Bullet is currently very confused. His hometown has been destroyed, and he doesn't know where to go or what to do. His mind is in a state of chaos, so he doesn't want to be disturbed.
But the man in the black robe kept following him, which annoyed him. Without waiting for a reply, he charged at him.
Bullet rushed halfway before finding himself completely unable to move. He had nothing on him, but he couldn't even move a finger. It was as if he had been buried in a hundred-meter-deep pit, surrounded by solid earth and rocks. He could only sense Armament Haki!
Bullet knew he had encountered an unparalleled expert. He had never heard of such a method before. Someone could cultivate their Haki to such a level. This was the Haki Emission, which could lock him in place like a prison, rendering him unable to move. He was astonished by this level of Haki mastery!
You seem confused! Can you tell me what happened?
Vic noticed the confusion in Bullet's eyes. Although Bullet later became his partner, Bullet himself was unwilling to talk about his past, and no one else would pry into it.
So even Vic didn't know what had happened to Bullet when he was young, but based on their past relationship, he wanted to offer him some guidance.
Hearing the hoarse voice coming from under the hood, Bullet knew that this mysterious and powerful man was not there to take his life. The other party was too strong; taking his life would be easy, and there was no need for so much nonsense. So he lowered his guard!
"My superior betrayed me, and in a fit of rage, I destroyed the entire army and the country. Now I don't know what to do, and I can't see a way forward!"
Bullet really needs someone to guide him now. He's always been a soldier, following orders, and that's become a habit. Suddenly, no one is giving him orders anymore, and he doesn't really know what he wants.
"No life goals? Then start analyzing from the fact that your superior betrayed you!"
Because you are strong, yet not strong enough, your superior thinks you can fetch a good price, since you'll never have a chance to come back and seek revenge.
It was just an unexpected turn of events that you foresaw. If you were truly so formidable, I doubt anyone would dare betray you easily; that would be a huge risk.
So you can set a goal for yourself to become stronger. As long as you are strong enough, there won't be many things in this world that can bother you!
After thinking for a moment, Vic said, " Bullet has good talent. It would be a real shame to waste it. Let him set a goal to become stronger, so that at least he won't waste this talent."
"Get stronger? How can I get stronger quickly?"
Bullet was a self-taught individual who relied solely on his talent to rampage through the army. He had no idea how to become stronger, but now that a peerless expert was right here, he simply asked him directly!
"To become stronger, you need real combat experience. To become stronger quickly, you need to fight strong opponents, but not those far stronger than yourself. Otherwise, you'll be killed before you even get stronger. With your talent, as long as you keep fighting, everything will come!"
Instead of directly telling Bullet the shortcuts to becoming stronger, Vic added a layer of complexity to them.
After all, his future self would need these shortcuts to rise quickly, so even though Bullet was his partner in his future life, he couldn't easily reveal them. If the news spread throughout the world, he would be ruined.
After saying this, Vic teleported away. He had said what needed to be said; the rest was up to Bullet.
After that, Vic often heard the name Bullet and saw news about him in the newspapers. Later, he heard that Barrett had joined the Roger Pirates and was following the path of his previous life.
Just a few years later, Vic heard the name Bullet again, this time to report that Bullet had left the Roger Pirates!
Three years later, in the year 1499 of the Sea Circle Calendar, the newspapers were full of news about Roger Pirates conquering the Grand Line and becoming the Pirate King. Upon seeing this, Vic knew that Roger was not far from surrendering.
Sure enough, just a few months later, news appeared in the newspapers that the Pirate King Gol D. Roger had been captured by the Navy!
Less than a month later, the verdict was announced: death sentence. To deter others, the execution was carried out publicly in his birthplace Loguetown!
Vic also witnessed this historic moment, saw many familiar young faces, and heard the famous quote that ushered in the Great Pirate Era!
"Want my treasure? You can have it if you want, go find it! I've hidden all my treasure there!"
Vic didn't intervene to save Roger; the Age of Exploration truly needed someone to usher in it!
Many things in later generations started from this day. If even the starting point was changed, what would happen next? Vic didn't dare to think about it. Maybe he had just saved Roger, and the next moment he would have disappeared completely!
Vic still remembers that it was the year Roger was executed that a large number of pirates headed towards the Grand Line, and it was in that year that he came into this world!
So after witnessing the start of the Great Pirate Era, Vic came to Laipe Island in the East Blue China Sea to witness his own arrival!
Vic walked slowly down the streets of the Yarlin Town, and no one could detect his presence. It was as if he were walking in another dimension, completely out of place with the people on the street!
He arrived at the house from his memory and saw the stunningly beautiful An. An looked at him with a loving expression as she watched a boy of about ten years old and a girl of about the same age playing in the room!
The little boy had black hair and delicate features; he was clearly destined to be handsome. The little girl had Red-Hair, big, bright eyes, and an innocent smile on her face; she was incredibly cute!
This is what Vic and Rebecca looked like when they were little. As for the boy's father, Orens, he was working at the town hall at the moment, which Vic had already sensed with his Observation Haki!
Roger had just been executed, and the news hadn't spread yet. Laipe Island was too small to afford Live Broadcast Den Den Mushi. The Yarlin Town was currently peaceful and stable, but things would be different in a few days!
Vic leaped onto the roof and sat down cross-legged, awaiting that moment!
A few days later, accompanied by a panicked shout of "Pirates are here!", several figures appeared in Vic's Observation Haki on the beach. It was the Claw Pirates that had frightened the original owner's young soul into cowering, who had landed!
Instead of immediately killing the scumbags, Vic cast an illusion over the entire town!
The acts of vandalism, arson, and looting by pirates are real, but the acts of murder and rape that actually harm people are fictional!
The townspeople's flight, cries, and terror were real, but the pirates who killed them were fictional.
The "dead" person has been teleported away by Vic, and their destination is that island in the Grand Line that has a very distinctive East Blue character.
Everything was a grand show orchestrated by Vic. After the Claw Pirates escaped by ship, the Yarlin Town had been reduced to a scene of arson, murder, and looting.
Aside from the fact that the bodies of the "dead" people were still illusory, the dilapidated state of the town was real. The original owner's parents were also placed in a safe and peaceful place, a place that Vic found quite nice after traveling all over the world for so many years.
This was the only way Vic could console the original owner of this body. He couldn't change the general direction, but he could still protect the other party's parents!