(A/N: I own nothing, one piece is owned by whoever created one piece)
Summary: Jinbei software upgrade, New crewmate, the library.
list of charlottes in this chapter because there's a lot of them: Mont-d'or, Brulee, Broye, Katakuri, Oven, Daifuki
previously:
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JINBEI-EXE HAS STOPPED WORKING
PRESENT:
CHAPTER 11
(-IN JINBEI-EXE-)
Jinbei-exe has stopped working due to excessive data received towards system.
The data "BIG MOM IS LUFFY'S FUCKING SON?!" had been too much for the system to handle with the file size.
Data has caused additional new data's to be created:
"DRAGON WAS MARRIED TO BIG MOM?!" has been added
"DRAGON FUCKED BIG MOM?!" has been added
"HOW DOES A HUMAN PROCREATE WITH A GIANT?!" has been added
"WHAT THE FUCK" has been added
All files are equally large which has taken up most of the space.
Due to this problem, it has caused the application to run significantly slower to the point it won't even run.
Recommended solution: removing temporary files to make room so the application can run smoothly and in optimal conditions.
Creating room for data via purging temporary files and unnecessary cache, please wait...
3%...
7%...
24%...
49%...
72%...
97%...
100%...Data purge completed.
For the unforeseen future, we will upgrade and improve the application for problems it could face which were similar towards this.
Starting upgrade now...
33%...storage capacity has been upgraded to handle bigger files.
66%...systems have been optimized to run smoother
100%...file compression has been upgraded to make data smaller, improving storage over all while the data stays the same.
Upgrade has been completed.
Commencing reboot of application now.
Jinbei-exe is restarting, please wait...
Jinbei-exe is now running.
(-BACK IN REALITY-)
"OI! Jinbei!" Luffy shouted, trying to snap the fish man out of it, the fishman was stiff as a statue with no signs moving.
He had been standing there a solid 5 minutes without any movement at all, he hasn't blinked, he hasn't twitched, he just stood there As if he was frozen.
The charlottes looked on in amusement wondering how long it would take for him to snap back to reality.
Luffy had tried calling out to him for a while but nothing seemed to work until...
Jinbei blinked.
Luffy stepped back when it seems Jinbei had came back to his senses.
Jinbei(who rebooted) just looked and stared at Luffy for a couple of seconds before his eyes popped out and mouth gaped open at Luffy, he pointed at Luffy again but was shaking.
"You.. are her son?"
"Yea!" Luffy nodded.
"YOU! HER SON?!"
"YEA!"
"HER SON?!"
"YEA!"
Jinbei Looked towards the charlottes who were just staring at him in amusement, his facial expression was funny as hell to look at right now.
"Are you serious?!" Jinbei asked in which Brulee nodded while crossing her arms.
"Yea! Unless that bastard Dragon got together with another woman to have a child 17 years ago, especially on children's day than no."
Big mom Looked down at Luffy and asked "Your birthday is around May 5th right?"
"Yeah!" Luffy confirmed while nodding his head.
The Charlottes knew very well that their missing brother's birthday was on the 5th of may and he would be 17 years old, there was no way dragon had another child around that time period.
And besides, he was definitely a charlotte!
His appetite proved it.
Big mom then Looked at Jinbei "There's your proof, that was when my son was born and taken away from me"
"How did Dragon and you get together?!" Jinbei now asked, more shocked at the prospect those 2 actually married and even more so over the fact that they must have procreated for Luffy to be born.
"I made a deal with the man when he washed up onto our shore heavily injured, he would give me a child and would marry me until he was born and in exchange for that I would treat his injuries, and he surprisingly agreed quite easily."
Big mom shrugged but was thinking about the past, about dragon.
Of all her husbands she married and divorced, Dragon was an anomaly
Most of her Husbands when rejected and told to leave without getting to hold their kids would do so out of fear and with sadness or Protest against it and attempt to break in to either see or steal her child while being emotional and dramatic about it, some had asked only to see their child's face once and they would leave which she had granted, Although she sensed their feelings of sadness.
