Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

Luffy's eyes widened instantly, and he blurted out, "So you knew all along?"

Robin looked at him with a smile, her tone relaxed: "Have you forgotten my ability? I have eyes everywhere."

And then they launched a surprise attack.

Luffy was speechless. Back then, Robin and Nami had indeed come looking for him in the forest.

But he quickly realized what he meant and hurriedly retorted, "It's not what you think at all. I just took Vivi for a walk and tried to cheer her up. Who knew you and Nami would suddenly show up!"

"That would be even more problematic."

Robin raised an eyebrow and countered, "If it was just a normal walk and some guidance, why did you hide so nervously when you saw us coming?"

Luffy: "......."

He opened his mouth, but was speechless.

He can't exactly say that it was because Weiwei's illness flared up at the time and her condition was a bit strange, and he was afraid you would misunderstand, right?

Seeing Luffy's embarrassed and speechless state, Robin's smile grew even brighter. She gently touched her red lips with her finger and said in a calm yet undeniable tone:

"Since Vivi has tried it, as a historian, I'd also like to study it. As the captain, Luffy can't be biased, can he?"

Luffy was completely confused, and he suspected that he and Robin were not talking about the same thing.

"Try what? Besides, Weiwei and I didn't do anything else!"

If we're talking about kisses, Robin has clearly kissed more often, okay?!

Robin's expression was as if he had found an extremely interesting new toy.

Luffy sensed something was wrong and turned to sneak back to the Thousand Sunny.

He had barely taken a step when he heard Robin slowly say behind him, "You don't want Nami to know about this, do you? That night, you and Vivi were in the forest."

Luffy froze instantly.

Immediately afterwards, he felt as if a dozen white arms instantly grew from his joints, fixing him firmly in place and rendering him unable to move.

With his current strength, breaking free from those arms wouldn't be difficult, but he couldn't actually lay a hand on Robin.

"Hey, Robin, what do you think you're doing?! I'm the captain!"

Luffy panicked a little as several unseen hands gently covered his eyes again, plunging him into darkness.

Robin didn't answer, but hummed an unknown tune and walked over with elegant steps.

Then, Luffy sensed that she was fiddling with her hands and feet, and seemed to have taken something out.

Robin hummed a little tune and took out the rubber band he had swiped from Vivi.

After half an hour.

Luffy walked out of the Going Merry's rest room with slightly unsteady steps, his legs trembling involuntarily.

He turned around and looked at Robin, who was following behind him with a satisfied and content expression, with a look that was a mixture of shock and bewilderment.

She even let out a soft burp.

Did Vivi do something like that that night?

Robin flashed a classic sly smile and winked: "Guess?"

"What am I supposed to guess?!"

Luffy was almost going crazy.

He slept through the night, dreaming of a fierce battle with Aokiji, that icy-faced guy.

Robin then seemed to suddenly remember something important, and gently patted her forehead: "Oh right, I almost forgot. Nami wants you to hurry over, it seems to be something important."

Luffy looked at her with suspicion, took two steps, then turned back and asked, "Aren't you coming with me?"

Robin waved his hand gracefully, covered his mouth and let out a soft burp, then said with a smile, "I want to go for a walk."

Luffy: "......"

Even if your eyes are covered, you can still sense things while you are awake.

For the first time, he felt that going against the plan might not be so bad.

Of course, he needs someone like Robin to help him catch up.

When Luffy returned to the Thousand Sunny with some trepidation, Nami was already getting impatient and was planning to go to the Going Merry herself to capture him.

"Luffy, why are you so slow!"

Nami put her hands on her hips and said with dissatisfaction, then glanced at Luffy, whose expression was slightly strange, and looked behind him, "Where's Robin? Didn't she go to find you?"

Luffy remained expressionless and replied in as natural a tone as possible, "Oh, she said she ate too much and wanted to stretch her legs and take a walk on the deck."

Nami was even more confused.

Robin didn't eat much tonight either.

She felt something was off, but there were more important things to do right now, and she didn't have time to delve into it. She shoved a recent newspaper into Luffy's hand, "Take a look at this first! The headline!"

Luffy took the newspaper and looked down at it.

The front page headline was printed in bold black font with a sensational title.

Multiple islands in the East China Sea have mysteriously disappeared! The maritime map has quietly changed!

The accompanying image is a map of the East China Sea, marked with several alarming red dots, representing islands that have been confirmed to have disappeared.

