One Pice: A Game Blue System.

The Marine cruiser splintered and cracked as the giant cerulean tentacles pulled it beneath the waves one fractured chunk at a time. At its side the pirate vessel Bloody Jewel sat anchored and its proprietor 'Red Witch' Mira-jane, the woman who once bewitched Slinn Voda, lorded over her new band of marine prisoners.

I raised the spyglass back to eye level. "Okay let's see, we got one, two..five..eight..ten..oh damnit all.. that's a lieutenant.." 'I guess it's not..impossible..that the officer won't recognize the rokushiki. Us being outside the Grand Line..she may never even have heard of them..'

But do I take that risk? I have confidence in my ability to resolve this situation but if I go down there firing off [Rankyaku]'s and [Geppo]'s it's basically an open invitation for the Marines 'or worse Cipher Pol' to start asking questions I'm really not comfortable answering.

The bombing run strategy I've started employing is a no-go here as well. I can't aim the explosives accurately enough to guarantee I don't hit the friendlies. I could lower my altitude to increase accuracy but that just puts Kiwi at risk. Plus there's a third factor in play.

These marines aren't the first prisoners they've taken. I count five persons strapped to the large center mast of their ship. Four females, one male. I switch from the scope to a proper spyglass even knowing what I'm going to see will likely make my stomach curdle.

Four females have definitely..been played with if the condition of their clothes is any indication...one would think the 'Red-Witch' being a woman herself wouldn't allow for such filth to happen on her ship but I guess some people just can't help being sadistic cunts. The one male looks about a step and a half from deaths door. He's blue with bruises, dried blood cakes his body, and oh god the fucks blinded him too. The only clothing left on him is the shredded remains of a reddish-purple suit on his legs..and...and.. My eyes widened in horror. '...it's Guilford...oh my god it's Guilford..'

The captured lieutenant is screaming at Mira-jane now but what about I'm far far too high up to hear. She struggles in vain to rise from the kneeling position two burly pirates are holding her in and the 'Red-Witch' smirks in delight at the scene. She leans down to whisper something, the lieutenant, still screaming, shakes her head pleadingly, and then without ever breaking eye contact Mira-jane draws a pistol from her belt and executes one of the captured Seamen.

'OH SHI-' "Kiwi dive! Dive! Risky or not we gotta go for it!"

The sparrow plunges downward as the acceleration nearly rips the jacket off my back. 'Alright! Plan. Plan. Make a plan! 1. Free the Marines. 2. Release hostages when you can. 3. Cut down anyone who gets in the way. 4. Watch out for unexpected Devil Fruit. Mira-jane's controlling that beast somehow! Speaking of which, 5. Be wary of massive ship-crushing tentacles. [Game] you got any advice on dealing with a giant octopus..sea-monster..possibly kraken thing?'

Ding!

New Quest Alert!

Quest: Defeat Lorthos, the Tidemaker! Reward: 15,000 Exp. [ACCEPT/DECLINE] 'Eh... I'll take it.'

One of the grunts takes notice of the divebombing bird and it's not long before hastily shouted orders have both small and large arms training on our direction.

"Kiwi go!" I push off the bird and throw myself left while he sharply veers right. The separation causes a half-second hesitation on the pirates part but no longer. The bullets go flying and- '[Tekkai]!'

-3 HP!

-9 HP!

-2 HP!

-7 HP!

-5 HP!

Bullet Time Skill Active!

-Time is being for you by 18%. HP Regen Skill Active!

-Current speed: 4.4% max health per minute.

-essentially do nothing as they bounce off my hardened skin like rubber pellets. There's a few stinging welts where the more direct hits landed but they begin healing away practically instantly. Momentum continues to carry me through the air and I maintain the 'Iron Body' at its maximum as I travel. The extra density sees me crash through the floor of the Bloody Jewel the second I make contact and by the time I cancel the technique I'm already on the lowest deck.

"Hi there." I greet to the dumbfounded Lv. 8 'Haamid' who was cleaning the bilge while all the excitement happened upstairs. "Lovely day isn't it?"

The man threw his mop away and scrambled for the flintlock in his belt but by that point Kugizume is already arcing sharply downwards.

+55 Exp!

Haamid goes down with a guttural scream and a wound across his chest that's just short of lethal. If he's smart and wants to keep it that way he'll stay put where he is. Already the upper floors are rumbling as first responders rush to make their way downstairs and intercept the intruder. A small tiny part of my heart aches in pity for the poor sods and what's about to happen to them.

But then I remember this is a ship full of rapists and raiders and just like that everything's fine again.

The first pair of legs appears on the stairs coming down from middle level and with it comes the first crack of my revolver. The legs owner cries out as he stumbles and topples the rest of the flight face-down.

+40 Exp!

Three of his fellows quickly replace him and peer down into the bilge only to see a great sickle of blue light sweeping towards them. One has time to bark in panic, the other two try to backpeddle, but that's all they accomplish as the relatively blunt [Rankyaku] lifts them off their feet and carries both them and those behind back upstairs.

[Soru] vanishes me from the bilge and sets me reappearing right in the middle of the dazed group on the second floor.

A Lv.9 named Murota raises his hand. "Hey! Wait! Wai-" It's too late though. Both arms are already swinging out and taking kill shots with my .44's. The Exp notifications start flooding in and the pirates protests devolve into generic screaming. I pop the cylinders open, slap new rounds into place with speedloaders, and hear a shrill screech pierce the room from outside.

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