Then Robin walked slowly toward the beach alone, toward the Buster Call fleet capable of destroying everything.
"Hmph, Nico Robin, so you finally decided to come out?"
Aboard the warship at the head of the fleet, Admiral Akainu watched the woman walking toward the beach alone, a cruel smile spreading across his face:
"Where's Ye Chuanliu? What? Did he abandon you and run away?!"
Robin ignored his taunts and simply stood quietly on the beach, feeling the sea breeze brush through her long hair.
She slowly closed her eyes. Unbidden, memories of her voyage with Ye Chuan surfaced in her mind.
From their first meeting in Alabasta to their adventure on Sky Island, from their holiday in Water 7 to their fierce battle in Totto Land...
"Ye Chuan..."
"Thank you for showing me so many sights I'd never seen before."
"To have had a journey like this in my cursed life... I'm already content."
"But..."
"If... if I had another chance, I really wish I could..."
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just as Robin steeled herself to meet death, a series of deafening explosions erupted without warning from the Marine fleet before her!
Several enormous Marine warships instantly exploded into a sky full of flames, as though struck by an invisible sledgehammer!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"
"What's going on?! Where are the attacks coming from?!"
The Marine fleet instantly descended into chaos!
Robin, too, opened her eyes in surprise and looked ahead.
"Damn it! What the hell is going on?!"
Admiral Akainu roared in fury as he watched his fleet suffer devastating losses in an instant!
But before he could find the source of the attacks-
Shing-!!!
An enormous horizontal slash, seemingly capable of cleaving the entire surface of the sea in two, flashed across the distant horizon!
That slash