Dragon on the other hand left without issues or had any emotional reactions towards the news of getting kicked out and divorced, he seemed to have accepted the situation.
Maybe his goal was to get with her, make a child and steal said child from her? it would explain why he didn't react, he was probably planning to steal Luffy and get away.
Big mom snapped out of her thoughts and was now focusing on the presence, there was no point dwelling in the past.
"Anyways, moving forward... Luffy what's your relationship with Jinbei?" Big mom asked while tilting her head Looking at her son in curiosity.
She knew that Jinbei was sent to Impel down due to being the only warlord to refuse World government's orders to assist the marines against the whitebeard pirates which effectively stripped his title of warlord away from him, it was a big deal on the newspaper prior to his execution date.
Some time, Luffy had stormed into the prison and freed him along with several prisoners where he accompanied her son who with the prisoners, heading for marineford to prevent the death of Fire-fist Ace.
After freeing Ace and getting away, Him along with Silvers Rayleigh with her son went to marineford again to convey the message for his crew and after that not much is known about the relationship between them.
"I met Jinbei when I got into Impel down trying to save Ace! he asked to also be released because he wanted to save Ace so I freed him!" Luffy said cheerfully.
"Is that so?" Big mom asked now looking at Jinbei.
Jinbei nodded "Yes! he has my respects for what he had done in Marineford." he said genuinely, he was impressed by how he broke into impel down recklessly to save Ace and how he dealt with the 3 admirals.
"And also..." Jinbei said turning towards Luffy and bowing slightly.
"I want to offer you my most sincerest gratitude for stopping Arlong's crew in the East blue." The charlottes and Luffy kept silence with a solemn look while Jinbei continued on.
"That was you, wasn't it?" Jinbei asked Looking at Luffy who just nodded.
"Thank you." Jinbei closed his eyes.
"But at the same time, I must apologize."
Jinbei blinked and his eyes now had a solemn and guilty look "The one who let go of Arlong into the east blue nearly a decade ago was..."
"was me."
Luffy gaped and widened his eyes a bit at that but kept silence, the charlottes raised an eyebrow at this but kept still kept silence, this wasn't really their business.
"Me and my crew were going to go after him if he tried anything... but Arlong bribed the Navy around a certain island so his actions never reached Navy HQ..."
Jinbei stared directly at Luffy's eyes "That island... was Cocoyasi Village, or in other words.. "Cat burglar" Nami's home."
"Due to this, your Nakama and other people on the island had to Suffer from my Irresponsibility's." Jinbei now looked at the ground and was about to get on his knees and apologize, but...
"Stop!" Luffy shouted at Jinbei which startled him along with the Charlottes who now looked intrigued what he was going to do about this piece of information.
"Jinbei! I'm not the one who you should be apologizing to..."
it's Nami!"
Jinbei widened his eyes a bit of this before nodding. "Yes, I should be apologizing to her instead...but still..."
he was shaking his fist in frustration.
"Were you the one who told Arlong to Invade Nami's island?!" Luffy asked seriously, tilting his head towards Jinbei in confusion.
Jinbei widened his eyes before shouting "I DID NOT!"
"So why are you apologizing?" Luffy asked while tilting his head.
"Arlong was the one who attacked the island, it wasn't you! so why are you apologizing?" Luffy asked confused as to why Jinbei was apologizing, he did nothing wrong.
"If I had bothered to go see what he was up, Less blood would have been shed! but I didn't..." Jinbei said while gritting his teeth in frustration, he knew Arlong's hatred for humans ran deep, he should have send someone to report about what he was doing from time to time.
And because of that Innocent people had died, all that did was further prove the rumors on fishman being evil, he hated the discrimination and how Arlong was just proving their point by driving home the nail on what he did in East Blue.
"Your Crewmate Probably hates Fishman... doesn't she?" Jinbei said with acceptance over this thought, he wouldn't be surprise if Cat burglar had a grudge against his brethren after what they did.
