"It's taking forever. Don't tell me Captain Arton went off to find Nami and the others?"
Leaning against the rail, Raki muttered to herself in confusion.
She really had been waiting for quite a while now.
Aisa was still full of energy, but Raki couldn't shake the feeling that Arton should have shown up by now.
"Miss Robin, is there something you still haven't told me?"
Raki looked at Robin 's faintly mysterious smile and asked the question outright.
"So you caught on after all."
Robin shrugged, then glanced up toward the lookout and said, "Captain Arton is up there right now."
"Huh?" Raki blinked. "Don't tell me he's taking a nap up there. Does he actually have a habit of napping?"
Resting her cheek against one hand, Robin seemed to think it over for a moment before answering, "Captain Arton doesn't really have a habit of napping, no. But if there's a beautiful girl keeping him company, he'd probably be a lot more willing to lie down for a while."
"I see."
Raki blinked once more, then suddenly her eyes lit up.
"Miss Robin ... don't tell me there's a girl up there with Captain Arton right now. Is it Miss Ain?"
"That's right."
Robin smiled and nodded.
"If you two hadn't shown up out of nowhere, I'd probably still be up there with them too."
"Ah..."
Raki scratched her head, feeling a little awkward.
She more or less understood what Robin meant.
Their sudden arrival had obviously interrupted whatever Arton and Robin had been in the middle of.
Robin had gone down from the lookout to receive Raki and Aisa so Arton could keep enjoying himself.
"Then maybe I should just send Aisa back first."
Glancing at Aisa, who was happily running all over the deck, Raki lowered her voice.
She really did respect Arton and the others too much to want to ruin things for him here.
At this point, she was already wondering how she ought to apologize to him.
And when it came to apologizing... the only thing she could think of was dropping to her knees for him the way those comic scenes showed it.
"No need. Aisa's having so much fun right now. Making her leave this minute would be too cruel."
Robin shook her head.
"Besides, this is Captain Arton's own decision. I doubt you'd want to go against what Captain Arton wants, would you?"
"Of course not."
Raki nodded hard.
"Then just wait a little longer, Raki."
Robin patted her on the shoulder.
"Once Captain Arton is done up there, he'll naturally come down and see Aisa. And if he's planning to leave Skypiea soon, this may be Aisa's only chance to get any guidance on Observation Haki. You don't want her to miss that chance, do you?"
Hearing that, Raki nodded again.
Of course she didn't want Aisa to miss this opportunity.
Given Skypiea's current situation, if Aisa missed this chance, she might have to wait a very long time before Arton ever came back to the sky island.
"Though... you could always go up to the lookout yourself and help speed things along on Ain's end. If you did that, Captain Arton would probably come down a lot faster."
Robin said it with a smile.
"C-Can I really do that?"
Raki swallowed hard, then cast a worried glance at Aisa nearby.
Chapter 625: This Isn't How She Thought This Would Go
With Aisa still right there, Raki felt like leaving now would be really inappropriate.
And not just leaving for anything—but leaving to go talk to Arton about... certain very important adult matters.
If Aisa caught on halfway through, Raki honestly had no idea how she would even begin to explain it.
"If you're worried about Aisa, I'll watch her for you."
As Robin spoke, she used her power to create several tiny hands around Aisa and keep her entertained.
"You... you really mean that?" Raki asked, blushing.
"Of course. We're crewmates now, after all. Besides, I kind of like Aisa too."
Robin smiled and nodded.
When she looked at Aisa, she saw a little of her younger self.
Back then, Robin had become different from other children because she accidentally ate a Devil Fruit.
Aisa, meanwhile, had become special among kids her age because she was born with Observation Haki.
Because of that similarity, Robin was genuinely willing to spend some time with Aisa.
"And you want to leave a stronger impression on Captain Arton too, don't you?"
Robin said it with a knowing smile.
"Well... yeah, that's true."
Raki found herself nodding before she even realized it.
At this point, the only two people left in the Flameblade Pirates without templates were Ain and Raki.
Arton had already said he would definitely prepare one for them eventually.
But just to be safe, both Ain and Raki wanted to use their own actions to deepen Arton's impression of them.
"All right then. I'm leaving Aisa with you, Robin."
Robin nodded and watched Raki hurry off toward the lookout.
And when Raki got there and peeked through the crack in the door, even though she had already prepared herself, the scene inside still made her heart start pounding.
Not because she was frightened.
Because she couldn't help feeling excited.
"I just hope Miss Ain won't mind."
Muttering that to herself, Raki knocked on the door.
"Come in. It's unlocked."
Arton's voice sounded from inside right away.
Even though he hadn't deliberately spread out his Observation Haki, he could still sense what was happening just outside the door.
Raki's arrival hadn't escaped him.
"Excuse me~."
Raki took a deep breath, then pushed the door open with all the seriousness of someone stepping into battle.
Once the door swung open, Ain's condition—and the way she was attacking—came into full view.
Seeing what Ain was doing, Raki couldn't help feeling a little jealous.
Ain's chest was much fuller than hers, after all.
That made it a lot easier for Ain to use those soft tits to do certain things.
Raki, on the other hand, usually had to put in some extra work first.
And honestly, Raki didn't think it would be nearly as easy for her to suck him off while wrapping him up in that same warm, smothering embrace the way Ain was doing now.
"You came at the perfect time, Raki."
Arton waved her over and said, "I need you to keep watch on the surroundings for me. You know this ship can't go without someone on lookout duty."
"Huh?"
Raki blinked.
This was... definitely not what she thought was going to happen.
But after seeing Arton sprawled flat on the floor like that, she had no choice but to take over his job.
At the same time, Ain adjusted her position, clearly getting ready to move even more freely.