"I want to see my father."
Robin looked at Shane's clone.
Over these ten years, she had also caught a glimpse of Shane from more than twenty years ago, but she had remained separated from her true father all this time.
"In the truest sense, you're a Devil Fruit he created, a life-form born from Lineage Factors."
"For him, living alone is the greatest happiness. He can have lovers and companions, but passing on his bloodline through descendants is impossible. You merely possess a portion of his Lineage Factors."
Shane's clone calmly basked in the sun.
"I only have two people's Lineage Factors: my mother's and my father's. From a human perspective, there's nothing wrong with that."
Robin also knew that the bloodline inheritance between them was completely different from normal circumstances.
It was equivalent to a Devil Fruit whose Lineage Factors Shane had programmed turning into a person.
"That's right. You were born powerful enough because he wanted to unravel the mystery of humanity. In other words, he believed humans were like other life-forms, and the reason they could use Haki was that it was actually similar to fruit abilities: both were part of their Lineage Factors."
"The facts proved he succeeded. That's why he ended his seclusion and returned to the world."
"Once this is done, those trivial matters will be left to the false gods and the others."
"Then we'll be able to accomplish our original goal."
Shane's clone looked up at the sky. Whether dark clouds obscured it or not, he could see Stars and Seas.
"What exactly did you want in the beginning? The power of a god without a god's responsibilities, right?"
Robin expressed her understanding. In her eyes, Shane had already done too much for this world.
Even as a god, he could