Post by Mr. Moon on Feb 7, 2020 11:25:12 GMT -5
Eric #1
“Don´t just stay there, come in Gabriel”
Eric muttered and closed his diary. He didn´t have to be seer or something to know, who was visiting him, as only few people on the ship would really dare to disturb him during his work and Michael was still salty about his lost to his half brother in their duel over the position of first Ranker which occurred few days ago, during their celebration of entering the Grand Line.
“We got some newspapers”
Said Gabriel instead of greetings as neither of the two really cared about formalities.
“Anything interesting?”
Gabriel sighted.
“Actually, yes, you should see this.”
With that, he pulled single list of paper and handed it to his captain.
“What´s that?”
Eric asked as he took the paper and turned it towards himself so he could see his own face printed on a wanted poster.
“Eric “White Tiger” Irongate, Death or Alive, 16 800 000 Beli”
He sighted.
“I would really like to know how they found out my old fighting name.”
Gabriel smiled.
“Dunno, but still, congratulations, you are now officially wanted man.”
Eric nodded in agreement before he asked.
“Sixteen millions, is it a lot?”
Gabriel shook his head.
“In North Blue it would be a decent amount. On the Grand Line, it´s far bellow average.”
Eric grunted. So it was just as he thought.
“What?”
Asked his friend as he noticed the weird tone in his voice.
“Don´t tell me you are actually the type who care about such things.”
Eric shrugged and laid his wanted poster on the desk of his table.
“Unfortunately, I have to care about that.”
He said.
“Since the world is at it is, the other will judge our strength and influence by this number alone and as long as it would be low like this, they will think that we are weak.”
“And?”
Asked Gabriel.
“Isn´t it actually a good thing? If nothing else, we can catch them off guard.”
“Yeah, but to become emperor, being strong isn´t enough. I have to make everyone in this world believe that I am one of the strongest or else, we will never gather as many people as we needs to.”
Gabriel stayed silent. With the way his captain looked and usually acted it was way to easy to forget how intelligent he actually is. Mistake that even he was repeating over and over again.
Their silence was interrupted with the ring of alarm belt.
“Marine ship!”
Echoed Michael´s voice over the ship.