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At this moment, Kuma was feeling particularly uncomfortable.
What Ikki just wrote made his idea of revolution rise to a new level. Even many problems that he had not thought through before became suddenly clear at this moment.
However, just when he saw the key parts, the text suddenly stopped.
How could Kuma accept this?
"For the rest of the content, I'll give it to you after you get what I want."
Ikki tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table and looked at Kuma with his troubled expression with interest.
Looking at Ikki's appearance, Kuma took a deep breath to calm down his slightly excited mood. He folded the paper in front of him and carefully put it into the folder of the books he carried with him.
He understood the importance of these words. At this moment, he just wanted to see Dragon as soon as possible and hand over these papers to him for review.
"Don't worry. Even if we don't have famous swords in-house, we'll try our best to find them."
Kuma stood up from his position, walked up to Ikki, and extended his hand to him.
"Your insight astounds me. I believe that Dragon will be very happy and surprised after reading what you wrote. With such knowledge, it would be a pity for you to just be a famous sword hunter."
"If you're willing, I can speak for Dragon and invite you to become a member of the Revolutionary Army..."
Kuma became more and more excited as he talked, but Ikki shook his head and interrupted him.
"Sorry, the identity of the Revolutionary Army is too sensitive. And you can see I have partners. I don't want to cause any trouble for them because of my reasons. Also I don't want to get too involved in the whirlpool between you all."
"If I didn't admire your Revolutionary Army very much, I wouldn't have handed over these written contents to you."
"Come on, I look forward to the day when you overthrow the Celestial Dragons."
Ikki patted Kuma's gloved hand casually and said.
Seeing Ikki's resolute expression, Kuma secretly thought it was a pity. However, he also understood that he couldn't force Ikki to do anything, so he could only choose to compromise.
"I understand, Mr. Ikki. If the Revolutionary Army finds famous swords in the future, we'll come looking for you. I still have something to do, so I'll leave first."
Kuma nodded and planned to leave. Out of respect for Ikki, Kuma even added the honorific "Mr."
"By the way, how do you plan to deal with the little girl from the Moria Pirates? She heard the conversation between us, and letting her go unchecked may have some bad consequences."
Kuma said.
"Don't worry, didn't that woman say she wanted to be my partner? I'll keep her on board for a while, if she passes, she'll become a new member of my ship. In short, she won't have any chance to tell anyone about the conversation between you and me."
Ikki waved his hand and smiled.
"In that case, I'll do as you wish, Mr. Ikki."
Kuma said goodbye, then left the cabin and used his own abilities to rush toward the castle where Moria was.
"I didn't expect you to have so many insights into the world's situation and people's consciousness. It seems that I still don't know you well enough."
Nico Robin chuckled and sat on the stool next to Ikki. At this moment, she looked at him with eyes full of curiosity.
"Haha, I think you know me well enough."
Ikki took Nico Robin's hand and chuckled. 'Can you not understand? After all, the two people have already been 'honest' with each other.'
"Vivi, Robin, let's go. It's a rare trip here, so let's go out for a walk. The zombies here can be considered an interesting sight."
Ikki laughed.
"Really, how can zombies be considered scenery?"
Vivi pouted. Even so, she still followed Ikki and Robin with brisk steps. She looked down at Ikki's right hand, which was held by Robin. After hesitating for a few seconds, she quickly took two steps forward and took his left hand.
Robin, who noticed Vivi's movements, looked over and found that Vivi's face had a little blush.
"So... cute."
Nico Robin chuckled.
"Cuteness and stuff... isn't as important as maturity."
Vivi pursed her lips when she heard this and looked at Robin with pretend dissatisfaction.
Seeing the expressions of the two of them, Ikki chuckled softly and pulled them together as he flew in the direction of Thriller Bark using Geppo.
At the same time, on the other side.
Zoro was fighting fiercely with the zombie Ryuma. Between the two parties swinging their swords, fierce flying slashes occurred, destroying the surrounding walls and debris.
"It's so... so powerful! Both sides can actually execute flying slashes!"
The skeletal Brook looked at the battle in front of him with a shocked expression.
Now it was very difficult for him to even cut through steel, and suddenly seeing that the zombie Ryuma fused with his own shadow could perform flying slashes, he realized that this zombie Ryuma had never used his true abilities when he dueled with him before.
"This moss-head is quite capable. He's worked hard enough to regain his own sword."
Sanji lit a cigarette and said calmly. Only he knew that under the pressure brought by Zoro, both he and Luffy were more active in exercising than before. Thanks to this hard work, their strength had improved by leaps and bounds.
"However, at this level, can he defeat that guy and take back Wado Ichimonji?"
Sanji exhaled a puff of white smoke and thought of the strength shown by Ikki and Nami who had finally stopped Zoro in Loguetown.
"That, Sanji-san. You've been saying since before that Zoro's original sword was taken away by someone. Zoro is so strong - who could take away his sword?"
Brook asked.
"Brook, haven't you been staying in this Florian Triangle? Even if I tell you, you may not know."
Sanji glanced at Brook, and after thinking for a moment, he explained.
"The man who took Zoro's sword away was a man named Ikki Kurogane. Let's put it this way - that Ikki once defeated Crocodile, who was also a Shichibukai like Gecko Moria."
Hearing this, Brook's eyes suddenly widened.
"Defeated a Shichibukai?"
Although he didn't know who Crocodile was, the name Shichibukai was enough to shock Brook. After all, the person who took away his shadow was a Shichibukai.
"That's right, our captain defeated a Shichibukai."
Just when Brook was surprised, a crisp girl's voice sounded behind Sanji and Brook.
"Hm?!"
Their hearts skipped a beat and they quickly turned to look behind them.
"What a beautiful woman! Wait, who are you? The ghost girl is here too?!"
Brook tilted his head and looked at the three women standing behind him with some confusion.
Although one of the women was wearing a mask, Brook could tell from her figure that she was a beautiful woman. What puzzled Brook the most was Perona standing behind the three women.
Perona, who was originally quite strong in Brook's image, was now standing between the three of them like a little rabbit who had been wronged.
"Are you... Miss Nami, and Miss Nojiko?! It's great to finally see you again!"
With hearts in his eyes, Sanji pounced toward Nami, Nojiko and Kalifa.
Nami frowned and was about to blow Sanji away with her fist. At this moment, Kalifa took the lead in moving.
"Soru!"
With a low sound, Kalifa's body turned into an afterimage and appeared in front of Sanji. Then she hit him with a sharp kick.
'Rankyaku!'
Kalifa muttered silently, and Sanji's body flew toward Zoro and Zombie Ryuma who were fighting, accompanied by a crescent-shaped air blade.
Zoro and Zombie Ryuma frowned and both stepped back. The two of them saw Sanji's body crashing into rubble, and they couldn't help but look at Kalifa and the others.
"Eh! Sanji-san!"
Brook opened his mouth wide, and after looking at the masked Kalifa, he quickly opened his two skeletal legs and ran toward Sanji. He lifted him up from the ground.
"What a... what a powerful kick, it went straight to the depths of my heart."
Until this moment, even though he was spitting blood from his mouth, Sanji's eyes were still full of love.
"But why is this kick so similar to the one from Enies Lobby?"
Sanji wiped the blood from his mouth and looked at Kalifa with some confusion.