how badly he had fucked up. "I-I Im so sor-"
"It's fine." I said relaxing my shoulders. "It was an honest mistake just like when Luffy got his." my expression returned to normal. Just because I was gonna extort the kid didn't mean I needed to traumatize him.
"Oh, uh. Thank you carter" Ace said, relieved. "For a second i thought you were-"
"But that doesn't mean I'm not taking compensation." Ace once again froze and he stared at me with wide eyes.
"What don't look so surprised. That was a logia devil fruit. The average price for them is 500 million- 1.5 billion!" I made that information known.
Realisation once again crossed ace's features; it was a frankly absurd amount of money after all. In reality I had very little interest in money so I was playing it up.
"You will pay me back by doing three things. Understood?"
The son of the pirate king nodded.
"First, when you become a pirate, you will never initiate direct conflict with the Navy. defend yourself if you are attacked but never directly attack for no reason or if all they do is piss you off."
"Second, if you come across someone in need. Help them. And if another pirate hurts innocent people just for the hell of it. End them."
"And last but not least, third." I took a small pause and placed my hand on his head. "You are not allowed to die until I say so."
The boy shuddered a bit under my hand, clearly caught off guard. But he silently nodded.
"Alright then." I said, my wicked smirk reigniting across my face. " Go wake up luffy. Since you are both devil fruit users I can train you twice as hard now!"
Ace, who a moment ago had been feeling like he was up in the clouds, now felt like he had been slammed into the ground. He regretted eating that fruit so Badly!
[-Name: Carter Davil
System interface name: N/A
Race: Human
Secondary race: Ancient Giant, three eye tribe,
Secondary bloodlines: Senju, Uchiha,
Age: 15
Occupation: Marine cadet
Title: Kin of Devils
{stats} {inventory} {shop}
Physique: 82.7 / 500 [sage body]
Devil Fruit: Yugo Yugo no mi
Devil Fruit mastery: 22.0 / 100
Haki: 20.2 / 500
Free attribute points: 19.3
Shop points: 660
System skills: Analyze, Bloodline shift, Perfect memory
One Piece: Skills: Devil fruit infusion, Poneglyph reading, Devil fruit identification, Voice of all things, life return,
Otherworldly skills: Sage body, Wood release, Sharingan, Black garnet connection (12.4%)
{stats} {inventory} {shop}
—Weapons—
-Swords: Akuma-Ketsujin, Yoriichi, Keyblade, Kubikiribocho, Shichiseiken, Yamaoroshi, Kiribachi
-Armor:
Gluttonous Feeder Ring, Seastone gauntlet, Starlight gem necklace, Vanta shades, iron knuckles
—Useful items—
5x Feathers of the angel, 2x Tier 4 item boxes, otherworldly item token, specific low grade otherworldly skill token, Shark scale, Key to the locker, silver conch shell, Dive's Pokeball, Sukuna finger, Cybertronian protoform, Hashirama's cells (½ original amount), Black garnet shard, Stand arrow shard, Stone of Gelel
—Devil Fruit—
Tokage-Tokage no mi model: Drake, Ika-Ika no mi, Kama-kama no mi, Hayai-hayai no mi, Kopi-kopi no mi, Ame-ame no mi, Goe-Goe no mi, Maji-Maji no mi, Yagi-yagi no mi, Kachi-Kachi no mi
—Treasure—
655.14 million berries, 73x Gold ingot, Other Assorted gold jewelry and gems (worth a few million), Diamond clock, Large diamond
—Ingots—
Wapometal ingot, Adamantite ingot, Mythril ingot, Magisteel ingot, 37x Chakra metal ingot
—Other Items—
Impact dial, Reject dial, Eisen dial, Journal of Erik Gunhild, Fossilized Tooth, Yuda fang, 3 eye tribe DNA sample, Various fishmen DNA samples, Adam tree branch, Unbonded vivre card, Hero water, Turtle pose, sea stone chunk, Amber Bottle o' Honey Queen, Hot tub, King cannon, The Salamander, The Shark Superb
—Shared equipment—
Plesiosaur armor (Equipped to Dive)
Ring of the rock (equipped to Nijiko)
Binding ribbon (equipped to Nami)
Dagger necklace (equipped to Zoro)
Bracelet of essence (equipped to Sanji)
Gazing glass (equipped to Usopp)
—Bounties— (their heads at least)
Rush pirates: 135.5 million (Rush), 110 million (Largo), 93 million (Peirce)
Dero: 42 million
Chameleone: 300 million
Gasparde pirates : 95 million (Gasparde), 57 million (Needless)
Ganzack: 8 million
Eldorago pirates: 10 million (Eldorago), 8 million (Golass)
Shupeal: 3.5 million
Gally: 5 million
Goat head pirates: 12 million (Rally), 6 million (Letsin), 3 million (Tan), 3 million (Malt)
Billy: 3 million
Card pirates: 11.6 million (Bear king), 7.8 million (Honey queen {false}), 9.9 million (Pin joker), 3.2 million (Boo Jack), 6 million (skunk one)
Arlong pirates: 20 million (Arlong), 9 million (Kuroobi), 5.5 million (Chew)
Yurikah: 2.1 million
Seed: 2 million
Marine supplies: Eternal log pose to Marineford, Eternal log pose to Impel down, Eternal log pose to Enies lobby, Maps of the 4 blues, Log pose, Survival kit, Bounty book, Den-den mushi ]