One Piece: I'm a Hunter on the Grand Line

"I can't take it anymore..."

Down the hillside, Weiwei, soaked in sweat, lay motionless on the ground.

She ran nearly 30 kilometers and did 1,000 push-ups in the morning, leaving her exhausted.

Seeing this, Yelena stopped urging them and carried them into the yard before starting to prepare breakfast.

Icarum arrived early and knocked on the door. As soon as he entered the house, he saw Vivi wolfing down her food at the dining table.

He was immediately startled.

Is this girl, who looks even more disheveled than a pirate, really his noble princess?

Weiwei was busy cooking and didn't have time to say anything. He didn't dare to ask either. After putting down the weapon, he hurriedly left.

"We've just eaten, so it's not a good time for strenuous exercise. Let's go practice our marksmanship first."

Yelena arrived at the back of the mountain with a gun, while Vivi followed slowly behind, burping as she walked.

"Start by practicing with stationary targets, and then move on to moving targets once you've mastered that."

Yelena placed a fist-sized stone on the tombstone ten meters away.

Weiwei took a deep breath, recovering from her post-meal drowsiness. She took the pistol, her eyes filled with doubt.

"I was wondering about this yesterday. In Guatemala National Park, you said you were going to teach me swordsmanship, so why did you bring a gun?"

Yelena retorted, "How can you master swordsmanship if you have a gun and don't use it?"

Vivi's eyes showed deeper doubt.

"Swordsmanship cannot be mastered overnight. How will you face your enemies before you have acquired formidable combat skills?"

Vivi shook the object in her hand. "With a gun?"

"Yes, imagine this: the enemy thinks you're a swordsman and is fighting you in melee. You suddenly pull out a gun and point it at his head. Wouldn't he have no time to react?"

Weiwei looked enlightened, but the next second, she seemed to realize something and her tone became hesitant.

"Isn't this too despicable? As a swordsman, shouldn't you focus on the sword? Isn't practicing with a spear a misguided path?"

Yelena's expression was serious. "Is a sword such an inconvenient thing?"

"My swordsmanship is to eliminate the enemy by any means necessary! Spearmanship is just one aspect of it."

"When you can defeat your enemies without relying on any other means, it means that your swordsmanship has already passed the initial stage."

The girl, who had never practiced swordsmanship before, had never heard of such a theory and was stunned. She quickly picked up her gun and aimed it at the stone not far away.

After an hour of marksmanship practice, Yelena figured that Vivi should have finished digesting her food, so she started having her do strength training.

In the morning, we practiced upper body exercises, and in the afternoon, we practiced lower body exercises. We didn't start sword practice until after dinner.

Looking at the row of swords in front of her, Yelena tried them one by one and finally chose a katana and handed it to Vivi.

This knife is the only one among all the weapons that is 80% new; the others are either chipped or rusted.

A small town with a large number of low-level bounty hunters, but very few blacksmiths, and most of their weapons and supplies are seized from pirates.

"Make do with this for now. You can buy some better ones when you go to other islands later."

"Some?"

Vivi noticed the difference in the conversation and was about to ask further questions when Yelena's task was already assigned.

"Practice 10,000 basic sword swings; you're not allowed to sleep until you finish."

"what?"

Four hours later, Weiwei dragged her heavy body to bed, too exhausted to even take a shower.

Before going to sleep, she had only one thought.

Say goodbye to insomnia?

What is insomnia?

I fell into a deep sleep less than three seconds after lying on the pillow.

Yelena stepped forward and covered her with the blanket.

It's only the first day, let's wait and see, she won't be soft-hearted.

A month later.

Whoosh!

Yelena grabbed a piece of log and threw it at Vivi.

Vivi gripped the sword with both hands and slashed downwards with all her might!

Click!

A log with a diameter of half a meter was split in two in mid-air and crashed to the ground on either side.

"Again!" A smile flashed across Weiwei's face, but her eyes regained their firmness.

"What are you doing here? You've passed the test. Keep practicing in front of the air and stop thinking about destroying things."

"But I want to cut something else." Vivi's gaze was fixed on the row of wooden stakes by the courtyard wall.

"Bear with it."

Yelena understands Vivi's current state. Just like Vivi back then, after learning kendo, she felt itchy to slash and stab at everything she saw.

It will be fine once this phase is over.

Watching Vivi's retreating figure as she brandished her knife, Yelena's eyes revealed a hint of amazement.

I had thought that Weiwei would be very talented, but I never expected that her talent and willpower would be so astonishing.

I train until I'm exhausted every day, sleep for a few hours, and the next day I feel like nothing happened and can continue training.

The limits of the body are broken time and time again.

It took him only one month to go from clumsily swinging the knife to easily cutting through wooden stakes.

If we let the current Vivi deal with the Vivi who used to wield the peacock saw, the outcome would probably be decided in less than three moves.

Yelena couldn't help but sigh, "Is this the world of geniuses?"

Before she met herself, she was simply wasting her talent.

After admiring others, Yelena stared at her palm, lost in thought.

She hasn't relaxed her cultivation over the past month, but her basic attributes are still increasing very slowly.

Their strength and physique each improved slightly, increasing from 30 to 31.

This achievement is not entirely due to the efforts of the past month, but rather the culmination of more than half a year's work, which has now come to fruition.

Adding more weight isn't a solution; to improve quickly, you need to hunt down powerful pirates.

The item's usage count has just been refreshed, so it's time to set sail.

To Yelena's surprise, before she could even notify Baroque's agents to gather information about the pirates, her superiors contacted her instead.

Robin's cool voice came through the Den Den Mushi: "Miss Halloween, hurry back to the Guatemala Island base, or tell me the name of the island you're on and I'll come pick you up myself. It's an urgent mission."

What urgent mission requires her and Robin to work together?

As Robin explained, Yelena gradually understood the reason.

This unexpected incident is actually related to Mr. 11 and his crew who brought her from the North Blue to the Grand Line.

On their way back to their branch after leaving Guatemala, they encountered a storm at sea. The ship was tossed about by the gale and huge waves, veering off course and running aground on an uninhabited island.

The island's magnetic field was abnormally erratic, cutting them off from the outside world, leaving them with no choice but to explore inwards.

The group discovered an ancient ruin in the center of the island. After overcoming numerous hardships, they entered the ruin and looted all the treasures inside.

It wasn't until a few days ago, when the tide came in, that their boat was able to return to the surface.

Unfortunately, shortly after making contact with Baroque headquarters, they were stopped by a pirate ship.

"The treasure isn't important; the key issue is that a square stone Mr. 11 and his crew brought back from the ruins was also stolen by the pirates!"