Chapter 141 - Intruders!

New world.

On Zou.

In Ian's room in the house, they were given by the minks.

Ian was laying down on the bed with a happy smile on his face, with Elene and Robin on each side of him lying on his shoulders.

They were sleeping peacefully while Ian had already woken up a while ago now.

Nothing happened the last night, they were just sleeping cuddled with him.

Right now he was thinking of what happened the last week that led to this day.

That's right, a whole week had already passed since the whole ordeal with Bege and Sanji's revelation of his family.

That day when they had finished their discussion, Ian had made true on his promise and gave the old man Whitebeard a call to tell him that he would be visiting.

And then when he went there another feast was thrown for his sake.

After which he discussed with the old man everything that happened so far.

The two of them were regularly in contact, so the old man knew that Kong was part Diávoloi, and was shocked, to say the least. Ian had also told him from before about Im. And also about Dragon's aspirations.

Ian also saw Ace as he was now, and he couldn't help but be impressed.

Whitebeard had told Ian that Ace wanted to train so that nothing like before can happen again.

And unlike what the whole world was saying about Ace, right now, saying that he wants to become the pirate king with the help of whitebeard to succeed his father Roger, Ace didn't want to do so at all.

Rather he still wanted the old man to become the pirate king even with the old man himself telling him that he was already old for that.

Still, Ian gauged his strength to be quite high right now. Which was something he had approved of, as that meant that Ace finally was worthy of the position of a commander of the whitebeard pirates.

Then Ian had discussed with the old man about warning Big Mom. And told him that he would be making a move against her in the near future. For Elene's dream, and for the Road Poneglyph. And also to hunt some certain people.

Although he had said that he wouldn't be getting out of his way to reach the last island in a fast way, when events line up like this for him he would of course take them in stride.

And whitebeard had agreed, so they both called her and told her to not take any action on the family members of the straw-hats or the outcome would be undesirable for them all.

Whitebeard didn't mind doing this, after all, Linlin was one of his crewmates a long time ago and knew how strong and protective he was, and he didn't mind doing this for Ian who helped him up so much. Not to mention that even if Big Mom was pissed off, she still wouldn't be able to do anything to him.

She had been furious, to say the least at them openly threatening her as she started to yell over the telephone that she would destroy them both, although both of knew that she did not mean it and that she would calm down, but Ian was not done with her, and had told her that he would be visiting her too sometime near as he had something to discuss with her.

That was enough to calm her, as she imagined that she would at that time show him his place. And if possible even make him work for her. As he was quite strong from what she had seen.

After that, he left the ship of the old man and got back to Zou to rejoin his crew.

And after informing the straw-hats of what had happened, they were finally relieved and could relax.

As even though they were still under her wrath, at least there would be no underhanded tricks targeting their families. As to them, they already accepted that their captain Luffy in his quest was going to have a lot of enemies.

Another thing the straw-hats were relieved about was the information Ian had gotten via an invitation from Big Mom to her tea party.

This information was that the groom for the political wedding between the Vinsmoke's and the Charlotte family was changed.

It now listed Vinsmoke Yonji as the groom. Which was the fourth child of the family.

Which had lifted a huge weight off the shoulder of Sanji.

He had since then looked at Ian with a gratitude-filled gaze.

Another thing of major importance was that Dragon had given Ian a call, and asked him for confirmation if he really did take out Kong and killed him. Which Ian confirmed.

He knew that Dragon had spies among the world government able to get him this info.

Since then, nothing major happened.

With Ian taking the girls on dates to every place he somewhat knew they would like.

He had been enjoying his time with them, and they did too.

Meanwhile, the straw-hats were still waiting for their crewmates, which were bound to come anytime soon now.

Moving a bit Ian left the bed as quietly as he could, to not wake the girls up.

And then he went to take a shower before he started to cook them some light breakfast for when they woke up.

By the time he was close to finishing, the girls woke up and took showers, and joined him at the table while he was setting the things down.

"Good morning!�� He spoke up with a small smile.

"Morning!"

"G'morning!"

Both girls replied to him with their own smiles.

Elene was overly excited the past few days and had been sparring with Ian and Robin regularly to prepare for her fight against big mom, which was quite near in the future.

And Ian was quite supportive of her at the time, as he encouraged her and helped her up to come up with new techniques.

She was happy he was there in her life. To have someone you love to support you on your dream, was something everyone wishes for, but few ever get.

Her dream was to become the strongest woman in the world. Which granted, was quite a hard thing to do, but Ian had said she was ready.

Even when she questioned herself if she was worthy of that title, both Ian and Robin had said that she was the only one worthy that they knew of.

That had managed to bring her confidence back to full.

"Are we going to have another spar today?" Elene asked them both.

Robin gave a nod as she said.

"If you want to then I'm all up for it." She told her.

She knew that she was not as strong as Elene but she didn't mind. All she had ever wanted was to have a place where she belongs, and have the strength to defend herself and her family.

As such she would not feel any bad about Elene being superior to her. In fact, she was helping her spar and prepare for the fight with a smile every day. Happy for her friend and sister to be close to achieving her dream.

Ian thought for a bit and then nodded.

"Sure. Why not?" he said.

But then all of a sudden a warning bell was rung throughout the Kingdome.

And Ian and co wondered what it was about. Before Ian remembered how Luffy entered the country in the anime. And he grinned.

So as they had already finished eating they went outside, and the first thing they heard was loud voices yelling intruders.

"Intruder, intruder! We have an intruder!"

Ian was sure now.

The remaining straw hats had finally reached Zou.