Jayr POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Paradise - 20 GAP

  I move my gaze betweeunned Koby and the surprised Hajime, while also looking at everyone else ahat most look fused by Hajime's rea, only Kaori and Shizuku, the two girls who discreetly looked up at Hajime's hobby so that they could get closer to him, look just as surprised as him.

  At the same time, I let out an internal groan while realizing, 'That's right! I fot to tell Koby and the others about the ing of the people from the Arifureta Universe and the Teoppa Gurren Lagann Universe! Well, it is my fault in the end, as I always dey this kind of discussion. I kinda didn't want to once again expin to the friends I made during the various adventures my in and the multiverse theory, it is way too much of a chore. But I find it even more hateful to lie to them, so it is time to finally e out , at the very least Koby deserves the truth.'

  I cp my hands t everyone's attention to me, and then I say, "Sorry about that, Koby. I fot to warn you about this. These are my close friends who came to visit me. And I know that you have many questions, especially how did they arrived here, and I will answer all of them, but before that, you please tell, Nikita, Vivi, and Igaram to e here? I want to expin this to everyone present."

  Hearing that, Koby unsciously nods and once again rushes ihe Athena's God Bidoof, at the same time, I start to materialize a table big enough and enough chairs on the deck using my Spiral o to allow everyoo sit fortably.

  Meanwhile, I also started to think about how to start the discussion, and what to say and what not to say, 'Ahh~ What a pain! Maybe I should prepare an informative video that will do so in my pce, ohat ahe most frequently asked questions and that gives a brief introdu to the Omniverse. I could give it a simple name like "Omniverse for Dummies", "Omniverse 101" or even "Basic Guide to the Omniverse", all of them could work just fine.'

  While thinking that, I also take this time to fully introduce Bidi to everyone, and Lenome, Hajime, and Oscar appear the most intrigued by her peculiar existence as they quickly start to ask me various questions about her, while the girls mostly gush over her cute appearance.

  After some time, Koby returns with a fused Vivi and Igaram, whose fusion turns into shock as they see all the people from the Arifureta and Teoppa Gurren Lagann Universes, but before they ask anything, I ihem to sit on any chair avaible and start to slowly introduce everyone.

  Strangely when I introduced Koby as my disciple, Kamina, Lenome, Freid, Oscar, Meiru, Miledi, Vandree, and Lyutillis all looked at him with eyes full of and pity, and quickly started to give him some encing words, like, "You do it.", "Don't give up.", "I'll pray for your soul.", "I hope you'll survive through the end.", "It was niowing you.", which makes me ask them just what kind of sadistister they think I am, but in respohey all narrow their eyes and stare at me with a gaze that says, "You kly what we mean!"

  Then, I start to expin to them everything, about my true in, about the Omniverse, about the adventures I had and the battles I went through iher different universes, about the Battle Across the Omniverse, the other Champions, about the fact that some universe is known to others in the form of stories ends which expins our prior knowledge of this world, in the end, in almost two hours, I tell them everything they had to know, I just don't tell them some minor details, like the actual power I'm capable of wielding or that I and Saori are actually Gods as I deemed a little too difficult to digest and I also don't want to give them a rough estimate of my capabilities in case one of the other Champions read minds and memories, an ability way too on in the Omniverse.

  Luckily this time, I also had the help of Nikita who was a former Champion, and of Saori, Seika, Eri, Tio, Lenome, Hajime, and everyone else who already went through some simir experiences, and uood what Igaram, Vivi, and Koby are going through.

  Of course, even with all of that, the trio is still shocked silly by the suddeion for a few minutes, but then they quickly recover and easily accept everything we just told them.

  One of the reasons is that the One Pieiverse is already full of strange, absurd, and mysterious things, so the people of this world have very open minds and somewhat easily accept such abnormal situations.

  The other reason is that it expins things that they weren't able to fully uand before, one such thing is the Athena's God Bidoof herself as she is the most advanced ship they have ever seen before with maures that make no se all for them, like the fact that it is way bigger on the ihan oside, or even Kharna and Tio's mysterious race which they have never heard of before.

  After that, we all started to enjoy the rest of the day having fun together, most of the girls spent the time on the deck sunbathing, gossiping, and swimming ier, while Darry, Gimmy, Belta, Kharna, and Galen pyed with Karoo and Python.

  Oher hand, after I made Hajime almost die in envy by showing him Crater Gar in my Soulbouory, I offered everyone my handmade mead and we all started to have fun and drink together until, at one point, we started a simple fishing petition divided in several rounds with the bet that the winner would be the first oo catething and would decide the losers' punishment.

  Of course, to avoid any form of cheating, we decided to just use some simple fishing rods and ban any kind of power.

