[23]Leaving Again

Back to cocoyashi Village.

Ren hadn't returned home yet, cause there was something very important to do tonight.

Remember, Nezumi must have stolen a lot of money from the Conomi Islands all these years of blackmail, right?

That night, the marine Branch 16th was liquidated under mysterious circumstances.

All the corrupt Marines died there, and all the Marine Branch's funds were looted and destroyed.

The marines didn't even have to call for reinforcements, the killer's methods were terrifying to them, especially the Blue blades he released from his feet to destroy the marine branch.

2 hours later, Ren returned home with a satisfied expression.

The harvest was bountiful this time.

900 million Belly, and 80Kg of gold, jewelry, treasures, etc....

He stored them all in the infinity Space, along with the 100 million that he had (which he stole from the first pirate crew he killed) and the 100 million that belonged to nami, he had now 1 billion Belly.

Nami's 100 million Belly is her effort, tears, and blood, which took 8 years to collect, so Ren will not take anything from him unless nami wants

But what surprised him was that she left him the money to store and simply said:"Just give them to me if I need to buy new clothes" with her usual beautiful smile.

Putting these thoughts aside, he entered the house and saw that Nojiko and Nami were talking with Bell-mere, whose soul was in the ring, and happy expressions adorning the faces of the two sisters.

"Oh! Welcome back Ren!" Nami saw that he had returned and then quickly went towards him to welcome him like a good wife.

In her heart, Ren was someone who could never be replaced in this life!

Not only does he have the power to revive Bell-Mere, he is also the person who she loves, her savior, her hero, etc.

Nojiko had the same thoughts as Nami too. Or perhaps more obsessively? Who knows.

"Welcome back, Ren-san."

Bell-mere's voice came out from the ring and she greeted him with more respect.

After Nojiko told her about what happened in these past 8 years, she was very sad, very sad that Nami had to suffer all this time and work with the person she hated the most---Arlong.

Besides feeling sad, she also felt angry and disappointed about the marines. Was this the marines she had fought in before?

Corruption is everywhere among marine positions, in this wide world who knows if there is someone like Nezumi cooperating with pirates?

But the thing that made her happy among all these tragedies was the person named Ren, who suddenly appeared and saved her daughter Nami and Nojiko from Arlong's clutches.

She was very grateful to him, of course, and didn't mind to the two girls' decision to join his pirate crew and become pirates.

The Marine fairness she had in her days as a Marine had disappeared immediately after hearing Nojiko's words, replaced by feelings of hatred, anger, and resentment towards the Marines.

Even though she knew that not all Marines were like that, she still couldn't forgive those who hurt her two daughters.

Turning back to Ren who heard Bell-mere's greeting, he quickly responded kindly and smiled faintly, the smile on his handsome face could steal the heart of any ordinary woman.

Nami and Nojiko blushed and their gazes remained fixed on his handsome face for several seconds.

And Bell-mer, who was also looking at all this with a stunned look on her face, had been single all her life and remained that way until she died, but that didn't stop her from admiring a handsome man.

But this feeling quickly disappeared when she guessed the relationship between Ren and Nojiko.

Cough, how could she steal her daughter's husband?

"BTW, Miss Bell-mere, I forgot to tell you, but you can come out of the ring once a day and remain in the spiritual state for 5 minutes as usual." Ren said when he remembered the system's notification a while ago.

He was a little suspicious and asked Miss System why she didn't tell him about this beforehand, and her answer was as follows: "Hmph! Why do I have to tell you everything? You can just find out for yourself."

"..."

Ren couldn't do anything and remained silent.

"Huh? I can still do this? That's great!" Bell-mere's happy voice came from the ring.

"Nice! We'll see Bell-mere again!"

Nami and Nojiko were also naturally happy.

They are eager to see Bell-mere, even if it is only a spirit and for only 5 minutes.

"I have already prepared the ship and we'll leave tomorrow. I'll go to get some rest now. Bye." Ren said and then dragged his tired body to his room to sleep for a while.

"Un, good night Ren."

"I'll show you my navigation skills tomorrow!"

"Good night Ren-san."

The three girls said goodbye to him immediately in a good mood, then Nojiko put Bell-mere's soul ring on her finger and said to Nami:"Nami, how about we take turns carrying this ring? I will get it today and you will get it tomorrow okay?"

"I agree!"

Nami didn't argue like usual because this matter was related to Bell-mere and she was in a very good mood tonight.

She felt like everything that was happening so far was a dream.

If it was really a dream, she never wanted to wake up from it...

Bell-mere: "..."

She was speechless, and wondered why she felt sleepy even though she was just a spirit?

Not only that , but she also felt all human emotions like any other normal human being. This made her wonder: Is Ren-san's power the reason for this, or do spirits retain their feelings without a body?

Anyway...She wasn't the analytical type and she didn't want to think about it too much, it was enough that she could see Nami and Nojiko had grown into beautiful girls.

