"Kyahahaha! He doesn't look even a little surprised to see us." Mikita said with a teasing smile as she laughed: "Does he really think that, by defeating Mr.3, he has a chance to beat us?"
"Don't let your guard down." Mr.5 warned.
"I know~" Mikita was still smiling, but her demeanor completely changed when she jumped into the air, lowering her weight to fly with the help of her umbrella.
Caleb didn't lose sight of either of them.
He initially thought about using his left eye, but gave up.
"Ten thousand kilos!"
When a loud scream echoed along with a sadistic laugh, Caleb simply dodged at the exact moment, making her crash to the ground, creating a crater with her own body, which didn't serve as a cushion for her.
At the same time, he saw Mr.5's booger flying toward him in slow motion.
He dodged easily, positioned himself behind Miss Valentine, and delivered a karate strike to her neck.
"Ahhh...!"
Letting out a cry, Miss Valentine rolled her eyes and fainted.
"Tsk, a useless one." Mr.5 grumbled.
However, he still didn't understand the real situation.
"Boom!"
While the previous booger attack from Mr.5 that missed hit a tree, an explosion was heard.
Even with the tremors behind him, Caleb looked at Mr.5 with a simple smile.
It was a smile that obviously irritated Mr.5 deeply.
The arteries in his forehead became visible as he began to pull boogers from both nostrils.
'Is he some kind of booger-generating machine?' Caleb wondered.
Soon, two more booger balls flew toward Caleb.
The speed would be fast for normal people, almost as fast as a pistol shot, but for Caleb it was slower than a punch from a 2-year-old.
Dodging, Caleb kept walking toward Mr.5.
At this point, Mr.5 began to sweat coldly.
However, he took a different approach—rather than aiming at Caleb, he aimed at the ground near him.
"Smart." Caleb said: "But..."
Disappearing from where he was, Caleb reappeared a few meters from Mr.5.
"You need to understand your enemy's true speed before trying something like that." Caleb threw an uppercut toward Mr.5's stomach.
Thinking quickly, Mr.5 crossed his arms and even made his arms turn explosive.
However, with his arm surrounded by Haki, Caleb was fearless.
"BOOOOM!"
When Caleb's fist hit Mr.5's arm, his guard was broken by the punch and his fist hit Mr.5's chest, ignoring the damage from the explosion.
With the Furemaru working as armor, he didn't even need to worry about the impact of the explosion hitting him, and with his arm covered in Haki, the damage was even more insignificant.
"Whooosh!"
Even more powerful than the kick of a large horse, Mr.5 was sent flying like a cannonball, looking like a sideways "U".
Caleb calculated well so that when he landed in the sea, he wouldn't hit the ship.
'Although it's not one of the best, this ship must be worth a good price.' He thought.
Meanwhile, Mr.5's body started to skip like a pebble, bouncing on the sea, until after 10 skips, he fell into the water and began to sink while blowing bubbles from his mouth.
'Well, I can't just let my bounty sink into the sea.' Caleb thought, but he was in no rush to go after him.
In the end, even though they had cool powers, if the user isn't equally skilled, that's all it is.
The ease with which he defeated them was almost the same as he used to defeat Mr.3.
Just relying on their Devil Fruit, without Haki or even harsh training like Zoro, they're merely easy targets.
...
After tying Miss Valentine and Mr.5 to a tree, Caleb started training in the sea.
He wasn't worried about them escaping when they woke up. In fact, they woke up once and he used the Neuralyzer on them.
The process of using the Neuralyzer was quite simple. The Neuralyzer has the ability to erase the mind of anyone who sees the flash, isolating and editing certain electrical impulses related to memory.
Once neuralyzed, individuals seem to enter a trance that leaves their minds open to suggestion. This allowed Caleb to replace the memories related to him with fictional stories and even give them certain instructions.
After that, he struck them hard enough to leave them unconscious for hours.
... In the sea, Caleb swam very fast – Even faster than a peregrine falcon diving to hunt.
His speed only decreased slightly when swimming at the bottom of the sea. When he reached a depth of 1 kilometer, his speed was cut in half, but it was still fast enough to escape the Sea Kings that tried to attack him.
Each Sea King was huge. Some even bigger than the Island Eater.
When Caleb saw targets that looked tasty and not very strong, with a simple blow, he killed them and stored them in his D-Dial.
Then, he tried to find shrimp and other rarer seafood.
Since he learned to 'turn off' the ability to communicate with sea animals, he no longer felt that bad feeling for hunting food in the sea that could communicate with him.
While he was killing some large fish, a huge Sea King swam very close to him. It looked a lot like the Loch Ness monster. Long neck and huge body with four lateral fins, two on each side, and a long tail. This Sea King was kilometers long.
Just the eye that looked at him was bigger than a house.
"Bubble!"
Seeing that up close, Caleb admits it made his heart race, and he swam away with all his strength.
'Damn, how the hell does this make any sense? What the hell is a Sea King of this size doing here, anyway?' Caleb wondered.
Although he understood they were deep in the sea, still, he wasn't expecting to find a Sea King that big.
With his heart pounding, he managed to get away and return to the shore.
The thing was, that Sea King didn't even care about him.
'Why am I getting angry?'
It was strange. Obviously, he didn't want to become the target of a Sea King that size, but being ignored with such indifference somehow made him angry...
"Hahaha!"
Suddenly, he laughed out loud.
Seriously, even he couldn't help but feel this was funny.
I mean, was he seriously upset about being ignored by a Sea King kilometers in length?
Going over to the two who were still unconscious, he picked them up, carrying them over his shoulder.
**
After creating a makeshift prison with reinforced stones, he placed sea stone cuffs on both of them.
He didn't have many of these cuffs, only 5.
When Miss Valentine and Mr.5 woke up, they were confused, not understanding how they ended up there.
Until then, they had been chased by the Marines, but then...
"There's something wrong with my memories." Miss Valentine said.
"What a coincidence, I feel the same." Mr.5 commented.
"Were we captured by the Marines?" she said to Mr.5.
"No idea, I can't remember." he replied.
...
Meanwhile, not far away, Caleb heard their conversation.
Smiling, he walked away.
'Looks like the Neuralyzer really does work on Devil Fruit users.'
He had his doubts. Although he saw them enter a hypnosis-like state and receive his suggestions. After that, he knocked them out and didn't test whether it really worked.
With this test done, he left them alone.
Since they were wearing sea stone cuffs, without help, they wouldn't be able to escape that prison.
At least he was kind enough to create a bathroom with a divider, since it was a man and a woman in the same cell.
As for food, he would send it periodically until he finally decided to leave the island and take both of them along to claim their bounty.