Hancock woke up from the unspeakable sadness, suddenly opened his beautiful eyes, and sat up straight.
"Joe——"
She saw the familiar snake pattern curtain in front of her and turned her head blankly.
Through the gauze covering the bedside, you can see the layout of your bedroom... Is this the Nine Snakes Palace?
I'm back?
Is it just a nightmare...
Tears filled Hancock's eyes as the previous scenes flashed rapidly in his mind.
"Lynch..."
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The twenty-meter-tall golden Buddha has thousands of golden lights on its head...
The lava giant descends like hell...
A frozen siege hundreds of meters high...
The fatal flash...
Palm impact...
Hot smoke...
A bone-chilling chill...
And the eyes he looked at me... Why should I be so useless! I never know how to resist his hypnosis?!
"No... don't..." His body walked uncontrollably towards the phone bug castle in his hand.
I don’t want to hide in there at all. If I die, I’ll die together. Why do you do this to me?!
"You...bastard..." I was deeply sleepy due to the hypnosis. Before I lost consciousness, I vaguely heard his voice, "I can't help it, Hancock, you are too charming. I'm afraid I can't refuse you."
..."
What kind of explanation is this?!
Lynch, you bastard...
Before consciousness finally fell into darkness, there was the rough touch of a pair of lip prints...
"Be good, go to sleep."
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It was quiet in the Empress's palace, filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants. Sandasonia's chest and back were covered with bandages, and she was resting at her desk. Suddenly she opened her eyes, and she vaguely heard a low sob.
"Sister..." She reacted and immediately jumped up and ran to the bed in the palace. Through the curtains, she could see the slim figure sitting up on the bed, "Sister! Are you awake?"
Sanda opened the curtain, revealing the empress on the bed, and the entire palace seemed to be much brighter.
Hancock turned his head, covered his face with his long hair, and wiped his face.
"Sister..." Sanda leaned over and sat on the edge of the bed.
She saw her sister turn her head. Her long, black and smooth hair looked a little messy. Wiped tears could be seen on her previously gorgeous cheeks, and her face was a little pale.
Hancock's eyes were gloomy, poignant and moving. He looked at Sanda blankly, his red lips trembling slightly, as if he had something to say, wanted to ask, wanted to confirm, but he couldn't speak.
"Sister..." Sanda saw her usually strong and domineering sister showing such a weak and helpless look, and her heart ached, but she still reluctantly looked at her sister's absent-minded eyes and said softly: "Lin Qi's ghost belt"
After we returned to Nine Snakes, you were still in a coma. Princess Robin said that you were under Lynch's hypnosis and you were in a coma... It has been two days, sister, and you finally woke up."
"Two days..."
Hancock muttered to himself and sat blankly on the bed.
Seeing her sister like this, Sanda hesitated to speak, but found that she couldn't even bear to say a word of comfort.
Unless Lynch stands in front of her again, any words of comfort will only sound harsh in her sister's ears...
After an unknown amount of time, Hancock lifted up the soft quilt and swayed slightly. Sanda wanted to help him, but she pushed him away.
Hancock wore black hair and sat barefoot on the edge of the bed. He raised his still pale face, but his eyes were completely different from before, showing a firmness.
"Where is she?" Hancock stood up and put on the red coat handed by Sanda.
"Who?" Sanda was startled for a moment, then woke up, "Princess Robin? Princess, she..."
Hancock paused barefoot and looked back.
Sanda whispered: "Sister, you have been sleeping these past two days, and the princess has not been eating or drinking, or even talking to anyone. Her state is very worrying..."
Hancock bit his lip and said, "Take me to her."
"Sister, you have to eat something first..." Sanda advised.
"Take me to her," Hancock repeated.
Her tone was not serious, but Sanda, who was familiar with her, knew that her sister could not hear any sound at this time, so she had to sigh secretly and take Hancock to find Robin.
Along the way, I met many soldiers who protected the country and members of the pirate group... When everyone saw Hancock, they immediately exclaimed.
"Lord Snake Ji, wake up!"
"The Empress looks so haggard...my heart is about to break!"
The women of Nine Snakes hugged each other and cried, and gave way one after another.
Hancock had no expression on his face, turning a deaf ear to these noises, and quickly followed Sanda to the side hall where Robin was resting in the Nine Snakes Palace.
In the side hall, Robin sat by the open window, staring blankly at the distant sky, his eyes a little hollow.
