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Kapitel 73: Meddling

Robin looked up at Cherry, who had a stupid grin on her face.

"Why did you come here? If you're caught here it could ruin everything." She said.

"I won't get caught, I made sure the other guy you were having a secret rendezvous with wasn't around before coming to see you." Cherry replied.

"This is serious, Cherry. Cipher Pol 9 had the authority to use a Buster Call at their discretion. I need to get them away from Water 7 before I can move against them." Robin explained.

"Ah, Cipher Pol 9. So that's who they are. How are WE going to get them off the island then?" Cherry asked.

"WE aren't doing anything. I'm going to handle this myself because I'm the reason you all got mixed up into it." Robin stated firmly.

Cherry squinted her eyes and frowned. "YOU aren't doing anything alone! You've been alone for most of your life and what's that done for you? It's time to try something different; working as a team! And don't try to refuse, or I'll go take out the CP9 agents I know about right away."

Robin thought about trying to restrain Cherry in some way, but she knew it was impossible. Cherry wasn't weaker than her like she had been when they first met.

"Fine, just go help the others. Mayor Iceburg is going to tell everyone that I was the one who tried to kill him when he wakes up and the Straw Hats will be blamed. Once they get what they wanted from Mayor Iceburg, they'll leave the island with me and I can make my move against them. You just need to protect the others and come after us when they're finished here." Robin commanded sternly.

"Alright alright. By the way, what is it that they want from Iceburg?" Cherry was curious about what they would go to such extremes to acquire.

Robin averted her eyes and chose to remain silent.

"Hiding something from me, huh? I'll take it as a challenge then. One more thing before I go." Cherry said, then rushed forward and picked Robin up in a great big hug, and spun her around.

"See you later, Robin!" Cherry waved goodbye and jumped out the window, leaving behind a blushing Robin.

Cherry leapt from rooftop to rooftop towards the Galley La shipyard where the others had been heading.

When she arrived, she saw Franky doing some sort of routine to introduce himself. It seems he after the others for taking a bit of revenge on his boys.

She could already hear people starting to talk about the Straw Hats being responsible for Iceburg's attempted murder.

Fortunately it wasn't long before the Galley La company's senior shipwrights turned up to fight the Straw Hats too. Otherwise Franky was going to have his ass handed to him, and Cherry had actually started to like the guy.

Cherry leapt into the action from the top of a nearby building and landed right in front of Rob Lucci. Rob Lucci didn't lose his composure at all despite Cherry looking at him with a hungry smile.

'Hehehe, I wonder how well you can fight without revealing your true capabilities? Show me your martial arts so I can copy them, CP9!' Cherry thought.

"Who the hell are you?!" Shouted one of the shipwrights.

"She's one of the Straw Hats, leave her to me." Said Rob Lucci's pigeon. The other shipwrights nodded in acknowledgement and went to face the other Straw Hats.

Cherry wasted no time and launched a fist full of the vibrating energy of Hasshoken at him.

Rob Lucci dodged with minimal movement using Kami-e and launched a counter attack with a saw.

Cherry was observing him very closely with both her standard senses and Life Sense to understand his movements.

Cherry crushed the saw with a Haki coated fist, then kicked towards his family jewels.

Rob Lucci narrowed his eyes in annoyance, utilizing another technique, Tekkai, to absorb the blow.

"Oof!" He grunted in pain, as vibrational energy ravaged its way up through his torso.

Rob Lucci was realizing he would either need to risk exposure or get help now. There was only so much he could do without blatantly using the Rokushiki he had trained all his life. He looked around tot he other Shipwrights, but they had their hands full with the other Straw Hats.

He made eye contact with Kaku, who understood he needed assistance and threw a tool cherry's way to distract her. Rob Lucci launched a kick at the same time to cut off escape routes.

Cherry was mulling over the information she had obtained form the two Rokushiki defensive techniques, which were generously demonstrated by a master in the martial art.

She twisted in a seemingly unnatural fashion, dodging both the incoming tool and the kick.

Rob Lucci widened his eyes in shock. It was somewhat crude, yes, but it was undoubtedly Kami-e that Cherry had just used.

"Interesting moves, friend. I hope you don't mind if I borrow them?" Cherry taunted with a smug grin.

'I have to get away from this woman. I can't kill her unless I go all out, and if I keep fighting her like this she'll just absorb my techniques and slowly get stronger.' Rob Lucci decisively ran away, into the melee with the other Straw Hats.

"Ah! Where the hell are you going?! You've got more moves to teach me damn it!" Cherry chased after him.

Unfortunately, Rob Lucci was quite the slippery eel, weaving amongst the combatants like a fish in water to avoid her.

