"Boom!"
The beam of light struck the top of the "Rain Banquet", turning Crocodile's office into ruins, and the sound of thunder resounded in the hot sky.
The sudden bolt from the blue and the beam of light that seemed like a divine punishment caused the residents of the rainy land who witnessed everything to distance themselves from the "Rain Banquet".
Living in one of the ancient human nations on the Grand Line, they naturally did not think that the beam of light was some kind of divine punishment.
Even if it was divine punishment, it should have been struck in the damned palace of "Albania", not in the "Rain Banquet" where their hero Crocodile lived.
Obviously, it was definitely done by a person with special abilities, and it was most likely a revenge by the remnants of the pirates that Lord Crocodile had been attacking.
"Very good, now you can watch our performance."
Handing the bag of documents to Robin, Kalina and Nami spoke excitedly.
"I'll go first!"
As soon as Nami finished her words, her figure turned into a flash of lightning and disappeared into the alley.
"Be careful, Crocodile's weakness is water." Robin reminded.
Hearing this, Kalina smiled and said, "No, his weakness is me!"
After saying that, Kalina also walked out of the alley and ran in the direction of "Rain Banquet".
"Don't worry, they will be fine, and our captain won't let anything happen to them."
After putting down the heavy backpack, Zoro didn't care whether the ground was clean or not. He just sat down and closed his eyes to rest.
He goes to bed at four in the morning and gets up at seven in the morning. Zoro only sleeps for three hours a day. Unless he is practicing or fighting, he will usually rest for a while when he has nothing to do.
After hearing what Zoro said, Robin thought of Dewey's record of killing legends, and finally put aside his worries.
At the same time, in the office on the top floor of "Rain Banquet", Crocodile didn't know that Robin had betrayed him and most of his men were killed.
He was smoking a cigar in the office when the ceiling suddenly collapsed and he was buried in the rubble, making this heroic figure in a very bad mood.
Just like Katakuri's "Mochi-Mochi Fruit" awakening, the invisible water in the stone pressing Crocodile was sucked out and turned into countless grains of sand.
What seems to be the ability of the awakened fruit is actually just the "characteristic" of the "Sand-Sand Fruit" to suck the moisture out of living and dead things it touches.
In the pile of sand formed by grains of sand, Crocodile's unharmed figure appeared.
Crocodile looked up at the figure that appeared in the air. The blazing lightning made him grit his teeth and said, "Nami, the Electric Girl, what do you mean by this? As bounty hunters, why did you attack me, a Shichibukai? Where is Dewey? Let that kid come out to see me!"
"I'm sorry, my boss doesn't want to see you!"
Nami pulled out a golden ball from her body, and then injected a large amount of lightning into it. The terrifying electric heat immediately liquefied the gold, and then formed a golden stick in her hand. She raised it high and pointed it at Crocodile below, smiling and swinging it down: "100 million volts, lightning!"
Nami formed lightning on her wrists, and using the conductivity of gold, she used double the "Judgment of God".
"Boom boom!"
This time it was not the beam of light that fell first, but the thunder sounded slowly afterwards.
Instead, there was a deafening thunder, and an extremely huge beam of light fell down.
This time, the lightning column was far more powerful than before. In just a moment, it submerged the entire casino.
The dream city of the "Alabasta Kingdom", Crocodile's base camp, and the kingdom's largest casino completely collapsed under this lightning strike.
The speed of lightning was incomparably fast, especially when Nami released it at close range without warning. Crocodile, who did not have the domineering power, could not even react. If he had not developed elementalization into a passive skill, he would have probably suffered fatal damage.
You know, the lightning just now was Nami's ultimate move.
Using the special move without saying a word is something Nami learned from Dewey.
Although it consumes a lot of physical strength, if successful, the opponent will either die or be disabled. Even if the opponent's strength was superior to hers before, it will drop to a level equal to hers, or even be weaker than hers.
