After his battle with Hawkeye, Blake has frequently fought Red Earl in the card space over the past few days.
The reason for choosing him was because his strength was relatively stronger.
Among the remaining cards, the strongest were Golden Lion and Red Earl, two masters in their adult stage.
Compared to Golden Lion, Red Earl's weapon was an umbrella, which was closer to Blake's One-Sword Style Swordsmanship.
He truly lived up to his reputation as one of the New World's top masters, and with Blake's current strength, he could only barely maintain an undefeated stance for a short period.
This was even with the Iron Balloon talent, allowing him to tank countless attacks.
"It's such a disadvantage not to have Conquerors Haki Infusion!"
Blake left the card space once again, sighing helplessly.
Logically speaking, with the current intensity of his Haoshoku, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to comprehend Conquerors Haki Infusion.
However, Blake had never experienced a true life-or-death battle.
Battles in the card space certainly allowed him to go all out, but Blake knew very well that he wouldn't die.
Naturally, he lacked the opportunity to break through his strength in a life-and-death situation.
As for finding someone for a deathmatch in the New World?
Don't be ridiculous!
If he could steadily grow stronger, why would he take risks just to speed it up by a few years?
Even if everything went smoothly and he successfully comprehended Conquerors Haki Infusion, Blake still believed it would be a foolish approach.
Besides, Blake didn't have any opponents he absolutely had to defeat right now; slow improvement was fine... Time had slowly arrived at the year 1501 of the Sea Calendar, and the sanctuary had already sailed into the Calm Belt.
Olvia was finally released.
Blake could tell that she hadn't given up on her pursuit of the poneglyph, but she didn't dare show it in front of him.
Blake wasn't worried about this.
What she thought in her heart wasn't important; after all, she wouldn't have the chance to act.
Over the past few months, Blake's luck had been poor, only acquiring a few useless ability cards.
Body Physique * 1
Mob Swordsmanship * 2
Mob Armament Haki * 1
Mob Observation Haki * 1
Blake planned to give them all to Mandy when she disembarked.
Coupled with the Master Swordsman Level Swordsmanship she had previously acquired, Mandy's strength could instantly rise to the level of a Navy Vice Admiral.
Defeating Crocodile during the Alabasta arc would be no problem at all.
Compared to an elite Vice Admiral like Onigumo, she only lacked combat experience and physical fitness.
A Vice Admiral's strength was sufficient to protect a region in any sea except the New World.
After lunch, Blake lay under the parasol as usual.
Not far away, Rami was integrating into the team.
After leaving Flevance, Victor and Aria had been hiding in the back cabin, researching a solution for lead rot disease.
Blake also provided them with some ideas for their research.
He remembered watching anime in his previous life and being very curious about what lead rot disease was, so he specifically looked up related content.
lead rot disease actually existed in the real world too.
Besides isolation methods like staying away from pollution sources, modern medicine usually treated it by intravenous injection of calcium disodium edetate and oral dimercaptosuccinic acid.
Although Blake didn't know what those were, he told them everything he knew.
The two then very consciously avoided appearing in front of Blake.
Although Law was only 5 years old, his personality was very mature, and having read some medical books, he also went to help his parents with their research.
Rami, on the other hand, had a lot of contact with several girls her age.
Blake was happy to see this, planning to send Victor and Aria to Waruburukku together, while Rami would stay by his side.
However, her body was a bit weak, so she could only quietly watch the others play with Stella.
On the deck, Koala was spinning a lifeboat with one finger, while Perona secretly set up a fishing line behind her.
After doing all this, Perona pretended to be surprised and shouted:
"Wow! There's a dancing dolphin!"
Hearing this, Koala excitedly ran towards the ship's railing, immediately tripped over and fell into the pool, splashing water everywhere.
Rami, who was by the pool, got splashed but didn't show any sign of anger; instead, she joined in the laughter.
Blake glanced over there, reached under the lounge chair, and pressed a button.
A fountain suddenly rose in the center of the deck, drenching Perona, who was smug after her successful prank, making her stumble.
Smiles don't disappear; they only transfer.
"When we return to the Holy Land, I'm going to install twenty hidden water guns on this ship."
A soaking wet Perona angrily came up to Blake, hands on her hips.
Seeing that Blake ignored her, her eyes darted around, and she reached for the nearby food plate.
Just as her hand touched the cake, she was suddenly picked up.
"This is the fourth time you've secretly eaten sweets today; don't cry about a toothache tonight."
Perona pretended to be startled, her hand slipped, and the cake fell onto Blake's face.
Robin gloated from the side:
"When the master is attacked by food, the Slave should... take a commemorative photo?"
Saying that, she pulled out a camera from somewhere.
Blake's facial muscles twitched rapidly, flicking all the cake off, which landed perfectly on Robin's face.
"That's right! Now you can take the picture."
Saying that, he threw Perona over.
Robin, whose vision was obstructed, didn't notice Perona flying towards her, and the two immediately collided, rolling into a pile on the deck.
Seeing this, Rami's smile grew even brighter, but she suddenly started coughing.
Mandy expressionlessly handed her a bottle of medicine.
Rami uncorked the bottle and took a sip, then said to Mandy:
"Thank you, Big Sister Mandy."
Mandy nodded without speaking, then beckoned the now-clean Koala to train with her.
Stella placed the last cream flower on the cake, pushed the food cart to Blake, and offered him a perfectly warm cup of Blake tea:
"Your Highness, I tried a new recipe today; please see if it suits your taste."
Blake pulled Stella over, holding her as he lay on the lounge chair.
Actually, Blake had once said that such things could be done by the maids.
But Stella seemed to truly regard him as a lover, very content for Blake to taste the food she made herself.
For the little Slave's thoughtfulness, Blake also felt his heart enveloped by her gentleness.
Not far away, Koala was training according to Mandy's movements, her eyes filled with determination.
"Your breathing should be steady; imagine power as flowing water..."
Thinking this, Koala punched the strength tester.
The machine hummed, the numbers on the screen surged wildly, but then suddenly went Blake.
"Huh?"
Koala went to the strength tester and shook it with her hand:
"Broken again?"
She turned to look at Perona, who had finally climbed out of Robin's grip, picked her up, and placed her in front of the screen:
"Tell me! Did you pour water into the sensor again?"