Chapter 266: Beating the snot out of Trebol
Leo didn't hesitate or waste the opportunity he was given. He raced up Robi-land's arm, then started to snitch up Monet's body with his devil fruit.
Monet was quickly losing the ability to maintain her flight as her feathers were stitched down. She transformed into snow to try to freeze the life out of the tontatta.
This proved to be very effective, as Leo's tiny body could not retain its heat as well as a full sized human body could. He fell from Monet's back, stiff like a frozen statue.
Robin tried to catch him with another bloomed arm, but Sugar was waiting for exactly that moment. Sugar whipped her hand and slapped Robin's arm.
To Robin's horror, Sugar's ability took hold even though she hadn't touched her real arm. In a poof, a stuffed doll was left in the place Robin had been standing.
...
Over by the ruined S.M.I.L.E. factory.
"You better not get your snot on me. I'll fuse your nose and mouth shut." Cherry spoke disdainfully.
"Behehehe! I'd like to see you try!" Trebol declared, flinging his mucus about with wild abandon.
Cherry drew Sakura Tengoku and slashed at him from a distance. She didn't even want to touch the disgusting man with her weapons.
Trebol was an experienced fighter, though, and thus moved out of the way of the slashes with high precision. In fact, he was very accustomed to fighting people he didn't want to physically touch him, so he had a lot of skill in medium distance battles.
Still, Trebol was no fool. He had his den den mushi listening in to everything and sending that audio to his young master. This would enable him to warn of the threat he was facing without letting the enemy know about it.
Sadly, he was unaware that his young master was beaten up and deprived of his personal den den mushi not long ago, which was then left lying in the street beside the colosseum.
...
Somebody WAS there to hear what came through, however. A young man with blond hair, curly eyebrows, and a cigarette in his mouth.
"How dare this pervert subject Cherry-swan~ to that vulgar laughter! You better pray that I don't get my feet on you or you're dead meat!" Sanji threatened seriously, but not loud enough for his voice to be heard through the den den mushi on the other end of the call.
...
That hurt his pride more than anything else ever could. Like he was an interestingly shaped stone she picked up off the side of the road, only to find it wasn't that interesting after all. Then he got angry. The anger he felt teamed up with his dream and curb stomped his cowardice. Spinning around, Usopp launched a flurry of attacks at the duo of sisters with a speed and fury he had never accomplished before. His fingers started to burn from the strain of it, but he didn't slow in the slightest. He fully intended to launch his entire arsenal if he had
to to win.
Unbeknownst to him, Cherry smiled. She thought that his back looked very manly right now, not at all like it did when he ran away with his tail between his legs.
She turned her attention to a stuffed doll that was looking at her instead of the fight like the rest of the toys around the area. Cherry squinted and rubbed her chin in thought.
"You're oddly sexy for a toy." Cherry said.
The doll planted its face in its palm in exasperation.
Cherry felt this was a strange reaction to have toward her heartfelt compliment. After half a moment, she pulled out her vivre card book and nearly stormed over to the sisters in rage from what she discovered.
"I don't care that she looks like a little girl! I'm gonna flay that bitch, heal her up, then flay her again for good measure!" Cherry seethed.
Cherry marched over to the doll with a purpose. The doll didn't shy away from the enraged demon woman, nor even take a single step back.
Cherry thrust her palm at the doll, and when it tapped the head of the doll something strange occurred. The doll felt a jolt, no, a surge of vital energy flood into her, then...
*Pop!*
Robin was standing in the place the doll had been, looking a little confused but relieved at the
same time.
"You were able to do that the entire time?" Robin glared at Cherry accusingly.
"Yes." Cherry said, without an ounce of shame. "I couldn't let them know I could undo it, could I? Who knows what they'd do?"
Robin huffed, but couldn't argue with that reasoning. They might have started to dispose of
the toys to prevent the secret from getting out. After all, Cherry needed physical contact to do whatever it was she just did.
"So, you wanna make out or...?" Cherry proposition, only for Robin to turn and walk away
from her.