Chapter 699 Luo's Gratitude

The people gathered in the small bar were a little crowded at this time.

Law, Kokusa, and Bepo were in one group; Cavendish, Marian, Anne, and Amorin and her daughter were in one group; Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Usopp, Sanji, Franky, Camie, Papagou, and Brook were in one group; as for Luffy, he rudely opened the refrigerator to look for food after arriving at the store, but fortunately Shaqi didn't mind. Although this store is called "Rip Off", Shaqi is actually quite generous to those who she likes. She let Luffy look for food, poured him a drink, and handed a marshmallow to Chopper. Robin found that Shaqi seemed to know a lot about their information, and wondered if Shaqi was the same with Cavendish and Law.

For a moment, the store seemed a little quiet. Only Luffy was eating happily as if nothing had happened. Aunt Xia was really a good person.

Zoro and Sanji stared at Law; Law stared at Cavendish with a smile; Cavendish glared at everyone angrily, while observing Sanji, Nami and the others with some curiosity.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Usopp laughed at Xiaokua, Amorin and her daughter who came with him and said, "I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that you also came to this store."

Xiaocao held the cigarette between her fingers and sneered.

Marian looked around the bar and said casually, "It's not a coincidence. Rayleigh and Xia Qi guessed that you might come here after arriving at the Sabaody Archipelago. We have been waiting for you here for several days. We went to the Sabaody Archipelago to play because we were too bored."

"Wait for us?"

Franky, Brook, Sanji, Zoro, Usopp, Chopper, even Nami, as well as Merry, the ship elf in Nami's arms, and Camie and Papagu, who Franky put on the sofa, all tilted their heads with question marks in their eyes.

Amorine stared at Merry and blinked, but Merry seemed shy and snuggled into Nami's arms, shyly avoiding Amorine's sight.

In front of the refrigerator, Luffy, with his mouth full, asked in confusion: "Do you know us?"

"There are several pirate groups on the ship with bounties exceeding 200 million berries, and the captain's bounty is as high as 444 million berries..." Law, wearing a black feather cloak, put his fingers together on the sofa, glanced at Luffy, Zoro and Nami, and smiled faintly, "Is there anyone who doesn't recognize you?"

Nami blushed and waved her hands modestly: "Ah, I'm not that famous~"

"Hmph!" Cavendish snorted heavily in displeasure, attracting everyone's attention. Amorin quickly explained: "Sorry, sorry, our captain has been in a bad mood recently because his bounty was surpassed by Marian..." Cavendish said angrily: "How can the captain's bounty be lower than that of the crew?! The threat of the crew should also be under the captain's name. The stronger the crew, the higher the captain's bounty should be!" Marian said faintly: "Then you go complain to the navy... It's useless to tell us." Cavendish hugged his hands angrily on the sofa, "I'm so angry! Now everyone is paying attention to you and not me!"

"Is her bounty high?" Nami and Usopp pointed at Marian with some curiosity. Xia Qi smiled and said, "Well, Miss 'Dreamer' with a bounty of 340 million is the new super star in the Sabaody Archipelago recently!"

"340 million...?!" Nami was shocked. She turned her head and saw Usopp squatting in the corner with his knees hugged, muttering "10,000, 10,000, 10,000..."

"It's really annoying to have a lower bounty than others." Luffy came over with a fruit plate in his mouth. "But there's nothing we can do about it. We'll catch up with them sooner or later!"

Cavendish, Law, Marian and others couldn't help but look at him. Luffy was puzzled. What happened? Xiao Cao sneered, "Your bounty is 400 million, but there is a woman with a bounty of 1 billion on the ship. Do you still have the nerve to continue to be the captain? You have no shame!"

"What did you say?!"

Before Luffy could react, Cavendish got furious and drew his sword to stab him, but was quickly stopped by Amorin.

Luo on the opposite side raised his finger slightly, and ROOM——Cavendish's sword instantly transferred into his hand out of thin air.

"Don't point such a dangerous thing at my crew..." Law played with Cavendish's knife and raised his eyes, "'Pirate Nobleman'."

Devil Fruit power?! Nami, Usopp, Sanji and the others were slightly surprised.

