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"Just inviting Robin alone is definitely not enough to get her to join our pirate crew." Smoothie said. "So we have to do everything we possibly can to make Arton bring all of his pirate crew members along and join the Big Mom Pirates."
"Is that even possible?" Cinnamon muttered.
"As long as we can make Arton addicted to us, then it's possible." Smoothie said. "Cinnamon, work hard. Try to take Arton down the moment you meet him."
"Make him obsessed with our bodies~."
"Uh, I… I'll do my best." Cinnamon's mouth twitched as she spoke.
Hearing Cinnamon's reply, Smoothie nodded in satisfaction. After that, she shifted her attention back onto her own diary copy.
After a period of standoff, Ace and Robin clearly no longer intended to keep wasting time.
The clash was about to erupt at any moment.
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"She transformed? The legendary unique Mythical Zoan ability of the Flameblade Pirates?" Ace stared at Robin's appearance and spoke in puzzlement.
In response, Robin acted as if she hadn't heard a word, her eyes fixed tightly on Ace's every move.
Even though Ace's current posture looked completely defenseless… Robin knew that, as the Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace might fool around a bit in daily life.
But when it came to a match, he absolutely would not be as simple as he appeared on the surface.
"Seriously, not going to say anything at all? Fine. In that case, I'll just be the one to start."
Ace scratched the back of his head, then raised his hand and aimed his index finger like a gun at Robin.
Robin's eyes narrowed, and she swept her hand forward.
A shield of ice instantly appeared in front of her. At the same time, the flame bullet Ace fired slammed into the ice, ringing out with a crisp ding-ding.
"She blocked it?" Ace said in surprise. "It's actually that hard!"
Even though, for Uta and Arton's sake, he hadn't used his full strength… The fact that his flame bullet hadn't left much of a mark on Robin's shield put Ace in a bit of a bind.
"In that case, let's crank up the firepower."
Once he finished speaking, Ace raised his hand and hurled a soccer-ball-sized fireball at Robin.
Robin frowned and lifted her hand toward the fireball.
A wave of cold air shot out from Robin's hand.
The fireball Ace had launched slowed more and more as it flew through the air. In the end, it was directly frozen into an ice ball and dropped from the sky.
Makino: "The flames actually got frozen?! That's not scientific at all!"
Whitey Bay: "It really isn't scientific. The temperature of Ace's flames is incredibly high. For them to be frozen like that—just how terrifying is Robin's cold air?"
Whitey Bay sighed a little.
Even though by the time Ace joined the Whitebeard Pirates, she had already left the Moby Dick and formed her own pirate crew, that didn't mean she didn't know Ace.
After all, she was still an old-guard member of the Whitebeard Pirates. It was only natural that she'd pay close attention to someone like Ace, who had suddenly become the Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates.
After all, that Second Division Captain position used to belong to someone she knew extremely well—Kozuki Oden.
At his peak, Kozuki Oden could go toe-to-toe with Whitebeard in his prime for quite a while.
With Ace taking over Kozuki Oden's position, it was hard for Whitey Bay not to pay attention.
So Whitey Bay more or less understood just how powerful Ace's flames were.
Those flames could easily evaporate enough seawater to leave behind a whole lake of empty seabed.
Whitey Bay: "I'm really getting more and more curious about just how far Robin can push Signora's power. An ice-type ability that can freeze flames… if only a template like that could be given to me, that would be perfect."
Kujaku: "Can Admiral Kuzan use his ice powers to freeze flames too? He should be able to, right?"
Doll: "Kuzan's powers can absolutely do that. But in a sense, the fact that Robin can pull off the same thing as Kuzan is enough to show just how powerful Signora's template is."
Gion: "What a headache. The strongest aspect of Signora's template should be her firepower. If just her ice power alone can freeze flames, then just how terrifying must Signora's flames be?"
Sadi: "Those female Marines are such fools. If only they'd invited Arton into the Marines from the very beginning, wouldn't that have been great? Then we wouldn't have to sit here watching more and more female pirates getting powerful templates. If they'd just put in some effort and captured Arton, brought him to Impel Down so I could meet him, that would've been perfect."
Ulti: "Amazing, Robin. No way—I absolutely have to get a template from Arton."
Chapter 438 – Are You Trying to Get Close to Me?
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't that a bit much? You just went and froze my flames into ice like that. Doesn't that make me look totally lame?" Ace said to Robin, a little embarrassed. "Look, Morgans' pen is practically about to take off."
"Hehe, if you don't want to see a headline in the newspaper about you getting beaten by me… Then how about taking this a bit more seriously?" Robin laughed as she spoke. "If we keep fighting at this level, I won't be able to properly get used to this power."
After entering Template Fusion Mode, she could clearly feel her stamina draining at a pretty terrifying rate.
If they kept up this low-level kind of fight, she was afraid that before she had a chance to really make use of this power, she'd be forced out of Template Fusion Mode just from lack of stamina.
Robin didn't know if she'd be lucky enough to enter Template Fusion Mode again the way she had this time.
So Ace's overly cautious fighting style put her in a real bind.
"Easier said than done. But it's not like I can go all out with my firepower on this ship, right?" Ace said, a bit troubled. "There aren't any islands nearby we can land on, either…"
"You're worried that if you use too much firepower, you'll damage my ship?" Arton asked. "In that case, let's just change the venue."
"Change the venue? But there's nothing nearby to—wait, don't tell me you're planning to use that… that ability with all the swords?" Ace asked, surprised and curious. "I read the news coverage about your fight with Mihawk. I remember it was called Unlimited Blade Works, right?"
"Arton, are you going to use Unlimited Blade Works?" Morgans looked over with interest. "While Unlimited Blade Works could create a battlefield suited for you two to fight in…"
"That's not what I feel like doing right now." Arton shook his head and said.
"Then what do you mean?" Ace asked, puzzled.
Arton turned around, his figure flickering as he instantly appeared at Nami's side. He lifted his arm around Nami's shoulders and leaned the weight of his upper body straight onto her back.
"Captain, what's up? Don't tell me you're trying to get a little intimate with me~?" Nami said with a bright smile. "I don't mind, but with this many people watching, isn't it a little inappropriate?"
As she finished speaking, she even shot a provocative look over at Carina.
"I do want to sit down and have a nice long chat with you, Nami." Arton said. "But right now, the important thing is creating a good place for Robin to practice."
"So?" Nami asked, confused.
"So, you're the one who's going to create their battlefield. And don't tell me you still can't use that move." Arton said. "If your answer is no, then I'm going to start doubting whether you've been training properly."
"C–Create a battlefield?" Morgans looked over curiously. "Don't tell me Miss Nami has a move similar to Unlimited Blade Works as well?"
And it wasn't just Morgans—through the diary copies, the diary copy holders watching all of this unfold were just as intrigued.
Perona: "Nami also has a move similar to Unlimited Blade Works? How come I don't remember that?"
Gion: "The template Nami possesses is the Raiden Shogun's template. The Raiden Shogun is also the one who slew Signora… or rather, that god."
Domino: "There's no doubt that Nami's template is stronger than Signora's template. But does she really have a move similar to Unlimited Blade Works? When Arton demonstrated the Raiden Shogun's abilities back then, I don't recall seeing anything like that."
Doll: "A template demonstration shouldn't be expected to show every single ability tier a template character has."
Kujaku: "So you're saying the Raiden Shogun has hidden abilities?"
Smoothie: "It couldn't be Musou no Hitotachi, could it?"
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