Chapter 141 - Chapter 143

Amell and Robin stood embracing each other for what felt like a long time but was probably closer to a couple of seconds. But nonetheless, Robin especially enjoyed every second of it. And for the first few seconds of their hug, she refused to let go of him. It took a few more seconds, but Robin got her strength back again and she backed off from his embrace but remained standing in front of him not worrying about Crocodile finding out she was gone.

"How was your trip?" She asked calmly now that her emotions had somewhat stabilised themselves. She knew where he had been and somewhat what kind of being he is, so that was the main reason she hadn't scoured the planet trying to find him, she knew it would be futile to do so.

"It was good, our family got a lot bigger now. I have two more sons, Naruto and Gildarts, and I took in a disciple named Toph as well. All and all, it was a fruitful journey." Amell said and gave a big and bright smile as he thought about Naruto, Toph and Gildarts. And of course he liked Sasuke as well but he wasn't as important to him as Naruto was.

"Maybe I can meet them someday. But I'm glad that you are safe, Grandpa!" She could now finally after so many years lay all that worry about his safety to rest. When the most important person in your life leaves for a journey, you will worry every waking second of every day. If Robin hadn't had Saul to play with, train with, and to cheer her up she didn't know if she would've been able to handle Amell's departure.

"I am perfectly safe, Robin. You should know by now that no one can stand up to your grandpa. People can only dream to defeat me in battle!" An intentionally exaggerated tone escaped his lips, and it made Robin laugh and roll her eyes at him.

"Of course I know, I still have nightmares about Byakuya's twelve-hour lectures about what it is to be powerful. Your name came up a lot in those lectures." Robin got a slight shiver thinking back to those days.

"Haha, that certainly sounds terrible." Amell gave out a loud and genuine laugh. "Now, should we go back before my subordinate kills your boss?" He said and grabbed a hold of Robin's shoulder, to which she simply nodded and with that they disappeared from that roof.

Inside Crocodile's office, things didn't look so neat and tidy as they did before. All the luxury that the room previously held was entirely gone now. Holes everywhere and blood splatter a little all over the place, and at each end of the room stood the combatants in this battle. "For a sandbag, you have an annoyingly high endurance." Minerva stood and grinned, and with all the blood on her face that belonged to them both, she looked more demonic than human at the moment.

"Then just let me rip that head off of your shoulders so we can end this, I have a country to run." Crocodile said, and he looked slightly worse then she did. He had bruises and blood all over him, and he had finger-sized holes in his body from Minerva using her fingers to pierce his body like small haki infused blades.

"The captain wouldn't like that very much, so how about you do us all a favour and die!" Minerva leapt forward and put cracks in the ground where she had stood. She clashed with Crocodile's hand which was coated in haki just like hers, and he made a swipe with his hook trying to land the finishing blow but Minerva back off a centimetre or two and kicked his hook hand away. She followed her kick by spinning around and kicking him with her left heel, but he blocked it with a kick of his own, and he quickly jumped up and deliver another kick towards her which she blocked with her right arm but was thrown backwards by the force exuded by Crocodile's kick.

"You're not half bad, truly worthy as one of the most powerful pirates in the world." Amell's voice sounded out as he had appeared behind Minerva. And Robin stood leaning against the wall off to the side.

"Where the hell have you been?" Crocodile glared at his partner, the devil's child, Nico Robin. He had intense killing intent spreading from his body which was quite suffocating to Robin since she wasn't nearly as strong as he was.

"She was negotiating with me, to save both of your lives. I was gonna kill you, her and everyone else around you. And I was gonna destroy your organization and all that it has built. But she accepted my offer for the both of you." He said and spread out his incredibly domineering aura which made the Warlord take a step back.

"What! Unacceptable! I will not allow you to take over my organization, and I won't be a slave to you!" He refuted back both angerly and determinedly.

"You may not like the idea, you may even hate it. But that won't change the fact that you can't do anything about it. With overwhelming power comes absolute authority. So either you do this or I kill you and make Nico Robin the new Number Zero." Amell said stoically and released his conquerors haki, and it made Crocodile go weak in the knees and almost fall down in a kneeling position.

The Warlord was digging his nails so deep into his hands that blood was streaming out of his palms. He stared daggers at Amell, but eventually, he took one long and deep breath and his expression and voice turned apathetic, "Baroque Works will join the Gotei 13 as a subordinate entity, albeit only Nico Robin and I will know of this. Your goals with this organization will be perceived from the outside as my own goals. And also, know this. One day, I will come for your head, and you may hide behind those commanders of yours, but I will not die until I have ripped off all your limbs and mounted your head on my wall."

"That's the spirit!" Amell smiled brightly and all his domineering aura was gone. "Use that to drive you towards greatness!" He suddenly disappeared from view, and not even a second later, Crocodile felt a blade on his neck. "Because you have a long way to go until you can proudly come before me and take my head." And with those words came five hundred years worth of killing intent and Crocodile couldn't handle it. After Amell's final word left his mouth, he pushed his intent a little further and the Warlord fainted on the spot and fell face-first down on the ground.

"Minerva, you will stay as Gotei's representative in this country. And mostly it's because I don't want those annoying little flies from the Light Unit to come and disrupt Crocodile's operation. I am sure the World Government has Light unit members almost everywhere. If that is so, then I need someone here to keep a constant eye on Crocodile and Baroque Works." Amell said sternly. Minerva nodded confidently, she was probably the one inside Amell's inner circle that had been the most confident about her loyalty towards him all these years. When she first became a member of Amell's army she wasn't even an adult. Her loyalty began as her being a lovestruck teenager obsessed with Amell and his strength. So no matter the mission, and no matter how tedious it was she would do it if he commanded it.

"Robin, I assume you don't wanna abandon your search. Since Crocodile will be working with us now, take advantage of that and keep up your search. I will always be here should you ever find yourself in trouble." Amell said confidentially. He knew nothing about the ponyglyphs she was looking for so he couldn't help her in that search.

"I know, grandpa. And I will be sleeping more peacefully tonight." She smiled and said.

"Most excellent! Now, I need to go. Something that will change the very foundation of the New World is about to take place and unfortunately, your tired old grandpa is in the middle of it all." He sighed but kept a positive aura around him.

"What's going to happen?" Robin asked and tilted her head. She rarely met or spoke to any Gotei member because of how deep her undercover mission had gotten. She didn't want to jeopardise it so she didn't keep in contact with her grandpa's crew while she worked in Alabasta.

"War against Kaido!"

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