Chapter 670: A Compassionate Doctor (6600 words)

"Okay, stop crying..."

“Oh, oh, oh…”

At daybreak, in the snow, Robin held the reindeer who was crying hoarsely and kept comforting him... In fact, she felt a little guilty. After leaving the Medical Snow Kingdom, she and Lin Qi rarely thought about the little reindeer who was waiting for them foolishly here.

Kuleha looked at them lovingly.

Chopper sniffed his nose fiercely, raised his cute big red eyes and blinked.

Robin stroked its furry head and said with a faint smile: "Don't you want to be pirates together? Then let's set off tomorrow."

"Hey, hey...really?" The reindeer grinned, his big eyes sparkling, and he excitedly raised his hooves and jumped out of Robin's arms, "Great!"

"And me."

Suddenly, a sound was heard in the air beside the two people and the deer. Robin was startled, while Kureha and Chopper were also startled.

When Chopper turned his head, he saw a dark "mask" with narrow eyes that glowed faintly, staring at him coldly, and saying, "If we go out to sea tomorrow, we have to pack up today." Suddenly, with a cry of "Wow!!!", the reindeer's fur trembled in fear, and it jumped up high on the spot, and its antlers, eyeballs, and teeth almost flew out.

"Huh?" The narrow eyes of the black mask floating in the air flashed, and it floated to Chopper's face, staring at him closely, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Wow!!" Chopper jumped again in fright and hid behind Robin's legs.

Robin was still surprised. He looked at the black mask floating half a meter above the snow and just in front of Chopper's face. He turned his head to look to the side, but there was nothing in the air.

She used her observation Haki again, and clearly "saw" the armored body of "BIB" without the visor in the air where the naked eye could not see anything. It was not that he flashed over and stood there when she activated her observation Haki, but that he had been here from the beginning...

In other words…

Kuleha grabbed BIB's visor and asked in surprise, "Can you really catch him? He's no longer a ghost, but a real one?"

The female doctor, who was over a hundred years old and in her prime, turned the mask in her hand over and over to examine it.

"BIB": ...

The visor floated away, and to the naked eye it just changed position a little, floating in the air a little higher. But in Robin's observation Haki, the visor returned to its original position, becoming a complete "BIB".

"You are..." Robin was a little curious.

The mask said: "After ten years of accumulation of life-restoring skills, I have finally made a real breakthrough."

As the mask spoke, it suddenly disappeared from the eyes of the two men and the venison.

Then, as Chopper and the others watched in curiosity, the air "condensed" with a blue flame pattern on the left hand of the mecha, a red flame pattern on the right hand of the mecha, an inverted triangle-shaped reactor area on the chest of the mecha, the knees, the elbows...

Kuleha suddenly realized, "I see, the area you can materialize is only this small, right?"

Finally, the visor "emerged" in the air again, and his narrow eyes glowed faintly, "That's right."

Chopper looked up and exclaimed: "Then what you are going to do next is..."

"Keep practicing."

The mask voice came out, paused, looked at Robin and Chopper, and said calmly, "Hehe... the "progress bar" is showing, how far is it from 100%? "

Kuleha was amazed. "I really want to tear you apart and study you carefully. What on earth is it?"

"…" The visor remained silent, his narrow eyes flickered, and he said faintly: "The return of life is the will commanding the body - that is to say, the essence of the return of life, when it reaches the end, is the soul!"

As he spoke, the dark visor slowly disappeared, returning to his ghostly state.

Kuleha and Chopper were deeply touched by what Visor had just said.

What is the soul? The soul can be said to be the strongest sound that a life can emit...

Could it be that BIB relied on returning life to a depth that they could not imagine, breaking the boundary between soul and flesh, and transforming it from a soul-like body into a flesh-and-blood body? ——Well, it is not flesh-and-blood. It is a body of armor...

Suddenly, Robin stretched out his hand and grabbed something in the air, "Don't run, let's pack up together..."

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖The next day, early in the morning——〗

In the tree house, Robin jumped out of the Den Den Mushi castle, already dressed neatly with a neat black single ponytail.

