One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

"Our Whitebeard Pirates are a force of justice. Can you two just stand by and watch ordinary people be bullied?"

Ace's freckles practically popped out of his head with a laugh: "Of course not!"

Robert patted Ace on the shoulder: "But I have to pour cold water on this first. The White House isn't professional at staging coups, so I have a suggestion: leave professional matters to professionals."

Ace thought for a moment: "You mean? Cooperate with the Revolutionary Army? We don't have any relationship."

Robert's face once again wore his signature charlatan-like expression: "Believe me, brother, your connections with the Revolutionary Army go far too far..."

Ace couldn't help but feel wary. Although he had only known Robert for a year and had spent very little time together, whenever Robert showed this expression, he never knew what kind of trouble he was up to.

“When we overthrew the Donquixote family in Dressrosa, we had some dealings with the revolutionary army. The cooperation was quite pleasant at the time, so I can act as a go-between. However, when it comes to discussing specific cooperation, I hope you will be in charge of the negotiations.”

Ace's alarm bells rang in his mind: "Are you plotting something against me? Have I offended anyone in the Revolutionary Army?"

It's no wonder Ace was so cautious. Although he was hurt by Akainu not long after his appearance in the original work, his storyline was later supplemented by flashback scenes and official fan works, which restored Ace's life experience to some extent.

This includes several past romantic entanglements!

For example, there's the beautiful female naval lieutenant who's been relentlessly pursuing him—"Nail Hand" Iska.

Another example is Yamato, Kaido's unfilial daughter, who has been waiting patiently in Wano Country for Ace to fulfill his promise.

But Robert certainly wasn't trying to find him a girlfriend within the Revolutionary Army; he was trying to leverage Sabo's connections.

Sabo was the first of the three brothers to set sail, but his ship was capsized by a Celestial Dragon who happened to be passing by. After being rescued by the dragon, he lost his memory.

It wasn't until the Marineford War, when Sabo saw Ace die at Akainu's hands through a live broadcast, that his memories returned.

However, thanks to Robert's intervention, Ace was rescued without sustaining any injuries during the Marineford War.

Without enough stimulation, Sabo would at most feel a sense of familiarity with him, similar to the feeling he had when he saw Luffy's world-shaking news, so he never came knocking on his door.

Although they sensed that Robert was plotting something, they weren't opposed to contacting the Revolutionary Army.

Luo raised his hand: "It seems like everyone has something to do. I'm so bored lately. The residents of Dressrosa have been almost completely demolished. Give me something to do."

Normally, Luo would never take the initiative to find work for himself. First, he always has his own plans, and second, he wants to maintain his independence in front of Robert.

But now Robert is taking too big a step, and it seems he is going to recruit the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates. Does that mean he will soon become the new Yonko?

If things continue like this, I will either naturally join Robert's ranks, or I should simply break up with him as soon as possible and go and kill one of the Four Emperors to become the top.

But Robert never actually wanted to be the Pirate King. Ever since he avenged Krason, his only wish has been to uncover the secrets of the D. clan.

To uncover secrets that even the World Government forbids research, it is necessary to establish a powerful force capable of self-defense.

However, after seeing how the Indians were managing Dressrosa during this period, Luo had some reservations. It wasn't that the project was particularly difficult, but rather that it was too demanding.

Therefore, Law has two shortcuts in front of him. One is to form an adventure crew like Luffy. As long as the companions around him are strong enough and have the same goal as him, he will have the opportunity to secretly study the history of the D. clan.

The second option is to join a powerful faction, where you don't have to manage the operations yourself, and your research can be protected.

Rather than joining someone else, I'd rather join Robert.

Having been in contact with Robert for so long, he had long since figured out Robert's temperament. Most of the time, Robert would only set a general direction, and he would be willing to entrust the specific execution to his subordinates without reservation.

And his men, whether they were Indians or Karina, were all truly devoted to helping him.

Luo actually longed for this kind of atmosphere, so what he was doing now was basically to give Roberta a pledge of allegiance.

Robert had no idea of ​​the many complex thoughts swirling in his mind, and frowned, unable to think of anything that Robert needed to do.

"That's right!"

Do you know Punk Hazard?

Chapter 3 You, a scientist, are spreading rumors about me?

