Chapter 100 - 100: Three years later.

*Three and half a year later, Amazon Lily*

Swish, Swish, Swish!

In a deep forest near a small hill close to the sea, a golden-red shadow and another dark-purple shadow could be seen rapidly dashing in a zig-zag pattern with the golden-red chasing after the purple one.

Though they couldn't be seen clearly, both shadows were human-shaped.

Swish, Swish, Swish!

Their speeds were extraordinarily fast and frightening to ordinary lifeforms, scaring most of the small animals and beasts they met on their ways.

Both shadows were from head to toe completely covered with a strange kind of energy bursting and flickering out like the flame of a burning candle as they moved with extreme speed creating shockwaves just by moving around the forest.

The purple one would shoot some very powerful ball of lights toward the red one, in vain as it would successfully dodge or block every beam that seemed to collide against the Red Line itself, not shaking it at all.

As the 'fight' continued, the golden-red shadow would come closer and closer to the dark-red-purple shadow with every move it made.

But then, the purple shadow's fighting pattern abruptly changed as her hands formed a heart to fire an extremely fast red-dark-purple heart-shaped beam of lights to stop the golden-red shadow.

As he followed the attacks with his eyes he was shocked to see that, whenever the beam passed by it would first change the touched object into stones before exploding into myriad pieces.

The purple one seemed to smirk at that as she turned around and escaped.

Soon enough, the purple shadow rushed out of the forest faster than a cannonball going straight toward the small cliff where a white flag could be seen from afar.

On the said flag there was a notation on it saying… "I choose where we go."

As the human purple shadow was about to take a hold and have her wish granted…

The golden-red shadow who was following twenty meters behind burst out in speed as a strange phenomenon happened.

The space in front of him was torn open like a mirror showing a vacuum inside as he directly entered it in a blink.

And almost instantly, above the purple one, the air cracked open as the same golden-red shadow from earlier appeared again.

'He' directly pounced on her like a savage beast preying on a small beast.

"Kya-You- Ah!" The poor thing didn't have time to shout as two warm arms firmly enveloped her slim waist.

As he opened his arms and rapidly caught her in his arms, both of them rolled a few times on the cliff's grassy ground releasing what seems to be laughter for golden and rather pouting sounds for purple.

And since they finally stopped moving like two missiles, both their faces were revealed.

The purple shadow-human was an especially world-toppling beautiful black-haired young girl that could bring disaster to a country should they have her in. She was simply dressed in a red flowery loose gown that didn't taint her beauty but instead raised it. 

The young Empress of an entire island, Boa Hancock.

She grew up into a fine woman, showing off the wonders of a peerless woman in three years only.

The golden-red was, in contrast, an especially lucky bast-... a handsome black-haired young man with a strange black monkey tail and a large but not too much physique.

The 'still fired but not really' marines captain, Monkey D. Edam.

As for him, he grew up even taller reaching 1.96 meters, and now had even sharper facial features looking manly, though he would still retain some faint childish expression when he acted stupidly. 

He had some plain clothes, a white T-shirt with a hood and a pair of brown shorts.

"Hehe, I caught you but you still have a minute or so to break away... if you can that is…" Edam who was below said with his hands on her arms as he grinned victoriously.

"Hmph, you cheat!" She gazed into his eyes and before looking away, not bothering to break away from him as it would be near impossible.

"What? How so?" His eyes opened wide.

"You used your Sword's power, you're not supposed to…"

"Hey hey, beauty, you're using your devil fruit power too, along with Ki and Haki… you're using three powers at the same time, isn't that more cheating than me?" Edam's mouth twitched as he laughed a bit at the pouting girl's weird antics.

"That's not the same, your Ki is way too weird and you're already way too fast, so using the sword is just cheating…"

"Oh now that I think about it, nice move there, you almost touched me, your love-love beam was truly fast!"

"Hmm, I've imbued it with Ki and Haki, it's truly a good attack now and not so slow…"

"...Well, still I've won…" Edam shrugged his shoulders.

"You…" She gave a deep look into his eyes as he stared back as well and noticed something.

"Wow, that purple hue in your eyes is becoming even more striking…" Edam said with his big eyes blinking as he stared at her.

Hearing this Hancock frowned and unconsciously blinked her big eyes as if to get rid of it in vain before asking. "Is it ugly?" 

"What are you talking about… " Edam ċȧrėssed her face and added with a faint but sincere smile.

"With or without, you're still the most beautiful…" Those weren't just faked words at all to soothe her down though, she was truly too beautiful.

Her cheeks went red, but most of all there was a satisfied expression on it too.