She wore a black leather jacket with long sleeves and shorts over a smart white shirt, and a pair of black leather boots with medium to high heels. On one side of the belt around her slender waist hung a small portable bag, into which she put the green Den Den Mushi that dozed off all day long.

Looking at the door of the tree house, Chopper was already ready, carrying a blue backpack and looking at Robin with bright eyes.

Robin looked around the bookstore, and finally walked towards the door with Chopper in the black armor beside him.

"Let's go."

A man, a beast and a deer crossed the snow-capped mountains and slowly came to the shore. Kuleha was already waiting there, holding a bottle of wine and drinking in the wind and snow.

Once again, I came to the coast where I have wandered countless times in the past few years...

Robin noticed that Chopper beside her legs was looking up at her nervously. She knew that the little guy was worried that she would stop again, so she took Little Green out of the small bag on her waist, stretched it towards the sea on the shore and patted its little head gently.

BIU... A small wooden sailboat jumped out of the Den Den Mushi castle, landed on the sea surface at its feet with a splash, and swayed with the rising and falling waves.

Chopper was truly relieved this time, and Robin's scars were finally healed a little bit...

“Stupid son…” Kuleha threw away the bottle, squatted in front of the reindeer, pinched its furry cheeks, pressed hard on its head, and said with a smile, “You have finished your apprenticeship!”

Chopper's mouth slowly opened, and he smiled foolishly...

Robin and Chopper jumped onto the small boat on the sea below them, and the black armor followed. They raised their feet and kicked the stern of the boat, and the boat drifted forward.

"Master~~Doctor~~"

Chopper stood at the stern, waving his hooves vigorously, and shouted with a smile, "Goodbye~~!!"

In the wind and snow, more and more residents of the Medical Snow Kingdom appeared on Kuleha's left and right and behind her, along the entire coastline. Leading them was King Dalton and his soldiers. Everyone waved to the reindeer on the boat sailing away on the sea.

Kuleha chuckled, "Dalton, you really found her at my place."

Dalton smiled and said, "After all, she is one of the benefactors who once saved this country, so I pay special attention to her... and I always feel that they will definitely come here to see Dr. Chopper again!"

Kuleha looked at the boat going farther and farther away and said to herself, "The last light of O'Hara..."

～～～～～～～～～～～ “Is this the Calm Belt? Wow—so cool!!!”

By the boat, Chopper looked around curiously and stretched out his little hoof to feel. Sure enough, there was not a trace of wind and the sea was very calm, as if he was sailing on a huge mirror with no visible edges.

As for why there was no wind, their small boat was still able to sail in the doldrums...

It has not been attacked by the large sea kings that live here...

Under the boat that was moving straight forward along the doldrums, there was a black sea king-like figure, half supporting and half pushing the boat, pushing the boat forward rapidly.

Inside the boat, Robin was casually flipping through a book, with a man in black armor standing next to him.

"Are you going to the East China Sea?" it asked.

"Hmm..." Robin closed the book and looked ahead to the Calm Belt. A long and majestic mountain range stretched horizontally at the end of his sight. That was the Red Land Continent. "Because, didn't Mihawk mention Luffy before? So I wanted to go and see..."

Robin was lost in thought when she recalled the scene more than ten years ago when Tulip gave birth to Luffy on the original Nine Snake Island.

It was such a long, long, long time ago... I wonder what the child has become now? Should I say, he is worthy of being called Tulip's child? He actually attracted Hawkeye to travel thousands of miles to the East China Sea to see him...

"BIB" crossed his arms and glanced at the reindeer that were circling around in the boat, checking the underwater conditions in the calm zone along the way with great interest.

Whether it was wandering around all those years ago and finally settling down on Drum Island to live in seclusion, or now heading straight to the East China Sea to meet Luffy... it never gave any opinions, and they were all choices made by Robin himself.

If 『BIB』 had a mouth, he would probably be smiling faintly at this moment.

Do you believe in gravity? It remembered this famous line from JOJO that the main body had said to Robin several times. Is this fate? Maybe it's just the fate between people...

As he was thinking this, a strong wind blew towards him, blowing the book in Robin's hand open, flipping the pages.

