Pirate: Seeing Proficiency Makes Me a Legend Chapter 1

Pirate: Seeing Proficiency Makes Me a Legend Author: Yejingbuyu

Synopsis:

On the vast and boundless ocean, Aokiji intercepted a ship. After a fierce battle, Aokiji gave a wry smile, "Hey!

Little brother! Don't waste your effort! I am a Logia devil fruit user! You can't hit me!"

Before his voice died away, a slash flashed past, freezing ten thousand miles. Aokiji, who had been frozen solid, completely short-circuited in his head, wondering if he had eaten a fake Ice-Ice Fruit.

In the second half of the Grand Line, Kizaru hummed an off-tune tune, "Little brother!

You say you're faster than me! I'm so embarrassed!"

Before his voice died away, a figure stood atop a flying sword, vanishing a thousand miles away in the blink of an eye, leaving a dumbfounded Kizaru fluttering in the wind.

Chapter 1: Dream Begins in East Blue

Autumn wind swept across fallen leaves, bringing an unspeakable desolation to the entire land. Under a tree not far from the Isshin Dojo in Shimotsuki Village of East Blue, an ordinary little boy was idly basking in the sun, an unspeakable gloom in his eyes.

The boy was named Dongze. If nothing went wrong, he was a favored child of the heavens.

Having descended into the Pirate World, he originally thought that with his foreknowledge, he could display his might grandly—punching the nursing home on Southern Mountain, kicking the kindergarten in Northern Sea. Oh no, it should be punching the old man Whitebeard, and kicking the traitor Blackbeard.

However, reality was cruel. He had to admit that cultivation matters were all about talent.

Having entered the Isshin Dojo two years ago, despite his day-and-night efforts where carrying weights and swinging his sword were never neglected, to this day, not only could he not even beat Kuina, but he was even tormented miserably by the newcomer Moss Head.

This inevitably made him sigh with emotion. Perhaps he truly had no talent in terms of swordsmanship! The day before, in a friendly match at the dojo, he had been bullied by Kuina once again, which for a moment made him harbor self-doubt in his heart: was he really still inferior to a little girl?

Feeling extremely depressed in his mood, he took advantage of this brief moment of free time to run out of the dojo, intending to relax his somewhat oppressive thoughts.

"Sigh! Going on like this, not to mention beating Whitebeard, I'm afraid I won't even be able to defeat Red Nose in the end!"

"Hehe!"

A little purple squirrel on the tree stared at him, a trace of mischievousness flashing in its lively eyes, and then it threw the pine nut it had been gnawing on with two bites toward the boy.

Probably because the boy was lost in thought, that pine nut smashed directly onto the center of his brow.

In a daze, he seemed to hear a "ding-dong" sound echo in his mind.

"Little Li!"

The boy dazed for a moment, and then stood up. An exasperated roar burst out from him, and immediately the boy's gaze began searching among the tree forks, looking for that purple figure.

However, the little squirrel was not afraid of him, squeaked twice, and then slipped away without a trace.

The boy swept his gaze around to no avail, shook his head helplessly, and looking at the pine nut beside him, couldn't help but mock himself.

"Really, good thing it wasn't the pine nut in Monk Xuzhu's hand. If it were that brainless monk, I'm afraid my little life would be done for!"

However, whether due to ill fortune or misfortune never coming singly, not long after the boy lay down, a fully ripened fruit left its twig under the gentle caress of the breeze, and once again came smashing down toward his forehead.

Good fellow, this time it was simply incomparable to a small pine nut.

The boy was smashed dizzy on the spot!

"What the f*ck..."

After a whirl of dizzying motion, the boy was just about to burst into fierce curses, but suddenly, the corners of his eyes twitched tightly, and a pair of eyes narrowed abruptly.

The boy suddenly discovered that a row of strange characters had appeared in his field of vision.

"Iron Head Skill proficiency 20/1000!"

Refusing to believe it, the boy rubbed his eyes once more, and then looked intently to search again, only to find that line of small characters was still there.

Inexplicably, the boy's heart stirred, as if he had thought of something, and then he looked at the large tree beside him. Hesitating over and over, he gritted his teeth and slammed his head straight into it with a fierce thrust.

Accompanied by a bout of dizziness, it took him quite a while to recover his wits. This time he had mustered up his full strength, terrified that he wouldn't be able to verify his guess!

When he looked at that row of small characters once more, he broke into a grin, a trace of inexplicable ecstasy revealing itself in his eyes.

"Iron Head Skill proficiency 21/1000!"

"Could this be my Golden Finger?"

"If training and such can also show proficiency, I won't lack motivation anymore! But the details still seem to need testing!"