•••••

In Ren's room.

Ren was resting in bed, although he hadn't reached the point of collapse but he was still tired after a whole day of fighting and killing, then torturing Arlong and Nezumi, then experiencing the power of Soru and Geppo, and the power of Observation Haki and Armament Haki as well as his swordsmanship talent....also fighting against marine soldiers in the marine branch and stealing huge amounts of money.

After thinking about it...he had gotten a lot of good and useful things today.

The decision to save the sisters was right after all!

Good people like me are always rewarded!

"But I'm still worried about the plot. Did Luffy reach Syrup Village and leave already or not yet? Did he get Zoro in his crew?"

Thinking about Zoro, Ren didn't mind making that man one of his future fleet commanders, even though he didn't have much of a crew and was just starting out, he wouldn't mind making some plans for future, right?

"If Luffy had arrived at Syrup Village, I would have lost my chance to include Kaya in my crew, knowing this girl from the original work was listening to Usopp's lies and seemed to be starting to develop some feelings for him, which became stronger after he helped save her with Luffy,If I offered her to join my crew, there is no doubt that she'll refuse."

"Tch, that annoying long nose, how could any girl fall in love with him?"

"There's no use thinking about it now, I won't be able to change the plot just by thinking, I have to quick!"

Ren decided that he wouldn't change his destination to Syrup Village, and whether Luffy had met Kaya and saved her or not, this didn't matter. He would still offer the blonde-haired girl to join his crew. If she accepted, then this was his only option, and if not, then he couldn't do anything.

Ren stopped thinking uselessly and quickly calmed his mind and fell asleep.

After a long day and a lot of events and rewards, he finally got some rest.

•••••

Meanwhile while Ren was sleeping soundly, he didn't know that a marine ship had sailed from logeutown at such a late time, Smoker was on the ship and Tashigi who started to look sad, along with several marines.

"I didn't think Ren-san was such a criminal..."

Tashigi sighed and said in a voice that only she could hear. After she received the information from Smoker about what he did in conomi Islands, she was naturally shocked, and more than that, she was angry.

She was angry because he deceived her and kept talking about justice while he was a pirate in disguise.

She felt insulted! Was He making fun of her?!

If only she knew the truth that the Marines are carefully hiding, what expression would Tashigi have on her beautiful face?

Haha~ The future will be interesting.

Away from Tashigi, who was angry and lost in her thoughts, Smoker, who had sailed at full speed to conomi Islands, was talking to the navigator.

"We'll arrive in one day at full speed? Can't you make it faster?!" He shouted in annoyance, he didn't think that Ren would stay in the conomi Islands for another day after killing the Captain of 16th Marine Branch

Well he was right...because when he got there there would be no trace of him.

"T-This...Mr.Smoker, T-this is impossible." the navigator said in a low voice.

"..."

Smoker sighed as he looked at the beautiful moonlit sea in front of him.

He decided that when he reached cocoyashi Village, he would investigate the matter further. He didn't know why but it seemed like there was a missing thing in the story that sengoku had told him.

He told him that it was prepared by Nezumi and the Arlong Pirates together.

The question is, why Arlong Pirates in Cocoyashi Village? Why have they not been dealt with all these years?

Was it a coincidence that they arrived at cocoyashi Village at that time? But why they had no effect before?

He started to doubt that person named Nezumi, but he sighed, he was sure that he would know the truth when he got there.

•••••

"Ah! The boat's going to break!"

Wearing a straw hat and a red shirt, with blue shorts, the boy named Luffy was trying to find a way to escape the fate of drowning in the sea.

As a Devil Fruit user, he had been cursed by the sea, losing the ability to swim or touch water completely.

And here in this stormy atmosphere and angry waves his boat was going to break very quickly.

But Luffy doesn't like to think too much, he smiled when an idea came to his mind and then the next moment he walked into a food barrel that had been emptied a long time ago.

But will this barrel really save him? If the boat cannot withstand the force of the storm, how will the barrel do?

In fact, Luffy had a plot shield that protected him from death.

But the cancer of this world had already begun to spread, and what was destined to happen, wouldn't happen this time. The Fate Breaker had already begun its journey.

•••••

Cocoyashi Village, morning.

"Good morning Ren." Nojiko entered Ren's room, who was tidying up his clothes and wearing a smile on her face.

"Good morning Nojiko, did you sleep well?"

Ren asked and approached his blue haired lover.

"Unm, it was the best night of my life, I'm not exaggerating, and when I woke up I realized that this wasn't a dream but reality." Nojiko said and then wrapped her slender hands around his neck, his eyes seemed to be filled with love and happiness.

*Tcho~!"

Their lips met and their saliva mixed. Nojiko was getting better at kissing after each kiss she had with Ren, and after several minutes they broke the kiss.

"..."

