Chapter 1404: Compensation
"...Will that monkey be sticking around for much longer?"
"You mean Momo?" Robin asked with a faint smirk, as though the answer should be obvious.
"You should be thankful he’s here. Back when he was alive, he was a silent assassin.
Now that he’s a soul creature, his role has shifted. He’s become a specialist in monitoring vital functions.
If something had gone wrong with you—if your heart had stopped, if your energy collapsed—he would’ve alerted me immediately. I’d have come running."
Robin waved his hand behind the bloated-belly monkey. A white portal, glowing faintly with golden outlines, shimmered into existence behind it. The monkey took one step backward, eyes still locked on the old man with a steady, unreadable stare. Then another step. And vanished into the portal.
Everything—the monkey’s coloring, the portal’s shimmering hue—was part of Robin’s customized soul attire, rented through the Soul Society. He’d chosen a color scheme he liked, and applied it across all his soul manifestations—from gates to creatures.
"It monitors me to help... or to cheer if I finally drop dead?" the old man muttered with a wry smile before biting into the fish again, the meat flaking easily despite its odd appearance.
"Don’t phrase it like that," Robin replied, exhaling slowly.
"If you died, I’d be stranded here.
Who else is going to get me off this absurd, sea-locked planet?"
He poked the fire with a stick and continued speaking, half to himself.