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This has to be a cruel joke

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NEW YORK ANIME EXPO EVENT 2021

Carla was going to the current anime expo with her group of friends Ama and Jenny. She was cosplaying as Esdeath from Akame Ga Kill, she coloured her hair blue just like the character and with her natural blue eyes, the disguise was perfect. Especially as she was as tall as esdeath and had a curvy body for a 16 year old teenager. She was also wearing Esdeath's white uniform and hat just like in the anime.

Amy and Jenny were dressed as the maids Rem and Ram from RE ZERO. The three of them was attracting quite the attention in the events while they were walking around looking for anime products, and trying to get some of their mangas signed by some of the mangakas that came.

"Hey hey Carla look at this Pikachu plushie , is not it so cute?" said Ama.

Chuckle "yes yes Ama it is, I'm more of a charizard and mew girl though haha"

"Anyway Ama, Jenny can you two wait for me nearby while I go to the restroom for a minute?"

OK! They said.

While Carla was going to the restroom, Carla failed to see the figure eyeing her and following her to the bathroom.

Whistling Carla entered the bathroom and was about to sit down when her door was busted open by a girl. With golden eyed and golden hair she cut a striking figure. Weirdly enough the girl was glowing and looked ethereal.

Carla was surprised and was about to scream at her when the girl silence her with a wave of her hand, she could not scream nor shout. She lost her voice…

" Listen to me young girl, you have the blessing of being in the presence of a living Goddess. You are not allowed to speak until I say so. I'm bored you see, so I've decided to pick you to relieve me of my boredom" said Goddess had a manic glee that was scaring Carla. Waving her hand again to let Carla speak, she gave her a nod and told her to ask any question she have.

" What do you want from me? Please leave me alone. What do you mean you want me to entertain you…"

Chuckle, simple girl you have probably read this kind of story a thousand times already. I am going to send you to another world , but one thing you have to know is that I am not going to interfere in anything that happens to you over there. I am also not going to be watching all the time, heck I will probably watch your life in that world as one big binge worthy Netflix show haha. So I will probably do that once you die. All I mean is that don't bother screaming my name if things are going terribly wrong for you cause I will be turning a deaf ear anyway.

"What!!? No no are you crazy, what are you talking about?" Carla stood up and tried to push the girl away so she could leave. But she was stop by a hand to her chest. Then suddenly a light blinded Carla and then after that everything was dark….

" AHHAHAHA I Oizys is gonna have fun watching your sweet misery when you die one day hahahah"

West Blue Strawberry Island

In a little village on strawberry island , walk an old grandma called Tutu, she was taking her daily walk as she needed some exercise as her doctor told her she needed to move so she can be in good health and to stretch her old legs.

Suddenly she noticed something or should she say SOMEONE , passed out on the street of all things. She hurried to the person, she noticed that it was a young woman with long blue hair and a white suit with a mini skirt on. She had knee high boots on.

She took her cane and push the girl gently trying to wake her up. "hey hey young lass wake up, wake up !"

Carla suddenly fell drowsy and her eyelids fell heavy, she was hearing someone voice telling her to wake up. She opened her eyes and saw an old woman looking down on her. "Who..who are you…where am I ?" She suddenly got a headache and remembered the so called goddess in the toilet. " No way, no way! This can't be happening, No freaking way!!!!"

Lass are you ok? Carla stopped panicking and decided to finally stand up. She cleared off the dust from her white clothes and stared at the old woman. " Excuse me, I seems to have been assaulted by thieves and I don't remember exactly where am I . Can you help me please?" Carla decided to tell her such a lie cause she had no money nor a place to stay at right now. She needed to win some sympathy point.

"Oh you poor thing, come on walk with me back to my place. You are in strawberry island."

Strawberry island? Where exactly is that maam?

"Huh where? Hmm I guess we are in the west blue. You really don't remember anything huh?"

Carla was so surprised that she forgot to reply to the woman. WEST BLUE??? God no way! West blue? Like in East,north,south and west BLUE! OF FREAKING ONE PIECE??????? And west blue of all things!

I don't know anything about west blue! No wait One piece? Where there are pirates running around? Where slavery is a thing? Where there are a lot of corruptions and racisms? Where there are People with powers who won't shy away from using them for evil? GOD I AM FUCKING DOOMED! Some people might be happy if they were in my place, they would want to join the strawhat and go on adventures. Or make a crew of their own. What they fail to understand and that I UNDERSTAND is :

1.I am a normal woman

2. I do not know how to fight nor have any powers.

3. I will not suddenly become OP out of nowhere nor will I suddenly stumble on a strong devil fruit out of nowhere, this kind of thing only happen in power trip fanfictions.

4. I have no money nor house. What I am suppose to do as a living? Heck in the long run what I am suppose to do with my life?

