Chapter 691 "I don't know why, but I just don't want you to run away alone"

Robin's cold voice echoed with the wind on both sides of the not-so-wide river.

"What did you just say?" Sanji bit the lit cigarette, with a look of disbelief, "Stop it, Sister Robin! We encountered a lot of things in the town, let's go back and discuss it slowly..."

Nami bit her lip tightly and stared at the other side of the river.

"Hey, is it okay to say something like that?" Bruno, wearing a mask, said slowly, "Even I think it's cruel!"

"When I entered the Grand Line and was wanted all over the world, you were all still children..." Robin said coldly, "Navigator, Cook, your level is too low. We have never been from the same world, and we will never meet again."

"Yes," Bruno nodded, "that's true."

『BIB』 glanced at him, "Are you the supporting actor?" "......?!" Sanji frowned tightly, and Robin on the other side continued to say: "Navigator——"

“Call my name!!!!”

Nami suddenly burst into a roar, interrupting Robin's words.

"..." Robin was stunned.

『BIB』 looked at the orange-haired girl opposite him, who was jumping with electric light uncontrollably and was extremely angry, "Call me Nami. Robin..." Nami kept panting, staring with red eyes. Bruno frowned slightly under the mask, is this girl a natural type?

"Why do you care so much?" Robin closed his eyes and sighed, "Haven't you figured it out a long time ago? I never felt like I was one of you..."

"But... I don't know why..."

Nami's voice came from the other side, "I just don't want you to run away alone..." Robin opened his eyes in shock, and the "BIB" next to him suddenly laughed, "Ha, I was killed by the little sister!"

"Isn't this what you told me? Have you forgotten?" Nami forced a smile, tears welling up in her eyes, staring at Robin who seemed unmoved, "Even if you don't care about us, what about Chopper? Do you not care about him either?"

"Just a pet..." Robin lowered his eyes.

"That's enough!" Sanji took a deep breath and flicked his cigarette butt into the flowing river. "If Chopper hears this, he'll be heartbroken!"

Beside him, lightning flashed and exploded. Nami could no longer restrain herself and was about to transform into an element and cross the river to pounce on Robin - but in an instant, her elemental body was pressed heavily to the ground with a "bang". Sanji turned his head suddenly and was surprised to see that long arms had grown out of Nami's body, each arm was wrapped in a layer of black, twisting Nami's body, which had turned into lightning, into an awkward posture and pressed on the ground by the river.

"Armament Haki?!" Sanji's eyes shrank.

Nami lay on her side on the ground and struggled hard, but she couldn't move.

She wanted to release a stronger voltage to disperse these arms created by Sister Robin's ability, but the one who was electrocuted and had a numb scalp was actually - herself! "I told you, we are at different levels."

Robin raised his hand and used the arms of Nami's own clones created by his flower to hold down Nami who was struggling desperately. At the same time, in front of Sanji who wanted to jump over, he also used flower petals to create another flower Nami. Sanji's black foot hovered in front of the wooden "flower Nami"'s face, but he didn't kick it after all - at this time, looking at the other side of the river, Robin, the masked robed man, and the vaguely felt black ghost, had all disappeared!

Looking at the other "Nami" with a dull expression blocking the way in front of him, Sanji sat on the ground dejectedly, "Na--" He turned his head, closed his eyes, frowned, and sighed silently.

Nami's cheeks were already covered with tears as she was still pinned to the ground by several pitch-black arms and unable to move.

～～～～～～～～～～～ "As expected of the former Shichibukai 'Kujo Jolyne' with a bounty of 970 million berries... Not everyone can subdue a nature-type so easily."

Bruno took Robin to a table in the shadow of a street corner, took off his mask and sighed indifferently.

Robin pulled out a chair expressionlessly and sat down.

In the shadows, Rob Lucci, who had been sitting and waiting here, with a white dove in a tie perched on his shoulder, was also looking at Robin curiously.

Lucci raised his eyes and looked at the black ghost standing behind Robin.

"What are you looking at?" "BIB"'s narrow eyes shone with a faint light, "Are you reminiscing about... the last time I beat you up?"

Lucci smiled slightly, his face almost showing animalistic features, his eyes glowing blood red, and a beast-like growl came from deep in his throat, "Do you think I'm still as weak as I was more than ten years ago?"

