"I can't help but wonder, Trenza, I intend to carry you, so how do you expect to hold all those bags?" Asked Diddy curiously while eyeing Trenza, who merely smirked before dropping the bags at his feet.
"You'll be carrying them obviously, Captain; I don't trust myself to carry them and hold onto you without falling off." Remarked Trenza with a slight shake of the head as she approached Diddy and helped herself onto his back.
"Hmm, I see, and what makes you think I'll actually carry them? Am I not your Captain? Why would I be doing such menial labor?" Questioned Diddy with an understanding nod as he blankly glanced at Trenza, who was latched onto his back.
"Because you owe me, Captain; don't try to forget about the fact that I carried your heavy ass for multiple kilometers to say safety. Did you think I was doing that only out of the goodness of my heart?" Stated Trenza as she fearlessly stared at Diddy, who growled at her in annoyance.
Her words were quite annoying, but honestly, she wasn't entirely wrong; she did indeed assist me when I couldn't even move myself; still, carrying luggage was so tedious.
"Tch, fine; I'll carry your stupid luggage, but just know this is a one-time deal. Don't think I'm your personal chauffeur all of a sudden just cause I'm helping you out." Remarked Diddy with annoyance as he wrapped his tail through the handles of the bags and lifted them before exiting the store, only for Trenza to stop him.
"Wait, where are you going, Captain? I still have more things to carry; that was merely the first batch." Said Trenza as she boldly pulled Diddy's golden brown fur, causing him to stop while he hissed in pain.
"Pull my fur again, and I'll bathe myself in your blood." Stated Diddy with an intense frown as he glared at Trenza, who lightly chuckled in response.
"Alright, alright, no need to get so worked up, Captain; just go to the back of the store; that's where I placed my remaining bags of clothes. I would've left them with me, but the changing room was getting too cramped." Declared Trenza as she softly patted Diddy's shoulder to calm him while pointing toward the corner of the store, though her actions only furthered his annoyance.
It was taking a good amount of willpower not to throw Trenza off my back and leave her here to burn, but as I was already helping her, I decided just to get it over with so I wouldn't have to owe her later; besides what I was doing for her was easy, she just made everything annoying.
Grumbling to myself, I approached the corner of the store Trenza was pointing to, and what I saw caused me to really consider the idea of throwing her in a burning building as I could see roughly twenty large bags full of clothes, let alone me carrying it, where will she even store this many clothes in the ship? It's not like our ship is large, and the same goes for her cabin; hell, even the captain's quarters, which Freyja occupies, wouldn't be able to store that many clothes.
"That's all of them; there should be 22 bags. I wanted to get more, but I figured you probably wouldn't be able to carry anymore, so I limited myself to 30 bags in total." Stated Trenza calmly with a slightly nefarious smile as she looked at Diddy, getting revenge for all the times he's angered her.
"I appreciate the thoughtfulness, Trenza." Said Diddy angrily as he took a deep breath, stopping himself from slamming Trenza into the ground below.
Taking a few deep breaths to calm my anger, I grabbed all the bags, filling up all the space to carry anything on my tail and both arms; I was forced to hold my arms out horizontally if I wanted to walk anywhere.
Exiting the store after also setting it on fire, Trenza and I were instantly hit with a potent burnt smell while smoke wafted about through the air, slightly hampering our ability to see, but that's about it.
"Didn't you just set this place on fire, Captain? You seem to have an unnatural talent for destroying things; it hasn't even been 10 minutes since you arrived, yet it looks like the city, or at least part of it, is consumed by flames." Remarked Trenza while looking around as she whistled in awe, though her praiseful words didn't do much to uplift his emotions.
"That's what happens when the entire city is mostly made of highly flammable material; a single spark is all you need to destroy this place." Replied Diddy as he leaped into the air, propelling him, Trenza, and the thirty bags full of clothes through the sky.
Once I was high enough above the city, I looked down, though there wasn't much to see, considering roughly half of the town below was consumed with fire while a dense wall of smoke was blocking the rest. Appreciating my art, I kicked the air, leaping through the sky as I headed back towards our ship. I had no intention of carrying these bags of clothes anywhere else; besides, I'd like to speak with Sebas as I'm sure he's found something useful.
