Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

At this moment, Barlow was naked from the upper body.

On the sharp-edged muscles, blue veins popped out.

Holding the paddle in his hand, he drew a white line on the sea surface with astonishing strength and speed, and drove the small raft straight to the two ships in the distance.

Swish Swish Swish...

But as the distance approached, Barlow suddenly felt something was wrong.

What's wrong?

These two ships... seem to be sailing backwards?

No, not right.

Barlow rubbed his eyes, only to notice that the reality seemed to be somewhat different from his first reaction.

Logically speaking, it should be the pirate ship chasing and the merchant ship fleeing, but the two ships in front of Barlow are the other way around.

The pirate ship was sailing full steam ahead, trying with all its might to shake off the tails behind them.

And that merchant ship followed closely behind, relentlessly chasing after it, with the tendency of relentless pursuit!

Barlow: "..."

Um?

what's the situation?

...

This scene not only stunned Barlow, but also plunged the old captain who followed the ship into deep confusion.

The Alliance of the Four Seas—was this method originally used to maintain fixed routes?

A caravan chasing a group of pirates?

How fresh!

Looking at the experienced old captain, the young lookout couldn't help swallowing.

"captain……"

He paused, slightly puzzled, and said, "Are you sure they are a caravan?"

...

"Are you sure they are a caravan?!"

On the pirate ship, the captain of the pirate also questioned his first officer.

The first mate was also feeling overwhelmed, and rummaged through several old newspapers, and finally found useful information on one of the pages.

"Captain, the place we just docked for rest seems to be the route of the Universal Alliance!"

"Four Seas Alliance?!"

Captain Pirate entered the great route for the first time, but he also heard the name from several previous islands. It seems to be a business alliance led by a superpower.

At first, the Pirate Captain was quite dismissive of the news.

They are pirates, aren't they just killing, burning and looting?

The pirate captain likes to do this kind of thing the most.

Business alliance? For them, it should be a slightly harder piece of fat!

However, as more and more news was heard, the captain of the pirate gradually became wary of the name Universal Alliance.

After all, every piece of news he heard said that he must not engage in the idea of ​​the Universal Alliance, and any pirate who dared to provoke the Universal Alliance would pay an unimaginably painful price!

"I heard that there are murlocs serving as guards on their merchant ships!"

"How did I hear that it is a devil fruit ability user?"

"I know, it's a tauren!"

"No no, it's a bird man!"

"You're all wrong, it's a kobold!"

"..."

"I heard that it is a natural devil fruit ability user."

"..."

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was dead silent!

In the end, the group of pirates who got together to discuss all came to a common conclusion——

You must not mess with ships flying the flag of the Universal Alliance of the Seas!

Although the young and vigorous pirate captain said he didn't believe it, he silently wrote it down in his heart.

As for sailing, it's better to keep it simple.

But he did all his calculations, but he didn't expect that he just stopped to bask in the sun and go fishing because of the good weather, so he was unlucky and stopped on the route of the Universal Alliance!

And more importantly...

The pirate captain turned his head and caught a glimpse of the gravel storm surging on the ship's deck.

From... Nature Department? !

The rumors are true, it is a natural devil fruit ability user!

The pirate captain urged his men.

"Run if you want to live!"

But it is a pity that the sailing speed of ordinary pirate ships is not as fast as the ships of the Four Seas Alliance.

That is Alabasta's standard ship. As a superpower ship, its performance is second only to naval ships!

Not long after, the pirate ship was caught up.

A sandstorm jumped up from the deck of the ship and jumped onto the pirate ship.

The pirate captain looked at the man in the black fur coat and recognized his identity.

One of the Shichibukai under the king, [Sand Crocodile] Crocodile!

Bang!

The knife he just drew fell to the ground, and the pirate captain couldn't afford the courage to resist.

"Please, let me go!"

He hasn't been chic enough in this sea yet!

But what the pirate captain didn't expect was that his steel knife, which fell on the ground, floated up slowly under the support of the gravel, and then plunged straight into Crocodile's body.

