One Piece: Chaos Kong Part 2

Chapter 225: Buster Call!

After dropping Scar off with Strawhats so he could be healed, I spent the rest of the day walking around the city, trying to find anything interesting, which unfortunately didn't happen, so after about an hour, I headed back toward Pandemonium. While doing so, I encountered a weird group called the Franky Family, but they were just a bunch of weaklings. After killing one of their members, they promptly scurried off, saying something along the lines that they were going to get their boss or whatever, but I couldn't care less.

Once I returned to Pandemonium, I took a short rest before spending time training like always, and since there was nothing of interest happening on Water Seven for more than a full day, that's all I did; I trained with Naga-sa and Nimbus, mainly improving my control over the two of them when they're fused, and I've made quite a lot of progress, at last, compared to when I first learned I could do it.

I didn't need to intensely focus if I wanted to control a Nimbus-infused Naga-sa like previously, but I still needed some focus; it wasn't second nature. However, the bigger or longer I made Naga-sa, the harder it got to precisely control; as of right now, if I were to ignore my fine control, then I could fully extend Naga-sa up to about ten or so kilometers, which is big, but realistically, when will I ever need a bo-staff that big?

As for the thickness, it can get to be about half as thick as Mony, which is quite impressive since he is a pretty big snake sea king, and for Naga-sa's ability to absorb water, well, that's obviously gotten stronger, and whenever I train in the bottom of the ocean, I always use it to make it even harder upon myself. All in all, I've been making steady improvements, something I couldn't be upset with, considering I usually spend roughly eighty percent of my day training.

"Still, It's not what I want; I don't want steady improvements; I want risky improvements; I want to fight someone powerful, someone too strong for me to defeat; only then will I truly start to improve." Muttered Diddy softly with a frown as he sat cross-legged atop Pandy's shell while Nimbus-infused Naga-sa rested across his legs.

Sighing at the lack of powerful opponents, I closed my eyes and faced the night sky; it wasn't a full moon, but even so, I could still vividly feel the power of my sulong coursing through my body, just waiting to be unleashed.

'Haa, we're leaving tomorrow. I don't care if Scar is fully healed or not.' Mused Diddy lightly as he allowed the gentle ocean breeze to brush across his golden brown lustrous fur, only for his nose to suddenly twitch, followed by him snapping his eyes open and looking forward.

Eyeing Water Seven in the distance, as ironic as it was given the layout of the island, I spotted a raging fire in the middle of the city, causing me to frown slightly.

"Hmm, that's weird; for a fire that big, I find that hard not to be purposefully caused." Muttered Diddy with furrowed brows as he narrowed his eyes, eyeing the Water Seven, only to spot four lone figures standing atop a building, watching the raging fire.

"Oh, it's those four, whatever, I don't really care." Said Diddy lightly with a raised eyebrow before shaking his head, closing it, and returning to his training.

Regarding those four, which consisted of Blueno, who Scar drew with, and three other people who have names, I just didn't bother remembering; Sebas had read their minds shortly after I told him about Scar's battle and said they were part of some secret world government organization called CP9. They're apparently looking for some powerful or ancient weapon called a pluton, something I don't really care about as I'm not the kind of person to rely on weapons; even without Nimbus and Naga-sa, I'm still just as strong. What makes me strong isn't my weapons but myself; I make myself strong.

Anyway, after that little fire incident, I returned to training, and about an hour later, I heard the familiar sound of an engine, which was quite shocking. Opening my eyes, I looked to my left and saw a long train ride across the tracks. Upon further inspection, I noticed tracks floating atop the water, which had lowered significantly in the past few hours. Tilting my head in confusion at the crazy difference in technology across this world, I just shook my head and ignored it, though that was until roughly thirty minutes later, another train happened to pass by, which I merely glanced at before ignoring.