After a round of experimentation, he also roughly figured out how this power was actually utilized.

Carefully counting them, it boiled down to two major uses.

First, it allowed him to know every bit of his progress, dividing cultivation down to every single point, which was enough to give him more determination and courage to stride toward the distance.

Second, it could unlock the training of unknown fields in advance. Speaking of this matter, it was also because of Little Li.

Feeling the carefree Little Li sitting right atop his head, he was also somewhat helpless. He had no idea what it had done to provoke that group of monkeys deep in the back mountain; a barrage of stone attacks came down like a hailstorm, almost burying it alive. To rescue it, he himself suffered a disastrous fate, and now his whole body ached all over.

Fortunately, however, it ultimately allowed him to awaken the foundation of Observation Haki, Mantra, enabling him to escape with it.

Now he understood the temperament of that power—it would absolute never let him gain something for nothing. Summarizing it himself, wanting to unlock training in unknown fields in advance most likely required a high probability of getting beaten up before having the opportunity to trigger it.

However, as for the increase in proficiency, he still hadn't completely figured it out. It wasn't that every operation would add a point of proficiency for him, just like the proficiency of Iron Head Skill, which simply stopped increasing by even a single point during his subsequent stubborn head-butting experiments.

Then he looked around, only to find a bluestone half the size of a person right beneath him, which instantly lit up his eyes. Regrettably, before he could put his plan into action this time, with a yelp, he was sent flying!

"Dongze!!"

"Are you out of your mind?!"

The words had just left her mouth when an orange figure suddenly darted over and kicked the boy flying. Seeing the large bluestone slide down from the branch right after, making the ground beside her tremble slightly, she felt her little heart pounding away. Fortunately, she had made it in time.

"You idiot, do you really think your head is harder than bluestone?"

Perhaps the young girl's kick had been too heavy just now, as it took the boy quite a while to recover, still lying on the ground in a thoroughly unseemly posture.

"Kuina!!"

"You bastard!"

"Female tyrannosaur!!"

"What did you say?"

Hearing this remark, which clearly carried a taunting tone, Kuina clenched her fists, making cracking sounds, and walked toward Dongze with an unhappy look on her face.

The boy turned around with some difficulty, and looking at the somewhat fierce yet cute young girl, his expression tightened. After comprehensively assessing the current gap in their strength between them, he said in a deadpan voice, "Kuina, don't get me wrong!"

"I was just praising you for your great strength!"

Upon hearing this, Kuina paused slightly in her tracks. Dongze's words truly spoke to what was in her heart.

She was a girl, the only daughter of Koshiro of Isshin Dojo, and she desperately wanted to gain her father's recognition. Yet, precisely because she was a girl, Koshiro did not hold high hopes for her.

To achieve good accomplishments in swordsmanship, girls needed to put in much more effort to make up for innate deficiencies. Women who used swords were already rare in this world, let alone those who excelled in swordsmanship. Therefore, all along, although Kuina fiercely denied her father's words and thought of proving that even as a girl she could become a Swordmaster and reach the pinnacle of strength in swordsmanship, deep down she still somewhat resented being born female!

Now, upon hearing Dongze praise her for her physical strength, it instead brought a warm, pleased feeling to her heart at the moment.

Still, she was not a fool; Dongze's tone right now was clearly off. However, since the fellow had just been sent flying a dozen meters by her kick, she found it hard to act up again.

"Hey! Didn't you just get battered by that moss head? Is there any need to come here and seek death?"

Seeing Dongze try to sit up several times only to fail each time, a trace of a blush crossed Kuina's little face. Her kick just now really had been a bit too heavy!

"Hey! Are you alright?"

A trace of a wry smile crossed the corner of Dongze's mouth!

"If I gave you a kick like that out of nowhere, would you be alright?!"

Kuina pouted her little mouth, frowned, put her hands on her hips, and said sternly, "Don't you dare!"

Dongze shook his head and let out a helpless, bitter smile. Sure enough, their thought processes were not on the same wavelength at all!

"Give me a hand! I've got no strength left in me!"

"Got it!"

"Still, with a scrawny frame like yours, stop sparring with that moss head in the future. That bastard is just like a wild bull, and even I feel some pressure. If you spar with him, you're simply asking for suffering!"

As she spoke, Kuina pulled Dongze up, letting out a series of sighs and feeling quite emotional.

Zoro, who had entered the dojo, had already begun that inhumane training, and the swords in his hands kept increasing—from one, to two, and now to three.

His physical strength had also grown greater and greater, and his attacks were so fierce that sometimes even she did not want to clash head-on with him, relying solely on her proficiency in sword techniques to flank and defeat him from the side.