It doesn't matter if she fails, after all, she is not alone and has strong support behind her.
"Sure, the most money-hungry little thief actually destroyed the casino with one strike? Nami, I have to look at you with new eyes – Dark Point Road!"
Kalina, who had just crossed the bridge, witnessed the collapse of the "Rain Banquet" with her own eyes. She looked at Nami, who was flashing with lightning in the sky, with her eyes brightened. Then she released the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit with all her strength. Endless black smoke emerged from her palms, rushing in all directions like waves. Wherever it passed, whether it was flowers, trees, lakes and fountains, or splashing sand and stones, and even the gamblers who had not yet escaped from here, were all sucked down by the gravity of the black smoke and fell into the black hole space exclusive to the "Dark-Dark Fruit".
"Why…why is this happening?"
Looking at the "Rain Banquet" below which was reduced to ruins and then swallowed by the dark acupoints, Nami, who was suspended in the air, had an expression of wanting to cry but having no tears.
I just had a "Judgment of God" blow off a roof, why is the entire casino collapsing just because I increased the force a little bit?
Little did they know that the electric heat contained in 100 million volts is not comparable to the previous "God's Judgment".
"Go to hell!"
Just as the ruins gradually sank into the black hole space, a figure with its lower body turned into sand flew towards Kalina at an extremely fast speed.
Crocodile, who had transformed into an element in advance to avoid the lightning, was still unharmed, but his gloomy face did not hide the murderous intent towards Kalina.
As the leader of the bounty hunter organization "Baroque Works", and with the assistance of Robin, the mobile library, Crocodile is naturally familiar with the information about Dewey and the other two.
He used to focus on developing his fruit ability and left the New World without mastering Haki. He couldn't kill the little girl above his head who was as difficult to deal with as Kizaru. Similarly, she couldn't kill him either.
Crocodile has only two choices: avoid being attacked by the little devil who is hiding somewhere, or avoid them working together to exhaust his physical strength.
One is to capture the hostages who can threaten them, and the other is to escape from here and avoid fighting.
Obviously, as a great hero, Crocodile would never choose the latter.
Therefore, Crocodile transferred all his anger and murderous intent towards Nami to Karina.
It's a pity that he knew nothing about Kalina, who had an absolute advantage in intelligence and the power to restrain all people with special abilities.
"…Nami, save me!"
Karina's Observation Haki always locked onto Crocodile's position. She looked up at Crocodile flying towards her, and a look of intense panic suddenly appeared on her face. Her trembling eyes seemed to reveal her inner helplessness. Without saying a word, she turned her back to Crocodile and ran away.
"Don't get close to Kalina…"
Nami in the air seemed to have just reacted and shouted loudly with an anxious look on her face.
Before he finished speaking, it turned into a blue-white streak of light that shot down.
At this time, Crocodile had completely ignored Nami's existence.
Seeing Kalina's reaction, he gathered a small sandstorm with his right hand without the golden hook. He was ready to create a huge sandstorm to blow Kalina away after getting close to her, and then take the opportunity to capture her.
However, seeing that she had her back to him and Nami was supporting her from below, perhaps the reaction just now was too real, causing Crocodile to crush the sandstorm in his hand, speed up and fly behind Kalina, with the golden hook in his left hand ready to hook Kalina's shoulders from behind, and use the venom in the golden hook to paralyze her body, making her completely unable to resist.
However, Crocodile's arrogance made him only remember Dewey and Nami, two nature-type ability users, and he forgot that Kalina was no ordinary person.
This is a talented girl who is only 16 years old and has mastered the dual-color domineering.
When the golden hook came from behind and hooked Kalina's shoulder to stop her figure, the sharp hook did not pierce her body, but was blocked by a layer of black substance.
Taking this opportunity, Karina turned around suddenly, showing a lovely and charming smile, looked up at Crocodile and said with a smile: "Congratulations, you won the first prize!"
Bang!
