Chapter 678 I Hate Myself

〖The Kingdom of Medical Snow——〗

Boom boom boom…

There were bursts of gunfire and continuous flames on the coast. The pirate ship was shattered and the pirates fled miserably, crying, "What the hell! How can people from such a small country have such powerful weapons?!"

On the shore, the soldiers were carrying the new rocket launchers designed by Dr. Kuleha, and they all smiled as they watched the pirates fleeing in panic on the sea.

"Don't mess with the doctor, you little thieves." Kuleha smiled and pushed her glasses to the top of her head.

During the battle, Kuleha's handbag, which was placed aside, was knocked over by the impact, and the documents and medical supplies inside were scattered all over the floor.

King Dalton put down the rocket launcher and squatted down to pick up things for Kuleha. Suddenly he saw the words written on one of the pages and was stunned.

"'Depression', 'survivor's guilt'..."

Dalton was half confused and half shocked. "Dr. Kuleha, could these be--"

"Boy!"

Kuleha glanced at him, picked up the things one by one and put them back into her bag, looking at the wreckage and fire of the pirate ship on the sea, "Don't mess around with the doctor's things..."

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖Upside-down mountaintop——〗

"It is essentially what we separated from Lynch ten years ago when we were still in the Kingdom of Flowers..."

Robin's flower clone sat on the top of the mountain, gently stroking the line of Chinese characters on the rough red soil with one hand, and muttered to himself, "Sometimes I feel that it is like a reflection of him ten years ago..."

The sea breeze whistled, ruffling the black hair of the flower clone and the golden hair of the tulip.

“…”

The tulips faced the wind and looked at the Upside-Down Mountain from afar.

The pirate ship Merry has docked at the Twin Cape Lighthouse. The Straw Hat Pirates have landed one after another, and Robin's real body is among them.

Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Nami, Chopper and the others soon met the lighthouse keeper Crocus, and soon they started laughing in front of the old ship doctor who had a bit of a dry sense of humor. The atmosphere was full of laughter and joy.

However, Robin's true self always seemed to be on the edge of that happy group, just like the black ghost walking beside her, and became a wandering ghost.

"I just discovered it on the boat."

Tulip crossed her arms and spoke softly, turning her head to look at the profile of her princess who was sitting with her knees hugged, "Luffy and the others were so excited and happy on the ship...but I didn't see a single smile on your face."

"..." The flower clone stared blankly at the Straw Hat Pirates who were chatting enthusiastically with the old ship doctor over at Twin Cape.

"How long has it been since you truly laughed?"

“…”

The flower clone touched his cheek.

"If you're not happy," Tulip sighed and sat down next to the flower clone, "Why did you stay on that ship? Hancock must miss you a lot..."

"I'm not happy...yeah..." The flower clone's black hair fluttered in the wind, muttering to himself, "But, it's the same everywhere..."

"You..." Tulip's eyes shrank.

"I don't want to make myself happy at all..." The flower clone said to himself, "No matter where I go, I seem to see his face and hear his voice... No matter where I go, I can think of the days we spent together..." A line of tears quietly flowed down his fair cheek, "If I am the only one who feels happy... It would be like a betrayal of the past..."

"Silly child..."

Tulip tilted her head and wiped the corner of her eyes. She couldn't help but sighed. She opened her arms and embraced her clone. She raised her hands and stroked her clone's head and long hair again and again. "Do you regard this as a punishment for yourself? You should understand that if Lin Qi knew you were like this, he would definitely not be able to bear it--"

"Then why don't he come over and tell me..." The flower clone looked calm and stunned. He bit his lips tightly, but tears continued to fall. "It doesn't matter if you are disappointed in me or can't stand it, even if you want to mock me or laugh at me, it doesn't matter... As long as I can see him again..."

"well!"

Tulip was almost heartbroken and shed two lines of tears. She closed her eyes and silently hugged her slightly trembling flower clone.

"tulip……"

The flower clone lowered its head and buried it between its knees, making a dull sound.

"I hate myself so much..."

…

The white waves hit the shore. Robin stood on the shore, watching Crocus briefly explaining the common knowledge of the Grand Line and the magnetic routes to Nami and the others.

Nami stayed behind to organize the knowledge points, while Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Chopper were constantly fighting for the delicious seafood dinner that Sanji had just prepared, and Crocus, wearing a floral shirt and flip-flops, walked towards Robin.

