Chapter 2 The 1nd Battle

After a week at sea, Kuro was eating the last of his food on the boat.

"Hmm... I still don't have enough food. I guess I need to find a village to buy some food."

Kuro was holding a piece of dried meat in his hand, tearing it apart while muttering to himself. In fact, he had brought a lot of food, but he was just too big of an eater.

It was okay when I was a child, I just ate a little more than the average child. Later, I started exercising, and I had enough to eat by going out to sea to fish every day.

Later, the old man taught him how to practice swordplay and re-planned his training plan, and he became unstoppable.

The more he trains, the more he eats. The more he eats, the more energy he has. More energy makes training easier, so the old man keeps increasing the intensity of Kuro's training.

He started by swinging the knife a thousand times a day, then slowly increased the number to five thousand and then ten thousand.

The weight also increased from 200 kilograms to 1 ton. Later, after repeating three sets every day, there was not enough fish to eat.

There was no other way, the old man had to go out every day to catch wild animals for him to eat, and if he was lucky he could even catch a sea king.

Just like that, during these ten years, with the continuous supply of nutrition, Kuro grew from a skinny, malnourished kid to a 2 meter tall man with well-proportioned muscles.

Kuro was researching which nearby village to go to buy food.

"Boom boom boom"

"Boom boom boom"

"Crack!" Kuro jumped up instantly. "Someone is firing cannons at my ship!"

Kuro walked out of the cabin and looked forward. A man who looked like Pighead was standing on a black pirate ship with a pirate flag with a cannon and a skull on it.

The man was holding a cannonball in his hand and looking over here with an arrogant laugh. A group of pirate minions were chasing and cheering beside him.

"Long live Captain Will, who blew away the mast of the boat with one shot"

"Captain Will's shooting is so accurate!"

"Hahahaha, that's nothing, watch me fire another shot and completely smash that broken boat, hahahahaha"

The Pig-Headed Man's hand suddenly turned into a cannon barrel. He put the cannonball in it and aimed at Kuro's ship again.

"The arm turned into a cannon barrel?"

This is the first time that Kuro has seen someone with the ability of a devil fruit after traveling through time for so long.

"Devil Fruit, what a strange power, hahahaha"

Seeing him pointing the gun at himself, Kuro's mouth curled up. He was just worrying about not having enough food to eat, and now he came to deliver supplies to him.

He trotted forward two steps, then jumped towards the Cannon Pirates' ship and drew his long sword in mid-air.

"One Sword Style - Horizontal Slash"

The blade swung sideways and slashed, creating a slash in the air that cut through the fired shells, cannon barrels, Will, and the two pirates behind him.

The minions on the ship were all terrified and killed our captain with one knife. Where did this monster come from?

Kuro was also stunned. What kind of thing couldn't even withstand a blow from him? No matter what, he was a Devil Fruit user. This was too weak!

"..."

Kuro landed on the pirate ship, and the remaining minions were so scared that they hurriedly leaned towards the side of the ship and huddled together.

"Don't be afraid, I'm a good person and I won't hurt you, hahahahaha"

The minions were even more frightened because the monster opposite them killed their captain, who had demonic abilities, with one blow, and was smiling while holding a knife in his hand, telling them not to be afraid.

He was definitely trying to get us to relax and then kill us!

Kuro looked at the group of minions who were as scared as chickens and touched his face, "This shouldn't be the case. They shouldn't react like this when they see my kind face."

Kuro saw that they were shivering faster and faster, and realized that these bastards couldn't see the kindness revealed in the smile on his face, so he could only rely on intimidation.

"Hey! Stop shaking! Someone come out and make the decision! Otherwise I'll kill you all!" Kuro said with a fierce look in his eyes.

The minions looked at each other, and then a big man came out. He must be more than three meters tall. Kuro looked up at him.

"Hey, what's your name?" asked Craw.

"My name is Ryan, Boscat Ryan," the big Ryan replied while touching his head.

"Well, that's a great name. How much is your captain's bounty worth?"

"Our captain has been offered a bounty of 1300 million Baileys"

"You're lying to me! There are only 1,300 Devil Fruit users? Do you think I'm a fool?"

Kuro thought to himself, "Damn it! You look so honest and kind, but I didn't expect you to be this kind of person! You lie with your eyes open, do you really think I'm stupid?"

"No, no, our captain just ate the devil fruit not long ago, and he wanted to practice his abilities today, and he happened to see your boat, so he did that."

Ryan stopped talking about this. You can't just say that you just want to use you as a target for training. I'm afraid you'll get stabbed after you finish saying it.

"I was wondering how could he be so weak? I took him seriously and thought he was a big shot, but he couldn't even withstand a single blow from me."

Kuro said, "Who in the world understands my family? I tried my best but I lost so completely."

"What is your position on this ship?"

“I have only been here for a few days and I don’t have a position yet.”

“…then they push you out and let you make the decision!”

"Oh, they can't beat me. I was planning to challenge the captain these days, but I didn't expect you to kill him today."

"...So, I am the one who is hindering your progress?"

“No, no, actually I may not win either, hahahaha”

Kuro looked at the big man in front of him who was touching the back of his head with a simple and honest face, and thought that he looked quite honest.

Kuro looked at the rest of the group and said, "Then you can join me from now on. I'm going to set up a pirate group. You can be the helmsman on my ship and take charge of the helm. You are familiar with them, so I'll leave them to you."

Ryan was stunned for a moment, "Aren't you a pirate hunter?"

"Pirate hunter? How do I look like a pirate hunter?"

"You came up and killed Will, and then asked him how much he was worth..."

"...He fired at me so of course I had to kill him. If he died I could ask the navy for money so it would be a good use of his waste."

Kuro understood what I heard, no wonder he was so afraid of me, he thought I was a pirate hunter and wanted to kill them for money.

"Are you going to do it or not? If not, get off my boat!"

Kuro was a little impatient. I gave you a chance but you still asked so many questions.

"Yes, of course. Captain, I hope you can give me more guidance in the future. But if I become stronger than you in the future, I will challenge you!"

Ryan responded quickly

“Hahaha, come on if you can do it! But before that just follow my footsteps closely!”

"So little ones! Hahaha, bring out the food first, I'm hungry!"

Kuro wasn't full to begin with, and he became even hungrier after exercising.

“Okay okay”

"We'll get ready right away!"

Soon there was a pile of food in front of Kuro. Kuro pounced on his food like a hungry dog, holding a bowl of noodles in his left hand, a piece of bread in his right hand, and a chicken leg in his mouth.

After eating up all the food in a flash, Craw arranged to go to a nearby village to replenish supplies, and then arranged for someone to exchange Will's bounty.