Chapter 176 is too late to split, so I will combine two and a half chapters of 5,000 words into one.
[Series at the beginning of the chapter·Big News 27·『……』] [Grand Line, Sabaody Archipelago. Hawkeye cuts dozens of pirates with one sword, and the black sword "Night" cuts horizontally, picking up a falling newspaper in his hand, and the paper is not damaged at all...] Ruskaina Island.
In the blink of an eye, autumn has arrived.
In the deep jungle, there are roars of wild beasts.
Whoosh, whoosh.
A petite black shadow shuttled through the forest.
Robin, who is almost eleven years old, doesn't look much changed, except that compared to three years ago, his hair is shorter, he is taller, his face is ruddy, and his demeanor is calmer.
“Roar~!”
A ferocious beast with a pig's head and a bear's body pounced on him, its claws sharp.
Robin seemed to have eyes on the back of her head. She jumped lightly, and arms grew out of the flowers on the treetop in front of her. They reached out to catch her and swung her to the other side.
Boom... The monster with a pig's head and a bear's body broke the tree in half with one claw. He stared at Robin viciously, pounded his solid chest, and roared loudly.
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When spring comes and flowers bloom.
A demonic cloud rose from the ground over the island of Ruskaina.
Lynch wrapped the little beauty Robin, flew over the sea in the doldrums, and headed straight for the Nine Snakes Island.
After flying over the surrounding woods that they had not seen for a long time, Lynch and Robin landed on the top of the towering city wall.
Lynch looked into the city.
Robin said, "It seems Hancock and the others haven't returned yet."
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The heavy snow fell, covering the woods of Ruskaina Island with a layer of silver.
Robin jumped lightly and landed high up, shaking off a ball of snow from the treetops.
His dark green pupils moved left and right, and the observation Haki borrowed from the black armor on his body instantly distinguished the number of ferocious beasts surrounding him.
This is not because her proficiency has improved.
Instead, Lynch trained his Observation Haki and copied it to BIB, which was then used by Robin.
One, two...seven in total? Wild boars and grizzly bears attracted by the pig-headed bear monster rushed over from all directions, roaring in unison, making a terrifying sound.
Robin jumped high, crossed his arms, and chanted: "Seven-Wheel Flower: Armed--"
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On a moonlit night with stars, flowers nearby, birds singing in the distance, and the sea sparkling on the horizon.
Around the big white radish tree with the words "Fate is a sleeping slave - Attack on Titan" engraved on it, Lynch and Robin were lying side by side with their bellies bulging, chatting while calmly digesting their food...
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Under the scorching sun, a group of ferocious beasts turned into black shadows and pounced towards them.
Suddenly, a girl's arm grew out of each of their bodies. Each arm was clenched into a fist, and each fist was wrapped with armed color domineering, hitting their vital points at the same time without any mercy.
The beasts screamed.
Robin's mind moved, "Fourteen-wheel flower——"
The palms of the seven arms growing on the seven-headed beasts blossomed and grew new arms again, like seven long snakes spewing armed color domineering, biting down viciously.
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It is spring all year round in Jiushe City, but it is not very peaceful today.
It seemed as if some strange animals had broken into the city. Many women found that some of their food, fruit wine, drinks, cloth, needles and thread, daily necessities and other things were missing for no reason.
“Bululu…”
The Den Den Mushi, which blended in with the environment, passed through the white legs as if nothing had happened and slipped away calmly.
"You seem to have grown taller."
At the top of Nine Snake Castle, Lynch, who had jumped out of Den Den Mushi Castle, sat down and patted the bundle of cloth. "Your clothes are uncomfortable, aren't they?"
Robin tugged at the corner of her clothes, wanting to say that Lynch's observation was really sharp... but then she remembered that during this period of time, his ghost had been following her closely... and according to her conclusion, Lynch's ghost was like his clone. Every time it was taken back, everything the ghost experienced would be fed back to Lynch himself... In other words...
Robin blushed and turned aside. After a while, he turned back and said to Lynch, "I don't know how to make clothes with needle and thread..."
Lin Qi laughed and said, "I can't do that either!"
