Koby POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Little Garden - 20 GAP

  As I'm thinking about how t the carcass of this three-horned dinosaur to the Giant Dorry's camp, I suddenly hear a booming voice behihat says, "Well, you could ask me t it to my camp for you. Gegyagyagya!"

  Startled I jump out while screaming in fright, "Whoaaa!!" then I look bad see the huge figure of the Giant Dorry standing behind me, and shocked I only utter, "What? H-How!?"

  A grin forms on the Giant Dorry's face as he expins, "Gegyagyagya! It is quite simple, I already felt your presence when I was fighting with Brogi... and I also felt you following me right after our duel. Then you started to hunt this Triceratops and were so focused that you basically ignored everything else around you making it quite easy to sneak up on you."

  Then Dorry crosses his arms and asks, "So, are you going to tell me why you want to give me that corpse?"

  I gulp loudly intimidated by his imposing stature, and then I quickly answer holy, "My teacher taught me that it is rude to suddeer someoerritory without even bringing at the very least some kind of gift, especially if you are requesting something. This is why I huhis... ehm... Triceratops, right? Anyway, this is why I hu. I wa you this as a gift, while also asking for permission to safely rest at your camp for the 3 days."

  The Giant looks at me in silence for a few moments, then he grins and says, "Okay! You stay at my camp! After all, it is quite rare to have some pany on this isnd and I haven't had any guests in a really long time! Gegyagyagya!"

  After ughing the Giant Dorry, introduces himself, "Gegyagyagya! I'm Elbaf's Stro Warrior, Dorry! o meet you, little one!"

  Hearing that, I slightly lowered my head and also introduced myself, "o meet you, Dorry-san! My name is Koby." while thinking, 'Better not say that my dream is to bee a Marine... After all, he is a pirate for sure he doesn't have any sympathy for them...'

  Dorry-san grins widely then he jovially says, "Gegyagyagya! Let's go to my pce, little one." gently grabs me as me stand on his shoulder, something that almost gave me a heart attack, then he grabs the tail of the Triceratops and easily drags it while heading back toward his camp.

  In the end, after being startled by the Giant Dorry-san right after I dealt with the Triceratops, I'm able to safely reach his camp at the foot of the Sea King Skull Mountain by riding on his shoulder, quite a unique experien itself.

  O the camp, Dorry-san quickly starts to butcher the Triceratops and then he roasts its meat over a fire, at the same time, I start to look around, and ihis "camp" is quite simple, it is basically ay space at the foot of the Sea King Skull Mountain made mostly of a few sparse logs and a rge fire, where the Giant's on, as well as his food, be found, but I also notie slightly w signs like the tless humaons amassed on the side of the mountain.

  Just as I'm looking at those skeletons, Dorry-san, who is waiting for the meat to be cooked, looks at me and asks, "So what is someone as young as you doing in a pce like this? Did you get actally drifter here or something like that?"

  To which I shake my head and reply, "No, nothing like that. I'm traveling the Grand Lih my teacher and his family. My teacher stopped on this isnd not only because he wao see the dinosaurs and show them to his kids, but also to train me. He told me to survive on this isnd for 3 days and quickly after that, he threw me toward that big circur ke. He also told me that yours and the iant's camp are a safe pce to pass the night... as long as I don't offend you."

  Hearing that, Dorry-san starts to ugh once more as he says, "Gegyagyagya! That teacher of yours sure knows how to push someoo the limits! Haven't you seen the skeletons of those little Humans, lying on the ground around these parts? Most of the Humans who e here end up dying way before their log sets. Some are eaten by the dinosaurs, ive in to heat or starvation, and some even try to attack us... Whatever the case, they all end up perishing on this isnd. It seems that even spending a single week on this isnd is just too long for you little Humans, let alohe whole year needed for the log Pose to set on the isnd. Gegyagyagya!"

  Theops ughing and seriously says, "But from what I have seen when you were hunting the triceratops, if you are careful you should be able to easily survive the 3 days needed. On my part, you spend the night at my camp, it isn't a problem for me, but you have to take care of your own meals, are we clear?"

