Just My Luck Chapter 04 (Patreon)

The sun was shone brightly, the faraway sound of the sea creating a beautiful symphony. Regardless of the beauty of nature the land has turned into hell.

Trees have turned to ash, rocks have melted, and the ground has dried up due to the heat. The heat haze makes it difficult to see but in the centre of this hell, a boy is seated legs crossed in a meditative position. His body is glistening due to sweat due to his immense concentration rather than the heat. The scar on his left eye is burning with intense kaleidoscopic flames.

Yup. It is I, the one who shall bring the gods to their knees, the one who shall make them learn what fear is, Arashi himejima!!

“Hmmm. I don’t think my name is menacing enough.” my concentration broke and with it the heat died down.

“Dammit! I need much more training if I want to do what Natsu did after his one-year training.” I sighed. I guess I won’t be melting buildings and clothes anytime soon.

There are so many things I need to do. If I go about like this, I would need decades for my revenge.

It’s been six months since Artoria was summoned, not a lot changed except for the fact that Emiya and Artoria keep giving me diabetes. Seriously it’s like watching two awkward teenagers who just entered puberty discover about the opposite sex.

I guess Emiya’s Harem protagonist EX doesn’t help in these kinds of matters.

Also, I finally mastered soru and rankyaku. My body has also improved a lot, I’m no longer scrawny. Seriously I have abs!

While my improvement over my physique and devil fruit has been amazing the same cannot be said to my skill in the sword. My sword skill according to Artoria is so “pathetic that I would lose to a squire.” Which is honestly disheartening. Archer did tell me to try to use a shorter sword like a tanto or katana but the Ōdachi is so much cooler.

Speaking of swords, I need to find myself a supreme grade sword. Hopefully there are Ōdachi within that rank.

Woosh. Swoosh.

I saw Emiya and Artoria appear Infront of me. they look normal except for the fact that both have slight blushes on their faces and are touching each other’s hands. See teenagers.

“We got company. Pirates. two ships.” Emiya told me though he didn’t seem worried that means they must not be a big deal.

“Okay?” I asked confused. What does he want me to do.

“We were thinking of letting you fight them to build up some experience while also being safe.” Artoria answered.

“that’s nice and all. But they are east blue pirates, and I’m someone who ate a mythical devil fruit and can use two of the six powers. They will be too easy.”

“Yes. that’s why you won’t use them. No devil fruits, no soru, no rankyaku and no special abilities.”

“Why bother? When I could just simply burn them to a crisp.”

“I see…I didn’t know you were so in touch with your feminine side, Arashi.”

Did he just call me a pussy? I know his trying to get me mad so I would accept.

“that’s not going to work. Insults of that level don’t even phase me.”

“Insult? Why, I would never. I was merely stating an observation.”

“Which is?”

“That you cannot defeat a couple “east blue pirates” without your devil fruit or other special abilities”

Why this asshole!? Seeing thee smirk in his face I knew he was just trying to piss me off so that I would fight them and I’m pissed off more due to the fact that its working.

“I can.”

“Prove it.”

“Fine.”

“What just transpired?” Artoria muttered confused.

I didn’t care. I stomped my way towards those bastards. I’ll show him.

“They are coming from the opposite direction.” I felt my face heat up in embarrassment so I used soru to quickly go.

Using a few dozen sorus I arrived at the beach. I squint my eyes to see that there are two ships coming towards here.

“it’ll take around 15 minutes or so for them to arrive.” Emiya appeared beside me.

“Are you ready? Are you full? I could have Shirou cook something quickly if you are hungry.”

“Please. I can take them with my eyes closed.”  I summoned my blade from my inventory. Since I can’t use my devil fruit, or even my minus ill show these frogs the world beyond the well. I reached down to remove my power anklets but Emiya stopped me.

“Since you can defeat them with your eyes closed, how about we give them a handicap?” Emiya asked me his eyes shining with amusement.

