Nico Robin had a plan.
Or, more accurately, all her actions had been built around the same plan—
To survive on this sea by any means necessary!
Back on Ohara Island, Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral Haguar D. Saul gave his life to save the young Nico Robin.
Since then, Robin had experienced countless betrayals, exploitations, and conspiracies.
Until finally, Robin felt that if she wanted to survive on this sea, she had to be ruthless!
So, Nico Robin embarked on a road of using and betraying.
She joined a powerful force to gain temporary stability, while using her position in that force to restrain the World Government, preventing those hunting her from acting rashly.
Then, using the channels of those powerful forces, she gathered as much information about Poneglyphs as possible.
Once those powerful forces had exhausted their usefulness, Robin would bring the World Government into the game, letting them fight to the death, and then she would escape.
Nico Robin had done this countless times.
Indeed, the risks were great, but Nico Robin, with her assassination skills granted by her devil fruit and her own intelligence, always managed to stay safe.
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Some time ago, Nico Robin learned through rumors that one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, "Crocodile," was secretly plotting something.
But what puzzled the underworld's intelligence organizations was that they couldn't figure out Crocodile's plan!
With her keen sense and fragments of information from various networks, Nico Robin roughly deduced Crocodile's goal—
An Ancient Weapon!
It was definitely something closely related to the Poneglyphs. So, Nico Robin planned to try to contact Crocodile and then act according to the situation.
But before Nico Robin could begin her plan, another big event happened.
The emperor from eight hundred years ago, "Golden Dawn" Ryan Rowan himself, had been revived in Alabasta!
Such an absurd piece of news forced Nico Robin to choose a cautious approach, postponing her contact with Crocodile.
Soon after, the Four Seas Alliance was announced.
Crocodile, as a member of the Four Seas Alliance, was active within it.
Nico Robin couldn't determine the relationship between Crocodile and this so-called "Four Seas Alliance," let alone Ryan Rowan's true intentions in creating the Four Seas Alliance.
Robin chose to abandon this force that she couldn't grasp at all.
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Soon.
After several twists and turns, Nico Robin boarded the Flying Pirates' ship and met the legendary pirate who had been lurking for a long time, "Golden Lion" Shiki.
What followed then began to unfold naturally.
Nico Robin gave the Golden Lion some clues about the Ancient Weapons, and the Golden Lion became very interested in them.
So far, Robin's plan was going smoothly.
But Nico Robin underestimated the "power" of the man named "Golden Lion."
That "power" wasn't just limited to combat strength.
As one of the legends of the previous era, the Golden Lion's intelligence network far surpassed Nico Robin's imagination.
Nico Robin didn't expect that the Golden Lion would know the location of the Ancient Weapon Pluton's blueprints!
She didn't expect that the Golden Lion would take this opportunity to directly attack the World Government's judicial ship, bringing back the fish-man Tom, the owner of the Pluton blueprints!
When the Golden Lion's slash split the judicial ship in two, Robin realized that the situation seemed to be getting out of her control.
Robin's contact with Tom was also to test whether he had a way to solve the current predicament.
The Golden Lion's ambition had never been hidden from Robin, so Robin knew very well that once the Golden Lion really mastered the Ancient Weapons, it would be a catastrophic disaster for the entire sea!
But unfortunately.
Looking at Tom's attitude, although optimistic, he had no solution to the current situation.
The only thing Tom could do was to continue to joke around with the Golden Lion.
Anyway, Tom couldn't die, otherwise the Pluton blueprints would likely be lost forever.
But such a situation was just a stalemate. As long as Tom was still on the Flying Pirates' ship, the Golden Lion would inevitably notice some clues about the Pluton blueprints.
Now, there must be a "big event" that is enough to fundamentally change the situation!
…
The "big event" happened.
Robin and Tom watched as the Four Seas Alliance's ships flew into the sky.
And watched as Ryan Rowan's black gun swung horizontally, knocking everything in the sky into the sea!
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Even the Golden Lion had never thought that Rowan could do this!
"Tch, what did he do?"
The Golden Lion's fingers spread open, the veins on his arms bulged, and the Float-Float Fruit ability activated.
But what puzzled him was that the falling ships and floating islands in front of him were clearly under his control, but at this moment, they seemed to have disconnected from him.
Was it because they were slashed?
The Golden Lion recalled Rowan's previous action of waving the black gun.
An extremely thin, almost invisible line swept across the ships and floating islands in the sky.
The Golden Lion's eyes narrowed, and he saw that there was a tiny crack on the floating island not far away.
This crack split the floating island in two, but it was so small that it was almost impossible to see unless you looked closely!
With just a strange slash, he made the islands and ships lose the Float-Float Fruit's control?
The Golden Lion looked up at Ryan Rowan in front of him.
At that moment, the Golden Lion's eyes didn't show surprise, let alone fear, but a long-lost excitement!
"Tch hahaha ha, Ryan Rowan, I'll remember your name!"
The Golden Lion didn't use his ability to float, but let gravity pull him to the ground.
Ryan Rowan in front of him did the same.
Under the effect of gravity, whether it was Rowan, the Golden Lion, or anyone else, or even the ships and floating islands, everything was falling!
At first, their falling speed was still slow, but when they entered the mist of the Triangle Zone, this speed had already accelerated to a level that ordinary people couldn't bear.
…
Inside the cabin, Habu's reference books and materials were already floating in the air.
…
Everything was falling, but relative to each other, it was still.
The people on the ship didn't know what they were going to face.
But in any case, it wouldn't be the result of falling into the sea and the ship being destroyed and everyone dying.
Because they all believed in their captain!
…
But…
At this moment, because of the thick mist, no one could see the Golden Lion or Rowan clearly.
Only the crisp "clanging" sound coming from the mist proved one thing.
In the mist—
The lion and the eagle are fighting!
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