"BIB" looked at it carefully and shook his head: "Yes."

Bruno, who was sitting next to him, immediately sensed the murderous aura that was almost uncontrollable from Lucci, and he quickly comforted him, "Lucci, don't be impulsive!"

God bless you, it's a stroke of luck that Nico Robin turned herself in! Don't cause any more trouble, the mission is the first priority! Lucci took a deep breath, suppressed his boiling emotions, and looked at the absent-minded Nico Robin, "Then, let's do as we agreed... You have to cooperate with us and create the illusion that the Straw Hat Pirates assassinated the mayor to facilitate our plan. After that, you have to wear the seastone handcuffs and go with us to Judicial Island. After the trial, we will decide your fate, whether you will be thrown into the underwater prison 'Impulse City'... Otherwise, you should know that the leader of our operation has specially applied for permission to launch the 'Demon Slayer Order'."

Demon Slayer Order? Is that the thing that came with a double order but couldn't do anything to the Nine Snake Island? "BIB" touched his chin.

Why is Aokiji so idle? He was a participant in that incident, so he should know that this thing can no longer scare Robin. Oh, he quickly flipped through the comics in his memory and found that the Demon Slayer Order of Judicial Island, including the plan to threaten Robin with the Straw Hat Pirates to force her to surrender, was the idea of ​​CP9's smart Spandam. It was this guy who had a sudden inspiration and took the initiative to plead with Aokiji, who had only provided information on the whereabouts of the Straw Hat Pirates, and obtained the right to launch the Demon Slayer Order from Admiral Aokiji.

In other words, what Aokiji thinks does not actually affect the clever Spandam's plan of "cleverly appeasing the devil's son"... Aokiji, who listened to Spandam's plea at the time, probably did not expect this thing to really have any effect.

The gap between the strong and ordinary people in the world of One Piece is too huge, which also causes a huge difference in their perception of things.

In the eyes of most ordinary people like Spandam, the Demon Slaying Order is like a catastrophic disaster, but in the eyes of Aokiji, Kujakujima, Robin, and himself, it is just a fireworks display. Not only is the continuous cannon fire a deafening noise, but it is also a waste of money.

"Your request..."

Robin spoke, and Bruno and Lucci listened carefully, but they heard the woman say calmly: "I don't want to agree to any of them."

What? Luqi and Bruno thought they had heard it wrong.

"If you have to ask me to help you carry out CP9's secret mission, you are too incompetent. I have no interest in who you assassinate or frame next."

Robin closed his eyes expressionlessly, not interested in continuing to chat with these CP9. He rubbed his brows and said, "I'm tired. Please arrange a place for me to rest..."

Is there such a crazy criminal who surrenders himself?

It seems to be true! Lucci and Bruno sighed secretly. If this demon child was just the poor little girl who had not yet woken up from O'Hara's nightmare, they could certainly manipulate her at will, intimidate her to cooperate, and do whatever they wanted. Moreover, compared with the mission of ancient weapons, such a demon child could be selectively abandoned; but the woman in front of them... was no longer the little girl with the original bounty of 79 million, but was a completely different person, a pirate with 970 million berries who was once one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea!

It was an unexpected blessing that she was willing to give up resistance, saving them from a bloody battle...

After weighing the pros and cons, it was clear that neither of the missions, the one to obtain the ancient weapon design drawings, and the one to capture Nico Robin and take her to Judicial Island, could be given up...

Lucci and his team had to change their action plan and arranged for Nicole Robin to wait for them at the sea train station.

However, since she refused to participate in the operation, there was no need to let her continue to move freely. Lucci took out a black box and opened it in front of Robin. Inside was a pair of seastone handcuffs.

…

"If it makes them feel safer, then it's fine for them to wear it."

"BIB" floated beside Robin, who was wearing seastone handcuffs and followed several government officials into the luxuriously decorated VIP waiting room.

It glanced at the seastone handcuffs on Robin's hands.

Robin didn't comment. As long as she put on BIB's helmet, she could gain its powerful life-restoring skills, and then use her hair as a key to open the seastone handcuffs on her hands...

Lynch was transferred to the big prison…

Robin sat in the empty VIP waiting room, his mind full of the words that Aokiji had mentioned at the sea train station.

