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Legend

While I was healing on the island pirates came and attacked me, threatening my patients. I did not wish to make a scene and so simply seized my belongings and fled, but the pirates were many and their captain blinded me and bound me in Sea Stone, sealing my Abilitiy away. I could still have escaped, but the pirate captain was a cruel and vindictive man and I knew that losing to me would humiliate him and he would take out his anger on the islanders. So I pretended greater weakness, waited and bided my time: the pirate was new to the Grand Line and knew nothing of its wonders and horrors. He thought himself strong with his armour and many followers, but I did not need my eyes to tell me he was too weak to last for long. Indeed, it so happened my father was in the area and the pirate happened across him while he was napping. In his irritation at being disturbed my father destroyed the entire fleet and would have sunk the flagship too, but a storm blew up and interrupted the fight.

"Did your father know you were on board?"

"I honestly have no idea, Kajin."

Once the flagship with me on it had escaped the storm the pirate captain's battle commander told me of their plight and asked me for assistance, as their Log Pose had broken and they were adrift. I offered to direct the ship back to East Blue, where they had come from, in exchange for greater freedoms on board. He agreed, so I used Swift Hunter –who had followed me– to carry the larger vessel across the Calm Belt and back into East Blue, which some call the weakest sea. I agree that most of the pirates and other criminals there do not amount to much, but I feel that is to balance out the rare and incredibly strong individuals that surface there from time to time. The Pirate King was from East Blue after all, as is the Revolutionary Dragon.

Once returned to a more predictable sea I was placed back in chains. The captain's battle commander however felt he owed me a debt, so when we reached the ship belonging to Red-Leg, a retired pirate, he hid me on board. The captain who had been defeated by the Grand Line tried to steal Red-Leg's ship, but was repelled by the owner, his crew and the crew belonging to a young pirate new to the seas who had the Will to rule the waves and was determined to make that will reality. That young pirate wore a straw hat given to him by a Red-haired pirate captain and had a body made of rubber as a result of eating Devil Fruit. The young pirate had a crew of three: a green-haired asura who fought with three blades and was determined to become the greatest swordsman in the world, an orange-haired woman with weighty secrets and a natural talent for navigation beyond anything I have ever seen and a long-nosed sniper with a faint heart and a liar's tongue but a strong determination to better himself.

During the battle my father arrived and sunk the ship belonging to the pirate captain who had abducted me. The green-haired swordsman then challenged my father to a duel and lost, but in losing somehow impressed my father into sparing him, though he wounded him terribly. My father than encouraged the asura to surpass him, which the asura swore to do and promised his own captain he would never lose another fight.

At the same time my father arrived the straw-hat captain's ship was stolen by his orange-haired navigator, whose previous obligations and heavy secrets tied her to her past. The young pirate however wanted the woman to be his navigator, so he sent the wounded asura and the long-nosed sniper after her and promised to follow once he'd got what he'd come for. You see, the pirate with the Will to rule wanted a cook for his ship and Red-Leg was famous for having many experienced chefs working for him. In particular the young captain's eye had been caught by Red-Leg's apprentice, who had a kind heart, a foul mouth and worshipped pretty women. However the apprentice felt too heavily indebted to his master to leave.

When the battle was over and the pirate captain who had captured me was repelled, Red-Leg's apprentice found me, tended to my wounds and fed me. He then allowed himself to be persuaded to leave with the young captain with the straw hat so that he might achieve his own dream, which was to find the place where all the seas met. I asked the young captain if I might accompany him, as his Will intrigued me and I wanted to see how events would unfold around him. I did not tell him this though, merely asking for passage to the Grand Line which he agreed to grant me.

After leaving we followed the two who had gone ahead to the island where the navigator was born and met there with the injured asura, who had just heard that said navigator had murdered the sniper in front of the pirate captain she served. For it so happened that the navigator's home island had been subjugated by a fishman called 'the Saw' and she had pledged herself to him in the hopes of protecting her village. However the navigator had not killed the sniper, simply pretended to, then hidden him with her sister. However when she met the straw-hat captain, the chef and the asura who had followed her she did not tell them this and simply ordered them to leave. The captain did not, of course: he had the Will to become ruler of the seas and wanted the best navigator in the world to sail his ship for him. So they stayed, reunited with the sniper and, when the Saw betrayed the navigator's trust, the young captain defeated him.

After the battle the asura's wounds were greatly exacerbated, so I took him aside and healed him. While I was doing so he told me of his battle with my father and my father's words to him, though he did not then know we were related. I was immediately intrigued, as I had never heard of my father taking particular notice of anyone before. So I healed him a little differently to how I had originally intended, creating a low-level bond, and introduced myself properly. My eyes had healed by this point, so he realised at once that I was telling the truth with regards to my identity. He did not, however, tell anyone else my real name.

