Also a few hours before Dewey arrived in the New World, Sengoku, who was still working in the office at the Navy Headquarters in Marinford, received a call from the CP organization authorized by the Five Elders.
"Black smoke, isn't it the Floating Fruit, but a dark-type ability?"
After receiving the information from the CP members, Zhan Guo frowned and said in a deep voice: "In other words, the second-generation ability user of the Float-Float Fruit is a huge threat hiding in the dark, with unknown age, unknown appearance, unknown strength, unknown good and evil, unknown ambitions… everything is unknown? This is really terrible news!"
"Yes, Marshal Sengoku." Den Den Mushi agreed expressionlessly.
"Thank you for your hard work during this period. You don't need to follow them anymore. After all, they have the ability of the Thunder Fruit, which allows them to have amazing perception and eavesdrop. If they find out that you are monitoring them, they might force them to join the evil side." Zhan Guo rubbed his brows and said so.
"I know, that's why we haven't been tracking them personally." Den Den Mushi replied confidently, and then didn't talk much with Sengoku, and even didn't have much respect for the Navy Marshal, and hung up the phone on his own initiative.
Sengoku didn't care about this, because he was still feeling that the second generation user of the Float-Float Fruit was an unknown enemy.
Yes, the unknown enemy!
Although the enemy's intelligence was completely unknown, they took away one of the small islands in the Sabaody Archipelago closest to the Navy Headquarters at dusk on the day when the Navy Headquarters announced the death of Golden Lion. This was simply a provocation to the Navy Headquarters and the Celestial Dragons in Marijoa.
If there was no evidence to prove that the second-generation user of the Float-Float Fruit was Kalina among Dewey and the other two, even the Five Elders who recognized Dewey as the strongest hunter would rather kill the wrong person than let him go, and would decisively send CP strongmen and navy admirals to encircle and suppress them.
However, after hearing that Kalina's ability was dark, the disdain for the second-generation user of the Float-Float Fruit among Dewey and the other two was lifted.
Just like what the world knows, they could never have imagined that there would be such a freak with dual fruit ability in the ocean.
Even if they knew that there might be freaks with dual fruit abilities in the world, they would never think that Dewey was such a freak.
That's why Sengoku and the Five Elders first suspected Kalina, who was the least capable among the three of them, rather than Dewey.
"Damn it, that kid Dewey sent me the corpse of a golden lion, which had been frozen for less than a month, and someone was lucky enough to eat the Floating Fruit, which seemed to have reborn somewhere. What kind of luck is this!?" Zhan Guo cursed as he left work. Tonight would probably be a sleepless night for a 76-year-old man like him.
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At noon the next day, Kalina and her two daughters and Zoro split up into two groups and came to a tavern, where they found a graceful figure wearing a cloak and a veil, who looked like a resident of the rain land.
Karina sat opposite her, holding her cheeks with both hands, looking at Nico Robin who was quietly reading a book, and said with a smile: "Nice to meet you, hello, Miss Sunday."
"…"
Looking up at Kalina and Nami who called out her code name, Robin's originally nonchalant eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, and her slender hands that were turning the pages of the book were faintly trembling, but she still pretended to be calm and chuckled, "I didn't expect that the famous electric girl Nami and the Phantom Thief Kalina also knew a small person like me. It's really surprising."
"Hehe, you are not a nobody, after all…" Kalina laughed in a unique way, then lowered her voice so that only the three of them could hear, and said, "You are Nico Robin, the son of the devil, who was offered a bounty of 79 million Baileys when you were only eight years old."
"…"
An extremely fearful and almost desperate emotion immediately surged from Robin's heart. His body became extremely stiff. He tried his best to remain normal, but his voice was still trembling as he said, "…I don't know what you are talking about?"
Just like when Robin encountered the nightmare Aokiji in the original novel, if other people knew his identity, he would not be so scared.
But the two women in front of him were obviously different, they were not only two members of the world's number one hunter team and the bounty three giants, their captain was also known as the strongest rookie in history, the world's number one bounty hunter, and was recognized by the world as the strongest hunter because of the killing legend.
As the vice president of Baroque Works, the largest bounty hunter organization in the first half of the Grand Line, no one knows better than Robin of the Mobile Library how powerful Dewey and the other two are.
Especially since the person she currently serves is Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the user of the natural Sand-Sand Fruit.
Robin, who understands the horror of the nature system, is even more aware that one of the two girls in front of her is the user of the Thunder Fruit, which is known as the strongest nature system.
If the opponent was her boss, she might be able to use water to launch a sneak attack, but facing the thunder and lightning of nature, Robin could not think of any way to deal with it. .End
Luo, who has the ability of the Thunder Fruit, is finished and doesn't even have the ability to resist.
So, she could only pray that the other party was testing her.
Kalina and the other girl looked at each other, and then Nami took out a shell from her body, pushed it in front of Robin, and said, "Press the button at the bottom, maybe you will be interested in what's inside."
"Don't worry, we have no interest in your bounty." Kalina added, alleviating the fear that filled Robin's heart.
Hearing this, Robin picked up the Image Shell with a puzzled look on his face and pressed the button at the bottom.
"This is..."
When Robin saw the photos stored inside, her beautiful eyes suddenly widened and her cheeks under the veil revealed a look of deep surprise.
"How about it? You should be familiar with the things inside, right?!" Kalina stretched out her right hand to Robin and invited him with a smile: "Our boss is very optimistic about you and sincerely invites you to join us!"
As if to reassure Robin, Kalina comforted her again, "Please rest assured, our boss is the strongest hunter. He doesn't care about pirates with bounties of hundreds of millions. He won't target your bounty of less than 80 million Baileys."
