8 Everyone With Their Own Plans

Abel didn't waste any more time as he checked his rewards.

'Skill: Young master. Can be used on host himself or others. Upon usage obtain -100 charisma(hidden stat), bonus %200 hatred from common folk for any detested action.'

'Strength raising pill. Meditate for 2 hours after usage to obtain +5 strength.'

'Agility enhancement potion. Agility +3 permenantly upon drinking.'

Abel looked at the skill he obtained dumbly. ' What an absolute trash skill.' Abel also became a little suspicious. 'İs the skills I gained from characters related to their personalities?' Abel was suspicious but couldn't confirm it with only 1 skill. ' Well, I will understand it when I farm more relationships.'

Abel already had plans for farming relationships with Kuro and Morgan. He couldn't just go and beat every person to gain negative relationships. İt would be too inefficent. Every person has a different reverse scale. For an arrogant young master type person like Helmeppo, beating him up and mocking was enough but it would not work with every character. For example, if a person wanted to gain hatred from someone like Luffy rather than beating him up, he should kill one of his friends. That was the most effective way. Of course Abel was not stupid enough to make the protagonist of the whole series his enemy, he would rather have a positive relationship with him. But just like Luffy and Helmeppo every person has a reverse scale that shouldn't be touched. For Morgan it was his reputation as a big shot and for Kuro it was his intelligence and 'master plans'. Abel grasped this point and wanted to attack their reverse scales to gain most amount of negative relationships.

'Whatever. Let's raise my stats!' After Abel formulated a few plans in his mind he directly took out the agility enhancement potion and drank it.

'Ding! Congrulations host for gaining +3 agility.' Abel was happy that he didn't meditate for 2 hours to gain stats from the potion. 'Potions are much better than pills in this regard. However 3 points are way too low.' Abel complained inside.

İf other people could hear his thoughts they would curse him for hypocrisy. A normal adult civilian had around 6-7 stat points in each category. Veteran marine soldiers that trained for years in east blue would be lucky to achieve 10 stats in some categories. Meanwhile Abel could surpass them easily by eating pills and drinking potions. Abel wouldn't get arrogant because of this though. Even some small fry like Captain Morgan or Alvida was much stronger than normal humans. Not to mention the monsters in grand line and new world. They likely had hundreds or thousands of points in their stats. After thinking about this Abel became a little serious. ' I shouldn't grew complacent. This is east blue, the weakest sea.'

Abel immediately swallowed the strength raising pill and started mediating.

'' Eh, teacher what was that?'' Nami asked curiously. 'What did teacher swallow?'

'' This is some medicine that I made in my free time. I had some stomache ache so it come handy. This stomache ache is very troublesome, you shouldn't disrupt me for 2 hours when I battle with it.'' Abel casually made up a story.

Nami looked at his teacher suspiciously. '' Teacher are you a doctor?''

'' Yes, something like that. İn fact I am known as a miracle doctor in my hometown. There is hardly any disease I can't cure. Now, don't disrupt me while I am mediating.'' Abel's expression was natural as he talked with his disciple as if it was no big deal. İt was indeed no big deal for Abel, he could speak nonsense like eating or drinking. İt was just that natural.

'' Wow. Teacher you are so awesome!'' Nami looked at Abel with shining eyes while naively rowing the boat.

'Ding! Relationship updated. Nami(major character) current relationship +40(warm)'

Abel felt very good to trick his disciple while farming relationship. 'Sorry, disciple. The secret of this pills shouldn't go out. I am not a hero who shares his pills. I want to eat all the pills myself!' After Abel quoted a certain straw hat pirate he closed his eyes and started mediating in satisfaction.

[Shell Town]

Meanwhile Morgan was fuming with anger as several marines were tending to his wounds. ' How is he still alive...? How did he get so strong?'

'' Captain Morgan, we found a clue about Captain Kuro, sir.'' A marine nervously spoke to Morgan.

'' Give it to me!'' Morgan said furiously. The only way he could salvage his reputation was going and capturing Kuro. Morgan looked at the paper and frowned.

'' What does this mean!? Explain.'' Morgan was confused as he saw at least 30 locations surrounding Gecko İslands( Gecko islands are a couple of islands in east blue, Syrup Village is located on one of them)

'' Sir, this paper contains orders of shipment to that location. Guns, food and wine. We are suspecting that Kuro's man are hiding in one of the marked places, while the other places are fake locations to divert our attention.'' Abel actually didn't write any fake locations, he simply didn't know where Kuro's crew were hided so he just wrote every single possible hiding place around Gecko İslands. Of course marine didn't know so they thought Kuro wrote some fake locations in case he got captured to gain time for his crew. Morgan frowned for a while and decided. '' Fine, we are going to the Gecko İslands to capture Kuro and his crew. Alert the marine branch at Gecko İslands too, we will cooperate with them'' Even though Morgan was an arrogant person after getting trashed by 'Kuro' he didn't dare to fight with him 1v1. He wanted to trap him with many people and then would take the credit for his capture. He smiled brutally ' You were careless this time. You can't escape from me, Kuro!'

[İnside the Miss Love Duck(Alvida's ship lmao. I didn't name it, it is canon.)]

İnside one of the rooms Alvida was sitting on a large bed while hugging her knees. Her eyes were red from crying and in her hands was the piece of paper Abel left before ditching her. Surrounding her from a distance was her crew, watching her nervously. After Alvida finished reading the letter for 16'th time she started crying again. ''Wuu... I never knew he was in such a serious situation. Why did you leave...? Aren't we husband and wife? We should shoulder each other's burdens. You said... we would be togather in our next life, if we are fated... I won't allow this! I will find you and marry you, since you love me so much, how can I abandon you in your hard time!?'' Alvide started screaming while crying. Even the crew around them was a little moved after they read the contents of the love letter.

The burly man also had tears in his eyes as he watched Alvida and the crew pledge their allegiance to Abel. 'İsn't he just ditching you...?' He didn't know if he should cry or laugh. 'Brother, if you are going to ditch us, just leave. Why do you have to be so smooth...'