Almost at the moment of opening her mouth, Karina used the darkness of the earth to conceal her smoky palm and suddenly grabbed Crocodile's arm.
In an instant, Crocodile's lower body, which had turned into sand, returned to its original state, and his figure lost balance and fell from the air. The ability of the fruit that he was proud of also disappeared at this moment.
"Puff! Puff—"
Then, the sound of two sharp weapons piercing through the human body rang out.
Karina took out the Laser Shell hanging on her back, condensed the lightsaber and pierced Crocodile's heart.
At the same time, Nami also landed beside Kalina. The golden stick in her hand turned into a golden spear, which also pierced Crocodile's body. With a deep sadness on her face, she shook her head and said, "I told you not to get close to Kalina… Otherwise you will die, poof!"
At the end, Nami couldn't help but burst out laughing as she looked at Crocodile's eyes, which were filled with resentment but gradually lost focus.
How familiar this scene is!
The previous user of the "Thunder Fruit" died at the hands of Kalina's Dark Sailor because of his arrogance.
And now, this Shichibukai has also followed in Eneel's footsteps.
If Crocodile chose to attack from a distance, or fight with Nami, he might be able to hold out for a while. But if he wanted to escape, even Nami wouldn't be able to stop him.
After all, this is a desert kingdom and a rare super-large island in the world. Crocodile has an absolute home advantage.
But unfortunately, he wants to capture Kalina to threaten Dewey and Nami. Isn't this courting death?
"Nami, go get some fruit. I'll free those garbage first." Kalina carried Crocodile's body and took back the black smoke that covered an area of several thousand meters, forming a huge black tornado that expelled all the people and objects in the black hole space.
Boom boom
A large number of stones, human bodies, and even lake water once again created a ruin in this barren land that was completely swallowed by darkness.
After throwing out all the garbage, Karina carried Crocodile's body and walked into the alley under the fearful and resentful gazes of the residents who were watching the battle from afar.
"He…he just died like that?"
Looking at Crocodile's body thrown on the ground, Robin, who was very clear about Crocodile's strength, was full of disbelief.
"That lightning strike just now, is this the power of the natural system?"
On the other hand, Zoro was still in shock from the lightning that destroyed the "Rain Banquet".
Compared with Nami's lightning, his own slashing attack was indeed not worth mentioning.
Even if he could swing a flying slash, it was unknown how long it would take to destroy such a gambling city.
"Swoosh—Kalina, here you go!"
At this time, Nami turned into lightning and returned to the alley, handing the fruit to Kalina.
Taking the fruit, Kalina began the dark ritual in front of Robin.
"…"
When the black ball dissipated after a while, Robin watched the peel in Kalina's hand slightly wriggling and changing into the fruit of the "Natural Sand-Sand Fruit" at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her expression had become dull.
At this moment, Robin also clearly realized that he could not get off the boat.
In other words, the moment she thought of getting off the boat was the moment of her death.
Because… she saw a huge secret that, once leaked, would be no less than the discovery of "ancient weapons", enough to drive all the major forces crazy and cause a sensation in the whole world.
"Congratulations, your test was perfect."
Just then, a fifth voice suddenly sounded in the alley.
Dewey, wearing a cloak, walked in, looked at Kalina, the two girls and Zoro, with a satisfied smile on his face, and praised them from the bottom of his heart.
"Boss, you're finally here!"
Nami, who had always known his position, immediately threw herself into his arms, hugged his waist tightly with both hands, and said coquettishly: "I haven't seen you for a few days, I missed you so much!"
"Boss, this is my gift to you!"
Kalina also picked up her heavy backpack and walked up to Dewey, looking up at him with her beautiful purple eyes and smiling, as if waiting for praise.
"I saw it all. You are just like me, Kalina!"
Dewey patted Kalina and Nami's heads and praised them again without hesitation.
"whee..."
"Hehehe…"
Hearing this, Nami and Kalina laughed happily.
This was the first time they were praised with such a sense of accomplishment!