Chapter 65 - Jackpot?

"Wake up! We are here." Said Kurma over telepathy as he too lazy to speak vocally even though he can speak the human language.

"You don't have to say that twice. Now let's go and fight someone. I want to try my new spell on an opponent." Said Marc impatiently.

"Wow, there's ice everywhere." Exclaimed Gina while looking at the land of ice from Kurma's turtle shield.

"No shit. Why do you think it's called 'Iceberg'?" Mocked Marc with a fake disdain that questioned her IQ. Gina simply found Marc's provocation annoying so she kicked him into the cold ocean and waited for him to cry for help because of the low temperature. But to her surprise, she saw him swimming openly.

"Isn't it cold?" Gina asked as she was already freezing to death by the cold wind.

"Not at all. Try it yourself." Said Marc before he used his magic to repel some water and splash it in her face.

"COLD!!" Squirmed Gina while hugging her body. She really wished she had brought a big jacket to warm her up. Then she looked at Rofta to see if he was freezing too, but like Marc, Rofta who had lived in this environment most of his life was resistant to it.

Then she saw Rofta beginning to take off his clothes. "Wha? Why are you suddenly stripping?" Gina said with panic while hurriedly averting her sight.

"We have to swim to the shore from here and I don't want my clothes to be wet, so I'm taking them off. You should take your outer layer of clothes off too or you will freeze to death with your low resistance." Explained Rofta patiently.

"?! There's no way I'm stripping. Swim with me on your shoulders— please." Begged Gina, but Rofta ignored her and said "If we all swim, we will reach my village in approximately 3,5 hours. With you on my shoulders, it would slow us down more than 15 minutes, so swim on your own." before he jumped from Kurma's back into the water.

Gina got angry hearing that, and she couldn't help yelling "Dammit. You know what. Marc was right, you are never getting a girlfriend with your shitty personality. It's just 15 minutes."

While Gina was throwing a tantrum on Kurma's back, the turtle god suddenly said "Then while you are doing your things, I will take a nap here" before he began submerging himself in the water to sleep on the ocean floor.

"No-no-no don't! Don't. Gyaaah! Cold! Help. Help meeeeeee…" Screamed Gina as she was forced into the water when Kurma dived.

Ignoring the screaming Gina, Marc swam over to Rofta and asked "So where are we going?"

"Follow me. My village is behind the mountains." Said Rofta before he began swimming to the shore with his clothes on his head followed by Marc that yelled to Gina. "C'mon Gina. Stop being such a wimp and let's go."

"No help me. I'm a girl so you have to help me." Gina tried to use her sex as an excuse but-

"Sorry, not interested. If you were a beautiful girl with a big chest then I would have helped you without a second thought. But alas…" Marc ended the sentence with a disappointed shake of his head.

"You!!" Seethed Gina with anger after hearing Marc's disappointment of her chest. Because of her anger, she didn't realize that the cold water was getting tolerable.

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It took the trio less than half an hour to get to the shore while evading various ice glaciers.

It was easy Peezy for Marc to swim in ice-cold water as he was called The Iceman in his previous life for his ability to withstand freezing temperatures. He set the Guinness World Records for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body contact with ice and previously held the record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow.

So this little thing wouldn't even be called a challenge for him, not to mention Rofta who are up in here. But Gina already wanted to go back to Fiore. She was standing with frozen hair and snot out of her nose that was frozen into icicles.

Looking at the funny view, Marc couldn't help laughing at her.

*Sniff*" It's not funny. I'm freezing to death here."

"Ahahaha, okay let me help you." Said Marc before he used his Paw Magic to repel the cold and dry her clothes by removing the water.

"Okay, we are ready. Rofta, show the way!" Yelled Marc with eagerness in his voice. He was pretty excited to see Rofta's family as they sounded interesting.

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3,5 hours later they reached the village also called The Sword of Iceberg. The only way to live in this village is to be great with the sword. Even if you are very talented in magic, you can't live in this city as swordsmanship is everything here.

Iceberg has three great families that have up to now had equal power in the capital named Reykjavík. But recently a young talented general has conquered it with her army that couldn't be stopped.

