Ars left with empty hands from the auction, but was thinking of acquiring some of the items by asking nicely directly to the owner of the items… After that he would leave with the items and nobody could identify him, a win-win situation.
Maybe some people could give a direction towards him but in the end the only people who could didn't like the world government. So Ars was confident he wouldn't get caught.
But first he would get his eternal pose and warn Shakky what he was about to do.
He quickly moved to Shakky's bar, where he found her waiting for him. She quickly asked.
"How was the auction?"
Ars sighed and complained.
"It was horrible, there was this pig disguised as an astronaut that kept buying everything I wanted! So now I need to ask very politely for some of these things… For free, compensation for emotional damage."
Shakky smiled and asked.
"So you intend to borrow from the tenryuubito?"
Ars smiled and nodded, she broke off laughing, and gave him the eternal pose he wanted.
"I can only wish you luck!"
Ars left and moved through a few shops with more masks and clothes, he took a few without being noticed and left the money on the counter. He changed his disguise and prepared himself for causing problems.
He quickly moved to the location of the ship that would carry his desired items, there the female tenryuubito was screaming at one slave, he looked around 15 and was male, he had quite a few scars covering his face and even more on his body, with barely any hair and old clothes, it was obvious he had been a slave for a while.
Ars started planning while they started to move towards the ship.
The moment they started to leave Ars dived and swam after them. He was thankful that they didn't go directly towards mariejois, or he wouldn't risk it for such items, but since they were going on the sea, to somewhere he didn't care to know, he could start his plan once they were far away enough from their previous location.
After following them for a while, when he considered they were far away enough, the first thing he did was to destroy the rudder. The Cp agents that were guarding the tenryuubito noticed Ars attack on the rudder too late, the moment they did they started giving orders, like ants protecting the queen ant.
"Protect Saint Mircia! And be careful with attacks, we have no idea what is attacking us!"
Ars laughed, he didn't intend to go out of the water for now, instead he started to create a massive storm, not even 10 minutes after he broke the rudder, a gigantic storm with a tornado the size of an island with several water sprouts and lighting that seemed to replace the rain was destroying their ship.
Ars just laughed at their panicked faces and helped the ship a bit. He could kill them all here, but he decided against it, that would be too light of a punishment.
Soon the ship wrecked itself on a small island nearby. Ars smiled, until now everything was going according to his plan.
Everyone inside the ship was feeling disoriented and hurt, but alive, the cp agents quickly carried the tenryuubito out of the ship.
The agents quickly started inspecting the island for danger, or at least trying. Ars would hunt them down every time they left far away enough. Soon they realized there was something wrong.
"It seems the attacker from before is here on this island too!"
Ars decided to finish the game before something went wrong. He rushed towards the final four cp agents who tried to intercept him.
The first, got between Ars and the tenryuubito, tried to punch Ars, but Ars just grabbed his arm and jumped, dropkicking him on the face while pulling him into his attack. Ars then let go and used his momentum from the attack to do a backflip, getting on top of one of the agents that got behind him.
He locked his feet around the agent head and threw the agent up, causing almost no damage, the agent sneered, he also noticed this, he thought his attacker had made a mistake, he was about to use geppo to escape the situation, but before he could Ars grabbed one of his legs and used the agent as a club to attack another agent that was rushing in, sending them both flying.
The last one tried to kick Ars, but Ars dodged and grabbed him by the neck then slammed him into the guy who had been just dropkicked and was still recovering.
Before they could do anything else, Ars took one dagger that one of the cp agents was carrying, and killed three of them all with slit throats, with the exception of the last one who managed to dodge at first, just for Ars to stab the dagger through a rib and then ripping that rib out and using it to pierce the cp agent's skull.
The tenryuubito was still convinced she was safe, because for some reason she didn't think Ars would hurt her.
Ars just laughed, he went to the ship and freed all slaves, and after that he helped them put some small boats on the water that were in the ship just in case it started to sink.
After that Ars searched for something in the wreckage from the ship, the branding iron with the Hoof of the Soaring Dragon. Once he found it, he went back to the tenryuubito who was looking very angrily at him, swearing and insulting him, all with pure disdain on her face. Even after all she saw, she was convinced that no one there would dare to touch her.
Ars approached her, ignoring her screaming and she instantly exploded even harder.
"What do you want, you lowly creature!?"
Ars smiled behind his mask, and with a fake voice he said.
"To hear your beautiful screams of agony!"
She flinched, for the first time the conviction that she was untouchable faltered for a few seconds but soon returned.
"You wouldn't dare!"
Ars laughed and ripped her bubble head off but before she could complain or scream about it, he exposed her back, and kicked her to the ground. Before she could make any sound he put his foot on top of her back, he had started using his ability to control heat to heat up the branding iron. Now it was red hot, the tenryuubito finally realized that her attacker not only would touch her, but he would hurt her immensely without any hesitation…She started screaming.
"You can't do this, I'm a Celestial Dragon!"
Before she could say anything else he branded her with the same mark they used for the slaves.