Soon, the two people sitting by the city wall sighed in unison: Why hasn't Hancock come back yet...
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Snap! Snap! On the island of Ruskaina where autumn leaves were falling, a black shadow stepped on the air, making a series of explosions and rushed straight into the sky.
Robin closed his eyes, felt the air flow around him, and radiated the power of his Observation Haki, trying to cover as much area on the island as possible.
Monkeys, wolves, tigers, wild boars...
Crocodiles, hippos...
Each point of light outlined a corresponding contour, and in Robin's perception, it lit up like a candle.
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Nine Snake City, inside the palace.
With Lady Snake not around, the maids' work naturally became much easier.
Some of them were even sent out to the training ground to help train the female warriors.
The middle sister, Sandasonia, who had long orange hair, and the third sister, Marigrude, who had long green hair, had been training extremely hard in the past few months.
Cosmos was very pleased, thinking to herself that perhaps the fact that Hancock had escaped from the pirate ship without taking them with him had irritated them...
"I don't know what's going on. The wine and fruit in the palace have inexplicably become less these past two days..." the maid and female warrior beside her complained, "I said it wasn't me who stole the food, but the head chef just didn't believe me! This is too much..."
The other women laughed and said, "You usually love to cheat, so that's why I blame you, right?"
"No way!"
At this moment in the palace kitchen, the head chef was looking at the scene with a puzzled look on her face, as if something had happened.
Fruit peels are scattered all over the floor...
The wine jug and bottle were tilted here and there, and the wine dripped from the spout and the bottle mouth...
The chef took a step and her foot slipped, almost falling. After all, she was a female warrior, so after stabilizing her center of gravity, she raised her foot and saw a crushed grape, a banana peel, and half a watermelon peel...
"It's a pity that there is no elixir or anything like that..."
Lin, who was hiding somewhere, picked his teeth and expressed great regret.
Robin took a bite of the juicy peach and glanced sideways.
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Boom…
The burly and ferocious beast fell down, and Robin put down his foot that was wrapped in Armament Haki, and breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, she is not a warrior...
It is a bit stressful to forcibly control such power, and it is not as easy as it looks.
I took a look at the sky and saw dark clouds gathering, and it seemed like it was going to start snowing again.
The climate of this island changes every week, while the weather on Gushe Island is completely different, with spring-like weather all year round. Traveling between these two islands makes it hard to tell the passage of time.
It's about time to go back.
Robin dragged the beast's corpse away by its legs.
Even without the special connection between the ghost on his body and Lynch, Robin could vaguely sense Lynch's current location by relying only on the borrowed Observation Haki... For some reason, Lynch's Observation Haki seemed to be particularly good at distinguishing different people, or different creatures.
Robin intuitively felt that Lynch was Lynch in his observation and hearing, and that it was not some other creature with similar strength to Lynch.
"Whether it's a wild boar, a wild bear, or a tiger, you can use your observation Haki to clearly distinguish them..."
Robin dragged the beast corpses that looked like a small hill and walked forward with a chuckle. He thought to himself, "Not only that, I can also judge the approximate strength of those beasts... It is precisely because of Lynch's observation Haki that I can avoid those overly powerful monsters on the island in advance..."
Deep down in his heart, Robin seemed to remember that Lynch seemed to be very sensitive to "smell" a long time ago...
At that time, she used the Hana-Hana no Mi to disguise herself, and although Lynch didn't have the Observation Haki yet, he was able to see through it. He joked that she had a floral scent, but Robin had never smelled it on himself...
Thinking of this, Robin came to the beach and saw Lynch with his bare chest, practicing boxing against the backdrop of the waves lapping against the shore.
Robin watched in silence for a moment.
Compared to when they first met three or four years ago, Lin Qi is now 1.8 meters tall, with strong muscles and clear lines...
Without "BIB", Lin Qichun relied on himself to recall the fragmented memories about the woman named Lily, and unknowingly, he practiced this crude set of boxing over and over again.
"Is it called the Eight Punch Fist?"
Lynch came to his senses, opened his eyes and looked back at the shore. Robin had already cleaned the hunted beast, lit a fire, set up the rack, and started grilling it skillfully.
