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Isshin explained of the importance of image and how much it means to him and how much others don't understand and how he enjoys treating the images of other pirates. Isshin was a barber. Van Auge next asked where it all started, why he became a barber. The one of the Akashio bloodline explained that his dad once was a barber in his town and it meant a lot to him, the atmosphere, the time with his father, and the time he spent learning the morals of a barber in a seaside town. Isshin explained how he went back yars later and soon found his calling, his adventure. To open a successful Barber Shop in the Grand Line.

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Van Auge grinned and listened to Isshin explain too much about his past. He juts would not stop talking. He began explianing about how his room was layed out and what color their house was and what his mom does and finally, Van Auge stook his hand out palm facing towards Isshin, "Ok, ok, that's enough..." he replied. Isshin stopped and then shook his head back and forth and took it all off. He began to focus and looked at Van Auge, who then began to explain another technique. The barber held his cold rifle in his hand and lifted it up slightly to rest it on both of his hands, his hands that have done many barber jobs, his that have helped his father, and his hands that now help him on his journeys.

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"Another thing to remember is to always be on your guard for cursed fruit users." he continued. The barber gave Van Auge a curious, confused, and ignorant look. Van Auge realized that Isshin may or may not know what a cursed fruit is. He began to desribe, explain, and help Isshin understand this phenomenon. He told him of magical fruits on an island nearby that when eaten, grants you superhuman advantages but also some worrisome disadvantages. He tld him that once one has eaten a fruit that they are banished from the sea for the rest of their lives, for that they will be killed and never to be seen again.

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Van Auge looked around to see if there were any seagulls in the area for practice and application, but all he saw was just a bunch of pirates making a rucus. He had himself and Isshin travel shortly to the beach near the docks to find more targets for applying everything for this technique. Once they reached the shore, Auge realized that tehre were not very many seagulls in the area. Just a bunch of sand, pirates and ships. Ships though were what was going to help them apply this technique. "Now look over there. You see those brewers unloading barrels of ale? Well, that will be our target and hey, we get to mess with all the drunks back in town." Van Auge remarked.

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The brewers flew their arms into the air and ran towards the barrels and began slamming their hands onto the holes left all around most of the barrels. Many of these guys were a bit clusy and fell into the water below the docks in a rush to save the Ale. A couple of barrels even rolled off of the docks. Those men began to curse with their dirty sailor mouths. Isshin bursted into an uproar of laughter as the scene turned into a latenight comedy. Van Auge and Isshin waited a bit of time until they started back up lifting barrels upon barrels onto the docks to be put into the stockroom in the backroom of one of the many taverns.

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The one bullet traveled towards the docks, towards the ship, and then towards the rope tieing all the barrels together. At once the rope was cut by the bullet and everything was untied. The first barrel began to topple and then rolled off of the ship entirely. Then next barrel began to do the same, and the one after the other, soon each of them began to roll off. Immeadiatly, Isshin aimed to perform the technique and fired a barrage of piercing bullets at the barrels falling off the ship. Most of the barrels were punctured and then began to leak much of Ale. The barrels with the holes began to sink but the other stayed afloat. Isshin chuckled and then saw all the sailors cursing and waving their arms about and accusing each other for the misshapenning.

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The barber was so interested in the subject that he knew he had to go to this island as soon as he could. Van Auge though his interest was silly and told him exactlly where the island was. Isshin said he would soon visit later, and decided he would be pn his way. He thanked him and took off. He sped through the town and saw all the pirates stumbling from their morning dew, and he saw two men men screaming at each other. He roughly heard the conversation which was about the spilled Ale. The barber grinned and kept on going toward the docks to board his own ship. He thought about all the various things he heard stories of and soon realized that those must have originated from these fruits.

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Agito began to walk through the town,looking for someone who could truly teach him some useful skills which would push his abilities past the certain point that all Pirates eventually had to surpass if they wanted to become great. Agito wanted t be one for the greatest pirates and have the power to demolish the world. Agito then began to look around for the one who was rumored to have a more refined version of Kuro's stealth walk which Agito went through the trouble of learning after having to battle him. Agito continued to look around anf found no one and with a sigh he sat down and took a quick breather, he rushed the whole way here and was a little light headed.



When Agito stood up to continue his search he heard laughter coming form a couple yards away. IT sounded like the laughter of a big man and a rather small and snobby man, not the usual pair. So Agito decided to check it out and see who it was, maybe it was who he was looking for. When Agito eventually traced the sound back, he saw who it was, it was Laffite who was the person that he was looking for who was the rumored master of the Soft Step. The big man that he was with was Jesus Burgess.
Agito then walked up to him and asked him to teach him the move.




Laffite then began to let out a snobby laugh as he started to walk away. When Agito began to follow him,the man vanished and began to move around. Agito then used stealth walk and could see Lafitte but he could not move like him as if he were moving allot better and more skilled than Agito was moving. Agito then realized that he was using the soft step technique. Once Lafitte showed Agito how to use the technique he then went into an advanced version moving even faster and more skilled and then returned to normal. After Lafitte was done he then spoke. " to be one who can truly use my marvelous technique



then you must be a quick learner, use my technique after only seeing it done once and then maybe you will be worthy enough to truly call yourself a pirate" lafitte said as he then vanished into the air most likely using his soft step, leaving his big friend round who merely watched Agito with a large smile. Agito wasted no time as he then used his version of the soft step which was just stealth walk but a little slower and he could only turn once before falling and leaving the soft step technique. Agito then began to get more angry as he couldn't use the move on the first try but he would definably learn it by the end of the day.



