Pirates, Start with the vampire fruit and rescue the empress

Kingdom of Alabasta, Rainland.

Thunder was rolling in the sky, dark clouds were gathering, and heavy rain was pouring down.

In a luxurious casino called “Yuyan”, in a spacious and luxurious room.

A man wearing a black fur coat, a gold hook on his left hand, a cigar in his mouth, and a horizontal scar on his face stood in front of the glass window, staring at the rain curtain outside the window. Thousands of thoughts ran through my mind.

His name is Sand Crocodile, nicknamed Sand Crocodile, and he is one of the Shichibukai. He is a well-known and respected hero in the Kingdom of Alabasta, and has a very high reputation among the people.

Yes! Although Crocodile is a pirate, this does not prevent him from having the title of hero of the Kingdom of Alabasta!

However, the name of hero is actually just a tool for Crocodile to realize his ambition!

A long time ago, before Roger became the Pirate King, the young Crocodile had ambitions and dreams to become a pirate and set sail on the sea.

Relying on his natural Shasha Fruit ability, he broke into the new world directly from the Great Channel, challenging powerful enemies everywhere.

In order to prove his strength, he once had a fierce battle with the nineteen-year-old Douglas Barrett, who was known as the “Devil’s Descendant”.

Although the two did not decide the winner in the end, Crocodile still became famous…

Back then, bounties for pirates were mainly measured by how many incidents they had done that harmed the world government. It was not like after Roger’s death, the Age of Discovery began, and the navy was unable to curb the harm of pirates, so it began to add strength. and power factors to calibrate the bounty.

Therefore, even if he draws with Barrett, his bounty of 81 million beli has not increased by one beri.

If the factor of strength were added, Crocodile’s bounty would have increased at least ten times!

What you need to know is that it is said that Barrett boarded the ship of Pirate King Roger as a challenger at the age of fifteen.

When Barrett was seventeen years old, among the Roger Pirates, in addition to Roger who could defeat him, even Roger’s deputy, “Pluto”, was already fifty years old at the time and was in the prime of his life. Rayleigh could only draw a tie with him.

As for this tie, how much water Rayleigh put into it can only be said to be unknown…

Two years later, because Barrett learned that Roger was seriously ill and was about to die, he felt that he could no longer fulfill his promise to defeat Roger. After his last challenge to Roger failed, he left Roger. The pirate group, as new pirates, takes on challenges in the new world and constantly improves their strength.

Until, when Barrett was nineteen years old, he met the equally young and energetic Crocodile, who was only twenty years old, and the two fought directly to a draw.

after that……

Roger arrived in Ravdru, became famous all over the world as the Pirate King, and was offered a bounty of 5.5 billion beli by the navy.

but……

In the end, Roger surrendered to the navy, and before being executed in Rogue Town, he left some words that started the era of great pirates.

That day, twenty-two-year-old Crocodile witnessed the moment of Roger’s death under the execution platform.

At that moment, he also had the idea of ​​becoming the Pirate King.

At that time, Crocodile’s idea was very simple. Since he wanted to become the Pirate King, he only needed to prove that he was better than Roger!

Because at that time, among the three legendary pirates, Golden Lion was imprisoned, Pirate King Roger was executed, and only the white-bearded Newgate, who was as famous as Roger, was left.

Therefore, Crocodile chose the simplest and most direct way…to challenge Whitebeard!

After all, in the eyes of the young and energetic Crocodile, his own strength…

My twenty-two-year-old self > My twenty-year-old self

One Piece Roger ≥ 17-year-old Barrett ≈ 50-year-old Pluto Rayleigh

My twenty-year-old self≈Nineteen-year-old Barrett

Round it up.

My twenty-two-year-old self ≥ Roger the Pirate King ≈ Whitebeard Newgate.

Roger the Pirate King, Rayleigh the Pluto, and Newgate the Whitebeard are all just remnants of the old era!

It’s time for the world of pirates to welcome a new king, and this king’s name is Sand Crocodile!

So, after watching Roger’s execution, Crocodile re-entered the new world with this idea in mind and challenged Whitebeard Newgate.