'Sebas really is the only useful crewmember; everyone else is either not useful or just problems to deal with.' Mused Diddy, not even realizing, besides fighting, he was also relatively useless.
The trip back toward the ship didn't take long, thankfully; when I arrived at the edge of the island and saw my ship floating on the water, I didn't know if I had ever felt so happy in my life before.
"Ahh, this is great." Muttered Diddy with a blissful expression, though unfortunately for him, his happiness was short-lived.
"Haha, what a wonderful job, Trenza; I didn't know you were able to tame wild beasts and have them do your bidding. Oh wait, that's just our stupid Captain; well, I suppose not much has changed then." Declared Freyja from the upper deck as she leaned against the railing, sporting a large mocking smile as she eyed Diddy's appearance.
Hearing that annoying woman's voice, which in all honestly sounded beautiful, but over my dead body would I ever tell her that, I shook all of the bags off me and forcefully pulled Trenza off of my back before glaring at Freyja.
"Want to go, Freyja!?" Exclaimed Diddy with anger as he bared his fangs and brandished his nails while glaring at Freyja up above.
"He's also so considerate as well. Why yes, I'd like to go shopping with you; you can also carry my luggage back." Stated Freyja with a grin as she relished the fact that she was finally able to anger Diddy; no longer was she on the receiving end.
"Hehe, I'm going to kill you and use your corpse as our ship's figurehead." Remarked Diddy with a ferocious grin as he lunged toward Freyja while slashing down, though before he could attack her, his momentum suddenly came to a halt, causing him to merely float in the air.
"Hoho, please quell your anger, Captain; Freyja, if you could please not arouse his anger, I wouldn't want you getting killed." Said Sebas with a soft chuckle while outstretching his arm toward the floating Diddy with a grasping motion.
"Haa, why did you have to ruin the fun, Sebas?" Asked Freyja with a slight frown as she sighed while glancing at Sebas, though she did as he asked and backed off, knowing that besides her own amusement, there was nothing good from angering Diddy.
"Sebas, let me go! I'm going to use her intestines as a rope!" Stated Diddy angrily as he looked at Sebas despite his efforts to immobilize Diddy's body.
"Could you take a second and listen to the information I've managed to gather? If you're still feeling angry, you can do what you wish with Freyja, Captain." Asked Sebas lightly while trying his hardest to immobilize Diddy, though Diddy could still move without too much resistance.
Despite her words, I wasn't actually going to kill Freyja, beat her till the verge of death, absolutely, but not kill her; she still had much potential to grow, and I didn't intend to kill her before then unless she really forced my hand. Besides, I was interested in learning about the information Sebas managed to acquire, as unlike Freyja, who probably spent her entire time in a brothel, Sebas was actually doing his job.
"Tch, fine, but If I'm not satisfied, I'm killing her next." Said Diddy with a grunt of annoyance as he forcefully broke free from Sebas imprisonment and landed on the ground, a sight that caused Sebas to display a wry smile while Freyja clicked her tongue.
"Seems I've still got a lot to improve upon." Muttered Sebas as he fixed his attire and approached Diddy while Grand, Trenza, and Scar emerged from their hiding locations, not wanting to get caught up in the battle between Freyja and Diddy.
"Tch, he's gotten stronger." Muttered Freyja with a frown as she eyed Diddy before sighing and approaching him.
"So Scar, let me guess; Freyja spent all her time inside a brothel?" Asked Diddy with a knowing smirk as he glanced at the approaching Scar, who nodded in response.
"I can't believe you, Scar; after everything I allowed you to do to my body, to think you'd still betray me like that." Remarked Freyja in fake surprise as she wrapped her arms around Scar, her choice of words causing him to blush.
Clicking my tongue, I ignored the little soap opera scene happening between Scar and Freyja and focused on Sebas and Grand, who were probably the only people who actually got anything done, well, besides me, of course.
___
Created a discord server, so if anyone wishes to join, it also works this time; I've reset it again, https://discord.gg/UDA82gq7 (Note: this link only lasts for one week)
___
___
Elven Legacy (Chapter 174: Loving Intimacy) || Hero of Harmony (Chapter 55: Trauma No More) || One Piece: Chaos Kong (Chapter 87: The Grand Escape!) at [patreon.com/Ozonelayer691]