Rosan appeared at the slope where his crew was located, with a calculating gaze.

"Seems you guys have already prepared everything," he greeted, making them jump in surprise.

"Yo," Zoro waved lazily.

"Rosan!" Luffy beamed.

"You were gone pretty long," Usopp mused.

"Yeah we did prepare everything, no thanks to you!" Nami scowled.

"Oh, did you miss me?" Rosan replied, raising a brow. "I'm sorry for disappearing for so long, Princess Nami. How can I ever make it up to you?"

Her vein throbbed in annoyance before a smile made its way on her face. "I didn't know you and Luffy were brothers," she said. "You can tell me some information about that!"

"...That was sarcasm." The idiot went unsaid but they all heard it.

"I KNOW IT WAS SARCASM! JUST TELL ME ABOUT IT, YOU DICK!"

"We're not blood related," Rosan said, interrupting her raging. "I met Luffy when I was 14 and he forced me to be his friend despite everyone warning him otherwise… That also somehow meant that I was apart of his crew and we became brothers over the 10 years together."

Luffy nodded cheerfully at the explanation. "Yep!" He chirped.

"So that's how it is," Nami muttered with a sweatdrop. It… made sense. Luffy hadn't given her much of a choice either.

To be stuck with this guy for 10 years... the navigator suddenly pitied Rosan while thinking he deserved it at the same time for being so insufferable.

"The pirates should be arriving soon," Zoro said, glancing out at the sea.

"Shouldn't we have seen them by now?" Luffy moaned in boredom. "Where are they?"

"Are they even coming?" Nami asked in confusion.

"They definitely are," Usopp nodded.

The redhead, who was lying on the floor with his eyes closed, simply hummed.

They all looked at Rosan in confusion. Did he know something that they didn't? Why was he humming so suspiciously?

He got up from his resting position to regard them and with the most infuriatingly neutral expression ever, he said, "My bird saw their ship a while ago and it was at the other shore, not this one."

The look of horror on their face at the realization, made Ram choke on her on spit.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING EARLIER?!" Usopp gaped in disbelief. They had been here for like 20 minutes before he deigned to open his mouth! What was wrong with him?!

"I figured that you guys were just being extra prepared, but I guess it's my fault that the long nose who has lived here for how many years, doesn't know things like this," Rosan shrugged in a "what can you do" motion.

What? He had done his part and now it was time for them to do theirs. They couldn't expect him to do everything now and telling them about things in advance, was no fun.

"OH NO! WHAT ABOUT OUR TREASURE?!" Nami screeched in utter horror.

"I already moved the ship out of sight."

Kaya was sleeping on it after all and it would be counterproductive to put her closer to the pirates.

"We should hurry, they will probably reach the village if we keep talking here," Rosan advised, not that he cared. Luffy had already ran off after getting some instructions and Usopp was hot on his heel.

"You two, what are you doing?! Let's go!" Zoro barked, already running off.

The redhead meanwhile, was glancing at the orange haired girl who refused to let him go. "T-Thank you for saving my treasure," she sobbed ridiculously, holding him like they were the best of friends because of one action.

"There is something deeply wrong with you, Nami," Rosan muttered to the leech attached to him.

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"Where are Luffy and Zoro?" Rosan asked the terrified Usopp, he had hoisted Nami up, threw her over his shoulder (much to her fury) and dragged her here at a rather leisurely pace so they were surprised to see that only the liar was fending off the pirates.

The redhead grunted as Usopp jumped on him with tears of relief. "Thank goodness you're here! I don't know where they are, I was the first one here!"

So they both got lost.

Great.

Fed up with their antics, the redhead tossed the two away and watched them collapse on top of each other with twin "Oofs!"

"Jerk," they muttered

Rosan sighed. "I'll deal with these pirates until they show up. I'm sure you guys don't have a problem with that."

"Nope!" They chirped in relief, injustice forgotten in their minds.

Did he have to do everything here?

How bothersome.

"You need to stretch your old bones anyways," Mod grinned. "Keep the blood active!"

"...Mod-chan, you never did tell me how old you are. Would you mind reminding me?"

"I will hurt you."

"I love you too."

"Go get em, Rosan!" Nami cheered him on.

Cowards.

He looked at the gathering of pirates and tilted his head before humming. "I guess I can show you a little something new."

Ram transformed into a set of combat gloves, as the pirates roared a challenge and he decided to meet them halfway.

The redhead vanished, only to appear in front of a random pirate and he punched him in the throat. The gagging man couldn't react in time, to stop Rosan from effortlessly lifting him up and crashing his skull into one of the walls repeatedly, causing a spurt of blood to begin pouring.

But Rosan wasn't done.

He took his limp body, tensed and, in an impressive display of strength, threw the unconscious man far into the ocean until his body vanished with an inaudible splash.

Everyone watched in awed terror as the broken body soared through the air until it disappeared and looked at the relaxed monster who had done it.

"I'll give you guys a couple more seconds to reconsider your decision," Rosan offered the shocked pirates. "I usually fight to kill."

Their response was to let out battle cries and rush him.

He contemplated rolling his eyes at their foolish actions. Of course they ignored him. The fodder always ignored him. Then people wanted to call him merciless when he showed them why fighting him was a bad idea.

The scout of the Straw Hats sidestepped a wild swing and chopped the outstretched arm of his offender, effortlessly breaking it, before grabbing the appendage and body slamming the screaming man over and over again until he went silent.

Rosan discarded the body and idly kicked another person in the stomach. Their body caved under the strength of his blow and the redhead launched him upwards with a simple lift of his leg.

Before he could get too high, Rosan reached up and grabbed the back of his shirt, crashing the flailing pirate into the unforgiving ground and crushing his bones with a casual stomp that engraved him in dust and blood. The man tried to scream but all that came out, was a wet rasp that only prompted the redhead to stomp him again.

He did not make another sound.

Without even looking behind him, Rosan outstretched his right hand and a red beam pierced the heart of the pirate sneaking up on him, killing him on the spot and getting a gasp of horror out of his allies.

He aimed his left hand at a larger group and a much larger beam crashed into them after a slight delay, sending the unfortunate group soaring in a smoky husk.

He had been practicing more with combining Modification and Germa's technology so he could better mold the strange energy into his image. Good to know that it was paying off.

Nami and Usopp looked at the redhead with blatant terror on their face, utterly shaken by the brutal display from the redhead.

"He's a monster too," the orange haired woman whispered in disbelief. Was this why he was so disinterested in fighting anyone?! S-She was kinda glad that he wasn't a battle junkie because there was no way her stomach would be able to constantly handle seeing this. It couldn't even handle it now and both her and Usopp glanced away, turning green and — oh ew, the liar was definitely throwing up.

The redhead was mowing through their overwhelming numbers with utter ease, toying with them the whole while with the most bored expression on his face ever (it was the same face he always had on... did he even have a different expression?). Eventually, it seemed like he got bored and just started using one poor pirate as a living weapon, repeatedly slamming the unconscious body into any unlucky soul in his path and breaking more than one bone in the process.

"Remind me never to piss him off," A nauseated Usopp said.

"I'm way ahead of you," Nami agreed, popping an eye open and immediately shutting it again.

"Oh! You guys got Rosan to fight! I was worried I didn't make it in time!" Luffy exclaimed, sweating from running all over the town.

Zoro was much the same and he had an impressed expression on his face at the destruction Rosan was casually causing.

Ram could even shoot out beams of energy?! He wanted to test his blades against the mysterious weapon one day. He was interested in seeing the full scope of just what she was capable of.

"Where were you two?!" Nami asked in disbelief.

"You ran ahead of me?!" Usopp accused.

"I got lost," they said in unison and Rosan tossed his temporary weapon to the side to regard the new appearances.

"We are never trusting Zoro with anything involving directions," the redhead informed them.

The swordsman spluttered at that blunt statement. "W-what about Luffy?" Zoro asked in disbelief.

"That's a stupid question. I never trusted him in the first place," Rosan replied calmly, stomping on the hand of a fallen pirate. "I didn't tell you to twitch, minion. Do that again and I'm ripping your arm off and feeding it to you."

The pirate beneath him whimpered and wisely went limp.

"Scary…" Usopp and Nami whispered.

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Kuro was annoyed.

No, scratch that. Kuro was absolutely livid.

His pirates being late was the least of his worry because there was no sickly girl in this estate.

Both Merry and Kaya were nowhere to be seen. How the lamb butler had managed to survive his attack? Kuro didn't know but evidently he should have checked his injuries and ended his miserable existence because the butler clearly managed to convince her to get out of there.

It didn't make sense. Even if he didn't die, he should have been unconscious for quite a while. His wounds should have kept him out of commission until the pirates raided and did finish the job off. That's why he didn't bother checking.

But he was somehow healthy enough to flee? How was that possibl —

Kuro felt his rage reach levels he didn't think were possible.

Why?

Because of that fucking interfering, smug, pirate redhead. That was the only explanation. The redhead chose to interfere with his plans, despite saying he wasn't going to and managed to warn both Merry and Kaya.

He lied.

"You're just a filthy pirate, I wouldn't put anything past you."

The veins on his head became visible for all to see but luckily there was no one watching him.

He stood up and made his way to the shore.

Kuro would find and slaughter that redhead, plan be damned.

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"C-Captain! Please! W-We need help!" The pirates begged in fear. The ones who had not yet been attended to by Rosan, were slowly inching away from the demon in human flash who was mowing through them.

"I-It's just one person!" Jango said, despite the slight fear he felt at watching him dismantle his men. Nodding to himself, he pulled out his chakram in hopes of turning the tides. "Fine, we've wasted too much time anyways and the boss will be most displeased... Look at this ring closely. On "one, two, Jango," you guys'll grow stronger and all your wounds will heal."

"What's he doing?" Luffy asked in curiosity, watching the hippies actions intently.

"Hypnosis. He's trying to convince them that they're stronger. How ridiculous!" Nami explained with an annoyed look. There's no way that would work! Hypnosis was just a party trick that worked on children and idiots!

"Hypnosis? Does it really work?" Rosan hummed. That sounded rather interesting... if he was using it on his allies, he didn't see the harm in testing it.

"Only one way to find out!" Ram beamed.

"We shouldn't be allowing ourselves to get hit with an enemy attack! It could have some unforeseen drawbacks that could affect— and you guys aren't even listening to me," Mod sighed tiredly. They were honestly ridiculous but at least it wasn't a physical attack. She taught Rosan better then to allow himself to get hit with an unknown attack but for this one, they at least knew had an idea on what it would do.

The Devil Fruit would never admit that she was a little curious too. Ram would use that as fuel if she did.

The wounded pirates all stared at the rings and unbeknownst to them, Rosan and Luffy were too.

"One, two, Jango!" The hypnotist said.

Almost immediately, the pirates surged back to life with a renewed strength. They roared at the power-up and the Straw Hats watched in disbelief, as one of them punched the side of a cliff, causing part of it to collapse.

"No way," Nami gaped. "They really did get hypnotized and it actually worked?!"

"He managed to gouge out the cliff? What insane power!" Zoro muttered in surprise.

"With that many people getting power-ups… How will we be able to stop them?" Usopp asked nervously.

The pirates roared like wild animals and began climbing up the cliff, rapidly approaching the still Rosan.

"W-Why's Rosan just standing there?" Nami asked in confusion. The redhead had not moved even once and it was beginning to worry her. Was he out of energy? Was that the real reason why he didn't fight often? Did he have a low amount of stamina...?

"L-Luffy, Zoro, quick! Go help him!"

"Right! C'mon, Luffy," Zoro urged but he paused as he noticed that Luffy wasn't moving either.

Then they heard it.

A low, deep laughter rang through the air and they froze at the source.

"Pft Kahahahaha!" Rosan laughed maliciously, grinning madly at the approaching pirates with two positively glowing orbs in his eyes. "Well shit, who woulda thought! A backwater island, a group of shitty pirates and this is where I see the first display of my emotions?! It's so funny I can't help but laugh!"

His Devil Fruit let out an audible noise of surprise, completely floored by this display and Rosan's grin widened even further at her obvious torrent of emotions.

"R-Rosan!? I-Is that really you?" Mod gasped, voice cracking in sheer disbelief at the sight of Rosan temporarily displaying his emotions. Tears welled up in her eyes at catching a glimpse of him with his feelings out in full force, caught horribly off guard by the entire thing. She could not even say anything else, unable to properly catch her thoughts.

"Of course it is! You think someone else could even come close to looking as hot as me?!" He retorted with a cocky grin, getting an awed look out of the Devil Fruit.

Looking at his wide, psychotic grin, listening to his excited, unhinged, voice and glancing into his heterochromatic, shining, gaze floored the Devil Fruit who had not been expecting this whatsoever.

It was her little boy. It was a glimpse of her precious little psycho who craved violence like no other. The one who at only the tender age of four, discovered the joy of being an adrenaline junkie. Her little agent of chaos that managed to turn even the simplest of missions into something so much more wild...

She wanted — needed this to be permanent. Mod would do anything to get him back without the need of hypnotism.