Lin Qi walked over and tore off a large piece of meat. "Yeah! But it's just a skeleton. To learn the real Ba Chong Quan, you have to go to the Kingdom of Flowers."
Robin said, "You don't seem to value this boxing technique?"
Lin Qi said: "You can't say that! Although it is true."
Robin: “…”
Lin Qi smiled and said, "We'll talk about boxing or not later. Now that you still have room for improvement in your physical fitness and domineering skills, then continue to practice. If you don't have the strength, and you go to the Flower Kingdom and want to learn their boxing skills, and they don't give it to you, wouldn't that be embarrassing?"
An ordinary person would die from eating even a leg of the beast, but Lynch and Robin each shared half, dividing it very skillfully and tacitly.
The two of them ate until their bellies were bloated, but they didn't mind each other being ugly and fat. As they laughed and chatted, their figures recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Snap! Lynch snapped his fingers.
The black armor on Robin peeled off like a phantom and fell into the body of Lynch opposite.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lynch maintained his posture, shivering all over.
Seeing him like this, Robin felt a little sorry. If she had been more decisive when she was wearing armor, it would not be so painful for Lynch to take back his ghost.
"interesting……"
Hot steam hissed out of Lynch's body. He trembled, clenched his fist, raised it, and slowly a thumb popped out.
Robin: “…”
"How do you feel?" After Lynch survived, he moved his hands and feet, adjusted himself, and asked about Robin's condition.
Robin pondered, "Although I've become 'weaker', I still feel like myself this way. It's more natural. As for the domineering side..."
She thought that this time would be similar to the previous times. When Lynch's ghost left, those miraculous powers would also disappear from her.
But this time seems different.
Robin sensed Lynch's presence.
"..." She stared blankly at Lynch in front of her. This was a completely different feeling, even different from when she used the power of "BIB" before.
Observation Haki? Lin Qi smiled slightly, and a ball of black energy surged out of his body, turning into a pitch-black battle armor, standing beside him.
Robin saw it, saw the black shadow for the first time with his own eyes.
"BIB" said: "Hello, Nico Robin."
Robin smiled and winked, "Hello, Back in Black..."
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"ah!"
Robin cried out, and hastily dodged the wolf that was charging towards him.
When I almost fell, I was held by an invisible hand, and the other party quickly withdrew.
"BIB" stood beside Robin like an emotionless black mecha, waiting for action.
A drooling wolf was growling and glaring in front of Robin, staring at him intently.
“…”
Robin looked at the wolf, then turned to look at BIB who was standing by and watching, then looked up at Lynch who was sitting on the treetop...
Lin Qi held two stones in his hand and said with a smile: "As for Haki, you can only master it most quickly and become proficient in real combat... Now, it's time for you to master your own Haki, Nico Robin."
Who is your classmate... Sometimes I call you sister, sometimes I call you sister...
Robin had no choice but to wait and concentrate on mobilizing his Observation Haki to predict the next attack from the wolf in front of him.
“Roar~!!”
The wolf pounced.
"Ah!" Robin dodged in panic.
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The night is long and the moon is round.
Taking out the herbal medicine for external injuries he had found in Nine Snakes City, Lynch spread it evenly on his palm and applied it to the scratches on Robin's arm.
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When spring comes, flowers bloom, including on the trees.
The flowers grew many eyes, which were spread all over the woods.
Robin suddenly opened his eyes, jumped to the side, and narrowly avoided the beast's attack.
"Success..."
Robin smiled, and the shadow of a huge wild boar loomed behind her.
"Roar..." The wild boar laughed grimly. Robin looked up with fear in his eyes.
But two intersecting cold lights came from the left and right, and the huge wild boar behind Robin was actually cut in an X shape. Its eyes turned white, and its body slid and split into four pieces, and fell to the ground with a plop...
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That night, snowflakes began to fall.
Next to the fire was the remains of a wild boar skeleton, and Lynch and Robin sat face to face.
"The universe is boundless, the way of the Tao is impermanent, the domineering power will soon show itself..."
