*purupurupurupuru … purupurupurupuru … purupurupurupuru, gacha*
"Captain William speaking."
The marine named William picked up the Den Den Mushi with one hand while holding a newspaper with the other hand at the stern of his ship. He had an average height, long wavy blonde hair and wore a standard white marine uniform.
"Reporting, sir. Two new vessels just entered paradise."
Reported the officer from the other side of the Den Den Mushi.
"Have you profiled the vessels?"
Replied Williams, putting down his newspaper, switching it with binoculars and looked towards the Twin Cape. He saw two ships, lining up while exiting the waterway, the one in front was a black ship with black sails without a jolly roger, while the one tailing it was a bigger ship also without a jolly roger.
"We did, sir. We have nothing on them, we're requesting new information from all the blues posts right now, we'll let you know if we get any new information about the vessels, sir."
Replied the marine officer.
"Any new development on the Sabre pirates?"
Asked Williams, putting down his binoculars then picked back up his newspaper.
"Nothing new, sir. They're still being chased by the Hawk Eyes, sir."
"Alright, back to your post, keep me updated with the Sabre pirates and get me the information of the two new vessels as soon as possible."
William said, turning off the Den Den Mushi.
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The Queen Anne's Revenge and The Flying Dutchman were sailing slowly exiting the Twin Cape area. Jin jumped back up to his crow's nest to scout the area in front of them for other ships nearby.
After tailing the running pirates for a while, Jin who was constantly scanning the horizon for other ships saw a ship slowly sailing a few clicks away from the pirate ship they were following, he zoomed in with his binoculars and saw the detailed appearance of the ship. It was a three masts ship coloured greenish-blue with Marine written on the middle sail.
He would love to take a closer look to find out who was commanding the marine ship, but he can't zoom in any further with his binoculars, the only way he can take a closer look is getting closer to the marine ship. Gathering all the information he can get from the marine ship, he jumped down from his crow's nest.
*THUD*
"Robert! Where's the capta … nevermind, sup, capt."
Jin was asking Robert where Koujiro was when he found him sitting on his beach chair slightly behind Robert, he weaved through the zombies who were working on the deck heading towards the stern of the ship. Before Koujiro got to reply, Jin continued …
"Anyway, we have marines on our northeast, I think they are also tailing the pirate ship in front of us."
"Hmm? Should we worry about their intervention?."
Koujiro said, pulling out his binoculars and looked towards the direction where the marine was.
"Nah … it's just likely a scout ship, they're only gathering information of who entered the Grand Line."
Jin said taking a seat next to Koujiro and grabbed a bottle of cold beer from the freezer between them.
"We'll keep our distance from them for now until we get any new information from the ship in front of us. Pick up the pace a little bit, Robert, we can't waste any more time with the marines also eyeing our target."
"Roger, capt."
Replied Robert, then ordered a few of the zombies to drop a few more sails.
"I can go with Marcus to confront the marines if you want."
"No, stay here, Marcus can handle the marines by himself if they keep their distance."
Jin just shrugged and sipped his beer. They sat there on the stern, silently, accompanied by a box full of cold beer. Jin occasionally peeked through his binoculars to take a look at the mysterious man who was following the pirates, while Koujiro was reading his Voodoo books.
"I got a clear view of the man who is following the pirates."
Jin broke the silence, still looking towards the mysterious man.
"Hmm? Interesting sword he has there."
Koujiro said, looking towards the mysterious man through his binoculars.
"Ooh yeah, it looks familiar, hmm … wait! It's the swordsman dude, his name is Dracule Mihawk if I'm not mistaken."
Jin said after getting a closer look at Mihawk. The man they were watching seemingly knew that he was being watched, turned around and looked towards them for a second, his eyes darting towards the two who were watching him then turned his attention back to the pirate's ship he was chasing.
"Ooh shit! He knows, slows down the ship, Robert!"
Jin suddenly said, startling Robert and Koujiro by the terrified tone of their crewmate. Robert glanced towards Koujiro, confirming whether they should slow down or not.
"What do you mean slow down? You know him?"
°He's one of the Warlords, he wields one of the Supreme Grade weapons, the name of his sword is, the Black Sword Yoru.°
The helper interrupted the two after hearing the name of the mysterious man from Jin.
"Supreme Grade weapon huh? I never thought I'd find one this soon, but it is what it is, one down, two to go I guess."
Koujiro said while chambering the rifle he just bought, it was a black Russian sniper rifle called DXL-3 Longstrike chambered in .338 Lapua.
Jin jerked his head towards Koujiro after hearing the sound of a rifle loading beside him and yelled ...
"Wait! Stop, capt!"
Already fixated on getting the Supreme Grade weapon, Koujiro ignored Jin and fired his rifle as soon as he chambered a round.
