"Cough, cough, Nami, if you haven't had enough sleep, you can go back and sleep in. No need to get up early!"
Roland said without changing his expression.
"Mm… okay, I'll go back to sleep after I finish punching with Vivi!"
Nami mumbled, starting to practice Beast Strike morning exercises with Vivi.
However, both of them were clearly distracted, and none of their movements were standard.
"Nami, do you think we misunderstood? Looking at Mr. Roland and Miss… Nico Robin, it doesn't seem like anything happened between them!"
Vivi said suspiciously.
"Whether something happened or not, I'll know once I test it!"
Nami said, jogging up to the second floor.
At this moment.
Robin was experimenting with her new ability in the orange tree area of the aft deck on the second floor.
She evenly sprinkled various flower seeds into the soil and activated the power of the Wood Release Technique.
The next second, the previously empty spot instantly bloomed with flowers at a visible speed.
Among the flowers, a small fruit tree was also growing vigorously.
The fruit tree, which would normally take several years to grow, matured in just a few minutes.
"Holy crap!!!"
Nami, who witnessed this magical scene with her own eyes, couldn't help but exclaim, her eyes wide as copper bells.
"Robin, Robin, how did you do that? Are you a Devil Fruit user?"
Nami asked repeatedly out of curiosity.
"Mm, I'm a Paramecia Flower-Flower Fruit user!"
Robin nodded.
"Flower-Flower Fruit, I see, that's why you can make flowers bloom!"
Nami said, understanding.
"That's not right, Nami. The Flower-Flower Fruit has nothing to do with blooming flowers!"
Robin smiled, shaking her head in denial.
"Uh…"
"Come here, I'll tell you. This is the Wood Release Technique, a miraculous power that the child… Captain Roland bestowed upon me last night…"
Robin didn't hide anything and immediately told Nami everything.
"Eh, eh, eh, how could this be… even we haven't…"
Nami was completely flustered.
"Don't worry yet, Nami, you don't know the specific method of power bestowal yet…"
With that, Robin leaned in and whispered into Nami's ear, telling her her guess.
"What! To inherit power, you need to go deep with the Captain…"
Nami was instantly stunned.
"Exactly!"
Robin nodded seriously.
She remembered very clearly that when she gained the power of Armament Haki and the Wood Release Technique, it was precisely when Roland was teaching her…
"I, I, I… I understand… I'll go back and digest this first!"
Nami walked away dazedly and went to Vivi's room.
She told Vivi everything she had learned from Robin.
"Eh, eh, eh?"
As expected, Vivi was also stunned on the spot, at a loss for what to do.
"How about… Vivi, you go try first…"
Nami urged.
"No, no, no, Nami, you go first. After all, you boarded the ship first…"
Vivi modestly declined.
"How about… together?"
…
…
On this side, the atmosphere on the "Never Empty Army" was lively due to the addition of Robin, Vivi, and Karu.
On the other side, in Holy Land Mary Geoise, the Five Elders, the world's highest authorities, were completely distraught.
"What? Has it been confirmed?"
Mars God of Finance Gorosei Saint Nasujuro's voice rose by more than an octave.
"Yes… yes, Five Elders, it has been confirmed. Nico Robin, the Demon Child, is now with the Air Force Pirates. She has probably joined them!"
A World Government official said tremblingly.
"Damn it!"
Jupiter Gorosei Pete slammed his hand on the white jade table, instantly shattering it, causing fine cracks to spread across its surface.
"First, they sank the CP7's warship, and now they openly harbor that Demon Child. These guys… is that man from the Air Force Pirates determined to oppose us to the very end?"
"Anyway, we have no intention of reconciling with that brat. Nico Robin's addition merely gives us another reason to absolutely eliminate them!"
Mercury Gorosei Wochury said coldly.
"Five… Five Elders, it's… not good!"
Just then, the World Government intelligence department captain stumbled into the hall, his face filled with anxiety and panic.
"What now?"
Saturn Gorosei Saturn frowned.
"Lord Five Elders, just now, the Alabasta incident… the former Shichibukai Crocodile's usurpation of the country has been exposed by the World Economic Journal led by News King Morgans and a group of other newspapers. It can no longer be kept secret!"
The intelligence squad leader reported with a shout.
"Nani!!!"
"What did you say?"
"Why was it exposed again!"
"What exactly did Cobra do!"
The Five Elders were instantly enraged.
They had already specifically exempted Alabasta from three years of Heavenly Tribute.
They even contributed a wave of Heavenly Tribute to Alabasta in return.
This was an unprecedented privilege, yet…
"No… it's not the royal family. It's the people of Alabasta themselves. The Kingdom Army is helping to suppress them, but there are simply too many people!"
The intelligence captain honestly reported the truth.
"Bastards!!!"
"Whether it's Crocodile or that brat Roland, they really deserve to die!"
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