Pirate Merchant

"Boss! Kaixia Jinbei interrupted Samuel's tentacles and ran away with Nami, Robin and their two pets! He was so fast in the sea! He ran away before I could react at all. Lost!"

In a cave in the center of the cliff of an island with unknown coordinates, the younger brother reported to Kos standing on the bow of the ghost ship with a depressed expression, while Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Brooke and Franky lay beside him. He was unconscious on the ground and tied tightly with sea tower stone chains.

"Two pets? Ah, the fur girl is called Garrott, and the little tanuki is called Chopper. Don't underestimate them. The main attention-grabbing force of the Straw Hats has been caught more than once, but every time The miracle of escaping from death may be the result of a few seemingly inconspicuous 'pets' that can change the situation of the battle."

Kos said to his younger brother with a solemn expression that such a small crew of the Straw Hat Pirates could cause such a big incident, which is enough to prove that everyone in their group is extremely powerful.

"Okay boss! What to do with them? Wake them up?"

The younger brother, who was the only one who looked up to the boss, asked Kos respectfully.

"Let them continue to be unconscious first, and you can go to their ship first to see if you can find the map to Lavrud."

Kos jumped onto a protruding platform on the cliff. At this time, he was inevitably a little excited and ordered to his younger brother.

"Understood, but boss, that pirate ship was dragged down into the sea without any waterproofing measures. I feel that the map will definitely be damaged."

The younger brother looked at the Sonny, which had starfish, octopus, and seaweed hanging on the hull, and said to his boss with some frustration.

"Nonsense, the coordinate map or historical documents to Lavrud are more precious than gold. They must be able to imagine that they will face problems such as moisture, flooding, and fire, and store them in treasure boxes that can be avoided. Pay attention to them. Don’t damage their things while searching, they are prisoners now, not enemies, there is no need to completely quarrel with them.”

Kos breathed a sigh of relief and then directed the Skull Island to lift Luffy, who had been drained of strength by the skeleton chain, and jump onto the platform outside the cave.

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

In the boss's explanation, the younger brother jumped on the Sonny full of enthusiasm, and then followed the boss's instructions to search carefully and carefully.

"You bastard, I will definitely beat you away."

Luffy, who was constantly drained of physical strength, raised his head and looked at Kos. At this time, the threat in his weak state had no effect on Kos.

"Really? Maybe you can beat me away in the future, but unfortunately not now. You believe in your own strength too much. It just so happens that I also believe in your strength. But what makes me stronger than you is that I believe in me. While strengthening my own strength, I believe in my strategy and crew even more.”

Kos smiled slightly at Luffy's threat.

"Just think of it as a lesson learned with the big secret treasure, Straw Hat Boy. Even the greatest ship master in this sea relies heavily on his companions. He cannot become the Pirate King alone. There is only one reason why you lost to me. That is, your companions all believe in you unconditionally, but your strength betrays their trust in you."

Kos waved his hand casually, and the skeleton pirates carried Luffy and walked into the cave. More and more skeleton pirates jumped from the ghost ship to the mountain platform, and then carried Zoro and others into the cave.

"Kos, I am very interested in your Devil Fruit ability. Do you have any thoughts on joining the Lucky Chamber of Commerce? I will take care of all the problems for you."

After Sauron and others were forced into the cave by the skeleton pirates, Mu Qian suddenly appeared next to Kos and extended an invitation to him with a smile.

"You want me to let go of the Straw Hats? No problem. I will let them go as soon as I get Laphrud's coordinates."

Hearing Mu Qian's sincere invitation, Kos felt happy, but he still wanted to get the big secret treasure left by the Pirate King now before talking about anything else.

"Of course not. I wouldn't be so shameless to say these disheartening words to you just when you are about to succeed. But now that time is running out, I have to say this to you face to face."

Mu Qian hurriedly shook his head to deny Kos's guess.

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Mu Qian's words made Kos become serious. It seemed that this adult had 'seen' some enemies that he was not aware of were quickly approaching his direction.

