One And A Half Years Later

A long time ago today I was having, quite possibly, the worst day of this entire life. And frankly, it only got worse from that point onwards.

Of all the stupidity that encompassed it. Of all the sheer bullshit that emanated out of the fact. Of all the sheer insanitythat accompanied it.

From the first sign of trouble, which I'd handily ignored, effortlessly shown by Red-hair Shanks. The bastards ability to, and I repeat, disable devil fruits coming out of nowhere!

To the frankly brimming red flag waved by Big Mom. Right in my freaking face no less.

I mean really. The moment the Big Bitch ran away should've been the moment I followed in her big-ass footsteps.

Not that I didn't know Murphy, or whichever Microsoft paperclip copy was fucking with me, had the need to intervene. I was screwing around with things that should not be screwed with. Of course, not that I could hardly be freaking blamed, I hadn't actually known exactly what it was I was doing, or causing that ticked off the almighty keyboard in the sky.

And of course, as with all muse victims, I realised what it was in the end. When it was conveniently too late no less.

And lo and behold, not one to let his fellows outshine him, Kaido scored the winning hat trick of the night. And before you ask, I'll tell you. I had, in my glorious wisdom, decreed that given the beast emperor's level of intellect, he had but one single task to follow.

A single favour even, one I was certain he would grace me with given our decades of proven history working together.

And yet... All the, dumb motherfu- I closed my eyes, a brief sigh escaping me. The winds howling in the distance, the waves of water catching against the edge of the ship. The four people transfixed as they stared at me. Different degrees of shock, awe, fear and...

Quite frankly, I didn't have a clue what Luffy was thinking and honestly I didn't really care right now. My eyes opening up quickly, locking onto Sugar's, the girls body frozen, for a moment before turning towards the two petrified idiots that pushed the girl far enough to finally call me.

All Kaido had to do, quite literally the one single thing, was ignore Straw Hat Luffy.

And what does the bastard do?

Take a guess-

He goes straight for Straw-Hat Luffy! Oh, of all the motherfu-

I took in another deep breath, the attempt to calm down not remotely helping.

Of course, Sugar didn't help matter's whatsoever! I'd told the girl to treat Luffy like she'd treat me and suicidal manoeuvres to protect me were so not part of that!

Which with Luffy's conviction to protect the princess at all costs... Led to, the bullshit.

Thy name is Bartholomew Kuma.

Add that all up and you have an absolute recipe for disaster.

'Swoosh'

My ears twitched at the sudden sound, my gaze locking onto the second of the aforementioned idiots, the gilded man's breath exhaling far too loudly. Tesoro's mouth about to open even, the dumbass daring to speak-

"...This is way above my pay-" To my surprise the words hadn't come from Tesoro's mouth. The devil fruit user in question blinking at having his intended words interrupted, his gaze snapping towards Tanaka, the head of his security. Admittedly a little roughed up for wear.

The moment Tesoro made to so much as snort in response, I promptly decided enough was enough. My voice, barely, loud enough to reach everyone in my immediate vicinity. The battered sails creaking the slightest, the ship practically unrecognisable to my eyes.

"The next unholy specimen of stardust to so much as breath wrong, I'll shove Ragnarok down their mouth breathing throats."

...

And with that Arc 2 is quickly set up! The next few parts will more or less show all the build up to this scene. From all the pov's mentioned.

Maybe not Kaido. I can do Daffy, I can't do crazy.

I am curious how many of you actually saw this coming. The fact of the matter was, quite literally, everyone had some idea of what was going to happen. The underlining point been that it involved throwing chaos at everyone.

And by everyone, I mean everyone.

The next update/part will be a flashback/continuation of part 1 and what basically wound up going down. Though this part has enough hints to give the full picture. But yes, this does mean the time-skip did, in some way, still go through. Which frankly without it would've either involved Shanks taking him under his wing, which goes against their promise, or hoping he figures out all three haki's while screwing around like kid in the new world.

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