Five years ago? With Lynch's ability to restore life, even if his physical strength was sealed by the seastone handcuffs, he could still use his hair to unlock them... Why was he still locked up for five years, until now? Robin thought of many possibilities, but the biggest possibilities were nothing more than two.

Lynch's life-restoring ability, which is so strong that he can control his hair, was exposed when he fought with the Ghost Spider in the Navy. In other words...

Or, the people in the prison shaved Lynch's head - no, Lynch can consume energy to forcibly restore the shaved hair; so, the people in the prison sealed Lynch's head? Locked it with a helmet?

Or maybe the lock of the seastone handcuffs that held Lynch was completely blocked...

If it's the former, then it's fine...but if it's the latter, even if BIB and I go to the big prison, how can we rescue Lynch?

Should we chop off his hands? This is absolutely not allowed...

While Robin was frowning in the empty VIP waiting room, "BIB" was sitting at the table next to her, with her legs crossed and her arms folded, thinking about another very interesting question - why in the comics, in the Judicial Island arc, Robin's identity was completely exposed to the World Government and the Navy, but in the subsequent stories, the Navy and the World Government seemed to have completely forgotten about her, the "Devil's Child" who could decipher ancient texts? This seemed to require an investigation of what happened in the Judicial Island arc...

The narrow eyes glowed with light, and countless comic scenes in memory flashed quickly in this light. Lynch, or "BIB", was the only change he could find that would make the World Government almost give up on the "Devil's Son" in the future. In the entire Judicial Island chapter, there was only one...

That is the shocking appearance of the navy hero Garp!

——Of course not.

It was Franky who burned the design drawings of the ancient weapon Pluto in public... "BIB"'s eyes were fixed on that frame.

The pervert Franky breathed out fire and burned the only old design drawing of the ancient weapon that had been passed down from generation to generation to ashes in front of the CP9 agents and their leader Spandam.

"BIB" suddenly asked: "The historical text tablet about the 'Giant Kingdom' has been taken away by the World Government, right?"

Robin was startled, and only after "BIB" was said again did she hear it clearly. She glanced around and saw that the entire VIP waiting room was empty, with government personnel guarding the door closely.

"Hmm..." She answered in a low voice, knowing that 'BIB' could hear her. "According to the information we received earlier, there are only a few pieces of historical text that record the real historical information. The piece that the doctor and his team found is probably the only most valuable piece of 'historical' text. Before they destroyed O'Hara with the Demon Killing Order, they must have taken the stone away..."

"If I were the world government, there would be a special stone in the world that contained a message that could overturn my legitimacy as a ruler, and a special message that only existed on that stone."

The black armor said in a deep voice, "How likely do you think it is that I won't learn how to decipher this kind of text? Or will I just ignore the stones scattered around the world?"

"..." Robin was stunned. "It's unlikely. - But didn't the Shandians of the Golden City fight desperately to protect the historical text and almost become extinct? Apparently the World Government actually tried to collect those stones."

"And then what happened? The World Government failed to obtain the historical text hidden in the Golden City, and then the Golden City disappeared into space, and no one could find it for four hundred years."

The words of "BIB" made Robin's pupils shrink, and what shocked her even more was the words that followed: "While Luffy and the others were chatting with Noland, and you were using him to search for gold on the seabed... I also took a look around in the sea. Do you know what I saw? - There were some strange black "passageways" all over the seabed. "

"Yes..." Robin frowned and said, "That's right." She remembered that when she was controlling the sea beasts he had created to patrol the seabed, she seemed to have seen the "entrance" mentioned by "BIB". But she didn't pay attention to it.

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

"The branch is located at the 'channel entrance' on the seafloor around Gaya Island - what can you imagine from this? "

"The rushing ocean current..." Robin said to himself.

"I went under the tunnels and looked around. To my surprise, the walls of these 'volcano'-like pits on the seafloor were actually 'water storage chambers' made of an unknown metal material, storing hot water! These metals are some kind of shape memory alloys, and they have a self-heating system. Whenever the boiling seawater inside continues to expand the volume of the water storage chamber, it becomes larger and larger, and it can no longer accommodate the huge amount of expanding hot water, there will be a 'boom' sound.

