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As Charlemagne drew his sword, he unleashed several powerful slashes. However, due to my fight against Ryuma, they had no effect because of my adaptation ability. This allowed me to effortlessly counter with a swing of Samehada. My swing was parried by Charlemagne's blade, we then disengaged and reset our positions.

"My blade couldn't cut you? That's unusual. And so is that sword you're swinging." A grin then cracked across Charlemagne's face, "Oh this is going to be my first good fight in a while."

We continued to exchange furious blows with neither of us able to land a significant strike. I'd been diligently training my swordsmanship, but Charlemagne's skills was that of a true master swordsman. His blade moved as swift and effortless as the wind, I assume that is the reason for his moniker "Thousand Winds". Trying to turn the tide of the battle I released Zabimaru's Shikai form.

"Roar! Zabimaru!!!!" I extended Zabimaru towards him and he parried it over his shoulder. As I retracted Zabimaru it tore into his shoulder.

"Ha! Interesting! You're not bad at all! Let's start getting serious now!" Charlemagne said as he rushed back towards me. He then began to shower me with sword thrusts which I barely blocked with Samehada. I then returned with a swing of Zabimaru that cut him across his abdomen. I thought that was strange because he was able to parry all of my previous head on swings. As I was considering this, he unleashed a strike of his own that ripped through my shoulder blade.

"Ha! I finally got you! I knew there had to be some sort of trick to cutting you. I guess I just had to swing harder. I had to trade blows with you to make an opening, but that's fine as long as I have a way to cut you now."

"Aah! That's crazy he shouldn't be able to cut me at all. I guess I can only adapt to cutting damage of a certain level. If he slashes harder I have to adapt again." I thought to myself as a wheel appeared above my head. "Still he let me slash him to create that opportunity, and he has no idea how my ability worked. He had no way of knowing if his gamble would pay off bjt he did it without hesitation. Even now he hasn't flinched after he's suffered two serious wounds. This guys absolutely crazy, an absolute battle fanatic. That settles it!"

"Join my crew!" I shouted to him as we were in the middle of yet another flurry of blows.

"Huh? You want me to join your crew? I don't care about that. All I want is to focus on this fight. Leave anything else for after. That is if you survive this fight at all!!!!" He responded.

We continued to exchange strikes. Every time I would adapt to his slashes he would somehow slash me harder and surpass my adaptation. Although I was still landing serious blows on him in exchange and he was even more bloody and injured than I was. I was in awe of this guy. His skills with a sword were unbelievable, he repeatedly overcame my adaptation by brute force and kept marching forward no matter how much damage he took. It was incredible. I had to have him on my crew.

"Alright I need to end this before one of us drops dead."

"Bankai!! Hihio Zabimaru!!!"

Zabimaru's jaws snatch him up and I started to crush him. "Give up the fight is over!" I shouted to him as I released Zabimaru's bite and he crashed into the ground.

"The fights not over until one of us dies!" He said as he struggled back to his feet. I know I had to have broken most of his bones and he was still trying to fight it was amazing to watch. Even when I smashed him again with Zabimaru over and over to the point that he couldn't even grip his sword, he grabbed his sword with his teeth and started limping towards me. However, he didn't make it far as eventually his body gave out and he collapsed to the ground. "Eh, that's too bad I guess I can't move anymore. Go ahead and kill me then. I'm just glad I finally had a fun fight before I died. It's as good a way to go out as any I guess."

"Oh I wasn't planning on killing you. I want you to join my crew." I said as I walked over to him. I had sustained a fair amount of injuries myself.

"I'd rather face death than defeat. Just kill me already."

"Sorry but no can do. The winner of the dual gets to decide who dies. The loser has no right to complain. So I say you have to live and join my crew. Plus wouldn't be more fun if we could fight like that again?" I asked as I extended my hand towards him.

"Ha! Hahahaha! You drive a hard bargain. Fine, deal! Hahahaha! I'd take your hand but I'm afraid I can't move my arms."

So we added Charlemagne and Rei to our crew. We had taken two exceptional talents to our crew from the Black Flag Pirates. It made me curious how their captain had recruited such remarkable people despite being so unremarkable himself. I get that Rei was just there to manipulate their captain to benefit herself, but I wondered more about Charlemagne, I had lots of questions about him.

"So what's your story man?" I asked Charlemagne as we were recovering from our injuries at a hospital in a nearby village.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Well for starters, how did you ever get mixed up with that what's his name captain. You don't seem like the type to follow a guy like that."

"Yeah well, I just wanted to fight strong people. He promised that I'd be fighting strong guys if I followed him. I had a couple decent fights to start out with, but then he started to just going after unprotected villages. Now I'm not particularly a good guy, and I'm not particularly a bad guy either. I only care about fighting the strong slaughtering defenseless villagers isn't any interest to me. So that's why I left his crew. I was just aimlessly wandering when you guys happened to pass by."

"Interesting, so you're fine just as long as you fight someone strong?" I asked.

"Yeah pretty much." He replied.

"Well then I think my crew is the perfect place for you. We're always clashing with strong opponents and if our opponents don't give you a good enough fight, I'd be down to spar with you anytime you want."

"Ha! Sounds like a pretty good deal to me."

After we had recovered, we set back on course for Water 7. "Hey captain I'm really not sure about this new guy. He seems like a pretty savage guy. I'm not sure he will fit in around here." Jack said to me.

"Don't worry about it Jack, he only attacks people who are strong, he won't attack any innocent people. I don't think." I said indecisively.

"That's not very reassuring captain." Jack said.

"Listen it'll be fine, worst comes to worst I can keep him in line."

"I agree with Jack, even when we were both on Captain Stash's crew that guy really creeped me out. I'd be more comfortable if he wasn't on the crew." Rei said.

"Well if he makes you uncomfortable then all the more reason to keep him around." I said.

"It might be a good idea to keep him around after all." Jack said. As Rei and Jack were bickering, Charlemagne came to speak to me.

"Hey captain, I've got a question." He said.

"Yeah what's up?" I asked.

"Shouldn't I be the Vice Captain? I'm stronger than anyone else here except for you ." Charlemagne asked.