Chapter 673 I don’t know why, but I just don’t want to see you run away alone like this (6,000 words)

[East China Sea, Meili]

[It's calm again——]

"Pirate flag! I'm done!"

On the deck, Luffy's excited shout could be heard.

In front of the cabin on the second floor, Robin leaned against the railing, crossed his legs, and calmly flipped through a book.

"BIB" sat on the fence with his back to her, folding his arms and crossing his legs. His narrow eyes were gleaming as he looked at Luffy who was holding a newly drawn pirate flag on the first deck.

Chopper's eyes sparkled, "Wow, so handsome!"

"Isn't it cool?" Luffy was proud, showing off his achievements and laughing, "I've been thinking about this for a long time!"

"What's so cool about it?" Usopp couldn't stand these two guys praising this weird and rubbish work, so he grabbed the paintbrush and painted a pirate flag himself, stretched it out in front of them and showed it off, "Look! This is what we call a talent for painting!"

Nami, Zoro, and Luffy immediately punched him, "Why did you change it to your symbol?"

"Good..." Chopper was about to say that it was very handsome, but seeing this, he also jumped up and nudged Usopp with his antlers, "Why did you change it to your symbol?"

"How about I draw it?"

A pitch-black mask suddenly appeared in the air.

Usopp was startled by the sudden sound and covered his throbbing heart. He found that Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Chopper had no reaction. They had already completely adapted to this "ghost"! Looking back at Robin on the second floor, she seemed not to have heard the noise and was still calmly reading a book.

When Usopp looked back, he saw the paintbrush dancing in the air, as if it was held by an invisible hand in the air, and it was moving quickly on a new black flag, switching between different colors and painting a skull pattern...

Soon, a pirate flag that was very similar to the straw hat and skull flag that Luffy originally conceived was freshly produced.

Chopper and Luffy both had stars in their eyes, "So handsome!!"

"This... is indeed much better." Usopp nodded reluctantly in acknowledgement.

Zoro smiled and looked at it, "The straw hat is inspired by the one worn by Luffy, so why are the crossbones replaced with a snake and a dragon?"

Nami reminded, "Did you forget? Luffy has a snake-shaped pendant around his neck...but why is there a dragon too?"

She also began to feel puzzled and could only say, "Don't try to guess what a ghost is thinking."

"BIB" was also quite satisfied with this work.

Anyway, the original straw hat element was inherited by Luffy from Shanks; it wouldn’t be a big deal to add a tulip snake or a dragon, right?

At this moment, it caught a glimpse of Robin on the second floor getting up and leaving, entering the cabin on the second floor.

At this moment, it turned its head and saw a navy ship that had caught up with them at some point, and was not far away from them, slowly moving parallel to them.

"Is it a navy ship?!" Usopp held his head, his face turning blue with fear.

Nami was also a little nervous, "Oh no, I was too careless and forgot to arrange someone to keep watch..."

Zoro put his thumb on the hilt of his knife and calmly looked at a scarred man with pink medium-length hair who pushed open the door of the cabin of the warship opposite. The man had a metal glove wrapped around his right hand and looked at Luffy and the others unhappily and said, "I have never seen that pirate flag... I am the captain of the navy 'Iron Fist Finbuddy'. Who is the captain of the opposite ship? Tell me your name."

If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that you are also called Iron Fist? "BIB" I wonder what old man Garp thinks about this.

Luffy replied, "It's me, I'm Luffy! As for the pirate flag, it was just made."

"..." Captain Finbudi on the opposite side showed contempt and sighed softly, "I am also free. It's a rare vacation. I should go to the sea restaurant and have some fun. Why should I bother with a filthy pirate who just made a pirate flag? It really lowers my taste..."

"What! Do you look down on me?" Luffy yelled, making faces, "Damn Marine! Stupid Marine! Idiot Marine!..."

A child? Zoro, Nami, and Usopp looked at each other with sweat dripping down their cheeks.

Finbudi was even more disappointed. He returned to the cabin and ordered the artillery, "Sink them. It's boring."

"yes!"

The marines quickly pointed their guns at the Straw Hat Pirates' ship.

Bang! As the gunfire started, Luffy was about to take action when a voice rang out beside him: "Fur reinforcement!"

Chopper, who seemed harmless, took a step forward and jumped onto the bow fence. At the same time, his reindeer fur expanded and fluffed up. The cannonball from the opposite side flew over fiercely and hit Chopper, who was like a big ball of fur. After sinking slightly inward, Chopper twisted his body and threw it into the sea beside him. It fell into the sea with a "plop", creating a wave.

“What…?!” Fennbudi was stunned on the warship.

Luffy said in surprise: "Chopper! You are so powerful!"

Usopp's eyes widened, his lips pursed in a smile, his nose drooping. Isn't this deer a ship's doctor? Why is a ship's doctor so fierce? !