Robin almost held his breath, and said in disbelief: "You mean - the World Government secretly planned for Jaya Island to be washed up on Sky Island? They couldn't storm the Golden City and seize the historical texts they were guarding, so they planned this "Sky Current" to completely remove them from the map?"

"What is written in the history of the Golden City? The ancient weapon Poseidon." "BIB" said casually, "What about Alabasta? The ancient weapon Pluto. The former was attacked by the World Government, and the latter is guarded by the descendants of the twenty kings who had the opportunity to become Celestial Dragons. There are only three ancient weapons in total, and the shadow of the World Government lingers in two of them. Isn't it strange?"

Robin frowned, shook his head and said, "If the incident on Gaya Island was the work of the World Government... then why are there so many 'Sky Current' mechanisms on the seafloor? All they need to do is quietly build one right under Gaya Island."

"Perhaps they are just the users of these 'Sky-High Sea Current' mechanisms. Since they failed to attack by force, they were forced to choose the inferior strategy of 'destroying if they can't get it'."

"BIB" said slowly, "Let's start from the beginning... First, it's the 'particles' of special composition mentioned in Dr. Vegapunk's research and the historical text on the loan shark. "

"Water cycle..." Robin remembered the word Lynch had mentioned. "Because of the water cycle in nature, this special particle is commonly found in all forms of liquids containing water in the world. You mean, the beginning of all this was the acceleration of this 'water cycle' process with the help of the 'Sky Current' in the waters of Gaya Island?"

"Just look at who is on these surging ocean currents and you'll know." "BIB" raised his hand and pointed to the top of his head, his narrow eyes gleaming, "Sky Island. Do you remember those murals on the moon?"

“…”

Robin opened his mouth, closed his eyes, frowned slightly, sorted his thoughts, and said slowly: "In the prehistoric civilization era, a flood submerged the world, and prehistoric humans fled to the moon to settle down. After a long time, the moon people returned here... Their civilization and technology are likely far superior to our world at that time, or our world has long been a vast ocean, without large-scale life civilization. By the way... Is the 'All Blue' passed down by word of mouth by the chefs referring to the whole world submerged by the ocean in the prehistoric era?"

She murmured, "In short, the moon people who first returned to their home world created the 'Sky-High Ocean Current' and even created the Sky Island. Their purpose was to spread those 'particles' all over the world? But what was the purpose of doing this?"

"Do you remember the weather island Visalia?" "BIB" said, "And Enel's Ark Motto that seems to have inherited the ancient weapon Pluto——"

Robin opened his eyes wide, "Energy conversion technology... The Moon People pushed these special particles throughout the water cycle. The next step is to promote this technology of using special particles to perform various energy conversions?"

"BIB" said: "By spraying water and fire, controlling magnetism, and mastering wind, rain, and lightning, wouldn't it be possible to prevent the next flood? You should have released a large number of spies in this Seven Waters City to collect information. You should have heard of the 'Water Gods', right?"

Robin nodded slightly. "There's a tsunami here every year - you mean?!" She was surprised.

"This year's water gods... I'm afraid they are a little too powerful." 'BIB' looked at the storm outside the VIP waiting room window, "Don't you think there will be another flood? I think in a world dominated by islands like this, it might be much easier to cause a world-destroying flood than the first time... By then, the only place where people can stand will probably be..."

"Red Earth Continent." Robin muttered to himself.

"Let's get back to the topic." "BIB" snapped his fingers so that only Robin could hear, "The moon people transformed the world to prevent the next flood crisis. We should really respect prehistoric humans who have such a sense of crisis. But in this case, there is reason to believe that during the first flood crisis, prehistoric humans may not have only had a plan to 'escape from the earth by spaceship'... Is it possible that they had other plans to preserve the flame of civilization?"

"Don't tell me you mean the fish-man..." Robin took a deep breath and couldn't help but think of the historical text he saw under the golden bell on Sky Island, "The mermaid princess 'Poseidon' who can command super-large sea kings and even change the ocean currents..."

"Whether the fish-man and Poseidon were biological experiments conducted by prehistoric humans to preserve the flame of civilization, or whether Poseidon himself was the cause of the flood disaster, these are impossible to investigate."

"BIB" crossed his legs, raised his head and said slowly, "But there is no doubt that Poseidon, who has such power, must have an inseparable relationship with the great flood. And if, in the near future, this world will usher in a second great flood that will destroy the world..."

