novelraw Chapter 506: SFDI - 506
Chapter 506: SFDI - 506
Drake hadn’t planned to find trouble with Crocodile from the start. After all, Crocodile had fallen rapidly after losing to Whitebeard in his challenge.
Crocodile, who had once fought the Demon Heir Bullet to a draw, and had made the World Government think that he could be used as a pawn to restrain the Four Emperors, and no one would have thought that his strength would plummet in just a few years.
A Logia ability user had actually been defeated by a newbie who didn’t know haki in an environment that had been completely his home field, and if Hawkeye hadn’t appeared earlier, people would have really suspected the gold content of the Shichibukai.
Even if the opponent had had the protagonist halo, it couldn’t hide how lacking Crocodile’s performance had been in this battle.
After having had a fight with Kaido, Drake had also had a number in his heart about the level of the strong people of this world, and he naturally didn’t think much of the current Crocodile.
But through Mr. 5’s words, Drake could also roughly guess what had happened. It was nothing more than that the people of Baroque Works had seen Drake flying while riding Phoenix, so they had reported it to their superior.
A large bird that could carry people to fly, whether the organization kept it for themselves, using it as a strategic weapon for their air power, or if they took it out to exchange for money as a rare creature, it was quite tempting.
He didn’t know if it had been an order that Crocodile himself had given, but Baroque Works had decided to snatch Phoenix in any case. The law of the jungle, and that was how the sea had been practicing the rule that the strong had everything.
But Mr. 5, who Baroque Works had sent out, was far weaker than Drake.
Mr. 5 had just wanted to dig out more boogers, but the hand that he had raised couldn’t move no matter what.
He had been locked on, and he was like a small animal who had been stared at by a magical beast, and he had even forgotten his instinct to survive, and he could only shrink into a ball, quietly awaiting the arrival of death.
Miss Valentine had just blinked, but she had discovered that Mr. 5, who had been by her side, was gone, and the sound of something slamming into the ground had been transmitted from behind her.
Miss Valentine had opened her mouth, looking at Drake, who had been putting his leg down before her.
’I’ve kicked a steel plate!’ This was the only thought in Miss Valentine’s mind right now, and she hadn’t seen clearly how Drake had gotten from that large bird’s back to before Mr. 5, and had blasted out his kick.
There was only one possibility, and that was that the other party’s strength had far exceeded her own, and it was that kind of gap that she couldn’t imagine.
Subconsciously, she had wanted to launch the ability of the Kilo-Kilo Fruit that she had eaten, and she could float like a feather by adjusting her weight.
But her feet had just left the ground when her body had been pressed back down. Looking at the scorching greatsword that had been placed on her shoulders, Miss Valentine’s face had been completely pale.
Stella had revealed a kind smile, saying, "Miss, please don’t move around, or something very dangerous might happen!"
Drake had rubbed his foot on the ground, as if he had gotten some dirty thing on it. And then he had looked at Miss Valentine, saying, "I’m not in a good mood right now, so I won’t beat around the bush.
You have an Eternal Pose that goes to Alabasta there, right, please hand it over!"
The smile on Drake’s face had been quite sunny, but Miss Valentine had felt like she had fallen into an ice cave.
...
Alabasta, Rainbase.
With the entire country suffering from the spread of drought, Rainbase was one of the few oases that had still been preserved well.
And because Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai, had been stationed here, neither pirates nor internal strife had affected this place.
So Rainbase had become a paradise city in Alabasta in recent years.
But no one knew that Rainbase had become the headquarters of the quite famous Baroque Works right now. The reason was very simple, because the true boss of Baroque Works was here.
Under the casino Rain Dinners, huge seawater tanks had been used as walls, giving this office that had been located below the desert a dreamlike feeling.
Huge crocodiles with bananas on their heads had been swimming lazily in the water, and the sharp teeth that had been occasionally revealed from their open mouths had been displaying the ferocity of these beasts.