“Wow, wind!”

Chopper was startled, looking at the sea ahead with sparkling eyes, clinging to the bow wooden board, then turned around and looked at Robin with a questioning look.

Robin stood up in the boat, feeling the sea breeze blowing towards him, "Well, we're at the East China Sea..."

She can use her ability to create a sea king-like clone to safely cross the Calm Belt, so she naturally doesn't need to cross the Red Earth Continent.

After passing through the doldrums, their boat arrived at the legendary "weakest sea".

It is the sea where the Pirate King Roger was born...

This is also the ocean that Robin and Lynch have not had the chance to experience in all these years.

"First, go get a chart of the East China Sea."

Robin made his decision.

"Oh!" Chopper was very happy. It was his first time to travel far away and he was happy to do anything.

"BIB" said: "You can also ask if there is any news about Hawkeye... The world's greatest swordsman is coming to the East China Sea. As long as he shows up, it will definitely cause a sensation."

"Um."

Robin nodded and raised his hand.

The sails of the boat were lowered by the hands growing from the mast, and quickly swelled up in the blowing sea breeze. The speed of the boat suddenly increased, and it sailed forward on the sea...

After all, it is not the extremely dangerous Grand Route. The weather in the four seas is relatively stable. Unlike the climate in the Grand Route, which changes suddenly, it may snow one moment and be scorching hot the next... The four seasons in the four seas operate in a regular pattern.

The East China Sea has the longest spring, the South China Sea has the longest summer, the West China Sea has the longest autumn, and the North China Sea has the longest winter...

Perhaps because of this, the East China Sea, which has the most pleasant climate, always seems lazy.

At least, that's how Robin felt after landing and entering the town, as he toured the local customs and culture.

Compared with the rampant gangs in the West Sea, the warlord separatism in the North Sea, and the unrest in the South Sea, everything in the East Sea seemed a little calm. Robin walked around the town with Chopper, who had turned into a normal reindeer, for a long time, and hardly heard any talk about pirates... When approaching the naval branch area on the island, she could vaguely hear a few words about pirates from passers-by, but when she listened carefully, they were discussing the pirates with serious expressions, with a bounty of 11 million berries...

"..." Robin, wearing sunglasses, retracted his peripheral vision, no longer approaching the area of ​​the Marine Branch Base, and turned back.

"BIB" walked aside with his arms folded, "11 million Baileys, I haven't heard of a pirate of this level in years..."

“Wow, is that a marshmallow?”

The reindeer walking nearby suddenly screamed, and passers-by and stall owners were startled. Did the deer speak?

There is no need to panic at this time, just pretend it didn't happen. Robin took out a few coins as if nothing had happened, bought a few marshmallows at the stall and left calmly, leaving the stall owner and passers-by scratching their heads, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

Chopper raised his head and blinked, looking at the marshmallow in Robin's hand with great anticipation, but he was now in reindeer form and could not free his hooves.

"Huh?" Robin then realized that there was no trace of "BIB" beside her. She turned around and felt that "BIB" was standing about ten meters behind her. It was also looking back at something.

"BIB" looked at the end of the road, the woman with the unforgettable hairstyle... Was she Nami's adoptive mother, Bell-mère? No, even if Bell-mère was not shot by Arlong because of the chain reaction caused by the killing of Colonel Mouse by Hancock... Its narrow eyes flashed with white light, and it checked the One Piece comics in its memory and confirmed that this was not Nami's hometown, Cocoa Village.

Calculating the time, the year Luffy went to sea, Luffy was 17 years old, and Nami was one year older than Luffy, which means she was 18 years old.

What's going on with Bellmère... her adopted daughter has finally come of age, so she's gone back to the navy to serve?

It shook its head without thinking much and walked back to Robin. She sat on the side of the road and gently handed the few marshmallows she had bought to the reindeer's mouth as if feeding grass. Chopper's face was full of happiness and he ate happily with his eyes shining.

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

"There are no rumors about Hawkeye."

Robin stood up and dusted himself off.

"Let's walk and see," said the black armor.

Robin nodded, and went back to the boat parked on the shore with him and Chopper.

