Stories and Protagonists! We're All in the Story

It wasn't that he didn't need it, but that there was no longer much need for it.

After all, in the beginning, Dunn needed a certain degree of imagination to develop his Devil Fruit abilities.

And having a clear, specific goal made developing the fruit more effective.

Naturally, that was indeed how things turned out.

But afterward, Dunn became increasingly adept at using the Mera Mera no Mi's abilities. Those techniques he had originally developed were merely different ways of using them.

Still, no matter what, they had truly helped him a great deal in the beginning.

Now that Robin had asked, there was naturally no need for Dunn to hide it.

"That's right. I told you about the state of our world and this world."

Robin nodded in sudden realization.

If what Dunn had said was true, then he truly could know many things, whether about this world or the world she had once lived in.

"Wait, if it's really as you say, then a good story needs plenty of exciting plotlines. There must be a protagonist, and there would also be the protagonist's greatest opponent."

Robin suddenly froze, and her eyes lit up.

"Then who was the protagonist of our world?"

When Robin asked that, even Boa Hancock and Baby 5 leaned closer. Clearly, they had been listening when Dunn and Robin were talking earlier.

They were also very curious about what Robin had brought up.

"Well!"

Dunn smiled at that, his gaze sweeping across Robin's face.

"Mm, you're absolutely right. But as for the protagonist, you've met him. And in the world without me, you were even a crew member on his ship—the archaeologist."

"I was a crew member of the protagonist? So the protagonist was a pirate?"

Robin was taken aback, then asked thoughtfully.

"Think carefully.