Ch 10 - Fake Strength

[2 Years Later]

All I feel is the gentle breeze blowing against my sweaty skin, and as I open my eyes the first thing that greets me is the beautiful image of the shining moon high in the night sky, and as I focus on my surroundings the first thing that I hear are the waves crashing against the side of hardwood.

I am currently lying on my back and as I sit up, I suddenly feel the weight of two soft mountains rest upon my shoulder followed by a sultry voice whispering to me in the ear , "Why are you out here honey? Come the bed is lonely without you."

As I hear this I smile and again thank whatever god for giving me this opportunity to live in this dangerous but beautiful world.

I then stand up, reach behind me, grab a hold of two round objects, and continue into an open door where not long after all you could hear are loud feminine moans.

And in order for everyone to understand how I got here you must understand what transpired during these past two years.

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[4 Month After Arrival]

I suddenly open my eyes and what greets me is the bland ceiling of a run down shack in the morning, this is the ceiling that I have been waking up to for a few months now, and the reason for that is that after I learned all I need to in order to prepare for the future I decided to stay on this island for some time in order to train and get accustomed to my new powers.

The main reason for this being that I just recently found out that when I believed myself to be somewhat capable in this world and being at least able to defend myself, I got a hard reality check, by none other than an old man.

Yeah about a FEW DAYS AFTER MY ARRIVAL when I was drinking with some of the villagers in the local pub, I got a bit drunk and began loudly boasting about my strength and how I could likely defend against any pirate attacks in the future if I see them coming.

This innocent boast eventually escalated into a brawl outside when the old man, the village chief overheard what I was boasting about and replied with deep emotion, "Young man I think you should not say that so confidently, I have seen many young men like you go out to sea or standing up to trouble when in the end they don't have the strength to back up what they are preaching, and they most usually than not end up dead."

When I heard this from the old man I was perplexed because this old man knows what I can do…after all I did freeze all of them the first time I met them, and at that time I could have easily beaten all of them very easily, so I know he knows what I'm capable of, so I quickly reply back: "What do y-you mean o-ld man, y-you've s-een my strength first h-and, o-of course I can d-do it!"

Hearing this he laughs a bit then explains to me that I was only able to capture them all because of the element of surprise and that now due to knowing of my abilities he will not fall to me again.

I was surprised by this bold statement because while I understand that the element of surprise is important for my powers to have the maximum benefit, I was still sure that I could easily win against this old man, even if he did know of my abilities.

One thing led to another and no longer than 5 minutes later I'm feeling like one large bruise and laying on my ass, as the old village chief stands above me in a clear manner that indicates that he won our bout.

What simply happened during our confrontation was that I began to fire off many slow-slow beams at the old man, and he somehow kept on dodging it, he moved just as I was about to fire, this kept on happening and it was annoying so I started using my more dangerous slow-star beam, and again, even with the new speed of projectile he was still able to easily predict where it would hit and dodge it with relative ease.

I was kind of aggravated at that point, so I decided to go all out, and started using both hands, one with the slow-slow beam and the other with the slow-star beam, and alternating between them, yet even then, he dodged it relatively easily.

After a while it appeared that he was tired of playing around, so he simply ran towards me with speed that I didn't know was possible and knocked me out with a simple fist strike.

When I woke up, I was laying on the dirty ground a few meters away from where I was previously standing and asked what happened, and he told me that I lost.

I was very confused at first and thought that this old village chief somehow knew observation Haki or something, but when I asked how he dodged all of my beams he simply said two things to me, hand movements, and lip movements.

He also mentioned something about me being as slow and strong as a 12-year-old child or something, which I chose to ignore for the moment because after I lost It was like my world view expanded a tiny bit, and I realized that this old man was right … I wasn't strong.

And that is the moment that I decided that from now on I would train seriously in order to git gud.