Pirates: How many divisions does the Five Old Stars have?

Chapter 238
Cobra awoke from a coma.

Cobra hadn't had such a good night's sleep for a long time since he took over the throne at the age of nine.

He had a long dream.

In the dream, the kingdom of Alabasta prospered under his administration.

The common people wear neat clothes, eat enough food to satisfy their hunger, drink clean water, everyone has a job, and everyone can enjoy a reasonable salary.

They don't have to run around for a living, don't have to worry about the growth of their children, and don't have to be madly introverted because of lack of resources.

In the dream, Cobb climbed onto the high platform of the palace, overlooking the bustling city.

The people who spontaneously gathered here on the Palace Square shouted their names.

The confidant and old minister Ikalem, whom he had not seen for a long time, stood beside him, praising his achievements from the bottom of his heart.

And the most beloved daughter, like a caring padded jacket, showed a sweet smile: "I'm proud of you!"

In the dream, Cobra opened his arms, with a doting look on his face.

The caring little padded jacket ran towards him like a swallow falling into a forest.

What a wonderful and happy moment this is!
however.

However, Cobra was surprised to find that the little baby Weiwei with reddish cheeks passed him by, and plunged into another man's arms firmly.

Cobra rubbed his eyes.

The man's features became clear.

A handsome face with sharp edges and corners, but always with a bit of annoying oiliness.

That bright red scarf was fluttering in the wind, it seemed so obtrusive at this moment.

"Marjo, you bastard! Let go of my lovely daughter!"

Just as Cobra was about to speak out and reprimand the pig for taking the juicy cabbage he had cultivated carefully for many years, suddenly, he found that the name shouted by the people in the square had gradually changed from "Cobra" to "Macho".

Cobra grasped the railing of the high platform in surprise, poked his head out, and tried hard to see the scene outside.

I saw red flags with penguins planted all over the entire capital, the entire Alabasta, and even the entire world.

"No, no!"

Cobra yelled angrily, and stretched out his hand to tear off the penguin flag flying high on the palace square.

But no matter how much he stretched out his hand, he couldn't reach the flag that looked so close at hand.

Cobra could only desperately stand on tiptoe and lean out.

Finally, his foot slipped and he fell out of the high platform.

With a very realistic spin, Cobra's head suddenly hit a hard object, and Yoyo woke up.

What Cobra saw was a small old man.

And standing next to the old man were the unusually tall brothers and sisters Katakuri and Bree.

The two didn't seem to notice that Cobra was awake, or they didn't care whether Cobra was awake at all, and they were just arguing fiercely on their own.

The little old man called himself the Head Chef of Long Bread.

He packs an incredible amount of strength in his small stature.

Longbread kicked Cobra's ass, causing him to spin around several times before hitting his head on the stove's pier.

Cobra finally knew why he was spinning around in his dream.

"Katakuri, how many times have I told you that only I can make delicious dishes that your mother loves."

"Before I asked you to go out to find a chef, it was just to entertain the monsters with big appetites from the giant race."

"But now the prince of the giant clan has left sadly and angrily, and our hope of reuniting with the giant clan has been ruined by that idiot Laura!"

Loaf dances and curses at Charlotte Lola for messing things up.

Although Laura's appearance is not popular among humans, her big pie face with high cheekbones is a first-class beauty in the eyes of the giants.

The prince of the giant family is coming to Cake Island to propose to the aunt, which is a first-class event for the aunt.

For this reason, the aunt not only prepared a generous dowry, but also asked the children to go out in advance to find an excellent chef.

But who knew that the giant prince who was eager to propose marriage came ahead of time.

What is even more unexpected is that Lola, the No.20 third daughter of the Charlotte family, is actually a different kind full of rebellious spirit.

In order to pursue a free marriage, she secretly escaped from all nations.

This made the aunt who had never been disobeyed by her children very angry but helpless.

In desperation, Auntie can only let Lola's twin sister, Qi Feng, accept the marriage proposal of the giant prince instead.

However, this giant prince is also a seed of infatuation.

He actually recognized at a glance that the woman in front of him, who was exactly the same as Laura in terms of voice and appearance, was not Laura, and because of this, he returned in a rage.

This happened a few days before Katakuri and the three sisters returned to Tenkoku.

