Nico Robin

The girl's expression changed slightly, and she immediately shouted anxiously, "What are you doing?! I didn't steal anything! Let me go!"

"Haha! Well done! You little brat, let's see where you can run now!" Seeing that the girl had been caught, the burly man chasing her was overjoyed. He hurried over to Sanya and said, "Thank you very much. This little brat is a notorious thief around here. Not only does she steal things, she's also injured quite a few of our people. If you hadn't helped us, she would have gotten away again."

As he spoke, he reached out with one hand toward the girl's throat.

Such a rude action made Sanya frown slightly. With a casual tug, she pulled the girl behind her. "A whole group of grown men bullying a little girl? From the way I see it, you don't look like good people at all!"

After hearing Sanya's words, Bolan and the others were immediately astonished. "Wow~ Are these people really men too? They look so strange. They're nowhere near as good-looking as Lord Lu Ge."

"And they look like villains. They must be bullying this little girl."

"A bunch of adults ganging up on a child? How shameless."

The burly man's expression immediately darkened at their words. However, when he saw the strong, powerfully built female sailors behind Lu Ge's group, he could only endure it and refrain from acting rashly. "I think you've misunderstood. Don't let this little girl's harmless appearance fool you. She's the notorious Child of the Devil, Nico Robin, with a bounty of as much as 79 million Beli. If you don't want trouble, hand her over to me at once!"

The little girl's expression changed dramatically when she heard this. She knew that once her identity was exposed, these people would definitely stop helping her. She was likely to fall into the hands of these pirates. A ruthless glint immediately appeared in her lively eyes, and she clasped her hands together, ready to strike at any moment.

"Nico Robin?" Lu Ge's eyes lit up at once. "I was wondering why she looked familiar. So she's Robin! In person, she really is much cuter and prettier than she was as a child in the anime. No wonder I didn't recognize her right away. But why is she here? Shouldn't she be in the West Blue? How did she end up in the Grand Line?"

After hearing this, Kikyo and the others all wore shocked expressions. "The Child of the Devil, Nico Robin? Her bounty is actually as high as 79 million Beli?! My goodness! That's amazing!"

Kikyo and the others naturally knew about pirate bounties, because the members of the Kuja Pirates often bragged about them to the girls. Whenever they returned, they would boast to the people about how much this or that person's bounty had increased during their latest voyage. As a result, bounties had become a symbol of identity that every pirate took pride in.

"It's even higher than Sanya's. Is she really just a child?"

"The Child of the Devil? That sounds so cool!"

"..." Listening to Bolan and the others praise her, Robin was stunned for a moment. In the past, whenever people heard the words Child of the Devil, they had always shown disgust and fear. But what was wrong with these people? Why did they think it sounded cool instead?

After hearing Bolan and the others, the burly man's expression immediately turned gloomy. "So you're pirates too! Are you planning to fight us for the Child of the Devil? Looks like I'll have to take care of all of you as well. Men, attack! You can do whatever you want with these women."

"Hehehehe~ You should've said so earlier! I've been itching to get started!"

"You want to fight? Who's afraid of whom?" Sanya did not waste words and shouted, "Sisters, show them what our Amazon Lily Warriors can do!"

"Oh~"

The five female sailors following behind immediately stepped forward with spiked clubs in hand. Armament Haki coated their weapons as they charged straight into the crowd, wildly pounding everyone in their path.

One side consisted of elite Amazon Lily Warriors, every one of whom knew how to use Armament Haki. The other was merely a group of pirate underlings. Their strength was on entirely different levels, and the female sailors quickly hammered them all to the ground.

Even the leader of the group failed to withstand a single blow from Sanya before he passed out.

Robin had originally intended to use the opportunity to escape, but seeing the one-sided battle, she was immediately startled. She had not expected this group of women to be so powerful. She promptly abandoned her plan to flee and pretended to look full of admiration. "Wow~ You're all so amazing! You defeated them all in just a few moves. But they're members of Baroque Works. You may already have gotten yourselves into trouble."

"Baroque Works?" Lu Ge was somewhat curious. "Was this organization already established? If we hadn't encountered her today, Robin might have been captured by them sooner or later, then joined Baroque Works afterward?"

Sanya asked curiously, "Baroque Works? I've never heard of it."

Robin seriously explained, "It's a secret criminal organization. Its president is Sir Crocodile, a Sand-Sand Fruit user with a Logia Devil Fruit. He can freely control sand and turn his body into sand, allowing him to ignore all physical attacks. He's an extremely powerful and troublesome man."

Bolan was astonished when she heard this. "A Logia Devil Fruit? He can even turn his body into sand? How amazing!"

Sanya also spoke with a solemn expression. "I didn't expect it to be a Logia Devil Fruit. That is indeed a little troublesome. But with Lord Lu Ge here, we have nothing to fear."

Kama giggled when she heard this. "Exactly! Lord Lu Ge is the greatest swordsman in the world. No Logia Devil Fruit user could withstand even one slash from him."

Robin's eyes immediately lit up. She looked at Lu Ge with burning anticipation. "You're the new greatest swordsman in the world, Lu Ge, who defeated Hawkeye Mihawk?"

Lu Ge smiled when he heard this. "I didn't expect word to have spread so widely after only one day."

Robin immediately looked at Lu Ge hopefully. "Please, big brother, let me follow you! Let me acknowledge you as my boss!"

"Huh?" Lu Ge was stunned. Why is this Robin so streetwise? But when he thought of what she had gone through since childhood, surviving alone in this chaotic era had indeed been difficult. She had probably chosen him as her boss because she valued his strength and wanted to use him as a shield to protect herself.

No wonder she was able to survive in this chaotic era at such a young age. This kind of scheming really isn't something an ordinary twelve-year-old girl should possess.

Although Lu Ge already understood Robin's intentions, he still looked at her with interest. "Then tell me, why should I take you on as my underling?"