[Episode] Perhaps sometimes piracy is a right thing?

Summary:

Baterilla, a pleasent island filled with sandy beaches and a lot of tourist attractions. Most notable of the cities on the island would be the Beach hope, where unfortunately, or fortunately, this story does not take place. With the little amount of coin to his name, Karl was able to buy himself a ticket to Baterilla, but not to its most notable cities. Instead, his stop was some distance away from Beach Hope, nearby one very small village.

The village was small, about a half a mile away from the seaside small port, aproximate population of 50 people, which consisted mostly of elderly people. It is an old tradition already, that youngsters move over to more tensly populated parts of islands. The town was fairly remote, it did not face many dangers of any sort. Despite that, it still had a very small Marine unit, consisting of about 5 soldiers.

Karl, having a small bag over his shoulder, which contained some of his spare clothes, took a step off from the small ship that stopped by the port. Taking a deep breath in, only to feel fresh sea air. "Okay yungun, If ye go up north fro' hee',  'bout haf a mile, ye gon' fin' a village." said one of the sailors as he motioned with the hand to north. Karl blinked at what he said, having tried to understand the sentence, but he did understand that the distnace was about half a mile and where he had to start walking. He nodded to the sailor, thanking him, and began his small journey from the small port to nearby small village.

After a bit of time, Karl arrived the small village, he would look up at it, taking a last pull of his cigarette which he started as he was about few minutes away. "He wasn't lying, it really is small." Karl mumbled to himself as he then dropped the pulled cigarette and took a small stomp on it. Entering the village, Karl was greeted with nothing interesting. The "street" was quiet, a couple of children running around and playing. One Marine was standing by the marines quarter. A couple of elderly people were chatting by one of the houses. Karl stood in the middle of the village for a moment and just gazed around, seeing what interesting is there in the city. The village only had three places that "can" get crowded, a school, a store, and a small village hall. One of this places shall be his next destination.

After he had finished scouting his surrounding, Karl would have his next destination in mind. That would be the local store. He began to walk towards it. It was an old but still in a fairly okay shape house, with a little borch infront of it, reminding one of those old western style houses. Infront of the entrance, it had a lable, with simple writing: "Store".  

He would enter under the borch and moving over to the door, which he simply opens with his left hand. As he opened the door, he could hear a typical bell ringing, indicating that someone has entered the store. Despite it being a small village, it seems like store is constantly being stocked. It only had two shelves, but the shelves were full of food ingredients, some drinks, and other necesarry things for an every day life in the village. The store even had two people in it, both of which seemed to be working. One of them was an old lady and another one was a young boy who seemed to be about 10 years old.

"Oh hello young man, please do enter." the old lady behind the counter would smile after having said that with a warm and very welcoming tone. The little boy looked at Karl for a moment before moving back to help out the old lady. Karl would nod his head silently in a greeting manner, moving then to the shelves to look for a glass bottle full of water. After about a minute, he was able to find some alcholoic beverages but not water.

"Miss, where could I find some water?" Karl would turn his head, looking at the old lady behind the counter. She can't help but let out a soft giggle. "Oh, sorry young man, I hold the water bottles in the basement. It is nice and cool there. A cool drink in this warm weather on this island is always welcome. Let me go fetch you a bottle." the old lady said and then smiled, turning and moving into the back room and from there, down to basement. It wasn't like she moved slowly, she was actually quite fast and active for her advanced age.

Karl in a meanwhile moved on to another shelf. That shelf had some pre-made sandwiches stacked on top of each other. He would stroke his beardless chin. "Choices... Choices..." he mumbled to himself, hearably to the boy next to him who was stacking new stock on the shelves. "All of them are good, but beef sandwich is the best." the little boy said out with a bit of lowered tone while he kept on stacking the stock. Karl looked at the boy for a second, then again at the sandwiches and decided to listen to the boys advice and grabbed the beef sandwich from the shelf. He looked at it for a moment and then moved over to the counter, awaiting for the old lady. On that moment, he could hear another bell behind him, another customer?

