Chapter 289 : Fame

"Conqueror's Haki." Yuta had a big grin plastered on his face, reading his newest reward. Conqueror's is ever rare in this world; there are not even 20 named individuals in the vast cast of One Piece who have Conqueror. Not even the Marine Admirals have Conqueror.

Grinning while imagining how it would stack up when paired with King's Engine, he was dreaming about wiping armies effortlessly and saving a bucketload of time for himself.

And as most know, time is a big factor for him ever since he started his hero journey.

While he was in dreamland, everyone else had been frozen.

One moment, Kaido, the great flying dragon and Emperor of the Sea, was roaring in the sky—scary and untouchable—and the next moment… BOOM! He was sent flying to the deepest parts of the ocean.

All because of one punch.

One fucking punch...

Silence followed. Birds stopped chirping. The wind paused. Even Zunesha, the giant elephant, seemed to be contemplating something as he stood—for the first time in his 800 years of voyage, he stood still.

Then—pop!—everyone's eyes almost jumped out of their heads like a cartoon.

"DID HE JUST ONE-SHOT KAIDO?!" someone shouted, pointing at Yuta like he was a ghost.

Chopper's jaw dropped so hard it hit the ground. Even Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, the brave Dukes of the Mink Tribe, stared like their souls had left their bodies.

"B-B-But... Kaido is an Emperor!" Raizo stammered, shaking like a leaf. "You're not supposed to be able to even scratch him!"

"Just-just how strong is this guy..." Nami was all but paralysed in her place. She remembered meeting Yuta back in Alabasta; the bastard did something similar with Crocodile—one-shot knockdown.

She knew Yuta was strong, to even be able to take down a Warlord with one punch, but back then they had just started their journey. They didn't know any better about what real strength meant. Now though, that wasn't the case.

Nami knew that in the grand scheme of things, Crocodile wasn't really that strong. However, this was Kaido...

"How did he do it?"

Momonosuke just sat down on the spot, his mouth wide open like a fish gasping for air. "Is this even real...?"

After his earlier pent-up resentment towards getting his eardrums blasted due to the stupid elephant's voice was resolved by that very Loki-style outburst, his primitive kid brain with nothing but hentai thoughts finally caught up with what just happened.

Ace snorted. "Of course he did. That guy took on all three Admirals himself and almost sunk Marineford! And that was two years ago. Since then he's been training in Haki, and not to mention, Pops himself was training him. He got the same power as Pops. What did you expect? What did you think would happen?"

Far away from that place, a sole bird was flying and saw this scene. He followed Kaido after he made trouble with Whitebeard in the hope of getting some new scoop, and he got something alright.

"Big News, Big News. Boss needs to know, this would definitely land me a promotion." And unknown to Yuta himself, from that day on, Yuta got yet another fan club. Which of course he wasn't aware of. He didn't stay in one place long enough to know that he had a massive following, and not just limited to one world.

He was the second multiversal celebrity. As for the first... of course, it was Zoro.

In just a few days, those in the Mink Tribe created and held up banners: "Dynamic Afro = Sea God Confirmed!" All to his irritation. But that is still yet to come.

Maki might be the only person besides Ace who wasn't that surprised. If anything, she was relieved—relieved that Yuta was there. With him around, nothing seemed impossible.

"Sigh... that idiot." Maki shook her head with fond exasperation and concluded the topic at that. Another Yuta Hiro shenanigan.

From then on, the situation on Zou changed drastically. Straw Hats and the rest were almost treated as heroes, if not royalty in Zou. Especially Yuta.

After Kaido was punched out of Zou like a baseball, everything changed. While most in Zou thought that he was dead, going by the common conception about Devil Fruit users drowning in the sea, Yuta, Ace, and others who knew what kind of cockroach-like vitality Kaido had knew better.

❤"Garuchu"❤

The Mink Tribe loved strong warriors, and Yuta had done something that none of them thought was possible!

So fangirls were pretty obvious.

Especially the Mink Tribe girls.

Some were shy, coming up just to say hello. Others were very bold, touching his arm, stroking his hair, or even wrapping their tails around him.

Yuta, naturally, had mixed feelings. On one side, he was a healthy teenage boy—he liked girls. Who didn't?

But on the other side… these were furry girls. He had only seen these kinds of characters in anime, games, and strange corners of the internet. Yet now, here they were, walking and talking in real life.

He had fun—nothing too wild, of course. He mostly just liked petting their soft ears or brushing their tails.

"Dreams really do come true in this world, HUH..." Yuta had a massive grin which almost annoyed everyone who wasn't a girl at that time. Well, there were girls who were annoyed as well. But Yuta was too occupied to notice.

It was weirdly relaxing though, petting these furry girls. But when it came to anything more serious… well, he still preferred normal human girls.

Still, that didn't stop the Mink girls from trying.

Carrot would always sneak up behind him and poke him with her finger, giggling. Wanda sometimes "accidentally" leaned on him too much while talking. And to poor Chopper's horror, even Milky-the kind and gentle reindeer nurse—seemed to be very interested in Yuta.

"It should have been me...?" Chopper cried in the corner, drawing circles on the ground.

"There there. Don't worry, Chopper, our day will come." Momonosuke was right beside him.

"Where is that bastard Kaido? Bring him out. Forget one punch, a single antler, I'll whoop that bastard to Marie Joise." A fire seemed to light inside Chopper suddenly. Channelling his inner Sanji, he was ready to cook.

Another rumble ball, that is, which could help him get stronger.

"That little bastard was smiling like a king, clearly enjoying every moment of it." Nami narrowed her eyes.

"Does it bother you?" She glanced at Maki on the side.

"Brother me, huh..." She secretly glanced at the boy with a smirk appearing on her face.

"Nah... I'll WIN..."

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