Click-clack!
BANG!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" the pirate screams in pain as my rubber bullet hits his thigh.
"I am sick of playing games!" I shout angrily.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" the pirate asks me in pain and anger, which flares my already flaring fury even more!
BANG!
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"You don't ask questions, you only answer them! Do you understand?!"
"I AM ANSWERING YOU MAD BASTARD!"
BANG!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"WRONG ANSWER!!!"
He got cocky because I was trying to keep it tame, but if they think they can play me like this, then they are so damn wrong!
"Do You Understand Me?!" I repeat my question, so he gets my intention as clear as the sun.
"I Do! Aaahh! I understand! I will tell you anything, please don't kill me! Aaaahhh!" he finally answered me with fear, resignation, and caution.
"Now tell me! Where the hell are we?" I ask what I want this time with no hiding.
"I told you, we are in the Stormy region!" the pirate says with fear.
"And where the hell is that! In which sea, ocean, lake, or whatever?"
"This…we are in the East Blue!" The pirate answered after some hesitation.
'…Again with this bullshit!'
BANG!
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"Such A Place Does Not Exist, It Is Just A Story Made For Bored Kids To Pass Time! Do You Expect Me To Believe All Of This Shit?!"
Transported to a magical world? Getting overpowered cheats? Going on a Doki-Doki adventure? Collecting girls like Pokémon?
Do you think I am Zaimokuza?
Do you think I am a Chunibyo?
Do you think I will buy this delusional suckers wet dream?
"You Fucking Lunatic! What the fuck are you saying?" The pirate yells at me like he is looking at a maniac.
Click!
"AAHHH! NO! DON'T HURT ME! DON'T HURT ME!" The pirate shrieks in fear and crawls like a ball the instant he sees the gun pointed at him.
And seeing him like that made me realize how off I was.
My emotions are all over the place, so much that I am taking this war inside me on this man.
"Where are we? Where is this place?" I asked calmly, trying to calm down as much as possible.
"…" and for the first time, the pirate stays silent. Not even daring to look at me.
"Just…Just answer me, where are we?"
"I-I don't k-know…" With a shiver, the pirate replied.
"What do you mean by that?" I ask again, wanting to know what he means by that.
"I-I-I d-don't k-know what do y-you want."
"Just tells me where do you think we are?"
"I-I-I tol-told you!"
"No you didn't! Don't lie to me! There is no East Blue, no Grand Line, no One Piece, no Devil Fucking Fruit!"
"B-But you are…!"
"I am What?!"
"You are a Devil Fruit user, right?"
'…'
At his words, my thoughts came to a complete stillness for the first time in a long time.
"Eh?" I couldn't help but exclaim, wanting a bit of clarification, but my mind started working again and was explaining his last statement without the need for the pirate to tell me.
"Y-You have that glowing thing around you and can pull out all sorts of weapons! And you are like super strong, isn't that all because you eat a Devil Fruit?" The pirate said with a look like he could finally reason with a lunatic.
Yes, I have a physical level status that could make any Olympic-level athlete jealous.
I can use Hamon, a supernatural power that could only exist in manga
There is also The Box, a miracle-like item that can get me almost anything I want.
And I am aboard a pirate ship that looks like it came from the 1500's where all the crew speak Japanese.
All of that should be good enough clues that I am no longer in the same plain of existence I was before waking up on that damn island.
'It should have been an easy conclusion, but I…'
"Where is it?" I ask calmly.
"Huh?" The pirate exclaim with a face that say 'No, not this shit again!'.
"The Devil Fruit you spoke of, where is it now?" I ask again, making what I wanted to know understandable.
"Ah, that? I-It should be in the Captain's l-locker." The pirate replied, with relief visible on his face, and he was glancing repeatedly in a direction in the room.
I look in the direction too and see a cupboard the size of a fridge behind what looked like a disk.
Walking past the desk, I open the cupboard to see a Safe with almost the same size inside.
The thought of 'what is the point of having a Safe of the same size inside' crossed my mind as I looked at the type of lock.
A spinning combination lock and a key hole.
Returning to the pirate who was wincing in pain, I questioned.
"The Key?"
"T-The Key should be with the Captain." The pirate responded.
"And the code?"
"On-Only the Captain knows it, I swear!" He said with fear, clearly afraid of angering me.
Moving out of the Captain's cabin to the Captain himself, who was thankfully still unconscious.
I searched him, and I didn't have to search him for long as the key was hanging around his neck.
Back to the Safe, I use the key, but as expected, I still need the code for the combination lock.
But that was a simple problem, as I only needed to use the Water Bottle Technique/Hamon Detector to feel what was going on inside the lock.
Click!
Not even a minute, and the Safe was opened, and I saw what was inside.
There was gold, silver, stacks of cash, and that thing I wanted/not wanted to see.
It was there, inside a small, unlocked wooden box.
A crimson red watermelon, with a mysterious swirl pattern on its surface.
Taking it out and holding it in my hand, I can feel the weight and texture of the strange-looking watermelon.