While the trio entered the village, Rofta warned them. "Now that we are here, I have to warn you about a few things. One, don't ever touch others' swords as people see them as their hearts. Two, it's allowed to kill in this village as power is everything here. Power is justice. Three, if you see a blue-haired woman with long hair, then you go in the opposite direction of her immediately. Don't cause her trouble and anger her, especially you Marc."

Hearing Rofta, Marc waved his hand to dismiss his warning before he began to grab the air and said while going around a corner "You worry too much. In fact, I can feel I'm going to grab something big today. I just know it-"

*Boing*

"Huh?"

*Squish**Squish*

"A soft snowball?" Wondered Marc when he saw what he was gripping. Then he looked up and saw a heaven-defying beauty in white clothing and knew instantly what the soft sensation in his hand is.

He couldn't help giving two squishes more.

*Squish**Squish*

The blue-haired beauty was stunned silly that somebody actually dared to touch her sleeve with her reputation, not to mention grabbing her boobs. But after feeling two squishes more she returned to reality, and her fairy expressions turned murderous.

When Rofta saw her, he too was stunned silly and began shaking unconsciously out of fear. When he saw her expression turning murderous, he spared no time to grab Gina before putting her over his shoulder and ran away, leaving Marc behind to solve his mess.

Instead of saying sorry, Marc instead exclaimed "… Jackpot?" And wanted to give it the two last squishes.

*Squish*

But before he could squish again, he had to let go and crouch for dear life as the angry woman had just swung a big rapier to remove his hand and slash his face.

Having dodged, Marc jumped back to gain some distance to have a peaceful talk, but the woman suddenly created icicles and sent them flying at Marc.

*Pa…!!**Pa…!!**Pa…!!*…

While backing off, Marc jumped out of his sandals and spun around mid-air, countering all the icicles with his hands and feet and sent them flying away. The last icicle was sent back to the angry woman's leg.

Though she destroyed it by raising her leg and kicking down with her heel.

Seeing Marc's moves, the woman decided to speak. "Hoo? You are quite strong. I will forgive you for your earlier transgressions if you be my slave."

The woman expected many things Marc would say, but not this with an innocent face. "So beauty, which brothel are you from? I must say your master-servant advertising is really top-notch-"

Marc stopped his sentence when he felt the lady releasing a lot of magic power for an attack. His senses that were being heightened with [One Goal] warned him of the incoming danger.

The ground around the lady froze and above her formed a giant ice ball that only grew bigger while she was having one arm raised.

"Holy banana. Are you perhaps creating ice cubes for ice tea?" Asked Marc to try the waters.

"Now that you refused to be my slave, you only have one choice-" Before she could complete her sentence, Marc interrupted.

"Okay, I will 'reluctantly' let you be my wife…" he said shamelessly with an innocent expression.

"…I have changed my mind. If you survive this attack, I'm going to break your spirit and make you my slave." Announced the blue hared woman before she let her arm fall and sent the big iceball flying at Marc.

"Well, I really got the jackpot. I wanted a worthy opponent to try my new spell on and I got it… No, those boobs were the jackpot- No, stop it Marc, or your future will be like Master Roshi— Well I already have the turtle friend…" Ending his thoughts about his future, Marc raised both his hands and the red paws began getting whiter and whiter at a rapid speed until they shined brightly.

"Well here goes nothing. Hold on to your wigs folks"

The shining paws suddenly dimmed.

*BOOOOM*

[Shock Cannon]

A gigantic concentrated air shot to a wide, crescent-shaped air blade came out of each of Marc's hands obliterating the gigantic ice ball. The remaining air force made the surprised young woman's long hair fly in the wind while she was embracing herself to not fly away by having her rapier in the ground.

On the other hand, Marc was sent flying in the opposite direction he fired by the sheer power of the recoil. Can't say he didn't do as Rofta said: "Three, if you see a blue-haired woman with long hair, then you go in the opposite direction of her immediately…"

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(A/N: Marc's new attack is like Air Cannon that All For One uses (MHA). I think it's really cool and Marc should be able to do the same thing with the Paw-Paw fruit power in principle.)

(A/N: As for the reference for the blue-haired woman, you guessed it— It's the sadist queen Esdeath. )

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