Chapter 676 The Beginning and the End
[Chapter Header Serialization·Kami's Great Adventure 23·『It's a Passage!』]
[After a long time, this strange world shook for a while, and then stabilized. Kami and Papagu fell on the blue sky and white clouds... No, this is a wall! The blue sky and white clouds are painted?! Kami's teeth and tongue almost flew out of his mouth in fear, and he and Papagu fled in panic, and unexpectedly found a man-made passage exit at the end of the world...]——
[“I’m sorry, Jinbe. I just couldn’t help it…!”]
[Lin Qi punched the fishman named A Long and sent him flying into the sea. He turned around and smiled at Jinbei.]
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[“You’d better give an explanation… Otherwise, we, the Sun Pirates, will never let you go.”]
[“What’s there to explain? I just wanted to beat him to death.”]
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[“He’s not dead? What a bummer!”]
[“It’s embarrassing that I didn’t kill him with one punch. Don’t worry, this kind of person is not worthy of me killing him a second time.”]
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[“You don’t understand what I’m saying, right? I just want to kill Aaron! Who discriminates against you fishmen?!”]
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[“Why on earth did you have to attack that fishman?”]
[Robin remembered that he had asked his Stand this question before, and the latter replied: "Actually, it's the same reason as the attack on Caesar that time..."]
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A hand covered with flame patterns pressed on Robin's shoulder, awakening her from her memories of the past and bringing her to her senses.
"What's the matter Robin? You just said that Arlong is a devil fruit user, then what?"
Robin looked at the Straw Hat Pirates who were staring at her, waiting for an answer: Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and Chopper...
She said, "It means exactly what it says. He is the user of the Human-Human Fruit, the Orangutan form."
At the beginning, she actually didn't see the process of Arlong being given the power of the devil fruit by "BIB", but... the Human-Human Fruit disappeared later, and Robin also heard Lynch mention its whereabouts, but she suddenly remembered it just now.
"He also has the Human-Human Fruit?" Chopper's eyes were full of curiosity.
"Orangutan..." A bubble popped up above Usopp and Luffy's heads, imagining a strange fishman covered with red hair.
Sanji held his elbow with a cigarette in his hand and muttered to himself: "Fish-man... ate a devil fruit... what would happen if he fell into the sea? I'm really curious..."
"At least he won't drown, that's for sure." Zoro carried the only remaining Wado Ichimonji and laughed, "But he will definitely be like Luffy, and will lose all his strength after falling into the water."
"He's a fishman, but he's a landlubber... Haha, this is really funny!" Luffy laughed out loud, he really thought this was very funny.
Only Nami was shocked and hadn't recovered yet, "Aaron... He is an extreme racist who believes in fish-man supremacy. How could such a person eat the Human-Human Fruit? And he is a gorilla..."
Indeed...
Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji all held their chins in thought, and then looked at Robin who was calmly drinking coffee.
Robin stirred the coffee with a small spoon, "Anyway, you should have no problem dealing with Aaron, right?"
"Hehe, no!" Luffy rubbed his hands together.
Zoro pushed his sword and laughed evilly, "I haven't cut a fishman yet..." Usopp complained, "Your smile is too villainous!"
Nami was deeply moved, "Robin——" She turned her head and saw Robin picking up the coffee cup and walking out.
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"Wow! What a huge manatee - no, sea monster?"
There was another commotion outside. Robin pinched her brows, pressed the book, and looked back out the window. On the deck, Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji were fishing together. They caught a huge sea monster that looked like a cow, but its belly was covered with fish scales.
The cow sea monster has a nose ring between its nose wings, and is obviously a domesticated sea monster.
The cow sea monster was originally angry, Zoro drew his sword with a smile, Sanji also raised his foot, and Usopp hid behind the two of them holding the fishing rod. At this moment, Luffy jumped out from the middle of the mountain rope and walked slowly forward.
Hmm? "BIB" came out of the cabin, and Robin, who was looking back from the window next to him, was watching Luffy walking towards the irritable cow sea monster.
An invisible domineering aura emanated from Luffy, precisely shocking the sea beast with a single point. The originally irritable creature immediately shut up, sweating profusely, and froze obediently, allowing Luffy to put his hand on its face.
"This is not the Domineering Haki that just awakened," the visor appeared in the air beside Luffy, "Luffy, when did you master it?"
Its words made Zoro, Sanji and the others very curious, and they suddenly remembered the shocking scene of the inexplicable annihilation of the Creek Pirates. Could it be... that Luffy really did something at that time? Luffy stuck out his tongue and said, "I couldn't help it at that time and used it accidentally. Ace warned me that if I rely too much on Conqueror's Haki, my fists and feet might become weak!" At the same time, he turned his head and answered "Kuro", "I forgot too. My mother taught us for a while before, and then I mastered Conqueror's Haki without knowing it! However, Ace mastered Observation Haki first..." The Straw Hat Boy touched his chin and said to himself, "I don't know how Sabo is doing..."
