Raijeniay-Milaiya War Arc

The **Raijeniay-Milaiya War Arc**, also known as **Chapter 2: Fight for the Future**, is the second story arc in the North Blue Saga.

The Gorilla Pirates arrive at the town of Coashire in the Raijeniay Empire and learn of a war between the empire and the Federation of Milaiya, eventually deciding to join and help end it. Along the way meeting the Cipher Police, Ashen Pirates, and recruiting Kushay, Clarice Ashton, and Motna to their crew.

## Summary

### Arriving at Coashire

During the voyage to the next island, Edward discovers a man hiding on the ship. He introduces himself as Frith Butch, a bounty hunter, but has no interest in capturing the crew since they have no bounties yet. He demands that they take him to the coastal city, Coashire, which happens to be on the island they were heading for anyways. After landing, the crew part ways with Frith Butch and enter the city. The crew heads for the North Blue Market, the biggest market in the sea. The crew had no money to spend except for Leon, who refused to spend a single penny and stole a bound baseball before they left. They then headed to a bar and had some drinks, the bartender identified their devil seeds for them and told them the seeds could grow into either a Paramecia or Zoan-type devil fruit. A couple of drunks start causing a ruckus in the bar and the crew kicks them out of the bar. After that bartender told them about a local gang who one of the drunks was apart of, the Mild Ones, who’ve been a huge change to the cities formerly low crime rate. He also tells them about the war between Raijeniay and Milaiya, and how Milaiya is fighting for the innovation of technology. Finally, he recommends that the crew heads to the island Wekai Fadi when they’re ready to go to the Grand Line.

After exiting the bar, the market’s owner runs up to the crew in a panic. He mentions that the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, his big auction item, has been stolen by the Mild Ones. The crew agrees to get it back for an award and by pure coincidence, Leon walks into the Mild Ones’ alley and they’re fight two thugs. They enter their secret hideout and witness an old man, reading the encyclopedia pick a devil fruit from a tree. Before they can confront though his bodyguard, Thunder Chad, stops them from messing with the old man. After a long difficult battle the crew prevails and charge at the old man, who had eaten the Life-Life Fruit which caused him to become outrageously buff. But he begs for mercy, saying he only wanted the book so he could grow and eat the fruit to extend his life, letting him spend more time with his gang. The old man, who is named Greg, gives the book to Stede, who returns it to the market owner and gets a 3,000 reward. With the newly acquired money, the crew returns to the market and Stede buys a spearginata along with some light armor for him and Edward. After leaving the market, they once again encounter Frith Butch. He informs the crew that they each have gained a bounty of 5,000 each, for proving that they were strong and for shoplifting that bound baseball. He decided to hunt them down for the reward and they begin to fight. The crew fights as hard as they can against Butch and his Milk-Milk Fruit powers but for some reason they can’t seem to bring him down, eventually it seemed like he stopped responding to pain and fatigue at all. After Leon and Edward had collapsed, in one final desperate move, Stede attempts to drink a part of Butch’s body that has been turned into milk, which causes him to finally lose his energy and collapse. They each get 500 that Butch had on him, and he is carried away by two individuals to recover at a hospital.