"I want to."
Robin's voice was thick with tears, which flowed like floodwaters through a broken dam, impossible to hold back any longer.
"I want to go with you!"
"I want to... live!"
Robin seemed to pour every ounce of her strength into shouting that wish, buried deep in her heart, yet one she had never dared hope for.
Her shoulders shook violently as she released all the unease she had carried for twenty years.
So... this was what it felt like to be protected?
So, no longer having to face the malice of the entire world alone felt... this warm?
Perhaps... she really could entrust everything to this man.
Looking at the woman before him, who had completely lowered her defenses and was crying like a child, Ye Chuan sighed inwardly.
Since the age of eight, this woman had borne the stigma of the Devil Child and been hunted by the entire world.
She had endured countless betrayals and exploitation, drifting alone through the darkness for twenty years...
It really was too tragic.
Ye Chuan reached out and gently embraced her trembling shoulders.
He said nothing, simply letting her pour out all her emotions in his arms.
The next day, when the morning sunlight once again bathed Water 7, everything seemed so peaceful.
The members of Cipher Pol No. 9 did not reappear as expected.
"It seems their primary target is still those Pluton Blueprints, after all."
Standing on the deck of the brand-new sailing ship, Ye Chuan understood.
"Until they're absolutely certain they can deal with me, they won't rashly alert their quarry and expose the identities they've spent years maintaining undercover."
Ye Chuan and Robin took delivery of their perfect new ship from the Galley-La Company without any trouble and set sail.
Interestingly, several key foremen