Why are you talking to yourself all of a sudden? Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp were confused after hearing a string of unfamiliar words, but Luffy was still talking to himself, which was really speechless.
"BIB" understood, and remembered that in the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy was good at Conqueror Haki, Zoro was good at Armament Haki, and Sanji was good at Observation Haki...
Come to think of it, maybe it's similar among the three ASL brothers. Luffy is good at Conqueror's Haki, Ace is good at Observation Haki, so Sabo may be good at Armament Haki?
It's really some kind of fate...
The black mask disappeared into the air and flew back to its main mecha, staying beside Robin.
Under the leadership of Luffy's new pet cow sea beast Moo, the Merry arrived at the island where Arlong's territory was located more quickly.
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Robin put the small bag at her waist, tied her hair into a ponytail, and walked out of the cabin.
The Merry stopped, and on the deck, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji were ready to go, unable to wait.
Chopper was also eager to try, Nami's eyes were determined, Usopp looked left and right, and originally wanted to use a tactical stomachache, but when he saw Robin's slightly dark and cold temperament, he immediately took back all his words.
『BIB』 Glancing to the end of the sight, on the other side of the island, one can vaguely see some people in marine uniforms moving back and forth.
It scanned with its sight and smell, and quickly found several auras far superior to those of ordinary people. They were obviously the fishmen of Aaron. That place was Aaron's territory.
In comparison, the aura of those marines was basically just delivering food to Aaron and his men.
Robin said to Luffy, Nami and the others: "I have some information I want to gather, come on."
"Oh, that's fine." Luffy waved and got off the boat.
"Leave it to us!" Sanji stepped on the side of the ship. If it weren't for those uncontrollable peach-shaped eyes, he would have been more chivalrous. "Sister Robin~~" he said and jumped down.
"Hey, Zoro, wait for me!" Usopp hurriedly caught up with the ruthless and taciturn swordsman with green algae hair.
Nami and Chopper looked back at Robin.
Robin also encouraged them: "Come on."
"Oh!!" Chopper was excited and jumped off the boat enthusiastically, chasing after Luffy and the others in front.
"..." Nami backed up to the side of the boat and held onto the fence, keeping her eyes fixed on Robin, who asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Nami shook her head and said hesitantly: "I always feel that, Sister Robin, you..."
"They are calling you." Robin reminded. Not far ahead, Luffy, Sanji, Usopp, and Chopper were waving at Nami, "Hey~ Nami (Miss), hurry up~ Aren't you going to save people~"
"Go ahead," said Robin, "I'm leaving too."
After Nami followed Luffy and the others in front and left, Robin also got off the boat and walked alone towards Arlong's territory from another direction.
"Nami, this little girl..." The man in black armor followed her with his arms folded, "She's quite perceptive."
Robin pushed aside the branches that blocked his way and shook his head, "Girls are more careful and sensitive than boys, and they are more able to detect changes in other people's emotions. It's common."
"That's right." "BIB" floated aside, "So what are you investigating? There can't be a historical text here..."
"Nami's adoptive mother is a marine. If she has brought other marines here to look for Nami, she will inevitably recognize me." Robin shook her head, "No need... But, I do have something I want to find out."
"BIB" quickly followed her all the way to the vicinity of Aaron's territory, "What?"
"Even if the Navy Branch in the East China Sea is corrupt, such arrogant pirates should not have taken root for so many years and not been dealt with..." Robin looked up at the distant view of the Arlong Domain, which looked like an amusement park in the Sabaody Archipelago, and muttered to himself in confusion, "There must be some reason for this..."
"Now that you put it that way... it seems to be true!" BIB rubbed his head. At least as far as he knew, Smoker was in Rogue Town in the East China Sea. Didn't he hear about Aaron and his gang being arrogant? Even if Colonel White Hunter needed to stay in Rogue Town and couldn't spare the time, what about his subordinates?
The subordinates around White Hunter were naturally not the borers in the navy like Colonel Mouse. Could it be that they really couldn't spare a single soldier to investigate the Fishman Pirates that had been wreaking havoc in the East China Sea for seven or eight years?
This is a pirate group with a fixed territory! The notoriety of Arlong's domain is probably known to many people in the East China Sea.
How could a smoker who is eager to help others tolerate such sand...
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In Aaron's territory, on top of a building, in a room filled with documents and walls covered with wanted posters...
The petals surged onto the ground and condensed into Robin's body.
She was alone here, searching for newspapers, documents, correspondence, information, bounty notices, some new, some old... There weren't many valuable things. After all, this was a pirate den, and there probably weren't many people who could read. Many of these things might have been sorted and collected by the people in the human village controlled by the Fish-Man Pirates...