"ah."

The tip of the knife sank into his body, and Crocodile let out a calm and perfunctory "scream".

"It hurts."

Bang!

The steel knife fell to the ground again, and a "wound" full of gravel appeared on Crocodile's body.

He shook the soot, looked up at the pirate captain, and said with a dark smile: "Since I have been attacked by such a 'dangerous' attack, I can only fight back, can't I?"

Before the words fell, the surrounding gravel had already begun to be restless.

The pirate captain had peed his pants in fright at this moment, and backed up again and again: "No, no, I don't want to die!"

Swish!

Sandstorms raged.

Among them, in addition to the screams, Crocodile's voice is also very clear.

"If you are afraid of death, don't go to sea!"

...

According to the old rules of the Four Seas Alliance.

There are three people left, who survived, and they will bring the existence of the Four Seas Alliance to the entire sea.

After returning to the ship, Crocodile took a deep breath, felt refreshed, clapped his hands, and ordered:

"I'm going back to my room, call me when I meet a pirate."

Another day, it is estimated that I will be able to return to Alabasta.

But just when Crocodile turned around, a strange presence suddenly appeared behind him.

"who!"

Crocodile turned around abruptly, and saw a tall, muscular man with a backpack on his back, his upper body naked, and all his muscles.

There is no such person on the pirate ship, and it is even more impossible to be one of his own on the ship.

A stranger suddenly appeared on the deck of the Universal Alliance.

Its speed was so fast that no one could react, or even see clearly how he got up there!

Swish!

In an instant, Crocodile turned his right hand into a scimitar, ready to fight.

The same was true for the surrounding guards, their sharp weapons aimed at the strong man, and their expressions were extremely nervous.

It stands to reason that there is a reliable sand crocodile here, and the guards don't need to make such a big reaction at all, but the man who appeared in front of them now has nothing to do with "friendliness".

That is a guy who just stands there and makes people feel that he is very suitable to be a pirate.

The face is ferocious, and the muscles of the whole body are full of "violence" visible to the naked eye!

A villain—that's the perfect way to describe him.

Seeing this, Barlow quickly waved his hand, took out his justice cloak from his backpack, shook it violently, and displayed the word "justice" in front of everyone.

"I'm in the navy and I'm going to Alabasta. I saw that you were attacked by pirates, so I came to help you."

The more he said this, the less confident he became. After all, Barlow is still not sure whether the group in front of him was "attacked by pirates" or "attacked pirates".

Well, all in all, it's good that no innocent people got hurt!

Thinking of this, Barlow smiled from the bottom of his heart, very happily.

"Hey Hey Hey……"

Crocodile was wondering why he met a psychotic navy at sea!

Looks like a villain than himself, and talks like an idiot.

And a psychotic navy with a cloak of justice!

etc……

This guy said he was going to Alabasta?

Trouble is dead, I don't want to go with a navy!

So, Crocodile casually said: "From here to Alabasta, it will take about a day if the ship moves at full speed."

"Okay, thank you!"

Barlow nodded his thanks and planned to get off the boat.

Only then did Crocodile notice that Barlow's "boat" was just a small raft!

The navy... paddling out to sea on a small raft?

Crocodile couldn't understand any more.

"You use that to go to sea?"

Barlow nodded, but suddenly slapped his head, "Oh, by the way, you reminded me that small rafts are not good!"

Crocodile: "..."

Afterwards, Barlow put the cloak of justice back into his backpack, and said to himself, "Fortunately, the backpack uniformly issued by the Navy is waterproof."

Crocodile: "?"

What does he mean? Don't you want to take your own boat to Alabasta?

But what Barlow said next made Crocodile stunned.

"If the boat takes a day, it will take about a day for me to swim, it's much faster!"

Before Crocodile could confirm the other party's words, Barlow jumped into the sea.

After a few breaths, Crocodile still didn't react.

That crazy navy... going to swim to Alabasta? !