Strangely enough, after three years, a faint but purple glow started to appear in her eyes, but not only it didn't tarnish her beauty but even enhanced it to another level, looking very exotic and gorgeous.

Both concluded that it was because she gained access to Ki. And after verification from the Yggdrasil's book, well they still didn't find anything about this glow…

Edam who was ċȧrėssing her cheek then smiled as he abruptly grabbed her arms and changed places with him coming on top of her now. 

Swish...

"Hehe, so where should we go next time?" He gazed at her amusingly and teased.

"Umm, should we go to a Celestial island, or-?"

"Edam, the last time you chose, you wreaked havoc in Alabasta…" Hancock who was below reminded him of what happened half a year ago.

In response, Edam averted his eyes away and opened his mouth. "It's not my fault, that sand-man was annoying…"

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Half a year ago, during a trip to Alabasta, they had an altercation with some members of an organization called Baroque Works. 

Both Edam and Hancock were having their meals in the corner of a restaurant with the former having ordered a mountain of foods for themselves, happily eating their food away.

"Hancock, try this, it's delicious!" Edam handed her a piece of chicken with a smile with his mouth stuffed with food.

"Hmm, okay…" She watched him with a faint smile but didn't refuse the offer as she took a nibble of the chicken.

The charming duo of course drew people's attention as the guy had a certain heroic demeanor on him despite his current appearance while the girl was breathtakingly beautiful.

It felt rather nice to look at this for some and rather envious for others.

But the scene was broken, when a group of troublemakers came in and started to harass the customers and the restaurant's owner, and then aimed at the flashy Edam with his huge amount of food.

It was supposed to be a small quarrel with some pathetic members of the said organization who wanted to extort money from them.

But unfortunately, those members saw Hancock and started to covet the beauty, which led to their dooms… 

Edam then beat his way up to their very leader who happened to be one of the seven warlords of the seas, the Desert King Crocodile, owner of the logia sand-sand fruit, and is one of Hancock's warlord peers.

When everyone thought that the problem could be solved… the situation instead worsened…

The seven warlords are by nature extremely proud and strong, with none of them respecting each other. And Crocodile had a bad habit and tends to belittle every one of his foes and even his warlord peers.

And now, the situation was, Crocodile said something about Hancock that didn't ring well in Edam's ears at all, angering him as he picked a fight with Crocodile despite Hancock's effort to stop him.

As such, a huge battle erupted on the desert island. The Desert King was strong and was in the best environment possible to display his prowess.

But, unfortunately, it didn't end in his favor it seems, because at the end of the fight, he was found lying on the ground with his entire left arm missing and the upper left body completely bloody.

He brushed death claws by a hair-strand… while the desert was made into a complete mess as if something huge had pulverized the entire battle zone. 

However, Crocodile is considered as a hero of Alabasta, someone who saved the country from various invaders… as such Edam and Hancock were not welcomed in anymore.

But a mistake happened and instead of Edam, it was Hancock's reputation that soared up in one night for beating another sea warlord. She became famed overnight for her strength and her beauty that quickly became a hot topic with people even comparing her to the mermaid's legendary beauty.

Some even started considering her as the most beautiful woman in the world.

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"But what about that Moria guy?…" As she said that, her white hand gently came to rest on his cheek.

"Oh, that guy huh, he deserves it…" Edam thought about it and recalled what happened three months ago.

In those three years, he had destroyed two Sea Warlords in fact, one was Crocodile and the other was Gecko Moria owner of the shadow-shadow devil fruit, allowing him to steal the shadow of other people and make some zombies of some sort.

Crocodile insulted Hancock and was beaten for that and the latter did something even more outrageous for Edam. 

That piece of sh*t dares dream of making Hancock his zombie slave! Making her a Zombie was already too much, but making her slave was a taboo beyond anything else.

No need to say that it didn't end well for him. Edam put up his hood and beat him up.

This made up Hancock's fame once again and Edam was mistaken as a Kuja warrior and inaccurately titled as Hancock's hidden envoy, standing higher than even her two Gorgon sisters in terms of power level.

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His eyes bore into her eyes as he instantly washed those thoughts away and his eyes lit up excitedly as an idea came into his head.

"Oh, then, let's visit that Toto land, I heard that the islands there were made out of food and-..." 

Swish…! While he was speaking she forcefully swapped places with him again.

"No, not there too, that is the territory of an Emperor, we can't go there just yet, with your natural-born troublemaker tendency, it won't be just a trip anymore…"

"Sigh, but I want to go there though..." 

Looking at him, she pondered over it and then said. "Okay, we can… but it would be better to disguise ourselves..."

