Chapter 185 The O'Hara Incident: The Calm Before the Storm

Late at night, O'Hara's South Pier.

Robin followed Arthur here, carrying his belongings.

She was a little distracted.

Even with her insightful eyes, she couldn't see Arthur's motive for taking her in.

"We still have enough ingredients for one meal, just enough for one." After rummaging through the warehouse, Arthur came out carrying two large fat and tender salmon.

"You...can understand human language?"

On the deck, Robin stayed with Cooper and asked him curiously.

Cooper looked down at Robin and made a "kukuku" sound, nodding in response.

"Is something big really going to happen here?" Robin asked, looking at Arthur who was cooking in the kitchen.

"Everyone is nervous. Many officials have been investigating here for months. Will O'Hara disappear?"

"I don't know." Arthur responded to Robin, cutting ingredients and leaving afterimages.

Seeing that Arthur didn't know either, Robin stopped asking questions and quietly waited on the deck, gazing at the moon and stars. His mind was filled with memories of being abandoned today for various reasons...

Along with the sound of cooking coming from the kitchen, the aroma of appetizing food wafted into Robin.

"This is the kind of smell you can only smell in high-end restaurants..." Robin got up hungrily and walked towards the kitchen. He witnessed Arthur's skilled cooking movements and said, "How could you make this so easily?"

"It's all about practice," Arthur picked up the food and put it all on the broken dining table in the kitchen, looking at Robin outside the door: "Also, I think nothing is easy."

Before taking away the cute little Robin.

Arthur still felt that he should ask Olbia, but...it’s better not to go now.

It would be better to let them calm down for a few days.

"Let's eat." After the meal was ready, Arthur knocked on the iron pot and said.

Outside the kitchen, Cooper came to the kitchen very quickly and started to eat from his bowl as usual: "Cooper!" (Smells so good!)

“…”Robin stood outside, dumbfounded by the scene before her.

Arthur picked up the oil lamp, placed it in the middle of the table, and turned to look at her: "If you don't eat it, it will be gone. Its appetite is bigger than mine, and it will be eaten up soon."

Arthur pointed at Cooper and pretended to tease Robin.

Then he sat opposite Cooper, opened the lid of the oil lamp, and placed it in the middle waiting for his own use.

"Cooper..." (So restrained, just like her mother...) Cooper glanced at Robin who was standing outside the kitchen door and said.

"This is not what I thought!" Robin mustered up the courage to step into the kitchen and sat on the chair next to Arthur: "Why are you not angry at all after going through so many things, and can still live a normal life like this?"

"Because I have the power to change my destiny, I don't need to dwell too much on the past." Arthur responded without hesitation: "I will only look forward, even though I am still a little confused now."

After that, Arthur pulled the oil lamp in the middle and held it in front of her: "Blow it, maybe you can make a wish."

"Is this a birthday candle?" Robin stared at the candle in front of him with wide eyes.

"It seems," Arthur looked around at the boat that had been exposed to the wind and rain for months without maintenance: "There is nothing to replace it, so let's use this?"

"Well... this is my first time..." Robin took a deep breath, pouted and aimed at the candle in front of him: "Happy birthday."

Huh~, the moment she blew out the candle, the temperature in the kitchen dropped instantly.

A chill blew over me and the kitchen door slammed shut, not letting in any moonlight.

Seeing this, Robin's heart trembled and he became a little scared.

However, the next moment, the ceiling became like a screen, with many mini ice dragons appearing on it and writing the four big words "Happy Birthday" in succession.

Ice snowflakes scattered across the room, looking like a bright starry sky that stunned Robin.

"So beautiful..." Robin thought, his eyes widening even wider, shocked by the scene before him.

"Cooper..." (You always have a sense of ritual when doing these things...) Cooper cooperated with Arthur and opened the kitchen door.

The moonlight poured in, lighting up the darkness again.

All the ice crystals and mini dragons just now disappeared in the kitchen.

"Humph." Arthur grinned at Cooper. "Okay, the ceremony is over, and the food is ready...eat quickly if you're hungry."

Arthur, who had regained his indifference, was about to eat when he found Robin standing up from his seat and hugging him tightly: "Thank you..."

"When Olbia was on the ship, she thought about her daughter every day and every night." Arthur raised his hands and subconsciously alerted her, his fingertips were all bulging, thinking:

"What a smart daughter! She first asked me tentatively if I could stop this incident..."

"You know I don't care, and you abandon your daughter. Do you plan to die with this island?"

