My Journey In One Piece!

=-Day 335-=

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#Pet Information#

[Name: Mobile Inventory]

[Level: -]

[XP: -]

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[STR: -]

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[DEX: 100]

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[CON: 90]

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#{Skill Tab}#

Consume & Store: Max level

Ouroboros: Max level

New skill- Observation Haki: Level 1

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Hands on my hips, I threw my head back and bellowed with laughter.

"Hahaha! I fucking did it!"

After a little over forty days, I had finally managed to get those two words to appear on its skill tab.

A hiss sounded in my ear, and I rolled my eyes as I looked back down from the sky.

"So what if you're the one who can use it? If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even have it!"

Another hiss.

I scoffed just as a spider, larger than the surrounding trees emerged from the ground.

"What do you mean, 'I'd be in snake heaven if it weren't for you'?"

Mobile Inventory squeezed my left shoulder. I tilted slightly just as a hairy leg swung past me, narrowly missing. Rolling my eyes, I turned to face the giant arachnid and yawned before addressing it.

"Hey! Didn't your mother teach you not to interrupt others?!"

It screeched in response, lifting four of its legs into the air before slamming them down where I had just stood. From my position, I watched its beady eyes dart around searching for me, right before I gave it a pat.

Right on its body.

"Then again, I did kill your mother, didn't I?"

The spider bucked and thrashed, trying to shake me off but I held firm. Gripping my iron sword tightly in my right hand, I raised it above my shoulder.

"I'll make good use of your parts."

With those words I swung down with force, releasing a compressed air blade that sliced through the spider's body and head in a single clean strike.

Yawning, I jumped down from its fat corpse, ignoring the thick sticky green blood oozing from its wounds and soaking my bare feet. Walking over to its head, I checked its fangs for any damage. Seeing none, I sighed and scanned the rest of the body before groaning.

"Fucking hate hauling this kind of shit."

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I sighed in relief as I floated atop the water's surface, letting it wash away the grime from today's hunt. Staring up at the sky, I listened to the soft sounds of Mobile Inventory slithering through the water.

"I'm closing in on a year of being here... Fuck."

A whole year in this strange world filled with even stranger things, rabbits with shark like teeth, giant monkeys taller than houses. I briefly wondered if anyone back home was missing me, but I quickly shrugged the thought off.

"I worked at a fast food place. Nothing to miss about that."

Still, one thing nagged at me. Out of everything I'd lost, one regret stood out: I never got to go on that date with that cosplayer.

"Oh well. More fish in the ocean, as they say."

Just as I closed my eyes, Mobile Inventory slithered across my face before continuing its movements in the water. I snorted at the name I'd given it, then frowned as I remembered the stats I had seen earlier.

"System, stats."

At my command, a grey panel appeared in front of my eyes.

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#System#

[Name: Kai Takeda]

[Level: 0/15]

[XP: 0/100]

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[STR: 0]

Strength is raw power, physical tasks, and melee combat!

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[DEX: 0]

Dexterity is agility, reflexes, finesse, and ranged combat!

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[CON: 0]

Constitution is stealth, endurance, stamina, and physical resilience!

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'Still nothing.'

It didn't make sense. Why did Mobile Inventory have stats while I didn't?

I remembered the moment I realized I could read its stats, it had only been a few levels lower than it was today. Yet even I received a reward for a quest that gave me 100 XP… yet not a single fucking level.

Sighing, I moved through the water and headed for land. Once I arrived I shook off the water and made my way to a small hut I had built, partly as practice for a boat and partly so I could be lazy whenever I didn't feel like getting drenched by the waterfall.

Stepping inside, I ignored the various mounted heads of creatures I had hunted with Mobile Inventory over the past month and walked toward a crude map I had been working on. So far, it served to mark the territories of the giant orangutan and the mutt, as those two were the most active predators in their respective domains.

"Well, the monkey is now because of me."

I smirked at the memory of what I had done to it before focusing back on the map. Aside from tracking territories, I was also searching for the best place to build and launch a ship. I couldn't keep storing materials for the vessel around my home as when something I wasn't prepared for showed up, I'd be screwed.

Sighing at the sheer scale of my plans, I sat down on a roughly made bed near the wall and leaned back, gazing out the door.

"The best place to build it would be on the opposite side of the mutt's territory."

Rubbing my eyes, I felt the scarred parts of my hands against my face and glanced down at them.

'Could always try and kill all the 'Bosses' of the island, Kai.'

I blinked at my own words, ignoring the fact that I was now talking to myself.

"Even if I've gotten stronger, that would be suicide."

That wasn't even considering the fact that the mutt probably had Haki.

I scoffed before thinking. 'So? Think about it, Kai! We have a fucking System. Imagine what would happen if we killed that filthy monkey and that mutt? There'd be rewards, and we might even level up and finally see our stats!'

I frowned at my own logic, but I couldn't deny it. While the System hadn't given me any official quests or announcements, I had received a reward after setting a goal to perform Flying Slash Attacks.

"Alright. I'll kill that monkey before the year is over."

=-Day 341-=

Talking to Mobile Inventory had become a staple in my life since it appeared. It couldn't talk back since being a snake and all, but it was better than nothing.

"Am I losing it?"

I scratched my chin with a crude stone axe while hanging upside down by vines, working on a trap to aid me in my fight against the giant orangutan. Shrugging off the thought, I pulled back a thick rope made of more vines. It was attached to a tree I had chopped down, stripped of its branches, and carved into a sharp point.

Humming to myself, I finished setting it up. If the orangutan triggered the trap, the giant tree would descend and hit it where it would hurt the most. I snorted, imagining the look on its face when it realized it was no longer fighting on its terms.

'Though it could always jump away.'

I blinked at the thought before shrugging it off. Even if it did, I could now handle an enemy that couldn't properly defend itself in the air.

After ensuring the trap wouldn't go off too easily, I unwrapped my legs from the vines and descended toward the ground. Just before landing, I twisted midair and landed lightly on my feet, like a cat.

"I think I'm ready." I murmured into the moist jungle air.

'I reckon we are.'

With that final thought, I set off toward the orangutan's home.