Chapter 7

"Where did the maid uniform come from? It wasn't in the luggage when I went through it!"

And cute boys in cute maid uniforms!

It was, indeed, the life!

In fact, it was such a good time, that Lee really did feel like he should actually celebrate his first Great Victory properly, as well as throw a good party. Because what is a free man to do with his life, but celebrate every moment of it? His hand grabbed onto Sura's butt and pulled him into a hug. "Did you get lonely on the ship?"

"Ye- I mean, no!" Sura protested. "Captaaaain!"

The deck of the ship was the best place for a party. The Baratie, unfortunately, could not currently host the crew at all, it needed a lot of repairs, even beyond what was visible, and it needed time to regain the trust of its customers as well. Lee's memories were far from perfect, and having nearly two decades between himself and the last time he had access to the source material, he couldn't remember if this was the way things should've gone at all.

But he also couldn't find it in himself to care. The world would keep going, with or without him, and he wasn't here to be some sort of big damn world saving hero. He was here to have fun, to be himself and maybe get into a fistfight or two along the way.

Once more, instruments were brought out, once more, a table was set, and once more, the party was in full swing. Lee sat at the head of the table, of course, and his fellow crew minus one sat with him. Well, minus two, if one accounted for the fact that Sura had taken it upon himself to play waiter today. He really did look super cute in the mysterious maid uniform.

Lee's hand grabbed onto the trap maid and pulled him closer. "You don't have to hold back, you should enjoy yourself too, this is a party to our overwhelming victory!"

"We don't even know what we won against!" Kuina protested, swallowing a chunk of meat she had just bit into, courtesy of the Baratie giving them what little they could in the way of rewards for defending them.

"Who cares, victory is victory!" Mary cried, gulping down her beer from a container bigger than her head, like it was water, slamming it down and letting out a satisfied sigh. "Right Anne?"

"Riiight~!" Anne agreed, eating her own food in a much more dignified and dainty fashion, using a silver fork and knife pair, popping a small piece of meat into her mouth. "Ah this is to die for, it's cooked to perfection as well, indulging in great food, great drink and great women is the true treasure of a pirate~!"

Cologne chuckled. She had a cleaned plate before her. She could be just as dignified as anyone else, of course, but when it came time to judge the food of other providers… "That boy has definitely improved his craft since we last met. Still needs to work on his cutting technique," she hummed. "You understand now the joys of the life of an amazon as well," she said, looking at Lee and Sura.

Lee laughed, as Sura squirmed for a bit, then let him go.

Sura adjusted his dress subconsciously, but then caught himself doing it and glared at his hands, as if they had betrayed him somehow. Redfaced, he huffed and went about picking up dirty dishes and gathering them together.

"Oi, Sura, it's poking out you know," Mary called, looking at Sura's crotch, where his dress and apron were not being very efficient at concealing a noticeable… bump.

"Wha- I-"

Bright red in the face and steaming hot, Sura fled into the innards of the ship, as everyone else laughed at the display.

As Lee laughed, he noticed that Reiju sat down beside him. "He's cute," she said, as she settled with a cup of bubbling purple liquid.

Lee raised an eyebrow. "Is that going to kill me for being near it?" he asked.

"Only if I'm careless," she said. "Hey, ever wondered what dying tastes like?" she asked.

"There's something in that mind of yours, and it sounds exciting, stupid and several different kinds of sexy," Lee said.

"Why don't you give it a go then?" Reiju asked.

"That sounds stupid," Kuina commented.

"Because it is stupid," Cologne agreed.

"We're way past shows of trust now, aren't we?" Lee asked, laughing, taking the glass of poison from her hand, and downing it in a single gulp. It tasted like a combination of the spiciest chili of all time, and for some reason, banana split. It was actually not… as bad as it might seem at first description. It went down relatively smoothly, and was not unlike a dessert, the spicy taste was quickly washed down by the chocolatey-banana taste that came after.

