
~Tatsumi POV~
As I was walking around the direction of the location of the 16th sea base thanks to Fishman, I tortured them he was more than willing to spill the beans after I forcefully gave him his fingers to get the point.
What I did was evil but for me, it was to survive. After all, not all things come with good rewards for spying information or informants always being tortured for what they know. I just follow the same way to get it.
The savage torture I will admit is of use after knowing where the bandit group that attacked my home village from time to time reached a very dangerous point. Ieyasu and Sayo agreed we should end it for good even though I am a very bad torturer, I got better at using it on the bandits close to my house.
Or use the Danger Beast but all of it is an effective method to get what I want. Since I cannot properly reveal the future knowledge of what happened to their queen with the possibility of Hinata listening to this is my only method.
I would rather not torture anyone unless I have to get the information I need. The most important thing in a war or fight is the info to tell who owns what and prepare to fight what they have to win.
While I was walking towards me, I had already made sure to clean myself up as I started moving forward to my goal until it was finally in my view. It looked like a dome with a rat doll on it with several sea bases on the side.
The 16th Branch Base was the Naval Base and the seat of the 16th Marine Branch in East Blue. It was ordered by Captain Nezumi. The commander code of the 16th branch to the headquarters is 0073.
This branch is responsible for the region of the Comomi Islands which is where Cocoyasi Village is located. It was also the one responsible for turning a blind eye to the activities of the Arlong Pirates and their tyrannical rule in Cocoyasi.
They are also alerted by Arlong and raid Nami and Nojiko's house and confiscate all 93,000,000 Bei that Nami had gathered to buy the freedom of her village.
Wait for...
Does that mean Nami still has a lot of Buy in the ground in one of the trees in their garden? If that was the case, I wouldn't mind printing some items before leaving if I found my way to Loguetown and entered the shopping district, I would get some items that had never been seen before in the process.
Sounds like a score to me. I made sure to keep using the mask to hide my identity because my hoodie covered my face when I started walking towards the base hiding my facial features. I don't want a mouse squeaking.
But first I made sure to keep my distance from there as I checked everything from afar to make sure that I kept looking in detail before I entered blindly to the spot filled by at least trained soldiers. It was very unlikely but at least I wouldn't go blind.
*Swoosh*
It quickly rushed towards where the marines noticed my appearance as I rushed in because they had rifle flintlocks and pistols at me, but I was too fast for them. Hm... I guess they're just below average fighters when it comes to walking in the park.
*bam*
*bam*
*bam*
With that, I continue on my way to cripple the useless idiot marines in this fight. It was disappointing that at least the Fishman was able to stop my sword attack even though I used [Aura] in the end to pass their strength.
While I was guarding the guards, I managed to get inside the building as I saw the other sea soldiers begin to get their weapons in the process. While I make sure to keep items at the lowest damage, I make sure to drop them.
Still, these people are very weak.
No kidding these guys aren't even trained at all. Body type and muscles will say a lot that these people are lazy to make love.
However, there was nothing stopping me from robbing them once I pickpocketed them all. Since we will stay here for a few days to arrange what we do as best we can, we do something to get the ammunition or weaponry to be used.
*Thud*
Just as the last guard of the sea army fell, I saw one in the distance as I rushed towards him grabbing his throat as I spoke coldly, "Rubbish. Tell me where your treasure you got from Arlong and his whore. . Don't and you won't even be worth living soon in the next few seconds."
The man in front of me was now in a mess crying as he begged me to let him live while it was comfortable, I'll let him after all Nezumi will kill this guy after he finds out that all his stuff was stolen.
The sobbing sea man began to lead me to where the treasure of this place was while I had my sword at close range behind his head. I must have some influence here otherwise, I will not force him to act.
As I walked around it seemed like the piece of Nezumi's trash wasn't there and when I asked the marines, he replies that he collected bribes from Arlong and his crew for not informing other marines in East Blue.
An example of important information is that all Fish-Man only lives within Arlong Park because they regard other places in the Conomi Islands as lesser places because of their hated and blinded beliefs.
AXES
Another fact to know is that they have a sea king cow that can cause problems for anyone at sea, but also follow the orders of the Fish-Man Pirates. But if we could somehow manage to poison or gas the building or make the water a death trap it could easily make our mission much easier.
Plus, I wanted to learn more about the Fish-Man Karate itself as they had a book about at their base. Even humans can use it, so I don't mind having some water-based attacks in my arsenal.
But first stopping the Arlong Pirates was a must before I could do anything to get what I wanted plus I had to rob them as well given the wealth they had accumulated. It could help me get what I wanted in Loguetown after this quest was over.
Shaking my head a little first, I should focus on actually winning first before getting drunk myself on blind victories like the officers of those evil loli warriors.
Just as we continued walking into the vault the marines began to open it using a code to open the safe to reveal the unlucky bunch of stuff inside because I couldn't help that cowardly Nezumi was loaded. It may be loaded briefly in the East Blue standard but it is still loaded when I see one of the devil fruits that looks can but is shaped like a cube with curves around it but if I know who is dead recently then most likely Hard Fruit.
It wasn't bad but it wasn't great with his main ability but it wasn't what I wanted too bad.
This fruit allows the eater to harden the body at will, increasing its defensive capabilities. The user can also increase the temperature of the hardened body parts, which can be used to increase the damage done to the opponent, enough to burn his seat on contact.
Maybe I should give this to the members although I should not say a word to them if that was the case because for them, it was for them, I will not know about this fruit and what exactly it can do?
Or should I hide it in a bad storage place honestly and give it to one of my childhood friends at least I know they can keep the village safe if that's the case. Plus, people who have extra abilities are not strange though rare.
Then again once the store is working, I can sell the damn thing at a point price but even I won't know how much it will cost and even so, even so, how can I know what the store has to offer if that is the case?
Sighs...
Okay, yup, I will decide by hiding it and revealing it to the members but not knowing what it is but even I am not sure if it is the real Hard Fruit so I will leave my options open for now we just started our search.
*Thud*
Beating the sea that guided me, I made my way of picking up the devil fruit in the small crate because the fruit itself was the same size as my hand to the small crate as I kept it away. I can take their swords and gold I don't have time to pick them up or anything big enough to take them so it's best to take this fruit because it's worth more than anything here for at present.
With that, I started leaving the place as I went towards the original location without being followed ...
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It took me some time to travel a long distance but I managed to find Ruby and Saeko sparring with each other like it. Gotta thank Ruby's good heroic nature for training Saeko to spend the time right when I got here.
Hearing a few footsteps, I glanced over to see Hinata appear as she spoke in surprise about me as she spoke, "Oh? Tatsumi, I saw you also go around gathering information, right?"
Nodding my head at that moment, I began to answer an honest answer while I responded, "Yes, managed to find a group of Fish-Man together. I managed to defeat them and get some important information after some 'persuade' to get what I needed. ."
Hinata only laughed lightly as she corrected my persuasion in other words instead as she replied, "You mean torture right? You tortured the Fishman to get information about them, right? At least you took care of the bodies, I hope?"
It seems like I'm starting to like Hinata the more Ninja-like the better.
Smiling at him, I replied with a nod as I spoke to him in a serious tone, "Of course I know. I need information and they won't say that it was their fault for not spilling it. Then I have to silence them don't want to. want Arlong told right?"
I was really surprised Hinata agreed with that but then I remembered that she trained to be a ninja at times. Of course, I would forget that something like this might be ordinary for him but Ruby and Saeko are another matter.
For now, we both greeted the two of them as we began to talk about the gathering of the information we had gathered.
#connecting.