As I lay there with a headache due to dehydration, I noticed the position of the sun and figured it must be around 12:00.
After about 10 minutes I stood up with extreme difficulty until now I realized how badly my muscles hurt, the pain I felt while climbing was half as much because I was pumped up and now I was less so and because I had a lot of adrenaline.
I saw a medium sized tree I wanted to get to the surface because I wanted to know what side the water was on and what side the mountain was on so I could get back to the mountain bandits.
Since I didn't know how to use Gomu Gomu No Mi that well yet, I resorted to climbing.
I started climbing that tree, the tree was harder to climb than the rock because the rock has indentations almost everywhere and the tree doesn't have them down at all. After about 20 minutes of climbing I climbed up the tree with difficulty.
There was a mountain to the north and a city with the sea to the south, I climbed down so that I just jumped and fell to the ground, the fall didn't hurt or hurt me because there was nothing sharp on the ground
I walked like a zombie in the direction of the north, after 5 minutes of slow cooling down I came across a mountain stream where there was clear water.
'I don't care if it's not filtered' I said to myself
I slowly bent down and i drinking as much as I could and due to the Gomu Gomu No Mi effect, I became a big ball with four tiny limbs and one tiny head with a straw on it.
After about 35 minutes of lying there like a ball, I absorbed all the water so I also got a little less of a headache.
After about 40 minutes of strenuous walking where I often fell on my face I finally saw the dough I was following and after 5 minutes I saw a large wooden hut.
I walked up to the door and knocked, after 1 minute a bandit who was cloaked in black who looked quite surprised answered the door and called out.
"Boss Luffy is back!" He called
The big fat looming woman staggered heavily to door and growled loudly
"Oh you're alive, I thought you were dead" she said sadly
Then she looked me over and said
"You're well recharged, Ace should be along any minute to bring the meat" she said excitedly
"Hahaha meat, yes!" I said as enthusiastically as I could because I wanted to imitate Luffy as much as possible so she wouldn't notice anything suspicious.
"Since you are in such a state, I give you a reprieve and you don't have to do anything today, but just because of your condition don't think you will be doing nothing every day!" she said harshly
"Now go back to the storeroom and get out of my sight" she said
Slowly I walked inside, the inside looked just as I remembered it, as I walked through the cabin I could feel the bandits stares on me and I felt like kicking them in the backside, as I walked into the warehouse I saw Ace's 2 white sails, 1 he puts on the ground and 2 he covers himself with. Because I didn't want to antagonize him, I lay down on the hard wooden ground and fell asleep.
In the morning one of the bandits woke me up and brought me a bowl of rice with a bowl of water.
"The boss doesn't want you to starve and die because she'll have trouble with that, so she gave you this even though you didn't have lunch, when you finish eating clean the whole house and bring water from the well" he said
I looked at the rice and started salivating because I hadn't eaten anything for 3 days, even though I knew it didn't feed me much or have hardly any nutritional value at all. I tried to move my arms but couldn't, tried to stand but couldn't, all I could do is see and talk.
'I didn't have this muscle pain even when I exercised extremely in my past life' I thought to myself
My only hope is that the devil fruit's powers will work. I pointed at the bowl of rice and it worked, my dirty hand landed in the bowl of white rice, yuck, I pulled it to my mouth and started eating, the rice tasted terrible: unsalty, hard, and there was dirt from my hand.
'I hope I don't get any sickness from this' I thought to myself
Then I focused on the glass of water and succeeded, I was afraid I would spill it but luckily I didn't, but then I realised I couldn't move my head so I had no way to drink it.
'Fuck' I cursed in my mind
After about 1 minute my boss came up to me and started swearing at me.
'You lazy pig how long does it take you to eat! I gave you food out of my good will and this is how you repay me?!" She said angrily
"But I can't move" I said sadly and tried my best to imitate what Luffy would say
"I don't care you're just a lazy simulacrum" she said angrily and skeptically at the same time
She started pulling me by my arms and legs and tried to make me stand up in various ways and even threatened me that if I didn't get up she would throw me into the river where I would drown
"Don't hurt me or I'll tell Grandpa," I said defiantly.
In her eyes i could see fear and then she said
"You win for today" she said angrily and slammed the door behind her
After about 5 hours I was able to move my arms and legs a little bit but I still couldn't get up but at least I drank a glass of water, those 5 hours I thought about the training plan I'm going to do and I came up with it: in the morning I'm going to chase Ace, then there will be a workout where I'll try to increase my strength as much as possible: I'll hit rocks, try to pull up a tree..., in the evening I'm going to try to imitate Luffy's techniques he used in the anime.
In the evening, Ace came
"Hi Ace, hahaha" I said and of course as I expected he ignored me
I had a hard time falling asleep because even though my whole body ached and I could hardly move at all, it still didn't change the fact that I hadn't done anything all day and therefore had a lot of energy, I eventually fell asleep.