"If you are unfortunately defeated, or if the Straw Hats successfully escape from you, then I will wait for your arrival on the bridge of the mothership. Don't die."

Mu Qian looked at the sea not far away again, and then used Shao to quickly leave here, leaving no time for Kos to refuse or agree to his proposal.

"Boss! I found a historical rubbing! But the words on it were blurred by the sea water! And even if they weren't blurred, we definitely wouldn't be able to understand the words!!!"

The younger brother's shouts came from the deck of the Sonny.

"Kid, come up quickly, there are enemies coming."

Kos took a deep breath. It seemed that this was the reason Jinbe took away Robin and Nami when he escaped. It seemed that although the captain was an idiot, his crew members were very smart.

"Enemy?! Understood! I will immediately possess the spirit sea fish to conduct reconnaissance!"

The younger brother made a big jump and landed firmly next to the elder brother. Half-crouching on the ground, he raised his hand and pointed his palm at the sea. The possession of the spirit was completed without any strange phenomena happening.

"That bastard always rushes out suddenly and gets wiped out every time."

In the cave, Zoro woke up slowly, and felt relieved after seeing his three knives placed beside him. At this moment, he wished to kick Luffy to death, that bastard who acted without authorization, but it was a pity That hungry skinny bastard was too far away from him.

"Damn it, this is Hailou Shi Sauron, we are obviously not capable, that guy is too cautious, right?"

After waking up, Sanji tried to struggle a bit, and muttered uncomfortably when he found that he couldn't struggle at all.

"What to do?! What to do?! We will be killed, right?!"

Usopp yelled wanting to cry without tears, he only hated that when Jinbe stretched out his hand to him, he stepped on a bone stick and fell down! Otherwise, I would have already left with Nami and Robin!

"Calm down, if you want to be killed, the other party has already done it."

Frankie struggled to sit up, with weapons in his eyes and mouth, he was going to try his best to escape with Sauron and the others when the enemy came over.

"That's true, I don't intend to kill you, kid, go and unchain them."

After leading the younger brother into the cave, Kos gave instructions to the younger brother behind him.

"Hey? Is this the release of their chains? Obviously, it took a lot of effort to catch them."

The younger brother asked Cos in a completely incomprehensible manner.

"The guy we caught with great difficulty, if he can't survive the next difficulties, he will become a guy who is easily plundered by others. You also saw that a large fleet on the bottom of the sea has surrounded this place, right?"

Kos frowned slightly and said to his younger brother that he didn't want to let go of the Straw Hats after he had managed to catch them, but he was not confident that he could defeat that large fleet while protecting the 'trophy'.

"Do you have anything to eat here? That guy will starve to death if he doesn't eat."

After the sea tower stone chain on his body was unlocked by the key, Sanji moved his sore shoulders and asked Kos.

"This kid has a terrifying appetite, kid, you and Sanji-san go to the sea to grab a few Neptune-like 'ingredients' for cooking before the encirclement closes."

Kos looked at Luffy who was so hungry that he completely lost his vitality. Knowing Luffy very well, he knew that if he wanted to quickly recover his fighting power, he had to feed him quickly.

"What enemy did you encounter?"

Sauron inserted three long knives into the belly wrap around his waist, and he felt a strong sense of crisis surrounded him from all directions, and asked Kos with a slight frown.

"The BIG MOM pirate squad fleet led by the three dessert generals Katakuri, Cracker, and Smoothie, and personally commanded by Perospero, has surrounded here. At least the cadres of the pirate squad have come. half."

After releasing the Straw Hats and they didn't immediately attack him, Kos replied to Sauron with a sigh of relief.

"Based on the calculation of the fleet establishment of the Big Mom Pirates, the entire fleet has a size of about 55,000 people, which is already more than half of the strength of the Big Mom Pirates."

Looking at Sanji, who was cooking quickly, the seasoned Kos judged the approximate strength of the BIG MOM pirates based on the number of ships they arrived.

