One Piece and the Celestial Dragon - Chapter 35 Future plans

One week after the incident on Banaro Island…

Ezio and his crew sat on a table in the meeting room.

Besides his previous crew members, there were now five new people. The three royal guardians, Sid and Lily. Only Tsuru was missing.

„Why did you send Tsuru away, Ezio?”, asked Hancock.

„I’ve recruited Tsuru for one purpose. It was that we have an ally and informant at the headquarter of the marines. Maybe we can get the informations we want because I’m a Celestial Dragon, but it’s still better to have one member of our crew there. So she will be our intelligence officer at the heart of the marines”

„How can you trust her?”, asked Reiju confused.

„This woman is smart. She knows what will benefit her and what not. To achieve her personal goals, she needs us”

Now Ezio looked at his team. The three royal guardians weren’t true members of his crew, but Ezio had a plan for them in the future.

„Our next goal is to build a big organization. We first start with the ten division commanders. These ten people will be the strongest force of our crew and will stand on top of the organization. At this moment we only have Hachi, Reiju and Bonney. That means we need to find seven trustworthy people to join us”

Hancock, Sid and Lily looked at Ezio with a frown.

„Hancock is the deputy leader, she isn’t included in the ten division commanders. She stands above them and if I’m not present, she will be the highest authority in our organization”

Hancock smiled after she heard that. The other crew members were not happy, but nobody was stronger than Hancock, so they had no chance to say something against it.

„Besides the ten division commanders, there will be a special unit that works in other areas that we need. Lily and Sid are part of the special force and these two are only responding to me or Hancock. The leader of the second special unit is Walter Benson. He will be the leader of our intelligence group, but this will have to wait until we have enough people who join us”

Sid and Lily were happy that they had a special position that was only under the leader and the vice leader. Walter Benson was shocked. He never thought that he would be the leader of a special force. Ezio thought he was perfect for this position because he had the power of the swap swap fruit.

„We will have me as the leader and Hancock as the deputy leader. Under me are the ten strongest people of this organization – three of the ten leaders will have the power of a logia fruit, Reiju is the first one. The next three will have the power of a zoan fruit. The other three will have the power of a paramecia fruit, Bonney will be one of them. The last one is Hachi – he will be our swordsman and he is a special existence under the ten division commanders. He will recruit a group of strong fighters, but no one of them will eat a devil fruit. We need such a group, if someone would fall into the sea and we all were devil fruit users… this wouldn’t be a funny way to die”

„Besides the ten commanders, one unit consists of Lily and Sid, I don’t know how to name them… The only name I can think of is the ‚scheming division’, but this sounds stupid. You two will be part of the shadow force in our organization, this includes Benson as the leader of the intelligence division. You act a little bit like Cipher Pol works for the World Government, but you can’t compare the two”

„This is only the highest authority of our organization. All the division commanders will need a deputy, and this deputy has to be strong. Every division commander will have their own crew who represents us in this world. We have to recruit a lot of people – but this is something we can discuss when we found our ten division commanders. We are truly in a strange situation. I have all devil fruits to make us a big force, but we lack the people who can eat them. Isn’t it usually so that organizations have enough people but not enough devil fruits? It doesn’t really matter. Most of our future members, I already know where we can find them”

His knowledge from the manga was truly a blessing. There were many characters he had in mind and the next mission was to find them and recruit them. The best thing was that he had many devil fruits. He could recruit every character, make them strong and slowly build trust with them.

After that everyone left the meeting room. Reiju was depressed because Hancocks position was higher than hers, Hachi and Bonney didn’t really care. Lily was happy because she liked to play in the shadows and Walter Benson was shocked because he was given so much trust by Ezio.

Only Hancock and Ezio remained in the meeting room.

„Ezio, you are strange. How did you know that there was this fight on Banaro Island?”

Ezio shrugged his shoulders and didn’t answer.

„You said you know most of the people you will recruit… How do you know these people? We were together since you were a little brat and you never left the Holy Land. Answer me! Since you were a little brat, you knew of so many things, but who told you all these things?”

„The old fox”

„I don’t believe you! This old fox can’t even remember his own servants. How could he know all these things?”

Ezio sighed. Hancock always asked him these questions. She knew him since he was a little brat and his behavior and knowledge would make everyone suspicious at some point. How could he tell her that this world was a manga in his past life and now he was reborn into this manga. He didn’t answer but used a tactic that would distract this suspicious woman.

He gave her a kiss on her cheeks.

„You know, my bed is very big. Too big for one person to sleep alone… You can join me tonight if you want to”

This was the best way to change the topic. A furious Hancock was now chasing the celestial brat. All the questions she had were forgotten in her fury.