One Piece: Nico Robin Collection

Chapter 73: The Slave Ship and the First Enemy
“So boring!!!”

A few days later, in a certain area of ​​the South China Sea.

Yamato and Bonnie lay on the guardrail, wailing loudly with bitter faces.

After only a few days of sailing, the two people, one big and one small, could no longer stand the boring sailing life.

Most of the time at sea is boring and tedious. Some sailors may even be driven crazy by this boredom. That is why some better-equipped ships are equipped with various entertainment facilities to relieve boredom.

Unfortunately, Caesar is a merchant ship. Although it is not small in size, it actually only has some empty cargo holds except for the necessary rooms.

“Cherish this boring time.”

Caesar was lazily leaning on a lounge chair, wearing a loose black and gray vest and white beach shorts, with a pair of frog-eye glasses hanging on his nose. A huge parasol next to him blocked the sunlight above his head.

Beside him were Robin and baby5 lying side by side. Robin was wearing a black bikini with orange floral prints, a sea blue silk scarf draped over her shoulders, a white wide-brimmed hat on her head, and a book in her arms.

Baby5 was wearing a short-skirt maid outfit, curled up on a recliner and looking through a cookbook, her long, beautiful legs crossed, gleaming like ivory in the sunlight.

Not far away from the few people, Daxiong also changed into a white vest and fiddled with the barbecue with a smile on his face.

"This is a tranquility unique to the Four Seas, and you can't stand it after just a few days? I don't think you're determined to go to sea..."

“But it’s really boring…”

Yamato looked at him pitifully: "Are your trips to the sea always this boring?"

"how come?"

Caesar shook his head slightly. "There's not much fun to do at sea, but you can find your own fun. For example, aren't we having a barbecue party right now? It's a beach-themed one..."

Yamato sighed heavily, "But it's still so boring... I feel like I have nothing to do. Won't you guys get bored?"

"I think it's pretty good. It's quiet and leisurely. If I didn't have some ideals, I could live like this forever."

Caesar said cheerfully, "Don't worry. After a few days, once you get used to this boring life, you'll gradually become as bored as us~"

“Hey—I don’t want it!” ×2
Yamato and Bonnie both wailed, and Robin couldn't help but chuckle as he covered his mouth at their cute appearance.

"Don't worry, every sailor will feel bored when they first go out to sea. Essentially, this can be seen as a test of one's character."

Robin closed the book and explained, "Also, you have to learn to find things to do on the sea. If you're bored all the time, you never know when you might go crazy, which is very dangerous on the sea."

Yamato pouted: "But what can we do? There's nothing we can do on the ship..."

"There are many!"

Robin suggested, "Like music, painting, reading, playing cards, billiards, fishing, or even practicing, aren't those all possible?"

Yamato: “I don’t know how to do that!”

Bonnie nodded, looking silly and cute, and subconsciously took the skewers handed to her by Big Bear: "Me too, I only know how to eat..."

Caesar shook his head slightly. "You're in a state now. You've just set sail and are filled with curiosity about the unknown. That's why you can't calm down no matter what you do. You just want to fly to the end of the world. This state is not good. Sailing is not that simple."

Yamato looked curious, "Was it like this when Caesar first set sail?"

"Of course, everyone has been there. If something unexpected happens, it's not impossible to drift on the sea for several months."

Caesar laughed and said, "The ocean is vast, but also very dangerous. The great pirate Golden Lion, who once battled Roger, even had a ship's rudder stuck in his head due to a shipwreck. We are all equipped with special abilities on our ship, and if one of us is not careful, something serious could happen."

"This has no necessary connection with our aimless wandering on the sea."

Robin smiled and said, "It's because we don't have a sea chart, right?"

"Well...if we encounter a ship or a port later, there will still be enough time."

Caesar laughed, then suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked up at the sail and said, "Come to think of it, have you noticed that the air seems to have become quieter?"

Robin's expression changed slightly: "Could it be that I accidentally entered the doldrums?"

Caesar shook his head. "Don't worry. The ship's bottom is inlaid with seastone, so even if we enter the Calm Belt, we won't be in danger. The only problem is that while the Calm Belt has a stable climate, like the Grand Line, its magnetic field is highly turbulent, requiring a compass to determine our course."

Yamato's eyes lit up, "So, are we facing an emergency? An adventure?"

call--

Suddenly a breeze blew by, and Caesar brushed his bangs, saying, "Looks like we're still in the South China Sea."

"what!!!"

Yamato slumped down on the deck dejectedly: "There's nothing interesting to do!"

"Well... Honestly, you're pretty lucky."

Caesar smiled and said, "The moment you said that, a slave ship appeared within the range of my observation Haki."

"Tataka!"

Yamato stood up suddenly and rushed to the guardrail: "Where is it? Where is it? What is a slave ship?"

