After the foods arrived Koujiro ate them while listening to the bartender talks about the Kingdom and the sea where they are at.

Few hours of stories and information gathering later, when they walked out of the staff room, Koujiro noticed a man with a long rifle leaning on the table eating alone on a table placed on the corner of the tavern.

"Is that the pirate you were talking about?"

Koujiro whispered to the bartender interested in the gunner who's clearly a Japanese but dressed like a cowboy, the bartender just nodded as an answer and get back to the bar.

°The man is from Wano, it's a country just like Japan when it was in the Shogunate era.°

The Helper informed him while he's walking towards the table on the corner of the tavern.

"I heard that you are recruiting for a job."

Koujiro said then takes a seat in front of the man. The man glanced towards the stranger who suddenly sat on his table and asks about a job.

"Yeah I do, you want to join in?"

The man replied then get back to his food.

"I already heard about you from the bartender, I'm not interested in the high town, I'm more interested in the royal palace one, I assume you had some kind of plans for the royal palace before you scrapped them then go for the high town instead."

"What if I did have some plans?"

"Well, let me see them, I'm gonna do the royal palace while you and your people do the high town, I'll pay for them if you want, how many people have you gathered anyway?"

"Around ten people including me, and 2 carriages to haul the stuff, how many people do you have?"

"One, only me no one else, more money for me, I thought you are a pirate, where are your crews?"

"Going into the royal palace alone, are you a devil fruit user? I don't mind letting you go alone though, more distraction for me, and I'm not a pirate, some people saw me get off from a pirate ship a few months back then the rumours just spread."

"Not a devil fruit user, but I'm good at cutting people heads off."

Koujiro said while showing the man his sword.

"Whatever, I have the castle's blueprint, here no need to pay for it, just make it noisy up there when we're doing the job."

The man pulls out a scroll from his jacket and put it on the table.

"Nice, I'm gonna study it later, I need to find my sword, its got stolen yesterday, its look like this just shorter, heard anything about it?"

"Umm, yeah I think I saw something like that yesterday, a homeless man offered the sword to me, but I don't use a sword so I told him to fuck off because I knew it was stolen, you should search around the slum area, he might still have the sword."

"Alright, see you later, YOOO BARTENDER, PUT THIS DUDE DRINKS AND FOODS ON MY TAB."

Koujiro shouted to the bartender then walked out of the tavern.

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A half-hour after walking around the slum area, Koujiro found the hobo that stole his weapon talking to a man offering the weapon to him, Koujiro does a quick job on the thief cutting all his limbs then left him bleed to death.

"What? You want some of this?"

Koujiro asks the other man while picking his Wakizashi from the ground.

"Nah I'm good, I knew it was stolen anyway."

The man just shrugged and walked away not wishing for trouble from the crazy man.

'Show me the way to the beach H, I need to clean these blood from me.'

Koujiro told The Helper then walks towards wherever The Helper points him into.

Arriving at the beach he noticed a man sitting on top of a rock with a long rifle leaning on it, the man immediately turned around and grabbed his rifle when he heard someone approached behind him.

"Woah there cowboy, calm down it's me."

Koujiro said while raising his arms still walking towards the beach.

"You found the thief?"

The gunner asks noticing blood all over Koujiro's body.

"Yeah, found him trying to sell my sword to a pirate, cut all his limbs off then left him there bleeding to death, what are you doing here?"

Koujiro said dropping his weapons near the gunner then taking off his clothes before going for a swim.

"Woah man, could you not? I like woman, I don't swing that way."

The gunner surprised at Koujiro taking his clothes off in front of another man.

"What do you mean swing that way you fuck, I like woman myself, I'm just going for a swim, can't you see my clothes are drenched in blood? I thought you are from Wano, you never been to saunas or bathhouses back in Wano?."

"I did, but we just met you weirdo, at least say something before you get naked."

"Jeez, what a drag, it's not like I'm swinging my dick in front of you or something, shut up and let me clean this blood off of me.

