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Chapter 204 Robin vs. Black Maria
Chapter 204 Robin vs. Black Maria
Kaido's command was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples in circles.
But it's not a calm ripple.
It is the ripples of slaughter.
"Kill them all!"
Kaido's voice was still echoing in the air when the Beasts Pirates' executives began to move.
The first to rush out was Drought Jack.
The tall man activated his Devil Fruit power, his body rapidly expanding into a gigantic mammoth.
The mammoth's tusks were like two huge curved knives, its trunk was as thick as a stone pillar, and its four legs pounded the ground, making the whole street tremble.
He charged toward Bai Yu, each step crushing the stone slabs beneath his feet, sending shards of stone flying everywhere.
But he didn't rush to Bai Yu's side.
Because Artoria blocked his way.
The golden holy sword drew an arc in the morning light, slashing directly at Jack's elephant trunk.
Jack sensed the threat of the sword and abruptly stopped. With a flick of his trunk, he actually managed to catch the sword.
The sword blade struck the elephant's trunk, producing a metallic clanging sound.
Jack's trunk was covered with a layer of black Armament Haki, as hard as steel.
"Little girl, you think you can stop me?"
Jack's voice came from the mammoth's mouth, tinged with disdain.
Artoria didn't speak, but simply raised the holy sword again.
The light on the sword became even more dazzling, and the magic in the air condensed at the tip of the sword, forming streaks of golden light.
Jack's eyes widened suddenly; his animal instincts told him that he couldn't take this sword head-on.
He turned and ran.
But Artoria's sword had already fallen.
"Unleash the magic!"
Golden light erupted from the holy sword, streaking across the sky like a meteor, and struck Jack directly in the back.
The mammoth's massive body was blasted away, crashing through three houses before finally being buried in the ruins.
Smoke and dust filled the air, and gravel tumbled down.
The members of the Beasts Pirates were stunned.
one strike.
Just one strike.
Did he just knock Drought Jack away?
That guy is a monster with a bounty of one billion Berries!
"What are you still standing there for?"
Jin's voice came from behind, still calm, still devoid of emotion.
"Kill them."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a huge figure descended from the sky.
It was a giant spider.
No, it's not a spider.
She is a woman whose upper body is that of a beautiful woman and whose lower body is that of a giant spider.
Flying Six Black Maria.
She wore a charming smile, but her eyes held no laughter, only icy killing intent.
"Oh my, it's so lively!"
Her voice is very beautiful, like she's singing.
Her gaze swept across the battlefield before finally settling on Nico Robin.
"You're the son of the devil?"
Black Maria's smile deepened.
"I've always wanted to meet you."
Nicole Robin was standing on the edge of the battlefield, holding a book, seemingly oblivious to the chaos around her.
But when Black Maria's gaze fell upon her, she closed the book and looked up.
"Flying Six Black Maria".
Robin's voice was calm, but her hands were already poised.
The Flower-Flower Fruit can be activated with just a thought.
"It seems you recognize me."
Black Maria jumped off the spider's body and landed on the ground. She was over eight meters tall, several times taller than Robin.
She looked down at Robin, her smile carrying a sense of superiority.
"I've lived in Wano Country for so many years and I've never met an archaeologist before. I heard you can decipher the Poneglyphs?"
That's truly an amazing skill.
Her tone sounded like a compliment, but the malice in her words was almost palpable.
"But do you know what kind of person I hate the most?"
Without waiting for Robin's reply, she continued, "It's those women who think they're so smart."
As soon as she finished speaking, Black Maria's hands suddenly transformed into two enormous scythes.
That was her weapon, a scythe coated with a deadly poison. If you were even slightly cut, the poison would spread throughout your body within seconds, paralyzing your muscles and ultimately causing you to suffocate.
She charged at Robin, using all eight of her spider legs simultaneously at an astonishing speed.
The sickle sliced through the air with a sharp whistling sound.
Robin did not back down.
She crossed her arms in front of her chest and activated her power.
"Six-petaled Flower - Bending at the Waist!"