Caesar closed his eyes and sensed carefully: "It's the slave-capturing and trading ship, at ten o'clock, thirty nautical miles away."

"Thirty nautical miles? That's fifty kilometers away? Can your observation Haki actually cover that far?"

Big Bear was surprised. He knew that Caesar was proficient in Observation Haki, but this distance was still beyond his imagination.

"That's nothing. Some people can even catch meteorites from the sky."

Caesar stood up and said, "Alright everyone, the charts are here. After drifting for so many days, it's time to get down to business! Ten o'clock, full speed!"

"Oh!!!"

Yamato and Bonnie stood up and cheered. Big Bear handed the barbecue task to baby5 and steered the boat towards ten o'clock.

After a while, just as Caesar said, a three-masted sailing ship about 100 meters long appeared on the sea level.

Caesar looked at Yamato and said, "Kuma and I will not take any action. The battle will be left to you."

"no problem!"

Yamato raised his mace, puffed out his chest with confidence, and his chest was surging.

"Don't be anxious. There are still some captured slaves on the ship. Don't rush up without thinking."

Caesar reminded him, "You have three tasks: obtain the sea chart, rescue the slaves, and kill the enemy. If the enemy threatens you with slaves, don't hesitate, just unleash your Domineering Haki!"

"understand!"

"Robin, you are responsible for assisting Yamato, and Baby5, protect Bonnie." Caesar said lightly.

"Is Bonnie going to join the battle too?"

Big Bear looked worried. "Isn't it too early? She hasn't learned how to fight yet."

"I can, Dad!"

Bonnie waved her little fist, looking determined to win.

Then, her body suddenly grew rapidly, and she looked like a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. The vest and shorts that originally fit her very well gradually became tight, clinging to her curvy body.

"When fighting enemy ships, be careful. If anyone with special abilities appears, crush them with your domineering aura."

Caesar looked at Yamato and said, "Besides, our entire ship is full of people with special abilities. To avoid unnecessary risks, we won't engage in a boarding battle."

Although he has no shortage of ships, it is better to develop habits for some things.

Yamato nodded heavily: "Leave it to me!"

As she spoke, a layer of snow-white hair appeared on her body, and in the blink of an eye she turned into a little werewolf. She jumped lightly onto the railing and blew a breath of cold air towards the sea.

sieve--

The sea surface, which was originally somewhat rippling, instantly froze, and an icy road connected to the enemy ship.

Bang!
The other party reacted very quickly and realized that something was wrong. Without saying a word, he fired a cannonball at Caesar's ship, but he raised his hand and fired a blood bullet that blew it up in mid-air.

Then Yamato jumped off the boat with his mace.

"The war is on!"

"Oh! A fight!"

Bonnie cheered and jumped off the boat.

Under Big Bear's worried gaze, she flew over a height of several dozen meters, landed on the ice nimbly and steadily, and rushed towards the enemy ship behind Yamato.

"Kill!"

As the ship was frozen, many people came down from the slave ship, all holding knives and guns, and rushed towards Yamato and the others.

"Hey, hey! What race is that girl? A furry one? Or does she have a devil fruit? That's super rare stuff!" "And she's pretty hot too!"

"I like that little maid, hehe..."

The villains had wanton smiles on their faces, but before they could continue their wanton smiles, the mace wrapped in the hegemony color swept across towards them!
“Thunder—gossip!”

Yamato's voice sounds like a person with abundant energy and blood and regular menstruation.

If he just fights the minions, Luffy will cry...

boom--

The violent impact swept across the ice surface, and the enemies in front of him were instantly cleared out.

"Waaaaaa! Yamato, you idiot!!"

Bonnie screamed when she saw this: "You've killed them all! Who am I supposed to fight with?"

"Hahahaha, sorry, I accidentally overdid it..."

Yamato scratched his hair and laughed heartily: "Because I haven't fought for a long time!"

"Damn it, where did this monster come from?"

On the slave ship, a tall, sinister-looking man pounded heavily on the railing: "Fire! Blow them up to the sky for me!"

"Don't even think about it!"

Baby5's feet turned into jets, picked up Bonnie and flew onto the deck. He put Bonnie down with one hand, and turned the other hand into several high-speed rotating gun barrels, aiming at the scum in front of him.

"Maid Gatling!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound, and countless bullets swept towards the people on the deck like a torrential rain. Amid screams, the enemies on the deck fell down one after another like wheat being cut, leaving only the guy who had just shouted.

At this time, the other party had long lost his defiance. He fell to the ground trembling all over, looking at the few people with a look of horror.

"Hey, wait a minute! I surrender! I surrender! I'll give you all my money, please let me live!"

Seeing that the gun barrel on Baby5's arm was still emitting a faint smell of gunpowder, the man no longer had the desire to resist.

