Jayr POV - Blue Star, Grand Line, Sabaody Archipego - 21 GAP

  In respoo Saori's words, Sorrento stands up and nods, and then he replies, "Yes it has, Lady Athena. Blue Star is a wonderful and pure world, full of life, enting sights, and very good and did people... Unfortunately, just like in our former world, there are also many unsavory things as well, but at the very least, here things are much more dired simple too. Because of this my Lord and my fellow Marinas are still very satisfied with this world."

  While Sorrento was talking, I quietly moved beside Saori and then I asked the question that was roaming in my mind since I noticed that Sorrento was the person riding on top of that huge Sea King, "Sorrento, you tell me oseidon and your fellow Marinas did since we went on our separate ways? And if possible, I'd like to also learn what are Poseidon's pns... Of course, if he told you that you 't reveal anything to us, or if you think that by telling us you will upset Poseidon then you simply not say anything, I'm just genuinely curious..."

  Sorrento shakes his head and says, "No, it isn't a problem at all for me to reveal that information to Lord Jayr and Lady Athena... Sihe end of the false Holy War, the fulfillment of Lord Jayr's promise and the ing to this world, Lord Poseidon totally buried his feeling of rivalry toward Lady Athena, so much that we Marinas have been ordered, to show the utmost respect to Lady Athena and Lord Jayr and even to follow their orders and give our support if requested and need as long as they don't flict with his."

  Hearing Sorrento's words, I have to admit that I was a little surprised at first by Poseidon's ge in attitude, but then, I remembered that Poseidon's personality truly takes after his main Divine Domain, the sea, 'This means that he is indeed very, very moody. If he is in a good mood, then he be one of the most benevolent Gods of the whole Geek Pantheon, but if he is in a bad mood or feels sed or offehen his rage and maliows no equal, after all, he did fight Athena for billions of years because she was givey to watch over the Earth by Zeus while he was "only" given the rule over the seas.'

  While I'm thinking that, Sorrento tinues, "Anyway, to answer your question Lord Jayr, after we separated, the first thing Lord Poseidon chose to do was to find a pce to build a emple for him so that he could fully ect with this world, and also a pce that could bee a new home for us..."

  At this point, Sorrento smiles slightly as he tinues with his story, "We were very lucky as using his ic Awareness, Lord Poseidon immediately found an iing pce that would have been perfect for our purposes, moreover, there was something in that pce that felt way too familiar to him, mortals with a very strong e to the seas, ohat was even strohan the ohat be found in the Solo Family, and among them there is a girl with a e way strohan anything Lord Poseidon ever felt before..."

  Hearing that, I immediately realize ce he is talking about and who is that girl, 'I will bet anything that Sorrento is talking about Fish-man Isnd, an uer isnd, the home of Fish-man and Merfolk, after all, I'm sure that there is no p this world more fitting for Poseidon... This means that the girl he is talking about only be Princess Shirahoshi, famous in the world as the Mermaid Princess, a giant smelt-whiting mermaid and the princess of the Ryugu Kingdom, as the you of Kiune's children and the only daughter in the une royal family. More importantly, she is the current ination of the A on which has the power to and the Sea Kings, an A on which is maybe not so tally named Poseidon.'

  While I'm thinking that, Sorrento says exactly what I expected, "The name of that pce is Fish-man Isnd, an uer isnd which dwells 10,000 meters below sea level in a giant hole that goes uhe Red Li the bottom of a deep trench. The isnd resides in a giant double-yered bubble floating above the sea floor, seemingly filled with about half water and reef and half air. Ryugu Pace rests in a smaller bubble on top of the main isnd's bubble. It is illuminated by the Sunlight Tree Eve. I have to admit that the first time I saw the isnd, for a moment I thought I was back at Atntis..."

  Hearing that, Gad and Saphir seem about to interrupt him and say something, but Emeraude quickly lightly pihem and whispers to them to calmly listen for now.

  Meanwhile, Sorrento tinues, "It is clear that Lord Poseidohe same, as he didn't hesitate to decide to build his temple there and take both the isnd and its residents under our prote. At first, some of the inhabitants of the isnd were somewhat hostile and wary of us simply for the fact that we are humans, and after learning their history I could also uand why, but thanks to the Divine presence of Lord Poseidon which made the Merfolks and the Fish-men feel natural revereoward him, the support of the King and Queen of the Ryugu Kingdom, and the stant effort of of the Marinas in proteg Fish-man Isnd and its people from the pirates and svers, we all have been fully accepted by the people and ied in their lives and of course, they started to truly worship Lord Poseidon from the bottom on their hearts allowing him to fully ie his Divinity to this world."

