Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

"Eh?"

Usopp was confused when he heard Luffy's words.

"I remember inviting you."

"Huh? Wait, are you serious? You're not kidding?"

"Oh, I'm serious."

Luffy grinned, "I like you very much."

Usopp looked around at the others blankly.

"Why are you dazed?"

Reiner refilled his cigarette and joked to Usopp:

"Hurry up and go back to pack your things. We will go out to sea after dinner. If you miss the boat, there will be no next trip."

"Wait a minute!"

Usopp hurriedly stood up and rushed outside.

Reiner glanced at Kaya and said jokingly, "Sorry, you can't blame us for seducing your boyfriend away, right?"

"No, no, nothing."

Kaya blushed and stammered, "I knew Usopp would go to sea one day."

Although Ke Ya said this, there was still a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

Soon they finished their meal and arrived at the port under the leadership of Kaya and Meli.

Usopp had arrived early, and there was a sloop docked nearby.

There is a white sheep's head on the bow, a huge mast on the deck, a triangular sail at the stern, and two levels of cabins above.

“Although this boat is a bit retro, I designed it myself.”

Merry pointed to the boat and introduced it to the others: "This is a fast sailing ship. I named it Go Forward Merry."

While Merry and Nami were introducing themselves, they were already eager to board the ship.

“Hahaha, that’s great!”

Luffy lay on the sheep's head, with his limbs spread out and hugged, he looked up and smiled: "This will be my throne from now on!"

Chapter 9 Reiner's Logistics Life

Reiner stood on the deck, looked around, and stomped his feet, causing the wooden boards to creak.

"It looks like my logistics life is about to begin."

Climbing up to the observation deck along the rope, looking down, Zoro was already sitting on the side of the deck, leaning against the railing and taking a nap.

When you look up, you can see the entire blue sea.

He turned back to look at the island, and through the forest he could vaguely see the village with scattered houses.

"The view here is pretty good!" He leaned on the guardrail with both hands and looked down, smiling:

"Then I'll take this place. Leave the task of watching over to me from now on!"

"Ah, sure." Luffy responded with a smile.

Reiner jumped off the observation deck and opened a huge blue backpack.

These are some supplies sent by Keya. Apart from food, the rest are daily necessities and a small amount of medicine.

"Even shampoo and body wash? Merry is pretty thoughtful."

After sorting and counting his things, Reiner began to explore the Merry.

The secret doors on the deck and mast were opened, revealing the boys' dormitory below, with two sofas and several hammocks in the corner.

“It’s in full view.”

Reiner sighed as he looked at the simple dormitory.

The cabin at the bow was where the cannons and shells were placed.

There are two floors of cabins on the deck. The first floor is a warehouse, and there are several cannons placed on both sides. Reiner placed some supplies.

The girls' dormitory is right under the warehouse. Reiner took a quick look and found that the interior was obviously much more luxurious than the boys' dormitory, with sofas, tables, bookshelves, wardrobes, etc. There was even a bar!

Coming outside the deck, there are stairs leading to the second floor on both sides. The second floor is a comprehensive living room, consisting of a kitchen, dining room, conference room, etc.

After exploring for a while, Reiner summoned out several skeletons and sorted the supplies.

"Not bad, Reiner"

Nami walked onto the ship and smiled as she looked at Reiner, who was standing outside the second floor, leaning against the railing. "Your ability can actually be used to do these tasks. It looks like it will be a lot easier in the future."

"No big deal. Let them clean the place inside and out later." Reiner waved his hand and said with a smile.

Although the undead used for battle are currently only three template-made undead: Luffy, Zoro and Kuro, he still has a lot of miscellaneous soldiers, including Monka.

These can all be used for odd jobs, and I don’t feel bad about it at all.

He modeled Clo's template after Wolverine. Since he's an undead, he still looks a bit creepy, but at least he looks a bit human.

In normal battles, it’s okay to fight some small fry, but when facing an enemy with some fame, he will not take action personally.

He wanted to make the outside world distinguish him from the undead as much as possible, and hide himself as much as possible before he got the undead with top combat power.

It's not that he has no fighting ability at all. After all, with the bonus of the devil fruit ability, his physical fitness is not bad.

But his strength can only be said to be average, let alone compared with Luffy and Zoro, he is not even as strong as his own undead.

It has only been a year since I traveled here, and no matter how much I train, my strength improvement will always be limited.

He is not the user of the ability of the Endeavor Fruit, so he can't defeat the heavens by hard work.

Unless you turn on the transformation state and transform into the Undead Lord, but that would be too conspicuous and not conducive to the early stage development.

When he is in transformed state, all attributes of his body will depend on the one with the strongest corresponding attribute among his undead.

For example, we can now get Clo's speed and Zoro's wrist strength, and the rest depends on Luffy, who has a more balanced overall quality.

To put it bluntly, his strength ultimately depends on the undead in his hands. Time travel does not bring any other bonuses, and he cannot become invincible just by hard work.

This is just a dream.

But the upper limit of his 'golden finger', or devil fruit, is already very high, all that's missing is time.

As for what Teacher Kai said, only domineering power is above all else.

Just listen to it for fun. He himself is a capable person, so whoever is stronger has the final say.

Enelu said he was a god, but he was defeated by Luffy.

So, only fate is above all else?

All in all, it all depends on human efforts.

I collected my thoughts and finished smoking a cigarette.

Usopp loaded all the things onto the boat, and they hoisted the anchor and prepared to go out to sea.

"Goodbye everyone, goodbye Usopp."

"Goodbye, Keya. When I come back, I will tell you adventure stories that are even more exciting than big talk."

Usopp waved goodbye to Kaya. Today he finally took the first step towards becoming a brave sea warrior.

Kaya and Meli stood on the shore and watched quietly until the boat disappeared on the sea.

"Ms. Kaya, I heard something about Usopp from the villagers a few days ago."

Merry smiled and spoke slowly, "Before his mother left, Usopp kept shouting 'Pirates are coming' in the village and rushed all the way to the house."

"He shouted to his mother that his father had come back to pick them up and take them out to sea."

"Maybe it's because of loneliness. After his mother died, he would shout in the village every day that pirates were coming."

"The villagers said his lies were mixed with a strong desire, hoping that his father would come back one day to pick them up."

Keya listened to Meli's words quietly, looking at the sea as if she was thinking about something.

"Merry, I want to learn medicine."

"Really? You suddenly made a big decision."

On the Merry, several people were celebrating.

"Let's drink to the Merry and Usopp!"

"cheers--!"

"I see you don't have a pirate flag yet."

Usopp looked up at the empty mast and said, "The flag is the soul of a pirate group. Tell me what you think. My drawing skills are top-notch!"

"Really!"

Luffy looked excited, "I didn't know you had this ability."

"I often paint on the walls of the village. I've practiced this since I was young." Usopp said proudly.

Soon, Reiner took out a piece of black cloth, several cans of paint and some brushes from the warehouse.

Usopp began to paint with great fanciness on the black cloth, and soon he completed a pirate flag.

The white skull is wearing a yellow straw hat with a pair of crossed bones behind it.

"Not bad, Usopp."

Reiner took the flag and couldn't help but exclaimed, "I'll hang it up. You draw the outline of the sail and I'll control the skeleton to paint it."

"I will handle it!"

Soon, with the cooperation of Usopp and Reiner, a huge pattern similar to the flag was painted on their sails.

Several people couldn't help but smile as they watched.

The Straw Hat Pirates were officially established.