And then it hit him, when it began to be absorbed into his body, but the pain lasted only a single, solitary and brief moment, before Reiju planted her lips to his, holding onto his face with her hands, her pale skin, pink hair and vibrant, pastel colored outfit contrasting brightly against Lee's own dark skin, dark clothes and rough appearance.

As they kissed, they truly did look like a young lady and a tramp.

The pain faded quickly and was soon replaced by pleasure, as all of Lee's nerves flared trying to signal impending doom, but the source was removed, and instead, just a tingle was left as he became incredibly sensitive all of a sudden, all nerves flaring with a surprisingly intense, yet unidentifiable sensation.

It felt… good! It was not the same as sexual pleasure, but it wasn't too dissimilar.

"How was that?" Reiju asked.

"Different," Lee responded, shaking his head a little.

"Ooh, I'd love to try that too, that looks interesting," Anne said.

"Let's skip the poison!" Mary shouted, jumping on her, knocking her to the ground and immediately smooching her, loudly, wetly and lewdly, making sure that everyone saw that their tongues were intertwined with an open mouthed kiss, as well as the fact that she wasn't really holding back when it came to fulfilling her desires.

"And there they go," Cologne said, standing up herself, and grabbing a broom that she used to begin pushing Mary and Anne, who were hugging each other, rolling them out of the way.

"I am surrounded by perverts," Kuina groaned. "Every waking moment of my life is an attempt on my sanity," she shouted.

"Don't be so stingy," Lee said, waving his hand at her, "it's not all the time, we train like regular people too!" he said. "I mean I haven't even bought those gray sweatpants I wanted to get!"

"I don't even know what that is, but I know it's lewd, dumb, or both," Kuina responded.

Reiju laughed. "Well now I'm interested," she said. "You guys are a very lively crew… I wasn't sure on joining but I couldn't stay home, I'm glad you convinced me in the end."

"Oh, yeah, I don't even know what's going on. How did you guys- you know, how did you guys even meet, let alone wind up being friendly enough for him to invite you to the ship?" Kuina asked.

Lee gulped down his drink, slamming it down when he was finished. "She tried to kill me," he said.

Kuina blinked, then looked at Reiju. "I tried to kill him," she confirmed.

The swordswoman started to speak, but then closed her mouth, then started again, raising a finger, then thought better of it. "Is neither of you going to elaborate?"

"Ah, right, well, you remember when Sanji was apprenticing with Cologne?" Lee said.

"Yeah. He was cute back then," Kuina said. "He's now a big shot chef here, I always knew he had potential," she said. "What about it?"

"Reiju is his older sister, and she wanted to see how he was doing all out on his own, right?" Lee asked, turning towards Reiju.

She took a sip of her own drink, regular alcohol this time, and nodded. "Yes. After some time I… became worried and tried to make sure everything was okay. And then when I did finally manage to track him down, not an easy task mind you," she said, "well, when I found him…"

"I was training Sanji the same way I was trained," Lee finished, laughing.

"With the knives?" Kuina winced. "Yyyeah, I can see why she jumped to conclusions there."

"Fortunately, even back then Lee was very strong and skilled, I didn't stand a chance," Reiju spoke, somewhat fondly. "Even when I used everything I had on me, every trick I could think of… Even some I thought up on the spot."

"She spat in my eyes!" Lee shouted. "Who does that? Kicking dust in people's eyes, okay that's a classic, crushed glass, cruel but I understand it, but spitting in people's eyes!?" Lee protested, "I just knew then that it was meant to be."

"Because she spat in your eyes," Kuina accused. "Are you actually an idiot?"

"Yes!" Lee said, proudly, "that's when I knew it was meant to be, somebody who's willing to throw away pride, dignity and social acceptability for the sake of achieving their goals, that's the kind of people I want in my crew! As long as I agree with those goals!"

Reiju was a little embarrassed over the whole thing. "I'm a bit jealous though," she said. "I only got to see him every once in a while, whenever I could sneak around well enough…" she said, playing with some of her long, pink hair, one of her fingers flicking the curl of her eyebrows. "But you're always with him, you must be really close."