Without giants to entertain, there would be too many cooks on Cake Island.

So Long Bread didn't want to recruit this old man who seemed to be inactive in his limbs into his team of chefs.

"In short, next month's tea party to host the leaders of the world's major organizations doesn't need that much food at all. My team and I are enough to complete it."

Long Bread refused again.

"But, Master Chef, the tonkotsu ramen made by this old chef from Alabasta is really delicious!"

Some of Bray didn't want to give up.

But Long Bread waved his hand in disgust.

"No, no, you ugly woman, what food do you know..."

Having said this, Long Bun suddenly felt a burst of heart palpitations for no reason.

He looked up and saw Katakuri's dangerous eyes.

Although as Charlotte Lingling's first husband, Long Bread can theoretically be regarded as Katakuri's father.

And the strength of Long Bread himself is quite good.

But in the face of the strongest combat power among the dessert four generals, the strongest child of the Four Emperors, Long Bread still has some fear.

Katakuri lifted the bound Cobra up from the ground, and patted his sister on the head:
"Let's go. Since you love the ramen made by this chef, as the Minister of Flour, I will definitely let him show his talents."

Cobra, who was held by Katakuri, twisted wildly. He wanted to say that his main job was to govern the country, and cooking was just a hobby.

Tonkotsu ramen is not my talent.

My own talent is to make all the people live a happy life through various micro-manipulations!

But reason told Cobra brother that keeping silent at this moment is his best choice.

……

When Cobra's brother fell to Flour Island, his foster brother in Alabasta was not idle.

Although it is said that Crocodile did not destroy the tea party of Auntie at all, and took back Cobra.Brother, but in general, he is still a man of his word.

Now that he has promised to hand over the credentials of the Kingdom of Alabasta to Wan Guo, Crocodile will do as much as possible.

For this reason, even a person as arrogant as him had to find some helpers.

For example, the woman sitting in front of him at the moment, drinking red wine elegantly.

"Nicole Robin, long time no see."

Just as Crocodile was about to take out a cigarette and light it, a hand grew out of his arm, picked up the teapot on the table, and extinguished his cigarette.

"It seems that you don't welcome me as a boss at all..."

Crocodile had a gloomy look on his face: "Don't you think that now that Baroque Works is bankrupt, you are no longer my subordinate?"

"If I remember correctly, we were just a partnership from the beginning to the end, right?"

Robin kept an elegant smile: "By the way, what do you think of this new sofa?"

"It doesn't feel good!"

Crocodile moved his hip.

This "Pear Blossom Wood" Chinese-style sofa made of Maokai branches has only one feeling for Crocodile.

That's a pain in the ass.

It is completely incomparable with the previous crocodile leather sofa.

If it is a hemorrhoid patient, this sofa should definitely be thrown into the garbage dump and never turned over.

"Okay, I'm not kidding you anymore."

Robin shook his head.

She didn't have any affection for the man in front of her who only wanted to use her.

And when necessary, Robin will not hesitate to betray him.

Robin believes that Crocodile must also see himself in this way.

However, Robin also knows that Crocodile is the Bole of the master, and the master is a very nostalgic person.

He often said that "clothes are not as good as new people are not as good as old ones".

Crocodile, the employer, can be deceived, fooled, and squeezed, but not without a bottom line.

Today, Crocodile can be said to be at the end of the road, and Robin knows that it is best not to make trouble.

Robin opened the desk drawer, took out a document and handed it to Crocodile.

"how?"

Crocodile glanced at the name of the document: "How do you know the purpose of my coming?"

"This is..."

Robin found a newspaper from the pile of books.

In Shurima, new media is absolutely dominant.

But this does not mean that traditional media such as newspapers and television, Big Bird Media has not dabbled.

Big Bird Media also has its own newspaper called "Peace Daily". Ma Qiao often writes articles on it under the pseudonym of "Death Knell".

However, this newspaper is almost regarded as the party and government organ of the Big Bird Foundation and the Gotan Alliance.

Except for government departments, hospitals, and schools, almost no ordinary people subscribe to this newspaper.

They prefer to surf the Internet and get what they need through the big bird network, or the invisible hands want the information they need.

