One Piece: I Understand It Now

Chapter 6: Right-hand man! 

"Hmm? What's a lone soldier doing around here?" The threatening aura of the man sweeped through the room, making Ken start sweating, but he kept his calm.

He wasn't unprepared; he wouldn't come this way without a plan.

"I-" But before he could use his prepared excuse and turn to go back to the room, the man stopped him.

"Who cares. Perfect timing. I need to go to the bathroom. Show me the way."

"Aye, sir." And so Ken, without missing a beat, turned around and started walking towards the bathroom, not even daring to look back anymore.

His mind worked on overload trying to think of a reason why this man would make him lead the way, but it led to no results until they came across a group of wandering guards who, out of all the previous guards, seemed to actually recognize the man.

"Ah, if it isn't our captain's right hand, it's a pleasure to see you." One of them said stopping for a bit and raising his weapon.

"Ah, yeah, good to see you." The right-hand man scratched his neck and nodded.

"Are you by any chance lost again? This ship is massive; I'd say anyone would get lost." Looking at Ken leading him, the guard immediately guessed.

He had the chance to meet this famous man once on an island, and he had to say his skills were close to that of a monster, and after that, through some conversation he led with his comrades, he came to know that this man was easily lost and had a not so good sense of direction.

"Eh, I guess I can't hide it anymore." The right-hand man shook his head, and the guard laughed for a bit.

"Well then, we'll go on and continue our duty." After saying this, the two guards went on their way.

After that, Ken and the man went all the way to the bathroom, with Ken leaving once he completed his mission, not wanting to spend a single more minute with this guy.

Returning to the room, Ken was asked by his comrade what took his so long to come back, and so after finding some random excuse that resulted in some laughs from the other side.

After that, it was a new task for the young man; he had to keep his voice changed and accompany his comrade in small talks, but all he had to do was get used to it, and so far, he discovered that adapting to something was something he could gladly state nobody could do better than him.

Though it was only a theory at the moment due to lack of further examples, Ken believed that his fruit had powers that had to do with understanding and that it also meant extreme adaptation ability; thus, he decided to call it the adapt adapt fruit, or in the rightful Japanese name, the tekio tekio no mi, without the accents.

Getting used to bullshitting his way through a conversation, it didn't take long for Ken to have the guard comrade between his fingers bringing out of him all the information he needed along with some tears and snot of emotions. Then once the two got closer to each other, and as one-sided as it was, the two were called.

"It's time." Ken stated to himself.

"Indeed it is, Comrade." Thinking that the young man was talking to him, the guard replied.

Coming out of the room once more, Ken walked halfway through before he couldn't remember the path anymore and started following the guard, and then 30 minutes later, they reached a hall where the guards who weren't on duty were gathered.

By now, the next group that would be guarding the Treasury was already there, as it was a rotation. Ken and his comrade, having supposedy gone through the first cycle, had a two-rest before they needed to join the cycle again, but now that the crew had to raid an island, such a thing wouldn't happen, and they are required to join.

Though, even with this happening, they still had a few days of rest before the ship would reach it's destination.

"I see all ya lads are here. Good. As usual, this check wasn't going to last more than a minute, but since we are so close to the island, we will inform you all that in a few days all of you here are required to get down and help the crew find as many treasures as possible."

" You can get whatever ya find, just make sure you hand over what you don't need to the ship, otherwise, if ya lads don't put anything, we will have to take some ourselves. " The man in front of the army said, and the guards started laughing.

" Alright, get out of my face. " and right after that everybody dispersed, including Ken, who was intending to explore the whole ship.

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