It was mid-day, and Shimotsuki Village was very vibrant at this time of day, full of pedestrians on the road. Looking at all kinds of road side stalls with hawkers advertising their products, it made Alvin's stomach begin to growl. Byakko's eyes were also shining looking at all the sumptuous looking delicacies displayed in these stalls.
The only reason that it was restraining itself from plunging these stalls was because it had been warned by Alvin. The situation got worse when he noticed a barbeque stall surrounded by about five people waiting for their delicious skewers. The appetizing aroma waffling from this stall made his stomach growl harder.
Actually, Alvin wasn't a very good cook. So the meat that he had grilled previously didn't taste very good. He only ate it out of hunger. It was so bad that even Byakko refused to eat his grilled meat. That was why their mouths watered so much they saw such appetizing foods.
But at this time, Alvin realized that he had no money on him so he first had to exchange some of the materials that he had on him for money.
After enquiring around, he found a shop that purchased beast materials from hunters and gathered all the low level beast materials that he had on him to trade. The only ones he kept on him were the meat and materials of Level 5 creatures and upwards.
After negotiating for almost thirty minutes, he finally sold these all materials for $50,000! He finally had some money on him. The first thing he did when he got this money was to look for a restaurant.
Wondering how many meals he could have with such amount he casually found a small restaurant and ordered a bowl of gruel and one plate of brined vegetable soup for himself and some grilled meat for Byakko. He began to eat slowly.
Whilst slowly eating, Alvin began to consider his next course of action. In brief, first stabilize his condition by finding a regular source of income and then find Isshin Sword Dojo where Master Koshiro serves as the Dojo master. Since that man was so well respected in the anime, he should be well known so it shouldn't be difficult to find his dojo.
After finishing the food, Byakko was still complaining about the amount of meat it was served so Alvin ordered another round for it.
Leaving the restaurant he began to search around town for a ship components workshop. In his previous life, before he entered the army, he was a qualified maritime engineer and had some experience working on cruise ships. It was due to some accidents early in his life that he abandoned that career.
Although the ships in this time cannot be compared to the 21st century ships but since he was an engineer in his previous life, he believed that he could apply his knowledge to become excellent in this field. Looking around town for some time he found an old shop named "Shadd's Hull Components Shop".
Walking in, the small shop had a variety of old hull parts which fortunately Alvin recognized. Behind the counter was a 40 year-old middle aged man. He had a bare upper body, comb head and slightly fat. "This should be the owner of this place." Alvin thought.
The middle aged man smiled towards Alvin and said: "Young man, are you looking for anything? We have a variety of ship parts here."
Alvin thought for a while, then directly asked with a solemn face: "Uncle, do you know where I can find the nearest Navy branch. I was shipwrecked and drifted onto this island. I do not know how to get back."
The middle aged man signed and asked: "What about your family?"
Alvin as much as possible to put on a sad expression but did not speak, instead put the head down.
The middle-aged man saw this and also shook his head and asked: "Isn't there anyone else left in your family?"
Alvin shook his head, thought about it and asked: "Uncle, your shop buys hull parts, rights? I can work for you in assembling these parts. Believe me, I am very capable."
The middle-aged man was surprised for a moment, shook the head and said: "Young man, lying is not good. You are too young, do you know how many years it to train before you can identify ship parts let alone repair the. Are you telling me you are a shipwright?"
"Uncle, I can really do it. My father used to work in the Water 7 Shipyard. I grew up learning how to assemble ship parts from Uncle Al." he looked at the middle-aged man, confidently saying.
The moment the middle-aged man heard the Water 7, his eyes suddenly lit up and asked, "Really? You can really assemble these parts? Come and take a look at these hull parts and if you can do as you said I will give you 5000 belly every month. "
Being guided to the back of the workshop, Alvin saw a few simple machines. Fortunately for him, he could identify most of the parts here. Whether it was learning in the University or practicing on board of a ship, to deal with these simple machines was very easy. It only took him a few minutes to finish working on most of the parts here.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man was very happy and finally asked: "Yes, what's your name? In the future you work here, as for the place to live there is a small room upstairs which I will take you to. Can a produce about 100 parts a day?"
Alvin's rough estimate of assembling 100 parts which would cost him about 2.4 hours of work. It was very good for him. And having a stable accommodation, but also regular income, he could begin to look for Isshin Sword Dojo . So he happily agreed to the middle-aged proposal. By the way he told the man that he was called Arnold and also learned that the man was called Shadd. He was then taken to where he would be living.
Small room was not bad, at least enough to live in for the meantime. The room had a bed, cabinets and mirrors. Standing in front of the mirror he looked at himself and this was also the first time he saw the appearance he had in this world.
Standing about 1.8 meters, black shoulder length hair, and blue eyes. His appearance was good but not too outstanding. The only good thing he could take out of this was that he wouldn't stand out too much and blend in easily in the crowd.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Alvin thought to himself: "In short, my One Piece World adventures and the way to the top will officially start. Really looking forward to it! He he"