"Since we're all companions now, I won't keep this from you."
Holding the Palico Summoning Ticket, Xie Wen said earnestly to Robin, "What you're about to see is the Palico Research Commission's greatest secret."
At first, he had considered whether he should avoid Robin when summoning Palicoes.
But every newly summoned Palico's unfamiliarity with this world was impossible to hide. Robin was perceptive to begin with, so keeping every last detail concealed in their daily interactions was unrealistic. Instead, it could easily make the deeply insecure Robin overthink things. He might as well lay his cards on the table from the start.
Besides, this world had all kinds of bizarre abilities. Not only would a group of people travel here from twenty years in the past a few years from now, but Mary Geoise also hid an old monster who had lived for eight hundred years. Xie Wen was merely summoning a few cats from another world. That hardly amounted to anything.
Exchanging secrets would also help the suspicious Robin fit into the group more quickly.
Of course, the most important thing was that, based on Xie Wen's understanding of Robin, as long as he didn't suddenly lose his mind and try to turn her in for a bounty or force her to reveal information about the Ancient Weapons, she would never betray him or the cats.
Seeing how solemn Xie Wen was, Robin unconsciously swallowed...
Among the secrets she already knew were the miraculous spatial bags, their suspected connection to the Revolutionary Army, and the ability to dig up Devil Fruits with a certain probability. Those already seemed extremely important to her, yet none of them was the Palico Research Commission's greatest secret.
Alongside her shock, Robin also felt a little touched and grateful...
Perhaps this time, she really