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"You’ll give it you’re best shot wont you?"

Taking a deep breath, Hiro would stand in front of the door to the home of his former friend Reya. Or rather, he would stand in front of the door to the building where she used to live, before Juan left her behind and became Hiro. Almost knocking on the door out of instinct alone, Hiro would grab the knob and open the door himself since there was no one inside to let him in. ”It feels good to be in here again, even though she probably wouldn’t want me to be.” His decision to leave Reya behind on Water 7 still hung over his head as he walked around the small hut. Why did he have to leave her? He could’ve just brought her with him, protected her as they sailed the Oceans and made a map of the whole world.

He knew the real reason he couldn’t have her with him though. While the thought helped to make him feel like there was another option he knew that there was no real way he could’ve protected her, he could barely protect himself. If someone attacked the crew and he allowed her to get hurt because he was too busy fighting a strong opponent, he’d never forgive himself. Even bringing her back from Water 7 to Jaya would’ve been too dangerous, if the ship got attacked in Open Waters he’d be at risk of dying himself from his inability to swim. No matter how optimistic he thought about it, there was truly no way he could’ve brought Reya with him on his journey. Sighing as he sank down to a sitting position on the edge of Reya’s bed, the same bed that he rested in after his first encounter with the Greenbeck pirates, he was forced to come to terms with his own weakness. ”If I can’t bring Reya with me to live out her dream, I’ll just get stronger and make a map of all the places in the world I go with my crew. I’ll live her dream out for her, or die trying.”

Outside of the hut, a group of men in red cloaks would surround the building. The most outstanding of the men would take off his hood, revealing a head of bright red hair and a scar going down his right cheek. Kaito, the new leader of the Chiildren of the Sun following the unfortunate yet natural death of their former leader, would turn to his men on the left and speak only a single word to his subordinate,”Fire.” Following his words, one of the subordinates to his left would reach into the depths of his long hooded robe and produce a bazooka, which somehow managed to fit within the robe without being noticed by those around them. Lifting the bazooka to rest on his right shoulder, the Child of the Sun would fire his weapon causing a single shot to be let off in the direction of the hut in which Hiro sat.

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"You’ll give it you’re best shot wont you?"

Inside the hut, completely unaware of the potential doom waiting just outside, Hiro sat still. While Kaiyo was ordering his man to fire at the hut, Hiro would stand from his spot on the bed just in time to see through the window the RPG leaving the Bazooka. Reacting quickly, Hiro would take the first course of action that popped into his mind which would be to fire a paw shaped projectile at the RPG, which would meet it just outside the window due to the difference in their speeds. The resulting explosion would blast the wooden wall of the small hut to splinters, but leave Hiro unharmed and highly upset. "You fucking bastards!" Instantly recognizing the Children of the Sun and Kaiyo, Hiro would fly into a furious rage as he'd launch himself towards the group. Attempting to attack Kaiyo immediately to get the situation over with, Hiro would ball up his fist and aim his knuckle duster covered hand towards Kaiyo's exposed head.

Hiro's plan to attack Kaiyo was cut off by one of the cult members  grabbing hold of his ankle, keeping a tight grip to stop all of Hiro's momentum before jerking his arm downwards to slam Hiro down onto the hard ground. "Well Juan, you were obviously hoping to do away with me the same way you got rid of the Sun of Ra." Of course Kaiyo had no clue that the Son of Ra had died of natural causes and it had nothing to do with Hiro, but there was no way Hiro was going to correct him. His mind was currently filled more with the shock of being forcefully slammed onto the ground. Forced to deal with the situation at hand over correcting Kaiyo, Hiro would roll himself over on the ground after being slammed onto the ground face first. Hopping up from the ground to his own feet, Hiro would lunge at the robed man who had grabbed his ankle and deliver a powerful blow to the gut of the man. As his opponent doubled over, Hiro would grit his teeth to prepare for his next move before grabbing the slightly larger man by the waist and lifting him over his head. In an obvious show of strength, Hiro would slam his opponent down onto the ground, forcing his head to bounce powerfully off of the ground and rendering him unconscious.

As Hiro would turn around to face the rest of the Children of the Sun, he'd come face to face with the man who had fired the bazooka at the hut. With the distance between the two men being virtually non existent, Hiro would be left with no option of what he could actually do to survive. Sighing, Hiro would close his eyes and raise his hands in a gesture of surrender. While it was possible that Hiro would be able to fire a paw shaped projectile from his now raised hands, he had no desire to risk taking a point blank blast from a bazooka directly to his face.

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"You’ll give it you’re best shot wont you?"

Within Hiro’s head while the Bazooka was aimed at his face, his life flashed quickly before his eyes. In the seconds leading up to Rocco’s rescue of Hiro from the Bazooka wielding man Hiro would maintain eye contact with his opponent. Since Rocco moved at a speed Hiro would unable to perceive, Hiro would only see the bazooka wielded be launched to the side by nothing more than a blur coming from behind Hiro before seeing Rocco slow down and become visible to him. With the immediate danger of the bazooka eliminated by Rocco, Hiro would take nothing more than a moment to be grateful before acknowledging Rocco with nothing more than a slight head nod.

Once Rocco saved him, Hiro would instantly make his move toward Kaiyo who was only 8 meters away with faith that Rocco would have his back by dealing with the remaining cult members. Propelling himself forward directly to Kaiyo through the power of his Devil’s fruit, Hiro would slow down immediately after moving forward 8 meters to end the blinding effect that came from moving at such high speeds(4). Hiro’s attack would come in the form of a palm strike to the chest of Kaiyo,with the intention of using the powers of his paws to send the cult leader flying backwards. If successful, Hiro would only take advantage of his attacks effect to give himself a moment to think.

While Hiro was attacking, Rocco would have his back by attacking the grunt to the immediate left of Kaiyo with a strike to his trachea which would aim to instantly remove him from competition. Hiro would be unaware of Rocco’s actions even as he’d finish with the grunt only 2 meters away from where Hiro stood and move on to the next one who was an additional meter to Hiro’s left, chasing the man who tried to run towards the general direction of the hut, ending up getting to a location within the field 3 meters behind where Hiro stood.

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"You’ll give it you’re best shot wont you?"

Once Hiro's forward momentum was reduced enough for him to attack, Kaiyo would show off the difference between their skill levels in his evasion of the strike by shifting his body down to his left to avoid having his chest struck, before thrusting his palm forcefully towards Hiro's abdomen from below. Once his attack landed though, Hiro's own left hand would strike down at Kaiyo from above, repeating the same attack as before only this time at a much closer range as well as coming from a position directly above Kaiyo's own ear, making it much harder to perceive. Gritting his teeth due to the almost unbearable pain of having his skin literally burned off where Kaiyo's hand hit him, Hiro would forcefully propel himself instantly 3 meters into the air as soon as his hand would make contact with Kaiyo's head. With Hiro's powers pushing Kaiyo forcefully to the ground, the cult leader's double palmed strike would have to come from his position on his back and be unable to actually hit the now flying man.

Now having the high ground and nothing but open skies above him, Hiro's next attack would come in the form of a sphere of compressed air that he would create by putting his two palms together and then launch down at his opponent. The resulting explosion would devastate all around the point of impact in a 20 meter diameter with force enough to change the landscape itself. "What it must be like to hunt and kill a man over a misunderstanding, to waste your time only to be killed by a men you brought into your own ranks."