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Hey all been a while… oh god I have some words to speak of first off I am very very sorry to do this but I am going to be dropping this fic… and absolutely rewriting it, I'm not giving up on it, it's just that I took some time and I mean some real time to think about it and realized I can absolutely do better so I am sorry but this will kind be the last chapter that I was working on and unfortunately its not finished so I please forgive me if you think the last part is too cliff hangy.

And second I would like to personally thank the following people for helping me out, first would be OceansAlliteran who has been one of the people who told me that my fic had some much potential.

The Patient One who took his time to look over my work and gave me advice on my fic and certain things.

And finally the reviewers and people who took their own time of the day to read and or check out my fic, thank you so much for looking out for me and I hope to write something better.

Now onto the last chapter I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 10: Baratie battles part 2

"Money, hand it over." was the immediate demand from my casual question.

"Sorry to say, but I don't exactly have any money. And also—" In a quick motion, I pushed the man's arm upwards and twisted it, forcing his gun away from my head and out of his grasp, then pushed him away, I watched as he tried to regain his balance by continuing to move backward. "—you're not exactly in shape to fight now are ya?"

While what I did say came out as more snarky, I somewhat held a small portion of worry undertone. I mean, this was Gin, in the anime and manga the guys had spent ages starving, and then he was captured by Marines when he was tasked to look for food from his dickhead of captain, Krieg.

That is one person I don't think I would mind actually putting a bullet into.

"Cough cough shut up, you don't know anything of what I've gone through! I'm the first mate of Don Krieg, the strongest man in the East Blue!" Gin yelled out trying to scare me despite him near collapsing onto his knees, he wasn't this fucked up in the anime… was he? I mean he could somewhat go toe-to-toe with Sanji, for fuck's sake.

"Alright, alright, no need to be such an open-ended dickwaffle, come on," I said walking over not caring at how Gin glared at me, especially when I threw his arm over my shoulder and started helping him into the restaurant.

"What are you doing, didn't you see I was just about to kill you?" Gin spouted out, his first concern obviously being confusion as to what I was doing.

"And you're literally dying. I see this as somewhat fair," I said walking in my eyes going to my crew who just looked at me in confusion before I turned to the waiting server.

"Uh, hello, can you get us a table for two and move my meal to the table and, uh, get him something light or something, this guy has been starving for days." I quickly told the guy who nodded before directing me and Gin to a table that sat off to the far side of the restaurant.

Once I placed Gin on a chair, I quickly moved to the other chair and looked up seeing Gin giving me a wide-eyed confused look.

"Why are you helping me?" Gin asked one good question. Honestly, I didn't know why I was helping him, in the anime his situation was bad but he could still walk just fine but right here and now… his entire muscle mass looked disproportionate to the point that if he told me he was from Ethiopia I would believe him in a heartbeat.

"No reason, I just wanted to help," I said truthfully.

"Sounds more like you are more unsure of the reason than me." Gin noted before letting out a low chuckle, obviously amused by this entire ordeal he's found himself in, a good time for black comedy if I do say myself.

"So what's your story? You're obviously a pirate but I've never seen you around so you must be new to this." Gin said, proceeding on with a more detailed conversation and wanting to obviously move away from his own situation.

"Newly made first mate, nothing more to say really. My captain is stupid, but he's got one hell of a charisma," I said, speaking a bit more truth than I wanted to say.

"Sounds rough then again newbies have got to deal with the changes." Gin nodded in understanding.

"And your captain?" I questioned watching how Gin seemed to smile in a solemn fashion.

"He is the strongest man I have ever met, Krieg could take on the entire world if he wished so." Gin exclaimed in a fashion that showed respect loyalty and sounded like a huge load of fucking horse shit.

"The whole world, weird how I have never heard of him." I noted casually watching how Gin's expression seemed to turn from boasting into a more annoyed frown. "Krieg I know of him but to say he's the strongest man you have ever met well that's just weird almost like you've never really been looking around"

"You dare-"

"Yes I do dare, your loyalty is absolutely astounding and the way you pride yourself to believe that your captain is the strongest man you have ever met, well I gotta call bullshit there." I said taking a casual sip out of my water while I mentally noted how the way I was talking reminded me of another story.

Specifically, an SI called This Bites and how the SI basically spat out an entire lecture to Eneru about how small-minded he was to think that he was the strongest person to exist.

I can see the similarities between that lecture and this conversation I'm having, just with some major differences.

"If he is so strong why isn't he as famous or renowned throughout the world? And by that logic, shouldn't there be five Emperors and not four?" I exclaimed leaning back in my seat watching how Gin arms twitched and his eyes were shadowed under his headband.

"How dare you—"

Click!

Within an instant Gin's facial expression went from frustrated anger to surprise as I quickly pulled out my revolver, the hammer pulled back and my index finger ready on the trigger.

"You're a tough man, Gin. You're half-dead from starvation and you could still almost beat my captain. But you're letting your pride blind you; if you fly off the handle when someone bad mouths your captain, it would only take one stray bullet to put you down." I said in a dead calm fashion, as much as I wanted to avoid killing anyone I had to up this front just to get Gin to understand what I was saying.

Click!

Also helped that I didn't load my gun, I lightly chuckled as Gin's body seemed to drop backwards onto his seat, his life seemingly flashing before his eyes from my stunt.

"Be happy I don't load my gun everywhere I go, I'm not one to look for a fight unlike you." I said, slipping my gun back into my holster and readying myself for my meal.

"If your captain is anything like you then-"

"My captain is the bus boy." I casually pointed out gesturing at the table where my crew sat and was being served by Luffy. "Thanks to complications that I would rather not get into, he is here to pay for damages and yes he's an idiot and I'm the idiots first mate." I said readjusting my jacket for a quick second.

"So tell me Gin which is more dangerous, the idiot captain? Or the man who follows him?" I asked seriously and I was actually being serious cause from my POV Luffy is more dangerous because of his DF and borderline fucked up strength, me I was just a random dude that just dropped into this place.

"I see, I apologize for my disrespect." Gin suddenly spoke, "Here I am openly boasting my captain's strength and you are just granting me kindness, please forgive my previous words my pride got the best of me."

Ok I honestly didn't expect an apology from Gin, thought he was going to just go off the rails and start blurting out random shit that would make Krieg more… respectable, which was untrue that motherfucker has an epithet that screams every underhanded attack is always an option even if you're strong enough to pick up a ship or something with one hand.

Honestly the only reason why I chose not to remember this arc's main antagonist was because Mihawk showed up and everyone's focus went from the golden armoured asshole to the epic Zoro vs Mihawk fight.

Yeah one outweighed the other on that one there.

"Meh it's alright you gotta have some kind of pride for your captain no matter how troublesome they turn out to be." I said shrugging off the sudden apology I received.