"W-What a terrifying laugh! Y-You laugh just like me and Auntie! I love it!" Ram had never been seen with a bigger grin, tears glistening in her eyes at the sheer excitement she was currently feeling. She knew it wasn't permanent but her Father was showing emotion outside of the memories she saw! It was so surreal to witness and she realized that she was no one else but his daughter.

I-If he was like this permanently, would he finally be able to call her his daughter?

"Aww is my cute little weapon about to cry?" Rosan mocked, eyeing the remaining pirates with wild eyes. Those glowing red and purple orbs were rapidly shifting between each one like a predator who couldn't decide which meal to start with.

"I-I'm not crying! I'm just excited to see you like this!"

"I-I agree! It's been 12 years since your emotions showed so strongly a-and I have to admit, I'm overwhelmed," Mod admitted happily, flushing with joy at the reminder of how infectious Rosan's emotions were.

"Best to soak it all in then! We might not see this for a loooong time!" Rosan cackled, eagerly cracking his knuckles in preparation for what he was about to do to these unfortunate souls.

Ram nodded eagerly, propping herself up and doing her best to mimic a statue.

"W-wha!" Nami gaped in fear at the menacingly unhinged laughter. She never heard that noise come out of Rosan's mouth before. She had never even seen him smile and you were telling her he could laugh like that?!

"Did he get hypnotized too?!" Zoro gaped in disbelief. There was no way Rosan would have gotten caught off guard by that, especially after hearing about it from Nami. He had to have done it willingly then.

Was he testing to see if it actually worked?! He didn't seem like the curious type but maybe he was!

"RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Luffy roared in fury, clearly hypnotized himself.

"DON'T TELL ME YOU FELL FOR IT TOO, IDIOT!" Zoro roared. He fully believed Luffy got caught by accident.

"Look at all these people running for lil ol me," Rosan grinned, abnormally sharp fangs gleaming at the charging pirates. "I know I'm hot but I'm only easy for Mei! Seems I'll have to teach you all some manners!"

The redhead tensed and the floor cracked beneath him as he vanished from his spot, causing everyone's eyes to go wide in fear.

One pirate spat out a glob of blood, at the fist indenting itself firmly in his gut, holding him up with the force of the blow. He felt all his organs get pulverized from the blow and it sent him flying until his body vanished into the ocean.

"You've gotta at least offer me some roses so I can consider it! It's literally in the name!"

Everyone watched the soaring body with blatant fear on their faces, all confidence drained away by that one display. They began to back away from hell incarnate, until the redhead stopped them all with pointed look.

"If you make me chase you, just the color red is gonna trigger a PTSD attack that'll have you shrieking for years!" he chimed, pointing and pulling at a free strand of his own hair to emphasize his point.

The pirates whimpered in fear at that cheerful warning. No one had ever told them they'd be facing a living, breathing demon but here they were.

"I think I prefer when he's emotionless," Nami muttered in terror, listening to him with a white face. W-Was this the reason he acted like a robot? With his emotions, h-he was utterly terrifying to behold, saying the scariest things with the largest smile instead of that emotionless visage of his.

The redhead's eyes gleamed at causing them all to submit and he heard a roar behind him. Turning his head to the side slightly, Rosan let out a snort of amusement and turned fully.

"Oh? You managed to get hypnotized too, Luffy?" Rosan turned back to greet his captain and they were treated to the sight of the handsome man grinning widely. They never noticed, but he had really sharp fangs and his eyes were glowing so bright, that it looked unnatural.

It was like looking at an entirely different person! He was so full of life! Was this really the Rosan that they knew?

"Ah look at my dumbass adorable brother, so eager for action! Fine, you get to have the special sibling privilege and we can share!"

Luffy roared in response.

Every could only watch (Nami knew he was the one who had saved Zoro!) in terrored awe, as the slope shifted and they watched as the ground erupted, forming a wall and splitting it in two, separating the pirates.

A... A-A Devil fruit...? This whole time, they had been up against a Devil Fruit user?!

"That's your side..." Rosan began and he blurred until he was in front of a terrified pirate. Gripping the man's head, the demon began brutally slamming him onto the erupted ground repeatedly until he was leaking enough blood to cover his entire face. The redhead smiled all the while, utterly unbothered by his act of violence and continued bashing the poor man's skull against the wall.

"...And this is mine!"

"I think I prefer when he's emotionless too," Usopp agreed. His knees were definitely not shaking and he was definitely not feeling the after effects of throwing up.

The hypnotized rubber boy sprinted down the cliff and began punching the air rapidly. "Gomu Gomu no Gatling!" Luffy roared, pulverizing the group of pirates under his rapid punch assault. Screams rang out through the pirates as they were all punched repeatedly with no chance of retaliation. In only a matter of moments they were all beaten into submission and the rubber boy was left growling in dissatisfaction at the easy and quick fight.

From his point above them all, Rosan grinned down at the cowering pirates. Holding out his hand, the redhead cackled and said, "Vindication!"

A massive beam of red energy shot out and split off into little smaller beams, piercing nearly all the poor pirates on his side and incinerating their insides. They couldn't even scream as the attack ruthlessly ravaged their numbers and ran through their bodies.

"They're both monsters," Zoro muttered. This couldn't even be called a fight right now. Just how strong were his captain and scout? He thought they were only a little stronger than him but maybe he had misjudged them...

He especially misjudged Rosan. Appearances were deceiving, the redhead was capable of far more than Zoro's first impression of him had presumed.

"P-Please, mercy!" One lone pirate begged the red headed devil grinning down at them all.

"Mercy? I can count on one hand how many times I've showed someone mercy! But you know what random pirate, whose life I don't care about? You've tugged at my black heart so I think you can be another!" Rosan smiled gently, patting him on the shoulder.

The pirate shuddered in fear. W-When did he get so close? Their predator had not been this close, standing quite the distance away before suddenly appearing in front of him, but this near, he could see his bright heterochromatic gaze burning a hole into him.

It was the gaze of an apex predator toying with his food. The utter amusement in the psychopath's eyes, made him shudder uncontrollably. Red and purple glinted at him and stared kindly at the pirate near tears, contrasting his murderous tendencies just minutes ago.

"Kay! Run along now minion, consider this my act of mercy," The Mod Mod no mi user said with a tiny wave.

"R-Really?!"

"Of course! I'm not a liar," he assured.

They watched the pirate smile in relief and the terrified grunt turned around to sprint away, only to let out an agonizing scream of pain at the beam of energy piercing his stomach not even a second later.

"How unfortunate, you didn't run fast enough," Rosan shrugged uncaringly. "What can you do. I did show you mercy… you just didn't capitalize on it fast enough and I got bored watching you fail to escape me. I've never let anyone escape me after all."

"Father is utterly terrifying," Ram gaped, watching the poor pirate grasp at the hole in his belly helplessly. Now, the ring could freely admit that she was a demon but she paled in comparison to what her Father was currently displaying. H-He really just up and killed that dude for no reason!

H-He was so damn COOL!

"He acted like this as a child too… he's just even more unhinged with age," Mod smiled fondly at the memories. This only reinforced her desire to get his emotions back because the redhead was just so full of life that it never failed to make her mood better, even when she was in a bad one.

"You guys are too kind!" Rosan replied.

Mod and Ram blinked owlishly at his response. T-That wasn't a compliment. How did he possibly take that as a compliment?

"I wonder why I didn't turn into a raging beast like the others?" the redhead mused. "Maybe my emotions are tied to my strength? Since he made me "stronger" it forcefully drew out my feelings."

His family bloodline was so weird. Glowings eyes that were tied to emotion and power? Bah, he probably inherited that from his useless birth mother too. He seemed to have gotten everything from her. Made him wonder just what he inherited from his father besides the man's apparent boldness.

"That was really boring though... I need to fight someone that'll get my blood flowing… that'll really make me think I might die. That sounds like it could be real fun."

Mod's eyes narrowed in contemplation. Perhaps that was what he needed to activate the castle... If his emotions really were tied to his power, Modification would find it fit to stop caging them if he needed to go all out.

It was food for thought.

With a burst of modification, the wall he erected vanished and Rosan watched in amusement, as his rampaging brother tried to destroy the ship, only to be put to sleep by the visibly terrified hypnotist.

Lame, he was about to challenge his rubbery brother to a quick fight.

"Maybe it's cuz I have Mod-chan and Ram protecting me from its full effects. Especially beautiful woman might be the true counter to this hypnotism, ya know?"

"D-Don't call me beautiful! You'll make me embarrassed, jerk! Stupid, idiot, asshole Father!" Ram squeaked with a flushed expression, blushing deeply at his praise. It was funny when Maro or anyone else appreciated her beauty but not Father! His praise would make her die of happiness a-and she couldn't die just yet! Who did he think he was?!

"I'm g-going to undo the effects of the hypnotism soon," Mod stuttered, blushing at the unexpected praise. Damn it, she forgot that Rosan with emotions was a complete tease.

"Alright!" Rosan agreed easily enough. "Experiencing my emotions again was pretty fun but how does such a strange and weak hippie have such a fascinating technique?"

"I agree, he's unnaturally weak but his ability is unlike anything I've seen before…"

Never did they expect, that some random man was capable of forcing out Rosan's emotions, when neither of them could do it. He had also given them a strong hint on how to possibly unlock his emotions, that being a desire to use all his strength.

"Yo," Rosan waved to his gawking allies, appearing in front of them and making them jump in surprise. "Enjoy the show? You probably won't see something like that for a long time so I hope you memorized me smiling... Not that it'll be hard, people seem to really like staring at my face."

"W-what?" Nami stuttered. She immediately made a note to not get on Rosan's bad side because if she went out like those pirates she'd probably be squirming in death.

Zoro looked at the amused redhead with a calculating gaze. So that was how he acted with emotions? He was quite demonic in nature and his style was especially brutal to watch, showing not a single hint of mercy despite how often he smiled.

Usopp had backed far away from the redhead and his knees were shaking rapidly.

"Aww, you don't gotta be afraid, you pussy! I don't treat my allies like that. Just don't give me a reason to and you'll be golden," Rosan cackled with an amused expression, as if he didn't mind that they were rightfully afraid of him. No, he seemed to relish in it if the way he was eyeing them meant anything.

"W-what happened to you?! You're so expressive and not robotic!" Nami pointed out. The man was like a stone wall 99% of the time and right now he was the complete opposite. His handsome visage was permanently set in a neutral expression and now that same face was laced with so much emotion, it was like he had an alter ego!

"That, would be my emotions," Rosan's blank voice came out. His smile had vanished and the glow in his eyes were no longer there, giving them that standard dead look they were accustomed to and making them realize just how out of sorts it was that he never displayed outward emotions.

"Y-Your emotions?" The navigator questioned and he nodded.

"My emotions are locked away and they are rather difficult to get back. That man's hypnotism somehow managed to temporarily release them," he explained calmly, contrasting his previous self so strongly, they got dizzy trying to comprehend it.

"I… was quite chaotic when I had them but I wasn't aware I had become even more of a problem. I lost my emotions about 12 years ago when I was still a child and I've clearly grown since then."

With emotions, he was nothing short of demonic. It was a bit of a surprise but he somewhat expected it. He had always been pretty unhinged and the years clearly made it worse.

It was a good thing his other emotions like sadness and rage didn't seem to come into play. Everyone on this island would have been in danger because he was sure his years of suppressing those emotions in particular were going to bite him if he ever did free them.

They listened with wide eyes at his explanation, not quite expecting to hear that. How did someone just lock away their emotions?! Why was it so difficult to get back? Was he permanently scarred and needed therapy?

But the way he was saying it... it didn't sound like a coping mechanism (maybe it was), it sounded like they were literally locked away with no way to get them back currently.

The redhead hummed and sat down a ways away from the pirates he had just massacred. There were still some left but that had been the ones on Luffy side. Not a single one who went against Rosan survived.

As usual. He rarely left survivors.

"I'm done for now so you guys can have fun," he said simply. He didn't even intend to fight the pirates but that was fine and he'd even say he benefited greatly from it.

His random emotion gain was interesting and the fact that some weak hypnotist had showed him it really was possible to get them all back, made him nearly snort aloud.

How fortunate for him, now he just needed to find the trigger. Although... he needed to prepare for the day that did happen because even with just that small glimpse he could point out important details that were worrying.

His emotions were overwhelming. To an incredible degree. It seems like the virus hadn't been inactive because his emotions had developed even more over the years and did not stagnate like he expected them too.

Except he himself had stagnated. If he ever did get them back, who knows how much work he'd have to put in to not let them take complete control of his every action. He needed to combine his two current personalities, not have one dominate the other.

"I... I've never had so much faith before but it's still possible. Trust me Rosan, we'll get them back or we'll die trying and when we do, I'll help you every step of the way. I also had to deal with gaining emotions so I think I can help!" Mod smiled in determination.

Trust her eh? He wondered if he could really do that.

Rosan's eyes closed and he let out a short nod of approval. Palming the area underneath him, he idly made the floor more comfortable to lie on and got situated.

Mod beamed at his approval and cupped her chin in contemplation, unaware of his slight doubts. A difficult battle that would force Rosan to draw out the strength that the castle stole... They needed to go to the Grand Line to find a fight like that and when they did, the world would not be ready for them.

