Ultimate Blade Shadow in One Piece Navy

In the rainy land of Alabasta, inside an office at the Rainy Banquet Casino.

Crocodile had a cigar in his mouth and a cigar in his hand. There was also a cigar placed on the edge of the ashtray on the table, and they were both lit, except that the one in the ashtray had not been smoked for too long. It's about to go out.

He frowned and looked at the newspaper in his hand, which read the news that two admirals, Aokiji and Akainu, had joined forces to effectively solve the disaster in the countries that joined the World Government.

This is not the most painful thing for Crocodile. What is even more painful is... He has to be interviewed later, and he will inevitably have to praise Ace, Yamato, and Pony, the navy's super-generation iron triangle.

Moreover, King Kobra actually booked his Rain Feast Casino, intending to celebrate the three people and other members of the Akainu detachment who solved the drought problem in Alabasta.

In the corner of the office, Nicole Robin's expression was not very good. Half of it was because of the news, and the other half was because she was almost pickled by the smell of the cigar.

"Is there any solution?"

Crocodile asked in an extremely hoarse voice. When Robin heard the words, he frowned, thought for a while and said, "Yes, it depends on whether you dare to use it."

"Find someone to dress up as Kobra, condemn the Navy's interference in other countries' national affairs, and demand that the Navy never set foot in Alabasta, or...

Don't care about the so-called reputation, just use your ability to quickly dry up the water resources they transferred. They can't stay here all year round. "

Hearing Robin's "suggestion", Crocodile was also very dissatisfied. He knew that Robin was really mocking his cowardice and wanted to steal the country, but he cherished this reputation extraordinarily.

However, it’s still different if you can’t do it yourself but someone else clearly explains it.

"Don't forget! Only if I succeed can you study the so-called historical text!"

Crocodile said in a low voice, and fine sand flowed out from the cracks in the office floor tiles, crawling towards Robin. Facing Crocodile's naked threat, Robin's expression did not change, and he said easily:

"But at the same time, you can't do without my ability to interpret historical texts. If what you want is really recorded in historical texts, kill me... Even if you can steal the country, so what?"

"Humph!"

Crocodile snorted angrily, but had to admit that Robin was right. After all, both sides got what they needed.

There is no trust between the two of them. The so-called cooperation... is more like a transaction. Robin uses his knowledge in exchange for the shelter given by Crocodile.

For now, Robin has already made a profit, because Robin has been living smoothly in the Great Channel for a year, and this is all given by Crocodile!

But Crocodile is not a kind person. Robin's knowledge is what he values, but if he wants to realize this knowledge, Crocodile must find the historical text.

And the way he chose was to become the ruler of Alabasta as a matter of course, and he had to become the ruler naturally, instead of plundering like a pirate.

It doesn't mean that Alabasta can't be plundered without using pirate methods, and it doesn't mean that pirate methods can't find the historical text, but... Crocodile doesn't want to do this.

He has enjoyed the glory and applause here for more than ten years, and naturally he does not want to lose what he has gained.

But...if the hidden historical text of this country cannot be found, then his deal with Robin can only benefit Robin unilaterally, unless he directly tears up the cooperation regulations between the two.

But in this case, there seems to be no one in this world who can interpret the text of history. In this case, even if he finds the text of history in the future, he will only be blind.

Therefore, even if he is currently raising Robin at a loss, and even being ridiculed by Robin from time to time, Crocodile has to pinch his nose to maintain the status quo and continue to "raise" Robin.

Seeing Crocodile take back the sand, Robin's face flashed with disdain, but after thinking about it, he still said: "Actually, the original plan can still be carried out now.

Just not using drought, but using another opposite method, such as...floods.

There is no flood-fighting construction in Alabasta. We only need to use dancing powder a few more times in Albana to make Albana show signs of flooding...",

"But like this, how could those people hate Kobra! He is the king who is suffering!"

Crocodile looked at Robin dissatisfied. He didn't expect that Robin's level would be like this!

Robin sighed and felt that she had found the wrong cooperation target. At least... there were many better cooperation targets than Crocodile. It seemed that she had to start looking for the next one, but at the moment... she continued:

"Who said Kobra was going to suffer? All we need is signs of flooding in Albana.

At that time, dancing powder will be used on a large scale in the cities surrounding Albana to divert the water source from Albana, and also draw the water sources from other cities around that city.

In this way...that city will replace their king Kobra and bear the flood.

Alabasta does not have any flood-fighting construction, nor does it have any flood-fighting experience or talents. Once the flood arrives, families will be destroyed!

