Chapter 16: Nicole Robin
“...... After the navy decided to let me go, I rowed to the island along the ice road formed in the sea, and he told me to keep a low profile, otherwise he would come back and arrest me himself, so I didn't dare to see anyone when I got to the island, and then I met an old woman who helped her work every day in exchange for food, but it didn't take long for my bounty order to appear, she betrayed me to the world government, and I had to flee to the next island. After that, I met all kinds of people, whether it was the husband and wife who adopted me, the owner of the bakery, or the friends I met while working, and when they learned my identity, they all chose to betray me to the navy and the world government, and I had to run away again and again...... Until now......"
"Okay, that's my past."
At the bow of the boat, Robin leaned on the guardrail and looked into the distance, with a hint of yearning and confusion in his eyes, but there was an indescribable perseverance.
Hades looked at her back and sighed in his heart how small the world was.
Of course he knew Robin's story, but when he saw it in the video and heard it with his own ears, he couldn't help but ask softly.
"You tell me this, aren't you afraid that I will betray you and hand you over to the navy?"
The girl looked up at the white clouds in the sky, and the sea breeze blew and ruffled her hair.
"Give yourself one last chance, if even you betray me, I won't trust anyone anymore."
Both men were silent at the same time.
"I should ......"
"You should ......"
“......”
"Ahem, that, let's clean up the boat first." Hades shifted the subject.
The way the ship looks now really needs to be cleaned up.
"Oh." Robin nodded.
Don't look at the two of them combined, they are not more than twenty, but they are both experts in terms of work.
Robin's Flower Fruit can be used by several people alone, and because Hades is a ship, cleaning the deck is as convenient as bathing himself, and a simple flush washes away the miserable appearance of hell on earth.
"You say you're a demon parasitic on this ship? I think you're a ship elf. ”
During the cleaning process, Robin had been taking the time to observe Hades's every move, and after introducing her past, she asked him about his past, but he diverted the topic by a few vague words.
"You know?"
"I read in an ancient book that the ship spirit is an intelligent life born from the intimacy of the crew of a ship, but what about the original crew of this ship?"
"I don't know."
Hades shook his head, he couldn't tell her that he was born of the system.
Robin didn't dwell on it for long, but after a while she suddenly looked up and asked, "Can you sense everything on this ship?" ”
Hades nodded without thinking, the boat was his body, of course he could.
"What's wrong?" He sensed that Robin seemed to have something to say.
"I ...... I want to go to the toilet ......"
“......”
The two men were silent again, an aura of embarrassment filling the air.
"I'm not human, if you don't mind......" Hades looked at the other man's face getting redder and redder.
"Okay, then...... I'm going to get a plank and throw it at sea, I can't feel it when you're not on the boat, so that's it. Again, he asked for the other person's opinion.
Seeing Robin's nod, Hades took out the plank from the warehouse and threw it far away at sea, but fortunately Robin was only a child, and his light weight would not sink when he stepped on the large plank.
Because she is a Devil Fruit ability and can't swim, Hades made a few ropes to fasten to her and the plank, holding the other end in his own hands, and when she is finished, it is convenient to pull her back to the boat.
At sea, for some reason, Robin always felt that his situation was more awkward.
At best, Hades was alone in going to the toilet on the ship, but at sea, there was a feeling of being watched by the whole world, especially since she was not sure if she could escape Hades' sight.
Answer...... Of course not.
The boat is Hades's body, as long as he wants, he can switch to any angle on the ship at any time, its field of vision is so wide and far away that even a seagull passing by the horizon can see clearly, not to mention Robin, who is parked a few meters away from the boat.
But Hades definitely won't tell her, after all, girls will be shy when they know.
And for him, he has lost most of his humanity and emotions, how can he be as interested in an eight- or nine-year-old girl as a pervert, and it is impossible to peep or something.
Thinking of this, Hades suddenly had doubts in his heart.
Strange, talking about his own humanity, he was still murderous to a girl he didn't know half an hour ago, why is he much better now, as if ...... It's as if he's back to when he just crossed over.
He pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered the offline of the [Ship Spirit System].
Previously, when the girl revealed her Robin's identity, she was so shocked that she ignored the system's prompts.
When he turned on the system again, he saw that all the panels were covered with the words "System Upgrade, please wait patiently for ......".
Is it because of this?
The system triggers a special event to take him offline temporarily, and then his previously lost humanity returns.
Doesn't that mean that he has become murderous, cold-blooded, and inhumane, and it is really the system that makes it a ghost!
Hades "chuckled" in his heart, and then felt afraid.
If this is true, it seems that he will have to be careful about using some functions in the system in the future, although he still doesn't know what kind of existence the Hades King Pluto, one of the three ancient weapons, is, but his Hades, the Hades, is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp.
He didn't want to revert to what he used to be.
Just then, Robin, who was solving the problem at sea, called his name.
"I'm all right, you pull me up."
Hades glanced at the situation at sea.
"You get your pants up first, or wait...... Uh......"
Not good! He looked at the girl on the sea from the perspective of a ship, and saw that her fair face suddenly turned red, and silently lifted his pants, and stared at the sailboat in front of him with a strange look.
Hades knew she must have guessed that she could see her through the boat.
is worthy of O'Hara's genius girl, who can 'fish' at a young age, but his attention was on the system just now, and he was defenseless for a while, and she discovered his secret.
It's embarrassing.
And Robin, who was red-faced, climbed up from the ship, did not expose the fact that Hades could see him, and continued to clean the deck as if nothing happened, leaving a bottom line for both of them.
Seeing this, Hades hurriedly didn't mention the matter again, and both of them pretended to be confused, relieving the embarrassment in the air.