Post by BlacKitten on Apr 13, 2020 17:44:30 GMT -5
Miu - 23
“A cat? Fire? Possession?” a recruit repeated the keywords that the captain had informed of. “What kind of Devil Fruit is that?” Was that a Zoan-type or a Paramecia-type?
“That blue signal flare from earlier. It couldn’t have come from the boy. Blue flames and a cat, that can only mean one thing: Koneko Miu.”
“Eh!? That Super Rookie? What’s she doing here?”
“I don’t know. But I doubt it’s a coincidence. According to the reports, she obtained a Carnivorous Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit that turns her into a giant, two-tailed cat cloaked in blue flames. She is said to have taken down a marine captain in the middle of a rampage and is suspected to be the cause Vice Admiral Kagenori’s demise.”
“A… A Vice Admiral was taken down by her?” the recruit widened his eyes in fear.
“No one knows for sure. After all, there were no survivors,” said the captain in a cold, emotionless tone as if he was telling a horror story. “There is only one thing that the boy had said that doesn’t add up. We have no awareness of Miu being capable of possessing others; it’s possible she has powers we have not encountered before.”
“W-What should we do, Captain?” the recruit asked in an alarming tone.
“We will leave as soon as possible,” Captain Crux concluded. “Koneko Miu is not someone we can handle.”
But while he was busy speaking to some of the recruits, a certain feline had already learned to blend in with her new environment, by shapeshifting into one of the soldiers who were busy setting up the ship for sail. She took on the appearance of a man in his late twenties with short black hair, clean-shaven face, and a dutiful pair of black eyes. The lookalike wore a cap, a white sleeveless button-up collared shirt with a blue tie, a pair of navy pants, and brown boots. Wearing the same uniform as the rest of the crew, Miu had impersonated one of their low-ranking lackies.
The wooden floor began to sway a bit more as the vessel began its departure from the nameless island, setting their route towards an island with a marine base with an actual civilization. Their journey would take one and a half day, but during that time, what would become of the marine vessel with a dangerous criminal hiding in plain sight?
Looks like they’ve realized I’m nearby, but they don’t know just how close I actually am.
Fifteen minutes since their departure, there had been no sightings or rumors about a cat. As the vessel sailed the stormy seas, they assumed the criminal had been left behind on the island. But what concerned Captain Crux the most was why would the feline create a signal flare in the first place? Surely, the culprit must have spotted their presence, yet she hadn’t revealed herself to them. Was it out of kindness to allow someone to save the boy? Or was there something else going on behind the scenes?
Koneko Miu was known for her monstrous size and ferocious appearance as a large flaming feral cat with two tails. Such a beast would have been easily sighted back on the island, yet no one spotted her. If she had hid in her human form, then no one had spotted such a person either.