  I nod and quickly lower my head in a light bow as I reply, "Yes! Thank you, Dorry-san!"

  While we were talking, the Triceratops' meat was finally ready to be eaten, and so we stopped talking and started eating.

  After some time, I 't hold my curiosity baymore, and ask, "By the way, Dorry-san. Why are you and that iant... Brogi-san fighting? To me, it looks like you too are close friends, but despite that a few minutes ago you were seriously trying to kill each other."

  Dorry-san looks at me in the eyes then he replies, "We are friends. But you see, I e from a vilge called Elbaf, it is a vilge for warriors. It's located somewhere on the Grand Line... But my vilge has a certain w. If a quarrel breaks out in my vilge and you 't settle it on your own, then we beseech od Elbaf for his judgment. Elbaf is just aows divine prote on those in the right. He'll ehe survival of the righteous. I've gotten involved in a quarrel myself, and so this isnd, has served as the battlegrouween and that iant Brogi. The one who's in the right shall triumph and survive."

  Thearts to ugh out loud as he cludes, "But it has been around 100 years since! We just 't seem to settle our duel! Gegyagyagya!"

  Hearing that, I 't help but excim, "You have been fighting for over 100 years!?" but Dorry-san simply smirks and says, "It's nothing to be surprised about. Our life spans are 3 times your puny one. Gegyagyagya!"

  I look at Dorry-san, and 't help but ask, "Just for what kind of reason you two fight for over 100 years...? That is just too much time..."

  Dorry-san looked at me with a serious expression, theared at the distance, very probably at the other Sea King Skull Mountaihe camp i-san be found, and decided to state, "It's about pride now... aually fot the reason ages ago."

  Hearing that, I almost choked oriceratops' meat while thinking, 'They fot about why they have been fighting to death for over 100 years!!? How is this possible? And why do they tio try to kill each other even after that!? Is this truly for their pride as warriors of Elbaf?'

  While these questions stantly swim around in my head, we tio eat together the Triceratops in silence, but one funny thought that breaks in from time to time between all those questions is that the Triceratops meat straastes just like chi.

  After the meal, I started to carefully explore the isnd once more, meeting many other ambushes from many different creatures, like giant tigers, huge snakes, and others of those bird-like lizards which by now I'm pretty sure are the Velociraptors that Jayr-san warned me about as between all the creatures I have met until now, their ambush are always the most dangerous and deadly, not only they always atta pack, but they also attack from all kinds of position, some of them even y an ambush on top of some tree trying to catch you by surprise from above, they truly are devious creatures.

  Luckily I was able to barely avoid all their attacks ing out unscratched from every enter, especially since I'm starting to get used to their attack pattern and movements, and thanks to that, I was able to react more calmly to their assaults.

  Ahing that happened is that the big middle volo erupted once more, and right after that, the isnd started to shake once more as Dorry-san and Brogi-san started to fight once again, and once again, I went to spectate their fight and learn from it, but just like before, after some time, their fight ended in a perfect draw.

  Looking at the two Giants lying on the ground after a very intense fight, I 't help but mutter in admiration, "No matter how many times I see it. It's incredible. Those two fight against each other multiple times every day, but no matter what, they tio draw ead every time. No one is able to gain any advantage over the other, those two are truly perfectly equal warriors."

  After their sed fight, I once agaiurn to expl the isnd, and this time, I enter a creature that looks just as imposing as the crocodile hidden in the ke.

  It is a 5-meter-tall bipedal ivore with a bright red hide, and a massive skull banced by a long, heavy tail, retive to its rge and powerful hind limbs, the forelimbs of this dinosaur are short but also unusually powerful for its size, and its has three cwed digits.

  (Image Here - Tyrannosaurus)

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  This dinosaur is incredibly aggressive and ferocious, as he attacks me as soon as it nds its gaze on me, but luckily while powerful, durable, scary, and also quite fast, luckily, despite its imposing size it isn't agile enough to keep up with me and cks way too mu agility for being a true threat, and so, I'm able to quickly take care of it using my smaller size to my advao run around the creature and hit it in its blind spot using an hit and run tactic.

