Chapter 8 Robin: Huh?!
Blood splatters by the river... Oh, it's black hair flying, falling on the river and floating away.
Of course, Lynch was not so cruel as to disfigure Robin.
Isn't it a waste to disfigure such a little beauty? Even if it is to avoid the pursuit of the navy or the gangsters, it is totally wrong.
He simply shaved Robin's head.
By the time he finished shaving, Robin realized what had happened.
There was a chill on her head... This might be the first time she had felt this way since she could remember.
Robin looked at the image reflected on the river surface...slightly pale skin, slightly straight nose, dark green eyes that were dull and lifeless, it was exactly her. But the person in the water no longer had black shoulder-length hair, but a rough, shaggy head with rough hair roots growing on the white scalp... She reached out and touched the top of her head, the stubble was not very hard, it felt quite soft...
"Sure enough, only real handsome men and beautiful women can pull off the buzz cut style." Lin Qi's face appeared next to the buzz cut girl on the river, and he commented.
Robin didn't know what to say. But it was true that even she felt strange with such a short haircut.
Ordinary people who have only seen her on wanted posters might not recognize her at first glance...
"It's a pity that we don't have hair dye, otherwise I would dye your hair a different color..." Lynch said regretfully, "What do you think of white? How about blond? Or red? From now on you can be called 'Red-haired' Robin! Haha."
"..." Robin adjusted his complicated emotions, and finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked: "Who... are you?"
He actually crawled out from the garbage dump on a rainy night!
The first time he saw her, he immediately revealed her identity, but he didn't tell the bad guys about her... He had good intentions towards her, but he was very mean and took away her ability of the Flower-Flower Fruit, which made Robin very hesitant. Without the Flower-Flower Fruit, she really didn't dare to leave alone...
Lin Qi smiled and said, "My name is Lin Qi. For now, I'm just a nobody. Don't worry, I'm not interested in reporting a poor kid!"
Aren't you only about two or three years older than me... Robin followed him silently and continued walking towards the main city of the island, which was also the royal capital of the small kingdom of Noili.
"As for the Flower-Flower Fruit, I'm not that interested in it!" Lin Qi said as he walked, "It's too sissy! Once you use its power, petals fly all over the sky..."
You think it's a sissy, but you still snatch it away and use it so skillfully? Robin was very angry. If you don't like it, why don't you give it back to me?
As she thought about this, she saw flower petals falling on her face.
Then, I felt something strange on my forehead and cheeks, as if something was covering them...
"What did you do to me?" Robin touched her forehead, cheeks and nose, and found that they were all covered with a layer of "flesh". She soon realized that this was because Lynch had used the power of the Flower-Flower Fruit on her face.
Lin Qi said: "It's just a simple disguise, it's easy to think of, right? You have been playing with the Flower-Flower Fruit for so many years, it's strange that you haven't even developed this kind of operation..."
"Do you know me well?" Robin asked puzzled.
"Well, it's a long story." Lin Qi laughed, "I won't tell you."
Robin was speechless, and then asked: "How come you are so proficient in using the Flower-Flower Fruit?"
"Is this difficult?" Lynch asked in surprise.
He waved his hand and a head sprouted from Robin's shoulders. The two heads spoke on Robin's left and right sides, "Very basic..." "Here's the operation..."
Robin was almost frightened by the heads on both sides of his shoulders, and his eyes almost lost their luster. After the two heads finished speaking, they turned into two petals and disappeared.
Lynch looked at Robin, who was so frightened that his face turned pale, and said with a smile: "Well, a broad forehead, chubby cheeks, and a nose like a head of garlic... paired with this sharp buzz cut, it's very cute! Hahaha!"
The nose looks like a head of garlic... Robin was a little worried by his smile, how ugly would it be? But thinking that this was just the result of using the power of the Hana-Hana no Mi to cover up, not really disfigured... and thinking that she would probably not be recognized by others after becoming like this, she felt a little relieved.
Although Lin Qi seems to be a bit self-willed, he really doesn't seem to have any ill will towards himself...
It's like there's some kind of bad taste that comes from nowhere...
"Hey, Robin, can you do this?" Lynch asked her while trying to hold back his laughter. At the same time, he pulled his head back, rolled his eyes, pulled down the corners of his mouth, and made a double chin. Then he shouted, "Huh?!"
“……”Robin didn’t understand. What was the meaning of this action?
The two talked along the way as they got closer and closer to the entrance of the royal city. The road outside the city became flatter and more people came.
In addition to the residents of the various towns on the island, there are also obvious business travelers and convoys coming and going on the road, which is full of the breath of life.
After entering the city, Lynch and Robin quickly found a restaurant.
Lynch had some money in his pocket after robbing the gangster near the garbage dump and the kind-hearted lady who tried to report Robin.
