8 Chapter 08

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With that Luffy started walking towards the village, "Gramps will come again soon, so I should stop paying visits to the nobles for now." He mumbled to himself. "It's been what, almost a year since Ace left. And the only Rokushiki technique that I can do is Soru and Finger pistol. I need some real help with the other ones."

It was impressive that he went that far, without having the official techniques.

He knew his body was already fit for the other four techniques, but… he needed to learn those techniques from somewhere. Currently, he was trying to recreate tekkai (iron body), and that was why he was looking into his devil fruit.

Tekkai or iron body would save him from sharp objects until he learned haki.

After adding the new exercises to the routine —that he got from Garp— Luffy's body started to have an even amount of muscles in all areas. Of course for that, he needed to go the extra mile and do all the workouts in water, it made him grow muscles faster. Even then, most of his muscles looked kinda wobbly an after-effect of having a rubber body.

He was a powerlifter in his previous life, not a bodybuilder. Still, not seeing your gains was kind of a letdown. At least he was gaining strength with this.

And man, he didn't know if this was his fruit, or that he was a member of the D clan. But his recovery was insane. Pushing himself too hard was no problem for him.

Having a slim body was also good for learning the techniques.

You see the Rokushiki techniques were built so that a user of it would have a balance in all Muscle groups. It was actually quite a brilliant method, which favored a balanced body.

So it made him wonder how Garp with so few leg muscles could use soru. His grandfather and, thinking about it, most One Piece characters had some weird overly developed upper body. Maybe their leg muscles were compressed.

But then again, in his previous like there were people with sleeper builds. 

'Well, I ain't going that route.'

'Maybe when I'm strong enough, I can pull off my own legendry super Saiyan.' He mused, well he did have a technique that did something similar.

Still, even with his training is kinda been getting some diminishing returns. Something that happened previously.

There was a reason for that. He wasn't some Waxu hero, who trained for hundreds of years, he didn't have that type of motivation. Also, hat's off to those lads for doing that. And for the cameraman who stayed with them while training... 

Even if he spent a whole year in this new anime-like world, he was getting bored with the usual routine. Heck, even getting beaten up by Garp was better than boredom.

God? How low have I fallen?

And the only reason why he was able to discipline himself enough for training was because of the Original Luffy's Iron will, and stubbornness. That he, fortunately, inherited, along with his goofy attitude. Hopefully, he didn't inherit Luffy's idioticness.

Also, in a few days Makino's birthday was arriving... So he had to get something, and that's why he was snooping into the noble household.

Sterry —Sabo's adopted brother— was already made the successor for being the next king. And that's why he was messing with him. It was also good that he had a bunch of things that needed to be liberated.

"Will Makino like the diamond earrings or the diamond bracelet?" He asked himself as he walked towards the outgrown forest, away from the kingdom. "Eh… I will just give her both."

Honestly, the Goa Kingdom was a goldmine. There were a bunch of gold and other pieces of jewelry that were up for taking. And stealing from those crooked nobles didn't pester him that much.

He had been stealing from them for quite a while now. If he could keep this up, he could have a good sum before starting his journey. He just had to make sure no one saw his face, or his grandpa would give him a thorough beating.

But he was fast enough that one saw his face other then maybe his straw hat. He would knock out their lights before they could fully see him.

And in a way, he couldn't wait for the two years to be gone. By his estimation, he was a little bit behind when Luffy started his journey, so in the upcoming years, he will cross him.

He learned all of the iconic moves of Gomu Gomu no mi, or as many as he could remember.

So he was mainly focusing on geppo… which he was having little success over. He could do it from time to time, but he needed to get better at it.

'I still have no way to do Tekkie, Kami-e, Tempest Kick. Well, maybe I could do the kick, if I grid myself to the bone, but Tekkie was another deal. And not to mention Life Return will be very hard to learn alone' Luffy thought, inwardly sighing, 'Gramps will come soon, I will have to make him teach me something. But convincing him would be such a drag.'

Also, the fact that he couldn't just ask his gramps, —who was vice-admiral— to teach him the rest of the Rokushiki. So, Luffy planned to learn another thing from his gramps.

One that would be equally helpful.