Chapter 124: Meeting Up With Robin

Chapter 124: Meeting Up With Robin



Cherry's next stop was naturally to go and pick up Robin. She didn't plan to meet with any of the other Straw Hats right now, though perhaps she would pay them a visit in the near future. Who knows what sort of interesting hijinks they're all getting up to?

Well, maybe not Brook, since she didn't have the time to make a vivre card of him. A walking, talking, musical skeleton shouldn't be too hard to find though.

Cherry spent the days cultivating and experimenting with haki, particularly the advanced applications of armament haki that Rayleigh had demonstrated for her.

Originally, Cherry had thought of armament haki as purely a support skill, something to apply to her attacks to increase their power and enable her to harm devil fruit users who would normally be immune to certain kinds of damage. It also added to her already hard to damage body's defenses.

Now, she realized she had underestimated haki, and by a great deal.

'I really need to stop making assumptions...' Cherry admonished herself. She could only sigh and accept the fact that this world was bonkers and she'd never get used to it.

'I could tell that Rayleigh was holding back on me though. Maybe it's just hard to demonstrate the more advanced forms of observation haki, but there's definitely got to be more you can do with conqueror's haki than knock weak willed people out, right?' Cherry wondered.

'Oh! That's right, back when I first met Chinjao he hit me with some sort of mental attack! That's was almost certainly conqueror's haki now that I think about it. Old coot that he is, he ought to know a little more about its applications, shouldn't he?' Cherry smiled as she started looking forward to meeting the old man and his silly grandkids again.

Whilst Cherry had plenty to do and Cabernet, on account of being a ship, was perfectly content to do nothing but sail all day, Perona was dreadfully bored.

At least Hawkeye's castle had had plenty of books to read and was large enough to pass the time wandering its halls.

She had tried to chat with Cabernet, but it wasn't as engaging with a face to look at whilst she did, and talking to Cherry was a recipe for frustration.

She had at least found some amusement in trying to guess which parts of Cabernet's ship form corresponded to her human form's anatomy, as well as testing to see if she was still ticklish in her ship form.

She had actually started to look forward to her training sessions with Cherry out of sheer boredom.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Bunny Joe was a bit shocked by Cherry's casual decision to waltz into the revolutionary army's headquarters with them. He had at least expected her to think it over. In fact he had been worried that the already apprehensive Robin would be easily persuaded to leave, especially given how close she seemed to be with Cherry.

Bunny Joe hastily gave orders to his crew to get back underway, as if worried they would change their mind.

He noted that Robin seemed to have relaxed considerably after Cherry's arrival, for which he wasn't sure if he should be grateful or worried. After all, Robin didn't even want to go below deck because of her survival instincts from being on the run. If she had no concerns over her safety now, it was because she had complete faith in her and Cherry's group's ability to demolish them if necessary.

Robin sat down on her couch and patted her thighs. Cherry naturally took the opportunity for a lap pillow, whilst Robin started to feed bits of fruit to her with an adoring look on her face.

The crew had become somewhat downcast at the sight of this, realizing their lovely guest was very much taken. Though it was better than seeing a man in Cherry's current position by a million times, for sure.

"Hey, Bunny man. How long is it going to take to get to your headquarters?" Cherry asked and accepted a peeling tangerine slice from Robin.

"At least a week, two at most. Depends on the weather, really. You know how the Grand Line

is." He replied.

"I'm impressed that you have paddle boats and enough sea stone to hide them from sea kings. I had been under the impression you were mostly a rag tag group gathered around a few competent people, but it seems you're more equipped than expected." Cherry said.

"Controlling information about our capabilities is good strategy, we are fighting a war after

all." He commented.

"Well, you need more than just a way to cross the calm belts to win against the World Government. I'll decide if your worth a damn after I see your headquarters." Cherry spoke

rudely.

Bunny Joe wasn't offended at all. It was no simple task to fight a super power that rules most of the world. Many have tried and all so far have failed. Truthfully, there was no guarantee they would succeed either, though he'd like to think they have the best odds of any who came before. Those were just comforting thoughts, however.