A New Path

A ways away from Ohara in the middle of the ocean, a raft was drifting along. Ginrei watched Saul and Robin sitting quietly upon it. Saul was exhausted so all he wanted to do was lay down and sleep, but he needed to look after Robin still. He didn't allow himself to close his eyes for too long, in case the marines still hadn't given up the chase for them.

"hey Saul, who was that old man back there?" Robin said after about an hour of silence between them. Saul saw that she tried to be strong and not cry but she had tears in her eyes this entire time.

"I don't know, Robin. I know his powerful. That much i could tell." He said with a dejected look. They really didn't need another powerful individual chasing after them now. He didn't know if this unknown person was a friend or a foe.

"More powerful then you, Saul?" Robin said while looking into his eyes. She had full trust in this giant, and in her eyes, there was still not someone that she thought would be stronger then Saul.

"I think so, Robin. If he truly held back those two, then he is much stronger then i am. From the looks of things, he really did prevent them from following us." Saul looked back at Ohara. You could see the flames rising high into the sky. The island was quickly disappearing from view but still there was no pursuit from the marines.

"I see." Robin went quiet again. Probably because she was processing everything that happened here today.

"How are you two doing?" Ginrei appeared on the edge of the big raft. He stood there with his hands behind his back, military style.

"You! What are you here to do?" Saul put Robin behind his back to shield her if this man attacked. Ginrei thought it was a sweet action. It showed the friendship these two had.

"I have no ill intentions. I simply wish to speak to the girl behind your back. I promise i won't hurt you two." He said and smiled. It appeared that his smiling lessons with Sylvia had payed off, because Saul brought Robin forward so he could see her.

"Hey there. May i know your name, kiddo?" He said while stretching his hand forwards to shake hers.

"My name is Robin. Nice to meet you." She said while showing some apprehension towards the strange old man.

"What a nice name. My name is Ginrei Kuchiki. I am the Head Captain of the Gotei 13." They stopped their handshake and he put his hands behind his back again and then quickly scanned the two people. Both Robin and Saul had some potential to explore with the proper training.

"ahem, Mr Ginrei. What is it that you need from us." Saul said as his alarming state disappeared a little bit. He was pretty sure that Ginrei was not an enemy, but he still kept Robin at a distance so he could intervene if anything happened.

"I would like to invite you two to the Gotei 13. It's my own created group and it's designed to fight against what just happened here today at Ohara." Ginrei extended his answer, even thought he almost knew what Saul would say.

"No thank you, Mr Ginrei. I can't trust you and i won't risk Robin's safety." Saul said with determination.

"What do you say Robin? Do you agree with your friend Saul?" Ginrei turned the question towards Robin, to which Saul showed a displeased expression.

"I want to stay with Saul. He is my friend." Robin said, not really understanding the underlying message and meaning that Ginrei's offer had.

"Well, alright then. I should warn you two. Bounties will certainly be placed on you. They will be high bounties because you're both associated with Ohara and myself. I will assume that i am not that liked by the marines for letting you two escape." Ginrei said and ones more tried to rope them in. He didn't really care if he got the two into Gotei or not. He just enjoyed Robin's layed back personality more then most other personalities in One Piece.

"I am well aware of that. I am a deserter after all. I was expecting a bounty the moment i left the marines actually. I just feel bad that i dragged Robin into this life." Saul said and looked at Robin who still did not really understand the full context of this grown up conversation.

"There is an island not too far from here. How about i take you there and then we can talk more?" Ginrei said and Saul nodded. He knew they needed to get off this raft.

"Alright then. Hold on to Robin and don't let go." Ginrei said and Saul took Robin into his embrace carefully so he didn't crush her with his giant strength.

Ginrei waved his right hand and all three of them instantly got picked up by a strong wind and flew off into the distance. It was so sudden that and came as such a surprise to Saul that he loosened his grip and Robin flew out of his grip and fell towards the ocean.

"aaaaah" Robin kept falling until another gust of wind swept her up and carried her over to their location.

"Did i not say to hold on to her as tight as you could" Ginrei watched as Saul hung his head in shame for making a mistake that could have hurt Robin.

"It's okay Saul. I wasn't hurt at all." Robin said and flew over to her friend. She didn't understand what Ginrei did, but she had free movement up her in the air. She could move just how she wanted. Make somersaults, or swim backwards, she could do it all without falling down.

