After a few days of sailing, they finally arrived at the second island of the Grand Line.
"I'm sure that's it! That's the island that comes after Cactus Island!" Nami said excitedly.
"YAHOOO! THE SECOND ISLAND OF THE GRAND LINE!!" Luffy exclaimed with joy.
As they ventured forward, they saw it was a dense jungle.
"We need to be careful. I'm worried about what Miss All-Sunday said," Vivi said with concern.
"D-D... Did she say there would be monsters?!" Usopp asked, terrified.
"I don't know," Sanji replied. "But we need to get food... we didn't get anything on the last island."
"It's such a thick jungle. There might be gigantic beasts," Oliver said, trying to scare Usopp.
"Don't say that!" Usopp shouted at him.
"Come on, doesn't it seem exciting to be in a place like this?" Oliver said while looking around.
"Look at that! I've never seen those plants in any book!" Nami said, amazed, before screaming due to a loud noise. "What was that?!"
"Who knows? How many monsters could be hiding in a jungle like this?" Oliver added, making Nami and Usopp even more nervous.
Suddenly, a loud noise was heard, and moments later, a large tiger stumbled out of the jungle and collapsed, dead.
"This is not normal!! Definitely not normal! Why is the tiger, the King of the Jungle, passed out in a pool of its own blood?!" Nami asked, horrified.
"We're not getting off the ship on this island!" Usopp declared, backing Nami up.
"We'll sit on the ship, wait for the Log Pose to calibrate, and then we leave!" Nami said, coming up with a plan to avoid stepping on the island. "We have to reach Alabasta quickly, of course."
"Sanji! Lunchbox!" Luffy called out.
"A lunchbox?" Sanji asked.
"Yeah! A pirate lunchbox! I smell adventure!" Luffy said excitedly.
"W-Wait a minute! Where do you think you're going?!" Nami asked, alarmed.
"On an adventure! Wanna come?" Luffy replied, completely thrilled. "Let's go, Sanji! The lunchbox!"
Nami gave up on stopping him since he never listened when he got excited. Meanwhile, Vivi thought for a moment about exploring the island.
"Hey, can I come with you?" Vivi asked.
"Of course, come on!" Luffy said.
"Don't tell me you're going with him?!" Nami asked.
"Yeah. If I just sit and think, I'll only get depressed. I'm going to have fun until the Log Pose is ready," Vivi explained. "And we're bringing Karoo!"
When she said that, Karoo was so shocked he couldn't make a sound.
After a few minutes, Sanji prepared a lunchbox for Luffy and Vivi, along with some water for Karoo.
"Alright! Let's go!" Luffy shouted as he entered the jungle.
"We'll be back!!" Vivi yelled.
As they watched them walk away from the ship, Oliver stretched a bit.
"Well, I'm going to get some exercise. See you in a bit," Oliver said, jumping off the ship. "DON'T GET EATEN BY MONSTERS!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Nami and Usopp yelled at him.
Oliver walked through the jungle, seeing some incredible sights. A plant of various colors that gave off a strong smell, scaring away all nearby animals, a giant snake that slithered above him through the trees, and many more things.
"Compared to those Sea Kings, these are pretty small," Oliver said as he looked around.
Then, something started moving among the trees, prompting Oliver to get into position, not knowing what was coming—until a tail lashed out at him. He jumped to dodge the attack.
The giant snake emerged from the trees.
"Haha, I hope it's not because I said you were small," Oliver said as the snake lunged at him.
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Oliver sat on the ground, devouring the snake that had tried to attack him.
"Pretty tasty," he said, eating a large piece of the snake.
He sat staring at the snake's remains.
"How's my Combat Style mastery doing? Status."
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Status
Name: Oliver Williams
Age: 24 years
Race: Mink - Human Hybrid
Height: 1,96 m
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Inventario
-Cannon
-Sutoreji Sutoreji no Mi
-Ari Ari no mi
-Kumo Kumo no mi, Model: Scorpion
-Ryu Ryu no mi, Model: Quetzalcoatlus
-2x Weapon Gacha Token
-Combat Styles Gacha Token
-Money: 70,010,000 Belly
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Combat Styles
-Electro Mastery (19%)
-Boxing Mastery (11%)
-Karate Mastery (10%)
-Two Axe Style Mastery (0%)
-Street Fighting Mastery (9%)
-Hoplomachia Mastery (14%)
-Dagger Style Mastery (0%)
-Ittōryū Mastery (0%)
-Mixed Martial Arts Mastery (10%)
-Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist Mastery (1%)
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Talents
-Poison Resistance
-Pain Tolerance
-Accelerator Metabolism
-Fighter's Mentality
-Fighter Body
-Casual Fishing
-Hardened Skin
-Basic Discipline
-Affinity with Devil Fruits
-Disease Resistance
-Absolute Climate Resistance
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"Nothing increased, which makes sense since I haven't been fighting much," Oliver said, finishing the last bite of the snake. "With the mission to defeat Baroque Works, I'll have nearly 400 million Berries."
He thought about the possible 470 million Berries he'd end up with and what he could do with that.
"When I have that much, I could try to get a really good Devil Fruit," Oliver said, thinking about which one he might want. "But first..."
He spent 10 million Berries buying 3 Talent Gacha Tokens—since they were the best for getting powerful passives without having to learn them—and used the remaining million to buy one Combat Style Gacha Token.
"I'd love to see a legendary one," Oliver said.
He summoned the gacha machine and placed the first token in, hoping for something good.
The first orb was black.
[Talent: Stylist]
[Gives the user the ability to cut, dye, and reshape the hair of people and/or animals]
"Could I use this to cut Chopper's hair?"
The second orb was also black.
[Talent: Neutral Scent]
[Makes the user emit a scent that is hard to track by people or animals]
"This might actually be interesting—maybe it affects Zoan-type Devil Fruit users."
He hoped the last one would be better, but it was also black.
[Talent: Natural Finish]
[Makes it difficult for the user to get lost, even in forests or large cities]
"Pure trash... although Neutral Scent might be worth testing now," Oliver said as he got up.
He began searching the jungle for an animal with a good sense of smell to test whether it could track him.
As he walked through the jungle, he suddenly felt something strange around him and froze in place.
He looked around but didn't see anything unusual, so he kept walking—until he spotted a tiger wandering nearby. He hid to test his new talent, but then again felt something odd.
"Mmm... I think I've got company."
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I have a question. When I announced that Vivi is Oliver's partner, some people immediately said it was absurd, and one even sent me a death threat, but only a few were actually happy about it.
I know not everyone voted—otherwise, I would've had to read over 2,000 votes and probably would've gone crazy.
Readers, those of you who voted—did you like or not like Vivi as Oliver's partner? Why?
And if there had been other options that weren't included, who would you have liked to see as Oliver's partner?
I'm just curious.