SWDnovel Chapter 117: Sea Circle Calendar 1518 — The Ascetic Heartthrob
Chapter 117: Sea Circle Calendar 1518 — The Ascetic Heartthrob
On January 2, Sea Circle Calendar 1518.Yesterday were Karl and Carina’s birthdays.
Starting today, the boy and girl are sixteen.
Since Karl truly reached the summit and became one of the world’s highest peaks—the fifth Emperor of the Sea—more than a month has slipped by without us noticing.
For more than a month, Kaido hasn’t come to make trouble for Karl.
Whether it’s because the Goro Goro no Mi plus the Float-Float Fruit let Gran Tesoro fly so his rage would be useless, or because of Yamato...
In short, Kaido tacitly accepted defeat and, with the prestige of the "Strongest Creature," helped crown Karl’s ascent.
Over that month, besides adding the title of Emperor of the Sea—which made countless tycoons and nobles even more willing to play in Gran Tesoro—Karl’s cooperation with Donquixote Doflamingo also became far closer.
To curry favor with Karl, Doflamingo practically took over all the manpower and part of the materials; Karl’s crew only needed to do a little and could sit back and collect money.
Knowing why Doflamingo does this—to make Karl dependent on his resources—Karl was happy to oblige.
He only needs to extend a hand at Doflamingo’s critical moments, pull him up in time, and he gains the fruits of years of network and logistics—why not?
Once their relationship improves a bit more, Karl won’t hesitate to borrow Viola.
With the Glare-Glare Fruit and the Lucky-Lucky Fruit, Karl will use them as tools to search for the legendary Lantern Fish.
So Karl didn’t worry about anything else and handed all of Gran Tesoro’s affairs over entirely to Robin, Carina, Nami, Nojiko, and Baccarat.
He himself stayed home to look after Tama, trained with Yamato at home, and every day pushed the homebody Perona through physical conditioning.
Right now, Perona is the strongest in the crew beneath the three pillars of Karl, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and Yamato.
Although before this she was already third after Karl and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, ic fields and permanent climates.
For example, an island of endless snow and ice; and a sky-island always wreathed in thunderclouds—practically a holy land for Karl, Raijin Island; and so on...
On her first voyage, every time Yamato landed on one of these wondrous islands she’d light up like Kozuki Oden just after he first went to sea, dashing about and causing Karl’s crew no small amount of trouble.
But before Karl and Yamato’s absolute power, those troubles were easily resolved.
And just like Kozuki Oden...
Every island Yamato visited, she recorded the exploration in her journal.
The "Yamato Voyage Log" was being born.
On the road of adventure, Karl and Yamato didn’t forget to train Carina and Perona.
Tama was exempt because of her age, but Carina and Perona spent half a year regretting following Karl and Yamato to sea countless times.
The two monsters simply didn’t treat them like ordinary people.
Because Karl’s electric-current method prevents hidden injuries, for the first time he steeled himself and put them through hellish training.
Karl took charge of willpower, conditioning, and Rokushiki.
Yamato took charge of Haki.
Under the inhuman regimen, aside from one or two days to catch their breath when landing on a new island, Carina and Perona spent all remaining time—training, training, and more training.
They begged Karl for mercy more than once, only to be ignored.
Because Karl’s sacrifices were huge too.
In half a year, he almost became an ascetic heartthrob—could’ve shaved his head and become a monk.
To make them capable before the main story begins,
Karl refused who knows how many times the two girls’ coaxing and little requests over these six months.
"I’ve paid so much already—can’t you show a little more promise?!"
Karl wore a "hate-iron-for-not-becoming-steel" look on his face, while inside he was in tears.
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