Seagulls were chirping merrily, and the warm morning sun shone on a small sailboat.
The sea breeze was gentle and the water was calm. A muscular man with a bare upper body was swinging a sword continuously. Large beads of sweat dripped from his body onto the deck, forming a black pattern.
"After practicing hard, I still fall behind. I have to fight to quickly improve my strength!"
Basire put away Sandai Kitetsu, picked up a towel and wiped his body, then picked up a bottle of water and drank it wildly. As his throat continued to surge up and down, the water bottle was quickly emptied.
He took out grandma's Haki training booklet and continued to study it. "When the candy mixture is ready you must let it rest for a bit so you don't get burned"
"Oh, I see, so I have to rest a bit after doing physical exercise, I see I see"
"Once it has cooled down just enough not to burn yourself you can proceed to stretch it using your hands and a hook. After placing it in the hook you stretch it making sure it doesn't break, then you twist it and make another round around the hook and stretch it again, repeat this step until it has lost most of its heat and its color has become lighter."
"Hmmm, oh I get it! So after resting a bit from physical exercise I have to stretch my haki to the limit without letting it dissipate, then return it to my body surface rotate it through my whole body and stretch it again, and keep doing this until there's almost no energy in my body to keep using haki but make sure to not use it all, naruhodo."
"But what's this about the hook? Hmmm, maybe it means that I need to fight someone to improve faster? Observation haki is mostly about feeling other's intent so it makes sense to need external help."
"Once the candy is ready, shape it like a long tube and cut it to small pieces"
"Oh this should mean that the best thing is to fight to the death with the enemy in order to master it faster!"
"Well for now I'll keep doing what I can by myself until I find an opponent."
Before this, Basire used a blindfold to dodge dozens of swinging iron balls hanging from the ceiling to initially practice Observation Haki.
But the effect is not that good anymore, after all, these iron balls are too slow and have no consciousness.
Basire turned the sail and the rudder, controlling the direction of the small sailboat, after fixing his path he began to cook for himself.
"What a waste of time. I must find a few subordinates quickly!"
While eating, he checked the newspaper. This was a newspaper belonging to East Blue, not the kind of world-wide newspaper published by Big News Morgans' World Economic News Agency.
However, these newspapers also cooperate with Morgans, have channels to obtain newspaper delivery services from News coo, and seem to have the shadow of World Government.
No matter which newspaper it is, Basire will buy one, and will not be stingy with his beris about this. After all, his only source of information now are the newspapers.
Currently he has neither his own intelligence organization nor allies or partners.
Basire took out a stack of East Blue's bounty orders and looked at the wanted criminals on it. They were all low level pirates, but they could still be used as sacrifices to feed Sandai Kitetsu.
The current Sandai Kitetsu is just a graded sword, which puts it at the lowest level among meitos, while Yubashiri is a skillful grade sword which is a level higher. There's Zoro's Wado Ichimonji that is a great grade sword one level higher than Yubashiri, and then there are the supreme grade blades like Mihawk's Yoru, Roger's Ace, Shanks' Gryphon and Whitebeard's naginata, Murakumogiri.
Slaughter can increase the cursed energy of the cursed swords, and Armament Haki can strengthen the sword into a black sword. He wants to try to make a black sword by himself.
Some famous weapons, when they have just been cast, already have the level of a skilled grade weapon or a great grade weapon, with a very high starting point.
Some weapons were trained step by step by their owners from an ordinary weapon to become famous black weapons through hundreds of battles and training with Armament Haki.
In the Wanokuni chapters, GyūkiMaru said that the black sword Shusui was a black sword that Shimotsuki Ryūma had trained through hundreds of battles in his career!
When Mihawk taught Zoro to cover the blade with Armament Haki, he also said: "All swords can become black swords!"
Basire continued to check the bounty orders. For the pirate groups wandering around, he could not find anyone for a while. Only some pirate groups with territories could be found clearly.
In fact, he was a bit puzzled. Why didn't Smoker catch the pirate groups that owned territory like Arlong and the Clown Buggy?