Jango let out a sigh of relief, at watching the redhead lie down and close his eyes. He must have exhausted himself and couldn't participate anymore so that meant they could clean up the others. If he was out of the fight, the hypnotist could call forth his trump cards.

"Buchi, Sham, come on out!" He called and two figured darted out of the ship. The Meowban Brothers could clean up this mess with ease.

"You two, we absolutely must get past this hill but there's an obstacle blocking the way, get rid of it," Jango instructed. "And when your done, go after the redhead quickly, he should be replenishing his energy so we can't let him get it all back!"

The two brothers looked up at Zoro's steely glare and nervously stepped back. "W-We can't possibly do that! Just the green one looks scary enough and you want us to go after that devil too?!" Sham stammered.

"Y-Yeah, they both look strong…" Buchi agreed. They were both sweating at the swordsman and it caused Zoro to gain a confused expression on his face.

"Huh?" He muttered. Was this seriously what he was up against? No wonder Rosan and Luffy had such an easy time... if these were the trump cards, this crew was going to sink today.

Rosan watched the pitiful exchange with one eye. If it were him, he'd have just blasted them and be done with it but plenty of people had pity and Zoro appeared to be one of them.

It cost him though. Their swordsman had let his guard down and the two ace in the holes quickly took advantage of that, darting forward and attacking the caught unaware swordsman. Their cowardly nature was all an act and the man had lost two of his swords as a result with a strangled gasp of shock.

"When do you think he'll learn to stop underestimating his foes?" Mod asked curiously. This was the third battle now where Zoro had treated the battle a bit too lax. He had no choice against Cabaji due to his injuries, but those same injuries had come from one of the battles he made the mistake at.

If it were Rosan doing the same thing, Mod, as his teacher, would have harshly punished him with training. The ocean was far too unforgiving to make such mistakes multiple times in a row and the Devil Fruit would have found it utterly unacceptable if her charge did it.

"When he suffers a crushing defeat," Rosan replied easily. Zoro was strong by East Blue standards but he wasn't that strong. He only wrote off the fight against Buggy due to the clown having a Devil Fruit that directly countered his skills but that just wouldn't do. It was good to be confident in one's skill but he just struggled against a circus act and still chose to act like this?

If you thought they were weak, give them a swift death. It was that simple. Mercy was only reserved for someone who you had thoroughly crushed and had no intention of fighting anymore. That's why the redhead hardly ever handed it out.

Because the ones he thoroughly crushed, died.

Zoro was now currently on the defensive, after nearly getting crushed under Buchi. It was clear that one-sword style was not his strong suit (perhaps he'd have to teach him a bit) but it was enough to keep him in the battle.

Well... it was, until Usopp tried to interfere to help the man out. The liar tried to help Zoro out, by picking out one of the brothers with his slingshot, but the green haired man took the snipers attack instead of letting it hit the cat brothers, shooting Usopp a warning glare in the process.

That resulted in him being left open, though and he suffered vicious twin scratch marks as a result, getting out a groan of pain from him.

"Don't interfere or else they'll focus their attention onto you," Rosan advised the confused sniper, idly watching Zoro get pushed back further and further. "There's a 50/50 chance that I protect you if they decide to target you and you shouldn't like those odds."

The sniper gaped in disbelief at his words. He was just going to let him die?!

"He's right," Nami agreed, despite not liking that he wasn't helping at all... But he had done enough so maybe they could do something now... "There has to be something we can do… If we manage to get his swords, Zoro can win easily."

Rosan was content to remain in his spot and Luffy was sleeping way down the shore so that left Nami and Usopp to think of a plan.

"I'll do it," Nami said eventually, knowing the redhead was not going to interfere. "I'm better at this type of stuff," she reasoned.

Usopp nodded reluctantly, shooting another glance at a Rosan who didn't even seem to be paying attention to their planning.

"You sure can be cruel."

"If I do everything for them, they will become over reliant on me. You should know how I feel about people overly relying on me. Luffy didn't do it when he was seven, I expect these two to be able to do something."

"That's... fair. You have a point."

The thief began sprinting down the hill so she could grab Zoro's swords, but right before she could pick up one that she grabbed onto, a looming figure put their foot on top of it and prevented her from moving it.

Nami couldn't even look up in time and let out a gasp of pain, that turned into a short scream, as a chakram pierced her shoulder, drawing blood and causing tears to prick her eyes. The navigator collapsed on the floor and began clutching the area that was cut, biting her lip at the red marring her hand.

"NAMI!" Usopp yelled nervously. "ROSAN, NAMI'S HURT! D-DO SOMETHING!"

W-Was Rosan going to help her ou—

The redhead wasn't even looking at his injured crewmate. He was actually looking behind him at something else currently with a tilted head, expression not shifting whatsoever.

Usopp was not the same. What the liar saw, made him go white.

"What do you need swords for?" Jango asked, glancing up and freezing at what he saw. The hypnotist went pale and he let out a strangled gasp, backing up slightly and looking for cover.

Sham, Buchi and Zoro stopped their battle for a moment and the two cat brothers let out twin screams of fear.

Captain Kuro looked down at them all with such palpable fury on his face, his own pirates were sure that they were going to die.

"I'd reprimand you all accordingly due to night being long gone…" Kuro began, before he turned on Rosan with nothing but raw hatred in his eyes.

"...But it seems like all was for naught, considering OUR TARGET ISN'T THERE!" He roared in rage, vanishing from his spot.

Rosan calmly leapt away from the oncoming attack. The redhead looked at the slash marks carving the ground with a half lidded gaze and appraised the man who did it.

Ah, so that was why he adjusted his glasses like that. His choice of weapon was strange and one Rosan would never use but if it worked, it worked.

"You should at least greet me first," Rosan hummed, unbothered by the man's ire. "You're honestly so rude, Kuro-san."

Kuro howled and charged.

Usopp froze in disbelief as he heard something. Target wasn't there…? Were they… Were they talking about Kaya?! No, they had to have been talking about Kaya!

She wasn't there?! THEN WHERE WAS SHE?!

The long nosed boy turned and sprinted in the direction of her mansion without any hesitation.

Kuro, assuming that Rosan had included them in his plans to ruin him, ordered Jango to chase down that long nosed nuisance.

"AFTER HIM, JANGO! HE MIGHT LEAD US TO HER!" The pirate captain snarled, swiping at the nonchalant redhead and failing to land a single hit.

The hypnotist yelped with a salute and immediately rushed off.

Jango's distraction, was all the opening Nami needed.

"Z-Zoro!" She gasped out, picking up his discarded swords and launching them to the pirate.

The savage grin Zoro let out after catching his two blades, promised pain.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU HAVE THREE BLADES!" Sham screeched, fighting vigor renewed after seeing his former captain retain his skills. The underlying promise of death was not lost to him and any disrespect he considered throwing Kuro's way, was focused on his aggression towards the moss head.

"YOUR SKILLS HAVEN'T IMPROVED!" Buchi roared.

"You just don't get it, do you?" Zoro grinned, getting into position. The swordsman put his hand swords over his mouth blade and said,"Tiger Trap!"

He swung down at the approaching pirates and they spat out blood as the attack connected, eyes rolling to the back of their skulls and quickly falling unconscious from the swift and precise slash.

"Just having three swords, is different from knowing Santoryu," Zoro informed them.

"They're all monsters…" Jango said in terror, paling at the sight of Zoro defeating the Meowban Brothers in one hit. To make matters worse, the redhead was still dodging his captain's attacks and for someone who knew of his speed, that thought made him nervous.

A-At least he was being put on the defensive! He hadn't managed to get a single attack in so captain had the advantage!

Kuro would deal with them all. Jango just needed to focus on following the long nose and getting the man his money.

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"YOU DAMN FILTHY LIAR!"

Rosan hummed as he dodged another attack from the pirate, raising a brow in curiosity despite knowing exactly what he was talking about.

He was pretty fast.

"That's quite offensive to someone like me. When did I lie?"

"You said you wouldn't interfere," Kuro hissed hatefully. Because of this damned pirate, everything was going to hell and the thought that he wasn't going to get his inheritance, sent him into a frenzy.

Rosan nodded.

"I told you not to drag me into it, but you did," the redhead corrected the seething pirate, ducking under a wild swing of those long swords on his gloves. "No one told you to attack my captain. You sent him falling down a cliff and tried to kill him. Of course I'd involve myself afterwards."

Kuro paused as he heard that, not believing his ears. "T-That straw hat boy is your captain?!"

That couldn't be right. There had to have been a mistake. If he had known that... he'd never have told Jango to deal with him but he didn't...

"Oh, did you think I was a captain who didn't care about his crew like you? I guess I never did mention that," Rosan shrugged unapologetically, stepping to the side to avoid a furious lunge.

"Your plan was doomed to fail the moment you let Usopp escape and tell Luffy what happened. Because I'm apart of his crew, anything he does, inevitably drags me into it."

The former captain of the Black Cats froze at that, disbelief making its way onto his face. "You... You tricked me," Kuro said in realization, not believing that he of all people had gotten tricked. Him. Kuro of 100 plans.

Him. The smartest person in the East Blue.

Rosan nodded in approval, even choosing to clap for him. "That I did. I'm a little disappointed that you didn't think to alter your plans but then again, you're only considered the smartest person in the East Blue of all seas and I don't even believe that."

But Kuro wasn't listening to him anymore, too shocked by the revelation. He had been tricked. Tricked by this fucking redheaded nuisance. He snarled hatefully and began his renewed assault on this man that ruined everything.

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"

Rosan audibly sighed, shaking his head at Kuro's words. "Here we go again. Another pirate making the same claim and failing completely. Could you tell me where you took your lessons from? I want to find this person and tell them how bad of a job they are doing."

The howl of fury the man let out, made Ram drop to the floor in amusement.

The two blurred around the field and try as he might, Kuro could not touch him and that only served to make him more outraged.

Nami listened to their interaction in confusion. Kuro was implying that Rosan already knew something and ruined it… Had the mysterious redhead already approached him? When did he do that? How long did Rosan know the butler was Kuro...?

Kaya was missing too… did Rosan move her? Did he scout out Kuro's plan already? It seemed like he did, considering the pirate was literally frothing at the mouth due to her scout.

She gazed at the redhead with fascination. He was far smarter than she first thought. Nami had underestimated him because he was in Zoro and Luffy's company but Rosan was showing that he was much more willing to use his head to get things done.

She needed to question him after all this was over so that she could get a glimpse of what was going on in his mind but first… She had a certain idiot to wake up. The orange haired girl idly clutched her shoulder from the pain but ran over to Luffy.

"I don't understand why you're so upset with me," Rosan mused, tilting his head. "I didn't lie to you even once but you're still throwing a tantrum despite that. Have a bit of dignity. Don't you know what pride is?"

Kuro didn't know how this boy was keeping up with him but he didn't care at the moment. "You can't dodge forever," he warned.

"I happen to have a bit of stamina," the redhead countered.

"Where did you hide the girl? TELL ME NOW!"

"Why would I do that? You're the only one here who wants her dead and if you couldn't tell already, I kind of want you to fail."

"Kahahahaha! Look at the look on his face! It's so rich!" Ram cackled in joy.

"He's going to permanently stay red if he keeps this up," Mod giggled. "To completely unravel his plan has driven him to a point that is funnier then I expected. I have to admit, I can see why Ram enjoys angering people so much."

Rosan agreed. Soon, Luffy would wake up and deal with this man and he'd never even get close to finishing his —

"KLAHADORE! PLEASE STOP THIS!" A familiar voice that wasn't supposed to be here called.

Both Rosan and Kuro paused in their exchange and the black cat pirate felt a well of satisfaction, at seeing the redhead close his eyes and sigh.

"Sometimes, I wish my family did not tame me because I'd have just killed every single person on this island and be done with it," Rosan muttered, staring down a panting Kaya.

She flinched at the redhead's lifeless gaze and took a step back at seeing her butler with a vicious set of claws.

"Kaya," Rosan greeted, watching as she took another nervous step back like a child who understood they did something wrong. "I thought I told you to stay put so would you mind telling me…"

"...Just what do you think you're doing here?" The redhead asked gently.

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There was a reason Rosan didn't include other people in his plans unless he trusted them unconditionally.

Robin herself learned rather quickly that the redhead rarely ever followed through with a plan to a t, always modifying it on the go if he thought of a better idea and she swiftly adapted to that part of him, genius that she was.

That's why he didn't include other people. He was incredibly aware of their ability to alter their plans because Rosan himself used to do that all the time. If someone like him could do it, others stood no chance.

"It doesn't matter whether you have emotion or not, your ego will always be one of the highest on the planet."

Ignoring her completely ("Don't ignore me young man!"), the man continued his thoughts unimpeded.

Humans were far too unpredictable to be reliable, especially if you didn't know them well. You could never tell what was fully going through their mind.

For instance, why the hell would a sick, depressed girl, who was being targeted by a group of pirates, put herself in sight of the ones targeting her when she was completely safe?

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Some might call it bravery at wanting to make things right.