The report was vague, only mentioning that during the same period, several places in the East China Sea, along with their towns and residents, seemed to have been completely wiped off the map by an invisible hand for unknown reasons, and the World Government has intervened to investigate.

Luffy frowned.

Although it seems that nothing has happened on the islands that are connected to us so far, who knows how long this strange situation will last?

Where will it spread?

The East China Sea was where their dreams took flight.

Nami's face was filled with worry, and her voice unconsciously lowered: "Luffy, what... what's going on?"

Zoro and the others, who were born in the East Blue, all gathered around, as this was closely related to them.

"What is that, a meteorite?" Usopp asked, pointing to a picture in the newspaper.

Besides the towns mysteriously disappearing, things also inexplicably fell down.

Nami said, "The report said it was something that fell from the sky, like some trees that only exist in the New World."

Luffy sat down and said, "But we can't stop sailing on the Grand Line."

As Nami's navigator student, Luffy knew that given their current situation, they had no way to return to the East Blue.

Currently, there are basically two ways to return to the four seas from the Grand Line.

One option is to abandon ship and head to the Red Line. But abandoning ship is impossible, and heading to the Red Line is also impossible. How could a pirate possibly cross the Holy Land of Mary Geoise?

Should we ask Garp for help?

Even a naval hero couldn't do anything about it.

The second is crossing the Calm Belt.

However, they faced the threat of sea kings, and the Thousand Sunny and Going Merry were of no use.

He saw Nami's worries, not just because Cocoyasi Village was in the East Blue.

Zoro walked over and said, "Calm down. There's no point in going back if we don't know the reason."

"Moreover, the newspapers say that the World Government will intervene in the investigation, although no explanation has been given. But the Navy has already been deployed."

Despite saying that, Nami was still worried.

Just then, a sharp whooshing sound suddenly came from outside the cabin. Franky cried out in alarm, "Super! Oh no! It's really raining knives up ahead!"

A rain of knives?

"what?!"

Nami snapped out of her daze, forgetting all about the newspaper, and grabbed Luffy, rushing outside. "I was just casually mentioning the warning of abnormal weather."

The two rushed out of the cabin and onto the bow deck of the Sunny Horizon.

The sight before my eyes was astonishing.

In the airspace not far away, the originally white clouds have turned gray and disordered.

Countless gleaming metal blades, knives, swords, daggers, and even enormous axe blades of all shapes and sizes rained down from the sky like a storm, densely packed and accompanied by a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, turning that airspace into a forbidden zone of death.

Some flying creatures that couldn't dodge in time were instantly cut into pieces, turning into a rain of blood that fell down.

"What kind of weather is this?!" Usopp was so frightened that he almost stammered and nearly clung to the mast.

“It can’t be natural weather,” Robin said, having somehow appeared at the bow of the ship. He crossed his arms and stared intently at the rain of blades. “It looks more like a phenomenon caused by some kind of power.”

All sorts of bizarre Devil Fruit abilities can be found everywhere in the Grand Line.

It's not like they don't have the ability to make so many swords and machines fly.

"I don't have time to study it!"

Nami's instincts as a navigator immediately overcame her shock. She quickly assessed the wind direction and cloud movement, and shouted, "Franky, prepare for the wind blast! Adjust the ship's angle! We must get out of this airspace immediately! Vivi, I'm counting on you too!"

Even the Sea Emperor wouldn't want to contend with natural disasters. The Sea Emperor himself might be a natural disaster, but it's a destructive one. It's best to avoid such things if possible.

"understand!"

Vivi and Nami's teamwork was already very skilled. She took a deep breath, raised her palms upward, and an invisible current began to swirl around her. "Wind, come!"

At the same time, Franky rushed to the stern, and the stern jets of the Sunny began to adjust their direction, with the hissing sound of Coca-Cola energy boiling coming from inside.

"Wind Detonation ready! Launch!!"

boom!!!

A powerful gust of air violently erupted from the stern, and in conjunction with Vivi's manipulation of the updraft, the Sunny Mile was lifted up as if by an invisible giant hand, accelerating sharply and tilting upwards in a treacherous arc, narrowly avoiding the deadly rain of blades.

The ship rocked violently, and Chopper and Usopp clung to each other tightly, letting out incoherent screams.

When the ship finally regained stability, everyone looked back with lingering fear, and the storm of blades in the sky was now far behind them.

"Phew, I'm saved."