Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"More or less! They probably all believe it! But brother... wouldn't doing this make them even more wary of us?" Reina hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Gurararara... On this vast ocean, we must unleash our full power. Only then will they stop provoking you until they have a chance of victory!" Whitebeard laughed as he said, "You'll see, the Navy will definitely quiet down this time, but be careful when they make their move next time, because they have definitely found a way to deal with you!"

Reina nodded and said, "Don't worry... I won't stay in the same place forever!"

Through today's battle, he has a deeper understanding of the meaning of life. When he can convert the energy in his body into physical strength at any time, he will dare to charge into Marineford alone.

"Gurararara... Let's go, guys, we're heading back!" With a command from Whitebeard, the Moby Dick began its return journey towards Crescent Moon Island.

Meanwhile, the Straw Hat crew, heading towards the Sabaody Archipelago, finally arrived at the edge of the Red Line.

"How nostalgic!" Looking at the Red Line, all the crew members sighed with emotion.

"But... the Log Pose is pointing downwards, how are we supposed to get there!? Is there really a Fishman Island, Robin-nee!" Nami asked, looking at the Log Pose on her wrist, puzzled.

"Yes! There are! Many mermaids and fish-men live there... It's a very interesting place, but if we want to go there... we have to go to the Sabaody Archipelago first!" Robin nodded with a smile and said.

"Sabaody Archipelago? What kind of place is that?" Nami and the others asked curiously.

"As you should know, the Red Line divides the Grand Line in two, and below the Red Line, at a depth of 10,000 meters in the ocean, lies Fish-Man Island!" Robin said with a smile.

"Ten thousand meters?" Usopp and the others were incredibly surprised.

"So, do we have to go down?" Nami asked doubtfully. "We humans can't dive that deep into the ocean, can we?"

“That’s right, that’s why we’re going to the Sabaody Archipelago, also known as the Bubble Islands. They have a magical coating technology there. After coating the ship, our pirate ship can dive down to Fishman Island on the seabed, and then enter the New World through Fishman Island!” Robin nodded and explained.

"Wow~~ Sabaody Archipelago? That sounds so interesting! Let's go~ Let's go~ I really want to go see it!" Luffy said excitedly.

“But I have to remind everyone of something here… Above the Red Line, behind the Sabaody Archipelago, is the headquarters of the World Government, the Holy Land Mary Geoise! ​​And behind Mary Geoise… is the Marine Headquarters, Marineford! In other words… if we make any noise in the Sabaody Archipelago, the Marines will be able to get here very quickly!” Robin said seriously.

"Do you guys know? Don't cause any trouble! Let's set sail~ I really want to go to Sabaody Archipelago!" Luffy said impatiently.

"I'm talking to you!" Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and the others immediately shouted at Luffy.

"Huh? Is that so?" Luffy said, completely oblivious.

"Sigh...what an idiot captain!" Zoro shook his head and said.

"You're the same!" Nami immediately yelled at Zoro.

"Hehehe...you guys are so funny!" Brook, the new recruit, said with a loud laugh.

"Luffy..." Just as everyone was making a fuss, Robin suddenly said to Luffy, "Do you remember what my father said?"

Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji all looked at Robin. As the three main fighters, they were primarily responsible for combat, so they naturally understood what Robin wanted to say.

"After we pass Fishman Island, we'll reach the New World! But none of us in the crew have mastered Haki!" Robin said in a deep voice. "Not knowing Armament Haki means we're helpless against Logia-type Devil Fruit users. Logia-type users weren't very common in the first half of the Grand Line, but they're practically nothing in the New World!"

"Ah~ I understand!" Luffy nodded and said, "But there's nothing we can do about it. We can't just stay here! We can only move forward and gradually learn as we go!"

Robin opened her mouth, but didn't say what she wanted to say. She knew that Luffy and the others had underestimated the New World, which was on a completely different level from the first half of the Grand Line.

However, she couldn't dissuade Luffy from moving forward, and could only hope that Luffy and his crew could truly learn Haki before being wiped out.

“Then let’s head to the Sabaody Archipelago!” Robin nodded and said.

So everyone was excitedly preparing to set off, except for Nami and Zoro who noticed Robin's dejection.

"Robin... is there really no way? Luffy and the others are so strong, even if they don't know Haki, they should be fine, right?" Nami came to Robin's side and whispered.

“No, Nami…you haven’t been to the New World. Do you know what they call the first half of the Grand Line? They call it Paradise! But as we’ve come this far…can you feel that this is Paradise?” Robin shook her head and said.