Robin's tears soaked his black clothes, and he didn't know how many times he cried that day.

Cooper, who had returned to his seat, saw this and grinned, "Cooper." (Although I don't know why you care so much about this little human girl, Arthur, the tenderness engraved in your bones seems to be only for those who care about you)

"What a noisy guy!" Arthur retorted to Cooper, but then he saw it step onto the dining table.

He spread his wings and rushed into Arthur's arms, shouting, "Cooper!" (I want a hug too!)

The dining table flipped over and the cutlery smashed onto the floor and shattered.

Arthur, who was thrown to the ground, yelled, "Since you got involved, all the food is gone, idiot!"

Robin stood up from the floor, walked to the food spilled on the floor and started eating: "I'll eat...thank you."

"As naive as your mother." Arthur was pinned to the floor by Cooper and did not stop her.

At this time, Robin cried and choked up, "This is the first time in the past six years that I have eaten such delicious food..."

"So do we know each other now?" Arthur asked her.

"Yes, Arthur!" Robin nodded in satisfaction.

This made Arthur roll his eyes at himself and stare at the ceiling, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Maybe it’s been a while since I’ve found myself like this again, and now I have the strength to dare to think about it?

"So, is your 8th birthday a success?" Arthur asked again.

"Perfect!" Robin, who was only 8 years old, smiled innocently and said, "Let me clean this place later. Thank you."

"It's not a bad idea to take my daughter away by force." Arthur thought, and was somewhat moved by Robin's innocent look.

He only trusts creatures that he has raised or bred himself.

Like Cooper, this kind of loyalty transcends life and death.

But there is another problem that bothers him...that is human nature.

Animals are different from humans.

People have many complex emotions and constant contradictions.

He thought about it and walked out of the kitchen door, looking at his palm: "I am also a human being, let me be willful for once..."

At noon the next day——

O'Hara Tree of All-Knowing, a gathering place for scholars.

Arthur came here on foot, holding the Ice Dragon Scabbard in his left hand.

It was discovered that Sauro, who was wandering in O'Hara yesterday, was already discussing the evacuation plan with the scholars inside.

So he leaned against the door, holding the scabbard, and waited with his head down.

"Are the giants willing to help us?" Kloba asked Sauro.

"Well, my companions should have arrived at the West Sea..." Sauro said to him, "But now the ship has been sunk and we can't contact them. I believe they will be here in less than a week."

"If we can transfer all the documents here to Elbaf, then the Navy and the World Government will never dare to go there!" Sauro said decisively:

"Please! Consider this my way of making up for my sin of not knowing the truth and ordering the bombardment of O'Hara's ship!"

"Now I am a traitor who betrayed the navy. I am on the same path as you. We both want to uncover the truth of the world."

There are only a handful of people in this world who are willing to become the enemy of Elbaf regardless of the consequences.

The country of warriors and giants.

Possessing the most powerful military corps and strength in the world.

No matter who it is, they will be extremely wary.

Scholars began to discuss this issue.

But what they didn't know was that the moment government officials learned that Arthur had landed in O'Hara.

The Demon-Slaying Order's operation had already been carried out in advance.

Currently, the World Government has sent one of the Five Elder Stars to the West Sea to serve as the chief inspector of this Demon Slaying Order incident and supervise this Demon Slaying Order operation.

The academic meeting ended quickly.

Scholars, led by Dr. Cloba Clover, all took the risk and accepted Sauro's proposal.

The scholars left the All-Knowing Tree Library one by one and went to prepare to welcome the giant ships.

Everyone passed by Arthur, and none of them recognized him as he lowered his head.

It was not until Olbia stood beside Arthur that Arthur looked up at her and said, "You don't want the daughter you've always loved?"

"You have been hating here for a long time, Arthur." Olbia said to him, "Did you hear the meeting just now?"

"I heard that." Arthur responded to her: "I'm not interested."

The current timeline is the first day that Robin just turned 8 years old, which means that the government will send people to search for the historical text in 6 days.

That is the day when the Demon-Slaying Order is launched.

Sauro's giant partner had lost contact with him again, and by then he would not be able to get here at all.

"Regarding Robin... I absolutely cannot acknowledge her." Olbia said with an uncomfortable expression, "It's just to be on the safe side. This demon-killing order was initiated by me, and I don't want her to be implicated."

"You don't want it anymore, right?" Arthur asked again, wanting to be sure.

"It's not that I don't want to... It's just that I... There's nothing I can do!" Olbia said loudly, expressing her helplessness.

