And Robin probably didn't want to expose her connection to the Dimensional City.
Therefore, it is best to stay hidden for the first time so as not to cause any trouble for Robin.
Esdeath nodded. "In that case, let's let someone go invisibly and lead the charge."
Takumi waved his hand. "No one else is needed; I'll be there. I'm just going to go take a look."
Well, his main purpose is to go there and see what tasks will be triggered.
At that time, it would be good to see if Esdeath can help him finish it.
"Okay, then go ahead, and I'll wait for your news here."
Esdeath didn't worry about who should lead the charge. Anyway, he just went around to find a suitable place for the troops to descend. It doesn't matter who goes. If Takumi wants to go, just let him go.
Takumi also didn't delay. After saying goodbye, he walked directly into the Dimensional Gate leading to the world of One Piece.
...
And the other side.
Robin returned to the world of One Piece, located in Rainbase, Alabasta, in a corridor backstage at the casino belonging to Baroque Works.
Robin looked around for the first time after coming back and was relieved when she saw no one around.
She had walked through the Dimensional City while walking in the corridor before, so when she came back, Robin couldn't help but be a little worried about whether she would be bumped into by someone else.
It would be okay if they were just ordinary members of Baroque Works, but at worst, they would be silenced.
But if she was discovered by Crocodile and other senior officials, she would have no choice but to run away.
But if possible, she didn't want to come to this point, or she didn't want to expose this secret.
Fortunately, this did not happen, and she returned safely and unnoticed.
But it's still not safe enough. Crocodile's ambition is too great. If he finds out about this, he will definitely not let me go. Staying here for one more day will increase the risk. I must leave Baroque Works as soon as possible...
Robin thought to herself as she walked towards the office.
In the office, Crocodile had been waiting here for a long time. When he saw Robin coming in, he immediately glanced over.
"Why did Miss All-Sunday take so long?" Crocodile asked calmly with a stern face.
If it weren't for Robin's great use, just for making him wait for so long, anyone else would probably be put on the spot by him and thrown to the Bananawani.
"Sorry, something suddenly delayed me."
Robin walked over calmly and answered casually.
Crocodile was obviously not satisfied with this answer. He said coldly, "Is there anything more important than work?"
It looked like he would kill someone immediately if she didn't give him a satisfactory answer.
Robin replied calmly, "It's a woman's private matter."
Crocodile: "..."
This reason was so good and powerful that Crocodile didn't know how to deal with it for a while. He could only cough twice in embarrassment and said:
"Ahem, this will not happen next time. Since you are not feeling well, I will give you a day off today. Now put down the information, and then you can go back and rest."
Otherwise, what can he do? Evil organizations also need to be humane and sophisticated. Being too inconsiderate to subordinates is not conducive to management. It is not easy to support an organization.
And if the treatment is not good, who is willing to risk losing their head? Risk is with you. You won't get loyalty if you rely solely on intimidation, so that's all we can do.
Alas~~~
Life is not easy, Crocodile sighed.
Robin did not refuse. Seeing that he had been fooled, she quickly put down a document, said goodbye, exited the office, and quickly left the casino.
Crocodile also saw Robin leaving but didn't care.
Because in his opinion, Robin still needed his protection, and it was definitely unlikely that she would run away. Even if she wanted to escape, she couldn't escape from his grasp, so he didn't care about it or let anyone follow her.
After Robin came out, she walked carefully along the way. After making sure that no one was following her, she turned a corner and came to a rental house.
This is a safe house she built herself, where she stores some things prepared for running away.
Yes, she had actually been prepared to run away for a long time.
Although for now, it would be safest for her to work under Crocodile.
But she has experienced what it means to rely on a mountain only for it to fall and rely on everyone only for them to run away, so she has been cautiously prepared in advance.
But since she has been here now, she naturally doesn't want to run away immediately; she just comes to get something.
Now that she has a better refuge option, these things are not so important. She might as well exchange them for funds from the Dimensional City.
"This money should be enough to buy a lot of things."
After taking out all the money for running away, Robin went to the market again and used the money to buy a lot of things. She bought whatever was rare.
Then she took a bunch of things and returned to the residence assigned to her by Baroque Works.
She was going to pack up the books she had saved in her residence and go to the Dimensional City to make money immediately.
At this moment, a rainbow vortex suddenly appeared beside her.
"Um? Are the people over there coming?"
Robin immediately became vigilant, fearing that there would be a malicious invasion.
But soon she knew that she was overly worried because she saw Takumi walking out of the rainbow vortex alone, unarmed, and with no soldiers.
"City Lord Takumi, what are you doing here?"
"Haha, I'm just curious about your world, so I took the time to come over and take a look."
"And you seem to need some help from me. Are these the specialties you collected?"
Takumi laughed, then immediately changed his attention and looked at a pile of things on the side.
"Yes, thank you so much for being here to help." Robin saw that Takumi seemed to be just here to see the specialties here, so she thanked him politely and poured Takumi a cup of tea.
Then she started to introduce: "Let me introduce to you, this is our place's unique meat..."
"This is a special ore..."
"This herb is..."
"This is Dance Powder..."
"This is a Den Den Mushi..."
"This animal is..."
From Takumi's previous conversation, Robin already roughly knew the difference between the One Piece world and other worlds. She had collected many specialties from the One Piece world, which were all things that were not available in other worlds.
Of course, there are some things that don't have much value.
For example, Takumi checked the medicinal materials and found that only a few looked different, but many of them had the same medicinal properties as the medicinal materials in the normal world.
These were all brought back from Robin's large-scale sweeps. Because she couldn't tell which ones were valuable to the Dimensional City, she simply collected a piece of each item.
The main thing is to win by quantity.
However, by casting such a wide net, Robin really collected a lot of useful things.
For example, some poultry unique to the One Piece world can enrich the variety of the breeding industry in the Dimensional City and have better quality.
Another example is medicinal materials. Although most of them are useless, many of them have better medicinal properties than those currently grown in the Dimensional City and are also valuable for introduction.
This also gave Takumi a changed view of the world of One Piece.
It seems that the various ecological environments in the world of One Piece also have a lot of potential value!
At least the animal and plant resources are much richer than in the ordinary world.
Many things inside are of useable value!