Robin's worries and uneasiness along the way were only translated into one sentence: "Excuse me, Mr. Darren Eric, the famous 'Kui Long', do you have anything to do with me?"
"Of course." Eric smiled: "I know the truth about the O'Hara incident, and I also know the fictitious crimes of the 'Devil's Son' Nicole Robin. They were obviously just a group of innocent archaeologists, but they were forced to do so by the world government.
Life and death..."
Nico Robin's eyes were suddenly filled with fear. The raging fire that happened in O'Hara that day was still burning in her heart, leaving indelible traces.
The fire that turned the entire sky red, the flames that engulfed the entire island, the heat wave that could be felt from afar...
Robin's hands hugged his shoulders tightly, and he took a big breath of fresh air, but it couldn't extinguish the fire in his heart, and it couldn't relieve the hoarseness in his throat.
The white fingers suddenly tightened, and veins and blood vessels could be seen through the skin. The hooded black clothes were scratched by the fingertips, as if only physical pain could alleviate the grief in the heart. (Robin
His skin has always been white. It’s an animation, so I wrote it as white skin)
Eric didn't expect that just talking about the O'Hara incident would cause Robin to have such a painful reaction. He stopped talking and scratched the back of his head in distress.
Several members of the Dawn Pirates around also looked at each other, with only Artoria looking at Robin with interest.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that telling you this would cause so much harm to you." Eric saw Robin's gradually relieved expression and gave Queen Sugar a look.
Being trained on the boat... no, the sweet queen who acted as a maid immediately handed Robin a glass of lemonade.
"Thank you." Robin took the water glass but did not drink it, just held it in his hands.
I don't know if it's because I'm not thirsty, or I'm afraid of the added ingredients in the water. After all, there are many types of Devil Fruits with all kinds of strange abilities, so there's no guarantee that I will be controlled by their abilities.
Eric looked at the flaky lips and didn't scratch them.
Cats that have just arrived in a strange place will not eat or drink for a period of time. They will curl up in a corner and scan the surroundings with wide, fearful eyes. If there is any movement, their bodies will tremble...
"You don't have to worry so much." Eric was also speechless. Facing Robin who was protecting him, he could only tell the truth, "Your bounty is not enough in front of me."
"If I covet your bounty, I might as well give Perona to the navy. It's still worth 100 million Baileys anyway."
"Hey, why are you handing me over?!" Perona, who was not here originally, had her spirit body enter through the wall.
"Because you are spreading rumors about me everywhere, and all kinds of spicy stories come from your mouth!"
"What are the rumors? I obviously saw them all with my own eyes!"
"You just saw a clip and jumped to conclusions! How can you generalize?! The rest of the plot is just your imagination!"
"Can you give me an example? Which plot was made up by me?"
"Then tell me who wrote the two short stories "One Night with Him" and "What Exactly Happened to Two Men That Day"?! Who wrote them?!"
"Did Kallen or Kana tell the secret? The little note I wrote is only circulated among girls..."
"What?!" Eric was furious, "Are you still circulating it among girls?! How do you want to die?!"
"That, that's..." The spirit Perona quickly ran away through the wall.
"Hoo, ho..." The loud shouting caused Eric to have insufficient blood supply to his brain, and he took two deep breaths.
"...Ha, haha..." Nico Robin, who has been working hard since she was eight years old, saw for the first time the boss of the organization and a subordinate having an irrelevant quarrel. She couldn't help but covered her mouth and laughed softly.
Got up.
Robin, who noticed other people's gaze, slowly lowered her head. She was now a prisoner.
"I know your dream." Eric provoked the topic that Robin was most interested in, "I have also seen the historical text, look at this -"
Eric took out a part of the historical inscriptions that were rubbed on the empty island and said, "You know this text? This is evidence that I have seen the historical texts."
"Historical text!" Robin put the water glass aside and took it with trembling hands, "Where did you see the historical text?"
"Sky Island."
Robin murmured to himself: "Is there really an empty island..."
"Of course, this world is very exciting, and it's bigger than you imagine!"
"Although it may sting your nerves." Eric continued: "But I still want to say: The reason why O'Hara perished was because the scholars on O'Hara Island studied the things that the world government strictly prohibited from interpreting.
One hundred years of blank history.”
"The second reason is: You have no power to protect yourself, but you are trying to cross the red line of the world government and do what you cannot do."
Eric's words struck Robin's chest word by word. At the age of 21, she already knew too much, and seven years later she would even say, "I just want to know history, but my dream has too many enemies."
emotion.
Robin tried to defend loudly: "But, they are just a group of scholars...!"
"Words will turn into weapons, knowledge will turn into sharp blades, and the blank history can naturally become an artifact to overthrow the world government! So they will kill those who can threaten them from the source."
"You don't understand now how powerful the public opinion of the World Government is, right? It's just words, appearing in newspapers, but the wanted order has become a rope to arrest you, and a weapon to attack you one by one."
"..." Robin could only respond silently, because everything Eric said was right and she couldn't refute anything!
"To put it bluntly." Eric continued: "As long as you continue to interpret history and live, you will bring disaster to the people around you, just like the pirate group, mafia, or whatever you were in before.
Other organizations.”
"Ha..." Robin sighed and said with a bitter smile: "Sure enough, am I not worthy of living in this world?"
"No, everyone has his role in this world." Eric denied her words, "It's just that they don't have the strength and ability to protect you."
Robin immediately understood what Eric meant, and with a joking smile, "You mean, Lord Kuilong, can you protect me from the hostility of the World Government?"
"Of course." Eric nodded, "At this point, killing the Celestial Dragons and trampling on the face of the World Government has already made them feel very disgraced. It doesn't matter if they do one or two more things to make them angry.
"
"You and I are the same kind of people. We are both extremely evil people that the world government wants to eliminate soon. It's just that you are passive, and I am active. Here, I can lead you to find those historical texts, and you can continue to realize
Your dream - to know history."
"However, my only request is that you are not allowed to betray your companions."
"It seems that I have no other choice." Robin lowered her head so that Eric could not see her face clearly.
"No, I'll give you a chance to choose." Eric shook his head: "Join us and become one of us; or, I let you go, and I won't do anything else to you afterwards."
Robin, who was thinking a lot, drank the lemonade from the water glass next to him in one gulp. It was a bit sour, but it quenched his thirst, and there was a hint of sweetness hidden in it.
"I will leave it to you to take care of me from now on, Mr. Captain."