  At this point, Gad is uo hold himself bay longer and asks, "Wait, Wait, Wait! Are you saying that Fish-man Isnd is now under your prote!? What about Whitebeard!? And what is this Divinity that are you talking about!? Could this Poseidon guy be someone like Simon!? Does he think he is some kind of God too!?"

  But before, I or even Sorrento could reply to any of his questions, it is Robin who doesn't hesitate to say her own jectures, "If it is what I think is... this person we are talking about could very well be sidered a God. Poseidon is the name given to one of the three A ons said to be capable of destroying the world. I have read on a Poneglyph that Poseidon has the power to unicate with and trol Sea Kings, an ability that not even the most powerful Merfolk possess. This be sidered to be aremely powerful on because of the Sea Kings' destructive potential to sink isnds with ease, and to trol such a force is to be regarded as one of the most fearsome abilities iire world. When guided by the will of a righteous person, such power easily save thousands of lives, but with evil iions, it sink everything into the o..."

  Hearing that, Rubis, Saphir, Emeraude, and Gad loudly gasp as they know perfectly well what kind of destructive force the tless Sea Kings in this world exhibit, and then Robin tinues, "But now that I think about it, there is something that feels off... From what I have read on that Poneglyph found on Skypiea, Poseidon is the title given to certain mermaids belonging to the Ryugu Kingdom's royal bloodline, more colloquially known as the "Mermaid Princess"... but from the way Sorrento, Jayr, and Saori talked, it seems apparent that this Poseidon is actually a man..."

  At this point, Sorrento chuckles and says, "Heh. That's right, Lord Poseidon isn't a female aher he is a member of the Merfolk race, moreover, Poseidon isn't a title, but it is actually my lord's name, however, he does have a title, in fact, he has quite a few of them which are... Ennosigaios which be transted as "Earth-shaker", Gaiēochos which means "He who holds the earth", Kyanochaitēs transted as "Dark-haired", Pegios transted as "Belonging to the sea", Phykios which means "Full of seaweed", and even Hippios which is roughly transted as "Horseman"."

  After saying that, Sorrento looks at Gad and says, "To reply to some of your questions. Yes, Fish-man Isnd is now uhe prote of Lord Poseidon and his faithful, loyal warriors, the Marinas. Regarding the previous protector, the pirate that you refer to as Whitebeard, we were kind and graceful enough to send my fellow Marina General, Sea Horse Baian to inform the pirates about the ge, and the man named Whitebeard was wise enough to not make any trouble."

  (AN: I know that Whitebeard is one of the stro people in this world, but even at his prime he is greatly outmatched pared to any of the Marina General, using the vs battle wiki tier system, the site I use as a reference for the power level of the characters, he is at Tier 5, which is the Pary level, meaning capable of destroying a p, meanwhile, even the weakest of the Marina General is still at Tier 3, the Universe level, meaning capable to at the very least destroy a universe. Even the weakest known character under Poseidon, the Mermaid Thetis is around Tier 6, Isnd to ti level, and she is simply a random fish transformed and empowered by Poseidon.)

  At this point, Sorrento's words make Gad, Saphir, Rubis, Emeraude, Koby, and Robin take a sharp air intake and hold their breath, especially whehink about a force capable of making Edward e, the "Stro Man in the World", the "Man Closest to One Piece", more only known as Whitebeard, peacefully relent, but this is only the start as before I could stop him, Sorrento drops another bomb on them with a tone full of fidence, "Regarding your st question... I fot to tell you the most important title of Lord Poseidon, he is the God of the Seas ahquakes! Lord Poseidon IS a true God! Just like Lady Athena and Lord Jayr!"

  Suddenly the whole bridge turns silent for a few seds but then I hear Nikita, Zaio, and Alvida snicker, because of course, my lovers and felloions already knew everything about my and Saori's status as Gods and of course, the same be said about my kids, Python, and Bidi.

  However, their snickers are quickly followed by the shocked shouts of the only oill in the dark who are Koby, Gad, his wives, Saphir, Emeraude, Rubis, and Robin, the only one who didn't scream but instead her calm facade crumbles as she also shows a shocked and surprised expression on their face.

  Seeing their rea, I let out a resigned sigh while thinking, 'Well it isn't a problem even if they find it out, at first, the reason why I hid this information was that I felt like it was some senseless bragging, after all, in the great scheme of things being a God isn't so special, yes depending on the way one asded, the God iion be more or less powerful, have more "authority" or even unique abilities and Domain that give him an advantage over the others, but it is in no way something that unique or a sure way to invincibility and omnipotence, after all, I'm the prime example of that as I was able to defeat and kill Gods even as a mortal, and I'm not the only one capable of such feat, in fact, it is a pretty on trope in the Omniverse as a whole.'

