One Piece: The Power System

At this time, Vindicate was running with Erica, who he met after the explosion. She had been hit by the Seastone tip of Smoker's Jitte but she still persevered and ran off. She sparred a lot with Ace, Luffy, and Rein back in the day so her endurance for pain was fairly good.

"Did everyone make it to the ship?" Erica asked as they both ran.

"Not sure, but Nami went back to buy a Log pose, she will head back to the ship afterward!"

"Dang it! Rein should have seen that explosion, he would easily be able to spot that kind of stuff, I hope he did!" She could only hope he noticed, it wouldn't be good if their crewmates were still here.

"Once we get back to the ship, we can come back, we have to group first before we can do anything." Vindicate sighed, he also hoped Kuina and Nojiko were not still in the town so they could just leave here.

With that, they continued to run towards the ship.

Meanwhile, Rein was carrying Kuina, he shot out his observation Haki to see what he could see. "I don't see anyone so far" Rein paused "Wait, isn't that Nami? Huh! She's in a shop buying a log pose, is she not aware of what's going on?" Rein felt a need to laugh, this just seemed so funny to him.

Well, Rein couldn't really perceive her face but he could sense that she was there. He wasn't at that level of Observation Haki yet. Rein could also see many people in white and blue, this was obviously more marines.

The island was the focal point into the grand line, it was sort of like a line of defense to stop pirates. Thus, there were many more marines here than anywhere else in the East Blue.

Rein laughed a bit and looked closely, he didn't see any citizens around. With that, he swept his hands through the air as a clear liquid shot down towards the unsuspecting Marines.

Once the liquid came into contact, it began to freeze over on them.

"Ah! What is this cold rain, it's freezi.." He couldn't finish and was frozen solid.

"Take cover! We're under attack!" Some warrant officer hurriedly and commanded the marines. To bad though, most were frozen while some were hit with a serious chill. Just like that, he ended the flood of marines from sieging the area.

"Jeez! That looks cold!" Kuina shook her head looking at the frozen Marines. Rein landed as soon as Nami walked out of the store.

"Ah!" Name yelped seeing the two shadows appear in front of her.

"Relax, it just me and Kuina, no need to be so edgy." Rein looked at Nami with a smile under his helmet, but he really wanted to laugh.

"You and Vindicate need to stop coming out of the sky and in front of people like that!" Nami forehead had a vein on it that seemed to twitch.

Rein ignored her annoyance and said "Where is Vindicate and Erica, have you seen them anywhere? Nojiko has already made it to the ship." Rein wanted to leave just as much as anyone else, this Smoker was surely trying to lock the town down.

"He went to look for Erica, there was an explosion sometime ago, he must have met her there." Nami also felt the shockwaves from the mini scuffle that Smoker and Erica had.

"With that explosion, it is likely that he found her.... I hope!"

"You! Don't just hope!" Nami said loudly. Rein yawned and stretched.

"Let's head back to the ship before they try to block our ship's routes out of here." Rein said bluntly, he knew if Vindicate went to search for her, he could easily find her with that explosion recently. The two could beat anyone here, but Vindicate would have some trouble with Smoker with no Haki.

"Whaaa~! Aren't we going to look for Erica and Vindicate?" Nami eyes dilated.

"Calm down, they should be on the ship by now, they aren't as weak and as fragile as you may think. If they aren't there, then we can just go look for them, it shouldn't be too hard." Nami was silent and nodded.

"Kuina, what is up with that mask, you look strange, haha!" Nami suddenly changed to topic to Kuina.

"I'm a foxy swordsman, what else, hehe!" Kuina put her hands on her h.i.p.s and spun around like some princess!

"Pfft! Don't do that!" Nami suddenly broke out into laughter. Rein was silent, wasn't she just worried about Vindicate and Erica?

Moments later, he was carrying Kuina while Kuina held onto Nami. This scene looked a little weird, and if anyone saw it they would believe they were seeing things.

"Damn! Did you two put on weight while we were on the ship, it feels like I'm carrying two elephants!" Rein teased and said

"Rein! Don't make me chop you! Don't talk nonsense!" Kuina glared at Rein

"I haven't gained any weight, if anything, I lost too much of it!" Nami wanted to punch Rein but was afraid she would fall!

"Mhm, Sure, I guess I can believe you two!" Rein chuckled

"Rein!" Both hollered at the same time

Moments later, they arrived back at the dock where their ship sat afloat on the sea. Rein looked at the ship and saw that everyone was there! "Thank the good lord! Everyone is on the ship, so we won't have to search for them, thus we can leave now!" Rein said happily

Nami and Kuina were happy to hear this as well and felt relieved.

Rein landed on the ship with the two safely.

"Ah, yes, we're home free, let's get out of this place crawling with marines!" Nami immediately went to the ship's steering wheel to set out.