Since Crocodile once drew with Barrett, and the latter’s strength has been soaring in the past two years, becoming more and more terrifying, in the eyes of outsiders, this makes Crocodile become more powerful.

therefore

, Whitebeard Newgate also attached great importance to Crocodile’s challenge to him, and directly used his full strength.

Then……

Crocodile was entangled by Whitebeard Newgate with a domineering strike, and he fell to the ground… fell to the ground…

At the end, Whitebeard Newgate was still laughing, stretched out his right hand to Crocodile, and said:

“Be my son!”

“…”

At that moment, in addition to feeling the strength gap between himself and Whitebeard, Crocodile felt deeply desperate and humiliated.

Yes! Despair and shame…

He, Crocodile, had such complicated emotions for the first time since he was a child.

After that battle, Crocodile returned to Paradise from the New World in embarrassment, silently licking his wounds in an attempt to eliminate the psychological shadow caused by Whitebeard Newgate.

However……

He couldn’t understand why there was such a huge gap in strength between himself and Whitebeard!

later……

After a detailed investigation, Crocodile finally found out… that Overlord Color can also be entangled?

This is a power that absolutely crushes two-color Haki and Devil Fruit, and only a handful of top experts can master it!

In this regard, Crocodile couldn’t help but feel a little powerless. Overlord color and domineering things are special powers that are born with. If you have it, you have it, if you don’t have it, you don’t have it. It all depends on talent. But all those who awaken have the qualifications to become a king. .

With his strength and ambition, if he had the aptitude for domineering domineering power, he would have awakened it long ago.

but……

The fact is…he didn’t!

This means that he will never be able to reach the top with his own strength.

Therefore, Crocodile lay flat and ruined!

Go for the domineering and domineering look of riding a horse!

Even if you develop your two-color Haki and Devil Fruit to the extreme, you are still inferior to others, so why should I work hard to become a hammer!

Ever since, Crocodile set his sights on the three ancient weapons.

So what if you have overlord color and domineering energy?

Can they still jump in front of ancient weapons that bear the name of gods?

Through the investigation of various clues, Crocodile finally learned that the whereabouts of the ancient weapon “Pluto” existed in the Kingdom of Alabasta…

Therefore, he accepted the identity of King Shichibukai and stayed in the Kingdom of Alabasta for a long time.

In order to seize Pluto and build a Utopia with powerful power, he began to act out in the country, hunting pirates, and deepening the image of a hero into the hearts of the people.

In this way, Crocodile played the role for more than ten years, becoming a great hero in the Kingdom of Alabasta and accumulating a high reputation among the people.

Although the ancient weapon “Pluto” Pluto has still not been found, his plan to build a Utopia has basically established an implementation framework.

Therefore, a year ago, he began to use his natural rustling fruit ability to absorb water from all over the Kingdom of Alabasta, drying up the land, and secretly used dancing powder to continuously consume the water vapor in the sky, making the entire Alabasta The kingdom fell into drought.

In addition, he continues to use the ability of the Sand Fruit to create artificial sandstorms at high frequencies across the country, constantly covering and destroying crops, and exacerbating the negative effects of drought.

Some time ago, he also asked the secret criminal organization he founded, Baroque Studio, to launch the Albana Dancing Fan Incident in an attempt to shake the rule of King Kobra of Alabasta.

but……

Somewhat unexpectedly, King Kobra used the prestige and reputation he had accumulated over many years of rule to temporarily suppress the matter, appease the dissatisfied citizens, and implement corresponding drought relief measures. Gather people’s hearts.

In this regard, Crocodile also implemented corresponding methods, such as ordering spies lurking within the kingdom’s political system, so that drought relief measures could not be implemented at all, causing the royal family to waste money but achieved nothing.

Incidentally, he also used spies lurking in the kingdom’s army to provoke various conflicts between the army and civilians, gradually eroding people’s trust in the royal family.

Under his series of deliberate provocations, the current Kingdom of Alabasta has produced 100,000 rebels…

Crocodile believed that no matter how wise Kobra was, as long as these natural and man-made disasters continued for another two or three years, the people’s trust in the royal family would eventually be exhausted and they would rise up in rebellion.

By then, Crocodile believed that as a great hero of this country, if he operated properly secretly, he could successfully become the new king of this country.

