It didn't take long for him to be surrounded.

"By stealing this little boy, we'll be able to keep 1 million Barry for ourselves!"

One of the men shouted, seeming to be the leader of the group, encouraging the others to attack Robert.

Yudi, who tried to deceive him, said with a full smile: "Seriously, boy, you are alone, but we are more than a dozen, mainly this..."

In the next instant, the bandits' weapons were extended, the spectators' faces changed color and they quickly retreated so as not to put themselves in danger, after all, weapons don't have eyes.

'Nine Turns of the Sun!'

The instant he said those words in his mind, his body was surrounded by an aura of golden skin. It was an aura similar to sunlight, not as bright and strong, however, from the information he acquired, it will be able to increase his defense.

With one hand, he drew the pistol.

"He has a pistol, kill before he hits someone!" Yudi screamed.

He was genuinely scared in the next moment, as when Robert raised his hand and fired, it wasn't like their firearms, the shot was so fast!

*BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!*

It was his first time using the pistol, but he had a clip with 100 rounds in total, so he didn't limit himself and shot non-stop.

Obviously, he wouldn't be the only one to shoot, the bandits on Yudi's side weren't going to just get shot and went on the offensive.

At first, Robert was unsure and a little scared, since even using the golden armor defense, he wasn't sure if he would be able to defend himself against bullets from firearms. However, he became more confident when the round bullets were ricocheting when touching the golden aura defense.

Other than that, in the beginning, although it hurts a little when being shot, Robert finds that the amount of pain he feels decreases, even if only a little.

spinning and firing shots, he was learning to shoot with more mastery in the midst of the shooting that gradually reduced as he managed to hit the thugs who had surrounded him.

Meanwhile, Yudi was holding the corpse of one of the bandits in front of him while shaking in fear.

Yudi, who thought he found a gold mine, now understands that he just hit an iron plate.

The shooting didn't continue for long, soon next to the bandits was slammed to the ground with blood oozing, creating a bloody sight.

'In the end, this isn't an anime, people die by being shot...' Although it was the first time he had killed someone, Robert was just feeling a bit nauseous.

Other than that, he was doing relatively well.

Walking up to Yudi, he put the pistol to his head.

"Last words?" Robert asked coldly.

"Wait! Let's talk..."

"Goodbye,"

*BANG!*

Without thinking twice, Robert pulled the trigger.

This close, he could see the bullet penetrate Yudi's fat head and blood start to squirt like a faucet.

This time, Robert nearly threw up, but he managed to swallow.

Although with a horrible taste of vomit in his mouth, he endured it as he prepared to leave.

As much as it was self-defense, he didn't understand the law of this island, let alone this world.

He couldn't simply rely on what he understood from the One Piece anime, as his understanding of what was true and what was false was too vague.

Before leaving, he grabbed the brown leather bag that Yudi was carrying.

On the way, being alone, since no one dared to follow him, Robert starts vomiting.

'Unfortunately, the sale of fish will have to wait...'

After he returned to the Super Pirate Ship, Robert sighed regretfully.

Although, he took the bag that was with Yudi and found that it had 19 notes of 20 thousand Berry and others of lesser values, adding up to a total of 2 million and 110 thousand Berry, in a way he profited.

"At the moment back there, if I had better control of the Devil Fruit, I could resolve that small matter more easily..."

Robert finished roasting a fish as soon as he mumbled his concern.

It wasn't ideal to train on the ship, as if it fell into the sea, it wouldn't be any fun.

Besides, even though I believed that it wouldn't be easy to destroy the Super Pirate Ship, if he used the power to take the ship's weight by accident and ended up dropping it from a significant height, there's no way for him to know if the ship would still be able to. to stay whole.

Finishing eating the fish, he broiled another fish while thinking, 'If I want to stay safe, I need to get stronger. People even more idiotic than Yudi might appear in front of me, but next time it might not be someone weak...'

The next morning.

"Boss!"

As Robert decided to test and return to the city through the outskirts of the city through the harbor, suddenly a group of hundreds of large men came out together, looking at him, bowing in his direction, respectfully.

A strange look appeared on his face as he remembered what they called him, Robert frowned, "Who the hell is your boss?"

"Boss, of course, it's you!" Shouted one of them, unable to hide the greed in his disgusting eyes: "We are all willing to follow the Boss and we only ask for a little of your money in return!"

Robert's frown deepened: "Not interested, it will bother someone else." He places his hand on his waist... More precisely, on his sword hilt and holster.