If something like this happens three or five times, people will find out that it was their king Kobra who, in order to divert the flood from the capital, grafted the disaster onto other cities and other citizens.

Nowadays, the people are only grateful to the navy, but they still have a lot of dissatisfaction with Kobra. If you do all this before the people's attitude towards Kobra warms up...then wouldn't Alabasta still be yours? "

After listening to Robin's explanation, Crocodile's eyes brightened a little. Yes, why should he keep immersed in the destruction of his drought plan, when it can be directly converted into a flood!

In fact, the people of Alabasta are still very resistant to drought. After all, Alabasta has always been a water-scarce country, and they have survived it for so many years.

They know how to face drought. This year, the drought for almost a whole year has not completely hit the country. Even if the water source is cut off, they still insist on surviving.

The capital, Albana, was not entirely grateful for the rain. Kobra often stopped people in the capital to collect fresh water, then retain some and transport some out.

In coastal cities, people also collect some fresh water by heating seawater and using distillation technology.Over in the west, there are also many people who actually dig wells in search of underground water sources.

Although these measures cannot solve the drought problem, they ensure that everyone has a drink of water and will not die of thirst.

The key is that Crocodile himself was a "traitor" who provided food for the people of Alabasta, allowing them to survive the first year of no food production.

This kind of struggle to survive, over time, will also turn into disappointment for the Alabasta royal family, especially when the plan is to let the people find out next year that it was the use of dancing powder in the capital that caused them to lack water.

Although it is a little slower, it is very stable and very controllable.

But "slowness" has become the key point for the Navy to free up its hands to solve this problem this year. Therefore... Crocodile also reacted. Robin's plan was to prevent other forces from reacting.

Alabasta has rich experience in fighting droughts, but there is no way to deal with floods. There is no large area of ​​vegetation, basins or lakes here.

The most important thing is that compared with drought, floods may only take a day or two to push people's dissatisfaction to the peak.

The main reason why I hadn't done this before was because Alabasta didn't have that much water at all, but...the three of Ace, plus Aoki Pheasant, solved this missing prerequisite.

But...flooding does not only have advantages, but also has disadvantages.

That is too fast. Once the flood starts, the damage caused will be uncontrollable. Maybe a city will be completely paralyzed in just two days.

It was so paralyzed that there was no one who could organize the people to resist the royal family, and Crocodile simply did not have that many people who could control and guide the situation.

Seeing Crocodile actually starting to frown and think, Robin guessed that Crocodile was weighing the pros and cons and considering how to eliminate the cons.

Robin was completely speechless. She felt that Crocodile really lived up to his name. The simplest...

"Can't you build a drainage channel yourself? As long as the mood comes, can't you just drain the water away?"

Hearing Robin's last sentence, Crocodile woke up from a dream. Yes, he is a Shasha Fruit user!I almost forgot about this!

Crocodile blushed a little, but the office was filled with thick fog from three burning cigars, which did not let Robin notice anything unusual about Crocodile.

“Tuk Tuk Tuk~”

"Boss, King Kobra, and Colonel Ace are here."

The sudden knock on the door made Crocodile breathe a sigh of relief. He stood up, ignored Robin in the corner, walked to the door, opened the door, and said to the Yuyan employees:

"I'm going over now, thank you for your hard work."

Although it felt like the smell of cigarette smoke in the boss's office was several times stronger than before, the employee didn't interfere. Perhaps...the boss was concerned about the country and the people, and was too happy about this good news.

After leaving the office, Crocodile immediately rushed to the door of Yuyan. Unlike before, there was no sadness on his face now, but rather...happy.

After all, according to what Robin said, as long as the plan goes well, then not only does he not need to pay anything, but he only needs to use his own abilities on the original basis to achieve his goal and even gain another wave of reputation.

If his reputation is still not that good now, then... once this plan proceeds smoothly, his reputation will probably push him to the position of the master of Alabasta.

What is a national idol? !

Therefore, he was in a very light mood at this time, which matched the sincere smiles on the faces of other employees because the country's drought problem was solved.

It seems that Crocodile is like a noble man who is really worried about the people's worries and happy when the people are happy.

Just a moment later, surrounded by countless people, the Akainu detachment led by Ace and the royal family members led by Cobra appeared at the door of the rain feast.

Crocodile hurriedly greeted him, first greeted Kobra, then looked at the frowning Ace, and said kindly: "Is this Colonel Ace? Thank you..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed that Ace, Yamato and Bonny took half a step back in perfect agreement, with disgusted expressions on their faces.