Koujiro just shrugged it off then swim around while scrubbing his body cleaning the blood.

Swimming towards the beach after cleaning himself, Koujiro walks toward the gunner who still sitting on top of the rock. Before the gunner said anything, Koujiro's naked body flickered then a set of fresh outfit appear on his body making the gunner surprised.

"I thought you said you are not a devil fruit user?"

The gunner asks pointing at Koujiro still walking towards him.

"Duuh, did you not saw I was swimming just fine earlier?"

Koujiro said while picking up his swords then stare at the gunner.

"Uuuh, yeah you should have drowned back there if you are a devil fruit user, so what is that? Your clothes just magically appear on your body."

The gunner asks still confused.

"It's magic, but everyone who saw me did it never survived, sorry man I liked you but you saw me using it."

Koujiro said then opened a portal above him summoning the Norimitsu, holding the huge sword above him, Koujiro grinned at the gunner.

After hearing what the weird man said, the gunner immediately grabbed his rifle and aim at the man's head, before he pulls the trigger, he saw the man pulled out a familiar huge Ōdachi out of thin air surprising him and hesitate to shoot or ask the man where did he get the sword from.

"Woah...woah not the head!!!"

Seeing the gunner aiming at his head Koujiro instinctively shouted, but strangely the gunner moved his rifle and shot at Koujiro arm instead.

*BANG*

The shot was fired and hit Koujiro's left arm punching a hole through it, feeling his grip on the sword slipping he immediately put the sword back into the inventory before grabbing his arm that got shot.

"WHAT THE FUCK, THAT'S HURTS LIKE HELL!!!"

Koujiro shouted at the gunner while grabbing his arm.

"You were about to kill me, and who the fuck shouted 'not the head' when he was aimed by a rifle, what a weirdo."

The gunner stands up then lower his gun seeing the weird man not going to attack anymore.

"I was kidding man, what the fuck, I was going to swing the sword just next to you."

Koujiro said already sitting on the ground still complaining how hurt it is getting shot by a rifle on point-blank range.

"Who the fuck joking about killing someone then pulled out a huge Ōdachi out of nowhere."

The gunner said also already sitting back on the rock.

"Fuck you, you have no sense of humour, we did this almost every day back in the Yakuza, especially to a Yakuza with a stick up their ass like you, I saw it, your tattoos and your way of looking at me at the tavern after noticing I'm also a Yakuza from looking at my tattoos, you suck at hiding your expression."

Koujiro babbling to the gunner still hurting from the hole in his hand.

"Fuck your sense of humour, your old fuckers jokes are lame. I saw your Ōdachi, is that the Norimitsu?"

The gunner said not wanting to argue anymore with the weird man.

"Umm yeah, you know about it?"

"Of course I know about it, it's one of the Supreme Grade Meito, someone stole it from Flower Capital a hundred years ago and fled from Wano, where did you found it?"

'Umm, care to explain H?'

Koujiro confused after hearing that the Norimitsu came from Wano.

°It's The Creator's doing Arima-san, he made the story up for the sword to looks legit, just say to him you found it somewhere on your journey.°

"Uuh yeah, I found it on north blue, I think it was from some pirates."

"I'm glad you found it, it was one of the country's national treasure along the Shusui which is also stolen like around ten years ago."

'H?'

°Shusui is one of the Great Grade Meito, say to him that you heard about it.°

"I heard about Shusui a few years back."

"Really? Are you sure its the same Shusui?"

°It's a black sword with a flower shape crossguard, say it's somewhere on Paradise.

"Yeah, I heard someone said that some pirates saw a black sword with a flower-shaped crossguard somewhere on Paradise."

"Anyway, how about we talk about this on the tavern with some sake? I have a perfect sake, I bet you would like it, and what's your name cowboy? Mine is Koujiro, Arima Koujiro."

Koujiro said trying to distract the gunner from asking any more questions about the swords then puts his arm around the gunner's shoulders dragging him towards the tavern.

"My name is Jin, Arisaka Jin."