Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

The cries gradually faded into the distance until the figures of these little demons disappeared as a tiny dot in the distance.

"So your name is Robin. That's a lovely name."

After dealing with the childish brat, Sakura Haruno put her hands behind her back and nimbly turned around.

"Aren't you afraid of me? They call me a monster!"

Robin lowered her head, her left hand gripping her right arm, her five fingers digging into her skin.

"How could that be? Let me tell you a secret, I'm a ninja!"

Sakura Haruno took the hand that was clasped on her right arm and winked playfully at her with her left eye.

Sakura frowned at the roughness of Robin's small hands; they were about the same age as her...

"Ninja...?"

Nicole Robin looked at the girl who had burst into her life like a comet with great curiosity.

She was so dazzling, her smile was beautiful, and she didn't care if people called her a monster. It was as if heaven had sent her a ray of light after sensing her dark life.

Without thinking, Nico Robin squeezed Sakura Haruno's small hand tightly.

In the distance, the parents of the previous group of kids had already led their men to surround the two of them.

"Come on, let me show you!"

Sakura formed hand seals and activated the Mist Servant Technique.

Terrifying black phantoms would emerge from the trees and rocks, baring their fangs and claws as they charged toward the adults.

Amidst the chaos on the beach, Sakura and Nico Robin sneaked away.

Sakura ran along the path into the woods before letting go of Nico Robin's hand.

The two of them leaned against the big tree, panting without any regard for their image. After Sakura Haruno's stomach started rumbling loudly, they looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Ha...hahahaha!"

The girls' innocent smiles echoed through the woods, startling many birds into flight.

The light of the setting sun pierced through the dappled shadows of the trees and shone upon them.

"Oh no, it's already this late!"

Nico Robin jumped up from the ground, anxiously gazing at the distant sunset.

"What's wrong, Robin?"

Sakura, who was comfortably enjoying the cool shade under the tree, looked up at her.

"I have to go home, I have some things to do tonight!" Robin walked to Haruno's side and squatted down: "Um, tomorrow... will I be able to see you again tomorrow?"

"Of course, I'll be staying here for the time being!"

"Well then, goodbye!"

Robin jogged forward, stood at the end of the path, raised his hand, and waved goodbye to Sakura Haruno.

After she left, Sakura Haruno, who was lying on the ground, sat up, with glistening saliva dripping from the corner of her mouth.

Their gleaming eyes pierced the distant seawater, where sea creatures swam merrily.

"Meat....!"

The girl stomped her left foot hard on the ground, creating a cloud of smoke in the forest.

A straight, cherry-pink bolt of lightning tore through the dust, and a thin membrane of chakra allowed her to walk on the sea as if on flat ground. A several-meter-long ice harpoon in her hand suddenly thrust out, instantly piercing through several sea beasts.

The high temperature of the left hand scalded him, and he swallowed it whole, skin and bones.

Although it tastes awful... at least it's filling!

So Sakura, who was starving, kept repeating the same actions, eating one after another until they were completely devoured.

On that day, the entire western coast of Ohara was ravaged by unknown individuals.

Chapter 38 My life, which has been like walking on thin ice!

Under the cover of night, Robin, who had been sternly forbidden from conducting research on the blank century, burst into tears as she pushed open the library door and ran out.

For the first time, I made friends my own age and also obtained scholar's credentials from Ohara.

The two joys overlapped, and this double joy brought even more joy.

We should have had a dreamlike happy time.

However, why, why did it turn out this way?

In the library behind him, the world-renowned archaeologist Claude D. Shamrock let out a heavy sigh.

"How heartless!"

Sakura Haruno stepped out of the shadow cast by the bookshelf and cut a piece of cake to eat as a celebration for Robin.

"How dare you say that? Wasn't it you who suggested we kick that child out?!"

With his arms crossed, Crow D. Clover turned his head and roared at the girl sitting at the dining table who was behaving irrationally.

"Eh, Professor, it's Sakura's fault for acting this way~"

Sakura Haruno stuck out her little tongue, and with a bit of cream on her nose, she looked like a gluttonous child.

But any scholar present knew that this cute pink-haired girl was definitely a black person inside!

For example, her act of barging into the Tree of Omniscience at dusk and stunning everyone with Conqueror's Haki was utterly despicable!

"Fine, you should leave as soon as possible, unless you don't want to turn to ashes along with this island!"

Clown D. Clover reluctantly raised her head and reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Sakura's news came too suddenly. Even if the World Government's Buster Call warships departed from Marine Headquarters and traveled along the currents of the Gate of Justice, it would only take them five days to reach Ohara.

In such a short time, the scholars of Ohara had no way to move the books of the Tree of Omniscience.

The four thousand years of accumulated knowledge from Ohara, along with precious knowledge from all over the world, are all invaluable treasures for humankind.

Now it's going to be destroyed because of the World Government's ridiculous laws, it's really... really...

