Chapter 19
When we come back to our senses, we don't make a ruckus nor any obvious moves that could lead one to believe that we are actually here for the wanted singer.
We simply pick a table at the corner of the club and order what we think is best.
As we are doing this however, we don't take our eyes off of Carina, not only because of her charming presence and voice, but because we want to be able to react if any sudden situation arises.
Also, due to Porche-Chan's sexy attire some club goers begin to annoy me by repeatedly asking for her hand in dance, or simply for her to go hang out with them.
It was natural and not too offensive at first, since Porche-chan is a beautiful woman and I myself am covered in a hood and cape, but after some time it became so annoying that I just wanted to stand up and fire a meteor shot at them and obliterate every single one of them.
Thankfully Porche-chan noticed this and began to reject offers much more harshly, making the lively requests stop completely after some time.
Finally, after 30 long minutes of Carina performing continuously, she bows deeply to the crowd, revealing some of her deep cleavage, and walks off the stage towards the bar.
Many eager fans, including most men that requested Porche-chan, try to speak to her and get her attention but she simply reacts by smiling gently and continues to ignore their calls and pleas.
Yeah, almost every single person in here became a simp for her, and the only thing she needed to achieve this are her natural looks and to show a bit of skin.
As I see this, I laugh and find it quite funny, because in the One Piece world and possibly even in my previous world, beauties are always treated wonderfully and simped for anywhere they go.
This situation kind of reminds me of Hina and her two simps: that Fullbody fellow and that other unimportant guy.
Heh, they were always a great comedic relief in the show…I wonder if I'll be able to see how beautiful Hina-chan is in person now that I'm here…
Anyways back to the situation, it appears that Carina is heading towards a door that's guarded by a large bouncer which nods at her and closes the door behind her, blocking the ravenous crowd behind her.
As we see this we finally react and get out of our table in order to walk to the restrooms.
Intending for time to pass before we act.
And as we come back out a few minutes later it seems that no one noticed our departure from our previous location and now that it's been a few minutes the backdoor leading to Carina is also being ignored by the crowd as well, only in the mind of the bouncer.
That's exactly what we wanted to happen.
We then discreetly and naturally go towards the bar and as we are approaching it Porche-chan slowly reveals a small flower shuriken from her sleeve and proceeds to discreetly throw it at the furthest bottle on the drink cabinet.
This catches the attention of the people close by, but not of anyone else since loud music is now blaring in the background.
Yet most importantly is that it catches the attention of the bouncer, forcing him to turn his head towards the commotion, and just as that happens, I sneak as close to him as I comfortably can and fire off a slow-slow beam towards him.
When this happens Porche-chan, and I react quickly because we both know that the window of time before he can react to anything in the slow-slow beam is about 3-4 seconds.
That's when he will notice something is wrong, but he won't be able to understand what is happening, but if he sees us sneaking inside, he will know for sure that we are the culprits.
Therefore, we quickly sneak by him, open the door behind him and close it, leaving only a small gap in order to see the aftermath.
And just as we predicted, 30 seconds later, he speeds back up to normal time and looks confused as hell.
He shakes his head back and forth and looks all around him for what the hell happened to him, but unfortunately for him, doesn't find anything.
Finally, after some time, he just assumes that it must have been a figment of his imagination or something and goes back to guarding the door once again, acting like it never happened.
When we see this, we smile at our success and gently close the door.
And that's when we hear a sudden *click* and a voice behind our backs, "Don't move or you're dead".
Chapter 20
And that's when we hear a sudden *click* and a voice behind our backs, "Don't move or you're dead".
As we hear this we frown because we didn't hear any footsteps, and that indicates that this is either a very competent individual or that we must still need a lot of work in perceiving our surroundings and going by the fact that I recognize the voice, I would say that it's both.
Just as the voice is continuing to speak, probably going to tell us to turn around and put our hands up or something, I fire off a slow-slow beam from my back.
I quickly turn around, and just as I predicted, I see a startled looking Carina frozen in time holding a handgun towards my head.