  The first oo win was Igaram, he won 2 times in a row and made us sing some songs, but it wasn't a pleasant experience because most of the guys were horribly tone-deaf, Koby also won ond he let everyone gh one of his usual exercises, of course, we also had to wear the same weighted clothes, whice again made everyone look at him with both pity and a hint of respect, especially since, only Kamina, Lenome, Hajime, Freid, Vandre and I had no problem going through it.

  After Koby, Oscar also won ond made everyone wear gsses before taking a photo of eae of us and giving it to the girls, something that isn't so bad or unusual for us, but Vandre almost wao drown himself in mead after that as his hate fsses is just as strong as his hate for Ehit.

  Following that, Guame made us narrate our most embarrassing moment, which made me hear quite a few funny stories, like Lenome chasing after Simon with Lazengann trying to impale Simon's ass with his homing drills for 3 days when he learhat Simon and Nia had sex or the fact that Liliana calls Freid, "Frifri" when they are alone something that I'll make sure to make him regret telling us.

  Of course, I also won once, and the only thing that came to my mind was to make them all do a single iic performahat will be written in the history of this universe in the presence of everyone else present on board, and so, I pulled everyoo my Soulbouory and started to show them what they had to do, teach them the correct timings, moves, rhythm, position, and postures.

  Of course, the only ohat reacted when I started teag them that was Hajime who yelled, "No, fug way! Not that! Everything else but that! There is no way that I'll do that thing in front of someone!!".

  But in the end, he gave up uhe bined effort of peer pressure and the inebriation caused by the mead, so he started to practice with everyone else.

  After practig for a while i in my Soulbouory, I bring back everyone on the ded loudly yell, "In position!" catg everyone's attention as the guys line up, even Hajime who lets out a defeated sigh.

  Quickly after that, I use my Spiral o to activate the speakers all over the Athena's God Bidoof, and soon after a piece of upbeat musi be heard all over the ship, which is quickly followed by the lyrics, "?Vocal percussion on a whole 'nother level ing from my mind! Vocal percussion on a whole 'nother level ing from my mind!?"

  At the same time, Lenome fearlessly steps forward and takes his starting pose, his feet are pointing outward, his knees are also slightly bent and point outward, his left hand is c his crotch while his left shoulder is slightly raised, his right arm to side ready to flip his wrist.

  Soon the musitinues, "?Aaaaaahh! I want Golden Wind! (Kono me amareri maroreri merare maro)?" and Learts to slowly move to the right while he opens and closes his legs and flips his right hand to the rhythm, theops and spreads both his arms forward with his hands rexed pointing at the ground, and his head bends back looking at the sky, after that, he quickly bends his upper body a little forward while crossing his arms.

  The music goes on, "?Aaaaaaahh! I want Golden Wind! (Kono me amareri maroreri merare maro)?" and Lenome does a slight twirl on his pd restarts the beginning, but this time the position of the hands, knees, and shoulder are inversed as he moves toward the left, at the same time, Kamina, Kittan, Simon, and Hajime joins him following his exaents.

  This time after doing the pose with their arms spread forward and their head bent back looking at the sky, they all put their hands on their waist, and with their legs spread wide and their knees pointing outward, they all start to swing their hips as all the uys join them and the sun in the sky brightly shines on them which brings a tear to my eyes seeing their bravery and perfect coordination, 'They really did it! This is a perfect Torture Dahey didn't miss anything and are following the sounds of the Gangstar Torture Dao perfe.

  At the same time, I don't hesitate any more and decide to join them, and so, the music goes on as we all repeat the moves with perfect timing while the kids and the girls quickly cheer after us as we tihe Torture Dance, "?It's like a burning sunrise! (Ahi makareru makare punpue) It's like a burning su! (Kono me amareri maroreri merare maro) It's like a burning sunrise! (Ahi makareru makare punpue) It's like a burning su!?"

  At the end of the dance everyone cps and cheers for us who were able to plete such a great achievement, even Hajime has manly tears falling from his eyes as he mutters, "What did I do...? Kaori and Shizune will op making fun of me now..." but I ignore what his mouth says as he is the one who showed the most passion and itment during the whole dance, in fact, he was the only one who already knew all the steps of the dan advance as expected of my fellow Man of Culture.

  At the same time, I notice that even Freid, Oscar, and Vandre show a somewhat dejected expression as if they have lost something important that will never return, but it is more probable that they are just tired from practig until now and dang uhe burning sun of the Grand Line.

  Oher hand, the people from the Teoppa Gurren Lagann are clearly having fun with most of them ughing and joking, even Lenome and Guame have slight smiles on their faces trying to hide the fact that they had fun doing the Torture Dance.

  Even Koby, who is now sitting on the floor of the dack exhausted ents, "That was harder than expected, but it was also very fun... It is the first time I did something like this." followed by Igaram who nods and says, "Ma~ ma~ ma~! That's right that is a quite peculiar and strange dance, but it was also very fun... I felt ected to everyone like never before... Maybe I'll teach it to the Royal Guards ba Arabasta to train their cooperation and coordination skills, this could bring up some ued but iis..."

