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Mission 20 [voice]

[At some point during the night, Erza had been brought back to her normal age, still remembering everything that happened while she was younger. Thankfully, the only long-term change was that her younger self had adopted a cat, which she decided to keep. She had chose to name him Rob, after someone who was a father figure to her when she was young.

Waiting until a much more reasonable hour, she addresses the general public.]

I apologize for how I acted in the past week or so - I didn't think that I was so... excitable at that age.

Anyways, what do you generally do during the summer? Fishing... hasn't worked out too well for me, and I'm running out of books to read.

[Before shutting her journal, she makes one last statement.]

Oh, and Squalo? Don't think I've forgotten about that "old lady" comment.

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[Oh Damn it. Figures he'd miss her being a cute kid.]

Ice cream. And training.

[At least he didn't say stacking rocks this time? Clearly he needs a hobby though.]

Ice cream's certainly been a popular suggestion. And as far as training goes, I'd like to try spreading it out a bit. I've been sticking to the battle dome recently, but the old-fashioned training methods in the barracks tend to work well.

I'm more of a barracks fan really.

Although it's good to have something else to do.

Speaking of "something else to do", I heard you wanted to start some kind of police force, right? How's that coming along?

So far I've got two interested people, but they're both pretty damn competent. Thinking of joining?

I'm certainly considering it; it would be nice to have something like that in place, even if it just acted as a deterrent. What sort of people have shown interest so far?

Especially if it was a deterrent.

Ginia, she's mute, but tough and great with technology and the journals. Kind of reminds me of Tashigi actually.

And Inspector Zenigata is a professional international cop, several decades on the job. Can't ask for more than that.

I suppose. I can't see it stopping people like Yuber from behaving like they normally do, but at least it'll help stop most criminals.

They certainly sound like the right sort of people for the job. ...Who's Tashigi?

Fair point, but some is better than nothing.

My Ensign -- second in command.

At least it would save the village a lot of headaches in general.

It's good that you've found someone like that, then. If she reminds you of someone you trust, then that's definitely a good sign.

Indeed.

I hope so anyway. If I had an army of Tashigi I could probably rule the world. [Not that he wants to. Too many headaches. BUT YES, he trusts her.]

...You never struck me as the sort of person who'd want that. Too much paperwork, plus you'd be considered too important to go out and arrest criminals personally.

Way too much paperwork. And complaints, and fighting all these additional wars, and getting complaints about dumb things like weather. I'll definitely pass on that.

People complain to the government about the weather? Seriously?

Weather's a bit more treacherous in my world. And people; a lot more stupid.

Still, have you seen this place? People complain about anything.

I suppose, but in our case, we know that certain people are responsible for just about everything bad that happens here.

What do you mean "treacherous"? It's just weather - it can be predicted, to some extent.

Usually, but even then, how many things get attributed to them that they didn't directly cause? Just that people are here. People will find a way to complain.

Not on the Grand Line. It's a lot more insane there. And some devil fruit users can have an effect. Not to mention illegal substances.

I suppose so. But as long as there are people out there willing to try and do something about the problems that the world faces, everything should turn out all right.

From what I've heard about Devil Fruit users, that seems believable. What kind of substances are you talking about, though? [Aside from magic, she can't think of anything from her world that can change the weather.]

Agreed. Or at least, better than it was before.

Boogie Powder. When burnt the ash and smoke collect moisture in the atmosphere to cause rain to fall early on that spot. Which can cause huge problems and droughts where the rain would have normally carried to. It's outlawed all over the world of course.

...That could be useful in areas where there already droughts, but I could see how that would be problematic if it wound up being abused. Compared to that, the problems of my world sound so simple. Gangs of bandits, rampaging cities, illegal mage guilds...

We have bandits and pirates that rampage cities as well. [Yeah... he didn't catch the meaning of a city going on the rampage....]

Illegal mage guilds?

...Well, they do attack cities, but I mean the actual city being used as a weapon. It doesn't happen often, but I had to deal with one just before I was brought here.

They're guilds that break laws and lose the recognition of the Magic Council, but continue operating regardless. Their numbers range anywhere from thousands of mages to just six. Some use forbidden dark magic to cause chaos and destruction, while others simply have no qualms with murder, but all of them are threats to the stability of the world.

How do you use a city as a weapon? [Too bad Smoker doesn't know of the events in Movie 7 or 10...]

Thousands? Hn. Those do sound troublesome. Like pirate crews or criminal organizations I suppose... Did you often deal with them?

It's a long story. An ancient tribe used magic to make their city mobile by giving it giant legs, and they turned it into a weapon that would turn evil individuals into good ones. All of that negative energy built up over time, and eventually, the city could also reverse the process, turning good people evil if the person controlling it desired that. Anyone who couldn't be converted to whichever side the user wanted would be simply crushed. We managed to destroy the city, thankfully, so nobody should be able to use its power again. [She acts as though destroying a city is normal. Then again, she acted similarly when she said that she would destroy the moon, though thankfully she never intended to literally do that.]

Quite often, yes. Though generally, I've found that the more members a Dark Guild has, the weaker the individual members are, not counting the high-ranking ones. Usually, it's the smaller groups that need to be worried about.

I see... [No he doesn't, but crazyness is all part of the New World, might as well start trying to get used to it.] How does it turn someone evil?

So exactly like pirate crews or criminal organizations then. Baroque Works was completely based around that. The smaller the number, the stronger the member was. The "millions" and "billions" were just the low level flunkies of the group, and then the higher members were code-named things like Mr. 12 or Mr. 3.