Six arms suddenly grew from both sides of Black Maria's body, and those arms grabbed her waist and twisted her violently.
Black Maria's body was twisted into an eerie angle, but she did not fall.
Because her spider body is supported by eight legs, it is as stable as if it were nailed to the ground.
"These little tricks won't work on me."
Black Maria sneered, and suddenly raised the eight legs on her spider body, thrusting them towards Robin.
The tips of those legs were as sharp as spears, and they were also coated with poison.
Robin frowned and quickly stepped back.
But the spider legs were too fast. She dodged two, then four, but couldn't dodge the sixth.
A spider leg stabbed from the side, about to pierce her shoulder.
Just then, a giant hand reached out from in front of Robin and grabbed the spider leg.
"Four-Wheel Flower - Hook Claw!"
The hand clenched suddenly, squeezing the spider's legs until they made a cracking sound.
Black Maria's expression changed.
It wasn't because of pain, but because of surprise.
"Your abilities—can blossom within me?"
"Anything that's organic can."
Robin's voice remained calm, but her hands were trembling slightly.
Blooming on someone else requires a lot of physical strength, especially for a huge body like Black Maria, where the consumption is multiplied.
But she did not back down.
Black Maria's smile finally vanished.
"interesting."
Her body began to change; the spider form became more pronounced, her eight legs grew thicker, and the hairs on her body turned into hard barbs.
She no longer holds back her strength.
Humanoid form, Spider Fruit, Ancient Species, Ancient Wolf Spider form.
This is her true fighting form.
"Now, let's have some fun."
Black Maria raised all eight of her legs at the same time, like eight spears, and thrust them toward Robin.
The speed is twice as fast as before.
Robin quickly crossed her arms and activated her ability.
"Thirty-round Flower - Suspended!"
Thirty arms grew from the buildings surrounding the battlefield, grabbing the spider's legs and holding them tightly.
Black Maria's body was pulled, her eight legs dangling in mid-air, unable to move.
But she didn't panic.
A smile curved her lips.
"You think this is the end of it?"
Her mouth opened, and she spat out a huge spider web.
Spiderwebs rained down on Robin, so fast that he didn't have time to react.
Robin's eyes widened.
She tried to get away, but the spider web was too big, covering an area of dozens of meters in radius, leaving her nowhere to hide.
The spider web landed on her, binding her tightly.
The spider silk was extremely sticky and incredibly tough; the more one struggled, the tighter it became.
Robin lay on the ground, unable to move.
Black Maria descended from mid-air, her eight legs firmly planted on the ground.
She walked up to Robin, looked down at her, and a smile returned to her face.
"I've said it before, these little tricks won't work on me."
She raised one of her spider legs, the tip aimed at Robin's throat.
Farewell, son of the devil.
The spider's leg suddenly stabbed down.
A crisp sound of metal clashing rang in her ears.
An arm blocked her way.
That arm was very fair and slender; it was clearly a woman's arm.
It was this arm that single-handedly blocked the spider's leg's attack.
A knife was covered with a thin layer of gray substance, like dust or mist.
"Isn't it a bit much to hit a girl so hard?"
A lazy voice came from behind Robin.
Black Maria frowned.
"Who are you?"
"I?"
Rangiku tilted her head, a smile curving her lips.
Then Rangiku flicked her finger, and the spider leg was deflected.
Black Maria took two steps back, readjusting her weight on her eight legs, and watched the woman who had suddenly appeared warily.
Her intuition told her that this woman was not simple.
But Rangiku didn't look at her.
The extremely sticky spider silk was like ordinary cotton thread under Rangiku's power, breaking with the slightest pull.
Robin broke free from the spider web.
"Thanks."
"No need to thank me. You could have handled her yourself. I was just helping out."
Rangiku stood up, dusted off her hands, glanced at Black Maria, then at the distant battlefield, and sighed.
"Looks like I can't be lazy today."
As soon as she finished speaking, more than a dozen figures rushed over from all directions.
Those were real fights.