When the coastline was right in front of them, they suddenly heard a burst of laughter.

Robin looked over when he heard the sound. On the shore not far away, a group of children seemed to be playing something. No, why was there a girl... curled up in a wooden barrel on the ground in the middle of the area surrounded by the boys?

"So ugly, hahahaha."

"It lives in a barrel. Isn't it a monster?"

"It's so strange, hehehe..."

The boys had innocent curiosity and a hint of fear on their faces, and they were laughing and talking to each other.

On the ground between them, a girl with long golden hair was huddled in a wooden barrel, with only her head sticking out of the barrel. She blinked and looked up at them. She didn't resist or talk back, but just pursed her lips with a gloomy look on her face.

Even with all Robin's experience, he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw a girl with her whole body curled up in a small wooden barrel.

"What are you doing!?"

The reindeer ran at the top of its lungs, rushing towards the laughing and laughing naughty boy.

"Wow!"

"The deer spoke?!"

The naughty boys were horrified and ran away in panic.

"..." The barrel girl blinked, tiptoed and moved, looking at the reindeer who slowed down his pace and walked towards her, and asked curiously: "Did you really speak just now?"

"......?!" Chopper could tell at a glance that the human girl in the barrel must have fallen into the barrel by accident. He asked in shock and hesitation, "You..."

"It's okay, they are just some ignorant kids." The girl could probably feel the concern and kindness of this talking reindeer. She looked down at the barrel that trapped her. "This? I fell into it when I was a kid, and my body has been stiff for too long. The doctor said that if I forcibly destroy the barrel, my body will have problems, so I live alone now... eh?!" She was shocked. The reindeer in front of her changed its shape. Not only did it stand up, but it also turned into a petite and cute half-human, half-deer.

"I'm a doctor too, let me take a look."

Chopper took a deep breath and carefully gave the girl in the barrel a rough check. He was sad to find that what the girl said was right. Her skeleton and body had been bound in the barrel for a long time and had become somewhat deformed...

Robin looked serious and walked over slowly.

The barrel girl looked up at Robin and exclaimed, "Wow, sister, you are so tall..."

She smiled happily, "Thank you for your concern, but it doesn't matter, I've already gotten used to it."

As he spoke, a pair of delicate feet under the wooden barrel stood on tiptoe, and took short and quick steps, trying to slip away, as if he didn't want to cause trouble and burden to the person who rarely showed kindness to him.

"Ouch!" The delicate feet that were walking quickly under the wooden barrel stumbled.

The wooden barrel fell down and rolled to the side. The girl screamed and rolled into the sea nearby. Bang, Chopper transformed into a two-meter-tall burly figure and strode over to hug the wooden barrel.

Robin lowered his hands and sighed.

“So dangerous…” The barrel girl stuck out her tongue. She was held in the barrel and suspended in the air. She suppressed the humble shame in her heart and blinked hard, exclaiming, “You’ve changed again… What a weird Mr. Deer!”

Chopper's eyes suddenly turned red. He took a deep breath and looked back at Robin. "I want to help her... There must be a way to cure her body! I... I'm a doctor..."

Robin walked over and touched Chopper's head, then nodded and said, "Okay."

The two men carefully moved the barrel girl to their boat.

"BIB" followed slowly, looking down into the wooden barrel on the boat. The girl with long golden hair lowered her head, seeming to be sniffing carefully, trying to hold back tears.

Soon, she raised her head again, put on a relaxed smile, and asked curiously: "Are you travelers? My name is Savankel, you can also call me the barrel girl, hehe..."

"I'm Chopper, a doctor." Chopper stood in front of the barrel girl who was almost as tall as him, and said with a little sadness but seriously, "Don't worry, you will definitely recover."

"..." This simple sentence, spoken by an alien, suddenly made the eyes of the blonde girl who was looking at Chopper calmly redden. Tears welled up in her eyes and rolled down one by one, "Huh? Why am I crying... It's so annoying... I haven't wanted to cry for a long time..."

She was wiping her tears clumsily and laboriously with her half-exposed hands. Chopper simply couldn't hold it anymore and turned around to rub his eyes hard.