  While I'm thinking that, Gad snaps out of his stuate, and then he suddenly asks, "Wait! Wait! Wait!! Do you mean those Gods, the ones with the capital "G"!? The ones people usually pray to!? They truly exist!!?"

  Hearing his questions, Saori nods and kindly replies to the shocked Gad, Koby, and the others, "Indeed, Gods truly do exist, at the very least from where we e from..."

  Saori then starts to briefly expin the usual basiformation about the Omniverse, the Gods, and so on, and at the end of her expnation, she says, "In the end, most of the Gods aren't that much different from mortals, the main difference is in our natural lifespan which is basically immensurable as we won't ever die unless we get killed, her uanding of the world and its rules, and depending on our domains, abilities, and powers the capacity to bend some of the rules to our wills..."

  After that expnation, we give them some time to digest this new flood of information of course the shock is still great fad, his wives, and Robin, who are the sted to join roup, meanwhile, Koby accepted it much more easily, after all, he has been with us for quite some time and has seen me do many "humanly" impossible things, in fact, after a few seds of shock, Koby simply let out a resigned sigh and said, "As expected of Jayr-san..."

  At the same time, I also notice that Robin quickly recovers her bearings soon after Koby, but now different from before there is a ed glint in her eyes, and I immediately realize that behind that excitement there are many other emotions, there are joy, happiness, expectation, and more than anything a strong desire to explore and learn.

  But then Saphir quietly asks, "Uhm... Does that mean that Jayr- Jayr-sama and Saori-sama do all kinds of impossible things... even reviving the dead?"

  Hearing her question, I sigh before I reassure her that she talk to me as she did before and expin that resurreg someone is a lot more on than what other people think, and that in fact, in many other worlds, even mortal have the power to revive the deceased, of course, that within a strict set of rules, the only difference is that for me those rules are a little more flexible, and I also expin to them that if I or some od decides to push more, or even pletely break those rules, the sequences vary but all of them are quite dire, from the universe/world itself starting to fight back to exile or kill you, to eveeral destru of the whole universe/world, and of course, such revetion shocks them even more.

  Sometime ter, we focus ba Sorrento and on the main topic of this discussion as I say, "Sorry about that, we had to expin that because some of them didn't know. Anyway, back to the main topic, what did Poseidon and the Marinas do after reag Fish-man Isnd, successfully building the Temple of Poseidon, aing accepted by the people living there?"

  Hearing my question, Sorrento doesn't hesitate to reply, "After dealing with all the malicious pirates and svers on the isnd, we first started to secure the areas surrounding the isnd with the help of those creatures called Sea Kings, which didn't hesitate to swear their allegiao Lord Poseidon just like all the other creatures of the seas, who mostly help us in doing some minor jobs athering pieces of information on the movements of svers, marine, pirates, and other individuals that could bring dao the people under Lord Poseidon or even bring harm and pollute the sea and the rest of this world..."

  At this point, Sorrento adds, "Talking about that, this year we took care of a certain individual named Chedhar ... no... Caesar ! That madman performed an experiment involving chemical onry on an isnd Punk Hazard. The experiment almost destroyed the isnd's entire ecosystem killing many people and leaving many others paralyzed. Luckily we learned about the i from a Panda Shark that was nearby and who passed the o a Sea King, and so on until it quickly reached our ears. As soon as we learned of that, we sent Scyl Io to take care of both Caesar and the situation he caused before it could spread and cause further damage. He was able to save most of the isnd and also learn more about the reasons behind the i."

  I 't help but be a little surprised hearing about Punk Hazard and Caesar as I did kinda fet about him and the mess he caused at Punk Hazard, but I quickly feel relieved once I hear that the Marinas already took care of him, 'It is good that Io already dealt with him, this way I don't have to worry about his kidnapping and experimenting on children to produce that artificial Zoan Devil Fruits... the Smile, hopefully, Io has even pletely destroyed any trace of SAD on the isnd, that particurly unique substahat Ceasar was able to produce which is one of the few things o create SMILEs, putting a stop to Donfmmingo's pns and weakening Kaido's crew...'

  While I'm thinking that, Sorrento doesn't stop and drops another bomb on us, "In the end, this st i was the st drop that broke the camel's back as Lord Poseidon finally chose to stop reinf our current position and act before it is too te and some stupid mortal in his or her ephemeral ambition ruins the beautiful phey took franted, and sihere is no other deity he has to worry over, he decided that it is finally time to take over the Wover and purge the more unsavory elements while also freeing the unjustly ensved people, in fact, we were preparing for the assault on the heart of the Wover, the Holy Land Mary Geoise, the capital of the Wover where its top brass reside and govern."

