Chapter 132 - Chapter 134

The strange Portgas family was standing inside their house in silence. Naruto and Sasuke had been unusually quiet the whole morning, and they were standing with blank expressions in front of Sylvia and Amell.

"What is the matter with you two?" Amell asked while standing there and holding hands with Sylvia. She looked equally puzzled at their behaviour, and Naruto finally broke the silence between them.

"I know it's been a while since you guys saw each other and all, and I'm sure you were impatient, but next time please make sure your room is properly soundproofed," Naruto said in despair, and Sylvia got red as she realized what she had put the kids through.

"hahaha! Oh well, my bad!" Amell said and laughed hysterically. Naruto and Sasuke glared at him when he started laughing.

"This is no laughing matter! At one point it sounded like someone was killing Mom," Naruto said, and he got sick to the stomach and felt like vomiting. Sylvia wanted to just sink into the ground and die, and her husband was too busy laughing at Naruto and Sasuke to notice her struggle.

"Try and see the positive in the negative. At least now you won't need to fear the thought of forgetting us." Amell said and gave the boys a casual and confident thumbs up.

"I fail to see how that is a positive," Sasuke said and continued to fight the urge to throw up, just like Naruto.

"Anyway! We should leave before it becomes even more uncomfortable here," Sylvia said what everyone except Amell was thinking.

"Honey, please just let us go." She said to Amell, and he smiled. He performed a much smoother cut than last time and the space gate appeared again in front of him.

"Step inside, there is nothing to fear inside." He said to Sylvia. She nodded and before leaving she looked up at the boys and waved with an uncomfortable smile on her face.

"b-Bye!" She said and quickly stepped inside the gate. Naruto and Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief as soon as she was gone.

"Remember to talk to Alucard if you want to visit sometime in the future," Amell said and smiled and waved towards the boys.

"Y-Yeah, sure, Dad. Have a good time!" Naruto said and waved.

"Good luck, Uncle Amell!" Sasuke said without much emotion.

Amell jumped in and the portal closed behind him, "THANK GOD!! THAT WAS HELL!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs. And Sasuke smiled slightly and walked away.

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Inside Amell's office on the top floor in the massive building standing on his floating island, a beam struck down and destroyed the roof of his office. The beam quickly faded away and Amell and Sylvia were left standing inside his empty office.

"Wow, this is interesting! I have never seen things like this before." Sylvia said excitedly while observing the modern looking office. There were four monitors on Amell's desk and behind it was the beautiful giant window that gave you an overview of the world underneath the floating island.

"Out of all the worlds I have been in and spread the Gotei to, this is by far the most technologically advanced world. So you will see things in this world that you have never seen before." Amell said and embraced her from behind. He started to kiss her neck, and it was then that the big double doors to the office exploded and Shiryu dashed into the office with five other people.

"C-Captain?! Is that you?" Shiryu said while standing and holding his sword with both hands. He signalled the others that had surrounded Amell and Sylvia to stand down. He put away his sword and breathed out in relief.

"I sensed a crazy powerful aura and thought we had been invaded by a powerful enemy. I apologize for not recognizing that it was you all along. It's just that your aura and almost everything about you has changed, Captain." Shiryu said in slight embarrassment.

"No worries, Shiryu, I have changed a lot in the years I have been gone. So let's sit down and you can tell me about everything that has happened during my absence." Amell said and walked over to the round table and sat down. And all the people around him followed suit and also sat down, except Sylvia, she went and sat down behind Amell's desk since she had made it clear she didn't ever wanna take part in being a leader of any sort.

"So I can assume this is the Zero division's inner circle? I like what I see so far." Amell said and looked at all the people sitting around the table. They all wore confident expressions as they too observed the legendary individual they had served for years without having ever met.

"Yes, these are them." Shiryu sat so Amell was at his left, so he started introducing them from his left.