Cavendish was even more upset. Marian drew a "Leisure Green" on his back. He immediately calmed down and leaned lazily on the back of the sofa. "Forget it, before I kill you, I'll make a cup of rose tea first..."

No wonder your bounty isn’t as high as hers!

The others were speechless when they saw this. At the same time, they were even more impressed by the hypnotic ability of this young girl, Marian.

"So, Xia Qi...tell me from the beginning, why did they gather here, and why did they say they were waiting for us?"

"BIB" looked at Xia Qi, who was wiping the table with a cigarette in her mouth behind the bar, and asked with a gleam in her narrow eyes, "And... do you really not know where Rayleigh went?"

"Oh?" Xia Qi was surprised, "Do you mind his absence?"

"Because I want him to help me..." "BIB" nodded.

Xia Qi then looked at Robin. Robin sighed, "It seems that both sides have a lot to say - I will speak first."

Robin raised his eyes to Xia Qi and said softly across the bar, "Lynch is in the big prison. We have to go get him out."

Big prison! As soon as this word came out, Luo, Cavendish and others who had been listening to their conversation with their ears perked up were all shocked.

"..." Xia Qi was obviously also surprised. She bit her cigarette and thought for a while, "So that's how it is. He was imprisoned in Pushu City..."

Robin said: "We plan to secretly open the Gate of Justice behind Marinford and go to the prison. Xia Qi, do you have any suggestions or reminders?"

Xia Qi shook her head. "My advice is not to do this. My warning is that you will die if you do this."

"BIB" said: "Usopp."

"Hehe..." Usopp understood, and under the surprised gaze of Cavendish and Law, Usopp and the sofa he touched, as well as Zoro, Sanji, Nami and others who touched the sofa, disappeared one by one, as if they had become transparent. If they hadn't known that they were here just now, they wouldn't have known that there were people here - and a sofa! Xia Qi was surprised and said, "You made special preparations for this..."

It's nothing surprising that Lynch and his friends have the ability to seize the power of devil fruits.

"In that case," Shaqi crushed the cigarette butt in the ashtray, "Luo, Cavendish, aren't you waiting for them here because you're concerned about Jolyne Kujo's missing companion Giorno? Now that you know Giorno's current situation and what Jolyne Kujo's plans are - so, what do you think about this?"

"Huh?!" Chopper was surprised as he was licking the marshmallow.

"Joryne Kujo and Giorno... I remember those were your former pseudonyms, Robin-sister and Lynch?" Sanji pondered.

"Are you waiting for us here because of Robin and Lynch?" Nami was surprised.

"Looks like he's not a complete stranger..." Franky chuckled.

Cavendish and Luo were both silent. Cavendish looked at Xia Qi seriously and said, "Will you really not die if you go to the prison?"

"You heard wrong. I said 'will die.'" Xia Qi said calmly.

"Okay, since I won't die, I'll go too!" Cavendish said radiantly, holding a rose in his mouth. "Bravely break into the underwater prison. I'll definitely be on the headlines of the newspapers then..."

She was talking about death! Are you kidding yourself? Xiaocao and the others were speechless.

"Yes! Yes!" Half of Cavendish's face suddenly changed, turning into scary white eyes, and he grinned, "No matter if he's called Lynch or Giorno, I'm going to kill him this time!!!"

Just as "BIB" was about to float over to let him chop him, the white horse had already disappeared from Cavendish's face. Cavendish shouted angrily, "White horse! It's daytime now, not my sleeping time, don't run out casually!"

Where did these weirdos come from... Sanji, Nami and others were confused.

Robin was looking at Luo, and said thoughtfully: "I think I recognize this black feather cloak you are wearing..."

"You just recognized the clothes?" Luo smiled playfully, leaned on the sofa with his hands open, raised his finger and used the space transfer ability of the surgery fruit to return Cavendish's knife. "I have always remembered the life-saving grace you two have given me and Mr. Corazon..."

Xiaocao, formerly known as Baby-5, was standing behind the sofa, staring at Robin with her lips pursed.

