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Chapter 291 Sorry, Mr. Crocodile

"Crocodile! Don't run!"

Luffy jumped up and hugged Crocodile from behind.

Crocodile's body sank, the rain on his body hadn't completely dried up, and the semi-elementalization just now was used with all his strength. At this time, he was hugged by Luffy, and he couldn't break free for a while, watching silently. Then he got entangled again, and he was furious in his heart.

"Go away!"

The golden hook on the right hand hooked directly towards Luffy on the back.

Luffy's melee combat ability is already strong, how could he be hit by such an attack, he used Crocodile's back as a floor, jumped up in mid-air to avoid Crocodile's attack, but the hands that hugged him did not Let go, but stretched because of his leap.

"Rubber - back fall in the air!"

With the help of both hands, Luffy's figure dropped rapidly, and with a gesture like a powerful and unconstrained style, he slammed Crocodile to the ground.

"Devil's foot!"

Sanji seized the opportunity, dodged to the point where Crocodile fell, with flames on his feet, and kicked towards the opponent with an upside-down golden hook.

bang——

At the moment of the attack, Crocodile suddenly turned into a cloud of yellow sand.

The next moment, Crocodile's figure appeared behind Sanji, and his left hand grabbed the back of Sanji's neck directly.

"You guys pissed me off."

The water in Sanji's body was directly drained, turned into a mummy, and was thrown aside by Crocodile.

"Sanji!!!"

Luffy's eyes were tearing apart, and he rushed towards this side.

"Desert Sword!"

Crocodile was short, and pressed his palm on the yellow sand. The next moment, a gray-white sword suddenly grew out of the ground around Luffy, and directly pierced Luffy's chest at an unresponsive speed.

"Ho-"

Lu Fei's pupils shrank to the extreme, and he slowly lowered his head to look at the big sword on his chest. All the water in his body was pulled out, leaving only his dry body hanging dangling on the blade.

At this time, Daisy finally arrived, her body turned into a sky covering the sky, and she pressed down on Crocodile.

"Desert King Kong Sword!"

Crocodile repeated the same trick, and the four huge sand blades tore Daisy's body apart again.

Crush!

With all their efforts, no matter Daisy or the Straw Hats, they are not the enemy of Crocodile at all!
But the delay was enough.

The rain fell from the sky again, this time on a larger scale, and the rain clouds spread over a wide area, even covering the city of Rainland. Where Crocodile was located, the rain seemed to be pouring down, blurring the sky and the earth.

"It's not a dancing fan, is it the devil fruit ability?"

Crocodile clenched his fists. Defeating the Straw Hats didn't make the anger and uneasiness in his heart fade away. That conspirator was his confidant. Obviously, such heavy rain could no longer be dispelled by his current state. Unable to elementalize, he missed the opportunity to escape.

"Let's start the next round!"

Townsend's voice sounded behind Crocodile, followed by gunshots.

Crocodile reacted quickly, he didn't turn back immediately, but turned sideways to avoid the trajectory of the bullet in the induction, and then bowed, looked back, and activated the ability.

The desert sword pierced through the figure in the rain.

But he didn't feel relaxed at all, and the sense of crisis in the dark made his hair stand on end.

The danger has not gone away!
How can it be?Is there anyone else?

The obstruction of the rain curtain prevented him from noticing that the pierced figure slowly turned into a paper man. Driven by the sense of crisis, Crocodile did not hesitate to activate his ability to the maximum.

With a shake of his arms, all the yellow sands began to stir up, even in the rain, those yellow sands also set off a turbid storm, carrying enough power to drain the moisture in everyone's body, in Crocodile swept all over.

One second. Two seconds
1 minute passed, and there was no movement around.

Crocodile raised his head and saw that the weird black thing just now had disappeared.

"It's not right, absolutely not right."

Crocodile reacted suddenly: "The other party is consuming my energy!"

Of course, the ability of devil fruit consumes physical energy. If you use it like Crocodile with all your strength, the physical energy consumption will be even greater. What's more, in order to avoid Hailoushi bullets, he was beaten by the straw hat gang. Attack, at this time the injury in the body has begun to be uncontrollable.

"I can't let the other party succeed. If the rain keeps stopping, once I get dragged into a war of attrition, it will be too bad for me."

He was about to restrain some strength, but suddenly saw a figure appearing close at hand.

The muzzle was no more than half a meter away from him!

"Go to hell!"

Crocodile's conditioned reflex ability, which was already highly concentrated, buried that figure directly in the sandstorm around him.

"No—no!"

He didn't feel the sandstorm hit the entity at all.

At this time, the dawn has spread all over the earth, and a new day has arrived, but under the cover of dark clouds and rain, everything is indistinct. Crocodile was terrified to see that when the sandstorm receded, the figure stood there unscathed. .

He was finally able to see the other person's face clearly.

You can also see the playful eyes of the other party, and the sneer at the corner of the mouth.

It's like watching a clown mocking.

Anxious, furious, aggrieved, and physically and mentally exhausted, Crocodile's reason was crushed.

He broke the defense.

"Go die die die!"

The entire desert was shaken, the yellow sand set off waves tens of meters high, and swept into a vortex around his body, swallowing everything in it.

This attack, which almost exploded with his remaining strength, successfully tore the figure in front of him apart.

"Ho-ho-"

Everything around him became calm again, Crocodile arched his body, panted heavily, and suddenly laughed.

"No one can beat me in the desert!"

"It is absolutely impossible for me to lose second—"

Snapped!
Crocodile's voice stopped abruptly.

He lowered his head slowly, seeing the blood hole that suddenly appeared in his chest.

This was not a fatal injury, the bullet did not penetrate his heart, but stuck in his body.

However, the warhead of the bullet was fatal to him.