"Hey!" Luffy turned around and saw the warship speeding away, and shouted angrily, "Don't run!"

Nami quickly grabbed him, "Luffy, wait! Didn't you hear what he just said?"

"What?" Luffy asked.

Nami reminded, "He said he was on vacation and was going to have some fun at the sea restaurant..."

Zoro smiled and said, "We can just follow the warship and go to that sea restaurant. Maybe we can find a good chef who is willing to become pirates with us!"

"That's what we'll do." Luffy followed suit and punched his palm.

BIB was watching in amazement. It had just called up the content of this stage in the comics and watched the whole process... Originally, Luffy and Usopp were randomly testing the gun and hitting the reef on the sea, which attracted two of Zoro's former bounty hunters. Later, these two people took Luffy and the others to the sea restaurant... Unexpectedly, there was no gun test today, and no encounter with the two bounty hunters. I thought there was no chance to find the sea restaurant, but I ran into Finbuddy directly, and then Finbuddy led to the sea restaurant...

His narrow eyes were gleaming as he stared at the back of Luffy who was very interested.

The "good luck" of this Straw Hat Boy is clearly confirmed in the story and is a real thing.

The ship doctor of the Blackbeard Pirates had a bag of poisoned apples, but only one was non-toxic. Luffy picked one and ate it, and it happened to be non-toxic...

"BIB" floated into the cabin of the Merry like a black ghost and came to Robin's side.

…

"I see! That's the restaurant on the sea!"

"Wow! What a big fish!"

“How interesting!”

Suddenly, Luffy, Usopp and Chopper's excited shouts were heard outside the cabin.

Are we there yet? Robin looked away from the book for a moment.

Just then, Nami and Chopper pushed the door open and Chopper said happily, "Robin, we're at the sea restaurant, let's go together!"

"No," Robin shook his head, put down the book in his hand, and rubbed his eyebrows. "I'm a little tired. You guys go eat. I just want to take a rest..."

Chopper nodded to show his understanding. After all, Robin had been reading all the time and would feel tired.

Nami felt it was a pity. "It's a rare opportunity that you made a fortune in the Black Cat Pirates. Sister Robin, are you really not going to have a big meal at the restaurant on the sea?"

Robin still declined.

Nami had no choice but to leave, "Then, Sister Robin, you should have a good rest." She gently closed the cabin door.

Everyone left, and the entire Merry fell silent.

"BIB" floated beside Robin, looking at her with narrow eyes.

Robin muttered to herself: "There are too many people around. If my identity is exposed, it won't be a good thing for Luffy and his pirate group, which is just starting out..."

She was indeed a little tired, so she lay down on the table and took a short rest.

'BIB' went to get a thin blanket and covered Robin with it.

She opened her eyes and asked, "Don't you want to go and take a look?"

"I can't eat, what's the point of going to the restaurant?" "BIB" lay on the table with his legs crossed.

Besides, there really isn’t much to see, I’ve already seen it in the comics…

It's nothing more than that Luffy and his crew met Sanji, and maybe there just happened to be a demon named Kin who had been hungry for several days, and Sanji's idea of ​​"As long as someone is hungry, as a chef, I have the responsibility to cook for him" touched Luffy, and Luffy insisted on getting Sanji to join them... At most, Sanji's good deed later caused the well-fed demon Kin to go home and pull all the starving people in their group over, and the reason why all the members of their Creek Pirates were so hungry and unlucky was actually because they had the misfortune of meeting Hawkeye when they were full of fighting spirit to enter the Grand Line... They were chopped back to their hometown in the East China Sea by the idle Hawkeye from the starting point of the Grand Line... and then the whole group became completely autistic.

Okay, I've finished. I'll give you a congratulations. "BIB" shook his head and said, "Besides, it would be so boring if you stayed on the boat alone."

“…”

Robin's lips curled up for the first time in a long time.

She closed her eyes, and sleepiness gradually came over her...

～～～～～～～～～～～ Robin slept very soundly.

When she was gently shaken awake by someone, she slowly opened her sleepy dark green eyes, and when she looked up, she saw a pitch-black mask instantly condensed in the air in front of her, and her narrow eyes were glowing.

"There's something exciting outside." The mask made a sound, "The great swordsman who uses his big knife to cut through the small coffin boat is here."

Hawkeye?

Robin suddenly became much more sober and remembered that Mihawk had indeed said that he would come to the East China Sea to meet Luffy.

She listened carefully and, sure enough, there was a lot of noise outside the cabin of the Merry. She could vaguely make out some common exclamations such as "great swordsman", "number one in the world", "Eagle Eyes", "Why is he here" and so on.

“…”

Robin pushed open the cabin door and stood at the second-floor door, the sea breeze blowing her long hair.