"This is Annabelle," He introduced the woman that was just shy of two meters tall, and very slim. She had long hair divided into yellow and green colours. She had one yellow coloured eye and the other one green. She confidently did a quick salute while being introduced by Shiryu.

"Next we have, Albion." He pointed at the man beside Annabelle. He was three meters tall and looked like one big muscle. He looked like four bodybuilders had merged and the result was this man. He had tanned skin with a bald head. He smiled brightly and waved at Amell.

"Next up is, Rick." A man sitting bare-chested with only a pair of pants on. His entire body was covered with scars of all kinds, swords, knives, he probably had more than a hundred scars all over his body. He smiled from ear to ear as he was being introduced. He was also a tall and slim man. He was unhealthily skinny.

"And then we have Genma." A short and chubby man with a full black beard sat there and looked at Amell with great admiration in his gaze. One entire half of his body was burned, so the right side of his body including his right arm had burn marks all over it.

"And the last one is Minerva," Shinryu pointed at the last member of the group. She had long wavy purple hair with violet coloured eyes. She held a lot of arrogance and disgust inside her eyes. But none of it was directed at Amell, so it was likely a product of her belonging to a powerful pirate group. She most likely just got used to the authority and power she had because she also belonged to the strongest Division inside an Emperor's pirate group. So she probably looked at the whole world as being underneath herself in terms of power and importance.

"This is the members of your inner circle, and they are some of the most infamous pirates in the world. And they are the primary fighting force standing against the light unit." Shiryu said and sighed in annoyance at the mention of the light unit.

"Right, I forgot about them. The World Government's unit created especially for me. What was it they told the world again? They were gonna Drag the evil Emperor out from the shadows or something?" Amell laughed at the ridiculousness of how they advertised their unit to the world.

"Yeah, that's what the world sees. But during the time since their creation, they have destroyed nine civilian villages because some rumours about you hiding out in them. That's the side the world doesn't see." Shiryu held no positive thoughts against the Marines or the World Government anymore. He was fine with his position here. He was insanely busy, but at least he had completely free will and even a high position inside the Gotei.

"How are my commanders doing?" Amell asked.

"Good. They are about as famous as someone can get. They all have insanely high bounties, except for Bradely who is an Admiral inside the Marines now. He is as worshipped by the Marines as Sengoku and Garp are. But I have to admit it is quite creepy just how loyal he is to you, I have never seen anything like it before. May I ask, where did you find someone like him?" Shiryu asked carefully, very careful not to offend Amell.

"hahaha, I would expect nothing else, he is my son after all," Amell said with a bright smile. At this, the people around the table lost control of their jaws.

"Really!? That explains so much about his behaviour." Shiryu said and laughed heartily.

"Captain, your darling son gave me this scar last time I met him! He can be such a meanie sometimes..." Rick said in an overly flamboyant tone of voice, and he waved around his arms at the same time. And he also showed everyone a blade scar that went from the base of his neck almost down to his waist.

"Perfect! That means he is playing his role nicely." Amell said and leaned back on his chair.

"Meanie!!" Rick said and sat back down and sulked. The other members just shook their heads and sighed at his behaviour.

"Just out of curiosity, do you have the bounty posters here?"Amell asked with an excited expression that he tried to hide to the best of his ability.

"Yes, we do, Annabelle would you please go fetch them," Shiryu asked the green-yellow-haired beauty with some freckles around her nose.

"Okay." She said in a monotone voice. And Annabelle took one of her hairs and threw it behind her and it turned into another Annabelle. And it ran out of the room to fetch the posters.

"Cloning? Interesting, does it work with only your hair?" Amell asked her.

"No, I can do it with anything that is a part of me," Annabelle said in a respectful tone of voice.

"That can be useful. What is the power divide among your clones?"

"I can create up to five clones. And my power divides by twenty per cent per clone. So in a fight, I usually never make more than one. But clones have no limit, so they can stay active until they are killed or I dispell them. So because of the weakness of this fruit I usually only work as an information gatherer. The enemy can never capture my clones since I can dispell them whenever I choose. And whatever they experience through sight, hearing and smell, I experience as well. But I feel no pain should they be killed or hurt." Annabelle explained slowly and her clone came walking in with the posters.

