I yawned as I went to the dock before I went to the workbench and forge getting out all my full bottles. I took a good look at the fox bottle and looked at the cap. It had an emblem of a K/B on it. The fox or rather a Kitsune full bottle had a molded shape of a nine-tailed fox with orange coloring and that reminded me I pointed two empty bottles at a model train ussop left nearby and at a lock that Nani dropped.
Gaining the train and lock full bottles I ordered them by best match.
Rabbit, tank, hawk, Gatling, kaizoku, Densha, doctor, gamer, gorilla, fox, dog, lion, hedgehog, wolf, and lock. That reminded me Denden Mushi was practically a cell phone so I pointed an empty bottle at my Denden Mushi and got the phone full bottle.
"Hey, James how many of those do you have" asked Zoro having come up to the deck and spotted me with my full bottles.
" 16 bottles now I took a look at the one evolt forced out of my body as my full bottle. It's based on a nine-tailed fox but I have no idea what goes with it besides it being an inanimate object starting with the letter B" I said looking up.
" How did you get most of these bottles anyway," asked Zoro.
" Normally a rider has to defeat a smash then use an empty bottle to suck up the nebula gas to return them to normal making them smash bottles. When purified they become full bottles. In my case since I can purify them myself, it doesn't take a long time. As for the bottles I seem to have the ability to gather the nebula gas from objects around me instead of facing a smash as an alternative. I know which ones I'm missing the match to for some of the bottles I got on hand. Dog's match is a microphone, a lock is matched with a dragon, and the gorilla is matched with diamond. A lion is matched with a vacuum, a hedgehog is matched with a firetruck. And don't ask me how the matching system works not even I understand it" I said shrugging.
" Hmm, can you try with my swords I want to test something," said Zoro unsheathing his named blade and shrugging I pointed an empty bottle at it creating a steel-colored full bottle with a molded-in sword on it as I closed the cap and looked at it seeing the emblem on my fox full bottle?
"Holy! The blade is Kitsunes match!" I said wide-eyed.
" Huh talk about lucky so going to train James," asked Zoro.
" Yeah need to see what each armor does. So it's going to be interesting at least" I said putting on my driver and grabbed the ones for matches I just got.
"Let's test out my supposed personal match first then check the others," I said slotting in Kitsune and blade after shaking them and unlocking the caps.
Kitsune! Blade! Unite match!
Spinning the crank I felt the snap ride builder from around me and I sighed as I let go.
Are you ready?
"Henshin!" I said making the parts come off but instead of instantly forming on me they formed a fox with nine tails looking mechanical with the ears looking like sword blades before flipping towards me opening up and covering me as my clothes were replaced by a black bodysuit.
The nine-tailed blade! Kitsword! Ora!
Looking myself over I had rust-red armor with steel-colored trim and I noted the blade-like fox ears were now forearm mounted sword gauntlets while hanging from my back like a mantle was the nine foxtails and my visor was a fox head with a sword blade coming from the jaws. Shoulder pads were mainly fox paws with a blade-like dagger acting as claws and I tested out the range estimating my swords were about the same length as Zoro's swords.
"Okay that was new and huh according to my heads-up display I can cover my swords in flames and I can make illusion clones if I need to. Pretty versatile" I said looking it over.
A boom got our attention as ussop tested out the cannon hitting a rock formation and not long after appeared Zoro's old bounty hunter friends who were suffering from scurvy and nami brought out some oranges to fix the issue as I pointed an empty bottle at an orange gaining the orange full bottle giving me access to gaim's form.
After learning their names and apologizing for the cannon incident we headed for the berate a floating restaurant where we will meet Sanji as I removed my armor before I put away my full bottles. Docking we entered the restaurant and got ready to eat and I warned Luffy to not eat more than we can pay. Strangely enough, after so many years at sea, you would be surprised by what beli you find floating on the sea's surface. My hammerspace was full of millions of beli but I was planning on using some of it to finish Nami's debt and act as emergency funds. Considering the black hole that's Luffy's stomach I was just being prepared. He still pestered Sanji into joining the crew as he worked to pay off his meal. Though I did manage to warn Sanji that Kayla and ussop are dating and that ussop has uncanny accuracy if he tried anything funny with Kayla. I would even lend him my firearm for it. When Sanji tried to see if I was a single man I showed him my engagement ring with a deadpanned look.
"Trust me I'm very happy with the person I love but she's training to be part of my home's defenders right now and I don't want to distract her," I said.
" So why are you guys heading for the grand line," asked Sanji.
"Luffy wants to find one piece, Nani wants to make a global map, Zoro wants to be the best swordsman, ussop wants to become a brave man of the sea and the best marksman, Kayla wants to be the best medic while me I want to make sure there is a world me and those I consider family can live in. Following our dreams." I said as nami passing by drinking water performed a spit-take.
" How in the world did you know my dream," asked Nami wide-eyed.
"You been looking over maps since we picked you up after we defeated buggy. And I saw you drawing a combined version of those maps yesterday. Wasn't hard to figure it out" I deadpanned.
" Guess I was being quite obvious," said Nami blushing at that logic.
At that point, gin came by and Sanji fed him and he left before returning with his crew.
I sighed as nami took the merry and I moved to the front with Luffy.
"You idiots tried going through the calm belt instead of reverse mountain didn't you. Don't you know the calm belt is a seaking nest? Mihawk likely saved your sorry asses from getting killed. As a native of the new world the more dangerous half of the grand line I'm going to teach you, idiots, why you are biting more than you can chew" I said equipping my driver as I pulled out orange and lock. May as well show off Gaim at least.
Shaking the bottles I unlocked them and set them into my driver.
Orange! Lock! Unite match!
"Henshin," I said spinning the crank as instead of the snap ride builder a helhiem crack formed letting the orange arms appear before it landed on me. Forming gaim's undersuit.
Gaim! Orenge Arms hanamichi on stage!
With that, the armor sparked and unfolded into Gaim's orange arms, and in my hand appeared the daidaimaru and Musou saber.
"What the?" asked Zorro.
"This is Kamen rider gaim one of the legend riders. Surprisingly enough this guy became an actual God known as The Man of beginning. You would be surprised what knowledge enters my head when I use my driver" I said shrugging.
Charging I showed I was one hell of a swordsman myself before I combined my weapons into naginata mode taking out half the pirates before I switched to rabbit and tank as Luffy took on the captain I quickly took out the rest of the enemy pirates as Luffy managed to convince Sanji to join us and I watched as the captain backstabbed his crew as I managed to save gin.
"Why you! I have been loyal to you for so long and this is how you repay me!" Gin said shocked.
Then he revealed a lost bottle and became a smash before turning to me.
I was surprised he was currently the Owl smash one of the three components for Kamen rider grease's perfect form.
"Thank you for saving me from that backstabbing captain and as you have a similar ability to mine I'll join you and your captain someone has to watch the ship when the crew is away," said gin and I sighed.
"All right but I'll fix that bottle of yours later and make something so you don't mutate into a smash like that later," I said as Luffy fought fullbody into unconsciousness as Zoro fought mihawk and got his infamous scar. I did manage to get Zoro away before mihawk could finish him off.
Taking a lifeboat that survived and me entering hawkgattling to fly and tug the boat after nami next stop was arlong park. Time to get a few more full bottles there.
Though I turned gin's lost bottle into a proper owl full bottle making him his driver and adapter were going to wait until we hit Logue town for supplies.