Strictly speaking, Nicole Robin is neither an employee of the Big Bird Consortium, nor a government official of Alabasta or the Kingdom of Goa.

However, if there is one last person in Shurima who insists on reading paper books and newspapers, that person must be Nicole Robin.

As a descendant of the country of scholars, Robin has a natural love for paper books and newspapers.

"What a conservative woman, who reads newspapers these days..."

Crocodile shook his head and took the newspaper.

But after opening it, his face quickly dropped to freezing point.

I saw a picture of a majestic man in a helmet and armor on the newspaper.

He stepped on one of the iconic pawn soldiers of the Big Mom Pirates.

The hook in the left hand is holding a slowly burning pirate flag.

That's the pirate flag of the Big Mom Pirates.

At the same time, the man was smoking a cigarette, and with the back of his head and dead fish eyes, his disdainful expression seemed to jump out of the paper.

And under this non-existent photo, there is a line of big characters:
"Anyone who offends me will be punished even if he is far away—Grand General Crocodile."

Crocodile's blood pressure went up just by looking at the photo.

As for the rhetoric that I "said" in the news, something like:
"I think Lingling is putting up a bid to sell Seoul!"

"I'm already thinking about the next Four Emperors!"

Crocodile's eyes went dark when he saw it, and he almost fainted on the spot.

Considering the next Four Emperors?
I am a white-bearded man for more than 20 years and haven't figured it out. I'm still thinking about the next Four Emperors?
How could someone in the world go to fight the next one just after beating one of the Four Emperors?
This is simply unreasonable!
No, even beating Charlotte Lingling is impossible!
That is the witch who was very active in the Rocks era, known as the steel balloon!

Crocodile, I feel like I'm going crazy!
"As we all know, you can't post photos, but Crocodile's courage really impresses me!"

Robin conjured up six hands, trimmed his nails, and made sarcastic remarks in a serious manner.

This woman has always been good at making sarcastic remarks.

Crocodile ignored the vicious woman's sarcasm, calmed down on his own, sighed and said:

"Is this the power to manipulate public opinion? It's really scary..."

"That's right, the world government was able to call O'Hara the land of demons back then, isn't it the same power?"

Nicole Robin nodded earnestly: "Anyway, Mr. Shichibukai Mr. Crocodile, you don't want your reputation to be completely ruined, do you?"

"Of course."

Crocodile sneered and said, "If I remember correctly, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper is the princess of Alabasta. He put me on the fire, probably because he is afraid of the reputation of the hero of my kingdom?!"

"that……"

Robin asked weakly: "Is there a possibility that this news was actually written by Ma Qiao?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Crocodile said decisively: "Ma Qiao is a loyal person...

This time it must be the trick that the princess figured out to kill Zhongliang while Ma Qiao went to the cake island to attend the tea party...

Hehe, I have seen a lot of this kind of scheming woman, like you, for example, don't you? "

"Ah, yes, yes, but I'm not a scheming woman..."

Robin shook his head: "In short, I have already given you the list and contact information. As long as we sign another interest-free loan contract, you can hire your original subordinates as the sponsor. You see, this is a What a beautiful thing!"

"Of course... what a ghost!"

Crocodile slapped the table fiercely: "Nicole Robin, do you think I'm a concubine? Write me a fake contract. I won't pay any money. They are all my subordinates." what!"

Robin sighed.

Sure enough, you didn't fall for it?
"However, the tax authorities in Shurima are terrible, right? Are you sure you want to open a false contract?"

"What a lot of nonsense!"

Crocodile flamboyantly signed his name on the false contract.

"By the way, you are also a cadre of our Baroque Work Club, don't you plan to go to Wan Guo with me this time to show your face?"

Robin rolled his eyes at his old partner: "Do you think I, as the son of a devil, have the right to show my face in this world?"

"Hahahaha, thank you for remembering your identity."

Crocodile held the contract and address book and shouted to the sky, and swaggered out of the office:
"Don't have any unrealistic thoughts, you and that kid have no future, if you really love him, stay away from him..."

"I do not know what you're talking about."

"Then just pretend I didn't say anything."

"What an annoying partner..."

Nicole Robin looked at Crocodile's disappearing figure, and the pen in her hand made a rattling sound...

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(End of this chapter)