66. Painter Ikki

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"I seem to have underestimated Mr. Ikki."

"You say so, Miss Wednesday," Nico Robin looked at Vivi and said with a smile.

"Huh, I told you, Captain Ikki is not the kind of person you think," Vivi snorted and stepped forward.

Seeing that Ikki wasn't charmed by Robin, Vivi felt a little relieved unconsciously. As for Ikki's promise to let Robin see Alabasta's Poneglyph, Vivi felt that once the civil strife in Alabasta was calmed down, it wouldn't be a big deal to let Robin take a look.

'But, is there really a Poneglyph in Alabasta?' Thinking of the conversation between Ikki and Robin about the historical text monument, Vivi had a moment of doubt in her heart.

But soon, her mind was occupied by another question.

'Captain Ikki said he likes mature and sexy beauties like Robin... Isn't this true?'

'So, I don't have to worry about Captain Ikki taking action against me?'

'So its not a problem even if I dress casually in the gym?'

'Wait, what am I thinking!'

'Even though Captain Ikki's favorite type is Robin, I can't dress too casually in front of him!'

Going back to her room, Vivi's face turned even redder when she thought of Ikki's admiring glances at her, Nami, and Nojiko while they were working out.

"Captain Ikki!" Vivi ran out of the gym door and walked to Ikki, who had changed into pajamas and was lying on the bed in the captain's cabin.

"It's Vivi," Ikki put down the drawing board and turned to look at her. "What can I do?"

"Well, about Robin! I think even if Captain Ikki likes a woman like Robin, please be careful around her," Vivi said with a red face.

"What, Captain Ikki likes that woman named Robin?"

At this time, Nami's slightly surprised voice came from the captain's cabin door.

Vivi turned around and saw Nami and Nojiko walking in from the entrance.

"Vivi, is what you said true? Captain Ikki is in love with that woman?" Nami walked up to Vivi, raised her hands and pressed on her shoulders, asking very seriously.

On the side, Nojiko was leaning against the wall, with her arms crossed and staring straight at Vivi, clearly interested in this topic as well.

"Um, no, Nami, you heard wrong," Vivi twitched the corner of her mouth. "I was just checking with Captain Ikki whether he likes that type of woman."

"Is that so?" Nami let go of Vivi and turned to look at Ikki. "I'm also curious about this question. Can Captain Ikki help answer it?"

"Well, Nami, you should already know that I like mature and sexy women, so why bother asking again," Ikki shrugged and said nonchalantly.

A long time ago, Ikki often expressed this view in front of Nami. By the way, there's quite a difference between Nami's figure now and her figure two years from now.

"You did say that."

"I see, that woman named Nico Robin does match your taste, Captain Ikki. Not like me, just a little girl with a poor figure, haha." Nami crossed her arms and sneered at Ikki.

'You still have a poor figure now, but in two years you'll outshine Robin, so don't be sad.' Looking at Nami's expression, Ikki couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"Vivi, can you tell me what exactly happened between Captain Ikki and that Nico Robin?" Seeing Ikki's indifferent expression, Nami asked Vivi again.

Vivi's cheeks twitched and she turned to look at Ikki. For a moment, she didn't know if she should tell Nami about Robin's plan to seduce Ikki.

"Ahem, rather than those boring topics, let's talk about more serious matters," Ikki waved to the three women and sat up from the bed. His expression also became a little more serious.

Seeing this, Vivi and the other two walked over to Ikki's side. Nami and Nojiko, who were familiar with Ikki, sat directly on the edge of the bed.

"Nami, Nojiko, your physical fitness has improved to a new level again. The C-level nutritional potion I gave you before is no longer effective. When you can use fitness potions again in the future, you can use this B-level nutritional potion."

As Ikki spoke, he took out two bottles of B-level nutritional medicine and handed them to Nami and Nojiko respectively.

"However, you don't have to rush to use this B-level nutritional potion. After using these two bottles of medicine, I may not be able to provide you with better nutritional medicine for a while. Just complete the fitness routines when you arrive at Alabasta. Before using this potion, you can first become more familiar with the power of your current body. You two probably haven't fully adapted to the sudden improvement in physical fitness."

