"Si za za za!" The man laughed creepily. He literally shook with anticipation as he threw his head back to laugh louder, causing Robin to stumble and have to hold onto the man's thumb for support.
"C-Careful!" Robin yelled, getting irate with the giant.
"You... You don't get it, do you?" He asked, looking down at Robin. "I just shrank you!"
"..." Robin just stared up at the giant incredulously, though in the back of her mind she had a feeling that it was the case. Inwardly, she cursed herself for being so foolish at to trust the creep.
"That's right! I'm a size man! My name is Runt Bigelow!" The man introduced himself, then he pulled little Robin up closer to his face to get a better look at her. Robin, for her part, had to try hard to keep herself from gagging as his foul breath washed over her whole body. "But, you can just call me... M-Master..!"
Robin groaned at the giant's suggestion. "What is the meaning of this?!" She demanded to know. Her voice was firm, but she knew that, holding onto the man's giant thumb for dear life, she didn't look the least bit threatening.
"Oh, Robin... Nico Robin..." Runt sighed. "Let me show you something..."
Robin gulped as the man started to carry her back to the counter. She worried about what the man who wanted her to call him "Master" had in store for her.
Once at the counter, he laid his hand down for her to get off. It struck Robin as odd that he'd let her go free from his grasp if he wanted to do something bad to her, but she accepted the chance and stepped down onto the hardwood counter.
"Good. Now, I'll be right back." Runt told her as he circled around the counter and then bent down to look for something inside it.
Alone on the counter, Robin thought now would be a good time to escape, only, it struck her just now how small she had become. The accessories the shopkeeper had tried to sell her before were still there, ones that could easily fit on her before, but now magnified to gigantic size at her reduced perspective. Robin walked over to one of the rings and crouched down beside it, almost absentmindedly, and touched it. It was about half her size now.
I could wear this ring like belt, almost... Robin thought. She wasn't sure, but she guessed that she couldn't be more than three inches tall now.
She wasn't worried though, she had ample time to escape right now. So she got up and looked for an escape route. But, before she could do anything, the giant's hand came back down in front of her.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Runt said. He quickly turned the shrunken Robin around so she was facing him. "Not so fast, my little prize!"
Robin was a little disoriented from being spun so quickly, but recovered and saw that the shopkeeper was now holding up some wanted posters, of her. He put the posters down on the counter, then dropped down to pull out some more, then repeated this action again and again. Robin gasped and watched in horror as the man, clearly a demented stalker of sorts, pulled laid out dozens of her wanted posters. The shrunken archeologist realized now that this man was the reason that there were no wanted posters of her in town, the deranged fan of hers must've been collecting them for himself, and Robin could only imagine what for.
"Oh, my lovely little Robin..." Runt said softly as he organized the last of the posters together neatly. "I've been a fan of yours for a very long time. It's so nice to finally meet you."
He glared down at Robin as he spoke, though his tone was calm, Robin was nevertheless shaken by his admission. She worried about what she had just gotten herself into by coming into the man's store. Not able to spend another minute with the man, Robin ran off, not sure of where she could go, the drop from the counter was a fatal one at her height, but she had to try something, anything to get away from her insane "fan"...
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