Nico Robin's Rapid Improvement
"Tut, tut..." Enel had no intention of making a move.
In his eyes, if Leo really got chopped to death by this little girl, then he was just too weak—completely unworthy of being saved.
But just because he was watching the show did not mean everyone else was.
Almost the next second, Lafitte's sword tip was already pressed against Tashigi's throat. Meanwhile, hands that had grown from her body snatched away her treasured blade and held it against her own neck.
"If you'd said you were going to make a move, I wouldn't have." Lafitte smiled at Tashigi, but he was actually speaking to Nico Robin behind him, who stood with her arms crossed and her eyes closed.
The skin on her face turned into petals and fell away. She smiled. "Likewise. Still, the way you bravely came to the rescue was very handsome."
"Thanks for the compliment." He withdrew his sword and slowly slid the rapier back into his cane.
Nico Robin planted Tashigi's blade in the deck, and the hands slowly withdrew back into her body.
Hina and Smoker's eyelids twitched as they raised their assessment of this group's strength by another level.
"'Devil Child' Nico Robin, bounty of eighty million Beli."
"'Devil Sheriff' Lafitte, bounty of forty million Beli."
"Your pirate crew really has quite a few incredible figures!" Smoker finally saw it clearly. There were two Logia Devil Fruit users and two wanted criminals aboard this pirate ship, yet all of them operated and acted with Leo as their core.
There was only one core on this ship: Leo, whom Nico Robin and Lafitte both cared about so intensely.
But the perceptive Hina also realized that they were so worried about this sword-wielding little girl hurting Leo because Leo himself clearly was