"The worst thing now is that we can't engage in offensive and defensive battles with them. Our firepower is far inferior to the cadre ship of the BIG MOM Pirates, let alone the Queen Mother Anthem, which can easily destroy an entire island with firepower." gone."

Kos took a deep breath to suppress his slightly nervous and eager mood.

"Is it only possible to break out of the siege by fighting with them?"

Because Luffy lost the chain at this time, Zoro, who took the initiative to undertake the negotiation task, had a look of anticipation in his eyes and asked Kos, rather than running away quietly without doing anything, he prefers to rush directly and tear the opponent's defense line to break through this method.

"Yes, after all, if you just count the numbers, my ghost fleet will not be smaller than them, so let's form an alliance. I will not launch any form of attack on you before boarding Lavrud."

Kos held out his hand to Sauron with a cruel predatory smile, waiting for his answer.

"Hehe, forming an alliance? This is not my job. Hey, Captain, someone here wants to form an alliance with you."

Zoro didn't even look at Kos' palm stretched out to him, turned his head and said to Luffy who was grabbing the raw fish and gnawing on it.

"No, I'm going to beat him up after I break out of the siege! I can't beat him up after forming an alliance!!!"

Without even thinking about it, Luffy rejected Kos's proposal to form an alliance.

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Cos was stunned. He never thought that he would be rejected. Did that idiot guess his real purpose of attacking them after breaking out? Or is it that his acting skills are really too bad?

"Well, you are always beyond my expectations, so what about the alliance before the breakout? Whether you want to beat me up or I want to arrest you again, you are talking after the breakout ?”

Cos, who was rejected by Luffy, took a few steps back cautiously. Since the trick is not good, then he can only do it with real swords and guns.

"No, we can break through by ourselves without your help!"

Luffy, who had been taught by Cos before and had nothing to say, rejected Cos's proposal again as if playing a child's temper.

"Hehe, it seems that the situation here has been predicted by Mr. Mu. He is really a terrifying man who makes people think carefully."

Looking at Luffy who refused twice to make all his schemes impossible to carry out, Kos was really not sure whether he was wise and foolish, or whether he had a keen sense of smell and caught the conspiracy that he hadn't implemented at all.

"It seems that your small plan will not work. After all, with your strength, it is easy to break through without us dragging you down. If you come here like this to form an alliance with us, everyone will doubt it. Although this idiot is very It's obviously just a prank."

While cooking, Sanji commented on Kosna's weird behavior.

"Hey? Is that so? Ah! Mmm! That's right! Lord Ben Usopp has seen through your tricks a long time ago! Hahahaha~"

Usopp, who was still pinching Luffy's neck and complaining why Luffy refused to join a super combat power, was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed boldly with the cheeky spirit that as long as he is not embarrassed, then the embarrassing one is other people's cheeky spirit.

"...It is true that I have underestimated you. It is estimated that in the next battle, it will not be as easy as this time to catch you."

Kos looked at the Straw Hats, whose aura had become disorganized after losing once to him, and clenched his fists involuntarily. He also wanted to fight them once to see what the difference would be.

"Then, I wish you a successful escape. However, I may help you when you escape. After all, if I want to capture you again, the first element is that you can escape."

Kos waved his hand and turned around, while hundreds of skeleton pirates in the cave followed in twos and threes, their upper and lower jaws opened and closed, as if they were talking about the Straw Hats. Their appearance proved that they were not just injected with action orders skeletons, but 'creatures' that really have souls.

"It's really ridiculous. They still think about breaking through such a big encirclement alone. Obviously, the chances of breaking through and escaping with us are the greatest."

The younger brother, who was sending fish to the sea through the spirit, snorted coldly, despising the arrogant speech of the Straw Hats.

"It's impossible that they do have the ability to escape, kid, don't underestimate anyone, be fully prepared, after they rush out, we must immediately capture them together with Robin, so, now I need You find Jinbe's location and determine when they will return to the ship."

Cos shook his head slightly to warn this loose-minded guy, compared to the Straw Hat gang, this brat is the least capable one.