Kuzan did not stop because he had tested Galen's true strength, but deliberately put on a ruthless appearance, and his deep eyes secretly revealed two penetrating coldness.

Such a scene is very incompatible with Kuzan, who is usually lazy and amiable like a decadent middle-aged uncle.

But everyone who sees this scene has to admit that the momentum on Kuzan's body is majestic, domineering and ferocious, which makes people feel like falling into an ice cellar and chilling all over their bodies.

And Galen, who had just crawled out of the ice pit, faced this murderous aura, and was still holding his sword to block it, suddenly felt a kind of ridiculousness and tragedy of using his mantis arm as a car.

Such a companion Robin hadn't met in years;

After encountering him, the man was in danger because of himself, just like the giant she had met in O'Hara eighteen years earlier.

Robin suddenly felt that the nickname given to him by the World Government was correct, and she was really like a demon child, devouring all the people around her who trusted her and cared for her.

The tangle and pain in Robin's heart climbed to its peak at such a time, and the will that had just settled down was shaken again.

Noticing the uncontrollable tremor on Robin's body, Nami quietly walked over to Robin and grabbed her trembling and cold hands tightly:

"Robin!"

Nami didn't hide the worry and nervousness on her face, but her voice was full of unwaveringness:

"Don't give up hope, trust Galen!"

"He said he wanted to protect you, and he would be able to do it!"

“......”

Robin was silent for a long time, his heart fluctuating and full of emotion.

Looking at the tall figure in front of the Admiral in the distance, Robin, who was accustomed to surviving on his own, had the idea of entrusting his life completely to his companions for the first time in his heart.

Facing Nami's caring eyes, Robin wiped away the tears that oozed from the corners of his eyes because of fear and entanglement, and nodded heavily:

"I believe him!"

"My life is entrusted to Galen!"

"Hmm..."

Nami's eyes suddenly became a little strange, and she hesitated for a long time before she said to Robin in a slightly cryptic tone:

"You just have to believe in Galen."

"Don't entrust 'yourself' to him..."

"Huh?"

Robin was slightly stunned, and immediately burst into tears.

Her smile is restrained, calm and affectionate, and it is full of the elegance, self-satisfaction and calmness of mature women and intellectuals;

In front of this smile, it seems that all the ups and downs are not worth mentioning.

Nami, who is still a young girl, can't learn such charm at all.

Nami, who had just comforted Robin, couldn't help but tremble in her heart when she saw such a threatening smile, and suddenly remembered something:

It seems that before Galen came to Alabastan, she persuaded Vivi to believe Galen, and later...

"Hmm..."

Thinking of this, Nami was like a little pufferfish, and she was so angry that she swelled herself.

On the other side of the battlefield, Kuzan's pitch-black fist stood out in the midst of a crystal clear glacier.

He glanced at Galen coldly, and the might of the general of the headquarters poured out completely on Galen's body:

"Galen, give up!"

"Your strength is not as strong as it is rumored, so..."

"Keep going and you might die!"

Galen was not in the slightest moved by Kuzan's momentum, but only showed his unwavering stance with the raised blade of his sword.

At the same time, Galen felt some trouble in his heart:

Looking at Kuzan's deliberately fierce face, he knew that this test was far from over.

Sure enough, Kuzan's whole body rioted, and the pitch-black ice fist broke through the air again.

Swifter than a meteor and lightning, the terrifying fist that devoured everything like a black hole simply and brutally sent a terrifying gust of wind through the air.

In the majestic storm, the ice chips and ice flowers in the sky are flying, dazzling.

Galen raised his sword to meet him, and the collision set off another burst of ice flowers.

Two flaming meteors collided with each other in mid-air, like two intertwined thunderbolts, bringing endless hurricanes, flames, and sounds.

The airboat that was still parked on the ground not far away swayed in the endless storm.

If it weren't for the countless solid leashes that had not yet been untied, Galen's flagship that had just left the factory would probably have turned into a balloon and flew away.

In the cockpit of the airship, Frankie and the crew have already taken this opportunity to start collecting data and testing the airship's wind resistance in the field.

The thick layer of ice beneath their feet began to crack and crumble, and the ice chips in the air became richer and richer, and began to refract a dazzling rainbow under the desert sun.

As soon as these little rainbows took shape, they turned into nothingness in the turbulent storm.

In another splendid ice flower, there are countless rainbows rippling at the same time, which is indescribably gorgeous.

Today's Galen is not bad, even in the face of generals, he will not be easily defeated, and he still has the power to fight back when he is fully suppressed.