"Boss, please reconsider!" Shouted another who seemed to be their leader in a panic, as if Berry was slipping out of his hands: "You only need to give a part of the money you get and we will all be loyal to you!"

"Tsk, don't piss me off, I'm not interested." Robert frowned even more as he looked at them coldly.

These must be local thugs who saw or heard what happened yesterday and now these bastards want to treat him like a source of money and suck on his tit... Of course, Robert wasn't about to let that happen.

When they saw Robert put his hand in the holster where his pistol was... They started to back away with fear visible in their eyes.

The lingering fear of those who saw the firepower of this pistol still haunts the minds of those who saw what happened yesterday.

Robert was about to leave but suddenly stopped.

'Is it new?'

He rubbed his eyes. It was hard to believe, at this moment he was seeing two children aged 7 or 8, they were identical to the Sabo and Ace he saw in the anime. Only it was more like a cosplay of them, as they weren't drawn characters, but real people.

'Is it even possible that it's them?' Robert muttered in his mind, stunned.

The two children were near the garbage dump not far away.

Although he didn't have a particular interest in getting involved with people who appeared in the plot created by Eiichiro Oda, it was inevitable that he would be a little interested when he saw Sabo and Ace.

An idea formed in his mind. Robert wanted to know, he needed to know how influenced they are and if what he believed was wrong, is there really such a thing as fate?

He didn't want to believe it, the simple fact of thinking that something or someone controls his destiny made him feel nauseous.

Robert went to these two children.

When the two children felt Robert standing behind them, they turned and like wild beasts, they looked at him with vigilance. It didn't seem like looks that belonged to just two kids that young.

"Guys, my name is Robert, and I'm looking for a secluded spot to train." Although the similarities of what he saw in the anime only got more glaring as he got closer, Robert reacted calmly. He asked, "If you two know and take me to that location, that note is yours."

Robert produced a green paper bill for ten thousand berries.

Even at this moment, the vigilance of the two children did not decrease, in fact, it even increased.

They weren't tempted by the 10,000 Berry paper note right away, they even looked down on Robert, seeming to be scrutinizing him.

"We can't trust you, look for someone else." The boy with black hair and dark freckles on his cheeks said with a stoic expression.

The other one who wore a big black top hat muttered softly in the other's ear, "Ace, are you sure? That's 10,000 Berry, and from what I've seen before, it looks like the local bandits are scared of him for some reason..."

The blonde seemed to analyze what was happening differently. He didn't think the 20-something-year-old man in front of him would have reason to cheat on two poor kids who were picking up trash.

"Sabo, look at him, everything about him screams danger, we shouldn't get involved with that kind of person." Ace replied quietly, "And, as you said, even the local thugs with more than 100 of them didn't dare to provoke him."

Sabo whispered back: "Let's just take him to the place in the forest, if he wanted to do something with us he would have done it already."

Although he didn't care that much about 10,000 Berry, it was still a good amount to do something so simple.

Ace pondered. He didn't know that he and Sabo's whispering was heard by Robert.

After training his body, Robert also saw improvement in his eyes, ears, and nose. He could hear, smell and look much wider.

"Okay, follow us." Ace finally decided, "They have a particularly secluded forest and it might be a good place to train."

Robert nodded calmly.

He followed the two children until they left the outskirts of the city, going to an even more isolated place, going up the mountain a little, arriving at a place surrounded by trees.

"Here we are." Ace stopped walking, Sabo right beside him.

Up until now, they were still vigilant towards Robert, mostly looking at the belted sword and pistol.

"Thank you, here is the promised money." Robert handed the ten thousand Berry bill into Ace's hand.

Ace took it and stuffed it in his pocket without looking.

"We're leaving now, we've done what you asked," Ace said, wanting to leave.

Sabo nodded toward Robert, and said, "Be careful, sometimes some wild beasts show up here."

"Thank you for the warning." Robert smiled a little in appreciation for Sabo's reminder.

Then the two children left without looking back as quickly as possible.

Only when the two were gone did Robert touch his chin with deep eyes.

'They are almost the same as what I saw in the anime.' He muttered in his mind: 'Only their eyes are even deeper and more cautious than it shows, besides, it doesn't seem to be easy to get close to them...'

Well, he wasn't particularly in a hurry, if there's only the two of them, and there's a possibility that Luffy will show up later just as he did in the anime/manga, he just needs to wait while trading on this island and training at the same time.

For his own survival, he needs to get stronger.

As for the rest, it can be done later.

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