Hijacking a World Government Transport Ship! A Space Ability User's First Fortune

A World Government transport ship sailed slowly across the sea.

World Government flags hung from both sides of the ship, and more than a dozen fully armed CP Agents stood on deck. The hold was packed with weapons, food, Beli—and three Devil Fruits recently collected from various places.

This was the World Government's routine monthly supply shipment, bound for Marine Headquarters.

Lin Yuan stood on a reef, watching the ship from afar as the corners of his mouth slowly rose.

"Heh heh heh..." He chuckled softly. "Here comes our first job."

Bullet stood behind him, arms crossed.

"You're going to rob a World Government ship?"

"Not rob," Lin Yuan corrected him. "Borrow."

"What's the difference?"

"Robbing means taking by force. Borrowing means not giving it back."

Bullet stared at him for a few seconds, then burst out laughing.

"Wuhahahaha... You're fucking interesting."

Two

Lin Yuan raised a hand and opened a door in the air. Beyond it was the transport ship's lower hold.

He stepped through, with Bullet close behind.

The lower hold was dark and stacked with wooden crates. Lin Yuan opened one to find brand-new rifles. He opened another, and it was full of ammunition. He opened a third, and a golden gleam shone out—it was all Beli.

"Hmph." Bullet snorted. "The World Government sure is rich."

"This is the Heavenly Tribute collected from the Affiliated Nations." Lin Yuan closed the crate. "Some of it goes to the Celestial Dragons to squander, some pays for the Marines, and the rest goes straight into the Five Elders' pockets."

A trace of killing intent flashed in Bullet's eyes.

"Don't rush." Lin Yuan patted him on the shoulder. "Let's move the goods first."

He raised a hand and opened a huge door in the floor of the hold. Beyond it was the reef where they were staying.

Without a word, Bullet hoisted a crate onto his shoulder and carried it through the door.

Three

On deck.

A CP Agent was yawning when he suddenly heard a clatter from the hold. He frowned and said to the companion beside him, "Go take a look."

His companion nodded and headed down the stairs. Halfway down, his vision suddenly went dark—a door appeared out of thin air in front of him, with a void beyond it.

Before he could cry out, he was sucked inside.

"Where is he?" The agent on deck waited a long time, but his companion didn't return. He called another man over. "You go down and take a look."

The second man vanished too.

Then the third.

The fourth.

The fifth.

The agent on deck finally realized something was wrong. He pulled out a Den Den Mushi to report to his superiors. Just then, a door opened behind him, and a foot shot out and kicked him into the sea.

Splash!

Water sprayed into the air.

The remaining agents panicked, drawing their weapons and looking around.

"Who's there?!"

"Come out!"

"How dare you attack a World Government ship! Do you have a death wish?!"

Lin Yuan stepped out of the door, hands in his pockets, and looked at them with a smile.

"Hello."

"You—you're that Marine recruit who defected! Lin Yuan!" One agent recognized him, and his expression changed drastically.

"He has a bounty of 500 million!"

"Quick! Report to our superiors!"

"Don't rush." Lin Yuan raised a hand and opened a huge door above their heads. "Let me send you on your way first."

Beyond the door was the sea a hundred li away.

More than a dozen agents, weapons and all, were "poured" through the door. They arced through the air, then landed in the sea with a series of splashes.

"Done." Lin Yuan clapped his hands.

Bullet came up from the lower hold with the last crate on his shoulder.

"Everything off the ship?"

"All of it."

"Then what about the ship?"

Lin Yuan glanced at the transport ship and thought for a moment.

"Let's sink it."

"How?"

Lin Yuan didn't answer. He opened a door in the bottom of the ship, and seawater gurgled in.

In less than a minute, the transport ship sank to the bottom of the sea.

Four

The reef was piled high with supplies taken from the transport ship.

Lin Yuan counted them: about 50 million Beli, two hundred rifles, thirty crates of ammunition, enough food to last three months, and—

He opened the last crate.

Inside, three Devil Fruits lay on velvet.

The first was pitch-black, its surface covered in strange spiral patterns.

The Dark-Dark Fruit.

Lin Yuan's pupils contracted slightly. He recognized this fruit. It was the fruit Blackbeard, Marshall D. Teach, had spent his entire life searching for, possessing the dual properties of "gravity" and being the "nemesis of ability users."

In the original story, Blackbeard had used this fruit to rise from an obscure nobody to become one of the Four Emperors.

And now, the fruit was in his hands.

"Heh heh heh..." Lin Yuan laughed, his voice low and deep. "Sorry, Blackbeard. I'll be taking this fruit first."

He carefully put the Dark-Dark Fruit back in the crate and picked up the second one.

The second was silver-white all over and shaped like a drop of water, with ripple-like patterns on its surface.

Lin Yuan didn't recognize it. He recalled the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia from memory and checked it against the fruit—there was no record of it.

"A new fruit?" Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow. "Interesting."

The third was dark red, like a clot of congealed blood, with fang-shaped protrusions covering its surface.

There was no record of it either.

Lin Yuan put the three fruits back in place and closed the crate.

"We'll keep these three fruits for now." He looked at Bullet. "Do you want one?"

Bullet shook his head.

"I don't want a fruit. Fruits affect physical combat."

"Then if we find a good Zoan Devil Fruit later, I'll give it to you."

Bullet didn't refuse.

Five

That night, Lin Yuan sat on the reef, holding the Dark-Dark Fruit and examining it again and again.

"What are you thinking about?" Bullet walked over.

"Who to give this fruit to."

"Why don't you eat it yourself?"

"I ate the Door-Door Fruit, so I can't eat a second one," Lin Yuan said. "But I know someone who'll become very strong after eating this fruit."

"Who?"

"The time isn't right yet." Lin Yuan put the fruit back in the crate. "He hasn't been born yet."

Bullet frowned but didn't press him.

Lin Yuan stood up and stretched.

"Tonight was a good haul."

"Fifty million Beli, two hundred guns, and three Devil Fruits." Bullet did the math. "Enough to last us a while."

"Not enough." Lin Yuan shook his head. "We need more."

"More of what?"

"More people."

Lin Yuan looked out at the sea. Moonlight fell on the water, making it shimmer.

"We need companions. Not people who come to seek us out, but people this world has abandoned, people with nowhere to go. We'll give them a home, then take them with us to change the world."

Bullet fell silent.

"Are you crazy?" he asked.

"Maybe." Lin Yuan smiled. "But this world needs a madman to change it."

He raised a hand and opened a door in front of him.

"Come on. Let's go back and sleep. We have more work to do tomorrow."

Bullet glanced at him, then strode through the door.

"Wuhahahaha... Fine, I'll be crazy with you."

The door slowly closed.

Silence returned to the reef, broken only by the sound of waves lapping against the shore.

(End of chapter 7)