29 Progress on all sides

*knock knock*

"Yes?" Raising his head, Commodore Brannew watched one of his subordinates enter his office.

"Sir, I have the report you asked for. It's about the incident that happened a few days ago with captain Nezumi" Putting a stack of files on the desk, the marine backed away and waited till Brannew finish browsing through the report.

'It seems everyone who was on board of Nezumi ship was killed gruesomely, including the maintenance personnel, chefs and prisoners… some of the bodies couldn't be identified as well' Quickly reading through the report, Brannew skipped through the details he already knows until he reached the relevant parts 'Nezumi remained unconscious and couldn't answer any questions until a few hours ago, and when he did answer the questions, he confirmed his assailant description was matching the picture we found on his table…'

Brannew put the report back on the table and considered for a moment before he gave his orders "Put a bounty on this Zeus person, set it at 27 million and don't mention anything about him attacking a marine ship, just say he killed many innocent people and is considered extremely dangerous"

"27 million?? he shouldn't be worth that much!" Hearing the amount of the bounty, his subordinate eyes opened wide and he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Sigh, I know… Nezumi direct superior insisted on putting such a high amount" lifting the handsome blonde man picture that was on top of the documents, Brannew couldn't help but sigh in regret 'It seems this person is filled with a strong justice spirit, it's such a shame he acted on his own instead of coming to the Marines to file a formal complaint against Nezumi corruption, he could have been a great marine.... At least that kid Eragon seems like a good seedling… I hope I'm not wrong about him'

Remembering Eragon who was at East Blue, Brannew gave one last instruction before his subordinates left the office "One last thing…"

…..

Feeling the morning sun shining through the window on his face, Eragon opened his eyes and was about to get up from his bed, only to feel two weights on his shoulders preventing him from moving.

Moving his head sideways he saw Caroline's and Nami's heads lying on his shoulders as they slept. Not having the heart to wake them up he continued to stay on the bed without moving 'It's been more than a week since Caroline was shot, which means we are leaving to the marine special training camp in less than a week… it seems the marine haven't linked my attack on the marine ship to Nami, it was a wise decision to mutilate some of the bodies in order to throw them off my track' Yesterday, he received the newspapers with the new bounties, including his own bounty as the Zeus persona. The fact they put a bounty on Zeus's head instead of coming to arrest Eragon meant they didn't know Zeus was related to Eragon in any way.

'I can't believe all of this happened because of that damned tattoo' Moving his hand he caressed Nami's smooth, white shoulder, clean of any tattoo. When he heard Nami was mistaken as one of Arlong pirates because of the tattoo, he immediately used his Medical Ninjutsu to remove it. According to Nami, the only reason she hasn't taken it off yet was because she searched for a skilled tattoo artist in the city to remove it, but she wasn't pleased with any one of them so the tattoo stayed for a while, and since she didn't think anyone would recognize the tattoo she didn't think it was urgent to remove it… quite a dumb reason, but what happened already happened and all he could do was move on.

Hugging Caroline's and Nami's bodies closer to his body, it pressed their soft breasts on his chest from both sides and brought a smile to his face. The reason the three of them were sleeping on the same bed was because of Caroline. A week ago she was still weak and needed someone to help her to change clothes, going to the bathroom, or even feeding her. Eragon said he should be the person to help her as part of his responsibility as Caroline's man but Nami insisted she should be the one to take care of Caroline because she was the reason Caroline got hurt in the first place.

Eventually, they compromised and decided they both stay with Caroline, and that included staying with her during the night in case she needed help. Of course, they didn't do any lewd stuff except for kissing, Caroline was still too weak and Nami didn't want to have sex claiming it was inconsiderate of them when Caroline was still sick.

And now a week later, Caroline was well enough to take care of herself but since none of them complained about sleeping together, they took it as an implicit consent as they continued. Eragon would gladly sacrifice a few sexless days if it meant he could take their relationship to the next level and have a threesome.

Probably because she felt Eragon's hands moving on her shoulder, Nami opened her eyes and saw Eragon looking at her lost in his thoughts "Good morning"

Moving closer to his face, Nami gave him a quick kiss on the lips, and just as she was about to move backward, she felt Eragon's hand on the back of her head, stopping her from moving while his tongue entered her mouth. Nami was taken aback for a moment before she responded to Eragon's deep kiss, entangling their tongues together in passion. After a few minutes, she was already feeling hot as tingling currents passed through her body, she could never understand how kissing with Eragon always made her feel so good.

