My New Life In One Piece

Calm Belt between the Grand Line and the East Blue. Kaito's ship sailed slowly over the calm waters of the Calm Belt.

Tashigi - ah ah ah -

Kaya - ah ah -

On the main deck of the ship, Kaya and Tashigi were having a fencing match. The two had been exchanging sword blows for several minutes, each had its advantages. Tashigi had more experience in fighting and great versatility when combining fencing with other fighting styles. On the part of Kaya, despite having forbidden her to use the abilities of her devil fruit, Kaya had a clearly visible advantage, her speed. Kaya used a rapier as the main weapon, it was a weapon that was not used to cut but to stab. Due to that limitation of the weapon, Kaya had developed incredible speed. Kaya had almost the same speed without using the soru compared to a normal Cipher Pol agent using the soru, but when Kaya used the soru, there was no person who was not surprised by the monstrous speed she had. As for other aspects of combat, Kaya only stood out in the soru and geppo, of the rokushiki style, the other styles were hardly considered decent.

This also caused Kaya to focus on its advantages with speed. Its weak point was defense. Tashigi knew about it and tried several times to hit Kaya's body.

While Kaya and Tashigi fought, Kaito and Kalifa watched them from the ship's bridge.

Kalifa - Kaya's speed never fails to impress me -

Kaito - me too, if you continue on that path, I don't think there is a person without devil fruit that will match her speed in the future -

Kalifa - I think the same. You are also teaching her Kenbunshoku haki, aren't you? -

Kaito - yes, if she gets to combine that with her speed ... it's quite difficult to imagine what her limit will be -

Kaito had been surprised by Kaya's ability to learn during these years. The speed with which she learned things was much higher than average, her medical techniques had reached the level of an expert and her level of strength was also incredible for someone her age.

Kaito - Tashigi has also improved a lot -

Kalifa - yes, since I met her until now, her strength has increased several times and she no longer makes the same mistakes -

Kaito was a little proud when listening to Kalifa, at the beginning it was Kaito who trained Tashigi and he had got Tashigi to stop making bad habits when fighting.

Kaya and Tashigi continued fighting for several more minutes until they made a final attack where the two failed and ended up on the ground due to fatigue.

Kaito - well, that's enough for today, go take a shower and rest until lunchtime -

Kaya / Tashigi - yes! -

The two got up and began to go to their respective rooms.

Kalifa - what do you think? -

Kaito - it's time to move up to Kaya and Tashigi -

Kalifa - do you think it's time? -

Kaito - yes, Tashigi will now be Lieutenant and Kaya will be Sergeant Major -

Kalifa - don't you think Lieutenant's rank may be a bit low for Tashigi? -

Kaito - it may be so, but your rank is that of commander, if I name Tashigi lieutenant commander, it will only be over a range above it, and I don't think it's good for your authority inside the ship -

Kalifa - I see, and Kaya? -

Kaito - it's her first rank promotion for her, I can't raise her to a rank greater than that of Sergeant Major for now, if I were Rear Admiral or Vice Admiral maybe, but I have my limitations being just a captain -

Kalifa - it's been several years since you're a navy captain and you haven't been promoted yet, don't you think that with your strength and your current achievements you could have risen in rank? -

Kaito - mmm ... yes, but surely it is my grandparents who are preventing my promotion, I know them well and surely they believe that, if I rise too fast, my ego may be too high -

Kalifa - now that you say it makes a lot of sense, with what I know of your grandparents it is not surprising that they do this -

Kaito and Kalifa continued talking on the deck of the ship about the possible ascents that they could have in the future and when Kaito would make official the ascent of rank of Kaya and Tashigi.

Once the sun went down on the horizon and the moon was high in the sky, both the girls and Kaito were having dinner in Kaito's room.

Kaya - ascend? -

Kaito - yes -

Kaito had taken advantage of dinner and told Kaya and Tashigi that he was going to rank.

Tashigi - isn't it soon for us? -

Kalifa - it may be so, but Kaito thinks you deserve that rise in rank -

Kaito - yes, especially you, Tashigi, you have made several achievements over these years and I think you deserve to have a higher rank than today. One thing that I have to make clear is that I don't get on a higher rank just to maintain the hierarchy of command in the crew, do you understand? -

Tashigi - yes! -

Kaya - and me? -

Kaito - Kaya, you despite not having as many achievements as Tashigi, you are still a member with a specialized job being the main doctor of the ship, for that reason it is necessary that you have a greater range than most marines to be able to order them to do what you ask -

Kaya - I see ... -

Kaito thought that Kaya would feel sad to hear that her ascent was not on her own merits but because of her work on the ship, but Kaito was relieved when he saw Kaya's selfless face.

For Kaya, the rise of rank did not mean much, she did not care to be a simple marine or become a high command of the navy, she was happy while she was with her new family and especially with Kaito.

The following days were the same as most days in the past. The Marines performed their daily tasks or rested, as for the girls, Kalifa was in her room taking care of the paperwork left by Kaito. Kaya was organizing the medications she had and making new ones if needed. Tashigi was on the lookout of the main mast cleaning her katana and finally, Kaito was on the main deck of the training boat, although he no longer trained to learn something new, he trained to polish all his skills.

On this occasion Kaito trained his fencing, since he began with fencing learning, Kaito always thought that it would simply be another method of fighting that he would have at his disposal, but over time, fencing became something important for Kaito. When Kaya joined his crew, Kaito had the level of fencing of almost a vice admiral in the army, which Momonga confirmed when he fought against Kaito once.

At that moment Kaito thought that he had reached the maximum level he could have in fencing, but he was surprised when his katana had become a kokuto, a black sword. The blade of his katana was now black with a blue hue and small red stripes on the edge.

The transformation of Kaito's katana began when Kaito was assigned to a surveillance zone with a large influx of pirates passing by, the area was too large for his entire crew and Kaito had to participate in many fights despite his fighting ended one or two movements, the amount of fighting that took place with Kaito having killed a large number of pirates and turning his katana into a kokuto.

Going back to Kaito training. He was now staring at his katana, had been doing this for several seconds, since his katana became a kokuto, Kaito became curious and examined his katana with spiritual energy, at the beginning he did not catch anything, but over time Kaito began to Feel a dark aura inside.

Kaito concluded that it was the remaining spiritual energy of the people who had cut and killed with their katana, when this energy was stored in the katana it acquired a black color, that was at least a hypothesis that Kaito had of the origin of the kokuto.

Kaito continued to examine his katana for several minutes until Tashigi's voice took him out of his thoughts.

Tashigi - earth !! -

When Tashigi was at the top of the main mast, she was the first to see land and therefore shouted warning the rest of the crew.

Kaito left his training and covered his katana, after wiping himself in sweat, Kaito approached the edge of the ship and saw in the distance how an island now small by the distance became increasingly large.

Kaito - Logetown ... marine! -

Marine - yes sir -

Kaito - tell the Loguetown base that reinforcements have arrived and prepare a dock for us to dock there -

Marine - yes sir! -

The Marine listened to Kaito's orders and wasted no time and left for the communications room where he was in den den mushi.

Kaito - (well ... let's see if everything goes according to plan and no unforeseen event occurs) -

Kaito kept thinking about what he had to do when he arrived in Logetown. He was going to make the first move for his great plan that I've been thinking for years and Kaito hoped it would work out.