Chapter 202: O'Hara Incident: Latest Bounty

A few minutes later, Nico Robin, the only survivor of O'Hara, lay behind Cooper.

We were taken from other parts of the island to the forest lake in the village.

As Cooper fell, Robin quickly jumped off its back and went behind Arthur, who was sitting cross-legged beside the lake and wrapping bandages around his injuries.

"How's O'Hara, Arthur?" Luo asked in a panic, "What are those holes on your back?"

As she spoke, she saw Arthur wrapping white bandages around his wounds.

"It's destroyed." After Arthur wrapped the bandage, he calmed down and turned his back to her and said, "Knife wound."

This news was like a bolt from the blue, and at that moment Robin was hoping that things would develop in a positive direction.

Robin shuddered and took a few steps back subconsciously: "Destroyed...?"

"Yeah." Arthur picked up two black knives and stood up: "It's destroyed. No one is left alive."

"Then...where's Mom?" When Robin heard Arthur's words, any hope he had held on to was completely shattered.

"Where's the Doctor? Where's everyone!?"

Arthur came to her, dragging his eyelids that felt as heavy as a thousand pounds and said, "Dead."

After learning the truth, Robin found it hard to accept the fact for a moment, and shouted at Arthur: "Liar! You are a liar!"

The sound spread throughout the forest and around the lake.

"It will probably be reported in the news tomorrow, and you will know then." Arthur, who had bandaged his wounds, walked to the entrance of Green Village: "You are the only survivor left in O'Hara."

Robin's eyes turned desperate and his body suddenly lost strength.

Looking at Arthur's receding back, she immediately ran up and followed closely.

My mind was blank. I didn't know who I was or what the world was at this moment. Cognition, knowledge, everything in the world seemed to have become meaningless.

Only the words Arthur had said to him four days ago kept replaying in his mind.

"Is it too cruel to tell the truth to an 8-year-old girl like her?" Arthur thought as he looked at the road ahead.

Olbia's death and Gion's blocking of the knife made him feel very complicated at the moment.

Soon.

Outside the Green Wharf Tavern, Arthur and Cooper pushed open the door and walked in.

As soon as they stepped in, all eyes in the tavern were focused on them.

The joyful atmosphere became extremely tense.

"Welcome." The front desk staff greeted guests with a smile.

Little Robin immediately followed Arthur's steps and ran behind him, standing there at a loss.

"stay."

"There are still vacancies on the second floor. How many do you want to open?" the front desk staff asked.

Arthur glanced at Robin behind him and said decisively: "Room 2..."

"Room 1." Robin said hurriedly, "I'm scared. Don't leave me alone."

"Then one with two beds."

"One thousand Baileys. The extra money will be..." The front desk clerk pointed at the blood-stained floor and said, "It's for cleaning up the bloodstains."

Arthur took out the Bailey and placed it on the front desk.

Now he just wanted to wash off the black robe and lie down on the bed to rest, not wanting to cause any trouble.

"Please follow me." The tavern owner led the way personally and took Arthur to a simple and clean room on the second floor of the tavern.

"If you have any instructions, just ring the bell." The boss left and closed the door.

I don’t know if it’s because of the good sound insulation or something else, but the room became very quiet.

"Where are you going next?" Robin asked suddenly.

She had no plans for the future and didn't even know what the meaning of life was.

"escape."

"Then what should I do?"

"I don't know, do whatever you want."

"Then why did you tell me before... to inherit O'Hara's will... and why did mom entrust me to you?" Robin asked hurriedly again.

Watching Arthur walk to a bed and lie down on it, he said, "You choose your own path."

"Whether it's to avenge O'Hara or to survive in some other way, the government won't let you go."

"The truth will hurt, but if I lie to you that O'Hara is not destroyed, that lie will hurt you even more." After Arthur said this to her, he fell into a deep sleep.

Cooper squatted beside Arthur, dozing off and falling asleep quietly.

Robin, who had realized the reality, squatted in the corner with his knees hugged, crying quietly to himself.

Noon the next day.

A sky full of newspaper delivery seagulls flew over Green Village, dropping large amounts of newspapers for free from the air.

"What's this!!"

Accompanied by a loud voice coming from the street, Robin, who was sleeping in the corner, was immediately awakened.

I hurried to the window of the room, opened it and saw newspapers falling all over the sky.

He used his ability to pick up one and started looking at it.

"Devil's Son!?" The moment I saw the ruined appearance of O'Hara Island in the newspaper...

She immediately widened her red eyes, held the newspaper with a gloomy face, and moved closer to Cooper: "Arthur...!"

"Ku!?" Cooper woke up with a start and suddenly opened his eyes to look at Robin.

"Newspaper, today's daily newspaper..." Robin held the newspaper and tried to get closer to Arthur's bed.

But Cooper gently pushed her away with his wings, forcing her to keep a distance from Arthur.

Arthur's mind was spinning and he slowly woke up from the bed, holding his head.

“Cough cough cough…!” He had just woken up and a mouthful of black blood gushed out of his throat and was spat onto the wall.

"Cooper..." (Arthur...)

Arthur covered his mouth and glanced at Robin's face beside him: "What?"

Robin looked at Arthur's pale face and purple lips. It was hard to imagine that such a powerful man would look like this.

Robin handed the newspaper to Arthur: "Look what this is."

Arthur reached out and took the newspaper, reading what it said.

"Government Daily?" Arthur's eyes fixed on those two words, thinking that shouldn't it be "economy"?

World Government Daily:

Scholar O'Hara and the pirate Arthur, the master of the extremely cold sword, wanted to revive the ancient weapon and destroy the world, but they were stopped by the navy.

"Hahahaha!" When Arthur learned about the various false accusations in the newspaper, the first one made him laugh out loud.

The two pieces of brown paper reward warrants that were sandwiched inside floated out and fell to the ground.

Robin didn't know why Arthur was laughing, so he squatted down, picked up the wanted poster and read it: "Ice Sword Master Arthur, wanted poster: 36 billion Baileys..."

"Devil's Child Nico Robin, bounty...bounty...7 million Baileys..."

"Am I a sinner who wants to destroy the world again?" Arthur laughed so hard that he vomited blood, and his mood became very happy.

The more the World Government behaves like this, the happier he feels.

This means that the world government is more afraid of him.

"1.5 billion... your amount has increased by more than 2 billion Baileys! Why am I being... put on the bounty?" Robin sat on the ground, a little dazed, unable to understand why a bounty was put on him.

Little did they know that all the news about O'Hara was brought to the World Government by Dark Horse Tensei.

……

Judicial Island, the center of the rebuilt Enies Hall.

Morgans, who was arrested by the Knights of God, knelt in the court for trial.

"Morgans! You have spread rumors in an extreme way and repeatedly ignored the warnings of the World Government to release opinions that are extremely harmful to the government. You are sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment for the crime of deception and rumor-mongering..."

"Two and a half years!"

"I know nothing!" Morgans was covered in bruises, compromised humbly, and refused to plead guilty.

There was not a single acknowledgement of the death of the O'Hara Five Elders.

"It was a close call. If we had been a step later, he would have gotten away." In the court, Galin Sheng, who arrested Morgans, stood behind him and said:

"I hope you can reform yourself this time and assist the government in releasing news in the future, Morgans."

"If your abilities weren't so valuable, you would have died long ago."

Faced with Galinsheng's warning, Morgans could only nod and agree quickly.

He knew that the commander-in-chief of the Knights of God behind him was a murderer...