"N-No, we're not that-"

Lee grabbed Kuina's shoulder and brought her over to his side, pressing her against him, her face instantly going bright tomato red. "We are best rivals," he said, "and friends," he added, "and she denies it but we're also gonna be lovers someday."

"You- You perverted dumbass," Kuina shouted, pushing him off of her.

Cologne hummed. "Denial, typical of immature girls," she said. "You've got time to grow, but do not make the mistake of waiting too long to stake your claim. I knew many a coward who found her favorite man becoming another's concubine simply because they lacked the bravery to take that first step."

Reiju nodded. "Yeah, yeah that's important," she said.

"Ugh, I don't want to get this sort of advice from people who I'm supposedly competing with," Kuina muttered, looking aside, crossing her arms and huffing.

Of course, to all of that, the only thing that came out of it for Lee to hear was a big and loud "Tsun tsun!" in her voice. He resisted the urge to grab her and make her go full dere dere right then and there, neither of them was drunk enough for that to ever work. He took another drink, and then grabbed Reiju, pressing her body to his.

"Well, that's how she is," Lee said.

"Competing?" Reiju asked, laughing.

"What, are you saying you're so much better looking than I am that there's no competition?" Kuina snapped, turning angrily. "Even I'll get offended!"

"No," Reiju said. She was very good at controlling herself and her reactions, something she had no doubt learned from living with her family, Lee mused, and it was being put to practice by keeping an entirely calm and detached demeanor as she spoke of something that most people would not, in fact, be so cool and collected about. "I'm saying that it doesn't really matter… right Lee?"

"Right!" Lee said, pumping his fist with his free hand while he squeezed Reiju's ass with the other. "Because I'll be the Harem King of the Open Seas!" he said, gesturing grandly with his hand, "all of the most beautiful people in these seas will become my dearest companions, and bedmates too!" he said, "including you," he said, pointing at Reiju, who raised an eyebrow, "and you!" he added, pointing at Kuina, almost flicking her nose as he moved his finger, "and yes, even you!" he added, pointing now at the boy in a maid outfit that had just reemerged on the deck, bringing another beer keg up from storage.

"Me?" Sura asked.

"Yes you!" Lee spoke.

"My husband truly is an insatiable man, the spirit of conquest is strong in him," Cologne hummed, a small smile on her face as she elegantly sipped on tea that hadn't been there a few moments before, all traces of potential drunkenness removed. "But, I see that you'll need a little bit of alone time," she said, "do welcome the newest member of our crew, husband."

"Speaking about which," Lee said, squeezing Reiju's butt and dragging a sweet moan out of her, breaking through her attempt at maintaining a cool head in public. "Where the fuck is Drake!?"

"She'll find us, don't worry about it, we can always find you," Cologne said, "she'll show up eventually."

"So you don't know either, blegh," Lee said, then he stood up, knocking his chair back, and then lifting Reiju on his arms. "Well then, let's forget about that, I'm sure that problem will fix itself!" he said.

"Uh, what are you doing?" Reiju asked.

"I'm going to take you to my room, and I'm going to fuck you in it!" Lee said, grinning.

"Ah. Yeah that sounds good," Reiju said.

"What? Just like that!? He just says it and you just- let him!?" Kuina cried out in anger. "Stop enabling this perverted beast's lusts, at least make him work for it a little!" she protested, "he'll get the idea he's actually as sexy as he thinks he is!"

"Nobody is as sexy as I think I am!" Lee shouted, "but confidence is sexy too!" he said.

"You're not supposed to be the one saying that, ugh, you're doing it on purpose!" Kuina spoke, collapsing on the table. "Ughh… I'll just- I'll just pretend that the ship's rocking because of the waves… yeah…."

The East Blue was almost distressingly calm, that day. The ship was barely even moving, just smoothly gliding across the water. Turns out that when it came to a world that was almost entirely covered in water, shipbuilding had become an incredibly advanced art, and they had managed to do extremely interesting things to make seafaring a lot less difficult and annoying.

Lee laughed, kissing Reiju once more, same as before, with no poison this time, lifting her up in his arms. "Oi, we're going to be busy for a while," he declared.

