Chapter 86 Touring the Castle
When Robin opened his eyes again, he saw...
“Eh…”
She thought through several scenarios.
It might be like the first time he used the Castle Fruit. Because he was not skilled enough, the castle in his body was of the simplest structure, like a home with only four bare walls.
Or maybe it's just a transparent castle... After all, Lynch's ghost is transparent...
But I never thought it would be like this...
A pretty ordinary apartment.
Two bedrooms and one living room. One bedroom, a small study, a bathroom, and a small kitchen. The space is not very large, and although the decoration style is a bit strange, it is generally within Robin's cognition.
These books on the bookshelf...
Robin first walked into the study room with curiosity. There were not many books on the bookshelf, and some were very new. She tiptoed to take down a book, and after opening it, she could not understand a single word...
The square characters looked a bit like ancient Chinese characters... Robin stroked the Chinese characters on the page with his fingers and turned another page. "Huh?"
It's blank.
She flipped through the books quickly and took a few books from the shelf. Only a few of the books had words on them. Many of them were missing pages, dozens or even hundreds of pages, and some were completely blank.
"Maybe Lynch doesn't remember the contents of the book?" Robin thought so, and stood on tiptoe to put the books back to their original places on the bookshelf one by one.
She had experience using the Castle Fruit. When she was building the "Omniscient Tree" in her inner castle, she created several walls of books in one go, reproducing at least tens of thousands of books... At that time, she couldn't reproduce them all, so she could only rely on her memory. In the end, she only reproduced about 700 books in full...
"Oh, that's not right... The 'castle' here should be built by Lynch's ghost... Then this bookshelf, these books, and the contents of the books should all be created by his ghost..."
Robin blinked, a little confused.
With her hands behind her back, she swayed and observed the study.
Very strange study room.
Especially the layout of the desk, which was different from any desk she had ever seen.
There weren't many books, but the square black glass took up most of the space... Robin sat on the computer chair with her feet hanging in the air. She pushed the edge of the table and shook it. Are there wheels underneath? This chair is quite comfortable...
Robin leaned close to the black glass on the table - the computer monitor, and blinked. What a strange mirror, it's hard to see clearly... She used the Flower-Flower Fruit to grow an eye on the wall behind the monitor, and was surprised to find that the back of this "mirror" seemed to be metal... and there were strange wires inserted... The petals fell, Robin followed these wires, let the eye grow under the table, and saw a vertical cubic metal box...
"What a strange thing..."
Robin stretched out his fingers and pressed carefully on the mechanical keyboard. The clicking sound was quite crisp.
She grabbed a piece of... plastic brick to the right of the keyboard? It was connected to a wire, maybe to the box below...
"It's a pity that it can't be used."
Robin was startled by the sudden voice and turned around to see Lynch appear at the door of the study room. He leaned against the door frame and looked at her sitting on the computer chair.
Robin came down embarrassedly, and Lynch walked over and sat down with his legs spread out, smacking his lips, then dragged himself to the table and started typing on the mechanical keyboard. He swung the mouse around, and finally lowered his head and pressed the switch of the host... Sure enough, there was no response on the screen.
The user of the Castle Fruit is almost like the creator of the castle in his body.
The structure and layout of the castle, as well as the interior decoration, can be customized as you wish. Even furniture such as tables and chairs can be customized in a moment.
Even candlelight and electricity can be provided.
Lynch guessed that the price of all this was probably the physical strength of the ability user himself, or his own energy.
In the Big Mom chapter of the comics, Becky's internal castle even has a refrigerator, and the refrigeration function is functioning normally.
If you don't find it disgusting...it might be possible to use the ability user's physical strength to create some water in the castle inside the body and make some simple food.
I wonder if the Straw Hat Pirates who bathed in Becky's castle used the water they brought in, or some other strange water...
"You can't do it, young man. You can't even handle a computer!"
Lynch pushed away the keyboard, held the back of his head, and walked around the room in his computer chair.
Computer? As Robin was wondering, she saw a mass of white substance rising from the floor, quickly condensing into a... Eh? She opened her eyes wide and saw a tall, dark figure, who seemed to be wearing full body armor?
The streamlined shell, the sharp edges, the armor full of mechanical beauty... There are only the eyes on the face, which are glowing with a cold white light.
She noticed the other person's hands. The left hand was covered with blue flame patterns, and the right hand was red flames.
The red and blue flame lines stretched along the arms and converged on the inverted triangle area on the chest that was emitting a faint white light, as if guarding a bright moon...
This arm with blue flame patterns... Robin remembered that the arm that Lynch's ghost had created using the Flower-Flower Fruit was exactly the same as this one! Was it Lynch's ghost?
"BIB" turned his head to look at Robin, nodded slightly, and then said to the main body: "The parts in the case can be roughly made... but when it comes to the detailed circuit components, there is no way."
"Just a showpiece!" Lin Qi stood up with emotion.
Leaving the study, Lynch walked around the living room, the bedroom, and the small kitchen.
"I haven't finished living here yet..." Lynch said with some regret. Noticing that Robin was a little confused, he said casually, "I found an internship in the second semester of my junior year, and rented a house for the summer vacation..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
It would have been fine if he didn't say anything. Once he said it, Robin became even more confused.
Since there are doctoral degrees in the One Piece world, there must be schools. But the Chinese abbreviation for "senior year" may not be the same. Robin, who got her doctorate at the age of eight, was also unfamiliar with the word "summer vacation"...
Lynch just said it casually and didn't intend to explain it seriously.
"Let's go to the next floor." Lin Qi said with a smile, "It's the boys' dormitory."
Robin followed Lynch and...his ghost to the next level.
It turns out that his ghost looks like this... Robin feels that this look is somewhat different from his own imagination and style!
The next level down is Lynch's college dorm.
The next floor down is the high school dormitory...
"I have to say, Lao Hei, you really understand." Lin Qi walked and looked, feeling so sad that he almost cried. He paused at the door of the high school dormitory, put his hand on "BIB"'s shoulder, and complained: "Look at what you have done to me, I am so nostalgic..."
Next comes the last layer, the bottom layer.
Lynch walked down the stairs and pushed open the door.
The lights in the room are bright.
The layout is warm and cozy.
Every piece of furniture, its structure, placement, and damaged parts... are exactly as Lynch remembered.
Compared to the first floor, there is a lot more life here.
The kitchen has become much bigger and looks like it is used frequently.
But the bedroom was different. There were posters on the wall that Robin had never seen before. And it seemed that the owner of this bedroom was younger than the one on the first floor...
"Sit down, don't be polite, just treat it as your own home." Lin Qi greeted him, and jumped onto the small bed in his room. "Old Black, come and take a look outside."
Robin saw that the man in black armor standing at the door stretched out his arm and pointed at the wall opposite Lynch.
The wall turned into a surge of white matter and quickly turned into a huge mirror-smooth screen - with a beep, the picture lit up, and what appeared on the screen was an endless sea, and the screen's perspective was flying over the sea.
It turns out that his ghost can fly like this... Robin sat down on the chair next to the desk and looked at the screen on the wall.
In the picture, you can see a huge red mountain, or "wall", getting closer and closer on the sea ahead.
That is the Red Earth Continent.
Upside-down Mountain is almost here.
(End of this chapter)