Devil fruit user!
Damn it! I didn't expect to run into this kind of monster!

"It's like this again! It's like this again, ahh ...

Seeing that there was only one survivor left on the deck in the blink of an eye, Bonnie, who had been eager to try just now, suddenly screamed madly.

"I can see it! You just don't want me to fight! That's too much!"

Bonnie complained, and Yamato and Baby5 beside her grinned at the same time and made a scissors hand sign at her.

For Bonnie's age, it is still too early to fight, so the two of them tacitly took the lead in dealing with the enemy, unless they encountered one or two weaklings who were alone, which would give the girl some practice.

In such a chaotic battlefield, no one knows where a stray bullet will fly out from. Before she masters the observation Haki, they will never let this girl run around. However, they can take her to feel the atmosphere of the battle first. This is what Caesar had reminded her of before.

"Are you the captain of this ship?"

Robin walked out of the captain's cabin, holding a long barrel-shaped nautical chart in his hand. "Can you tell me where we are now?"

The man pleaded in his eyes: "I said, can you let me go?"

"If you tell me, I'll consider it. If you don't, you'll definitely die."

Robin said calmly, his eyes very cold.

She had no good feelings towards this kind of slave catcher.

"I say! I say! We are about fifty nautical miles southeast of Kutsk Island!"

The man hurriedly said, "That place is not far from here. If you don't believe me, I can take you there!"

"No, I believe you."

Robin smiled faintly: "Come to think of it, a slave ship like yours usually works for others, right?"

"Yes, I...I work for Duffield!"

The man suddenly seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and hurriedly spoke.

Bang! A gunshot rang out!
A hole suddenly appeared on his forehead.

Baby5 blew on the muzzle of the gun: "Who is that?"

Robin said calmly, "Du Field, the king of loan sharks, one of the kings of the underworld. However, since this guy didn't immediately reveal his backers, I think it's probably a matter of building connections, or perhaps there's some indirect way of concealing information."

"Forget it, never mind, let's go save people first!"

Several people went down to the cabin where the slaves were held. The dim and enclosed space was filled with a foul smell, which made Bonnie and Yamato subconsciously frown.

"It stinks!"

"There's nothing we can do about it. The imprisoned slaves have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the cabin."

Robin said, lighting an oil lamp.

The warm light illuminated the dim prison, bringing joy to the faces of the numb slaves.

There were not many slaves in the cabin, about thirty or forty people, including men, women, young and old.

Bonnie excitedly released the slaves from the prison. A young girl looked at them hopefully, "My Lords, are you here to rescue us?"

"We've already dealt with that group of slave hunters. We're only releasing you out of humanitarianism. If you're willing, you can drive this ship with us to the nearby Kutsk Island."

Robin raised his hand to stop Yamato who was about to take on too much responsibility and said lightly.

"Isn't this a bit too cold, Robin..."

Yamato leaned over to Robin's ear and whispered, his tone carrying a hint of pity.

Robin said nothing, just smiled.

Suddenly, a girl from the Hand-Long Tribe begged, "I am from the Hand-Long Tribe. Can you send us back to Changchang Island?"

It seemed that these people looked kind-hearted and easy to talk to, and prayers were heard one after another.

"Kutsk Island is so dangerous, full of hooligans. I was arrested there. Do I really have to go back to that kind of place?"

"I don't know how to sail! I've never been out to sea..."

"My father is a nobleman of the Kingdom of Busley. If you escort me back, I will give you a large sum of money!"

"..."

Yamato looked at the chaotic scene in front of him, frowning slightly: "These guys..."

"It's annoying, isn't it?"

Robin smiled and said, "Let's go. When people are in danger, they always instinctively grasp at straws, without any regard for other people's feelings, or even their lives."

"Hey, wait a minute, you guys..."

A teenager tried to grab Robin's arm, but just as his hand was halfway in the air, a huge gun barrel hit his forehead!
"Hands down, boy!"

Baby5's left hand transformed into a hand cannon, the muzzle pointed at the boy's forehead. A cold gaze swept across everyone's faces: "Who cares if you die? You useless bastards... If anyone dares to talk nonsense again, I'll throw him into the sea to feed the fish!"

"..."

There was a moment of silence in the air, and the girl from the Long Hand Clan who had just asked a few people to take her home gave a dry laugh.

"Ha...you're right. How can I trouble you all with such a small matter?"

“That’s right…”

Everyone immediately changed their tone and no longer dared to make any excessive demands.

Robin winked at Yamato: "See? The correct way to handle it..."

"..."

Yamato looked at baby5 in surprise: "Wow, that's amazing!"

Bonnie nodded repeatedly, her eyes sparkling: "Big sister is so handsome!"

Baby5：()
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PS: There is no charge for adding this paragraph.

I feel that the transition is not very coordinated, I will revise it later!
(End of this chapter)