"...You. Are you perhaps familiar with the name Hitogami?"
"..."
When Shun turned back, a tall, powerfully built man with piercing, sharp silver-white hair and intense golden eyes that strike primal fear into anyone was staring at him.
"Huh?" Shun asked back normally, but...
"!"
The man with piercing eyes, aka Orsted's eyes widened.
'...This guy also doesn't get affected by the curse. ...Is he one of them?' Orsted thought, remembering Nanahoshi and Rudeus' cases.
"W-Wait! Shun-san—" Rudeus tried to remind him, but...
"What if I do?" Shun already answered.
"!"
Whoosh-!
In a blink of an eye, Orsted disappeared from his position, striking towards Shun's chest.
POP-!
To his shock, his fist met a soft paw, and his body was sent flying from his own momentum.
Crash-!
"..."
Orsted's body finally stopped after hitting a nearby building and demolishing it.
While people familiar with Orsted were shocked, Shun had different thoughts.
'...Should I kill him and make him one of the Historia replicas? Last time I used the marriage as an excuse to see the five elders, so I could use Historia on them, but they didn't have history of fighting Ryuma like the rumors said.'
"Shun-san, that's the Dragon God Orsted!" Rudeus informed Shun.
POP-!
Shun ignored him and sent a pad cannon, which was significantly bigger than the last time he used it. It now destroyed everything 50m around it.
Orsted swiftly dodged the attack as he rolled to the side.
"Wait!!" Rudeus screamed, but...
ROAARR-!
Shun had already started with his motion of Acnologia's roar.
"Disturb Magic." Orsted chanted shortly.
"Huh?" The chaos magic that was gathering at Shun's mouth started to lose its shape.
"He can cancel others' magic!" Rudeus informed once again, but Shun didn't give up.
He kept gathering magic at his mouth even if it kept losing its shape.
"Increase the output hundred fold." Shun chanted the more more fruit.
"!"
'...Is there such a way to counter Disturb Magic?' Rudeus and Sylphie, who were the only other users of Disturb Magic, were shocked as Shun kept spamming, increasing the magic output every time until he finally fired Acnologia's roar.
ROAARR-!
Dragon's breath that was spelled pure chaos was fired at Orsted.
"Open, Front Wyrmgate." Orsted chanted another peculiar magic as Shun's attack entered the weird mirror-like space and disappeared.
"..."
'I know the two of us fighting will only make Hitogami happy, but... if he doesn't stop first, I'll kill him now.' Shun's thought as he was a bit bored lately
The city finally became silent as their little skirmish ended for now. Rudeus sighed in relief until... dark and blue patterns of scales appeared on Shun's body, on his cheek, and on both sides of his eyes.
"So... you are an apostle of Hitogami." Orsted spoke as he decided to get serious.
"...The one who calls others an apostle are usually the apostle themselves."
"..."
Shun's reply caught him off guard, but it was too late now.
In the blink of an eye, the two disappeared. As they were getting serious, the next skirmish wouldn't end lightly like earlier.
Right when the two were about to clash, a fearless figure appeared in the middle of their fists.
"WAIT!!!" Rudeus shouted desperately as he flinched but didn't fall to his knees.
Orsted and Shun both stopped right before their fists crushed his head.
"..."
"If you two fight, no matter who wins, only Hitogami will come out as the sole victor!" Rudeus' shout brought a moment of silence.
"...What does that mean?" Orsted broke the silence, while Shun's scales disappeared.
"Shun-san is searching to kill Hitogami. He already killed many of his apostles."
"!"
With Rudeus' explanation, things became awkward.
Leaving the two, Shun silently went and started fixing the poor city of Ranoa that almost got destroyed.
"T-Thank you very much!" The civilians who got their homes destroyed and fell into despair thanked Shun wholeheartedly.
Orsted heard Rudeus' story as he watched Shun fix the city with Arc of Time silently.
"Let's talk inside." Shun said and entered the house. Now that their misunderstanding was cleared, Shun knew Orsted wouldn't do anything dumb.
——
The people of Shun's house watched in fear as the guest this time was quite frightening. Even Ghislaine and Eris couldn't stop shaking.