According to the normal timeline, Law should have started investigating Doflamingo's business first, and discovered that someone was helping him research artificial Devil Fruits for use in trading weapons with Kaido.

Then Law infiltrated Punk Hazard and collaborated with Caesar Clown on biological experiments, until Luffy and his crew set sail again and arrived there.

Together, the two destroyed Caesar's laboratory, killed Monet, the snow woman sent to monitor Caesar, and Vergo, the undercover agent Doflamingo had sent into the Navy who had already become a vice admiral.

After rescuing the children from the laboratory who were being used for giantification experiments, Law, together with Luffy, kidnapped Caesar in order to force Doflamingo to resign from his position as a Shichibukai.

Then, he brought Caesar to Dressrosa to make a deal with Doflamingo, splitting his forces into several groups to throw Dressrosa into chaos, and finally overthrowing the Donquixote Family's rule.

However, Robert didn't follow the usual procedures at all. Doflamingo attacked him directly, and his master Redfield wanted to give him some kind of Conqueror's Haki training without warning, so he had no choice but to kill Doflamingo in advance.

So in this timeline, Caesar of Punk Hazard should be confused, wondering how he could have just made contact with Doflamingo and then suddenly be wiped out.

However, Caesar was no pushover either. He provided Kaido with SAD, the raw material for artificial Devil Fruits, and Big Mom with research on human giantification. In reality, he was raising funds for his own research on weapons of mass destruction.

Without Doflamingo, he will not only have no shortage of sales channels, but will even be more free because he has lost a highly controlling partner.

After Robert killed Doflamingo, he went straight to see Vegapunk and then flew to the moon, where he stayed for several months.

This delay caused them to completely forget about Caesar Courland, that scourge.

He captured a large number of children in the area to study human gigantism. The lifespans of all the children who were experimented on were drastically reduced, which was utterly inhumane.

Now that Robert suddenly asked to find something to do, he assigned him the task of taking down Caesar Courland in the Punk Hazard laboratory.

Robert only talked about what he had done. He didn't ask why he wanted to deal with the scientist. In his mind, everything Robert did had a deeper meaning. Asking too many questions would only make him seem indecisive.

Ace and Marco were heading to Mermaid Island, so they joined Law's submarine.

Robert carefully checked the details of destroying the Sky Island's economy with Ah San, then hurriedly left, much to the dissatisfaction of the little people of the Dongtata tribe.

However, he had been away for too long and didn't know if he could keep it a secret from Vegapunk. Now that the Whitebeard Pirates' crisis was temporarily resolved, he had to hurry back to Egghead Island to report back from his absence.

This time, Robert did not choose to use the more convenient Devil Fruit teleportation. Instead, he called on the robotic engineers to pilot the airship and arrive above Warhead Island from an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Vegapunk was fiddling with a strange device when Robert suddenly appeared beside him, startling him so much that he stuck out his tongue and jumped up.

Seeing that it was Robert, Vegapunk breathed a sigh of relief: "Where did you put my machine? Why do I only receive a signal from it when you try to contact me?"

Robert smiled and took the sphere out of his inventory, handing it to Vegapunk: "Oh, a Devil Fruit user, who doesn't have some special abilities to develop?"

Vegapunk placed the sphere on a machine base, and a highly technological air projection played a large amount of footage taken on the moon, including various analytical data from the sphere, which made Vegapunk very excited.

"If the moon is indeed habitable, then it makes sense. The super-advanced ancient technology of the Great Kingdom was very likely lunar technology!"

Robert mysteriously interrupted Vegapunk's excitement: "Want to see the lunar specialties I brought back?"

Vegapunk nodded in agreement without hesitation, and Robert reached out and grabbed his shoulder: "Then relax a bit, and don't resist when I assimilate you with my abilities in a little while."

When not conducting research, Vegapunk was so easygoing that he was almost foolish. He was completely unguarded against Robert and was pulled by him into elemental teleportation onto an airship high in the sky.

The flying metal ship didn't surprise Vegapunk much; what really caught his eye were the seemingly clumsy robotic engineers.

Despite the physical discomfort caused by the passive elementalization under intense pressure, Vegapunk didn't even complain before throwing himself onto the machine engineer.

Robert was afraid of triggering the sappers' defense mechanism and hurting Vegapunk again, so he quickly ordered all the sappers to cooperate with his research.

