【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Hope no one will die? Only a peace idiot who has never experienced a real war would have such a naive idea." Crocodile said disdainfully, "You think so too."

"That's right!" Luffy raised his head and said firmly, "As long as you are still alive, she will definitely come to duel with you, so I will get rid of you here!"

"Kuhahaha... Hahaha! How boring... This is the best proof that you are hopelessly stupid!" Crocodile sneered, "I've seen many idiots who are willing to die for someone just because they know him..."

"So... aren't you an idiot?" Luffy said while pressing his fingers.

Crocodile bit off his cigar in annoyance. How dare this guy insult him?

"Hehehe..."

Crocodile glanced at his partner next to him and said in a low and dangerous voice, "Do you want to die too? Nico Robin."

The moment Robin heard his name, he stopped smiling and said calmly, "If you really want to kill me, go ahead."

She said as she left "Also, didn't you promise me not to call me by that name?"

"Where are you going?" Crocodile turned to look at the woman who was about to leave.

"Arubana, I'll go first."

"What an unpredictable woman..." Crocodile said, then turned to look at Luffy and threw a funnel at Luffy's feet. "Listen, Straw Hat, I'll give you three minutes. If you exceed that, I'll withhold your company!"

"Hmph!" Luffy took a fighting stance and then quickly punched Crocodile "This is a good training. I will beat you in 3 minutes!"

"Well, you are too self-righteous." Crocodile dodged the fist attacking him, approached quickly, and swung his arm with a slash of sand and stone towards Luffy.

"Eraser-Eraser" Luffy tilted his head back to avoid Crocodile's attack, and swung his right leg to attack him quickly "Seal!!"

Luffy kicked him in the stomach, but his attack had no effect and just passed through his body.

"Let me be frank with you, Straw Hat Luffy. No matter how hard you struggle, I will definitely..."

"Rubber rubber guns are shooting randomly!!"

Crocodile was interrupted by Luffy's fist containing Armament Haki before he could finish his words. Crocodile covered his chest and shouted in disbelief, "How can a brat like you use Haki?!"

Luffy didn't answer, he just swung his legs back and wrapped his calves with Armament Haki "Rubber Whip!!"

Crocodile dispersed himself more finely, as if merging with the air, making it impossible for Luffy's attacks to actually hit him.

"Straw Hat, you won't be able to find me if I spread myself out!" Crocodile's laughter was heard in the air, but he was completely invisible to the naked eye.

"Shut up!" Luffy shouted, then calmed down and sensed Crocodile's position. There was sand all around him, and he really couldn't hit him in his current state.

"You don't think you are the only one who knows Haki!" Crocodile said in a gloomy voice, "I withdrew from the New World, and before that I had a chance to learn something." As he said that, he appeared and kept attacking Luffy with his hook, trying to leave marks on him with the hook.

Luffy used his Observation Haki to barely dodge Crocodile's attack. Luffy realized that he seemed to have underestimated his opponent because he noticed that the number of times he actually hit Crocodile was getting less and less.

"This war will raze this country to the ground, and you, Straw Hat, will be my first victim!" Crocodile sneered, and with a wave of his right hand, he instantly slashed at the Straw Hat not far away, "Desert Sword!"

"Wow!" Luffy jumped back instantly under the alert of his observation Haki, leaving his original position and avoiding Crocodile's attack. Luffy was a little shocked when he saw the huge crack in the desert. "The desert was actually split!"

"The power of the devil fruit can be transformed into a more powerful means of combat depending on how it is used and the degree of training. I am different from you idiots who only know how to rely on your abilities." Crocodile said in a low voice, "I will make you regret going against me."

Crocodile controlled the surrounding sand and made it flow at high speed under Luffy's feet, forming a huge pit that continuously sucked him down.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Luffy felt himself sinking deeper and deeper into the sand. After thinking for a second, he tried to run out of the cave, but he soon noticed that he was being pulled in faster than he could run out. "Asshole! I won't be buried by the sand!"

He pulled his arm back and attacked the quicksand " Rubber-Rubber Bazooka!!" Luffy used the impact of the attack to fly into the air before covering his arm with Haki and quickly grabbing onto Crocodile's body.

Crocodile was surprised by the Straw Hat's sudden action. Before he could transform into an element, Luffy pulled him forward and hit him on the cheek with another fist wrapped in domineering power. He was carried away. After getting away from Crocodile, the quicksand under Luffy's feet began to turn into normal sand.

"What have you been talking about since just now?" Luffy clenched his fists and stared at Crocodile.

"Enough, go to hell!" Crocodile stood up from the ground, his face distorted with anger. He threw the golden hook in his hand and controlled it to continuously attack Luffy, but the angry Crocodile's accuracy was not good, and Luffy had enough time to dodge all the attacks, even if some of the attacks suddenly changed direction in the air.

In the final blow, he found a flaw and swung his legs at a very fast speed, instantly kicking the Golden Hook and Crocodile away, then quickly approached "Rubber Rubber!" He swung his arms back and continued to attack the crocodile "Bazooka!!"

Luffy gasped and glared at Crocodile who was lying on the ground.

Crocodile, lying on the ground, was somewhat dazed and at a loss, he did not understand why he was knocked down twice by a little devil who had just entered the Grand Line. Suddenly he remembered the time he had set, he knew he could not waste any more time fighting this little devil.

"I don't have time to mess around with you anymore!" Crocodile said as he stood up from the ground. Even though he was very angry, the expression on his face remained calm and he didn't think he had lost.

"Come on!" Luffy stretched out his fist to attack Crocodile, but Crocodile dodged it by turning into sand. Luffy frowned and wondered why he couldn't hit him even though he used Haki.

"Crescent-shaped sand dune!!" Crocodile suddenly approached Luffy, turned his arms into sand, and instantly attacked Luffy's neck.