Zoro tightened his grip on his weapon and turned to walk towards the watchtower. If he were a little stronger, perhaps he could protect his comrades.

However, just as he was about to leave, a huge sea hare suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea.

Chapter 401 Robin's Father

"Huh? It really is a mermaid!" Luffy looked at the mermaid Camie that the sea monster he had just knocked away had spat out, and said with a surprised expression.

Although he had inadvertently saved the confused mermaid, Luffy didn't think much of it.

And after Kemi agreed to take him to eat takoyaki, they immediately became good friends.

However, upon learning that the other party's boss, Hachi the takoyaki maker, had been kidnapped by human traffickers, both Nami and Robin fell into deep thought.

"That Hachi's voice... sounds familiar!" Nami and Robin said at the same time.

"Huh? Does Robin also know someone named Hachi?" Nami asked in surprise.

“Yes, when my father took me to Mermaid Island before, I met an octopus-man named Hachi!” Robin nodded and said.

"An octopus fish-man... and named Hachi... what a coincidence!" Sanji, Zoro, Usopp, and Nami all thought of the same person at the same time: Hachi, the swordsman from Arlong's crew.

"Hmm? Sister, have you been to Fishman Island?" Cammy asked Robin curiously.

"Yes, I've been there a few times... I even went to the Dragon Palace with my father!" Robin smiled slightly and nodded.

"Oh? You've even been to the Dragon Palace? That's a place only important people can go to!" asked the starfish Papagu in surprise.

Robin smiled slightly but did not mention Reina's name; she was not one to show off.

After a conversation, Luffy and the others followed Camie to rescue Hachi the Octopus. And this Hachi was indeed the same Hachi that Robin and Nami knew, the swordsman from Arlong's Pirates.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Flying Fish Knights, because he looked too much like Sanji's wanted poster, ended up getting entangled with Sanji.

Furthermore, when Luffy dealt with Duval's mount, Motobaro, he completely intimidated the opponent, allowing Robin to recognize at a glance that it was the rudimentary form of Conqueror's Haki.

After the incident was over, Hachi treated everyone in the Straw Hat crew to takoyaki.

"Hachi, what are you doing here?" Robin asked while eating takoyaki.

"Um..." Hachi glanced at Nami before saying, "After I returned to Fishman Island, I unexpectedly obtained the takoyaki shop owner's secret recipe. Since my childhood dream was to become a takoyaki shop owner, I came to the sea to start a business!"

Robin recognized Hachi's expression as the octopus Nami had mentioned.

"Is there some misunderstanding between you and Nami?" Robin asked, intending to play peacemaker.

"Um... um... it wasn't exactly a misunderstanding! Back then, I did a lot of bad things to Nami with Brother A-Long!" Octopus Hachi hesitated for a moment before saying.

After he finished speaking, he saw Nami looking over and immediately lowered his head to apologize, saying, "I'm sorry!"

"How did Robin meet him?" Nami ignored Hachi and instead asked Robin.

"I met Hachi when I went to Fishman Island with my father!" Robin smiled slightly, shook her head, and said, "My father seems to have known him for a long time, but I don't know the specifics!"

"Yes! I've known Mr. Reina since I was a kid. Back then, I followed Tiger along with Brother Long and Brother Jinpei!" Hachi seemed to be lost in memories as well.

"Huh? So... Mr. Reina also knows Arlong?" Nami asked in surprise, taken aback.

"Yes, I know him! When we parted ways with Jinbe, he asked Jinbe to pass on a message to Arlong, telling us that we should not kill humans indiscriminately, especially those who possess gold engraved with his name. We absolutely must not touch them! That's why we didn't kill anyone in your village after we saw that piece of gold in Cocoyasi Village. You know, before that, we had already destroyed many human villages!"

Xiao Ba nodded and said.

"What? Mr. Reina actually said something like that to you?" Nami asked in disbelief.

Hachi nodded, confirming, "That's what Jinbe told us, but Arlong left the Fishman Pirates because he hated humans, so he didn't initially intend to listen to Mr. Reina. However, he only stopped after actually seeing the gold appear!"

"I see... No wonder you all took a liking to Cocoyasi Village and stayed here for so long!" Nami said thoughtfully, "If it weren't for that piece of gold... you probably would have slaughtered the entire village and taken all the treasure, right?"

Xiao Ba nodded somewhat embarrassedly and said, "I know I was wrong now, so I haven't done anything bad since! After Mr. Reina learned that we had actually seen the gold, he didn't make things difficult for the gold's owner and let me go!"

