"Yes! I want her to know that she still has family members alive. I don't want her to think that she has always lived in loneliness!"
Olvia has made her decision. All these years she has been thinking of Robin. She knows Robin is not dead, but her longing for him is no less, and she holds onto the hope of seeing him again!
But what about Robin? In Robin's heart, all her relatives and friends are dead. How lonely and desolate she must feel! There is absolutely no hope left!
An eight-year-old child wandering alone to survive, with a high bounty on his head—how helpless and desperate he must feel! She didn't dare to think about it any further, so she decided to let Robin know that he wasn't dead and was still thinking of her, hoping it would warm her heart for the rest of her life.
"Good!"
In truth, Vic also felt guilty. In order to make Robin the Robin he saw, he never told Olvia about Robin's whereabouts. Otherwise, Olvia would have found Robin and reunited with her long ago.
So now that Olvia wants to reunite with Robin, he won't object. Even if Robin now knows that her mother is not dead, her personality won't change much. She's an adult and mature now, and her personality won't change easily.
Although Vic knew that Robin's life had mostly been filled with close calls, it was still extremely immoral to prevent the mother and daughter from reuniting. Therefore, Vic wanted to ensure that the mother and daughter could live happily ever after.
As soon as Vic agreed, he snapped his fingers, and the entire room froze, everyone remaining motionless in their original positions.
But in the eyes of the waiters, the deputy manager was still gambling with Vic, while in the eyes of Robin and Olvia, they had already arrived in Ohara, which had not yet been destroyed, and Robin and Olvia stood facing each other under the Tree of Knowledge!
The two stared intently at each other's faces. Olvia's mask was gone, revealing a face exactly like Robin's, the face that Robin had vividly remembered from when he was eight years old.
Robin, on the other hand, also has a mature and graceful body, not the one she looked like when she was eight years old, and not the scene Robin often dreams of.
"Mom! I dreamt about you again, I miss you so much! Waaah!"
As if just realizing what was happening, Robin ran to her mother while crying, and hugged Olvia like a baby nestled in her mother's arms—a scene she often dreamed of!
This dream came rather suddenly. They were just gambling, and the next moment she was in a dream, which left her a little confused at first. In her previous dreams, she always appeared as an 8-year-old child, but this time she was in the form of an adult, though she hadn't noticed the difference yet.
Another thing is that this dream was so real. Every blade of grass and every tree was so clear. I could even smell the faint fragrance of flowers. My mother's facial expressions were also richer and more natural. This was something I had never experienced in my previous dreams.
But why is my mother dressed exactly like the masked woman who was with that customer earlier? Was my dream influenced by that woman's appearance and emotions? Did I mistake that woman for my mother?
" Robin! I missed you so much! This isn't a dream, I didn't die, we've finally reunited! Waaaaah!"
Olvia wasn't much better off either. The emotions she had been trying to suppress finally erupted under Robin's influence, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried together!
However, Robin didn't believe Olvia's words. After all, Robin had already taken this place as a dream, and how could she take the things that happened and were said in a dream as real? Robin only thought that this was her inner hope being expressed in the dream, a desire from the depths of her heart!
"This isn't a dream! It's an illusion I created. Open your eyes again and you'll believe it!"
Just as Robin was enjoying her mother's warm embrace with her eyes closed, a strange and magnetic voice rang in her ear, startling Robin and instantly waking her up.
When she opened her blurry, tear-filled eyes, she found herself back in the room where they had gambled, and she was nestled in the arms of the masked woman, clinging tightly to the stranger.
This caused Robin to instinctively loosen her grip and take several steps back, creating a safe distance between herself and the masked woman. It was an instinctive reaction stemming from her years of ingrained vigilance.
Although the masked woman made her feel at ease, a stranger is a stranger, and she wouldn't easily trust her. Looking at the waiter beside her, who was just as unresponsive as before, Robin frowned and warily scanned Vic and Olvia.
" Robin! Don't you recognize me? I really am your mother! I'm lucky to have survived!"
Seeing Robin so frightened, like a startled fawn, Olvia felt a pang of heartache. How much suffering and hardship had Robin endured to develop such instincts?
She directly removed the mask from her face, revealing a face filled with heartache, care, and love beneath it. In the illusion just now, her expressions were all real; it was Vic who had concealed the mask. Now, she was truly without a mask.
"Mom! No! Who are you? Why are you impersonating my mom? What are you up to?"
Robin almost ran over and threw herself into his arms again when she saw that face she had been longing for, but reason told her that her mother had died in Ohara back then, and that changing one's face was not a difficult thing to do; a transvestite that their agency was currently in contact with had such a face-changing ability.
She even suspected that the World Government was targeting her, because only the World Government was most afraid of the Void Century being revealed. Robin's vigilance was undeniable. Even though the other person had her mother's face and the warmth that her mother could give her, she still treated him with suspicion.
" Robin! You can ask her things that only you and your daughter know. Wouldn't that prove whether she's your mother or not?"
Knowing that Vic, with Robin complicated past, would be very wary and wouldn't immediately believe Olvia's identity, Vic spoke up.
Robin finally turned her wary yet greedy gaze to Vic, but she was shocked when she saw Vic's face, because Vic no longer hid his face and revealed that almost household name!
This terrified Robin. This was the man who had supposedly defeated Big Mom, the Emperor of the Sea. Moreover, her boss Crocodile had never refuted that rumor. However, every time the man in front of her was mentioned, Robin's face would turn ashen, and her eyes would become unfocused with deep fear. This behavior was enough to say something.
Now that powerful man had actually come looking for her, she felt immense pressure and fear. Her back was covered in cold sweat, and she stared at Vic with extreme vigilance and terror, not daring to relax for a moment!