The mid-level officers of the Beasts Pirates are all Devil Fruit users; some are Ancient Zoan, some are regular Zoan, and some are artificial Zoan.
The leader was a burly man with a lion's mane on his face and his hands transformed into enormous lion claws.
Lion Holdem.
Artificial Zoan type, user of the Lion-Lion Fruit.
"Leave that woman to us; you go and deal with that demon's son."
Holdem said something to Black Maria, then led a dozen or so fighters towards Rangiku.
Black Maria glanced at them, said nothing, and turned to walk towards Robin.
She hasn't given up on the idea of killing the devil's son.
Rangiku glanced at the dozen or so True Fighters rushing towards her, then at the Black Maria walking towards Robin, and a smile curved her lips.
"This is such a hassle."
She reached for her waist and grasped the hilt of her Zanpakuto.
Gray cat.
Her Zanpakuto's ability is to turn the blade into dust, and anything that comes into contact with the dust will lose control.
"Let them see the power of death."
Rangiku drew her Zanpakuto.
The blade gleamed silver in the morning light, but the light vanished the next second, and the blade turned into a cloud of gray dust.
Dust drifted in the air like a thin layer of mist.
Holdem led his men into the fog.
"This little trick"
He didn't finish his sentence.
Because his lion paws suddenly stopped obeying his commands.
No, it's not that it's disobedient.
It means I've lost the ability to feel.
He looked down and found that his paws were covered with a layer of gray dust.
The dust seemed alive, spreading upwards along his claws, causing muscles to lose control and nerves to become unresponsive wherever it touched.
"What the hell is this?!"
A flicker of fear crossed Holdem's eyes.
He wanted to back away, but his legs wouldn't obey him.
Dust spread to his chest, and he began to have difficulty breathing.
"Don't worry, you won't die."
Rangiku's voice came from the mist, carrying a hint of languor.
"It's just temporarily incapacitated; this child is a poisonous cat, you know."
After she finished speaking, Holdem froze, standing there like a stone statue, unable to move.
The same situation applies to other real fights.
Some maintained a running posture, some maintained an attacking posture, and some maintained a defensive posture.
More than a dozen people froze on the spot, like a group of wax figures.
Rangiku emerged from the mist, shook the dust off her hands, and sighed.
"Is this all there is to a real fight? Several of them don't even know how to use Haki. It's really boring."
She looked into the distance, where even more members of the Beasts Pirates were surging toward them.
"Looks like we'll be killing a lot today."
Her eyes narrowed, and although a smile remained on her lips, there was no joy in her eyes.
Robin took a deep breath as she watched the black Maria approaching her.
She had just exhausted herself and hadn't fully recovered, but she wouldn't back down.
She crossed her arms over her chest again.
"Thirty-Ring Flower - Hook Claw!"
Thirty arms grew from the body of the black spider, and those arms grabbed the spider's legs and pulled hard.
Black Maria's body swayed slightly, but she did not fall.
Her eight legs were deeply embedded in the ground, as if nailed to it.
"I've said it before, these little tricks won't work on me."
She opened her mouth and spat out another spider web.
But this time, Robin was prepared.
She activated her ability ahead of time, and an arm grew out from the wall next to her, grabbed her body, and pulled her aside.
The spider web failed and stuck to the ground.
Black Maria frowned.
"All you do is hide?"
Her eight legs began to move, and she charged towards Robin.
It was so fast that Robin could barely keep up with it.
But she doesn't need to follow it with her eyes.
She closed her eyes and sensed the atmosphere around her.
Black Maria's spider leg stabbed from the left, but Robin leaned forward in advance and dodged it.
Another spider leg stabbed from the right, but Robin tilted her body again and dodged it.
One after another, spider legs lashed out like a torrential rain, and Robin's body swayed in the downpour like a leaf.
Every time it was just a hair's breadth away, but every time it was avoided.
An impatient expression appeared on Black Maria's face.
"So annoying!"
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Her body suddenly spun around, and all eight of her legs swept across at the same time, like a giant spinning blade, slicing towards Robin.