Two months later.

The dreaded dhow, Luffy's usual training ground.

“X BURNER！”

A majestic heat gushed out, instantly enveloping a "empress" zombie in the sky, and the flames shot away, with a terrifying temperature, burning the zombies trapped in the Gang Flame into ashes in an instant.

Moria's shadow clone flew up skillfully, as if it had become accustomed to nature, and easily grabbed the "empress" who was about to fly away.

The flames slowly erupted, and Luffy descended to the ground at an even speed with the light of the fire.

【Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a zombie general, gaining 75,800 experience and 150,000 gold. 】

He shook his head helplessly, looked at the 250w gold coins in his backpack, and couldn't help sighing.

If it had been before, Luffy would have gotten such a large amount of gold coins, and he would have screamed in revelry.

And now, it was obviously a huge amount of money that had never been seen before, but Luffy felt extremely disappointed.

Luffy thought that with Hancock's shadow and finding a large number of corpses, it would be an infinitely happy journey to brush points.

Unexpectedly, in the end, I was defeated by reality.

I don't know if it's because of the lack of development of Moria's fruit ability, or because Hancock's mental power is too strong, causing the shadow to be different from ordinary shadows.

In short, the large number of ordinary zombies made by Hogubak could not absorb Hancock's shadow at all.

Every time Moriah finishes the contract with Shadow and puts it in the corpse, Shadow will run out of the zombie's body for no reason.

Only a corpse that was strong enough to a certain extent before his death could fit perfectly with Hancock's shadow.

But how can such a corpse be so easy to find.

The time is about to come when Ace will go to sea.

Luffy originally planned to go back this time, so he didn't come out and enjoyed some leisure time, but also waited for the situation in the world to develop more interestingly, and to meet the characters who appeared in the original book.

So Luffy's original plan was to use Hancock's shadow to earn a lot of gold coins and arm himself well, but he didn't expect that his hope would be disappointed.

In the space of two months, Luffy and the others traveled through two islands, and in the end, they only found a dozen corpses that could carry Hancock's shadow.

Once you can predict how "picky eater" Hancock's shadow is...

"You still have to be content!" Luffy's momentum decreased, his pupils turned back to black and white, and his whole person returned to his usual state.

"Mr. Luffy, this is the last zombie...", Moria grabbed Hancock's shadow and stepped forward to report.

"Hmm...," Luffy nodded, he knew about it before.

looked at the shadow that was still struggling in Moria's hand, lowered his head and thought for a while, but still waved his hand, and said helplessly to Moria: "Let's return the shadow to Hancock first..."

After all, now Hancock and Robin are friends.

Although he still ignores them, he looks arrogant, and he doesn't have the consciousness of being a prisoner at all.

But Luffy definitely doesn't wait to treat Hancock with the same attitude as the enemy, as long as she stays with Robin and doesn't cause trouble, Luffy can do whatever she wants.

Since Hancock's shadow is no longer needed, it is better to return it to her sooner.

Robin had already mentioned this matter to him several times, but the shadow was still very important to him at that time, so he didn't immediately promise Robin, but just said that he would return it to Hancock after training.

"Huh!?"

Hearing this, Moria was stunned for a moment, such a good shadow is rare in a hundred years, after all, this shadow itself is already stronger than him.

But when he thought of the relationship between Hancock and Miss Robin, and thought of the relationship between Luffy and Robin, Moria nodded with a complicated expression and obediently let go of his hand.

As the Shadow Fruit's restraint vanished, Hancock's shadow immediately turned into a black light, flew into the sky, and finally fell into a room in the castle in the center of the island.

Inside the castle.

Robin, who was enjoying afternoon tea with Hancock, was stunned when he saw it, then looked at Hancock's feet with a smile on his face, and smiled at Hancock again.

Hancock, who was listening to Robin, looked curiously at Robin, who suddenly stopped, and then, following Robin's gaze, he also lowered his head.

I saw a black shadow clinging to Hancock's feet.

Hancock stretched out his hand, and the shadow also drew a black shadow and kicked the leg, and the shadow moved with it.

Hancock, who hadn't seen a shadow for two months, couldn't help but be a little stunned, and it seemed that there were still some shadows who were not used to returning suddenly.

Robin smiled lightly and said to Hancock, "After seeing Luffy, I've decided to let you go back to Nine Snake Island!" That's great! Hancock! ”

After all, one side is Luffy, who he likes, and the other side is Hancock, who has become a good friend.

Robin has been caught between the two for the past two months, Luffy doesn't care, he cares a lot about his own thoughts, so he will listen to himself in many things.

But Hancock is different.

I don't know why, Hancock is inexplicably hostile to Luffy, much stronger than Brook and Moria.

Robin always thought that it was because Robin defeated Hancock that Hancock was like this.

So a long time ago, Robin had asked Luffy vaguely, hoping that Luffy would return Hancock's shadow as soon as possible, so as to ease the relationship between the two.

If the two of them continue like this, it will be difficult for Robin, who is caught in the middle, to do it...

Now that Luffy has returned Hancock's shadow, it means that Luffy has made concessions, and the relationship between the two has a chance to ease further.

Next, it's up to you to persuade Hancock.

"Huh...!? Return! ... Get back? ”

Hancock's face became a little ugly, and as soon as he recovered from his stunned state, he heard Robin's words and couldn't help but say a little sadly.

However, if you go back, you must go back, after all, Sanda Sonia and the others are still waiting for them, and she is the empress of the entire Nine Snakes, so it is impossible for them to be trapped here all the time.

But...

Now, she really doesn't want to leave here yet, because...

Hancock looked up at Robin with affection, hesitated for a long time, and finally said to Robin as if he had made up his mind: "Robin... You, come to my pirates! ”

Robin's hand holding the cup suddenly paused, then put the cup on the table, his expression became serious, and said to Hancock: "It's impossible! Hancock, I hope you don't say that again! ”

"This..."Robin's suddenly serious expression made Hancock's heart twitch, but he still didn't give up, and continued to ask: "Then Robin, what are you doing to be a pirate for?" ”

"Me?"

Robin suddenly laughed again, as if recalling a fond memory.

The first meeting with Luffy experienced a storm and walked through one sea area after another.

"So it's been so long before you know it," Robin muttered suddenly.

"What?"

"It's nothing..."Robin took a sip of juice and continued, "The reason why I became a pirate, because Luffy invited me to be a pirate, so I'm a pirate!" ”

As he spoke, Robin's eyes flashed with purple marks, and the Penglie ring in his hand also burst into flames from time to time, which seemed to represent Robin's determination at this time.