The door had opened behind Karl and the bell had rang once more. He could hear a pair of footsteps. Two marines entered the store, a small grin on their faces. The boy who had just been restocking the shelves, immediately moved by the counter. The marines went to the shelves, and began to grab some stuff from there, such as strong alcohol and also, the home made sandwiches. On the same time, Karl simply remained by the counter, awaiting for the old lady to return from the basement. While he waited though, he looked at the boy, finding it odd that he went and hid by the counter as the marines had entered.

"Okay young man, got your water here." the old lady said just as he had entered into the main store room. Her smile which was apperant on her face, immediately turned into somewhat of a mixture of sadness and anger as she saw the two usual marines in the store. The marines grinned as they then began to move by the counter. Karl who had just patiently having waited for the water bottle, was then forcefully shoved asside by the marines who moved to stood by the counter. The shove wasn't strong enough to drop Karl down on the ground, but it did make him stumble a bit.

Karl turned his head a bit, looking at the marines with a bit of angered expression, but then took in a deep breath to calm himself down. Standing back straight up. The marines looked at the old lady, with one of them then saying "You know what time it is." The old lady clearly looking sadder than angry now. "The business has been slow, please, spare the old lady." the old lady said with an obvious sad tone as she looked up at the marines. Karl would then walk behind the marines, saying with lower but hearable tone "Excuse me, mates, but I was here before you."

What Karl had said didn't even distract marines from talking with the old lady, simply deciding to ignore him. "You know the rules, pay up, or get out of this village, let people lose their last source of local products." These exact words were enough to break the old lady into tears. It was clear she cared for her business and village she had been living in her entire life, and this mental torture had been happening for a while already. She then said through her tears with a very desperate tone, "Please don't! Please take anything from the store, or give me some more time, please!" As the old lady was desperate and in tears, the boy who also hid behind the counter, immediately hugged her, attempting to comfort her.

Karl looked at the situation. He wasn't a heartless bastard, and this sight infront of him, began to slowly make him angrier, trying to contain it though. From his face expression, there was no sign of outburst yet. "I thought the marines were supposed to protect the people, not bully them." Karl had said with now more hearable tone. For a moment, there was a complete silence. Perhaps this time, he had finally got the attention of the marines.

"What did you say to us, punk?" Asked one of the marines as he was turning himself around, looking at Karl with angered face expression. Clearly those simple words hit somewhat deep. Karl simply stood there, moving hands into his pockets. "You heard me. Which Marine school did you graduate? Bandit version of it?" Karl said out, making it sound really cheesy to add more fuel in fire. Was that his intention? The way Karl behaved brought a very worried expression on the old lady's face, clearly afraid that Karl, who she barely knew, would get beaten up, or worse, killed right there, right now.

"You punk better get out of here before something bad happens to you." the marine said as he then moved both of his hands to then push Karl in the chest, pushing Karl towards the door with a bash. Karl would stumble back a bit, but the door stops him from falling completely down on the ground. Karl can't help but grin at it. It's as if that was what he was waiting for, a first move. Karl then removed hands from the pockets, and began taking steps closer to the marine who had bashed him.

The marine saw Karl approaching. "You idiot still didn't learn?!" the marine shouted out, rising up his right fist as he then attempted to send a strong right straight with his right fist, aiming to land the hit at Karl's face. From where the old lady, the boy and the second marine were standing at, it might've looked like Karl just now got hit in the face. Instead though, with a swift enough motion, Karl had moved his right hand, spreading the fingers, catching the fist that was aimed in his face.

This obviously had startled the marine who threw the first punch. Karl would swiftly let go and moves the same hand which he used to catch the fist onto the marine's right hand wrist, grabbing a hold of it and squeezing it. The squeeze was enought to make the marine grit his teeth from pain. Almost a second after the grab, Karl turned himself, with his back facing the attacking marine, he would then pull the grabbed arm, and using his leg as a boost, and tosses the marine over his shoulder towards the door. The toss was surprisingly to many, strong enough to bust the door open and have the marine fly a good thirty more feet outside before hitting the ground.

Immediately after the first marine got thrown out from the store through the doorway, the second marine moved in to try and attack him, attempting to catch Karl by surprise from behind. Karl however heard the footsteps, leading him to immediately turn around to face the second marine. He would simply avoid the incoming punch by making a seemingly quick dodge to the marine's left side. After having dodged to the left, Karl would swiftly rise his left knee, landing a fairly strong knee blow into the marine's stomach, blowing him out of the air. Immediately after already a knock out blow, Karl took a hold of the marine with both of his hands and tossed him through the doorway aswell. By coincidence, he landed on top of the previous marine who had been tossed out.

