Taking It Easy?

After arriving at Sabaoday Archipelago, Nojiko and Alexander have spent their time just being together.

A reason for that might be that Alexander didn't know what they were supposed to do after finally arriving at Sabaody Archipelago. However, they still trained together, and with their improved relationship, their training didn't stop or stagnate at all.

In many ways, they trained even harder than ever before. They were pushing their training to the upper limit the whole time, especially Nojiko because she didn't want to fall behind and become a weakness to Alexander.

He knew that what she felt, and he even tried talking to her and explaining that she wasn't a burden or a weakness anyway, but he couldn't make her stop thinking like that.

His words added more fuel to the flames, and her Observation Haki and Combat Skills drastically improved if you would call Zoro a genius with the way of the sword than Nojiko is a genius when it comes to Haki at least Observation Haki.

In just two weeks of self-training with the two of them, Nojiko had reached Advanced Beginner Stage to Advanced Proficient Stage Observation Haki in only two weeks.

But Alexander didn't stop training if it weren't for his extraordinary gift. He would have already been overtaken by Nojiko a long time ago, so with not wanting to be behind her, Alexander pushed himself into training his Observation Haki so from Beginner Proficient Stage to Beginner Expert Stage.

The hardest part was stepping from Peak Proficient Stage to Beginner Expert Stage took him 4-5 days of the two weeks. Still, it was worth it because when he stepped into Expert Stage, he could predict or see into the future for just 1 second, and only that meant that he had finally begun to master Observation Haki.

Thinking of soon reaching the limit of Observation Haki, he started thinking of ways he might be able to get Armament Haki, and the only conclusion that he could come up with was beg or ask Rayleigh nicely for help.

'It might just be time to meet Rayleigh and have a little chat.' with that thought in mind, he started building up his courage to meet the famous "Dark King" in person.

He didn't know if he should take Nojiko or not, but he decided to take her with him because leaving her behind might not be safer than taking her with him.

So with that, he went to the kitchen to make some dinner after a long day training, so he let Nojiko take a shower first while he prepared dinner.

When he was half done, Nojiko came out in just a towel around her naked body, only one look from him, and he wanted to rip that towel away, but he stopped himself as it wasn't time for that.

"Wow, and here I thought you would come and attack me the moment I walked in here, but it seems you have other plans for today just from that action alone." she said with a teasing tone.

"Yea, today I had other plans for today. I will tell you later while we are eating, so could you finish the dinner while I take a quick shower?"

"Sure, what are we making?" she said with a little curiosity about what he wanted to tell her, but she could wait.

"It's nothing special, but you have the recipe at the kitchen table just follow the steps its that meat stew I made a few days ago." he said while walking towards the bathroom.

"Mhm Okej, I will do that, but are you sure that you don't want me to join you?" she said with a seductive look on her face.

No matter much he wanted to take that offer, he knew that it would just escalate, and they would probably not leave the shower anytime soon when it comes to the succubus known as Nojiko.

It was not that it was a bad thing in itself, but today wasn't the day for that, but he might have to make up for it tonight.

After a few minutes, he was back from taking a shower, and when he came back, Nojiko was almost done as he had prepared the meat stew in the morning, so the stew was done and just needed to some reheating again as we made to-ma-toes and a light salad if needed.

As they finally ate, he explained to Nojiko that he was thinking of meeting a person Rayleigh and that he was powerful. She didn't have to worry about him attacking us, thanks to we knowing Crocus (hopefully).

Nojiko just nodded and asked a few small questions as to how I knew the person and other stuff, and I answer her, but some things I had to lie about as to how I know that he's here and other things, so I just blamed it on that Crocus told me where I could find him.

Hearing that he was from a former Roger Pirates member and a mighty one at that made her weirdly excited about that, Alexander concluded that all this training might have awakened her inner battle maniac. Still, hopefully, that instinct wasn't so strong that she would seek battles herself.

When they were done eating, Alexander quickly took the plates, and after washing them, they made their way towards the only place that Rayleigh could be from his memories.

As they had spent two weeks training almost non stop, that didn't stop them from finding out how the whole islanded look like and know some stuff about all the different districts or "grove" as they called it in Sabaody Archipelago and where they were going to was Grove 13.

After walking towards Grove 13 from their ship, it took them at least 1 hour, if not more, thanks to someone wanting to see a few places along the way.

When they finally arrived outside a bar called Shakky's Rip Off.

'Hopefully, he can help me with Armament Haki, or I might have to find another way.'