Rosan called it complete stupidity for interfering when you weren't supposed to. He had not been kidding, if he were as on edge as he'd been so long ago, he'd have killed Kaya himself for being the one to mess up his plans and then he'd burn this stupid island down.

They could thank his family for still being alive. They had mellowed him out considerably over the years and without the constant threat of action, it had worked out well for everyone around him that wasn't an enemy.

The redhead stared at the idiot with a blank expression on his face. He was normally very good at reading people and Kaya had struck him as intelligent. Clearly that did not apply to her emotions because he made sure to stress that Kuro wanted her inheritance and he wanted to kill her.

But she still showed up.

"I-I couldn't just stay there while you all were fighting for me! T-There must be something I can do to stop Klahadore from doing this," the girl protested before bravely facing her butler of 3 years.

"Klahadore, stop this! I… I'll give you what you want so please stop fighting!" The blonde begged.

Give him what he wants? Didn't he already tell her that he had this handled? What was wrong with her? Were people really this stupid? Was Rosan perhaps the only person in the four seas who used their brain and thought logically?

Was he the only one with common sense?

"Kill her," Ram demanded. Stupid little idiot ruining her Father's planning didn't deserve to breathe the same air as him.

"I can understand why you'd want to do that, but that's not necessary," Mod assured her charge, shooting a glare that successfully cowed the ring. If she didn't speak up, Rosan may very well kill that girl.

Ram was spoiled and when she made demands the redhead normally listened to her. Sometimes he didn't, but you could never tell and Mod wouldn't take that risk.

Rosan would normally not be too bothered by his plan being somewhat ruined (Luffy was his captain after all) but he had kinda been pushing Kuro to his limit since figuring out his identity and it looked like the man was willing to do anything in order to get a win over him.

"Miss Kaya, I was looking for you," Kuro said, forcing his voice to be calm.

Rosan tensed.

"I don't think you understand," the pirate began. "I don't want just your fortune, I want the peace that comes with it. You see, being chased nonstop by the Marines, is not a lifestyle I desire and I've spent 3 years earning the trust of the villagers here."

"All the time we spent together over the 3 years… Do you remember?" Kuro reminisced. "We went sailing together, took trips into town, I took care of you when you were sick. We suffered and laughed together, Miss Kaya."

Kaya began tearing up at the memories and she felt her resolve waver. M-Maybe he was still here —

"All those years, I've endured just so that I could kill you this day," Kuro hissed in suppressed fury.

Kaya froze in shock at his words and tears began welling up in her eyes. She covered her mouth and barely suppressed a strangled cry that the pirate relished in.

The former captain vanished, only to appear in front of the sobbing Kaya.

"The plan was to have you accidentally die and leave me your fortune, but things have changed because of a certain someone," Kuro whispered dangerously. This redhead thought he had him all figured out huh?

"We wouldn't want you moving away from me so soon, now would we? How about I make it so you can't move at all?"

The pirate slashed down with one of his cat claws only for someone to move in the way.

he redhead...? How had he been able to react to his movement...? Kuro had moved long before him but he had caught up? Just how fast was he really?

That surprise didn't last long though because his attack still connected with something and Kuro was filled with so much satisfaction, he couldn't keep the smile off his face.

"I think I like this outcome much more then the attack connecting on Kaya," the pirate decided maliciously.

"Oh? Aren't you a bit too eager to see my skin? Just like everyone else I happen to meet," Rosan retorted softly, expression neutral despite the gruesome injury. The back of his purple shirt was completely shredded and there were 5 vicious slash marks on his back that all leaked a steady amount of blood.

He liked this shirt. It was a good thing he had Modification but the fact that it had gotten shredded in the first place…

Unforgivable.

Nami gasped while looking away from the injury and Kaya couldn't hold back her scream at the fact that she caused it.

Rosan stared the rich girl down, face not shifting whatsoever, as if he wasn't injured. "This is why I told you to stay put. The battlefield is no place for people like you. You're weak and the strong prey on the weak," he explained.

Kaya could only stare at his unbothered expression with tears in her eyes, holding her head shamefully. Because of her… she caused him to...! Was he going to die because of her stupid mistake?

Kuro was about to swipe down again, wide smile on his face due to the redhead seeming to pay him no mind. The reason was soon revealed however, as a flying fist connected clean with the man's face and sent him crashing to the floor.

"Took you long enough, Luffy," Rosan said idly. "He ruined my shirt. I was about to kill him."

"My bad!" Luffy grinned, pulling his fist back with a snap. "I'll deal with this evil butler!"

"Better you than me," the redhead nodded.

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"Y-Your back," Kaya stammered in worry. "Are you okay? Do you need to be wrapped up?"

Rosan glanced at her. "I was fine until you showed up. Thanks for the assistance," he replied.

Kaya flinched harshly at his words and held her head in guilt. He heard her sniff and saw a few more tears hit the floor but the redhead felt no sympathy for the idiot.

"Stop crying, I'm already healing," Rosan told her calmly.

Kaya's eyes snapped up in confusion. Already healing? What was he talking —

Before their very eyes, they watched the terrible wound on Rosan's back begin to steam and close up. It looked like it was forcefully stitching itself back together and soon, the only sign that he had been struck, was the remaining blood and the fact that his shirt was still shredded.

"W-What are you…?" Nami whispered in disbelief. No one was able to heal that fast naturally, it was just not possible! T-That injury should have taken weeks to close up and it should have left a scar!

"A humble scout," Rosan replied, removing his shirt so that he could repair it.

Kaya turned beet red at his shameless act and immediately closed her eyes after catching a glimpse at all those muscles.

D-Didn't he see that she was right in front of him! What was wrong with him?!

He paid her no mind and focused on his outfit. "Modification: Repair," he thought to himself and watched in satisfaction, as his silky purple shirt stitched itself back together until it was in perfect condition.

This one had a red rose on it, no way was he letting it stay destroyed.

"You have a tattoo?" Nami asked curiously, glancing at his muscular build with a curious gaze. She thought he was lazy but with his build, it was clear that he was very physically active. Never did she expect him to be so fit and she wondered what he put himself through to get so strong.

Nami or Zoro weren't even aware Rosan had a tattoo! The rose design cut across his neatly written name and bloomed out right next to the R in a beautiful display. It looked incredible and they weren't sure why he opted to keep the amazing tattoo hidden.

Every new detail they learned, made it clear that they knew startlingly little about the redhead.

"Yes, I got it when I was 16. My sister did it for me," he told them.

Sister?! Did he just casually drop information on having a sister?! How many family members did these two have!?

Before they could even question them on who his sister was, the redhead turned towards Kaya.

"Since you revealed yourself, there's no point in bringing you back to my ship. I'll escort you back to the mansion and you're going to stay there until the fight is over? Okay?" Rosan ordered the teen. It sounded like a question but it clearly wasn't and the owner of the mansion was well aware of that.

Kaya nodded meekly. "W-Where's Usopp?" She asked hesitantly. She needed to at least apologize to him for what she had done.

"Probably fighting a hypnotist."

She opened her mouth and immediately closed it as Rosan fixed his gaze on her, dead gaze beginning to glow slightly.

"Don't make me knock you out. I'll do it with great joy because of how much you've derailed things."

Kaya nodded again, faster this time with a look of fear on her face. Like a properly scolded child, she allowed Rosan to escort her back to her home.

What was with this girl? She just loved throwing herself in the middle of danger.

Idiot.

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Usopp didn't exactly know where he was running too but he just needed to find Kaya.

Missing? How was that possible?! Maybe she had actually taken his advice and gone hiding? If she did, that was fantastic but he wouldn't be able to sleep if she somehow didn't...

Usopp wasn't sure but he had to make sure she was safe.

"Captain!"

His face shot up in surprise at hearing the three familiar voices. That surprise turned into horror at realizing who was here.

Why the hell were the kids here?!

"GET OUTTA HERE YOU THREE!"

"WATCH OUT!" They screamed but it was far too late a warning.

A flying object landed square on Usopp's back and the sniper gasped as the pain caused him to collapse and tumble on the grassy floor.

"GAH!" The teen cried out at the burst of pain. He glanced back in confusion and saw that he had been struck by a chakram.

"You really run fast," Jango said in annoyance. He was nervous due to the fact that Captain Kuro was already clearly angry and he didn't want to further anger the terrifying man by failing this mission.

"C-Captain! Are you alright?!" Pepper asked in a mixture of concern and fear. Usopp shot them a shaky, brave smile that belied his own terror.

He was absolutely not alright but he didn't want to needlessly scare the kids. "T-This is nothing to the great Captain Usopp!" He told them, with false bravado. Inwardly though, he was wondering how the hell he was going to deal with this pirate. That chakram hurt and his back was bleeding copiously at the moment.

"Where is the lady?" Jango asked Usopp in a low tone. He couldn't waste time with this wannabe pirate right now.

"That's what I'm trying to find out!" The sniper bit out, dabbing his wound and wincing at the pain. "I don't have time for this! Usopp pirates, search for Kaya!"

Aka, run for your lives.

"Aye, Aye, Cap'n!" They saluted and the four ran without any hesitation.

"Hey, WAIT!" Jango yelled at the retreating kids. He grabbed his chakram and launched it at the scattered group.

Carrot let out a squeal of fear as no less than five trees were cut by the disc like weapon and it spurred him, and his best friends, to run even faster.

Usopp's eyes bugged at how strong those chakram were and was glad that he was apparently not hit with full force.

It seemed like the pirates really didn't know where Kaya was so that meant looking for her could wait, for now he needed to get awa — strategically retreat from this hypnotist.

"WAH!"

Or, that was the plan, until he saw Onion get clipped by an attack.

Usopp froze at the sound of the child screaming and without even thinking, he turned around and aimed his slingshot at the pirate.

"Lead Star!"

Jango was about to pick up the fallen kid, but was caught off guard by the lead star connecting solidly with his gut. The pirate let out a tiny "oomph" at that and he glared at the long nosed liar who had been the source of the attack.

"Why you…" he growled, grabbing two of his chakrams and spinning them. Without wasting any time, he launched one at the boy, who leapt out of the way and shot the second one at his vulnerable body that just landed, giving him no time to dodge again.

"AGHHHH!" Usopp yelled as the chakram dug into his belly. He spat out a glob of blood and clutched the spot to desperately stave off the bleeding.

"I was hoping you'd lead me to the Miss, but I'm just gonna kill you and find out myself," Jango decided.

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Rosan watched Kaya collapse with an uncaring gaze, heedless of her struggles. They were walking through the forest in the direction that led to her mansion and despite how tired the sick girl was getting, the redhead refused to help.

"Tired?" He snarked blandly. "I doubt you'd be struggling this much if you stayed on the ship."

The exhausted girl shamefully refused to make eye contact, as she tried to defend herself. "I-I know! I'm sorry but I thought I could do something—"

"AGHHHH!" A loud scream interrupted the two and Rosan closed his eyes as Kaya's own eyes widened in recognition and then horror.

"That was Usopp-san!" She gasped, forcing herself to stand so that she could head over to him. The strain of all the movement she did today, was too much for the owner of the mansion and she fell back down, panting heavily and gripping her shirt in exhaustion.

Rosan contemplated kicking her while she was down but just hummed instead as he came to a decision. "Wait here. Usopp will come to you soon."

He was going to do this after the fighting was over but now was as good as time as any.

"W-Will you be fine?" Kaya asked hesitantly. The redhead was harsh but he was still the one helping her this much when he didn't have to. Especially considering she had been nothing but a nuisance to him when he was just trying to keep her safe.

"That's a stupid question."

Rosan took off in the direction of where he had heard the scream and it didn't take him long to see Usopp desperately trying to defend an injured kid while fighting off the hypnotist.

He had a long cut on his back and his stomach was bleeding too. He was clutching a wound and the fear in his eyes were very noticeable but he resolutely stood in front of the panicked child.

Despite being so cowardly, perhaps even he had things he wanted to protect that allowed him to bypass his weaknesses.

Rosan guessed he could lend him a hand then. He'd have let him die if the coward had completely given up.

Jango's eyes bugged as he was suddenly kicked in the stomach and his body crashed into a tree with brutal force, snapping the wood from its spot and sending it collapsing with the pirate.

"Usopp, Kaya is in that direction and she's out of energy. Take those kids and go help her."

The teen in question, looked at Rosan in disbelief. When had he gotten here? Wasn't he tired from his display earlier...?

Then, he registered the redhead's words and his gaze followed the direction that the finger was pointed in.

Kaya was there? Really?! Did Rosan manage to find her? When did he do that?!

Usopp didn't know but he wasn't going to wait to find out.

"T-Thanks, Rosan! Usopp Pirates, let's go!" He yelled out and the three children saluted before all of them disappeared.

Jango heard this all and was about to follow them but the redhead's presence, completely froze him in his spot, giving him a stark reminder of just what happened to more than half of his men.

"Finally, we're alone," Rosan hummed, glancing at the terrified hypnotist with a tilted head. "Jango was it? Can I call you that?"

Memories of what Rosan did were embedded firmly in his mind and Jango felt himself shaking at the fact that they were alone.

"W-What do you want?" The hypnotist asked fearfully.

