She can't be any happier, and it is all because of her Nakama. It is all because of him. She spies glimpses of him on the figurehead, raven black hair a wild mess and a smile so warm and full of life... Robin picks up her cup of coffee with a disembodied hand and sips at it while she flips the page in her book and continues reading. From her peripheral she can see their blue-haired shipwright walking over to the figurehead from the helm of the ship. He passes by the tall skeleton playing Bink's Sake on the violin and waves to him on his way to the figurehead.
Robin idly hums along as she takes another sip of her coffee. It is days like these that fills her with such joy. She glances over to the figurehead again and blinks. There is someone else sitting up there with their Captain. She can just make out the equally wild black hair of the slightly taller figure and she stands up to go down to the main deck when her world shifts.
Robin wakes up to the unpleasantness of being dragged out of what constitutes as her bed, her cruel aunt Roji gripping her ankle in an iron-clad hold. Uncle Oran is pleading with Roji to reconsider something, but the woman isn't hearing it. Robin has no idea as to what is going on, but it isn't going to end pleasantly for her.
Roji drops her ankle when they reach the kitchen, and yanks her up by her arm. It hurts, but Robin keeps from crying out, as that will only make things worse for her. "Look here, you ungrateful brat! Where is the jam and bread that was here last night?"
"I... I don't know. I didn't touch it." Robin looks up at her aunt Roji, her voice quavering with her fear at what the woman will do. The grip on her arm tightens painfully and she whimpers as Roji leans down to stick her face into her's.
"I know you ate it all, you ungrateful little wretch!" Roji lets go of her arm and draws back her arm to strike Robin with an open palm.
"I didn't!" Robin tries to brace herself for the blow, but it never comes. When she looks up, her uncle Oran has Roji's wrist in his hand. He looks upset, which isn't usual for him.
"Why don't you get cleaned up, have something to eat and then go play outside?" Robin blinks at her uncle, who smiles kindly at her before fixing a stern look on his face as he turns to face Roji.
Robin doesn't have to be told twice. She tuns upstairs and washes up, all while wondering why her uncle has finally decided to intervene like he had just now. On her way back down she takes the stairs slowly. There is a pleasant scent in the air: eggs, bacon and toast! Robin reaches the bottom of the steps and finds a plate on the table, and that Oran is at the stove cooking. Aunt Roji is nowhere to be seen.
"Food is almost ready, Robin." Oran plates the eggs and bacon, followed by the toast. Next he pours juice and milk into some cups and lays everything out on the table. "Go ahead and sit down, Robin." There is something different about her uncle. He hasn't been so openly defensive over her, nor has he ever cooked her breakfast before.
Something big is going to happen today, and it feels like it isn't going to be good. It isn't going to be bad, either, so Robin isn't sure how to feel about the situation. She eats her breakfast in silence as Oran watches her contemplatively. When she finishes she starts to get up to put her dishes in the sink, but her uncle is faster and clears them away before she's even halfway out of her seat. He shoos her out of the house with an eerily nice smile.
As she runs through the town to the hills by the coast where her secret friend, a giant named Jaguar D. Saul, is staying she tries not to think of her uneasy feelings. He taught her to laugh, even when she is sad, and this is one of those times, thanks to her aunt, that she needs his company. Later, when she is cheered up, she will think more about uncle Oran's behavior.
She is gone for only a few hours and the town is completely deserted when she returns. Uncle Oran and aunt Roji are gone with her cousin Mizuira, clothes and items strewn about the home. It is obvious that they had rushed to leave, and the realization that they had purposefully left her behind hurts.
Robin runs out of the house and to the Tree of Knowledge, where Professor Clover and the archaeologists of Ohara are usually at. They too are gone, she discovers, and all of the books that had been stored in the Tree are also missing.
It is strange, and terrifying. Everyone has left and she is still there. Why hadn't she noticed anything odd, other than Oran's weird behavior this morning? With tears threatening to fall, she runs out of the Tree of Knowledge and into the legs of a woman.
