"Writing" Talk
'Writing' Thought
[Writing] System
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"I'll repeat, where are the rest of your men?" I asked him.
"L-Like I'd ever tell you."
I stared at him, then grabbed his nose—the same one I had already broken with my punch.
"AHH, AHH, I'LL TELL YOU, I'LL TELL YOU, JUST LET GO!"
I released his nose, making him fall to the ground.
"You'd better tell me quickly, or I might just break a finger."
"Y-Yes."
I noticed they were carrying a bag, so I grabbed it and checked inside, finding only alcohol and a few cups.
"Hey, where did you get this from?"
"W-We looted it from a nearby village," he said nervously.
"You'd better hurry up and take me to your base, or I might regret not leaving you like your buddy."
The bandit nodded repeatedly at my threat.
"Then let's go."
He started guiding me toward their base, not before I took away both his and his partner's weapons.
We walked for about 15 minutes until we reached a cave entrance where no one seemed to be standing guard.
"T-This is it," the bandit said.
"Good."
I grabbed his head and gave him an electric shock, leaving him knocked out on the ground.
"Well then, let's see what I find here."
The entrance was pretty big, so I could go in without trouble. With some hesitation, I stepped inside.
There were a few torches and several burned sticks.
"How long have they been here?"
I spotted a door and was about to head toward it when it opened and two bandits came out.
"Hope the boss doesn't get mad," one said, holding a bottle of alcohol.
"As long as he keeps counting his money, I doubt he'll notice," the other replied.
They both froze when they saw me.
"Hi."
I lunged at them, striking each one.
The first took a solid blow to the chest, sending him crashing into a cave wall, and the second got punched in the face along with Electro, ensuring he was knocked out.
"Getting Boxing was incredible luck. I'll need to get more fighting styles and see which one's the best."
I went through the doorway they came from—it was a storage room with food, drinks, and other supplies, but no weapons.
"All I've got are the two swords from the bandits outside. Well, I can still keep their stuff."
I gathered everything and stored it in my inventory to check later.
Then I heard noises in the tunnel, so I ducked back into the storage room to hide.
"Damn it! Here's one!"
"And here's another!"
"But where's the intruder?!"
I heard three bandits shouting when they found the unconscious ones.
'I just have to take them out and I'll win—they're just regular bandits without anything special… I hope,' I thought.
I waited until one passed the door, then punched, slamming the door right into him.
"HE'S HERE!"
The other two drew their swords, but I rushed them, landing two quick punches to the first one's face and an uppercut to his jaw, then striking the other in the stomach followed by a blow to the head, knocking him out too.
"Man, I'm strong. I just hope I didn't kill them, though… I've seen Zoro cut people apart and they're still alive. For now, I'll focus on taking out all the bandits—I'm sure they're still alive."
I grabbed one of the bandits and used him in front of me as cover, just in case they had firearms, since I'd made quite a noise and it was likely more were waiting ahead.
"Where could they be? You know, don't you?" I asked the unconscious bandit. "Of course you can't talk, right?"
I kept moving forward, looking for bandits. Whenever I found them, I defeated them easily while using the bandit as both weapon and shield, but eventually I left him behind.
"It's good they give me basic knowledge of fighting styles—otherwise this would've been much harder."
After finishing off another bandit, I kept walking until I found their sleeping area, but no one else was there.
"Did I already complete the mission?"
There was only one place left to check—a long corridor. Just then, I saw something flying toward me, and instinctively, my body moved to catch it.
"An axe?"
The axe was pretty big, but it looked like it belonged to a lumberjack, since it was heavily worn.
"I guess that's where the last one is."
I stored the axe in my inventory in case I needed it later.
I ran straight down the hallway, focusing in case another axe came flying. At the end of the corridor, I saw an opening into a large room.
"So you're the one causing havoc in my hideout, ugly."
Inside was a bandit—tall, scarred on the face, fat with several pimples, and holding an axe.
