Chapter 645 - 896 – Nami and Carina Voice Their Agreement

"Sure enough, I still need to go over there and smooth things over."

Carina bit her thumb, her face full of worry.

"I think it'd be better if we just stayed here and waited."

At that moment, Nico Robin pushed open the door and addressed everyone present.

"Why do you say that?"

Carina asked.

"We're people with bounties on our heads, after all. If too many of us enter Water 7, it'll increase the chances of the Marines discovering us."

"Carina, Nami, you two don't want to disrupt Captain's plans because of yourselves, do you?"

Robin smiled as she spoke.

"Of course not!"

Carina and Nami answered without the slightest hesitation.

As two of the people who regarded Arton as the most important person in their lives, both Nami and Carina genuinely liked him. There was no way either of them would knowingly do something that might harm him.

Still, the thought that something could very well be happening on Arton's side while they were unable to go over and pay attention to it made both of them uneasy.

If Arton truly stripped Kalifa, wouldn't that make her the first woman Arton had done that to?

What Carina and Nami did not know was that they had already lost their chance to claim that particular distinction long ago.

If they knew, they would probably regret it terribly. After all this time, not only had they failed to be the first, they had also lost so many opportunities to have fun with Arton.

And if the two of them knew Arton had already slept with other women, they would probably go straight to him and vent all the emotions they had been holding back.

Of course, both of them were already thinking along those lines. If Kalifa really had already become intimate with Arton, then they had made preparations to finally take that step with him as well.

Nico Robin watched the two women and increasingly felt that she should keep them here. That was right—Robin truly intended to persuade the two of them to stay behind so she could explain these things to them.

As someone who also liked Arton, Robin's thinking was different.

As long as something made Arton happy, she was willing to support him wholeheartedly. If Arton wanted to have fun with Kalifa right now, Robin was even willing to create the right setting for him.

At this moment, keeping Nami and Carina here was itself a way of creating that setting.

"Since neither of you wants that, then stay here for now."

Robin smiled. "The reason Captain would meet Kalifa is most likely because that woman came to find him on her own. You both know there's a good chance Kalifa possesses a copy of the Sea Diary."

"So after seeing Raki and Conis, she probably realized Arton was nearby. And Raki and Conis couldn't exactly get rid of Kalifa, since we all know Captain has a certain degree of interest in her."

Hearing that, both Nami and Carina nodded repeatedly.

As members of the Flame Blade Pirates, they naturally knew about Arton's idea of inviting Kalifa to join them.

"Since Kalifa probably has a copy of the Sea Diary, there's a good chance she figured out that Captain had already arrived nearby. And because Raki and Conis couldn't simply get rid of her, Kalifa may have followed the clues and found him herself."

"Judging by what we can see right now, maybe Kalifa really went to bother Captain, only for him to teach her a lesson instead."

"As for what kind of lesson it was… well, you've already seen it."

Robin smiled as she spoke. "Captain probably considered making Kalifa strip and kneel on the ground a form of punishment."

"Taking that many photos—how is that punishment? That's obviously a reward!"

Nami complained.

Thirty pictures taken all at once meant a huge pile of points.

Kalifa could use those points to become much stronger. Calling something like that punishment felt far more like a reward.

If this really counted as punishment, Nami wished she could receive that kind of punishment every single day.

She would gladly let Arton photograph her like that all the time. She would even be fine with him recording videos of the two of them together.

Those videos would undoubtedly be seen by the other women who possessed copies of the Sea Diary. Nami did not care. They were all women anyway.

More importantly, she would be able to appreciate all kinds of scenes of herself and Arton entwined together in the Sea Diary afterward.

Just imagining how Carina might react after seeing them made Nami feel a little excited.

However, when Nami looked at Carina's thoughtful expression, she had to admit that Carina was probably thinking along similar lines.

"For us, being photographed thirty times by Captain really would count as a reward."

"For Kalifa, it would definitely be something that could make her considerably stronger too."

Robin nodded. "But Captain doesn't know about the copies of the Sea Diary. So from his perspective, he might genuinely regard taking pictures like this as a form of punishment."

"World Government agents are probably extremely loyal to the World Government. Under those circumstances, they might not necessarily come aboard Captain's ship just because of power or anything else."

"Or perhaps they might be even more eager to bring Captain before the rulers of the World Government."

"And if the woman involved happened to care a great deal about her reputation, then something like this would undoubtedly deal her a significant psychological blow. So I think that, from Captain's point of view, this may very well still count as punishment."

After hearing Robin's explanation, Nami and Carina both lowered their heads, seemingly giving her words serious thought.

Off to the side, Uta quietly gave Robin a thumbs-up, praising her wisdom.

Little did Robin know that even she herself had overlooked quite a few things in her reasoning.

If Nami and Carina examined the situation carefully enough, they would probably discover plenty of inconsistencies.

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