Chapter 667: Retrograde (14,000 words)

[West Sea——]

Across the red soil continent that forms half of the Upside-Down Mountain, a giant snake with long green hair and green scales flapped its wings and soared among the white clouds in the sky.

On her back, a green Den Den Mushi was lying quietly, dozing with its eyes closed.

"Finally entered the West Sea..." Sanda muttered to himself as he flew in the wind.

In the Den Den Mushi castle, there are only Robin and Tulip, as well as another "Sanda" with a dull expression. It is a clone of Sanda created by Robin.

The long flight was very tiring, and in order to reduce Sanda's burden, Robin and Tulip both entered Little Green's inner castle.

Flying is also boring, so Robin made a clone of Sanda named Hua Zizai and placed it on the comfortable sofa in the castle. With the help of Robin's flower ears and eyes in the outside world, he can communicate with Sanda seamlessly in this way.

Robin slowly told Tulip and Sanda the story of the two women named Lily.

Tulip listened carefully, occasionally asked questions and nodded.

As for the rest of us…

Hancock needs to rest and use her life paper for navigation, so she must stay in Nine Snakes. Besides, Hancock herself has no interest in the Kingdom of Flowers.

The second sister wanted to send Tulip and Robin to the Kingdom of Flowers, so Marigold took the initiative to stay and take care of the eldest sister, even though Hancock repeatedly said that she didn't need to be taken care of.

As for "BIB"...

Robin was frightened by Hancock's sudden collapse, so she didn't let BIB follow her, but asked it to stay with Hancock and pay close attention.

What if the immortal Marijoa turns to attack Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit and Sander's Flying Snake Fruit? At present, the other party does not seem to have such an intention. Perhaps he really disdains it.

The reason why they targeted Hancock was probably because she was the one who directly killed the three members of the Celestial Dragon family...that's why she attracted some attention.

And this kind of gaze only happens once, because the opponent's attack is a fatal blow.

If BIB hadn't happened to be right beside me...

Hancock, who petrified and killed three Celestial Dragons, undoubtedly had a tragic end. Even if she didn't die, her physical body would be seriously damaged, and she might even become disabled.

After being stopped in time by "BIB", the unknown malicious attack never occurred again...

However, to be on the safe side, Robin made life paper for Sanda, Mary and himself before leaving.

Together with Hancock's life paper, they wrote their names on it and tore it into many pieces. Now she, Hancock, Sandra, and Mary each held a piece of other people's life paper.

In addition, regarding the Celestial Dragons...

The newspapers never published any news about the three petrified celestial dragons from beginning to end.

There were reports that the navy used an emergency call, mobilized warships into the calm zone, and used the Demon Slaying Order on the Nine Snake Island...but there was no follow-up to this piece of news, because the headlines were dominated by the big news that the Sea Emperor Kaido attacked the Navy Headquarters Marineford.

The world turned its attention to the second half of the Grand Line and turned its attention to the confrontation between the old sea emperor and the navy.

However, for all these years, there has been no definite consensus among the general public as to where Kaido’s lair is in the New World.

All we know is that he must be entrenched in some sea area in the New World...

But few people know exactly where it is.

Some people speculated that he must be in the second half of the new world without the magnetic route, in the sea area further behind Shuixianxing Island, the end point of the magnetic route.

Some people with more experience also speculated that Kaido might be in the den of the once-powerful Rocks Pirates - the Pirate Island "Beehive".

Of course, some people also think that Kaido might be hiding in Wano Country, which is isolated from the news and surrounded by natural dangers...

But few people believed it.

That legendary country of samurai! How could Kaido force his way into it?

Isn't that a nuisance to the warriors? How can he still fly around the New World for no reason? Is there no real top-level strongman who can slay dragons in the mysterious and powerful warrior kingdom?

The legend of the "Dragon Slayer" Ryuma is a beautiful story spread throughout the world!

Dragon slaying is a traditional art form of Wano Country! - At least that's what many people who read story books in the world think. Kaido can hide anywhere but in Wano Country, because that would be asking for death.

Robin and the others were naturally not interested in paying attention to the dispute between Kaido and the Navy, but the discussion in the newspapers did change its focus, and the Navy's demon-slaying order against the Nine Snakes was no longer followed up, and the results were not reported.

The influence of the world government on newspaper opinion on key issues is greater than expected...

Robin was silent. It could also be that the birdman Morgans from the World Economic News knew how to seek benefits and avoid harm, and understood what news to insist on publishing, even if it would anger the World Government, but would not cause any serious harm.

And some news, it's really not allowed to be published in the newspaper...

…

[“Even so, Hancock, try not to show up casually in the past few years…”]

Before Nine Snakes left, Robin and Hancock hugged each other gently. "It must not be reported in the newspapers. What if it attracts the attention of the person deep inside Marijoa..."

[Sanda and Mary also nodded and advised. Hancock's sudden burst of blood and the look of her dying like a blood flower in the next second really frightened them to death.]

[Hancock rolled his eyes and said impatiently: "Okay, I get it."]

[BIB waved to Robin and Tulip who were on the back of the flying snake, and shouted: "Go sweep the grave for me..."]

[Robin nodded, and entered Den Den Mushi Castle with Tulip.]

[“Then let’s go!” The green-scaled snake soared into the sky. ]

…

"Las Gap Island, is that it?"

The green-scaled snake spread its wide wings and flew across the red earth continent. Not long after flying, she quickly found an island near the sea area of ​​​​Inverted Mountain based on the clues from Princess Robin that she heard from her clone in the Den Den Mushi Castle.

"Small village, small village... found it!"

Sanda carried Xiaolu and circled over Lasgap Island, then dived towards the flower field hillside outside the small village that Robin pointed to.