  After that enter, everything goes smoothly, and then after another while, the middle volo once agais, singing the start of another battle between Dorry-san and Brogi-san, and I once again go baire and study their battle.

  This also made me realize that the volo erupts oer a certai of time, if I have to guess, I'll say that it erupts once every hour and quite regurly and precisely too.

  Anyway, I pass the rest of the day like that, I explore the isnd for a while, thehe Hourly Volo erupts, I rush bad watch the battle deadly between Dorry-san and Brogi-san, learning something new each siime, at the end of the battle, that like always ends up in a draw, I return ba expl the isnd while fag its dangers, while als down athering everything useful, I also make sure to rest and recover back to Dorry-san's camp.

  That is because not all my fights with the creatures living on this isnd go as smoothly as I'd like them to, as sometimes I still get surprised by the resourcefulness of the predators of this isnd and end up with some wounds or injuries that force me to quickly go bad take care of them all to prevent to get them ied and worsen my dition by lot.

  Luckily the night at Dorry-san's camp was a quite peaceful one, as no creature tried to attack the camp at night, that is probably because the creature on this isnd had since long ago learhat attag the Giants' camp is equal to death sentence, so they all steer away from both the Sea King Skull Mountain.

  The day starts with the Hourly Volo once agaiing very early in the m, so early that the first light of the day isn't yet present in the sky, and I get up while muttering, "Not that the Hourly Volo has ever stopped throughout the night but at least Dorry-san and Brogi-san don't fight the night."

  Of course, quickly after the eruption, the isnd once more starts to shake uhe might of Dorry-san and Brogi-san's cshes, and feeling that I 't help but say, "If it tinues like this one of these days Little Garden is going to sink ond for all, uo withstand their fight anymore... After all, Jayr-san showed me how easy is to actually destroy an isnd..."

  I once again shudder as I remember the se of the fight between Jayr-san and the member of the Seven Warlords of the Seas, Dracule "Hawk-Eyes" Mihawk, The Stro Swordsmen in the World.

  Those two were able to single-handedly destroy an isnd twice the size of Little Garden, which by the way Jayr-saed with little to no effort, in a fight that sted only a few minutes more or less.

  Moreover, while I 't say anything about Mihawk's situation, Eri-san clearly told to a still-shocked Vivi-san, and Igaram-san who just saw two meroying a big isnd using only their swords, that Jayr-san didn't even go all out against Dracule Mihawk, and that what he has showed isn't even half of what he is truly capable of.

  Remembering that, I look at the still-dark sky and mutter, "Sometimes I'm kinda scared thinking about just how powerful Jayr-san truly be... At this point, I won't even be surprised if he suddenly tells me that the reasoopped doing push-ups is that he 't push himself up anymore because every time he tries, he pushes this whole world down..."

  After witnessing anht between Dorry-san and Brogi-san, I decide to meet with Brogi-san and then explore the part of the isnd that is around his camp which stands at the foot of the other Sea King Skull Mountain, but of course, before doing that, I also tell Dorry-san about my pns, asking what he thinks about it.

  Hearing about my pns, Dorry-san ughs and says, "Gegyagyagya! Sure you go a with Brogi. I'm pretty sure he will wele you as well, after all, as I told you before, we don't have any guests on this isnd or any at all. Most of you little humans that nd on this isnd are usually too scared to talk with us, or ht attack us on sight... Something that doesn't end well for them. Gegyagyagya!"

  Receiving his firmation I directly head in the dire i-san's camp, of course, I als with me the carcasses of a bunch of Velociraptors that tried to ambush me once more as a gift just like I did with Dorry-san.

  It seems that luck is on my side as on my way ti-san's camp I enter very few ambushes, but soon, I realize the reason, as I arrive at the big circur ke in the middle of the isnd, in front of me, I see the very tall and very wide figure i-san as he holds a bloody axe in his hand.