Lynch waved his hands in front of Robin's speechless eyes, twisting them back and forth... After a moment, Robin, with his muscular limbs, began to perform a crude eight-punch in the snow at night. Lynch said depressedly, "No, hypnosis is indeed more of a skill for returning life. It can only hypnotize you to mobilize your physical potential, but it cannot command your body to actively stimulate domineering power..."
Robin wanted to say, I understand, can you let me stop? I'm so tired...
She clenched her fist and punched the snow hard.
Boom!
A small hole was smashed into the snow.
Lynch and "BIB" looked at the same time. The power just now... After Robin was exhausted, the muscles in her limbs subsided. She panted slightly, clenched her palms, and couldn't help but smile with joy.
Although I'm not a fan of fighting, I'm still happy to learn a new power.
“Lynch…”
Robin turned around and was stunned when he saw Lynch's expression.
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"I didn't tell you before you mastered Haki..."
Nine Snake Island. Robin followed Lynch, walking in the familiar woods, with the ghost-like black armor following beside him. This feeling was very novel, and it was the first time Robin had experienced this perspective. In fact, Lynch's ghost had always been beside them until today, but in most scenes in Robin's memory, there was no specific image of this black armor. Since he entered the stage of observation Haki, the whole world seemed to have changed its appearance and appeared before his eyes.
Lynch came to the foot of the towering Nine Snake City Wall. Even through the huge wall, his observation Haki could sense the breath of the Amazon female warriors in the city.
"I'm worried that it was my own misjudgment. Now that you have mastered Observation Haki and Armament Haki..." Lynch stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on the rough stone surface of the city wall. His tone was strange, as if he was talking to himself, "Robin, do you think that there is really a 'Observation Haki'?"
Robin thought he had misheard and blinked, "What?"
"I'm asking, do you and I really have something called 'Observation Haki' in our bodies?" Lin Qi turned around, opened his arms, clenched his left fist, and asked in confusion, "Armament Haki," clenched his right fist, "Observation Haki, are there two distinct things in our bodies? Or are we actually misled by the names of these two types of Haki, thinking that the energy called Haki in our bodies is partly Armament Haki and partly Observation Haki... Is that right?"
Robin was still willing to discuss the issue. She frowned and thought, recalling the feeling of using two kinds of domineering.
Her own Haki is still very weak and unskilled, but she has used the two types of Haki of "BIB" for a long time...
"I believe that the essence of things is both simple and unified." Lynch clenched his fists, and the entangled domineering aura quickly dyed his fists black. "Like you, I first learned to use Observation Haki... But when I thought about it later, I realized that when I only knew Observation Haki, I had never mobilized the energy in my body even once. The so-called Observation Haki is more of a skill than a domineering aura."
"Techniques?" Robin blinked.
Lin Qi said: "Armament Haki and Observation Haki are not Haki, but two techniques for using Haki."
He put his fingers together to form a sword, and pressed down on the city wall with his dark fingers, making a hole.
"Armament Haki is a technique that uses the energy called Haki within the body to strengthen itself."
Lynch sensed the countless "light spots" in Jiushe City through the city wall.
"And Observation Haki... is a technique to sense external 'Haki', sense external 'aura'... I used to be very puzzled. I clearly didn't release anything, but I could sense the aura of animals tens or hundreds of meters away in an instant... If I released a certain power called Observation Haki, detected it, and then took it back and analyzed it, it would be too late. But if Observation Haki is just a technique based on Haki, a technique to observe aura fluctuations and collect external information..."
This also seems to explain why there are so many people on Sky Island who can use Observation Haki, but not a single one can use Armament Haki.
Because in their concept, there is no so-called domineering. Their perception ability is called "heart net" by them. In their view, it is a kind of magical power to perceive external objects. After all, they themselves have not changed in substance...
Robin digested Lynch's remarks.
She pondered and said, "According to what you said, if Conqueror's Haki is also considered a technique for using domineering power..."
“They are back.”
Lin Qi suddenly pointed in the direction of the gate of Jiushe City.
The red ship, dragged by two giant snakes, flying the flag of the Nine Snakes Pirates, finally returned to the Daughter Island in the Calm Belt after more than half a year of sailing.
(End of this chapter)