One Piece: The Power System

With the chaos converging on Myriad Island, Rein was in his room peacefully thinking to himself. At this point in time, a week had already passed quickly. Kuina was trained every day by Erica who would watch and guide her for a period of time before doing her own training in Haki.

Kuina had seen great improvement but she couldn't fully use Soru, she could only do a quick burst of the technique before she couldn't do it anymore. Erica left her to herself to train on her own after knowing that she knew the basics on how to train the technique. In time, Kuina would get much better at the technique with no hassle. Kuina looked over the booklet about Soru countless times and would practice alone after she was trained by Erica.

Rein had much time to think to himself during these weeks that passed. What he wanted to do now was to gather a pirate crew as fast as possible to head to the grand line. But before leaving for the grand line, he needed to head to the north blue. Rein wanted to recruit a certain doctor there to be in his crew before doing anything else.

Rein most definitely needed a navigator in his crew and all he could think about was Nami or Laffitte. Navigators weren't something you could easily find on a whim, but Rein knew two that he could choose from.

"Hehe, sorry, Luffy but it looks like I'll have to snag your navigator!" Rein didn't regret this decision but Nami was quite the talent he wouldn't mind in his crew. As he was thinking to himself, a knock could be heard at the door.

"Come in!" Rein said

Erica walked in with a new set of clothes. She wore a black and gold Chinese dress but she had pants underneath the dress like chi-chi from Dragonball Z as she wore boots as well. "Wow, not bad, you have a better style sense than I thought." Rein scanned Erica's new clothes and approved. She had bought these clothes back in Bulwark City.

Erica blushed hearing Rein compliment, it was something he rarely said "We are ready to leave now, Kuina is currently talking to her father. She doesn't have any clothes she can fit so we may have to buy some back in Bulwark City when we return." Rein nodded and stood up to leave.

Moments later, they were in front of Koushirou's residence, they opened the door and just walked in. Rein and Erica could see both Kourshiro and Kuina talking to each other in the hallway. Kuina would wear the mask she got from Rein when she was outside, so no one could recognize her. What would people think if they saw Kuina who was supposed to be dead, actually alive?

Koushirou and Kuina easily notice the two coming through the door. "Rein, it looks like you guys are ready to go already. Please take good care of my daughter, I hope that one day she would stand tall as the best swordsman in the world." Koushirou patted Kuina's shoulder and smiled, he was smiling more these days with his daughter being revived.

"Of course, she will be the greatest before you know it, just keep an eye on those newspapers, hehe!" Rein smiled knowingly, sooner or later she would have a bounty and would surely appear in the newspaper.

"Oh, I'll be sure to keep a lookout for anything new." Koushirou nodded with a smirk and pushed Kuina forward. "Go now, you'll have to live up to your promise to Zoro, you've missed out but it's time for you to make up for it." Kuina looked at her father again and hugged him before going over to Rein and Erica.

"Father, just you wait and see, I'll be the best there is!" Erica grabbed Kuina's hand and walked out of the door. Rein gave a respectful bow to Koushirou and walked out of the residence.

"Sigh, the best swordsman, huh? I hope you really fulfill your dream one day, I sure hope so." Koushiro sighed and walked back into his room.

Rein and company had already left the gate at this point and were heading back to their docking place. Rein had to fly back during the week's time to store his ship back into his system and fly back to the village.

Rein didn't plan to give Kuina any Devil Fruit power as that would defeat the purpose of her being the greatest swordsman. Rein didn't mind having a crew filled with Devil Fruit users but he wanted to at least have two Non-Devil Fruit users in his crew, maybe even three.

If a swordsman wanted to become a devil fruit user then a Zoan type would be the best option for them. After walking on the path for a while, they came across the shore they initially came from. It wasn't the exact spot but it was close enough.

Rein materialized his ship and it slammed into the sea upon its appearance.

"What the..." Kuina was speechless, a ship just appeared out of nowhere!

"Pfft, haha, I'll explain a little bit about that later to you." Erica patted Kuina's shoulder while laughing at Kuina's strange facial expression. The group boarded the ship and sailed off into the distance.

"Erica, make sure you read the map right this time, I don't want to end up somewhere else again!" Rein stared at Erica who was scratching her head with a weird smile on her face. It was okay for Rein since it landed him a new crew member but still...

"This time, be sure to take us to Conomi Islands and not somewhere crazy, I wanna say, a marine base." Rein looked at Erica and held his laughter in seeing her embarrassed expression.

"What? Erica can't read maps!" Kuina looked at Erica and patted her back. "Don't worry sis, I'll be sure to help you understand a bit." Kuina smiled and they both walked to the front of the ship holding the map. They sailed off and left the front of the ship earlier since she wanted to look at her home one last time.

Rein sat on the deck of the ship at a table and took out a map he had stolen from Cutthroat. Rein noticed that this map was special, not only did it show him the location of the island, it showed a map of the island. This map was on the back of the map, it was marked in several places. Rein believed this was some sort of treasure map that Cutthroat fortunately got his hands on.

"Hmm, these are ruins on the island, there are strange icons on this thing, it must be something in these locations." Rein saw a Goat, Snake, and Lion icon in each of these positions. He saw a special place that had been marked on the island with an X.

"This must be where all the treasure is located, looked like I hit a gold mine from robbing Cutthroat!" Rein never knew that robbing idiots would benefit him so much. Rein turned the map back over and noticed where the island was located.

"Really now, it's located near the calm belt, it's a good thing it isn't on the calm belt or else." The calm belt had sea Kings and a sea that didn't move. This was the calm belt that sh.i.p.s couldn't get through unless they wanted to fight some Sea kings. They would also need propellers to make it through since the sea and wind didn't flow here.

