Infiltrating the Marine Base! [Pluto/Daiyuu]

[BlacKitten]

"Do you even understand the words that are coming out of your mouth? You talk as if becoming a Pirate Queen is as simple as a walk in a park. If I have to wait for you to be Pirate Queen, I'll be too old to fight." The boy crosses his arms, becoming rather impatient with this woman’s nonsense. She was the epitome of self-delusion. It was impossible for a human being to fool oneself to this extent. While he didn’t mind seeing others having unrealistic goals and ambitions, the fact that she’s already bragging before accomplishing anything really stirred the annoyance in his mind. It was like listening to a petty insect bragging about surpassing all the species in the world. If these words were spoken in a different manner, people would laugh at her for being unreasonable, but the way she said was if as she was mentally laughing at him instead.

Come on, Pluto. Just ignore her! She’s just trying to tempt to kill her sooner. Sheesh, she’s really testing out my self-control here. I don’t know how long I can endure listening to these words.

He was starting to despise this woman for coming up with such irritating words full of provocative presumptions. After a pause of not knowing what to say, he simply expressed his lack of understanding, "... I can never seem to tell when you're serious or joking." The sheer ludicrousness of her beliefs made him want to believe that she was merely joking about all this. However, her speech of empty words had a more serious side to it. Even if he had accepted her invitation to teach her, it would seem her attitude made her immune to good advice. Furthermore, in comparison to this beaten up yet prideful lady, Pluto was lot more motivated to teach his little sister instead. Being Rebecca’s mentor sounded a lot less torturous in comparison.

“Knowing you better would be a waste of time. I have a pretty good grasp on the kind of person you are. It’s obnoxiously obvious,” he stated bluntly. Everything in his mind begged him to throw insults at her. When gunshots were heard, one should just be glad that this woman was leaving. Perhaps it would be a good thing to never see this person ever again. On the other hand, taking her down one day will do this world a favor.

Stepping off the road and into an alleyway, his form shrunk into stealthy flying critter that took off into the sky. Reinforcement of marine solders seemed to be arriving, and as a present for them, he had tossed dozens of pirates around like bags of potatoes during his fight, all to be returned back to prison. The way things were set up; he would be awfully lucky if all of the crimes committed by him were transferred onto Daiyuu’s hands. Not only would that woman not mind being a scapegoat, it would make her head be worth more than it actually should. This would maximize a hunter’s gain while minimizing the threat. He wasn’t too sure if having her possessing the fruit in the very end was better or worse than having the marines possess it. Perhaps it didn’t truly matter in the end. As long as he strives towards mastering his own strengths, such a fruit would never be of a threat to him.

Landing onto the deck of a non-marine ship, his form shifted back into a humanoid form. Immediately, Pluto removed the mask and took off his hood. If he maintained his true face and identity, then there wouldn’t be any suspicions.

“Pluto!” The familiar sound of a tone called out from the dark; arms wrapped around the boy as a common greeting.

“Okay, starting tomorrow, I’ll train you to become stronger,” he officially agreed to accept his sister’s desires to learn martial arts.

Rebecca’s eyes widened upon hearing such uncharacteristic words coming from him. This seemed too good to be true, but she knew none of this was a dream. Her hug tightened even more. Perhaps something had happened to him while he was gone that changed his mind. Whatever the case, she was grateful. She wanted to keep him in his arms forever, wanting time to halt in place and soak in this sensation.

[EriChar]

Ishika Daiyuu "And so concludes the first chapter of the greatest tale ever told..." Colour Code:#01DF74

Our golden guardian finding his place in the sky once more as the final chapter of this tale draws to a close, while the day and night that our wicked woman had been through seemed each about as long as a week, Ishika Daiyuu had risen at dawn none the less. Murmuring chatter of pirates unfolded beneath her, the able hands she had acquired from the Jreum jail now keeping the borrowed battleship on course, our leading lass sat quietly on the deck chair and watched the ocean rolling past her. Sombre and near silent, as the bandage bound body of our black beauty was bruised and she had cracked a couple of her ribs, but despite this discomfort there was a contentedness about her. Grand Tale having taken its first chapter, as the sun rose on the second day of her criminal career, the outcome had been more than the woman could have ever expected.

