Chapter 123 (1/2)

Grandline, Paradise

With billowing sails, the wind driving them forwards, the liberated Revery smoothly cut through the waves of the oceans that had once again welcomed Azul and Robin into its open arms, even if those arms sometimes tried to strangle them in their tight embrace.

And yet Azul wouldn't want it any other way. Otherwise the journey would be one boring as hell trip he really could do without. But luckily for him that wasn't the case.

Standing with one arm grasping the rigging that held the mast straight Azul let himself hang like a billowing flag in the wind, only one wave away from dipping his feet into the water with how angled the ship was cleaving through the waves.

Grinning from ear to ear Azul enjoyed the feeling of sailing like this to the fullest and hoped the next storm would be just as fun. Robin meanwhile was a little anxious for Azul and repeatedly tried to get him to step back on board but all her attempts fell on def ears.

”Now that's what I'm calling sailing hahahaha!” Azul roared into the whistling wind while Robin rolled her eyes in exasperation at Azul's antics and yet she couldn't help the twitching of her mouth in amus.e.m.e.nt.

”Please come back down from there Azul! I swear, I'm not gonna dive after you if you fall into the water!” Robin called back which only caused Azul's laughter to intensify.

”Stop being a chicken and come join me! Experience everything with the glee of a little child! After all we only have a short time on this beautiful planet hahaha!” Azul roared into the wind causing a tick mark to appear on Robin's forehead. Did he really just call her a chicken?

Stomping like an angry mother hippo Robin went out of the cabin to give Azul a piece of her mind when she was suddenly grabbed without warning and flung into Azul's arms, holding her steadily right above the waters surface, causing Robin to scream in fear until her mind realised that she was safe for the moment when her screaming turned into adrenalin filled laughter, joining Azul in the excitement.

Though while they were immersed in the rush that sailing provided them they didn't notice a seagull with a newspaper in its beak that couldn't help but sweat drop at the two humans and their antics. Truly, the job of a seagull of the Maichyo never got boring…

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Grandline, New World

BigMom and Kaido had had used the time of the cold war between the different factions to bolster their forces and had decided, as both of them grew bored with only those small skirmishes that they would take the lead in the great war without much preamble.

Thus, one beautiful morning in the new world one of the marine sh.i.p.s on their usual patrol that were checking on the islands under the world governments control nearly stopped in its tracks due to all the sailors getting a simultaneous heart attack at the sight that presented itself to them.