"I'm not leaving. You guys find me a place to stay!"

Sakura rolled over onto the chair, put her hands behind her head, and propped her legs up on the table.

She acted as if we scholars were the guests here, and she even dared to ask us guests to cook a couple of dishes for her? What gave her the right?

"What is your purpose, you guy?"

Claude D. Clover frowned, looking at the enigmatic girl in front of him.

The other party is actually smiling and eager to get involved in a dangerous event that most people would avoid at all costs.

I don't know whether to say she's reckless or just the lawless nature typical of pirates.

"Didn't I tell you? I'm here to be an enemy of the 'world'!"

Sakura Haruno rocked the chair beneath her, turned around, and flashed an arrogant smile.

Making trouble for the World Government is just a side effect; since we're all going to farm achievements anyway, the real strategy is to fleece the sheep that yields the most profit.

"Do as you please, but don't cry if you get arrested by government agents!"

Dr. Claude D. Clover snorted and led the scholars away.

Although the old man was sharp-tongued, he still arranged a place for Sakura to stay in the residential area above the library before he left.

The next day.

Waking up in the towering real "treehouse", Haruno Sakura first stretched on the not-so-large wooden bed.

Lying on the bed, Sakura Haruno, who had been adrift at sea for days, finally had the chance to retrieve the Flying Thunder God Scroll she had been longing for from the system!

"Hehehe, little darling, let me give you a check-up!"

The girl giggled as she untied its clothes... cough cough, the scroll's sealing rope, and laid it flat on the bed.

The scroll contains very little text; the most important part consists of three engraved images.

One set shows the patterns that spread out on the ground when a summoning technique is used; another set is a miniature model of the basic sealing technique, the Ichi-no-Lantern Array; and the last set is a spiral pattern with a complex nested structure.

'Let's give it a try and see if I have the legendary spatial awareness talent!'

Sakura excitedly gathered chakra and traced the last picture on the scroll in her palm.

Click!

A shattering sound suddenly rang out, so crisp and subtle, and the burst of chakra made Sakura's left hand go numb.

"hiss?"

Sakura Haruno gasped and shook her numb hands.

"Why? I clearly built it according to the pattern on the diagram!"

Undeterred, Sakura tried again.

Click! Click! Click!

The constant cracking sounds coming from inside the room testified to the girl's stubbornness, and half an hour passed in a row.

After countless failures, Sakura Haruno, in a stroke of inspiration, suddenly wanted to try using Observation Haki to perceive space.

Raising her arm, Sakura closed her eyes and used another sensory system within her body to observe the process of pattern formation.

As the chakra pattern condensed, a multidimensional spatial shadow appeared in her senses, but—this spatial shadow was incomplete!

"No wonder the village, despite possessing the technique, couldn't cultivate any other Flying Thunder God users."

Having already deduced the general situation, Sakura opened her eyes, and the completed chakra pattern, burning with azure flames, appeared in her hand.

This spatial pattern is multidimensional! While written records and pictures are two-dimensional models, they simply cannot record or fully describe the existence of higher-dimensional spacetime models.

If you follow the ninjutsu scrolls left by your predecessors exactly, you'll only end up in a trap. But if you don't have any of the ninjutsu scrolls left by your predecessors, it seems easy for you to find yourself in a trap on your own.

—It's like someone who's been stubbornly single-minded to the point of being blocked at both ends.

"Now that the spacetime model is built, the rest of the steps are just a matter of time and patience!"

Sakura rolled over in bed, unable to contain her excitement, and kicked the blanket around herself.

Meanwhile, on the coast of Ohara.

A downcast Nicole Robin was kicking a pebble as she walked on the beach.

The cries of seabirds in the distance caught her attention. Looking up, she saw a huge figure lying sprawled on the sea.

"Ok?"

Little Robin ran to the giant's side, startling many seabirds into taking flight.

The giant lying on the beach twitched his fingers, and as he got up, a lot of dust was stirred up.

"Gah!"

The giant in the smoke and dust made a face to scare Robin away, but Robin was unmoved and instead looked at him like he was a child.

Sauro maintained his grimacing pose, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

Finally, exhausted, he collapsed on the beach, weakly crying out, "Water, give me water!"

A moment later, Sauro, who was lying on the riverbank drinking fresh water, looked up at the sky and let out a sigh of relief.

With a turn, it fell heavily to the ground, smashing many tall trees to pieces.

"What a pleasure!"

"They've escaped death! I wonder how Sakura is doing?"

Saul turned to look at Robin beside him, intending to thank her, but saw the surprised look on her face.

"Sakura? Are you talking about Sakura Haruno?"

"Oh, you know her!" Saul's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, "Where is she now? Is she alright?"

"She now lives at the Tree of Omniscience, with Dr. Crow and the others."

Little Robin put her hands behind her back and tilted her head as she answered Saul.