After letting Mousse's only female confidante from this life—someone he had adored even in his previous life—inspect the goods, he asked rather smugly, "So? Do you still think I'm a kid?"
Exhausted, Nico Robin could not help but jab back, "You did grow up. You grew into a scumbag. You've only been married for a little over a month, and yet..."
Robin's words made Mousse's expression freeze for a moment, though not because he was embarrassed at having his scumbag behavior exposed. Rather, he suddenly realized something. "If it were the old me, I probably wouldn't have done something like this, right? Have I gotten a little carried away lately? Or did awakening Conqueror's Haki affect my personality?"
Considering that he had gotten carried away before, Mousse felt the latter was probably the answer. That was a new discovery, though unfortunately difficult to verify. There were few people in the world who had awakened Conqueror's Haki to begin with, and one would need to compare them before and after awakening it. Such samples would not be easy to find.
But no matter what, Mousse's personality had indeed changed noticeably. He had become more decisive and assertive, with fewer reservations and hesitations. He was sure he liked Robin, and Robin had special feelings for him too, so why should he worry about so much and leave regrets for them both?
It was somewhat unfair to his newlywed wife, but as a major figure already standing at the very peak of the world, conventional morality could no longer bind him so easily. Besides, Horace was a female giant, and her relationship with her tiny husband Mousse was rather unusual. Mousse felt she might not even care.
After Mousse explained the situation, Nico Robin actually felt a little sympathy for him. She had