After all, the methods were already there, and there were also teachers providing guidance.
Whether they would train seriously and give it their all was not something Ian could control.
After returning to Ohara, he resumed his usual life. When he had time, he took care of the children; when he did not, he accompanied his wife; from time to time, he went out for a walk.
Peaceful days passed little by little like this.
Today, he took his daughter, Aria, and went out fishing on a fishing boat.
As for Aikes, that kid had originally planned to come along as well, but because he dirtied Aria's book in the morning, he was currently being punished by his mother, Ain.
So, after thinking about it...
It ended up just being the two of them, father and daughter, coming out to relax.
It was also perfect timing, since recently Aria's mother, Robin, had told him to take the kids out for walks whenever he had time.
Aria, this child, seemed to have inherited her mother's temperament. She loved reading very much, and her dream was to rebuild the Tree of Knowledge of Ohara.
As long as she had time, she would sit down and read, and she even had Gini collect books from all over the world for her.
It could be said that during this period... books that could be obtained from all over the world, wherever Gini could get them, were all sent over.
However, Robin felt this was not good. She believed that Aria was still young, and compared to reading, she should go out to play, make more friends, and look at some scenery and such.
Moreover, Aria had already read a great number of books, far more than Robin herself had read back then.
As a mother, she did not like her daughter staying in the library all the time, like she herself had when she was young.
Back then, because there was no one on the island to play with her, and because her family was never home, she was never able to make friends.
By the time she finally made friends, Ohara was destroyed.
Therefore, Robin hoped that her daughter would cherish her childhood rather than have only books for company.
Perhaps it was to make up for her own childhood, or maybe she simply did not want her daughter to become a shut-in!
So, Ian did not say much about it.
After arriving on the boat, he naturally baited the hook and cast it into the sea.
After fishing for a short while, he stopped paying attention to it, lazily lying on the deck and enjoying the sunlight.
Up to now, not a single fish had bitten the bait.
On the other hand, Aria was fishing quite seriously. Her small hands tightly gripped the little fishing rod, and in the water tank beside her… Five fish were already swimming inside, all of them caught by her.
Perhaps because the harvest was good, the corners of her mouth beneath her small cheeks curved slightly upward, making it clear that she was in quite a good mood.
Perhaps accompanying his daughter for a walk like this was not bad either.
Ian glanced at Aria, who had just caught another fish, and sighed inwardly.
At that moment, his fishing rod suddenly trembled, and Ian's eyes instantly lit up.
A fish bit the hook!
To be honest, as a father, not catching a single fish was really quite embarrassing.
Especially when his daughter had already caught six. If they went back later and he had not caught even one, while his daughter returned home proudly with six fish, he, as a father, would definitely be laughed at.
Especially those two guys, Zephyr and Enel... They would definitely laugh loudly, maybe even laughing while clutching their stomachs.
Therefore, no matter what, he had to catch at least one fish to take back.
Even if one fish still could not compare to his daughter's haul, so what, if, as a father, he let his daughter have the advantage?
It was still better than returning empty-handed!
And now... Was the moment for Ian, the fishing emperor, to prove himself!
Ian suppressed the thought of using Conqueror's Haki to shock the fish to death. His face grew serious, he took a deep breath, tightened his core, and reeled in the rod.
But at that very moment, a sudden chill swept over him, and not only that, the sea before his eyes...
Instantly froze over, and the fishing rod in his hand snapped with a bang, the line breaking.
Ian: "..."
He looked speechlessly at the fishing rod in his hand with the snapped line, then even more speechlessly at the fish beneath the ice, which looked somewhat dazed and then, as if not knowing what had just happened, was slowly swimming away.
Finally, he raised his head and looked at the guy not far away who was leisurely riding a bicycle over the ice.
That bastard!
Ian's eyelids twitched as he stared darkly at the guy who was about to reach him.
The other side also seemed to notice him. With a handsome swing of his hand, he stopped the bicycle, and just as he was about to extend his hand and greet him familiarly…
"You bastard!"
Ian could no longer hold it in and roared, "Give me my fish back! Do you know how big that fish was? I saw it just now, it was at least eight hundred meters long!"
Kuzan: "...?"
What fish?
Eight-hundred-meter fish?
That was a small sea beast, wasn't it?!
Kuzan frowned, lowered his head to look at the ice beneath his feet. "A sea beast appeared here? Why didn't I see it just now?"
"What sea beast? I already told you it was a fish! Just a relatively big fish, that's all, I'm telling you!"
Ian looked at Kuzan with dissatisfaction. "That fish was already almost a thousand meters long!"
"That's a Sea King, isn't it?"
Kuzan raised his head and complained irritably, then looked at the snapped fishing rod in Ian's hand and the empty fish tank beside him.
Then he looked again at the little girl beside Ian, who had also stopped and was curiously staring at him.
When he saw the little girl's appearance, Kuzan froze for a moment, as if he had thought of something.
Even his gaze became muddled, and the corner of his mouth involuntarily curved slightly upward.