Last chapter, after going to talk to the leader of the Long Sleeved Pirates who rudely splashed Seric and Karia's ship, suprisingly the pirates end up inviting Seric and Karia to have a drink as to give them a gift, and so they accept it and are led down to a wooden village, all inside of the bottom of the massive ship. And now, while they share a drink together, a robot appears who tells them about a fighting tournament.

Seric's P.O.V

I awkwardly look away from the soulless eyes as they stare at me for some reason, and luckily someone breaks the silence.

"Oh wow, so you guys got one of those high tech bot thingys huh?" Karia says.

"Hey! The names King Metallica, you got that PUNK!" The robot says as he bends down and gets in Karia's face.

"Ahhh Metalishma, Metallica, who cares, anyways so what's up with this fighting tournament?" Karia says as she takes a drink out of her second mug of booze.

"Hey, you should at least give him the respect of his name, Karia." I reply honestly.

"Ah, I see one of you is truly a man of culture!" King Metallica says as he continues to stand, wiping a fake tear off of his metal face.

"...Anyways, yes we're having a fighting tournament, with you two as the center stage." Adesia says as her go-lucky attitude is completely gone from before.

"Ohhhhh, sounds fun! Where do we *hiccup* sign up!" Karia says carelessly.

"Oh haha, I'm going to sit this one out, I'm not really much of a fighter." I say as everyone looks at me, the loud voices from around us stopping as well.

Why do I have a bad feeling right now?

"But... We can't just have a one man tournament! That would make absolutely, positively, certainly, undoubtedly, one hundred percent no sense, right?!" King Metallica says.

"This thing is gonna get super annoying super fast..." I think to myself.

"Come on kid, don't be such a baby, you just throw a punch or two and BAM, you've already won!" Karia says as she finishes yet another mug of the fruity drink.

"Hey, not to be a rain on your parade but, I think you've had enough for now. You have to fight soon after all, haha- ha." Adesia says with an uncomfortable laugh as she stops a vendor from giving Karia another mug.

"What the hell is she some sort of alcoholic?!" I think to myself worryingly and somewhat in awe.

"Haha, it's uh, not THAT EASY you know, Karia!" I say while giving her a very unamused face.

"Well... Would you be more interested... If there were some... rewards?" I hear a seductive voice say from next to me, as the  girl sitting next to me is staring at me intently.

"Holy shit! No no no, calm down Seric calm down, she's not even that good looking!" I think to myself with confidence, but as she continues to do nothing but sit at the table and stare at me my mind changes.

"Well... I guess I could fight..." I stupidly say.

"AH WAIT, I MEAN-"

"Yeah!!!" I hear everyone roar out at once, as even more people start to emerge from the wooden homes and stores surrounding the party court we're sitting in.

"Well I'm guessing you're his caretaker, so you can just sign right here for him." Adesia says in a happier tone as she hands the sheet to Karia.

"Huh?! Caretaker?! I can sign it on my own thank you!" I yell out in embarrassment as I walk up to Karia and easily take the paper out of her hands.

I then take the pen as well and sign my name on the sheet without hesitation to prove my point.

"Thank you~" Adesia says victoriously.

"Damn it! I fell right into her trap! What the hell am I supposed to do now?!" I think to myself in panic.

"I guess you've got some balls after all kid." Karia says with a laugh as she takes the sheet and pen from my shaking hands.

"Well, now that that's settled, now we go to the super, duper, necessary, simple, interesting, important rules of this tournament! You guys will each fight two of my friends here in that white circle... And for the final fight, both of you will have to fight Captain Adesia herself as a team!"

"What?! I have to fight two of these people on my own?!," I think to myself as I nervously look around to try and guess what enemies I would face, "Plus, even if Karia is with me in the last fight she'll be piss drunk by then!"

"Wait, so is killing going to be allowed in this tournament? And how do we "beat" the people that we're fighting?" I ask trying to sound calm, as Karia starts talking with one of the guys next to her.

"Greaaaaaat question! ...s! If you kill any of my friends here, I'll kill you! And so to beat them, you can either knock them unconscious, or knock them out of the area of the ring." King Metallica replies happily.

"Well the way he put it sure doesn't sound nice, but at least that means me and Karia are relatively safe for the most part." I think to calm myself down a bit.