Robin and Tulip jumped out of the Den Den Mushi castle. They stood side by side on Sanda's back, and the wind in their faces ruffled their long hair.

Robin picked up Little Green and put it in his bag.

The tulips looked down into the wind, looking at the hillside below and the flower fields swaying in the wind.

On the side of the hill, you can vaguely see a tombstone.

In front of the tomb, a woman was clearing the weeds around it...

Suddenly, the woman felt something in her heart. She turned her head and looked up at the sky. She saw a huge figure with wings spread out, but it was hard to see clearly against the light. She was slightly startled at first, and soon she heard a familiar voice: "Xianglian, it's me."

"Xu Lun?" The woman narrowed her eyes, looking at the slowly descending flying green snake, and the pair of women who jumped down from her back. One of them had long golden hair, and her demeanor was elegant and calm, while the other had long black hair, and there was an indelible gloom between her brows. As for the green snake with broad wings, it quickly shrank its body after the two women landed, and turned into a beautiful girl with long green snake hair who followed behind the two women, looking at the surrounding environment with curiosity.

The woman clearing the weeds around Lily's tomb is Lily's sworn sister Xianglian.

When Ayu ascended the throne and the affairs in the Flower Kingdom were settled, she had no worries, so she asked Lynch and Robin about where Lily was buried, and prepared to guard her sister's tomb alone here for the rest of her life.

Xianglian took a deep look at the black-haired woman who had brought people down from the sky, "No, I should call you Nico Robin now..."

"I'm sorry," Robin smiled bitterly, "I hid my identity from you."

Xianglian shook his head, "Why apologize? It was right to conceal it. The people of the West Sea... best understand the meaning behind the name 'Devil's Son'."

Tulip walked straight to Lily's grave.

"Who are they? Why don't you introduce them?" Xianglian looked around Robin and didn't see the black figure. His heart sank slightly. "Where's Lin Qi? Is he... in trouble?"

"..." Robin said, "They...are the descendants of Princess Lily who left overseas."

Xianglian was shocked and looked at Sanda and Tulip.

Tulip waved her hand, "Don't worry about us, we just came to see it on the way..."

She picked a flower and sat down in front of Lily's grave. Looking at the smiling woman in the photo on the tombstone, she said to herself, "No wonder you were so surprised when I told you about Princess Lily... It turns out that Giorno's mother has such a story."

“It’s quite remarkable.”

Along the way, Sanda listened to Robin's story in the Den Den Mushi castle. He admired Lynch's mother very much. It was a pity that such a powerful and beautiful woman was not born in Nine Snakes.

Sanda picked three flowers, gently placed them in front of Lily's tombstone, clasped his hands together and bowed.

"Any wine?"

The breeze blew Tulip's long golden hair. She sat in front of the monument and asked casually, "I want to have a drink with her."

"..." Xianglian was silent, quickly brought a pot of wine and poured a glass for Tulip.

Robin quietly told Xianglian about the past of Nine Snake Island...

Xianglian felt disappointed after hearing this. He didn't expect that after Princess Lily left the Kingdom of Flowers and experienced those things, she finally chose to enter the Calm Belt and established a country with only women on Nine Snake Island.

After three hundred years, the descendants of Princess Lily finally returned to the Kingdom of Flowers in the West Sea...

"This cup is for you," Tulip said jokingly to Lily on the tombstone while holding up the cup. "Your son, who took possession of the only princess since the founding of the Nine Snakes, was not satisfied and even stole the heart of the most beautiful girl in the hundreds of years of the Nine Snakes. Tsk, tsk, tsk, he is so greedy! - What do you think, should he be punished?"

The former Snake Princess smiled unrestrainedly and raised her cup, spilling a line of wine on the ground in front of the tomb.

Xianglian looked at Robin. Robin explained, "Princess Lily left a legacy to the Nine Snakes. The Flower-Flower Fruit is the Nine Snakes' national treasure, so Tulip made me the princess of the Nine Snakes..."

Sanda felt disappointed. Thinking about it carefully, Tulip pretended to execute her sister Hancock in order to force out Princess Robin, who was suspected of possessing the Flower-Flower Fruit. That was a long time ago, but it felt like it happened yesterday and everything was still vivid in his mind.

Tulip poured herself a glass and said, "What a pity, we didn't get to meet! If you had been able to find the Nine Snakes, maybe we could have learned from each other... maybe even become sisters."

After finishing the pot of wine, Tulip stood up.

"I want to talk to Lily alone..."

Robin said to them before leaving.

Xianglian nodded and walked away with Tulip and Sanda.

By the way, Sanda told Xianglian the purpose of their trip, which was to ask Ayu, the current ruler of the Flower Kingdom and the user of the Black Dragon Fruit, for help.

Xianglian listened and looked back. Robin was sitting alone in front of Lily's grave, not knowing what he was saying.

But actually…

The three women present could more or less guess what she would say.

Apparently it's about Lynch...

Xianglian remained silent about this. She had refrained from asking because she knew that Robin would tell Sister Lily himself.

…

"sorry……"

Robin knelt in front of the grave, one hand on his knees, the other hand gripping the dirt and pulling at the grass roots.

"It's all my fault for not taking good care of him... We clearly agreed..."

She murmured, raised her red eyes and looked at the woman who was laughing brightly in the photo.

Robin reached out and gently stroked Lily's tombstone, then stood up and removed her fingertips. "Can I call you... 'Mom'?" She pulled the corners of her mouth and forced a smile.

Standing in front of the tomb for a moment, Robin sniffed his sour red nose and rubbed his eyes with the heel of his palms.

She quickly calmed down, as Tulip and the others were still waiting for her. She quickly turned around and walked towards the large green-scaled snake outside the woods, which had changed its form and spread its wide wings...