I quickly move towards her and snatch the gun away from her before she can pull the trigger and ruin all of our hard work.
The gun doesn't budge far from her person (I still can't manipulate things when they are hit by the slow effects, the gun also weighs a literal ton under its effects), but now that I am much stronger I can simply brute force it.
With the gun in my hands, and Carina just blankly staring into space we just wait there in silence for 30 seconds until the effects run out and Carina is finally able to react to what happened.
She quickly stumbles back and yelps as she trips over her feet and lands on her round ass.
I quickly point the gun at her and state, "Don't scream, you see this gun in my hand right… anyways we are not here to hurt you, we are here to ask you something."
As I say this Carina looks terrified at first but when she comprehends the second part, she seems very puzzled and unsure of what to do… so she just fidgets there, but thankfully doesn't scream.
After a bit she shakily replies, "Umm, if you are here to proposition me don't you think its best without the gun? He heh."
When I hear this a wryly smile and state, "promise me that if I put this gun down you won't scream, and we have a deal, because honestly I don't need this gun in order to silence you, as you've clearly seen."
She hesitates for a moment and then quickly nods, "I promise."
With that I lower down my hand, and holster the gun on my waist, and as Carina sees me do this she quietly sighs and then asks, "what are you doing here and what are you here to ask me?"
Seeing that she's back in control of herself I quickly offer her a hand to stand up, which she takes, and stands back onto her feet.
Being so up close to her I notice that she is actually a pretty small woman, about 5.6 ft if I were to guess but this just adds to her womanly charm.
I quickly inspect her further and I like what I'm seeing.
She has a beautiful face with lustrous purple hair, shining blue eyes with large G-cup sized breasts, a slim waist, and a rocking ass to finish off the package.
Seeing that I'm closely inspecting her with obvious lust, she flirtatiously smiles and coyly asks, "Like what you see, big boy?"
After hearing this I quickly reply, "Yes," which stuns her for a bit, but I continue "But I'm not here for that right now, I'm here for you!"
She reacts to that, "Huh!?"
Seeing this I quickly elaborate, "*cough* I mean that I have a proposition for you that can earn us a pretty penny if we collaborate."
Hearing this she makes an understanding face and says while walking down the small hallway into a living room full of expensive furnishings, "Well why didn't you say so, c'mon come this way, we'll talk in a more comfortable place."
She then sits down on a comfortable looking chair, pulls the coffee table towards her, pours three drinks, hands one to each of us, and then relaxes back onto her chair with a leg above the other and an elbow on her knee, making her look extremely sexy, and asks "Well? What is it that you wanted to ask little ol' me?"
Chapter 21
With her kicking off the conversation I ask," well firstly I wanted to ask if you knew that you have a 50 million belly bounty on your head at this very moment?"
She gives me a strange expression and replies, "of course I know I have a bounty on my head…how wouldn't I know? It's basically become a daily conversation piece among the crowds and it's also a very good selling point for my performances."
With this strange but expected response I get quite puzzled, and it appears she noticed because she then continues, "It appears you are confused; you must be wondering why I would behave normally in the face of that bounty right? Well to put it simply, that bounty is a fake, or as fake as it could get."
As I hear this, I'm even more confused… a fake bounty? What the heck, I know that it's a local bounty for this country but it's still very strange to think about.
I respond with," Fake bounty? How is that possible? More importantly, why is there a fake bounty on your head?"
As I say this, she seems to have a hesitant look for a second before she replies, "Don't worry about that for now handsome, I might tell you if you convince me to work with you, what was that little bit about anyways?"
Once I hear this I nod, it makes sense, she has her own secrets as does anyone, so I continue, "Well about that… I was hoping you would be desperate for an escape route out of the island or something, but it appears I was mistaken, either way I want you in my team, to work with us on something important that will also net you a pretty penny if you perform well."
She quirks a brow, and replies "Your team? And what would this oh so important thing be?"
