Ars looked at Olivia and calmly warned her.
"It's possible that your daughter is in this kingdom, but even if you see her, don't try to talk with her, she won't recognize you and after being hunted for a long time, she is quite suspicious of strangers."
Olivia looked a bit sad, but she understood. At the same time she was quite excited about just seeing her.
They went to buy the perfumes that were requested by several females in the kingdom.
After they were done Ars wanted to let Olivia have a chance of seeing Robin, even if the other side didn't recognize her. It would be better this way, and even if it was just for a short while Olivia would feel relieved.
So Ars looked at Olivia, smiled and raised his hand.
"Are you a fan of gambling?"
She seemed confused, and shook her head. Ars smiled and pulled her along anyway.
"Well, I'm feeling like gambling a bit, so let's go to Rain Dinners casino. It's in a different city so we will fly there."
She nodded and followed him, once they were outside the city Ars transformed and they quickly flew over to Rainbase where the casino was located.
They entered the casino and Ars went to place a few low bets, waiting for the opportunity to see Robin.
He wasn't sure if Robin had already joined or not, but if she had, Ars wanted Olvia to see her if possible. He knew that Robin had joined crocodile 4 years before canon but he had no idea of the month. But considering it was already nearing the last months of the year, he was hopeful.
Ars gambled for a few hours and finally, from the corner of his eye he spotted a female leaving the inner casino.
It didn't take much effort to identify her.
He looked at Olivia and used the link to send a message telepathically.
'Look at the inner casino doors, someone just exited.'
Olivia rolled her eyes, how bored was Ars that he was keeping an eye on the door to the inner casino. Despite complaining she looked and the moment she saw her, she froze.
Ars got up and pulled Olivia behind him, in the direction of Robin. When they approached Robin, she got defensive.
She didn't recognize them, the female felt familiar, but she couldn't identify where this familiarity was coming from.
Ars smiled at her and extended his hand to greet her.
She looked at the hand and quickly refused the gesture.
"Sorry, I don't shake hands with unknown people."
Hearing that Ars lowered his hand.
"I apologise for bothering you, but I would like to ask you for some information."
"And what would that information be?"
"How can i see the interior of the casino, the people who tried all got stopped by those body guards guarding the entrance to it."
She smiled and politely, while stealing glances at Olivia.
"Sorry but the casino inner area is only available to workers of the said casino, or associates of the casino."
Ars was about to go away and bring Olivia with him, when Olivia stopped and wrote something in a paper, then she walked by Robin and collided with her slipping the paper into her skirt.
Robin instantly noticed it and as they were walking away she took it out expecting it to be a plea for help and that Ars had or was kidnaping her, but the moment she opened the paper and read what was inside, she froze.
She looked around for them but they were gone. She rushed towards the exit and looked around, not finding them she looked at the bouncers.
"A guy pulling a woman, both with hidden faces behind masks, where did they go?"
The bouncers pointed at a street that gave way to the desert.
She rushed after them, but by the time she arrived she only managed to see a huge draconic beast taking flight, she could spot the female familiar clothes on the rider.
She looked back down at the paper, and she read it once more.
'Hi, my name is Olivia and like you i used to live in Ohara and i even knew your mother closely, I happened to be out of the island the day of the incident so i survived, i know that live is hard but hang on, it will get better, and if one day you find yourself in a bad position and need help, really need help, you can contact me on this number. I'm not 100% sure what can i do to help, but i will do my best, finally if you ever need a place to hide search for the Nautica Kingdom in the north blue, i'm not sure if you can find it on maps but for now our kingdom isn't in any map since it's new and we are hiding it as long as we can. xxx Much love Olivia!'
Then Robin looked back up in the direction Ars and Olivia left.
"So there was another survivor, that somewhat explains the familiar feeling I felt…"
Robin broke off in tears at that point, and very quietly whispered while hugging the paper.
"Not alone… I'm not alone!"
In the meantime the mother was also tearing up, Ars carefully looked at her.
"Are you ok?"
She nodded and smiled between the tears.
"Better than ok, I'm so happy she's doing fine!"
Ars laughed and looked back at the front.
"I guess we should finish the shopping trip and go back, it has been a few very emotional days for you and Bell-mere."
She smiled and hugged his back, or at least tried.
"Hum! I think that is a very good idea."
She made her best to stop her tears and they quickly moved between islands buying the last items on the list. Once done they started the journey home.
After a few hours they arrived and Ars quickly went to check on his accumulated work, it wasn't much but it was there so he decided to finish it before going to sleep.
After close to an hour he went to bed just to find Olivia and Bell-mere waiting for him.
After spending the night with 2 of his queens the next morning, he got up and went to train.
When he arrived there was a commotion in the middle of the training area.