Meanwhile, Lilia brought fresh grapes to Shun.
"Phew, I was worried that the world might get destroyed." Rudeus wiped his sweat.
Shun and Orsted sat silently until...
"...In my household, there is a rule that newcomers must catch grapes with their mouth."
"..."
'What is this guy saying now?' Rudeus began to get nervous again.
Orsted wasn't that stupid to believe him. But...
Shun suddenly threw three grapes to Ghislaine, which she caught with her mouth without fail despite her fear.
"See? Hands not allowed."
"..."
Then, under their surprised eyes, Shun threw a grape to Orsted.
"!"
Orsted's expression darkened as he caught the grape with his mouth and ate under their surprised eyes.
"...It's good." Orsted commented with his terrifying expression, at least for everyone except Shun and Rudeus, as they weren't residents of this world. They weren't affected by his curse.
"So... do you know how to find Hitogami?" Shun asked as he enjoyed the grape while occasionally feeding Orsted and Ghislaine.
"I do... but it's complicated."
"Huh? How complicated?"
"...I have to wait until Laplace reincarnates, then I have to kill him."
"..."
Shun had some hope, but it now shattered.
'I'll just leave Hitogami to this guy. They'll probably defeat him in the future.'
"I see."
The two fell silent, as Shun was just eating the grape while Orsted was just staring into the void.
"..."
'The two strongest people of this world... how are their personalities so different?' Rudeus sighed.
"Aisha, let's have lunch." Suddenly Shun spoke.
"Y-Yes!" Aisha and her assistant in cooking, Lilia, went to the kitchen.
Due to Shun's teaching, Aisha became a teacher in the kitchen for her own mother.
"But Laplace... will he even reincarnate in the near future?" Rudeus asked.
"...Around 80 years from now."
"!"
"W-What? I won't even be alive by that time!" Rudeus was shocked for obvious reasons.
"...Well, good luck in finding him. If you give me a call, I'll help you in 80 years." Shun spoke with his intention already clear. He was giving up on finding other ways.
"...What's your name?" Orsted asked with his deep voice.
"I'm Shun."
"...Are you like Nanahoshi?" Orsted asked. He wasn't too surprised now that there were two people already reincarnated in this timeline.
"No. I came to this world with my own magic."
"!"
"I wanted to avenge my friend by killing Hitogami, but... it seems difficult to find him." Shun sighed.
Orsted fell silent as Shun's story was actually more complicated than he expected.
Before long, Aisha and Lilia brought lunch enough for everyone. Due to the curse, most members ate in the yard.
"Do you want me to repel that annoying curse?" Shun asked as he was getting fed by trembling Aisha.
"...What do you mean by repel?" Orsted asked in surprise, but his widened eyes only made Aisha tremble more.
"You can just eat in the yard like everyone else." Shun told Aisha, but...
"N-No, I'm fine." Aisha said and fed another spoonful of food to Shun.
"Is that so? Om nom nom." Shun didn't want to waste her efforts.
"Shun-san is like a game admin. He can do pretty much whatever he wants." Rudeus offered a poor explanation.
"...Game?"
"..."
"Anyway, just trust him. He removed my mom's curse."
"...Zenith Greyrat has a curse?" Orsted kept finding out stuff he didn't know in this timeline.
"Well, just give me a word and some payment." Shun said and continued eating.
Orsted wouldn't trust a guy he met on the same day. He first had to see Zenith.
"...I think it's a funny curse to have, though." Shun said as he ate another spoonful from trembling Aisha.
"..."
Suddenly...
Creak-!
The door opened forcefully as some delinquent approached.
"Rudeus! Is the bastard home yet?"
"..."
It was Nanahoshi.
"...Why are you here again?"
"I came to take you back to my room again." Nanahoshi was weird with her words as usual.
"Why? Didn't our trade end with last time?"
"Nanahoshi, Shun-san is tired. I'll be the battery today." Rudeus spoke up, as he was the one being used when Shun was gone.
Suddenly, Lilia who had been taking care of Zenith came out of the room with a rare excited expression.
