Chapter 24: Blessing and a Curse
After a long day of training and having fun with everyone I plop down on my hammock… What? I'm a cynic? Bro I can be drunk without alcohol. I know how to have fun. It's just during serious situations and when I'm not in a good mood I turn like that.
Anyways, here I am, trying to sleep and not succeeding... Like most of the time and then sleeping late and getting forcefully woken up. Not helping my daily attitude. I've tried meditating but somehow it makes the surrounding noise worse. As I keep calming myself, I keep hearing and feeling more and more. *Snap* Suddenly all the noise and feelings amplify as I start seeing my surrounding even when my eyes are closed.
All the information start flooding my brain and making me disoriented and my head feels like splitting. I open my eyes and the feeling gets worse as I starts seeing different colors and quickly close my eyes as I fall of the hammock with a heavy thud.
The noise alerts the rest and their restless movements worsens my situation and even my own groans echo in my head like I was inside a golden bell. I start screaming in pain but quickly shut up since the pain become so much that I could feel my mind screaming back at me for me to shut up and my soul struggling to adapt to whatever is happening to me.
The others get around me and start trying to help me but it only gets worse and I yell at them to shut up and stop doing anything. I beg someone to knock me out and tell them to hurry and for my relief Zoro acts quick and knocks me out with the hilt of his sword.
…
*BANG!!!!* I woke up to a loud bang and my head still hurts like hell and my hearing and vision in still going crazy. Thankfully it isn't as bad as it was when it happened but it still gives me a massive headache. I feel my surroundings and not only that I can feel... so much more. I can feel everything going on in Merry and I can even feel the Navy ship that just shot at us.
I can feel someone intercepting the cannon ball and trying to bounce it back but it goes horribly wrong and flies towards another direction where an explosion can be heard.
'That was... Luffy... This... ugh... is... Observation Haki... My Gawd... How the... fuck...'
I try to calm myself down and control the my new found senses but get barely any results.
'Shit... This is the same thing that happened... to Koby after the war... But how? Don't you get this by training... being born with it... high stress situations... and meditating...? Wait... well fuck. I've had high stress ever since... I realized that this is my new life... and "meditation"... is basically me trying to fucking sleep.'
'I feel lucky... but this also feels like a god damn curse.' [It's a curse, it's a god damn curse.]
'Not the time for quotes!' [Insanity and sanity are different sides of the same coin. You will think yourself to be the only sane one and everyone else insane. But when you realize that you are insane aren't you the one who is actually sane.]
'Not even my own quotes! I know I've lost my marbles ages ago and I bet that is also one of the reasons why I can't even succeed calming this Haki down.' I have sensed Luffy being taken away and can feel Yosaku and Johnny doing something while everyone else just sits around. I get off the hammock and get out of the male sleeping quarters.
I see Johnny and Yosaku hammering parts of the railing back on that seem to have broken in the earlier scuffle.
"D̷̩̐r̸̳̀a̶͒͜v̵̲̌ḓ̵̓e̶̲̚-̴̞̿a̶̕ͅň̶͕i̶̬̓k̶͍̈́ḯ̷͈!̴̘̚?̵͚̉ ̴̲̾H̴͍͌ó̸̼w̸̘͌ ̶͚͝a̷̤͝r̵̻̄ě̶̻ ̶̬̂y̶̖̑o̵̜̐ŭ̷̳ ̷͉̌f̸̟͂e̷͎͝ḙ̶̽l̷̦̍i̸̲͌n̶͔̒g̷̀͜?̷̟͠ ̶͔̊Y̶͔͠o̶͖̓u̴͖̅ ̴͔͝g̴͚̅å̴̠v̵̗͝e̸̹̅ ̵̡̈u̴̡͝s̸̲͑ ̴̠͂q̵͔̓u̷͈͒i̷͈̐t̸̡͗e̸̽͜ ̵͑ͅã̴̻ ̶͇̉s̴͔̿c̷̠͘a̷̼̕r̸̦̈́e̵̼͘!̶̜̈́ ̶͇̓" "ARGH!!" I reflexively cover my ears but it doesn't really help and the group starts to get worried again.
"PLEASE DON'T Speak so loud! My ears are extremely sensitive right now." I say my tone going more and more softer and gentler as I try to adjust it to not give me a massive headache. I start explaining to them about how I've seemed to have awakened a certain type of power that has gone out of control while they try to adjust their voices so that I won't get a horrible migraine just by talking with them.
As they try to ask me more about it, I tell them that it would be better to talk about it after our affairs here at Baratie are over. After all, Luffy and our future cook need to hear about this too. I go to the kitchen to quench my thirst and then return to the deck and sit down to think about my new... blessing.
The noise... I've tried but I can't really do anything about it no matter how I try since it has been a problem for me even before coming to this world. The visuals... Well if I close my eyes, it's both better and worse. Better as in I don't see all the colors and stuff, worse I only see the new fancy colors and lights. The hazy different colored lights or figures of living organisms withing several meters radius of me can be seen and sensed even when my eyes are closed.
I cannot yet really distinguish the auras of others that well unless they do a familiar action, just like in Luffy's case. Unlike in Koby's case where he is highly tuned towards the emotions of the people in his surroundings, I'm much more tuned towards the basic senses of hearing and sight. I can feel some type of emotion from others but not enough to read their thoughts or such.
I can sense what I presume to be worry from the people on the ship and also Nami seems to be emanating a variety of negative emotions. If I remember correctly, she somehow got triggered because of something reminding her of Arlong. As I keep figuring out the emotions, the ones coming from Nami start to get on my nerves and making my mood worse from what I presume to be the empathy effect of emotion sensing.
I go and sit next to Nami and start petting her head. Head pats are the best, unfortunately there is no one that could give me some. As I mull over such things everyone is just startled and bewildered by my actions. I would hug her if I knew she wouldn't get violent since hugs are also the best and everyone needs a hug once a day.
I feel Nami's emotions lighten up but only a bit and I try to not sense her emotions and focus on turning things off. Thankfully she doesn't start overreacting and just lets me pet her, she might be weirded out but I don't care. I'm doing this to lessen my annoyance and she gets a mood lift as a bonus.
Slowly but surely, I get the hang of the emotion sensing since it is the one with weakest reactions right now and I'm able to turn it somewhat off. It's still there but as long as people are not that close to me, I won't have a problem.
As for the sight and presences... I can live with it for now as it is only visual effects that don't really overload my brain that much. The sounds though are a whole different kind of problem and I think I need someone to knock me out if I want to sleep and we definitely don't have a non-painful way of achieving such results. I'm unable to lower the range yet in anyway and I feel like I'm going to struggle a lot with this.
We get notified that Luffy needs to work for a year to pay off the debt and we start thinking what we should do until Usopp suggests that we go in to eat and see how Luffy is suffering. We all agree to witness Luffy suffering to do odd jobs while we enjoy the high-class cuisine of the restaurant.
'My headache just got a lot worse than it already was...'
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Dravde
Dravde POWAH APPU! I've been hinting about observation haki for a while now and here it is. This will be the last power up I've planned in East Blue.
I wish I was a faster writer... my chapters aren't even long and they take 4 hours of my life if not more everyday...
Happy readings everybody~!
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