Darkness.

Three more years passed.Yuki,Haken and Kuro grew to become closer and closer.In fact Kuro could see that Yuki had feelings for Haken,but he couldn't help them for the moment,after all he had a dream.Yuki grew to be really beautiful but Kuro didn't bother a minute watching her.He was more mature than his age because of the terrible training,even thought the memories of that time were vague and blur.

In fact he had started doubting who he was.He had forgotten that memory loss when aging was normal.But he quickly returned to normal when he hit his head at a rock,his memories returned."So strange...Even If I lost memories,to lose memories of that time is indeed very strange."

But he decided to ignore that.Today they would set sail.In the last year they created and buildt a good and huge ship.Kuro's skills couldn't be underestimated.It could easily fill a hundred people just in height straight.It was ten times bigger than Thousand Sunny which Monkey.D Luffy used to become the Pirate King.

Or so he wished... It was not even close.

They barely actually built a twenty people sized ship.And it took six weeks to built it!

But it was really good with enough space to build a small toilet a small kitchen and a place to sleep.There was also quite a few cannons they bought with the money they got from the bounties of the pirates they killed and defeated.They had no bounties since they weren't officially pirates for the moment.

"So let's sail!" Kuro said as he cut the rope tying the ship to the island.They sailed just like that.Yuki had a few meters of space for her room which was made because her place in the ship is special.Without her they would get lost and in the Grand Line to get lost means D E A T H.

"Yuki,can you please tell us where we are?" Kuro asked curiously.Yuki softly replied busily,"We currently are in the Triangle of Rings.Which means we are surrounded by almost not ending ring shaped islands which form a triangle.But if we go straight we should be able to enter the next island.

The next Island is called,"Winds of Death.""

Kuro was even more curious,"Winds of Death?" Yuki sighed,"Winds Of Death.It is a terrifiyng island which every pirate crew avoids.Although the winds don't actually kill you,every wind comes with strange beasts which can be called as strong as Crowned Soldier Level Marines."

Crowned Soldier Ranked marines?That made Kuro even more curious."WE WILL ENTER THAT ISLAND!"Yuki and Haken were silent."WHAT?!DO YOU WANT TO DIE?!"But Kuro was laughing,"Do you not believe me?I can even defeat Captains!Come on!"But that wasn't enough to make them believe him.Captains,so what?Who knows what can be found inside the Winds of Death Island?Core Captain Marine level beasts?

"Urgh...PLEASE?"Kuro begged with his hands clapped."Fine...It is not like we can force you...At least you are not stupid…"Yuki sighed.She was the type who tried to not enter troublesome situations where they could die if necessary.

It would take a few days to reach the Winds of Death Island,but their resources weren't enough because of the eating monsters Haken and Kuro.But Kuro had a idea.He put his hands just outside the ship and muttered,"Lightning Speed-250!"

The ship started to get faster thanks to his lightnings."Kuro-kun isn't 250 WAY TOO FAST!!!!"Yuki started to tear up in the end.They were going extremely fast.But this way it might only take a day or two to reach the island.

"HAHAHA so fast!" Haken was laughing from the tears.He was already used to this and was perpared for death.While Kuro took an apple out from a barrel and ate it.He also used lightning to fish a few fishes.Lightning had no problems with the sea because they were like brothers but Kuro had never ended in the sea so no problem!

Kuro looked at Yuki and had a question for her," Yuki, since you know a lot about geography of this world, do you know how many oceans or continents are there in the world, besides the New World and the Grand Line obviously?" Yuki looked at him and said," It's only a rumor, but they call it the 'Hell' Continent."

Hell,not many people have ever entered it.In fact even the strongest pirates struggle to enter that place, as it's a very mysterious place. The Five Divine Beasts lived inside that place.

"There are rumors that even the dirt is way harder there, and the damage you can do is visibly lowered in that place, possibly due to the air pressure."

Kuro was curious," Could it also potentially be due to the gravity too? Couldn't it have an effect which might change damage?"

"Yeah, that is also a theory."

Kuro was deep in thoughts at the night.

The word Hell sounded very familiar to him for some reason.

He was pretty sure he had heard that name several times before, in his dreams.

"Test Subject S1 has awaken. Shall we proceed with further experiments?"

He paled, he was remembering...

"Yes, implant 25 grams of Cerbag, that should stabilize his condition."

He remembered...

"STOP!STOP!"

He remembered his pain... The feeling of being powerless...

"Shut up you brat..."

He...Was... Worthless...

"Test Subject S1 has succeeded in enduring the pain. Interesting."

Stop...Stop...Stop...

Kuro started to hold his head with both of his hands.His eyes were almost coming out and were completely red."NO!NO!NO!NO! STOP!"

You are our experimental subject, how dare you escape from our hand... You shall return... You shall pay for what you have done.

The next thing Kuro knew, was, he was unconscious.