"Everyone! Zenith woke up!"
"!"
Hearing this, everyone even Orsted wanted to see her, if the curse was really gone.
But Orsted didn't want to scare the recently woken up Zenith, so he stayed behind with Shun and Nanahoshi.
"Orsted-san..."
"..."
Nanahoshi, now calm, noticed her first friend of this world.
"...Nanahoshi." Orsted nodded as a greeting.
Since the two seemed to be friends reuniting, Shun left them and entered Zenith's recovering room.
"Shun-san! Thank you very much..." Rudeus the scum was crying with gratitude.
Zenith was hugging her two daughters before turning to thank Shun as well. She had heard about everything in the past few days.
"I'm sorry about my husband. I heard about what he had done... but he isn't a bad person." Zenith explained.
"Mm, don't worry. I don't hold grudges." Shun nodded like a saint, but his words made those familiar with him nervous about Paul's fate.
"Come out, let's eat together." Shun said, and the attentive Aisha trembled but went out and prepared a new bowl of food for Zenith.
Soon enough, the group calmed down, allowing Zenith to come out only to... tremble and almost pee herself.
"Haha, that's a really funny curse." Shun laughed, making even Orsted awkward about how to feel. He was always hated wherever he went because of his curse, but to this guy it was... funny?
"...Please." Suddenly Orsted bowed his head, surprising everyone.
"Okay. Just give me some payment later. Some unique treasure will work." Shun said and used his paw to repel his curse of being hated.
"Oh? It's so big." Shun muttered at the pure black paw bubble that kept getting bigger.
"It'll be annoying to destroy it. It'll destroy the house. Let's get out."
Orsted nodded to the instructions as Shun was the expert in this field.
Outside the house, Shun and Orsted stood still as Orsted's curse kept getting bigger. Big enough to almost match the house they got from Shirone's king.
After a minute, it finally stopped growing.
"It'll be annoying to destroy it. Wait here." Shun said and disappeared with his warp.
After a few minutes, Shun returned with a black wolf that he found in a nearby forest.
Then, without explaining anything, he mercilessly threw the wolf into the paw bubble.
There wasn't any painful screams, as it wasn't a bubble like that. The wolf just fainted due to the shock.
"..."
Orsted was still silent. He could feel something changed but couldn't be too sure.
Suddenly Shun asked.
"Does this wolf seem scary or hateful?" Shun asked just to be sure that the curse had been given to the wolf.
"...Dragon Tribe members are immune to the curse." Orsted explained.
"I see." Shun muttered, then lifted the unconscious wolf and entered the house, making everyone scream with fear of the wolf.
"...It worked." Orsted was surprised. It felt unreal. He had lived with the curse for nearly 22,000 years.
"Don't forget the payment." Shun said and entered the house. Though it was cruel, he had used the poison dragon slayer's poison on the now most fearsome wolf to die silently.
When Orsted re-entered the house, no one was scared of him again.
Norn was even talking with him more than anyone else in the family.
'Was this girl a pervert with a fetish for older men?' Shun sighed at the Greyrat family perverts.
"Opposite of my curse, Hitogami has a blessing that makes everyone trust his words." Orsted was explaining the dangers of Hitogami.
"...So that's why those bastards were so sure of his words." Shun muttered as he was learning of this news today.
'...Did I go too harsh on them?' Shun remembered Luke and Aleksander Ryback, but...
"Well, it doesn't matter. They deserved it." Shun closed the topic.
The unusual group kept chatting about their daily lives or anything that happened before.
"We're going to marry!" Suddenly Rudeus broke the silence. Apparently, he was going to marry Eris, Roxy, and Sylphy.
To his shock, Zenith got up and started pinching his ear as she scolded him.
Once Rudeus got beaten up for a bit, this time Shun spoke up.
"Nanahoshi, you better give up on those pointless rituals."
"!"
Rudeus got nervous this time, as Nanahoshi was a bit extreme. She wouldn't care if it was Shun or Orsted, she might jump on them.
Before Nanahoshi could explode with anger, Shun spoke again.