As his goddess took a sip of juice from the pitcher his wife's apprentice had brought up, Sako mused on how warmly animated the lady he served had become while telling the story of her recent adventures. He was not ignorant of the goings-on in the world beyond his home island –news coos delivered everywhere– and he had a good idea of the true identities of the various people she had mentioned thus far, but Rokuseizon's manner of storytelling cast a hazy veil over the world, blurring details and brightening hearts so that the events narrated become more than a mere chronicle, acquiring a timeless quality. This story would be a tale of hope, triumph and hard-won victory, he could tell. The oddly familiar stranger she called 'Kajin' sat at his lady's feet with her hand in his hair was also enjoying the tale, though the warrior could tell he already knew what had so far been recounted.

"So that was how you met the man who is now the father of your child?" Truei asked.

"Yes. Back then however he was simply someone who made me feel safe with whom I decided to initiate a connection with," his goddess replied. "The nature of my powers require me to either be completely solitary or attach myself to a person who calms my protective instincts so that I do not lash out at my comrades by accident. My green-haired asura has excellent instincts and a very steady personality, so he was perfect. That my father had pronounced him interesting merely added spice."

"Not love at first sight then, Kitsune?" Kajin asked her teasingly.

"No more than you were," she teased back, fingers digging into his scalp. "Now, where was I?"

"You had just healed your demon swordsman," Truei said.

"Ah, yes."

Sako resettled himself on his cushion, looking forward to the continuation of the tale.

After leaving the navigator's home island we travelled to the town where the late Pirate King was executed. While we were there my asura was gifted by fate with two new swords to replace the ones he had broken while fighting my father. We also encountered a Marine captain who recognised the straw-hat pirate's Will for what it was and attempted to capture him, only to be thwarted by the father of the young captain, a father he did not see or even know of at the time: the Revolutionary Dragon. So we escaped unscathed and made our way to reverse mountain, entering Paradise as many before have done and others have done since. In our descent the ship we travelled on, a young caravel called Merry, found the way barred by a young Island Whale. The ship was swallowed whole, but I was knocked overboard and forced to wear my other skin in order to reach the cape to one side of the entrance.

"Other skin?"

"That's a story for another day, Kajin."

While I was waiting for them the captain and his crew met a doctor and two strangers within the whale's stomach. After defeating the strangers the doctor let them out of the whale through a door in its side and I was reunited with them.

The straw-hat pirate later allowed the two strangers he'd met within the whale's stomach to determine the route he'd take within Paradise, as they wished to be returned to a particular island and he agreed to escort them there. I however did not trust them for their hearts were tangled with deceit and violence, so I ensured my features were hidden. It proved a wise move, as the island they led us to was a stronghold of bounty hunters who sought to trap the ship's young captain for the bounty his actions in East Blue had earned. My asura however had taken notice of my caution and been wary of those around him, so he took action in defence of his captain. I also did battle, wanting to protect those who I was starting to feel connected to, but I did so from hiding and slipped from one victory to the next in silence and secret. Only my asura saw me, and he did not speak of my actions at all.

While on that island we discovered that the woman who we had met at the gates of Paradise was in fact a princess of a desert kingdom torn apart by lies and strife sown by the hands of a master: a treacherous member of the Seven Warlords who thirsted for greater power and prestige. The captain with the Will to rule that decided he would return the princess to her homeland and defeat the warlord for her. So we set sail again, now with a princess among our crew. Her home island was however a considerable distance away, so we did not reach it until later in our adventures.

The next island we stopped at was covered in jungle and the home of many ancient and dangerous beasts, as well as two giants who had been duelling for a hundred years without a clear victor being decided. While we were there hitmen in the service of the warlord who the princess opposed attempted to kill her and the crew, but were defeated. It was also at this time that I was first invited to join the crew, though I deflected the request. Unfortunately however the ship's navigator was also infected by an illness. We did not discover the illness until a day later, and though I did my best to counter the symptoms I could not cure her for the illness was as alive as she was and it hid within her cunningly. So I warned the captain –who by then I was starting to think of as my captain– that we needed to turn aside and search for a doctor to tend to her or else she would die. The captain agreed, so a new course was set towards an island of high mountains, cold and snow.

When we sighted the island I offered to travel on ahead to the princess' home island with letters and to scout out the lay of the land. Both the princess and the captain agreed at once, the captain proclaiming me a part of his crew as he did so. I did not object: his Will was such that it would have been a futile waste of my time. Instead I accepted the letters the princess had given me, promised to meet up with them at the main port of the island and set out in Swift Hunter. I had faith that my captain's Will would ensure the survival of the ill navigator and knew my asura would do his best to prevent the rest of the crew from coming to harm, no matter how badly he argued with the cook.

When I reached the island of the desert kingdom however I realised someone I knew was there as well, someone dear to my heart I had not seen in a while. So as soon as I had delivered the letters I had been given I sought out the friend I could sense and found him sitting in a bar. It was Fire-Fist, who I first met shortly after he arrived on the Grand Line and who I became close to after he joined the Whitebeard Pirates.

"I knew I'd seen you before! You're Fire-Fist!"

Fox starts her telling of her recent adventures and Sako demonstrates his observation skills.