Drinking

Inside the restaurant, Ryo walk towards the drunkard ignoring his food and said, "Old man, I heard that you were quite powerful. You've been invited by the marines but you refused them"

The drunkard look up at Ryo who was standing with a wide grin on his face. After he finished drinking his beer, he said, "Why is a little brat like you cared for what this brother did. This brother just want to drink his beer all day and didn't care for anything else"

Taking a sit Ryo said, "You must really love drinking that much that you will even refused such an interesting offer. Why don't we make a bet? Lets make a drinking contest that whoever loses must listen to the request of the winner"

"Huh? What the f*ck are you saying? Why the heck would I agreed to your request? When there is nothing that I could gain from it" the man continues to drink while his face were already bright red.

Ryo leans forward and whispered, "Earlier, I went to the marine base to exchange a bounty of the pirate I just killed. The pirate had an 7 million berries as his bounty. If you win against me these 7 million berries would all be given to you. Just imagine that, how many barrels and bottles of beer you could drink with that money"

He deliberately lies about the amount of bounty he get from the marines.

The man chokes when he heard that Ryo had an 7 million berries with him. He look at him trying to see if the young man had any sign of tricking him. When he noticed that he was telling the truth the man turned silent thinking of it. That huge amount could help him in his buying much more delicious beers which he didn't dare to buy as his budget was quite low.

Seeing the continuing changes in the expression of the man, Ryo was sure that he was tempted. "How about it, did you already think of it?"

Seriously looking at Ryo, the man suddenly burst into a loud laughter gaining the attention of people around them. He then said, "Alright, I agree in competing against you. But not today, tomorrow at the same time we would compete. Young man don't you dare to play trick against me, if not you will not have a good ending here"

"Of course I won't do such a thing" inside Ryo's mind, he thought that this man will be a good crew for his pirate group.

After the two discuss for several minutes, Ryo went out to find a place to stay in. Excited for tomorrow as he would have his first crew,

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When the time for the two to compete, the whole restaurant were full. As the man was a known drunkard in the area, many people wanted to know who challenges his. Its like that they are accustomed to this thing happening here.

"Why are there so many people here?" Ryo who arrived asked.

"This is normal, when the drunkard went home yesterday. He had been telling everybody he meets that someone challenges him and that there would be a competition today" a man answered when he heard Ryo asked. The man stare at Ryo as he didn't recognized him here. "Wait, he said that it was a young man who isn't from the area. Don't tell me that young man is you?"

"You're right, I'm not from here and also the one who issued the challenge" Ryo confirmed.

As he walks forward, Ryo saw that the man was already sitting in the same spot as yesterday and there were several bottles of beer at the table. "Seems like someone was excited to drink today. My name is Ryo, what should I call you?"

"You can just call me Drun" after the two introduces their names and shook hands, the drinking competition between them started.

As the minutes gone by and turned into hour, there was now a cloud of redness in Drun's face. After drinking so many bottles, his thinking was now slightly affected by it and he was now slightly intoxicated. He even started to tell stories about his life which amused Ryo who wasn't affected by the alcohol.

The reason for this is the system, the system was automatically helping him removing the effect of the alcohol. With this cheat, he was sure to win this. It was just like he was drinking a flavored water.

"F*ck! How is it that it has no effect on you. You make this alcohol as water" Drun cursed as he continuously watch Ryo who drinks alcohol as water. There isn't any sign of him getting drunk. He looks just as fine when he arrived earlier.

At this moment, Drun knew that the 7 million berries is harder to get than he thought. Putting that aside, he might even lose and would be forced to listen to the condition to this brat.

Thud!

At the end someone between the two finally fall down, and it was the known drunkard Drun who loss this time. To everyone watching, this is a complete shock for them. This is the first time they saw Drun drink himself until he losses his consciousness.

"Ahhh! Looks like I won this time" although the alcohol has no effect to him. But his stomach felt that it was about to explode because of how many bottles he had drink this time. Kneeling to the ground, Ryo slaps the fainted man and said, "Oi, oi oi! Don't just sleep here, we still need to talk about something"

Getting slapped in the face, Drun recovered a bit of his consciousness and said, "What is it? Since I've lost I will stand by my words and agree to whatever your request is. Just let me sleep for a while"

'F*ck! How is it that this man looks like a chameleon with his eyes looking at different directions' Ryo said to himself when he saw Drun's eyes when it opened. "Then its decided, you said it yourself that you will agree to whatever request I have. There is also many people as witness here, I will visit you again tomorrow and talk about it"

With great difficulty in moving, Ryo walks out of the restaurant while holding his stomach full.