One Piece: It's always been you

Chapter 106 Able Person

After Cracker obtained Katakuri's sailing location from Perosperona, he set off from Universal that very night.

On the second day of his voyage at sea, the Den Den Mushi rang. It wasn't Perospero or Yu who contacted him, but Katakuri, who hadn't been heard from in a while.

"Katakuri-san, where are you now?" Cracker excitedly spoke into the Den Den Mushi. "Brother, Yu went out to sea alone, and we haven't heard from her."

Perospero had already explained the specifics to him: "Don't change course, let's meet up first."

The crystal's light color indicates that Yu is very far away; the slow flashing frequency means Yu is safe now.

Most importantly, the crystal's direction was constantly changing, and Yu was still moving. Without a fixed location, Katakuri decided to rendezvous with Cracker first.

We met up with Cracker on the fourth day.

By the fifth day, Yu's position hadn't moved. Katakuri looked at the direction indicated by the crystal, and combined this with the logging pointer, a sense of unease crept into his heart.

In that direction, there is an island where the Navy Branch G-1 Base is located.

"Brother, why would Yu go to the Marine branch base?" Cracker couldn't figure out why. What kind of pirate would go to a Marine base and walk right into their trap?

Katakuri wasn't sure either, but, "Let's go ahead, it might just be a short stop along the way."

On the sixth day, the crystal suddenly started flashing very rapidly, and Katakuri knew that Yu was in danger. But soon, the frequency decreased again, which meant that what Yu was facing would not be life-threatening.

Around the same time, Perospero called.

"Katakuri, Celluloid is in Tales of the World."

"What! Perospero, wasn't it said that Celluloid took Yu away? How come she's in the Land of Treasures?" Yu is clearly still on an island in their sailing direction.

Katakuri wasn't surprised. With Salant's secret help, Celluloid used teleportation to take Yu away from Whole Cake Island, and she was capable of returning on her own. "Perospero, send her to see Flampe."

In Tales of Universe, Celluloid's support comes from Flampe. Flampe had been hostile towards Yuu Cun before, and her confinement had long since ended. However, Flampe has become much more obedient; at least on the surface, nothing has happened.

If things go according to her own plan, Celluloid will go to Flampe, and their conversation might reveal some information.

Perospero understood and immediately hung up the Den Den Mushi.

"Brother, is Yu alright?" Cracker didn't miss the worry on his brother's face before Perospero called. Celluloid went out with Yu, but returned to Whole Cake Island first. There could only be one possibility: her plan had succeeded.

Then Yu would be in grave danger!

"She can handle you, at least she can escape from G-1 base safely." Katakuri was confident of that.

Cracker didn't know Yu's abilities, but Katakuri did.

Her control over the seas is no joke; when she's at her peak physical condition, she's enough to make any opponent back down. After all, she's been on many voyages with him, and he's trained her quite a bit.

But Katakuri didn't know that he was wrong this time.

Yu was captured by Vergo and Celluloid in G-1 base, but managed to escape in G-5 base and his whereabouts are unknown.

Cracker was speechless. "Brother, if you want to praise Yu, just praise her properly. Why are you putting me down? You can't be so mean."

"Instead of just talking, you should focus on improving your strength. You can't even handle Yu, and you're dragging down the level of the Three Sweet Commanders." Katakuri's mouth, which was at a 37-degree angle, spoke words that were less than 0 degrees.

"I didn't use my full strength against You." If he wasn't afraid his brother would come after him, he would have killed him in a second. After all, he is one of the Three Generals, so he certainly has that much strength.

Of course, he didn't dare say it aloud; he didn't have the guts.

"How do you know Yu used his full strength?" Katakuri retorted mercilessly. It's time to work on this younger brother's personality; arrogance is a major taboo.

Cracker chose to keep quiet because he was incompetent and lacked the ability.

It concerns everything about You; his younger brother neither needs nor deserves to have a sense of existence.