Cherry had to give up unless she wanted to hurt the other Shipwrights, but the poor saps were innocent and only guilty of being gullible. So she switched targets to Kaku.

She timed her attack with one of Sanji's kicks to force him to use Kami-e, which he barely managed to dodge with.

Cherry's harassment of the unlucky CP9 agents continued until the Straw Hats decided to flee, as they did not want to harm the shipwrights. So Cherry reluctantly followed after them.

"So it was you guys who tried to kill Iceburg. Didn't like his prices or something?" Cherry asked, once they reached a safe place to hide.

"Of course not! And I don't believe Robin did either, no matter what they say!" Luffy said adamantly.

"I was just joking. Robin did shoot Iceburg though. She told me herself." Cherry dropped a bomb shell.

""""What?!"""" They shouted predictably.

"You found Robin?! And she said that?!" Nami asked, not believing her ears.

"You remember the assassins I pointed out, yeah? The two shipwrights Kaku and Rob Lucci, and the secretary, Kalina are World Government agents in Cipher Pol 9. They want something from Iceburg and they're willing to annihilate the island with everyone on it to get it." Cherry said casually.

There were many dropped jaws amongst the others.

"I don't know why you're all surprised. Everywhere you people go there's something terrible happening." Serene grumbled. No one could deny her words.

"Why can't we just cut them down right away then?" Zoro asked.

"We don't know how they call in a Buster Call. Maybe if they lose contact with them, it'll be called in automatically. We can only let them take what they want and let them leave before going after them. We just need to minimize the collateral damage, without letting them know we know anything." Cherry answered.

"It sounds too complicated..." Luffy complained.

"It's the best way to avoid people getting hurt though. I think it's the best way to do it." Chopper said.

"Baaah!" Agreed Merry.

"Okay, then. We'll wait for them to make a move on Iceburg, then barge in to protect him! After doing him this favor, he'll build us a ship free of charge for sure!" Nami said enthusiastically.

...

"What's your report, Lucci?" A Gruff voice sounded from an old man in a black suit.

"This Harpin D. Cherry is more of a nuisance than anticipated. She was able to piece together Kami-e from only a brief exchange with me." Rob Lucci spoke succinctly.

"Hm, it doesn't matter. Carry out the plan as intended." The old man said.

"Yes, Master." Rob Lucci gave a martial arts bow, then went to prepare for the assault on Iceburg's mansion.

The old man closed his eyes in thought. 'Harpin D. Cherry, huh? I guess I might need to step in myself this time. I don't think these brats can handle a monster like her.'


next chapter

Kapitel 74: Attack on the Mansion

Later that night, the Straw Hats waited in hiding around Iceburg's mansion.

The mansion was surrounded by several dozen shipwrights, while the senior shipwrights guarded Iceburg's bedroom.

The plan was to move on Cherry's signal, which was firing a 'special' flare from her revolver when the CP9 agents made their move.

Their only goal was to protect Iceburg and the other shipwrights while letting CP9 get away with the target of their mission, whatever that might be.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that Iceburg had no intention of giving them the blueprints for the ancient weapon Pluton, and would in fact rather die than do so.

Iceburg called Paulie into his room and told him to retrieve something from a hidden safe in his office. This triggered the beginning of CP9's operations and they moved to intercept Paulie after he obtained the 'blueprints'.

Robin and the other CP9 agent, Blueno, also arrived on the scene, infiltrating the building.

Cherry confirmed their movements and prepared to fire her flare, which would serve as both the signal and a distraction for the shipwrights guarding the outside.

*Bang*

A light shining so bright it burned the eyes of those who gazed upon it was fired directly into the ranks of the shipwrights. The other Straw Hats moved to barge into the building, while Cherry went directly to the windows of Iceburg's room.

*Smash*

Cherry burst through the window, surprising the three current occupants; Robin, Iceburg, and a disguised Blueno.

Cherry unloaded the 5 remaining shots in her revolver directly into Blueno's chest, and so quickly that they sounded like a single shot. He barely managed to harden his body with Tekkai in time by pure reflex. Instead of being ripped apart by the dense bullets, he was instead launched through the wall behind him as well as the wall behind that one.

"Robin?! Why are you here?!" Cherry feigned shock. Although it looked perfectly sincere, Ice and and Robin couldn't help but think it was a bit ridiculous.

Robin didn't miss a beat however. "We're done. I won't be traveling with you or the Straw Hats. You were just a means to an end for me."

"I don't believe that! What about all the good times we had?! You can't tell me they were just a fabrication!" Cherry was really hamming it up.

Before Robin could respond, however, a figure appeared out of nowhere behind Cherry.

"CHERRY!" Robin tried to warn her.

