Chapter 5: A Small Horse Pulling A Big Cart?
"Robin, with your alertness, how could you be injured like this?"
"This is a frontal kick from Leoka!"
Al closed his eyes and placed his hand on the position of Robin's hand below his heart.
Feeling the blood clots and stiffness at the wound.
Robin pondered for a moment and said:
"I was betrayed."
"Because East Blue is the weakest, I have been fleeing around East Blue for the past few years."
"Occasionally I would disguise myself and join some underground organizations to earn the living expenses I need."
"Before today, I was a member of a gang in the Kingdom of Oikot."
"But I was unlucky. I disguised myself well, but was recognized by the gang leader."
"I was not vigilant enough and was assigned a seemingly simple task, but in fact I was surrounded."
"I escaped from the encirclement of many gang members and bounty hunters."
"Originally, there should be many gang members looking for me, but they should have been scared away by the miserable situation of Leoka and others."
Robin gritted his teeth and endured Al's massage technique on his wound, while speaking to divert his attention.
"Well, don't talk for the time being, I have to use some strength."
Al used the ability of life return to control every muscle on his palm and fingers, and moved around Robin's wound.
He did not lie to Robin. When his mother was still alive, she did teach him how to massage to remove blood stasis, and she used his father as a demonstration.
With Al's extraordinary talent and natural Observation Haki ability, he quickly mastered it all.
"Hmm..."
Al's technique was very delicate and gentle, and the blood stasis dissipated at a speed visible to Robin's naked eyes, accompanied by a very comfortable moan.
This comfortable feeling made Robin want Al to press for a while longer.
After the ointment on the palm was used up, Al turned around and opened his eyes to continue applying the medicine on the palm.
Out of a more gentlemanly idea, he did not use Observation Haki to spy on Robin at this time.
That is not what a man should do.
After applying the ointment, Al closed his eyes and turned around, groping to continue the final finishing work.
Although Robin was still very shy at this time, there were a lot of confusions in her mind, and her blushing thoughts made her attention not so focused.
Therefore, she did not notice that Al, who closed his eyes, did not press the injured part accurately.
Al controlled the muscles on his palm and was about to continue massaging, but as soon as he exerted force, he found something wrong.
It was soft and smooth, as if he was holding a piece of soft warm jade.
And one hand couldn't even control it at all.
"Don't..."
The strange feeling made Robin suddenly sober up, and quickly grabbed Al's hand that was grasping the wrong place without vision.
Al also felt like he was electrocuted, knowing what he grasped, and quickly let go. With his memory, he moved his right hand horizontally downward and finally found the injured position accurately.
What just happened and the residual warmth of the palm made the two feel that the atmosphere was very wrong, and they didn't speak.
Robin, who will be 18 years old in a few days, has red cheeks and stares at Al's handsome face that has not lost his childishness. He feels a strange feeling in his heart in a physical sense.
Al's palm is close to the position below Robin's heart and he has applied the ointment thoroughly.
"Okay, this kind of blunt force injury will be fine after this treatment."
"It will take at most three days to recover."
Robin hummed softly, put on his clothes with a red face, and lay half-lying on the bed blankly.
What happened just now made Robin, who was only a few days away from turning 18 and was at the age of just beginning to fall in love, feel complicated.
"Ah... Robin, what are you thinking about?"
"He's only twelve years old..."
"It's so embarrassing..."
Robin quickly sorted out his chaotic thoughts and returned to his usual calm and composed appearance.
After treating Robin, Al had already turned on Observation Haki.
After all, he had just held the fullness that he shouldn't have held, and he really wanted to know what Robin was thinking at this moment.
As a crew member he had already identified, he didn't want Robin to think that he was a wretched man because of his unintentional mistake just now.
After noticing Robin's thoughts, Al was silent..
He couldn't help but think.
"Robin, Robin!"
"Your thoughts just now are very dangerous!"
"I was trying to control what I didn't think about, but you thought about it first..."
"You are six years older than me, what do you want to do?"
"It's exciting to have a small horse pull a big cart, but it's not fun to do!"
Al was stunned by what he perceived in Robin's thoughts. He wanted to see if Robin hated him, but he didn't expect to see a big scene of a small horse pulling a big cart in Robin's mind!
Although Robin cleared it out of his mind in just a few seconds, Al's natural observation Haki was so powerful that he captured it directly.
"Ahem..."
"Robin, you need to rest for a few days, so you should rest quickly."
What Observation Haki had just detected was a little exciting, he took a deep breath to calm himself down and spoke.
"Well, thank you little Al~"
Robin smiled and said.
She didn't know that Al had detected the picture that just flashed in her mind.
In the eleven years of fleeing, it was the first time that she felt dependent and at ease in a man.
Robin, who had been nervous for many years, let go of her long-standing guard under Al's care and felt a long-lost sense of relief.
Then, Robin yawned, stretched, and lazily leaned sideways, resting her head on her forearm, looking at Al who had washed his hands and was lying on the bed.
"I didn't expect that the one who gave me enough sense of security for so many years was actually a little man..."
"Maybe... before the CP agency finds me, it's not impossible to stay with this little man for a while..."
Eleven years of escape and omnipresent crises made Robin like a drowning person. The sense of security brought to her by knowing Al for a few hours was like the sweet air that a drowning person wanted to breathe.
This made Robin grasp a trace of dependence and security, and she was unwilling to let go.
"Captain Al, good night~"
Al blinked, said good night, and continued to lie on the bed thinking about the development of the slow fruit and the next step.
"Every February and March is the time for allied countries to collect Heavenly Gold."
"I hope the high-ranking officials of the Kingdom of Oikot will not have any bad ideas about Robin."
Al has lived in this world for more than ten years. Although he is a time traveler, he is no different from the natives.
He has only been out for a month, and he has heard a lot about Robin in several kingdoms.
Due to the special nature of Robin Ohara's orphan, there is a saying in many kingdoms that need to pay Heavenly Gold.
As long as Robin is caught and handed over to the World government, at least one year of Heavenly Gold can be exempted.
Al has not contacted the high-ranking officials of those kingdoms, so he does not know whether this rumor is true or not.
But he has to be mentally prepared in advance.
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