Heart and Soul (Amisi, Shisha, Woohah)

[Kurosaki]

It was very odd, but as soon as Kane had asked Ike the question, the boy collapsed. The Captain, however, was only a tad disappointed. Now he would just have to ask when the Devil Fruit user woke up. It was worth the wait though. In Kane's eyes this person was someone that had helped defend their ship. He not only deserved praise, but would definitely be one great addition to the crew. It was also to be expected that he would collapse. After all, Ike had used a ton of energy into that last move and had actually succeeded in killing a Sea King. Kane was beaming from ear to ear. Yeah, they were going to have another Nakama for sure.

Looking back over at the ship in the distance that had helped to fight the Sea King, Kane observed that it was coming closer to them. Amisi made a comment that the ship shouldn't start anything. "They did just try to help but let's not let down our guard," Kane advised in a manner that was more professional than before. Desert Punk had already prepared her shot gun. There was no doubt that even at that distance, she would be able to do something to their ship. Knowing her, she had rigged something into the weapon.

Kane laughed at that before trying to remain attentive. He wasn't doing that great of a job though for the Hoshi Captain was having a hard time concealing his excitement. He wanted to see who had been so courageous as to try to take the Sea King out on their own and fling it backward. Surely it was someone just as powerful as they. Though their motivations were concealed. Were they really just trying to help them out? It was true that they had no pirate flag on their ship yet. Maybe they didn't know who exactly they were helping.

Deciding that he would make it known, Kane suddenly turned around and headed back into the kitchen area. Inside, layed neatly on the table, was something he had layed down before the fight had begun. Their flag. Taking the material gently in his hands, a smile tugging on his lips, the red head then turned around and headed back to the deck. Walking proudly back over to Amisi and Shisha, passing by the collapsed Ike on the floor, Kane held the flag up for all to observe, even the approaching ship.

The material fluttered wildly and then caught the breeze right, slowly moving back and forth in the wind. On the front was a cruddly drawn skull and cross bones. The mouth of the skull was ajar and a bright golden star was between the teeth. Around the skull itself were nine other stars in a circle.

[tenkei]

As Tenkei steered the merchant’s ship closer to new the other crew, something caught the Captain’s eye. One of the rescuers was holding up what appeared to be a crudely drawn Jolly Roger. The Captain yells at Tenkei from the side of the ship.

”What in blazes! Bodyguard do see what their holding up!”

“Seems to be a pirate flag, Boss”, Tenkei calmly replies.

”Well if you know what it is, why are you still heading towards them.”

Tenkei gives off a stern look to the Captain.

“Because, Boss, it’s only proper that we show our thanks to the people who saved us.”

Tenkei asks one the crewmen to take hold of the helm for him. Tenkei walks over to the Captain with a small, reassuring smile on his face.

“Don’t worry Boss. I’ll be the only one who goes aboard their ship to thank them, so the crew will be safe here.”

Tenkei stands on top of the ship’s side railing as they draw closer to the rescuers’ ship. Tenkei gives one final look to the Captain.

“If these pirates turn violent, I’ll jump on their ship and fend them off, while you and your crew sail as fast as you can to safety.”

The Captain nodded at Tenkei and watched cautiously as his ship sails up to the side of the pirate. Tenkei’s takes a look at the crew before speaking. The one holding the flag was a tall and skinny red haired kid. By the smile he had he seemed to be proud of the flag. Next to the red haired kid were three other people; a smaller girl with abundant black hair, a boy with spiky blue lay on the floor of the ship unconscious, and masked person with armor and a shotgun pointed at the ships direction.

”Seems like a colorful bunch.”

Tenkei clears his throat and begins speaking to the pirate crew.

“Greetings Rescuers. I and the Captain Of this merchant ship have come to give our thanks for your assistance.”

The Captain gave a grunt at Tenkei’s comment.

“But since the crew would rather not associate itself with pirates, I alone will offer my services to you to repay your help with the Seaking.”

Tenkei rests his right palm across his chest and gives a slight bow.

“My name is Tenkei Sage. I am one of the last remaining alchemists left in this world.”

[amisi]

Ike Bana had shouted something in jubilation, but it only sort of registered in the back of Amisi's mind. Of greater concern to her was the steadily approaching ship that had interfered in their fight with the Sea King. The sailors most likely meant them no harm. If they did, they would have kept their distance and given them a barrage of cannon fire. They were probably sailing over to see whether anyone needed medical assistance. But would they be so generous once they discovered their new acquaintances were the Hoshi Pirates?

