Reborn in One Piece

Catching Bugs 🐛 Piece 3-5

In the woods outside of the house.

Tock really enjoys this weather. It's very calming for him. He really wished that he could be outside more at night in his old, strict life, but he saw it as too dangerous at night to go out so he's relatively new to seeing the outdoor scenery at night-time like this. He likes it a lot.

Tocks "'I should start with catching or killing bugs, and then work my way towards bigger animals.' Alright, let's get hunting." Tocks hunted insects for a half hour and made another fifteen currency, which, as Tocks had planned, was used to further enhance his physique and make him stronger and reach his peak physical state faster. But this was only good for the time being as he could barely run straight with this weak baby body. He decided to move onto the next step sooner than expected as the bugs drop one currency per each bug captured or per every two killed, and ants give one maybe in ten so he will primarily avoid ants and target crickets or snails, to capture in his jar. The jar is almost as big as Tock's forearm though so it can only fit around fifty snails, let alone trying to capture that many crickets. Tock says, "Maybe I can get points by releasing them back into nature, letting them go free and saving the day.?" Tocks bends over and places the jar on the ground and untightens the lid and opens it slightly to let some out, and "Ding, 2 points." Tocks goes, "Ahh, two currency for releasing a bug that I captured? Awesome, now let's release the rest."

Opening the lid completely and letting free all of the insects and critters he'd trapped inside the jar he hears, "Ding, 128 points." and as another critter hops out he hears "Ding, 2 points." again.

Tocks 'Well it seems that the more that are released at once, then the more currency I get, based on that... I'll try to get a bigger jar from the house.' Tocks thinks and walks back to the simple house with a now empty jar in hand. But Tocks thinks these points could just be an exploit in the system that's available just because he's so weak, so he does not use the points just yet and waits untill he can get enough points so that he can make the most of this method while it's still easy to use. He learned this while he read STSWMNL, as the main character always missed out on farming the points that were used in the system so that he could gain more strength more quickly instead of taking the careful approach or using hard work to attain power. But Tocks is not in search of immediate power, rather, his own style of strength that he will always be able to rely on when he needs anything in the future. So, he is planning to abuse this method until he can level-up in one large bound. To move through the world on his own. To be unimpeded. He wants to grow faster without damaging his future chances.

Tocks "I will level-up later, the priority now is catching bugs, so I need to use the rest of my currency to improve my speed of recovery, so that I don't run out of stamina." Tocks browses through the interface and finds the best four items that don't have any side-effects. One was for one-hundred currency and the other three were all five. He got all of the items and then he pressed 'Purchase' and the affects were immediately noticeable as Tocks no longer felt such strain to his body unless he started sprinting at full speed, which was around six miles per hour (nine to ten kilometers per hour). He loved being able to move again, and before he knew it, again he was back at his house. He relaxed a little, looking at the trees, but was soon met with a sudden realization that the house was perfectly fine, and no one had come back to visit, just as peaceful as when he had left, I tell you. Perfectly intact, Tocks walks into his somewhat messy house, Tocks thanks the pirates for that, "Ugh." he says as he thinks, 'Well the Pirates sure did a number, didn't they? At least they didn't break much of anything. At least almost any and everything besides the vase is intact.' He says as he walks past the fallen things to play with them and pick them up later on. He goes to the cupboard in the hallway past the living room and dining-room, and the kitchen. He reaches up and pulls open the cupboard door to look inside. He is met with a pleasant sight and Tocks thinks, 'They must not have looked through here, I guess they already had plates and knives?', as those were what he saw inside, but then the thought crossed his mind, 'Wait, knives? I might be able to hunt something with them then.' he thought, grabbing a kitchen knife, the kind that would normally cut lettuce or carrots, somewhat long but not too long. He was satisfied with this find, as now he might be able to kill a rabbit. It will also serve as self-protection and as a way to defend himself against boars of pirates in the future.

Tocks "Now let's continue looking for the bigger jar. Let's try here." Tocks then continued searching the house. He wasn't able to find a bigger jar inside the cupboard but there were numerous ones of the same size that he had and smaller. Tocks searched the kitchen but only was able to find a slightly bigger jar, which wasn't able to satisfy him, so he decided to go back to sleep, but before he does go to sleep, he wants to search the smaller building to the side of the house, that he had seen earlier while walking back from outside. Tocks walked outside over to the right when leaving out of the front door. The small building looked like a miniature version of 'his' house with the same white trimmings around the edges and the similar blue color of the building. It looked like a child to a parent of a bigger house. He liked the look of it and walked closer to it.

Tocks "Woah, nice building, it looks good." Tocks said and then thought, 'I wish I had built it.' and kept walking closer, until he reached the door and raised his hand but realized that he cannot reach the door. He looked for a box and dragged it into position. Tocks said, "Yup, now I can reach the handle. Let's gooooohh~~." Tocks pulled on the handle that he could barely reach even though he more than halved the distance by standing on the box, and then he realized. 'THE BOX IS BLOCKING THE DOOR! How stupid of me? I have to move the box. Getting in is a puzzle now? How do I get in?'