'Lucky that i changed to weight magic instead of only wind magic. One seem to work a lot better then the other.' Ginrei had first tried to use strong wind magic, but the result wasn't perfect so he removed their weight and now used wind magic to guide them in the direction he wanted.

"How are you doing this, Sir Ginrei. I have never seen anything like this. I have never even heard off a devil fruit that can do this." Saul tried to move and he had just as much movement as Robin had. Ginrei watched them both fly around each other and smiling. For the moment he had managed to put a damper on Robin's pain.

"I might tell you some day. For now let's get to that island, shall we." Ginrei waved his hand and all three of them started flying towards the closest island.

They just watched as the ocean waves blended together in their vision as the speed they were flying at was to much for Saul and Robin's eyes to comprehend at this time. To keep a leveled head at this speed they would need to be Vice admiral to admiral level in strength. Of course Ginrei protected them from any dangers that came with flying at this speed, like the wind pressure.

Soon an island came upon them and it was a deserted one. Only animals live on this one. Ginrei had found this one with his magic sense and it was perfect for two reasons. Here he could start the Gotei 13 and here he could gather his 12 captains.

"Prepare for landing." Ginrei said to Saul as Robin sat on his shoulder, she wouldn't really have to worry about landing on her feet. Ginrei slowed down and cancelled his magic so Saul could make the perfect landing, but still after trying to make sure to land as safe as possible, Saul wasn't used to this so he stumbled and fell down.

"Whoops." Ginrei flashed forwards and caught Robin so she didn't hurt herself while Saul was busy falling on his face.

"Be careful. You almost crushed Robin." Ginrei said and sat down Robin and gently pat her head, to which her cheeks blushed.

"T-thank you, Mr Ginrei." Robin said in her most respectful tone. Being treated good and having friends like Saul helped a lot with the pain she was feeling inside and she felt her mood increasing a lot from her previous depressing state.

"I'm sorry Robin, i stepped on my own foot when i landed. Flying like this is going to be something to get used to." He said and sat down. He was still just as tired as before.

"How about you two get some sleep and then we can talk more. I'll be here so you don't have to worry about getting attacked." Ginrei said and sat down on the ground as well.

"I very much would like that. Come Robin, you need to rest as well, after everything that happened today." Saul layed down on the ground and Robin sat down and rested against his stomach. They both almost immediately fell asleep together.

"Okay, now i can start." Ginrei snapped his finger and a mighty and tall earth wall rose around the sleeping duo without making a single sound or vibration to disturb them.

'As i was thinking. I should use the summon function to make up up the captains of the Gotei 13. I have wanted to test it for so long and i thing this world is perfect for it.' Ginrei started walking into the forest to officially begin his operation with the Gotei.

Ginrei arrived at the biggest mountain on the island. He waved his hand and a tunnel leading beneath the mountain appeared before him. He created stairs of a sort so it would be easier to walk down the tunnel.

The island itself connected with the sea floor so right now, Ginrei stopped walking in his earth tunnel and snapped his finger again like before with the sleeping duo. The tunnel started expanding and a few moments later he stood at the entrance to a big cave room of sorts.

The room itself was beneath the mountain and it was 40 meter in height and 20 meters in width. So it wasn't the biggest he could create but this was for summoning his captains so this would have to do. He would eventually have subordinates to create bases for him and all that.

'Maybe the system can build bases or something. Ey, system, can you build bases for my pirate group?' Ginrei stopped and wondered.

[No! I can't build them. But the shop has everything in existence. So all kinds of bases are available for purchase and the host can customize them.]

'I see. I will look at them later then. For now let's make this dirt room just a little bit nicer.' Ginrei snapped his finger again and the walls of the cave room hardened and smoothed out completely. The walls were smooth and refined enough so you would think someone did this with a chisel.

"Okay, now let's get on with this. The question is who to summon though." He sat down with crossed legs and started thinking.

[Would host like to bring up the summon list] The system asked.

'I didn't know it had that. Yes, bring that up please.' In front of his face, a huge list appeared. It had to be hundred or thousands of names on this list. Simply an enormous amount.

'Well, this is a problem' Ginrei looked on the never ending list and sighed tiredly.

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