Kane, the eternal optimist, pointed out that the ship had helped them; even as he warned them not to let their guard down, there was a strong undercurrent of excitement to his tone. Really, he didn't seem worried at all. In sharp contrast was the woman at her side, Desert Punk, who had her shotgun locked onto the approaching vessel. It was reassuring to see that Desert Punk was ready to fight should they be attacked, but Amisi hoped that they wouldn't need Desert Punk's amazing talents this time around. As long as they kept cool and didn't let on they were pirates, everything would be fine. Right. That was all they had to do-- slip under the radar, stay incognito--

As if on cue, Kane unfurled a flag right before her eyes, displaying it proudly to the other vessel; a skull and crossbones surrounded by stars. "Kane!" gasped Amisi. She stepped back from the railing, waving her hand at her captain as if to say, 'put it away!' "We don't know anything about them yet!"

Of course, it was already too late; a shout from the other vessel signaled that the point of Kane's symbol had been driven home. Now all that was left was to see how they would react. Amisi half-turned to see what Ike was up to, and fully turned when she discovered he had fainted dead away. "Is he all right?" she asked, brow furrowing in concern. "We shouldn't leave him lying around on the deck..." She knelt and moved to give him a little nudge on the shoulder, wondering if he was actually unconscious or just asleep, as the other ship drew level with theirs.

The errant jeweler looked up at the man who was addressing their crew, surprise darting across her face. He was enormously tall-- maybe not so much to her companions, but she doubted she would even come up to his ribcage. With his full beard and dark hair he reminded her of some of her grandfather's friends in Nanohana, though definitely much younger and maybe a little better spoken. Something about him seemed familiar somehow... had this been the person who fended off the Sea King? She listened quietly as he introduced himself as Tenkei Sage, one of the world's last alchemists, and offered his services to them. Her gaze drifted to the back of Kane's head. Tenkei Sage seemed like a nice enough man-- at least, he hadn't tried to kill any of them yet, and his words were polite-- and Kane seemed eager to find new nakama. Had another shipmate just sailed into her life?

[shisha]

With her gaze set fully down the sight of her Modified shotgun, she didn't notice when her Captain Kane went into the kitchen. Though when he returned from the kitchen with a crudely designed pirate flag and started waving it around frantically, she did notice. Her head moved away from the gun sight, whipping around to stare at Kane with both surprise and awe, though with her covered face no-one would know. Could Kane really be so dense, the chances were the ship was hostile. True they had helped them out of a rather big problem, but that was no reason to wave their identity around like a moron. She considered actually asking him where is brain was, but laughed to herself upon Reflection. This was Kane she was thinking about, so of course his actions made sense, he did it all the time.

Before she could voice any opinion she had on the topic at hand, the sounds from the ship approaching them silenced her straight away. As the ship came closer, her attention was drawn to the man laying on deck. She'd been in for a closer inspection once already, but could tell he was out cold. No wonder from all the things he had done, it would be a staggering thing if he were still awake after all. But things looked calm, for the moment at least, so her shotgun was put away, returned to its holster located under her cloak, somewhere on her attire.

The large man that arrived on their ship was, well, large. Amisi was taller than Shisha herself, so Shisha appeared to be dwarfed by the man. However, she didn't seem to worry all that much, in fact when he stood on deck, she walked to his side and used her hand to measure the distance in height between them jokingly. Her head snapped to his beard, her focus drawn to it like a moth to a flame. The strange temptation to poke it with her finger was overwhelming, but she thankfully refused to give in to temptation. Instead she leaned against him like a person leaning against a pole, jokingly making the difference in size apparent. If nothing else she'd come across as annoying. The fact he was an Alchemist didn't seem to register with her, or if it did she didin't care. She only said one thing while propped up against him.

"Nice Beard...Beardy..."

[Kurosaki]

A momentary flicker of understanding flashed in Kane's eyes when Amisi gasped his name and waved at him to get his attention, exclaiming that they knew nothing about the approaching ship. "Oh, well, I was making sure that they knew about us!" Kane responded with a grin from ear to ear as though that made everything perfectly alright. Okay, maybe it hadn't been a glimmer of intelligence in his eyes after all. Though there did seem to be something hidden about the way he responded as though he were trying to brush away her fears and lighten up the mood. Personally, he didn't think that there was anything to fear but sometimes he was incredibly naive when it came to things like that. It seemed that Amisi wasn't the only one that reacted to the flag waving, Kane's ears were met by shouts from the ship sailing their way.

