After hanging up the phone, Griffin looked at the beautiful woman wearing a hood beside him.
She appeared to be in her twenties, with a light purple jasmine flower tattooed on her right cheek.
There was a bright red dot between her eyebrows, and three crimson tomoe marks in her light green pupils.
...
"Continue," Griffin said.
The woman spoke in a mechanical tone: "I am Kisqi, the 'Third Flower' of the Jasmine Society. The 'Fourth Flower' Nico Robin reported the reason for the mission failure to our leader, who sent me to contact you."
After Griffin finished negotiating the handover of Chin Jao with the Happo Navy, he could no longer find any trace of Robin.
Just as he was tracking Robin's scent to a certain area, this woman appeared.
It should be noted here that Griffin absolutely had no special preferences - this was an ability inherent to most Dog-Dog Fruit users.
Dog-Dog Fruit·Olfactory Tracking.
A wolf's sense of smell is generally forty times that of humans. The Snowfall White Wolf, needing to find food in the vast white snowfields, had evolved a sense of smell several times stronger than ordinary wolves.
Griffin usually kept this function turned off, only activating it when he needed large-scale searches or during combat.
Incidentally, Robin's scent was that of lilies.
...
"Marine Commodore Uchiha Griffin, our leader wants to meet you. Come with me!"
The woman started with this statement, acting all high and mighty.
Given Griffin's temperament, even if someone treated him well, he would decide whether to respond based on his mood at the time.
Poor attitude?
Griffin immediately raised his finger and hit her with a Physical Sharingan·Illusion.
...
During his battle with Chin Jao, Griffin had been continuously using Nether Entanglement Armament Haki on him, influencing Chin Jao with illusions.
He made Chin Jao constantly recall the frustration of being defeated by Garp, then provoked his anger with words.
After this series of manipulations, the enraged Chin Jao didn't need anyone else to act - he hammered out his Drill Head himself.
In this world where willpower greatly influences combat power, the current Griffin was absolutely a top-tier psychologist.
The drawback...
Was probably that patients would come to dislike him intensely.
After all, this treatment method transferred the source of the patient's hatred onto himself, embodying self-sacrifice for others and boundless compassion.
...
If even a strong warrior like Chin Jao could be affected by him, what chance did a mere third-ranked member of a second-rate organization stand? Griffin could achieve complete domination over her, making her do whatever he wanted, with no secrets kept.
According to her account, Robin's initial mission was to use her beauty to seduce the winner of the martial arts tournament, looking for opportunities to steal the Happo Navy's secret techniques.
After everything that had happened, the martial arts tournament naturally ended without conclusion, and Robin's mission failed before it even began.
...
Honey trap...
I think I know why I never heard of your organization afterward - you were probably eliminated by Aokiji.
Kuzan's feelings toward Robin were complex.
It was after the Ohara incident that he began to question the Marines' justice.
Kuzan could never forget the eyes of that sorrowful girl whose fate rested in his hands.
Guilt, protection, anticipation...
He wanted to see what this young girl would become, using it to clear away his own confusion.
...
A weak little girl wanted by the World Government could never grow up safely without someone secretly protecting her.
Kuzan had been watching over her all along. Even when he had other missions that required him to travel far away, he would ask others to look after her.
Just like this time when he sought out Griffin.
...
...
"The Society Leader says you're the more suitable person to fulfill our ambitions and will take action personally."
"The Society Leader is a user of the Paramecia-type Fragrance-Fragrance Fruit. Anyone who smells the fragrance created by this Devil Fruit Ability for an extended period will be charmed and controlled."
Paramecia-type Fruit...
Sounds like an inferior version of the Love-Love Fruit.
Griffin maintained sufficient caution toward the myriad strange Devil Fruit abilities on the seas.
He hadn't yet reached the level where he could rely solely on Haki to forcibly nullify conceptual-type fruits.
If he were touched by an unreasonable conceptual fruit like the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, it would be disastrous.
...
——
Before entering the Jasmine Society headquarters, he completely shut off his sense of smell.
In an attic filled with Chinese architectural style, Griffin met this Society Leader.
"Heheheha... Very pleased to meet you, Commodore Griffin!"
Sitting on the central official's chair was a middle-aged man with large ears, round eyes, a wide mouth revealing jagged fangs - so ugly he was abstract.
He wore thick fur clothing, with visibly dense odors emanating from his armpits, the back of his head, and the soles of his feet...
Griffin's mouth twitched.
...
"I am the leader of the Jasmine Society, Big Jasmine!!"
He spread his arms, allowing the grayish-yellow scent to violently disperse throughout the small room, grinning widely: "Heheheha! Heheheha! Succumb to my fragrance!"
"Even if you're the man who defeated Chin Jao, having walked unprotected into my fragrance domain for so long, you can only obey me now!!"
"Succumb to—"
Griffin suddenly swung his hand, and instantly—
BOOM!!!!!
Half the attic collapsed as if bitten by a giant beast, wood splinters and glass fragments scattering in the hurricane-force winds.
Revealing the grayish-white sky outside.
Clatter—
The short-statured Big Jasmine fell from his chair, face pale, eyes filled with shock and fear.
After giving him a faint glance, Griffin's expression turned terrifyingly dark.
He turned to look at Robin behind Big Jasmine.
"This is the refuge you found..."
"Your judgment is truly terrible."
...
If Kuzan saw this... It would be like seeing your prized cabbage get stolen by some delinquent...
No! Comparing this guy to a delinquent would be an insult to delinquents!
Robin broke out in cold sweat but bravely stepped in front of the Society Leader.
"The Society Leader is someone willing to accept me! I won't allow you to harm him!" Her body trembled with fear, well aware of how terrifying the man before her was.
From Griffin's words, Robin realized he must know her identity. Recalling the scenes from years past, her body trembled even more violently.
...
"The Society Leader didn't mean to use his ability on you... I can go with—"
"Just because I'm fine, we should pretend nothing happened?"
Griffin interrupted her, gazing coldly and indifferently: "You're even more naive than I expected."
He slowly took a step forward.
Crack—
Conqueror's Haki descended like a sinister demon, spiderweb-like cracks spreading across the floor.
Robin, facing Griffin's Conqueror's Haki directly, felt her legs go weak, clearly unable to hold out much longer.
She wanted to say something more, but Big Jasmine's terrified scream came from behind her.
...
"I'm sorry!! I'm sorry!!! I was wrong!!!"
Big Jasmine's ugly features twisted with fear as she curled into a ball, pointing a trembling finger at Robin.
"Lord Griffin!! This is the Devil Child wanted by the Marines - Nico Robin with a 79 million Berry Bounty!!"
"I'll hand her over to you! Please spare me!!"
"I don't have a bounty! I'm worthless!! Take her away!!"
...
Robin turned her head, her pupils looking as if they'd been plunged into cold water, her lips trembling too much to form words.
In that moment, all strength seemed to drain from her body, and she collapsed to the ground.
Watching the guild leader she had once trusted most, the light in her eyes gradually dimmed, like the final flicker before a lamp goes out.
...
Griffin walked up to her, his gaze looking down from above.
"A very suitable trade, don't you think..."
"Nico Robin."
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