"I did an investigation related to the teleportation disaster and found something."
"!"
"In simple words, someone with a curse or blessing has summoned people from another world, but due to some mistake, you and someone else were summoned in different years. That someone will arrive in the future. If you meet him, you'll be able to go home. If you don't, even if you succeeded in your rituals, the universe won't let you go home. You'll just come back. I don't know the exact details, but that's what I found out." Shun finally finished the long explanation.
"..."
'I don't remember the exact details, but it shouldn't be that far from the truth.'
"I don't care if you believe me or not. I just told you because I won't be around for some time."
"!!"
This time Shun's words shocked the family more, as they didn't really care about the truth behind the teleportation disaster anymore. It had already happened, there was no fixing it. They couldn't really blame Nanahoshi for being summoned.
"...Where are you going?" Rudeus asked. He was grateful that Shun didn't leak that Rudeus was a reincarnated individual too.
"I'm going on a trip to find myself."
"..."
'Are you having an existential crisis?' Rudeus thought, but when he thought about it...
'He might really be having it, due to the Magic God's death. He looked fine, but... was he struggling?'
"I'll travel to different worlds, and maybe I'll return once a month. If there's a problem, just give me a call." Shun said and placed a diamond key on the table.
Shun's words were too sudden as everyone fell silent. Even Orsted was feeling a bit awkward.
"Ever since the hydra incident, I was feeling a bit lost. I need some time."
"..."
No one could find a word at this moment as his past was too complicated from what they heard.
Suddenly, someone unexpected spoke.
"I'll go with you."
"..."
"Nanahoshi? What are you saying?" Rudeus asked in shock. He expected Aisha, but Nanahoshi wanted to follow?
"Were we that close?" Shun was surprised too.
"...I want time for myself too, away from this world."
"..."
"Are you sure you want to be alone with me in a different world?" Shun asked with a smirk, but Nanahoshi didn't back down.
"I am."
——
After a tearful night with the girls, Shun hopped into the One Piece world.
"Om nom nom." Shun was eating a steak of the hydra from the hydra incident in the Mushoku world.
"Um, why are we here?" Hibari asked as it was too hot here.
Shun with his two secretaries were dining in the crimson hell of Impel Down. Looking at the prisoners behind the cell, which were the slave trader nobles that were caught recently, but with them was a unique individual. His name was Luke Notos Greyrat.
Luke looked at Shun dining with hollow eyes. He had been suffering here for more than a month.
Shun didn't offer a talk. He just ate silently in front of them.
"Sir. Fleet Admiral. Why don't you dine at my office instead of this filthy place?" A large man resembling a demon offered with a flattering smile.
"It's fine. I'm already done."
"..."
"Keep up the good work." Shun said and left Magellan in confusion.
'...Why did he even come?'
——
Shun returned to his office. As usual, the two jobless old men were there to collect salaries without doing anything.
"...Is there anything interesting?" Shun asked.
"Nothing unusual. If anything, it's the fact that slave trading has dropped to less than 1% of what it had been half a year ago." Kalifa explained.
"Good. Did you find the whereabouts of the Germa family?" Shun asked because they were the only ones that didn't attend the wedding.
"Yes. According to Morgans, they are going to Big Mom's tea party... by the way, you were also invited to Big Mom's tea party."
"..."
"What will you do?" Hibari's question was a bit troublesome for Shun.
'I was planning to go to the New World, but I have to deal with the Germa family too...'
"We'll go now. Does the tea party invite have an eternal pose or vivre card?"
"It came with an eternal pose." Kalifa said before dropping a bomb.
"Actually, it's not a tea party invite."
"Huh?"
"She offered a wedding with you." Kalifa said, almost bursting out with laughter.
"Wedding? Which daughter?" Shun asked despite having no interest in any of Big Mom's daughters.
"...It's with Big Mom herself."
"Ha?" Shun asked in shock.
"The ones who will have a wedding is you and Big Mom. That's what the tea party invite is about. The invites had already been spread around the world. Even Morgans received one."
"..."
Shun fell silent at this nonsense.
"W-What?! How dare that old hag?!" Only Hibari cared to be angry, but...
