"BOSS, what are we training today?"
Crocodile took a deep breath and stood beside Chaos, gazing at the snow-covered mountains.
"Take off the Seastone cuffs and catch a Sea King. After we eat, it'll be time to leave."
Chaos's spiky black hair stirred without a breeze, and the steam drifting from his body began to fade as he returned to normal.
"We're leaving?"
Crocodile was a beat slow to react.
"Three months is about enough. Next, we need to go out and test ourselves in real combat."
"And stir up some trouble while we're at it!"
Chaos had always trained for a while, then gone out to cut loose for a while. In the end, battle experience was more practical.
Besides, after three months without causing trouble, he felt a little restless.
His very bones wouldn't let him keep a low profile.
Now that he had more and more resources at his disposal, if he didn't act more arrogantly and make a bigger splash, all those days and nights of grueling training would be for nothing.
He was going to be the most outrageously arrogant man in the world!
"No problem."
Crocodile unlocked the cuffs around his wrists. At once, he felt half the weight lift from his body. They were finally leaving.
Still, he felt a little reluctant.
The feeling of getting stronger was simply too good.
He could take on fifty of the versions of himself from four months ago.
As Crocodile disappeared, Chaos took off his Seastone cuffs too.
Both his body and mind relaxed considerably, and he could feel the Gold-Gold Fruit's power again.
Nearby, the Goddess of the Heavens, who had been sitting with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them and stood up.
After the battle with Garp in the Sabaody Archipelago, she had lost