"We are?" Reiju asked, raising one of her very peculiar eyebrows.

"The celebration's only just getting started!" the captain declared.

"We'll take care of the rest. Don't worry about Drake, she'll pop up at the most inconvenient time," Cologne said.

Meanwhile, the still kissing duo of Caribbean Lovebirds rolled close to Lee, both of them flashing a momentary thumbs up at their captain, before they returned to the activity they were most interested in.

"Maid boy, come on, I'll teach you the secrets of dishwashing, I'll turn you into a true housemaker!" Cologne declared, grabbing a long and gnarled piece of wood, not quite the same as her staff, but it's not like she needed it when she had her youth back anyway. Her hair swayed gently in the breeze as she moved, almost like she was the wind itself, over the table and then landing right next to Sura, who was even now struggling with his duties.

"We'll assign you a room later," Lee said.

Reiju seemed surprised. "You guys have assigned rooms?" she asked.

"If I'm gonna spend most of my life on a boat, it's gonna be the most comfortable boat I can make it be!" Lee declared. "And no, don't ask how the anti-rocking measures on the beds work, because I have no fucking clue," he said. "When the shipwright was explaining it my brain just kinda stopped working."

"Fair enough. I'll definitely want a look at the blueprints later though," Reiju said

Lee shrugged with his shoulders, and took Reiju to his room, where he tossed her on the bed which, as promised, did not at all feel like they were on a boat constantly struck by the waves.

"You know, back at home this is how several training exercises started," Reiju stated, idly, reaching with a hand into her mouth and seemingly playing with her teeth, until she pulled out what appeared to be a tablet or pill of some sort. She flicked it with her thumb and it landed on the trash bing.

"Was that a last resort suicide pill?"

Reiju exhaled out of her nose. "Suicide?" she asked. "No, it was for the kidnapper, not the kidnappee," she explained. "I'm a valuable asset, I'm supposed to do my best to make it back home. We may be disposable in the end, but until the time comes we are to recognize our value to the Germa 66," she said, a touch of bitterness to her voice.

It was yet another reminder that things were not the way they seemed. Lee could actually stop to think, have a long time for himself in which he put the world and himself and his knowledge into focus and tried to make sense of everything to make sure he wasn't caught by surprise by any strange future developments…

But truth be told?

That was not what he was here for. That wasn't the kind of man he was. No, in no way, would he be the kind of man who cowers from the future, who struggles to make as small a ripple as possible because he's so attached to his own knowledge. Besides, he barely even remembered almost any of that stuff anyway, so fuck it!

Besides, what kind of man would he be, if he was able to focus on anything like that, when a stunningly beautiful woman was taking off her dress in front of him? The pink minidress didn't hide much to begin with, it exposed the entirety of her legs and the plunging neckline exposed her cleavage and even her belly button, but even so, there was something naughty about her taking it off…

As expected, she didn't wear a bra, not that she needed one, her full and perky melons bounced lightly as her dress was removed, and settled when she tossed it away, spreading her legs slightly, bringing attention to her long, slim and powerful legs.

The pinnacle of Vinsmoke engineering, the product of all things brought together into a single, glorious result. Genetic engineering, both the modern sort and the older, simpler selective breeding, extreme and very thoroughly researched training and of course, simple dumb luck, each of Reiju's muscles was a paragon of human excellence.

Oh, they were strong too, but mostly, they were extremely amazing to look at. "Damn, I could spend hours just looking at you," Lee said, as he made short work of his only article of clothing over his torso, a simple and light vest, revealing that he himself had been sculpted by training for a very long time.

"I sure hope looking's not the only thing in your mind," she said.

Lee's eyes traced her legs, from the tip of her fuchsia painted nails, all the way to her inner thighs, and of course, the pink, purple and yellow thong that she wore underneat her minidress. It felt almost natural for her to wear such a thing, with just how startingly sexy she was. Plus, no doubt it resolved the problem of her underwear riding up when she kicked high. What a clever solution.

Lee grinned, grabbed the waist of his exercise pants, and then shoved them down, revealing what lay underneath them, the one eyed sea serpent.

