-At long ring long land island-

Luffy and the others had just finished fighting the Foxy pirates when they ended up meeting with an even more dangerous individual...

"You bastard, let Robin-chan go" Sanji yelled before he rushed to deliver a kick at Admiral Aokiji after watching him trying to freeze Robin with his devil fruit power.

Aokiji's one of the marine's three admirals and the wielder of the Logia type Ice Ice Devil Fruit, his real name is Kuzan. He's an incredibly tall, slim, yet muscular man. At 298 cm tall, he is just slightly shorter than the other two Admirals. He has black, curly hair cut to chin length that fans out at the tips, tanned skin, and an altogether lean, long build.

His outfit consists of a white buttoned-up vest with a standing collar over a long-sleeved navy-blue shirt, with matching white trousers and black dress shoes. He was also wearing a yellow tie divided geometrically by black lines and a sleep mask on his forehead.

'They are too weak, why are they protecting Nico Robin…' Aokiji thought as he blocked Sanji's kick and pretended to be pushed back slightly by it…

'None of them can use Haki, they are probably not even aware of its existence… Yet their resolve to save Robin is quite clear… It seems like she finally found a place to belong to'

Aokiji couldn't help but recall the little Robin when she was just a kid, and she had to watch her whole island and her loved ones getting destroyed because of the unreasonable actions of the world government and his own fellow admiral Akainu…

However, no matter what, he couldn't harm a kid, so he allowed her to escape, but right after, the government put a giant bounty on her head turning her life into a constant living hell, having no one to trust or rely on as she kept herself hidden as much as she could…

'But the orders this time came from the elders directly, they still don't trust that new Warlord and fear his relation with her… what should I do? This is really troublesome…' Aokiji's thoughts were a mess, but they didn't stop him from creating a sword made of ice and fighting against Zoro before he caught one of his swords and almost froze him along with it if not for Luffy stretching his arm and snatching him away from his grasp…

"This is bad, this guy is too strong and he's a Logia devil fruit user, we can't beat him" Sanji said with a frown and both Luffy and Zoro had similar dark looks on their faces, but Luffy didn't care, and attacked recklessly anyways "Gomo Gomo no…. Pistol!" He launched a strong punch at Aokiji, but the latter simply caught it and dragged him toward him, and before anyone could react, Luffy was turned into an ice block…

"Luffy!" Robin yelled in fear, but she simply watched as Aokiji dealt with every single one of her crewmates as if he were dealing with a bunch of kids, some were injured, some were frozen, and it also made Robin's heart freeze in terror as tears welled up in her eyes and she started blaming herself

'If I didn't join them, none of this would have happened… It's all my fault… I don't deserve such good people…' Robin truly felt despair at that moment, just when she started to feel like she had a true place to belong to, now it was about to be snatched from her again…

'What should I do…' Aokiji thought as he approached Robin again, Sanji, Luffy, and Zoro were all either injured or frozen, Usopp was pretending to be dead, as if Aokiji is a bear and won't notice him, so this left only Nami to stand up in front of Robin and try to protect her with her weak strength

"L-Leave Robin alone" Nami said while stuttering and with clear fear on her face and Aokiji couldn't help but rub the back of his head and say "Little beauty, move aside, I don't want to freeze you as well"

"I won't move!" Nami said while shivering slightly, although it wasn't apparent if it was from the cold or the fear she was feeling toward this admiral…

"Nami…" Robin muttered in disbelief as she sat down there on the ground, but Sanji whose leg was frozen did his best to stand up and so did Zoro who had both of his hands frozen and they both yelled "You have to kill us first if you want to harm them!"

"Tsk, you people are too resilient for your own good" Aokiji said this and he truly meant it, he was holding himself back so as to not kill these good people, especially when he knew that Luffy was Garp's grandson… However, they were trying to fight it till the end…

"Don't get cocky just because you froze some of our parts, I can cut you even if my hands are frozen…" Zoro said coldly and he started forcing his hands to move which made Aokiji sweat slightly and say "You will break your hands if you keep doing this"

But Zoro didn't seem to get the memo, and neither did Sanji prompting Aokiji to sigh and say "Fine then Ice Time Capsule…"

A blue light gathered on his right hand and he bent down calmly to touch the ground and right after, Ice started rushing at both Zoro and Sanji at a frighting speed while leaving a frozen ground behind it that ominously told them of their incoming fate

"Zoro, Sanji!" Robin yelled falling into even more despair, knowing that they can't dodge this attack… However, there was no fear on their faces, only anger at their own weakness...

