One Pice: A Game Blue System.

'[Observe]'.

Reggie Poliver, Gang Leader, Lv. 10

The older of the two 'Poliver Brothers', Reggie is a vindictive hothead who, along with his younger brother Thomas, have harassed the people of Caeba's port town for many years. They have escaped Marine custody through a combination of always setting up an alibi beforehand and sheer dumb luck. Reggie has been lying low in recent months ever since the local government finally issued a minor bounty on the two brothers heads.

Health: 200/200 [ENRAGED!]: Reggie is consumed by anger right now. He is receiving +4 to all physical stats and -6 to all mental ones.

STR: 21 (+4) =25 VIT: 16 (+4) =20 DEX: 13 (+4) =17 INT: 8 (-6) =2 WIS: 3 (-6)= -3 LUK: 11 I did my absolute best not to smirk. 'Aww cute. With that rage boost he's almost a third as strong as I am.'

Reggie raised his arm overhead to begin winding up his weapon. With a shout of primal ferocity he swung it down with every intention of splitting my head like a melon. Using the same amount of force one would use to crack concrete. He would know. He'd done it before.

His guttural scream died in his throat when I leisurely caught the chain in my left hand on its way down.

-9 HP!

"Ouch. That stings a bit. Lost a couple hit points off that." I comment offhandedly.

Reggie stared flabbergasted. "H-huh? But what-" the remainder of his comment is cut off as I pull back hard on the steel chain sending Reggie's dumbfounded face flying straight towards me. I cock back my right fist and slug the gang leader so hard in the jaw that teeth fly out.

The Poliver brother crashes down onto the warehouse floor and both hands shoot upwards to cradle his shattered jaw. Reggie lays there whimpering for a few moments before slowly climbing to his feet, hot angry tears spilling down his face. "Y-you bashterd I'll kll ya." he slurs through the injury.

I glance at the man's remaining health and saw he had lost over 60 points from just that one hit. "Hmm. Nah. I doubt it. Go ahead and give it your best shot though."

Local Marine Base, Bounty Office, Later that Afternoon

Petty Officer Abrella yawned as she filled in a '6' on her sudoku puzzle. She didn't know why she volunteered for this assignment. She thought it would be easy gig to just sit behind this counter all day and well...she wasn't wrong.

It was too easy. Dreadfully boring and dull and so so easy. Occasionally someone would stop by, stare at the wanted posters for a while, maybe ask for a copy of one and then leave. She'd usually get three or four of those a day over the course of her 10 hour shift. Anyone actually turning in a bounty only happened about once every two weeks. One day she painted the walls just to watch them dry.

In fact, the only reason she hadn't laid her head down for a nap yet was because her direct superior Chief Mori informed her that a man was supposed to stop by and collect a 70,000 Beri payment for catching some street hooligan.

'Ugh...where is this guy... It's already past 1600...' she thought tiredly while scribbling an '8' down in her puzzle.

"Excuse me." A voice suddenly appeared, forcing her eyes to move upward. "Hi. My names Jack. Chief Mori said to give this note to you."

Petty Officer Abrella accepted the scrap of paper and read over the recognizable scrawl of her superior. "Sure. I was starting to wonder if you were going to bother showing up today." she commented neutrally. "Let me go in the back for a minute and I'll be right back with your money."

"Actually," I spoke up. "Before you go, I brought you another one. So it's actually going to be a total of 185,000." I moved two steps to the right and revealed the tied up, broken, battered, and slightly twitching man lying on the floor behind me.

"THE HELL?" Abrella shouted as she jumped to her feet in alarm. "Who's that!" she demanded with a raised voice. All thoughts of finding time for a nap flying from her head.

I winced slightly and raised a hand to my ear at the shrillness of her tone. "This is Reggie. The older brother. I came across him earlier and thought I'd go two for two."

"Why is he bleeding all over my floor!" I scratched my chin. 'Well time doesn't pass for anything I place in the [Inventory] so his wounds haven't closed.'

"Dunno. You'd have to ask him."

My joke was apparently not appreciated. "You! Stay here! I'm going to go talk to Chief Mori for a second...and find a mop...and a chore boy...you just... don't move...I'll be back." Abrella sternly instructed as she exited her booth and walked away at a hurried pace.

Ding!

Quest Completed!

Quest: Why wait for trouble when you can go find him yourself? Reggie Poliver will soon learn his brother was imprisoned and when he does he'll be looking for someone to blame. Explore the port town, find Reggie, and bring him in to the bounty office for the reward. Reward: +2 STR, +2 DEX, 700 Exp, 115,000 Beri (PENDING) and ?

Ding!

A '?' mystery box has been placed into your inventory. Open it to receive one of three rare items.

'Ohhhh. A mystery box. So that's what the '?' means.' I glanced around the empty hallway and saw no sign of Petty Officer Abrella returning soon. 'Well since I have to wait around to get my money I may as well open it now.'

I silently accessed the [Inventory] and scrolled to the bottom where I beheld the image of a white box emblazoned with a large red '?' pasted on its side. Trying to extract the item resulted in a second blue pop-up.

Ding!