Next to her, stood a black armored phantom. At this moment, he turned his head, his narrow eyes shimmering, and looked at the two Hancocks who were walking into the hall.
Marigrud saw the eldest and second sisters coming in and said in surprise: "Sister, are you awake?"
"..." Hancock grabbed the third sister's bandaged arm and looked at it. Mary explained: "It's a little burned, but I'm almost healed."
Hancock let go of his hand and went to uncover the injury under the bandage behind the second sister's right shoulder next to him.
"Sister..." Sang Da was stunned and comforted, "I applied the herbal medicine, and I also have the recovery power of the phantom beast species, so everything will be fine."
My sister noticed such a small thing the first time she looked at me after she woke up, right?
"It's all because of me..." Robin by the window looked at the sky and suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse and dry. "It was me who harmed everyone..."
Hancock grasped the bandage on Sanda's back and quickly released it after he realized what was happening.
Mary looked at Robin in surprise. In the past two days, the princess had been ignoring people as if her heart had died. This was the first time she spoke.
Snap, Sangda felt a drop of warm liquid shatter on the bandage on his back, and said in surprise: "Sister——"
When she and Mary looked over, Hancock had already turned his head and wiped his face. He walked up to Robin and "B.I.B" with red eyes, bit his lip and said, "No, it's all my fault."
Robin turned around numbly and saw Hancock's red eyes and haggard and pale face, and felt a pang in his heart.
"Those four navy were able to accurately ambush that island because our pirate ship's whereabouts were exposed," Hancock trembled and blamed himself. "When we finally returned, I gave the order without much thought.
The sea snake went straight into the windless zone... It was because of this that it was so stupid that it took the initiative to fall into the navy's trap... It's all my fault..."
Robin shook his head slowly and murmured to himself: "If it weren't for me...the navy wouldn't have been able to deal with the two kings of the Shichibukai like this..."
"B.I.B" looked on and said, "It doesn't make sense to talk about this now. What matters is what happens in the future."
Hancock's eyes were firm and he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to save him!"
"..." Robin didn't react at all to this, and just looked at "B.I.B".
The latter said calmly: "I am willing to sacrifice myself to keep you away from danger."
"..." Hancock turned his head and stared at the black armored ghost, with tears and anger appearing in his beautiful eyes, "But I don't want to!"
"Who agrees that you took it upon yourself to sacrifice for us?! Have you ever thought about our feelings?!" She gritted her teeth and said, "Obviously, all you need to do is send Sanda and Mary away..." Tears lingered on the Empress.
There were tears on Madara's cheeks. She looked at the reflection of the man in front of her sadly and said sadly, "Don't you know... we would rather die with you than watch you alone, you..."
Robin's dry eye sockets were also red, he clenched his palms and lowered his head in silence.
"B.I.B" was also silent for a while, and then said: "As for the main body, I would rather be hated by you, but also want you to be safe."
"You fart!" Hancock yelled, wiping away tears, "I don't want to hear that."
"People who sacrifice themselves are great, and the feeling of greatness should be very good." The black armor said quietly, "And those who live with endless self-blame and regret are very pitiful."
"..." Hancock gritted his teeth, "I don't need pity."
"B.I.B" shook his head, "I mean..."
It glanced at Hancock and the tearful Robin, "If it weren't for me, neither Robin nor Hancock would have had to face this desperate situation. If I couldn't protect you two, the main body would
I have to live in endless self-blame and regret my whole life... Isn't this pitiful?"
"So you sacrifice yourself without permission?" Hancock's tears kept rolling down and he forced himself to sneer, "How great."
"You don't want to... resent yourself for the rest of your life..." Robin murmured hoarsely, "We don't want to either..."
"B.I.B" is speechless. This is a dead end. If it cannot protect Hancock and Robin, its main body will blame itself, and it is willing to sacrifice itself to send them away, and they will suffer and regret...
"I don't care." Hancock wiped away his tears and said expressionlessly, "Anyway, I'm going to save you. Where are you now?"
"B.I.B" looked at her in silence.
"If you don't tell me, I will go directly to the Navy Headquarters." Hancock looked determined, "In this way, I can see you in person anyway, right?"
"Go directly to the Navy headquarters to ask for someone?" The armor substitute shook his head, "You are committing suicide."
"Then I'll go to the Undersea Prison!" Hancock gritted his teeth, "Anyway... you dare to do this to me, I can't just settle this debt with you!"
