How will we operate the ship?

Today marks one year of me Uta, and Makino staying at Marine Headquarters while being trained to become Marines by Vice Admiral Gion. A lot has changed during this time, especially in our relationship.

Gion, who was standing in front of us, was making a supposedly important announcement, and I became even more curious as to what she had to say, so I turned my attention away from her cleavage for a while and listened.

"Okay now you three will be given new training, and from here your lives will also be at stake."

"Ehh, we have new training again. Does Vice Admiral Gion want to kill us all?" Uta asked impatiently, but I had quite a mix of feelings about her. Over the past few years that we've been together, Uta has become a bit more self-disciplined in addition to her training to become a marine.

"but her ambition to become a diva is now even bigger."

*sighs

"What's wrong, Luffy, do you want to protest too?"

Gion looked at me in a very different way than she had in the past, especially when she was staring at me. Gion was still as serious as she always was, but she had also changed a lot for some reason.

'Is the massage I've been doing for a while that made her act like that?' I thought in surprise, but on the surface, I merely smiled and didn't say anything else.

After taking a deep breath, Gion continued, "Listen, this is not my intention. Luffy's grandfather suggested it, so I'm just passing on his words."

Makino had been listening in silence up until that point, suddenly asked, "Okay, we understand that so what new practice are we going to do?"

An insensitive person hearing that would find nothing wrong with it. However, I, Uta and Gion are aware that Makino is likely being sarcastic, given the state of her relationship with Gion as of late.

'Is she really that jealous?... it's a good thing because I know that she really has fallen too deeply to me... but somehow I get the feeling that Makino is plotting something...'

Gion just narrowed her eyes before ignoring Makino and saying, "starting next week you will be marines who will sail and be tasked with guarding the seas in the East Blue, so prepare yourself to meet pirates and extreme weather."

Uta cast a quick glance at me and Makino, then hurriedly asked with a worried expression, "is it just the three of us? How will we operate the ship? Or will Vice Admiral Gion come with us?"

Gion simply let out a sigh before responding, "I won't be coming with you, you will be put under the command of a captain, so you can say you are just a ride on her ship."

When Gion mentioned "her", my eyebrows rose, and the corners of my mouth turned upwards ever-so-slightly. In a short while after that, Gion then dismissed the three of us, but before that, she stopped me and said:

"Luffy, you come with me. I have something I want to talk about."

I could see that Uta's eyes became suspicious when she looked at me, the same as Makino, who looked so irritated when she gave Gion a glare, but the woman in front of me didn't seem to notice as she started to walk away.

Uta gave a chilly snort and said, "Have fun," before walking away toward the house. In the meantime, Makino approached me and gave me a sad face.

"What's wrong, do you think I will do something to Gion?"

Makino simply nodded her head, but I pulled her shoulders closer to me and whispered in her ear, "we'll be leaving here in a week, and on the ship I'll make sure to fill your perverted womb to the brim, every day, ok?"

After that, I finished off by biting Makino's earlobe, which caused her entire body to tremble, and she made a cute little moan. Makino smiled at me with a lecherous-looking smile before giving me a kiss.

*slurrp

*smooches

After getting what she wanted, I let Makino go and walked away, leaving her to catch up with Uta. But I didn't realize it at the time. Makino, who had been looking at me the entire time, suddenly let out a contentment laugh before walking in the same direction as Uta.

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When we arrived at the large courtyard of the house, which had a strong Japanese atmosphere and was almost identical to the one I live in at Marine Headquarters, I asked Gion, who was sitting on a cushion:

"What's wrong? Do you want to continue training me?"

Before giving her response, Gion simply shook her head and said, "Before you leave next week, I want to test the results of your training so far."

"Why am I the only one? Do you not want to see the results of the training that Uta and Makino have been doing as well?"

I wasn't prepared for Gion to laugh before she pointed at me and said, "I don't care about the two of them, don't think about it too much, I'm doing this because you are the grandson of Garp and if you die when you've only been in the sea for a day, that old man would definitely have a grudge against me, right?"

I just smiled wryly before starting to do what Gion wanted, and since I've often done private training alone with her in this place, I immediately started making the stance.

Not far in front of me, there were already several large rocks that looked solid. After taking a deep breath, my hands suddenly turned shiny black. I then punched forward, causing my hands to instantly extend and hit the rock.

*bam

My outstretched hand was snapped back to its normal shape almost instantaneously after the rock shattered into fragments with a deafening crash. When I use the power of the devil fruit while coating it with Armament Haki, I usually become exhausted almost immediately. Nevertheless, I can easily complete this task this time.

"yup, I think that's good, but for this week after you finish training with the others, you will practice once more here with me."

I had a pretty good idea that she would say that, but when Gion pulled something out from under her cushion, my eyes immediately widened in surprise.