Crocodile didn't even know what happened, which made him very embarrassed. He didn't know that the three of them subconsciously wanted to report to Skyler that someone was smoking.

After all, they are all people who have lived in the Zhanye detachment for many years, and their aversion to smoking has been cultivated. In this world, only Garp can smoke unscrupulously in Skyler's territory.

After entering the training camp, many recruits knew that Teacher Zefa had asthma before. Even though he was cured by Colonel Trafalgar Law, no one dared to smoke in the recruit camp.

Plus... Zefa really knows how to punish them. Lieutenant General Skyler gave them teacher Zefa's sea-stone pointer. It has been in service for more than ten years and is still strong. It hurts like hell when hitting people.

When they arrived at the Akainu detachment, the three of them still continued the habit they brought from the Zanya detachment and gave Akainu advice. After hearing this, Akainu also directly banned the detachment members from smoking during the mission.

Therefore, the moment they smelled the smoke on Crocodile, the three of them immediately lost their affection for Crocodile.

Ace kept his distance and said to Crocodile: "Mr. Crocodile, I also heard about everything you did for Alabasta during the drought.

I personally admire your behavior very much. As for more words of gratitude, I will not preempt King Kobra's words. "

'The other thing is that I can't stand it anymore! '

Cobra looked at the three people and thought that these three people also knew about what he and Skyler had discussed a few years ago. At this time, he hurriedly came out to smooth things over and said:

"Yes, Mr. Crocodile, I have to thank you very much. Without your selfless dedication, maybe we wouldn't be able to support today."

'Yes Yes Yes!It’s all my selfless dedication! '

Crocodile felt remorseful, but he still managed to put on a smile, nodded, and said: "When you come to Alabasta, you are an Alabasta, and you should contribute to your family.

Everyone, don’t stand here anymore. Although the rain banquet is simple, there is still no problem in entertaining you. Please come in. "

Crocodile himself didn't even realize that he seemed to have forgotten the brutality of a pirate, and instead had the philistinism and tolerance of a businessman.

Everyone followed Crocodile and walked into the rain feast. Because they had already received the news, the rain feast was also very well prepared.

But maybe it was rare to have a lot of clean water, so many of the waitresses were dressed simply, and most of their clothes were probably washed.

Today, the rain banquet is not open to the public. The hall on the first floor, which was originally filled with gaming tables, is still half of its original appearance, and the sexy dealers are also there.

The other half was converted into a party table, but due to the large number of people, it was directly converted into several large rectangular tables, with running tables on top, and the dishes were rotating on them.

What's even more funny is that on one side of the wall, there is a podium for speeches, and looking at the bands on both sides, it may not be just for the press conference, but there is also a band singing session.

"absurd!"

Ace said to himself, and at the same time, his commander, Marine Fando, also shouted this word at the Navy Headquarters.

In the Marshal's office, Akainu was so angry that the baseball cap on his head was tilted and he was walking around the Sengoku office with his hands on his hips.

Warring States, on the other hand, sat firmly in his office chair. On his desk was a somewhat crumpled newspaper, which was the World Economic News' report on this incident.

In fact, Akainu knew about Ace and the others staying in Alabasta to help solve the drought three days ago, because Ace had already spoken to him on the phone.

From the bottom of his heart, Akainu actually did not agree with Ace's idea of ​​giving up a vacation in order to help a participating country. After all, as a navy, you should rest well after completing your mission and face the next mission.

But Akainu didn't want to dampen Ace's enthusiasm, not to mention that when Ace was talking to him on the phone, he hinted at Skyler's help to Ryugu Kingdom to hint at Akainu.

Therefore, Akainu agreed that they should continue to stay in Alabasta and help Alabasta solve the drought. Besides... this was another topic of discussion. At the next general meeting, he could praise Ace and also... Brag yourself.

Who said that the hawks can only fight and kill? Is Akainu the representative of the hawks?Is his detachment the Eagles detachment?He is also a good hand when it comes to helping civilians.

Can you, a group of dovish generals and detachments that are only timid, be able to help Alabasta solve its drought problem? !Doesn't his detachment need to take action?

These were all the lines that Akainu had thought up, but suddenly, as soon as the news came out today, he suddenly realized that it was not the people from his Akainu detachment who solved this matter, or in other words, it was not just him Akainu. detachment people.

There is actually a blue pheasant as a guide!Although Aoki Pheasant only appeared in Alabasta for less than an hour and then left directly.