She screamed in absolute agony, she was so loud that Ars thought his ears were going to fall and he almost felt pity for her, almost. Then she passed out. Ars looked at his work, and soon one of the slaves approached.
"Can we have her?"
Ars looked surprised and replied.
"Sure, but you know you will be hunted and killed!"
The slave nodded and smiled resolutely, before announcing not just for Ars to hear but for all other slaves too.
"I know, but I will make sure she will never forget me!"
The other slaves nodded, their families had been destroyed by the world government, the only thing left was revenge, and it was just a few feet away.
The only slave that reacted differently was the previous young slave he saw, when they were still in sabaody. He approached and asked Ars.
"Can you take me away!?"
Ars nodded, and looked at the others, who were looking at the female tenryuubito, with hatred and thirst, he knew that the female was about to participate in quite a few activities she would hate. And looked at her with genuine pity… While her actions were horrible and deplorable, with no excuse, she was only behaving like she was taught to behave.
He looked around and asked.
"Would anyone else prefer to leave?"
They all smiled resolutely and shook their heads, so Ars grabbed the only slave who wanted to survive and teleported him to his pocket dimension, where he just said.
"Don't touch anything!"
He left and before he got too far away he heard the tenryuubito scream once more, he looked back, he knew what the slaves intended to do.
He left towards water seven without looking back again.
After a while he got to his destination.
The place was beautiful, with a lot of people on the streets doing business, talking with each other and even pirates roaming around without causing problems.
His first objective, finding Blueno's bar. He was well known so it didn't take long to discover the location of his bar. Next he needed a plan, so he could collect his sample peacefully.
He decided to drink and then he would fake being drunk so he could attack Blueno without raising suspicions, getting a sample in the process.
For now he needed to wait for the bar to open up, it was still three hours from opening time, so Ars went around exploring the city.
The first thing he did was trying local specialities, Mizu Mizu Meat, Mizu Mizu Manju, and Mizu Mizu Cabbage.
He didn't appreciate the Mizu Mizu Cabbage, he wasn't that much into vegetables… The Mizu Mizu Manju was decent. It was a bit sweet and he would try again, but the Mizu Mizu Meat was definitely his favorite, it was very tasty, and he ate it a few times.
Then he went to ride the yagara bulls, it was a very interesting experience. He wanted to buy one, or two, or three…Maybe a small herd… To give to his daughters and queens.
He entered a shop and asked directly.
"Sorry, but I would like to buy a few yagara bulls! Is it possible?"
The clerk smiled a here we go again smile, she seemed used and tired of this question, she replied politely.
"Sorry, but we don't sell bulls, maybe if you go to yagara bull ranch, on a nearby island… Even then the season is off, normally most ranches have finished selling all of the ones they intended to sell, almost 3 months ago."
"Thank you, I will try my luck later on then, in one of those ranches!"
Ars left and decided to go to a cafe for the rest of the time, he was only missing half an hour until Blueno's bar opened.
While he waited, he thought about what other interesting things were in water seven. He then remembered Franky with the pluton blueprints. He started thinking.
"Should I take the blueprints to mess with Cp 9!?"
Ars started to imagine their reactions when they discovered that someone else had stolen the motive they were here as spies, and that, their mission was a complete failure… Oh yes! He was definitely taking it.
He left the cafe and entered an isolated alleyway where he entered his laboratory, the slave was exactly where he left him, sitting down, waiting. Ars took some food and a drink and gave it to him.
The slave's eyes went bright when he tasted the food, then he devoured it like there was no tomorrow.
Ars looked at him and asked.
"Will you be fine a few more hours hiding here?"
He nodded, with an unreadable expression.
Ars nodded and left to go negotiate with Franky.
Franky was easy to find… A bit too easy…
He entered the building, following Franky, when a bunch of thugs came running… He recognized them, the Franky family. Ars stayed in the shadows waiting for them to leave, when they did, he kept following Franky until a room, with a sofa and a fridge.
Franky sat down and took out a cola. And commented with a relaxed expression.
"Today has been SUPER!"
Ars waited until the exact moment Franky took a gulp of his drink, and the moment he did, Ars basically teleported himself in front of him.
"Pffft!!!!"
Ars could see the cola rushing out of the nose, and Franky coughing a bit panicked. The moment he could talk he screamed at Ars.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
Ars smiled behind his mask and replied coldly.
"That doesn't matter, what matters is that you have something I want!"
Franky thought that Ars was just another person his family had stolen from, and asked.
"What do you want!?"
Ars pointed at Franky himself, and said calmly.
"The Pluton Blueprints!"
Franky's eyes went wide, nobody should know he had them other than Iceburg, and he wouldn't tell anyone for sure, both of them knew how dangerous that information was.
Franky demanded.
"Who are you!? How do you know that?That was a SUPER secret!"
Franky tried to punch Ars but all his attacks were evaded easily. Ars sighed and asked calmly, like he expected this.
"So you won't give it away peacefully?"
Franky tried to attack once more, and Ars just karate chopped him in the neck, knocking him unconscious.
Then he simply took the blueprints from Franky's inner storage…