Are all my adventures going to be so thrilling? Mind like a whirlwind of memory, as the girl smiled, she scanned the activities of her yesterday with regaling recollection. All those images flooding her vision, from the battle with the pirate to the riot she caused, and then there was the strange boy in the cat mask.
I suppose I should suppose nothing less, this is me after all. Giggling quietly as she watched the little minions she had gained running around, while many might have felt guilty for their lack of assistance, the dark dominatrix did not. Deigning herself a far greater rank than any who had commanded a ship before, for the glory and strength she brought these people, the least that they could do was take her from A to B without complaint. That was something which, so far, they seemed to be managing as well as could be expected.

“Ship’s ready, Cap’n, what’s the heading?” One of the hands whose name our lady lead had yet to memorize ascending to the upper aft deck, while his manner was as gruff as any seaman’s, Miss Ishika enjoyed the respect she was accorded by curt wording. The fairer sex seeming so often considered inferior in terms of piracy, it was certainly a pleasure to have educated these gentlemen as to who exactly was the most superior on the ship. From what she had experienced so far, the role of a captain seemed like something she was going to enjoy, and so too was the weather. Sun blazing above, plain sailing was predicted as there seemed not a cloud on the horizon that our pirate princess could see. However, there might have been one that she couldn’t…

“This woman? She looks like a cute little girl…” The face of a snail seeming to be bearing fangs like that of a wolf, as the voice of a mystery man was relayed by a Den Den Mushi, the scarcely harmed Manchu squeezed it’s receiver impatiently at the other end. Subjected to a sore hand and a severely shattered sense of pride by Ishika Daiyuu, the Marine captain was the only commander left capable of organizing the recovery from the attack, which would only due him more credit than he truly deserved. A cowardly fool who had only been left relatively unhurt by his own spinelessness, whilst better men and women were unconscious in the infirmary, it was this cockroach and his survival instinct that ruled the Marine day. Only ever lacking in opportunism when it came to combat, the spin doctor that was this rat faced man was quickly turning himself into the hero, even if he had probably done less than even the common guardsmen who clung to life in the infirmary. If anything, this was a crueller victory than any the pirates had taken.

“That cute girl just took down half the Jreum base! Both Captain Barton and Wills fell foolishly to her force, not to mention Commander Takon! Even before that she took down Bowie the Knife and most of his crew. It’s only because I’m a cut above that I wasn’t beaten too…” Irked by the words that his superior had conveyed but curbing his annoyance, the ever toady slime ball shamed the actions of his fellow soldiers whilst singing his own praised.
“Are you sure it was this one woman?” Self-centred and as conniving as the rat he resembled, his nature always being that which would see him survive and grow at the cost of any other, and truly should never have been placed in any position of power. Truly, the world was a messed up place to let that happen.


“She had a group she sprung from jail, but she was definitely the ringleader. B-1 and Jreum were saved only by luck and my expertise!” Much like a certain someone, Quickly able to size up a chance to drop his name and earn some points with anyone above him, this toadying fool eagerly spewed the details that suited him, and dashed them with a flavour that suited his own favour. Manchu was very disposed to touting his own triumph, but that was where the resemblance ended. The wicked miss able to back up her boasting with some measure of action and result, it was doubtful that this sycophant could outperform an ant when escaping a wet paper bag, let alone prove he was anything useful. Unfortunately for his Marine force, it was the words of bootlicker rather than the battlers that would be the first to land on their commandant’s ears, and likely the ones that also would be most believed.

“This is definitely a dangerous tale. I’ll be on my way back to base to sort this out, Manchu. And making sure that headquarters takes this threat very seriously.” Tone clicking off as the commandant ended the call, with the exaggerations he had spread, the rat rubbed his paws together happily. Pinning all the blame on our leading lady seemed like it would land her in a world of trouble. It would land a bounty on her head that was beyond her capacity, and the danger that would come with it. It was almost the perfect plan. Unfortunately, what this captain did not realize was that the woman would welcome both the infamy she was about to receive, and the obstacles it would bring her…