One Piece: The sky is azure, I just time-traveled today.

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Bending down, picking it up, and putting it on.

Instantly, her body froze.

She saw... herself.

As a child, I slipped and fell down the stairs of the dojo.

He slammed his head hard against the steps.

The reason?! Just to get a whetstone?!

The father, Koushirou, wore a face filled with grief and tears of sorrow for the loss of his beloved daughter.

"If I had been dead by then..."

"The path to becoming a swordsman would never have existed..."

"I won't meet Robin, Uncle, Ace, Luffy, Sabo..."

"Everything... is nothingness. Does that mean I don't exist...?"

Kuina's fingers trembled slightly, and two lines of tears flowed down her cheeks involuntarily.

Purple Cloud let out a mournful cry from within its sheath.

She stood there, as if she had been turned into a stone sculpture.

"So I'm already dead?"

"Kuina...!" Sabo called out anxiously, but dared not touch her rashly. A shadow was torn open in his heart by Ace's death.

at this time--

"Quickly remove the crown!"

Robin's voice came from afar.

She finally escaped from the underground cave, her clothes somewhat disheveled, but her eyes filled with urgency.

She rushed over and snatched the crown off Guina's head.

Kuina snapped back to her senses, stumbled, and was caught by Sabo.

Her face was also pale, and she was breathing rapidly.

"What...is that?" she asked, still shaken.

Robin held the crown in his hands and examined it carefully, his eyes serious.

"This island, this jungle, these talking animals..."

"Even this crown..."

"They're all projections."

Sabo and Kuina were both stunned.

“That’s right.” Robin pointed to the largest gem in the center of the crown. “I discovered the truth in the underground cave.”

"There is no king of beasts here at all."

"There is only one ancient mental projection device."

"The crown is its end."

"It reads the deepest fears of the initial wearer and materializes them."

"The so-called competition, the so-called champion..."

"It's all just... never mind, I won't talk about it... The truth is something ordinary people can't accept!"

The herd of animals began to stir.

The animals looked at each other in disbelief.

"Impossible!" roared the broken-toothed tiger. "I've lived here for over a decade!"

“Your memories, your emotions…” Robin looked at them with pity, “are very likely implanted.”

She raised the crown and slammed it to the ground.

There are no thorns, no jewels.

There was only a bunch of twisted metal and flickering circuits.

And at the moment the crown shattered—

The entire island began to distort and blur.

The jungle is fading.

The animals' forms began to become unstable, like images with poor signal.

"Mom, are these sausages here to cause trouble? Why don't we...eat them!"

"Yes, Mom, they even dared to break the crown, they really came here to challenge us!"

"That's right, Mom, catch them! We're having fried chicken tonight!"

The three chicks were shivering, protected in the arms of a fox.

Howling Valley gradually became transparent amidst the tremors.

It revealed its true colors.

Chapter 120 Leaving the Island of Deception

The illusion receded like the tide.

Colors faded, sound dissipated.

The once noisy Howling Valley fell into dead silence.

Those angry, terrified, and bewildered beasts, their bodies twisting and undulating, eventually turned into specks of light and dissipated into the air.

The tiger with the broken tooth couldn't finish its roar.

The antelope's elegant figure shattered into particles of light.

The old tortoise, along with its referee's hat, seemed to have never existed.

In just a few breaths, the entire valley was empty.

Only four people, a fox, and three still ignorant and noisy chicks remained.

Sabo, Kuina, Robin, and Liu Jiu, who appeared behind them at some unknown time.

He remained calm, as if the dramatic changes in the world just now were merely a change of curtain.

The fox tightly shielded the three chicks beneath its body, its fur standing on end, trembling with fear.

It raised its head, its eyes filled with desperate pleading, its voice trembling with tears:

"No...don't hurt the children..."

"They know nothing...they really know nothing..."

"Eat me if you want... please..."

It curled up, trying to completely block the three chicks with its small body.

The three chicks, confused, thought their mother had been scared out of her wits and was about to start yelling about wanting fried chicken for dinner, but their mouths were tightly covered.

As Sabo watched this scene, the solemnity on his face gradually turned into a complex expression.

He stepped forward and squatted down.

The fox was so frightened that it closed its eyes tightly and its body trembled even more violently.

The anticipated attack did not occur.

A warm hand gently rested on its head.

“We won’t hurt you,” Sabo said gently. “It’s alright now.”

The fox opened its eyes trembling, meeting Sabo's clear gaze.

There was no murderous intent, no greed, only a trace of pity and understanding.

Guina also put away the purple cloud. She looked at the three cute little chicks, and her cold, hard gaze softened slightly.

Robin asked softly, somewhat puzzled, "Are they... real?"

She looked at Liu Jiu with a questioning gaze.

Liu Jiu's gaze fell on the fox and the chick, and he nodded slightly.

"The only truth."

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried a calming power.

The fox was stunned. It looked at Sabo, then at Kuina and Robin, and finally at Liu Jiu.

The immense fear slowly subsided, replaced by a sense of bewilderment at surviving a catastrophe.

"You...you guys really..."

"Hmm." Sabo smiled and ruffled the fox's hair. "Speaking of which, I still don't know your name?"

The fox answered blankly, "...Hu...Hu San..."

"And what about them?" Sabo pointed to the chicks in his arms.

"Big Russia...Second Russia...Eagle..."

Hu San, the only real fox, still tightly protects its three chicks.

Big Hair freed its head from the fox's paws, its little eyes darting around as it looked at Sabo: "Hey! Golden Retriever! Are you trying to seduce our mom?"

Er Mao squeezed out, hands on his hips, and said, "Let me tell you! If you want to be our stepfather, you'll have to get past us first!"

The eagle was the most direct, flapping its little wings and jumping onto Sabo's knees: "A dowry! We want ten truckloads of fried chicken! The biggest and tenderest kind!"

Sabo was both amused and exasperated by these three clowns.

Kuina turned her face away, her shoulders trembling slightly, the sad scene she had just witnessed fading considerably.