Her pussy got wet and her nipples went hard as she got too aroused, Nami moved her hands to Eragon's crotch when suddenly she heard someone coughing.

"Cough cough"

Startled, Eragon stopped kissing Nami and turned his head to the other side, seeing Caroline looking at him with an aggrieved look on her face "Heheh Good morning" Giving an awkward laugh, he immediately kissed Caroline's lips as well, preventing her from complaining.

The three of them fooled around on the bed for a few minutes before Caroline stopped him "That's enough for now, can you please go downstairs to bring us something to eat while we freshen up?" Getting up from the bed Caroline flashed him a smile and asked in a voice full of her desire to be spoiled.

"What's in it for me?" Sitting on the bed he followed Caroline with his fiery gaze.

Instead of answering, Caroline gave him a bashful look and started to change her clothes in front of him.

Eragon's eyes shamelessly scanned towards Caroline's bright fair skin, admiring her enchanting ass and perk chest. He was pleased as Caroline was getting bolder ever since she got shot and the three of them started to sleep together at night, sometimes she even teased him even though Nami was in the room. He guessed it was because Nami and Caroline got closer to one another after experiencing the shooting incident.

"Humph!"

Probably jealous Eragon was only looking at Caroline, Nami left their bed and stood next to Caroline, she also stripped in front of him with a coy face. Setting her big bunnies free before she bent over to take her pants off, presenting her sacred garden to his view.

Eragon's groin was on fire as he moved his eyes back and forth between the two stunning women in front of him, he could feel the day the three of them will have sex together was approaching fast.

He only left to the hotel kitchen when the two women entered the bathroom 'I can't stand this anymore! tonight I will make my move heheh'

For the past week they ate in their room since Eragon asked them not to leave the hotel until they leave for the training camp, they will be in trouble if someone recognized Nami or Caroline on the street.

After they finished eating, Eragon left a shadow clone with Caroline and Nami to help them train. It was a shame but Nami still couldn't sense chakra, giving rise to frustration in her.

Eragon left to his own room so his training won't be interrupted, he was quite impatient as his [Chakra] skill was almost reaching level 10.

One of the good things that happened was Caroline getting more motivated to train her sword again. He knew Caroline lost all of her motivation to train when she wasn't able to produce any chakra… Usually, she only trained when she was with him and when he wasn't paying attention she was slacking off, that was why she was still weak even after five years of training with her swords. Eragon tried to convince her to put more effort into her training with competitions and bets but it was unsuccessful until eventually, he decided to leave her alone and respect her wishes.

Otherwise, with 5 years of training under Eragon's hands she would become quite powerful herself. Not to mention he has the skill [Teacher] which made him a master teacher who could explain eloquently any subject he knows.

Now, the only person who wasn't training all-heartedly was Nojiko, poor Nojiko couldn't bear to stay in the room all day to train with Nami and Caroline, so she usually left around noon every day to wander the streets, only coming back when it was dinner time.

"It's time!" A few hours passed quickly, and Eragon felt that combined with his shadow clones he should have enough experience points to push his [Chakra] skill to the next level. Excitedly he released his shadow clones and receive a massive amount of experience points.

[Chakra + 2,598 exp]

[Ding, the skill Chakra has reached the requirements to level up. Do you wish to proceed? Y/N]

Thrilled to see the system asking him the usual question before a skill leveled up, he quickly authorized.

[Ding, Chakra level 10]

[Chakra level 10 (238/900,000)]

As the skill level progress, relevant Sub-Skills such as 'Chakra Control', 'Ninjutsu' and more will be awarded.

Knowledge of Fuinjutsu Techniques increases.

+300% Increase to all bodly physical abilities such as strength, speed, endurance, vitality and the five senses]

"WHAT?! 250% ?? Are you for real??" Watching the system explaining the effects of reaching Chakra level 10 caused a great stir in Eragon's heart and he couldn't help but exclaim in shock. Until now, the highest percentage increase he ever got was 5%, which was nowhere close to 250%!

"Previously, my chakra reserves were already high, probably just shy from reaching kage level. But now, I'm definitely at the kage level!' Remembering how a year ago he trained with two shadow clones, and that only recently he managed to reach 10 shadow clones, tears almost started falling from his eyes. Clenching his fists tightly, his face got red from excitement 'With this, I can maintain more than 30 shadow clones for an entire day! This means my training speed will increase by more than three times!!!'

Maintaining a shadow clone an entire day for the purpose of training was very demanding on the amount of chakra needed. It was only in the last year Eragon could finally use more shadow clones in his training. This was why his skills leveled up so slowly even though he worked hard for years.