Wasn't... Wasn't Kuro fighting him? Did he manage to escape his captain? But how?! Kuro had him on the defensive the entire time! What was he doing here?!

Rosan stared at him and he felt himself fidgeting nervously.

"Your hypnotism is very interesting," the 24 year old admitted truthfully. "You've managed to temporarily do something that was not possible for twelve years and that has caught my attention."

The hypnotist didn't think catching a demon's attention was a good thing at all. In fact, being on one's radar sounded like a terrible omen.

"I want you to join my side," Rosan offered bluntly. "I think your abilities are being wasted and despite how weak you are, what you can do is impressive enough to leave you alive."

Jango blinked at his words. "Y-You want me to just betray my allies? I could never do that!"

"Soon, you will have no allies. I will make sure of it," Rosan promised ominously. "You can either join me or suffer the consequences of not doing so. You won't be staying with me, I'll bring you to a place where you can live peacefully as long as you do what I ask you to do."

That place was of course Maro's island.

Jango blinked behind his shades in confusion. He would have no allies soon…? What did he mea —

Oh.

"You'll kill me if I say no? You think that scares me!" Jango frowned. He wouldn't just throw his loyalty away. He may have been a pirate, but he had standards you know!

"I've discovered that there are things in life far worse than dying," Rosan whispered coolly, face not shifting at all. "I'll gladly show you that death can sometimes be a more desired alternative. How do you think being trapped inside of a body that you can't control feels? Watching as they do everything opposite of your real intentions? Would you like to find out before I force you to submit?"

This redhead terrified him more than he'd ever admit and he was already visibly afraid of him. How could he say such things without the slightest change in expression?

Jango felt a chill crawl down his spine at his words and realized that it was in his best interest to not find out what the redhead was going to do to him.

"W-What do you want me to do?" He finally asked. There was no getting out of this.

"Not much. I simply want you on my side," Rosan told him quietly. "You're being put to waste by a person that plans on killing you when this is over anyways. I personally think you're much more interesting than Kuro and he doesn't seem to know or care. Killing you would be unwise."

"W-What?" Kuro was going to kill him? Jango wanted to be surprised but honestly, he really wasn't. He didn't want anyone to know that he was Captain Kuro so it checked out.

"Have you made up your mind?" Rosan asked and Jango hesitantly nodded. "Good, I don't tolerate people who lie to me. Let's get along, Jango."

If the man was lying to him, Rosan would torture him near death and then use Overhaul to take over. The hypnotist's technique was too interesting for him to merely get rid of.

"Hey! I may not look it but I'm an honest man," Jango protested, causing Rosan to simply nod.

Reaching out his hand, Rosan grasped the pirate without warning and thought, "Modify Target: Rest Mode," successfully putting Jango to sleep. With a wave of his hand and a slight glow of his earrings, he stored him in his pocket dimension.

"I agree with this decision. Having him strengthen up our allies, could be quite the boon," Mod hummed. He also did mention that he wanted to give Maro allies a long time ago and it was clear he didn't forget. Honestly, her son was such a menace.

"Maybe even weaklings have value… I never thought I'd see Father with emotions so soon! It was so fucking awesome!" Ram gushed. It was so surreal to witness! She wanted that to be the way he acted permanently!

"Language," Mod admonished, despite agreeing with her sentiment. It had filled her heart with so much joy to hear Rosan's laughter again and for his voice to be anything besides blank.

She yearned for the day where that was the norm. Where they could bring Rosan home

"There's only Kuro and Luffy left. That shouldn't be too hard for him," Rosan said, making his way back to the shore.

He was tired of babysitting that idiot. Let Usopp deal with his stupid girlfriend.

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Just… what… were… these BRATS?

"Gomu Gomu no Pistol!"

A fist connected solidly with his cheek, despite the speed he was running at and he crashed to the floor.

"You're pretty fast," Luffy remarked, looking wholly unbothered by the entire ordeal, if the carefree. There were some large cuts that he received from the start of the battle but that had been the only time he had caught the rubber boy off guard.

Kuro couldn't believe it. The straw hat boy was able to perfectly react to him… Almost as if he could see him while the butler was using his stealth foot.

Case in point, Kuro again tried to use his technique and it seemed to throw Luffy off for just a moment but never long.

Luffy watched Kuro run around the entire field. "You waste a lot of movement!" He called out before swinging his foot in the area that he was going to appear in.

"Gomu Gomu no Whip!" He called slamming his foot into Kuro's abdomen and sending the speedy man tumbling.

"I don't like you," Luffy said bluntly to the struggling man. "Running away from a life of piracy? If you didn't want the reputation, then you shouldn't have become a pirate!"

The few remaining pirates (the ones that fought Luffy and not Rosan) watched in awe as the rubber boy manhandled their captain like it was nothing.

Zoro, who was observing the battle from a distance, found himself wondering for the second time since joining this crew just how strong someone else was. Besides the anger at Kuro's words, Luffy looked mostly unbothered by the fight before him and he was easily repelling all of his opponent's attacks with moves of his own.

Kuro, realizing that there was a very real chance that he could lose here (the redhead hadn't even been dealt with yet!), decided to use his ultimate technique.

"H-Hey, don't tell me…"

The Black Cat Pirates began panicking at the sight of Kuro swaying back and forth.

"O-Oh no! That's…"

"That's the Captain's ultimate attack!"

"D-Doesn't that mean we're in danger too?! He can't control who he attacks when he's like this!"

Luffy and Zoro regarded them in confusion. What were they talking abou—

"AGH!" A pirate screamed as five long gashes appeared on his torso. Soon, the same screams of agony began to ring through the group of pirates.

"W-What's happening?!" Nami asked in disbelief, soaking in the sight with a look of horror. She had just finished robbing the pirates for their meager treasure, only to see said pirates getting cut into mercilessly by some unseen force.

"He's attacking his crew more than his opponent," Zoro muttered in disgust. What was wrong with the pirates they were running into? Did none of them care about the men who chose to follow them? Maybe Zoro had gotten lucky choosing to follow Luffy.

Luffy grit his teeth in rage at how carelessly Kuro was treating his crew, his friends. The rubber boy didn't even care that he was also getting marred by the random targeting, glaring harshly at the darting figure with an intense look.

This was utterly sickening.

"DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR OWN CREW?!" The rubber boy roared, voice laced in unrestrained fury.

"Luffy?" Nami gasped in shock. He was getting mad on the other pirates behalf...? Just who was this boy?

The captain of the Straw Hats glared at the battlefield and extended his hand, catching Kuro in the middle of his attack. He gripped the man's suit from behind and ruthlessly slammed him into the pavement so that he couldn't move anymore.

Kuro heaved at the impact, spitting out a glob of saliva, and shakily pulled himself up. Did he actually manage to catch him out of his Out of the Bag Attack?! Just who were these no name pirates?! First a redhead who could consistently dodge his speed, that managed to identify him almost immediately when everyone else had been fooled by his death for years and that had ruined all those careful years of planning for the hell of it!

Now this idiotic rubber boy was effortlessly keeping up with him? He was infuriatingly carefree and seemed to almost be mocking Kuro with how easily he dealt with his speed. Was this some sort of fluke? Was it because he was out of shape?! First the redhead who dodged him and now the rubber nuisance?!

WHY WOULDN'T THEY JUST DIE?!

First the redhead, now this rubber boy. The pirate wasn't even going to be able to get his revenge on the one who had foiled him in the first place.

"Oh? You don't look too good," a familiar voice mocked and Kuro went red in the face.

"Y-You," he snarled at the sight of Rosan staring blankly at him. Not once had the redhead ever regarded him differently and combined with the fact that the rubber boy wasn't taking him serious, it nearly made him pop a blood vessel.

"Kaya is safe, Jango has been dealt with and my adorable little brother is crushing you. You've failed quite spectacularly, Kuro… You're quite the unlucky one to run into us the moment you decided to spring your plan. Too much patience can cloud your judgment of good opportunities," Rosan informed him kindly.

He just needed to take one with him. That's all he needed. If he managed to kill the redhead, he'd be fine. Kuro began swaying back and forth again and the redhead just watched with that infuriatingly neutral expression.

"Oh no you don't!" Luffy called out, wrapping his arm and legs around the taller man's body. "Try doing that move now!" The rubber boy grinned cheekily.

"I-If the rubber boy wins, does that mean we don't die?" One of the pirates asked in a sliver of hope.

"I think so…"

They glanced at each other for a moment before quickly coming to a decision.

"GO RUBBER BOY! GET EM! KILL CAP'N KURO!" They cheered.

Luffy's face instantly morphed into one of annoyance at their chants. He flung his head all the way down the shore in order to face the cheering pirates directly and their eyes bugged at the sudden proximity of them and the rubbery pirate.

"Who said you could root for me?!" Luffy barked at the idiots. "I'm gonna get you guys, too! Just wait till I'm done with him!"

They fell on their asses and crawled backwards while screaming, "GAHHHHHH!"

With that declaration, Luffy said, "Gomu Gomu no…"

Kuro watched with horror on his face as everything crashed and burned around him at the hands of people he had deemed irrelevant.

No, this couldn't be happening. After all his careful planning, three years worth of it, you were telling him some random group of wannabe pirates were going to be the one to put an end to it?!

It wasn't only the redhead that was a problem?! This… THIS COULDN'T BE?! HOW COULD THIS BE HAPPENING?!

"IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! MY PLAN CAN'T FAIL! THEY NEVER FAIL!" He roared as he finally reached his limit. The pirate struggled intensely in Luffy's grasp to no avail and only increased in intensity at the sight of the rubbery head careening towards him with what was sure to be concussive damage.

"Ah yes, I was wondering when that last dose of sanity was going to taper out," Rosan mused. It was almost a staple in some people when they were about to lose. Always raving about how they were better then this and how they couldn't lose here. He had learned a lot out of the second hand pirate classes that his victims so helpfully taught him.

"BELL!"

Luffy's head snapped back to his body and the momentum of the headbutt connecting to Kuro, knocked him cleanly unconscious. A spray of blood left his mouth and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, as the rubber boy nearly shattered his skull into pieces. His body fell like a puppet with its strings cut and he did not move again.

"It's our victory."

Of course it was, someone as pathetic as Kuro would never be able to handle Luffy's tenacity and strength. He lacked the resolve to put his life on the line against his brother and once you failed to do that, you would lose against him. The moment he had given up the pirate life, he had given up his own because he lacked the resolve.

Rosan watched Luffy tell the pirates who he was and what his goals were and nodded in approval. He would never have followed the rubber boy if he ever wavered in his goal.

After all, he said with the utmost confidence that he'd save the redhead but if he wavered in his dream to be Pirate King, how could Rosan ever expect to trust him with such an important mission?

The redhead watched Luffy, Nami and Zoro interact with a tilted head, then he looked at the fleeing pirates carrying Kuro with admirable haste. It didn't take long for the defeated group to hoist him on the beaten ship and eventually, the Black Cat pirates set sail.

His dead eyes never left the ship.

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Nami pulled him to the side while Usopp conversed with Luffy and Zoro about becoming a pirate and setting out to sea by himself.

Yeah right. Luffy already slotted him into the crew and the liar would absolutely die by himself.

"Nami," Rosan nodded in greeting. "You wanted to talk about something?"

The navigator nodded in return hesitantly, not sure if she'd get the answers she wanted. "This whole thing with Kuro… did you already know and play a hand in it?" She asked him curiously.

"Yes."

She half expected him to give her some infuriating answer so to outright confirm it, left her rather surprised.

"You did?!"

Rosan nodded. "Yes, from the moment I saw Kuro posing as a butler I figured out his identity. It was a little confusing, considering he was supposed to be dead but I gathered a couple of other clues that helped me confirm it."

"You knew all this beforehand but you didn't say anything until they attacked… Why?" Nami wondered. If what he was saying was true… he could have stopped this long before it started!

Rosan figured it wouldn't be ideal to tell her he wanted to secure Kaya's gratitude and a ship so he told her the other reason.

"No one would have believed outsiders who just landed on this island a day ago," he replied and she nodded along with his explanation, remembering that they absolutely refused to believe Usopp himself despite his status as a liar.

"I figured they would have believed Usopp which is why I was surprised that he was being chased by them."

That made... a lot of sense.

"Kuro called you a liar too," Nami pointed out. He called him a lot of stuff actually but the liar part was the most interesting.

The redhead glanced at her for a moment.

"You're smarter then I thought you were," he complimented and she felt a tick mark forming on her head.

"I could say the same to you!" their navigator countered, crossing her arms in annoyance.

"I told Kuro that I wouldn't ruin his plans as long as he didn't drag me into it," Rosan began. "Unfortunately for him, Luffy is my captain and he already took a shine to Usopp so I was never not going to get dragged into it. Once Luffy said he would help, I went to go move Kaya to the ship and derailed everything."

What a conniving plan… He had set up Kuro from the start and the pirate was none the wiser until it was too late. That explained why the pirate had shown up in such a foul mood.

"I feel like there was an ulterior motive here…" Nami mused. Rosan wasn't the type to do something out of the goodness of his heart, her short time with him had made that clear to her.