The green-scaled snake spread its wings and flew away. Xianglian returned to the tomb and saw the remaining tear marks on his back. He shook his head and sat down, sighing, "Lin Qi will be fine, right? Sister Lily... If Huangquan knew, you must keep an eye on him."

～～～～～～～～～～～ “Sister Xu Lun!!”

Ayu, who was wearing the queen's casual clothes, burst into tears and threw herself into Robin's arms.

Seeing that Ayu was safe and sound, Robin felt relieved and touched Ayu's back.

"Should I call her Sister Robin?" Lily followed behind and said with her tongue out, "Teacher Robin."

Ah Yu raised her head in Robin's arms, her big eyes flashing with tears, and she sobbed, "There have been a lot of scary news in the newspapers recently... Qing Jiao and the others said... Brother Lin Qi might have been in trouble... Is it true?"

Robin said nothing.

Ah Yu took a deep breath, but tears still fell. "It's all my fault. I should have given the Black Dragon Fruit to Brother Lin Qi... It's all my fault, it's all my fault, wuwuwu..."

Lily was anxious, but she didn't know how to persuade him.

"I'm going for a walk." Tulip looked at Ayu intently, smiled softly, said something to Robin, and then left the palace in the direction of the new flower capital.

Sanda did not go with them. She had just received a bounty of 400 million Beli, and there were so many people around, so it was better for her not to run around and cause trouble.

As for Tulip, she rarely appeared in newspapers or in the public eye. She always acted in a low-key and mysterious way. I'm afraid not many people would be able to find her bounty from the old papers. But that's not a problem...

While comforting Ayu, Robin also stopped for a while at the Flower Kingdom Palace, mainly because he needed to let Sanda, who flew all the way to the Flower Kingdom, have a good rest.

Lily asked the royal chef to prepare a sumptuous meal.

Sanda said with interest: "It looks delicious. Eh, it's a bit similar to our Nine Snakes' dishes? Then Lin Qi should like it too--"

She opened her mouth, then quickly stopped talking and started eating. She glanced at Robin carefully and saw that the princess was patting Yu's back to comfort her and softly asking her to move the island.

Ah Yu didn't hesitate, "Okay!"

The flying ability of the Black Dragon Fruit is very different from other devil fruits. Lynch took the time to study this after defeating the Black Dragon King - it can be regarded as a way to explore the development of the fruit for Ayu.

The Black Dragon, and as Lynch knows, Kaido's Blue Dragon, have the same flying mechanism.

Climb the clouds.

The Black Dragon Fruit can not only pull up the existing clouds in the sky, but it can also create special clouds by itself - or in fact, it can be considered that the Black Dragon pulls up the existing clouds in the sky and converts them into the special clouds it needs to fly.

"Flame Cloud", seems to be what it is called.

According to Lynch's analysis at the time, this "Flame Cloud" that could drag the black dragon's huge and heavy body and fly all over the sky effortlessly was essentially... a bit similar to the ability of the Floating Fruit.

Anything touched by the flame cloud will "float into the air".

There is no need to explain anything. The devil fruit does not reason with you. If it says it can fly, it can fly - and the physical energy consumption is very low.

The Golden Lion could easily move an island into the sky with the Float-Float Fruit. If that was a skill that continuously burned mana, then no matter how strong the Golden Lion was, he would have been drained of his energy by the Float-Float Fruit long ago.

The flame cloud of the Black Dragon Fruit is similar. The Black Dragon only consumes energy in the moment of creating the flame cloud.

As for the subsequent flame cloud lifting the black dragon's huge body into the air, even in Lynch's original conception, perhaps as long as enough amount was produced, the flame cloud could carry an entire island into the sky...that was the effect of the flame cloud itself, and had nothing to do with the black dragon's own physical strength.

[“‘The wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon’!”]

[That is, Lin Qi took out the Black Dragon Fruit chip from his body and put it back into Ah Yu's body, "Haha, indeed, it is the instinct of the dragon to ride on the clouds; the clouds rising up to hold up all things is the attribute of the flame cloud itself..."]

…

Soon, after a big meal, Sanda patted his belly and said, "I'm full and full of energy!" He spread his wings and flapped them twice, ready to set off at any time.

Not long after, Tulip also came back from the New Flower Capital with a small brocade box in her hand.

"What is this?" Sanda asked curiously.

Tulip opened it with a smile, and Sanda wondered, "Dirt?"

Tulip had walked through the five provinces of the Kingdom of Flowers, gathering a handful of soil from various places and putting them together. She planned to bring back the Nine Snakes and place them in front of the coffin of the founding emperor, Lily, as a memorial.

Ayu wiped away her tears, said goodbye to her little friend Lily, and was about to transform into a black dragon when she was stopped by Robin.

"Let's go into the Den Den Mushi castle first and wait for Sanda to take us out of the Kingdom of Flowers." Robin explained, and then took Tulip and Ayu to jump into Xiaolu's inner castle.

Lily's big eyes moved closer to the castle gate and waved goodbye to them.

Sanda hissed and transformed into a giant green-scaled snake. He spread a pair of snake wings that were dozens of meters wide and flew away with Xiaolu.

After leaving the waters of the Kingdom of Flowers, Sanda flew straight towards the calm belt. Soon, a long black dragon flew out from the green Den Den Mushi on his back.

Sanda flapped her long and powerful wings, and looked sideways at the soaring black dragon. She saw clouds of mist that leaped like flames swirling under her four dragon claws, carrying the dragon's body, which should have been extremely heavy, and flying high in the sky...

"It's amazing." Sanda spat out his tongue and galloped in the sky side by side with the black dragon. Soon they crossed the red soil continent on the side of the Upside-down Mountain, entered the calm sea area on the opposite side, and continued to move straight forward.

