"What matters is that we need to somehow track this person." Mikey says.

(Swoosh)

A knife comes flying at Lucy from behind her, only Mikey can see the knife obviously. He shoves Lucy away and catches the knife.

"HEY! WHY DID YOU DO TH-" Lucy starts shouting at Mikey until she notices the knife in his hand.

She looks in the direction of where the knife came from, but can't see anyone.

Mikey looks at the knife, there's something written on it.

[I'll kill you number one. Regards from number two]

"The number two player seems to be after me." Mikey says.

"Quickly! We have to alert the others." Lucy says and starts walking out of the hot spring.

"No need." Mikey says. Lucy turns around and faces Mikey.

"What do you mean no need?" She asks him.

"If that person tried to kill me, he wouldn't do it like this." Mikey says. "He would try to assasinate me rather than throwing a warning shot like this at me." He adds.

"You do have a point actually." Lucy responds. "What do you want to do now? Won't that person try to steal our ship?" She asks him.

"Nah, I still have my soldiers there, they will notify me." Mikey answers.

"Wait, you still didn't make them despawn?" Lucy asks Mikey surprised.

"Nah, I wasn't able to operate them while in the ghost's domain anyway." Mikey replies.

"So, you think that the person just ran away?" She asks Mikey another question.

"Yep, I am sure of it." Mikey says confidently.

Mikey was right, the person who tried to assasinate him finally reveals themselves. The person who tried to assasinate Mikey is leaving the island on a small boat. There can't be much said about this person, because they have a cloak with a hood over their head.

The only thing that's visible is the feminine arms of this person and long black hair, which very obviously implies that it's a woman.

(In the hotspring)

"So, what do you plan to do?" Lucy asks Mikey.

"I don't know, first of all I don't even know why does that person want to kill me." Mikey answers. "But it's whatever I guess." Mikey says and leans on a rock.

(1 hour later)

Mikey and his crew finally leave the hot springs, for the last 45 minutes, everyone went into the mixed baths and they talked about several topics. Now they're heading back on their ship.

Mikey and Lucy kept the number 2 player who's hunting Mikey a secret from the others.

The cursed Island was a great experience for everyone to get stronger, and to understand this world better.

(One day later)

Mikey's crew searches through two more islands, but they fail to find anyone. They have two more stops ahead of them, with the first one being the Pirate Island, where Christina is quite the big shot.

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There are several Pirate Islands all around this world, this one in particular isn't very well known.

A few hours later they finally reach the island.

"Now then, I would like you all to take this." Christina hands everyone a black piece of cloth. This piece of cloth has a large pistol depicted on it, the pistol on the clothing resembles Christina's hand cannon.

She also has the same piece of clothing wrapped around her shoulder.

"This is essentially a sign of you being with me. This way, even if nobody on this island knows you, they hopefully won't dare to attack you." She says.

"Well, even if they did, I doubt we wouldn't be able to deal with them." Ragnar says with confidence.

"Of course, I agree, but we don't want any trouble, although I'll have to say." Christina pauses. "Be prepared for a fight." She continues.

"Why?" These guys are your comrades or something like that aren't they?" Zoro asks.

"Well, not exactly, we respect eachother as fellow pirates, but the thing is, they don't really trust me, nobody trust anyone here, additionally... once they learn that I am leaving this Island for good, and that I've left my old crew, they will have no reason not to attack me." Christina answers.

"Mhmmm, that makes sense I guess, well, we'll be able to deal with them." Zoro says while preparing an explosive.

"Of course, just don't let them catch you offguard."

Mikey's crew disembarks. Mikey leaves several spectral pirates on the ship.

"So, I asked you earlier why are we stopping here and you said that you wanted to grab some things right?" Mikey asks.

"Yeah, I have a bunch of stuff which I left here, it's going to be pretty useful so I'd like to take it. We could stay here longer if you guys want to, and if we don't get attacked." Christina says.

"I grabbed some relics in the temple where I was, I'd like to see how much will they sell for. I also want to learn more about the currency they use in this world." Mikey replies.

"Oh, I can tell you all about that if you want to. I've had my experience with it." Christina says.

Zoro, Lucy and Ragnar go together to the market, while Mikey and Christina go to Christina's place.

They start talking while on their way there. The time it takes for them to reach Christina's place all the way from the port is about ten minutes. This island isn't as small as the others, however, it isn't exactly massive either.

"So, the currency, can you tell me about it?" Mikey asks Christina as they enter a somewhat suspicious looking alley.

"Well, it works very similar to the Earth's currency. The currency is divided into coins. Copper coins and Iron coins, these two are the lowest currency, commonly used for buying food and such. They can't be crafted.

"How are they created?" Mikey asks.

"I've heard, that they use Iron and Copper ingots, shocker I know, they melt these ingots into the coin shape, and then they put a symbol on them." Christina responds and hands Mikey a Copper and an Iron coin.

There are heads on each of them, both are different.

"Are those the people who created these coins?" Mikey asks and hands the coins back to Christina, at that moment they reach the end of the alley. Christina takes the coins and says: "Wait, stop."

"What is it?" Mikey asks.

"Let's finish talking about the currency here, once we leave this alley we will enter a busy street with lots of people in it. Thievery and murder is pretty common in those, we also need to be prepared for an attack." Christina says.

"Oh, alright, then." Mikey leans on a wall and crosses his arms.

"So, the heads on the coins are of the people who came up with the current currency system. Besides the iron and copper coins there are: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Emerald coins. I've heard of some special currency besides this, but I wasn't able to learn its name." Christina says.

"Why does one of them have pointy ears?" Mikey asks.

"There are elves in this world from what I've heard." Christina says.

"Oh, wow." Mikey says somewhat surprised

Christina explains a bit more in depth about the currency. Shortly after, they enter the busy street and are greeted with a really hostile looks from a bunch of the pirates.

"Is this normal?" Mikey asks.

"No, I mean, kind of? Some pirates will always give you a hostile look, but this is too many. Word may have already spread about my defeat, be careful."

Christina whispers to Mikey quietly, just as she does, several pirates aim their guns at Mikey and Christina, and shoot.