3 Chapter 3 Mabel & Ralph

South Blue.

Whale Island.

Squeak…

The cries of the sea gulls echoed around the Island, the port like usual was packed with merchant's ships that travelled all around the south blue.

Whale Town.

Rox House.

"Seriously, what has happened to you in the last two months, Rox, why are you so fixated on becoming strong!" It was a small single story wooden house, in the somewhat dark and small dining room, a somewhat beautiful black eyed woman who was around in her 40's, 180 cm high, black curly hair reaching her shoulders, dressed in a somewhat ragged attire, admonished the brown haired kid holding her head in a headache.

"Gulp…why? Because I want to travel around the world and strength is needed for it…you should be happy that I'm trying to get strong… that way you'll worry less when I go out" Rox chugged the glass of water down and wiping his lips, he retorted back at his mother, trying to assure her.

"Travel around the world, then what is this? You think fooling me is that easy…I gave birth to you…not the other way… little bastard!!"

Thud…

Mabel hearing his reason, yelled at him with a displeased look on her face and took out a small bag full of berries, around 50000 thousand in it, putting it on the table, looking at him with interrogating eyes.

"Wow!!~ mom you won the lottery…you are so lucky…" Rox seeing the bag of money didn't panic at all and acted like a true child of his age, clapping his hands in excitement.

"Lucky my foot! I have buying lotteries for so many years, I have never won even once…the first time you help me pick a number I happen to win and even get this absurd bonus of ten thousand berries for my insistence of years..."

"Speak the truth, did you give the money to lottery organizer and set up this game. Hurry up!!" Demanded Mabel crossing her arms across her chest, looking at him with eagle like sharp eyes.

"That bastard…couldn't he find a good reason?!!"

"I don't know what are you talking about mom~ but now that we have money…. You can buy new clothes…" Rox cursed in his heart the lottery organizer who gave such an absurd reason for the bonus but on the surface he didn't panic and pretended to be innocent, talking just like a cute little innocent kid.

A week ago, Rox on his way back from the mountains encountered a small 5 to 6 man consisting bandit group, they didn't have any firearms, only swords or sharp weapons, he decided to try his skills with them.

Thankfully, they weren't that skilled and ran away when he injured two or three of them, fearing him like some humanoid beast, from their liar he found around 80000 berries.

He kept around 25000 for his savings and the remaining he didn't give it straightly to his mother, as she might guess the reason he has been training recently is to become a hunter or something, which endangers his life.

If she thinks this way, there is no way she would let him go out and travel around the world, so he gave the lottery organizer 5000 to work in this plan to give money to his mother.

The lottery reward has always been 40000, he had 50000 so he asked the lottery organizer to prepare an excuse to give her the remaining as well, that bastard had patted his fat belly to assure him, and this is the excuse he prepared.

"You…little fox…." Hearing his reason, the whole body of Mable tremble, her eyes tearing slightly, as she could only let out a small curse, her face full of emotion.

Creak…

"Oh~, its Uncle Ralph!" At this moment, the somewhat broken entrance wooden door was pushed open, a burly 2-meter-high man in a tank top around his forties with wheat skin and thick brown box beard on his weather beaten face entered the house, Rox recognizing him immediately, his maternal uncle, a fisherman in the Island.

"Rox! Sister!" Ralph greeted them both with a smile on his face, though some tiredness in his eyes from overwork could be seen.

"Have a seat brother, I'll bring something to eat!" Mabel quickly wiped the tears from her eyes, and politely gestured to Ralph to sit on the chair around the wooden dining table.

"Uncle, did you find any good sword for me in Karate Island?" Soon, Rox's mother, Mabel brought some fish along with boiled rice for Ralph, who hungry immediately began to eat, Rox on the side inquiring as the last time he had requested his uncle to find a good sword for him in Karate Island.

Karate Island is one of the famous Island in South Blue, a navy branch is built there as well, not only that martial arts are also taught on that Island to people who are interested, the market there is prosperous, Ralph goes with other fisherman to sell the whale meat at Karate Island.

Rox had requested to find a good sword for him as the current swords he has could barely be called swords, although it is true that any sword can be made a black blade by intense practice but the sword should at least fulfil basic requirements to get started on the road of training it to become a black sword.

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