Coupled with Galen's data-based body that will not be weak or injured and various means of damage reduction and recovery, Galen can actually fight with Kuzan with great success, and he has not shown defeat for a long time.

But Galen knew:

Even if he persists for a long time, it is impossible to win Kuzan when there is an absolute strength gap.

After all, the strength of the general's physical strength is far from being comparable to small characters such as Klockdahl and Moria.

In the future of another world line, Kuzan has a terrible record of fighting with fellow generals Akainu for ten days and ten nights, and the two of them can only tell the winner from the two until the entire island becomes ice and fire.

So, Galen struggled to fend off Kuzan's fists while racking his brains to figure out how to get the other party to stop.

Between the lightning and flint, Galen suddenly figured out the trick:

If Kuzan is going to test him, the key is not that his strength is not strong enough to protect Robin, but that his belief in protecting Robin is not strong enough.

Thinking of this, Galen took advantage of the situation to reveal a flaw and ate Kuzan's punch like a cannonball.

The devastating power spreads from the chest to the whole body, and from the body to the surrounding air, and the waves of air that erupt are like floods that break through the embankment.

Galen's body flew upside down, and the armor on his body even rubbed with the high-speed tearing air to create a sparkling fire.

After his body was embedded in the thick ice and smashed into the ice flowers, Galen took advantage of the situation to crook his neck and collapsed to the ground "weakly".

Immediately afterwards, Galen lifted the data mode, making the gorgeous armor sword disappear, revealing an ordinary white suit worth more than a million Baileys.

"Huh?"

Kuzan suddenly stopped his fist, and slowly walked to the edge of the pit where Galen had fallen, and looked condescendingly at Galen, who had lost his armor.

"Where's your armor and greatsword?"

Kuzan asked, somewhat curious.

"Haha..."

Galen, who "collapsed" on the ground, only laughed twice, and "tried his best" to support the ice under him with his arms, and finally "looked weak" and "struggled" to get up from the ice pit.

Then, Galen said to Kuzan in a somewhat helpless tone:

"My fruit ability has reached its limit."

"Oh... I see. ”

"Is this the peculiar 'knight fruit'?"

Kuzan didn't look too surprised.

In fact, he would have been shocked if Galen had been fighting him like he had just been.

Because Kuzan has previously discovered:

No matter how he hammered Galen, Galen would not have the slightest injury, let alone the slightest weakness.

This is obviously a strange ability generated by the 'Devil Fruit', and each fruit ability should have its own limit.

"This fruit ability is really amazing!"

Kuzan sighed heartily.

With all kinds of bizarre additional abilities and a body that does not get hurt or weaken, Galen's "knight fruit" is even rarer and more powerful than the natural fruit in Kuzan's mind.

"With such fruit power, your future is infinitely bright."

"And you are still so young now, maybe you will grow into a real 'general strength' in the future."

"So..."

Kuzan glanced deeply at Galen, who had "reached the limit", and asked:

"Are you going to give up this great future for Nicole Robin?"

Like a cold wind blowing on the ice field, the air around it instantly became cold.

There was a dead silence.

Robin's eyes also fell on Galen's body, his eyes were full of worry and nervousness, but he was without the previous entanglement and hesitation.

She had chosen to trust Galen.

And Galen didn't disappoint her:

"Hahaha..."

"I'm not the kind of unscrupulous boss who would sell his employees to steal money."

"Even their own companions will give up, so what future and future are you talking about!"

Galen straightened up under Kuzan's gaze, like a green pine standing in the wind and snow, and showed Kuzan a pair of fists clenched like steel:

"Without a sword, without armor, I still have this pair of fists!"

"I'll be standing here anyway!"

These bloody lines are completely sincere.

After all, no matter how serious Galen is, he will never allow others to take away his daughter... Ahem... Female employees.

There was silence again.

In silence, Robin's eyes blurred with tears unconsciously.

"What a nuisance..."

Kuzan sighed softly, and then turned to look at Robin from afar:

"Nico Robin, you've finally found a reliable companion."

Tears welled up in Robin's eyes, and her favorability of Galen rose again.

"Whew..."

Galen secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart:

At this point, Kuzan's ordeal should be over.

Sure enough, Kuzan's eyes unabashedly showed appreciation for Galen, and he shouted with a kind face:

"Galen, in that case..."

"Huh?"

Galen replied casually.

"Then let me see what you can do for that sinner..."

"Stand in front of me for as long as you want!"

A punch was thrown, and the wind and clouds were stirred.

"Oops, hey..."

"Why are you still fighting—ah!"