WARNING: The post-obit contains spoilers for One Piece Affiliate #1020, "Robin vs. Black Maria," by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul, and Vanessa Satone, available in English via Manga Plus and Viz Media.

One PieceAffiliate #1020 resumes one of the most thrilling fights taking identify in Onigashima -- Robin and Beck vs. the alluring Black Maria --, proving, in the procedure, that Robin is an invaluable member of the Straw Hats. As we return to the third floor Banquet Hall in the affiliate, we find that some shockingly familiar faces take joined Brook and Robin: Robin'due south mother, Olivia, Professor Clover and Saul. But Robin is no fool.

At kickoff, she seems entranced, and Brook's voice doesn't seem to exist able to attain the archeologist. However, as Robin approaches to cover them, her demeanor changes and with a Tres Mano, she strikes at Blackness Maria'due south three servants -- who had been posing equally Robin's dearly departed family unit and friends.

It would take a lot more than a elementary illusion to trick the smartest Straw Hat pirate. Beck, on the other hand, is quite familiar with telling the departure between fantasy and reality after the 50 years he spent alone in the Florian Triangle, wishing his previous coiffure'southward decease was only a bad dream.

Black Maria chases later on Brook and Robin while wielding a SMILE Fruit user who has taken a Wayundo form. This called-for human-faced wheel is a yokai said to drag its victims to hell upon mere sight. With a simple rotation of it, Black Maria can engulf the entire floor in flames. Thankfully, Robin'southward able to hang from the ceiling with her Spider Net technique.

Brook releases his soul from his torso and using Cold Soul, the skeleton's spirit can laissez passer through the Wayundo and freeze him solid. Thinking she still has the upper manus though, Blackness Maria taunts Robin, maxim Sanji calling out to her in an earlier affiliate for aid was only a way to relieve his own skin. With her desirable ability to read the mythic Poneglyphs, Robin is but a detriment to her crew -- a target for larger threats like Kaido to seek.

Notwithstanding, none of this seems to have any effect on Robin. In fact, thinking back on Sanji calling to her for help only seems to bring a smile to her face. Brook offers to hold off Black Maria's servants for Robin while she faces down the vile arachnid woman, which the archeologist happily approves.

Black Maria, thinking she has Robin pegged, asks if she injure her feelings, but her opponent isn't fazed. As Robin puts it, "You lot don't demand to know what information technology means that Sanji relied on me for help," fifty-fifty referring to him as the "Wings of the Male monarch of the Pirates." Robin so summons a gigantic copy of herself with Gigante Fleur, ending the chapter on a stunning one-half-page console.

It goes without saying that Robin is the last person the Straw Hat crew sees equally a burden in I Piece. After all, they spent 2 entire arcs getting her back from CP-9, declaring state of war on the Earth Authorities in doing and then. If calling her "baggage" is Black Maria's thought of breaking the spirits of the adult female whose smiling shines most warmly among the Straw Hat Pirates, then this spider is about to get squashed.

Furthermore, as she says herself, Robin is both happy and relieved that Sanji called on her for help. After because himself a chivalrous knight in shining armor for so long, he's beginning to rely on the women in his crew, finally. Robin couldn't exist happier about this as it not but means Sanji is realizing the limitations of his own weaknesses but he'south at present also seeing herself and Nami as equal capable members who tin can fight themselves and are not always in demand of his misguided protection.

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