"Also, if you win this tournament... You get the grand prize, me!" King Metallica says as he tries to show himself off by flexing his purely mechanical arms.

"Ugh, not this again..." I think to myself as I remember "My Best Friend."

"Hmph, this stupid pile of bolts is really getting on my nerves, just his personality is enough to make someone go cuckoo!" "My Best Friend" says.

"I think you have a bit more in common with him than you think..." I laugh to myself.

"Alright, the first match up... The first match up is Seric vs Remi!..." Adesia says tiredly with her head held low.

"Huh?! Already?!" I exclaim as I stand up from the table, looking around to try and see my opponent.

Finally, a dwarf sized man wearing a black long sleeved shirt comes out from one of the crowds, and enters the white circle, standing by the head of the phoenix mural painted overtop of it.

"Ok, he's even shorter than me, and plus, if worst comes to worst he'll just knock me out of the ring. Besides, even if he did actually try to kill me, it's not like I'd actually die anyways." I think to myself as I head over to the stage with more confidence than before.

I stand in the other end of the phoenix, and the dwarf only stares at me with determined eyes.

"Three... Two... One... Begin!" Adesia says with a bit more enthusiasm now, and as I look over I can see that King Metalica has moved to another table and started talking to other people instead.

"Ok, are you-" I say as a hammer suddenly whacks my leg.

"AGH! WHAT THE HELL!?" I think to myself as I'm crouched beneath the dwarf, who at the moment is giving me degrading eyes.

"Hmph. Pathetic." He says as he starts to hit my face with said hammer, all the while Karia is still flirting with some other guys at a table, and suprisingly Adesia is cheering me on with all of her might.

"OW, STOP IT ALREADY DAMN IT!"  I yell as I look back over to my fight, ripping the hammer out of his hands and chucking it out of the arena.

"Oh, you're done now you stupid midg-" Suddenly, another hammer slams down on my head, causing me to fall over in pain.

"Hmm? What did you call me? Hmmmm?" My opponent says as he starts to weakly kick my chest as I hold my head in pain, lying on the floor.

"Make it stop-" I say in defeat as I continue to be humiliated by this stupid shrimp.

Once again, the dwarf starts hitting my head over and over with the rubber hammer as I try to take it from him but I'm in too much pain to do it properly.

"How is this allowed, I would have been dead by now if I was a normal human! Wait a minute..." I think to myself with an evil smile.

"H-Hey, get off of me you stupid dwarf!" I yell out in between his hits.

This makes him grit his teeth. Good, that means it's working.

He starts to pummel my head with the hammer even harder, and to say the least it hurts like hell.

"Hey, King Metallica!" Adesia yells from the sidelines.

"Required to Exterminate... Rank A!" King Metalica exclaims, and immediately he starts to walk over to the arena, rolling up the sleeves of his robe.

"Hey, now listen up here pal." He says calmly as he bends down, tapping the enraged shrimps shoulder.

Without thinking, the dwarf swings the hammer behind him and hits the crown off of King Metallica's head.

"..." King Metallica looks straight ahead with a completely blank face.

"Well that's a shame, I guess this match is over!" King Metallica says, and immediately after he puts his metal palm on my attackers chest.

The dwarf looks down, and with a final gulp he's launched into oblivion, making a hole through the roof of the wooden ceiling.

"..." Is the only thing I can think to myself, my short hair now completely pushed back from the blast.

"And the winner is... Seric!" Adesia happily cheers, as everyone in the crowd roars as well.

I'm still feeling lightheaded, and so only after a little bit of time I start to slowly stand up with a weak smile on my face.

"Hell yeah, I'm a genius!" I think to myself proudly, since even though that was a cheap win it was still according to my plan.

"Alright! Let's not waste any time, the next fight is... Karia versus Trizoa!" Adesia says happily with her face tinted red.

"Oh? I'm up! Sweet, let's have some fun~" Karia says with a laugh as she slowly starts to walk to the stage.

I start to walk off the stage towards Karia, "Hey, are you sure you're ready to fight right now? I'm sure we could-"

"Oh please, I can handle a stupid grunt with my eyes closed." Karia says in annoyance as she walks past me on to the stage.

