The dawn of a new day, the sun is shining, the roosters are crowing, and I have a smelly paw near my face, while I hear snores that can be heard from the other side of the world.
Interestingly, it was Trinity who was snoring. When we were on the boat, she didn't, which meant she wasn't asleep or her sleep was very shallow. But it shows that now she's completely confident and at peace. Although it's annoying, it's not so bad.
I settled into the bed I was in and suddenly knocked Arthur's paw from my face to Trinity's.
That woke them both up.
Trinity: "What the hell is wrong with you, idiot?" Her vocabulary was very clear.
Arthur: "Where I am, it's time to work," he said with a confused expression, as if he didn't understand what was happening around him. I could see that when he woke up, he looked kind of dumb. Maybe that information would be useful in the future.
Dante: "Where's Hunter? Did he stay on the island?" I said to Trinity.
Trinity: "No, here it is." At that moment, a bag, somewhat large, opens it, and I look inside.
Sure enough, Hunter is there, and he quickly gets out of the bag, making crow sounds as if he's dissatisfied.
Trinity: "You know why he's like this."
Dante: "What happens is, he says he's hungry and thirsty."
Trinity: "Really? Do you know how to talk to crows?"
Dante: "No," I say curtly. Trinity stares at me as if offended, then returns to normal.
Trinity: "So you don't know how to talk to crows."
Dante: "No," I say curtly. Trinity stares at me as if offended, then returns to normal.
Trinity: "So you don't know how to talk to crows."
Dante: "It's not that direct. I can't talk to them. I don't have that ability yet, but I can understand them to a certain extent. It's more like communication, not conversation. Technically, she understands me, but I don't, at least not 100%." After saying that, I proceed to stretch out my arm so she can perch there.
After Hunter does exactly what I wanted, I proceed to leave the room.
Dante: "Let's go, Hunter, find food and water. You must be hungry and thirsty, or else I have to find out if you're a man or a woman."
Hunter proceeds to make happy crow sounds.
Before leaving, I decide to look back.
Dante: "I have an offer for you two. You should already have an idea of what it is, so let's meet right here at 8 p.m." After saying that, I went off to find a restaurant or something similar.
I went through the Water 7 cities. As far as I remember, this place is inspired by a place in Italy, if I'm not mistaken.
In the end, we had to go to a bar, on Hunter Street, for hygiene reasons and to avoid disturbing customers, among other silly things.
When I'm famous, they'll be the ones begging me to visit their businesses.
But grudges aside, we were able to eat enough at the bar; money wasn't a big issue at the time. Not to mention that I still have the precious stones safely stored away.
While we ate, I checked out the system shop. I discovered it had blueprints for designing weapons, structures, ships, etc. Also, if you manage to recreate the artifact with the blueprint, it's registered as acquired by the system, but you can't enter it into the system's storage space, kind of like what happens with the Sword Buster or Death Sword.
It's incredible how I discover these curiosities about the shop, given that I have a system that should help or guide me with these things, but when I ask it anything, it tells me: [Read carefully] or [Read what it says carefully], you need to ask me for a tip.
Even with all this, I'm planning on building a weapon that will help me with my temporary lack of Haki. Maybe with Haki I can still be useful, but that's if everything goes as planned.
After leaving the bar, I decided to explore the place, accompanied by Hunter on my shoulder.
After investigating, I learned that Tom has already been sentenced to make the train across the seas, so if I want to help him, I still have time.
Looking at the characters' ages, I'll be 28 when Tom is taken to Ennies Lobby, I think, so there's still time, if my family doesn't capture me first.
In the end, I wandered around the city a few times and returned to the room we were in at 5:50.
When I entered, Arthur was alone, looking out the window. The moment I entered, he looked at me and walked over to me.
Before he reached me, I looked at Hunter.
Dante: "Go find more precious stones, but not by stealing, just things that are lying on the ground or somewhere. Think about it, if you can steal, but only from pirates, go."
Hunter raised his wings and flew off my shoulder to some random spot.
Arthur: "Hey, Dante, I want to talk to you."
Dante: "I'm listening," I said as I sat down on a nearby chair.
Arthur: "I wanted to thank you for avenging my people and helping me, both in carrying out that revenge and getting me out of there, since without you, I might never have left the island, dying one way or another," his voice intones as he continues, "what I want to say is that you helped me, so as payment for what you did, I'll help you too, since right now I don't know what to do. In short, I'm also joining your team to do what you're going to do."
Dante: "So you don't know what we're going to do, but you're still in."
Arthur: "Exactly."
I get up, walk over to him, and put my arm around his shoulder.
Dante: "Okay, welcome to the team. Now it's two of us, you and me against the world."
Arthur stares at me, confused.
Arthur: "Wasn't it just you, Trinity, and Ruminoff?"
Dante: "Nope, are you all wrong?"
Arthur started complaining about life and all that, but I didn't really notice. With that, I can say that half the plan is done.
The rest of the time we spent talking about training methods and how to get stronger. I was able to talk about turning Arthur into a warrior, or as I call it, to make him sound like a knight, although he's no knight.
While we were talking, Hunter came back with 2,000 berries and a topaz necklace.
Long live money.
Later, at 7:50 p.m., Trinity and Ruminoff arrived.
Trinity: "I see you're already making plans for your sect."
Dante: "Yes, in fact, we're going to invoke a god to grant us infinite power and wisdom in exchange for an eye and hang ourselves from a tree," I said sarcastically.
Trinity: "What a sick guy would do something like that."
True, what a sick guy would do something like that. With that, I can tell Odin isn't right in the head, not at the beginning, not at the end, and not in any adaptation they make.
Ruminoff: "Well, never mind. Let's talk about the matter you're talking about," he says as he sits down. The rest of us sit down as well.
Ruminoff: "First of all, I know where you and your little group of adventurers are going, and let me tell you that, at least for my part, I can't go, since I'm already old and want to continue my life as a fisherman on the island where we live."
That's good, since I hadn't planned on inviting him. In fact, for the reason he mentioned, he's already old, and he would take away my leadership in one way or another.
Ruminoff: "But here's someone I'm offering you to join them on their adventures," he says, pointing at Trinity. "We've been talking all day about what we were going to do, and I managed to convince her to join you. It would be good for her to be stronger and be surrounded by good friends." Then he comes up to me and whispers, "Besides, with her out of the way, I can get a girlfriend or two."
Funnily enough, we all heard them.
Trinity: "Old fart, so that was the reason you wanted me to go with them."
Ruminoff: "The reason doesn't matter anymore, since you made a promise with me that you can't break."
What was the promise? If I knew it, it would be easier to blackmail her in the future.
After they argued for a while, we returned to the main topic.
Trinity: "It doesn't matter anymore. The point is, I'm joining your sect. I just hope that god has infinite wisdom." She extends her hand. "I'm Trinity, but you can call me Trini."
Dante: "Nice to meet you," I said as I greeted him back.
Then I also greeted Arthur, but it was a minor matter.
Ruminoff also asked me for tomorrow so he could be with his daughter before the trip. I accepted, since he needs time to find a ship that could take us where I want to go.
And where that is, well, it's Alabasta. And there's a reason for that, and it's that I need to buy some things from the system store. Since some of them are for them, it would be strange if I got these things out of nowhere.
It will also help train their skills there, since I need them to be at a certain level if I want to defeat more important people in the future.