One Piece: I Understand It Now

Chapter 25: The Hunter gets Hunted!



Chapter 25: The Hunter gets Hunted!

How hard would it be for Ken to actually kill the squirrel?

The young man wasn't even worried, as he took out one of his needles laced in poison.

He was never fearing the confrontation, as it would barely take anytime; he was more fearsome of whoever was able to create such beasts.

Approaching the tree, he made himself look like he hadn't seen the squirrel, and the second he was about to enter the tree hole, the squirrel jumped down with its sharp claws, ready to slash him to death.

Unfortunately for it, Ken was waiting for just that.

*Ptui* *Fshhh* *Thud*

In but one move, Ken spat out the needle he had stored in his mouth, not fearing that he got poisoned instead, as he had already adapted to poison and mastered this skill well enough to even use it against the first wolf.

He looked at the corpse of the squirrel that was on the ground and thought for a second before he smiled.

He didn't think he would have such a fine dinner so soon.

He took the corpse with him to the tree hole, and once there, he put his belongings to sort them out once again and brought out a dagger to skin the squirrel. After that, he got ready to eat and then rest after.

While all of this happened, the young man's actions were watched by the scientist, who was trying to assess him enough to know what he needed to do to catch him alive.

So far, he noticed how skilled he was to kill the deadly squirrels, and seeing how he was ready to eat it, he noted his poison immunity. Either that or he was dumb and was going to get himself killed, which was also not a bad thing for him.

Though catching him alive was good, it didn't mean he necessarily needed it.

Still, he knew what exactly he needed to do.

A smile was still etched on his face as he put the device he used to spy on him back and walked back to the lab leisurely.

Ken could just forget getting out of here alive; after all, if he were to try and run, he would be met with the guardians and die; that's if he were able to escape before the scientist reached him.

Or so the man thought. He didn't know that Ken was already aware of which guardians to ignore, nor did he know that he was a devil fruit user with immense potential.

Even so, Ken was in immense danger.

He was in the midst of resting at the moment, holding his katana and putting his body on rest mode while his mind was wary of anything that could get close.

At this point in time, he had already mastered his control over his body, and with but a single thought, he could have it do whatever he wanted it to do with no problem whatsoever.

His lacking areas were mainly mental and situational.

Meaning, he was lacking in the aspects of life and getting out of dangerous situations that life throws at him. And once he adapts to them, he would be one step closer to becoming a monster and achieving his dream.

One other thing he lacked was body strength; that was something that couldn't be gained by adapting.

He needed to train and train hard, but his control over his body and how he used it allowed him to create a set of exercises that gave him maximum efficiency, and in these short few months, he was already nearing Zoro's level of crazy training pre-timeskip.

If he continued like this, then it wouldn't take him much time at all to be a crazy strong superhuman able to split mountains with his katana alone.

Time passed, and after a few hours, just as he thought that he had rested enough, he heard some movement.

And it wasn't just any movement; it was getting closer and closer to him as if it knew his exact location and was coming for him.

This made him feel weird, and his brain unconsciously ran on overload trying to deduce reasons and theories that could lead to this.

And none of them was pleasing to him.

So he got up, having everything around him ready and his weapons stored in his body.

He jumped from the hole and ran as fast as he could.

The second he had done so...

*SLASH* *znnnnnnn* *BOOOOOM*

The tree he was sleeping under as well as dozens of trees behind it, which spanned dozens of meters upward, were shaved from the ground up.

"Well shit!"

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