Chapter 13

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Ronin nor the Captain said another word, finally making it to the Navy Base and updating Ronin's file, and bringing his reward money for the pirates and the ships. Thanks to those idiotic pirates, Ronin was now rich multiple times over. He had more than enough money to build the ship he wanted, but he was also playing with the the idea of building a base for him and his crew.

They weren't pirates, so they didn't have to live their lives constantly on the sea, always on the run from the Marines. Ronin dreamed of building a hidden village like in Naruto, but decided he'd find the perfect island first, which is the reason he bought those blank log poses back on Baterilla. If he had a hidden base, Ronin didn't have to worry about anyone knowing his true strength and will be able to train a whole army in peace.

Anyway, putting those thoughts on the back burner, Ronin opened a seal and pulled out a new outfit that covered his whole body and used a transformation Jutsu to turn his outfit white. As much as he hated it, Ronin needed to be on this island for a little bit longer and didn't want any more trouble while he was here.

Feeling like he needed a much deserved drink, Ronin walked the streets until he found a tavern called, The Ivory Tap, and headed inside, only to be met with a ruckus. Just like the outside, the inside was nothing but white, or at least it would've been if it hadn't for pieces of food messily strown everywhere. In the middle of the room was a teenage girl with pink hair, red lipstick shaped like a heart in the middle of her lush lip, and a mint green hat shaped like a flower petal.

She had very short orange and black shorts with black suspenders that led to a white tank top that showed off her curvy, petite, athletic frame and a generous amount of cleavage. She wore a black jacket, though it only came to her mid-riff. And finally she had floral thigh-high socks with frills that ended in long leather brown boots. All in all, she was a smoking hot beauty that would leave any man bricked up, but the ton of food covering her face as she stuffed her face broke Ronin from his trance.

"Where's my next order, can't you see I'm starving here?!" the girl asked loudly with her mouth full of food.

'How can such a sexy girl be such a greedy glutton? And damn, her weird lipstick is irritating.' Ronin thought to himself as he sat at the bar and signaled to the stressed out bartender that he'd like a drink. After he got his glass mug full of frothy white ale, he sat at a corner of the room and continued to watch the chaos erupting around the girl.

After a while, Devon sat next to him with his own mug of ale and proceeded to watch the girl with Ronin. "That girl is sexy as hell, but I feel she'd eat any man who courted her out of house and home." Devon joked as he clinked mugs with Ronin.

"Yeah, you might be right there. But if she's as good in bed as she looks to be, it just might be worth it. Just look at the way she cleans off her bones. Hell, I'm starting to feel a little jealous!" Ronin said as him and Devon laughed, but he stopped the next second as a cold chill ran through his body. Looking around quickly, Ronin saw the pink haired girl eyeing him out of the side of her eye, before she refocused on her food.

'Damn, how the hell did she hear me? And what the hell is up with this sense of danger she gave off?' Ronin thought to himself before he refocused on Devon.

"Anyway, did you find out the information we need? I know it's risky, but I won't feel right leaving this island unless that bitch is handled." Ronin said with hate in his voice. Ronin wasn't a bleeding heart that would go out of his way to save everyone, but even he had his limits, and this St. Karen has crossed over it multiple times over.

"Yeah, it turns out, this island is way more fucked up than that Captain was letting on, as even he isn't completely clean. There's a reason he's the one running the Navy base here." Devon said, and then went on to report everything he found out. It turns out that St. Karen doesn't live on the island and treats it more like a summer vacation spot. Each year she chooses 10 Beasts, which is what they call the people they trapped in the Filthy Forest, and uses them as entertainment during her stay. She didn't care whether they were they man, woman, child or old.

She did all sorts of demented shit from rape, physical and phycological torture, and even flaying them and hanging them on display for the whole island to see, which worked as a warning to all who dared to oppose her. Some rumors claim that she even eats their flesh occasionally, but this had yet to be proven.

Hearing all of this, Ronin wanted nothing more than to enact every horror and more on this St.Karen, but she was currently not on the island,and their wasn't any way to tell if she come back sooner or not. As much as Ronin wanted to kill her, he couldn't just hold up their journey and stay there for who knows how long, especially that island full of such hate and bigotry.

As Ronin and Devon ate the food that they ordered, they were completely stunned by how well it tasted. None of them on the ship were particularly bad cooks, with Meli being the best, but they definitely weren't chefs. So, to taste such a delicious meal after so long, reminded Ronin that he still needed to fill some pretty important roles on his ship, and cook and medic were of the top priority.

"Hmm, maybe we can see if whoever made this meal is willing to join our crew? This food is delicious." Ronin said as he finished the last of his meal.

"I definitely wouldn't mind that, but they may not want to go. We may not be pirates, but a life at sea, and especially being apart of a dangerous Bounty Hunter crew may not appeal to everyone. But, since we get a nice bonus with our last catch, a cash incentive might not hurt." said Devon as he too finished his meal, eyeing his empty plate with slight disappointment that the amazing food was gone.

"Then before we leave the island, we'll try to recruit whoever it is that made this. In the meantime, I want to look around and see if there is a weapons shop on this Island. Now that I'm getting closer to completing my new combat style, I feel that my old, worn out shuriken and kunai just aren't suitable for prolonged hand to hand combat." said Ronin as he eyed his dulled shuriken and kunai. He just couldn't imagine how to shinobi have such long heated battles with little blades that should only be used for throwing.

