A Wish on a Comet (Luffy x OC)

Chapter 61

With every step taken for Robin's group to go to the tunnel, Robin drags her feet to buy her friends some time.

Spandam can feel her dragging, so he grips her arm tighter, and pulls her to his side to get her to keep his pace. "Quit stalling, there's no way that-!"

He stops his rant when Nero and Rufus reach the group.

"I was ordered to join you in protecting Spandam." Nero says, while he's wary of the man who almost killed him on the train. Especially when Lucci is smirking at him as though he's prey.

Spandam is more than happy to accept the help, but Rufus is confused as to why the escort party is so small. "Where's the rest of the cat's unit?"

Lucci gets annoyed at the insult, but Spandam ignores him to answer it. "I sent them to split up the Straw Hats by each of them holding a key to one of the cuffs as bait. They should have no problem killing that trash."

Rufus hums in intrigue of the plan, because that's actually a decent plan. For the sake of making things interesting, he decides to change things up by digging into his pocket, to grab Rose's key, and brings it out to show it to the weasel. "Nero, how about you go join them and I stay here? You can use this as bait for them."

Nero is quick to take the order, and get away from Lucci, by grabbing the key. "You got it!"

He runs off in flash to find some pirates, and leaves Robin alone with the three leaders.

Spandam grins at the assurance that he'll be protected by the two strongest men in their units, and starts dragging his prisoner with him. "Wonderful, let's go gentlemen."

The two leaders don't say a word as they follow Spandam and Robin.

As for the prisoner, she keeps her head down for now, because if she tries to run, she'll easily get caught with the Cipher Pol agents.

But now it's different, she refuses to die here. Not with her friends risking their lives for her. And knowing them, the tower won't last for long. When she finds an opening, she's going to run as fast as she can. Not only running to her friends, but running to life.

As for the wind girl, her mindset has no choice, but to reach the same conclusion as her fellow prisoner. With the key not doing anything to help her situation, she can't get out of the cuffs on her own.

With no idea what her stolen tool does, she manages to keep it hidden in her hand without Andreos noticing. She continues to drag her feet for the time being, in a feeble attempt to slow down the trip to the gates, and looks around for an idea to stall her captor.

The only thing she can think of is starting some kind of conversation with him. "Hey, your name's Andreos, right? What's your story?"

The agent slows his step a little from the random question, but keeps moving when he looks back at the curious girl. "What's my story?"

"Yea. From what I've heard, not just anyone can join Cipher Pol. I'm curious as to what brought you here."

She sees him starting to grow annoyed from the question, but knows that they're going slower than before so she keeps talking. "If you don't want to talk about the reason, I get it. I was just wondering since you're not as ruthless as the other agents."

His face slightly softened from the opinion, and while he won't explain why he joined, he does speak to her. "They may be ruthless to their enemies, but not to each other. We've been in this organization for years, and trust one another with our lives."

She hums in acknowledgement when she remembers how coordinated their attacks were when they all faced her in Water Seven. "I can see that with the way you all captured me the first time. Pretty sure the other three would've killed me with a smile if the order wasn't placed to keep me alive."