"O-Oh. Oooh… Oh..!" Reiju's jaw dropped a little.

"Does that answer your question?" Lee asked.

Reiju gulped. "I… woah. I just- just woah," she said. "Are you sure you're not enhanced?" she asked.

"Yep," Lee said, "this is all natural!" he laughed, throwing his head back a little. It was hard not to, pride and good cheer bubbled up from within. Almost with surprising care and softness, he climbed on top of the bed alongside Reiju and covered her body with his, claiming her for yet another kiss, one of his hands on her back, the other fondling her now almost entirely naked ass, her pink thong doing nothing to cover it at all.

He pressed his big, hard and thick cock against her crotch, and the sheer heat of it was staggering, for both of them, as they began pressing their crotches against each other, rubbing hard, even as Reiju's hands reached for Lee's back, one of them trailing low to grope his own ass, while the other left red lines, scratches from her fingernails, all over his back.

Lee winced, their kiss ending as they separated. "Nails? Poison?" he asked, panting a little.

"Only a little, it'll hurt for a moment but then make you more sensitive, it's for interrogation," she assured him. "If you hate it I can wash it off."

For a moment, she almost sounded vulnerable, like she was afraid that she might've made a terrible mistake. "You sneaky little vixen," Lee laughed, "if you think that's gonna be enough to give you a fighting chance in bed, go ahead and use anything you want, I'm gonna show you what the captain's log is really all about."

Reiju groaned, unable to maintain her composure at the absolutely awful joke, but then she just smiled, and they kissed again.

Lee's hand went to grab at her thong, and a combination of impatience and lust had him ripping it right off of her body. Reiju was far stronger than her slim body might imply, and she didn't even feel anything, only a rush of wind when her extremely hot and wet pussy lips were exposed to the air.

But not for long, because Lee was moving himself into position. "From now on, you're my woman," Lee said, simply and openly. There was no question, no last minute warning. This was him giving her an explanation of what was about to happen, without the insulting last minute chance to back out.

After all…

Both knew that the decision had been made a long time ago. Lee thought for a moment, of getting into a fight with this woman, of finding himself surprisingly respecting her drive to protect her little brother and her willingness to bloody her hands or get on her knees to do so, even if he had made her confess she intended to bite his dick off at the first opportunity.

Most of all, it was a simple and animalistic drive that brought them together. Lee pushed in, implacably. His dick was hard, as hard as a steel rod even, and he spread her open almost like she was being impaled. She was no cute blushing virgin bride, she had received quite a few kinds of training related to the marital arts, if only so she could properly defend herself against seduction or employ it when needed.

And yet.

With all of that, with all of the training she had received, all the research she had done, all the help she had been given, and even employing her strongest aphrodisiacs, all of it meant nothing in the face of the overwhelming power of a cock tearing through her mind and spirit at once, spreading open her vaginal muscles.

Each of Lee's hands was on her thighs, his palms on each of her 6 tattoos, holding her legs spread open. She opened her eyes, not realizing she had closed them tightly shut.

She panted, heavily, realizing only now that she couldn't even speak. Lee grinned down at her, sweating a little. "You just came, princess," he said, chuckling lowly, "damn, you went crazy as soon as I put it in," he said, then he looked down, "and it's only halfway in. You were one needy girl, huh?"

Reiju blushed bright red, then glared at him. With a wince, she relaxed her muscles and found herself using a surprising amount of strength, despite her weakened body due to the throes of the orgasm still going through her, her legs wrapping around Lee's waist. "Guh, I'm not- out just- just yet!"

Lee grinned. "That's what I like to hear," he said, one of his hand groping her breast, the other holding himself up. His own muscles tensed, and they both felt each other, for a few moments, until Lee allowed her legs to pull him in, as he went even deeper into her, every single inch of his cock going in causing yet more gasps, cries and moans of pleasure to erupt from Reiju.

"Ugh, it's so huge..!" she protested, one of her eyes closed, teeth gritting, and most important of all, every muscle in her body was tensed as she fought her hardest, only to find herself facing the inescapable weakness of a body designed and refined for battle.

