"This world is already beyond saving. I can't think of anyone but you who could save it all, Father!"
"To be precise, you as a human!"
Robin watched the Devil Fruit Tree in the desert rapidly grow into a giant tree.
She could only pray silently in her heart.
She hoped the Shane who had been full of humanity could return. In his view, the current Shane was more of a god with nothing but divinity left, one who accepted everything in the world as it was.
He was nothing like the man in her memories, who had been capable of anything yet had always made his own decisions.
As the Devil Fruit Tree rapidly grew.
Those patterns once again filled its leaves, covering Alabasta's desert in an instant and forming an entirely new island.
It was as though the desert island from before no longer existed.
A single Devil Fruit Tree reaching into the heavens was enough to replace everything.
But something even more terrifying appeared.
This Devil Fruit Tree bore only one fruit, and judging by its size, it was another supergiant.
That seed had only one purpose. During a period when Shane had awakened in the City of Heaven.
He had chosen to leave behind a way to bring back his self from over twenty years ago!
Judging by the timing, it was precisely when Roger had discovered the City of Heaven!
Robin had been born after that, and had lived day and night with the Shane who had once possessed humanity.
In her eyes, this current Shane was not her true father at all.
He was more like a machine assembled from Devil Fruits, the world's strongest weapon.
The sole Devil Fruit grew, only to abruptly transform into a gate of light.
The fruit's shell was