Vegapunk closed his eyes and did something, and soon Shakya was riding in a strange car and flying into the sky. Pythagoras and Edison were with him.

After some fiddling, the group attached a ring of receivers to the outside of the airship, and then Robert ordered the airship to land.

One of Robert's good qualities is that he never interferes with things he doesn't understand. Since the other party wasn't afraid of having to explain such a large ship, he obediently gave the order to land.

As soon as the airship passed through the clouds, the outer sensors received the signal and projected a holographic projection.

After mooring the ship at the designated location, Vegapunk waved to Shakya and said, "Take him to see York, then inform Borsalino that the research is finished and that he can come and pick him up. York should go with him."

Robert looked bewildered: "Wait a minute, why were you just kicked away like that? Didn't we agree to wait until I was more settled before picking up York? How am I supposed to explain taking her away now?"

Vegapunk smiled and said, "You don't need to worry about that. I've already made arrangements for the months you've been away. My time is very limited. Now that we've confirmed that you really have the ability to land on the moon, the next step is to hurry up and build a laboratory there."

Robert looked wary: "You're not planning to kick me out and go to the moon yourself, are you? These robotic soldiers only listen to me..."

Vegapunk looked completely innocent: "How could that be? I've even entrusted York to you. Hurry up and leave. Don't delay my research on lunar technology. Once I'm done, I'll have them leave on their own to find you."

Robert was skeptical, but after giving some instructions on how to charge the spaceship and the robotic soldiers, he followed Shakya off the ship.

"Don't worry, the Doctor has already made up his mind since your last visit. The fake Punk Record above Egherd is ready to be built, but it's actually just a signal transmission device. The real Punk Record still needs to be sent to the moon by you."

Robert nodded awkwardly and changed the subject, saying, "What's going on with York? I can't take her away with a legitimate reason right now."

Shakyamuni paused for a moment:

"Uh, we'll announce publicly that during your cooperation with the experiment, you and York..."

"Feelings developed..."

Chapter 4 can be considered a GalGame.

Even with Robert's quick thinking, he never imagined that his trip to the moon would lead to such a huge scandal.

"Do you think this is reasonable? She's almost five meters tall, and I'm less than two meters. It would be quite a good match if I were to date her calves."

Shakyamuni said in a matter-of-fact tone: "Are you bothered that you are not as tall as the woman? We have conducted experiments related to love. In the face of true love, individual differences are not an obstacle, but prejudice and arrogance are."

Robert couldn't help but maliciously speculate that York's later betrayal of Vegapunk and the other five clones might have been because he couldn't stand living with these mentally unstable people.

Shakyamuni first led Robert to a room, dressed him in a high-tech uniform in the style of Egghead Island, and taught him some useful functions of the uniform.

A beautiful woman with short, golden hair stood with her hands on her hips blocking the door to the changing room. Robert only glanced at the number 02 on her body and knew that she was Lilith, the evil clone representing Vegapunk.

Robert regretted it for a moment. Why didn't he ask for Lilith when he asked Vegapunk for a clone?

Although she is also two meters tall, at least when kissing, I only need to stand on my tiptoes.

"Hey! Kid, I'm warning you, York is a minor. You're not allowed to do anything weird to her!"

Robert wasn't even in the mood to argue: "Are you afraid I'll just dive right in or something?"

In front of Buddha, Lilith at least showed some restraint and did not fight Robert on the spot.

Of course, even if they really fought, her fighting ability wouldn't be enough to defeat Robert.

York was fast asleep in her room. It has to be said that although she was very big and what she was going to do in the future was very hateful, the model was actually quite beautiful.

Shakyamuni said to Robert, “I will contact General Borsalino to come and pick you up. York has just eaten his third meal of the day, and his sleep should end in 32 minutes and 46 seconds. You two can spend some time getting to know each other.”

Before being pulled out of the house by Shakya, Lilith glared at Robert and threatened, "You better watch out, there are cameras everywhere in this house! I'll be keeping an eye on your kid!"

Robert frowned, not wanting to respond at all; his mind was filled with thoughts of what to do next.

Convincing Vegapunk to establish a research base on the moon is a crucial part of his plan, so taking York away ahead of schedule is just a small price to pay to complete the plan, and he must overcome it.