Robin said, "Don't you send them a record pointer? As far as I know, the navigator didn't prepare a pointer."

"Don't you have any?" Kurokas shook his head. "I'm surprised that they need me to introduce the Grand Line instead of you who are already on the ship..."

"..." Robin nodded to Sanji who was waving at her to go eat together, and said after thinking for a while, "I think Luffy and the others would prefer a blank new pointer. What do you think?"

Kurokas smiled and nodded, "I agree."

The boy in the straw hat gave him the same feeling as Roger back then! Robin went over to eat.

At the original spot, Kulokas suddenly said: "Although I am only a part-time doctor, I still have to say...her mental condition may not be very good."

"…" Next to him, "BIB" withdrew his gaze from the figure of the former Snake Princess at the top of the Upside-Down Mountain, and his narrow eyes gleamed with a faint light, "I thought you really didn't know how to observe and hear!"

"Details like this are not important." Kurokas said calmly, crossing his arms.

"Were you lying to me back then, or were you just trying to get away from it?"

“Huh?” Kurokus put his hands to his ears and asked in confusion, “My Observation Haki isn’t working! What were you talking about?”

"..." The black armor looked at Robin who was feeding food to Chopper who looked very happy, "I know. But... I am just an empty shell of armor after all, what can I do?"

"..." Kurokas was silent, "Your true form..."

"BIB" raised his hand, and the mecha palm covered with flame patterns turned from virtual to real. It shook its head and said: "The accumulation is not enough... At least it is far from enough to deal with our real enemies!"

Kurokas sighed and shook his head.

…

"Goodbye!" "Thank you for the pointer!" "Uncle Hua, see you next time. It's time for us to finish our voyage! Hahaha..."

The Merry set sail again and slowly sailed away from the Twin Capes Lighthouse.

Luffy waved his hands and laughed: "If we encounter the runaway whale you mentioned, we will definitely say hello to it for you! Hehehe..."

"Okay!" Nami looked at the record pointer given by Crocus on her wrist with full fighting spirit, "Let's go straight to the first island we enter the Grand Line!"

"oh!!!"

On the deck, Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and Sanji all jumped up excitedly. Zoro yawned, lay down by the side of the boat holding the three knives, and soon fell asleep.

Robin reminded Nami, "Be careful, at the beginning of the voyage, because the magnetic forces of multiple routes are mixed into a mess and affect each other, the weather will be extremely unstable before reaching the first island..."

Before he could finish his words, the sky, which had been clear just a moment ago, suddenly began to snow heavily.

Nami shivered with cold! 『BIB』 and Robin reached out their hands, held a snowflake, and looked up at the snowy scene. When she and Lynch entered the Grand Line, they flew directly in 『BIB』's ghost castle, so the changeable extreme weather at the beginning was not thrilling in her memory, but rather a fairy-tale-like romantic and beautiful color...

When Robin came back to his senses, he heard Luffy's surprised shout: "It's an island! We have arrived at the first island!!!"

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

Usopp's eyes widened with curiosity, "There are giant cacti on the island! What a strange place!"

Nami approached Robin and asked curiously, "Sister Robin has been to the Grand Line before, right? Have you been to this island?"

Robin was startled and looked away. She had already recognized that this place was not too far from Kerla's hometown, the deserted island many years ago, because it was full of cacti. She shook her head and said, "No. Because we took another route before..."

"Is that so?" Nami suddenly realized and soon laughed again, "That's right, Luffy definitely doesn't want to go to an island he's been to before, haha... I wonder how long it will take for this island to record all the magnetism?"

Over there, Luffy and his companions were very curious about the first island they were about to land on. After the Merry passed through a layer of fog and entered the inland seaway of the island with a huge cactus, they were surprised to find that there were dense crowds of people gathered on both sides of the river, setting off fireworks, waving colorful flags, and holding banners. The locals shouted happily to the pirate ship that entered the island: "Welcome, welcome~ Welcome to the 'Welcome City' Whiskey Peak~~!!"

"Oh?" Luffy said excitedly while sitting on Merry Sheep's head, "Everyone welcomes us!"

How could ordinary residents be so enthusiastic about pirates? Sanji bit his cigarette speechlessly, "What's going on... There must be something wrong!"