Kane looked in the direction of Ike as Amisi brought up his condition. Sure enough, the boy hadn't so much as stirred that the Captain could tell since he had collapsed. Kane's cook nudged the man on the deck slightly but again they didn't get much of a response if anything that the Hoshi Hoshi no Mi user could see. "Let's get him inside then," Kane offered as he started over to their fallen ally, the crew's flag still in his hands. But by the time he had gone to pick him up, the ship that had approached them had gotten very close to theirs. Enough for the sound of someone clearing their throat to reach the red head's ears. Pausing, the Captain straightened up, deciding that his duties as just that, Captain, depended on him being the one to address their helpers. Not that he looked very responsible on his end for having done so. Rather he looked excited as he took in the massive sight of the bearded man on the ship, almost domenating the vessel itself.

The man greeted them as "rescuers" and told them that they had come to thank them for their help with the Sea King. He was, out of the entire crew, the only one that felt comfortable dealing with a band of pirates and even offered up his assistance in return for wht they had done, even bowing in their direction before he introduced himself as Tenkei Sage.

"Oh, a Sage? That's really interesting!" Kurosaki said, taking the world literally as a person that was reknowned for their heightened abilities and/or intellect that had accomulated a lot of merit. At about the same time, Desert Punk happened to comment on the man's beard causing her Captain to almost not be able to control his laughter. "W... Haha... well, my name is Nakamura Kane. I'm the Captain of the Hoshi crew! It's a pleasure to meet you! You helped too with that Sea King, didn't you? Why don't you come on over? We were just about to have dinner. You could join us!"

[tenkei]

Tenkei watched as the masked person holstered his weapon and approached him. The masked person made gestures to jokingly compare his shortness to Tenkei. For a moment Tenkei thought the person was looking intently at his beard, but the masked person proceeded to lean on him nonchalantly, as if he were a wall.

"Nice Beard...Beardy..."

Tenkei gives a soft chuckle at the comment.

”It’s usually the children who find my beard so interesting.”

Tenkei turned his head down and looked through his round rimmed glasses at the masked person.

”Hm, exactly how am I supposed to address this person properly. It’s hard to tell whether this person is a man or woman with all that amour, but this person’s voice had sounded a little bit feminine.”

Tenkei only thought for a second, then a gentle smile graced his face.

“Thank you for the compliment, Little One.”

Tenkei then heard the red haired boy speak to him. He introduced himself as Nakamura Kane and captain of the Hoshi pirates. Tenkei thought the young captain to be very energetic and with kind aura around him. Kane then offered invitation to join his crew for dinner.

“I’d be delighted to join for dinner, but let me take care of some business first.”

Tenkei walked to the side of Kane’s and gave a hand signal to the merchant ship’s Captain. The Captain gave Tenkei a nod and started to prep his men for departure. Tenkei walks back to the pirate crew.

“The men on the merchant ship are late for their pickup in Mirrorball Island. I thought it would be unreasonable for me to keep them here while I dined with you.”

Tenkei crosses his arms and looks at Kane.

“So…what’s for dinner?”

[amisi]

"Whatever isn't burned," sighed Amisi, taking it on herself to answer for Kane. "And most of it isn't finished yet." She stood up with a last glance down at Ike, turning her face toward the other three with an apologetic little smile. "I'll try to hurry it up. Sorry. Can you take him to the infirmary in the meantime?... if we have one?" It looked like the extra food she'd accidentally made would come in handy, though she wasn't sure how much of it was still edible. The fish would have been a charcoal brick if Ike hadn't eaten it already.

The other ship was beginning to pull away. She didn't blame them for not wanting to associate with pirates, but their destination worried her a little. Both vessels were bound for Mirrorball; she really hoped they wouldn't freak out to see a known pirate ship sailing behind them the entire way, though it was doubtful they would attack with their friend on the ship. Anyway, she reflected as she walked back into the kitchen, Beardy... er... Tenkei Sage seemed to be a good person. Kane and Desert Punk seemed to trust him, at least, and for now that was good enough for her.

A quick glance in the oven revealed an empty baking pan. She pulled it out and set it on the stove, surveying the ingredients left on the counters with annoyance. Well, the sfiha dough had definitely risen enough. And thankfully she hadn't turned the flame on under the oil before the Sea King attacked, or else the ship would have burned down. She quickly set about putting things right. Everything would be finished in twenty minutes, tops.