"Ugly? I'd say the ugly one is you. Pretty disgusting for a bandit—are you sure you're not a toad?"
"Bastard!"
He charged at me with his axe, and I was about to dodge, but a thought crossed my mind.
'Can I do it?'
When he was about to hit me, I grabbed the axe with the intention of putting it in my inventory—and it worked.
"Huh?"
I landed two punches to his face, and the bandit collapsed, defeated.
"Well, that worked."
[Mission completed]
[Reward: Weapon Gacha Token]
"FINALLY!!! Now I've got another token."
When I checked the room, I found a chest. I went over and opened it, revealing a huge amount of Belly.
"Belly!! And a lot of it!"
I put all the money in my inventory and kept searching in case I had missed something.
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[Omniscient POV]
Oliver was happily walking through the forest until he heard water, so he hurried in that direction.
"The sea!"
He ran straight to the shore to see his reflection in the water.
He looked at himself in the sea: a fair-skinned man with dark bluish hair and two wolf ears. He checked for normal human ears but couldn't find them.
"I'm pretty handsome, although it feels a bit strange not having ears where they used to be."
He sat down on the sand and gazed at the sea.
"I never thought I'd see such a huge ocean. I'm in One Piece," he said happily.
[Of course you are. They wouldn't make the mistake of not sending you into a One Piece world.]
"What do you mean by 'a One Piece world'?" he asked, confused.
[As you know, One Piece exists thanks to Eiichiro Oda, who was its creator—though that's only in your world.]
[There are thousands of universes where One Piece exists, but they are different from the one you know.]
[A reality where genders are reversed, a reality where Luffy joined the Marines, a reality where he gathers different Nakama, and so many more.]
[The higher-ups decided to create a copy of the known One Piece world you're familiar with so that it would be more suitable and wouldn't interfere with events in the original world.]
"So they could've put me in a world where Luffy is a woman?"
[Exactly.]
"Lucky me. I can't imagine Sanji hitting on a female Luffy."
He stared at his hand for a moment.
"So basically, it's a copy of the original world… That's good. With the knowledge I have from the manga, I might be able to change a few things. Maybe I can even prevent Ace's death—but to do that, I'll need to get stronger."
He opened his status screen to check his money.
"3 million Belly, that's a lot. But it would only be enough for a Devil Fruit, and I don't even know how much each token costs."
[Do you wish to know the price of each gacha?]
"Yes, please."
[Weapon Gacha: 500,000 Belly]
[Combat Style Gacha: 1,000,000 Belly]
[Devil Fruit Gacha: 2,000,000 Belly]
[Talent Gacha: 3,000,000 Belly]
"First, I'll use the ticket I won from the mission."
He used the ticket on the Weapon Gacha, and a black orb appeared.
[Acquired: Steel Dagger]
"Trash. Now I still have 3 million. I could spend it all, or save it for later."
He thought for a moment, but on impulse bought a Devil Fruit Gacha ticket.
"I'll keep 1 million Belly for when I find a village, to buy food and stock up."
He looked at the ticket in his hand.
"A Devil Fruit… my first Devil Fruit. I could get any one—even Kaido's. If I got that, no one in the East Blue could touch me."
[Error. The user cannot obtain Devil Fruits that already have current consumers.]
"So that means I can't get any from canon?"
[You can, as long as the Devil Fruit is without a user.]
"That sucks… but it doesn't mean I can't still get a good one. I mean, there have to be good ones."
He grabbed the ticket and spun the gacha machine.
"Please be good, please be good…"
And the orb that came out was black.
[Acquired: Storage-Storage Fruit]
[This is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to store things in an infinite pocket dimension on the surface of any object, making them a Storage Human.]
"Alright, alright. So… the Storage-Storage Fruit. A Devil Fruit that basically works the same as the inventory?"
[Correct.]
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
He kicked the sand, but tripped and fell face-first into it.
"And now I've got sand in my face."
He just stayed there, trying to calm his anger.