～～～～～～～～～～ Boom, boom, boom…

The women of Nine Snake Island were fishing, hunting, farming and weaving when they suddenly felt the ground beneath their feet shaking and making a buzzing sound.

"An earthquake?"

The women looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never seen an earthquake in the Calm Belt before! Those large sea kings usually didn't attack the islands themselves...

Soon, Hancock stood in front of the palace and announced the situation, and the women of the Nine Snakes finally understood what was happening.

Moving! Never thought that one day, the Nine Snakes would also be able to move...

"Look up at the sky!" On the training ground in Nine Snakes City, Margaret, a six-year-old girl with short blond hair, pointed at the sky and exclaimed, "The black dragon... so amazing..."

Ah Yu, transformed into a black dragon, hovered on the top of the Nine Snake Mountain, looking down at the entire Nine Snake City and the densely packed women on the streets of the city...

"This is the country established by Princess Lily..." Black Dragon muttered to herself. On the way to Nine Snake Island, she had listened to Sister Robin's stories and understood a lot.

Rumble, rumble, the flame clouds created by the black dragon circled around the Nine Snake Island, and a huge island floated and soared into the air accompanied by a huge roar...

At the bottom of the cone-shaped island, there were circles of flame clouds with the power of ascension, leaving a huge whirlpool on the sea surface below. The passing sea kings were stirred by the current in the whirlpool and were a little confused in their panic...

The women of the Nine Snakes looked down from around the island and were amazed at the spectacle and feat.

"Ruth Kaye...?"

The black dragon controlled the countless flame clouds that supported the Nine Snake Island, moving the entire island at high altitude, and at the same time she spoke in human language.

The pitch-black armor floated beside her dragon head, reminding her: "Ruskaina Island is in that direction."

"Oh, okay." The Black Dragon nodded. She was just controlling the flow direction of the flame cloud. She was not really relying on herself to lift up the entire island, so it was actually quite easy. With a thought, she commanded the flame cloud group to lift up the Nine Snake Island and fly in the direction indicated by "BIB".

Boom boom boom…

The huge Nine Snake Island came near the even larger Ruskaina Island. The animals on the island were stunned, looking at the huge floating island flying in the sky. What happened? For a moment, the beasts retreated and scattered in panic.

"It's strange, why is it winter on this island?" The black dragon flew over the sky of Ruskaina Island and was very surprised looking at the heavy snow all over the sky. However, it did not delay its business. According to the request of "BIB", it waved its dragon claws again, creating another large cloud of flames, which rolled to the periphery of Ruskaina Island and disappeared into the bottom of the island. Soon, this island with forty-eight seasons a year slowly rose into the air, with countless flames circling and entwined at the bottom.

At the top of the Nine Snake Mountain, looking at the black dragon hovering in the sky, Hancock said, "Let's go."

Boom... Boom... Boom...

Two islands of different sizes, with countless similar flame clouds surrounding their bottoms, thousands of meters in the sky, along the doldrum sea area that looked like a "sidewalk" below, "slowly" crossed the red soil continent and entered the doldrums on one side of the New World section...

This novel experience amazed the female warriors of the Nine Snakes. They all laughed and said, "We moved directly to the Calm Belt of the New World. Now the Navy doesn't have to spend one or two hundred years exploring the Calm Belt. I'm afraid they won't be able to find us anymore."

That’s right, now they themselves don’t know where they are going to settle down.

Robin felt the wind and looked towards the west sea. He roughly calculated in his mind where the location was in the doldrums, close to the Kingdom of Flowers and Lasgap Island...

In the sky, the petals behind the black-scaled neck of Ayu, who was hovering and controlling the endless flame cloud that held up the two large islands, surged, and Robin's upper body emerged and said to her, "Land right in front."

A Yu was gazing across the sea from high in the sky. This location seemed not too far from the Kingdom of Flowers. When she had nothing to do, she could fly over to take a look. She couldn't help but feel very happy.

Boom... Boom... Boom...

The black dragon controlled the flame cloud and slowly lowered the altitude of Nine Snake Island and Ruskaina Island... During the process, Nine Snake Island was fine, but on Ruskaina Island, occasionally some wild animals accidentally fell down, and from a distance, they looked like dust shaken off from the surrounding areas of the island.

The two slowly descending islands created a shocking vortex of currents on the calm calm ocean, but it soon subsided...

The women of Nine Snakes looked around. There was still no wind or waves, and the sea kings in the sea were just as gigantic. There was even an island called Ruskaina next to them, which they often used as a testing ground for arrows. They couldn't help but murmur to themselves, as if they didn't notice any changes.

The new Nine Snake Island was thus completed.

There is a strait of more than ten meters separating the Nine Snakes from the Ruskaina Island. The women of the Nine Snakes can jump over this distance with hard practice. But for the large beasts on the other side, the Nine Snakes can just send their soldiers to stand guard and watch, and shoot any one who comes.

The warriors were all very satisfied, and after leaving the Calm Belt it was no longer a paradise but a new world with more experts, which made everyone even more satisfied.

This martial and bellicosity atmosphere deeply impressed Ayu, who had retracted her black dragon form from high in the sky and transformed back into a young girl. She had thought that the residents of Nine Snakes would be reluctant or even dissatisfied because they would not move away. However, she did not expect that just after settling down, they were already very satisfied patrolling everywhere and investigating the waters around Nine Snakes Island. Some of them were even eager to go directly to Ruskaina Island to hunt to celebrate, or were eager to go out to sea to travel around the New World.

Of course, all of this was stopped by Hancock, who ordered that no one should discuss matters offshore without her permission.

Hancock's reputation in the Nine Snakes is theoretically as high as it can be. The people have no objection and follow her lead.

"Come on, Ayu."