Jinbei just kept Looking at Luffy waiting for an answer that he knew off, Luffy softly smiled and gave a different one he didn't saw coming.
"Nami... doesn't hate you guys."
"Eh?" was all Jinbei could sputter out in disbelief.
"When we were going to Sabaody, we met Hachi! He opened up a takoyaki restaurant with his friends, Camie and Pappag! Nami and him were kind of tense because he was with Arlong, but they got along later!" Luffy said smiling while drooling a bit, he wanted to eat his takoyakis, they were good as hell.
Jinbei was a bit stunned but also glad that Cat burglar seems to hold no grudge against Hachi for what he did.
Luffy frowned continuing on "We went to Sabaody where Camie was captured and being sold off at an auction house because she was a mermaid..."
Jinbei along with the charlottes held grim but an understanding look, they understood why.
Jinbei knew how his kind were considered "Rare goods" on the slave market, especially mermaids that are female.
The charlottes understood all to well, Totto land was considered a Slavers dream for the fact her/Mama's main territory held almost all races in one place, if not for Big mom's Forces and their strength, it would have been a prime target for those bastards.
Some Naïve and arrogant idiots have tried to take one of their citizens and for the dumber and more unlucky ones, their siblings.
Expecting a slave that would get them rich when sold, all they got was an appointment with death, the charlottes being the receptionist and booking them for the meeting.
The family took great joy and pleasure in slowly, painfully, and brutally tormenting the fools that had tried to steal their siblings who cried for their older siblings to save them which they swiftly did, they were sadistic and terrifying to anyone outside the family, a trait that they all shared with their mother.
Although they wondered if their brother Luffy had shared the same sadistic and terrifying trait along with them.
"Some stupid celestial guy shot Hachi when we were trying to save Camie when he exposed his arms..." Luffy said scowling while Jinbei flinch at.
"What did you do?" Big mom asked but had a knowing look in her eyes (Tamago had stated that Luffy had punch a celestial dragon so was this?...)
"I punch that stupid jerk in the face!" Luffy said with a look that held no regrets, he looked like he wanted to punch him again, not that anyone in the world can blame him for.
Everyone apart from the celestial dogs wanted to beat the shit out of them.
Big mom nodded in approval at this with a grin (Yup, must be the one Tamago talked about, bastards always had it coming)
Brulee and Mont-d'or hummed, now knowing why he punched that celestial dragon in Sabaody.
Jinbei on the other hand, who hadn't known he punched a celestial dragon, as expected, was shocked by the news.
"You punched a celestial dragon?!"
"Yea! he shot Hachi! that bastard hurt my friend!" now at this Jinbei was shocked for another reason.
"Friend?" Jinbei said.
Besides Namur, a Fishman who was a commander of the white-beard pirates and treated like an equal. He became friends with a fishman? a human and a fishman getting along?
Luffy nodded while smiling cheerfully "Yeah! Hachi wanted to make-up for the horrible things he did and he was really nice! Nami also became friends with him along with Pappag and Camie"
Jinbei looked stunned before he shifted to a soft look "Luffy-kun...Do you think...humans... can get along with fishman?"
Luffy just grinned at him "What are you talking about? of course we can! if me and Nami can become friends with Fishman then why not other people? And besides..."
"I consider you my friend too!"
Jinbei at this was staring at him wide-eyed before smiling softly.
"I also regard you as my friend, thank you Luffy!"
Luffy just laughed then looked at jinbei contemplating something.
then he grinned up at him when he decided what to say.
"Jinbei..."
"Join my crew!"
The fishman looked surprised a bit but started to Look down.
"I can't, the sun pirates are led by me! and besides...With the alliance of big mom and the sun pirates, I ca-"
"You can join"
"Eh?" Jinbei Looked up at Big mom when she said that.
"My son's crew is allied with mine unofficially until he reunites with them. You joining still means you are still allied with us, but you would have to find a new captain for your crew then" Big mom stated shrugging before smirking and raising her hand to point at Jinbei.
