"Siegfried?" Robin exclaimed in surprise.
It's clear that Robin is familiar with the term "Sea King" —Sig guesses that she knows of Sea King existence from ancient records, and therefore, Robin must have paid special attention to "Sea King Siegfried" before.
To the uninformed, "Sea King" might just be a more Haki nickname, but Robin knew that "Sea King" was one of the Three Ancient Weapons, on par with "Pluton," which Crocodile longed for.
Therefore, even though Siegfried had been missing for more than two years, Robin immediately realized what was going on after Sig revealed his identity as the "Sea King".
Furthermore, the fact that Crocodile, as "Sea King," is an ally of him, who is searching for "Pluton," is logically plausible.
Robin clearly knows about "Sea King," but she doesn't understand Sea King well enough. She definitely hasn't seen the stone tablet on Fish-Man Island, otherwise she would be questioning right now—shouldn't Sea King be the Mermaid Princess? Look in the mirror before you call yourself Sea King, okay?
Robin then did indeed raise questions, but Sig understood that her questioning wasn't about "how could Siegfried be Sea King," but rather "how could you be Siegfried?"
Sig, right in front of her, Sieg began to swell his body, scales gradually appearing on his skin, and even gill covers growing from his neck to his shrunk bones...
This is the Siegfried we most often see in various reports, and the Siegfried that the world knows and should be like!
Furthermore, Robin didn't question whether it was simply an illusion—if she could control dreams and transform herself into Siegfried, wouldn't that be easy?
However, looking at Sig's original appearance alone, you wouldn't notice anything unusual. But once you've seen the process of "becoming Fish-Man," you'll inexplicably feel that Sig does indeed have many similar facial features in both his human and Fish-Man forms...
"You... weren't you arrested by Vice Admiral Garp? How come you're here?" Robin was still wary, but she relaxed a lot.
Although she didn't trust Sig, Robin thought that even if the person in front of her wasn't Siegfried, at least "someone pretending to be a wanted criminal" couldn't be a henchman of the World Government, right?
If they were just there to arrest her, there was no need to pretend to be a "Sea King"!
"That's a long story... In short, it won't be so easy for the World Government to trap me." Sig didn't elaborate.
Robin sensed Sig's evasiveness and instead asked, "You came to see me... was it Crocodile's doing? What do you want to know?"
Robin had clearly tacitly agreed that Sig wanted to know something from her.
Those who covet Robin do so for one of two reasons: either they want the World Government's bounty, or they want to learn something from her.
While Robin couldn't see through Sig's thoughts or even confirm whether he was truly the Sea King, she at least understood that this kind of person wouldn't be after just the World Government's tens of millions of dollars in bounty!
"I wanted to find you long before Crocodile, but unfortunately, your whereabouts were too secretive before. Neither I nor the Revolutionary Army had any clues," Sig said regretfully.
"Heh, of course I have to be discreet, otherwise the World Government would have already eliminated the 'Devil Child' before you found me, so there's nothing to 'regret' about," Robin said with a hint of sarcasm.
Robin clearly wasn't buying into Sig's attempts to get close to her.
"No, I do regret it. If we had found you sooner, you wouldn't have had to hide at sea for so long," Sig said sincerely.
However, Robin, who had experienced countless betrayals, remained unmoved by such words. "Oh? Is that so? Then thank you very much."
Sig naturally heard the sarcasm in those words, so he said with a straight face, "I'm serious, don't be so skeptical of the Revolutionary Army's character!"
Robin:...
Putting aside whether it's true or not, how did you tell that I don't believe in the Revolutionary Army?
"So what exactly do you want to know?" Robin ignored Sig's emotional appeal and continued to press him for his purpose.
"That's a bit much..."
As Sig spoke, he pointed around in the air, and after each point, an ancient Poneglyph stone tablet appeared. Then, as Sig's gaze swept across the area, dense Ancient Script appeared on the walls!
"This, this is..." Robin lost her composure for the first time since Sig appeared.
Ancient Poneglyph!
This was the first time Robin had ever seen so many ancient Poneglyph. Even Ohara didn't have such a large collection of Poneglyph.
"These are some Poneglyph I collected before. I can hear their 'voices,' but I can't figure out the specific details. Especially these on the wall, which are Poneglyph from Bilca. They were likely the first Moon person to arrive on Earth, and the true Creator the Poneglyph..."
Sig's only hidden Poneglyph is the apology scroll on Fish-Man Island, because it relates to the prophecy of "Sea King".
"Is this... what you wanted to know?" Robin said, closing his eyes with difficulty.
Given her passion for the Poneglyph, these were incredibly tempting. However, Robin understood that the ancient Poneglyph contained many great secrets that could affect the world, and she didn't want to reveal them to others casually.
Judging from Sig's previous abilities, he seemed to be able to see through her thoughts, so Robin simply closed her eyes.
"No, what I really want to know is the astronomical knowledge of Ohara back then."
After Sig finished speaking, he sensed Robin's emotions and immediately felt certain!
As expected, Robin showed emotional fluctuations when it came to "astronomy," which further confirmed Sig's suspicions that his guess was correct—the destruction of Ohara was likely due to astronomical factors in addition to archaeological knowledge.
As the last survivor of Ohara, Robin should have some idea about it, which is why she reacted this way.
Indeed, when Robin heard the keyword "astronomy," she thought of Dr. Clover —the doctor from Ohara whose hairstyle and beard resembled a four-leaf clover, and Robin's actual "guardian."
Clover once inadvertently revealed the importance of "astronomy," mentioning several times when Clover was lost in thought staring at the astronomical models on the Tree of Knowledge, which Robin happened to witness...
Furthermore, Dr. Clover was quite afraid of the World Government's "ban" and "wanted" back then, and never dared to openly defy the World Government. He also once prohibited Robin from continuing to access archaeological knowledge. Ohara's research on the Poneglyph was all conducted in secret. However, Ohara was ultimately erased by the World Government.
Upon hearing Sig mention "astronomy," Robin was also filled with many thoughts...
Meanwhile, as Robin's thoughts returned to Ohara of yesteryear, a gigantic model of a celestial body appeared above the hot spring pool, hovering there...