Now the life force of Nami and Nojiko had reached 4000 points, and a bottle of B-level nutritional potion could increase a person's life force by 3000 points through training in the gym. Two bottles would be enough for them to reach the same health level as Ikki.

Nami and Nojiko nodded when they heard this. Just like Ikki said, after their life force quickly reached 4000 points, the two even crushed glass several times because they couldn't control their strength well.

"Vivi, this is your share! Now that you know the effects of nutritional potions, you should try to absorb these nutritional potions in the few days before we reach Alabasta. Of course, you also need to become proficient in the swordsmanship knowledge you just acquired."

Ikki took out 5 bottles of C-level nutritional medicine and 2 bottles of B-level nutritional medicine and handed them to Vivi, smiling.

Five bottles of C-level nutrient potions and two bottles of B-level nutrient potions could also upgrade Vivi with 1566 life force points to level A.

After speaking, Ikki also specifically pointed out that Vivi should take C-level nutritional medicine first, and then B-level nutritional medicine.

Vivi took the 7 bottles of nutritional medicine and solemnly put them in a small box. The way she looked at Ikki was even more grateful.

"Okay, let's all disperse. It's quite late. You should go back to your rooms and rest," Ikki smiled at the three women and was about to take out the drawing board in his hand to continue his artwork.

"Captain Ikki, really, isn't chatting with us more interesting than drawing? Speaking of which, you have drawn two pages of the story of 'Demon Slayer', and you gave one to Tashigi... Could it be that you plan to draw more versions and give them to others?" Nami put her hands on her hips and looked at Ikki with a pout.

"I don't plan to draw 'Demon Slayer' for the time being. I'm drawing other content now," Ikki shook his head and said.

"Anything else? Captain Ikki, can you let me see what you drew?" After Nami finished speaking, she craned her neck to look at the front of the drawing board in Ikki's hand.

"I haven't finished the painting yet. Forget it. If you want to see it, just look," After Ikki flicked Nami's forehead, he turned over the drawing board in his hand.

In an instant, a painting of an intellectual woman taking a bath appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

"This...is Nico Robin?!" 

"Captain Ikki, you really like that woman." Nami snorted and looked at Ikki with the word "pervert" written all over her face.

After all, the Nico Robin painted by Ikki only wore a bathrobe and looked too sexy.

'Isn't this what Robin looked like just now?' Vivi blinked and couldn't help but think.

"Mr. Ikki seems to be very good at painting. After this painting is completed, can you give it to me?" At this time, Nico Robin's voice came from the direction of the gym.

The three girls turned to look behind them and found that Robin was looking at the painting in Ikki's hand with great interest.

"That's not possible. I plan to keep these things in my personal collection," Although Robin is the subject of the painting, Ikki does not feel that he must give the painting to her.

After rejecting Robin, Ikki used his right hand to control the brush and drew quickly on the drawing board. Soon a realistic painting that could compare with the effect of a photo appeared in front of Nami and the others.

"Mr. Ikki is really impressive, much better than the paintings done by the unlucky duo of Baroque Works. I want to get this painting from you even more now, Mr. Ikki." Robin said with a chuckle, not feeling angry that her bathrobe appearance was recorded by Ikki.

Ikki smiled at Robin who came closer, stood up, opened the bedside table and put Robin's bathrobe picture in it.

At this moment, Nami and the others discovered that there were many paintings in the bedside table.

"Eh...isn't this Vivi?" Nami took out one of the paintings before Ikki closed the nightstand.

What was painted on it was clearly the scene of Vivi performing the perfume dance.

"Ah! This... Captain Ikki, why did you record this?" Vivi's face instantly turned red and she looked at Ikki with a pouted mouth.

"I thought you might not dance again in the future, so I wanted to preserve it," Ikki gave Vivi a thumbs up and smiled.

"Vivi, it's too early to be shy now. Look, this man also recorded you sweating in the gym," Nami sneered and showed a stack of paintings in front of Vivi and the others.

Among them, there were pictures of Nami, Nojiko, and Vivi wearing workout clothes and exercising.

Seeing these paintings, Vivi's face could be compared to a red apple.

"Mr. Ikki is really appreciative of beauty. I thought you were only interested in 'mature' women like me. It turns out that you are also interested in the slightly 'younger' ones." Robin held her chin with one hand and looked at Nami, Vivi, and Nojiko with interest.