"Hmm, okay…"

He stopped his sentence midway when something popped into his mind.

Swish!

And he switched places with her again, coming on top again.

He gave her a grinning look as he spoke.

"Anyway let's forget about all that, you still owe me something…" He smiled as his lips dangerously approached her lips, being an inch away, easily feeling one another's breaths when…

Her delicate and dainty finger stopped him in his track to his surprise as he blinked rapidly.

"Nope, no kissing for you…" She shook her head slightly and seemed rather adamant about that. In three years, she learned not to just give in to his request.

"Wha-? Why? I've won though…" Edam looked at him with a very much aggrieved expression on his face.

"No, it was unfair, so no sub-reward for you…"

"You-…" He wanted to protest against it but her finger stopped his mouth again.

Hancock looked at him with a very pleased and raised her head to whisper in his ear intimately.

"Please, let me win…" Her voice resounded as sweet as honey and as frail as that of a baby with her breath tingling his ear.

Her sentence echoed out in Edam's ears as he felt his brain blanking out a split second while a weird feeling rose in his heart.

She suddenly gave a gentle push on his ċhėst with her two hands to break away from his arms before her arm extended toward the flag behind her and she grasped it firmly. And her body was turned the other way facing the ground.

She smiled faintly and then said. "I've won…"

But just as she was rejoicing in her victory, she felt an ominous feeling on her back.

As she turned her head back, she saw Edam looking at her with a grim expression.

"Uh, you don't blame me right?" 

"You…" A somewhat gloomy voice replied and stopped for a moment before…

"I don't care, you can win but give me my kiss!" Edam raised his head with two shining eyes and suddenly pounced on her again. 

Swish!

"Ah no-no, Edam no ah-!" 

She cried in panic but there was amused giggling in the depth of her voice. And as a fact, she didn't even try to block him and whispered.

He gently pushed her down on the ground and held her hands against the grass as he watched her intensely eye in eye. Unlike before when he was acting a bit stupid, he was now much quieter.

"Hmm…You can't..." She looked at him with an unpleasant expression but not really in fact.

"You can stop me if you want…" He whispered with his lips brushing her cheek like a paintbrush sending with this simple gesture countless shivers throughout her body.

She stood there, heart thumping in her ċhėst, pressed against the ground at his mercy. Despite her current appearance, there was no rejection clouding her features, only two inquisitive dark-purple-blue eyes.

"You… I say-..." She struggled to put some words but her eyes opened wide as she felt a hand slowly sliding down her hɨps gently ċȧrėssing her long and slender legs stopping there a moment.

His lips slowly traced the neck going upward to reach the edge of her lips nearly touching hers and murmured with a faint smile "Your word is my command, say it, stop me…"

Her face was already totally red and she said with frustration as she closed her eyes for a moment "I… I- You… you really became a bad apple…"

"Hehe, you're way too tempting Princess…"

"Hmph…" Hancock slightly turned her head away but kept an eye on him.

His breath slowly became rough as Edam decided to attack and parted his lips closing on her.

Heat rose in Hancock's stomach to her ċhėst and she closed her eyes, parted her lips, as their mouths connected. 

Against all odds, he wasn't so fierce, only deep and delicate.

Time seemed to stop, but the flutter only magnified itself.

Edam kept his eyes half-open to look at her. The ever warm feeling of her breath that was although destabilizing, was as always inviting and innocent feeling like Summer rain having the power to take away and give back life.

The surrounding smell of the near forest and sea completely disappeared with the kiss as both were now incapable of sensing anything else but themselves.

Opposite him, Hancock's entire body throbbed as the feel of his arms around her felt nearly taboo as he pulled her in claiming her as his own, sealing her lips again and again, intense and greedy for It.

Fortunately, they were already on the ground, or else her knees might have given in already. 

But now that wasn't so important anymore, she could and only wanted to focus on how soft he felt against her lips, how all his being seemed to invade her thoughts washing away everything else.

By the time she became aware of herself, she realized that her arms were already tightly wrapped around his neck with her hands roaming through his silky hairs.

The taste of her lips was peerless, incomparable to even the best food he ever had. No matter how much he would kiss her every day he would never get enough of it.

With that, he took one quick kiss, then two, then three, and should have stopped at that but the feeling was way too addicting and so they continued until both were breathless.

"Huff, huff…!"

They calmed down after a very long period and gazed at each other with a fervent light burning in.

The heated passion had reached a critical point by now.

Edam licked his lips to take his fill again…

But…

"Sis!" "Big Sis!" "Princess!"

'I really should build a damn barrier to stop outsiders, tch!' Edam annoyingly thought.

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