"I'm telling you, because so many people arrived so suddenly, the salaries are a mess!"
Ars knew that was true, after all currently there were about 1 billion berries circulating, it seemed a lot but with close to 50.000 people, it actually wasn't.
Ars thought about it and the most viable way to acquire money was to put the kingdom on the map… But he didn't want to… The reason was simple, he wanted to reach yonko level strength at minimum before putting himself on the map… And besides him, there was only the royal guard group with the strongest of them reaching the level of your average peak vice-admiral strength and Reiju, with the other 2 members of the royal guard being close to peak vice-admiral strength but not there yet, and in a similar situation was Rook.
He wanted to have a strong group to make sure they didn't get bullied. Ars himself was only at the weak admiral level, slowly closing in the middle level. To be precise it was more like his combat capabilities were below them, being the most important ones haki and akuma no mi experience, but on the other hand his body was as strong if not stronger than your strongest admiral.
Even then Ars always trained his body harder and harder, and thanks to that his body kept getting stronger in all aspects, but he accepted he wasn't strong enough to protect his kingdom by himself yet.
He did want to become as strong as a yonkou soon, but after getting to that level of strength, he didn't want to stop there, he wanted to slowly surpass the yonkou, he knew this was gonna be hard but he was 100% sure he could do it.
So the second best choice to get money fast, was getting pirate bounties, he thought about it, it wasn't a bad idea to target a few pirate crews that were troublesome in the surroundings.
Ars decided that this was probably the best way to get money fast without compromising the location of his kingdom.
Ars then changed directions for the military headquarters, in there he quickly went to meet Kuina.
When he found her Reiju was there as well. He smiled affectionately at them.
"Hello, my dear beautiful ladies."
"Hiii!!"
They replied with the same playful tone, but then Kuina looked at him and quickly put an end to the moment.
"Ok, I know that you should be here for a reason, you are a creature of habits, so at this moment you should be running too warm up, then training for 3 or so hours and finally a shower before going to work on what you need to work…"
Ars showed a sad expression.
"Oh my god… You are hurting my feelings...Can't I just visit because I want to see you?"
She looked at his eyes, smiled, got up and pulled his ear.
"You could, but that is not your usual self, normally you wake up, train, work, eat, visit your queens, then visit other people you know to check if everything is alright, train again, dinner and finally you reserve your after dinner time to spend time with the family. So yeah I could believe it but I don't."
He looked at her and clenched his chest.
"Ugh! My emotions… I need a kiss from 2 beautiful ladies to get better."
They both smiled and each of them gave him a kiss.
Reiju then added with a smile.
"Now that your emotions are better, you can take a seat and tell us why you are here…"
He sighed and looked at them.
"Fine, you got me!"
They nodded, even if he didn't confirm it they knew him for a while so they could tell he needed or wanted something.
"So what is it!?"
Kuina seemed to be in a bit of a rush today, Ars noticed and now quite seriously looked at both of them.
"You seem in a rush today, is everything ok?"
Reiju was the one who answered.
"The festival is soon and I'm feeling a bit nervous… So I was asking how the festival went with her, I already visited the others too… It is gonna be my first time in front of so many civilians so I'm feeling a bit… Nervous!? Maybe anxious..."
Ars was surprised, he didn't expect Reiju to feel nervous about it, but it was indeed different from making a speech to soldiers.
"You're gonna do great, don't worry about it."
She nodded and they both looked at me with a questioning look. I smiled and finally introduced them to the reason behind my visit.
"I came here to ask Kuina this, how do you feel about creating your very first military mission?"
Kuina was a bit surprised but then nodded, while she never had done it before, she did go along with Ars in the last decent sized mission.
"So what would this mission be about!?"
Ars looked outside the window towards the city and then he looked back at the sea.
"The kingdom has 1 billion berries in money, but that isn't even close to enough to be able to circulate money properly, so I would like it if you could organize a mission to hunt a few pirate crews that are well known to attack civilian populations and merchants in the surrounding waters. After that, we collect the bounties, when I finish my plans for after the festival I might also hunt a few around the last part of the first half of the grandline."
Ars thought about it and decided that this was for the best, even if he went to the second part of the grandline, there was no guarantee he could find pirates that didn't belong to one of the yonkou crews quickly enough.
And for now he would like to avoid those crews, especially Kaido and Big mom.
Kuina nodded… That was a good plan for the short term, but she had a single doubt.
"What are those plans? The ones, for after the festival."
Ars grinned and pointed at them.
"My lovely 5 queens are about to get a few skills and I will increase my arsenal too."
Both of their eyes shone, they already had expected this day would come sooner or later but now that they discovered it would be soon, they suddenly got very excited.