One Piece: Under the Throne

Bulu Bulu, Kaga! "Hey! Leo boy, can you hear me?"

"Lieutenant General Garp? I've been waiting for your call for a long time. Why did you think of contacting me now?"

"You ran away without explaining things clearly last time. If you don't want to be wanted, just tell me your location."

"Wanted me? A 13-year-old kid? Don't be ridiculous, Lieutenant General. Just tell me what you want to say."

"You are the one who caused all this trouble. You have awakened Conqueror Haki at such a young age. If you are left alone in the sea with such talent, you will cause great trouble to the world if you do evil."

"Vice Admiral Garp, I will not become a pirate, and of course I will not follow you into the navy. I was born a commoner and often didn't have enough to eat when I was a child, so I don't have that much awareness. Now I'm just doing some small business on the sea. I won't cause any trouble to you, so you and Admiral Sengoku should stop bothering me."

"Whether it can cause trouble or not is up to us to judge. It's useless for you to say anything."

"But what can you do to me? The charge of disrupting the execution of the Pirate King is not valid, or because I disobeyed the orders of the Navy, you who represent justice are going to directly offer me a reward? That would force me onto the path of a pirate, what do you think?"

"...Haha, you sharp-tongued brat, if that's the case, you better take care of yourself."

After hanging up the phone with Garp, Leo felt relieved. It turned out that the navy still had a bottom line when doing things. Now his name was also on the list of big guys.

After a while, Leo really didn't see the bounty order, so he stopped paying attention to the matter and put all his attention back on learning history.

After what happened last time, Leo and Robin became closer, and Leo felt like he had a younger sister.

Robin's childhood was as miserable as recorded in the original book. She was excluded by adults and children in the town. Although she lived in her uncle's house, her aunt treated her like a servant. Not only did she make her do all the housework, she also often found reasons to beat her and even withheld her food. That's why young Robin grew very thin.

Today, I saw new scars on Robin's little arm, and I felt it was so glaring.

However, Robin still smiled at Leo: "Good morning, Leo. I have finished reading the history of the Desert Kingdom. I won the game this time."

"Yes, Robin is the best. Come and eat it while it's hot. After that, we can continue studying."

"Hehe, Leo is the best."

Robin was eating breakfast like a lazy kitten. Leo smiled and said, "Robin, would you like to live with me? My house is very close to the library. It would be more convenient for you to study here if you live with me."

Robin looked at Leo with some surprise. She wanted to agree to Leo, but she was afraid of causing trouble for him. After struggling for a long time, little Robin almost cried. She sniffed and sucked back the snot that was about to flow out, and suddenly put on a smiling face again.

"It's better not to do it. It will cause you trouble, and my uncle won't agree."

"I have already convinced Dr. Cloba, and he is willing to adopt you in the name of the Archaeological Association. As for your uncle, I will talk to him. This way, you won't always be alone in the future. What do you think, Robin?"

Leo's words touched Robin deeply. It had always been her wish to no longer be alone.

Robin lowered his head and thought for a long time, tears dripping down his face uncontrollably: "Leo, are you telling the truth? You won't leave me alone from now on, right?"

Leo smiled and patted Robin's head: "Of course!"

Later, Leo went to Robin's uncle's family alone. After hearing Leo's request, Robin's aunt started to curse. How could she let a free servant leave? But when Leo launched another money offensive, this ugly woman immediately changed her attitude, and Robin moved out of her uncle's house smoothly. Because of this incident, Dr. Kroba completely let down his guard against Leo.

Robin's life has changed dramatically since she moved to Leo's house. The little girl smiles every day and her personality is much more cheerful than before. In this way, another year has passed unknowingly.

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Today is the day when Leo was officially awarded the title of archaeologist. Looking at the scholar badge on Leo's chest made Robin envious. Since then, Robin has studied harder. She secretly vowed in her heart that she must catch up with Leo's footsteps.

During this year, Leo had found countless archaeologists returning to the Tree of All-Knowing after it closed at night. Leo knew that these scholars were secretly studying the historical texts, which was also the main purpose of his coming here. Now that Leo had officially become an archaeologist, he planned to confront Dr. Kroba.

After finishing a day's study, Leo let Robin go home first. After the last person left the library, Leo found Dr. Kloba.

"It's Leo, what's the problem again?"

"I want to study the blank 100-year history of the doctorate."

"Pfft! Absolutely not. How could you have such an idea? It is illegal to interpret the blank 100 years."

"Oh? But why can others be excluded but me?"

"Don't talk nonsense. How could anyone here study the blank 100 years? Leo, don't let your imagination run wild."

Leo put on a helpless expression: "Doctor, let's be frank. I know everyone has to come back every night to conduct secret research, so I want to join in."

Dr. Kloba's face changed drastically. What he worried about happened. He looked at Leo with fear.

"Leo, who are you? Who else knows about this? You didn't tell Robin, did you?"