"Pfft-!"
"Bwahahaha!" Sengoku and Garp couldn't hold back their laugh.
Soon even Kalifa joined them.
"..."
——
"Historia." Shun chanted suddenly, making the room fall silent in nervousness. His target was simple this time: Garp.
'Replicas that are too strong have a danger of going out of control, like when Shiki fought back against Neinhart. But if the replica accepts the summoner, it obeys every command, like the case with Acnologia. He called me a dragon king before he died, thus there wasn't any resistance, but... this time it might be a bit tricky.'
"!!"
Under Garp and Sengoku's shocked eyes, a figure got materialized out of pure magic power.
This new figure had a tall, muscular build and featured a demonic, intensely aggressive facial expression that strongly resembled the Sea Emperor that Shun had killed recently.
He had wild, unkempt, and unruly spiky hair colored in a sharp black and white two tone palette.
As for his facial features, he had a bulbous nose, a jagged grin with a full set of teeth, a thick neck, and a purple lightning bolt-shaped scar running down the left side of his face.
He wore a grand black feathery coat draped over his back, red wrist cuffs, and dark pants.
"R-Rocks...?!" Garp muttered in shock.
"How is this possible?"
"It's a new ability I stole." Shun didn't hide anything.
"Where am I?" The figure called Rocks D. Xebec spoke with confusion.
'...It talks? Well, it's not surprising. Acnologia just refuses to talk.'
"I created you with my devil fruit. You're a dead man."
"!"
Rocks looked at Shun, then smirked before releasing his Conqueror's Haki, shaking the entire Marineford in fear.
'Creating those with strong wills is going to be tricky like this every time?' Shun wondered before releasing his Haki. After a bit of struggle, Rocks' Haki was defeated.
"It's impressive that you put up a bit of a fight."
"..."
'After all, my Conqueror's Haki is a mashup of a bunch of monsters like Whitebeard, Red Count and Douglas Bullet added with mine.'
"Wear this mask." Shun threw him a fox mask as he was somewhat a famous pirate, at least among old people.
"We will go out." Shun said and walked out with Rocks, Kalifa, and Hibari, then flew directly to Whole Cake Island with a paw bubble.
Once he was defeated, Rocks totally became like a puppet.
——
'I'll create Shiki, Blackbeard, and Whitebeard in the future too. Then maybe Douglas Bullet and Red Count in the prison.'
Last time Shun stole their powers, he didn't bother killing them. But now that he had a magic called Historia of the Dead, he no longer even needed the admirals.
The Historia replicas had their emotions and memories intact. If Shun lost in the battle of Conqueror's Haki, it might've become troublesome.
"...What's the plan? Who even is this guy?" Kalifa asked.
"We'll kill the Germa Kingdom royal family, then kill Big Mom depending on her attitude."
"..."
"But... I feel bad for her." Suddenly Kalifa said, surprising the other two.
"Huh? Why?"
"She just wanted to be loved, but... her beloved one is planning to kill her."
"..."
——
"Three hours huh?" Despite the paw bubble's speed, it took some time to reach Whole Cake Island.
They didn't land immediately. Instead, they studied the island from above.
"...Why is there so much noise on this island?" Shun wondered before continuing with the flight around Big Mom's territory.
'Did Sanji get blackmailed into marrying Big Mom's son this time?'
Shun wanted to make fun of him, but he was somehow in the same boat as Sanji. No, his situation was worse.
——
When Shun and the others found the tea party location, it had already started.
"Today was the day of two weddings, first between Vinsmoke Sanji and Charlotte Pudding. Second wedding is… between Bigmom and Shun…" Kalifa explained as she covered her mouth so as not to make any mistake
Crash-!
With an obnoxious scream, Big Mom was throwing a tantrum.
"..."
'I was planning to let her go depending on her attitude, but... seeing her like this, I gotta kill her and make her a Historia.'
Seeing this sight, Kalifa and Hibari no longer had the courage to tease Shun, so they fell silent.
"...Is she actually throwing a tantrum because I didn't show up for this nonsense?" Shun was speechless.
