"Are you sure it is safe, Jon Sensei?" Lee asked with worry upon hearing what Jon was telling Luffy to do.
Rock Lee looked to the far distance, and he remembered the monkey a couple of days ago when he ventured out beyond the boundary to see the limit of this brand new world.
He initially thought that since he had trained so hard, he could easily defeat the small monkey, but was he wrong.
The monkey saw the food in his backpack, and its speed was so fast he couldn't catch up; before he knew it, his bag was cut apart, and the monkey was already gone with his food.
And just the other day, he met this strange gorilla and accidentally woke it up, and the gorilla mercilessly gave him a slab across his feet which sent him flying back to the hotel ground.
Those adventures made Lee realize one thing: the further he departed from the hotel's safety, the more dangerous the animals became.
But before he could make any decision, Lee already discovered with surprise that Luffy had long disappeared from his original spot, "When did Luffy leave? Did Luffy get stronger?"
This feeling made him realize that somebody was catching up with him, and he realized that with Luffy's talent, he would eventually catch up to him sooner or later.
"Next time that Luffy comes back, I will ask him for an exchange," Lee said with determination as he watched Luffy's figure departing deep into the forest from before.
"Better start training Lee; you never know when you will meet your next strongest opponent," Jon said, giving Lee a light pat on the shoulders.
Hearing these words made Lee's eyes fill with a renewed determination, "I will be going back to the gravity room now, Jon Sensei! Excuse me."
Giving a slight bow before disappearing in front of his eyes. Seeing that his first disciple still maintains that enthusiasm made Jon smile.
At his stage right now, Lee is already pretty strong, and what he lacks is a solid adversary to motivate him to grow even more vital.
Now that Lee had also left, Jon turned to two male servants behind, "You two follow behind Luffy. And also make sure to tell him how to save his destination and using the teleportation gadget."
He then looked at the departing sun, "Now, where did Sanji go with those maids?"
He could imagine that Sanji is probably kissing the maids in some spot in the hotel.
That little guy never changes.
In another spot, a courtyard with beautiful flowers and numerous stone statues that towers high into the sky, Sanji notices something in the distance.
When he looks at the stone statues, he feels a sense of intense fear, and it is almost like the monsters can come alive.
They stood tall into the clouds; he could almost feel like a single finger from one of the thousand statues in the stone courtyard could instantly crush him like a weightless fly.
"Maria, do you feel like these stones look so real," Sanji asked the person behind him, except there was no noise that came from behind, and when he looked behind him, he discovered to his terror that the stones seemed like it moved.
"Did I just imagine that?" Sanji's body froze, "Maria, where are you?"
But no, it wasn't an imagination as the stones came to life and started running towards him, which made him scream at the top of his lung for Maria to save him.
"Maria!!!!"
He realized that he couldn't run anymore as a giant hand made from indestructible stone material came down on his body; in his mind, today was the worst day for Sanji in his life.
Closing his eyes, he feels the intense pressure spotting onto his body and not letting him go.
But he found himself in the arms of someone, and the nightmare didn't become a reality.
"Maria?"
Opening his eyes, he noticed that she had wrapped him affectionately inside her arms, with a warmth on her face when she looked at him.
'Beautiful!' She seemed like an angel who came to rescue him; he thought she must have wings behind her back.
"You're so silly, Sanji," Maria said with a sweet voice, her eyes looking back at the stone monsters, "Let me show you how to use a kitchen knife properly."
She took the kitchen knife that Sanji had brought along and cut through the air, and then something magical happened in front of Sanji's eyes.
He watched as the air seemed to split open, or more precisely, the space dimension split opened as a white light sharpened through the air and cracked the space around them, instantly destroying the monsters in front of him.
Sanji is still in disbelief that such a cute girl with a slender figure and who looks only a few years older than him could quickly kill those stone beasts that tower high into the sky.
Seeing that all their enemies, she silently turned to watch him and returned the kitchen knife to him, "Did you catch that? That is how you use a knife."
Hearing her voice woke him up from his fantasies, and his jaw dropped to the ground; everything today had been too much for him to take in, and he didn't know whether everything was a dream anymore.
She then turned to muffled laughter which made Sanji realize that she pranked him, "I can't believe you are so scared. How do you expect to make girls rely on you in the future."
"I knew it; this was all a scheme," Sanji kneeled on the floor comedically, crying from how much pain he had to bear.
She squats down on the ground and puts her hand on his head affectionately, "If you don't mind, I can teach you how to cook. Will you forgive me then, Sanji?"
"You know how to cook, Maria?" Sanji asked, puzzled, and watched as she nodded her head and gave him a cute wink.
Seeing the wink for him made Sanji have a nosebleed, and finally, he couldn't take it anymore and fainted on the stone floor from over-happiness.