Meanwhile somewhere within Zou…
Within one of the very few marquess ranked noble families there was a strange Mink that stayed within a dark room and rarely ever came out.
It was rumoured that the young master of the house was lazy, another rumour was that he did nothing but spend the families wealth as he please but there were also rumours that he spent a lot of time working on strange things.
The truth was that he had spent a large amount of his families wealth in a short time but they never stopped giving him their wealth to use as he pleases, in the eyes of many it would be considered as strange but to those who knew, they would be greatly surprised by how things had turned out.
Most of the young master's purchases or investments had proven to be very helpful to the family whether it would be an item to help them politically, the selling price would let them receive an even greater amount of wealth because of the true value and then the businesses that were invested in or purchased on a whim had become very successful.
Within the dark room, there were flashes of white electro as the figure had a pair of goggles on that protected their eyes.
The dark room would not let others see his complete appearance as he continued his work but occasionally he would stretch out his arm and pick up something from a box.
A Pokéblock or Poffin would appear in his hands as he took a bite of them one after another. "These are so good. Who ever made these is really good! I wish I could buy their whole business but they turned me down last time… however there is something strange about these things."
Around the dark room there was many kinds of pieces of clothing and accessories laying around while there were also many boxes of the sweets from Pixel's businesses. "The person behind this.. has good taste but it seems… familiar somehow?"
The clothes and sweets had made him feel that they were very familiar to him as if he had seen or tasted them before.
He looked down and then continued his work on a spherical mechanical tool of some kind that looked a little similar to one of the printed designs on one of the tops from Pixel's line of clothing. "This still needs more work…"
The tool that he was working on had some similarities to a Pokéball but it was not entirely the same as the young master seemed more focussed on storing or using their own Electro within the ball and storing it within to create a unique weapon of their own.
He continued to live his days as he had for many years already and did not have any worries about his family abandoning him or treating him poorly thanks to his luck that did not seem to run out and kept providing the family with many opportunities and gains.
Although he did not have the same talents in Electro as Pixel, he still was slowly finding his own path and perhaps one day in the future they would meet.
A little while later, he would have to undergo his Sulong transformation and he would surprise many within his family as just like Pixel, he had a very unique appearance and could maintain his own rationality.
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Within another location somewhere in New World..
There was another person within a dark room that was filled with all kinds of tone dials, vials of strange fluids and different types of weapons.
A beautiful voice spread around the room and continued until the song had ended then the tone dial had been turned off to end the recording.
The young looking girl that was difficult to see without the dark room stretched out her hand and then took out one of the vials before injecting it into her body.
Over a long period of weakness and other reactions to the contents of the vial, her body had settled down as she started to recover.
She turned her head and let out a gentle voice. "It is okay. I am okay.."
She stretched out her hand and snake slithered around her arm then remained there as it flicked its tongue at her. "Hiss.."
The young girl let out a sigh. "This is what I must do for the family. We cannot survive if I am weak. I will become the biggest weakness to my family. I have lost one important person already due to my own weakness."
After she felt that she was fine, she then walked towards a part in the dark room which had revealed a secret passage that had lead to an underground space.
Sounds of gunfire then went on for a while within the underground space then followed many panting noises as the girl trained her body and practiced her martial arts as if she had undergone the same routine regularly everyday.
The girl wiped her sweat and greeted a man who was waiting for her back in her room. "It has been completed."
The man had a rough and fierce look but he looked at her full of gentleness. "Sorry daughter but you have to continue like this. I would give you the world but our family cannot escape from the darkness that surrounds us. Here.. I bought this. Perhaps it will be of help to you."
He placed a small box down and left the room while the girl looked inside the box.
A small fruit lay within the box along with some instructions from her father. "A Devil Fruit? How did he get it? That old man must have used everything he had and he just have it to me.."
She had been brought up in a dangerous family that was within the underworld so she had learned that she could not so easily escape her current life so she had resolutely took a bite out of the fruit in order to improve her chances of survival.
After she had gained her new powers she had started to try to experiment with them but she then arranged for the tone dials to be released so that she could pay back her father.
Someday in the future, she would become very famous thanks to those tone dials that were released and would become one of her most perfect tools and cover for her current activities.
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In another part of the Grand Line, there was a young noble son that was very smart and capable in many aspects of life.
He had excellent swordsmanship skills, he had many ways to earn his own money and start his own businesses but he always had one big problem that made him disagree with his family often.
The noble family duties and an agreement between families before his birth had made it so that his marriage was already determined.
After many disagreements, he had chosen to give it a chance but he soon found out that he really disliked his future bride who was very ignorant and seemed to be developing the habit for dressing and buying lavishly to the point that the jewellery on her body was almost blinding to him.
He knew that his future wife would probably not change and would only grow worse under her parents influence and spoiling so it was like putting a ticking time bomb by his side.
He would have to work hard to maintain the families wealth until he became sick from overworking while his wife spent everything without a care for his struggles.
Knowing his own future path, he became determined to not live that kind of life that was arranged for him.
Within the dark work room that he usually stayed in, he filled out a letter and sealed it before grabbing a sword, gun and many other things within a large bag.
Lots of his own wealth and anything he needed was brought along with him as he had escaped from his family.
His letter had the following message…
[Dear mother and father, thank you for raising me but I do not wish to go along with your expectations for me any longer. Being a pirate or some kind of criminal would be better than this so I am leaving to become one. Do not look for me!]
The young man did not yet have a future path that he had been determined to follow but on his journey, he would soon find a place for himself that was not going to restrict him.
Each of the three mysterious individuals would later be fated for great things and would possibly meet Pixel later in their lives but it was not yet determined if they would be great allies or enemies.