This obviously caught one of the marine's attention who stood outside of the marine quarter a bit of distance away, immediately shouting out. It was unclear if he was shouting at the marines who got tossed out, or was he calling for back up. Karl in a meanwhile looked at the old lady and the little boy, "Seems like I wont have much of a choice here. Stay here." he said, and proceeded to move towards the doorway to see what is outside.

As he stood by the doorway, Karl looked at the two marines he had thrown out from the store. He would take a step outside, out from the borches shadow. His head turning to look in the direction the marine quarter is. One of the marine was already standing outside from the quarters, another two then exited from the building then. One of them seemed to be somewhat more noticeable, seeming to be higher ranking than the rest of the four Karl had encountered on that day. He was wearing the typical Marine issued Lieutenant coat and a hat. What also made him more noticable was the fact that he was about 7 foot tall and quite burly, looking like a humanoid tank. One of his hands was holding onto a big warhammer, resting it onto his shoulder as a support. Karl would grin then, removing his glasses, moving his hand which hold the glasses towards his back pocket on his pants, replacing the two black gloves with glasses there, starting to put them on his hands then, clearly sensing that there's going to be one bigger fight coming.

"What are you waiting for? Get him!" the Lieutenant shouted the orders out to two of his marine companions standing by him. The marine companions drew their swords and began rushing at Karl who had prepared for the fight. "YOU IDIOTS! WITH RIFLES!" the Lieutenant then shouted, covering his face with his left free palm. The two marine companions were already too focused in the matter at hand and didn't hear the orders. Karl couldn't help but grin at the fact that the companions were nothing but morons.

Karl took a step forward, readying himself for the incoming marines. When the marines were closer, the began to flail their swords in tandem at Karl. It felt as if they lacked almost all training, as if they had been goofing around the entire time when the combat part of training had been happening. Karl would simply take steps back and away while the marines kept on trying to close the distance and cut Karl down.

Having awaited for a moment when the two marines began to feel tired and slow down from flailing the swords at him, he would use that moment to swiftly slip through in between them. While close enough, he would move both of his hands onto their faces, digging his fingers into them and then forcefully push the two into the ground, heads hitting the ground, knocking the two out immediately. The Lieutenant grunted angrily at what kind of fools his companions were, "You god damn fools. Useless pieces of filth!" he said as he then took step down from the marine quarters borch, beginning to walk closer to Karl, his coat softly moving from the wind. Standing face to face now, as if it was a western style stand off.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[MT] Sleep Gas on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous Spit on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous Touch on Marine Lieutenant
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[LT] Hammer straight on Karl
[LT] Foot forward on Karl
[UT] on Karl

The member 'Karl Friedrich' has done the following action : Dice Roll

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 13, 14, 2, 10

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 11, 9, 9

There they were, face to face, an obviously shorter and skinnier Karl against a tall burly looking brute of a Marine Lieutenant. The Lieutenant pushed his right shoulder upwards, pushing the warhammer off from his shoulder, dropping it hammering part down on the ground, while both of his hands now hold onto the handle part. "Lets dance, shrimp." the Lieutenant said, about to move in to perform his attack.

Karl had awaited patiently, but why? Why not use his smaller size as an advantage and enter the combat first. The answer came almost seconds after when he suddenly began to blow out some weird yellow colored gas [MT - Sleep Gas, Hit]. The gas began to spread forward. The Lieutenant conveniently had rushed into the gas, almost immediately starting to feel it's effects. His eyes began to close, starting to feel sleepy, his body relaxing a bit as if he is almost about to fall into slumber.

"What is... This? A..." he asked lowly from himself, but his own question to himself was almost immediately interrupted. Karl had hearably started to gather spit in his mout, when suddenly, he would shoot it out forward at the marine Lieutenant. The spit looked odd aswell. Instead of looking like a normal spit, it was colored purple, as if Karl was sick or something [LT - Poisonous Spit, Hit]. The spit would successfully land on the Lieutenant's neck. Immediately after it had landed, the spit began to burn the Lieutenant's bare skin and even some of the clothes that it had hit, which immediately lead the Marine to grit his teeth from the pain. The spit was enough to destroy the clothing a tiny bit around the collar area and create a deep red rash on his neck.