…

"Wahahaha, that's right, I'm the knight Sanji, and my biggest dream in this life is to protect all the cute ladies in the world~~!!!"

At night, the moonlight was cold and the tavern at Whiskey Peak was bustling with activity. Sanji was so happy surrounded by a group of girls that he was at a loss. He excitedly drank one glass after another from the large glass that was handed to him.

The local people of the Welcoming City, at the call of the mayor named Ikalem, held a banquet in this tavern and entertained the Straw Hat Pirates.

Usopp felt like he had gotten the best stage, drinking and bragging. The best thing was that the audience around him was very supportive, with constant exclamations of admiration.

Zoro also drank to his heart's content and had already knocked out ten opponents.

Nami drank twelve of them and continued despite the jeers.

"Another plate!" Luffy excitedly raised the empty plate. He had eaten so much that it had become a ball. Next to him lay the chef who was breathing more than he was breathing. "I want more!"

Noisy, happy, enthusiastic... the scene seemed like the common people and bandits were one family, which was confusing.

Of course, "BIB" is definitely not confused.

It knew that the people in front of it were bounty hunters disguised as ordinary residents, hunting those novice pirates who rushed into the Grand Line with full fighting spirit. After getting them drunk, the next step was to sharpen their knives and kill the pigs at night...

"The ice cream you asked for is here~~"

Robin withdrew his gaze from Luffy, whose belly was bulging with food, took the cup of ice cream piled high from the waitress and handed it to Chopper, whose face was full of stars.

"I haven't been this happy in a long time~" The blue-haired waitress looked at these pirates who were eating and drinking lavishly and had no idea what day it was, and couldn't help but smile with her eyes narrowed, "Hehehe..."

Are you schizophrenic, or are you liberating your nature, or have you created a special personality for your pirate identity? "BIB" looked closely at the waitress with a blue ponytail.

Not surprisingly, this person is actually the princess from the Kingdom of Alabasta, Nefertari Vivi...

In order to investigate the cause of the domestic crisis in Alabasta, the young princess, along with the captain of the palace guard, Ikarem, secretly went undercover in the bounty hunter organization Baroque Walter, which is a killer organization established behind the scenes by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

only……

"BIB" is a bit confused. In the comics, Vivi was able to successfully infiltrate Baroque because Robin, Crocodile's deputy, intentionally let her go and even guided her. Now without Robin's secret push, how did this little princess get in?

If you can’t figure it out, then stop thinking about it.

BIB didn't take it seriously. Not to mention the bounty hunters from Baroque Works, even the big boss behind them, Crocodile, was just that in his eyes! It was just an elite monster, there was no need to pay special attention to it...

Soon, the excitement came to an end, the lights in the pub went out, and it was dark, with waves of snoring coming one after another...

～～～～～～～～～～～ 〖The sky is just getting light, inside the Den Den Mushi castle——〗

Bolubolu, bolubolu...

Robin was awakened by Xiaolu's urging voice and slowly opened his sleepy eyes. In front of him at the head of the bed was Xiaolu's clone in the castle, like an alarm clock.

"Someone is calling me outside?"

Robin put on a coat, left the empty bedroom, walked towards the castle gate, and saw a pair of beautiful and innocent big eyes close to him outside the door.

"Nami?" she asked.

BIU, Nami entered the Den Den Mushi castle. She had just searched for a long time in the tavern that was messed up by Luffy, and finally found the castle Den Den Mushi on the bar counter, which almost blended with the color of the table.

Robin sobered up and asked, "Are we leaving so early?"

Sister Robin has been sleeping alone in the castle... Nami shook her head, "A lot happened last night," and nodded, "But, um, we have to set off!"

"Okay, sit down for a moment while I change my clothes."

Robin nodded and went back to the bedroom. Nami sat down on the sofa, thinking about something while looking around. Suddenly, a black helmet appeared in the air. "Looking for me?"

With her narrow eyes gleaming with cold white light, Nami complained, "Don't show up all of a sudden! - Hey, why have you changed? Not just the visor, but the entire helmet!"

The orange-haired girl circled around the black helmet in the air, marveling at it.

"What's wrong?" Robin came out after changing his clothes. "Come on, tell me what I missed..."

As they spoke, Robin and Nami left from the portal of Den Den Mushi's castle. The black helmet turned from real to virtual, and like a dark ghost, it also floated out.

(End of this chapter)