The Don Quixote family, even the head of the family, Doflamingo, was killed by the two of them who were still the Seven Warlords of the Sea at that time. She was still a little girl at that time, facing the killing god-like Giorno, she didn't even have the strength to resist. She was doomed to die, but Giorno let her go... This was a grace of not killing her. Without Giorno's mercy, Baby-5 would have died that day. She would not have met Law again, and she would not have become Xiaocao with her own name today.

"I want to go too." Xiao Cao didn't say anything, just exhaled a puff of smoke, "My ability should be able to help."

"The captain of the Heart Pirates, 'Black Feathered Doctor Thief' Trafalgar Law, has a bounty of 200 million berries, and the 'Weapon Queen' Xiao Kusa has a bounty of 170 million. With your help, I'm beginning to believe that there is a possibility of success..." Xia Qi said to everyone with a smile. When her eyes swept over Cavendish and the others, Cavendish said unhappily, "What about me? My bounty is 280 million! It's higher than both of theirs!"

Marianne walked up to BIB and put down her drawing board. Under the surprised gaze of Zoro and the others, she clearly did not use her Armament Haki, but she was able to hold BIB's hand and raised her head and said childishly: "When I was a child, I was separated from my parents and kidnapped to a slave ship. I didn't quite understand what it meant... But then I thought about it carefully, you really saved me at that time!"

After a pause, "Miss Golden Week", who was supposed to be a cadre of Baroque Walter Works like "Miss Sunday Robin", said seriously, "So, even if Cavendish doesn't dare to go, I will go with you to save Giorno alone." She let go of her armored hand, walked to Robin, opened her arms and hugged Robin, as if to comfort her.

Marian is a natural hypnotist, and her sincere words have the power to penetrate the soul, which deeply touched Robin.

"Hahaha!" Luffy was very happy. It turned out that everyone was friends. "It feels more interesting now!"

Xia Qi smiled and said, "The 'Pirate Nobleman' with a bounty of 208 million, the 'Dreamer' with a bounty of 340 million, the 'Black Feather Doctor' with a bounty of 200 million, the 'Weapon Queen' with a bounty of 170 million, the 'Straw Hat Boy' with a bounty of 444 million, the 'Pirate Hunter' with a bounty of 290 million, the 'Thunder Banshee' with a bounty of 200 million, and... the former Shichibukai 'Devil's Child' with a bounty of 1 billion! The total bounty is about '3 billion' - if this lineup is going to the Undersea Prison together, I'm going to support you."

Usopp, Brook and others were a little surprised to see her easily counting out everyone's bounty.

Nami secretly clenched her fists! Although it was unexpected, it was the right place to come to the Sabaody Archipelago. There were so many foreign aids! Not to mention the weird doctor in the black feather coat, just the weird hypnosis ability shown by Marian can definitely be a great help for their operation this time. Franky laughed and said, "Everyone wants to save Lynch, that's great! Woo woo woo..." Kimi said in surprise, "Don't cry?" Franky howled, "Because I'm super touched!"

Xia Qi told BIB and Robin that the Heart Pirates and the Handsome Pirates were both brought here by Rayleigh after they arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago a while ago and attracted attention.

"I vaguely heard you mention them before..." Xia Qi tapped her temple and smiled at Robin, "I'm an intelligence officer, so I have a pretty good memory. - After they heard Rayleigh say that Lynch was captured by the World Government ten years ago, they were very angry and worried. That's why they have been waiting here for you to arrive at the Sabaody Archipelago. They want to see you, Robin."

"..." Robin was silent and took a sip of wine. "BIB" saw Xia Qi again and said, "As for where Rayleigh went, no one knows. He gathered Xiao Luo and Xiao Kadi here, and I don't know where he went the past two days." Xia Qi shook her head, "Maybe he is waiting for you somewhere in Shampooland, drinking and gambling, or maybe he went swimming somewhere..."

"BIB" shook his head silently. It was easy to detect Rayleigh's strong aura. But after landing on the Sabaody Archipelago for so long, it still couldn't find Rayleigh.

Over there, Xiao Cao, holding a cigarette in his mouth, raised his chin and said, "Hey! Stop looking, it's you, the one with the long nose."

"Me?" Usopp was preparing his equipment and pointed at himself in surprise.

