This Is Crocodile

"This is Crocodile! That infamous, terrifying Shichibukai..." Robin muttered, a trace of awe in her eyes.

Like the man who haunted her nightmares, he was a powerful Logia user. To Robin, people like them were simply invincible legends.

Robin looked toward Moke in the distance, her gaze flickering as though she were considering something important. Endless sorrow and loneliness lay hidden in her story-filled eyes—her past had simply been too tragic.

When she was still young, her entire people had been massacred. No one survived except her, who had struggled on alone in the world. That cruel past became a shadow she could never shake, plunging her childhood into an abyss of pain.

No matter where she went, people saw her as the terrifying Devil Child and kept their distance. Worse still, the Marines had listed her as a major criminal and placed a bounty of tens of millions of Beli on her head!

Thus, wherever she went, Robin faced the fate of being hunted down...

Those misfortunes had gradually made Robin cold and detached, unable to trust anyone easily. Yet despite the scars covering her heart, her desire to survive forced her to keep searching for a force she could rely on, a temporary shelter from the storm.

Again and again, she chose to join different organizations or individuals, hoping to find a moment of peace. Unfortunately, every act of trust usually brought nothing but betrayal and harm.

Time passed, and those unforgettable painful experiences carved away at Robin's fragile heart like blades, eventually tempering it into an incomparably hard stone.

From then on, she became cold and ruthless, no longer trusting anyone easily. Yet fate was always dramatic and ironic—just when Robin thought she had seen through all the warmth and coldness of the world, she met the