The little girl's face turned pale with fright. She had thought she was still moving about on a ghost ship. Just as she was trembling in fear, someone suddenly patted her on the back.
"Aaaah! Don't kill me!" Qinghua nearly jumped out of her skin. Her eyes were squeezed shut, and she had curled herself into a ball.
"What are you doing?" Nico Robin asked Qinghua, both amused and exasperated. "We're not pirates."
"Th-this-this... this really isn't some ghost ship?" Qinghua cautiously raised her head, wearing a wary expression.
"Of course not. It's a Devil Fruit ability," Robin said with a smile.
"Devil Fruits? The legendary treasures of the sea!" Qinghua's eyes widened in astonishment.
"I didn't expect you to know about them too." A trace of surprise appeared on Robin's face.
Back when Robin had been born in Ohara in the West Blue, it had been known as the Island of Omniscience. Its villagers were far more knowledgeable than ordinary people from the Four Seas, yet they had still failed to recognize Robin's Flower-Flower Fruit ability.
"Ah, because I'm from Flower Country, so I know a little about Devil Fruits," Qinghua explained softly.
"Flower Country." Robin nodded in understanding.
Flower Country was a superpower of the West Blue, immensely strong. Just how strong was it? In some respects, if all of Flower Country's experts gathered together, they would basically be comparable to Wano Country at its peak without Kozuki Oden.
Otherwise, a Great Pirate like Conical Chinjao would not have remained in Flower Country as nothing more than the commander of the Hasshoken Army.
Moreover, Conical Chinjao, a Great Pirate with a bounty as high as 500 million, had become a pillar of Flower Country's Hasshoken Army, yet the World Government had not said a word. They had never