I am brushing up materials in One Piece

Bartolomeo was a little irritated now, because he found that even in such a big gang, he could not find a bastard who bullied his younger brother after searching for a whole day.

There are many people below who feel that it is not worthwhile to spend so much manpower and material resources on a peripheral member.

But those opinions were all dismissed by him. After all, what is the most important thing when you come out to hang out? Loyalty!

As a gangster, if you abandon even this point, you will be nothing more than scum.

But after he couldn't find the "night snake", Bartolomeo decided to go to Grandma for advice.

"As long as you wait patiently, something good will happen!"

Grandma said this after hearing Bartolomeo's troubles.

So he calmed down and let his younger brothers continue to search around, waiting for the arrival of good news.

And things really turned out as grandma said, in the evening of the next day.

Police patrolling near the port reported that the target sneaked into an abandoned warehouse.

So Bartolomeo immediately led a group of young men to the warehouse.

"boom--"

When he kicked open the door of the warehouse, he saw Kos lying lazily on a big bed made of discarded wooden boards.

"You came."

Seeing Bartolomeo's arrival, Kos immediately sat up from the wooden bed and greeted Bartolomeo with a smile.

Faced with the unexpected reaction, Bartolomeo could only respond blankly: "Uh, here I come."

"You shouldn't have come."

Kos said with a slightly melancholy look in his eyes.

"what?"

Bartolomeo had never seen this battle before and was completely confused. He didn't know how to answer the question for a while.

So Kos had no choice but to continue: "But you still came."

This soliloquy made Bartolomeo and the gang members he brought with him scratch the back of their heads in confusion.

When they calmed down and remembered that they were here to settle accounts with Kos instead of reminiscing with him, Kos immediately changed his expression. He stretched out his hand with a serious face to stop their violent movements.

"I know you want to beat me up or even kill me, but I don't understand what I did wrong to make you treat me like this?"

Bartolomeo and his party understood this sentence, so a man with short orange hair walked out from the crowd.

Bartolomeo pointed to the man and said to Cos: "Do you remember him?"

"Do you remember how many slices of bread you have eaten so far?"

Kos asked rhetorically.

"17 slices, I'm a carnivore."

Bartolomeo answered without hesitation, and his swift and affirmative tone made Cos speechless for a moment.

However, he quickly followed Bartolomeo's answer and said, "Are you so sure? Isn't it possible that you have made a mistake in your memory?"

"Eh?"

Bartolomeo, who had a firm tone after being asked this question, immediately started to count his fingers. After a long time, he nodded with relief and said,

"That's right, 17 pieces."

"Oh, in that case, I seem to have remembered it a little bit. He seemed to have been beaten by me three days ago, but I was also injured at the time, so we should be even, right?"

Cos pointed to Bartolomeo a small scar on the back of his hand that was only one centimeter long and was about to heal.

"Look, my injury hasn't healed yet."

"It seems so!"

Bartolomeo touched the back of his head sheepishly, then turned to leave.

"Boss, we can't just let it go."

The man with short orange hair was kneeling in front of Bartolomeo, taking off his clothes to reveal his upper body covered in bruises.

"Do you think my injury is on the same level as that guy's?"

"It seems so!"

So Bartolomeo turned to face Cos again, with a fierce look on his face.

"I almost got fooled by you."

"No, I've actually been deceived."

Someone among Bartolomeo's younger brothers complained softly.

But when he turned around to look for who was complaining about him, he found that everyone's mouths were tightly shut.

"As the saying goes, 'You can't live without getting stabbed'. Now that you have chosen to hang out, how can you avoid bumping into each other? You can't just beat others, but others can't beat you, right?"

Cos continued to argue,

"And I beat up your little brother, and you come to me to settle the account; and if I was bullied by you, if you find someone to come back to the situation; after that, if there is someone else above you, then go to the person I found to settle the account; after that The people I found are looking for people to help again... When will this endless process come to an end?"

This long series of words obviously confused Bartolomeo, and several of the younger brothers behind him nodded subconsciously.

So Cos took advantage of the situation and came to the conclusion: "So when will retribution end? Why don't we turn the hostility into friendship and let it go?"

"Uh……"

Bartolomeo ruffled his hair slightly irritably.

Seeing his reaction, Kos was secretly happy and couldn't help but curl up the corner of his mouth with an imperceptible arc.

But his smile didn't last long, because he saw Bartolomeo immediately put his hands on his chest and made strange gestures after stroking his hair.

——This is the prerequisite for the barrier fruit to activate its ability.

So Kos also knew that he might not be able to delay any longer. He immediately jumped back, using the plank he had just used as a ship as a cover, and watched Bartolomeo's movements vigilantly.

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about, but I only know one thing, and that is, whoever has the bigger fist is right."

With that said, Bartolomeo punched forward,

"Strike the barrier!"

Although he couldn't see it, the airflow coming towards him and the debris being pushed away in the warehouse made Kos understand that an invisible barrier was coming towards him.

And he had already jumped aside when Bartolomeo punched.

The barrier fruit's ability is so strong that even an idiot general who can cut Kaido cannot penetrate the defense; at the same time, the barrier created by the barrier fruit's ability is not weak in terms of speed or strength when used as an attack.

But there is no perfect fruit ability in this world, and the barrier fruit also has its limitations, and this limitation is that only one barrier can exist at the same time and the area of ​​the barrier itself cannot be extended infinitely.

To sum up, if you want to avoid the barrier fruit's attack, the best option is to dodge to the side.

In addition, Kos predicted Bartolomeo's attack in advance, so he finally managed to get aside before the barrier impact arrived.

Seeing that their boss's attack failed, Bartolomeo's followers also swarmed forward, not intending to give Cos any chance to escape.

but……

"White smoke bomb!"

Countless seemingly ethereal but actually powerful smoke tentacles stretched out from behind Bartolomeo and the others, subduing them one by one.