Grand Line, Sabaody Archipelago
Late at night, the moon was dark and a strong wind whispered through Sabaody Archipelago, Island 41. In the dimly lit living room of the three-story villa, a "Spatial Door" quietly opened, and Sephiroth stepped out with a faint smile on his face.
"This Dragon, I can't believe he's such a chatterbox too," Sephiroth grumbled inwardly, then headed towards the bathroom.
After a long conversation with Dragon in Shimotsuki Village, he realized that the man's revolutionary ideas were still very raw and immature in many aspects. As for the Revolutionary Army itself, they were just "three or two big cats and kittens"—no money, no people! Their strength was even weaker than the organization he had built himself. Of course, Sephiroth felt this was primarily because the Revolutionary Army's thinking was still too vague. They only pursued freedom and liberation, without a complete long-term development plan, not even an attractive "big cake" for civilians.
So, Sephiroth took control of the conversation, expounding on democracy and freedom, and how to make the flames of revolution ignite and spread more effectively. For several hours, under Sephiroth's gradually self-forgetful "boasting," Dragon was like a lost traveler, finally finding the right direction and motivation to move forward!
Not only that, Dragon cordially invited him to join the Revolutionary Army and dedicate himself to the revolutionary cause together. Seeing Dragon's eyes truly fall into fanaticism, Sephiroth felt utterly helpless. He patted the man's shoulder and said with a smile, "Forget about joining the Revolutionary Army, but... in the future, if you buy weapons from the Umbrella Corporation, I'll give you a 40% discount! Don't worry! The quality is absolutely guaranteed!"
"..."
At this point, Dragon snapped back to reality. He had dared to so enthusiastically teach me to rebel and develop my power. It turned out it was just to sell weapons...?
Sephiroth performed his daily Armament Haki body conditioning while taking a hot bath in the bathroom, holding the Butcher's Blade. After this period of cultivation, his body had become highly adaptable to Haki's erosion and purification, and it would no longer cause damage to his body. Even if Haki filled his entire body, at most it would cause a feeling of fullness.
Sephiroth poured all of his domineering Haki energy into the blade, waiting for it to regain its internal Haki energy, and then controlled the Haki energy on the blade to flow back into his body, to completely expel the Haki energy that was beyond his body's capacity. This would take about two hours. If you add to that the more than one hour a day he spent performing thirteen thousand sword-wielding exercises, the amount of time he spent training each day was actually only more than three hours.
In his spare time, he devoted most of his time to studying bloodline factors! However, he was ready to dedicate some of his energy to studying blade forging techniques and learning from Shimotsuki Kozaburō with a "stealing knowledge" method.
Sephiroth already understood conventional blade forging techniques. He was interested in how to make a blade produce special attributes, like Yama, which absorbs Haki, the sword Shusui, which condenses Qi Slash, the Seven-Star Sword, which enthralls, the Healing Blade, and the most convenient and familiar Butcher's Blade, which he always used to strengthen the Life Siphon sword energy slash to make any attack come with Haki!
After completing his training to condense his Haki power, Sephiroth then put his sword back in its sheath, put on a white yukata, carried two long swords, walked to the second floor, and opened his bedroom door.
Immediately, he found himself lying on a large white bed three meters wide and four meters long. Sephiroth scratched his head with a speechless expression on his face.
Perona, wearing a black silk nightgown, was sleeping on her back, kicking off the white quilt and lying in bed, turning. At the edge of the bed, there was also a ghost storybook. He estimated that Perona must have been in the room, waiting for him to come back and tell her a horror story, but she waited too long and fell asleep directly.
Sephiroth thought for a moment, and he did not choose to carry Perona back to the other bedroom. After all, his bed was very large, it was fine for a few more people to sleep. Therefore, after he put the storybook on the bed on the bedside table, quickly changed into a set of pajamas, he lay directly on the bed and covered Perona with a quilt to prevent her from catching a cold.
Early in the morning, outside the window, birds in the trees chirped and foraged for food, gobbling up worms that dared to show their heads in one bite.
Chomp!
Sephiroth was suddenly woken from his sweet dreams, and he lifted his quilt and looked at Perona, who was hiding inside.
"..."
Gulp!
Perona pursed her lips and said with a sweet smile, "Good morning, Sephiroth~!"
"What are you doing?"
"Waking you up!"
"..."
"I heard from Hancock that you like being woken up like this the most!... Right?"
"..."
Hiccup!
Perona burped before pouting, "I'm hungry, I want breakfast."
"Okay, I'll make you breakfast now...."
Sephiroth, holding his forehead, got out of bed, grabbed his pants, walked out of the bedroom, and went down to the kitchen on the first floor, unconsciously busy.
After Perona went to the bathroom to quickly brush her teeth and wash her face, she came to the dining room and sat at the table, waiting for her own breakfast.
After a while, Sephiroth picked up a bagel sandwich on a plate, and a cup of hot milk, then came out of the kitchen, and placed them in front of her.
Perona took the cup and took a gulp of hot milk before speaking, "It's true, this kind of milk tastes better!"
"..."
In the morning, Sephiroth went to the base for a routine meeting. He originally planned to let the Bat clones help him go to work after handling the department's daily affairs, while he went to the basement to do research.
It never occurred to him.
A pirate Supernova with a bounty of over 100 million Berries, leading thousands of pirates under his command, launched a massive plunder on Sabaody Archipelago's Island No. 45. This "Pirate Star" planned to finish this large amount of work and directly let the fleet that had completed coating sneak into Fish-Man Island. This way, while successfully avoiding the Marine hunt, he could also seize this opportunity to become famous!
When Sephiroth received a report from his subordinates that a large pirate group was conducting a raid, he immediately passed through a "Spatial Door" and appeared on Island 45.
Seeing the pirates below who were burning, killing, and looting, Sephiroth's expression immediately turned cold. The Butcher's Blade in his hand quickly waved an afterimage. In just a few minutes, along with the pirate Supernova with a bounty of over 100 million Berries, nearly a thousand pirates, all in a state of panic and daze, were slashed through the void by the Butcher's Blade, which instantly cut their throats and killed them with one stroke! Only a few pirates, by Sephiroth's deliberate hand, farted their way out of Sabaody Archipelago.
The next day, triggered by Sephiroth, the World Economic News reported this matter so that some timid pirates temporarily gave up the idea of going to the Sabaody Archipelago, while some pirates who were still in the Sabaody Archipelago completed their coating overnight and dived to Fish-Man Island. Meanwhile, Sephiroth, in the pirate group, also gained the nickname "Throat Cutter." Thanks to this, for a long time to come, no pirates on the Sabaody Archipelago would dare to cause trouble rashly again. They all very honestly chose to go directly to the New World and did not want to stay too much on the Sabaody Archipelago.