Chapter 4 - Chapter 4

Shanks's POV: As i was contemplating what to order, a female waiter dressed in a white shirt , a waiter's vest ,a bow tie ,dark pants and service shoes approached me. As she approached me, my curiosity got the best of me and I used the sub-ability of "Essence Of The King" to scan her potential. At first, I was surprised that the scan showed her potential was average ,but it kind of made sense . If everybody had the potential that most characters in the original story had , there would probably be more pirates and marines running around fighting. I focused on her again as she stopped at my table. Unnamed waiter:"Welcome to the restaurant , what would you like to order?" '' Give me some kimchi fried rice and lobster, ohh,add the finest wine you have too.'' Waiter:"mhmhm, the lobster and the kimchi fried rice will be two thousand berries and the wine will be four thousand berries. Your total will be 6 six thousand berries . A great day to you customer" she said before walking away. As she walked away I went back to contemplating my plans. 'I should visit Rayleigh to help advance my haki training . Six months of fighting him should help. I also need to gather some info on strong pirates to hunt but shakky should be of great help in that department. After training with Rayleigh ,another six months of hunting in the new world should be enough for me to massively advance my combat capabilities to another level. I should also learn some other sailing essential skills like proper navigation. That should be a good enough plan for now.' As i was lost in thought my food was delivered and i said my prayers before digging in. The food was good, although days spent eating only fish with salt would make anyone think so too. After paying and buying some extra wine , i walked out the restaurant and started to roam the streets looking for shakky's bar. Based on my memories, her bar should be located in Grove thor-teen and after asking the locals, i should be in grove fif-teen. 'Shouldn't be that long of a walk' , I thought to myself. ...............…10 minutes later............ After a short walk I arrived on the grove and looked around until I spotted a familiar sign. It hung on a weird bar that had a large round ball as its rooftop which looked like a Walmart globe map. The sign seemed to be written in a weird alphabet which seemed to be the official language of this world. I shrugged and walked towards the bar . As I got closer, my observation alerted me of something being thrown towards me , which turned out to be some drunk pirates and their captain that I soundly dodged. After dodging them, I looked at the figure that threw them. I was surprised for a moment as I expected it to be Shakky but I was instead met with the face of the grumpy dark king who also seemed to be as drunk as the other pirates. Just as I was going to call out to him ,another figure exited the bar, which turned out to be shakky this time. She looked the same as she did in cannon when she was introduced but she wasn't something this time. I calmly approached them as shakky seemed to be reprimanding Rayleigh for a couple of seconds before she sighed and they both looked at me. I was wearing my cloak just in case but they both seemed to have recognized me as they both smiled as I got closer. Rayleigh spoke first with a sad smile as I stood in front of them, " I didn't expect to meet you so soon after the crew was disbanded ,shanks". I smiled at his words as I responded in kind " Neither did I ,vice captain Rayleigh. Neither did i". Shakky smiled at our short exchange of greetings as she gestured for us to come into the bar. I followed Rayleigh as he followed her ready to start my path to power in the one piece world by taring with the dark king himself.