"We ran into that Smoker guy, so all we could do was run to not cause so much damage." Erica was the first to speak.

"Understandable, but you sure killed a lot of people back there, huh?" Rein questioned and said.

"I-I uh..." Erica didn't know what to say, she wasn't trying to kill anyone but she had no choice but to use more power to stave off Smoker.

"It's okay, but please control it a bit more, we don't want people to get caught up in dangerous attacks like that. You know how the marines are, they'll use anything they can to make anyone out to be the bad guy." Rein shrugged, she had to defend herself but he would love for her to control the ability a bit better.

"Yes! I will do so next time!" Erica nodded like a chicken pecking grain.

"Oh my, I see you looking smooth with that new outfit, Vindicate!" Rein noticed the new clothes he was sporting and complemented.

"You know I have to keep it fresh while defeating opponents!" Vindicate wiped his shoulders and grinned. With that, they set off, it may not have seemed like it, but they were here for about 2 to 3 hours.

So both Nami and Erica had gone to other stores other than just shopping for clothes.

Rein sat down and talked to Erica for a bit about a few things before she got up to handle other things. He thought about Nami's future ability, it should be related to wind more than anything else.

The first that came to mind was the Wind-Wind Fruit, but he wanted to give that to Sabo as a Gift when they meet again. Sabo won't be getting the Flare-Flare fruit this time around, so he would need another ability to spike his strength.

Rein didn't just spend his time on the ship unlocking his tokens and playing nothing but solitaire on the ship alone. He also learned more about the system and his skills. Sadly for him, there was a limit to what he could invest in skills, the limit was S-Rank then he would be on his own.

Once it reached the limit of S-Rank, he couldn't use anymore Skill Points on the S-Rank ability after that. Cpu 0 were around high A to Low S in Rokushiki, so they were quite the threat in that department, at least in technique. Rein wasn't sure about their stats but they couldn't be weak, that's for sure.

The only reason Rein wanted the weather fruit was simple, he just wanted it because of his island he was going to create. Rein wanted to put a storm around his island sort of like Skull island king kong, so no one could come to his island for some time.

Many other new things appeared on the system like a weather machine that could control that type of stuff, so there was no need for it now. He also discovered why the weather fruit was so cheap, he looked over and discovered that there was a 75% discount on the fruit!

The sale was ending in three days, it had been going on for a while now. Rein didn't hesitate any more and bought the fruit right away for 500,000 System Points. He didn't need it, but maybe Nami would like this type of ability?

"The next place judging from this map should be reverse mountain." Nami looked at the map, they weren't away from Logue town just yet.

"Yeah, this is our way into the grand line, so this is naturally so." Rein spoke as he looked ahead, he sensed that something was wrong.

"Hmm, this isn't good, we have trouble!" Vindicate took the spyglass and could see several marines ship ahead of them. Of course, Rein noticed this when he looked ahead and was going to warn them, but Vindicate spoke first.

"Is it Smoker? Who do you see on the sh.i.p.s?" Nami asked.

"Is this Smoker guy smoking two big cigars with white grayish hair, and a white jacket that exposes his c.h.e.s.t?" Vindicate looked through the spyglass and asked.

"Dang it, he's so annoying!" Erica knew how annoying this guy was, she could never forget this persistent guy.

"Judging from your words, I'll assume that's him!" Vindicate shook his head with a smirk on his face. He did this because he spotted that nerdy Swordsman by his side, she looked even more determined when he first met her.

"Kuina's crazy twin sister is ahead of us, we better watch out!" Vindicate laughed and jumped down.

"What are you saying, I don't have a sister, I was the only child!" Kuina looked over and found it ridiculous, she had to adjust this fox mask because she could barely see out of it. This was the main reason why she was so silent when she wore it.

"Take off that mask and you'll see. Once you see this woman, all of you will agree with what I said." Vindicate didn't say anything more, he couldn't wait to see everyone's reaction.

What would they think if they knew Rein had a twin brother?

"Prepare for battle, they won't let us off so easily!" Of course, Rein knew what Vindicate was talking about, but didn't comment on it.

"Alright, let's battle!" Nami looked and said seriously. Nojiko completely agreed with that.

Rein looked at Nami closely, she raised her arm into the air while steering the ship's wheel. Once he looked at her, he was surprised because when the wind blew by her clothes, he saw a tattoo on her upper arm, it was the letter R!

Erica was the same, she had tattoo letters on her arm that had the name LARS on it. This meant Victorious life or just Victorious in Scandinavian, but also stood for Rein, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo!

However, the letter S was X'ed out just like how Ace's tattoo was.

This is what Erica talked to Rein about, she never mentioned Nami's tattoo, but Rein spotted it himself.

"Just, Wow!" Rein was speechless just thinking about it.