After landing on several islands in succession and sending a few more Pirates crews to feed the fish along the way, Nico Robin was finally about to part ways with Xie Wen and the cats.
Before she left, Xie Wen and the cats gave her the gifts they had each prepared.
"These are Boom-Booms, the basic bombs, meow," Klee Meow said, handing Nico Robin a pile of red-and-white round plushies the size of tennis balls. "Because your Devil Fruit Ability is different from Klee's, Big Sister Robin, Klee changed how they're detonated, meow."
"Just press here, and it'll explode five seconds later. If you hold it down for more than five seconds, it'll only explode when it hits something after you throw it, meow." Little Plushie patiently taught Robin how to use the Boom-Boom bombs. She had even optimized them specifically for Robin's Devil Fruit Ability. "And the impact has to be strong enough, so you can use your powers to keep tossing them from arm to arm, then pick the best place and time to set them off, meow!"
Xie Wen's mouth twitched. Every one of these custom bombs had been made while he was scared out of his fucking wits. He had lost count of how many times the splashing seawater had drenched him, and occasionally, an explosion had left him covered in soot...
He had gone through similar experiences before, but because Klee Meow wanted to prepare "self-defense weapons" for Robin, her experiments had become a little too frequent lately.
"These are Boom-Booms too, but they're the enhanced-power version, meow." Little Plushie brought out another pile of bombs of the same size, only these were solid red. "Jumpy Dumpty is too big to carry around conveniently, meow, so Klee made the Boom-Booms more powerful. They're still not