A few months after meeting the old man, the bookstore keeper and owner, Calvin, who was initially confused by the old man's attitude towards him, began to bond with him. In the past few months, Calvin has been coming to the bookstore almost every week to return and bring the next volume of One Piece comics, Calvin has now almost read all volumes of One piece comics, the last one he read was the volume about Luffy and his Crew sailing to Raftel after recording the location point from the Road Poneglyph. For these past few weeks he has been coming almost every day just to meet the old man and talk to him.
Calvin: "Hey, Old Man, I think we've known each other for the past few months, I'm sorry, but I haven't figured out what your name is yet? "
Calvin, who had never cared about having a relationship with others, so he never cared about asking someone's name, this was the first time he had a friend even though that friend was much older than him.
Old Man: "hahaha, it seems I also forgot to introduce myself huh hahah, this old man seems to be getting senile hahaha"
Calvin: "My name is Calvin, I don't know my long name, so what's yours old man?"
Old Man: "You can call me Jay ..... or Jay D. Legend" Jay Grins
Calvin: "D ??... D. Legend? D's name is like the one in One Piece? How can you have a name like the one in One Piece?"
Old Man Jay : "Haahaha yes... that's not my real name but many people know me by that name. I used to have a platform where I reviewed anime and One Piece was my favorite to review. (Sigh) ..... It was a long time ago, I miss the time at that time" Jay smile...
Calvin looked at Old Man Jay in confusion. Anime? Review? It was a new thing that he had never heard of before.
Old man Jay looked towards Calvin with a smile
Old Man Jay: "You don't know what I'm saying huh?" Hahaha, ... it's okay, it's something I used to do... maybe now it's not known anymore." He said with sadness.
Calvin looked at Jay with sad eyes... concerned that maybe it was something that Jay used to be proud of in his time. His achievement...
But there was one thing he was confused about, Anime? What is it?
Calvin: "What's Anime, I've never heard that word before?"
Old Man Jay : "Anime is an adaptation of a story from a manga, manga is like the comics you read One Piece, they are commonly called Manga and anime is an adaptation of manga stories in moving pictures, it's amazing, you can see something you like from the One Piece manga in video format, by going through anime videos you can also further understand what happened and how the atmosphere happened, it's amazing I'm telling you" Jay nostalgic.
There are probably many new manga and anime that are already famous at this point in the year. So many Anime like One Piece which used to be very much something that many people waited for the continuation of the story. and after more than 20 years, many have started to leave the story.
This is the reason Jay has a bookstore, he wants to keep the presence of One Piece in its original form for people today to recognize it. or people want to bring back One Piece stories in their lives.
Calvin: "Video format huh? Where can I see it and watch it?" He was curious and excited.
Old Man Jay: "hahah you're interested huh? .... then I can tell you something" Jay grinned evilly,
Calvin felt frightened seeing Old Man Jay's expression as he took a step back.
Old man Jay: "I'm going to tell you a secret... but I hope you can keep this secret until you find someone with the next destiny" Jay says softly.
Calvin felt confused by Old Man Jay's sentence, what secret? Someone with the next destiny? What does he mean?
Old man Jay: "I'll prepare it, you can come back in a few weeks and I'll show you something....this is something much more fun than watching anime, something that makes my fictional imagination come true" Jay grinned wickedly
Old Man Jay: "When the time comes you will know .... and you can experience .... freedom for yourself"
Calvin walked out of the shop feeling a little frightened and confused by what Old Man Jay had said. Freedom? Fictitious imagination becomes reality? Interesting. Calvin has always had a dark imagination, seeing all this time how he lived, the suffering he experienced made him a little uncaring towards humans he didn't know. After he read the One Piece manga, his imagination was quite... creepy.
Devil Fruit, he imagined what if the devil fruit was real and he had the power given by the fruit, hahaha he would definitely become invincible and people would be scared of him. No one would dare to step on him and insult him, he would be free to do what he wanted.
But this is just a fictitious imagination, how could this possibly happen. Calvin chuckled..... But his imagination was one of the comforts he had. Imagining became one of the ways Calvin could feel he could choose the flow of life he wanted. And Cavin is not carried away by the current called Destiny. Things that don't happen can happen in his imagination... isn't that what humans want? Everything he wants can come true in his imagination, even if it's just for a moment.
A few days later Calvin tried to meet Old Man Jay, but every time he came to his bookstore, it was closed. Calvin was confused by their last meeting, what did he mean. What was Old Man Jay up to?
True to Old Man Jay's word, Calvin waited for several weeks without hearing from Old Man Jay... Until one morning when Calvin came back to Old Man Jay's bookstore, he found a letter hanging at the entrance of the shop.
Calvin opened the letter and read it: "Meet me through the back door of the shop?"
What's going on? Why is Old Man Jay acting so strange? What is he doing? Calvin thought as he walked towards the back door located in a small alley.
Calvin knocked on the door but no one answered, he saw a bell button on the side and pressed it. Suddenly the door opened and Calvin confusedly entered through the door.
Calvin: "Old man Jay? Are you here? Hello."
A voice from inside the room echoed "I'm here, come in."
Calvin heard Old Man Jay's voice enter through the room, and the door behind him closed itself and locked. Calvin looked at the door confused and shocked but he remained calm.