"You didn't make things difficult for the holders of the gold?" Nami chuckled and said, "You call that not making things difficult?"

Xiao Ba remained silent.

Meanwhile, Usopp was explaining Nami's ordeal to those who didn't know, which made the others who joined later quite unhappy with Hachi.

"But why is it such a coincidence? Robin's father just happened to give the gold to Nami's sister? If it weren't for that gold, something really bad would have happened!" Chopper asked with a blank expression.

As soon as Chopper finished speaking, everyone looked at him, which startled him a little.

"W-what's wrong?" Chopper asked, looking puzzled.

After listening to Nami and Hachi's story, everyone had this question: how did Reina know that Arlong and his crew would go to Nami's hometown, and why did he leave behind a gold inscription with his name?

"Huh? Don't you know?" Hachi asked, seeing the Straw Hat crew's puzzled looks. "It's because Mr. Reina's eyes have the ability to see the future!"

"Huh?" Hachi's words surprised everyone in the Straw Hat crew except for Robin.

"Huh? Hachi, the Mr. Reina you guys are talking about, could it be that guy? The legendary vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, the Akame Reina with eyes from hell and the ability to see into the future?" Pappagu finally realized who Hachi and the others were talking about.

"Huh? Is that the vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates? That's a great hero!" Even the confused Camie exclaimed in surprise.

"You all know Mr. Reina?" Nami asked, puzzled.

"Yes! The Whitebeard Pirates are the great benefactors of Fishman Island!" Papago nodded and began to explain to the Straw Hat crew what the Whitebeard Pirates meant to Fishman Island.

"Well, that uncle is very capable!" Luffy said with a smile after hearing this.

"Idiot! That's Robin's father. You can't be so rude!" Sanji tapped Luffy on the head with his foot and said.

"Ah! That's right! He's Robin's father!" Luffy exclaimed in realization.

The group was utterly speechless; their captain was just that unbelievable.

"Ah? So you're Mr. Reina's daughter? How disrespectful!" Papagu quickly said to Robin.

Robin waved his hand and said, "Don't exaggerate. My father once said... that Fishman Island became like this partly because of his sins. If he hadn't cooperated with Roger to start the Age of Exploration, Fishman Island wouldn't be in that state!"

At this moment, everyone remembered the legend: the demon who came to search for the One Piece when Pirate King Roger was dying was based on Robin's father, the great pirate Benedict D. Reina!

"But... Hachi! What exactly do you mean by Mr. Reina having eyes that can see into the future?" Nami, who had been silent all along, suddenly looked up at Hachi and asked.

"Ah~ this... I'm not really sure either! But on Fishman Island, everyone knows that Mr. Reina, the vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, has the same ability to predict the future as Mrs. Shirley!" Hachi shook his head, scratched his head, and said with a smile.

“That’s right, that’s right! We’ve heard that legend too! It’s said that he saw a tragic future for Fishman Island, and that the Great Pirate Era was what caused it all, so he brought the Whitebeard Pirates to Fishman Island and saved us!” Camie and Papagu nodded in agreement.

"Then let me explain!" Robin patted Nami on the back and said with a smile, "Originally, it would be better if Hachi and the others knew and explained it to me, since he is my father. If I were to explain it to Nami, she might think I'm making excuses!"

“Robin…don’t say that!” Nami quickly went over and hugged Robin, saying, “Regardless of whether Mr. Reina really saw the future of Cocoyasi Village back then, I am already very grateful that he left behind gold and taught me navigation!”

“First of all, about my father’s eyes… those are called Sharingan! They have the ability to see, copy, and counter enemy moves from all angles! According to my father, they are cursed eyes, and they turn blood red after being awakened, which is why there are rumors that they are eyes from hell!” Robin patted Nami in her arms and explained.

"Insight, copying, deciphering... what powerful abilities! But why are they cursed eyes?" Zoro asked thoughtfully after a moment's thought.

At this moment, he finally understood why, when he fought Reina, no matter what moves he used, Reina seemed to be able to break through them.

"One of the reasons is that those eyes can see visions of certain people's future!" Robin said with a wry smile. "Don't think of this as some kind of great ability!"

"Huh? Being able to see the future, isn't that a good ability?" Chopper asked, looking puzzled.

“That’s right, because my father’s ability isn’t to see whoever he wants. He can only see fragmented images of people who will influence the entire world in the future, not their complete lives!” Robin nodded and explained, “And he can see the future, not predict it!”

"This..." Everyone looked at Robin in confusion, completely failing to understand what he meant.