Chapter 8: Arlong Park
Days passed and Robert, who trained his body in the process, sometimes even used the power of the devil fruit to make the ship float past abnormal storms, going beyond the clouds, and avoiding them.
"I can't wait~" Robert, who was flying the ship more than 100 meters away from the sea, saw an island in sight.
At first, he was quite skeptical about it, as it was the first time he had used something like this before on Earth, however, in this world to navigate this ocean, it was good to know how to use one.
"That..."
As he approaches, Robert shows a little disappointment on his face.
Making the ship slowly descend towards the sea, he sailed, he could already see some simple-looking houses near the edge of the island and some small wooden fishing boats.
Unlike Dawn Island, this island seemed much more humble, without having much to offer, however, Robert still decided to go there.
'I should at least do some trading and do a search for high-quality iron.' Robert thought.
Being a small island, the approach of his ship was quite attractive, causing some natives of the island to stay in the wooden wharves while looking in his direction.
Robert anchored the ship next to the wooden pier and left the ship.
This time he didn't feel the need to hide the ship and walked openly onto the island.
When he came down, the natives began to murmur.
Their accent was different from the inhabitants of Dawn Island, but they seemed to be the same language.
"Hello, the fellow who came from afar." An old man stepped out of the crowd, and approached with a serious expression: "I'm called Boodle, Mayor of Orange Town."
Robert looked at the man.
Boodle is a rather elderly-looking man with gray hair arranged in three pieces: two on the sides and one in front. He wore a white striped shirt with a black one underneath and dark green shorts, and wooden slippers, he also wore standard-shaped glasses.
Robert nodded, he finished assessing the mayor, and seeing that he smiled at him kindly, he said: "Hello, my name is Robert, I'm just passing through, and I happened to find this island. By the way, I would like to trade some things on this island, is it possible?"
"Of course, yes," Boodle gave his most welcoming smile as he said, "Although we are not particularly rich, we still have some wealth, I wish you a good partnership."
The natives were happy to think they could get something good.
"Equally." Robert shook Mayor Boodle's hand.
Then he started talking about the fish and some items he traded on the previous island.
As for the treasures he stole from the nobles of Dawn Island, there would be few people here who could buy them and it's too close to Dawn Island, it would be bad if they found out that he was the one who stole them.
Stuff like that is best traded on islands with big cities and disguised while doing so.
When they saw the quality of the fish and the sizes, they got excited and started bidding.
The price was in line with what he learned on Dawn Island, so Robert sold a lot of fish and some jewelry to women.
"I will stay on this island for three days, while I am here, if you are interested in my fish or my jewels, come to me," Robert said simply.
Robert stayed on his ship, there was a bed and utensils to use.
He still had water, but he replenished his reserve.
Robert already identified this island, at first he had his suspicions, but soon he thought of the island where it was destroyed and occupied by Buggy's band of pirates.
But, that would only happen in the future, and he didn't even know if things would unfold the same way.
Of course, he was only going to stay on this island for 3 days as promised, Robert wasn't going to sacrifice himself and stay here until Buggy showed up and got rid of him.
There was no reason for him to do that, much less was he generous enough to make such a sacrifice.
The three days passed very quickly and Robert said goodbye to the natives and sailed back towards the next island using a map he got there.
Hours later...
A pirate ship approaches, and Robert narrowed his eyes.
It was a big red ship with many sails hanging over the mast, the front of the ship had the figure of a saw shark, and the edges of the ship had designs of shark fangs.
The flag is designed of a saw shark with its nose facing left, and its tail curved inward. Surrounding the shark is a semi-oval with three curves emitting from it. Behind the shark is a cross bone.
'Pirates of Arlong?' This flag was familiar to him.
Robert didn't think he would have the happy coincidence of meeting Arlong's pirate ship as soon as it left Orange Town.
Robert climbs onto the bow and looks towards Arlong's pirate ship.
[At approximately 150 meters, it was a rare species of fish: Do you want to catch it? A network of energy will be consumed]
'No,' Robert muttered in his mind.
He guessed it was that sea cow from Arlong upon hearing it in his mind.
With one foot on the side of the ship, a shark man glanced his way.
He is a large, muscular fish-man whose most distinguishing feature is his saw-shaped nose. But, as a fish-man, he has an average size. He has long, black hair with a widow's peak going down to his shoulders, under a brown ushanka.
It has a fin on its nape surrounded by its hair and gills are located on either side of its neck. His Sun Pirates tattoo is on the left side of his chest, while his own Jolly Roger is on his lower left arm. Other notable features include thin, light blue, fierce eyes and a long, angular jaw.
"Human, you're out of luck," Arlong's deep, sinister voice rings out once he's gotten close enough to one ship to another and asks rhetorically, "Do you know why? It's because you had the misfortune to meet me, a man-shark, Shiah-hahahahahaha!" He throws his head back and with his eyes closed, he laughs a lot.
'Huh?' Robert felt that this Arlong was even a little funny, he was the classic type who dies first in the film as a villain.
"Serious?" Robert asked with a simple smile, "So, you're going against me, right?"
"Human, you are doomed, just prepare to be robbed by us higher beings, fish men!" Another yelled from their pack yelled.
For Robert, it didn't matter their importance or meaning, the fact that they wanted to attack him, already created enough reason to become his enemy, especially when seeing their weapons pointed in his direction.
"Human, I know..."
Before Arlong could continue, Robert jumped from his ship towards them, gliding through the air, and landing in the center of their ship.
"Bastard!" The surrounding fishermen attacked with their fists and weapons: "Lesser human, you deserve to die!"
Robert, who was surrounded, laughed coldly, and in the next instant, he starts to transform into a giant golden phoenix and increase his body weight, making the pirate ship, Shark Superb, create cracking noises.
"Devil's fruit?!" Arlong and the rest were startled when they saw that the human they provoked was actually a Devil Fruit user, a Mythic Zoan type one to boot.
"Die!"
From Robert's body, a pillar of golden flame erupts, and the ship starts to go up in flames.
Shouts and cries of the fish men echo.
Arlong was smarter and tried to jump into the ocean, however, with the claws of the phoenix feet, Robert grabbed him: "Wanting to run away? It's not possible."
With a thin phoenix beak, Robert pecked Arlong's head.
*POW!*
Arlong's head pops open without resistance.
Robert's phoenix beak power was too powerful for him to be able to defend himself.
With a huge hole in his head, Arlong lost his life instantly.
The rest of his pack were nearly all killed by the golden flames, and those who tried to run away were pecked by Robert or hit by balls of golden fire.
Once everyone was dead, Robert asked, "System, is the wood on this ship of good quality?"
[Reporting to host: Only 5%, and now that it's on fire, there's not more than 3% left, do you want to extract?]
"No," Robert lost interest and went to search the ship while there was still time, looking for treasure.
However, after a thorough search, he found only one bag of treasure.
'Well, it's better than nothing.' Robert thought, soon he walked back to his ship.
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