【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Usopp, who was so arrogant just now, immediately lowered his head, covered his face guiltily, and kept apologizing. He slowly put down his hand until he heard a familiar voice, took a sneak peek, and widened his eyes in shock. "Robin?"

Usopp instantly realized that Robin had also changed her clothes, and hurriedly said, "Ahaha, I didn't expect you to come to Baron too! It's me, Colonel Usopp from the same department as you!"

"Lieutenant Colonel Shepard, do you know this man?" Jonathan looked at Robin and asked with a smile.

"I've never seen this person before." Robin pushed his sunglasses on his eyes and said with a smile.

"Take him away!" Drake ordered, asking the Marines to drag Usopp out.

"Hey, hey! It's me. You can't recognize me just because I'm dressed like this!" Usopp continued to struggle and shout while being dragged away until Drake closed the door.

After the room was completely quiet, Robin looked at Lieutenant General Jonathan and said with a smile, "From now on, I will start the investigation of Baron."

"Please feel free to do as you please, Commander Shepard," Jonathan replied with the same smile.

"Thank you very much." Robin said with a smile, then turned and left, following the navy soldier to the archive room.

After a while, Robin arrived at the archives and began to look for useful information. He soon found a fortress map. Robin frowned as he looked at the shape of the fortress on the map. There was only one exit? This was a bit difficult...

……

"That bastard, does he hold a grudge against me for something?"

"Isn't this a blatant betrayal?!"

Usopp, who was imprisoned by the navy, kept complaining to Zoro who was sitting next to him, about Robin who had just said he didn't know him.

"Damn it, if I could think like Robin, we would have rescued Merry by now!" Usopp said in annoyance.

Although he was handcuffed and imprisoned, Zoro still acted calm. He slept cross-legged against the wall from the beginning until Usopp's mumbling woke him up. Zoro opened his eyes, listened to Usopp's complaints, and calmly said, "You have to thank Robin."

"What are you talking about? Why are you speaking for her?" Usopp shouted in confusion.

"Maybe it's because I'm here." Zoro said calmly.

"I see, it's safer to be with Zoro." Usopp nodded, agreeing with Zoro's statement. "So Robin is thinking about me."

Usopp quickly convinced himself, but when he looked up, he saw countless guns pointed at him outside the railings. He hesitated, "But is it really safe here?"

Just then two marines threw in a man wearing a pink vest and purple trousers.

"Damn it, do you know who I am?!" Shepard glared at the navy man who put him in prison. He was almost mad with anger. When he got out, he would make sure to close this fortress completely.

"Special Prosecutor Lieutenant Commander Shepard, right?" The marine who threw the man in laughed.

"Now that you know, let me out quickly! I have something to say to Commander Jonathan!" Shepard shouted angrily.

"Shepard?" Usopp looked at the man who kept shouting and thought, it turns out that this guy was pretending to be Robin. Now the navy thinks he is our accomplice. If that's the case...

Usopp showed a smirk on his face, then his expression changed. He sat on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Hey, stop shouting. It's so embarrassing! The most important thing for a man is to be open-minded. What a mess you make, Comrade Contriano."

"Con...Contriano? What are you talking about!?" Upon hearing this, Shepard turned to look at Usopp and asked in disbelief, "Who are you?!"

"Hey, hey, don't joke like that!" Usopp stood up and walked towards Shepard, poking his face with his nose. "Could it be that you have forgotten your name and my face?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't know you!!" Shepard pushed Usopp away and shouted angrily.

Usopp jumped aside to avoid Shepard's collision and said in a fake sad tone, "Poor thing, he must have hit his head when he fell, and he doesn't even remember me! Let him out, he is no longer the Contriano of the past."

"It seems that there is no escape. There is no need for interrogation." The navy outside the prison listened to Usopp's accusation and shook his head.

"Stop! What do you mean he can't run away!" Shepard shouted anxiously, "I don't know him...!"

"boom!"

Zoro knocked Shepard unconscious with a headbutt. "The sound of ghosts howling and wolves howling is so noisy!"

"Well done, Zoro!" Usopp silently gave Zoro a thumbs up, then turned around and showed a sly smile, applauding his own plan.

"Your expression is too obvious, Usopp." Zoro complained from the side.

"Uh..." Usopp silently retracted the smile on his face.

……

In the Commander's Office

Jonathan sat in a chair, his right elbow on the table, his hand supporting the right side of his face, a chess set on the table, talking to himself as he confidently moved the pieces;

"The Straw Hat Boy and the powerful chef, the swordsman and the long-nosed man, the doctor and nurse I've never seen before, and a woman who calls herself Lieutenant Colonel Shepard. Now there are seven people who have appeared. Only the man with half of his face revealed on the bounty poster and the last mysterious man are still hiding in the dark."

Jonathan picked up a black dot and thought, "But why are there only 6 hammocks on the ship? The single cabin can only accommodate two women. There are only 6 men who show signs of the Straw Hat Pirates' long-term journey. What if the ninth man joined temporarily?"

Jonathan put the black piece heavily back where it belonged. "Then it all makes sense. It also makes sense why there are so few traces of the Ninth's existence."

"But..." Jonathan put away a white piece, thinking of the marine with strange movement trajectory when Straw Hat Luffy and his friends were escaping. "Although it is hidden secretly, there is still a flaw."

"Now the ship, crew, and gold are all under my control. What are you going to do next?" Jonathan muttered to himself, "Straw Hat Luffy, let me see how capable you are!"

Lucci adjusted his breathing, hid in the shadows, and listened quietly to the Vice Admiral's inference about the Straw Hat Pirates. Commander Jonathan was worthy of his name, he found everyone so quickly, and even deduced that he was a temporary member.

However, no matter how sharp he was, he could not have guessed that he was the one who temporarily joined the Straw Hat Gang, and his plan to play chess with Luffy was likely to fail.

"Dong dong!"

"Come in." Jonathan responded while playing with the two black chess pieces in his hand.

Drake pushed open the door and walked in. He stood in front of Jonathan and reported, "Commander, no one has found any trace of the Straw Hat Boys yet." Drake asked Jonathan, "What should we do now, Commander?"