"Are people coming out of the mirror?" Hibari asked in shock.
Ace and Luffy's crew with Law added came out of the mirror.
'...I don't know how this even happens, but it must be the butterfly effect of my actions. I was the one that killed Doffy, and Ace is alive, so they decided to beat Big Mom first?'
"Let's see what happens for now."
"Yes!" X2
Despite acting moody usually, in a time like this even Kalifa was obedient.
After observing for few minutes, Shun decided to join the chaos.
"You two stay here. I'll go talk to Germa 66 first."
Shun said and left the two and Rocks inside the paw bubble.
'...Those two are too weak for this chaos after all.'
Then he floated down without a noise and approached Germa family's table, where they had somehow ended up in a trap made of candy.
There was chaos on the whole island, but in the place where Shun was, only the Germa family and Big Mom's eldest son were present.
"Big Mom! You deceived us? Answer me!!" Sanji's father was crying at this moment, while being laughed at by his own sons and Perospero, who was Big Mom's eldest son.
Suddenly, the noise died at their table, as a chill ran down their spine.
"...Vinsmoke Judge."
"!!"
"...I sent an invite to my wedding, but you are attending a tea party of a pirate."
"W-What? Who are you..." Mid his confusion, Perospero realized who it was.
"T-T-T-THE DICTATOR?!!"
Perospero's big shout silenced the whole battlefield.
"Shun! So you came for our marriage!" Big Mom stopped her tantrum and looked at Shun's side.
"..."
Sanji's father stopped crying too, as he knew that he was in a much worse position now.
"Choosing to attend a pirate's party instead of my wedding means a betrayal. Am I right?" Shun conveniently ignored Big Mom.
"N-No! We were blackmailed and deceived! Listen to me!" Vinsmoke Judge explained desperately. He had heard about Shun's behavior of even attacking Celestial Dragons. Despite knowing that, he still chose to ally with Big Mom, but... they were deceived.
Suddenly Judge smiled as if he thought of a great idea.
"Listen! Let's work together and take down Big Mom!"
Shun didn't pay attention to his words as he imbued his tail with Haki, stretched it, and attacked towards Judge like a sword.
RIP-!
Thud-!
"!!!"
"AGHHHHHH—!!"
Judge's entire right arm got cut off and fell to the ground.
"Don't worry Germa 66. I'll cut off the corrupted part of your kingdom and help you reform."
"..."
RIP-!
Thud-!
This time his left arm fell off.
Judge's scream got even louder as he wanted to just roll down to the ground and cry, but his body was still trapped by Perospero's candy ability.
"..."
Reiju and her supposedly emotionless brothers fell speechless by this cruelty.
Suddenly, Shun turned to Reiju.
"Hey, who else were in cahoots with his corruption?"
"!"
Reiju knew what Shun's question meant. He was telling her to choose who else to kill.
Reiju looked at her brothers...
'They all deserve to die...' Reiju bit her lips, then replied.
"It was only his idea..."
"I see." Shun said and broke the candy trap, leaving only Judge trapped.
"Take a picture." Shun said and threw Reiju a camera.
"..."
Reiju stood awkwardly as she took the camera Dendenmushi.
"The next headline will be... Corrupted king colluding with a pirate is executed on the spot."
"W-Wait!!!" Judge begged despite the pain.
"Roar of Acnologia." Shun chanted as dark chaos magic gathered in his mouth and blasted at Sanji's father.
"..."
It was the same scene as Atofe and Moore. Not even blood remained from Judge.
——
Shun looked at the two groups of pirates fighting, which were Big Mom vs the Ace, Luffy, and Law alliance.
'...So Sabo already went back to his own group.'
Then Shun turned to the Vinsmoke group.
"This is your last chance. If you mess up again, next that blast will be aimed at your kingdom."
"..."
"From now on, you are the queen of Germa 66." Shun spoke to Reiju as he took back the camera.
Finally done with his little political game, Shun turned to the pirates.
"So... do you guys need help?" Shun asked, but...
"Maama mamma~ , that'll be great!" Big Mom smiled with delight.
"..."