"D..Devil.. Fruit?" he asked lowly from himself again with dizzy and somewhat in pain tone. Before he could even react, Karl had began to dash forward. Having concentrated enough, his right hand, from fingers to wrist, would start to be covered with same colored purple ooze as he had spat out. Forming a fist with that hand, he would leap forward a bit, pulling his right hand back and then suddenly, launching a right straight Superman punch into the Lieutenant's face [LT - Poisonous Touch, Hit]. The punch would make the Lieutenant stumble backwards a bit, but not enough to have him fall over. The purple ooze however was what did the most of damage, burning the Lieutenant's face, giving it a deep red rash on it, leading him to this time grunt from the pain. Clearly the Lieutenant was a tough cookie. A cherry on top of this was Karl's roundhouse kick with his right foot into the Lieutenant's stomach [UT, Hit] which lead him stumble backwards even more.

"Y..You.. Bastard.." the Lieutenant said out with as high tone as he could with this sleepy state he was experiencing, recovering himself and then beginning to slowly flail around his hammer. He would first of try to use the tip of the hammer to bash Karl backwards [LT - Hammer Forward, miss] but he fails completely as Karl with ease would dodge the slow incoming hit by simply stepping asside. This would lead the Lieutenant to try and use his foot and hit Karl in the stomach and bash him backwards [LT - Foot Forward, miss]. Even that was easily dodged by Karl simply stepping asside. He would try to end his assult before exhausting himself even more by simply trying to throw a left straight at Karl [UT, miss] for which Karl had to duck and roll to side to avoid.

The assult had already tired the already sleepy Lieutenant even more, but Karl just stood there, ready for another one of his assults. He clearly was not done until one of them dropped.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[HT] Poisonous Bubble on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous Rain on Marine Lieutenant
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[LT] Hammer right on Karl
[LT] Hammer up on Karl
[UT] on Karl

The member 'Karl Friedrich' has done the following action : Dice Roll

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 17, 13, 15

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 8, 10, 14

Karl was standing there, seemingly more concentrated than before, balling his hands into fist and squeezing them. He would grunt a bit, as if he was trying to let something out. Suddenly, his body began to smoke a bit, as if he was starting to boil over. Seconds later, it could be seen that it wasn't Karl who was smoking, but instead, his body was slowly being covered entirely by thin purple oozing, seemingly boiling poison layer [Toggle: Avoid the poisonous touch]. The sleepy Lieutenant would look at Karl, grunting from all the pain he feels, "That... Bastard.." he mumbled very lowly to himself with tired tone

A moment after Karl's entire body was covered with thin purple oozing poison layer, he would bow a bit forward. It was hearable he was gathering something in his mouth again, just like the first time. This lead the Lieutenant to immediately take in a more defensive stance, hoping to defend himself with it against what ever is coming, clearly he was feeling tired to reduce the distance between himself and Karl. After having gathered enough of poison in his mouth, he would start to blow out a large poisonous bubble from his mouth. The poison gained more size thanks to his oozing poison layer, which started to move towards the bubble which was on the same time being blown up from Karl's mouth. A moment later, the bubble was then sent at the Lieutenant for a good solid hit [HT - Poisonous Bubble, Hit].

The bubble hit the Lieutenant. Yes he was in a quite a defensive stance, being solid on the ground, but it was not enough to stop the bubbles impact from throwing him down on the ground. The poisonous bubble that hit the Lieutenant was now covering his entire body, inflicting on him the burning pain. This hit alone was enough to make the Lieutenant to scream more loudly than before. Although the poison was not enough to completely burn through the clothes, he could still feel the burn. The skin areas now were for sure covered with it, giving them dark red rash, and the spots that were already exposed to the poison, were now exposed even more. Lucky for the Lieutenant, the poison slid off from the body almost immediately.

