[Mikey, I am coming, wait exactly where you are](

This was written in Lucy's message)

Arthur coughed out blood, "Alright, I gotta heal these wounds, I think you broke some of my ribs."

"Oh shit, will you be fine?" Mikey asked, concerned.

The man next to them pointed at a woman a few dozen meters away who was also building a house. "I know who might help you. Do you see that woman over there?"

"What about her?" Arthur groaned.

"I know her. Her rank before they disappeared was 911, I think? She's a really good medic," the man answered. "You know what, I'll escort you to her," he added.

"Well, I can't decline an offer like this. Thank you," Arthur thanked the man and waved to Mikey.

Thanks to the Soulmate Stone, Mikey knew where Lucy was. He quietly left the settlement and headed towards Lucy, who was flying her dragon towards him at a really fast rate. The others were with her as well.

After a few minutes...

Mikey entered a part of the forest with fewer trees. He saw Lucy in the distance, and it didn't take long until she landed her dragon right next to him. The wind dragon disappeared, Lucy got off, and quickly ran towards Mikey before anyone else could.

She jumped on Mikey and hugged him, pretty similar to what happened at the Cursed Island. The Soulmate Stones reacted to this interaction.

But besides that, Mikey's brain and Fighter attribute finally judged that he was actually safe. The reason why Mikey was able to fight for the past few weeks was that he was running on steam.

You can compare it to a car.

Normally, when you are low on fuel, you're supposed to refuel. If you don't, you can still keep driving on the last bits of fuel and steam until there's none left.

When that happens, you CAN'T drive the car until you refuel it again.

Well, the exact same thing happens to Mikey's body.

"[You have activated an ability of the 'Dormant Fighter']"

"Oh no..." Mikey exclaimed.

"What's up?" Lucy asked.

"I am shutting down," Mikey replied.

Lucy gave him a really confused look. "Huh? Like a robot would or what?"

The others walked up to Mikey and Lucy when he literally passed out, and Lucy barely caught him.

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Ragnar quickly ran up and grabbed Mikey, putting him on the ground. Mikey was completely unconscious.

"Oh shit, where am I?" Mikey woke up on a bed.

He was inside a wooden house, located very far away from where he was the last time he was conscious. His injured body parts were all wrapped in bandages. He looked around for a moment, went up to the window in his room, and saw the outside.

There was a huge farmland in front of him, at least a few square kilometers of farms. There were a bunch of houses in the area; he was in a plains biome.

"Whose house is this?" Mikey looked in the mirror.

He saw the number 6 above his head. "Oh right, the reevaluation of ranks. Damn, I fell all the way down to rank 6?! After all that fighting?" Mikey was shocked.

Mikey suddenly felt Lucy in the area, thanks to the Soulmate Stone. She was walking towards him. Once Lucy realized that Mikey was awake, she started running as fast as she could, even using her wind to go faster.

Two seconds later, she was at the doorstep of Mikey's room. Lucy fell to her knees as she saw Mikey, who was just fine, looking out of the window. Lucy started crying on the spot. The number above Lucy's head read 20.

"Hey Lucy, why are you crying?" Mikey asked.

"You were asleep for two weeks, Mikey... I was losing my hope if you waking up," Lucy started sobbing.

"Two weeks... TWO WEEKS?!" Mikey said in disbelief. "How is that even possible..." He mumbled to himself.

Lucy slowly stood up and walked up to Mikey, she slapped him and then hugged him, without saying a word.

"I am sure you must be hungry. You lost a ton of weight while asleep. Come down to the kitchen," Lucy said happily.

"Now that you mention it, I am really hungry, and I am so skinny too," Mikey looked at his body. "Damn, I must've lost at least twenty to thirty pounds. I feel insanely weak," he added, frustrated.

"Do you need help going downstairs?" Lucy asked.

"No, I'll be there in a bit. Just let me stretch for a bit," Mikey replied.

"Alright, I'll wait for you downstairs," Lucy left the room.

Mikey started warming up, stretching for a little before doing a bunch of push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and even shadow boxing.

He could still do everything, but he noticed the decrease in his strength. Even though he was much lighter, he couldn't do as many push-ups as he normally could. His punches and kicks were also much slower than usual.

"I need to get it back together..." He told himself and headed downstairs.

Lucy and Mikey sat down at the table and started eating.

"So, where are we?" Mikey asked straight away.

"After the bounty event ended, a lot of people started creating alliances and communities. This is one of them," Lucy answered.

"So, you joined it?" Mikey asked.

"Not really," Lucy replied. "I only decided to live here until you wake up. After that, I planned to join you on your journey," she added.

"You still wanna travel with me?" Mikey asked.

"Of course, after all, I know that you are probably seeking adventure, right? Well, I wanna do the same. This world is a beautiful place... I wanna explore it," Lucy claimed.

"Hmm, that reminds me, where are the others?" Mikey asked.

"Everyone kind of went their own way for now. Ragnar decided to go North, there are mountains there and mountain vikings; he wants to meet them," Lucy said.

"Mountain and Vikings? Those words don't really go together that well. What about Christina and Zoro?" Mikey asked again.

"Well, Christina went to the sea. She's continuing her pirate journey. She said that back on Blackbeard's island, she found out about a council of the strongest pirates. For some reason, she wants to find them," Christina answers.

"And Zoro... do you remember that old man we met on that one island?" She asks Mikey.

"Yeah, I do," Mikey says, unsure of what Lucy says next.

"Well, Zoro went with the old man. During the bounty event, they fought each other twice, and after the bounty event, they met again. Their special attributes, which grant them their visual powers, are supposedly some kind of a prophecy? That's what Zoro said, he wasn't sure himself," Lucy says.

"A prophecy? That's some weird stuff," Mikey responds.

"However, Zoro said that he plans on meeting up with us in a few months. We still have the Kraken curse after all..." Lucy points at Mikey's hand.

"Yeah, good point..."