The Results of Hard Work

"Ryan, what happened to you?" Everyone stared at the two who had suddenly appeared, especially Ryan. His white robe was tattered, with dried bloodstains still on it.

Seeing this, Robin turned her gaze toward Shanks. That abyss-like stare made Shanks's scalp tingle.

Shanks looked at Ryan, then at Robin. As someone with experience, he understood exactly what was going on.

"How could you be so careless?" Robin reproached him.

Ryan scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Haha, accident. Just an accident!"

"You're done for. You've fallen in love!" With those words, Shanks sped away, leaving Ryan and Robin staring into each other's eyes.

Thump, thump, thump! Ryan's heart pounded powerfully, like a cat caught stealing fish.

At that moment, Ryan wanted to say something.

"Robin, I..."

"Alright, I need to go teach those children at Goa Elementary School!" Robin, a history teacher, left without looking back.

As she turned away, she let out a long breath.

She felt that things were fine as they were. Some things lost their beauty once spoken aloud. Before opening a blind box, no one knew whether it held a surprise or sorrow.

Her childhood experiences had made her fearful of both gain and loss. Compared to gaining something, she was more afraid of losing it.

Carefully protecting this hard-won relationship was all Robin could do for now.

"Sigh, it's this again!" Ryan sighed.

This had not been the first time such a thing had happened over the past year. He was helpless too. Every time he gathered the courage to say something, Robin brushed it aside.

Forget it. He should go back and try breaking through with Conqueror's Haki!

Two days later.

A murderous aura filled the space around Ryan. This was his 365th attempt to fuse all his killing intent with Conqueror's