Not everyone has seen Robin's bounty, not to mention her current appearance... bulging forehead, big nose, chubby cheeks, neat crew cut... If they can recognize her as Nicole Robin, then they are really cruel!
The pitch-black armored substitute stood beside the table, looking around with eyes glowing white, following the original's orders and always alert to the surrounding environment.
The real Lynch was of course concentrating on eating, enjoying the meal very much.
Only then did he realize that the body he traveled through might not have a bad foundation.
He seemed weak before, probably because he had been dead for too long and his body was a little weak.
The little bit of food at the kind aunt's house was not enough to fill my stomach.
Now that I have eaten my fill, I feel a renewed strength in my limbs... I don't know if this is an illusion...
According to the fragmentary memories replayed by "BIB", this kid who happened to have the same name as me ran away from home to go to sea when he was 8 years old. He is almost 10 years old now...Lin Qi ate a lot, his cheeks were stuffed, and he thought to himself: But this kid is more than a head taller than the 8-year-old Robin. He looks more than 10 years old? But this kid has a good foundation, which is also good news for me...
At the table, Robin was a little nervous at first. Eating in a restaurant full of diners was really a test of her mental strength.
However, after finding that no one was paying attention to her, she finally felt relieved.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
She touched the "lumps of meat" on her face and her fresh crew cut... She took small bites of the delicious meal she had never enjoyed before, but couldn't bear to enjoy it all by herself, so she shared some of the meat with the stray puppy at the corner of the table.
She whispered, "You're growing on my face, where are you from..." The flowering ability of the Flower-Flower Fruit is to grow part of the user's body through petals within the range of sight.
"It's the fleshy butt, otherwise why would it be so soft?" Lin Qi withdrew his thoughts and winked at her.
Butt meat... Robin lowered his head and ate silently, feeling an indescribable heat rising to his face, filling his head, escaping from his ears, mouth, nose, and eye sockets...
Of course it wasn't butt meat. It wasn't that Lynch was thin-skinned, but this thing was a shared sense, and Lynch wasn't so obscene as to rub his butt against a little girl's face...
Well, now he could clearly feel the heat of Robin's cheeks...
The flesh of Robin's face created by the Hana-Han-No-Mime was used to disguise him.
As the two were eating, other diners at the next table were chatting loudly, talking about all sorts of things.
Some businessmen talked excitedly about the strange stories in various places in the West Sea. The more experienced ones would even cite other famous places such as the execution of the pirate king in Luoge Town in the East Sea, the exquisite mechanical creations in the South Sea, the chaos of war in the North Sea, etc. Lin Qi listened with great interest. Some frivolous guys even talked about their mighty achievements on the famous sea flower boats in the gold-selling caves...
It is very exciting...
"Wow, the new Shichibukai Gekko Moriah appeared in the West Sea?!"
Suddenly, someone sitting a few tables away grabbed a newspaper and shouted, attracting a lot of attention.
Robin noticed that Lynch was also listening attentively to the man nearby reading the news in the newspaper.
"...After mysteriously disappearing, Gekko Moriah reappeared in the public eye and accepted the title of Shichibukai from the World Government. Today, the new Shichibukai appeared on Kerr Island in the West Sea and helped the local residents solve a criminal gang that attempted to rob graves..." The diner read the news aloud to those who were interested.
Others cheered, in their opinion, the Seven Warlords of the Sea were pirates who turned over a new leaf after being inspired by the government's justice. Now, as expected, the great pirate Gekko Moriah was also doing good things!
"The tomb robber must be Moria himself!" Lynch thought, "The World Government's propaganda is really good. Moria robbed the tomb and left. Didn't he just help the locals get rid of a group of tomb robbers? Calculating the time, Moria was just wiped out by Kaido in Wano Country not long ago? He started collecting corpses everywhere to make a zombie army? He really didn't waste any time..."
After eating and drinking to their heart's content, and listening to some gossip in the restaurant for a while, Lynch paid the bill and took the crew-haired girl Robin out.
"What should we do next..." Robin asked hesitantly.
The main reason was that she had no idea what the boy was thinking, and she didn't know whether he planned to stay here or not.
The boy was unfamiliar with the island's towns and was clearly not a local...
Robin has never had a peaceful life since she left O'Hara Island, which was destroyed by the Demon Slayer Order. Now that she has a disguise, it seems that she can hide her identity from being discovered, but she doesn't know what to do...
"Next," Lynch touched his shrunken pockets, "maybe I should go find a kind-hearted tycoon to make some money?"
Robin: “…”
Her invisible black armored double followed silently beside them, taking advantage of the fact that no one else could see it, and looked around recklessly, alert to the surrounding environment.
Lin Qi and his companions had not walked far when they discovered that the intersection ahead was very lively, with a bustling crowd and bursts of singing and dancing.
"Next, let us welcome the much-anticipated Victoria Xinduoli——"
(End of this chapter)