Soon, Luffy's furious roar was heard from outside: "Stop talking nonsense! Who cares whether you are human or fishman! I just want to beat you up!!!"
Bang! No one knew what hit what, and the building where Hua's clone was located shook a few times.
Rustling, dust fell from the ceiling, and an old bounty slipped down among the numerous posters on the wall. Hua's clone picked it up and saw that it was Jinping's.
The bounty is 76 million baileys.
There was a huge red cross drawn on Jinbei's photo, and the handwriting was rough, obviously it was smeared out with emotion.
Robin followed the clues, looked through relevant old newspapers and other news, and slowly sorted out the clues and some of the things that happened to the Sun Pirates back then...
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"More than nine years ago, the Sun Pirates were surrounded by the navy. Captain Fisher Tiger was seriously injured and lost too much blood. In the end, he refused medical assistance and blood donations from humans and died."
Outside Arlong's territory, Robin leaned against the wall, looking up at the slowly moving white clouds in the sky in the shadows, and slowly told the news in the old newspapers that her flower clone's eyes saw at this moment, "This incident became a turning point for the Sun Pirates. After Fisher Tiger's death, the pirate group fell apart. Many members were captured by the navy, and only Jinbe escaped with a few strong ones..."
BIB's eyes were twinkling as he listened quietly.
Tiger will die, it's not unexpected.
Tiger was great enough to abandon his prejudice, treat Kerla as an equal despite being a human being, and send her home across thousands of miles - but even such a person would rather die than accept human blood to save his life.
It is conceivable that Tiger is willing to fight for Princess Otohime's ideal of reconciliation with humans and equality among all races in the world, but at the same time, emotionally, deep in his heart, he can never forgive humans and cannot truly accept humans.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Contradictory, but true.
Add to that the deadly potential danger that none of his fish-man companions have the same blood type as him...so as long as Tiger is still wandering around the sea, fighting against the navy, the World Government, and the hostility from all over the world, he is basically doomed to die.
A moth to a flame is the best summary of Fisher Tiger's life.
Robin continued to speak slowly: "... Later, Jinbei accepted the invitation of the Navy and became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. As a condition, the Navy released the captured fishmen including Arlong. Later, the fishmen of the Sun Pirates broke up with each other, and Arlong brought some of the fishmen to the East China Sea. Then, the tragedy happened on this small island..."
She sighed softly, "That was nearly ten years ago, and during that time... no wonder I have no memory of the news at all."
At that time, Lynch was captured, the sea emperors were in conflict with each other, and Robin and Hancock were also busy, busy attacking the naval base, busy resisting the navy's demon-killing order, and busy moving the Nine Snake Island...
As for the death of the captain of the Sun Pirates?
As for Jinbei becoming one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? As for the whereabouts of the fishman Arlong?
These news could only be ranked on the second page at the time, and Robin was not in the mood to pay attention to other unimportant news at that time...
Now that everything was sorted out, Robin had some guesses as to why the Arlong Pirate Group had been able to commit evil so arrogantly in the East China Sea for seven or eight years.
"Do you know what Jinbe's nickname is?" Robin leaned against the wall and asked himself, "'Sea Man'."
She shook her head. "Back then, the Sun Pirates were famous for the solidarity among the fishmen. No one dared to provoke any of their members easily... and Jinbe was revered as the 'Sea Knight', who was extremely kind and righteous."
"BIB" slowly understood, "You mean... even if Arlong and his crew broke up with the original Sun Pirates, even if they and Jinbe parted ways in name, even if Arlong and his crew refused to admit it, people still regarded the Arlong Pirates as the 'protection area' of the Seven Warlords of the Sea 'Sea Knights'?"
Come to think of it...
You fish people once huddled together for warmth, stood united against external calamities, and were close to each other. Who knows if your current breakup will be just like that of a young couple, fighting at the head of the bed and making up at the foot of the bed?
If the pirates provoke Arlong and his men, what if they provoke the Seven Warlords of the Sea Jinpei, wouldn't that be a disaster? If the navy rashly moves Arlong and his men, what if they provoke the dissatisfaction of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, wouldn't that be quite passive?
You said that Arlong and the others are no longer in the same group as Jinbe, but the Sun Pirates' logo on all of you is still exactly the same. You said you really broke up... Who would believe that?
"It's a confusing account." "BIB" shook his head and said so.
"Yeah..." Robin sighed, "I just don't know what Jinbei thinks. Does he know what Arlong and the others did in the East China Sea..."
Boom!
The ground shook slightly.
"BIB" and Robin looked back, and both knew... the battle in Arlong's domain was probably over.
～～～～～～～～～～～ “Hahahaha, Robin, didn’t you see how ugly Aaron’s face became after we told him that he ate the Human-Human Fruit!”