"Sounds like a good idea. I was also thinking of getting- uh oh. It looks like that pink haired girl is about to cause a commotion. We better pay and leave before we get caught up in her troubles." Devon said, wise as always, as he wiped his mouth clean and stood to leave.

But before they could leave, all of the attention in the tavern was now on the pink haired girl in the middle of the room and a sweaty, short, balding man who looked to be the owner of this establishment. " Um, excuse me miss... Bonney, was it? I am sorry to say this, but it seems you have hit the limits of your tab, and it is now time to pay. The total amount of your tab is $1,250,000 belli. How would you like to pay?" asked the owner in a shaky voice as he nervously rubbed his hands.

"Over a million belli?!" the other patrons shouted in surprise az they heard this amount. But, while their eyes were popping out of their heads, Ronin wore a frown instead.

Ronin could tell by the pink haired girl, Bonney's, nervous and agitated expression, that she definitely didn't have the money to pay that off, and she also didn't look like the type to wash dishes for most of her life to pay it off either. For some reason, Ronin felt a strange sense of deja-vu watching this scene, and felt an odd obligation to help her. Shaking the strange thoughts from his head, Ronin continued watching with renewed interest, something that hadn't gone unnoticed by Devon.

"Eh!?! That much?! Hey look," Bonney said slightly quieter so that only the owner could hear her, but Ronin and Devon could hear them perfectly. "I don't have that much on me right now, but is there some place we can go to work this out between just me and you?" Bonney asked seductively, but the nervousness was clear in her voice. That coupled with the gross, perverted smile that grew on the owners face was all that Ronin could stand to watch.

Letting out a heavy sigh, knowing that he was only causing another headache for himself, Ronin walked towards the center of the room until he stood before Bonney and the Owner. When he saw Ronin approaching, instead of fear like normal, the owner wore an unhidden annoyed expression.

"Excuse me my precious patron, I am truly grateful for your business, but me and this young lady must head into the back to discuss payment." said the owner as he roughly grabbed Bonney's hands, standing her up, as Bonney looked to be doing her best to hide her emotions inside.

"That's what I'm here for. I'm sorry to say, but you'll have to take advantage of a different young lady, as I'll be paying her tab, all of it." Ronin said, as he dropped a large sack of gold on top of the owners head, and crossed his arms over his broad chest as he watched the owner wince in pain.

The entire tavern was stunned at the scene, as none of them has ever seen anything like this before. Nobody in their right mind, even the richest perverts, would pay over one million belli for a girl, even if he just wanted to have sex with them, as he could literally buy an army of sex slaves for the amount he just paid as if it was nothing. But nobody was more shocked than Bonney.

She had just left the island she's lived at her whole life in order to gain the strength to get revenge for what her family had went through, and had nothing to her name except the small dinghy she used to sail around and a few coins for food and necessities, but she didn't plan on the food costing so much. Or for the world to be so messed up and cold.

Bonney had been through many hardships already in her short journey, and was quickly becoming more and more jaded and untrusting. Little did she know, Ronin had just changed her fate in a major way, as in the original timeline, Bonney sleeps with the owner multiple times in order to pay off her ever increasing debt, only for her to get labeled as a criminal, when the owner still charged her for the full amount of her tab, and Bonney kills him out of anger.

"H-hey you, giant! I don't have the money to pay you back and I'm not some whore that would just sleep with you as payment!" Bonney yelled as she tried to seem tough.

Ronin decided not to remind her she was literally about to sleep with the owner for the same reason and let out another sigh. "Don't you worry, I'm not some pathetic pervert that has to take advantage of young girls just to have sex. You're free now. There was plenty of money in that pouch, so eat more or leave, it's not my business anyway. Just be safe, Little Rose." Ronin said as he turned to leave, lazily waving behind him, only to be grabbed and spun around to face a distraught Bonney.

"Who sent you?! Who told you to call me that?! Tell me why you called me, Little Rose!" Bonney yelled, but it almost sounded like pleading. Bonney was such an emotional wreck, she didn't even notice the blade of Devon's scythe held against her neck. The atmosphere in the room grew incredibly intense room the random turn of events. Seeing the blade, Ronin shook his head slightly, and Devon stood down, pulling the scythe away from her neck without her ever realizing she was in danger.

Ronin was confused as well, because he wasn't sure why he called her Little Rose, as it had just came out naturally. "I'm a Bounty Hunter, and no one sent me or told me to say anything as I follow nobodies orders. Little Rose just came out subconsciously, but between your pink hair and petal hat, you do remind me of a rose." Ronin said as he shook herself free from Bonney's surprisingly strong grip and straightened his clothes.

Bonney stood there stunned, as tears pulled in her eyes. "The only person to call me that was my childhood friend who died in a shipwreck a little over two years ago. My friend, Warren, said the same exact thing you just did when we were kids!" Bonney said, the tears now pouring down her face, but it was her words that truly stunned Ronin.

'There's no fucking way... God said that I lived a full life before I woke up on that damned island, but there is no way that it is a coincidence that I meet this girl here that I knew before I reincarnated. God said he wanted to be entertained, but this is too much...'