History seemed to return to its established track, with two strong contenders vying for supremacy at Isshin Dojo: one withered away like a falling flower, while the other carried the former's unfulfilled will and strode toward the strongest. Yet this time, an extra person had been added, and where the future would lead was impossible to predict!

Chapter 2 "Female Tyrannosaur!"

"Dongze!"

"I really envy that moss head's talent!"

To be honest, for Zoro to have such brilliant performances in the future and even grow to the level of Right Hand of the Pirate King Luffy, aside from his indomitable and tenacious will, one simply had to mention his exceptionally high natural talent.

Being valued by Koshiro and Hawkeye, taken in as disciples one after another, and being nurtured without holding anything back could prove one thing: Zoro's own talent was dazzling even across the entire vast sea.

These two were hardly ordinary figures: one was the world's greatest swordsman, while the other was a scion of the Shimotsuki Family from the second half of the Grand Line, Wano Country.

Viewed purely from the perspective of swordsmen, the two of them could even be said to stand among that handful at the pinnacle of swordsmanship in this world.

Naturally, precisely because of this, it conversely illustrated just how strong Roronoa Zoro's talent was.

Looking at the slightly callow young girl before him, Dongze let out a soft sigh in his heart. In his view, the young girl who had kept Zoro from lifting his head in their youth possessed a talent no less inferior to Zoro's, and in some aspects, even surpassed Zoro's.

It was just a pity she never got to grow up.

Over these years, as he had joined Isshin Dojo and spent his days alongside Koshiro, he knew the man was not someone who discriminated against women.

Therefore, his clearly deliberate attitude toward his daughter left Dongze quite puzzled. Thinking of the lectures he usually gave Kuina, perhaps he simply did not want his daughter to walk down that path!

After all, a swordsman's duel meant either you die or I live.

The sea was hardly a safe place either. Even in the East Blue, widely regarded as the safest place in the world, pirates, mountain bandits, and the Revolutionary Army often popped up. He himself had gone into hiding in the East Blue, so how could he possibly rest easy letting his daughter go out and wander the world?

Naturally, this was just his own guess.

Kuina supported Dongze, helping him slowly walk back toward Isshin Dojo.

Halfway there, perhaps tugging at his wound, Dongze winced and bared his teeth in pain. Seeing this, Kuina said softly, "Hey! Dongze, are you really alright?"

Dongze touched his lower ribs and said tremblingly, "Two ribs are broken, I'll have to lie in bed for ten days half a month! (Of course, this is in the pirate world; if it were the real world, a year or half a year might not even be enough!)"

Hearing this, Kuina's pretty face flushed red. The situation had been critical at the time, and she hadn't thought about holding back at all. You must know that Kuina was already no match for even some adults now, and in terms of physical strength, she didn't even lose to those adults.

With Dongze's such small build, taking a full-strength strike from Kuina out of nowhere, it would be a wonder if he were fine!

Just at that moment, Dongze and Kuina paused their steps. The two exchanged a glance, and then their gazes involuntarily drifted toward the training ground to the side, where a Moss Head was holding a bamboo sword in each hand, attacking a wooden stake frantically.

"1005, 1006, 1007..."

To the side were also two stone piers, obviously used to increase arm strength. Seeing the numbers marked on them, Dongze couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth fiercely!

He cursed inwardly: What the hell!

Is this tm even human? He must be an animal!

This Moss Head was of course Zoro. Seeing Kuina and Dongze passing by from the side, his movements didn't stop; instead, they became a bit more ferocious.

It seemed as if the wooden stake before him was that Kuina who had always kept him from raising his head in pressure. As for Dongze, he naturally ignored him, because in their usual spars, Dongze had never won against him even once.

Toward someone weaker than himself, Zoro couldn't be bothered to cast any more focused gaze, although the other person's effort was not a bit worse than his own, yet he didn't believe the other person could catch up to his pace.

However, at this moment he still didn't know that Dongze had awakened a bug at this time.

They always say, "When scholars part for three days, they should look at each other with new eyes!"

There is no small amount of reason in this saying.

When seeing this future Emperor's Right-Hand Man of Luffy once again, Dongze's gaze became very calm, very untroubled.

After an afternoon of experimentation, he had now also initially figured out that ability, and now he also had the confidence to use this ability to catch up with all his might in the coming time, and even surpass everything, standing at the very peak position of this world.

Actually, for everyone, the hardest part about wanting to make progress is not perseverance, but rather persisting as always yet never being able to see the direction of the future, unable to see clearly the road beneath one's feet.