Gone from the Map

Under Spandam's directions, Ryan and the others took the Soaring Dragon to the side of the tallest building on Enies Lobby.

Spandine, who had been watching this side through a telescope ever since he sent out the distress call, began trembling all over as he watched the Soaring Dragon draw closer and closer.

He felt that he might not live long enough to see the Marines' reinforcements arrive!

"Over there!" Spandam pointed at the highest floor, trembling.

Ryan drew Mubanniu and slashed at the rooftop. The entire upper section of the building was cleanly severed and fell to the ground, sending dust and rubble flying.

Spandine's office was thus exposed before everyone's eyes.

"Enel, go get him," Ryan ordered.

Lightning flashed back and forth between the two locations, and Enel tossed the dumbstruck Spandine at Ryan's feet.

"Robin, how do you want them to die?" Ryan asked, looking at Robin in his arms.

Robin looked at Spandine, curled up on the ground, then at Ryan, who held her close. Her expression shifted constantly, from initial madness to her usual calmness in the end.

She had imagined countless times how she would personally kill her enemies, but when Spandine was at his mercy, ready for her to slaughter, she found it all strangely dull. Rather than living forever in the past, she might as well embrace the future. And right now, she was embracing her future—the man who had saved her.

Only then did Robin truly emerge from her tragic past.

"You decide," Robin said softly. "Even if we kill them, the people of Ohara won't come back."

Ryan looked at Robin in slight surprise. He had not expected her to make such a choice.

Robin letting them go did not mean he would do the same.

Ryan walked toward Spandine