Cherry sensed the attack coming with her Observation Haki, but was rather flummoxed because she hadn't noticed the attacker with her Life Sense. She immediately dropped to the ground as 5 fingers pierced the air where her head had been only a split second before.

"Hmm, your observation Haki isn't bad." A cold voice came from the unassuming old man wearing a black suit. There was not a single hair on his head. He was gaunt, like thin skin stretched over the bones of his face, with sunken eyes that gave him the countenance of a skeleton.

Even looking directly at the man, there was not a drop of Vital Energy that Cherry could sense from him. It was like she was staring at a dead man. She even thought it more likely that he was merely a lifeless puppet, but she could not sense the puppet master if that was the case.

"Shall we take this outside, young lady? I don't want to disturb the youngsters in their work and our fight will likely bring the building down quite quickly." He said calmly, as if he wasn't talking about having a death match.

Cherry's face was dark, she knew this wouldn't be an easy fight. She simply nodded and followed after the old man when he disappeared through the window onto a nearby rooftop.

"Be careful, Cherry. I have no idea who that man is." Robin couldn't help but to worry.

Cherry only gave a quick reassuring smile, before leaping out the window after the old man.

Cherry followed him to the outskirts of Water 7 where no civilian structures could be found. She wondered what his reasoning for going out so far, as the Aqua Laguna could be blamed for any damage they do.

'To prevent me from going back to the mansion quickly? But he shouldn't have that little confidence in himself. A trap then?' Cherry pondered.

The old man stopped and turned to face her. "I only brought you out here to talk and to be sure there are no eavesdroppers."

"And what would you want to talk to me about?" Cherry asked, curious.

"A few matters. Firstly, are you willing to become a Shichibukai? Or join the World Government in any fashion? It would make things a lot cleaner for us if you did." He asked.

"No. I won't join a tyrannical government that would hurt my friends and chain me down." Cherry said.

He nodded lightly. "I expected as much. Second, your soul does not belong to this world. From whence do you hail from? You're soul is similar to the young prodigal blacksmith who makes weapons for the marines at the headquarters."

Now Cherry was utterly shocked. Not only did he see through her in such a way, but casually revealed the location of a certain someone. Though she could have guessed she'd find him there.

'Why does he now these things? Why can't I sense any Vital Energy from him?' Cherry thoughts raced.

Then something occurred to her, a possibility. "What's you devil fruit, old man?"

The old man kept silent with a cold gaze fixated onto her own eyes. Then he started to smile.

No, he wasn't smiling. The thin skin from his face was peeling back to reveal his bones. His fingers lengthened into gleaming scythes.

"I ate the Reap Reap fruit. I think it's been about 170 years since then? I was supposed to be retired, only training promising talents in Rokushiki, but those old coots made a fuss about ensuring this mission went well. Now that I've answered your question, answer mine. Don't worry about me telling anyone, I haven't told the government about the other youngster either." He said.

'So this is why. It seems devil fruit inscriptions don't only use Vital Energy. He's actually a dead man, but one that won't die.' Cherry thought.

"I'm from the same place as that bastard. I won't be telling you anything else, though." Cherry stated bluntly.

"Hmm, that's fine. You seem the type who would sooner die than reveal your secrets. Since that's over with, let's get started shall we? You only have to survive until the mission is a success, I didn't promise anything else to those geezers." He said apathetically, clearly not thrilled to be working during his retirement.

Cherry didn't dare to hold anything back. They stared at one another for a moment, like they were ensuring the other party was prepared. Then they vanished from their places, reappearing in between with clashing blades.

...

Meanwhile, back at the mansion.

CP9 had their hands full with angry Straw Hats, most of whom forgot they were supposed to let them get what they wanted.

They were able to subdue them mostly with the help of Kalina's devil fruit. Thought Luffy put up a hell of a fight against Rob Lucci with his Gear 2nd, forcing him to go all out to put him down.

The Straw Hats just weren't as good at fighting as a team as CP9, unfortunately.

Rob Lucci 'told a little story' to Iceburg who had refused to talk while Kaku read his pulse.

This revealed Franky, formerly known as Cutty Flam, to be the current holder of Pluton's blueprints.

The CP9 agents left them to die in the soon to be burned down mansion. Fortunately, Cabernet and Merry had been on standby just in case things went poorly and they jumped to action to free the Straw Hats from their restraints and escape the building.

Once outside, they got ready to go save Franky, but suddenly they heard something over the howling winds. It sounded like thunder. Occasionally flashes of lightning could be seen over the rooftops coming up from the edge of the city.

"What's going on over there?!" Usopp asked.

"Cherry isn't here." Zoro said.

They looked at the unceasing lightning with some fear. Just what sort of monster was Cherry fighting?


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