Arthur, who didn't get an answer, turned and left, waving, "Okay, then I'll stay here for a few more days and wait for the results."

In the library, Sauro and Cloba were discussing something, but their attention was always on Olbia and Arthur.

"Olbiyya, what's going on with you?" Cloba asked when he saw Arthur walking away, "What's your relationship with that man now?"

"I don't know either. His behavior is very contradictory." Olbia was not sure about this, but she already regarded Arthur as a friend in her heart.

Since the other party is a blockhead, we can only be friends.

"You came back on his ship, no wonder you were safe... I don't have any good feelings about what he did." Kloba continued: "Although the news in the newspaper is not clear..."

"But wherever he goes, there is trouble."

Olbia did not refute Dr. Clover's words because Arthur had killed a lot of people in the past few months.

The civilizations he passed by during his voyage were also destroyed because of those ignorant people who provoked him.

"O'Hara is facing this kind of thing now... maybe it has something to do with him..." Kloba said as he looked at Arthur's departing back.

This made Olbia feel incredible, and he immediately refuted the person he respected: "Doctor! How can you say that? This matter was entirely caused by me and has nothing to do with him!"

Seeing how Olbia was defending Arthur, Cloba was speechless for a moment.

"Everyone has a misunderstanding about him. Maybe he is in disguise, but what I saw on that ship for several months is the truth!" Olbia continued.

"I'm sorry, Olbia, I said something I shouldn't have said." Seeing Olbia's tough rebuttal, Kloba immediately apologized.

On the West Sea——

A World Government warship arrives at the temporary command branch port where Sengoku is located.

A man dressed in a white haori, holding a blade in an ancient scabbard, slowly walked down the gangway of the warship.

At the port, many Marine officers stood in a line and saluted him, solemnly welcoming the Five Elders, one of the highest powers in the world government.

Izambaron V. Nasusho-san.

Nasshoulang's eyes were fierce, and he exuded a chilling murderous aura from hell.

It seemed as if he was over-injected with some kind of power, and even the Warring States who came to greet him trembled in his heart.

At the port, Zhan Guo was shocked to see Nasu Shoulang: "I didn't expect it to be you, sir!"

"Zhan Guo, you've really created a big problem for us." Nasu Shoulang landed in the port, walked up to Zhan Guo and looked down at him condescendingly: "Now we have to deal with it ourselves."

"No..." Zhan Guo said to Nasu Shoulang respectfully: "Shouldn't the Knights of God be sent to deal with it? How can we let you go out in person..."

"Don't worry about this, Zhan Guo." Nasu Shoulang stared at the sweaty Zhan Guo. Just standing in front of him seemed to put a lot of pressure on him.

"Since you have already learned about the boy's information in O'Hara, there is no need to wait any longer." Nasshoulang gave him an order:

"Contact Spandine immediately and go to O'Hara to search for evidence of the crime. Act now, without delay."

"But..." Zhan Guo looked horrified and asked humbly, "How can we explain to the common people of the world if we act so hastily?"

"You have been a general for so many years, Zhan Guo, do you still need to ask us for instructions on this matter?" Nasu Shoulang walked past him and went straight to the base and said, "I have only one goal, and that is the traitor you accidentally left behind. I can't let him continue to grow."

traitor…

Arthur!

In this regard, the only person Zhan Guo could think of was Arthur.

He didn't expect the government to send such a high-ranking figure to come...

Zhan Guo lowered his head, and all the marines bowed to welcome Nasu Shoulang. With this help...

The final result of this operation is probably a sure win.

……

Seihei O'Hara.

Southern Fishing Village Pier——

Under a tree by the sea, Robin sat next to Arthur and looked at the sea and asked, "You were a navy before, right? Is the navy really a righteous force?"

Arthur, who was standing next to her, looked down at her. Is she asking about good and evil at this age?

He felt that Robin was a little precocious, but he did not avoid her words and said:

"It's hard to judge. Some people have true justice in their hearts. Some people just want power and status, and they will do anything to climb up. There are also some people who were destroyed by pirates and are marines who swore to be irreconcilable with pirates."

"In my opinion, the navy is just a huge group of people from all over the world, but it is much better than pirates. At least many of them know how to disguise and enforce justice."

The bitter taste in the wind made Arthur frown.

He felt the peace on the sea before him, a kind of calm before a storm.

"So...what kind of person are you?" Robin had long been curious about Arthur in the news. Now that he met him in person, he felt that he was a nice guy.

Take this opportunity to get to know who I am.

“People who have lost their way.”

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PS: The third volume is about to end...

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