Tulip held the small brocade box in one hand and waved to the little queen from the Kingdom of Flowers with the other hand, "Aren't you going to pay tribute to Princess Lily?"

"Yeah!" Ayu's heart trembled and she followed.

Deep inside the Nine Snake Mountain, in the deep mausoleum, Ah Yu slowly bowed down in front of an ancient carved coffin. Tulip gently placed the small brocade box on the coffin...

～～～～～～～～～～ 〖Ruth Caina Island——〗

In late autumn, the leaves fall.

In the "safe zone" in the middle of the island, in front of the big tree that looked like a big white radish, Robin sat quietly.

Behind him, Hancock came from the Nine Snakes, casually threw a dead 20-meter-tall lion-headed beast on the side of the road, and slowly walked to Robin, "I knew you were here."

"Ayu came to play, and seeing you weren't here, he went back." Hancock looked up at the top of the big white radish tree. The black battle armor was sitting in the air, practicing something. He frowned slightly, "Shouldn't it be 'not suffering' anymore?"

Robin said softly, "It is true that it no longer attacks and rarely uses its domineering power... but it also said that now is the time when its true body needs it the most to practice with it."

"So it is also practicing life return now?"

"BIB and its original body have never specialized in the same martial arts together." Robin said, "But even so..."

Hancock said expressionlessly: "Even so, when Lin Qi takes it back in the future, although it will gain more experience in life return practice, it may explode and break through in one fell swoop, but it may also be exhausted to death."

“…”

Robin was silent for a long time.

Hancock lowered her head and noticed that she had been looking at a line of neat, square words written on the trunk of the big white radish tree in front of her.

Hancock seems to have some impression of this thing...

"That year, when I first came here, he asked me to carve this sentence in ancient characters." Robin looked at the obscure ancient characters and whispered to himself, "Fate is a sleeping slave. - Attack on Titan." The sentence is from an interesting comic that is very similar to his stand ability, and the signature is from a not-so-interesting and strange work..."

Hancock remained silent, and Robin continued to mutter: "Hancock, do you think there is such a thing as fate?"

"..." Hancock did not answer, nor did she know how to answer.

Robin didn't wait for her to answer, and said to himself: "I've been thinking recently, whether Lynch had some revelation in his subconscious at that time, otherwise why did he leave only this one sentence out of so many..."

"..." Hancock glanced and said, "I think you may be thinking too much."

"really."

Hancock looked up and saw the black suit flying down and floating in front of them.

"BIB" looked at Robin who was sitting on the ground with his narrow eyes gleaming. "I can testify that I just happened to remember this sentence at that time..."

Robin forced a smile, was stunned for a while, then stood up and said, "Let's go, I'm hungry."

She came to the corpse of a giant lion-headed beast that was dozens of meters tall and was killed by Hancock. She raised her hand and summoned dozens or even hundreds of arms, ready to fight the beast's corpse.

"Just eat this?" Robin asked.

Hancock looked at her and nodded slowly, "Okay!"

Not long after, smoke from barbecue started to rise from the center of Ruskaina Island...

～～～～～～～～～～～～ The steam was rising in the bathhouse exclusively for the empress. Hancock walked slowly towards the huge bathtub. Her floral skirt fell like water as she stepped into the hot water pool step by step.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Splash, she raised her hand to splash the water and sat down on the edge of the pool.

“…”

Hancock looked at her palm. For more than a year, the so-called immortal being in the depths of Marijoa had never used such strange means to forcibly peel off the Medusa Fruit in her body again.

It was as peaceful as if nothing had happened...

Except that person is missing from my side.

Hancock raised her head, closed her eyes, and sighed softly... Suddenly, the sound of running came from behind her. Hancock opened her eyes and regained her cold and arrogant expression.

"Sister! Something bad has happened!" Sanda and Mary rushed in with a note in their hands, "Princess Robin she...she..."

Crash!

Hancock walked straight out of the bathtub and walked quickly to them. Mary handed her sister a bathrobe to put on, while Hancock stared at the note in Sanda's hand.

There was only one line of message from Robin on it.

"Go out for a walk, relax your mind... don't worry"

The handwriting was not smooth and there were many pauses. It was obvious that Robin was very hesitant when he wrote.

Marigrude whispered, "No wonder the princess has been a little absent-minded lately, always staring blankly at the sea..."

Sanda sighed and said, "I think the princess wanted to leave everyone from the beginning... because she was worried about 'that thing', she stayed for more than a year, and only left after she was sure that there was nothing wrong."

That incident, naturally, refers to the incident more than a year ago when Hancock was suddenly stripped of her Medusa Fruit and almost died from her injuries.

"..." Hancock had a blank expression on her face. She crumpled the note into a ball in her palm and looked up at her two sisters.

Sanda and Mary glanced at each other and left obediently.

After the two sisters left, Hancock's arrogant expression softened and she said to herself, "Fool..."

She loosened her hand and smoothed out the wrinkles on the note bit by bit. She looked at the sluggish handwriting with some worry in her beautiful eyes.

She had heard a lot about the "Son of the Devil" in bits and pieces.

West Sea, O'Hara...

Intentionally or unintentionally, Hancock also found out the details from Ayu, a local from Xihai.

Then, Hancock suddenly realized that she couldn't express her words of advice to Robin.

Without experiencing the same despair and hell, and not even being able to empathize with the other person, how can one truly understand the other person's feelings at that moment? Even if one expresses it out loud, it is only superficial comfort.

The loss of Lynch may have been a bigger blow to Robin than Hancock had ever thought...

Especially in an environment where everyone around her seems to think that she should not despair, should not be depressed, and should not be pessimistic.