Yu's location remained unchanged for only one day before it started moving again.

This time the speed wasn't fast, but Katakuri still increased the ship's speed in the search. Almost three more days passed, and Katakuri observed from the crystal that he was very, very close to Yu.

Further ahead was a naval warship with the words "G-5" written in large letters on its sails.

The crystal is pointing in the direction of this warship. Yu is on the warship; she's in the hands of the navy!

……

"Dark water!"

In an instant, darkness swept in from all sides, drawing everything into it; the darkness of the dark water was unfathomable.

It was that move again. Yu thought to herself that she was in trouble, but there was no way to avoid it or dodge it.

Dark Water, with its infinite gravity resembling that of a black hole, pulls everything around it, including You, toward the user. No matter how far apart they are, they cannot escape, not even those traveling at the speed of light.

This was probably the umpteenth time the person in front of her had used this move. Yu could only struggle to stay as far away from the ability user as possible, and especially avoid touching him.

Having already learned her lesson the hard way, Yu couldn't use her abilities once she came into contact with another ability user. Not only that, but she would also be knocked down by the person in front of her. She had been punched countless times, and it was excruciatingly painful.

The opponent was a rugged-looking, hairy, and burly middle-aged man with excellent physical fitness. For You, who lacked the ability to use domineering aura, having lost her powers and only having physical attacks left, this posed little threat to the man in front of her.

Yu already knew that he had eaten the Dark-Dark Fruit, making him a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, a very special type of Devil Fruit.

The previous user of the Dark-Dark Fruit was Rocks, the captain of the Rocks Pirates, who dominated the seas more than 30 years ago and had a great ambition to become the King of the World.

However, due to his excessive ambition and open defiance of the World Government, he was defeated by Garp in the God Valley Incident and erased from the world and history.

It must be admitted that he had a very powerful pirate crew, including Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, and Shiki the Golden Lion. Most of the famous pirate crews today are related to him.

Sengoku's grandfather's assessment of him was, "Perhaps he was also Roger's first and strongest enemy."

Rocks died, and the Dark-Dark Fruit reappeared in its fruit form, only to be eaten by the person in front of him.

Yu had seen many bounty posters during her time in the navy, and her grandfather would especially show her those with bounties exceeding one hundred million. Yu didn't recall seeing a bounty poster for this person before her, which meant his bounty was less than one hundred million.

But given his strength and abilities, Yu doesn't think he won't be targeted by the Navy. His Devil Fruit power is too unique and too domineering.

Unfortunately, it happened to me.

After escaping from the G-5 warship, Yu originally planned to circle around the island to the other side. Unfamiliar with the route and without a save point, Yu was forced to remain on the island.

Having escaped G-5's clutches, Yu spent a short, cautious night resting on the other side of the island. The next day, she arrived at the island's coastline and secretly boarded one of the boats.

This is a naval base, and although it's a branch, pirates won't come here. Most of these ships are cargo ships and don't pose much of a threat.

So Yu thought the ship was a cargo ship, but he didn't expect that after sailing for a day to the nearest island, the ship would stop on the side of the island far away from the town.

Yu didn't care about all that. Anyway, she was far away from the Marine branch base, so at least she wouldn't be in much danger. She could just use a Den Den Mushi to contact Little Firecracker or Brulee from Whole Cake Island, and she could go back. She just didn't know how Katakuri was doing.

Not only Yu disembarked from the ship, but also another person, the Dark-Dark Fruit user who had dealt with Yu.

Yu quickly discovered this and confronted him directly.

She originally wanted to finish the battle quickly. But she soon realized that she had underestimated her opponent, and the battle dragged on until he used "Dark Water" time and time again.

Yu took another solid punch, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Clutching her chest with one hand and bracing herself against her knee with the other, she propped herself up. Yu swore this was absolutely the most formidable enemy she had ever encountered. And to make matters worse, she didn't recognize him, and had no idea when he had been created.