Chapter 81: Nico Robin's Diary
Robin remembered clearly when she had started keeping a diary.
It had been after things settled down, after her hands had constantly written and written and recorded and recorded for that strange man. Recording his words was writing, and keeping her own diary was writing too, so she might as well write them together.
She had now developed a very mechanical method: relying on the ears on one hand, she wrote down whatever anyone said. It was somewhat like a conditioned reflex and did not need to pass through her brain at all.
After forming this habit, her shorthand had clearly become much faster.
First of all, she recorded and organized most of what Leo said.
And his orders were included among those words.
Every night, she read through these notes and then wrote that day's diary entry.
After finally getting a day off, Nico Robin could not resist digging out the diaries she had written over the past few days and slowly reading through them.
May 4th, sunny.
Mock Town had been surrounded. That man defeated more than four hundred pirates—with just over a hundred pirates.
He suppressed all of Mock Town and intended to make it his territory.
On the Grand Line, I originally thought such an act was foolish and reckless.
But when the Pirate Empress appeared before that man, I knew he was a very frightening person.
He had actually won over even the Empress. He must have fully considered the Shichibukai's privileges. Mock Town, this lawless region, was about to become the territory of a Shichibukai!
By the time I realized this and wanted to leave, it was already too late.
Just over a hundred people defeated all the pirates in Mock Town and captured every one of them. Then