"And also, for my extra condition...You MUST accompany Luffy as his crewmate when they sail again for our alliance!" Big mom said grinning.
"You're fine with this, right?~" Big mom asked raising her eyebrow slightly at Jinbei.
Jinbei widened his eyes Looking between Luffy and Big mom before bowing towards the Yonko.
"Yes!"
Big mom just laughed In Joy, This just cemented the contract between them.
"Mamamama~ good~, Now go tell your fellow Fishman about my Propositions and Tell them I will be coming with a few of my children to see the place!" Big mom said to which Jinbei nodded.
"Yes It shall be done once I go home!" Jinbei looked at Luffy and told him farewell before leaving to tell his fellow fishman about this.
"I'm going to go find Broye" Brulee said shrugging before taking her leave to have a conversation with her twin before lunch.
Mont-D'Or upon Jinbei leaving through the door, took out his Pocket watch to tell how much time they got before Lunch "We still got about an hour or so" he said closing and putting the watch back into his pocket.
"We could use the time to show you the Library with Mont-d'Or guiding you around" Big mom suggested to which Mont-d'or smiled at.
The three proceeded to make their way towards the Library while also greeting their siblings along the way.
Once reaching a giant door that was Taller than their mother with two soldiers made from the Giant's soul, Mont-d'or approached and with minimal effort, opened the door.
Once steeping through the door, Luffy was looking around in curiosity.
The Library was massive with round Bookshelves that stood around 4 stories tall with books as twice as Luffy's height. The color of the room was mostly brown except for the white pillars along with the railings on the floor and staircase decorated with red and pale blue lollipops on top of them.
"Welcome to the Library! this is the place where we keep animals with my devil fruit! along with books that caught our interests along with a section that houses People" Mont-d'or explained to Luffy cheerfully, although he looked quite sinister when he mentioned how he had a section that contained People.
"People?" Luffy asked, tilting his head at him.
Mont-d'or nodded before explaining further "My devil fruit allows me to keep people in place, alive and unable to age inside a book if pinned in it, it serves also as a prison over in another section"
"There are bastards who would come onto the territory to try and steal one of the citizens, or worst, our siblings. Some of them are kept in the books to suffer until the end of times along with any other individuals that have tried to bring harm upon us." Mont-d'or explained. He didn't really mention how they would also either torture to death, brutally execute or feed them to his siblings "pets", those were the lucky ones in his personal opinion.
Because at least their torments end.
"Is that say? ok." Luffy said not really bothered by it, even though he met those kind of people once in Sabaody, he had already developed a strong dislike for slavers.
They walked towards a sofa where big mom gestured for Luffy and Mont-d'or to sit down which they did while big mom looked around for a book to showcase her collection of animals towards the younger son.
Speaking of animals, she wondered. Remembering about syrup island that her son mentioned...what about impel down? he had broken in after all.
She stopped for a second and asked while still looking for a book "Ne Luffy, are there also animals in Impel down?"
Luffy hummed and nodded, Big mom perked up and turned around to Look at her son While Mont-d'or also looked intrigued.
"What were they like?" Mont-d'or asked in curiosity. Impel down was not only the most secure prison but it was also the most secretive, the only ones who knew were the prisoners inside, wardens and the warlords who requested entry inside the underwater prison.
"They were pretty weird! there was this giant chicken with an alligator head that chased me down there and there was this big Lion with a face of a guy!" Luffy said.
"Giant chicken with a alligator head?" Big mom asked intrigued by this, sounded like a rare breed to her, she was also curious about that lion he mentioned.
Luffy nodded towards her "Yeah! someone said it was a rare mutant or something like that! it's a snake that hatched from a chicken egg, it's called a basilisk!"
"Is that so..." Big mom muttered out, she wondered if Luffy's break-in and breakout led to any of those 2 weird animal hybrids being let loose, maybe she could send an escort ship near the islands that were close to that place, it was worth a shot.