I simply reply with, "Power."
"Power?" she questions, to which I nod…
She looks at me strangely before laughing a bit and replying, "Ok POWER, but what type of power? And why is it so important to you that you want it? As far as I can see you've already eaten a devil fruit and as far as I know if one eats more than 1 devil fruit they go *Boom*," emphasizing the point with exaggerated hand gestures.
"Heh… ill just get right to the point, I want you to help me steal the Hasshoken technique from the Happo Navy in exchange for a self-created manual for a marine associated martial style that lets one become a superhuman…in the black market it should go for 100+ million belly easily per manual."
I then continue without letting her say anything, "Also if that's not enough I will also let you take all of the gold and loot that we collect on the way there, with my slow-slow powers and your abilities it will be easy to collect a small fortune, and possibly a larger fortune from the Happo Navy if you want to."
With all my cards on the table all that's left is to see if she will play ball or not.
…
It's the following day and I'm currently resting on a lawn chair under a sun umbrella watching how sexy, busty women swim around and interact with each other around the large hotel pool (There's also men but…meh).
I'm currently in a daze remembering yesterday's events, what I learned, and processing the fact that I now have access to someone who could help me with a lot of things in the future.
In the end she accepted my proposal, apparently for a few reasons which she chose to disclose.
Firstly, it appears that she was already planning on leaving the Ballywood kingdom and even the West Blue very soon, and the main reason being that she wants to visit the Grand Line and see if she can make it there or if she will fail like many others that she's heard of.
Due to her relative fame, she also knows a lot more about Paradise then most, she knows about its dangers, but she also knows about its many opportunities as well as the fact that there are plenty of islands, that yes while dangerous to some point, can still be considered normal enough to normal standards.
And apparently, she is also somewhat of a daredevil because she mentioned that "I also miss the feeling of going up Reverse Mountain."
She told me that she not long ago left East Blue and crossed into this sea by going over Reverse Mountain, which makes sense, it wasn't mentioned in canon but it's not hard to believe that she has visited most if not all the blues at one point.
The second reason for her accepting the deal is because she feels that we could make a decent team with my powers to slow down time for people, and she also mentioned that she would feel safer visiting the Grand Line with someone strong like me instead of by herself or with a random crew that isn't very capable.
And lastly, it's for the money. ($_$) …that's the face she had…and somehow, I can even see the image of the dollar sign in her eyes…weird.
Finally, not only will she be able to sell the top-secret martial arts to interested parties, which I warned her about the possible dangers, but when I mentioned that she will also be able to learn it if she wanted to, with my and Porches' help, she was also interested.
She wasn't sure about this at first, but when I mentioned some of the awesome techniques, like running on air, moving so fast you seem to be teleporting, and throwing out wind blades with your limbs, she was all for it.
Of course, when she accepted, she didn't see my evil smile that I hid because if she had, she definitely wouldn't have…Yeah, I'm going to enjoy training her.
But the tort *cough* The training she's going to go through in the future isn't just for my amusement, nor is it for my relief that someone else will be struggling with the Rokushiki when I see someone like Porche, who was supposed to be a minor character, mastering them so quickly… I mean she's already at 6-7/10 steps for Shave and is somehow catching up to me in a weeks' time…
Anyways I believe that this will truly help her, especially in the Grand Line. In canon she was a weakling that relied on her charm and acting 24/7 in order to survive; and honestly, I'm not even sure she did survive.
I mean by the end of the movie: "Gold", she 'got away' with a city size ship made of gold… yeah, I don't believe that for a fucking second.
Not only would pirates be raiding that ship faster than you can say shit, but do you really think the World Government would allow someone so weak to own like 10% of the world's wealth?
I mean they likely only allowed Tesoro to continue because he bent over backwards for the Celestial Dragons when they came to visit.
So yeah…No, it's obvious that whatever happened at the end of that movie, didn't go so well for her.
This time I'm here to change that, by the time I'm done with her she will be able to kick some major ass all on her sexy lonesome.