"You are so weak..." Xiao Cao looked at Usopp coldly, "Aren't you afraid of that Impel Down?"

"Of course I'm scared. Just like you said, it's a huge underwater prison!"

Usopp lowered his head and checked the various homemade props in his bag, but Xiaocao found that the things in the bag had already been neatly put away. The boy was just looking for something to do.

"I think Chopper, and even Nami, who has become very powerful with the Thunder Fruit, must be very scared deep down..."

Usopp walked to the window, "But this little bit of fear is nothing compared to my determination to rescue my friends!" Long Nose took a deep breath and suddenly shouted out the window, "I am a brave sea warrior!!"

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

Xiao Cao was startled by his sudden surprise, "What are you shouting about all of a sudden?"

"Ah." Marianne pointed out the window, "The sky over there suddenly became so strange..."

"How is that possible!" Cavendish taught, "This Sabaody Archipelago doesn't even have a magnetic field, and the climate has always been very stable - ah, why is there thunder in the sky over there? The dark clouds have taken the shape of a flower... ah, they have turned into the shape of a snake... what's going on?" The pirate nobleman tilted his head in confusion.

"Someone seems to know what's going on..." Law looked at Robin and Nami.

Nami looked at Robin. "Sister Robin! Is that abnormal celestial phenomenon——"

Robin took a deep breath, stood up and said, "Let's go, they are here."

～～～～～～～～～～～ 【Before leaving, Robin said: "Kami, just stay here with Aunt Xia... or you can go back to Fishman Island first. Don't you miss home very much?"】

[Kami shook her head, "I can go back later." The mermaid smiled and waved to the people leaving the bar, "I will take good care of Lab before you come back~"]

[Luffy walked backwards, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Nami waved their hands, and disappeared into thin air one after another. ]

…

〖On the way to Shampoo Park——〗

The flower clone walked outside holding the Den Den Mushi Castle, while inside the castle, everyone gathered in a circle on the sofa in the living room to make the next action plan.

"After all, the Navy Headquarters is too dangerous, so we need to have some people in the Sabaody Archipelago to lure the Navy Admiral stationed in Marinford."

Robin's first words stunned Cavendish and Law.

Going to the underwater prison to rescue people was so exciting that Luo only brought Xiaocao, who also wanted to repay his gratitude, and the white bear Beppo, who refused to leave. As for Cavendish, he wanted to make a headline, and Marianne, Anne, and Amorine, mother and daughter, all came to repay their gratitude - they didn't have any other crew members.

Bringing a general here... Isn't this kind of thing said in a very normal tone? Cavendish, Amorine, Luo, and Xiaocao couldn't help but look sideways, and Bepo opened his mouth in shock.

Marian was curious about something else. She pulled Mary to the sofa and looked around. Is this the boat elf? So cute... Mary didn't avoid her. She blinked curiously and looked at Marian.

Robin said, "The team that goes to Marinford and secretly opens the Gate of Justice will have a greater chance of success... So, on one hand we have to face the admiral, and on the other hand we have to go to the dangerous Marinford, the allocation of personnel must be carefully considered. Usopp, your ability--" Usopp patted his chest and nodded, "I will definitely go to Marinford. How can such a big thing be done without me, Captain Usopp? Can anyone else do it? Hahahaha..."

Xiaocao glanced at the long nose and was obviously so scared that his legs were shaking.

Marian turned around and said, "I'll go to Marinford too. I feel my abilities will be more useful in that team."

"Really? Okay, okay!" Usopp was surprised and nodded repeatedly.

Franky put on his sunglasses and smiled, "Then I'll go with Usopp. If the ship gets damaged, I can fix it quickly."

"For safety reasons, we need to arrange for at least one stronger fighter to go to the Marine Headquarters. I must go to the Nine Snakes..." Robin said, moving his eyes to Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji and others. Cavendish pointed at himself with a "where about me?" look on his face and said pitifully: "I'm also very strong! Don't ignore me!"

"Luffy tends to ignore plans and cause trouble, so he stays in Shampoo's team." Robin stroked his chin in thought.