Karl was not done with his assult. While the Lieutenant was in the ground, struggling from the pain, Karl had gathered another amount of poison into his mouth. He would begin to blow out the bubble of poison again from his mouth, which again got enforced thanks to the poison layer on him moving onto the bubble. This time however, the bubble got shot up in the sky. Having traveled some distance up in the sky, the bubble snapped, breaking itself. At first it would seem like it was nothing special, but in reality, it meant a bad time again for the Lieutenant. The bubble that snapped caused the purple poison to rain down on top of the Lieutenant, seemingly without a stop, [LT - Poisonous Rain, Hit]. The poisonous rain drops began to hit the Lieutenant's body once more, causing more damage on his already rashed places, making it feel like thousands of needels was poking him.

As Lieutenant was laying on the ground, Karl approached him. When he had reached next to him, he would move his foot and stomps it down on the side of Lieutenant's face, [UT, Hit]. The foot that stomped was also covered with the poison, causing the face to burn a bit, giving it even more dark red rash. The Lieutenant screamed from the pain he was feeling. "Are you ready to give up yet?" Karl asked the Lieutenant, but it was clear, that the Lieutenant wouldn't go without a fight. He would flail his tired hand, surpisingly giving it enough force to push Karl off from him, which leads Karl to take few steps back.

The sleepy and in pain Lieutenant collected himself back up, looking at Karl, "You won't.. Walk away.. Alive.." he said to him in between the panths. The Lieutenant began to move his tired body again, trying to move the hammer and swing it to it's right [LT - Hammer right, miss], trying to hit Karl, but again, unsuccessfully as Karl simply dodged it by stepping backwards. The Lieutenant wasn't done yet, immediately after a failed swing, he tried to swing the hammer upwards with both of his hands [LT - Hammer up, miss], which again, was another unsucessful hit as Karl dodged that aswell by performing a simple step-back. At this very moment, from the looks of it, Karl began to turn a bit more cocky, feeling as if he was at a complete controll. It was however reminded to him then that the Lieutenant was still standing and able to fight. The Lieutenant had thrown a right straight punch right into Karl's face [UT, Hit], which lead Karl to stumble backwards.

Karl gritted his teeth, clearly he had felt that. "Still got a fight left in you. Good." he said out, preparing himself for another assult.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[HT] Poisonous slam on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous touch on Marine Lieutenant (cooldown has hit 0)
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[MT] Hammer Crush on Karl (Note! Changed into MT due to personal mistake and thanks to Gray's permission)
[UT] on Karl

The member 'Karl Friedrich' has done the following action : Dice Roll

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 13, 10, 4

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 20, 15

Karl would feel some strain from maintaining the poisonous covered body of his which leads him to drop it [Avoid the poisonous touch, toggle ended], the poison would flow down off of him, onto the ground. Immediately after that, he would dash forward, starting to close the distance between themselves. When he had covered enough of distance, his both fists are starting to be covered with the purple oozing poison. When close enough to the Lieutenant, Karl would leap up and towards the Lieutenant. When he had leaped a bit above the Lieutenant's height, he would join both of his fists together and sends down a joined fist slam on top of the Lieutenant's head, slamming him down onto his knee [HT - Poisonous Slam, Hit]. The poison from the slam was enough to burn through what was left of the hat and onto his hair, starting to bald the Lieutenant.

When landing back down infront of kneeling Lieutenant, he would continue his combo. He would move his left fist that was still covered with the poison to land a left handed uppercut at the Lieutenant's exposed chin [LT - Poisonous touch, Hit], leading for the Lieutenant to rise up from his kneeling a bit. To end his combo, Karl would use his right fist that was not covered with poison anymore to land a straight punch into the Lieutenant's face [UT, Hit] to try and have him stumble backwards a bit, ending his combo right there, hoping this would finally drop him.

Boy was Karl wrong in this case. Although the Lieutenant should have obviously been sleepy, it was as if something snapped in him. He would swiftly move his hand towards Karl's neck after having recovered from the  stumble. Karl did not expect the grab coming at him so quickly, having his neck grabbed and is now lifted up by the Lieutenant with one hand while other holds the warhammer. "You bastaaaaaard!" the Lieutenant said with quite a vigor despite his sleepy state and slammed Karl down into the ground with his back first. Karl would obviously feel the hit into the ground, leading him to grit his teeth a bit. Unfortunately that was not the end yet. The Lieutenant had grabbed a hold of the warhammer's handle with both of his hands, raised the warhammer up above his head "Take... Thiiiiiiissss!!!" and then with swift motion, the warhammer came crashing down into Karl's chest [MT - Hammer Crush, Critical Hit].