  After that epic performance, we tio spend the rest of the day simply having fun and rexing, thehe sky darkens as the sus behind the horizon, and in its pce the moon with its soft light rises in the sky taking the sun's pce, it is time for them to return back to their universes as they still have a lot of things to take care of ba their homes.

  So we are all bay Soulbouory, right in front of the Seeds of Culture as I and my family say oodbyes to our friends and thank them for the fantastic day we spent together, of course they also thank us as they also had a lot of fun too, and after promising to do something like this again.

  After that, I wish them nothing but the best and ect to the Seeds of Culture sending them all back to their homes in the Arifureta and Teoppa Gurren Lagann Universes, then we also retire to our rooms ihena's God Bidoof to rest for this night as tomorroill finally reach our destination, the Nanatsu Isnds.

  Jayr POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Nanatsu Isnd - 20 GAP

  We are all standing on the bridge of the Athena's God Bidoof watg as we get closer and closer to the Nanatsu Isnds, and just like Igaram told us the Nanatsu Isnds are a tropical archipego posed of six isnds of varying size, those six isnds form the shape of a ring with a rge empty region of sea in the middle.

  At the same time, I 't help but notice that as we get closer and closer to the Nanatsu Isnds, the more chaotic the situation on these isnds appears to be, as my senses pick up a lot of tension, fear, anger, and a whole stew of ative emotions, it seems that all the isnds are under some kind of attack.

  I also notice that the closer we get to the isnds, the more nervous and tense Nikita bees, so much so that I decide to try and reassure her, so, I put my hand on her shoulder and say, "Don't worry, Nikita. Everything will be fine, and don't fet that we are all here for you if you need some support or help."

  Hearing that, Nikita takes a deep breath, and then she simply and sincerely says, "Thanks, Jayr. For everything, you didn't have to go to such lengths to help someone like me, someone who was your enemy, you could have easily ignored me and tinued with your own matters, but no, you still decided to tend your hand and help me, not only that, but you and your family weled me and treated me like one of your own, and I'm really grateful for that."

  Then with a wry smile she adds, "I thought that things like this only happened in animes, I would have hought that I would experie myself in person... but it isn't so bad y..."

  Hearing that I smirk and say, "e on, I already told you before, look at these muscles, look at these hair... I am an anime character! Such things are already expected from me, and now that you are part of roup, you too. Wait for a little more, and I'm sure that soon you will experience your first Power of Friendship Power Up."

  At this point, Nikita starts to ugh out loud and says, "No God no, please no! I always hated when the protagonist got an upgrade out of nowhere with no sense or reason whatsoever just because he or she had friends..." but I shake my head and say, "It isn't that bad... sure there pces that truly onize suents, like in Fairy Tail where the strength of a wizard's magic is tied to the strength of their feelings, and so the members of the titur guild gain a huge boost of magical adrenaline due to how strongly they feel about their panions and Friends, namely seeing them getting hurt, pulling out powers up after powers up... But it feels incredibly good when you pull it off yourself..."

  While we tio joke, the Athena's God Bidoof tio move forward, heading directly for the closest isnd of this archipego, which is the isnd in the north, by far the smallest isnd among the other six, but even with its small size pared to the other 5 isnds, this isnd still has rge mountains, and a flora that sists of mostly tropical pnts such as palm trees, I also notice a small vilge built he beachy shores of the isnd.

  The buildied in that vilge mainly sist of wooden stilt houses, and it is clear that the people living here mainly practice agriculture and fishing as their main sources of food, there isn't even a dock built, so it is clear that they don't trade much with the other isnds, but I don't know if this is a prerogative of all the Nanatsu Isnds or only of this isnd which is located on the smallest isnd is sidered more remote and rural pared to the others.

  Ohe Athena's God Bidoof stops on the shores of this isnd, I, Koby, and Nikita quickly set foot on the sandy bead start to head toward the vilge to learn more about this pd what is going on here, and more importantly, to find out some information about the felloion Zandeer.

  But as soon as we walk for a few meters, the road ahead is blocked by a rge group of armed people, but strangely most of them look quite old, between their 50s and 60s, especially four of them who are obviously the leaders.

  The oanding in front of everyone is a tall, tanned old man with a rge nose, a predominant lower lip, short white hair, and a white beard and mustache, he wears blue, fur-lined sleeveless shirt, bck scks, brown boots, a neckerchief, and a blue bandana with a jolly roger on it, he also carries a rge axe at his waist.

  The old man quickly raises his axe and yells in a stern but threatening tone, "Stop there! Itsu Isnd doesn't wele the likes of you! I won't allow you pirates to tio do as you please on my Nanatsu Isnd anymore! I won't let you create any more chaos and harm the people who are living here peacefully!"