Rosan hummed. "You're right, I did this so we could get money. Kaya is indebted to me and I'm sure we'll get rewarded for it."

Nami's eyes turned into stars and she crashed into Rosan. "You're the best big bro!" She cheered. Honestly, he was so smart and talented and she'd never doubt him again!

"One day, I'm going to get you the help you need, Nami," Rosan told their navigator, patting her shoulder in reassurance.

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"We should get going now," Zoro said. They were in the restaurant that they first came to when docking on the island and they just finished eating the rest of their meal.

"Yeah!" Luffy agreed, patting his belly in satisfaction.

"Ah, there you guys are!" Kaya called, opening the door to the pub and entering after seeing her targets there.

"Hey, Miss," Luffy waved casually.

"Are you alright, being out of bed?" Nami questioned in concern.

Kaya nodded happily and explained to them that her sickness was due to her dismay at losing both parents and that due to Usopp, she was feeling better.

Then, the blonde girl nervously looked over at Rosan, who had opted to just observe the conversation, and bowed to him.

"Rosan-san, thank you very much for helping Merry and I… I know I caused you a lot of problems and I truly am sorry for that so to make it up to you… I've prepared some presents for you guys!"

Ah, she was still guilty about causing him to get struck... should he milk it?

"It all worked out in the end anyways so you don't have to be guilty anymore," Rosan shrugged.

No, he didn't care, he already won.

"A present?" Luffy asked in clear interest.

"Yes, please accept it!" Kaya smiled at the four and beckoned for them to follow her.

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All four stared at their gift with various reactions.

"A caravel!" Nami gasped in awe at the sight before her. Luffy grinned in excitement at it and cheered at finally having a ship to call his own.

"Can we really have it?!" He asked.

"Yes, please use it!" Kaya nodded happily.

It was a caravel designed personally by Merry (who had not stopped thanking Rosan profusely for his work) which explained why it had a goat's head.

"A caravel, with lateen sails and a central stern rudder, I present to you, The Going Merry!"

Merry hopelessly tried to explain how to operate the ship to Luffy (Mod-chan had force fed him information ships when he was younger so he already knew) and Nami just told him to explain it to her.

As they did that, Kaya decided to speak to Rosan again.

"Your personal ship is really incredible… I was in awe just looking at it!" Kaya complimented with a fascinated look in her eyes. "I hope the Going Merry can live up to your expectations."

Rosan hummed and nodded in approval. "Thank you, this saves us a lot of trouble."

"I also left some essentials!" Kaya added hastily. "And some bonus funds too, as thanks for everything you did."

"I appreciate that, Kaya. Despite all the troubles you caused me, it all turned out fine in the end."

Kaya pouted at his snide words. "I said I was sorry about that! It was a stupid mistake, I know, but please stop bringing it up!"

The redhead snorted and pat her head. "I'm just teasing," Rosan replied calmly, ruining her hair on purpose.

She scowled and batted his hand away petulantly. "Has anyone ever told you how annoying you are?"

"I could give you three off the top of my head. Six on a good day."

Kaya groaned. Did he have a snarky reply for everything? He was just the worst!

Their conversation halted at the sight of a figure, with an insanely huge bag, rolling down the hill at worrying speeds.

"It's your boyfriend," Rosan pointed out, recognizing the idiotic figure of Usopp.

"P-PLEASE STOP TEASING ME!" Kaya stammered in embarrassment, face turning a similar shade of red as his hair. She always felt some type of embarrassment when speaking to the redhead and she hated how used to it she was getting.

"Teasing...? You two aren't dating? Color me surprised." The redhead tilted his head to the side at the revelation.

The girl just moaned in misery and hid her face behind her hands, not opting to answer.

He was just the worst. Was this her punishment for messing up? She didn't deserve this!

"Let's stop him before he crashes into the ship," Zoro said.

Luffy nodded in agreement.

The captain and swordsman both lifted up one foot to stop the approaching ball and Usopp ran into them face first with a loud smack.

"T-Thanks," Usopp groaned through their sandal and boot respectively.

Afterwards, the Straw Hats quickly got situated on their ship and Rosan made sure to give everyone their belongings from the White Rose, pocketing his silver ship afterwards (much to the open mouthed disbelief of everyone watching and his refusal to divulge any information).

The redhead watched Usopp and Kaya, from atop the new ship, talk about the boys desire to finally go out to sea. How the long nose didn't notice the rich girls resolve quickly fading, he didn't know but she looked like she desperately wanted him to stay.

"Did you get what you wanted from this?" Mod asked curiously.

"More or less. There's just one more thing to do but the bonus money should help us out for when Luffy eats all the food."

"You have absolutely no faith in him," she giggled.

"Where does he even put it away? Is it cause he's made of rubber?" Ram wondered in confusion. Father ate a lot too but he just burned that off or turned it into muscle!

Luffy, despite the hellish training Rosan put him through, was still pretty scrawny for his age! Sure he had a good amount of muscles because of the physical labor Rosan put him through but it seemed like the boy was just destined to be naturally slim.

It was one of the world's mysteries.

"When I come to visit this village again, I'll tell you about all my adventures and they'll sound like even bigger lies than the ones I already mentioned!" Usopp grinned.

Kaya grinned happily in return. "I look forward to it!"

The liar then looked towards the crew and said "You guys take care too! Let's meet again sometime!"

Luffy blinked in confusion. "How come?"

Usopp frowned at that response. He thought they had became friends over their adventure together... Was that only on his part?. "We're both gonna be pirates so we'll meet again on sea!"

"What're you talking about?" Zoro raised a brow like Usopp was stupid. "Get on already."

"Eh?" Usopp balked in confusion.

"We're friends now, aren't we?" Luffy asked as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Usopp looked at all of them in confusion before a look of joy came across his face and he jumped excitedly.

"I GET TO BE CAPTAIN, RIGHT?!"

"DON'T BE DUMB, I'M THE CAPTAIN!"

Their laughter rang through the skies as the ship set sail.

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"MASTER!" A voice called, tackling Rosan, who didn't move an inch. He was far too used to this to be moved over, even with her monstrous strength.

"Maro, how have you been?" Rosan asked, patting the clingy queen on the head and squeezing her, much to the Dokkaebi's joy.

"I just got out of a meeting with Government officials and it was superrrr boring and I was like "Oh you just wait till I betray you guys" but they didn't know I was thinking that because I'm super good at infiltration missions. And and I left my tiara in my room just in case you visited me so that they couldn't see you!" The Queen of Celadon gushed.

The redhead nodded, understanding everything she said despite the fact that she barely took a breath and just continued to hug her, absentmindedly stroking her blue and white hair and getting her to purr in bliss. She buried herself deeper in his strong frame and grinned happily at that warmth she loved so much.

Maro had been making her way to her room to dress in something less professional and more movement free, when she saw Rosan laying half his body on her bed, eyes closed as he, probably, conversed with Mod and Ram. He hadn't visited since the day he and Luffy set sail so she was understandably excited to see him.

"So… how have you been?! You guys don't have bounties yet! What's the big idea?! Crew? Ship?! Tell me! Wait, lemme call Angel and Demon, they'll be super happy to see you!"

Rosan let Maro talk and call his twin siblings, content to let her run the conversation however long she wanted. She could go for days if she wanted too and it balanced out his mostly silent demeanor well.

She urged him to sit down and dashed off to go retrieve the two other rulers of Celadon. The queen came back in record time and Rosan quickly got back up, expecting to be tackled again.

"MASTER! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" Angel beamed, tackling Rosan the exact same way Maro did and failing to move him just like her. He easily grabbed his younger sister and squeezed gently, practically repeating the same thing he had done to Maro, getting a happy coo out of her and achieving the same results. The female redhead snuggled him deeply and he nearly rolled his eyes at their antics.

"How are you?" Demon followed up, joining the group hug and gracefully accepting the head pat from his older brother with a pleased smile. "We're happy to see you!"

"How's the pirate life so far! I still can't believe we can call you a pirate now!" Angel asked curiously.

"Before I tell you guys about my journey so far, I need a favor from you, Maro," Rosan said calmly.

"You need a favor from me?!" Maro gaped at his statement, surprise clear on the beautiful queen's features. "Hell yeah! What is it?!"

"We recently got out of a fight with the Black Cat Pirates," Rosan told her. "One of their members had a very interesting ability and I want you to hide and house him on this island. I can modify his appearance if you'd like me to so that he's harder to recognize."

Her excitement dimmed a bit at that and Maro's eyes narrowed at that. "What ability could he have that would make you want to potentially jeopardize Celadon? He probably has a bounty, right? We'd have to disguise him and we might still be in danger."

Master or no, she wouldn't just accept a pirate on her island. Celadon were allies with the World Government right now so they couldn't do anything risky. Rosan knew that but still asked her so the pirate (he was from the East Blue after all) had to be good for something.

"It's best if I show you," the redhead replied. He was proud that Maro didn't just agree immediately. His student would normally do anything to please him but instead she showed her wariness and questioned him like a queen should.

Good. He didn't want her to say yes to everything solely because he was her master.

Rosan's eyes glowed and he reached into his Pocket Dimension (without going inside of it!), pulling out Jango and depositing the, still sleeping, man on the floor.

With a simple nudge, the hypnotist began to slowly wake up. The leaders watched the rather odd man wake up with curious eyes, wondering just what he had done to gain Rosan's attention (the poor soul).

"Warn a guy before you knock him out," Jango grumbled tiredly. He didn't expect to get kidnapped by the guy he had just agreed to join but then again, the redhead operated on his own time it seemed.

Any other words he was about to say, were cut off as he laid eyes on Angel. The redhead clone was looking at him with thinly veiled disgust but Jango didn't see that. He saw probably the most beautiful woman in his life and his heart thumped harshly against his chest.

Jango no longer had any doubts about joining Rosan if he got to look at such a beautiful woman like this.

Maro's eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Master…" She warned in a low snarl. The queen was about to turn him into paste if he kept ogling Angel like that.

Demon laughed at her obvious annoyance and Angel looked at Maro in confusion, wondering what made her wife so upset all of a sudden.

The queen possessively grabbed Angel and dragged the woman closer to her frame, glaring at Jango warningly and getting a surprised yelp out of her wife, who eventually rolled her eyes and blushed.

"Jango, I'd like you to hypnotize me. Use the same words as last time," Rosan called out, snapping the dazed man out of his daydream. "You three, look away. Especially Maro."

He did not feel like dealing with an enraged Dokkaebi in her own castle. They'd have to spend the rest of the day repairing it and he didn't fancy doing that.

"R-Right!" He saluted, noticing the striking resemblance between him and the middle triplet.

"On "one, two, Jango," you'll grow stronger," Jango said, pulling out his pendulum and swinging it back and forth.

"Hypnotism?" Angel muttered curiously, looking away from the swinging chakram despite her burning curiosity.

"How interesting," Demon said. If it was enough to get Master's attention, then surely it actually worked and if it did... There was a lot they could do with that.

"Why did he warn me explicitly?" Maro grumbled in annoyance, crossing her arms under her bust with her eyes closed.

"One, two, Jango!"

The three residents of the castle opened their eyes and stared in curiosity, as a silence befell them all. Rosan's head was currently ducked and they had to wonder if it actually worke —

"Kahahahaha, two times in one day? Aren't I just the luckiest!" A deep laughter rang out, making them freeze.

No, it couldn't be… could it...?

Rosan's grinning visage greeted the stupefied leaders, tilting his head in amusement at their expressions. His eyes were glowing brilliantly and the madness behind them were plain as day, as he basked in their shocked gazes. He stepped closer to them all and bent over slightly, allowing them to take in all his handsome features.

"See that look on your faces?! I told you he had an interesting ability but you didn't trust your never wrong master!" The redhead cackled, sharp fangs on display. "When he hypnotizes me, my emotions are temporarily freed because apparently they're tied to my strength!"

Angel's jaw dropped as tears formed in her eyes. The redhead couldn't believe what she was seeing and she couldn't hold back a strangled sob, slamming into her older brother with such fervor that his eyes went a little wide, not expecting the strong physical affection.

That laughter, that grin, that glow! This was her Master! He was here right now looking at them and he was so beautiful and amazing and she was getting overwhelmed right now!

"Someone's happy to see me," Rosan hummed, recovering admirably and lifting his little sister with his hug. She squealed in surprise and fixed a teary glare at him for carrying her so suddenly. He smiled unapologetically and began to spin her, getting another squeal out of her and rapid slaps to his chest that didn't phase him at all.

Demon looked like he had seen a ghost, which was a fair assessment, considering that it had been 12 years since they saw Rosan act like this. The last time had been before... before everything went —

"Hey, you don't gotta cry, Demon," Rosan's voice came out tenderly, losing all the madness in it at seeing tears spring up in the youngest triplets eyes. Placing Angel down, he walked up to his younger brother and wrapped strong arms around him.

"I-I know, I'm just happy to see you like this," he choked, burying his face in the taller redhead's chest and soaking it all in.

"...I'll try to get back to this without any help, okay?" The scout assured, running a hand through Demon's smooth purple hair.