[shisha]

"Little one?!... Oh he's so Dead later on..." Thought Shisha to herself, her scowl hidden by her Helmets visor. Although it was obvious she was smaller than him, she hated being called small or tiny. But with her height it rarely happened, still it always made her mad.

As the other boat started to pull away from their ship, Shisha moved away from the Tall Beared Alchemist and wondered over to the edge of the ship, leaning out watching the ship slowly sail away. Her mind began to wonder on its own, her thoughts starting to converge on Mirrorball Island. Though she'd never visited the island herself, she'd heard things form people she'd met previously, finding her foot tapping. She couldn't wait to arrive on the island and take some time to relax, the life of an Ex-bounty hunter wasn't easy, not by a long shot. Speaking of shot, she remembered what she'd wanted to do that day, before they arrived. The Sea King fight had awakened her to a horrible truth, she had nothing to deal with targets of that size, or even Devil Fruit users for that fact. As she walked down towards her room, she made a double handed pointing gesture to the large Alchemist, trying to act cool as she went. With that done, she walked down into her room, pushing open the door slowly, taking time to look around the junkyard of a room she had. Her eyes focused on two particular items, which she soon collected from the floor, taking them over to the table under the window. With a quick push from her hand, the table was cleared of clutter, the objects placed on said table.

But she needed other items, not in her Room. So she went on a Scavenger hunt of sorts, with a list and everything. Her travels around the ship took her to the Kitchen where Amisi was busy cooking food for later. Quietly, she tiptoed past her fellow Alabastan crew mate towards the cupboards, rifling through them trying not to alert Amisi to her actions. Her smile grew when she found what she needed, a bottle or two of different Oils, none of which Amisi would need, but she would to help with her creation.

[woohah]

Ike's short rest had come to a close as Amisi nudged him, stirring the Lava Man awake. He rolled over, and rubbed his eyes. He was used to short amounts of sleep, you had to wake up pretty early back on Shimoshiki, and Ike had a habit of staying out late to practice with his Devil Fruit powers. When there were constantly people around, training with such a dangerous ability posed problems. Ike solved this by sneaking out after lights out, but soon enough, the elders found out. Since he WAS training and he took a tax on his health just to keep other people safe, they decided to just let him continue without interference.

Ike got up, dusted himself off, and looked around. Kane was busy holding up some flag and looking mighty pleased with himself. He remembered being asked about being a pirate. "Yes I did, that's why I set out to sea. I wanna see One Piece, not really be the Pirate King per se, but is it treasure? Is it an item of Gol D. Roger's? These questions I want to learn the answer to. Now then, I'm going to tear the meat and all the bones out of that thing."

Ike let out a huge spray of lava into the water, as it cooled into solid rock. A small fog gathered from all the steam rising into the air. Eventually, it cleared, and Ike finished, revealing a rock bridge from the side of the ship to the Sea King. "That bridge can hold two people for an hour before it breaks, or four for half an hour."

He jumped over the side of the ship and onto the platform, and began to walk towards the dead monster. Ike grabbed his sword "Kazan Kazan no Halberd." A huge blade appeared out of the end.

[Kurosaki]

It seemed to make Kane incredibly happy that the larger man had agreed to stay for dinner. The red head quickly glanced over at Amisi since she was the crew's cook and the one that had been working on dinner. The poor hungry Captain was blissfully unaware of the fact that the fish was long devoured and that the other food wasn't done yet. At the moment, his stomach rumbled and he looked at Amisi as though she held all the answers to his problems. Up until then he hadn't realized how hungry he really was but the fight with the Sea King had really stirred up his hunger even more than being chased by the Marines before had. Now he felt like he was starving. Meanwhile, the larger man had signalled something to the other ship.

Noticing that, Kane momentarily turned away from the black curly haired girl to look upward with blue eyes at the giant man. "Oh, Mirrorball? We're actually headed there too!" Kane replied cheerfully, thinking about how exciting it was to be going to a place he had never been before, even though it was actually further from his goal of reaching the Grand Line. When the man then asked what was for dinner, Kane's heart sank when Amisi said that it would be whatever hadn't been burnt. "Burnt?!" Kane was utterly shocked, and sunk to his knees. He felt like his soul was coming out of his body...