"Well, she does have a point..." I think to myself, remembering when she easily took out Aeko's robots and so I continue to walk back to our table where Adesia awaits.

"Ah, you did so good, Seric!" Adesia and the other girls at our table say at once as they look at me in admiration.

"Oh- uh, haha, it was nothing really." I say with a blush on my face as I try to look cool, but probably only seeming weird.

"This is awesome, why the hell didn't I think of fighting sooner?!" I think to myself with the tiniest grin on my face.

Suddenly out of the crowd, a tall man with a serious face, wearing a purple long sleeved shirt and purple pants appears from the dim outskirts of the court, only being lit by the dim torches around the completely wooden village inside of this boat.

"Oh, hey." Karia says calmly as she waits at one end phoenix painted on the white circular arena as her opponent arrives at his end.

Knowing that Karia should be able to handle this, I turn over to King Metallica.

"Hey, what did you mean by "rank to exterminate", and how did you even launch that guy so far?" I ask.

"Oh, that's super simple, easy, un-complex to explain! Depending on what someone is doing to one of my assigned friends, I assign a rank to exterminate! Since normally getting hit with a hammer that many times would make someone's head go splat, I assigned the highest rank, A! Oh, and I knocked him off the stage using my first Sphere out of three, Catapult!" King Metallica explains as he shows me his open palm, and like he said a red sphere with a catapult painted on it is engraved into his hand.

"Rank A? If it was that high of a rank why didn't he launch the dwarf right away instead of tapping his shoulder? And I do not like how close that palm is to me." I think to myself as I come back to my senses and back away from King Metallica a bit, his head immediately flipping upside down.

"AH! I'M SORRY PLEASE DON'T LAUNCH ME!" I yell out which draws Adesia's attention from Karia's fight.

"Hm? I'm not gonna make you fly, I'm just confused as to why you backed away!" King Metallica says.

"Oh-oh haha." I say, taking huge sigh of relief.

"Seric, you really do have a strong friend hm?! Even being as drunk as she is, she's still putting up a helluva fight!" Adesia says happily, her strange attitude from before completely gone now as she doesn't look away from the arena.

"Hmph, a few mugs of alcohol really work magic." I laugh to myself.

Looking over myself, I see that the man is repeatedly charging at Karia, and all she's doing is clumsily sidestepping the second he gets in range of her, causing him to almost run out if the arena every time.

"I guess she learned something from the fight with Aeko after all..." I think to myself as I remember how before she didn't know how to escape his charge, although Aeko was much faster than this goon in his enraged state.

"... Hey, best friend?" I ask to myself out of boredom.

"What's up pal?" He responds.

"You never answered me before, so just what are you? Also, do you know what I am?" I ask out of the blue. The fact that I'm talking to a boat is still pretty hilarious.

"Why, I'm your blessing of course! I only know just as much as you do after your memories got *jazz music stops*, so I have absolutely no idea what I do other than being an eleven out of ten outstanding boat!" My Best Friend replies.

"Hm... So I guess that means that your part of my regeneration and weird body then..." I think to myself.

"Spirit of *hiccup* Kodan: Strike!" I hear Karia yell, and looking back over again a big red fist appears from thin air, punching the seemingly tough man off of the white arena and into one of the surrounding tables.

"These two are on a roll! The winner is, Karia!" Adesia cheers happily, raising her drink and spilling a bit of her drink on her red long sleeved shirt.

"HELL YEAH!" The rest of her crew cheers.

"See kid? I told ya I could win~" Karia says as she starts to stumble off the stage, heading back to our white clothed table.

"That was quite an outstanding, super, well done, entertaining performance! You may as well take this crown off my head you two!" King Metallica says with a smile on his mechanical mouth.

"J.U.S.T KIDDING IF YOU DO, I'LL KILL Y.O.U." He says in a demonic tone, scaring the living shit out of me.

"Well then... Next up, is Seric vs Popshot!" Adesia says with sweat on her face, as from the crowd a boy stands up from one of the tables, unsuprisingly wearing a blue long sleeved shirt appears, and begins to walk towards one end of the arena.

A/N: Does anyone read The Seven Deadly Sins or One Piece? Cause man these last chapters for both have been insane, if not what other anime or manga do you guys like?

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