Does he think ill lose? Maybe if we were in the grand line but here there’s no way.

“Sure. I don’t need to remove them anyway.” I walked forward. Like hell I’m going to lose to them. The only pirates from the east blue who were good were the roger and straw hats pirates. And theses suicidal idiots are not them.

Walking, I stopped at the shore. Standing straight with my sheathed Ōdachi on my shoulder.

Breathe in. breathe out.

I forgot that I was exhausted while training my devil fruit. So, I tried recovering some of my energy while waiting for them. Cause if I lost to them while I talked big, Emiya won’t let me hear the end of it.

So, I wait.

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Finally. I just realized how slow boats were. Getting a closer look on the two ships, the first thing I saw was their pirate flag, one of them had black skull with a single white eye and the other had a white skull with a single black eye.

“that’s kinda creative…” I murmured to myself. The shops finally reached the shore and stopped. They anchored the ship.

A woman with white hair came from white ship, she stood atop the figure head and a woman with black hair stood atop the black ship.

“what’s a pretty boy like you doing in a jungle like this?” the one with the black hair said.

“Fucking your mother.” I replied with a grin.

“Why you?” the one with the white hair shouted in anger. “I want him begging for mercy.”

“Aye aye captain Ying.” The pirates from the white ship jumped one by one.

A six-foot tall man walked closer to me while the others waited and watched probably thinking that I would lose and get beaten up.

“You should have kept your mouth shut boy.” The six-foot tall man sneered.

“Funny. I told your mother the same thing.” The guy’s face went red in anger and rushed towards me swinging his axe while the rest of his friends just watched.

I sidestepped it and swung my sheathed Ōdachi towards his family jewels.

“AAAAAEEEEEEEEEIIIIEEEIEIEIEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!” the guy screamed in pain and I saw all the men cross their legs.

The 40 something henchman looked stunned.

“Is that all you got? Come at me all of you.” I cockily smirked them.

“Get down, I want his smirk wiped off his face.” The other one said. Thus, her crew also jumped down. But I didn’t wait for them to come at me, instead I went towards them.

Unsheathing my sword in one quick motion, and throwing away the sheath I rushed towards them.

The first one was surprised, so I swung my sword towards his neck. His head flew and his body dropped.

The ones closer to me rushed at me while screaming profanities. I easily evaded their charge by weaving through them I plunged my blade through his chest and kicked another person in the balls.

Pulling out my sword I defended from the axe aiming to cut me in half. I pushed him back and once again kicked him in the balls, he clutched it in pain, to which I cut off his neck.

I easily dealt with them. Clashing blades, kicking them in the nuts, throwing sand in their eyes. I used every dirty tactic I could.

“Lesson one: the winners are always right. Use whatever means to win.” Emiya lectured.

Honor! I don’t care. These tactics may not work at the big leagues but for now, they will get the job done.

I roundhouse kicked a man and slashed another with my blade. I got into the flow of the battle.

Disregarding the fact that I ate a mythical devil fruit, or have a minus which could reopen people’s wounds, I’m still a half-fallen angel, I may not be able to utilize light or even holy lightning, but my base physique is still superior to normal humans. So, these pirates from the east blue are far too weak to fight against me.

“BANG!” “BANG!”

Two beams pierced both my legs. I gritted my teeth in pain.

Turning back, I realized that the one who attacked me was the black-haired sister.

“Looks like you more than just pretty face. Cutie~” she sang. Looking closely, I saw he hand mimicking a gun. Did she eat devil fruit?

“Let’s kill him sister. He is far too dangerous to capture.” The white haired one cautioned.

Wait till I heal from this- why am I not healing? I looked down on my leg, and saw that the wound was not closing. There was slight resistance that made it difficult for my normal passive regen. I could easily heal it if I used my passive flame regen. But Emiya told me I can’t. And I accepted. Fuck me and my big mouth.

