Pirate: I am King Luffy

293. Chapter 292 Robin's Lies

293.

2023-11-27

My heart is throbbing.

For the first time, Robin had a creepy feeling in his heart. It was not fear, but a pilgrimage to the truth.

It’s like a scientist finally getting close to the truth, the kind of excitement that makes the blood boil and the heart beat like a drum.

The agreement with Crocodile was reached for this day, for the day when the true text of history would be found.

Mom...Dr. Clover...I'm finally getting close to the truth that you see.

The truth that led to your destruction!

Robin put his hands under his coat and clenched them into fists excitedly. He couldn't wait to see the historical text and interpret the hidden, true history.

A blank century, an erased history, a distorted history...

The flickering candlelight in the funeral hall looked even more solemn in Robin's eyes. This thousand-year-old building was now emitting some kind of sacred light.

On the mural, the tall jackal god was gazing at them quietly, and the falcon soaring in the sky looked like it was about to grab their heart.

Luffy is going to open the secret door of the Funeral Hall and open the entrance to the underground palace. He has repeated this many times in Uta's space. Relying on Uta's ability, Luffy has mastered the three procedures of opening, closing, and self-destruction.

This is a procedure that only successive kings know, and it was tested out bit by bit by Luffy and Uta.

"Wait--" Vivi reached out and grabbed Luffy's arm.

Luffy looked at Vivi in ​​confusion.

Vivi glanced at Robin, pulled Luffy's arm, and took him to hide carefully behind a stone pillar.

Robin remained unmoved. In the face of the power of the ability user, there was no point in hiding like this.

There are cherry-colored flowers blooming on the ceiling, and the purpose of blooming is to bear fruit.

A pair of eyes and a pair of ears quietly appeared in a hidden corner.

Relying on this ability, she unscrupulously inquired about information in the dark world, ensured her own safety, and constantly took the initiative to betray those so-called "companions".

"Luffy……"

Vivi grabbed Luffy's clothes and hid in the corner, feeling a little uneasy, with shyness that was difficult to conceal in her eyes.

"What's wrong, Vivi?" Luffy asked.

"If you feel unwell, you can go back first," he said.

"No, it's just some..." Vivi took a deep breath, her mind became a little confused, and then she looked into Luffy's eyes.

"We can't let Luffy fight alone. If we do, it will seem that I'm too cunning. I'll leave everything to Luffy to deal with." Vivi slowly lowered her head and said to Luffy.

"It's okay. I enjoy the feeling of being depended on. That way, I will appear to be very capable." Luffy said nonchalantly.

"Especially when a beautiful girl like Weiwei depends on you." He said to Weiwei with a smiling expression.

"I am beautiful... I know I am beautiful... Anyway... this..."

Weiwei spoke hesitantly.

"…ceremony."

Luffy looked at her strangely.

"The ritual of eating humans... Only by doing that can Luffy reach his strongest state, right?"

"That's true, but it doesn't necessarily require a fight, and there's no point in activating that state." Luffy tilted his head and thought.

Because of various concerns, if you don't eat the devil fruit, you will lose the bonus of the devil fruit and lose a part of the "destiny" or "fate".

Only rely on normal things to correct strength. Those things are not special and unique plug-ins like devil fruits. They are very common abilities that everyone has.

This also leads to a normal growth in strength, without any external growth level.

Second gear, full power in second gear, runaway.

It's just changes to varying degrees.

“Do it…” Weiwei also turned her head away, shrinking her body shyly.

He crossed his arms across his chest, covering something.

Her face gradually turned red and her heartbeat quickened, beating extremely happily.

"What?" Luffy looked at Vivi. Although he had a premonition, but...

"The ritual of cannibalism... the monster eating the princess, this is a common plot in storybooks, right?"

"Vivi..." Luffy looked at his sister. Vivi's figure was gradually becoming plump. Wearing white high heels, she looked tall and cute.

Speaking of growth, Vivi's growth seems to be even more exaggerated than Nami's. Nami of the same age cannot compare to Vivi of the same age.

But... Luffy looked at Vivi's lips and stared at them for a few seconds... and felt... something was wrong with his lack of appetite.

Putting it aside as a side dish will increase attack speed, but eating it directly will not add any buff.

Luffy knocked Vivi on the head.

"Don't let your imagination run wild. Why are you guys all thinking that I'll fight with Crocodile?

That guy is a Shichibukai trusted by the government after all, and he won't do anything too extreme while he still needs this identity to protect himself."

Luffy said as he rubbed Vivi's cheek.

Crocodile has been a Shichibukai for many years and is the oldest one in terms of seniority. Thanks to his long-standing obedience, the World Government was able to implement the Shichibukai system.

There are constant little movements in the dark, and they are always little movements in the dark.

"Anyway, Luffy, take my share and fight together." Vivi looked at Luffy seriously.

“It’s the only thing I can do!”

"It would be more convenient for Luffy if he could understand people's minds!" Vivi said stubbornly.

See through people’s hearts?

