【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"I believe your cleverness will play a big role." Qi smiled and comforted, then turned to look at Nami, "Nami, why didn't Zoro come with you?"

"Heh... heh..." Nami thought of Zoro who was dragged down the slope by her, and an awkward smile appeared on her face. Sorry, Zoro, but the treasure is the most important! Then she noticed that the pirates had begun to rush towards them, and hurriedly shouted "They are coming!"

"Let's go!" Luffy grinned and rushed down first. Soon all the pirates around him were knocked to the ground.

Nami took the opportunity to run down behind Luffy, and Qi followed Nami and knocked down the pirates passing by them with his pipe. Soon the road to the pirate ship was cleared.

Some pirates who were not knocked down continued to rush towards the top of the slope.

"Try this!" Usopp took a step back, took out a bunch of darts from his yellow bag and threw them at the pirates' path. "Dartfish Hell!" While the pirates were stepping on the darts, he quickly took out ammunition from his bag, aimed at the pirates, and kept shooting.

After a while, all the pirates fell down except the pirate with the strange beard who was still standing.

"Hey, Nami! You bastard!!" Zoro's angry voice came from the top of the slope.

"Zoro!!" Luffy looked at Zoro and shouted happily.

"You're too late, Zoro," Qi said with a smile, "We defeated all the pirates."

"You're so slow!" Nami said with a mischievous smile on her face.

"It's all your fault!" Zoro shouted angrily.

"That was an accident. It's better for you to fall alone than for two of us to fall together." Nami said as a matter of course.

"Then you fall down by yourself!" Zoro shouted angrily, and then walked to Luffy with a sword in hand, "Leave the remaining pirate to me!"

"Hey! You guys weren't all killed by those two brats!" the pirate captain with a strange beard shouted loudly, then he took out a round weapon from his clothes and pointed it at the pirates who were sitting up. "We don't have time to waste here, look at me...get stronger...get stronger..."

Qi's attention was attracted by the round weapon hanging from the captain's hand. Suddenly, he realized that the guy's weapon seemed to have a hypnotic effect. Thinking of a guy who was easily moved by emotions, he turned his head to look at Luffy on the other side and reminded him, "Luffy, don't look at his weapon!"

"What? Weapons?" Luffy subconsciously looked at the weapons he mentioned when he heard what Qi said.

“1…2…3…thumbs up!”

"Ah!! Ahhh!" The pirates below started shouting, raised their weapons, and rushed towards the hillside, looking much more ferocious than before.

"How is this possible, this actually works!" Nami shouted in shock, "They were still staggering just now, how could they suddenly become so much stronger!" Even Zoro was shocked by the sudden power they displayed.

Usopp saw a pirate smash a huge rock into pieces with his fist, his legs began to tremble, one person was so powerful, that group of people... He swallowed, he couldn't fight those pirates at all, he noticed that Nami was ready to start to retreat.

"How could they suddenly gain such great power? Even hypnosis shouldn't be able to do that." Qi said doubtfully. He looked at Nami and Usopp and said, "You guys leave here first. Leave this to us."

"Hey, Luffy?" Zoro shouted in confusion, then opened his eyes wide and looked in shock. Luffy, who had been motionless just now, suddenly shouted and attacked the Black Cat Pirates, and all the Black Cat Pirates were knocked down in an instant.

"How come Luffy is still hypnotized!" Qi Fu'e said helplessly, but fortunately at least the Black Cat Pirate was defeated by him.

"That idiot was hypnotized again!" Nami saw the pirate put the hypnotic weapon in front of Luffy who raised the bow again, and then Luffy fell to the ground. She noticed that Luffy was just asleep.

Suddenly she thought of the pirates' treasure and her own treasure, suppressed her inner fear, stood up, greeted Qi, and then secretly ran towards the Black Cat Pirate Ship.

"Wow, Luffy is crushed by that bow!" Usopp shouted in panic.

"It's okay. Luffy ate the rubber fruit. That thing won't hurt him." Qi said with a grin. Then he turned his head and looked at the hillside. "Let's find a way to get rid of the butler first."

"What!?" Zoro asked in confusion, not understanding why he said that. Then he was attracted by the voices of the pirates and noticed that the pirate who hypnotized Luffy had been staring at the ship, as if waiting for someone, so he warned, "It seems that there are still people on the ship..."

Qi watched quietly, waiting for the pirates' next move. Suddenly, he turned and rushed to the top of the slope, blocking the cat-claw-like blade that suddenly appeared behind Usopp in time. He looked up at the owner of the long blade and raised a dangerous smile. "Hey, sneak attacks from behind are not good."

Usopp watched the scene with wide eyes in horror. He was frightened by the butler's sudden attack on him and sat on the ground. Then he quickly backed away from the sudden appearance of Krahatel.

"Get off the boat! Kitty brothers!" With this command, a pair of strange, cat-like creatures jumped off the boat.

Zoro looked at them warily. He glanced at everyone's position and noticed that Qi and Usopp were confronting the butler on the top of the slope. Nami secretly boarded the pirate ship after the cat brothers came down.

"Ah! Captain K...Klo!!" The pirates suddenly became panicked and looked at the top of the slope behind Zoro in horror.

"It's already dawn, but the plan hasn't started yet..." Krahatl showed a gloomy smile on his face. "You were actually blocked by these kids. Your incompetence is really beyond my imagination!"

"I'm... sorry, Captain Cloe!" Qiang Gao and the Kitty Brothers looked at the long blade in Cloe's hand and said in horror, "We'll get rid of them right away!" Then Qiang Gao took out his weapon and began to swing it left and right at the Kitty Brothers.

"Is it hypnosis again?" Zoro asked doubtfully, and then their changes answered Zoro's doubts. The little cat brothers, who looked weak just now, suddenly became extremely powerful, and the ground under their feet began to crack as they moved.

"It doesn't look like it's going to be easy to deal with." Zoro pulled out the remaining two swords, bit one of them with his teeth, and assumed a fighting stance.

Krahatel ignored the Black Cat Pirate's words and turned his attention back to the little ghosts in front of him. It was these guys who ruined his plan.

Qi looked at the person who suddenly disappeared in surprise, calmly deployed his Observation Haki, and then quickly attacked in the direction of Usopp, "Hey, your enemy is me!"

"How did you know my location!" Krahatel stepped back, saying in disbelief. His Silent Step allowed him to move quickly without making any sound, and this guy could actually guess his location. No, he must have guessed it by luck. There couldn't be anything wrong with his Silent Step. Just as he was about to continue his attack, a voice stopped him.

"Klahatel! Enough!!" Kaya looked at Krahatel's back and shouted as loud as she could. She came to stop him. She told Krahatel that she would give all her property to Krahatel in exchange for his stopping. When she found Meli lying in a pool of blood, Meli told her all of Krahatel's purpose.

"Kaya!! Don't come over here!" Usopp shouted anxiously. He didn't want Kaya to fall into this danger. He warned loudly, "Klahat's target is you!!"