As soon as I finished my words, I heard the sound of a sharp object cutting through the air inching close to my head, and a small foot coming toward my face with great velocity.

If the situation wasn't already bad enough it got even worse as I heard sounds of footsteps coming from back and front as well.

Realizing the precarious situation my brain went on an overdrive thinking of all the possibilities that can help me get away harm free. After a quick brainstorm, I reached a plausible defensive action.

Shutting my eyes close and putting away all useless thoughts, I started directing all my attention to my other senses. After all, since founding this was the One Piece world, I already started practicing toward obtaining the Rokushiki and Haki by myself.

That's why even though I have yet to be able to master observation haki. But living my everyday life while blindfolded, helped greatly in honing my other senses including the sixth sense which I think might be the precursor for The color of observation haki.

So after going into the Zene-like state I started noticing the minute details like the speed of the wind, the trajectory of the knife, the weight behind those footsteps, etc...

Taking all those into consideration I made up my mind on what to do next.

Letting go of Bao's horns I let her kick me in the face while jumping backward, thus dodging the knife coming from the top. Then I placed my hands around my head putting up a defensive posture.

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What? These bastards actually ran away? They tricked me, damn it. I should have known by their light footsteps that their reinforcement was also children like Bao and the knife-throwing girl.

Putting these thoughts away I pick out one of the directions, running after a black-haired little girl.

After some time of me running after her. We got into a rather wide street with tons of shady-looking people and dodgy buildings in it. After getting distracted by the peculiarity of the street and its building I realized I've lost track of the black-haired girl.

After a few minutes of me scouting around, I realized that I was attracting some rather unsavory attention which is not a good thing in these sorts of palaces.

So I decided to cut short on my losses and get back to the mansion in the Onies' town and get some help from Mom as well.

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Also, I've got some questions to ask her as well. Since technically Mom is the one responsible for ruling the whole island. Except for Prosopon town which is ruled by Father.

While walking away from the market town, one odd-looking building attracted my attention. The said building was an open bar, but what made it particularly eye-catching aspects was its name and the signboard on it.

The name was Mary's family bar and the sign was poorly drawn open eye. Adding to the prior debacle that I just had with Bao Huang, several other young girls confirmed my speculation that the Marys that will be working for Kaido in the future are actually from our territory.

Seeing that time was approaching midnight. Taking into mind the lawless and tense situation of the market town, I decided to hurry back to the boring and disappointing haven which was the Oni town.

As I was getting away from the market town and running back, I noticed that the left behind the town was getting nosier and livelier as I left. Feeling more in danger I ran way even faster.

While on the way back, my back was full of sweat as I was thinking back on my experiences today realizing that I almost died at the hands of some little girls.

What would have happened if they were stronger adults instead?

In the first palace, what was mom thinking sending me away alone and with no warnings? and Come to think of it she was acting weird the whole way here?

What is her important business?

Why did she even accept my request of coming here despite denying me for a year?

As I was in deep thought I couldn't pay any attention to this otherwise beautiful starry night. Approaching closer to the town, I slowed down as I was feeling safer and more comfortable, But what I saw next slapped me out of my thoughts and sense of comfort, sending shivers down my spine.

Figures of 2 huge men could be seen, one silent and the other apparently threatening and scolding the guards at the gate.

The silent man was towering at 613 cm tall, with a well-muscled, broad-shouldered frame and long limbs. But the most notable feature on him was a plume of fire constantly rising from King's upper back, owing to his heritage as a Lunarian.

The other one had a large and muscular tan-skinned man with long black hair and a large black beard. Standing at 4 meters tall, Babanuki was shouting and threatening the poor guards.

What are they even doing here? Are they here for Bao Huang? No, that can't be the reason, she is a small child right now, and most likely one of the orphans doing shady stuff in the market town.

Feeling stressed again I started circling around myself.

What should I even do?

Is mom still in town or rather is she all right now?

Should I even go back to town? King could probably destroy the whole town by himself.

I don't know when but as I was circling around myself, I noticed King turning back and looking toward me. Seeing that he had already noticed me it would be too suspicious to run away now.

At that moment I made up my mind to just act normal and go inside as if there wasn't a future Yonko commander staring at me but Chinese cabbage.

Then Putting up my most innocent-looking face I walked toward the gate.

However, I don't know why but as I was getting closer to the pair of beast pirates, my nerves started messing around with me. First, I started shaking in my knees, then my hands, and even when passing by king my whole face was scrunching and sweating.

Seeing that I was involuntary breathing very suspiciously {SUS}, attracting his scrutinizing look. I instantly changed my mind and tried yelling excitedly:

"Are you by any chance King san from the beast pirates? I am a huge fan of yours and Kaido sama."

Hearing this King put on a strange expression.

Seeing King's expression I knew I messed up, which made my sweating problem even worse.

Who the heck would get excited by pirates? At least a normal civilian wouldn't.