Once Rein was done checking out the map, he put it away. Afterward, he pulled out some more bounty posters. It wasn't like he was going to hunt anyone here. Rein just liked looking at the poster because he found it interesting looking at different pirates he never saw in the series.

Many things changed due to the time crystal he used those years ago, it had warped a lot of things. Technically, Arlong had the highest bounty in the east blue but there were people with higher bounties than him. Erica had hunted a pirate who had higher bounty than Arlong back in Shipford City, so Rein knew that a lot had changed.

"There may be a few unexpected events that may occur that shouldn't be in the canon at all." Rein noticed that he found Devil Fruits a bit easier than the usual percentage ratio they would be found in the east blue or maybe the other seas as well.

Rein continued to skim through the bounty poster until he stopped at one of the posters and smiled. "Well, it looks like you haven't either fought Whitebeard yet or he caught you and you have yet to officially join him." That's right, the bounty poster he was looking at was Portgas D. Ace's. However, after looking at his Beli count, Rein already confirmed that he made a name for himself in Whitebeard's crew as a Division Commander. So what he thought before was invalid and wrong.

550,000,000 Million Beli!

"Aye Erica, come look at this, you'll be amazed!" Rein called out to Erica who was happily talking to Kuina at the front of the ship. Erica turned around after hearing Rein calls, he was waving his hand toward her.

"Huh! What is it, did something happen?" Erica walked over and asked. She noticed that Rein had a habit of looking through bounty posters. He had a lot of them, there were even stacks from all the blues including pirates from Paradise.

"Hehe, take a look at this, you'll be amazed!" Rein handed the poster to Erica. She looked at the berries and the photo with complete shock!

"It's Ace! His bounty is so high, they call him by his full name as well!" Erica was elated seeing Ace reach such a level in the pirate world. "Hmm, what is that fire on his back in his photo, is he alright?" Erica noticed that Ace had some fire on his arm inside of his bounty poster and questioned.

"No worries, that his Devil Fruit ability, it is similar to yours being logia type devil fruit." Erica smiled and clenched the poster.

"That's great, he has such a good ability, he was already so strong without proper training when we were kids. If he was to train he would surely get really powerful but now that he has such a good ability it is even more so." Erica was glad to see that Ace had improved and how fortunate he was to get such a powerful devil fruit.

Rein recalled how Ace got his ability, he would end up shipwrecked on an island called sixes where he would meet a man named masked juice. Both were starving but Ace found the Flare-Flare, they didn't know it was a Devil Fruit. Ace took a piece of the fruit first while masked juice took a piece second. Since Ace was the first to eat it, he obtained the power of the fruit.

They escaped the island with Ace's boat known as the striker. He would later create his pirate crew known as the Spade Pirates. "Yes, it is good, if he got anything bad, I would be sure to help him with that." Rein nodded but soon, Kuina came over.

"Guys, we have company, there is a Marine ship approaching our ship!" Kuina ran over and said in a hurry. Rein and Erica walked to the front of the ship and there it was, it was a marine ship. Rein had pretty good eyesight and saw that it was a typical marine ship with not real threatening figures on board.

"Ignore them, they shouldn't mess with us since we aren't officially a pirate group yet." Rein wasn't worried even if the marine wanted to attack, he would simply wreck them. He wanted to have a crew of 5 members before officially starting his crew.

Kuina and Erica did just that and the marine ship passed them by without making a fuss. Kuina breathed a sigh of relief and took a seat at a nearby table. These tables were actually nailed to the ship so they couldn't be casually moved.

"Full speed ahead to Conomi Islands, let's go!" Rein pointed out to the sea and said.

"We're going to Conomi Islands? What are we going to do there?" Kuina asked

"Well, as you know we're acting as bounty hunters for the time being until I get two more crewmates. So, we're going to Conomi Islands to hunt the pirates who have been terrorizing the people there." Rein took a seat across from her.

"I see, this means I'll get to test my swordsmanship on them!" Kuina looked spirited, her face looked serious.

Hearing swordsmanship, Rein thought about that ability, his family usually used their fist to fight so why was he using a sword to do his work for him? "Hmm, I could just get a refund on swordsmanship and upgrade my other abilities." Rein wondered if he should. He could just use the sword creation to make another sword for Kuina who used a double sword style anyway.

"We'll wait and see." Rein also had enough system points to buy the other Devil Fruit he wanted but wanted to wait until he had more system points to purchase it. What if he needed to use his system points if an unforeseen event occurred that was dangerous for him?

Kuina stood back up. "Erica, can you put that weight outfit on me, I want to train some more here on the deck!" Kuina sought power and wanted to train again after hearing about the pirates on Conomi Islands.

"Of course, I'll give it to you now." Erica had been given a storage ring the time she changed her devil fruit to the flare-flare fruit. She put all of the stuff that she initially had in her body into the ring. She took out the equipment and proceeded to help Kuina put it on. She liked her determination to get strong the most.

Erica had been training Haki but hadn't been able to get it down at all, she had no success so far. This made sense, Haki took more time to learn and even master. If one was especially talented then it would take 6 months tops. However, Rein had a system so he could speed their teaching up much faster. This was why he had no problem with building his crew from the ground up. He could help them learn it faster, but it was up to them to train it.

"Okay, I'm going to my room to exercise a bit, make sure you look at the map correctly. Kuina, keep an eye on her, she has a strange habit of reading the map upside down." Kuina held her laugh in and looked Erica who had puffed out her cheeks.

Rein then returned to his room silently.