INIIDF-Chapter 73 Was Me Being Born A Good Thing?

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Shanks loosened his already loose tie.

As he spoke, an invisible and astonishing momentum swept through the room. Whether standing, lying, or kneeling, whether injured or uninjured, under such a sweeping momentum, their eyes rolled back, foam came out of their mouths, and they instantly fell unconscious... 

Even the long-time bosses of the criminal organizations felt the crushing pressure at that moment. Like a heavy hammer hitting their hearts, their legs instinctively weakened, cold sweat poured out, and their limbs stopped moving powerlessly...

"Everyone, hold back for now. How about it?"

Shanks didn't look at the blood-soaked floor, but poured himself a glass of wine on a blood-stained tablecloth.

Everyone, including Capone Bege, looked eagerly at the red-haired young man with a somewhat darkened gaze.

Under his Haoshoku Haki suppression, even these criminal bosses couldn't hold on and fainted.

...

On the streets of City Town, as the gunfire gradually subsided, some people rushed over.

There were also journalists with cameras around their necks, eager to get first-hand news from the scene...

...

Shanks drank the wine in his cup carelessly.

As he turned to find Liam and the others, he noticed Capone Bege hiding behind the bodies of his subordinates... His face pale was sweating profusely as he crushed the cigar in his hand against his back, making a sizzling sound, and stumbled away in a sorry state.

"..."

Shanks ignored him, took off his suit and threw it away, then pulled a straw hat from somewhere, pressed it on his head, and left.

...

On the other side, Robin, who was being dragged away by Liam, saw Liam raise his arm in the air as if to grab something.

Right, was it his ghost? Robin remembered. But the next moment, Liam was looking at her with a strange smile...

"What are you going to do?" Robin felt inexplicable.

Liam's right hand was gloved in a red-flamed patterned right arm armor, holding the Shiro Shiro no Mi (Castle-Castle Fruit) chip.

"Tank Activate!"

He shouted strangely.

"..." Robin looked down and saw his right hand plunge straight into her chest.

...

When Shanks found the two kids again, he saw that Robin's legs had turned into two wheels, rolling and clattering down a small street outside of City Town...

Robin had no expression on her face, or rather, she had a look of despair on her face...

"Huh," Shanks saw this and asked in surprise, "Aren't those tank tracks?"

"..." Robin looked up at him expressionless.

At that moment, inside Robin's body.

"I see, so it's the Shiro Shiro no Mi (Castle-Castle Fruit)..." Liam walked into the castle-like city fortress with a deserted and barren style, "The type of city fortress depends on the ability user's own transformation desires!"

Capone Bege's taste naturally transformed his City Fortress into a military fortress-like place.

And Robin, who was using the Shiro Shiro no Mi (Castle Fruit) for the first time, effectively reformatted it. She didn't particularly like the design of the City Fortress, so the layout inside her body's City Fortress seemed particularly "empty. 

Apart from the basic layout of floors and rooms, it was mostly empty, unlike the meticulously designed City Fortress with tables, chairs, and even detailed patterns on the ceiling that Capone Bege preferred, hers seemed a bit shabby.

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"Not that I wanted it to be..."

Robin's upper body rose and condensed from the floor. Seeing Liam wandering around inside her body, examining everything, she couldn't help but feel a bit speechless.

However, since she was using the Devil Fruit for the first time, she was indeed curious.

With a thought, a white liquid substance surged from the ground, rising as if from water and forming a long table. It was exactly the same as the table from the previous wedding.

Chairs rose in a row around the table. Robin sat down with her legs crossed and her hands resting on the empty table. She pondered, and the substance on the tabletop rose, conjuring candlesticks and assembling several sets of cutlery.

"..."

Robin pursed her lips. The next moment, a white substance surged on the empty chairs, forming shadowy figures.

A bespectacled, mustachioed uncle, a curly-haired, hot-tempered aunt...

It was the image of Professor Clover...

One by one, figures that had only existed in memories appeared around this dining table.

And then... Mother...

On the chair opposite Robin, the face of a woman with long white hair, who bore a striking resemblance to Robin, appeared with a smile.

Liam looked at the table full of white sculptures, walked over and patted Robin's delicate shoulder.

"Tic-toc, tic-toc..." Tears fell on Robin's hand.

"This place is too small, can't fit your giant friend!" Liam said.

Robin wiped away her tears and chuckled softly. She looked up and the ceiling seemed to melt under her gaze, disappearing quickly. Now it could fit...

"Huh, aren't those tank tracks?" At that moment, a voice came from outside.

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"Maybe it's because her impression of someone riding a bike is too deep..."

Outside, Robin, whose legs had turned into two wheels, her chest rolling like two cartwheels, opened a gate and Liam spoke from inside.

Shanks walked outside and spoke with a pensive look on his face. "Riding a bike... Could it be?"

"What could it be, what could it be," Liam sat at the entrance, "Didn't I tell you about her? You probably already guessed..."

As he spoke, the disguises on Robin's face fell away like petals.

Seeing Robin's true face, Shanks rubbed his chin and smiled. "Indeed, it is the girl! But I didn't expect such a method of disguise..."

Being scrutinized like this by Shanks made Robin a little nervous. But she felt she had to trust Liam.

"When did you see her again?"

"Not long ago, just yesterday."

"It is difficult to evade the Marines' pursuit..."

"With the ability to disguise like this, it should be fine."

"You have a point!"

"I say..." Liam flew out of Robin's chest cavity with a "whoosh," leaving the cloak of his ability on the surface, and "poof," returning to his original size. "Where are you taking us?"

He looked around, not far from the sea, faintly hearing the sound of waves.

Shanks stopped in front of a huge stone.

There were no words or patterns on the stone, just green moss and the weathered marks of wind and rain.

"This is a grave," Shanks said quietly, reaching out to touch the rough surface of the huge stone. "I came to West Blue for this..."

'Doesn't look like much of a poneglyph, does it?' Liam wondered, looking at the stone in front of him. "A tomb, whose tomb?"

"My birth father," Shanks said quietly, "I asked Captain at the time... Is my birth really a good thing?"

This statement was left hanging.

Liam could probably guess that Shanks had asked Roger that question when he found Laugh Tale with Roger's pirate crew just before they disbanded. Was that why he had cried so bitterly in Roger's arms then?

Robin was moved. Was going on living really a good thing? She couldn't be sure if she ever had such doubts in her heart...

"Back then, the captain told me..."

Shank's eyes were slightly red and he smiled, "'What nonsense are you talking about? You were already born into this world!'..."

The wind blew across the mottled giant stone, through the hair of the three.

Liam thought that the one who needed to hear those words the most was probably Roger's son, the Pirate King.

At that moment, the ground trembled and approached this place.

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