That's right! Usopp and the others nodded in agreement, and Luffy grinned and said, "I just want to try fighting the admiral here! I'm sure I won't be frozen this time!"

Chopper raised his hand and said, "Robin, didn't you say that there are people in the big prison who are masters of poison? So I should be on Usopp's team, right?"

Robin nodded slowly.

After some discussion, they finally came to an agreement. The two teams that were going to act separately were:

Team Justice Gate: Usopp, Franky, Chopper, Marian, Zoro, Nami, Merry, Law, and Kusanagi; Team Shampoo: Robin, Luffy, Sanji, Brook, Cavendish, Annie, Amorine, and Bepo.

The former needs to go to the Navy Headquarters to open the Gate of Justice and head to the location of the Undersea Prison first, while the latter needs to attract the Navy Admiral in the Sabaody Archipelago, then find a chance to retreat and go to the New Nine Snake Island to find Snake Princess Hancock to join the operation. When this plan was just finalized, Luffy was immediately unhappy when he heard that the New Nine Snake Island was actually in the New World. "I don't want it. Going to the New World actually requires flying over the Red Earth Continent instead of going to Fishman Island... It feels so disgusting!"

It's already this late? Are you still fussing about this?! Luo and Cavendish were speechless. Straw Hat Boy, are you serious? "BIB" said, "The New Nine Snake Island is in the Calm Belt, so it doesn't count as entering the New World."

"Oh, that's all right." Luffy grinned, his expression changing at the speed of light, "Nine Snake Island... What kind of place would it be? I seem to have heard of this place! Anyway, I'm looking forward to the adventure!"

Are you guys going on an adventure? Luo and Xiaocao couldn't believe it. How could this kid be so unreliable? Fortunately, his companions were still there. "Ahhh!" Sanji was burning with anger, his eyes full of hearts. "The legendary country of women... That's simply a dream place! Big sisters of the Nine Snakes, the cute Sanji is coming!!!"

"Idiot." Zoro complained coldly.

Luo and Xiaocao: ...

Suddenly, BIB had an idea and looked outside the castle.

"What's wrong?" Robin thought it had other suggestions.

"BIB"'s narrow eyes shone with a faint light, "No...it's just that I seem to have sensed several old acquaintances."

An acquaintance? Robin wondered.

"When did she leave Nine Snakes?" Black Armor said to himself.

…

In the crowd near Shabaodi Park, a "little girl" with long pink hair was staring at the woman with long black hair and brown sunglasses holding a Den Den Mushi in her hand. There was no doubt about it, it was you, Jolyne Kujo!

No, now we should call her Nico Robin...

"Bonnie? It's really you..." A pair of female facial features suddenly appeared on the wall near the pink-haired girl, and she said in surprise, "I thought it was a new pirate with the same name!"

“Ah!!” Bonnie covered her mouth and complained, “Don’t scare me so suddenly…”

…

[Shambeauti Park, under the Ferris wheel——]

Several old men wearing pointed hats looked at the series of thunders scattered in the sky with smugness on their faces. What a good work! Since she hasn't come yet, let's play with it again~~

"Haredas." Robin came over with Sanji, Cavendish, and Bepo. After seeing these old gentlemen, Robin was very relieved. With them, the plan was already halfway successful. However, before Robin could discuss a few words with these scientists from the weather island, they heard a burst of exclamations nearby. Nami turned into lightning and said with tears on her face: "Sister Robin! We have to start the action immediately - Luffy has already beaten a passing Celestial Dragon!"

In the panicked crowd over there, Luo looked with a frown at the Celestial Dragon whose head was deformed by a punch and lying in a pool of blood, and the scarred female slave who was chained and held in his hands.

"Straw Hat Master... didn't I tell you to hold back for now?!" Law roared in a low voice, and turned his head to see Zoro sheathing his knife, sighing and muttering to himself, "Luffy, you stole my prey." Law couldn't help but be even more speechless. What's wrong with the people in this pirate group? The scarred slave woman stared at the dark phantom "BIB".

"It seems that after leaving Haiina..." "BIB" walked up to Lasha, one of Aunt Haiina's four knights, and said lightly, "You guys are not doing well either!"

(End of this chapter)