The turbulent waves of the sea outside were slowly calming down. In the center of the surging sea current, a huge and damaged pirate ship seemed to have been cut in half by something - well, it was probably Hawkeye's doing. It was slowly sinking in the sea, with only a little bit of wreckage still rising and falling on the sea...

Looking at the other side, many people of all kinds have gathered on the deck of a large fish-shaped restaurant on the sea. Robin noticed that Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper were there, and among them there was a blond young man wearing a neat black suit and smoking a cigarette...

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the empty space in the middle of all the ships in this sea area. On that small black boat that looked like a coffin board, sat a handsome and stern man with a huge black knife on his back, standing still.

“…”

Robin just took a quick glance and then retreated back into the cabin.

"BIB" is still watching the fun from outside.

Inside the cabin, Robin leaned against the door, feeling something in his heart.

The wreckage of the pirate ship on the sea that had just been remembered, in the blind spot of everyone's sight, countless petals surged up on the gently floating wreckage of the ship, condensing into a flower clone of Robin.

——However, there were slight adjustments to the face, making it look a bit like Robin but not Robin.

This distance is long enough for Luffy, Nami and others who have known each other for a while to recognize him, but it is also long enough for strangers to look at him from afar and not recognize him at first glance.

Sure enough, when the flower clone showed its head behind the wreckage, Luffy, who was in the crowd at the sea restaurant, looked over and said, "Hey, why did Robin go there?"

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

"Robin?" Nami and the others also looked over.

The young blond man with a cigarette in his mouth, Sanji, immediately turned his eyes to the beautiful figure standing on the wreckage of the Creek Pirate Ship. "Besides Miss Nami, are there other beautiful ladies on your ship?!"

Since Sister Robin is not on the Merry... Nami pursed her lips, looked at Luffy, Chopper and the others with nostalgia, and felt like leaving.

At this moment, a gunshot suddenly rang out.

The flower clone looked at the pirates gathered on a piece of wreckage near Mihawk. One of them shouted something and fired a shot at Mihawk who was sitting leisurely with his legs crossed on the boat.

This kind of shooting obviously has no meaning to Mihawk.

He pulled out the black knife from his back, and lightly flicked the blade against the incoming bullet. The bullet changed its trajectory along the blade of his black knife like a bowling ball, and passed by him without any injury.

Most importantly… Flower Clone could probably guess what Mihawk was thinking, and the reason he responded in this way was probably to prevent his knife from “cutting” such a low-level attack.

It's so embarrassing.

Mihawk put away the black knife, glanced at the flower clone, and then looked at the black armor standing on the second floor of the Merry on the other side.

"BIB" raised his hand and greeted from a distance.

Mihawk nodded slightly and greeted his old friend as if no one was around.

Where was he nodding? Every move of the world's greatest swordsman at this moment undoubtedly attracted the attention of everyone.

Is there anyone here who deserves a nod and a greeting from the world's greatest swordsman like he just did?

Could it be that he was targeting me...? Many people who also used swords, although they knew it was unlikely, could not help but think so.

After all, to be honest...

Who hasn’t imagined that he or she is the protagonist in a story who is favored by the most powerful person?

Sauron had never imagined this.

There was no other distracting thought in his mind at this moment, only the figure with the black knife on his back in his eyes.

Hawkeye !!!!

Robin saw through the flower clone that Zoro turned over and jumped off the sea restaurant. Under the gaze of everyone here, he walked towards Mihawk alone.

This naturally caused a burst of exclamations from the onlookers. That was the world's greatest swordsman, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Hawk-Eyed Mihawk! What caused everyone to be even more shocked, and one could almost hear a series of gasps... was because Zoro, who was standing on the edge of the wreckage, tied his turban, pulled out one of the three swords at his waist, and pointed it at the world's greatest swordsman who was as immovable as a mountain.

Yes, many people have recognized the "Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro" who is quite famous in the East China Sea, but so what? A mere pirate hunter wants to challenge the world's greatest swordsman? Challenge the man who is at the top of the world's countless swordsmen? What is this guy trying to do... Is he really going to die? !

Nami sneaked back to the Merry, clung to the railing, and watched Zoro's actions with cold sweat on her forehead.

"Pathetic weakling."

Mihawk expressionless, left his boat and jumped onto the wreckage of the ship where Zoro was.

The wreckage shook, and the others were frightened away by the aura of the world's greatest swordsman. Zoro, with a little sweat on his face, stood firm in place, withstanding the unimaginable terrifying pressure emanating from the opponent, and resolutely drew out the other two swords at his waist...

Unfortunately, in Mihawk's eyes, this is nothing more than ignorance and fearlessness.

He took out the small knife hidden in the cross pendant on his chest, and his contempt once again made the onlookers gasp, and also made the challenger Zoro feel humiliated in person, with veins throbbing on his forehead.

