Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

As any experienced traveler knows, the desert at night is very different from the day.

After nightfall, the temperature in the desert will quickly drop below zero.

For ordinary people, such a temperature difference is fatal if they are not prepared enough.

But now, there are two men wearing thin, ordinary clothes, walking in the desert at night.

They turned over one sand dune after another, walking slowly.

The cold wind of the night was blowing on them, but there was no discomfort on their expressions.

One person, wearing a set of golden yellow light armor with a dark purple ribbon, holds a scepter.

The other, with a beard, was wearing a navy uniform with a cloak of justice representing the navy on his back.

Rowan and Garp are walking.

When they came out of the palace, they had been walking together, but what was puzzling was that they hadn't spoken a word during the journey.

It wasn't until he was far away from the city of Albana that Karp took the lead in provoking the topic.

"What a coincidence, you also take a walk?"

"It's really a coincidence."

Rowan nodded with a smile, and asked an inexplicable question:

"Just here, or continue walking?"

"Keep walking." Garp scratched his head and grinned, "It's still too close."

Rowan nodded in agreement.

The two continued to walk side by side in the desert.

They turned over a sand dune and saw a ruin that was mostly buried by gravel.

Rowan has investigated the geography of Alabasta today, and it should be a palace built a hundred or two hundred years ago.

Time has passed, and the once glorious palace has long been destroyed by wind and sand, leaving only ruins.

The two walked through the ruins, and Rowan's hand caressed a broken wall.

He smiled at Karp: "I think it's a good place."

Garp looked at the shadow not far away, seemed to have noticed something, scratched his head helplessly and said, "Do you want to stop walking? If too many ancient ruins are destroyed, the old man's report will have to be written in a thick pile!"

Hearing this, Luo Wen couldn't help but make a joke.

"Speaking of civilization relics, I should be the oldest here."

"Yes!"

Garp reacted, and sighed: "Ah, one day I will be able to chat and walk with the ancients 800 years ago. This sea is really magical!"

The two walked up a sand dune again, and their footsteps finally stopped.

All around, there is nothing but gravel and ruins, and only the whistling wind can be heard in the ears.

Rowan and Garp just stood there, facing each other.

...

In the distance, in the shadow of the corner of the ruins, Granny He was wearing a cloak of justice, leaning quietly against a pillar.

She raised her eyes and silently watched the scene that happened on the sand dunes.

Suddenly, Granny He noticed the movement around her and coughed a few times.

"Come out, young brat, I'm not old and blind."

After finishing the words, the surrounding gravel surged, and a figure in a black fur coat slowly appeared from the gravel.

Crocodile drank a cigar, nodded to Granny He, and said with a smile, "You really deserve to be the top staff officer of the Navy Headquarters!"

Granny He glanced at Crocodile, "Put away your compliments, crocodile brat, you don't want to hide at all, do you?"

"Hide? Why should I hide?"

Crocodile showed a very innocent expression on purpose, "I am also recognized by the world government as Shichibukai, the prince who helped clean up many pirates. The navy should thank me."

Grandma He didn't answer, but her dark blue pupils stared straight at Crocodile.

The latter suddenly had the feeling that everything had been seen through, and he couldn't help shivering.

"Smart brat, beware of showing your feet."

Crane put his attention on the hill again, and said calmly:

"Our target this time is not you, but if you want to try, I don't mind playing with you little brat."

Crocodile snorted softly, feeling upset inside, but he didn't dare to provoke the mother-in-law in front of him easily.

As one of the Seven Martial Seas, Crocodile knows exactly how terrifying Crane's true abilities are!

He doesn't want to go back and forth with a top think tank in the sea now, and he cares more about what happened on that sand dune now.

Luo Wen and He, these two people can talk a lot between the lines and communicate through words.

And Rowan and Garp—

What can these two people "talk" about?

...

"Navy reports are so hard to write!"

Karp sighed: "Usually I ask Xiaohe to help, but this time Xiaohe also has to write a report, so I can only write it myself."

Luo Wen thought for a long time, not knowing how to comfort the other party.

Garp wailed, "Can you understand?"

Rowan shook his head, "Usually Neferutali will hand over the written battle report to me, and I won't write it myself."

Garp: "..."

He rubbed his temples, sighed and said, "So, I hope to write fewer reports this time."

Now, Rowan initially understood Garp's meaning.

"So...don't fight?"

"No, that fellow from the Warring States Period specifically emphasized that he said that the pressure from the Tianlong people is too great, and he needs to give an explanation."

Karp stroked his beard and recalled earnestly: "According to the words of the Warring States Period, what kind of 'rituals' and 'soldiers' do they seem to be?"

Luo Wen guessed: "Li before the soldiers?"

"No, not that."

Kap waved his hands again and again, slapped his head violently, and laughed loudly: "Yes——respectful and polite!"

"I see, I see."

Luo Wen nodded and suddenly asked, "How many minutes?"

This was an inexplicable question, but Garp instantly understood what Rowan meant.

"Ahahaha, what a considerate emperor."

Garp touched his chin and thought: "A rare opportunity, very good?"

Luo Wen refused with a smile: "Hey, I don't want the whole of Alabasta to be torn apart, and in that case, your report may not be able to finish a hundred pages."

"Well, it makes sense."

Garp nodded, and tentatively asked, "Seven points?"

"It's still too big, and it will spread to Albana."

"Five points!"

"A report of about ten pages."

"How about three points?"

"A page report is about the same."

"Okay, that's it!"

Garp clapped his hands, finalizing the final result.

The discussion between the two was very loud, so they could hear it clearly from the ruins.

Crocodile couldn't help wondering, "What are the two of them talking about?"

"The two of them are discussing how hard to fight."

Granny He sighed helplessly, "Two men who will cause trouble to others!"

With how much force to hit?

Crocodile reacted for a moment, combined with the conversation between the two before, realized what the crane meant.

Crane and Garp were ordered to come to Alabasta to communicate with Ryan Rowan, but the tasks they received were different.

The communication between Crane and Luo Wen was on the chessboard. The two sides said a lot of inexplicable words, and each understood the other's implication.

For Karp, his communication method is much simpler and rougher——

fight.

Both sides use three points of strength to fight.

Crane will witness the result of this battle with his own eyes, and then report the result to Admiral Sengoku based on his own judgment, and finally decide the navy's attitude on Ryan Rowan!

...

The moonlight is fading.

At this time, there is still a long time before Crocodile implements his original plan, and the dancing powder has not yet been used, so it will occasionally rain in various parts of Alabasta.

But today's cloud layer is obviously a bit too thick, and the blackness has sunk down, covering the moon.

Two black silhouettes stood on top of the sand dunes.

The two heroes bent down respectively, and the whistling wind became more and more violent.

The storm is coming, and it is about to explode!