Without Nojiko knowing, the just-awakened Bell-mere was watching the scene from inside the ring Nojiko was wearing on her finger.

Bell-mere's vision wasn't accustomed to the eyes, but was something like observation haki.

She could see an area 10 meters in diameter.

Ordinary humans couldn't do that, but Bell-mere wasn't too surprised. Wasn't her coming back from the dead a miracle in itself?

"love, have you woken up Nami?" Ren grabbed Nojiko and placed her on his lap and then asked.

Nojiko was blushing, especially since Bell-mere could see her in such an embarrassing position.

"Yes, we're ready to go."

"What about the villagers and the people you know here?" Ren asked this question because when he watched the Manga , he saw that Nami had said goodbye to the villagers by stealing their money and jumping onto the ship in a wonderful scene.

"Oh, that's... Nami has already written a letter to Genzo, and we also don't want to reveal to anyone that Bell-mere can come back to life. This will bring you a lot of trouble, right? And the villagers are still in the midst of celebrating. If We left so secretly no one would notice us."

Ren nodded after hearing Nojiko's words, it seemed that these two girls had already planned this since last night.

"Okay, let's go."

•••••

In a place hidden from human eyes in the conomi Islands, a ship appears carrying a Jolly Roger, which confirms that it is a pirate ship.

The strange thing is that this ship appeared out of nowhere after a short beam of blue light.

"Wow...to think that your ability can store ships as well..." Bell-mere who saw this scene for the first time sighed a little surprised, unlike Nami and Nojiko who were used to this scene.

They all boarded the ship and then under Nami's guidance, the sails were lowered and the course was set---Syrup Village.

The ship began to move and move away little by little from cocoyashi village.

The villagers who were busy celebrating didn't realize that whoever saved them had already left, and Genzo who was caring for Nami and Nojiko didn't know either. Nami had left him a note that she was sure he would read when he came home.

The sisters looked at their village slowly disappearing from their line of sight with emotion. Their feelings were complicated.

this is the village where they suffered a lot of injustice and oppression, also this is the village where they had beautiful childhood memories.

As for the tangerine farm?

Ren had stored many tangerine trees and seedlings to plant on the ship, and he had begun doing so as soon as they set sail.

Bell-mere was also looking at her hometown silently, having been dead for a while, she no longer had much of an association with anything but the two girls in front of her.

The ship sailed towards Syrup Village while Ren finished putting the tangerine in place.

"Ah! Captain Ren, it's the News Coco. Should we buy a newspaper?" Nami shouted, she was started calling Ren "captain".

The latter was resting on a folding chair while topless and enjoying Nojiko's massage, which was getting better and better.

He looked at Nami in surprise, since when did this girl consult someone if she wanted to do something that wasn't dangerous? Especially regarding money.

But he was happy that Nami treated him like this. It's meant that girl had fallen madly in love with him a long time ago and even put her obsession with money in second place compared to him, right?

"Buy the newspaper Nami, and let's see what's going on these days."

Immediately after she heard Ren's answer, she took a coin and gave it to News Coco who threw newspaper at her.

Nami opened the newspaper and then her eyes suddenly widened.

There was a wanted poster of a familiar person... a very handsome face and dark blue hair, his cold expression while taking the photo made her completely dazed and her heart began to beat strongly.

It was her lovely Captain Ren!

•••••

On an unknown pirate ship, there was a boy with pink hair and blue glasses. The boy with a lean body was rolling a wooden barrel in the hallway.

Suddenly, three pirates appeared on his way.

"OI, you coward, have you been avoiding work again?" A fat pirate said , he was wearing a blue shirt and a ferocious expression on his ugly face.

"N-no...I-I was just pushing this huge barrel of wine away." The skinny boy with pink hair said with fear and panic.

"A wine barrel? Hehehehe, let us help you with that."

"B-but, if Alvida-sama finds out about this, we will be killed!"The boy said with fear and.

"Hahaha, nothing will happen if you keep your mouth shut, right Koby?"They said while looking at him menacingly.

"Ah...hahaha, Y-yes..that's true." The pink haired boy knew that he would be killed if he thought To tell Alvida so he remained silent.

The fat pirate grabbed the huge barrel and barely lifted it

"It's really heavy."

"I wonder what's in there."

"Don't be hasty, I will open it now."

The three pirates discussed each other while Koby watched from the side and didn't dare to speak.

One of the pirates grabbed his fist and raised it high to smash the barrel into pieces.

But at this moment, two slender hands came out from the wooden barrel and struck the two standing pirates.

*Boom~!*

"It was a good sleep~~!"

A loud voice was heard from the person who came out of the barrel and he did not seem to care about the two pirates who were being beaten.

"You?! Who are you, you bastard?!" The pirate who was still standing shouted angrily.

The straw hat boy looked at him with a smile and said.

"Who am I? I'm Monkey D. Luffy...the man who will become the Pirate King!"