Angel let out a choked sob again and immediately joined the group hug. The oldest of the triplets hugged them both, soothing them with a fond grin on his face and bright eyes that shone with a love that they hadn't seen in a long time.

"W-Wow!" The queen gasped. "You're so expressive and so alive and so handsome when you're grinning! And you look completely insane and did I mention that you're so handsome right now?!"

Maro's eyes were bugged and the queen was completely floored. She had never seen the redhead act like this at all outside of his memories so this was a complete first for her that she greedily soaked in.

"So handsome? Are you stupid?! I'm always handsome my foolish little goblin!" Rosan mock gasped, freeing up a hand and pinching her cheek, getting an indignant whine out of her.

This was the Rosan that everyone had been so desperate to get back?! She could see why! He had done a complete 180 in personality and it was so... AWESOME! HE WAS SO COOL RIGHT NOW WITH HIS BRIGHT EYES AND HIS GRINNING FACE! It was so much better than his lifeless expression combined with that neutral face of his.

She... She wanted to see him like this permanently. Maro had only ever known no emotion Rosan but she'd love to get to know the one who did have emotion because he seemed like he was really fun to hang around.

She watched Angel and Demon cry on his chest and looked at the tenderness in his eyes and realized that they had been afraid for nothing. One night, Angel had confided in her one night about how the only reason they were alive was because Rosan had lost his emotions when he was about to dish out punishment on them and they never did know what exactly he planned on doing.

Because of his loss in anger, he never did punish them and they were sure that if he ever gained his emotions back, he'd fully hate them because at the end of the day, they were the ones left in charge with Meiko and Rosan had been put into an unfavorable position because of it.

It was her wife's biggest fear (one that Demon shared) and she had sobbed in the Dokkaebi's chest after revealing it.

"I... I don't want him to hate meee. I don't know what I'll do if he does, Maro! We look to him and he's done everything for us without asking for a single thing in return. He's our brother but he's also our creator and if he hates us, what's the point in even being alive?!" Angel sobbed and it caused Maro's own eyes to go wet because there was nothing she could do that could change her mind besides assuring her that there was more to live for. She didn't know how Rosan was with his emotions, she didn't know how he thought... she didn't know anything about him.

So all she could do was offer her presence to her emotional wife and her words.

She was so glad that there was no sign of animosity in the redhead's eyes. Just an insane glint that spoke of untold chaos when his emotions were fully unlocked.

He accepted all their affections with an easygoing grin on his face, laughing at the tears in their eyes and getting glares when he mocked it. "I'll tell you about my adventures while I'm like this! Then I gotta go back to the crew!"

The three nodded eagerly and Rosan told his former traveling companions about all the trips he had so far with the Straw Hats.

None of them could keep the smile or resolve off their face at seeing how much emotion he was displaying.

They swore that this would become permanent.

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"You know, you disappear a lot," Nami pointed out to the redhead. He just appeared on the ship and they jumped in fright at the unexpected arrival, fixing the redhead with a hard glare that he seemingly didn't notice.

"Indeed I do. I can't help it. I've always been rather restless," Rosan agreed. It was a habit that had been around since he was four and when he had gained the ability to fly, things had only gotten worse.

Not even a lack of emotions inhibited his free spirit.

"You were missing last night too… What were you doing?" Zoro asked curiously.

"Last night…?" Rosan mused.

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Last Night

"Greetings, Captain Kuro."

Kuro jumped at that voice and felt his vision go red at the familiarity of it.

"How did you get here? Why are you here?! Just stopping me wasn't enough so you wanted to rub salt into the wound as well?" The reinstated captain snarled. Because of this redhead right here, everything he had ever planned, had gone to waste and now he was back to being a miserable pirate.

"I'm not petty enough to do something like that," Rosan said blandly, knowing that he was petty enough to do that. "No, I'm here on much more serious business."

That's when Kuro smelt it and it caused him to tense up.

Blood.

"Ah, so you finally noticed."

Kuro got up and immediately reached for his claws. The redhead allowed him with just a tilted head and that dim gaze of his.

"I've killed your entire crew but you were planning on doing that anyways, right? It's just you and I and that's the way I prefer it." Rosan's voice was a near whisper as he spoke but Kuro heard him loud and clear.

"You see, I'm not quite like my crew members. I'm much more... hardened if you would," the redhead offered him. "I don't think just beating someone is enough. I think being more thorough is necessary for certain enemies and I decided that the moment we met, that I'd be killing you and that's what I'm here to do."

"But first, I wanted to reveal something to you."

Kuro glared at the man in hatred. No longer listening to the redhead, he activated his stealth foot and blurred —

Only to find a scythe embedded firmly in his belly. He gagged in disbelief and shakily looked down at the weapon, blood pouring from the wound and his mouth.

He didn't even see him move...? A scythe? Who would use such an odd weapon of choice—

"You're not as fast as you think you are, I thought Luffy made that clear."

A hooded figure in a black and white cloak stared at the man and a horrifying realization seeped into Kuro's bone, as two black feathery wings burst free from his back.

He took a step back in fear, not quite believing his eyes and his rage momentarily vanished, replaced by a cold feeling of doom. "Y-You… B-But that's IMPOSSIBLE!" Kuro bellowed, refusing to believe it for even a second. This couldn't be happening... this couldn't be happening!

They had gone missing for over 10 years! No one had seen or heard tale of them so what were they doing on some unassuming pirate crew, sabotaging his fucking plans?!

"Things are only seen as impossible to people who refuse to open their eyes," Reaper admonished quietly, floating upwards and causing the scythe to begin angling awkwardly inside of him.

The pirate was unable to hold back his groan of pain at getting the blade shifted inside of him and he desperately tried to remove the source of agony.

"You wanted to know why I was able to identify you so easily, right? Well that's because bounty hunting was a bit of a hobby of mine in the past."

Kuro stared at the Angel of Death with disbelief. You were telling him… that his plan had gotten foiled by the Shinigami who was worth 500 million beri? That… That was BULLSHIT! HOW COULD ANYONE HAVE EXPECTED THIS TO HAPPEN? REAPER SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THE EAST BLUE?! WHAT WAS HE DOING HERE?!

"Do you still think you're stronger than me? I wasn't dodging your attacks as defense, I was dodging them because my Captain had dibs," the Shinigami intoned coldly.

"Now, you get to see what it's like when I'm on the offensive."

Kuro staggered, as the scythe was ripped from his belly and he quickly activated his stealth foot to try and get to a place with some more space.

His personal quarters were far too cramped for him to run freely.

The moment his feet landed on the deck, a kick planted itself on his back and he was rocketed into a wall, embedding his body into it.

Reaper floated high above him, gazing down at him with his head tilted. It was impossible to see underneath that black hoodie and despite watching his wings flap, they made no noise.

"You realize that this benefits me more than you, right?" The black clad figure asked and as if to prove his point, he vanished from his spot, cut into Kuro's belly and flew out of sight into the night sky.

Kuro was a sitting duck like this. He looked around and saw the corpses of his crew lying around and realized that this was the only reason they had been allowed to escape that wretched island.

So that no one could see what was going to happen to them.

Rosan didn't need his crew to see just how operated yet after all.

He mercifully landed on the deck and curled his wings back up, spinning his black and purple scythe in an impressive display. "Come. Dance for me. You seemed to relish in ruining my shirt earlier, so I will give you a performance worth remembering, not that you'll like it very much."

Kuro's confidence had practically vanished at the knowledge that he was dealing with the Angel of Death of all people. This was someone with the highest starting bounty ever (and he had gotten it in the blue seas!). A person who cleaned up bounties in all corners of the seas with an ease. Kuro would have done everything in his power to avoid him 10 years ago and now they were likely even more experienced with age?

To know that the Shinigami had likely been a child this entire time and was now an adult? Did he... Could he do anything to this demon?

Rosan fully capitalized on that doubt.

The Black Cat Captain was forced to dodge a swing of the massive black and purple scythe and tried to retaliate with a kick, but quickly withdrew it due to the speed that Reaper recalled their weapon, threatening to skewer them in the process.

He leapt to the left to dodge another swipe and grunted as a hand gripped his suit and threw him into a wall with brutal strength. It shuddered and cracked at the force of the blow and his back was almost certainly purple from all the bruising he was currently receiving.

Kuro only had a moment to duck as the scythe crumbled the wall behind him with a slash and he groaned at the exertion he was putting on his own injured body.

If that connected... what condition would he be in?! He wasn't keen on finding out.

This was impossible. Not only did he have a giant cut on his belly, Reaper wasn't even giving him an option to attack right now. It was almost permanently the Shinigami's turn and it was getting increasingly more difficult to maneuver.

He was completely on the defensive and it was eerily reminiscent of their first fight, only the tables had turned completely.

Rosan was relentlessly attacking Kuro, he tried to dodge everything, but it wasn't working out too well. His body was littered in wounds due to his unending aggression and the man was getting more and more desperate, doing anything to avoid getting hit by that deadly scythe.

The retired Shinigami blocked a wild and desperate swing of his claws and Kuro used that momentary reprieve to leap far away from him. Reaper allowed it to happen and began idly spinning Ram as the Black Cat pirate began swaying back and forth.

"Out of the Bag Attack," he snarled, vanishing from sight and marking everything around him randomly, excluding Rosan.

So this was the technique he was about to do before Luffy stopped him...

"You waste a lot of movement," Rosan advised idly, spinning his scythe even faster.

...How disappointing.

The scout stopped spinning his weapon, gripped the scythe, twisted his entire body to a seemingly random direction, dashed in said direction and slammed his weapon of choice down with ruthless force at what appeared to be nothing —

Kuro let out a howl of agony due to the fact that he had just gotten his leg severed cleanly from his body. The former butler collapsed on the floor and began tumbling from the momentum he had built up, before crashing unceremoniously into the railing of his ship.

The Angel of Death began floating idly, moving closer to the disable pirate at a measured, slow, pace. It was as if he was taking a leisure walk through the park with how lax he was taking the situation and it let Kuro know that from the very beginning, since he was recognized, his death had been signed.

"Do you know why I showed you that I was Reaper?" Rosan asked him suddenly, not even remotely bothered by the screeching. "So that even if you did manage to show me something interesting, I'd still kill you."

"Nobody can know I'm Reaper after all. I'm sure you understand, right? Nobody could know you were Captain Kuro, right?"

Kuro groaned in anguish, clutching the stump in terror and trying to gather what little bearings he had left. This wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't possible to account for a monster spontaneously appearing, a wolf in sheep's clothing, surrounding himself with actual sheeps who were carefree and naive while he was merciless and cruel.

The Straw Hats were more dangerous then they realized. They had a demon lurking in their midst, doing all the dirty work that they wouldn't do and ensuring that all threats were thoroughly dealt with while they continued to sail through their journey.

Rosan hummed and landed directly in front of the bleeding man. "I never understood sparing enemies. What's stopping you from just attacking Usopp's island again? It's not like we're permanent residents there. If you attacked them again, no one would be able to stop you this time and Kaya-san would almost certainly die. I'm honestly surprised you haven't thought of doing it yet. So, I'll deal with you here and now before you can," he whispered.

"That, and you did damage my shirt. I quite like that shirt and you got blood all over it. Repairing it was easy but cleaning it? That's a whole different story."

He was completely insane. Kuro was dealing with an actual sociopath in the flesh. One with no morals and no qualms of doing such evil acts. No matter what Kuro did, this redhead would have made sure he failed.

He never stood a chance and his death was assured the moment this redhead had landed on their island.

Lady luck decided to have the two meet and lady luck decided to have him killed.

Rosan brandished Ram and aimed it towards the mortally wounded butler, propping his chin up with the blade of the scythe before aiming it high.

"Goodbye, Captain Kuro. It was a pleasure meeting you."

Kuro stared at him in a moment of true terror and screamed, as Reaper swung down his scythe.

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Flashback End

"…" Rosan hummed at the two watching him curiously and shrugged.

"I was just dealing with something unimportant. It was nothing serious."

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Bonus

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"Alright, so where should I start?" Rosan asked curiously, eyes gleaming at the looks of anticipation in the trio's eyes.

"Everything!" Angel demanded, while Demon and Maro nodded eagerly.

They had long sent Jango off to his living quarters with advice to change up how he looked and now the rulers of Celadon were surrounding their former leader, getting as close to him as possible and claiming a part of his body as their own to touch.

"Sure sure," he said, holding out his hand and allowing the ring to transform into Ram's human form. She beamed in happiness and crashed into her emotional father with gusto, nuzzling his cheek in the process and getting an amused snort out of him.

"Are my emotions really such a novelty?" Rosan mused, allowing the ring to plop herself in his lap in content.

Ram looked back and raised a disbelieving brow. "Of course, Father! I've never seen you like this before and so, I'm gonna soak it all in," she declared, drinking in his smirking visage with greedy eyes.

Rosan for his part, peacefully allowed them all to stare at him. He had been missing his emotions for a pretty long time, so even a glimpse would be accepted greedily by them. Everyone liked to stare at him anyways so he was used to all the eyes.

But damn, Ram seriously looked way too much like Meiko. It was actually getting kinda hard to look at her right now but he wouldn't say that out loud.

