Itadori strolled toward the group as he caught the glimpse of familiar boy among the two strangers. He catched his breath in an instant and looked at the black haired kid with open arms and questioning look on his face.
"Where did you run off to, Rei? We thought you got taken away by the pirates and here you are" He turned his head to the duo and asked while pointing at them with a quizzical look, "Who are these guys?"
"He is Luffy and that one is Zoro, both of them are pirates" Rei introduced both of them, who just waved back at the pink haired boy with a smile. He noticed that only he was here and other two were missing from his sight, "Where are Bang and Megumin?"
"They'll be reaching here any moment" Itadori scratched back of his head and then he remembered something and asked in an exciting tone, "By the way, how did you brought those dark clouds up in the sky?!"
"So you used it as a guess to locate me" Rei stated the obvious to catch the attention of pink haired boy, he looked at him with a serious gaze, "But what if it wasn't me or rather some enemy? You could have walked into the enemy base with just on the basis of an assumption. Don't jump into dangers with just assumptions or else you'll end up getting into some serious trouble"
Itadori was about to retort to him but rather nodded in understanding that he was right on point. Just because he showed the lightning exuding sword to him, doesn't mean that every lightning attacks will be done by him, even an enemy could be a lightning user. It's a matter of life and death, one wrong move and you lose your life.
Soon enough, the rest of chat group members were in the sight of Rei, there was something unusual which made black haired kid brow raised up. He noticed that there was a third individual with Bang and Megumin heading in their direction, "Who is that old man?"
Itadori turned his head in the direction of individuals approaching their group, "He is mayor of this town. We met him earlier when we were looking out for you"
"Where are the Buggy Pirates?" Mayor noticed that there was no sign of pirates, that he heard their loud screams from afar. There were only three of them standing with the pink haired kid and judging from their appearance, he thought that the one who did all that was probably the scary guy with swords.
"All of them are dead over there, so you can be rest assured" Rei pointed at the top of pub, which was half destroyed and painted in black from all the lightning strikes. Surprisingly, the building didn't get destroyed and was still intact somehow.
Mayor's eyes went wide on the mention of Buggy Pirates being dead. He couldn't believe his eyes, that a pirate group, which had whole town in his palms was finally dead and there was nothing for the citizens to worry about anymore. They could finally live their lives in peace like they how used to do.
"Thank you so much for saving our town from those evil pirates!" Mayor bowed on his knees in front of green haired swordsman, which made everyone sweatdrop since he was thanking the wrong guy. He looked up in the face of his town's saviour and noticed that he was shaking his head in denial and pointed at the black haired kid standing beside strawhat boy.
"You are Rei?!" He was flabbergasted when he found out that a boy around his grandkid age, saved the whole town with such powerful lightning strikes which was already a unbelievable feat for a normal human. But right now, all he could think of is just thanking his saviour, so he was about to thank black haired kid, but he felt a hand on his shoulder and saw black haired kid smiling at him, "Please don't bow at me. It's making me feel bad to see a man of my grandpa's age bowing at me. So stand up and don't think too much about thanking me for saving your town"
Seeing this scene, everyone around them had a smile on their faces. Just as the moment, was getting little emotional around here, the door of pub blasted open by orange haired girl who was carrying a big sack on her shoulders and had a huge smile on her face.
"I got so much treasure. It's all thanks to y-" Nami's gaze fell on the strawhat kid, who turned his head at her. She had a look of kid seeing ghost while being in the room all alone. Rest of the individuals wondered why was she was getting so worked up, to see strahwat boy in front of her eyes.
"Yo, Navigator!" Luffy waved at the orange haired girl who sighed in annoyance, cursing her luck for getting an encounter with the same boy, she was trying not to see again. She slouched down to the ground with treasure beside her, "Not you again?!"
Rei just smiled at their interaction and then waved at Luffy to get his attention, "Shall we continue from where we left it?"