As for “Pluto” Pluto…

Crocodile doesn’t believe that with the entire country as his backing, he won’t be able to find just a single ancient weapon…?

However……

What he never expected was that the Alabasta Kingdom, which should have continued to be dry, started to rain heavily three days ago, and it rained three times in three days!

Most of his plans and calculations were destroyed by the sudden heavy rain!

Now, it is raining heavily all over the Kingdom of Alabasta. This makes the rumor that King Kobra abused the dancing powder and caused the entire country to fall into drought.

Thinking of this, Crocodile’s face couldn’t help but become extremely ugly. He had a gloomy face and said angrily:

“Miss. All Sunday, what’s going on with this rain?

Three days! It has rained heavily for three consecutive times now!

The people below, haven’t they found any clues yet? ”

Hearing this, standing behind Crocodile, a woman wearing a purple leather coat and a white half-face mask with fair skin, an enchanting figure, and long black shawl hair showed an inexplicable lightness on her face. laugh:

“Not long ago, news came from millions of elders.

They discovered that the three heavy rains that covered the entire Kingdom of Alabasta in the past three days were all caused by the Umbrella Company’s rainmaking machines…”

“The rain-making machine…is it the kind that uses dancing powder?”

Crocodile turned around and frowned at the woman in front of him.

Hearing this, Miss Quan Zhou shook her head and explained:

“That’s not the case. The principle of the Umbrella Company’s rainmaking machine seems to be to use seawater to generate rain clouds to produce rainfall…”

“Damn it! The Umbrella Company actually came in to disrupt the situation at this time…” Crocodile gritted his teeth.

“Then what are you going to do?”

“You ask Mr. 5, who is out on a mission, to return to Alabasta immediately and let him find a way to destroy that damn rainmaking machine without anyone noticing!

The umbrella company interfered with my Utopia plan, and I wasn’t going to pretend that nothing happened. ”

“Mr.0, I think you should calm down. Not only is the Umbrella Company very powerful, but it also has Karl D. Sephiroth sitting in charge…

With the size of our Baroque studio, I’m afraid it’s not suitable to provoke an umbrella company.

I think we should hibernate for now…”

When he said the name “Karl D. Sephiroth”, miss. Quan Sunday’s tone contained a trace of inexplicable emotion, which seemed to be longing or something else…

Crocodile seemed to be aware of the subtle emotional changes of the woman in front of him. A faint murderous intention flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice:

“Nicole Robin, don’t you want to continue working on your historical text?

We had an agreement at the beginning…

You work for me, and I help you find the whereabouts of the historical text. ”

Faced with Crocodile who suddenly became angry and called her by her real name, Miss Quan Sunday couldn’t help but chuckle, she shook her head and said:

“No! I will never give up looking for the historical text. This is my lifelong dream…”

“Then you should obey my orders honestly… Do you understand?” Crocodile said coldly.

“Ok, I see!

I will pass on your order right now. ”

After saying that, Nico Robin turned around, opened the door, and left this luxurious and spacious room.

As she walked down the corridor, she thought to herself:

It seems that this guy Crocodile still refuses to give up the idea of ​​seizing the power of the Kingdom of Alabasta!

I don’t know where the historical text of this country is…

I really hope I can find it soon so that I can stay away from this dangerous guy Crocodile!

From beginning to end, he treated me as a tool and never trusted me.

Although I have never trusted him myself…

However, this life of intrigue and mutual use is really tiring!

Obviously I just want to learn and research history!

Inexplicably, the figure of the silver-haired young man reappeared in Nico Robin’s mind. She subconsciously raised her right hand and gently touched the slightly old white half-face mask she wore on her face.

The time she spent with that person was the happiest time Nicole Robin had lived after the O’Hara incident.

She doesn’t need to be frightened, nor does she need to live a life of sleeping on the streets without enough food. She just needs to concentrate on learning knowledge.

After parting ways with that person, the help he brought to her still had a profound impact on her, giving her the capital to live calmly in this world without having to live the miserable life she had before, and he She has been using the mask she put on herself.

If one day I meet him again, I wonder if he still remembers that there was a little stray cat that he took care of for a while? ………Thinking of this, a gentle smile appeared on Nico Robin’s face.