"Let's see here!" Amell looked at all the posters that the clone laid out on the table in front of him. He saw most of the commanders, not all of them.

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Byakuya Of The Billion Blades}

1,600,000,000 Belly

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Amell picked up Byakuya's poster and smiled, "Fitting nickname for him," He said and picked up the next one.

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Toshiro Hitsugaya, The Traitor}

1,101,100,100

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"hm, guess you should expect the Marines to give him a title like that." Amell was angry about Toshiro's title, but if he knew Toshiro like he imagines he did, then he suspected that Toshiro didn't care what the Marines called him. All that matters to Toshiro was the downfall of the World Government.

"What do you think, Captain? The whole world now fears us as much as they fear the other Emperor's. We are standing at the top of this world where only a selected few can oppose us," Minerva said while sporting an arrogant smile. Amell glanced up at her and just nodded along because she wasn't wrong. He said nothing and just continued reading the posters.

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Kenshin Himura, The Merciful Killer}

1,999,999,999

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Cal Shekar, The Copy Cat}

1,700,000,000

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Guts The Unstoppable Force}

1,500,000,000

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Hisoka The Insane}

1,200,000,000

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Vash The Stampede}

1,000,000,000

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Lubbock The Mass Murderer}

1,102,100,100

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WANTED (EXTREME DANGER)

Dead Only

{Alucard The Immortal}

3,900,000,000

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Amell looked over the last poster with a puzzled expression, "Why does Alucard have such a high bounty? And more specifically, why does he have one in the first place?" He asked Shinryu.

"Well, while you were away Alucard would sometimes come over and make an appearance somewhere around the world out of boredom. But about his bounty, there was this one time where he encountered Garp, Sengoku, Kizaru and Aokiji and he fought them all singlehandedly. And it was also in that fight where he got his nickname. During that fight, those four powerhouses destroyed his body one hundred and seventy-one times. He just kept coming back."

"hahaha, and where exactly did he encounter them?" Amell asked while laughing hysterically. The members around the table weren't laughing, they all had met that immortal vampire and they feared him more than anything else.

"Well, he kind of walked into the Marine HQ and waltzed right into Sengoku's office and asked him to fight him, and after that, they all fought for two days straight," Shinryu said and shuddered slightly.

"hahaha! That is hilarious, and also something Alucard would very much do." Amell continued laughing.

"Captain, to move on, why don't you have a look at your bounty poster." Shinryu put down on the table the piece of paper that he held onto.

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WANTED

Dead Or Alive

{Amell The Enigmatic Emperor}

5,100,000,000

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"hm, not bad! Why is my bounty so high though? What do the Marines base it off" Amell questioned as he looked at his bounty?

"They look at everything. But probably the scariest thing to them is that you have such a powerful army under your command. And especially Alucard. So that's just one reason for them to fear you." Shiryu said and the others just nodded along.

"A valid concern I suppose," Amell said and smiled, now very curious to how big the Gotei 13 had gotten. The Gotei 13 began officially here in this world and it was here where the HQ was and most of its forces.

"I apologize for interrupting this meeting, but I just remembered something quite important." Sylvia came over and talked with a quiet yet firm and confident tone.

"Yes, what is it?" Amell wondered curiously and turned to look at her.

"I think we forgot those two eagles back in the leaf village," Sylvia said and immediately a smack was heard as Amell hit himself on the forehead and left a bright red mark.

"Shit! He is never gonna let this one go! Sylvia I'll go back for him, just wait here." Amell said and stood up in a hurry. The people around this table said nothing to object his departure because they could feel that he was quite annoyed right now.

"I'll be back later, Sylvia. You six take care of her and protect her to the best of your ability." Amell said and created a rift in the air leading to the Elemental Nations. And he quickly jumped in.

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