"B.I.B" was silent again. It looked at Hancock's determined eyes, and then looked down at Robin sitting by the window.
Robin was stunned and murmured: "It's all because of me..."
"Going to the Undersea Prison is tantamount to committing suicide." The stand-in armor once again denied, "Warden Magellan is a Poison Fruit power user. His ability is suspected to have awakened, and the venom he creates can infect anyone who touches it.
Things, including the ground and walls... Even Robin's Hana Zizai clone has no effect in the face of such poison..."
Hancock interrupted, "So what? I don't care!"
"That kind of extreme poison, if you get even the slightest bit of it, you will definitely die."
"B.I.B"'s narrow eyes shimmered, and his tone was extremely serious, "The risk is too great! Hancock...the main body has managed to protect your safety..."
Looking at Hancock's indifferent and firm eyes, its tone slowly calmed down, and it glanced at Robin, "...Robin, what do you think?"
Robin raised his head, "What do you want me to think?"
"I don't want you to be in danger... Now you are beyond redemption. I want to self-destruct... but I know you will definitely stop me." She said miserably, "And, rather than die like this unknown, it would be better to die in the navy.
In front of them. At least let them know that the dangerous 'Devil's Son' has really disappeared... If they want to be detrimental to Nine Snakes, they can stop."
Sanda and Mary looked at the lost princess and felt extremely uncomfortable.
Hancock said indifferently: "I'm determined anyway, don't try to stop me. You can't stop me, and of course you can't stop Robin."
She glared at the shadow hatefully, "It's like... we couldn't stop you!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Robin stood up weakly and was pressed down by the flame-lined palm of "B.I.B". It sighed silently and said helplessly to Hancock's back: "Even if you want to go to the underwater prison... you at least need to put your body
Have a rest, okay?』
Hancock held on to the stone pillars in the hall and shouted loudly outside the hall: "Where are the people? Get me something to eat!!!"
With worries in their eyes, Sanda and Mary slowly became firm and immediately went out to help prepare food.
Robin's face was so pale that he showed a relieved smile.
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"Why aren't we allowed to go there together?!"
Beside the mountains of food on the long table in the main hall, Sanda and Mary were shocked when they heard this, "Sister——"
"If you don't want to go, you can't go without a reason." Hancock said without raising his head, "Robin and I will go to the prison to rescue people, and you two will stay in Nine Snakes."
She devoured a big meaty leg in a very shameful manner, but she was still very beautiful. The Nine Snake women peeking out of the window could not help but let out sighs one after another...
Robin had no objections to Hancock's decision, and also destroyed the piles of food in front of him at the same speed.
"B.I.B" stood not far away with its arms folded and looked at them. It did not need to eat and could not eat.
Hancock always acted arbitrarily in Nine Snakes, and did not give his two sisters any chance to disobey. He turned to look at the black armor, his beautiful cheeks were bulging with a mouth full of food, and asked: "Can you sense you?"
Where is the present body?"
"It's too far." The narrow eyes on the face of the mask shimmered, and it turned to look in the direction of the Red Earth Continent, "I only know that it must be in that direction... but it's very far away, and I don't know the specific location."
"As long as you can sense it!" Hancock continued to work hard with Robin, "You can feel it more clearly when you get closer, right..."
Robin said nothing and just ate.
She didn't eat much, but this time she was physically and mentally exhausted and on the verge of collapse. What she needed more was quiet rest and recuperation, so she quickly left the table to rest.
Hancock ate more intently, and he didn't know if he was imitating someone. He shed tears as he ate, wiped them away and continued eating.
Sanda and Mary sighed and were extremely sad.
"B.I.B" silently watched Robin leaving and Hancock eating fiercely, unable to see the worry hidden in his narrow eyes...
It really wasn't kidding them. Not everyone can break into the underwater prison.
For hundreds of years, only a ruthless man like Golden Lion managed to escape from prison by cutting off his own feet. This was because he, as a prisoner, escaped from prison unexpectedly from the inside out. He wanted to sneak into the prison from the outside.
The difficulty of escaping from prison has been raised to another level... There is a high-speed sea current between the underwater prison and the Navy Headquarters. Once the infiltration of the prison is discovered, the Navy Headquarters can send high-level combat forces over at any time.
There is no doubt that Kizaru will arrive as soon as he knows that the people who broke into the prison are Nicole Robin and Hancock!
