Today Everything Starts?

(*I have no excuse for being late with a chapter, and I'm sorry for making you wait.

Yours truly

Lazy Author*)

----1 month after Bruce's death----

This last month has been weird after that incident with Bruce. Rayleigh seems to have grown weird, as he looks to be frustrated over something, but when we ask, but he won't tell us, and when it comes to our, practice he seems hell-bent on that we aren't training hard enough.

We had understood from day one that something seemed fishy with his behavior but, we weren't alone on that Shakky also caught on upon his behavior as his wife, she figured it out almost immediately.

We didn't bother with it because if he didn't believe that it was time for them to hear what was on his mind, then they would accept that even how curious they may be.

Their curiosity peaked after one week when they had noticed the Shakky was the same as Rayleigh like there was something that bothered them, and when they were before them, it was as if they had something to say but were hesitant to tell them anything.

But no matter how much time it took, they never could tell them, Alexander and Nojiko had under this time trained and trained to satisfy and calm both Rayleigh and Shakky.

Alexander, of course, had begun to figure out that maybe what he had done by trying to taunt this "secret organization" into taking action and revealing themself from the shadows.

Sure, Alexander might feel some regret and one way or anyone scared thanks to Rayleigh and Shakky because they act like this, and who wouldn't feel some fear knowing that the Rayleigh "Dark King" Silvers was worried? But there's no turning back now.

When it comes to their training, there was no progress when it came to Observation Haki while their Armament Haki progressed at a fast pace, although not how fast they would have wanted.

Alexander had finally reached stage 2 out of 4, so stage 1 allows you too fully cover your arms while and stage 2 where he is at right now, makes him able to cover his entire body in Armament Haki.

The other two stages were hard to understand or grasp as the only difference is the luster of your Armament Haki, and the hard part is that the later stages were just concepts and never been 100% proven. People with that mastery above the rest were only a few that still alive, so even if they knew, they might not exactly give that information out to strangers.

Luckily both of them had Rayleigh that was one of those few that still knew about these secrets as Rayleigh was a master in all kinds of Haki and born with almost unrivaled talent.

Rayleigh has used his Armament Haki and his inborn Conqueror's Haki to fight his whole life as he never had to depend on "special powers" to become strong. It was an admirable thing as it was only a few that could become strong and become someone with just hard training and effort.

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Alexander slowly opened his eyes, and next to him were an empty spot with a lingering smell that reminded him of Nojiko.

This month Alexander had mostly spent training his new weapon while still training his Armament Haki as for the new weapon he had gotten made with the help of Rayleigh and his contacts that gladly helped as most of them were retired with nothing better to do.

'I'm lucky that I have Rayleigh that knows how to use swords, and from what I have heard, he's supposed to be an expert in swordsmanship, but to what degree he's at I don't know he might even have been at Mihawk's level in his prime.' Alexander pushed those thoughts away as he seemed to get his headache back that he's been having the past two weeks.

Getting up from his bed and takes his clothes that were standing neatly on a chair next to the bed place just for him. Turning his head towards the corner of the room where his new beautiful sword.

The sword wasn't anything special as far as regular people could see it was just a simple sword with a unique design, so with the help of his memories, he had made a replica of the classic gunblade from a game he knew from the past.

Letting the sword stay there as he finishes his morning routine, and after finishing, he began walking down towards the small dining room in the back of the bar.

Getting into the kitchen, Alexander spotted Nojiko making breakfast with Shakky while Rayleigh is away that he's been happening a lot this month. He's absent early in the morning and usually comes back just before the dinner.

None knew what he was doing, but we all figure out that it had to do with the event that had transpired, so we didn't dwell any longer than that.

"Morning, Alex!" both women said in synch, so he just smiled and said morning back before sitting by the dining table right next to the kitchen.

Alexander, noticing the local newspaper lying on the table, so he reaches out to get a quick look at the local gossip and other stuff that they usually write.

Going through the newspaper, he mostly finds some lame gossip as it wasn't until the following pages he found rumors about a few of the Supernovas are have gathered in Sabaody Archipelago.

As was in the back row pages told us that it wasn't sufficient credibility to the rumor, but he knew that this rumor was mostly the only rumor in there that was true.

'Seems like the beginning of Sabaody Archipelago Arc have just begun, and the moment we have been waiting for has started.'