Looking at Robin in her arms, Kozue wondered what she would do.
He knew he wasn't Luffy and he had the plot armor to go out into the world and transform enemies into allies who wouldn't betray him.
If it were someone else, in order to avoid having a potential enemy, Kozue would take away her Devil Fruit ability and finish her off directly to avoid future problems.
His ability to remove Devil Fruits was not a skill he had purchased from the dimensional store.
Instead, he used his mastery of the dimensional store to remove the user's abilities and store them in a normal fruit, which would then become a Devil Fruit.
Previously I was training while thinking about the possibility of going out to hunt Devil Fruit users and increase my repertoire.
Unfortunately, he had to bring them inside his mall in order to use this ability.
It would be a very long trip because I would have to travel back and forth constantly.
Thinking about the possibility of having multiple Devil Fruits on hand, Kozue thought the trip would be worth it.
But when he thought about doing that to Robin, he immediately shook his head as he remembered the young woman's past.
Their island was destroyed and everyone who lived there was dead.
Since then, at the age of 9, Robin has had to run and hide for the rest of his life.
Having her experiences at such a young age was something that would mark anyone.
Kozue felt sorry for Robin.
But I still didn't know how to proceed from here.
Robin has lived on the run, betraying and being betrayed in every organization she has joined.
Kozue isn't sure that Robin won't betray him if he's nice to her.
Being hunted by the world government, she would think he was a spy for being so nice to her.
For now, he shook his head and headed quickly towards his mall with Robin on his shoulder.
Because of his great speed, no one on the street saw his figure.
When he arrived at the room where he had previously kept Mikita and her partner, he placed the same handcuffs on Robin's hands.
Kozue then bought memory reading magic from the dimensional shop and raised it to level 5 directly.
With this ability in hand, he quickly read Robin's memories and focused on what he sought most importantly.
Ancient language
After 30 minutes, Robin's eyes opened and she saw the young man who captured her.
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In the desert outside Alubarna, Crocodile waited impatiently.
After 30 minutes since he last contacted Nico Robin, Crocodile lost his patience and called again.
Pere Pere Pere Pere Pere
Unfortunately, this time the call was not answered and Crocodile realized that something bad had happened to him.
Captcha! Fluff!
Unfortunately for the snail in his hand, Crocodile crushed it in anger and the poor animal died.
Without waiting any longer, Crocodile turned around and headed back to his base.
Crocodile wouldn't wait any longer.
He would call all the members of Baroque Works and they would begin the plan to take over Alabasta.
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2 weeks later
Nefertari Vivi
Vivi ate the chocolates her father gave her with a smile.
Last month, Igaram received a message informing him that the water problem in the kingdom of Alabasta had been solved, so his father had ordered him to return.
At first, Vivi was a little upset with Igaram because he had informed her father about her affair, but she understood that Igaram was his father's subordinate and had to report this kind of activities of the crown princess.
After returning to Alabasta, Cobra scolded her a bit for her reckless adventure, but then apologized for allowing it in the first place.
Cobra was desperate about the situation in the kingdom, and if there was a possibility that Baroque Works was to blame for this, Cobra wanted to find out, so he had to initially accept Viví's adventure.
Now that the water problem was partially solved, Cobra decided to call Igaram to order him to bring his daughter.
Cobra didn't want Vivi to continue putting herself in danger.
Viví hugged her father with tears in her eyes when she saw her father's almost defeated face.
Moving on to happier news, Vivi quickly asked when the rains returned and how they solved it.
But Vivi was wrong in her assumptions.
Cobra shook his head and told him about Kozue's appearance in the kingdom and her unique way of getting water.
Everyone in the kingdom 'knew' that Kozue had a space-type devil fruit ability that allowed her to travel to other kingdoms and get water and Kozue never denied and corrected her thoughts, so that truth spread throughout the kingdom.
Vivi was amazed by Kozue.
While the existence of Devil Fruits in the Grand Line was not uncommon, Logia Devil Fruits were almost never seen, much less Devil Fruits with spatial abilities.
Curious about Kozue, Vivi quickly asked what he knew about him, to which Cobra told what little they knew.
He told them his background, about inheriting a store from his parents and transforming it into a large shopping center in a matter of days, to everyone's disbelief.
According to Copper, Kozue responded that his subordinates built everything overnight while no one was watching.
After that, Cobra took out several beautifully decorated small boxes and handed them to his daughter.
Curious, Vivi took them and opened one of them.
Chocolates
All these boxes were chocolates and Vivi ate one of them.
'Delicious,' Vivi thought as she savored the chocolate in her mouth.
After talking a little more with her father, she retired to her room where she ate some more chocolates before going to her bathroom and cleaning herself up before going to sleep with a smile on her face.
He was happy that his kingdom's problems had been solved.
Or so he thought.
When he got up the next day and went to breakfast, a commotion grew outside the palace.
The noise caught the attention of everyone inside the palace and soon her father came out with Vivi behind him.
As they stepped outside, they could hear their father's name more clearly coming from the mouths of the people protesting outside the palace.
Cobra, give us back the water!
¡Cobra!
¡Cobra!
¡Cobra!
People were screaming and Viví didn't know what to do.
According to his father, things had calmed down and the water problem had been solved, but it seems something else was going on.
As time passed and the shouts became clearer, Vivi heard the real reason for the protests.
It was still water.
According to these people who were protesting, Cobra had a way of stealing rainwater from other cities and bringing it to a secret location.
In this way, Cobra controlled all the water in the kingdom and distributed it to calm the masses when they wanted to rebel.
Now that they 'knew the truth', they would not stop protesting until Cobra gave them back the rains.1228
"Who do they think they are?!"
"I am the king!"
"Arrest them all!"
Suddenly, Cobra's father's angry voice rang out all over the place and he quickly ordered the soldiers to arrest the protesting civilians.
"Dad, wait..." Vivi tried to stop her father but it was in vain.
Cobra ignored him and ordered soldiers to beat and even kill those who resisted, to the horror of Viví and the civilians.
"¡Corre!"
The frightened civilians now fled because they did not think the army would attack them.
"I am the king!"
"Everything in this kingdom belongs to me!"
"Water is not something that mere commoners can have whenever they want!"
"They should be grateful if I give them some water!"
"TRASH!"
'Dad, what?' Vivi's mind was in shock at seeing her father behave like that for the first time.
But no matter how much Vivi begged him to stop, Cobra ignored her and ordered Igaram and a group of soldiers to take her to her room.
Igaram was also confused and could only communicate with Viví's eyes, saying that he didn't understand anything either.
Soon, the soldiers had sealed off the city and arrested hundreds of civilians and a rumor was heard that King Cobra would kill them all and their families, also ordering the army to seal off the other cities to punish civilians living there who might be connected to the riot.
Hearing these rumors too, Vivi was worried about a civil war.
But what she heard secretly in her father's office alarmed Viví, who escaped from the palace with Igaram.