"I'm willing to join you." Robin held Kalina's hand without any hesitation.
Just like Zoro's response to Dewey's invitation, his goal is to become the world's greatest swordsman. No matter whether he is a bounty hunter or a pirate, as long as it can lead him into a new world, he will become a part of them without hesitation.
Similarly, the goal is to find the true historical text, and for a historical text tablet that is stored somewhere unknown in the Kingdom of Alabasta, Robin, who has been working for Crocodile until now, now has a historical text in front of her, and a team stronger than Crocodile invites her. How could Robin refuse?
To her, it was just another betrayal of her boss in these long nineteen years.
"You are welcome to join us."
Kalina and the other girl didn't know what she was thinking. When Robin agreed to join, Nami smiled and said, "As a gift for becoming our partner, after we complete the test, we will take you to see the historical text you have been looking for in the past few years."
"Do you know my goal?"
Robin seemed to have just reacted. He looked around and whispered to Kalina and the other two girls, "Could it be that you also know the identity of the owner of Baroque Works?"
"certainly!"
Nami said proudly: "Our boss is an omniscient god!"
"Okay, the boss is not around again. Don't you feel embarrassed to do this?" Kalina rolled her eyes at Nami.
"whee..."
Nami scratched her head and laughed sheepishly: "It's a bit corny indeed. Am I not imitating Enel's appearance?"
"…God? I really want to meet our future captain."
Looking at the two innocent girls, Robin, who had amazing experience, seemed to be moved by the emotions. An interested smile appeared on his face under his veil as he spoke.
"Don't worry, we'll see you in a week."
Kalina promised, and then said, "Since we are companions, I will call you Sister Robin! Sister Robin, we are here with the boss's test and mission. One of the missions is to recruit you. As for the test… can we move aside and talk?"
"Sure. Let's go."
Robin nodded slightly, and then the three women stood up and left the tavern.
Walking into a remote and deserted alley, Kalina said to Robin, "I want to ask you for a favor. In the name of the vice president of Baroque Works, summon all the people with special abilities back to the rainy land for a meeting."
"Is this your test?" Robin blinked her beautiful eyes and asked curiously.
"This is the test we give to our new brother." Kalina replied with a smile: "And the test for Nami and I is to challenge your former boss, Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."
"I see, no problem!"
Robin nodded in understanding and assured Kalina, "Your test will last for a week, right? I will have them return within five days."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
Kalina took out a Den Den Mushi that she had prepared long ago and handed it to Robin: "This is the Den Den Mushi we will use to contact you. You don't need to contact us. We will kill them when they get close to the rainy land and won't give them a chance to see you."
"...I see."
Robin seemed stunned by Karina's unquestionable declaration, and took the Den Den Mushi, said goodbye to the two girls and left the alley.
Watching Robin's back disappear, Nami asked Kalina, "Kalina, are you making Zoro's test more difficult without authorization?"
"Idiot, when are you going to use your brain? Stop relying on me and the boss all the time!"
Karina couldn't help but poke Nami's forehead with her index finger, then asked unhappily, "How long has it been since I got the Dark-Dark Fruit?"
"It seems to be November of 1517 in the Haiyuan calendar, which is almost a year and a half." Nami actually calculated carefully and answered.
"…Then how many people's abilities have I taken away since I obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit?" Kalina looked at Nami speechlessly, who had not yet reacted, and continued to ask.
"Let me calculate… Wait, are you planning to…"
Fortunately, Nami's reaction was not as slow as Kalina had imagined. She suddenly stared at Kalina with her beautiful eyes wide open.
"Fortunately, you are not hopelessly stupid." Kalina patted Nami's head with relief, smiling but not hiding her contempt.
"Well, you're the smartest, okay?"
Nami slapped Kalina's hand away and rolled her eyes at her.
Perhaps it was because they hadn't been together for a long time, Nami couldn't help but ask, "By the way, Kalina, you said that the boss took so many fruits, is he going to use them to expand the fleet? But when we were destroying those pirate groups, we also encountered guys with great potential, and most of them were even stronger than Zoro. Why did he only recruit Zoro?"
"You don't really think that the boss is taking away the power for the sake of his future subordinates?" Kalina looked at Nami with a strange look.
"Isn't it?"
Nami couldn't help scratching her head and looked at Karina with a puzzled look.
"well..."
Kalina sighed, put her arm around Nami's shoulders, leaned against the wall of the alley, and asked softly, "We have thoroughly cleaned the sailboat many times in the past year. Have you found a box containing a large number of devil fruits?"
"Well…it seems not!"
Nami thought about it carefully, shook her head at first, then remembered that Dewey was a dual fruit ability user, opened her beautiful eyes again, stared at Kalina and said: "Could it be that… they were all eaten by the boss?"
"No, the boss is just a dual-fruit ability user."
Kalina shook her head and said, "If the boss is really a multi-fruit ability user, then he wouldn't be so passive when encountering certain situations, especially when it comes to flying! You know, the boss didn't even hide his identity as a dual fruit ability user from us. What's the difference between a multi-fruit ability user and a dual fruit ability user?"
After that, without giving Nami another chance to ask questions, Kalina suddenly held Nami's shoulders, looked into her beautiful eyes, and said seriously: "Just like the boss doesn't say it, but we know that the boss knows everything. Everyone has their own secrets, and some people's secrets are only known by themselves. The reason why they don't want to tell us is not because they don't trust us, but because they are worried… worried that if they tell us, we will no longer be the same species, especially since he has always regarded himself as a human! So, no matter how curious you are, Nami, as long as the boss doesn't take the initiative to say it, you are not allowed to ask this question, do you understand?"
"I…I understand!"
Seeing Karina's face becoming more serious than ever, Nami nodded nervously.