In the room, Carina, who had just finished bathing, looked at the flustered Nami in surprise.
As soon as their eyes met, she heard Nami say with a face of "surprise", "How did you know Hiroto gave me a Devil Fruit?"
Carina: "?!"
Her face darkened as she said irritably, "You said it yourse—"
Halfway through her words, Carina suddenly froze, her eyes fixed on the tooth mark on Nami's rosy lips. That mark was like a heavy hammer, making Carina's head buzz.
Now she didn't care anymore, suddenly standing up and pouncing. "Sneaking behind my back, is it?"
"Ahh! I didn't!"
The two women began playfully wrestling on the bed.
Afterward, Carina learned what Devil Fruit Hiroto had given Nami.
She had to admit that the Logia: Cloud-Cloud Fruit was indeed the most suitable for Nami. With her talent, she should be able to develop this Devil Fruit well.
Hiroto's choice was very normal.
Even though she understood, Carina couldn't help but feel tense.
Her own devil fruit development and Hiroto's progress both required effort.
She didn't want to lose to Nami!
In fact, Carina already had a rough idea, building her moves around "Slipping Away" as the core.
Thinking of this, Carina couldn't sleep and got up to train.
The competition was now in play, which was why Nami had initially said Hiroto was doing it on purpose.
Regardless, Hiroto's team had gained another source of strength.
"Are they all working this hard?"
On the crossbar of the Going Merry's mast, Van Augur, sitting there, had a strange look in his eyes.
Thinking about it carefully, after following Hiroto for a while, Van Augur understood that his captain was, as expected, no ordinary person.
Along this journey of stirring up storms, the enemies they would encounter would only grow stronger.
That's why Zoro worked so hard, saying over and over again that it wasn't enough, far from enough.
"I need to work harder too."
Van Augur closed his eyes, expanding his Observation Haki range to the maximum, carefully scanning within a three-kilometer range.
The sound of wind, flying birds, human presence, etc, were all within his Observation Haki exploration.
To some extent, he indeed had talent in Observation Haki. Just after awakening, with a little training, he possessed the ability of wide-area detection. Even Hiroto hadn't achieved this.
Of course, he didn't need to. Differences in talent between people were normal.
And he was a cheater
Late at night, [Effort King] settled, and half of Van Augur's training results were transferred to Hiroto.
Then 200 times!
Hiroto opened his eyes, the corners of his lips curling up, his gaze suddenly turning crimson as his Observation Haki rapidly expanded to over four kilometers.
Although the perception of situations beyond 1,500 meters was somewhat weak and unclear, at least his detection range had greatly increased.
Additionally, Observation Haki: Wide-Area Detection!
The effect of this technique was to multiply Hiroto's Observation Haki range and strengthen it as the level increased.
For example, the vast land where the Treasure Tree Adam and giants lived could be fully perceived by the Pirate King's Left Man, Gaban.
That range was far more than Hiroto's current four kilometers.
"There's still a long way to go."
Hiroto sighed, then peacefully fell asleep.
At this moment, on the Going Merry.
Between Robin and Viola, who shared the same room, there was complete silence.
The two women, both incredibly beautiful with different but mature auras, seemed separated by ice. Initially, they were on opposing sides, but in the blink of an eye, they became prisoners sharing the same room.
"There's no point in being wary of each other now. Let's rest early. It seems he doesn't have any ill intentions toward us. What happens next isn't something we can decide now." Robin suddenly said.
Viola's eyes flickered as she silently nodded, then lied down on the bed.
She turned over, facing Robin sideways, while expressing she meant no harm.
Because when Hiroto brought them to this room, he had revealed her Devil Fruit Ability.
In this situation, if she tried to peek into the other party's mind, this woman exuding a dangerous aura would probably attack directly.
Robin glanced at the table, activated her Flower-Flower Fruit ability, and extinguished the lamp.
Then she did the same as Viola.
Because Hiroto had also informed Viola of Robin's Devil Fruit Ability.
With equal treatment, both had lost the advantage of surprise.
But the most direct reason was still Hiroto.
At most, they were just on opposing sides. There was no need to harm each other. Instead, Hiroto was now their common enemy.
But neither Robin nor Viola dared to say, "Let's cooperate to escape."
That slash that tore the sky was definitely not something they could attempt to resist in terms of force.
As for escaping...
Could Hiroto, who casually revealed their secrets and even Devil Fruit Abilities, really have no precautions at all?
Viola didn't know the answer and didn't dare to gamble.
Back then, he had reacted later but arrived first, precisely locating her position in the vast snowy field and finding her.
If they risked failure...
Viola knew that if she died here, her father, having lost his value, would be killed by Doflamingo.
The executives in the Donquixote Family were almost like family to Doflamingo, but she was the exception.
As for Robin, she was now thinking about how much Hiroto knew about the poneglyphs.
After all, back then, he had casually mentioned that Alabasta only recorded the general location of Pluton and mentioned other poneglyph locations.
Could this be true? Or was he deceiving her?
She had searched for so long and only found information about the Alabasta Kingdom's poneglyph.
How did Hiroto know about the others? Devil Fruit Ability? Or something else?
There was no answer, but Robin didn't want to escape. The Void Century had become her lifelong nightmare and obsession. As long as it was related to this, she couldn't ignore it or convince herself it might be the enemy's scheme.
Even now, with an opportunity, she hadn't tried to inform Crocodile of the situation. She just confirmed Miss Goldenweek was alive and left it at that.
The storage room quickly fell silent.