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Location 2:

Sabaody Archipelago, Outside Grove #42

He was officially annoyed. All he had wanted was some relaxing fishing to occupy himself with until his (tardy) crewmates finally decided to show up for the meeting (honestly, they had all spent the last two years preparing themselves for this meeting; was it really so hard to be on time?). To think that they usually complained about him missing meeting places or times... especially that dartboard-brow. He was so going to hold this over him when he finally decided to show up.

However, the cause of his annoyance at the moment was not really his (tardy) crewmates. It was all these fucking loudmouths making a racket around him when he was (so very obviously) trying to take a nap (really, did no-one teach them common courtesy?). He was just about set on ignoring them and taking his nap anyway (and he if he did, they would not be able to stop him; not even the Strawhats could do that) when his kenbunshoku haki picked up on a spike of killing intent.

It was pathetic enough that he could not even be bothered to draw his swords. He simply moved his head to the side and let the pole which had been set on crushing his skull impact into the deck beside him instead, smashing it.

Now, why would a fisherman be trying to kill him? Lazily cracking open his sleep-blurred eye to try to get a visual of his attacker, he was met by the sight of an unfurled, bulging sail with a grinning white and red fox-skull in front of the classic crossbones painted on it (not to mention the fishes... and the water... and... huh, isn't that a Sea King?). It was not what he had aimed to see, exactly, but it solved the problem of why someone was trying to kill him, anyway (most pirates probably find it normal to try to kill their stowaways). Sighing inwardly, he closed his eye again, sat up and tried to yawn away his sleepiness. It seemed like the nap would have to wait. As he stretched to start up the bloodflow through his muscles again after his (sadly way too short) stay on the hard wooden deck, he was vaguely aware of even more and even louder screaming starting up about him (how this crew had made it all the way to Sabaody if they were panicking about such a small thing like this, he did not understand). Why couldn't they just shut up?

Surprised at the sudden (but very welcomed) silence, he opened his eye again and looked out over the large crew. Huh. It seemed like he said that out loud.

He barely even had time to finish the thought before some fatso (probably the captain) hollered something (he had no idea of what, though, because of the fatso's heavy dialect), causing the entire crew to start running towards him, weapons at the ready.

Not feeling like dealing with a ship-load of weaklings at the moment (he had really, really just wanted a quiet fishing trip to while away his time with while waiting for his – tardy – crewmates), he decided that the easiest way to get rid of them was to simply get rid of the ship. No ship, no ship-load of weaklings. Simple logic.

Wado Ichimonji did not even need to leave her sheath for a second.

And if he put a bit more power behind his strike than what was strictly necessary to split the ship, then... well. They did interrupt his nap, not to mention his quiet fishing trip... and he found it very enjoyable to see the fatso's fragile little toy-sword break jaggedly as it got in the way.

Even if it was the wrong boat, at least he had gotten some entertainment out of it.

This story is dedicated to my awesome friend Vendelareader, as a present to her! :D

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