5. I have future knowledge but they are useless to me. What am I suppose to do with my knowledge? I do not know how to travel through the freaking ocean or how to even use a ship. The ocean is full of dangerous pirates too. Heck my best bet is to stay on this seemingly peaceful island for the rest of my life….

Sigh I am having a headache, I am overthinking too much….

"Lass, hey lass!!!" exclaimed the old lady.

Hmm? Oh I am sorry I was deep in thought. What is it?

" I was telling you that you can sleep in my place, I live alone anyway so some company will be appreciated"

" What? Oh god thank you , thank you" remembering Japanese etiquette. Carla bowed to the woman.

" Oh it is nothing really.."

" No, no I will do my best to help you, I can clean and cook. You won't have to do anything"

" Oh by the way my name is Tutu, what is yours?"

"The name is Carla, Benett Carla, nice to meet you Tutu"

" Oh that is a pretty name, Carla"

" Anyway here we are! To my humble abode Carla"

A beautiful cottage with a garden upfront was my greeted Carla when she took a good look at the direction Tutu was looking at. It was quite a beautiful place, full of a flowery fragrance no doubt thanks to all the beautiful flowers surrounding the place. It was the only house it seems that was situated out of the village , just at its border. It was nearer to the forest than the village and on top of the road too. If you looked down , the strawberry would be found below. At least a 30 minute walk to reach there too.

" Tutu is not it dangerous for you to live up here alone?"

"Oh you don't have to worry, my old friend the mayor sometimes visits me. The doctor and my grandchildren visit me often too" Tutu chuckled.

" Oh you have grandchildren?"

" Yes two young lads. My dear daughter had them at a young age, twins. Sadly she did not make it after bringing them to this world." Tutu said sadly.

" Oh I am sorry Tutu I should not have ask"

"No it is ok. Come on let us go in, I will show you your room, draw you a bath. I will lend you some of my clothes too."

" Thank you Tutu"

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Sitting in the bathtub, Carla could not help but sigh. "So it is official I am in the world of one piece. I wanted to deny it as much as I could, but after seeing the newspaper on her table earlier and seeing the freaking world map that she has. Yeah I can no longer deny it. A bored goddess decided to screw my life over , how can I be so unlucky? What about my parents, my brother, my friends? Do they think I am dead? Or am I one of those child missing cases that will never get solved now? Sigh my family is going to be devastated. But at least they will still have each other, while I am all alone in this new world. I don't even feel like crying, it will be a useless thing to do. They are alive and I am too, sure I will miss them but I should consider this as me getting a new apartment and moving to a new city. Even in my world at one point I was going to move out one day anyway so let's treat this as me doing that way earlier than planned. Yeah let's do that!" Carla mused.

Carla got up and took a towel to dry herself up. She took a look a look at the new clothes given to her. A blue Japanese kimono with flower patterns all over it. Quite pretty Carla thought.

Finishing putting on her new clothes she got out of the bathroom and saw that Tutu was sitting on a chair while knitting of all things.

Tutu stopped and looked at Carla with a wide smile on her face , "Oh Carla you look so pretty"

A little embarrassed "Thanks" Carla said quietly.

" Go sit over there, I have already set up the food on the table so you can eat"

Carla went to the kitchen and saw the delicious looking foods on the table. She was quiet hungry so she took no time in eating everything.

It was already getting dark and Carla was tired so she decided to retire for the night afterward.

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2 months later

It's been 2 months since Carla has been in this world and she had already acclimated herself to her new life. Everyone in the village was kind people. She even got herself a job. She tended the garden of Tutu, taking care of the fruits and vegetables, getting rid of the wild weeds. And also was in charge of selling said fruits and vegetables in the market.

Since Tutu was old, Carla decided to do all her job for her as thanks for letting her stay at her place. Carla even made some friends in the village with some of the local women. There was Sarah the barmaid of the local bar who was a little bit older than her, in the age of 20 year old. Then there was Cassy the florist who was 17 years old. Those 3 quickly became friends thanks to their same age group. They were also known among the men as the village three beauties.

Carla was flaterred by some of the advances from some young men but she was not in any hurry to get involve in a man right now. Especially in a village where words goes around fast. She was afraid if she's seen with a man they might want to marry her off or something. She was too young for that and sleeping with one was out of the question as she did not want to be the object of any rumours.

To this day she was surprised that she could understand their language and even read it. She clearly remembered the crazy goddess telling her she won't offer her any help.

There was also a Marine HQ on the island, the marines were surprisingly nice people too. She thought at first that they would be evil or corrupted just like that blonde spoil brat from the anime who's father had an axe or something as a hand. But clearly every marines were not like those two. It was a relief for her, not only was the island safe but the marines were righteous too. She felt safe and at peace.

If only she knew those will be her last moments of peace.....

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