One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

"Who are you! Are you trying to steal my wife! I... I won't allow it!" The man stood up shakily, shielding Robin behind him, holding a bottle in front of him with both hands, trying to project a tough image to withstand the onslaught of the other man's aura.

"Get lost! She's not someone you can mess with!" Upon hearing the other person's words, the tall figure roared angrily, kicking the other person away and sending them crashing into the wall not far away before sliding to the floor!

"No! Don't hurt my wife! I must have her come back with me!" The intense pain kept the man unusually conscious as he struggled to crawl towards them.

"Bang!" His body was kicked away again and slammed heavily against the wall! His entire body was embedded in the wall, blood flowing from his eyes, mouth, and nose. Under the force of gravity, his body was lifted off the wall and fell heavily back down.

"Wife! Don't go! I will definitely take you back! Cough cough!" The man opened his eyes and spoke, then coughed up a string of bloody foam.

"Bang!" The figure kicked forward again, sending the other figure flying!

With a whoosh, everyone still in the tavern rushed out to avoid being caught in the crossfire when they saw this scene of revenge! The drunk man, who had been intoxicated since noon, was immediately filled with a thousand different thoughts when the man and woman suddenly appeared. He looked at the man lying on the ground with pity, feeling that he had no power and even his wife had been stolen away!

"What a tough body! Let's end this! Whether she's your wife or not, she's ours now!" The other person suddenly vanished and reappeared in front of the man lying on the ground, raising their foot to stomp on him!

"Three flowers bloom!"

"Crack!" A sound of shattering stones rang out, and a spiderweb-like crack appeared centered on the opponent's foot, indicating that this blow was enough to shatter the bones of the body.

"Wife, you still love me!" The man, who had escaped the heavy blow, lay on the ground, opened his bloodshot eyes, looked at Robin, and smiled.

"Why didn't you fight back! Why didn't you fight back! He'll beat you to death if you keep doing this!" Robin shouted at them from her knees, tears streaming down her face.

"Cough cough! Some things can't be erased by force! Only letting you vent can completely resolve them! If you want him to take you away, then watch as I die in front of you first!"

"Waaah! Waaah! Mabi, you don't understand anything! You know nothing! You have no way to fight them!" Upon hearing this, Robin immediately put her legs together, hugged her knees, and let her long black hair fall down, burying her face in it as she sobbed.

"Do you know or not! Then look with your own eyes!" Mabi shouted, kneeling on the ground and staring at the figure that appeared before her. She didn't retaliate because she wanted to change the woman's mindset; childhood fears weren't so easy to erase.

"Looks like there are things I don't know! Well then, you can die first!"

"You had a good time hitting me! Now it's my turn!" Mabi caught the other person's foot and spat out a mouthful of bloody foam as she cursed.

"Crack!" The other party tried to pull his leg out, but it was as if he was stuck in an iron ingot made of steel and could not move at all!

"Storm Kick!" Her other leg spun like a top, unleashing an invisible blade of energy that slashed towards Mabi, who was crouching on the ground!

"Cloud-Dispelling Palm!" The left hand swung out an air mass that condensed in the air and made contact with the opponent's air blade, creating an explosion. The invisible shockwave instantly spread out!

"Snap! Snap!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Countless bottles could no longer withstand the shockwaves and exploded, instantly filling the entire tavern with the mixed smells of various liquors.

"Get out!" Mabi suddenly stood up, swung her arm, and slammed the other person's body to the ground, where the body instantly disappeared.

"Stomp! Shatter!" The vanished Mabi reappeared on the opponent's body, her foot slightly raised, and the power enough to collapse mountains and rocks poured into the opponent's body.

"Iron block!"

"Cough cough!" Even though the opponent used a defensive move, Mabi's power did not just travel on the surface of the body, but went directly into the body and caused a shattering force due to mutual vibration!

"Useless! The iron block only increases the surface hardness of the body for defense! My attack is specifically designed to shatter internal organs!"

"Paper Drawing!" A soft body leaped away from Mabi's feet, carried by a gust of air, and stared in their direction!

Chapter 104 Straw Hat Boy! I've decided! I'm going to steal you!

"Sever the Void!" After drawing her sword and slashing, Mabi followed the air blade and charged forward, aiming directly at her opponent's body.

"Open the air!" The body that had been hovering in the distance vanished instantly without a direct confrontation, and a spatial portal appeared behind Mabi, with a black figure flashing out!

"Shave! Finger Gun!" As the opponent slammed his foot into the ground, his massive figure, with his arm raised, shot straight for his back like an arrow.

"Take off! Hummingbird!" Having already known the opponent's abilities after seeing their disappearance, Mabi suddenly stomped the ground and moved far away from where she had been. The air waves she sensed swirled around her arm, and she swung out a palm-length, finger-thick iron shuttle.

