"Liana, will you be my wife?" Lind suddenly asked in his office when Liana came to report on her work.
Just as Liana was thinking Lind had lost his mind again, he said with a serious expression:
"I mean it, Liana. Will you be my wife?"
Three days had passed since the Teleportation Gate on the Red Line had been established.
Over those three days, Lind had recalled his original reason for visiting Sky Island: finding the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Then, with the breakthrough in Devil Fruit extraction technology, he could replace the officers' less useful Fruit Abilities with powerful Devil Fruits.
Lind had been deeply torn over the Rumble-Rumble Fruit he had obtained. Giving away such a powerful fruit outright made his heart ache a little.
So, to ease that heartache, Lind did something he had long wanted to do but had kept holding himself back from.
And that had led to today's scene.
In his previous life, Lind had been an agriculture student allergic to romance. In this life, as a great pirate with immense power and influence, he had even less experience in that department.
Fortunately, after spending so much time together, Liana understood Lind fairly well. Besides, only a thin barrier had remained between them becoming a couple.
Everything fell naturally into place. Apart from a change in their relationship, nothing else seemed different. Life went on as usual.
An ancient saying went: courage surged with the first drumbeat, weakened with the second, and ran dry with the third.
After confessing to Liana, Lind decided he might as well go all the way and confessed to his other secretary, Allison, too.
Given the two women's relationships with Lind and their feelings for him, they would very likely have stayed single for the rest of their lives if