Karl would have groaned heavily from the crush of the hammer. If it had been any normal person, this slam of the hammer would have crushed the insides of them completely. Karl, being tough enough, was able to mostly take the hammer slam, but he would be still in the ground, clearly feeling beat after this one solid hit. The assult by the Lieutenant wasn't done yet though. The Lieutenant would send a leg kick [UT, Hit] into already laying down Karl, kicking him away from infront of him. Karl would roll some distance away from the Lieutenant, clearly in pain, but is he done yet?

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[MT] Poisonous Carpet on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Tear Gas on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous Rain on Marine Lieutenant (Cooldown has hit 0)
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[LT] Two straight on Karl
[LT] Side to side on Karl
[UT] on Karl

The member 'Karl Friedrich' has done the following action : Dice Roll

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 1, 2, 14, 1

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 2, 11, 2

The Marine Lieutenant shakes his head rappidly while gritting his teeth, the amount of poison that had rained down and hit him would still cause a fair bit of pain, but compared to other poison, that doesn't slide off of him either, but sticks on the skin for a while. The sleeping gas effect has finally began to wear off and he finally began to feel a bit more energetic. However, all the attacks he was landed on still took quite a toll on his body. He then began to take steps closer to Karl to see has he finally managed to defeat him "No-one and I mean no-one, interferes with Moosebella's operation." he said as he walked closer, thinking it was only hearable to him and the other four marines who slowly started to become more concious.

Little did the Lieutenant know, Karl was still concious, focusin on something as he pretends to be unconcious on the ground. When the Lieutenant was close enough to check on Karl, he would suddenly turn on the ground to face the Lieutenant again. He would blow out white smoke from his mouth at him [LT - Tear Gas, Graze]. The gas Karl let out had tear gas traits to it, making the Lieutenant's eyes water and make him sneeze. Lucky for the Lieutenant though, he was fast enough to avoid some of the gas, not getting hit by the gas full on. Karl did not stop his assult there, but instead, he collected himself up as fast as he could and sends a straight kick [UT, Hit] in the now sneezing and "crying" Lieutenant to have him stumble backwards to create more distance between them.

Karl would not stop his assult. Having gathered some amount of poison in his mouth once more. He would begin to blow out the bubble of poison again from his mouth again and shooting it up in the sky once more, where it would snap once again and have sticky purple oozing poison rain down [LT - Poisonous rain, Hit] on the Marine Lieutenant. It was obvious this inflicted even more pain on the Lieutenant's already rashed body, but it seemed like at this point, he didn't already care for it, instead kept soldiering forward. Karl would panth, clearly he began to feel strain on his body from his constant assults, but he tried to keep going. He begins to wave his hand to start creating poisonous layer, looking like carpet [MT - Poisonous Carpet, Miss]. Although he succeeds to some extend, he simply did not create enough of poison with his hands to count as a proper technique, simply having the poison drop down on the ground.

The Lieutenant soldiered forward at Karl, gritting his teeth as the poison was still covering his body, but he kept on going. He would swing his hammer and try to land two forward hits with the tip of the hammer at Karl [LT - Two forward, miss], but Karl would simply dodge them by weaving from side to side, surprisingly still able to do that. The assult did not end there, following with the Lieutenant swinging his hammer from side to side at Karl [LT - Side to side, Hit], which he was not able to dodge, getting first hit by one hit from one side and then with other hit from the other side, ending up sending Karl to the side for a bout a feet length. He would then try to follow up with landing a straight foot hit [UT, Miss] at Karl but is unable, since Karl took another step back to get away from the reach.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[AoE] Poisonous Waves on Marine Lieutenant
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[HT] Mighty hammer forward on Karl
[UT] on Karl

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 5, 13

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 17, 1

Karl panthed as he looked at the Lieutenant. "Come.. On.. Work.." he mumbled to himself as he had moved arms closer to himself, putting them in cross motion. Attempting to summon even more oozing poison out of him, only the then have a very small amount flow down his legs onto the ground [AoE - Poisonous wave, Miss]. He looks at the Lieutenant who began to approach at him while gritting his teeth, the poison from the rain still on him. "D..Darn..", Karl mumbled before pulling his right fist back a bit, weaving in to get closer to him and land a straight punch into Lieutenant's chest [UT, hit]. The hit was enought to push the Lieutenant back a feet but not enough to stumble him. Clearly he was quite a tank still.

