Skill Extraction

[Do you wish to accept the mission?]

'Yes!!' Toshiro said without hesitation. As this is in line with what he is thinking. He will definitely save Galley-la and foil the plans of ever-so-arrogant CP9.

'I am going to use their own skills on which they are proud of and change the situation. Though I won't be changing anything much from the canon as this is important for the character development of the straw hats, but it doesn't matter as long as the pot doesn't deviate much from what i know. Which will make me easier to cope up. As i don't even have a strength of vice admiral, I cannot go to the new world yet. But all these things comes will come later, I still have 3 months until Straw hats arrive by that time I should be ready. This will be my short term goal. I am sure CP9 won't make a move until then, as they need Robin to arrive and trigger the events.'

While he was thinking about this he arrived at Dock1. He got off the bull wagon and went inside without hesitation.

'It is the same as I have seen in the anime. It is really a sight to behold.'

As he was enchanted by the ship building factory and its machines, he started walking not paying much attention to the surroundings until he bumped into someone.

"Watch where you are going kid!!" A tall man with a beard in the shape of axe blade said, while carrying a large log. He has well defined muscles despite his age. His name is Tilestone, one of the five foreman of Galley-la company.

"Ah, Tilestone-san, sorry. I wasn't paying attention." Toshiro said as he bowed.

"Do you happen to see where is Paulie and Lucci?" he asked Tilestone politely.

"Hmm...I have seen Paulie going with his team to check out Client's ship, so he should be out. As for Lucci he should be in saw works Factory." Tilestone gruffed and answered, as he was rubbing his beard."What do you need Lucci for?" He asked Toshiro with one eye closed.

"I want to learn wood works and bolting from Lucci-San, I know he is the best among all in those fields." Toshiro answered.

"*ahem* You know, you can also come to me any time you want to learn right?" Tilestone asked with an embarrassed face.

Since Toshiro was adopted by Paulie to raise, Galley-la has been his family and every one sees Toshiro like their Son. Toshiro heart was warmed hearing what Tilestone said and answered-

"Sure thing Tilestone-san, once I have done learning from Lucci-San and Kaku-San, I will come to you to learn more." Toshiro waved his hand as he ran towards saw works factory in Dock-1.

"You better!! otherwise I will tell everyone that you have crush on the secretary Kalifa." Tilestone shouted loudly, as everyone watched at us with amusement.

'What!? yeah looks like the previous owner of this body is having a crush on Kalifa. If only he knew how dangerous that women is.....and what's with that old man saying that he would tell everyone..he just told everyone already. Idiot.' Toshiro muttered to himself.

After few minutes he arrived at saw works factory. It is a huge shed with some machines and large saw. I has a attached ware house where there are lot of logs which will be used for ship building. As he entered he saw a tall man with a hat and a pigeon that is wearing a tie on his shoulder, he was standing on the high platform and observing the workers as they are doing their work. He is incharge of this section as one of the Foreman of Galley-la before he betrayed Iceburg.

Toshiro walked up to Lucci and greeted, "Hi Lucci-San, Hi Hattori. Good morning!! Are you busy today?"

"Hey there kid! Good morning! Not much busy today. what do you want to do?" Hattori answered for Lucci. It is strage seeing how he could train a pegion to behave in such a way, even though i know that Lucci is the actual one who spoke and i can't even see his lips or throat moving. Seems like his ventriloquist skills are maxed out.

"Nothing much I was hoping that Lucci-san will accompany me today to teach me wood works and bolting." toshiro said with an enthusiastic expression.

Lucci looked at Toshiro and raised a brow, and then hattori spoke "Oh, you want to join my team in the future?"

'Yeah right, if i don't know that you are planning to make this place a hell in few months, even I would have been bought by your acting skills. Seriously, does the cipher pol have acting classes ?' Toshiro silently said to himself.

"I want to see if I am suitable for this field first and then decide. That's why I want you to teach me today and help me decide on where i should go in future." Toshiro said politely.

'Hmm, I guess even I could act well. Who knew I had it in me.' Toshiro praised himself.

"Alright, meet us at the back of the factory near the warehouse in one hour, we have lot of unwanted wood there, for practice." Hattori said as Lucci looked at me.

After getting confirmation from Lucci, Toshiro went to his regular work place in shed no-7 to get his tools. After some time he went back to the saw works factory. By the time he reached there he saw that Lucci was waiting for him.

"Sorry to keep you waiting Lucci-San" Toshiro said.

Lucci just nodded and trew a book towards Toshiro and pointed towards the page which was opened and gestered that he will teach that to Toshiro. Toshiro nodded and followed Lucci to the workbench, as Lucci started to arrange his tools, Toshiro spoke with Edith-

'Edith, how do I extract the skill from the target?'

[Host, Pls confirm the Target.]

"Target is Lucci."

[Target confirmed! Displaying skills available for extraction.]

As Edith said that, there is a screen floating in front of Toshiro displaying the list of skills of Lucci, this also includes Infiltration, ventriloquist, Assasination etc.,. After going through them Toshiro found what he needed.

'Edith, I want to extract the skill Soru.'

[Skill confirmed for extraction. 1 Card point consumed. No further skills can be extracted from the target in future. Time remaining until extraction- 59 minutes 40 seconds.]

Toshiro was excited internally, but he kept his composure calm so that he doesn't display this out side. However a small smile formed on his face, which went unnoticed by Lucci or Hattori.

'So it takes one hour to extract a skill from someone?'

[It depends on the skill.]

'Hmm' Toshiro nodded internally as he was looking at Lucci showing the wood works to him. Since he got nothing to do might as well pay attention to what is going on.