"I missed this so much and I'm sad that it's temporary but we'll make it permanent," Mod said softly. It was still so surreal to see and even if she was over the moon, she had to remind herself that this was only temporary and it was only a glimpse. This was not the full scope of his emotions. They had no idea what the full scope of his emotions would be like so they needed to be prepared.

"We'll do it because we love seeing him like this!" Maro beamed and the others nodded rapidly.

"What? You hate me otherwise?" Rosan asked, expression shifting into one of hurt. "Have you guys really hated me for 12 years...? That... That kinda sucks..."

Watching those shining eyes shift into one of pure hurt and his voice get low, affected them more than they'd like to admit and they frantically sought to reassure him otherwise.

"Of course not, Father!" Ram said, eyes wide and guilty. "I-I'll love you no matter what! Always! Forever! Even if you threw me away, I'd still love you!"

Maro nodded hastily in agreement. "I say I love you all the time and no emotion you, is the only one I know so I can't be lying! I just was really happy to see this version of you so I said that without thinking!"

Angel and Demon said nothing, nervously averting their gaze from the redhead.

Their gaze snapped up however, at the amused snort that came out of their former leader.

"Pfft, I was just kidding," Rosan cackled. "You guys were sweating super hard just now, huh?"

He was just kidding? W-What was wrong with him! He was such a good actor for someone who had their emotions locked for 12 goddamn years!

Maro's mouth opened and closed helplessly, before the queen crossed her arms. "You're a dick," she grumbled.

"You had me scared for nothing," Angel scowled, glaring at the smirking visage of her older brother. He looked so infuriatingly smug right now that she wanted to wipe it off his face. Preferably with her fist.

Demon let out a sigh of relief before lightheartedly glaring at his brother as well.

Ram began complaining and shaking him, fear gone in favor of a indignant pout.

"My bad, my bad," Rosan apologized insincerely, getting tick marks out of all of them. "Alright, I'll tell you guys about my journey so far."

They perked up at that and all sat on Maro and Angel's bed. Ram wasn't planning on really listening but she wanted to look at Rosan's face more which was why she sat directly on him.

The redhead idly stroked the silver hair of his weapon as he contemplated where to start. Silver was actually a pretty good color... he should consider adding some to his wardrobe. His weapon would surely appreciate that.

"Right now, we have 3 members in our crew," Rosan began. "There's Roronoa Zoro, our swordsman, Nami, our navigator and Usopp, our... liar?"

He shrugged. "Our journey started off pretty fun! Luffy and I immediately ran into a whirlpool and after I made him get into a barrel, I punted it into the sea."

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Angel roared in disbelief, interrupting him immediately.

What the hell did he just say?! He did what exactly to the youngest in their family?!

"Threw him into the whirlpool," Rosan replied, nonplussed by her reaction. "He was asking for it for putting the both of us on that shitty raft. Seriously, what was he thinking?!"

Maro spluttered at his look of annoyance. There was no way Master was the one offended right now. "But we have Devil Fruits! You can't just toss him into the ocean like that, much less a whirlpool!"

The redhead laughed. "Eh, I modified his barrel and he survived so it all worked out. Oh! We landed on an island full of pirates right and we found one named Alvida," he began.

Ram immediately gagged and even Mod let out a noise of displeasure, making the three raise their brows in confusion.

"Wait... you mean Iron Mace Alvida?" Maro gaped. "That massive lady in the East Blue?! D-Don't tell me she —"

"Yep," Rosan said, nodding his head with regret. "She tried to make a move on me! C'mon I get that I'm hot and pretty compliant so if you ask me somethin I'll likely say yes but even I have my limits!"

"What does she look like?" Angel asked with narrowed eyes, sisterly urges already acting up and a snarl making its way onto her lips.

The scout of the Straw Hats held out his hand and they let out noises of awe as a hologram began emitting from it (Could he always do this?!). The figure began morphing and eventually, that noise of awe, turned into one of rage from Angel.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" She roared, looking at the hologram of Alvida in rage. "HER? SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD A CHANCE WITH YOU?! NEVER IN A MILLION FUCKING YEARS WOULD I LET ANYONE OF MY BROTHERS EVEN CONSIDER IT!"

"I thought the exact same thing!" Mod joined, fury on the woman's face as she crossed her arms and nodded rapidly. She knew Angel would react just the same way!

"THANK KAMI FOR MASTER MOD, WHAT IF SHE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF YOU! AGHH CAN'T YOU JUST MODIFY YOURSELF TO BE A TAD BIT UGLIER?!"

"I ASKED HIM THE SAME THING BUT HE WAS ALL "No Mod-chan, I don't like to permanently alter my physical appearance." AND I NEARLY DID IT MYSELF!"

"That was good," Rosan praised, clapping at her perfect imitation of him. She even had the voice crack added from when he was younger.

"Thank you, Rosan," Mod smiled brightly, before it immediately shifted back into rage. "THE AUDACITY OF SOME PEOPLE! ROSAN IS SO LUCKY HE HAS ME TO WATCH OVER HIM!"

Angel nodded furiously. "If I ever get my hands on that sack of shit, she's dead."

"I knew you were the one who taught Ram to say that!" Rosan cackled.

"Ram's my little tall gumdrop and it's my job to make sure she's a proper woman," Angel said dismissively, getting a beaming grin out of her nice. "PLEASE TELL ME YOU GOT TO PUNISH THAT DAMN PIRATE!"

Mod confirmed it with a noise and the two began ranting again.

Demon and Maro watched with a sweatdrop as the two founders of "Protect Rosan's Chastity", raged to each other, while Rosan added commentary that they only briefly acknowledged.

Rosan's eyes shone with mirth as they talked about her idiocy and he said, "Now now, as much as I love hearing compliments about myself. I should probably continue!"

Angel and Mod reluctantly stopped ranting to each other so that they could listen to the amused man. They'd get back to it another time and the redhead would need to add some more rules to their already long list of Rosan's protection.

"Mod-chan had me knock her out and I punted her across the island so you don't gotta be so upset," Rosan assured. "Afterwards, we went to go recruit Roronoa Zoro. He's a bounty hunter who's nowhere near as cool as Reaper but pretty good. He was making a bet with the corrupt Marines there that they never planned on upholding."

"Corrupt Marines?" Demon asked with a raised brow.

"What a surprise," Maro said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at that.

"Mhm. Their Captain, Morgan was slinging his authority around with a vengeance. You had to practically worship him and he didn't tolerate any sort of slander," Rosan sighed. "I don't get how he could act like that. He was so fucking weak it was hilarious. I ended up crushing his spine after Luffy beat his ass and he got arrested soon after."

They snorted at hearing about how he jumped out of the top of the building to do so and shook their head at his antics.

Robbing a Marine Base for all they had? That sounded just like him.

"Then one day, Luffy ended up getting snatched away by a bird while I was cleaning up his mess in the kitchen and it brought us to this island taken over by Buggy the Clown."

"A clown?" Angel shuddered. She hated clowns with a passion. They looked so dumb and stupid.

"I always wanted to meet a clown!" Maro beamed. She loved clowns! They were so goofy and funny!

Rosan snorted. "Buggy was a dumbass. He was insecure about his nose, but dressed up like a clown and he ate a Devil Fruit in the stupidest way too! I thought the way I ate mine was bad but nope, his was way worse!"

Listening to him explain that the clown had accidentally swallowed it in fear after trying to hide it of all things... The three had to agree.

"We met our navigator there too..." Rosan gripped his chin and hummed. "She hates pirates, which makes me think she's gonna jump ship. She's warming up to us super quick but there's something holding her back and I don't know what is it. I'll be keeping an eye on her just in case but Luffy is already set on having her be our navigator and her skills are some of the best I've seen," he admitted.

"Someone who's skills you are impressed with? She sounds like a keeper," Demon pointed out, getting a short nod out of the redhead.

"After our fight with Buggy, we went to the island where I got Jango from," Rosan continued, grinning in a cunning manner. "There was a supposedly dead pirate there posing as a butler named Kuro and I confronted him."

"Oh?" Maro leaned forward in anticipation.

"Yeah, he was taken really off guard by the fact that I could tell who he was! I told him that I wouldn't interfere in his plans as long as he didn't drag me into them but I tricked him," Rosan cackled, eyes shining in amusement. "Genius my ass. I foiled his plans instantly and sent him into a rage that you could frame!"

Maro joined his cackling with clear amusement in her eyes. It was always so fun to mess with targets! Watching them reach their limits, never failed to fill her with a sadistic glee that she shamelessly picked up from her Master.

Rosan explained what the man's plan was, to use Jango to hypnotize Kaya and give her inheritance over to Kuro, and how they had to stop that from happening.

"That little dumbass nearly ruined my perfect plan," Rosan complained with an annoyed sigh. "Who the fuck just decides to deliver themselves into the enemy's' arms? I never contemplated killing a civilian more than I did her but it worked out."

"What happened to Kuro?" Maro asked curiously. "Was Jango really the only interesting one in the crew?"

"Yeah. His abilities had nothing to do with combat strength unlike the others and the others were weak including Kuro himself," Rosan sighed. "I wanted to send more minions to my cute little student but alas, I had to kill them all."

"You're scary," Angel said flatly, shuddering a bit at his casualness.

"You're planning on sending more people my way?!" Maro gaped, flushing happily at being called cute. "Don't you think you should discuss this with me a bit?!"

"Nah, I'd rather not," Rosan replied cheekily, idly tugging one of Ram's twintails and getting a whine of annoyance out of her. She smacked his hand away and glared at his unapologetic glance, before shuffling away so that the more awesome Demon could attend to her better.

The purple haired doctor simply smiled and accepted her hug kindly, getting her to purr as he pat her head.

Maro gained a tick mark at that and immediately crashed into Rosan in annoyance, knocking him over slightly and putting her right over him. "Stupid Master and your stupid tendencies! Don't be such an ass!"

She tried hard to throttle the redhead and this close to him, she saw Rosan's amused gaze turn downright sinister a smirk making its way on his face that no one but her saw.

The queen let out a tiny "oomph" at the fact that Rosan just nudged her arm out of place and ruined her balance, crashing her body fully into his own and getting a noise of protest out of the redhead when his arms "unintentionally" wrapped around her waist.

What the hell was he doing—

"Maro what the hell are you doing?!" Rosan barked, much to her surprise. "I told you when you were drunk that we can't do this! What would Angel think?! She's right there you know!" He chided.

Maro went white and realized just how they looked right now.

Oh that son of a bitch (that worked because she did hate Raisa!).

By pushing her out of balance, Rosan and Maro ended up in quite the compromising position and combined with his words, it painted a very, very bad image for her. A very bad image to her possessive wife that almost always listened to what her older brother had to say.

Angel's amused gaze shifted into something much more dangerous and Maro sent up a prayer to any actual Angel listening to her.

"Prayer not accepted," Rosan, the Angel of Death, whispered cheekily.

"Maro," Angel said calmly. "I can understand your attraction to Master. Everyone's attracted to Master and he looks just like me. But what exactly do you think you're doing?" She hissed.

The queen hastily pushed herself off of an embarrassed Rosan (he was such a fucking dick), turning towards her wife with wide, nervous eyes and said, "It's not what you think! Master set me up!"

Shit... did she actually try that when she was drunk? Maro was a super lightweight so she couldn't tell you but maybe she got Master and Angel confused? They were both super hot and she didn't discriminate so maybe...?

Angel pursed her lips. "Come with me, we need to talk about your drunk behavior."

With that, the middle triplet turned on a heel and marched out of the room.

Rosan and Ram could no longer hold it in and began laughing in unison.

"Kahahahaha! You're just way too easy, Maro!" Rosan cackled. There was no remorse whatsoever in his gaze for setting the queen up so ruthlessly and never in her life did she contemplate murdering her teacher until now.

"Serves you right for being a shameless pervert! Maybe now you'll stop ogling me and Auntie's boobs and ass !" Ram joined, high fiving her Father with a large grin.

Maro closed her mouth and turned towards the duo with fury in her eyes. "Y-You two... Kami I hate you both so much. Mod-chan please get rid of the hypnosis!"

"I'll apologize for the both of them," Mod sighed in sympathy. "Rosan you shouldn't set Maro up like that!"

"She made it too easy, jumping on me like that. I had to take the opportunity," Rosan shrugged. "You should go quick before you get kicked out of the room tonight. You were rubbing your huge boobs all on me and Angel is super possessive so she definitely noticed," he advised, smirking insufferably.

"Don't call my boobs huge, you asshole! I'm seriously pissed at you, Master!" Maro barked, stomping off to go explain that Rosan was a menace and that Angel was the only one who she had eyes for and praying that she didn't get to sleep on the couch tonight after such a boring meeting with government officials.

Demon watched it all with a sweatdrop. Poor Maro, she was probably in trouble for something that Master set up.

"When you get a girlfriend Demon, I'm gonna embarrass you too. I hope you know that," Rosan warned him, smirking psychotically.

"First Angel, now you? There's a reason I choose to stay single," Demon sighed sadly. He couldn't put his significant other through the trial of visiting his family. She'd lose her mind in the process and it would be his fault.

His entire family was just too crazy.