The Lieutenant would take a step closer once more, at first he would rise his leg and attempts to send a kick at Karl's left side of the head [UT, Miss], which Karl skillfully avoided despite already being tired, by simply ducking down. The Marine then did a quick 360 degree turn after the missed kick. This turn was done to build up the concentrated momentum to send a strong push with the tip of his hammer [HT - Mighty hammer forward, Hit] into Karl's chest who was just getting back up from ducking. Karl would now be flying backwards after his chest got crushed again. It is still unknown how many of those he could take. Karl landed down a good 10 feet away from the Lieutenant, laying down on the ground, groaning from the strong pain he felt in his chest.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

Karl's attacks:

[MT] Poisonous Carpet on Marine Lieutenant (Cooldown hitting for this 0 this turn)
[LT] Poisonous spit on Marine Lieutenant
[LT] Poisonous Touch on Marine Lieutenant
[UT] on Marine Lieutenant

Marine Lieutenant's attacks:

[LT] Hammer flail on Karl
[LT] Handle to face on Karl
[UT] on Karl

The member 'Karl Friedrich' has done the following action : Dice Roll

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#1 'Reflex Check' : 14, 6, 4, 13

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#2 'Reflex Check' : 13, 1, 13

Moving his hand onto his chest, Karl began to help himself back up. Gritting his teeth to hide his pain somewhat, breathing a bit heavily, "D..Damn." he mumbled lowly to himself, trying to then regain his breath. "It is now... Or never.." he mumbled, beginning to move his mouth a bit, having started to gather some spit again in his mouth, which he would then spit forward at the Lieutenant. The spit again was colored in purple, obviously it was the poisonous spit he has thrown out before [LT - Poisonous spit, Hit]. The Lieutenant would move his left arm to try and cover his face atleast from getting hit by it, getting hit on the arm instead. Gritting his teeth again from all the pain the poison is inflicting on him.

He would pull himself together, taking another deep breath in, and dashes forward to enter into close combat once more with the Lieutenant. When he gets close enough, he would weave in to get into close range with the Lieutenant, moving first his left foot to throw a strong enough hit into the Lieutenant's right knee [UT, Hit], dropping him down onto his knee which just got hit. Karl however wont stop his assult. The right fist of his would now be covered with purple poisonous ooze once more, throwing then a strong right hook into the Lieutenant's cheeck [LT - Poisonous touch], burning him once more but also, stumbling him down onto the ground.

"Y..You, bastard.. Do you know.. What you are.. Doing?!" The Lieutenant said out with a shouting tone. Karl would then take few steps back, looking down at stumbled Lieutenant then. He would make few waves with his hand, starting to create an amount of poison in his hands. After a few seconds of concentration, Karl would have concentrated enough, "Ridding this village of cancer." he said before he would move his hands as if he was throwing a blanket at the Lieutenant. As he did so, a wide sheet of poison would be thrown on top of the Lieutenant [MT - Poisonous Carpet, Hit].

The Lieutenant had no way to dodge the incoming poisonous sheet, being covered by it. He would scream in true agony as the poison was burning his skin, even some through his clothes. Karl took a step back, falling down on his knees, breathing heavily as he looked at the Lieutenant screaming. He would look at what he had done with disgust towards himself. It was clear that Karl wanted the marines out of here, but not like this. By accident, without Karl actually wanting it to happen, the poison had entered into the Lieutenant's system through his mouth and nose. It is still unsure how long he'll last.

COMBAT TRACKERS:

The marine officers slowly began to stand up, finally having recovered from the little beating they took. They began to look around, still feeling a bit dizzy. It felt as if they moved in a sync, starting to look around to find their Lieutenant. It took them a good few seconds to notice the Lieutenant laying down on the ground with oozing poison flowing off of him, Karl down on his knees next to him. "You bastard! What did you do to him! You'll pay for it!" shouted one of them, making the other three of the marines turn their heads to see the same picture as the first marine saw.