I’m gonna kill them. Gripping my sword tightly I rushed toward the white-haired chick. My injury easily ignored, something like this won’t even make me grit my teeth.

I swung my blade at her, but it was easily defended by a white barrier.

The fuck. She also ate a devil fruit? Aren’t devil fruits supposed to be incredibly rare in the east blue? How can two people have eaten them?

“Surprised? We both ate a legendary devil fruit. We ate the ying-yang fruit. Yayayaya. Now do you understand your error? Beg me and we won’t kill you.” The black haired one answered my thoughts.

Ying-yang? Is that the reason why they have white and black hair? And how the fuck can two people eat one devil fruit? Do they know of a way for two people to share a single devil fruit.

“Anyway…” the black haired one once again mimicked her hands into a gun, black light appeared on her index finger. “You need to be punished for killing our minions.” Bullets made of black light shot me. I evaded them by flipping back.

“Stay still little rat!” she kept firing while I was forced to evade them. Seeing a slight opening I rushed towards the black haired one. The moment my sword was swung it came into contact with a white barrier.

The hell!? Straightening her finger into a knife hand which was coated in black light, she swung it at me. taking a step back I evaded it.

Fuck? I’m getting too tired? Why the hell am I tired. I should have much more stamina than this. Was it her? Can her black energy sap away stamina?

I can’t injure any of them. Maybe I should just keep attacking and the barrier would break.

I rushed towards the white haired one, while the other one kept firing black energy. I jumped over her and put her between me and her sister.

“Using my sister as a shield ha!” the black one laughed. “Give up. You cannot win. If you become part of our crew, we won’t kill ya.” The white one said.

Pretty arrogant for east blue pirates. But then again, I can’t even touch them in my base form. But I didn’t care. I dropped my sword and used my hands to hit her. She sighed and white barrier defended against her. I kept hitting the barrier repeatedly. Her barriers are not unbreakable. So, I should be able to shatter it if I kept at it long enough.

Crack. I felt the barrier crack under my barrage of punches.

“Impressive. But useless.” The cracks easily healed, but I didn’t stop, as someone who ate a devil fruit, I know that using your powers take a lot of energy, healing it also depletes additional energy. So, I if strike enough times she should-

Why am I tired? I stopped punching, realizing that I was far too tired than I should be.

“Finally realized it? My barriers drain the stamina of whoever touches them. And you like a single-minded brute kept hitting it over and over. It’s a miracle that you didn’t fall unconscious with all that.”

“yayayayaya! Looks like he gave up” the black haired one walked closer.

I dropped to one knee, disoriented with the sudden exhaustion.

“What are we going to do him sister?”

“Let’s lock him up. A few days without food and water should be able to tame him.”

“And if it doesn’t?”

“Some pain can easily fix it.”

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These fuckers want to trap me! like some kind of animal!

Get over here you filthy peasant. Your mistress needs to sit down.

How dare you look me in the eye.

Eat this! Your mistress had this made especially for you.

Fuck what archer said. I’m going to burn them alive.

I tapped into my devil fruit power; flames started appearing over my wounds to heal them.

“What the hell!”

“What in the blue ocean!” Both of them jumped back in surprise. And looked surprised.

Not like its going to save them. I shifted into my zoan form. I felt my body turn into flames, comforting me. my body grew in size, vermillion feathers replaced skin. Legs turned into talons, hands into feathery wings.

“I’m going to kill you!” I screeched in anger. Bathing the area in a sea of flames.

Every person dead or alive turned into ash under my anger fueled flames.

-end chapter-

Woo. Tough chapter. The battle scene was hard to write. Can’t wait for Arashi to become OP so I can end battles in a single sentence.  Example; “I waved my hand and my enemies were erased from existence.” (Unfortunately, I don’t see it happening anytime soon)

Archer and Artoria have been giving our poor MC diabetes, so favorite, follow and review to cure our diabetic MC.

See you next time.

Also Check out my other fanfic which was also my first. “Seraph of deception and freedom”.