But... he taught the Akainu detachment how to solve the drought problem in Alabasta. Although the newspaper said that the two admirals worked together and worked together to solve the problem for the alliance countries.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the plan was Aokiji's idea. Without Aokiji, the Akainu detachment might not be able to solve the drought problem in Alabasta.

Besides, Akainu had no intention of praising Aokiji at the general meeting. After all, although there was no evidence, Aokiji suddenly asked for leave and suddenly appeared in Alabasta.

Before Akainu thought about it, obviously before asking for leave, he had inquired about the movements of Akainu's detachment, and used his authority as a general to ask Ace and others to obey his orders.

Even Akainu can't do this kind of thing like interfering with other people's detachment. How dare you, Aokiji, do this? !

At this time, Warring States raised his hand, flattened the crumpled newspaper, looked at the news on it, and fell into deep thought. He knew that this matter must not be that simple.

It is impossible for Aokiji and the other members of the Akainu detachment to be such a coincidence. They must have made arrangements in advance. However, Sengoku does not think Aokiji has the leisure to deal with this matter. It is most likely...

It's either He or Skyler, and the biggest suspect should be the latter. After all, He won't hide anything from him.

"Is General Akainu here too? It seems I'm not the first one to notice something is wrong."

As soon as Warring States thought of He, He appeared at the door of the office, holding a newspaper in his hand, but unlike the one Akainu brought, the newspaper in He's hand was neatly folded.

The appearance of Crane made Sengoku sure that this matter was 100% caused by Skyler, and...

He walked in and put the newspaper and a document bag on the Sengoku table. Then He turned around and said to Akainu: "Admiral Akainu, in this incident, the wind direction within our navy must be consistent. You understand what I mean. Bar?"

"Ha! Don't you just want me to admit that these transgressive things that Qing Pheasant did were all authorized by me?!"

Akainu had a straight face, and He shook his head and said, "I'm not asking you to admit it, but this is how it is!"

At this time, Sengoku also took a rough look at the documents that He brought. At this time, he also stood up and said to Akainu: "Akainu, this time... I'm afraid this is really the case. Take a look at this."

Sengoku said, and handed the document to Akainu. Akainu took it and was very unhappy at first, but when he saw that it was a report submitted by the Zhanye detachment before, he read it patiently.

The document was submitted by the Zhanye detachment. Speculations about the cause of the drought in Alabasta pointed directly at Shichibukai Crocodile, saying that he was responsible for the drought in Alabasta.

And it is extremely exaggerated to introduce such speculations as "stealing the country", "historical text" and even "ancient weapons".

After reading the information, Akainu showed his fierce look, with one side of his nose and the corner of his eye still twitching.

"So this is the arrangement of the headquarters?! Why didn't I receive any notification?! Also, why not arrest Crocodile directly?!"

Akainu asked three questions in a row, and Akainu stared at Sengoku and He. He took the report, which had been roasted to dryness without knowing it, and would break if he squeezed it repeatedly, and said:

"The General Staff did not report this matter to Lao Shen, but directly shelved it, so this matter was not arranged by the headquarters."

"It's not the arrangement of the headquarters, who else..."

Suddenly thinking of something, Akainu stopped being furious and kept taking deep breaths. When his emotions calmed down a little, he said: "So is this the last resort of the Zhanye detachment?"

Seeing that Akainu changed his tune instantly, both He and Sengoku were speechless. Good guy, I insisted that Aokiji did it. You got angry, thinking it was the headquarters. You got angry too. Why did you get to the Zhanye detachment? You Just calm down?

Moreover, what is "forced to do" and what is "rights policy"? Do you understand what these words mean?Just copy it mechanically? !

He sighed helplessly and said to the two of them: "On the way here, I have already spoken with General Aokiji on the phone. He is currently conducting a secret investigation in Alabasta and will come back to report on his duties.

General Akainu, this matter is of great importance. Before the headquarters makes the final decision, I hope... this matter about the drought is the decision of the headquarters, and it is the decision of the headquarters that you have already agreed to. Is it okay? "

"Hmph! No problem, but if the headquarters decides to arrest Crocodile, I must be responsible!"

"I think it's okay, Marshal of the Warring States Period, what do you think?"

Warring States narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, nodded, and said: "I think there is no problem, but...whatever reports the Zhanye detachment has in the future, I hope to submit them directly here for my judgment!"

He knew that Sengoku was going to beat the staff, but she happened to be not particularly satisfied with the staff now, especially when those people were discussing in private that Nurkic was more suitable to be the chief staff officer than her!

"Marshal Warring States, I will inform you about this matter. At the same time, if there are any rectification plans, I am willing to fully cooperate."