After Cavendish joined the Alonso Pirates, Alonso asked Doflamingo to cure his dissociative identity disorder, merging his two personalities back into one.
With Doflamingo's overwhelmingly powerful Mental Energy, suppressing the two personalities into one was effortless. Moreover, after the two personalities merged, Cavendish's already exceptional talent for swordsmanship improved even further, truly reaching monstrous levels.
Of course, aptitude was aptitude, and actual strength was actual strength. No matter how great one's natural talent was, without diligent training, one could never truly become a top-tier powerhouse.
Fortunately, Cavendish had met a "talent scout" like Alonso. If he did not want to train, then did he want to get beaten up?
After being beaten black and blue every day, to the point that his handsome face was nearly ruined, Cavendish finally began striving to improve under duress.
With powerful talent combined with relentless training, Cavendish's strength improved rapidly. In just a few years, he had nearly caught up to Alonso and had now become the Vice-Captain of the Alonso Pirates.
At his rate of progress, he would surpass Alonso in another few years at most and glimpse the realm of the sea's true top fighters.
That was why Cavendish had told Alonso that he intended to take the Pirate Crew Captain's position.
In Cavendish's view, if his Captain was not confident, then he should not put on a brave face. If they waited another couple of years until he was stronger, would he not be able to cut down that so-called Whitebeard Jr. with his sword?
Well, it would just make his Captain look bad. No, wait! By then, he would be the Captain! What did the other man's expression have to do with him?
Once he became Captain, he would beat that bastard up three times every day! He would make