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After stopping Moria and throwing him into prison to accompany the Golden Lion Shiki, Rob moved to the Sabaody Archipelago, the closest place to Fish-Man Island and where the Skyport is also located.
Of course, Rob wasn't planning to use the Skyport to travel to Fish-Man Island; he owned the art stores that allowed him to travel through them.
Rob entered the art store in the archipelago. At that moment, the art store was almost empty of customers; the manga day had already ended, and everyone was eagerly awaiting the next volume.
'Well, they'll have to wait for another month to read the next wonderful volume, "Impel Down Arc'"...' Rob smiled as he thought internally. He couldn't wait to draw that amazing arc; he was itching to draw it as quickly as possible to move on to the best and greatest arc ever, the Marineford Arc!
'Hmm, we're two months away from that event, then they'll have to wait a very long time until One Piece returns... but no one will expect the amazing surprises it has prepared.' Rob smiled as he contemplated.
He sat in his office chair in the personal section and took out a popular magazine, the new chapter of One Piece.
'No, it's only chapter 1096... there's still one more chapter after this.'
This meant that Rob had read the previous chapters in the past few weeks.
"The Buccaneer Clan... a special hybrid race between humans and giants. This clan fell into being slaves to the Celestial Dragons, perhaps because they openly supported the Sun God?"
Rob still had impressions of Kuma's father, Clapp, who, despite his severe suffering, still had a smile on his face and danced in the style of Nikka. 'This means his belief in the Sun God is genuine and ingrained in his bones and genes.'
"Sigh, Kuma didn't tell me any of this. He only told me that he was a slave in the past. Is the plot in this world different from the original, or did I just not know?"
Rob sighed, realizing the limitations of an incomplete future memory at that moment.
"The Celestial Dragons deserve to die, truly. I already know about their inhumane hunting habits. The last hunting occasion before my appearance in this world was a year ago. That poor kingdom suffered total destruction. But after my appearance, the World Government stopped its activities beyond the borders in the outer world, fearing that they would take advantage of the opportunity to trap them. They canceled the scheduled hunting last year, or rather, they postponed it."
"I want to know how Kuma became the ruler of the Sorbet Kingdom and what happened to the previous tyrant king. Since the current manga flashback summarizes Kuma's past, I think I'll know everything."
"God Valley... at that time, we attacked the Rocks Pirates in that place after obtaining intentionally leaked information. I was in the back lines and remained on the coast to prevent any remnants of the Rocks Pirates from escaping. At that time, I saw from the side how the Captain Roger and the Marine hero Garp fought together against the Captain of that monster group. I also saw the collective escape of the Celestial Dragons and the disappearance of hundreds of claw-like marks resembling cat paws in all directions."
After summarizing the points he had seen earlier and what he wanted to see, Rob opened the new chapter.
"The Beginning of Despair... huh? The Celestial Dragons truly... I thought of a similar way to eliminate them."
Rob's eyes gleamed with evil as he witnessed the faces of the slaves and the indigenous people of God Valley filled with despair during the collective escape in all directions.
Rob's hatred towards the Celestial Dragons only increased over time. He stared intently at each of their faces, wanting to etch them into his memory.
"God Knights...? Well, you will be rare prey in the special hunting event I will definitely organize someday."
This idea had already taken root in Rob's mind, meaning the fate of the Celestial Dragons had already been determined.
Seeing these scenes, children, women, and even the elderly weak and desperate in the face of the smiles of the world nobles made Rob's hatred take the form of a devil behind him.
He was angry, very angry. He hadn't been this angry in a very long time. He didn't expect the tyranny of the Celestial Dragons to have reached such a horrifying extent.
Rob forcibly suppressed his anger and controlled his nerves. He scoffed when he saw Garp's scene.
"That damn Garp, he only moves when it's related to Roger, right? Doesn't he know what the Celestial Dragon bastards are doing to the innocent people in God Valley?"
Now Rob was sure that the entire Marine was just a weapon in the hands of the World Government. They wouldn't move unless authorized by them. Even if Garp was extremely powerful, he was, in a certain sense, under the control of the government and the Celestial Dragons.
"So, Ivankov and Kuma met like this?"
"Even though he doesn't have the 'standards' of a real man, he is a true human who refused to be a slave and refused to see other slaves suffer...."
Rob watched the flashback of Kuma, who was once associated with Ivankov, and his former crew, and the Rocks Pirates with complex emotions.
"Do they want to kill 100,000 people? Isn't that something beyond atrocities?"
Regarding the location of God Valley in the West Blue, he had known about it for a long time. He had been there before... on the same day as this tragedy, the former Rob was present, but he didn't know what was really happening at the core.
"The manga has become bloodier..."
Rob noticed how a Celestial Dragon beheaded a poo human prey and another Celestial Dragon exploded the head of another prey with bullets.
He could only grit his teeth and continue reading the manga.
"Even a live broadcast is transmitting what is happening in God Valley to Marigoa... these fuckers are really enjoying their time."
"Ginny? Could she be Bonney's mother? She's really smart; she leaked the information we received at that time! Is she the direct cause of the famous God Valley incident? Just a little child!"
Rob's eyes widened in shock when he learned the truth.
"The kid Kuma chose to be a prey because he doesn't want anyone to die in front of him. The death of his father deeply affected him... so, he obtained the Nikyu Nikyu Fruit in this operation, huh? Amazing... everything is interconnected."
"Newgate... Shiki... Stussy... Linlin... Kaido... Gloriosa... Huh? Gloriosa!?!!?"
Rob fell into a moment of astonishment; his mind stopped thinking for a moment.
He didn't care about Whitebeard, Kaido, Shiki, or even Stussy and Linlin, who were his women too, at this moment. After all, he already knew that they were part of the Rocks Pirates in the past. But he never expected to see this woman here.
"No, it's impossible? Gloriosa didn't tell me that she was part of the Rocks Pirates... I know that Shakky is part of the Rocks Pirates... In other words, Shakky was there that day with Whitebeard and the others, not Gloriosa... What's happening here?"
Rob was sure of the integrity of his memories. The first met between Rayleigh and Shakky during the God Valley War, and their relationship deepened later when the Rocks Pirates' crew was destroyed on that specific day. He didn't see any sign of Gloriosa's presence in his memories.
As Gloriosa had told him in the past, she went to sea at some point in her life but didn't join any pirate crew. Moreover, the first man she fell in love with was Rob himself.
"But what appeared in the manga is completely different from what is happening in this world."
"Could it be that this world is different from the original world... even before I arrived here?" Now Rob only realized the important fact he had overlooked earlier.
In this world where he existed, and the original One Piece world, there were some differences! After five years of being here, he had just discovered the first difference!
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Chapter 614: Rob's Impression of the Recent Chapters of One Piece! (Part 2)
Chapter 615: Naruto Shippuden episode 40!
Chapter 616: Summit War Saga: Impel Down Arc! (Part 1)
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