  Laying on the ground in front of him there is the bisected corpse of a truly frighting creature, it looks like the mix between a dinosaur and a Sea King, first of all, it is very big, bigger than any creature I have seen on this isnd, with a crocodile-like long snout lined with very sharp teeth, it seems able to easily move on both nd and water, moreover, its most notable characteristic of this creature is the rge, spiny, sail-like proje on its back.

  (Image Here - Spinosaurus)

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  Luckily this monster was clearly just killed by Brogi-san, because I was not sure I would be able to front it, especially since right o its bisected corpse, there was the mangled carcass of that frighting crocodile I met the first day on this isnd.

  While I'm looking at those two creatures, all of a sudden, Brogi raises his axe up in the sky and decres, "I am Elbaf's stro warrior, Brogi! Gababababa!"

  After that, Brogi-san decres, "With this catch, I have enough meat for today's breakfast and lunch. Today is my lucky day! I feel it today I'll defeat Dababababa!"

  At this point, I decide to step forward and greet him, "E-Ehm... Excuse me...?"Brogi-san notices my presend says, "Oh? So you are the little human that was watg my fight with Dorry? You are quite the young one. Gababababa!"

  I nod and then introduce myself, "T-That's right. Good m Brogi-san. My name is Koby and I'm on this isnd under my teacher's order to learn how to explore and survive in a hostile enviro."

  After saying that, I quickly tio expin, "Yesterday I mostly explored Dorry-san's side of the isnd, and used his camp as a safe pce to rest and recover, with his permission of course. Today, I pn to do the same on your side of the isnd, and I want to ask your permission to make use of your camp the same way I used Dorry-san's. Of course, to show you that I don't have any evil iion, I bring you those velociraptors I huoday as a gift."

  Brogi-san looks at me for a few seds then he once again ughs and says, "Gababababa! Sure! You use my camp to rest without any problem. It is o have some guests after all this time!"

  Then he crouches down and lowers his on the ground while saying, "e up. I'll bring you bay camp. it is way faster this way."

  Without aation, I thank Brogi-san and jump on his open palm, then Brogi-saily gets up and puts me on his wide shoulders, then he grabs the huge crocodile's corpse, the unknown dinosaur's corpse, and the velociraptors I gifted him and start to run back to his camp.

  After a while, we finally reach Brogi-san's camp, and ohere, Brogi-san quickly starts to butcher the scary dinosaur and prepare our breakfast using its meat, which tastes quite good despite, at the same time, we start to talk about various topics, about his childhood, the battles he went through, to pces he visited.

  Then the Hourly Volo erupts once more and Brogi-san once again heads out to fight Dorry-san, like always, I spectate from a safe distance as the two Giants who are clearly close friends tio try to kill each other without aation, in fact, they even have a tent smile on their faces.

  Watg this se, I 't help but feel a little sour while thinking, 'Those two clearly don't hate each other, in fact, they are very close friends that known each other sihey were little kids, basically they grew up together... Despite all this, they still fight each other with the io kill for over 100 years, and all that for their pride as a warrior!'

  In the end, their fight once again ends up in a perfect draw, and quickly after that, the two joke for a few minutes before they stand up from the ground once more and start to walk back to their respective camps.

  After their Brogi-san and Dorry-san's fight, I resumed my exploration of the isnd, but different from before, I had a few close enters that almost resulted in an injury, but that wasn't because the creatures living i-san's side of the isnd are more dangerous, no, they are mostly the same in danger level, after all, they are mostly the same kind of creatures.

  No, the reason for that is that my mind is too occupied thinking about Dorry-san and Brogi-san's situation as I want to find a way to stop this senseless fight.Looking at the corpse of the Saber Tooth Tiger lying on the ground who I just syed, I mutter, "There has to be a way to stop them from killing each other... There has to be another way..."

  Then I realize my mistake, sp my cheeks, and decre, "e on, Koby! I 't dwell on that now! I think about this problem during Dorry-san and Brogi-san fight. For now, I have to focus only on what is going on around me. I already had too many close calls because I wasn't focused enough."