Calvin walked deeper into the room : "Old Man Jay?"
Old man Jay: "Come on in, son"
Calvin walked into a room with many tables and equipment. It's like a workshop, Calvin thought. What is this, why did Old Man Jay bring him here. What did he want to show him
Old man Jay was sitting at the top of the room drinking hot tea, and he looked at Calvin with a smile and said: "Are you ready for an adventure, son?"
Calvin: "Adventure? What do you mean?"
Adventure? What does Old Man Jay mean, is he going to take Calvin somewhere? Road trip? Huh. Calvin felt confused
Old Man Jay smiled and put down his hot tea as he stood up and walked towards Calvin.
Old Man Jay: "Imagination is one of the faculties of the human mind. The mind's ability to imagine, create, or shape images, ideas, or concepts that are not necessarily present in reality in front of us. Imagination allows a person to think outside the boundaries of reality and visualize things that are new, creative, or different."
Calvin listened to every sentence Old Man Jay threw at him carefully
Old Man Jay: "What's your imagination, son?"
Calvin: "huh my imagination? err I don't know, being rich maybe? Calvin replied.
Old Man Jay laughed: "That's right, many people imagine themselves to be wealthy and have many things, but that is only in the context of the very small that humans can imagine, imagination has no limitations, it is true that being wealthy is one of the goals but after that what?" Think son, what have you always wanted?" Ask Jay
Calvin thought deeply, what does he want? Suddenly he thought about his fate, his wishes so far, from what he had experienced, Calvin wanted... to stand above everyone... even if he had to be someone who was feared. Calvin wanted to be... strong. So that people wouldn't step on his identity anymore. Calvin wanted .... revenge. Revenge against the people who had hurt him. This was something he always imagined doing. The hatred was visible in Calvin's eyes. and Old Man Jay looked at him and grinned.
Old Man Jay: "I can see what you want and imagine from your eyes son," he chuckled. "You don't have to voice it, I can already see it" Old Man Jay said.
Calvin looked at Jay with shock and confusion, what does he mean? Can he read my mind? Calvin was afraid that someone would find out the bad desires in him.
The desire to hurt, the desire to kill, the desire to destroy, revenge, Calvin's hatred of humans. Everything, could Old Man Jay see it all?. The old man Jay laughed, laughed so hard that Calvin saw him as a crazy person who had lost his mind.
But seeing the old man Jay laughing freely, bringing out Calvin's true personality, Calvin also laughed freely upon hearing Jay, while he remembered the fate of his life and what he had experienced all this time.
Old Man Jay: "Son, you have ambition huh? The ambition you harbor, the pain, the question of why, and the imagination where you are on the cusp of insanity" said Old Man Jay with a laugh.
Calvin stopped laughing and looked at Old Man Jay seriously: "Yes, I always fantasize about what it would be like to have everything, what it would be like to feel happiness, what it would be like to destroy everyone who has hurt me, what it would be like to have power beyond human ability, aren't you worried about this, Old Man Jay" Calvin asked.
Old Man Jay looked at Calvin with a smile and didn't say anything. He walked back to his chair and sat down with a sigh while smiling.
Old man Jay: "Believe me son, I know how you feel. Much better than anyone else" Old Man Jay said.
Old man Jay: "I used to be just like you, having hatred for everyone, but couldn't do anything about it....until I found it" Old Man Jay grinned wickedly.
Calvin looked at Jay in confusion. Found what?
Old Man Jay stood up and walked towards the end of the room, Calvin saw something covered with cloth and Old Man Jay pulled the cloth, showing a door. but the door was not connected to any wall. and the door looked old with some symbols on the frame and the symbols looked familiar.
Old Man Jay stepped back and told Calvin to approach the door.
Old man Jay: "Son, open this door" Old Man Jay ordered.
Calvin confusedly walked towards the door and after he was close to the door he clearly saw the symbol on the door frame.
Calvin:" Here, Ancient Text?" Calvin was shocked to see the symbol
Calvin looked at Jay in shock, what is this? How can this exist? Did Jay's Old Man make this? If so, why? Many questions came to Calvin's mind.
Old Man Jay: "Open the door, son"
Calvin nervously opened the door. and when he opened it slightly. Calvin felt a rather strong breeze and the smell of .... salt water?
Calvin opened the door wide and what he saw surprised him, instead of seeing the basement wall behind the door, Calvin was shocked to see a vast blue ocean with a strong wind blowing.
Calvin: "What is this? How can this be? Old man Jay?" Asked Calvin Surprised
As Calvin turned his body to look at Old Man Jay. Calvin felt a push from behind and he was pushed into the door and fell towards the Blue Ocean below.
Old Man Jay: "REMEMBER, YOUR POWER IS ONLY LIMITED BY YOUR IMAGINATION, GO ON AN ADVENTURE" shouted Old Man Jay from the door.
Calvin couldn't say anything hearing Old Man Jay's shout, he couldn't even scream because he was so panicked that he plunged into the ocean. Old Man Jay smiled at the world he had once lived in, before slowly closing the door leaving Calvin in the world he knew so well.
Old Man Jay: "Good Luck son, Your journey begins now" Old Man Jay smiled.
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