Agito began to run around the area using the soft step whenever he could but it would only work for a few moments before it would stop. Eventually Agito remembered how Lafitte did it when he used soft step. He remembered that Lafitte was going slightly slower than himself but he moved with allot more skilled and therefore the technique would be better to use than stealth walk because they could barely only go in one direction with little mobility per each use of it. It was then that Agito began to slow down the speed a little bit and then increased his concentration and so because he did this, he could now use soft step



like a master as he dashed all over the town and allot shorter time than it would take a normal running person or even a rather fast runner as Agito was moving at a completely different level now. Agito eventually appeared back in front of the big man with a smile and then began to stretch. Agito grew greedy. He loved the speed he had like moving with the stealth walk but he loved the mobility that he had with the soft step. Agito also needed a technique that could conceal him completely. When he moved with stealth walk or soft step his footsteps could be heard so someone would good senses or who was at least a little smart



, they could track his location through his steps and then predict his next move or location and then cut him at the place that he was predicted to be. But with the advanced soft step like he saw the master of soft step Lafitte use he was almost virtually trackless, Agito could not hear his footsteps and only knew where he was because he was using stealth walk and could kind of track his movements a little. Agito then decided to try it as Agito then vanished again in a wisp of dust and his footsteps cold not be heard for two seconds and then they started up again



as he then stopped the technique. " looks like jumping isn't the answer" Agito said having jumped as e used the technique thinking that Lafitte was in some kind of never ending jump which allowed him to used the advanced soft step but this wasn't the case at all. Agito then vanished again this time trying to tiptoe and run at the same time, Agito instantly fell as soon as he started the technique vanishing and then reappearing on the ground which looked really odd. Agito then quickly climbed to his feet from his prior all fours stance and then vanished again



in a wisp of dust. He decided to take long strides this time trying to lessen the steps therefore making ti seem like the steps vanished but this didn't work because he wasn't going as fast as he should so there fore he could slightly be seen even by people who were not using any speed techniques so he could be tracked even if he couldn't be heard. This was surely and most definably not like stealth walk because stealth walk required only speed and concentration to go so fast that the normal human eye couldn't perceive where they were going because they couldn't keep up with them to begin with or even see them. Now this required more



because one had to slow down just enough to be able to move around but still be fast enough to remain unseen and still concentrate enough to keep there sound covered as well, this was truly a difficult skill to master and if Agito hadn't had gone through all these long painful days of training, he would have given up on this technique especially if he still had the same mind frame as he had when he first started his journey as a pirate. Agito continued to work on this incredibly difficult technique, vanishing for moments and then appearing in mid-air



and then falling on his face or vanishing for a moment and then appearing in some odd position like he took an incredibly odd fall. Agito continued to work on it though it seemed that after every fall or vanish when Agito activated the technique when Agito appeared, Agito had another bruise on his body. Eventually Agito finally got it down, perfectly splicing together both concentration, power, stamina, elegance and speed. He then began to move through the town almost virtually undetectable by all who where not moving faster than himself.



Agito let out a large cry of victory as he appeared on a tall building and raised his cutlass he then sheathed it and then vanished to reappear back in front of the large man. The man then began to laugh " you have learned his girly techniques, now if you can learn one of mine, you will officially become great and I might just personally call one into the navy and report a crime to get your bounty raised a great deal" Agito then quickly ran after the man and went to kick the man int he face. The man the began to spin around and then delivered a kick towards Agito.



Agito was hit and then went sliding away for a bit as he began to feel his jaw. " hmm, nice kick, using the momentum of a spin to send more power into your kick..nice work" Agito said having already learned the basics. All he had to do now was just get the spin down and he would have it. When the man charged at him, Agito began to spin rapidly and then sent a kick. His kick merely hit the man and caused him to slip though. Agito stumbled an barely regained his balance as he the began to think. " I see...it's not just spinning but it's also shifting your body weight so you don't lose your balance when your spinning is instantly stopped when the kick connects.




Agito then finally began to realize how to use the technique as the man let out a yell and Agito then let out a yell. They both ran towards each other and the man then began to spin and then sent out a devastating kick shouting "moonlight kick!" Agito then did the same and also shouting "moonlight kick!" at the same time as the man who taught him the move. Both their legs connected and the power sent a slight ripple through the air before they both backed up. The man then began to smile as he saw Agito had mastered the technique so fast. " well, Laffitte has already used his connections in the navy to report to the navy as to all that you have done, your bounty has now been greatly increased and your now one of us!. You better start concealing yourself more, us big pirates can't just walk around in broad day-light due to those damn marines." That was all the large man said as he vanished. Agito then smiled as he then left knowing that the navy would soon be following him.