  Right behind there is a slightly tanned old man with slicked-back white hair and a grey, pointed goatee, he has a diamond-shaped face with a pointed , squinted eyes, and a doointing nose, with a physical stature simir to someone of a much younger age, he wears a bck jacket over a red shirt, bck pants, bck shoes, a grey headband, and grey sungsses.

  The other old man nods and says, "Hohhohhohho! Ko it seems that age is catg up with you. These guys don't look like pirates to me."

  At this point, aall, bald man with reddish skin, a rge, pointed nose, a square , rge lips, thin eyes, and an X-shaped scar on the right side of his head steps forward and says, "I agree with Otsu. These kids seem quite harmless to me too."

  He has a bck goatee. He wears a red leather, sleeveless shirt, red leather gloves, a pair oggles around his neck, silver earrings, bck pants, bck shoes, and grey sungsses.

  Hearing that, the old man called Ko gres at the sed old man and says, "Hei, you bastard! How many times do I have to tell you to not judge someone from his appearance! How many times did you get fooled before! Just shut up a someoually smart talk." whirages the old man called Hei and it seem that they are about to start an argument.

  But the tan-skinned, wheelchair-bound old man with round eyes, a rge, pointed nose, a brown beard, and a rge mouth es forward, he wears a bck, horned hat, a blue and bck jacket, a white undershirt, bck pants, silver rings, earrings, and red sungsses.

  The wheelchair-bound old man looks at the old man called Hei and says, "Big brother, calm down. This isn't the time for your usual argument with Ko, the Nanatsu Isnds are still in grave danger."

  Then the wheelchair-bound old man turns his head in our dire and politely says, "Sorry for that younguns. But the current situation is quite te the moment, if you could please tell us who are you and the reason why are you guys here, then it will make the situation easier for everyone."

  Hearing that, I calmly step forward and with a smile, I start to introduce ourselves, "Well met, my name is Pucci Jayr, you think of me as an explorer simply traveling around this world enjoying the sights with his family."

  I point at Koby who is cautiously watg the movement of all the men surrounding us and say, "This young man over here with the gsses is called Koby, he is my student and a Journeyman Recruit of the Marines."

  Then I poi Nikita and said, "While this lovely dy, is my good friend Nikita, and she is the main reason we are here as she is searg for her lover as they were forced apart for some reasons. We have a good reason to believe that he is currently on one of these six isnds, but we aren't sure whie is it. Anyway, we have no i in harming the people of this isnd, in fact, we even help you guys in dealing with this situation, but first..."

  I look at the group of old men, and at the same time, I release a little of my Spiral o to put some pressure on them so that I speed up this process a little as clearly we don't have too much time to lose, and with a calm but imposing tone I ask, "Now, who are you guys? And what exactly is happening here?"

  The old men stumble a little under my power and their eyes widen in shock, then they look at each other for a few instants until they reae kind of agreement.

  Then the old man called Ko sighs loudly, steps forward, and says, "My name is Ko, known as Ko the Landslide, and I'm the leader of the Laotour Bandits. These are in order, Otsu the Gentle Breeze, Hei the Fsh Flood, ahe Light Snow."

  Then he looks in the distand says, "About what is currently happening to the Nanatsu Isnds... Well, the situation is quite bad... The Simon Pirates took over Mu Isnd and for some reason are now luring a massive amount of pirates to the Nanatsu Isnds using the rumors of some kind of awesome a hidden treasure that only be found once all six of Treasure Eyes are recovered from the six ruins scattered all over the Nanatsu Isnds as a bait."

  Ko ches his fists as he tio narrate, "And now all these pirates are doing whatever they to find those damned ruins, moreover they also pilge, raid, and burn dowire vilges just for their own amusement, they even started to attack each other like rabid dogs! It's chaos all over the pce! The situation became so unbearable that we decided to take a and drive away all these scum!"

  At this point, Koby asks, "Excuse me... but by Simon Pirates, you perhaps ihe pirate crew uhe lead of Simon "The Divine" one of the Seven Warlords of the Seas?"

  Hearing that, I 't help but think, 'Simon "The Divine", huh? Could it be that the other Champion is also here? If so, what kind of shitty situation is this!? Now I have to worry about what two possible hostile Champions do, instead of w about only Nikita's friend.'

  Otsu standing beside Ko nods and says, "That's right! That bastard is the one behind all this!! How could he do something like this to these peaceful isnds is beyond me."

  But Ko shakes his head and says, "It isn't like we have any right to judge him... We still are bandits ourselves, but there are some lihat 't be crossed! And now he has to pay for all the pain he has caused! I have to stop him, even if it is the st thing I do in this life..."

  At this point, Ko suddenly fesses, "After all, some of the fault of everything that is happening here also falls on my shoulders..."

  Odyin