redhairedknight | Mission 20 [voice]

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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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I never witnessed the process first-hand, thankfully, but from what I heard, it happens automatically if someone's in the area. It effects people who are wavering in their alignment quicker - if someone who's considered evil has good intentions, for example, then they'll switch sides faster than someone who is pure evil.

Really... So how powerful was Mr. 1, then?

Unnerving.

Daz Bones was pretty strong. He was an infamous pirate hunter in the West Blue known as "The Killer." I'm not sure what level he was put into in Impel Down, but he was with Crocodile when Straw-Hat broke them out. Idiot.

I see... And who's Crocodile?

An ex-shichibukai. A shichibukai is a legalized pirate. Crocodile was the head of Baroque Works; Mr. 0 and running the organization as an attempt to overthrow a country and use Nico Robin to find weapons capable of destroying half of the world.

Legalizing piracy? That seems to be self-contradicting.

That's just... I can't even imagine destruction on that scale.

And it doesn't work well. Crocodile was working against the government, Jinbei turned on them when they wanted him to fight his old friends, Blackbeard just used them to break out prisoners from Impel Down. And Boa Hancock is a bitch who fought marines when she was pretending to be helping them. I can't wait to see who they've got in mind for it now.

Hn... And hopefully it'll never be seen.

If all of them are like that, I can hardly see why they're even needed. Still, you can hardly fault someone for standing by their friends - if you betray your friends in their hour of need, you're less than scum in my eyes.

While I agree, pretending to have new friends for personal gain only to betray them likewise is perhaps only to be expected of pirates.

Yes, that's extremely deplorable as well. Still, if they clearly can't be trusted, why doesn't your government remove the position entirely?

Desperation. It was believed to be the only means of holding the pirate emperors in check. Turn pirates on other pirates. Sometimes they do more good than harm, but they're certainly unreliable and untrustworthy.

Pirate emperors? What are those?

I suppose it all depends on how much each of them obeys orders. Which, from what you said, doesn't sound like it happens often.

4 top class pirate crews. One of them was said to be as strong as Gold Roger himself, and the others are just as powerful.

Definitely not. They don't take orders, they simply pretend to let their interests coincide with the government's, and only so long as that's useful to them.

...I see. The only similar title I can think of from back home would be the Ten Wizard Saints, the ten most powerful mages as recognized by the council, but that title is only given to members of legal guilds, not criminals. [Here, she smiles, filled with pride.] The master of my guild, Makarov, is one of them.

Are there responsibilities to go with the title?

Nothing in particular for the title itself. However, wizards who have that level of power tend to be guild masters, if not members of the council itself, so they must act in a way that provides a good example for the rest of the wizarding community.

...Some wizards, however, let the title go to their head - one waged a war on our guild over a petty grudge, because he believed that the title meant that he was unstoppable. His title was removed shortly after, thankfully, and his guild was disbanded.

I see. So just a note of strong members of the citizenry? That can do magic.

...That's simplifying it significantly, but yes.

They're not anymore beholden to anyone just from being given the title?

Well, they're usually leaders to begin with, so I suppose not. But the title recognizes their importance and influence in the magical community, as well as their power, so it's quite an honour to receive it.

Sounds like a pretty impressive honor I suppose then.

It certainly is.

[And, now that it's come to mind...] ...Also, as far as that law enforcement group that you're planning - what sort of laws would you be enforcing? Aside from the obvious things, like no killing, or no stealing. [Seeing as everything's free here, that last one might not mean much, but it's the principle of the thing that matters.]

Just that. [It's definitely the principle, because why else would anyone steal?]

Most laws only come into place when they become necessary, so might as well operate on that philosophy for now.

Makes sense. Too many rules at once, and some people seem to get annoyed. [She doesn't understand it herself, but it's something that she's noticed over the years.]

I'm that way myself. [At least he can admit it?]

[Admitting that you have a problem is the first step towards solving it. Or something.] Figured you might be. Plus, with a group this small, trying to keep track of a large amount of laws might become a hassle.