A sense of weakness enveloped his whole body, and the sweeping yellow sand fell down in an instant, and the power of the devil fruit completely disappeared in this instant.

Crocodile tried his best to resist the weakness brought by Hailoushi, so as not to let himself collapse on the ground like this, but this had exhausted all his strength, and he didn't even have the strength to raise his head again.

He heard the steady footsteps besides the sound of rain.

A pair of black boots appeared in his field of vision, and he couldn't see the other person's face, but he could imagine that the other person's face must be proud and mocking. This kind of imagination almost made him lose his mind again.

I am Shichibukai, a natural-type devil fruit ability user, and his plan is obviously going to succeed in a few days, just a little... just a little bit!
However, he fell here, defeated by such insidious means by a person he didn't even know the identity of.

He wanted to struggle and resist, but he was deprived of even the strength to clenched his fist.

Then, the anger receded like a tide.

Once again. Failed.

Instead, he calmed down. This was not the first time he had tasted failure. Compared to the last time he faced Whitebeard, he was completely hopeless in front of a power that was impossible no matter how hard he tried. The failure of losing courage and aggressiveness for strength, this kind of ending of failure due to other people's schemes and tricks, seems to be more suitable for oneself.

"What a pity."

To Crocodile's surprise, there was no complacency in that man's voice, let alone the sarcasm he had imagined.

"Your plan is about to end here, Crocodile."

The corner of Crocodile's mouth twitched, and he said in a deep voice with difficulty: "It's all about success and failure."

"Don't talk nonsense, let's do it."

He tried his best to maintain his posture, at least not to be as embarrassed as last time.

But the opponent had no intention of doing anything, instead he held Crocodile's forehead, allowing Crocodile to finally raise his head.

He saw the other person's face.

It was the man, the one who survived the sandstorm unscathed.

"Is it some kind of illusion?" Crocodile, who had returned to his senses, understood what happened before in an instant.

From the beginning to the end, it was the person in front of him who planned him.

I never knew this person existed—didn't Nicole Robin find him?No, not likely.

Therefore, Nicole Robin lied. She didn't escape to the Rainland because she lost to the Straw Hats, but was directly captured by this person and instigated rebellion.

The Straw Hats were nothing more than a decoy.

This man knows his own weaknesses, and like a patient hunter, he hides behind the Straw Hats and only shows his fangs at critical moments.

"So, the purpose of that illusion is not to consume my physical strength, but to consume my sanity."

"When I lose my mind, I also lose my sense of danger."

Crocodile smiled wryly. It is meaningless to resume the game now. The opponent's method is very simple, no more subtle than what he has used in the land of Alabasta these years, but the opponent's psychological control is sufficient. fatal.

Through some methods that actually do not threaten him at all, he tightened it up bit by bit like a net, and finally when he reacted, it was already too late.

"No, today is not your death day." Crocodile heard the other party say: "Your life is still useful to me."

Such words made Crocodile only feel absurd and mocking.

He looked straight into the other's black pupils and said, "You can't get anything from me."

Even if he is a bereaved dog in the new world, Crocodile has his own pride. He cannot surrender to anyone in order to survive, let alone a person who is obviously far inferior to himself in power now, and only relies on tricks and sea building stones to defeat himself. .

"Really?" The other party was not angry because of Crocodile's attitude, and even laughed: "Mr. Crocodile, you don't know me."

"But it doesn't matter, we will spend a lot of time together."

He looked around, and the dense rain made it blurry even ten meters away.

"It's not a good place to talk."

"We shall see you soon, Mr. Crocodile."

He turned and left without hesitation.

Crocodile showed a puzzled look.

Just. That's it?
But he soon lost his doubts. Following the disappearance of the other person's figure, another figure approached from the blurred rain.

The man had a graceful figure and long black hair.

Crocodile's face darkened completely.

"Nicole Robin!"

"I didn't think he could really succeed." Nicole Robin walked in front of Crocodile, her expression a little unclear under the rain.

"It seems that at least I made the right choice at the moment."

"What did he give you?" Crocodile asked the most incomprehensible question.

Nicole Robin has worked for him for so many years. Although he doesn't know this woman well, he also knows that she is not a stupid person, and she knows how to weigh the pros and cons.

He couldn't figure out what kind of method could make the other party completely betray him in one day... no, just one encounter.

"It's something you can't give anyway." Nicole Robin said:

"Crocodile, it's time to hit the road."

Townsend didn't pay attention to Crocodile, nor did he talk to Nicole Robin.

What to do and what not to do, in fact, before bringing Crocodile over, Townsend had already explained everything.

Of course, he didn't trust Nicole Robin completely, so that he entrusted such an important matter to such a person who had just recovered and had not yet been given the Mark of the Dark Lord.

He just has confidence in his backhand.

Whether it was when Nicole Robin went to report to the rainy land, or when Crocodile rushed over, and even now, there is an existence watching all of this.

It's just that the watcher is high above the sky, and the sharp eyes of the golden pupil have not been noticed.

In the event of an accident, for example, Nicole Robin did not bring Crocodile to the place she needed, then Townsend would know immediately through the Mark of the Dark Lord.

As for why Tang Sen didn't take Crocodile away himself——

He has more important things to do.

He never puts the cart before the horse, and his goal is never to defeat Crocodile, defeat the opponent's conspiracy, help Princess Vivi and the Straw Hats, and restore the country to its former peace and beauty.

What he has to do is to hold the rights of this country in his own hands. Maybe the initial starting point of what he has to do is different from that of Crocodile, but the result is the same.

He doesn't need a perfect ending where he just defeats the bad guys and everything becomes beautiful. At least for now, the situation in this country cannot just be calmed down like this.

Townsend is not a messenger of justice.

He is a usurper.

(End of this chapter)