Luffy's nerves were tense and he gritted his teeth as he watched Zoro assume the three-sword style stance and stand in front of the world's greatest swordsman.

On the Merry, "BIB" glanced at Nami who was sneaking back to the ship alone, and looked at Zoro again.

Its observation Haki is particularly good at distinguishing the strength of different people's auras.

In its eyes, Zoro, who swung his sword at Mihawk, was like a speck of dust crashing into the red earth continent.

No matter how many times the dust hits the Red Earth Continent unwillingly, there is no way it can shake the Red Earth Continent in the slightest...

The Pirate Hunter's repeated charges and slashes at the world's greatest swordsman were fierce and terrifying, and his three-sword style was at perfection, but they were all easily blocked by the small knife in Hawkeye's hand.

Although this knife was only for defense and not for attack and was harmless, it was extremely insulting and had already cut Zoro's self-esteem to pieces.

Phew!

The Flower Clone was stunned to see that Zoro could clearly retreat, but he just stood there and let Hawkeye's knife pierce his heart, causing blood to spurt out immediately.

"Zoro!" Chopper shouted anxiously, but Luffy held him down. Luffy's teeth clenched and his eyes were bloodshot. "Now, you must be patient!"

Although no one knows what was said between Zoro and Hawkeye, everyone saw Hawkeye put away the insulting knife and slowly pulled out the black sword behind him...

And Zoro took his final three-sword stance...

Nami closed her eyes, unable to bear to watch Zoro's final suicidal charge.

These people all have their own dreams that they are willing to fight for even at the risk of their lives. Why should I drag them down? Nami sighed softly, and the onlookers behind her laughed. She didn't look back, and went straight to the cabin of the Merry, ready to drive the ship away...

“…”

The flower clone glanced at Nami on the Merry and continued to watch the duel between Zoro and Hawkeye.

Both of Zoro's swords were broken by Hawkeye. He turned around and opened his arms as if relieved.

"What to do?" Hawkeye stopped with his knife raised.

Zoro laughed and said, "Being stabbed in the back is a shame for a swordsman."

"Well said." Hawkeye swung his sword without hesitation.

Looking at the black blade of the supreme sword falling towards him, Zoro opened his arms and faced it calmly, and also calmly accepted his defeat and impending death.

I'm sorry, Kuina...

Now that I am dead, my name will be heard in heaven, right? He thought with a smile, although this name is probably worthless...

The knife flashed and waves of blood gushed out.

"Zoron!!!!"

Amid Luffy's roar, Zoro slowly fell on his back...

Why... Sanji looked at the blood splashing and falling into the sea, and soon a bloody seaweed head covered the sea surface. His eyes were filled with shock... Knowing that he was going to die, wouldn't it be better to give up his ambition? After all, the other party was the world's number one! !

"What a lunatic!"

Sanji loosened his tie, took off his suit jacket, jumped off the boat of the floating restaurant, and dived into the sea to save people.

"Asshole!"

Luffy couldn't stand it any longer, and he stretched out his rubber fist and swung it at Hawkeye...

Only Robin's flower clone in the distance breathed a sigh of relief that Hawkeye did not kill him and avoided a fatal injury.

With Chopper around, Zoro at least won't die.

As he thought this, the petals flew away, and the flower clone quietly dissolved...

Behind the cabin door, Robin's real body slowly opened his eyes, turned around, opened the door and went out. As for Luffy, Hawkeye came just to take a look at him, so of course he would not make things difficult for him.

“Woo woo woo!”

On the first deck of the Merry, Nami was doubting her life and was about to cry as her body was tied up with arms. She lay on the deck unable to move, and looked in shock at Robin who pushed the door of the second-floor cabin of the Merry.

"Sister Robin, aren't you over there?"

Nami couldn't believe it, watching Robin slowly walk down the stairs and towards her...

Robin asked as they walked: "Nami, did you want to drive the Merry away by yourself just now?"

She squatted in front of Nami, raised her hand, pinched Nami's chin and turned her face around, staring at the latter's helpless and pitiful expression from a close distance.

Nami was restrained by the arms created by Robin's ability, unable to move. She said depressedly: "So what? I am a thief! You don't really think I consider myself your partner, do you? - And why did you stop me? Sister Robin, it's just an ordinary sailboat. Sister Robin, you didn't even look at the spoils on the Black Cat Pirate Ship. You obviously don't care about money! Why do you have to stop me?! It has nothing to do with you! You obviously..."

Nami's orange hair was messy as she struggled. She raised her red eyes and looked straight at Robin, gritting her teeth and saying, "You obviously don't consider yourself a member of this ship either, do you?"

"......" Robin was silent. He loosened his fingers that were supporting Nami's chin, stood up and looked away, muttering to himself, "I just don't know why, but I just don't want you to run away alone like this...that's all."

Nami stopped struggling and stared at Robin's profile.

(End of this chapter)