Chapter 106

Weiwei shut her eyes like a startled rabbit, continuing to feign intoxication.

She might as well have had "Take me as you please" written on her face.

"Since Robin isn't here to take over the second half... it'll have to be you who suffers."

At sunrise,

Sima Di had just fallen asleep, holding the exhausted Weiwei, when the phone worm on the bedside rang incessantly.

He used telekinesis to answer it, and the phone worm transformed into Nami's appearance.

"Was Robin with you last night?" the voice on the other end asked anxiously.

This made Sima Di realize that CP9 had already taken action.

How impatient they are.

"What happened?" Sima Di asked.

"The S-Commander of Seven Water City, Bingshan, was attacked last night—he's certain Robin did it, and the whole city is now hunting us!"

"Oh... how's the Going Merry?"

"The Going Merry had no major damage yesterday—just normal wear and tear, a little maintenance and... when did you start caring about this?! Where's Robin? Let her speak!"

"Robin... she didn't come back all night."

"Huh? Could it be... no, that's impossible! Robin has no reason to do this!" Nami trusted Robin deeply.

No wonder Robin wanted to sacrifice herself to secure everyone's safety.

Then...

Let me show you what everyone chooses.

"I've made some progress in my Cultivation Technique research—don't look for me these days, handle your own problems."

After saying that,

Without caring for Nami's panic, Sima Di hung up and opened a Hearthstone to teleport the phone worm back to the Golden Going Merry.

All set!

"Deng-deng-deng—"

A dense clatter of footsteps approached, clearly heading toward him.

It seemed the innkeeper had reported him; the citizens who adored Bingshan had come to capture him.

Sima Di didn't bother fighting them—he used telekinesis to carry Weiwei out the window.

But...

"It's the Devil's Nemesis!"

"They attacked Mr. Bingshan!"

"Don't let them escape!"

"They stole the inn's blankets too! Truly wicked!"

Outside the inn, crowds of "righteous citizens" surged, but his Haki revealed them all to be fighters of level five trash.

Sima Di didn't deign to fight them—he flew straight into the sky, leaving them staring helplessly.

He then landed elsewhere, used his Word-Spell ability to control an innkeeper, checked into a room, and slept peacefully.

The Straw Hat Pirates have Kuroshio; Robin has the Golden Little Bell.

No matter how much chaos unfolds, they won't be harmed—the only ones who'll suffer are others.

"I'm not your babysitter."

"Let me see—if I'm not here, will you still make the same choices?"

"Ha—yawn—"

Sima Di slept soundly, but outside, chaos erupted!

The Straw Hat Pirates had become the city's public enemies due to Robin's alleged attack on Bingshan; the Golden Going Merry, still under maintenance, was seized at the dock, leaving them nowhere to go.

And just at that moment...

"Damn it! Sima hung up on me!" Nami gritted her teeth.

This stunned everyone.

"He doesn't care about Robin's situation?" Usopp was dumbfounded!

She's Sima Di's woman!

She didn't come home all night and might have attacked Bingshan—doesn't he have any thoughts about it?

"Could it be... Sima was involved too?" Sanji ventured a bold guess.

But Zoro rejected it.

"If Sima had acted, he wouldn't have needed a pistol—it'd be over in seconds, and no one would've lived."

Jinzai, Ling, Yi, Wu, Qi

That did make sense.

"What do we do now?" Chopper panicked: "Robin might be the killer, Sima and Weiwei are missing, the Going Merry is seized, and the whole city is hunting us... wow! If Sima were here, he'd have a plan—he always does!"

The Straw Hat Pirates nodded in agreement—if Sima Di were here, he'd surely have a solution...

"That's exactly why he's staying away," Kuroshio cut in: "You rely too much on that kid Sima. You panic over this little scene? What'll you do when you face the Marines, the World Government, or the Four Emperors? Just surrender?"

A wake-up call!

The Straw Hat Pirates finally realized—they'd become too dependent on Sima Di.

There was no choice...

After all, Sima Di always arranged things perfectly, ensuring they faced just the right opponents and always had him backing them up.

Who wouldn't rely on him?

"I get it now — this is Lord Sima's test for us!" Usopp said, fired up. "Don't let him see through us! Think we can't make it without him?"

"Then how about you come up with a plan?" Nami shot back.

Ah, this......

Usopp fell silent.

In the end,

it was still Luffy who said: "I don't believe Robin and the others would do something like that! So...... let's go find Mr. Bingshan and ask him face to face what's really going on!"

And right at that moment,

a great wave of cheers rose up outside, as if they were shouting......

"Mr. Bingshan is awake!"

"That's great that he's alright!"

"The Straw Hat Pirates are nothing special. 883"

Isn't this a pillow delivered just as I'm dozing off?

Then......

"Let's go! Find Mr. Bingshan! Ask him what's really going on!" Luffy took the lead and stood up.

But he was quickly held back by Usopp.

"Right now the streets outside are full of citizens looking for us — you don't actually plan to carve a bloody path out, do you?"

"Even if there was no problem, there'd be one then."

"Yeah, Luffy, let's just wait until night."

Luffy could only agree reluctantly.

Night,

the citizens searching the streets for them had thinned out considerably, so the Straw Hat Pirates finally moved. But when they arrived at Mr. Bingshan's residence, they found it blazing with lights and packed wall to wall with people!

"We have to protect Mr. Bingshan!"

"We absolutely cannot let the villains sneak-attack again!"

"Without Mr. Bingshan there'd be no Water 7 as it is today — we absolutely cannot let anything happen to him!"