"Zzzzzz…" at the highest point of the worn-out mast, a single man was snoring nonchalantly, unbothered by the rough woods.
"Hey, Ace! Come here and take a look, there's a huge fruit in this chest!"
The shouting beneath interrupted his sleep as the expanded bubble from his nose popped out.
"What the hell… where am I?… My Roblox macro, no one interrupted my grinding session, righ-…"
The man above the mast wiped his face doozily and became clear of the situation he's in.
He understood that it wasn't the time to be thinking about the macro. After all, he was kidnapped and taken to the place only god knows where.
Wherever he looked, he was surrounded by walls, yet his limbs weren't bounded. 'I wasn't kidnapped after all?' He thought.
As he began to contemplate even further, he heard the voice from below increasingly getting louder.
"That's good news for you! Go on and eat it," a voice belonging to different person sounded.
'If I recall… they were talking about something about a fruit inside the treasure chest… Ace…Ace?'
"What do you mean!? You're gonna have this, right? You're the one who defeated that huge bird."
"You found it first. Don't shy out, you're practically passing out."
"You're the one at death's door, you eat it!"
The two began bickering out as the man's memory started clearing up. 'Oh, that Ace! Then this place is somewhere not my room (obviously)'
*Gurrrgle*
Below, the two men's stomach rang loud as if to announce their hunger.
The two then bitterly laughed and stopped bickering, splitting the fruit in half.
'Ohh, what a faithful CG, it's exactly what I've read in manga.' the man watching above was reacting inwardly until something clicked.
'Wait, if this is the scene where Ace eats the Flame Flame Fruit…' with a thought, the future and Ace's eventual fates ran at the back of his mind.
'Ace gets ahead of himself after obtaining a small boost in power and misunderstands himself of being invincible. This bad habits of him never got fixed even after being beaten to a pulp by Whitebeard.'
'Then, with a Haki so weak that Oda-sensei doesn't even foreshadows it, he goes after Blackbeard and lose against him. This caused him to be brought to marine and eventually lose his life in the end.'
'If you think about it, the cause of all of this is the Flame Flame Fruit. If he never ate this fruit in the first place Ace wouldn't have slack off wih Haki Training, being the direct descendant of Roger, there's no way his Haki Potential would be low!"
'In conclusion, eating devil fruit = Ace's death.'
"Stop right there you idiot~!" the man jumped off the mast and head-dive to the fruit in the two's hand.
He then opened his mouth-wide using the two's dumbstruck state to his advantage and took a bite toward one of the fruit before they could react.
"Thief! Spew out the fruit you just ate, bastard!" The person besides Ace, grabbed the man—now promoted to thief's neck—by his neck in attempt to take back the stolen fruit.
"Release me, I will explai- oomf," the man desperately tried to resist but he was powerless compared to the person strangling him, and soon, his face began changing color.
"You're strangling him, yes, if you keep going it, you'll burn his face off… WHAT! Your hand is burning!"
'Damn, I can't remember his name," the man thought lazily under the lack of oxygen.
Deuce ran around the place in panic comically as he extinguished the flame in his hand.
- - -
After extinguishing the flame, the three found a spot to sit and re-began their conversation.
"It's nice to meet you, I'm Ace. This guy here… what is your name?"
"It's Deuce!!" Deuce shouted taken aback.
"Anyway, he is the first crewmate of my pirate, he is aspiring to be a writer."
'Ace probably didn't ask this guy to be his crewmate.'
"I am?..." Deuce questioned himself, he doesn't remember being invited nor accepting Ace's request to be he crewmate but apparently, in Ace's mind, he was already a crewmate.
"Who are you? And the fruit we were about to eat, was Devil Fruit, right?" Ace continued.
"Well asked, I'm Shinrabanshou-man…, is a joke. I'm just a regular person who goes by Sakura Sonata. A lowly human with no ambition."
Sakura's introductions were shabby compared to the characters of this world his lazy speech, the words that tolds no dream everything he committed was against the act of this world by far.
His appearance was even less impressive, as the only memorable feature about him was the messy hair that hadn't been taken care of.
"And yes. That was the Devil Fruit. It's a cursed object of this world that grants you ability upon consumption but if you fall to the ocean or have your limbs locked by seastone, you'll be basically powerless."
"In this world where Haki exists to give a superhuman the way to battle against supernatural person, a weaker Devil Fruit, this fruit, Flame Flame Fruit by instance, are nothing but a debuff."
Sakura explained his intention without stopping causing Ace to fall asleep in boredom.
The person next to him, Deuce in exchange was intrigued by Sakura's explanation.
"Wait a minute, you're telling alot. So this burnt are caused by that fruit you stole? Why is a Flame Flame Fruit considered a 'weaker' Devil Fruit? What is Haki?" Deuce began taking notes.
'As expected of this buffoon…' Sakura thought inwardly. Luffy certainly influenced Ace to sleep mid-conversation.
Sakura nodded then said. "Flame Flame Fruit is considered 'weak' because there's a higher tier Devil Fruit above it called Magma Magma Fruit which apparently 'burns hotter' than Flame Flame Fruit."
"The second reason why Flame Flame Fruit is considered weak is because Ace is the one who used it. This buffoon lacked the imagination to use his Devil Fruit and limited himself to size = power, creating his ultimate move, Entei."
"I don't understand what you're saying… Ace didn't gain the fruit's power, you ate it." Deuce retorted.
"If I didn't he would have become the Flame Flame user! Tch, despite this guy being the son of Pirate King, he wasted his talent of Haki to overelying Devil Fruit's ability."
At this instance, a kick came from Ace's direction toward Sakura's body as he passed through Sakura's body who became the embodiment of a flame.
Somehow, the guy woke up the moment Sakura mentioned 'Son of Pirate King'
"You can't hit me without Haki and I can't control this ability yet to converse it into a physical form so you have no way of attack. Just give it up, I don't have ill intention toward you."
Of course, Sakura's word alone wasn't enough to calm down Ace but he just ignored Ace's relentless attacking. At the end of day, Ace is just burning himself by trying to hit Sakura.
"Now let's explain what 'Haki' is now that Ace is awake. Haki is basically, the manifestation of will, hugely grouped to three categories. 'Observation Color' Haki which allows you to see without seeing and 'Armament Color' Haki which allows you to punch what you wants to punch."
As if intrigued, Ace calmed down a little bit and sat down listening at the seemingly useful information.
"Ace, you know Garp, right? When he punches Luffy, despite eating Rubber Rubber Fruit, he always reacts in a hurtful way when he gets punched, right? That's because Garp used this type of Haki before hitting Luffy, causing him to inflict harm on a Devil Fruit user who is immune to blunt attack."
"How did you know all thi-,"
Just before Ace interrupts Sakura's lesson, he continued, "Because I've read the One Piece."
What Ace and Deuce at this time didn't know was Sakura's continuous blabbering would last 3-4 days, until they built the boat and escaped the island.
During this time span, not only did Sakura storytell the entire One Piece up to Egghead Arc, he even touched other story such as Dragon Ball, Kengan Ashura, JoJo.
Albeit Sakura awakened to his unknown storytelling talent, Ace didn't like it when he mocked Ace's imagination, or which action the current Ace never comitted.
"Which idiot dives into the strongest enemy just because their adoptive dad got made fun of when the entire objective of the war is to save that said person?"
Sakura was spewing flame when he got to the One Piece Summit War Arc… quite literally.