Spirit ring

Arthur, chyou and erlong enter the forest not long after their dinner. The old man also invited them to his tea shop. But Arthur refuses and said he will visit later.

Erlong is sitting on Arthur's shoulder with her leg on both sides. She is singing with Arthur as they go into the forest. Chyou is following them nervously. She is afraid that some beast might attack them if they are not careful.

Arthur saw this and bring her closer to him as he said "don't worry dear, your husband here is super strong."

Chyou blushes hearing him and erlong yell "yeah, he is super strong." Arthur also stops teasing her too much. He wants her to forget about all of her previous experiences. She has suffered enough.

Besides his good heart don't want such mother and daughter to face any suffering.

Arthur again start singing

"Yohoho ho yoh yo ho yo ho ho

Yohoho ho yoh yo ho yo ho ho

Gather up all of the crew..."

Erlong continues to sing with him. She like the song as Arthur also told about some of the great adventures of a straw hat.

Chyou relaxes as she knows that he won't do something that will endanger them. All this time she understands some of his personality.

He acted guffy and a pervert.

He is also very proud and does whatever he likes without care.

He also punished anyone that try to harm him or them. Even for a simple mistake.

He is selfish too. And like to show off his power a lot.

He is narcissistic and too proud of his look and hate to wear the blindfold.

And always care about those close to him.

Arthur suddenly stop singing as he said "sweetheart, I got a good spirit beast for you." As he tapped Erlong back.

Erlong look around and ask "where?" She has starred in her eyes. The first spirit beast she got is only 10 years as she doesn't have anyone to rely on. She had to hunt it by herself.

Arthur holds Chyou hand and teleports to the beast. Erlong finally saw the beast. It's a rhino. This species has a power attack ability. Its ring can increase the strength of a person by 10 percent.

Erlong looks at the beast excitedly. But chyou becomes serious as it almost reaching thousands of years old.

She looks at Arthur and asks "will she be able to absorb the ring?"

Arthur nodded and said, "don't worry I am here."

Arthur then immobilised the beast with his telekinesis and put erlong down.

Arthur give her a dagger and said to finish it. Erlong nodded and walk to it without hesitation. She didn't afraid of anything in the world. And with Arthur here she even wants to hunt the most powerful beast.

Erlong comes in front of it and Pearce the dagger in the neck of the beast. Its skin is tough but the dagger is also very sharp. So it went inside easily.

Arthur also let the beast go. Or else it will be counted as him killing. After the beast died a yellow ring come out of its body.

Erlong sits in front of the beast and pull the ring towards her and start to absorb it.

Chyou looks at her worriedly and Arthur taps her shoulder to relax her. She looks at Arthur and relax a little but still can't completely relax.

Arthur let her and wait beside them as he send Bao to search for anything good.

He sits on the ground and watches erlong absorbing the ring. Chyou comes and sits beside him. She also looks at her daughter.

She looks at Arthur and asks "why are you helping us?"

Arthur look at chyou and said "I don't know. I just don't want her to suffer the same fate as yours. If something happened to you then she will really hurt. And I don't want her to feel like she is being neglected."

Chyou look at Arthur. Her heart beat faster. She doesn't know what this is. But she is afraid that all of the last 2 weeks is a dream and she will wake up any moment.

Arthur garb her hips and said "it's not a dream. And you will never have to worry about me leaving you and her."

Chyou smile a little with tears of happiness and said "yeah."

Arthur remove her tears and said "you don't look beautiful when you cry. How about I give you another daughter?"

Chyou punches his shoulder as he teases her again. But she didn't let him go and hug him. She said, "I want to stay like this for a while."

Arthur nodded and don't tease her again but hugged her closer and sit like that as he look at erlong.

~scene change~

"Hahahahaha, I became stronger like you dad. Now I can beat the hell out of anyone that tries to harm the mother and you." Erlong said as she jumped from her sitting position and look in the sky.

Arthur looks at her and smile. He shakes his head at her.

Erlong look at her mother hugging Arthur and said "mother, dad is only mine. Don't make babies with dad." As he comes beside Arthur and pull him from her mother and look at her seriously.

Chyou look at her daughter and ask "where did you learn the baby-making word?"

She look at Arthur and blink as she said "didn't he always say that?"

Arthur rubs his head and laughs embarrassingly. Chyou look at her daughter and said "don't talk like that. It's not ladylike. Also, behave well in front of the master."

~scene change~

"Chyou, I found your beast too," Arthur said as he again teleport to a cave.

There they saw many bats in the wall. They open their eyes and look at the intruder. Before they attack Arthur knock them out. Only leaving one behind.

He bring it close to chyou and said "this has a sound affinity and its skill lets you amplify your flute sound, by 30%"

Chyou nodded and didn't ask more. Being strong isn't her goal. But be useful to Arthur is. So she do what Arthur said without asking any questions.

She kill it as a yellow ring appeared. She then starts to absorb it and Arthur also starts to tell erlong stories.

After an hour chyou open her eyes and smile. She finally advance after all this year.

Arthur then takes two of them back to the lightning city. They will start their journey again.