Today is the day I'm finally heading out. I wake up early to walk around first. Yesterday, Dragon gave me Roger's sword and one of the devil fruits I was hoping to find. When I was younger, I was contemplating whether to eat a devil fruit or not. Even after I got the sea system, eventually I chose not to.
It doesn't make sense to eat a devil fruit whose weakness is the sea when I need the sea to get stronger through the system; it would be biting the hand that continuously feeds you. Besides all the devil fruits I would have wanted to eat, someone else had already gotten their hands on them first. Yesterday, after I went to our hideout and took half of the money we gathered over the years, which was around five hundred thousand berries.
I left the other half for Luffy for when he leaves. I gave fifty thousand to Makino and the mayor because you know Luffy had this treasure tab at Makino's bar. I also paid the ramen store and Sabo and Luffy ate from, but we did that around a month ago, and I gave fifty thousand to Dadan and the mountain bandits, and I took the rest with me. Now it's time for me to sail away and leave this place behind.
"Hey, Luffy, remember it won't be long before I'm in the newspaper. By the way, be sure to tell Dadan thanks for looking after me."
"Take care, Ace. See ya in three years when I set sail. I'll be way stronger than you."
"Sure"
While I'm in the middle of waving goodbye to everyone who came to see me off, I'm rudely interrupted. Sailing away, I forgot about the local sea king; they call him the lord of the coast. Well, bad luck for him. I wouldn't want to kill him, but I have yet to learn how to wield the power known as the supreme king's haki. If I don't kill him, he'll sink my little raft along with my briefcase with my money. Well, as they always say, let me start my pirate journey with a bang. How unfortunate for the lord of the coast to be on the receiving end of one of my strongest sword attacks, but he might be the most legendary sea king known to this world. You did something even the world's greatest could never dream of doing. You took Red-haired Shanks' left arm and walked away freely. You can brag to your fellow sea kings in the afterlife that you managed to take Red-haired Shanks' left arm, and you were killed by Portgas D. Ace, the one and only son of the previous King of the Pirates and the future King of the Pirates.
January 2nd, 1519, is the date Portgas D. Ace, the child of the pirate king, who was raised secretly, set sail to become a pirate, determined to become the next King of the Pirates and hopeful to be remembered by all as the greatest pirate to ever take to the seas.
Well, it doesn't make sense for me to leave the money out here. Let me put it in the pocket dimension, along with the devil fruit. Yesterday, I got a chance at the spinning wheel once again. Well, this time I acquired the ability called pocket dimension.
It's an A-rank skill that gives you the ability to store up to twenty things in a place outside of space and time, a space only I have access to. This time, the cost was a little bit steeper, forty-five points steep exactly to spin the wheel. The grade rank is a little low for the ability, but I think if I upgrade it from A to S, the amount of stuff I'll be able to store and the size and weight capacity should increase.
I currently have three things stored there: the devil fruit and the briefcase with the four hundred thousand berries, and a backpack with a change of clothes. Well, after unfortunately killing the lord of the coast, I don't plan on fighting anytime soon, so I'll put my trusty sword Ace there, too. I furled the sail on the raft and put it in my pocket dimension, but I had to be a little bit creative because I needed to sacrifice a dimension space to store the raft. After all, one wouldn't be able to store the raft.
So, in other words, until I upgrade the pocket dimension, I'll only have nineteen spaces to store, with one of them being twice as big as the other eighteen. I decided to swim for a little bit. I could kill two birds with one stone by both absorbing seawater and travelling to the next town.