15 Chapter 15.
As Valentine was mercilessly killing all the human traffickers, the residents of the village were seeing the act with eyes filled with rever, happiness, hope, thankfulness, and a little bit hint of fear.
A few moments after Valentine slowly approached the villagers who had been restrained by chains, rescuing them one by one.
"Get the kids inside the houses." Valentine told one of the women.
The woman nodded and hurried to get the kids inside the houses.
"Thank you, sir." An old man with a long grey beard, same-colored messy short hair, and tattered clothes said.
"It's okay." Valentine replied in a somewhat warmer tone while smiling at him which was totally different from a few moments ago, shocking the elder. "Why is there only elders and young kids? Where are the young adults?" Valentine asked since he found it was strange as there seemed to be only 5 elders and 6 kids who look no older than 15 in this village.
"It is the second time these people came to our village. When they first came, they took all of them as slaves saying they couldn't take all of us since their ship wasn't big enough and will come back soon. That's why there are no young adults here." An elder explained. As he was explaining his voice was shivering as well as his old hands. There were regret and despair inside his eyes. Valentine immediately understood he too lost his relative, maybe his kids, in the first invade.
"Is that so?" Valentine exclaimed.
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Few days passed and Valentine began to get along with the villagers well. After Valentine arrived on the island, saving them from potential enslavement, some kids' and elders' complexion began to get better and better every day as Valentine kept playing with them while maintaining his Haki training. Though some kids had somewhat become happier than before, others were still lingering on their past, staying inside their houses all-day along.
Valentine left them alone because the experience they came through must have left them trauma and Valentine knew it well.
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"What are you doing here? It's dangerous to stay in the forest at night especially for a small kid like you." Valentine exclaimed as he reverted his Armament Haki covering his left arm.
"I want to talk with you. Is that alright?" A small boy with depressed and lifeless eyes mumbled.
"Of course. You can always talk with me whenever you want." Valentine warmly smiled at the kid. "Here sit here." Valentine sat on the ground, patting his hand next to him, telling the kid where to sit.
The kid silently sat on the ground beside Valentine.
"So what did you want to talk about. I can assure you that I am a good listener." Valentine told the kid.
"T-thank you for saving us." The kid mumbled. His words were very silent though Valentine was able to hear without much problem.
"It's okay. All of you have thanked me enough." Valentine said, starting at the limitless starry night sky.
"Tell me what is bothering you. I promise it will be secret between us." Valentine stated as he knew the kid didn't come here to only thank him for what he had done.
The kid looked at Valentine with a hint of surprise in his gloomy eyes then he murmured "..."
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The silver moon bid its farewell and the earth welcomed the golden sun.
Valentine after hearing the pitiful story of the kid was in deep thought. He walked around the village seeing the kids who are laughing happily. The kids were laughing and playing around as if nothing happened. But Valentine knew it was all an act, trying to not worry the others about them.
Valentine took a deep breath as he decided what to do next after seeing the fake laughter of the innocent kids who know nothing about life and who should be laughing and playing genuinely not faking it.
What Valentine decided was to create a wonderful new world where no child will fake their laughter, where no child will worry about their future when it's the job of their guardians.
No, it wasn't Valentine's decision, it was fate chosen for him. Creating this world was Valentine's fate after receiving such a wonderful gift called SYSTEM. Thus, Valentine will try his best to make sure he creates that world. At least he will make sure to plant the seed even if he cannot accomplish it himself. Due to this ambitious goal, Valentine knew he needed strength since his enemy is the old world ruled by the greedy World Government and Celestial Dragons.
After slowly letting out a breath, Valentine walked towards the shore of the island.
When he arrived at the shore, he placed his right hand on his right eye. He then pushed his fingers inside the eye socket making his eye bleed. After that, he pulled his hands, pulling his right eye out from the eye socket. He then looked at his eyeball with golden pupils that had the slave mark of Celestial Dragons.
Valentine then clenched his fist, smashing his eyeball.
"Gold Experience!!!" Valentine called out his latest Stand to create him a new eyeball, healing him.
After a few torturous minutes later Valentine's right eye was completely healed though there was still blood on his face.
"Now Valentine who was weak and slave is dead. All there left is Valentine who will change this WORLD rotten to its core and create a new one." Valentine stated as he looked at the boundless ocean with a decisive look in both of his eyes.
"System, you said the Stand was the personification of one's Spiritual Energy, right?" Valentine asked the system.
[It's true]
"Then I should have my own Stand that is not a copy of the original one, right?"
[It's true]
"Then...? As Valentine was about to ask the system way to acquire his own Stand, he heard a familiar mechanical sound.
[Ding!!!]
[The host triggered the hidden quest]
[Quest: Acquire your own Stand without the help of the System.
Reward: 1. New Asauchi.
2. New Stand.
3. New Zanpakuto]
A smirk appeared on Valentine's face as he read the wonderful quest. This quest was a tremendous boost for Valentine's current arsenal since every Stand has the powerful ability as well as Zanpakuto. For example, White Album with power to decrease the temperature to -237,16 Celsius, Gold Experience with power to control life force, and Benihime with ability to reconstruct the energy and in its Bankai form it can reconstruct more than that. Also if he completes this quest he will acquire not 1 but 2 new Stands as well as a new Zanpakuto, which means he will acquire another 3 different abilities.
"What is Asauchi?" Asauchi was the only thing Valentine had no clue about between the tree rewards.
[Asauchi is the medium used to create Zanpakuto. The user has to feed Asauchi with his Spiritual Energy to create his own Zanpakuto. The new Zanpakuto's ability and power will be determined from the user's mental power]
"Seems like fate is on my side." Valentine exclaimed as he couldn't believe he also gets to create his own Zanpakuto.
"Let's not waste precious time." Valentine quickly ran to the forest to further train his Haki as well as find a way to acquire his own Stand.