Over the past year... Hancock recalled the Robin she had seen walking on the edge of the Nine Snake Warriors, the Robin who accompanied Yu who had come to visit but had not turned the page for a long time, the Robin who had been missing for a long time and was finally found alone in the Den Den Mushi castle... How many times had she suppressed the urge to escape and disappear forever without disturbing anyone when she was silently by our side? "Fool."

Hancock sighed and lowered her eyes to look at her reflection in the hot pool.

She had a blank expression on her face. She flicked her fingers and the water surface broke apart with a splash, creating ripples...

…

The faucet in the bathroom was spraying water, and clumps of black hair were scattered and washed by the water.

Robin raised her head, wiped the mirror in front of her, and looked at the woman with a neat crew cut in the mirror - that was herself.

After washing her hands, Robin wiped her face and rubbed her head, which was not very prickly. She could not see "BIB" in the mirror, but she could feel it was right next to her. She couldn't help but touch her short hair and asked, "How is it?"

"…" "BIB" looked at him and said seriously, "Don't do that, it's scary."

"How could that be?" Robin asked curiously, "Before..." After a pause, "Didn't you shave my head? And you even said something like, 'Only handsome men and beautiful women can pull off this hairstyle'. And so on..."

"BIB" shrugged, "That's true."

"And the face..." Robin muttered to herself, waving her hand at the mirror and wiping her face. Her originally well-defined features, high nose bridge, and deep eye sockets, were "painted" with petals, turning into an ordinary freckled woman. Looking in the mirror, the pirate Nico Robin with a bounty of 970 million was gone, and only a woman with a small freckled face and a short haircut could be seen.

Outside the Den Den Mushi castle, a small wooden boat was speeding across the calm sea at the speed of an arrow.

Under the boat, there was a free-spirited sea king pushing the boat forward...

The freckled, crew-haired woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the small wooden boat. She picked up the Den Den Mushi in the boat and looked at the endless Calm Belt ahead. She said to herself, "I remember you said that the Calm Belt might be two 'highways' running through the world... Am I using the Calm Belt as a highway now?"

"..." A pitch-black armor flew out of the Den Den Mushi, remained silent for a moment, and said dumbly, "Don't scare me, it's scary..."

Knowing that it was meant to be funny, Robin just smiled faintly and it was fleeting.

～～～～～～～～～～～ "Princess Rose! Please come down quickly!"

Many soldiers gathered in the rebuilt palace square on Kraikana Island. The guard captain Gans, who was leading the group, shouted anxiously to the sky, "It's too dangerous!!"

Unfortunately, Rose acted as if she didn't hear anything. She used the air duct opened by the Pipe-Pipe Fruit to hover in the sky alone, gazing at the sea from afar, lost in thought...

"Stop shouting, Gance." The king slowly walked out of the palace.

"Your Majesty!" The soldiers saluted one after another. The king waved his hand, then stood beside Gance and sighed, "Let this child have some time to herself... Ever since she read about Giorno and Jolyne's affairs in the newspaper, she has been in a low mood..."

"..." Gans could only sigh in the end.

In the sky, Rose hugged her knees and glided in the air duct, pouting and looking at the distant sea. Suddenly, she looked down at the royal city, "......?!"

She didn't know why, but she had a feeling just now that someone familiar was looking at her.

But the streets of the royal city were crowded with people, and Rose could not find the two figures that she would never forget.

On the street, a woman with a crew cut and freckles turned her gaze away from the lonely figure in the sky.

…

The huge arena on the resort island was partially rebuilt, but the broken stage and venue inside were preserved and became a tourist attraction.

The sign outside clearly recorded the world's greatest swordsman competition that had been held here. There were even pirates who came from the New World to participate, including members of the Big Mom Pirates! They also emphasized Jolyne Kujo and Giovanna Giorno, who later became the Seven Warlords of the Sea... Of course, these two names were crossed out, and Nico Robin and Lynch were written on them...

The freckled woman with a crew cut stood in front of a fancy billboard. A tour guide or something came over and introduced enthusiastically, "Although they were disqualified from the Seven Warlords of the Sea two years ago, don't worry - there are more than just the JOJO Pirates among the Seven Warlords of the Sea who showed off their skills in our arena! There's also the famous Crocodile, and the world's number one swordsman, Hawkeye Mihawk... Hey, don't leave, eh?"

"BIB" walked beside him and looked inside the arena with a little curiosity. He wondered what happened to Tesoro, whose Gold-Gold Fruit he had taken away from him? ...

The scenery of Taose Island is still so magnificent and magical... From a distance, it looks like a pink fairy tale world.

A freckled woman with a crew cut that had grown a lot longer stood in the front of the boat, but in the end she did not move the boat closer.

She didn't want the demons to know she had been there, so after watching them from a distance for a while, she turned around and entered the Den Den Mushi castle. The freckled mask on her face peeled off bit by bit, revealing Robin.

She rolled up her sleeves and walked towards the kitchen. "Momoirojima's attacking dishes, I hope you haven't forgotten how to make them..."

"It's really delicious..." 'BIB' floated in the air in the living room and complained silently, "Although I don't have a mouth."

"It's okay," Robin turned on the stove, "I'll eat it."

…

"The prince is really going too far!!!"

The entrance to the palace was crowded with wounded people, all of whom were slashed with wounds. They were furious at the palace soldiers who were maintaining order. "He let the white horse out to cause trouble again. Can't he just... sleep... quietly... Ah, he's not angry anymore all of a sudden..."

The tone of the crowd suddenly dropped, becoming calm, relaxed, and even a little like laughing.

Later, Marian finished the last stroke, looked at the giant pattern "Leisure Green" on the Palace Street under everyone's feet, and nodded.

Beside her, the young girl Amorine and her mother Anne were worried: "What should we do? The white horse actually broke through the suppression of the 'leisure green' you painted on Prince Cavendish's back..."

