"What Koza gave me was a Poneglyph inscribed in ancient text."
Robin picked up the thread, saying softly:
"Although the fragments Koza managed to remember were too scattered to translate into complete sentences, I deciphered a few crucial terms."
She paused, her gaze passing over Luffy and Kuro in turn:
"Pluto, Nika, and Laugh Tale. It was those few words that let me determine the stone's value."
Robin had not lied.
Ever since arriving, she had been asking Koza to keep an eye out for Poneglyphs.
She knew that, given its status, the royal family of Alabasta must have kept Poneglyphs.
She simply did not know where they were hidden.
As far as she knew, the World Government did not care about those Poneglyphs.
Some museums even had Poneglyphs on display.
Robin did not think there would be any issues with the accuracy of the history.
After all, Olvia was the only person besides her who could read Poneglyphs.
She was someone who valued history more than her own daughter. Given her character, she would never distort it.
The chronicles being written within the World Government now were undoubtedly accurate as well.
The World Government no longer shied away from anything that had happened eight hundred years ago.
They had indeed overthrown others to establish the World Government.
But eight hundred years had passed, and Joy Boy had been dead for just as long. Outside a few places in the New World, who still cared?
If her identity had not made it inadvisable to appear in those museums, she would have wanted to visit them herself.
"I see. Mr. Koza certainly was lucky. No, perhaps the World Government was simply far too careless," Kuro said with a quiet chuckle.
Inside, however, his steady heartbeat skipped a beat despite himself.
Kuro