Robin wondered what this meant? Ability?

"Bring Vivi's share of the fight?"

Since Vivi said so, it was hard for Luffy to refuse. Maybe he wanted a sense of participation?

"Then, I'm going to eat people." Luffy said.

Weiwei took a deep breath and nodded.

"Does Weiwei know what the ritual of cannibalism is?"

"I...I don't know..." Weiwei's tone trembled a little. As she thought about it, she almost blurted it out.

In this world, some people like gold, silver and jewelry, some people love power, and some people are used to fighting and robbing. In the feudal world of the strong, there are all kinds of bad habits that are commonplace, but peeping can only be regarded as a perverted behavior.

Such things must never be exposed, especially since she is a princess.

"Really? I don't know. It won't hurt much. I'll take small bites." Luffy said.

Vivi closed her eyes, her long eyelashes still trembling. She could feel Luffy getting closer and kissing her on the forehead.

The impulse is not enough, Luffy thought, that very strange, lack of appetite feeling made Luffy lose his appetite.

So he just kissed Weiwei's forehead.

"It's ready, the cannibalism ritual." Luffy said with a perfunctory smile.

Vivi opened her eyes and looked at Luffy in confusion, it was fake.

Weiwei thought, this is a fake ceremony!

"that's it?"

Weiwei asked, even though she knew it was a fake ceremony, she couldn't say it out loud.

She hid her anger at being deceived, and wondered in dissatisfaction, why could Nami and Uta do it but she couldn't? It was a weird feeling, I am also very beautiful, and Luffy obviously has feelings for me too!

"That's it, this is the ritual of cannibalism," Luffy said.

Very complicated emotions lingered in Vivi's heart, even a little bit of grievance, as if she was bullied by Luffy, and had a strange feeling of being excluded.

"What? This is called cannibalism. Luffy obviously didn't turn into a monster!"

Weiwei felt her nose sour and said with disdain with her big eyes wide open.

Luffy could smell the sour taste, but he had no appetite. There was nothing he could do because people with poor appetite didn't want to eat.

Moreover, Luffy felt that Vivi was about to become a little crybaby, and a sense of pleasure in bullying her was quietly born in his heart.

It's a strange feeling. I know you know the ceremony is fake, but you just can't say it.

"I brought some chocolate, would you like some?"

Luffy took out a dark chocolate from his pocket, tore open the wrapping paper and handed it to Vivi.

She bared her silver teeth, glared at Luffy angrily, and bit off half of the dark chocolate in one bite.

"so bitter!"

Vivi didn't expect that the chocolate Luffy ate would taste so bitter.

A gust of wind blew, and then a large amount of fine sand gradually formed a human shape.

The strong wind drew Luffy and Uta's attention back.

Luffy stopped teasing Vivi and ate the dark chocolate in his hand in small sips. Vivi also looked seriously at the sandstorm that was gradually turning into a human form, but she still noticed the chocolate in Luffy's hand out of the corner of her eye.

This is an indirect kiss, Weiwei thought.

Luffy ate what she had eaten.

"Is this right here?"

Crocodile spoke, and the human figure made of sand gained substance and clothes, and the golden hook flashed coldly at night.

"Yeah." Robin nodded.

Luffy brought Vivi out from the dark stone pillar.

"Guhahaha... Nice to meet you, Nefertari Vivi." Crocodile glanced at Vivi, noticing the hatred and anger in her eyes.

"It seems you know it too, huh, what a great patriotic sentiment, what a ridiculous patriotism..."

"Crocodile--" Vivi squeezed out his name from between her teeth.

"Alabasta, the country of sand, built a town in this desert. Even after thousands of years of history, the desert is still filled with the breath of death..."

Crocodile said nonchalantly.

"This country has been shrouded in the shadow of death since its birth."

"You dying humans..."

"Shut up! What qualifications do you have to point fingers at a country that is trying so hard to fight against nature?"

"This country has never provoked you! How dare you do those things!!"

"Guhahaha... Originally, I was thinking of using your patriotism to drag this country into the abyss, but now... well, forget it. You have a good childhood sweetheart who saved this country for you."

Seeing that Weiwei knew the secret, he did not hide it and exposed his true nature unscrupulously.

"Don't say anything extra, just fulfill our agreement and leave the country."

Luffy chewed the chocolate, feeling the bitterness in his mouth, and pressed his hand on the mechanism, and a closed door opened.

"It's here. I didn't expect it. If there wasn't someone leading the way, it would have taken a long time to find it." Robin took the lead and stepped into the secret room.

Crocodile said no more, turned into wind and sand and fell into the secret room.

Luffy and Vivi followed closely behind.

"This is what we have been looking for..." Crocodile took a deep breath, feeling the turbid air in the secret room. He only felt that he had gained power, the power he had always dreamed of.

But... thinking of the place Luffy mentioned, gloom filled his face again.

"Okay, Nico Robin, tell me the secret on the slate and translate it word for word."

“It’s a huge stone…”