Robin had been reading a book on the boat for a long time, and heard Usopp among the victorious crowd vividly reproducing Arlong's facial expressions. His eyes were bloodshot, his lips were trembling, and his face was ashen. "'How dare you, low-class, humans, laugh at me?!' Hahahaha..."
Bang! Nami punched him. "Don't imitate everything! It's too ugly!"
Zoro shook his head and said, "I think the angriest moment for him was when he had to use the power of the orangutan's devil fruit to duel with Luffy..."
"I told you to stop fighting!" Chopper angrily changed Zoro's bandage, "The wound has opened again..."
"Yeah," Sanji exhaled a puff of smoke, "He was a fish-man supremacist, but in the end he had to rely on the power of 'humans' and become even less 'inferior' than the humans he despised the most. You can imagine how much he was tormented inside."
Nami snorted, "Who cares? He deserves it."
"Never mind that!" Luffy slapped the table excitedly, raised his glass and shouted, "Now it's time to celebrate!!!"
"oh!!!"
Everyone raised their glasses together, dong dong dong... the wine sloshed out in the many colliding small wooden barrel glasses.
Robin raised his glass pretentiously and drank while watching Chopper, who was learning to use chopsticks to prop his nostrils at Luffy's instigation.
"My own cute pet is going to change into someone else's shape~~" "BIB" said with a sigh.
“…” Robin drank quietly.
Finally, she uttered a word, "vulgar." and rolled her eyes at the stand-in.
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The Fish-Man Pirates were packed up and taken away by the marines brought by Bell-mère.
The Merry returned to Kokoyasi Village and stayed for another half a day.
When Nojigo and Ajian, who was rescued from the fishman's lair, came back chatting and laughing with a lot of food, they found that the house that was bustling before was now empty.
Nami also disappeared, leaving only a letter she left behind.
"I'm going to be a pirate! Justice Marine Ms. Bell-mère, please don't arrest me from now on~~"
"——Love your daughter, Nami (lip print)"
"What about me?!" Nojigo read the letter over and over again, clenched his fists and his eyes were blazing with anger, "Asshole Nami, I will never forgive you!"
Nojigo couldn't help laughing again when he thought of Nami and the pirates laughing and playing innocently.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robin picked an orange, "What a fresh orange."
Nami put her hands on her hips and chuckled, "Isn't it great? The oranges my mom grows are the most delicious."
Before she set off, she transplanted an orange tree directly onto the Merry.
"It's really delicious!" Chopper said happily, "It's sweet, I thought it was sour..."
On the deck, Luffy was holding his first bounty order, proudly showing it off to his friends. 30 million Baileys! "I can already see the island ahead..."
The sea breeze ruffled their long hair. Robin and BIB looked ahead. An island seemed to be slowly approaching them with a piece of history.
"Oh," Sanji lit a cigarette, "It's the island where Rogue Town is..."
Zoro lay on the fence, "This is where the Pirate King Roger was born and executed. It is called the 'place of beginning and end'."
Nami smiled and said, "Want to go check it out?"
"Of course!" Luffy raised his fist, "Move the boat over!"
Ace's father, Pirate King Roger, was executed... Luffy got off the ship, stood on the busy street of Roger Town, and said firmly: "I want to see the execution platform."
"I'm going to buy clothes." Nami said.
"I'll go see if there are any fresh ingredients." Sanji said with a smile.
"I'll go replenish my equipment." Usopp said excitedly.
"I want to buy something, too." Zoro patted the only remaining Wado Ichimonji on his body, "I'm still short of two knives..."
Chopper raised his hand, "I want to restock medical supplies too!"
It looked at Robin, "What about you, Robin?"
"Me?" Robin pressed the hat he was wearing, and looked towards a certain direction in Rogue Town with "BIB", "It seems that there is someone I know on this island, I want to go and see..."
Chopper looked at Robin's back as she walked away alone, a little confused. Who was Robin talking about? "Chopper, hurry up." Zoro called out from the front.
"Oh!" Chopper changed into a reindeer and quickly followed.
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"BIB" followed Robin like a dark ghost. The two walked slowly through the crowd. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians around them. They made many turns in Rogue Town and finally stood at the door of a shabby tavern on the corner of the street. They pushed the door open and walked in.
There were not many customers in the tavern, and therefore, the few pirates who were drinking immediately turned their eyes to Robin who pushed the door open.
Robin pressed the brim of his hat, ignoring the gazes around him, and slowly walked to a cloaked man at the bar and sat down, tapping his fingers on the bar table, "Give me a glass of tulip wine."
A question mark slowly appeared above the bartender's head behind the bar.
"Where can I get that kind of wine?" The man next to him slowly took off the hood of his cloak, revealing Drago's rough face that didn't look like a good guy at all. "I didn't expect you two to stay with Luffy..."
(End of this chapter)
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