"Yeah!" Strawhat boy pumped his fist with a big smile on his face, and walked towards the Rei, to talk about his offer to join the crew. Rest of the group members turned their heads in their direction wondering what were they talking about before their arrival. Meanwhile, Zoro was getting a bad feeling about this and thought about stopping his captain to not get into unneccessary battle, but then he realizaed what sort of an individual, strawhat boy was. So he just remained on his chair and watched it from sidelines.
"To make this battle an interesting one, I have an idea. Do you want to listen to it?" Rei looked at the Strawhat and continued when he noticed the questioning look over his face, "How about we make a bet?"
"A bet?" Luffy scratched back of his head, while green haired swordsman was listening to it with his one eye open on the mention of bet from the black haired kid.
"If I win, I'll not join you and also you'll not bother her to become your navigator for a month" Rei cleared his throat and continued with a smile on his face, "And if I lose, both of us will join your crew, what do you think about it?"
"Alright! Let's add this bet to the battle" Luffy walked away from him towards the centre of town to get ready for their battle. Rei was about to join him as well, but he felt a tug on his arm from behind and met with the sight of annoyed orange haired girl.
"What's the matter, Nami? Aren't you happy with the bet conditions?" Rei was surprised to see that instead of being happy for getting a chance for getting free from Strawhat's grasp of invitation, she was mad at him.
"Why did you say a month for my condition and not for yours?!" Nami was happy when she heard that if Rei wins that she won't have to join Strawhat's pirate group, but then she replayed the conditions in her head and immediately asked him for making such a condition for just her, not him.
"I'll explain it to you after I win this battle. So just let me enjoy this, till it lasts" Rei walked towards the battlefield and stood opposite to the strawhat, who showed a thumbs up at him for their battle.
"Both of you ready?" Itadori became the referee for their battle and then with swing of his right arm, he announced, "Fight!"
Wasting no time, Strawhat put the hand over his other arm and slouched down a little. He stretched his right arm all the way back far away, making everyone's eyes go wide, "Gomu Gomu no"
""""He Stretched!"""
Aside from Zoro and Bang, everyone on the sidelines screamed at the streched arm of Strawhat kid. Mayor was already on the verge of passing out from seeing these absurdities, meanwhile Nami, Itadori and Megumin were looking at him, as if he was a monster.
"Pistol!"
He propelled a powerful punch at the black haired kid, who just smiled at sight of extended arm coming at him. With his quick reflex, he stepped to the side and caught his arm easily and caused Strawhat boy to punch with his arm, to get rid from his tightened grip, which was hurting him so badly. And once again, it was caught by the black haired kid and made his opponent panic.
'That idiot' Zoro sweatdropped at his captain getting captured so easily in just few seconds of battle getting start.
"Looks like I'm winning this match quite easily" Lightning crackled around his arms and crackling of it's sound ran down a chill in spine of everybody, seeing this Zoro was about to jump in, but then he remembered about the word that he gave to Rei, before the battle started and just watched it from side with clenched fist.
*Zapppppppp!*
After a powerful electric shock which was delivered to the body frame of Luffy, he was still intact and had no injuries over his body. Seeing him in perfect shape, everyone's jaws dropped down to the floor and meanwhile Rei was surprised that even his highest voltage of electric shock was useless against the rubber boy. Even though he well aware about his immunity to electricity, but in back of his mind, he wondered shouldn't a high voltage of electricity produce heat and melt the rubber.
"He is fine? But how?" Itadori gasped in surprise when he saw Strawhat boy standing still with no injuries and had a confused look on his face as well. Even he didn't know how he managed to survive the electrocution of Rei.
"It's because he is a rubber man" Rei told the secret which eventually everybody would caught on, after witnessing his powers in action, "I knew it won't work you. But still I tried to launch a high intensity electric shock to lay some amount of damage to you, it looks like I can't win with just electrocuting you. So I have to count on this technique of mine"
Rei brought back the fingers on his chest and seeing this, Zoro and Nami had sweat running down their cheeks, getting the visions of earlier onslaught over the rooftop. Luffy had a serious look on his face, which was quite unusual for someone like him who keep fooling around till now.