Although Ice Age had been sucked away by the tornado, and the torrential rain had brought the entire forest back to life from beneath the ice, Aokiji desperately froze himself inside an ice pillar and remained still. He had firmly frozen the pillar to the ground. On one hand, it became the core of the tornado, constantly sustaining and strengthening it; on the other, the tornado's core was actually safe.
"Damn!" Miming was somewhat disappointed. My swordsmanship really is still too immature.
Though Robin had been drenched from head to toe by the wind and rain, she was delighted to see Jaya recovering from its frozen state.
"Won't this destroy Jaya?" Robin asked pessimistically. "Will we end up getting swallowed by the tornado?"
"Probably not," Miming said. "The Jaya Archipelago has a humid tropical rainforest climate. Ice Age, combined with the Ice-Eating Sword, created this enormous tornado. But the one actually feeding it is Aokiji. Once he gets too exhausted to continue, the tornado will disperse."
"Hey!" Mont Blanc emerged from the forest alongside the ape and the gorilla. To be honest, getting close to such a terrifying tornado was frightening. They could only inch closer from behind Miming until they were over a hundred meters away, then wave from afar.
"Go, Robin." Miming handed his scabbard to Robin and gazed toward the heart of the tornado. "Looks like this is going to take a while."
Robin clutched the scabbard and reluctantly fled into the rainforest, hiding far away with Mont Blanc and the others. They had promised to live and die together, but at a time like this, she could not help him at all and could only rely on him. Being protected so one-sidedly did not feel good, yet it was also the source of that sweetness.
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