Robin catches herself before she falls to the ground and takes a few steps back to look up into the face of a surprised Nico Olvia. She stares into the woman's brown eyes, exactly like her own, and the terror she feels turns into wonderment. "Mom?" Her voice is small, but the woman hears her regardless, and the girl is rewarded with a smile.
"Robin!" Olvia bends down and picks the eight year old up off of the ground, her wavy white hair cascading from her shoulders and forming a temporary curtain that frames her face. "What happened here?"
"Mom... They... They left me!" Tears fall as Robin wraps her arms around her mother's neck. The woman holds on to her and starts to carry her away from the village.
"I'm here for you, sweetheart," Olvia whispers soothingly. She pauses as she hears something or someone running up the path, then quickly ducks between two homes. She shifts Robin in her arms, the girl quieting as she too hears the noise, and watches as high ranking CP9 agents run past. They hadn't noticed them, not yet at least, and it is very possible she can slip away with Robin. "Did they take all of the books from the Tree?"
Robin glances up at her mother and nods silently. She returns her gaze back to the path just as the current leader of the CP9, Spandine, strolls past, accompanied by the rest of his agents. The man is holding a small Golden Den Den Mushi and is gesturing dramatically at it as he talks. She is tempted to use her Devil Fruit ability but another glance at her mother stops her.
"We need to leave," Olvia whispers, and backs down the alley until they are safely around the back of the house to run. She continues to carry Robin to the hills the child had frequented the past few months, where Saul is currently at. They come upon the giant, who is staring at something in the distance out at sea. "Saul-san!"
"Ah!" The giant glances down at them at the sound of his name and forces a smile. "Olvia-san... They brought a Buster Call. They intend to destro-" His sentence is cut off by the sound of cannons firing. Deafening explosions ring out across the island as the Buster Call Armada begins its barrage from all around Ohara. The giant curses and leaves the safety of the hills to go out into the ocean. "Get away from here, Olvia-san, Robin-san!"
They watch as he lifts one of the Battleships, larger than even him, and uses it to destroy another of the Battleships. He continues on to another Battleship when the sea begins to turn to ice. The giant quickly returns to the beach as a tall and slender man appears on the sand.
"Ararara... I did not expect you to go to such lengths, former Vice Admiral Saul-san." The man, who has a laid back air about him, glances from the giant to Nico Olvia and Robin. "Aiding a known fugitive and criminal, whom you had set free."
"Run, Olvia-san!" Saul moves to attack the man they can now tell is a Marine, and a Vice Admiral at that. The Marine nimbly dodges the blow and goes around him to go after Olvia and Robin. The giant halts his progress as mother and daughter flee, but at the cost of his own life.
Olvia, still carrying her daughter, runs down the beach, and spots a boat in the distance. The ground beneath her feet turns to ice, however, and she slips on the changed surface. She twists her body so that Robin isn't hurt by the fall, and waits for them to stop sliding on the ice before she gets up and starts running again.
The Vice Admiral easily catches up with them and forms an ice barrier in front of them, forcing Olvia to stop. He regards the mother and daughter carefully as he approaches, his expression quickly softening as he sighs. With a single motion of his hand the ice barrier vanishes, leaving Olvia confused. When he walks past her and to the boat, she is shocked as he sticks his hand into the water and forms two thin lines of ice, one on each side of the boat out into the ocean. "This will carry you across to the closest island. Go, before anyone sees you."
Olvia hesitates, her uncertain gaze scrutinizing the Vice Admiral. Only when she hears the distant shouts and cries of Spandine and his men does she jolt into action. She runs over to the boat and sets Robin inside of it. Olvia climbs in once Robin is safely settled in on the bench seat and she turns to look at the Vice Admiral once more.
"And remember this: I am not your ally... If either of you do anything, I'm the enemy that will be the first to catch you." With that the Vice Admiral leaves them, his destination a ship that is coming around the curve along the beach. It is Spandine's ship.
Olvia, with Robin's help, starts to row the boat between the ice tracks. They ignore Spandine's shouts when he spots them, no doubt blaming them for his mess, as well as the disappearance of the island's inhabitants.