Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Yaruga, the tavern.

The exiles were still drinking, but the noise disappeared, and the attention was focused on the bar.

There, their Huoka boss was toasting with a human.

And that human being said a few minutes ago that they couldn't forget——

"This is your home if you want to."

...

is he serious?

Murlocs don't like to be tempted, so after drinking half a pint of beer, Huoka simply asked:

"Are you serious?"

Rowan nodded, "You can stay and build a village of your own around."

Hearing this, Huoka was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said:

"You are strong, but you don't understand us, we are not ordinary refugees..."

Speaking of this, Huoka had a painful expression on his face, as if he had made some kind of determination.

Afterwards, he lifted up his shirt, revealing the Tianxianglong's hoof branded on his chest.

That is a shameful brand representing the slave status of the Tianlong people, and it will never be easily shown to others.

Huoka's ability to achieve this step shows his unreserved trust in the human being in front of him!

"It will be very troublesome to take us in."

Huoka said in a deep voice: "You may be a high-ranking official in this country and an upright human being, but you cannot bear the pressure from the Tianlong people."

Rowan smiled and shook his head.

"No, I can take it."

Hearing this, Huoka's heart trembled suddenly.

For some reason, the words spoken by the human in front of him always gave him a feeling that he could believe it, no matter how exaggerated the words were.

Thinking of this, Huoka suddenly realized that he didn't seem to know the other party's name.

"Excuse me, are you..."

Before he could finish speaking, the big man in charge of the Yaruga militia suddenly rushed in.

He came for Crocodile.

"Mr. Sand Crocodile, it's very kind of you to be here, please help us, the pirates are coming!"

"Um?"

Crocodile, who was sitting in the corner, raised his eyebrows.

He was thinking about Luo Wen's intentions with great interest, and he was about to have an idea, but his thoughts were interrupted, and he felt a little unhappy.

But on the bright side, he is still a national hero in Alabasta, so he can only stand up and say:

"Got it, I'll go take a look."

Seeing this, Rowan twisted his neck towards Huoka, "I'll go and have a look too, are you coming?"

Huoka thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

After all, it was the residents of Yaluja who took them in, and Huoka always kept this kindness in his heart.

Wall and other murlocs also followed after hearing the news.

...

Outside the tavern, Yaruga Wharf.

There appeared a heavily armed warship, moored beside the broken sailboat.

A group of people dressed as pirates jumped off the battleship.

The leader, the bearded boatman, held a machete, kicked over the shelf in front of him, and shouted loudly.

"superior!"

The pirates under his command immediately started to plunder.

While directing the residents to evacuate, the old man, the mayor, couldn't help being curious.

The purpose of this group of pirates is very strange.

Yaluja is just a poor small fishing village, there is no property to loot, at most you can grab some supplies.

For pirates, not only is it meaningless to plunder Yaruga, but it is easy to provoke the behemoth of the Alabasta Kingdom, which is a trade that is not worth the candle.

But the purpose of this group of pirates was not supplies, they rushed into one house after another, as if they were looking for something.

Suddenly, a pirate found the mayor and dragged the old man in front of the bearded captain.

The bearded man grabbed the mayor by the collar, and sprayed the old man's face with the stench of alcohol from his mouth.

"where are they?"

The old man was taken aback, "Who?"

"Stop pretending to me!"

The bearded man pointed at the dilapidated sailboat on the pier, "Those fugitives should be in your village!"

The old man understood that this group of pirates wanted to find the group of murlocs and humans.

Although the other party was a so-called "fugitive" in the mouth of the bearded man, the old man obviously did not believe the group of vicious pirates in front of him.

"They docked yesterday, and they changed boats and left that night!"

"Gone? Where did you go?"

"I don't know, the sea is so big, it's possible to go anywhere."

Hearing this, the bearded man let go of the mayor, and then waved towards his people.

The old man thought it was a signal to retreat, but he never thought that the surrounding pirates were still continuing their plunder.

In desperation, the old man said loudly:

"If you want supplies and property, just take them, don't hurt the people here!"

The bearded captain raised his eyebrows.

"Old man, for us, 'people' are the most valuable goods!"

The old man's face changed instantly.

After living for so long, he naturally understood what the beard in front of him was referring to.

This group of people is indeed pirates, but unlike pirates who rob property, what they rob is "people".

This group of people in front of them are slave traders!

"Arrest the young men and women and take them away!" the bearded man greeted.

The mayor stopped in front of the bearded man, "This is Alabasta, a member country of the world government, and the navy will not let you go!"

"Oh, yes, you are right!"

The bearded man slapped his head and said with a grin:

"'The peaceful town was attacked by the cruel murloc fugitives, and the residents all survived'—this reason should be very appropriate, right?"

"You... what did you say?"

The old man, the mayor, understood what Big Beard meant, and the other party wanted to put all the blame on those exiles.

The old man watched as the bearded man raised the machete in his hand and aimed it at himself.

"Being killed by the cruel murlocs is really miserable!"

The bearded man grinned grinningly and swung his knife down!

Swish!

At the moment when the blade was about to hit the old man, a blue fist suddenly appeared in front of the bearded man.

boom!

Right in the middle of the bearded face.

The bearded man screamed "Wow", and he flew upside down, knocking down several younger brothers one after another.

The chaotic pier fell silent for a while.

Everyone looked up and saw a face distorted to the extreme by anger.

It was the Murloc Hoka!

He clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth.

"You, I saw you in the slave trade..."

Huoka walked towards the bearded man step by step, his heart was already filled with rage.

This anger not only saw a group of slave traders, but more importantly, that group of slave traders actually wanted to turn these innocent residents into slaves!

"Why?"

Huoka grabbed the bearded man by the collar and lifted him into the air.

"As human beings, why do you do such a thing?"

The bearded man struggled and recognized that Huoka was one of the group of murlocs he was hunting.

The previous rhetoric was nothing more than an excuse for looting.

He never expected that this town actually took in a group of fugitive murloc slaves!

But in desperation, the bearded man also thought of a way to escape.

He yelled: "Let go of me, or the group of untouchables who took you in will die!"

Huoka looked around, and there were already many young pirates who put their blades on the necks of the residents of Yaruga, threatening them.

"Let go of me now, you bastard slave!"

The bearded man slapped Huoka's arm vigorously, cursing.

Huoka gritted his teeth, his brows furrowed more and more, and he got into a tangle.

In the next second, a sudden change occurred.

A huge sandstorm blew past the pier, and gravel filled the surroundings, and the surrounding visibility was instantly less than half a meter!

"what happened?"

"Who? What?"

"Wow!"

After a short period of panic, there were successive screams.

After a few breaths, the sandstorm gradually dissipated.

The residents were surprised to find that the sharp knives on their necks had already fallen to the ground at this moment.

As for the pirates holding sharp blades, their bodies have already dried up at this moment, turning into mummified corpses.

Crocodile's figure appeared behind Huoka and the bearded man, and the gravel scimitar on the elbow gradually dissipated.

He was smoking a cigar and looking back at Hoka.

"Hello, murloc."

Grit returned to Crocodile's body.

He frowned and lit a cigarette.

"That guy, I left it especially for you."