  Hearing that, makes Koby, Alvida, Robin, Gad, and his wives shout out in surprise, ""Whaaat!!?"" making Sorrento calmly nod while he adds, "Indeed, after living in this world for almost a year, we have learned enough about it to uand just how corrupted is the leadership of this world, if things tinue like this it will be iable that the mortal would end up to destroying themselves and the rest of this world with them. Lord Poseidon won't allow such a thing to happen as he took quite a liking to this world. And so he decided to take a more direct approach, he even ordered all the marine life to search for those opposing the Wover so that we work together to make the take over as smoothly as possible."

  At this point, Sorrento scratches his while muttering, "Now that I think about it, Lord Poseidoly sent Chrysaor Krishna to tact a certain Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionary Army to propose our help in bringing down the Wover and in exge they will ehat the sea and the rest of this world will be treated with the respect it deserves."

  After hearing all that, I immediately rex a little bit more while thinking, 'Good! This way I don't have to personally deal with bringing down the Wover and all the shitstorms that will e after. Hell Yes! Well... for sure, I'll still have to che this world from time to time to make sure that Poseidon or someone else doesn't fuck up, but if Dragon and his men truly bee the ones in charge then it is very likely that at the very least for this geion this world would bee a better pce, especially sihe Revolutionary Army was inally a group known as the Freedom Fighters before assuming their current name, and it is the only for the world that directly opposes the Wover ao disma with some form of success despite the heavy oppression of the Wover and the Marine.' While I was thinking that, we all started to move toward the dining area because with all that talking it was almost time for lunch, and of course, we invited Sorrento to join us and just for kicks I chose to prepare as first dish the Gnocchi al Sorrentina, an incredible Italian fort food dish made with soft and light potato gnocchi baked in a rid delicious tomato sauce with bubbling mozzarel cheese and fresh basil.

  This dish es from Sorrento, Italy, hehe name Al Sorrentina, which is a beautiful coastal town close to both the Amalfi coast and Naples, and tally, it is also the name of our lic-haired Marina General guest, so it is quite fitting.

  Meanwhile, to apany the Gnocchi al Sorrentina, I decided to use aypical recipe from south Italy as the sed dish, the Pollo al Cacciatora (Chi Hunter's Style), "al cacciatora" in Italian refers to dishes cooked 'hunter's style' although what hunter's style is, varies all over Italy.

  This dish no matter where you are in Italy, is always simple, rustid wholesome made with few ingredients but packed with beautiful hearty fvours.

  Any dish made al cacciatora always taiher meat, game, or poultry, the redients vary by region but carrot, celery, and onion are a must, sometimes mushrooms are added and although you'll often find tomatoes and wine in your stew they're not always added, but bell peppers and hot pepper are a must.

  While I and Seika are i preparing the meals for everyoh the help of Gad's wives, the others remain in the dining area and take their pce around the table and tio calmly chat about random topics, and with a quick sweep of my senses, I learn that Gad is particurly curious about what is happening on Fish-man Isnd and so he is asking many questions to Sorrento, Koby also questions him, but his questions are more tered about the level of power that the warriors of my world usually reach.

  Oher hand, Robin started to ask Saori, Eri, and Tio a lot of questions about the Omniverse, and in particur about the other worlds and she seems to enjoy very much learning about both Tortus and the Earth of the Arifureta Universe, and it is basically gushing when Saori starts to talk about the billion years of history that she experienced, which are basically the rise and fall of the eight distinct civilizations that emerged in the a world, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Maya, India, a, Rome, Greece, and Persia, a's not fet about the tless tribes that emerged sihe appearance of the first humans.

  Sensing, Robied state, I 't help but think with a wry smile, 'She is so excited about the immense wealth of wisdom and information which is Saori that Robin is almost on the point of having an asm... almost...'

  At the same time, my mind starts to focus on Saori as she tio kindly teach everything she knows to Robin, 'Thanks to the transition from o to Spiral o her Divinity finally fully synized with her reinated body whi turn made Saori fully recover all her memories and knowledge as the Goddess Athena instead of having only fuzzy and inplete ones while being slightly guided by her own o. Usually, such things briefly happehena's reinated body is donning her God Cloth and will bee perma when it is mature enough to withstand su influx of information and o, but thanks to the Spiral o that overall enhanced her whole being, it happened a lot soohan that, after all, Saori will turn 18 years old only this year, and eve wouldn't have been enough...'

  While I'm thinking that, we finish preparing our lund finally start to eat it together, having some light-hearted fun.

  After having lunch, we talked among ourselves and e to the decision to simply skip our pop at the Sabaody Archipego and accept Poseidon's invitation to visit him at his temple located on the fabled uer isnd, Fish-man Isnd.

  Odyin