ONE PIECE: THE CHILD OF GOD - CHAPTER 8

"Adam, move the cargo to unload zone C!"

"Right away," I replied with a small yawn as I stretched my arms.

Two weeks ago I had convinced the captain of a commercial vessel to let me sail with them, since that day, my days on the ship had consisted of working in the cargo area and reading during the evenings after work. I really couldn't complain, the work was easy, granted thanks to my insane physical strength, making my days of work very short.

Though, if there was anything to complain about, it was that I hadn't brought enough books for me to read, at the rate I was going I would be out of books in a week or two.

And while being at the sea was fun and all, I needed other forms of entertainment, and reading was at the top of them because it was the closest thing to the internet I would get here.

I sighed shaking my head as I walked towards the shipments I had been instructed to move.

“Hey kid, after you’re done with the cargo, come with us for some drinks!” One of my coworkers offered as I walked past him, patting me in the head in an enthusiastic fashion.

“Alcohol, or juice?” I asked, if it was the ladder of the two, I would say no I might have the body of a kid, but where it mattered I was a grown-ass man.

“Juice, you’re too young to be drinking alcohol,” My coworker in question chuckled, looking at me in a playful tone.

“Then I must say no,” I replied, going back to my business, inviting me to drink juice, that’s like inviting someone to watch Netflix and actually watch Netflix.

“Brat, don’t be like that,” I ignored him.

Not old enough my ass, they allowed me to get into the ship without even asking if I had parents or something because they considered me to be old enough to be traveling alone making my own decisions, but a beer? For that, I need to be old.

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After a full day of work, I went to my bed that was located in a room with twenty other beds and continued reading my book about history, impressively enough, most of the book was a big kiss in the ass to those known as the Celestial Dragons.

It was absolutely clear the book was written to please them or jack their ego in a way.

Sadly, I had nothing else to read, therefore, I was simply tuning out the Celestial Jacking.

“Adam,”

I looked up from my book and saw one of my current coworkers looking at me.

“Yes?” I inquired.

“Well, the guys were wondering what made you leave your home?”

Oh, a personal question, well I didn’t expect that.

“Nothing, I had no home, to begin with, so I decided to explore,” I replied with a faint smile, my home had burned in a figurative sense the moment I woke up in this world.

“Oh, sorry,” The man in question muttered in a guilty fashion.

“Don’t worry,” I shrugged, going back to my book, for now, it really didn’t matter to me what I had lost, it was uncanny really how little I cared, not that I didn’t love those that I left behind, it was simply that I was okay with it so to speak that I had let them behind.

“PIRATE ATTACK!”

Huh?

A pirate attack, so soon, I mean, I expected to encounter pirates one day or another, considering this world revolved around them, but this soon, oh well, I guess it was bound to happen.

With a sigh, I hopped out of my bed and walked out of the room following the screams of panic invading the ship, after all, they were bound to lead me towards the pirates, as I did so, I chuckled at my own approach, realizing I wasn't even considering the possibility of being in danger, I was simply curious who was attacking.

“Gyahahahaha!”

I have heard that laugh before.

“Tremble before the Buggy pirates!”

And there it is, Buggy, I knew I had heard that laugh before.

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It took me a few seconds after I left my room to reach where the commotion had begun, to find the Buggy Pirates attacking the ship, so far by the looks of it, no one had died, but Buggy and his crew were overwhelming the workers on the ship, and sooner or later, someone would perish.

“Hey clown, stop it, this is my ride to…” Huh, I had forgotten to ask where exactly this ship was going, not that it mattered, I just wanted to travel for the moment being, “My ride,”

“What did you say brat?” Buggy snarled as I looked at him up and down, he was definitely in his teen years, maybe around sixteen at much, and yet he looked exactly like he looked when he first appeared in the show, talk about good aging or bad, I don’t know, he still looks old.

“I said, stop attacking my ride,” I replied, scratching my head.

“That’s it! Kill the brat!” Buggy roared, ordering his underlings to kill me.

I frowned, as his crew rushed at me, noticing I didn’t recognize any of them.

“Die!” The first pirate to reach me shouted with glee, bringing his long curved knife towards my chest with a downward slash.

“I already did, I think,” I replied, snatching the knife out of his hand before he could realize what had happened.

“What… what happened?!” The pirate in question muttered, looking at his knife in my hands.

It felt wrong, having a weapon, it was an odd feeling I couldn’t really describe, so I dropped the knife to the floor and looked at the pirate before punching him in the guts with my palm open, the impact sent the pirate flying across the ship, crashing into the sea.

I sighed, I was really trying to not kill him with a single punch.

“Romelio!”

The crew shouted, this time all of them coming at me as one.

I smiled feeling… excited, as I slowly lowered my body into position, crouching for the attack, feeling the thrill within me building over, then, without any further ado, I pushed back hard on my feet and sprang towards them breaking the wooden floor underneath me with a loud crack as I did so with everything around me slowing down.

I knew I was acting out of instinct, and somehow it felt right.

None of them had any time to react, in fact, in my eyes, none of them even noticed I had moved, the first one went down with a punch to the face, followed by the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on and on, until there was no one left but Buggy.

“What?!” Buggy muttered, seeing his crew flying across the air for a brief moment before they landed on the open sea.

As for me, I was excited and disappointed a weird combination.

“You will pay for that!” Buggy shouted, moving to attack me, but as he did so, I closed the distance between us before he could even react, appearing in front of him in a blur of movement landing a punch on his chest.

Upon impact, Buggy’s eyes bulged out in pain, before taking to the sky like his crew, fortunately for him however he landed on his ship instead of the water.

“That was… easy,” I muttered, looking at Buggy with a sense of disappointment, it was as if I was craving a strong opponent.

“ADAM DEFEATED THE PIRATES!”

I blinked, turning around to see my co-workers chanting my name, I wonder if I can get the day off with this, maybe even the trip.