"It's... okay... I'll take him..." said Kane in a rather depressed sounding voice as he slowly dragged himself up to his feet and zombie-walked over to where Ike had been. Only to find that he wasn't there. Kane posture immediately became straight and his eyes more open. "Eh? Where'd he go?" With utter perplexion, the Captain placed a hand above his eyes to shield the blue orbs from the brilliant light from the sun above him and turned his head this way and that. Only to not see a single sign of their ally. Had he missed something? The truth was that he had been so enraptured by the coming of a new friend onto the ship that he had completely missed Ike's use of lava to jump down to where the Sea King was currently.

Then he heard someone speaking far away. Running to the side of the ship, the red head leaned upon the railing and looked downward at where the Sea King was. "Hey guys, I found him!" Kane shouted joyfully, only to turn around and realize that his crew was actually gone somewhere else. "Ah, they ditched me!" Kane looked utterly shocked at that revelation and he pouted slightly in response to it, swirling a finger on the wood of the railing. It only took a second for his happy-go-lucky attitude to return, however. "Do you know what he's up to, Tenkei?" he questioned, raising an eyebrow as he looked at the bigger man before deciding to ask Ike himself.

"So, what are you doing anyway! Are you going to eat it? Save some for me! I've never eaten Sea King before," Kane shouted to the lava user loudly from above. He then placed his hands on the railing and swung his legs over it, going over the side with the platform just below him. He was hoping that Tenkei was right behind him but only because he wanted to get to know the two strangers on his ship better for he needed no help landing. They both just seemed so interesting that it peaked his curiousity. The truth was, they seemed like perfect people for his crew. His shoes glowing with a bright golden light, Kane's body began to slow it's descent and he touched down easily next to Ike.

[tenkei]

Tenkei watched as the woman with large curls walked down into the ship. She seemed a little dejected by the fact that most the food was either burnt or not finished.

”I hope I’m not causing too much trouble for…wait a minute, I never got her or the masked person’s names.”

Tenkei looked to ask the masked person about their names, but he was already going into the ship as well.

”Ah well, I’ll ask them later.”

Tenkei hears something beside him and sees the previously unconscious boy forming lava out of his body.

”So he was the one that sent the fireball at the Seaking.”

Tenkei watched as blue haired boy created a bridge out of hardened lava to the dead Seaking. The boy leapt off the ship and towards the Seaking, while creating a halberd with his lava powers. Tenkei turned his head towards Kane when he heard him talking to him. Kane had asked what he thought the blue haired kid was doing, but before Tenkei could answer Kane had already jumped onto the bridge to find out himself. Tenkei thought Kane would have dropped fairly fast, but to his surprise Kane’s shoes began to shine and slowed down his descent.

”Well now, I didn’t think there would be two devil fruit user here. I wonder if the other two have powers as well.”

Tenkei looked towards the dead Seaking.

”Maybe it’s a good thing that bodyguard job led to fighting this Seaking. If nothing else, I can salvage the bones for my alchemy.”

Tenkei walked to the side of the ship and jumped onto the bridge. The bridge didn’t falter at impact of Tenkei’s jump. Tenkei was glad it didn’t waver, but now he had a problem: he remembered he had no tool to retrieve the Seaking’s bones. Tenkei looked around to see what he could do. He would rather not transmute anything from the ship, because none of it belonged to him. Using Half-Beast form his was out, because it would be too messy and take too much time to use his claws. Tenkei thought for a moment, and then the answer came at once. He bent down to the lava bridge he was standing on and placed a palm to the bridges surface.

”The lava bridge should have minerals I need for this to work.”

“ Alchemic Creation: Axe ”

A blinding light began to emerge from underneath Tenkei’s palm as his weapon formed from the hardened lava. As the light vanished, Tenkei was left holding a giant battle ax. Tenkei walks over to the Seaking.

“Hope you don’t mind me taking some bones.”

[amisi]

Ugh... I feel gross. Amisi wrinkled her nose and wiped her forehead with a damp dishcloth. The last of the falafel was plucked from the oil and tossed onto a plate. There. Now she could take a break until everything else was finished. Maybe she would skip dinner for now and go get cleaned up first. Feeling caked in sweat and dirt didn't do anything to strengthen her appetite.

Though... a cup of tea wouldn't go amiss. And it would be good to make sure there was really enough to go around before she started stuffing her face. She was used to going a little hungry, and she didn't think she could take the embarrassment of leaving four relative strangers unfed. Well... not really strangers anymore. Her crewmates? This morning she'd been completely friendless, and now... she felt that it would take a very long nap for her to fully process the new path life had taken her down so suddenly. But she had to admit... so far, with the exception of being chased by marines and almost eaten by a Sea King, things were definitely looking up. Amisi turned with a small contented sigh, glad to be able to finally rest her legs after such a long, stressful d-- danger!