There was no doubt about it,
It is a Devil Fruit.
Haruno-san told me that people like us can never get drunk, that there will always be a place in my mind that is calm and collected, judging the world with absolute logic.
It turned out that she was wrong.
Looks like I, too, could get drunk.
My mind and thoughts could get clouded, too. I can become so high on my own hopes and assumed superiority, so much so that I can ignore the situation I am in because of how undesirable and inconvenient it is for me.
The fact was this clear to me, right from the very first few minutes I woke up in this world.
After all, no one wakes up in their pajamas on a secluded island with a 'cheat' Box and calls it a normal circumstance to be in.
The answer was so obvious, even someone delusional like Zaimokuza would have figured it out from the beginning.
Part of my mind wants to argue that the situation was so bizarre that you can't judge me for not accepting it.
That it was not my fault, it is the world's fault! This HachiMind is perfectly stoic and fully functional!
"Hehe..!"
'Coping with humor, how unoriginal of you, Hachiman.'
I lightly laugh at my own thought like the fool I am, trying to ignore the tear falling from my eyes.
All of this denial, all of this willful ignorance, all of this fake stoicism is not just because of the refusal of the cliché, but also what it means.
The weight of that conclusion was enough to push me down on my knees, crying like a pathetic loser.
That thing that terrified me to the extent that it obscured my vision for a whole month from the simple facts.
The conclusion that turned the world around me into a nightmare.
A nightmare that I can't wake up from.
"Komachi…"
I can't see my sister again.
I can't see my parents again.
I can't see Yukinoshita again.
I can't see Yuigahama again.
I can't see Isshiki again.
I can't see Zaimokuza again.
"I can't get back home…"
Because there is no way home.
'Damn, why…?'
I am just a high school student.
"Please…"
'Whoever got me here…please…I beg you…'
"Sob…I want to go back…"
'I don't want any of this…Please…'
"I just want to be a normal person…"
'Please just send me back!'
"I just want to go back…!"
Tak!
A sound suddenly reverberated in front of me, taking my attention away from my whining.
When I looked, I saw something unexpected,
It was The Box.
The box that stays away and is hidden all the time is suddenly summoned.
The Box usually stays hidden when I am not thinking about it, only when I do think about it or want to use it does it appear.
But I didn't want to use it right now, nor did I think about it.
However, a hypothesis appeared in my head at this moment.
'Could it be…?'
Is The Box trying to tell me that I can use it to get back home?
When I put anything inside The Box and wish for something, The Box conjures it for me.
Could it do the same, and give me a way back home?
'I don't know, but let me try,'
Without thinking much, I put the half-crushed Devil fruit, which I didn't care about, in The Box.
'It should have some value or whatever, just get me back home!'
"I want a way back home!" I declare my wish aloud, hoping for it to be fulfilled.
"…"
"…"
Almost half a minute passed, but there was no response from The Box.
"All right, maybe I worded it way too vaguely…"
'Then how about this?'
"I want an Anywhere Door, but it only works to my house in Chiba."
"…"
"…"
Another half minute and still nothing.
'What is going on? Some technical issues?'
"Then a teleportation gate back home?"
"…"
Still nothing.
"A wormhole tunnel?"
"…"
"A magic circle?"
"…"
"Instant teleportation?"
"…"
'Was I making this up in my head?'
This should be possible, I wasn't in my best state earlier.
And this Box isn't omnipotent either, there is man thing that it couldn't conjure when I asked.
'Like when I asked for a phon-'
Click!
Suddenly, the Box is opened, and before I could process it, I found myself in a pile of hard things.
"What the…?"
Standing up and looking at the pile of objects that appeared in my surroundings, I realized they were only one thing.
'Phones…?'
Smartphones, to be exact, had a large screen and looked quite futuristic.
I took one of them and tried to open it.
And it opened!
It looked like a brand new phone, as it required entering the basic settings.
However, I quickly skipped most of it, all of that was on my mind was whether I could use this to contact anyone back home.
But my hopes were crushed again when I couldn't.
What was in my hand was a completely new phone, it looked quite advanced and big, as I couldn't hold it with one hand, there was no signal, and I couldn't call anyone or send any text message.
There was neither any App on the phone nor anything useful for my situation.
Nevertheless, why did it suddenly appear? I remember ordering a mobile phone from the Box many times before, but to no avail.
'So, what happened right now? Did The Box evolve or something?'
I took The Box in my hand and opened it, and then stuffed some of the things in the Safe inside and wished for a phone.
"…"
This time, the Box didn't respond, no matter how much I waited.
Changing my wish to a gold bar,
Click!
The Box opens immediately.
'So it didn't evolve? Then why suddenly…'
It was then that I remembered what I put in The Box first.
A Devil Fruit!
Does that mean the things I put inside the Box matter?
Opening the Box again, I take one of the phones, feed it to The Box, and wish for my Vita-chan. (PS Vita)
Click!
And it opened immediately!
Moreover, it was not one but a dozen of them!
"What the fuck is going on?"
…
A/N: This was a very heavy chapter to write...
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