Reiju found herself discovering that she was distressingly weak to pleasure, as another potent orgasm rocked through her body, her muscles trembling and her cunt squeezing down on the big bad captain's meat, throwing her head back and screaming out her orgasm.

Once she was fully and completely relaxed and simply riding the waves of her orgasm, Lee grinned down at her.

"This is where it only just begins..!" the dark skinned captain said, the contrast of his dark skin and hair to her light skin and pink hair almost made them look like a fragile beautiful princess and a depraved demon… Well, he didn't particularly mind.

Lee held her down, even as her bucking body almost threatened to knock her off, demonstrating that same strength that she had used to beat up robots less than a day before, and then he began furiously pounding her into the mattress, slamming himself home, deep into her body, his cock kissing her furthest depths.

She was strong and durable, far more so than the average human would be, but it only protected her from pain and damage, when it came to pleasure, she had no defense, at least no worthwhile defense. The militaristic family that had raised her had not thought about sex per se, only about sexual violence, and thus Reiju was not even slightly prepared for Lee, she thought she was, she thought she could handle it, but she found herself overwhelmed in moments.

Again and again, he laid into her, the bed and its reinforcements creaking as Reiju screamed out another overwhelming orgasm that destroyed her mental capacity, no amount of training had prepared her for the real thing.

"Ahwgh, fuck- fuuuck!" Reiju shouted, "I can'urghhh again, ag'n~!"

One of his hands held her leg high in the air, the other mauled her breast, his lips mashed to hers. He felt the tingle of her going out of her way, feeding him as much of the aphrodisiac venom as she could, and he felt his ki rolling through his body, flowing, cycling, ensuring that he held himself together as he reached his own limit, her madly spasming cunt squeezing around him until he finally allowed himself to let go, hilting himself and then loosening all of his muscles, letting go of the resistance he had been practicing, and giving Reiju the thick, creamy treat that she had been working so hard for.

Her cunt milked him, and so he allowed himself to be milked, thrusting his hips every time he let out another thick and hot spurt of dick milk, feeding it almost directly to her womb, each shot bigger than a lesser man's entire load. He had no mercy nor restraint, grabbing her as much as he could, pressing their bodies together, as he seeded her.

He rolled over and allowed Reiju to ride him, resting on the bed and helping her move. She had incredibly good coordination for someone as deeply fuck drunk as she was. Semen flowed from their point of union, rolling down his cock, onto his balls and thighs, the fact that it managed to leak out despite the tight seal a testament to just how much of it there was inside her.

Lee grinned. "Was that everything you've been waiting for?"

Reiju stabilized herself with her hands on his chest. "I-" she breathed in deeply, "my training didn't prepare me for this, it was way more intense," she said, almost gulping down air. "After you started I could barely breathe… Freedom's just as intimidating as you said it'd be, huh?"

Lee laughed.

"I promised you, didn't I?"

Indeed…

"Yeah, you did," she said, a small smile drawing itself on her face. "You know… way back then, I was prepared to go back to my country and live the dull life of a caged bird," she said. "I'm shocked you thought that promising me that one day you'd show me why Sanji was so obsessed with sex would work."

"Well it fucking did, didn't it?" Lee laughed, grabbing her ass.

She laughed, freely, openly, without restraint. Nothing like she ever did before. This was the laugh of someone who had cast off her restraints. "Too bad, I really wanted to show you what I learned in my training," she said. "Don't think I'm going to be able to use any of that seduction training."

Lee grinned. "If you really want to show me what that's all about," he said, "I've got an idea, why don't you show me what you've got, with our little peeping maid boy over there, who thinks I can't see him spying from the crack of the door."

Reiju hummed, looked behind her and saw the door opening, showing the shiphand boy, Sura, still with his hand in his underpants, the other holding his dress up. He looked like he was looking at a cargo ship coming into the docks entirely too fast to stop, and even more importantly, it was coming for him.

Lee grinned.

"Come on now," he said, waving the boy in, "let me show you the perks of joining my crew…"