I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 166 A naturally evenly matched opponent
[Chapter Series・Big News 18・Leaping Through the Fog]
[The Grand Line, the first half. Newsbirds carry newspapers and fly across the sky. Below is a sea shrouded in mist, and a huge black shadow can be faintly seen...]
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"Coral!"
Lynch nodded. Nothing further.
With just such a word, what can we talk about...
Now Hancock has no time to clone himself into the inner castle. With the Snake Queen outside, it was inconvenient for Hancock to open the castle's door.
As for letting the faceless armor use charcoal text to broadcast the situation outside...it's not that urgent.
The visor has not returned, and is probably still hidden in the outside world.
Based on Lynch's understanding of himself, B.I.B's visor is probably hiding somewhere in the dark, following Hancock and Snake, observing the situation.
Where else could I go, run outside the palace to avoid the limelight? That's boring enough...
When the mask comes back and Lynch recovers B.I.B, he will naturally know what happened, so there is no need to rush.
Robin squatted in front of the ancient text written in charcoal on the ground, thinking about what Hancock said just now, and said to himself: "Coral..."
Why is there a page with ancient handwriting in the books in the study room of Nine Snakes Palace?
What is the original text of the copy?
While Robin was thinking about this, Lynch continued to drag B.I.B to start a one-on-one male battle.
The more he practiced Armed Color Haki and Wisdom Color Haki, the more he could feel that there seemed to be a looming inspiration, like lightning flashing in his mind, which made people feel itchy.
"Domineering..."
The first Substitute Cup Domineering Martial Arts Tournament.
The only two contestants: Lynch, B.I.B.
Winner: Lynch.
After all, Lynch has one more face than B.I.B at this time, and the advantage is very obvious...
He lay panting on the floor of Snake Cave Castle, paralyzed from exhaustion. Lying in a row were faceless armors. Although it won't cry tired, like its main body, its domineering energy is also exhausted at this time.
Consumed up...
A flash of lightning flashed behind Lin Qi's head, and he sat up.
"I know!"
On the other side of the main hall of the Snake Cave, Robin was sitting on the ground, bored with nothing to do, so he had no choice but to use Huahuaguo's ability. In front of her sat another person. However, the appearance of this other person is constantly changing amidst the blooming and falling petals on his face. Sometimes the result is a girl with a little baby fat; sometimes she is a handsome woman with a thin face; sometimes it looks like she is trying her best to imitate Hancock's appearance with the only materials available...
Hearing Lynch's sudden shout, Robin turned his head and looked.
The clone with the "Hancock fake face" sitting opposite her also turned his head to look in unison.
"Okay, is the operation so exquisite?" Lynch noticed her "work" and was very surprised. After all, Robin in the comics did not have such skills. "Continue to develop, won't you? Isn't it right to be called the 'Girl with a Thousand Faces'?" He quickly thought of the shortcomings of Robin's disguise skills, after all, he had been a flower-flowered fruit user for a few days. "There are many faces, and you can't change them at all! Your own skin is too delicate, and you can't change the face of a guy with rough skin."
The flower clone smiled slightly, then suddenly scattered into a ball of petals and disintegrated.
Robin said: "It's been so long, I don't know how Hancock is doing outside."
Lin Qi looked up at the ceiling with hundreds of snake sculptures hanging down from it, "You can't see, hear or see anything outside here...how long has it been?"
Robin estimated, "Almost three or four hours."
Lin Qi touched his chin, looked at the environment of the closed Snake Cave Castle, and fell into deep thought.
Robin said: "She must have been left in the palace to have dinner..."
Lynch feigned surprise and said: "You think I'm suspecting that Hancock, this chick, locked us up in the castle on purpose, so I'm thinking about how to use my ghost's ability to pass through walls to integrate into Hancock's body. Destroy her castle and run away?"
Robin: "..."
Although I know Lynch is joking...
But when he spoke in such detail, he really thought about it. If he was trapped in such an environment, what strategies could he use to escape?
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Snake Cave Castle suddenly opened a portal.
A series of food was brought in, filled with aroma.
White fluid surged up on the floor and four walls, condensing into vivid white snakes, which delivered the food to Lynch and Robin.
Hancock appeared next to them, opened his bright eyes, and heard Lynch say: "Are you bringing them for your sisters?"
"Are you going to eat?" Hancock scolded, "If you don't eat, forget it."
Looking up, he saw that Lynch had already eliminated less than half of the pile of food...
Robin also ate gracefully and asked Hancock what happened outside during the period when Snake Cave Castle was closed.
"Hmph..."
Hancock snorted proudly, "You will definitely not know what interesting things I saw in the palace!"
She thought of something, and she used Shenwen Se Haki naturally. She glanced around and saw a black figure beside Lin Qi - the latter's face was actually empty.
Hancock was at a loss. Didn't the visor slip back?
At this time, a black shadow flew in from outside the castle door, swung around in a circle, and fell back on B.I.B's face. It was tightly closed and his eyes were slightly bright, looking at Hancock.
Hancock shouted: "Impossible! Why are you outside? You..."
She asked doubtfully: "Where did you hide?"
"Is this..." Lin Qi paused with his chopsticks and said while eating, "I can probably guess it."
Hancock asked in confusion: "Where?"
Lin Qi said: "You don't want to know."
"Say it quickly!" Hancock was angry.
"Don't tell me." Lin Qi ate calmly.
Hancock said angrily: "Then I won't tell you what happened today!"
Lin Qi said: "Wow, I'm so scared~~ I'm not interested anyway."
Hancock is so angry!
She rolled her eyes and hummed: "I'll tell Xu Lun, but I won't tell you."
Robin ate and glanced at Hancock helplessly.
Since Lynch's ghost is outside, it is no different from Lynch seeing what happened with his own eyes... What difference does it make if you tell him or not?
Robin's eyes wandered between the eating Lynch and the empty air beside him, secretly guessing that what Lynch said was that B.I.B's visor was outside before, and it was hidden somewhere that Hancock wouldn't want to know. Where exactly is it?
Hancock leaned close to Robin and whispered softly in his ear.
"What?!" Robin shook the chopsticks in his hand and exclaimed in shock.
"Why are you so surprised?!" Hancock was taken aback by her reaction. Didn't it mean that she followed She Ji and saw a big stone? As for such a big reaction?
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Farewell to Hancock who returned home alone, the two came to the woods outside Nine Snakes City.
"The historical text..."
Lynch nodded. He had already made some assumptions when he saw Robin's reaction so big. Sure enough, this was the only thing that could make Robin lose his temper like this.
Robin hugged his knees and leaned against the tree, looking at Lynch expectantly.
"It is strange that there is a historical text on Nine Snakes Island..."
Lin Qi sat cross-legged on the ground. B.I.B in front of him took out his gas fruit chip, turned into a dark phantom, and jumped into his body calmly.