"Eyaahhhh!" Amisi stumbled back, white-faced and brandishing a butter knife at Desert Punk, who seemed to be rifling through the cupboards for something. "D-don't sneak up on me like that!"

[shisha]

Shisha turned her head to face Amisi, looking quite shocked at her holding a butter knife like she did, of course her face was hidden but the body language said it all, holding her hands up before herself, almost as if she was attempting to guard herself from Amisi.

"Sorry, Didn't want to disturb you after all"

She went back to rummaging through the cupboards, seemingly unshaken by Amisi's scared actions, her arms were now full with all manner of bottles and objects. To anyone else it would probably look like she was attempting to cook something, but it was far from that. Her travels had given her unique insight into the art of Explosives and the chemicals required to create such things. In fact most of the objects in the Kitchen could be combined in various ways to create explosives of varying strengths. Now her arms were full of items, she placed all her "Collected" items in a large sack on the table, stopping to catch her breath momentarily. Her attention moved to the outside of the room, she could hear the people on deck talking, it made her wonder about a few things. She tapped Amisi on the shoulder lightly and made a pointing gesture to the group on the deck of the ship.

"So, what you think about those two, you trust them?...".

[Kurosaki]

It wasn't long before Kane was joined by Tenkei who leapt down from the deck of the ship to the lava platform. It held nicely, thankfully. With Kane being a Devil Fruit user, it would have been a real disaster if it had given way. The newly formed Hoshi crew would really be looking for a new Captain already. The red head wondered what the larger and bearded man was going to do with the Sea King. Strangely enough, he bent down to touch the surface of the hardened lava. A blinding white light came from his palm and then a weapon emerged from it; a giant battle ax.

"Wow, how dd you do that?" Kane said, completely in amazement. He had no idea what sort of power would allow someone to transform one material into another. Was it a new type of Devil Fruit? Whatever the answer, already his mind was full of ideas. First Ike had captured his interest and now Tenkei also clearly held it. There was only way that Kane could control his excitement and that was to recruit them right then and there. That was, if they would accept.

"Hey, would either of you two be interested in joining my pirate crew?" he questioned bluntly, a rather large grin on his face as he looked to both of them. He seemed to not even notice that he was probably interrupting them both from focusing on their tasks of tearing up the Sea King for parts. Rather, he was just thrilled that he had found two people that seemed to have good values, even though he didn't know much about them, and who were strong. Now all that was left was to wait for their responses. Kane waited eagerly, bouncing a bit as he anticipated the answers. From the optimistic light in his blue eyes, the answers he thought he would hear were definitely positive.

If anyone was paying attention, though the Captain himself was clearly distracted at the moment, they would have noticed that there was an island coming into view in the horizon. It was far off right now but at the rate of speed their stolen ship was going, they would reach it the next day at the latest.

[tenkei]

Tenkei had small smile on his face when Kane commented on his ability in amazement. He would have loved to go on and lecture about his alchemic theories or the history of Alchemy to Kane, but he would’ve been talking ‘till dawn if he did. Tenkei looked over to the Kane.

“If you’re interested, I could teach you how to do Alchemy.”

Tenkei walks over to the dead Seaking, ax ready to plunge into the beast’s hide.

“Just a couple of years of teaching and you should be able to perform some of the fundamentals.”

Tenkei’s ax found its way deep into depths of the beast. Tenkei made slow work at hacking into the Seaking, making sure he didn’t get any gore on himself.

”Wouldn’t be nice if I showed up for dinner covered in Seaking guts.”

After a few moments of careful hacking, Tenkei laid his eyes on the fruits of his labor.

”Seaking bones are quite the rarity for me to find, so I better get as much as I can now.”

Tenkei chipped away a few large chunks of bone and pocketed it in his trench coat. After his excavation was finished, Tenkei gave himself a look over to see if he was presentable for dinner. He found a few drops of blood had landed on his glasses, so he used his jacket to wipe it off.

"Hey, would either of you two be interested in joining my pirate crew?"

Tenkei put his glasses back on and looked at Kane. The young red-haired captain seemed cheerful yet serious about his question. Tenkei was silent for a moment then let an out a hearty laugh.

“Ha Ha, sure thing kid. As long as were heading to the Grand Line, I have no problem joining you guys. Besides, people as interesting as you guys are bound to run into fantastic adventures.”