  After that, I tio explore this isnd, fag all its hazards and dangerous creatures, stopping each time the Hourly Volo erupted to withe fight between Dorry-san and Brogi-san, learning as much as possible from it, while also thinking of a good way to stop them without actually offending them or f one of them to end up dead.

  Like that, my whole 2nd day on Little Garden pass, and finally the 3rd and st day on this isnd es, and I decide that their ing duel will be my st ce to try and do something about this situation.

  Soon the Hourly Volo sings the start of the first duel of the day, and Dorry-san and Brogi-san quickly rushe toward each other and csh in the middle, with Brogi-san's axe smming against Dorry-san's shield.

  At the same time, Brogi-san yells, "Don't you long for our home, Dorry?" to which Dorry-san replies, "That's exactly why I'll crush you today and leave for Elbaf at once, Brogy!"

  After saying that, Dorry-san thrusts his sword forward to stab Brogi-san, but Brogi-sas just in time, by jumping high in the sky making Dorry-san's attack miss.

  Then Brogi-san quickly sms down with its axe, aiming to bisect Dorry-san, who doesn't hesitate as the axe with his head using his helmet to stop the axe before it gains too much power, successfully blog the attack.

  Then both take a step back, then Dorry-san quickly once again thrusts his sword aiming at Brogi-san's neck who barely dodges by leaning his body to the side, while at the same time, throwing his axe, f Dorry-san to let go of his sword to quickly lean his body out of the axe's trajectory.

  Because of their excessive maneuvers, they both fall on the ground, but then, they quickly get up and use their shield to bludgeon each other in the face, and knog each other down ending this duel in another draw.

  Right after the fight, the two once again start to ugh out loud, and I take this ce to try and persuade them, so I don't hesitate, and rush toward them before they get up aurn to their camps.

  Once I'm standihem, I quickly yell, "Wait a moment! Dorry-san! Brogi-san! I may have a solution for your current problem!"

  They both sit up and look at me with clear fusiohey ask at the same time, "What do you mean, little Koby?"

  I take a deep breath then I expin, "I thought about it for a very long time... and while presumptuous, I think I know why you are uo defeat each other and clude this duel."

  They both appear to be ied, so I quickly say with the i of leading this versation in the dire I hope will work best, "First I want to tell you that I have no knowledge of your culture and that I have no iion of offending you, so if I say something wrong I ask you tive me." while saying this, I lightly bow my head.

  Seeing both of them nod in silence, I tinue, "But before I expin my solution to you guys. I want to ask you guys a few questions to further firm if my theory could be right. First, I know that you Giants live a very long life pared to other species, but even ting that, how much time it took the lo duel you have ever heard of to reach a clusion?"

  Hearing my question, both the Giant fall into silence, until after a few seds, Brogi-san replies, "Uhm... I think I heard of a duel that sted five years before reag a clusion... but I'm not sure..." followed by Dorry-san who nods and says, "That's right! I've heard of that too... I think..."

  I nod then, more sure of my theory I add, "Dorry-san, you told me that if a quarrel breaks out in your vilge and you 't settle it on your own, then you beseech the God Elbaf for his judgment. That Elbaf is just aows divine prote on those in the right, so, he'll ehe survival of the righteous. Is that right?"

  Once again both of them nod in sync, seeing that, I smile and say, "Then is it possible that in your case both of you are in the right? After all, you have fought for over 100 years, way lohan any ht you have heard of, so could it be that the reason why you always end up in a draw is that God Elbaf deemed that both of you are in the right bestowing you his divine prote so that both of you survive?"

  My question is met with absolute silence, as both Dorry-san and Brogi-san look at each other with their eyes wide open in shock, then Dorry-san says, "Brogi... could it be that little Koby here is right?"

  Brogi-san also appears stunned as he tries to find something wrong in my reasoning, but it is clear that he es up with nothing, so he says, "I don't know... but what he says does make some sense... It has been 100 years after all... I hought about it but I have never heard of a duel that sted longer..."

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