Boom! As if to echo the atmosphere of its speech, a violent storm roared outside the window. The water gods of the Seven Water City this year were coming.

…

Following the government staff, Robin boarded the sea train to Judicial Island.

She looked out the car window, and saw a violent storm that seemed like the end of the world. The coastline of the Seven Water City was completely empty. It was as if the hand of God had tilted the Seven Water City basin a little, and a huge amount of seawater was withdrawn and accumulated on the sea surface in front of the Water City, forming an unprecedented super-large "Water Gods", that is, a super-large tsunami...

[“So what you want to say is…?”]

[『Does the "historical truth" matter to them? Of course it matters. But the dangerous historical text that records the "huge kingdom" has been taken away by them. What can you do? Apart from that, the biggest threat you pose to them is...』]

[“I can decipher the historical text about the ancient weapon Pluto, and even help build another one…”]

[『This thing is not only a super battleship, but also the last 'Noah's Ark' before the end of the world. It is a life-saving ticket. It is very valuable! How can it be spread all over the streets? 』]

[So, after Franky burned Pluto's only design drawing in public, the World Government slowed down its attention on the Devil's Son. ]

[Although if she is allowed to join the Straw Hat Pirates, if they collect all four landmark historical texts, they will reach the final island like the Roger Pirates did and discover all the secrets of the world...]

[But after all, secrets are just secrets, just some information. How can they compare to the ancient weapon Pluto, the real 'Noah's Ark'? ]

[Besides, not everyone is so sure that the Straw Hat Boy can emulate Roger and become the Pirate King...]

[Perhaps in the eyes of the World Government, the Straw Hat Boy is just one of those pirates who wanted to imitate Roger with passion but ultimately achieved nothing. Even Whitebeard, Big Mom, Kaido, Wang Zhi, Silver Axe... so many pirate heroes have failed and could not get their hands on the Final Island. How could a Straw Hat Boy with a problem in his brain succeed? ]

[If the Devil's Child joins Kaido or Big Mom, it might make the World Government more nervous. As for the Straw Hat Pirates? Hehehe...]

"Are you worried about Luffy and the others?"

"BIB" folded his arms and leaned against the wall behind Robin's seat.

The sea train started to move slowly. "BIB" could feel that Lucci and others had already taken their seats in the carriage next to Robin, and politely left the entire carriage to Robin alone.

Anyway, they didn't think the Devil's Son could get away in this situation since he was wearing seastone handcuffs...

Robin shook his head. "I wonder if what you said is too fantastical... But the historical records of the demise of civilizations I've read also tell me that before the extinction crisis comes, everyone will just think it's just fantasy."

The narrow eyes glowed with light, "Disasters always come unexpectedly..."

The empty carriage was even quieter. Apparently, Robin also remembered the Crown Island ten years ago. She, Lynch, and Hancock thought they had survived the catastrophe, but in the blink of an eye, they ran into a trap set by the Admiral and the three admirals...

"Tulip takes good care of me." Robin propped up his chin and looked out the window, "I certainly don't want anything to happen to her child."

"What about others? Like - 'just a pet'?"

"..." Robin rested his elbows on the table, covered his face and sighed, "Pikachu can hate me if he hates me... It would be better if he could travel happily with Luffy and the others."

"I don't think so."

Suddenly, a faint sound was heard. It was Sanji's. - Robin looked out the window opposite. In the wind and rain, Sanji was standing on a golden "Flying Disc", holding the outer wall of the carriage with one hand, clinging to the outside.

And "BIB" looked towards the rear end of the car, so that strange aura was Iron Man Franky?

Click, after several attempts, Sanji finally pried open the car window and came in with the howling wind and rain, his suit already soaked.

"Didn't I tell you that?"

Robin held his forehead and sighed, saying expressionlessly, "Don't come to me again, we have never been partners..."

"Hei Zai..."

Sanji took out a golden lighter, shook out a half-wet cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and blew out smoke rings. "You should have seen it earlier than us. Sister Robin is like... She's always hoping that someone will punish her."

"That's right!"

With a crash, the door of the carriage was opened. Lucci, who was wearing a straight black suit, had a white dove standing on his shoulder. He looked at Sanji coldly with a bloody and cruel smile, "Your punishment... is me!!"

(End of this chapter)