Towards Laughtale

After the fight with Urgo'v, Ian took a short while to recover before he continued on his journey to the next islands. All the while as he passed through the rest of the islands he reflected on his mentality.

Somehow, he understood that from now on he shouldn't take things so easy.

Ian right now was on top of the odyssey's figurehead.

Besides him were Elene and Robin.

Ian had his hand on Robin's thighs as he enjoyed the heavenly warmth permeating his body. Meanwhile, Elene caressed his hair with her hands. A gentle smile adorned her body as if she was capable of understanding what went on through Ian.

With a short signal from Robin, with her eyes, Elene sighed in her mind and started speaking.

"Dear, don't be so hard on yourself." She softly said.

And even though Ian had his eyes closed, he was listening to her aptly.

"look how far we managed to come? Cut yourself some slack okay? You are doing just fine." She continued.

"And if something stands in our way in the future, we will be here right beside you honey alright?" Robin added from above as she bent her head and gave his head a kiss.

Ian smiled and opened his eyes.

He then smoothly raised his right hand and brought Robin back for a kiss on the lips. Their lips brushed each other, as Ian softly traced her lips before deciding to invade.

His tongue as if hungry hurriedly invaded her soft and warm lips searching for her tongue not to decide who's the better one, but rather getting entangled with it and seeking a union.

Robin closed her eyes as a content smile stretched through her face. The heat from this action started to spread through her cheeks.

"Cough*Cough"

A coughing sound interrupted them as they both separated leaving a string of saliva.

Their eyes traced the sound and turned to Elene.

Both were embarrassed for a bit, as they almost forgot Elene.

"Am I standing in between you too?" Elene said with a smile. A dangerous smile.

"Ahaha" He beckoned for her to come closer.

She excitedly moved her upper body sideways to better reach him and then deftly moved her hair to the back.

Ian smiled fondly before he gave her a similar passionate kiss just the same as Robin. These kisses were not about sex and that, rather they showed their love to each other.

Once they separated, Ian smiled and thanked both of them.

"I'm glad I have you in my life," Ian said softly.

Both of them smiled happily and even raised their chests high in pride. Confident in themselves at that moment like never before.

"Of course, that also includes our little family members. Yes, I'm talking about you, you can come out now." Ian then said.

He didn't turn around or do anything other than talk and raise his voice. After all, he enjoyed Robin's heavenly thighs.

A head pokes up from behind the spacious figurehead as Stella, with Libell holding onto her neck, showed up.

They both had a guilty look on their face as they didn't dare to look at neither Elene nor Robin who were exuding such a dangerous feeling even as they were smiling.

"DAD, I'm huuungry!" Libell jumped at Ian with fake tears in her eyes.

The little devil knew that her dad wouldn't punish her.

That's right, Ian wouldn't punish this little girl who for a while now had been calling him her dad. Well, it was fine anyway, nothing bad happened.

And at any rate, if the girls didn't get what they wanted, they'll be more hungry for 'it' later on in night… hehe.

"Come, princess, let's go see Uncle Bert." Ian got up from the ground and grabbed her in the sky as they both hovered to the kitchen.

Elene and Robin's eyes trailed after his form, then they both turned to stare at Stella.

She then promptly tried to run away but the moment she had jumped to the deck from the shadows, a form took shape and extended its hands and caught her easily.

"You can't escape Mother." The figure talked as a mouth had shaped on its face.

This was due to Elene eating Big mom's devil fruit. Right now, Elene had an army made of various stuff hidden in her shadow… it can be said that right after Ian she was the strongest in the crew.

Of course, Stella could run, but that would only piss Elene even more, she just resigned to her faith as she saw the two dangerous girls coming towards her.

"I'm dead."

****

Ian and co had actually finished with all four islands and were now heading right towards the coordinate where Laughtale should be.

Only four days had passed since the fight against Urgo'v. and the reason they moved this fast is that two of the four sea kings just let them pass silently after Ian one-shot the second sea king after Urgo'v.

Granted he had been tired right after and wouldn't even be able to move, but it would still count as a one-shot.

None of them gave Ian any of their crystals and Ian knew why, even someone like Ariel didn't manage to help him break through the fourth stage, and he was clearly stronger than them.

They also said he'll get something once he heads to Laughtale.

Ian didn't mind this too much he just moved past it.

"Do you like it?" Ian asked Libell.

Ian had a fish skewer in his right hand as he carried and supported Libell with his left.

She had her own fish skewer as she was nibbling and munching on it cutely.

"Un" She nodded.

"CAPTAIN, Captain!" A loud voice called out.

Ian headed carrying her to the deck and looked upwards at Aokiji who was the one who called him.

It appeared all of the crew were gathered there.

Aokiji pointed to the sea.

Ian followed his eyesight and saw that they had stopped.

He gave Robin a look and she nodded.

"Well, let's see if there's something different," Ian told them.

But even after they looked for a while it appeared nothing was different.

Then what was the point of the test they passed through?

Ian didn't know, but he said.

"Calm down, something is coming towards us quickly. Get ready." He said, and Libell got off him letting him stay ready. He had felt something moving underwater at a very fast speed towards them.

The rest followed suit and turned serious and looked at the sea.