*BOOM … CRACK!*
The rifle blasted with a deafening sound and the bullet reached a supersonic speed in a fraction of a second it left the barrel followed by the sonic boom.
"What the fuck, capt! Now he's gonna turn his attention to us!"
Jin took the rifle away from Koujiro's hands before he got to fire another shot.
"Goddamnit, Jin! What's your problem?! He's miles away from us! And he's on a fucking dingy, what he's gonna do? Row his dingy with his big ass sword to us?"
*THUD*
Before Jin could say anything, someone landed on their deck. The zombies who were working on the deck immediately turned their attention to the man and pounced at the stranger in front of them. The man reached for his cross necklace and pulled out a small knife from the pendant, he did a full three-sixty swing with the small knife unleashing a black circular sword wave, cutting everything around him.
"Mihawk!"
Startled by the sudden appearance of Mihawk, Jin accidentally yelled his name.
The zombies who were pouncing on Mihawk a second ago had been cut to pieces from a single slash from him. Body parts were scattered across the deck, some zombies that still had most of their bodies intact tried to crawl towards their attacker.
"ORAAAA!!!"
Seeing his zombies got cut to pieces, Koujiro jumped over the railing holding Norimitsu over his head, planning to slam Mihawk to pieces with it. At least, that was what Koujiro expected to happen. Mihawk easily blocked his huge sword with the small knife he was holding with one hand.
The floor where Mihawk stood cracked from the impact he received, he jumped backwards before the floor could collapse on him.
"You're destroying the ship, you stupid old man!"
Yelled Jin from the stern of the ship.
"Fuck! I know! Shut the fuck up and shoot this guy!"
Koujiro yelled back, switching Norimitsu with the Myōhō, he dashed towards Mihawk while holding the sword sideways.
"Jin? Asakura Jin?"
Mihawk said after hearing the familiar voice that shouted from the back of the ship. He raised his knife to his left side to block the slash, when the sword was closing on him, he could feel the sharpness of the sword and immediately covered the knife with haki. The two blades touched, even after using haki on his knife, the sword was still able to partially cut into the knife. Surprised by what happened, Mihawk strengthened the haki on his knife, covering his left hand with haki, he grabbed the sword and pulled it closer to him.
"Muramasa?"
Mihawk said after taking a closer look at the sword. While looking at the detail of the sword, the sword suddenly flickered and escaped from Mihawk's grasp. He sidestepped the downward slash, then parried another downward slash with his Yoru this time, not taking any chance to gamble if his haki can withstand the fabled sharpest sword in the world or not. Koujiro kept attacking Mihawk with his downward slash while Mihawk kept dodging and parrying his strikes with ease.
*BANG*
After a few minutes of watching Koujiro trying to hack Mihawk to pieces to no avail, he decided to stop them by shooting his rifle to the sky.
"Enough!"
Jin said while standing in the middle of Koujiro and Mihawk, his rifle raised blocking the incoming downward slash from Koujiro while shoving his other hand towards Mihawk.
"What's the meaning of this?"
Koujiro asked his first mate.
"You won't be able to kill him and take his sword, not for now, at least."
Jin said, nodding at Mihawk and Mihawk just nodded back at him.
Noticing the brief interaction between Jin and Mihawk, Koujiro said …
"You know him?"
"Yes, we met a few times before I went to east blue."
"Is that …?"
Mihawk said to Jin while pointing at the sword in Koujiro's hands, interrupting the two. Jin just nodded, then Mihawk continued …
"Then he is … no, he's too old, I think you said that he's the same age as you."
"Motherfucker! What do you mean too old!?"
Koujiro instantly snapped at Mihawk from being called too old.
"Woah … woah … woah, chill. He's not him, he's my captain."
Jin said while holding back his captain before he could pounce Mihawk again while explaining who Koujiro was to Mihawk.
"You're a pirate, Jin? I never thought you would join or become one."
"What? You're gonna capture me now that I'm a pirate and hand me over to your boss?"
Jin said with a smirk.
"Hmmph."
He just harrumphed at Jin's teasing.
"So, what are you doing at this side of the Grand Line? Chasing unknown pirates is your new hobby now?"
Jin said, waving his hand towards the two to follow him to the stern. They walked towards the stern, Jin and Koujiro sat back on their beach chairs while Mihawk just leaned on the railing.
"I heard a rumour about a sword that looks like the Myōhō appeared on the east blue a month ago and thought maybe Muramasa finally came out of his hiding hole. So, I've been waiting here for the past month."
Mihawk said, catching a bottle of beer from Jin.
"Well, there's no Muramasa, only his sword and this old man … hehe … own it now."
Jin chuckled while pointing to his side where Koujiro was sitting staring dagger towards Mihawk.
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1. Sandai Kitetsu: ¥.50.000
2. Clothes: ¥.81.500
3. DLX-3 Longstrike Sniper Rifle: ¥.500.000
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