" More! Put more in it! Don't hold back!" A woman roared out as her muscles tensed up. "On it, boss!" A young man replied almost religiously as he increased the pressure.

"Hnnng... Is that all you got!? I've had a harder time waking up in this morning than this shitty exercise!" The woman roared again. Although she said that, it was obvious she was at her limits.

This woman had insanely long brown hair that reached past her feet and dragged on the ground. Her eyes shined a beautiful gold, and her body, although not as muscular as that of a bodybuilder, was pretty close. She was full of muscles, and all of them were at their limits right now, veins threatening to explode seeing how enlarged they were.

"I think that's enough, boss. You're at your limits!" The young man warned. He had beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair. He was nowhere as muscular as the woman but was still very fit. 

"Didn't we almost die when we faced that stupid koala? If you don't increase your stupid pressure, I'll triple your own exercise for a week." Hearing this, the man smiled nervously as cold sweat poured out like a broken dam.

"Alright!" He said, almost as if to encourage himself. He looked at the woman currently on the ground and, closing his eyes, tripled the pressure he was emitting.

The woman was in a strange position with her back on the ground, one of her hands pushing each side and her legs pushing forward. A green barrier-like object surrounded her, crushing her from all sides.

When the man increased the pressure, strange cracking and popping sounds came from the woman trapped in the barriers. Blood poured from multiple points in her body, but she didn't say anything. For 20 minutes she endured before she finally gave in.

"That's... Enough..." The moment he heard this, the young man dropped everything, and the barrier instantly disappeared.

"Linda!" The man cried out, seeing just how badly the woman was hurt. He quickly picked her up and helped her walk back to a large house. Not a fancy one, but it still had all the basic necessities. 

After entering, the man swiftly put the woman, Linda, on a bed and quickly began tending to her wounds whilst chastizing her without end.

"I understand you're a training freak, and I know you're messed up, but still, how far will you go? You could've died! What's the point of trying to defeat the kings if you're dead!" He screamed as he accidentally gripped her arm so tightly his fingers turned purple (her arm was fine though).

Linda laughed weakly, barely able to talk. "You've known me for a long time... I want to get out of here. I despise this place. I've lost count of how many years we've spent here... And the only way for me to get out of here is to become strong enough to slay that elongated worm."

The young man's mouth opened and closed several times, trying to find something to say, but he eventually gave up and went back to nursing Linda. 

They had tried to simply leave multiple times, building small rafts or even decent boats. However, every time they arrived a couple hundred meters from the shore, a strange barrier, different from his own, appeared and blocked Linda from leaving. He could easily pass through it, but to Linda, the barrier was indestructible and impassable.

Theoretically, he wasn't stuck. He could leave if he wanted to, however, it was impossible to expect his journey to an inhabited island to be a smooth one. He didn't have any experience piloting boats, he had no maps, and he didn't even know where he was right now. Besides, he felt obligated to at least help his savior, who had basically babysat him from a 'weak little kiddo' as she called him to what he was now. Furthermore, she also saved his life a good number of times...

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They had spent a lot of time together. Be it training, hunting, eating or coming up with ideas on how to slay a certain King (those things still made no sense to him. They simply hanged out in certain locations without ever moving from there, and only attacked the two of them and nothing else). Hence, he knew her fairly well by now. If he were to describe her in a single sentence, it would be something like this:

"Insane, easy to anger, masochist, nudist, hard-headed..." He whispered under his breath as he sat down on a pile of furs. He knew it wouldn't take more than a couple of days for her to heal up completely, but most likely, she'd be back in a couple hours and would, without doubt, drag him out and force him to help her train.

It was true he too benefitted from this training. His devil fruit abilities had increased at least thousandfold, and he was now at least as strong physically as a marine commander in the south blue, his home. He could probably fend off a vice-commander, but he wasn't sure since he never actually met any.

As for how strong Linda was? He wasn't sure. She had told him all about this strange 'blue screen' of hers and how it could grant her a devil fruit and a ship if she killed the kings. Honestly, he dreaded the idea of that monster having a devil fruit, as she was already terrifyingly strong and fast.

She also told him about Haki, which he had never heard of before. They were still struggling to learn it, but he could feel he was close to learning it. Linda was a millimeter away from achieving it too.

As he was idly thinking about this, he went and caught a couple of large fish and cooked them up. Just as he predicted, not later than 5 hours after he left her, Linda showed up, most of the wounds on her closed. She had finally obliged by his wishes and started wearing clothes, even if they barely had any.

Thankfully, he had learned how to make primitive clothing from his mom, so he successfully taught her how to manage her wardrobe. He didn't know where she came from, as she refused to talk about it, but he doubted it was from any kind of civilized island, as she didn't have any idea how normal women should act.

She sat down next to him and, without asking, snatched one of the fishes cooking over the fire and swallowed it whole, despite it being over a meter long. It disappeared into her stomach, leaving no evidence that it ever even existed.

She sighed in contentment and leaned over onto his shoulder. "You know, you'd be a perfect wife. Or husband."

He rolled his eyes in annoyance and grabbed a fish himself to eat it. Halfway through finishing the fish, he noticed that Linda had been looking at him strangely, and with an unusual silence.

"What's going on? Do you need something?" He asked. She shook her head, "No. I'm just... feeling weird." Before getting up and going back inside the house. Before closing the door, she took a quick look at the sun's position and shouted "... Come to my room when the sun goes down. I want to ask you a favor."

He nodded and went back to finishing his dinner. Linda kept looking at him for a couple more seconds before shutting the door and disappearing. 

After cleaning everything and throwing the remains to the various birds that always gathered to 'help clean the trash', he did as he was told and headed towards her room.

Knocking on the door, he entered after hearing a soft "Go on". Upon entering, he was left stunned by the sight. Completely naked, Linda was sitting on the bed, staring at him with pursed lips.

Despite being used to seeing her naked by now, he still got an erection out of it. However, despite it, he was probably the most self-controlled man in the One Piece world. He simply nodded and asked, "What did you need me for?"

Without answering, Linda disappeared from her previous spot and reappeared in front of him. The wind soon caught up, creating a powerful breeze. 

Before he could realize what was going on, Linda caught his head and pressed her own against it, in a clumsy attempt at a kiss. 

Despite being stunned and a bit surprised, he didn't refuse the kiss and hugged her back. She was a good 20cm taller than him, but that didn't stop him.

They only separated after a couple minutes, both with ragged breaths. Linda licked her lips in a very perverted manner and whispered in his ear in an even more seductive manner, "We've been together for years now... How about we do the 'deed' men and women do..." 

Without answering, he wrapped his arms around her and pushed her down. Loud moans resounded through the island for several hours that night, along with the invention of one of the best condoms ever made: the 'Barrier-barrier condom'.