"I am.. Sorry.. I did not.. Want this.." was mumbled by Karl, with low and quite a regretfull tone as he was looking down at what he had done. From his tone, those who paid enough attention, they could hear that he did not wish to take it this far. He clenched his fists, slowly, it began to seem like the regrett began to turn into anger towards himself as the shouts were still going on by the marines.

The Marines began to move in, starting to approach closer to Karl. It was clear what their goal was, going for an arrest for an attempted murder, possibly for an actual murder. The marines were just about 7 feet away from Karl, when suddenly, a gun shot was heard. The shot landed right infront of the marine's feet, stopping them on their approach. This immediately caught the attention of them, turning to where the shot came from.

"Now take your god damn filth of a Lieutenant and get out of this village until one of these bullets pierces you!" was shouted out by a quite a familiar old lady who runs the store, holding onto a rifle that was aimed towards the four marines. It was clear that the marines were all tough until when they had to take on already tired Karl, but this was too much for them, all scared somewhat for their life. It did not take much of more threatening, having the marines quickly move and pick up their Lieutenant from the poison. As they touched it, they also could feel some burning feeling, but it was either feel the pain or get shot.

As the marines began to deliver the Lieutenant away, leaving from the village, the old lady began to move over to Karl, avoiding the purple ooze that was still on the ground. When she had reached Karl, she placed the hand on his shoulder, "It's okay young one, it's all okay now." she said with soft comforting tone to try and ease Karl up a bit. As it turns out, she saw the whole fight, but was not the only one. The entire village had seen the fight happen. Is Karl now a hero? Or a villain in their eyes?

Helping hand was reached for a battle worn Karl by the old lady who ran the store. Karl looked up at the lady, his face still full of regrett, but he would accept the helping hand. "I know what you are going through, young man. We all have done or will do things we do not want. What matters is how we deal with it, and keep on moving forward." The old lady said to Karl as she helped him up. Karl's other hand that was free now loosens from the fist he was clenching, letting out a soft sigh. The words seemed to help him out a bit, but the feeling of regrett was still there, and will probably be for a while longer until Karl finally comes to terms with it all.

"I apologize for trashing the place. Karl said with a lowered tone, motioning at all the purple oozing liquid that was still around some areas. "It should evaporade in a few hours.. Please do not let anyone near it for now.." The old lady nodded at Karl, "Seeing a devil fruit user sure is rare in this part of island." the lady smiled at Karl. He couldn't help but blink at the remark that the old lady knew so casually what he was using. "How did you?" His question was interrupted by the old lady, "Hey I've been young to." she chuckeled at that, patting on Karl's shoulder then.

Karl would look around the place, seeing some people look at him, but nothing was said out at him or anything, turning his head then to look at the marine quarter. "Got to check it out." he said with lowered tone, slowly starting to then move towards it. The old lady followed him. The door into the marine quarter was left open as it was when all of the marines exited the building. Upon entering, they saw a small jail, a couple of tables, seven chairs and a staircase, taking to the second floor where the livingquarters were.

"Silly of me but I have not even asked your name, young man." the old lady looked up at Karl. Karl on the same time though moved his hand into the pocket, taking out a cigarette package and lighter from there, lighting one of the cigarette up between his lips, starting to smoke. "Karl Friedrich is my name." he said out, moving over to one of the tables which obviously seemed to be the main desk of leading officer, aka the Lieutenant's desk. He sat down on the chair and began to go through all the drawers, that includes the filing cabinette drawer, starting to search for something.

"What are you looking for?" the old lady looked at Karl as he kept on searching for something in silence, not responding to the question. About half an hour had passed until Karl finally found a small box from the bottom of one filing drawer. "Lets see what you got here." he mumbled to himself as he opened the box up.

The search seemed to have paid off. The box contained letters between two individuals. One of them was the Marine Lieutenant, and other was a name he had heard during his fight. It was an exchange of letters between Moosebella crime family and the marine Lieutenant. Karl stroked his chin, grinning softly, packing things back into the box. "Old lady, you now have enough of evidence to have these marines locked up." Karl said as he stood up and handed the box to the old lady. But before managed to move away from the table, Karl stumbled on something. "What the heck?" he asked lowly from himself, looking down then. What he saw was one nail head out from the wooden floor. What could have that meant?