With a soft whooshing sound, the tiny shuttle, carrying Mabi's power—enough to pierce a giant steel plate—collided directly with the opponent's outstretched finger!

"Crack!" Turning around, she saw the other person's fingers bending backward, making a crisp bone-cracking sound. But the other person seemed not to feel it. With a single fist, the floor beneath their feet exploded and their figure disappeared, pointing directly at Maby's body, which was moving in mid-air.

"Take off into thin air!" Without giving him any time to react, his body stepped on the air and moved forward rapidly, swinging his long sword with the intent to cut his opponent in two!

"Iron block! Shatter!"

"Slash through the air!"

"Whoosh!" Accompanied by two loud shouts, pieces of cloth flew through the air as two figures passed each other and fell in different directions.

"Thump!" With a soft tap of the ground, Mabi straightened up! The other person's tall body collapsed like a piece of jade, crashing heavily to the ground and sending splinters flying. A trickle of blood flowed from the deep, bone-revealing wound on his chest, mixing with the wine on the ground and seeping into the cracks in the floor below.

Without looking back, Mabi tapped the bottom of a surviving bottle with her toes, causing it to bounce and land in her hand. She then opened the bottle, poured the contents into her mouth, and savored the afterglow of the battle. She then sat cross-legged in front of Robin, who was still huddled together and trembling.

"Robin, just give up those ridiculous ideas! Do you think nothing will happen just because you left alone? Or do you think Luffy will abandon you? I would abandon you! Or that the people on the ship would look down on you if they knew what you did! And that your crew wouldn't fight back to find you!"

"Heh! You know nothing!" Robin looked at Maggie's voice and gave a bitter laugh. Even after twenty years, the shadow of the World Government's horrific acts still lingered in her heart.

"Heh! Is that so?" Mabi ignored him and stood up!

"This is just CP9! It's an administrative unit under the World Government! Above it is CP0! And there are even figures at the level of the Four Emperors in the New World eyeing the Poneglyphs! And you are the only one in this world who can decipher the Poneglyphs, so you will inevitably become their target sooner or later! This is just the beginning. Are you going to think that every time someone threatens you, you should sacrifice yourself to protect everyone else?"

“You haven’t experienced that! You have no idea what insane things they do with their immense power.” Mabi Robin’s voice was sharp and cutting as she watched Mabi Robin about to leave.

“Really? Twenty years ago! Ohara! Dr. Clover! The Poneglyphs! The Buster Call! You think I don’t know anything!” Mabi turned around and stared into her eyes.

"Why..." Robin, still trembling with childhood fear and the shadows of his past, opened his eyes wide in terror as he looked at Mabi, his body involuntarily taking a step back.

"Don't ask me how I know this kind of information the World Government isn't completely tight on as a deterrent! You've seen the adventures we've been through! If you still want to hold onto that idea, then go ahead and leave. There are several CP9 members on this island; I'm sure they'll take you back to Enies Lobby! Then we'll storm the World Government and bring you back! If you don't want everything here to be sealed off by me and the outside world only to hear the fighting and not see anything, then we'll pretend nothing happened and return to the fleet." After saying this, Maggie turned and left. She had come here to see if she could change Maggie's mind! If not, then she would storm the World Government and then make her make a choice! The right to choose was entirely in her hands; she wasn't a tool, but a living, breathing person. Forcibly changing her mind would only leave a shadow in her heart and cause a future outburst.

"Swish!" As Mabi turned and left, the sound of clothes being straightened came from behind.

"Brother Mabi, if you want to leave, can you take me with you?" Robin's clear voice rang out from behind.

"I'm not running anymore!" Turning around, I saw that she had already straightened her wrinkled clothes and was smiling at Mabi!

“I’m not leaving! You’ll bring me back even if I leave, won’t you? And Maggie, do you want to just walk away and forget what you did to me? Aren’t you going to buy me a drink?” Robin smiled slightly, as if some kind of shackle had been removed from his heart! Then he pointed to the bottle of wine in Maggie’s hand and smiled.

Wow! Just a moment ago she looked like she had no will to live and was completely dead, and now she wants to drink with me again. No wonder older women have strong mental fortitude and recover quickly!

"I'd love to! I thought I'd been beaten up for nothing!" Maggie looked at her now calm face and her slightly red and swollen eyes, which she had wiped clean, and felt a sense of unreality!

"Hmm! Well then, thank you for hurting yourself for me! Can you tell me why you knew about CP9 and were just here drinking and waiting for me?" Robin stepped forward, smiled slightly, and whispered in Mabi's ear.

"I'd love to! I've heard that the local specialty, 'Watery Meat,' is quite good. Let's go try it together!" Mabi laughed upon hearing her voice, relieved that she had recovered.

