[ Two months later ]
Inside the wild forest all the bandits gathered as they waved their swords regularly, right, left and forward, the dance of swords and their bearers is shown in a beautiful view.
Arthur sat a little away from them and watched their training, his eyes wandered among the bandits and he checked them one by one.
'Bandits with a samurai heart are very different from ordinary bandits, or rather, I must say, they are more of a resistance movement than bandits.'
During these two months, Arthur participated in several operations targeting Kaidou Pirates so that they stole supplies and weapons and sometimes they assassinated someone, Arthur was not stupid so he immediately realized that these bandits are a resistance movement in some way fighting the occupier, which is Kaidou Pirates.
Arthur turned and looked at Ashura, who is sitting in front of his tent and watching everyone with his sharp eyes, Ashura and Arthur's eyes met, which made Arthur frown inside but he kept his own confused and smiling face outside.
He smiled slightly and nodded to Ashura as a kind of greeting, but Ashura did not pay attention to Arthur's greeting and continued to observe his followers.
Arthur turned his head and looked in another direction, then removed his small smile and continued his frown.
'This bastard still doubts me, all these two months he has shown hostility to me directly, but despite that he has not done anything against me, but he intends something.'
With a small sigh, he returned his usual expression and continued to observe the bandits' training, although Arthur is not strong enough to defeat Ashura, but he is sure that he can escape if things go wrong.
After a short while Arthur heard a few footsteps coming towards him, he turned around quietly and found old Yamada walking towards him with a warm expression on his face.
"Hey, Boy, why don't I see you practicing, you should know that we don't welcome weak people among us" the old Yamada said sarcastically.
"I'm just taking a short break, I'll train later" Arthur replied spontaneously while putting a small smile on his face.
Yamada turned around and started walking towards the forest, that's when Arthur heard him say:
"Come with me, there's something I want to show you"
Arthur didn't say anything, he stood up from his place and caught up with old Yamada, he wasn't afraid of being set up a trap for him or something like that.
After walking behind the old Yamada in the forest for a few minutes Arthur found himself near the mouth of a very small waterfall, when he looked around he found the strange boy of the same age sitting on top of a large rock while he closed his eyes and entered into a state of meditation.
During all this time that Arthur spent here, he had never talked to this person, but he learned about his identity through other bandits, his name was Takida Masaomi, the son of one of the samurai who followed Oden during his reign, and then his parents were killed by Kaidou's followers during their defense of Toki in the Shogun's Palace.
Because of his young age at that time, his parents smuggled him out with one of the maids, that maid took care of him for a short period of time and eventually abandoned him, and because Ashura and his parents were old acquaintances, he brought him to this place and took care of him as if he were a member of his family.
'Heh, his past is so miserable. that explains his introverted personality and his desperate training all day. I've never heard of this person so obviously he's going to die before he gets his revenge. a really miserable person.'
Arthur felt a little sad but quickly removed these feelings and cleared his mind of any painful memories.
"Come here" as Arthur was lost in thought, he heard the voice of old Yamada.
He and Takida walked slowly and arrived next to Yamada, who was standing near the mouth of the small waterfall, neither of them spoke as they waited for old Yamada's explanation.
Old Yamada looked at the two young men in front of him with a warm look and said:
"I'm going to teach you one of the powerful technic of the people of Wano, it's called Ryou, this technic is very powerful, it will give you the upper hand in most fights because it causes great damage to the person you hit with it"
'Ryou! this old man finally decided to do something useful.' Arthur scoffed inside him while showing a slight expression of flattery to show his enthusiasm and incomprehension at the same time.
Takida's expressions have not changed because he is familiar with this technic and he just does not know its basics.
Old Yamada studied the expressions of the two young men in front of him and some minute of silence took place while he formed his hand into a fist shape and bent down to put it in the water.
"The Ryou is an advanced type of Armament Haki that allows you to spread damage inside your enemy's body so that shock waves spread that destroy internal organs and cause fatal injuries."
When Yamada finished his sentence, the water around his hand started moving crazily and rushing in all directions.
When Arthur and Takida saw this, their expressions of shock turned to excitement, Arthur's expression was artificial, unlike Takeda, who began to think that this technic would make him defeat his
enemies and achieve his revenge.
…
In the middle of the Dark Forest, Arthur sat by the campfire while he was lost in deep thought, he looked around to find that most of the bandits had fallen into a deep sleep and the rest were awake, carefully watching their surroundings.
With a small sigh Arthur raised his hand and looked at it with a complex expression, after a few seconds his hand began to be coated in black to finally be completely covered, but the Black color suddenly disappeared and Arthur's hand returned to normal.
'There's no improvement, even though I've learned the basics of the Ryou, I still can't wrap myself up in it even with a normal Armament Haki.
"I need more time!"
Arthur sighed and raised his head to look at the black sky full of stars as his eyes began to become blurry little by little due to fatigue, in his eyes the stars began to disappear little by little while a bright light spread like daylight, the golden rays were increasing little by little as if they were going to hit the ground.
Amid his bewilderment Arthur heard a voice that woke him from his dreams.
"Pay attention!"
Arthur regained his clarity to find a giant ball of fire heading towards their camp, without any delay he jumped out of place and ran at his full speed.
Crash!
Explosion!
Although Arthur acted immediately, he was a little late, the fireball hit the area behind him, causing a giant explosion that made him Rush several meters forward, Arthur rolled violently on the ground and finally hit one of the trees.
Whistle!
His ears were whistling annoyingly while his vision was blurry.
Cough! Cough!
Arthur coughed up some blood while trying to regain his clarity, he looked at the area in front of him to find it engulfed in flames, the bodies of the bandits who could not escape in time were charred and stuck to the ground, the people trapped in the center of the explosion had their body parts scattered all over the surrounding area.
"Ruuuuuun!"
In his daze, Arthur heard Ashura Doge's voice filled with horror as he looked at the sky above the forest.
Arthur raised his head and looked at the place where Ashura was looking to find a giant Dragon swaying in the sky and looking at them with a small smile.
As soon as Arthur saw Kaido flying near them, his mind became clear and he no longer felt any pain, he stood up and ran as fast as he could towards the depths of the forest.
Arthur was not the only one who acted in this way, as soon as all the bandits saw the dragon flying over them, they ran as fast as they could in all directions.