However, before the ice could reach them, a giant crossbow flaming arrow suddenly came flying from the distance and hit the ground in front of them causing it to burst into flames and evaporate the ice…

"Ho… We got a troublesome fella here" Aokiji spoke calmly and shot a look at the sea and the ship that was making its way at a frightening speed toward them…

"This arrow… Don't tell me" The Strawhats instantly recalled where they saw this kind of arrow before… and as they stared at the approaching black ship, they could faintly see the silhouette of a man with long white hair fluttering behind him making a huge contrast with his black tight-fitting clothes that would have shocked anyone with his muscles if not for the black cape he was wearing.

"Yuki, why is he here…" Robin muttered to herself, while Aokiji watched in interest as the quickly approaching ship that appeared to be going to crash into the island suddenly stopped perfectly in front of the shore and allowing Yuki and an Oldman beside him in butler clothing to jump out of it.

'It seems like the world government isn't wrong, this guy is indeed close to the Strawhats…' Aokiji thought calmly as he watched the excited look on the Strawhats and he heard Yuki say "I'm glad I made it in time, are you guys okay?"

As he was saying this, Yuki intentionally stepped on Usopp's back and Aokiji felt his spine tingling in fear as he heard a huge crack echoing from Usopp's body before he started screaming "Ahhhh Yuki you bastard, didn't you see I was playing dead?"

Yuki stared at him in confusion and said "I was wondering if you are dead or not, so I wanted to make sure"

"Make sure by killing me you bastard!" Usopp yelled again but everyone thought he deserved it and Yuki simply grabbed him by the nose and said "Stop yelling and go help Zoro and Sanji…"

"It seems like we are saved…" Sanji said with a sigh while Zoro simply nodded, still with an angry look on his face…

Meanwhile, Nami simply ran past Aokiji and hugged Yuki before she hid behind him and said "Yuki, this bastard is trying to take Robin from us, please beat him up"

"I can hear you…" Aokiji said with dark lines appearing on his face, but Nami simply stuck her tongue out at him 'Why are they this confident?' He wondered, but Yuki simply patted Nami and said "Go help those two before they break their limbs, I won't let him take Robin I promise"

"Okay" Nami said with a wide smile and went to beat Usopp first for pretending to be dead while Yuki walked toward Aokiji and said "I can't let you take her"

"You are a Warlord, you shouldn't interfere with the marine's business, and do you really think you can stop me if I want to take her" Aokiji was releasing a weird aura when he said this, but Yuki wasn't fazed at all as he simply gave a signal to Kayle and he instantly disappeared and reappeared behind Yuki with Robin in his hands before he put her down and said with a gentle smile "Little girl, leave this place while you still can..;"

'This man! Did he just use such a high level of Soru?' Aokiji was startled slightly and he was about to attack but he noticed that Robin wasn't moving prompting Yuki to turn to her and ask "What's wrong?"

Robin paused slightly and Yuki could feel the giant despair covering her body as she asked "Am I a burden?"

Everyone grew silent when they heard this, but Nami was quick to break it as she yelled "What are you saying? Of course you are not a burden, you are part of our crew!"

"That's right Robin-chan, what Nami-chan said is correct" Sanji said calmly while igniting a cigarette but Robin was clearly still not convinced as she said "I will bring you a lot of danger if I stay with you, the world government won't stop trying to capture me…"

"It's our fault if we can't protect our own crewmate" Zoro said coldly, although it warmed Robin's heart, but seeing her still hesitating, Yuki smiled slightly and patted her on the shoulder before he said " Friends are only a burden when they don't fight for each other… Now go"

As Yuki said this, he used his despair ability and absorbed all of her despair as well as the despair in the air, then he turned to Aokiji and said "Can you let her go?"

"Impossible" Aokiji said before he conjured an ice saber in his hand so Yuki calmly shrugged and responded "I guess you leave me no choice"

Then, Yuki unsheathed one of his swords and used the second effect of his despair ability causing an eerie dark flame to ignite on it before he used his swordsmanship mastery and Haki and slashed at Aokiji "Desperation strike!"

His attack reached unbelievable degrees of strength, But Aokiji was no weakling as well and instantly coated his blade with Haki and clashed with Yuki fearlessly!

Instantly, a giant shockwave extended from where their swords touched and extended all the way around them to the point that the earth started cracking!c