"Doctor, you don't have to be so wary of me. I'm not an agent of the World Government. Of course I can't tell Robin, otherwise I wouldn't have asked her to go back first today to talk to you alone about this." After saying this, Leo was still secretly complaining in his heart that Robin would find out even without me telling her.

"Give it up. I won't agree to it. If you keep looking into this, I'll forbid you from coming here again."

Leo had long expected that Dr. Kloba would reject him, so he planned to reveal some shocking information.

"Haha, isn't it just information about a huge kingdom? What's there to hide?"

"You...how do you know that?" Leo's words scared the doctor. Before he could recover from his surprise, he heard Leo continue.

"Formally introduce myself. My name is Brandon Leo. I am the only student of Dr. Vegapunk. I came to O'Hara to learn ancient writing."

"What? You're Vegapunk's student? Does that mean he also knows about the Giant Kingdom?"

"Of course, and more than you can imagine. My teacher and I have cracked some of the technology of the Great Kingdom, so I am interested in deciphering the blank 100 years. How about I join, Doctor?"

Dr. Kloba considered for a long time and sighed helplessly: "Oh! I hope I won't regret my decision today."

"Haha, Doctor, why do you want to study this matter in depth when you know it will bring disaster? As far as I know, the World Government will never show mercy to those who secretly study the blank 100 years."

"Of course we know these things, but compared to ideals, life is nothing. Don't underestimate the awareness of scholars."

Although Dr. Kroba spoke generously, Leo was thinking in his heart that your actions also implicated many innocent lives. However, if the scholars chose to conduct secret research on the uninhabited island, they would probably be wiped out by the World Government like the MADS Research Institute.

In the end, Dr. Kloba agreed to Leo's request. From then on, Leo would secretly return to the Tree of All-Knowing every night after Robin fell asleep.

After two months of secret research, Leo had completely mastered the ancient writing.

Interpreting history is a boring job, and scholars often have to read a large amount of literature to find one or two useful pieces of information.

The same goes for Leo. Today, after reading more than a hundred pages of information, he discovered that this peculiarly shaped pot is the trash can used by the people of the giant kingdom.

It is really difficult to find useful information, most of it is useless information.

Leo ruffled his hair in a mad manner, sat down on the ground and continued to look through the documents. After a while, he turned from sitting to lying down.

After drinking a large glass of water, Leo's patience finally reached its limit.

Ahhh... It was too boring. After studying these obscure ancient documents for a long time, Leo felt like his brain was about to explode, so he just lay down on the ground in a big letter shape.

Seeing that Leo was starting to give up, Dr. Kloba immediately mocked him: "Ha! Young people just have no patience. If you give up now, I fully support you."

"Wulu Sai, I'm just trying to relieve my tired spirit. Wait for me, old man. I will definitely find out the important information."

The other scholars also gave Leo a polite smile. Having such a funny person around added a bit of fun to the boring research work.

After lying down for a long time, Leo still felt bored, so he just rolled on the floor.

"You little brat, if you can't sit still any longer, go back early and don't disturb others."

"No, I'll be back to normal in no time... Huh?"

While rolling around, Leo accidentally rolled over to the place where the water cup was placed on the ground. When he was reading the history text through the cup of water, those troublesome characters were distorted, and the strokes of different characters seemed to form an arc.

Leo picked up the cup and placed it in front of his eyes, observing the historical text bit by bit, and finally found the difference. Archaeologists were interpreting the information recorded in the historical text, but everyone ignored the text itself.

The main text of the history is a cubic stone block, one side of which is engraved with 12x12 ancient characters. The whole text contains 144 characters, and the spacing between each character is the same. Just now, Leo's vision was refracted through the water cup, and he actually saw that the strokes of the following lines of text formed an arc. So, if he rotated each character, would it form a new shape?

Leo felt as if he had discovered an incredible secret. Looking back at the historical text now, it really looked like a chip or a circuit board. Could this be the secret that the huge kingdom wanted to leave to future generations?

Taking a copy of a historical text, Leo cut it into 144 square pieces of paper of the same size and began to fiddle with them on the ground.

He first laid out the papers in order, and then rotated each word little by little from the outside to the inside.

Dr. Kloba looked at Leo's playful behavior, glared at him unhappily, muttered a few words and ignored him. The other scholars also didn't pay attention to Leo's behavior, thinking that Leo was just fooling around.

Time passed by little by little, and Leo worked hard for an hour and finally made the largest perfect circle within the square text. Leo thought this was definitely not a coincidence, as if there was some kind of induction that allowed him to accidentally discover the true secret of the historical text, and it was a secret that only he knew.

All scholars agree that the contents of ancient written records are information passed down to future generations.

Now it seems that the people of the huge kingdom are not so simple. They only pass down their thoughts and want future generations to avenge them? The information will only let people know how miserable they were back then.

Leo thought that what was hidden here was either some incredible technology, or at worst a map to buried relics. It seemed that the essence of knowledge was power.