A man who had been wearing a long coat had been sitting on a chair, and only the man’s slicked-back hair that had been revealed over the back of the chair could be seen from behind.
"Miss All Sunday, Miss Wednesday... no, how is the matter of Princess Vivi Nefertari being handled?"
The Den Den Mushi on the table had long transformed into the appearance of wearing a cowboy hat, and had been wearing a faint smile on its face, transmitting a woman’s voice.
"The execution has failed, and she has gotten mixed up with the Straw Hat Pirates. And she also knows your identity, Mr. 0."
Crocodile had said in a low voice, "Straw Hat Pirates? What’s their background?"
The Den Den Mushi had replied, "They’re new pirates who have come from the East Blue, but their strength isn’t bad, and the people that we had at Whiskey Peak have all been defeated."
Crocodile had looked at the swimming banana crocodile, saying angrily, "You’ve been there the entire time, right! They’re just a group of trash pirates who have come from the weakest sea, why didn’t you resolve them!"
Although he had known long ago that the person on the other side of the Den Den Mushi had harbored ulterior motives, this kind of blatant act of slacking off had really been infuriating.
The expression that the Den Den Mushi had been simulating hadn’t changed at all, saying faintly, "I’m just a scholar, and the other party also isn’t that easy to deal with.
Also, they’ve already gone to Little Garden, and the Unlucky Duo have also made the wanted posters, so arrange for people to go there if you want to resolve them!"
Reminding himself that the other party was someone who was indispensable to his plan, Crocodile had only then forcibly endured his anger, saying, "If that’s the case, then return to Alabasta! I’ll have the senior agents who are free go to Little Garden to resolve them.
Oh right, if it’s on the way, then go look at Mr. 5’s place, he accepted a mission, but he hasn’t replied."
"Got it!"
The Den Den Mushi had only replied with this one sentence before hanging up, and the office had also become quiet.
Crocodile didn’t know that the two things that he had said on the phone would become no small trouble. Especially the second thing, which he had only mentioned in passing, would make him experience what it meant to have disaster strike from the sky.
And even if Crocodile knew what had happened now, it would have already been too late to regret it, and Drake had already been on the road to Alabasta.
But even when using flight, traveling on the sea wasn’t always smooth sailing.
Drake had encountered a storm on the road, and although there wasn’t any danger to Drake, the thing of beating Crocodile wasn’t so urgent that he had to travel in the rain.
So Drake and Stella had stopped on an island for three days, only continuing their journey after the rain had passed and the sky had cleared.
And what Drake didn’t know was that the Straw Hat Pirates had also just left Drum Island at the same time that he had set off.
After making a huge disturbance at Whiskey Peak, the Straw Hat Pirates had set off together with Vivi, the princess of the Alabasta Kingdom, who had revealed her true identity.
And Nico Robin, the historian who had had the alias Miss All Sunday in Baroque Works, had also appeared at that time.
Luffy had crushed the Eternal Pose that Robin had given them, which he didn’t know what purpose it had had, that had been going to Alabasta, because he hadn’t wanted to walk the route that others had arranged.
So the group had been heading to the next stop, Little Garden, according to the guidance of the Log Pose.
There, they had gotten to know the two former captains of the Giant Warrior Pirates, Red Ogre Brogy and Blue Ogre Dorry, who had been fighting one-on-one for a hundred years.
After defeating the pursuers from Baroque Works, they had left Little Garden with the two giant’s strength opening the way.
But Nami had accidentally been bitten by a bug on Little Garden, contracting an ancient virus. In order to treat her, the group had headed to the medical superpower Drum Kingdom.
A series of events had occurred again, and Luffy had defeated the former king, who had abandoned the kingdom and had fled, making the "cherry blossoms" of Drum Island bloom. And the blue-nosed reindeer doctor Chopper had also gotten on the ship there.
In order to save Alabasta at Vivi’s request, the Going Merry had begun to advance towards this desert superpower.
Of course, Drake had arrived at the port city of Alabasta, Nanohana, one step before them.
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