Robin sighed softly, squatted down next to the barrel girl, reached out and held her fingertips, "Call me Robin, Savankel. You have to trust the doctor's judgment."

Savankel looked up, held Robin's hands with both hands with difficulty, pursed her lips, her eyes were red, she sniffed, and nodded.

…

The East China Sea was indeed calm. Robin and his companions were sailing in a small boat and soon saw a small island ahead.

Chopper jumped out of the Den Den Mushi castle, holding his backpack. In the notebook he brought out, there were a lot of his medical research over the years, as well as his experience with Dr. Vegapunk's research materials... Chopper was scratching his head in order to come up with a treatment plan for Savankel, and he didn't want to give up so easily. Savankel exclaimed, "Wow," and looked at Chopper who jumped out of the Den Den Mushi, and exclaimed, "Are you a magician?"

"I'm a doctor." Chopper resisted the urge to twist his body in embarrassment. After all, he was in a very heavy mood. "Hey, have we reached the next island?"

The boat slowly docked at the shore of the island ahead.

"Well," Robin gently carried the barrel girl ashore and put her on the ground, "Do you want to go to the island to play?"

"Okay." Savankel looked back at the boat, "Where's Doctor Chopper?"

"I'll flip through the book for a while." Chopper sat on the bow and said with full of fighting spirit, "As long as we don't give up hope, a miracle will definitely happen... There must be a way!"

"Yeah!" The barrel girl smiled and nodded, then turned around and followed Robin's feet.

After they left, Chopper immediately seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief and sat at the bow of the boat with a sad face.

…

The delicate feet under the wooden barrel swung up and moved slowly, and Savankel followed Robin's slowed pace.

here it is……

"BIB" glanced at the strange-looking animals vaguely seen in the woods on this island...Isn't this the Rare Beast Island?

"Hehe, the animals here are so weird. Why do snakes have rabbit ears?"

Savankel huddled in the barrel and walked around, laughing like a silver bell.

“…”

Robin looked at the barrel girl's seemingly happy back for a while, and also glanced at the strange animals on the island, and said to himself, "The animals here are not right..."

"What's wrong?" asked the dark armor beside him.

"There are so many strange-looking animals, but you can hardly see two alike..." Robin's face was slightly solemn, "Is there no fixed population?"

Suddenly, as she was walking, she saw something like a mound of earth blocking her way. It was about ten to twenty meters high, square in shape, and very strange.

"Outsider!" Suddenly, a strange voice came from the surrounding woods, "Don't go any further!"

"..." Robin looked around.

The voice threatened in a sinister voice: "I am the guardian of this forest. If you want to survive... eh? Wow, there's a freak!!"

Freak, are you talking about Savankel? Robin's eyes turned cold, and he had already found the location of the voice.

"BIB" also looked in that direction and couldn't help but be speechless. Hey, if we talk about a "freak", aren't you one too?

～～～～～～～～～～～ Two small wooden boats approached the Rare Beast Island one after the other...

"Hey, Nami, didn't you say that it was an uninhabited island? But there is a boat on the shore!"

A young man in a red vest and a straw hat was standing on the bow of the boat in front, looking around. In the same boat with him was a boy of the same age, with short green hair, three earrings on his left ear, and three knives tied around his waist, lying on his side in the boat...

"It's such a small island, I thought it was an uninhabited island!"

On the boat behind, the orange-haired girl holding a telescope said in surprise, "So there's someone there?"

"You'll know after you go to the island and take a look."

Luffy grinned and held down the straw hat on his head, then jumped off as soon as the boat docked.

"..." Zoro originally thought it was an uninhabited island, so he wanted to take a nap on the boat while the two of them were on the island. But since there were people on the island, forget it. He stood up, flipped over, and with one hand on the three swords at his waist, he followed Luffy onto the island.

Nami parked her own boat and had no choice but to land as well. While keeping up with Luffy and Zoro, she glanced from a distance at the small boat that had parked before them.

It's strange, how could there be nothing on that ship...

Was he robbed by someone? Could it be that there were other people on this island?

(End of this chapter)