"B.I.B"'s eyes flashed with white light as he flipped through the prison chapter and the comic content of the war chapter on top... It was very clear that in the comics, even the "protagonist" like Luffy, who had a destiny, could escape from the prison alive.
It’s also a fluke among flukes!
The biggest reason is that the main combat power of the Navy headquarters at that time was involved in the battlefield. Even if Magellan lowered his face and asked the Navy for help, the Navy would have no time to deal with the prison.
Secondly, Luffy was able to survive after breaking into the prison because he was lucky enough to meet Eva, the Demon King. Otherwise, Luffy would have been poisoned hundreds of times by Magellan's invincible poison...
But at this point in time, is the Shemale King in the prison?
"B.I.B" is not sure about this at all. Not to mention that the comic did not explain the specific year in which the Demon King was arrested and sent to the prison. Even if it was explained, would the Demon King definitely still be arrested? At least from the side of the Revolutionary Army,
Especially the Shemale King, who has dealt with her a lot. God knows what kind of butterfly wings she will flap... It doesn’t have to be big, maybe it just needs to cause a butterfly effect. Even if the Shemale King goes out a minute late one day, it is possible to prevent her from being
The ending captured by the Navy!
If the Monster King is not in the prison now, what will happen if Robin, Hancock, or Xiao Green are exposed to Magellan's poison?
The same goes for the main body!
The main body does not have a constitution that is invulnerable to all poisons. No matter how powerful the fruit swallowing is, it may not be completely immune to the terrifying poison of Magellan...
"what's on your mind?"
Hancock's voice interrupted "B.I.B"'s thoughts and dragged it back to reality.
Looking up, it saw her and Robin ready to go.
Two days have passed since they decided to go to the prison to rescue people.
In two days, Robin tried his best to adjust his condition, and his complexion recovered a lot, and he refused to delay any longer.
Not to mention Hancock, she almost couldn't bear it on the first day, because Robin's condition looked so bad, so she forced herself to endure it again and again.
There are several newspapers from the past two days on the table. The news recorded is the conflict between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates, as well as the follow-up to the previous conflict between the JOJO Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates... There is no trace of it at all.
Content about Admiral Sengoku teaming up with three Lieutenant Generals Monkey, Chicken and Dog to ambush the Shichibukai Kujo Xu Lun and the Shichibukai Empress...
Obviously, the outside world knows nothing about this matter.
The navy did not expose the Lynch they captured to anyone...
Hancock waved his hand in front of its eyes, "Why are you dazed? We're about to set off!"
"B.I.B" was silent, her eyes slowly moved from the impatient Hancock's face to Robin's face next to her. She held the little green in her hand and stroked it slowly, with a calm look on her face, as if she was ready to accept any result.
Prepare.
Sanda and Mary looked sad and helpless.
"Sister, my injury is almost healed." Sanda took off the bandage on his body, and there was only a radiating circular scar left on the skin of the back shoulder blade. "After a while, even the scar will not be left. Let me
Let’s go with you!”
"Me too -" Mary also said, but was interrupted impatiently by Hancock, "I told you not to come, so you won't. Don't you listen to your sister?"
The empress glanced majestically at the two sisters.
Sanda and Mary lowered their heads in grievance and shed tears. Of course they knew how dangerous the underwater prison was and how there was no return.
"..." Hancock's face softened a lot and he said calmly, "Sanda, Mary."
The two younger sisters raised their heads and wiped the corners of their eyes, and saw the eldest sister saying: "If I can't come back, you have to organize everyone to elect the next Snake Lady."
"Sister!" Tears welled up in Sanda and Mary's eyes again.
"Hi! His!"
Hancock's snake hair popped out and stung Sanda and Mary each on their necks as they moved, causing their movements to freeze immediately.
"You will recover in an hour."
Hancock turned and left expressionlessly, "That's it."
Waving her hand, she strode out of the palace.
"..." Robin walked up to Sanda and Mary, looked at their uncontrollable tears, hugged them gently one by one, turned and left without saying anything.
"B.I.B" glanced at the two Boya sisters whose bodies were unable to move due to the snake hair toxin, but with tears streaming down their faces. It was nothing. They turned around and followed Robin's footsteps, and together they came to the balcony outside the palace. Hanku
Ke was leaning on the railing and looking into the distance, looking at the scenery in Nine Snakes City as before... women were working in the fields, fishing by the river, hunting animals in the mountains, standing guard on the city wall, and practicing domineering and archery in the training ground...