Marian held up her paintbrush and said, "It's okay. Next time, paint 'Friends' Yellow and Green'. Maybe we can become friends."

"Huh?!" Amorine and Anne were shocked. "Is this possible?"

On the street not far away, a woman wearing a fisherman's hat and sunglasses put down her coffee cup, stood up and left.

…

A row of "stomach earls" line up on the sea.

The beetle-like Hercules suddenly said, "Hmm?" "I'm Hercules! I feel like an old friend has passed by me... I'm Hercules, Kamen Ultraman? Hmm!"

Not far from the Boeing Islands, a small wooden boat was speeding past. There was a huge shadow under the boat, as if it was pushing the boat forward.

A freckled woman sat in a boat, turning a page of a book in her hand.

…

The small village has now become a pile of ruins and is in a state of desolation.

The freckled woman was dressed as a traveler, looking at the "ruins" of the small village ahead.

"Haha! I found you!"

Suddenly, she saw some children laughing and playing in the ruins of a small village.

Robin called them over and asked them, and found out that these children were playing hide-and-seek here because the terrain was convenient and fun.

A boy looked up and said, "You are so ugly. You have so many freckles."

"..." Robin asked, "Where are the people in this village?"

"I don't know," the boy and his companions said jokingly, "I heard that it was destroyed by the fish man!"

"No! It was destroyed by the navy!" the friend retorted.

"Fool! How could the navy destroy the village?" The boy pushed his friend.

Another kid said, "I heard it was done by pirates..."

"Mickey-men are pirates!" the boy said confidently, "What's the difference?"

"No, I heard it was a human, but it's definitely not a fishman!" The kid thought hard, "It seems to be called something like Brother... Brother Jun? What a weird name!"

Revolutionary Army...? Robin was silent, looking at the remaining ruins of the village in front of her. Fishmen? Pirates? What on earth happened here...

“Ah! There’s a ghost!!!”

Suddenly, the little boy's scream of fear almost brought Robin back to his senses. He saw the little boy jumped three feet high on the spot, his eyeballs and teeth were about to pop out, and ran away with the other children who were also scared by him.

Robin looked at BIB.

"You're so ugly," the stand-in armor looked at the kids going away, "Your eyes are useless, I suggest you just donate them."

…

"Coconut Egg! Stop running around!"

In the snow, a girl chases a mechanically modified dog.

"Nicole! Stop right there!"

Behind the girl and the dog, followed a woman who was also wearing thick winter clothes. Fangs yelled, "You are wearing too few clothes. What if you catch a cold? Go back and put on more clothes!!!"

"Lululu." The girl named Nicole stuck out her tongue to her mother, "Ah, my tongue is so cold. So cold." She quickly retracted her tongue.

A person passed by her.

The mother and son looked at the passerby and said, "The town is over there..."

The mechanical dog sniffed and barked twice at the figure.

It was snowing and windy. Robin pushed open the door of a tavern and saw a pair of eyes looking over at him.

She took off her cotton gloves, rubbed her hands gently, exhaled a breath of white air, sat down at the bar, thought for a moment, and said, "A glass of gin and a glass of sherry."

The boss behind the bar was speechless: "We are a small bar, how can we have the two kinds of wine you mentioned..."

"Then have a glass of absinthe," said Robin.

"Malt liquor, or the most common rum, that's all we have in this shop!" The owner behind the bar said unhappily, "A girl keeps saying some weird names for liquors..."

A glass of cheap ale was pushed in front of Robin, and the liquid swayed...

～～～～～～～～～～～ Plop, drops of water fall.

The hot tears melted a small hole in the snow, and then more and more hot tears rolled down. The boy's sad cries echoed in the snow-covered mountains.

Tomb of Shilluluk

There was a paper-folded cherry blossom placed in front of the tombstone. Chopper stood in the wind and snow and cried, holding the research notes left by Dr. Yong in his arms.

Kuleha stood nearby, drinking silently from a bottle.

"Let's continue his research," Kuleha said with tears in her eyes, laughing, "Didn't he say that as long as his will is still being transmitted, he is not really dead!"

"Um!!"

Chopper nodded heavily, then turned and left with Kureha, sobbing.

But before they had walked far, they suddenly looked up and saw a vague figure approaching them in the vast snowstorm...

"What is that?" Kuleha frowned and stopped the bottle.

A tall figure walked through the snow. It was a woman wearing a thick cotton coat and with freckles all over her face.

"Do you remember me?"

The woman took off her fur hood, revealing her black medium-length hair that was already past her ears. The freckles on her face turned into petals and fell off, revealing Robin. She looked at the half-man, half-deer standing in front of her with Kuleha, "Pikachu..."

The fawn stood there in a daze.

"Oh yes, you may not recognize me in this look..." Robin thought for a moment and reached out to wipe her face. The mask of Jolyne, which had not been used for a long time, made her stunned for a moment.

However, before she could remain stunned for long, Chopper let out a cry of extreme grievance, "Wow!!!!" and threw himself into her arms.

“…”

Robin stepped back, hugged the crying fawn, and gently stroked the fur on the back of its neck.

She looked up at Kuleha, the over 100-year-old female doctor in her prime, took a sip of wine and said with a chuckle, "Girl, are you happy recently?"

"..." Robin's mouth twitched and he was speechless.

The black armor stood nearby, listening to Chopper's intermittent crying in Robin's arms. He cried so miserably that it seemed a little unbearable to watch, so he turned around and looked into the distance.

The snow and wind howled in the valley...

The sky was dark and hazy...

…

…

…

〖Maybe several years have passed...〗

〖This day, boom...〗

〖The towering gate of justice standing tall on the sea slowly closes...〗

At the gate of the prison, Magellan looked at a new batch of prisoners who came down from the warship. Like Hannibal and his subordinates, he stared at a tall figure with long black hair and an untidy beard among them.

