"How did you find us ?" Ace asked, though he was a little embarrassed running away from there like that, leaving Yuta alone but still he was more cautious of the boy now.
Not only he was strong, being able to beat not only him but also Smoker, but he was also able to find them.
How?
"Oh that, it was easy enough, just followed where the noise was the loudest. You guys weren't low-key when running away from Smoker you know." Yuta said with a smile on his face.
"Hmm… and you want to travel with us. Why ?" This time it was Zoro who asked this, out of all these people maybe he was the only person who actually had a little bit of brains to not let just anyone travel with them.
"Good question, to tell you what I have to first tell you what I am in the first place. I am a self-proclaimed Hero for Fun…" Yuta smiled.
"You are Navy…" Suddenly someone shouted, this someone was the overwhelmingly cautious God Usopp.
Hearing him everyone was on edge now. Even Yuta realized that in this world heroes are basically those who are from Navy. There are no heroes outside of the Navy in this world after all, at least not any who will call themselves as such.
"No no… I am not a Navy. Didn't you hear me, I am a self-proclaimed Hero for Fun. Not a Navy." Yuta quickly defuse the situation.
Others didn't look convinced though, this was getting slightly troublesome. But what could he do, he didn't have any money to travel on his own, not to mention it was really beneficial to travel with Luffy. Or else this boy will take away his quest reward. Yuta thought as he glanced at the said boy.
Oh, you are a Hero." Luffy eyes wide with stars on them. Chopper and even to some degree Usopp were the same.
Yuta wasn't sure whether he had the right to call those stars in their eyes as strange when his own eyes turned into red and black commas.
"And you are okay to travel with a bunch of pirates like us ?" Ace asked.
'Dude how come they are going on Sherlocks on him. At any other time, they just let anyone travel with them no matter how dangerous.
"Pirate, Navy… they are nothing but names, I have seen Good Pirates and I also have seen bad Navy. Though there are not many but they do exist. I am not a hero who chooses who to trust or help depending on their titles."
"You a Hero. You are 15." Nami raised her eyebrows and asked like nagging to a kid. Why do people here consider 15 a kid?
"First I am 16, not 15. And who cares what is my age, I want to be a Hero and I have the power to be one, and thus I am a hero." Yuta shrugged.
"And how this is connected to you wanting to travel with us ?" Ace asked with the suspicious looking eye, he wouldn't care if it was someone else but this damn 15-year-old defeated him like it was nothing. He wasn't going all out and neither was Smoker but it was clear that the boy was too holding back.
"Yeah, so as a Hero I am supposed to find what is wrong with this place and solve it. I gather some info in Nanohana. The country is suffering from serious drought and rebels and I as a Hero for Fun have decided to see why this country is in so much trouble.
Though I can't do much about natural calamities, however, if someone is behind this entire issue then I will bring them down." Yuta said with a serious look on his face.
"So Cool…"Luffy, Chopper and even Usopp said.
Ace, Nami, Zoro and Sanji didn't take Yuta's word at face value though. They were still suspicious.
Nami, Zoro and Sanji becuase Yuta was indeed young and they didn't know how strong he was.
Ace becuase he knew how strong Yuta was. Maybe the only person who believed Yuta was Vivi. For someone who could use any help given to her. She immediately felt a sense of relief when Yuta said that he was there to help Alabasta.
Though she was also a little afraid, not knowing how strong he was, for him of course.
"Hmm… and what if we don't want to take you with us ?" Asked Sanji still looking suspicious as hell. Those long curly brows of his were especially irritating for some reason.
"Hmm…" Yuta seems to ponder a little. Like he was thinking hard.
"Ah well, I am practically broke, only after becoming one did I realise that self-proclaimed heroes don't make much. Hahaha.
So it's a request please take me with you, I don't want to swim all the way to Yuba…" Yuta smiled, this never even occurred to him that this person might turn him down, only when Sanji said this that he realise that this wasn't the manga he was reading just a few minutes ago. This was real, though he has to admit that this world is the most comical and close to its Manga counterpart.
"So you are leeching off of us…" Nami's glares intensify seeing the boy has no money to offer.
'Huh, even the princess of this country has to pay for us to help and travel with us, what kind of self-proclaimed hero are you, I don't care, you better pay up.' Nami muttered, obviously wondering how to get money out of Yuta right now.
Yuta practically fell Nami's devilious mind turning to find a way to hoard all money from him.
"Sure why not." and that was when a voice which felt like a breath of fresh air in this environment rang.
Yuta looked at Luffy who smiled at him. "You can come with us." Luffy said with a nonchalant face like it was nothing.
'Luffy…' Nami wanted to snap at Luffy but before she could do that, another voice spoke.
"Thank you. I will help out in the deck." Yuta quickly agreed and bowed, showing his gratitude before Nami roped him up in some of her crazy deals.
"That's great, good to have you aboard Yuta San." Vivi too quickly said, already knowing what kind of face Nami was making.
"Thank you… but I believe we should be going already. Trouble is coming." Yuta said as he pointed at the far away position, everyone looked in that direction only to see Smoker and other Navy rushing towards them.
"Go go go go…we need to get out of here Asap…" Nami shouted, the monster trio already handling the helm while the scared trio did what they did best. Freaking out.
Soon the going Merry was out in the sea, moving towards the other part of Alabasta.
However, the Navy were chasing them.
"They are too many, can't outrun them." Usopp took out a magnifying scope from somewhere, looking at the upcoming ships.
"Dude, if you really need to check out your eyes, they are not that away, and if they are then why you are freaking out. Isn't that a good thing?" Yuta muttered with a little twitch to his eyebrows.
This world is indeed the most bizarre out of all.
"Don't worry I will take care of them." Ace was on it, ready to handle all those Navy ships but before he did that Yuta came forward.
"Allow me, I don't want to just get a free trip here, let me help out."
Ace was about to deny, that handling these few ships was nothing to him, but upon seeing who asked this, he didn't say it.
This was a chance to see how strong this boy was, if earlier it was just normal interest then now it was necessary seeing that he might travel with Luffy.
Everyone else was also interested, wanting to see what the self-proclaimed hero could do.
Yuta noticed all eyes were on him and suddenly performance anxiety started to arise in him.
'Well guess I will let go this one time. Just once.' Yuta thought about doing something he shouldn't but who cares, he wanted to. He was done with hiding his powers, he did that enough in JJK.
And then golden lighting started to appear around him.
"ROFA 20… Shock Overdrive…"
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