Chapter 51: Funeral
Author: Geraint
Date Posted: May 10, 2024 Fri @10:29PM
Far away in the second half of the Grand Line, the New World, in unknown island, I was standing in front of the gravestone of Whitebeard that has his large cape and pirate flag hanging on his Naginata weapon which is planted on his gravestone filled with bouquet of flowers from his crew and allies. After few days of mourning, Ace decided to accompany his little brother Luffy whom collapses from pushing himself too much during the war and bid his farewell to go training with him after realizing their weakness.
It is actually my suggestion to them since he was supposed to die if I didn't intervene the war and the result will be completely different for them with more casualties and complete and utter defeat.
"Haru... I've no words to express my gratitude. Not only you save Ace, you even brought back the body of our Captain. Thank you very much."
"No problem. I always been have a great respect to this old man. Even I don't want to let them tarnish his honorable death."
I remembered about rewards in the quest and I took out my flip phone to use my Gacha Pulls because I had a feeling this place will be a good spot to increase my luck.
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<+100 Skill Points (5-Star)>
<+30 Skill Points (3-Star)>
<+30 Skill Points (3-Star)>
<+40 Skill Points (4-Star)>
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A double 5-star pull and Quake-Quake Fruit at the first pull, I don't really know if this is a coincidence but I had the feeling that Whitebeard gave me his devil fruit power as a gratitude for helping him save Ace. I have gladly accepted it better than Blackbeard stealing it from his corpse.
Thinking about it, I never heard any news about him after Impel Down nor he appeared in Marineford. All I know was the war ended early because of me and all remains was janitors cleaning up the messed up island. It must be infuriating for him when he got nothing when he arrived.
After the funeral, I bid my farewell to Marco and his fellow crew then I met up with Shizu-nee and Lolisa who are waiting for me at the shore.
"You took your time, Haru-kun!" Shizu-nee pouted while Lolisa is the same, always happy to see me.
"Onii-sama!"
"Sorry, can you wait for me a little more?" I requested while walking passed them as I take off my shoes, stepping through water until the deep reaches my shoulders. My siblings got very worried of my actions.
"What are you doing, Haru-kun?"
"Onii-sama, that's dangerous!"
I raised my right hand to calm them down then I opened my spatial storage and take out the devil fruit.
"Calm down, I'm not going anywhere! I just have some experiment to try out!"
"That's..."
They were surprised when the strange fruit in my hand then I took a bite on it.
"Onii-sama! That's a devil fruit, right?! You lose your ability to swim if you eat that!"
"Ugh!"
The disgusting taste made me want to throw up but I tapped my chest several times and forced myself to swallow it. Since the remaining part of the devil fruit is just simple, useless and disgusting fruit, I decided to drop it down on the water when Lolisa suddenly took it and bit on the bitten part of the fruit. She was wearing a skimpy swimsuit that resembles the color of her hair.
"That's disgusting, Lolisa."
"I don't mind if it's from Onii-sama." she took another bite, not minding the disgusting taste and it seems she was enjoying it.
"How does it taste?" Shizu-nee snatched the fruit away and she took a bite on it but she didn't like the disgusting taste.
"Ugh! Disgusting!"
I noticed that she's also wearing a swimsuit which is also skimpy but the color is black which is contrast to her hair color. It just reveals her maturity despite having a younger appearance.
While staring at the two of them, informations about the abilities of devil fruit flows into my head and how I will use them to increase the destructive power of my attacks by creating vibrations.
"Huh?"
Realizing that devil fruit was supposed to take my ability to swim but I haven't feel weakened at all while dipping my body into the sea.
"Wait! Don't tell me--"
"Huh? What's wrong, Onii-sama?"
I took out my Adventurer's card and we looked together at the list of my skills.
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Skill Points <450>
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It already became part of my skills but only integrate the abilities while leaving the curse effect of the devil fruit.
"It means I can have the devil fruit ability without losing my ability to swim!"
"Wow! That's amazing, Onii-sama! Let's swim together!"
Lolisa jumped and hugged me, pressing her soft chest in my arm and Shizu-nee did the same on my other side.
"Hey! Don't forget about me!"
I've been noticing lately that the two of them becoming more affectionate to me which is kind of different from being siblings.
"What's wrong, Onii-sama? Did you like being sandwich like this?" Lolisa was becoming more even bold with me.
"Haru-kun--No! It's Shikikan-sama~" Shizu-nee is being enterprising just like her real name.
"Something is strange."
"Huh?" The two of them looks confused of me.
"You two are acting strange!" I pushed them away when I raised both of my arm.
"Because Onii-sama is falling into a wrong path!"
"That's right! We wouldn't allow you date another man!" Shizu-nee agreed with Lolisa.
"Shiori is a boy! You're going on different genre that a Fujoshi would be dreaming about!"
"You aren't one of them?" I tilted my head.
"I'm not! I'm a normal girl who likes a guy!"
"And that guy?" I raised my eyebrow at her, knowing what will be her answer.
"Of course, it's no other than my Onii-sama! All other guys are shit! Only Onii-sama is for me! I won't marry anyone other than my Onii-sama!"
I sighed out of tiredness then I noticed that Shizu-nee was holding my hand, showing an expression of jealousy.
After hearing their complaints, I can't believe these two believe on my joke about Shiori in order to tease them and this made them do bold actions to me.
"I was just kidding about Shiori. You two already know that I have Yunyun, right?"
"I see...
"It's not funny, Onii-sama."
I feel like they have different reasons and they are up on something that they will never tell me.
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It was already evening when we arrived home and Little Bel and Little Enterprise was adorably sleeping together in the couch while leaning their head at each other. I took out a clean blanket from my spatial storage and covered their body. It's warm inside the house with the help of the air conditioner that we installed before winter arrives so everyone won't be cold at home.
I went to the kitchen to help Belfast prepare dinner when Yunyun came back home and she looked dejected while soaking wet in slime.
"What are you doing, Yunyun?"
"It's nothing... I lost to Megumin in a duel."
Several minutes after she went to the bath, someone came knocking on our door and when I came to open it, Aqua and Megumin who are trembling in cold while covered in slime showed up.
I didn't say anything and brought them straight to the bath before they catch a cold.
(To be continued.)