"Let's go." Hancock showed no expression as he turned around and entered the phone bug castle in Robin's hand.
Robin smiled slightly at "B.I.B" and disappeared out of thin air.
Xiao Lu was slightly startled, fell a few inches, and was held up by a mecha palm covered with flame patterns.
"B.I.B" glanced at the prosperous and simple Nine Snakes City, floated up, identified the direction in the high altitude, followed the vague sense of the direction of the main body, and galloped away.
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〖Inside the Telephone Bug Castle——〗
Hancock and Robin walked through the living room, bedroom, study room, and bathroom that were full of life. Everything they had experienced here was still vivid in their minds, except that the joking and uninhibited person was missing.
They sat on the sofa, looking at each other in silence.
After a long time, Robin broke the eerie silence and said, "It's rare that you have time. Do you want to listen?"
"Listen to what?" Hancock asked.
"It's not Kujo Xu Lun, nor Giovanna Giorno..."
Robin murmured to himself, lying on the back of the sofa, looking at the ceiling of the castle that he and Lynch had seen many times on the sofa, "It's Nicole Robin, and Lynch, when they met Bo
The story before and after Jacques Hancock..."
Hancock didn't speak, just looked at her. Robin didn't really listen to her answer, and kept talking to himself:
"I was born in O'Hara on the West Sea. My mother..."
"The Navy launched the Demon-Slaying Order, destroying O'Hara and everyone except me..."
"That day, I met him on South Chicago Island...he crawled out from under the garbage dump and the first thing he said when he saw me..."
…
"After returning to his hometown of Flower Country... we learned about his mother's past..."
"Lily, she..."
Hancock finished telling Robin's stories quietly without saying a word.
Robin couldn't remember where she was talking and stopped talking. She stood up from the sofa, looked at the castle door, and whispered: "Aren't you here yet?"
She walked over and quickly said something in surprise, seemingly communicating with "B.I.B" who was flying around with a castle phone bug from the outside.
Hancock came back to his senses, looked at Robin, frowned slightly, "What's wrong?" He also followed, and slowly heard what Robin was saying to "B.I.B" outside.
"What's wrong?" Hancock wondered, bypassing Robin, and jumped out from the castle portal.
BIU, she suddenly appeared at a high altitude. The moment she fell, she was caught by an invisible ghost hand and held up in the air.
"Where's the big prison? Why didn't you see it?"
Hancock looked around and saw no trace of any offshore structures, not even an island.
"wrong……"
His hair was fluttering on his face, Hancock's expression changed, and he stared at the undulating waves around him, "Isn't this a windless zone? You——"
Although she didn't know the specific location of the big prison, what was clear was that the place was definitely in the windless zone!
And this sea area is obviously windy and is the Grand Route?
Behind the castle portal, Robin looked at "B.I.B" steadily.
When she poked her head out of the castle portal to watch, it had already maintained this action, hovering over the sea for a long time.
Obviously, it is carefully distinguishing the location of its body at the moment.
"B.I.B" is holding Hancock in one hand and the Phone Bug Castle in the other. Its narrow eyes are glowing with light, and it is looking steadily ahead in the direction in which it is flying following the induction of the main body...
Both Hancock and Robin's expressions changed slightly. In front of them was a "shadow" stretching over the sea that could already be seen with the naked eye...
Red Earth Continent!
"B.I.B" murmured: "So that's it..."
"What's going on?" Hancock asked in confusion, "Are you still being detained at the Navy Headquarters?"
"No, the Navy headquarters is at the same height as the sea surface, but the main body...is higher up now."
"B.I.B" looked forward in the distance, his eyes slowly swept across the top of the red continent, and he read the name of a place that made Hancock and Robin's expressions change drastically at the same time.
"In the Holy Land of the Celestial Dragons, Marie Joa."
…
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A bloody crack opened in the dim world... It was Lin Qi who slowly opened his eyes.
Consciousness was slowly returning, and Lin Qi gradually woke up. He raised his head, and what he saw in front of him flew by and swayed. It seemed like a garden or a church? He seemed to see butterflies flying...
I am...
Lin Qi's blurred vision gradually focused on the...tall and slender dark figure in front of him.
Lin Qi couldn't hear clearly what the other party seemed to be saying...
The other party stretched out his slender jade hand, pinched his chin and raised it. There was no trace of emotion in his eyes, and he said indifferently: "Where is your substitute?"
Lin Qi suddenly woke up and stared at the opponent's ripple-like pupils.