After a while of Looking through the books on the shelves, Big mom found a book to show towards her son, she walked back to them and placed the book down infront of her two sons.
"There is always an infinite universe in books! Right now this one isn't complete, but I can show you my recent catch that Is my pride and joy as of now!" Big mom exclaimed happily while cracking it open to show a zebra with a horn on its head on the first page.
Luffy peaked in curiosity over this, he hasn't seen something like this throughout his travels.
Big mom noticed and laugh in pride "Mamamama~ It's quite the sight! isn't it?~" she said while Luffy just seemed to be focusing at the sight of what animal he was seeing.
Big mom just kept flipping through pages while Luffy changed facial expressions when he looked at new animals.
"You know, we used to have people with very rare genetic mutations or born from certain races. But... after consideration, I decided to release them and gave them the offer to let them go back to their island or let them stay around here." Big mom said off-handedly, it was about a year after her baby boy's kidnapping. She felt somewhat bad for the people in the books, so she released them but kept the animals. It also was a less of a headache to hear them screaming for help so that was also a plus.
"Luffy, when you set sail, make sure to write about the animals or any person who sticks out, will you?" Big mom asked of her Son to which he nodded smiling.
"Yeah sure!" he said cheerfully, but then he started rubbing his head sheepishly "But, my writing kind of sucks"
"Why is that?" Mont-d'or asked raising an eyebrow at that.
"I was raised by Mountain bandits! Sabo helped teach me and Ace how to simple math, writing and stuff when we were kids! but I kind of absolutely suck at math" Luffy said shrugging, not looking bothered by this, he left out the part where they didn't learn much due to his supposed death when he sailed out early.
"What were the mountain bandits like?" Big mom asked, she knew of the fact her son was raised by bandits, but besides that, she didn't know what they were like.
"They were really nice! Dadan, the leader of the bandits, Tried to act mean and bad, but she secretly cared and worried about Ace, Sabo and me!" He said cheerfully.
Big mom at that was relief, it didn't seem like they treated him like how Garp did at least.
Mont-d'or who was listening silently, decided to go back towards the topic about his education.
"Didn't Garp taught you anything?" he asked wondering if that man gave a shit.
Luffy just shook his head "Nope! the only thing he did was train me to become a marine! If I said I want to be pirate he would hit me with his fist of love!" Luffy said while also subconsciously rubbing his head, remembering the pain of his fist. He knew it was infused with Haki thanks to shanks lessons about it, no wonder he could hit him even though he was rubber.
At this Big mom and Mont-d'or frowned with the older brother seemingly more upset over this.
He had always enjoyed and took great pride in educating his siblings by teaching them the basics of navigation, writing, mathematics and other general skills that a person should have.
Both older charlottes Glanced at each other, Luffy seemed to be mostly trained to become stronger but has received little to no education, he was taught by a smart kid but that was it.
"Mont-d'or, during these 2 years, teach your younger brother about the basics from scratch, starting from tommorow." Big mom asked of her son looking upset over this, she was starting to question why in the hell dragon would leave their child with an irresponsible marine.
"Of course mama!" Mont-d'or said without hesitation and was determined to educate him properly.
After a while of going through books while their brother talked about different animals he came across through his journey which they took interest in listening.
They headed for Lunch when it was time.
(-In the Diner room-)
Some of the siblings who were gathered inside the room were making some small talk.
"He kept calling me a branch even though I am not!" Brulee said, pouting and whining like a child towards her twin while Broye put her hand over her mouth to hide her snort of amusement over this while using her other to pat her back.
"You think he would like these?" Oven asked towards his two brothers showing a bunch of fried tempuras and toasted marshmallows along with French fries. Daifuki shrugged while Katakuri huffed in amusement while patting his brother's shoulder as support.
They were patiently waiting while talking about what they did throughout the morning and early afternoon until...
Their mother along with Luffy and Mont-d'or while carrying a bag in hand came.