Unlike other prisoners, he looked nonchalant, making people suspect that he was not here to go to jail but rather on vacation.

He looked around and when his eyes met those of Magellan and the others, he actually nodded...

Do you really think you are here to inspect the work?!

Magellan looked at the vice admiral who came down from the warship and growled, "What does this mean? He is not——"

Didn't this guy disappear from the face of the earth for several years? Wasn't he suspected to have been killed by the Four Emperors Big Mom before?! Why did he suddenly come down from the navy ship with a weird look on his face? Does this mean... he was thrown into a big prison?!

“There’s a ghost!!!”

Hannibal was the first to scream, raising his hands and stepping back, scaring the other jailers into starting a commotion.

"Is there a ghost?"

Lin Qi raised his hand to shake his messy black hair, turned around and looked around, and asked curiously, "Where is it?"

Everyone then noticed that the handcuffs on his hands...the keyhole was actually poured with gold, completely sealing it.

Lin Qi grinned at the stunned jailers, revealing his big yellow teeth, and said in a strange smile: "NIU~HO~, please give me more guidance in the future~~"

This guy didn't seem to be shy at all. With his big bare feet, he walked into the Impel Down town, known as "Hell", with everyone else as if nothing had happened.

The other prisoners were pale and depressed as they were pushed into the prison...

"There's one more troublesome guy." Magellan's face was gloomy, with a wisp of poisonous smoke coming out of the corner of his mouth. "This one seems to be particularly troublesome..."

"ah!!!!"

Through the crack of the closed prison door, the screams of the prisoners could be heard faintly.

At the end of the passage, the prisoners were forced to strip naked and thrown into boiling water for "disinfection". Many were scalded so hard that their bodies turned red and blistered, and they screamed in agony.

It was Lin Qi's turn. He calmly stepped into the boiling water pot naked, leaning against the edge of the pot very comfortably. The hair on his legs fluttered in pleasure, and he couldn't help but moan...

The jailers looked at this guy who was as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring. It seemed that he couldn't help but glance at them. They looked like they wanted to call someone to scrub his back. They were very speechless.

What’s even more speechless is that there was actually a female prison guard who couldn’t help but take a step forward and almost went over to rub his back.

"Damn it," the female jailer turned around and pinched her red face, "Although he is a pirate and his death is not a pity, he is really stylish and handsome, and..."

Soon, the prisoners were taken deeper into the prison elevator.

There were already too few people who could make it this far and have a chance of being sent to the prison floors below—several had just been boiled to death.

The prisoners, who were "disinfected" with boiling water and were clean and tender, huddled in a corner of the elevator, shivering and not daring to get close to Lynch.

The elevator slowly descends...

Level 1, Red Lotus Hell... The entire floor is filled with iron-like thorny trees, and every step you take in it feels like being pierced... The elevator paused, and as soon as the door opened, several prisoners rushed out impatiently.

Hannibal held his naginata and walked around cautiously, his eyes fixed on Lynch standing in the middle of the elevator. He walked step by step to the elevator switch and slapped it, and the elevator slowly closed...

Continue down...

Level 2, Beast Hell...

Level 3, Hunger Hell...

Level 4, Burning Hell...

There were fewer and fewer prisoners in the elevator. Lynch yawned out of boredom, causing the remaining prisoners to break out in cold sweats. This guy... from the beginning until now, he seemed to be emitting an inhuman sense of oppression!

They continued to descend until they reached the fifth level of the extremely cold hell. As soon as the door opened, a bone-chilling wind blew, and Hannibal couldn't help but shiver.

He rubbed his hands and pushed out the last prisoner except Lynch.

However, Lynch still stood still. Stimulated by the cold wind of the extreme cold hell, he was indeed less sleepy and more energetic.

"It seems that you know very well which level of 'hell' you will be thrown into!" Hannibal hugged his big naginata behind Lynch. The elevator started again and continued to slowly descend. "Although I don't know when you were caught by the navy, if that's the case, please despair completely. You... will never see the sun outside again, Lynch."

boom……

The elevator came to a complete stop, and the prison-like door slowly opened, revealing the large prison on the bottom level. A chilly breath seemed to blow in the face, not the cold air of the extremely cold hell, but a kind of gloomy and shuddering feeling that made one's scalp tingle, as if countless evil spirits were lurking and spying ahead... Hannibal was solemn, and laughed, "Welcome to the infinite hell!"

Bang……

The prison door behind Lynch closed, and he was weighed down by huge heavy chains. He could only sit in the corner of this cell, which was relatively spacious but the lighting seemed to be not very good.

and……

This is not a single room.

“Hehehe…” A woman with her hands cuffed on the wall next to Lynch, wearing the same prison uniform as Lynch, raised her head, revealing her face under her long red hair. She glanced at Lynch and couldn’t help laughing, “I knew that you would come in sooner or later.”

Lin Qi rolled his eyes, "You're not dead yet, auntie."

"You're still so stubborn..." Hai Na raised her eyebrows and looked at him, "Where's your female captain?"

Lynch asked back, "Where are the four female knights in your family?"

"Is that so?" Hai Yina leaned against the wall and sighed, "Then I understand..."

The prison became quiet again...

However, although it was quiet here, it was different in other prisons outside. New friends came and they started howling in strange ways, as if the zoo was on holiday.

Lynch leaned against the wall as if he hadn't heard anything. His sight seemed to penetrate layer after layer of solid prison barriers, across the sea and the red earth continent, through the ancient and solemn Pangu City, and into the room of flowers that was as bright as a church, staring at the dark figure.

Yim...

Lynch's eyes were firm among his messy black hair.

(End of this chapter)