A/N: I'm finally writing a chapter on our darling archeologist Nico robin. And since it's robin, it's gonna be angsty. But when are my chapters not angsty? So we got a lotta work to do. Likes, reviews and follows are greatly appreciated and they keep me going!

I is for Ignorance that is usually bliss.

Nico Robin knows her life is a living nightmare. She is a demon, a monster, a scholar of the island of outlaws, O'Hara. An island wrongly persecuted due to invoking the anger of the world government. But no one knows the truth. And no one will accept the truth as this world is ruled by fear.

Ignorance is bliss.

Ever since the fateful day of the buster call, the death of jaguar d Saul, and her meeting with aokiji, her life has been a living hell. But she will not complain. She will laugh like Saul told her to do. She will put up a façade. She lives like a criminal, siding with outlaws, and villains, using them when they have the impression that they're using her. All to find out the truth. The truth of the void century, the reason they were massacred like animals. That is her only wish. She doesn't want to live.

She doesn't know why aokiji saved her. Why he let her go. Why he doesn't pursue her. Maybe, just maybe, he feels guilty, like he's shackled by his duty. He should have killed her. Why did he not kill her? It would have been easier if he killed her.

Ignorance is bliss.

When crocodile approaches her with a proposal, she is hesitant at first. The man is cunning and calculating, and can get rid of her if she isn't careful enough. But he won't try anything until he finds the ancient weapon pluton. Robin hates the idea, hates that she needs to help this man get a hold of a weapon of mass destruction, a weapon that the oharan scholars have their life to keep safe. But if she manages to find something else, the poneglyph leading to the truth, she will risk it. Even if it isn't the object she was searching for, she can die at his hands, without telling him about the existence of pluton. She doesn't need to live. Living is a sin for a creature like her. She was born to die.

Ignorance is bliss.

It's all for nothing. The past god knows how many years of suffering is all for nothing. She lost. Again. This isn't the road poneglyph. It's the location and existence of pluton. Once again, her existence is just a curse. But atleast she can die now. Unhappy, bitter, and unaccomplished, but atleast she can die. Her death will be a blessing to the world. Crocodile seems pissed, and she feels just an inkling of smugness at the frustration of the man. Atleast she protected pluton. Atleast she did one thing.

She can finally die.

But once again, her plans get foiled. It seems like fate is once again deciding to torture her. Is she not even allowed to die? But that is a question for later. The main question is why did the strawhatted boy save her? She understands the need to save the king, but why did he grab her as well? She's the enemy, for crying out loud, a villain, a creature that only deserves death, a person that turned this country into hell, yet he still saved her. But she's a demon who doesn't deserve to live. But now she has nothing to do, nowhere to go. Maybe she'll go onto their ship. Whether the kill her or let her join is up to them. She is now their responsibility. She doesn't deserve to live. So why did he save her?

Ignorance is sometimes bliss.

She will never admit that she wants a reason to live, any string that she can grab onto to feel alive. She has been plagued by sadness and the frustrating fact that the people close to her have a habit of dying for far too long. She was just a child when she saw the horrors of the buster call, and Saul being frozen. She didn't understand why aokiji let her go. Why he says and does the things he does. What he truly meant. For being such a smart person, she truly is ignorant.

As she stands in front of the building of justice, enies lobby in pieces, facing the six members of the crew that willingly raided the stronghold of the world government for one measly crew member, she finally realises.

"I want to live!"And as they smirk at her admission, and continue to wreck havoc and demolish CP 9 to get her back, she finally, finally feels alive.

"It seems that you have finally found your place."A place she can call home, where she can finally feel like she belongs."There is no one in the world who is truly born alone!"She is no longer alone,"Once you find them, live together with them."

Now she has people who she can call family, people she will achieve her dream alongside,

"Ohara is not forgotten."And Live. All her life, she felt that the ignorance of others is bliss, and now she realises, that she was the ignorant one all along.

A/N: Ahhhhh!!! Poor robin, honestly. I wanted to try and make it light-hearted but robin's story is not one of sunshine and rainbows. Also, I had to give out a lot of shout-outs to aokiji, because Kuzan is my favourite admiral, hands down. And he truly is a foster father to robin.