when one looks back to their childhood, one remembers the vivid springs of laughter, climbing trees and reaching out for the stars, and making flower crowns in fields of flowers. but when [name] looked back at her youth, her memories were void of th...
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chapter 025. straw hats vs buster call
[ i will always come back for you, captain ]
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the second that the warships break through the mist and have a clear view of enies lobby, every single cannon on every single ship starts to fire without any regard to human life. [name] had barely comprehended the notion of the assault before it began, but she quickly noticed that the warships were leaving the bridge they were standing on.
the soldiers that were moments ago fighting against them do not care to wait around to find out if the ships would turn to fire on them. every single one of them gets to their feet and runs as quickly as they can in the opposite direction, running for their lives because...they knew.
this buster call...it killed even their own people.
"hey!" spandam, with a bruised and swollen face, screams. "where do you think you're running to!? look! the warships are passing by the bridge!" he lets out a disgusting laugh. "that's because i'm here! my father said the same thing! the indiscriminate bombing spared only me! come back, you cowards! it's safe here! they won't fire at me! i'm the director of CP9!"
...badump.
robin's eyes flashed with the fire she saw that day, and all of a sudden, she was unable to breathe.
badumpbadump-
she couldn't think, couldn't move. she felt like she was trapped in a prison of ice, feeling intoxicated the longer she stared at the warships firing away, and she couldn't do anything about it as all of her senses were flooded with nothing but fear.
she felt it again as she fell to her knees.
badumpbadumpbadumpbadump-
that feeling of being the prey, those bloodshot, dark, and sinister eyes glowing in the dark once more. fear clutched at her heart so tightly, she wasn't sure if it was speeding up or it had suddenly stopped.
her instincts told her to run, run, run, run away robin-
robin felt warm, gentle hands instantly wrap around her from behind. her eyes turned back to feel [name]'s breath over her neck, huddling her closer to snake her arms around her shoulders protectively.
robin knew what this was. she knew what hugs were like, but it had been so long since she had been hugged...she almost forgot the feeling. her breath hitched as a sense of warmth flooded in the heart.
it felt so...warm. she felt like she was safe, as if nothing in the world, not even the world government or this buster call would harm her when [name] had her arms wrapped around the archeologist's figure. all of her bad memories, her pain, her loneliness...felt as if [name] was absorbing it all.