While there's an excuse for Arlong since he bribed the mouse looking Captain Nezumi and colluded with Marine to evade capture, the clown Buggy occupied Orange Town blatantly without the Marines to take care of him.
Could it be that each Marine branch has strict regulations and cannot arrest prisoners outside their territory?
Otherwise, Captain Nezumi who is in the 16th branch and Captain Morgan who is in the 153rd branch. How could they be as lawless and corrupt without supervision?
Smoker is also the captain of the Loguetown branch. According to their military rank and position, they are Marines of the same level, so even though they have a huge gap in strength, they still have no right to interfere in areas under the jurisdiction of others.
Later, Smoker also disobeyed his superiors' orders and forcibly left the Loguetown branch where he was stationed, entering the Grand Line to hunt down the Straw Hat Pirates.
If it hadn't been for the bargain in Alabasta, where the Marine headquarters gave Smoker the credit for arresting Shichibukai Crocodile, Smoker's position would probably have been downgraded a few levels.
After all, he had repeatedly disobeyed his superiors' orders and left his post without authorization. This kind of behavior is taboo in the Marine.
"If the captain of the branch can only operate within the sea areas under his own jurisdiction, then it seems that the Marines of the headquarters can go into all seas to capture pirates!"
He remembered that Lieutenant Fullbody of the headquarters, despite his rank being a few levels lower than a captain, was able to enter the East Blue to hunt down the defeated Krieg Pirates. He also captured Gin and imprisoned him for a few days.
"Forget it, Marine's shit is none of my own business! First let's find a few pirate groups to practice, and then find some subordinates!"
Basire continued to control the small sailboat and headed towards Orange Town, the territory of Buggy the Clown. Apart from Buggy having a relatively fixed territory, he was also very interested in this trainee crew member of the pirate king.
However, it backfired. He had just adjusted his direction using the East Blue map for a while when he spotted a pirate ship quietly appearing behind him, those pirates had the gall to chase him, and even fired cannonballs at his small sailboat.
Not only did he not panic, he was even a little excited. Unexpectedly, some prey came right to his door.
He immediately turned the ship's bow and blocked the shells. The pirates on the opposite side seemed to have noticed that Basire was a bit powerful, so they stopped shelling and slowed down.
Basire quickly pulled the sail and chased the pirate ship. Those bastards wanted to leave after trying to blow up his ship, but they messed with the wrong guy!
The next moment, another small boat appeared quickly from the right. There were only three people on it, but the green hair of one of them was particularly eye-catching.
"It's him!!!"
Basire's eyes lit up. He actually met the marimo head Roronoa Zoro. What a coincidence!
Isn't this a powerful and loyal crew member with unlimited potential?
At this time, on the Tulip Pirates' ship, there was a long-faced man wearing a blue jumpsuit, a pink belt tied around his waist, and two long swords with a purple tulip on his head. He pressed his hands on the handle of the knife and seemed a little panicked.
He is the captain of this pirate ship, Rika, a young East Blue pirate with a bounty of only eight million.
"Captain! That guy over there seems to be the pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro. Let's run!"
A pirate with a yellow tulip on his head quickly suggested to the captain.
He saw the green-haired pirate hunter paddling frantically as the small boat approached them at a very fast speed. The waves were splashing several meters high at such a paddling speed, which showed the opponent's powerful strength.
"Afraid...what are you afraid of! There are only three of them, let me fire on them!!"
Captain Rika immediately ordered, with a few drops of cold sweat breaking out on his face. After all, he had also heard of the name of the East Blue pirate hunter.
"No! Captain, the sailboat we just attacked is also rushing towards us quickly!"
The pirate using the cannon on the back yelled. All the cannonballs he had just fired were blocked by the person opposite. One look showed that the other person was also a master.
And now Roronoa Zoro is the same, standing on the bow of the ship, easily cutting down their cannonballs.
Seeing the two ships approaching, the Tulip Pirates could only turn to run away like crazy, cursing why they were so unlucky today to meet two masters.