"A wise choice." Ye Chuan held out his hand.
Robin looked at his outstretched hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally offered her own, giving his a light shake.
"Then, from this moment on..."
A meaningful smile curled the corners of Ye Chuan's mouth.
"We're... accomplices."
After they agreed to work together, Nico Robin demonstrated her outstanding abilities as both the vice president of Baroque Works and Ohara's genius scholar.
In less than half a day, she swiftly and decisively dealt with Baroque Works' various businesses in Rainbase.
She quickly sold off some assets that could readily be converted to cash, while temporarily entrusting the rest to several relatively reliable agents she had secretly cultivated, leaving them to manage those assets in secret.
Once that was done, she used the intelligence and funds at her disposal to discreetly purchase a modified pirate ship on Rainbase's black market-moderately sized, high-performance, and bearing no markings whatsoever.
"As for the crew..."
Robin looked at the pirate ship before her. Although it was not large, it would still take at least seven or eight people to barely operate it, and she turned to Ye Chuan with some hesitation.
"No need to worry."
Ye Chuan merely smiled faintly, his hands rapidly forming hand seals.
"Shadow Clone Technique."
Poof! Poof! Poof! ...
Several shadow clones identical to Ye Chuan instantly appeared on deck, leaving Robin staring dumbfounded beside him.
"These... are all your clones?"
As she watched the lifelike shadow clones, who even joked with one another, she was once again astonished by Ye Chuan's mysterious abilities.
"That's right." Ye Chuan nodded.
"With your Flower-Flower Fruit abilities as well, the two of us can easily handle this ship."
As for navigational knowledge and experience, Ye Chuan was not worried at all.
Nico Robin was a