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"Haha! Straw Hat Boy, hurry up and hand over your Berries! As the guardian behind this city, I absolutely will not allow you pirates to flaunt your huge amounts of stolen money from who-knows-where! And I also want your bounty of 170 million Berries! You're such a tycoon!" A man wearing briefs and sporting a pompadour shouted loudly from a rooftop, his hands clasped together.

"Brother Frankie is awesome! The Frankie family, we must seize those coins! We can definitely buy that! That's Brother Frankie's ultimate dream!" A group of people with different body types wearing uniforms with star-shaped symbols shouted from below the building!

"Damn it! I won't hand it over to you! I'm going to make a new body for Merry and make me the Pirate King! I'm also going to hire a great shipwright!" Luffy shouted, pointing at him while holding a suitcase, only to find a man wearing glasses, with a long rope around his waist and smoking a cigar hanging tightly on the suitcase.

"Straw Hat Kid! Give me this hundred million Berries and I'll be your shipwright!" the man exclaimed, clutching the suitcase tightly, lost in his own world of delight.

"Hey! Barry, where's your integrity?! You're going to give in for this little bit of money?!" The boatmen watching nearby shouted and cursed at Barry for his actions!

"Haha! Here you go! Welcome to join us!" Upon hearing his words, Luffy immediately released his hand without hesitation and nodded in agreement!

"Huh?!" The surrounding citizens, shipwrights, and even the Franky family in the distance were all dumbfounded when they saw Luffy let go without hesitation!

"Aaaaaah! Aaaaah! You bastard! That's 100 million Berries, enough to buy a decent secondhand ship! And you just let it go like that!"

"Damn it, just how rich is the Straw Hat Pirates?! They just let go of 100 million Berries like that!"

"I heard they robbed a kingdom and a princess!"

"Doesn't that mean they possess the wealth of an entire nation?!"

"Straw Hat Kid, do you need a boatman? I think I can take on the job!"

"Haha! I still have ten..."

"Bang!" Nami, who was in charge of bargaining, punched him and whispered to stop him from saying anything more! But seeing the menacing crowd around them, she immediately grabbed Merry tightly and hid between Mia and Usopp!

"Mia, protect me!"

"What did he say! Ten what!"

"Idiot! It's definitely in the hundreds of millions!"

"Brother Franky!" The Franky family below stared at their eldest brother, who was standing on the building above, his eyes wide with excitement! He only needed to give the order to seize the Straw Hat crew!

"This is so incredibly touching! This is incredibly extravagant!" Hearing Luffy's few words, he immediately understood what he was about to say! Tears streaming down his face, he lay prostrate on the ground, and overwhelmed with emotion, he jumped up, put his arms together, and shouted!

"Straw Hat Kid! I've decided! I'm going to steal you!"

Chapter 105 Attacked Again

"Whew! It's been so long since I've felt this relaxed!" Mabi put her hands behind her head, smelled the salty sea breeze blowing from the sea, strolled along the waterway, looked at the brightly lit streets, and muttered to herself that humans are indeed social animals.

"Hehe! Brother Mabi also likes this kind of leisurely life!" Robin, standing beside him, chuckled softly, covering his lips.

“Yes! Intense battles need a short break to calm down before enjoying life again!” Maby nodded in agreement.

"By the way! Why did your attitude change so much?" Maggie asked, recalling the previous situation. She had been so focused on answering Maggie's questions at the dinner table that she had forgotten to ask her.

"Does Mabi want to know?" Robin replied with a slight smile, his posture upright.

"miss you!"

I don't want to tell you!

Mabi: "..."

That's so naughty!

"Whoosh!" A gust of wind blew by, and Mabi slightly shifted to avoid a newspaper that was carried by the wind.

"Stop!" Mabi reached out to stop Robin beside her, her lazy eyes fixed on the figure wearing a skull mask that had appeared out of nowhere.

"Nicole Robin!" A dull thud came from beneath the thick cloth skull.

"What's up?" Maggie shielded Robin behind her and looked at the suddenly appearing figure. The familiar decorations and tone of voice suggested that this was the guy with the long nose like Usopp.

"Nicole Robin, come with us! Don't forget what you promised!" The other party ignored Maggie, who was a nobody with no information, and spoke directly to Robin in a deep voice.

"Is that so? But my companions are unwilling." Robin smiled slightly and stepped back from the area. Maggie had already decided to stand in front, and now what she needed to do was not to cause him any trouble and leave the matter to him to handle.

"Heh! Forcing a lady to go with you! Don't you know that's extremely impolite?" Maggie stood in front of him and looked him in the eye.

"Finger Gun!" Without any hesitation, even when facing someone completely unknown like Mabi, he unleashed his full power to annihilate her.