Killing those pirates had been nothing more than a flick of Crocodile's fingers,
but when the surrounding residents saw this, their eyes lit up and smiles spread across their faces.
"That vicious band of pirates was wiped out just like that..."
"As expected of a Shichibukai!!!"
"Crocodile!!!"
"Crocodile!!!"
"..."
The residents called out Crocodile's name. Clearly, she had already built up considerable prestige here.
"Although I no longer hold much hope for Pluton, Austin seemed to have said that Poneglyphs were still quite useful..."
Little Sand considered finding someone who could read them and asking them to help with the research,
but there was no need to rush.
After all, Baroque Works was still in its infancy.
"Golden Lion? I heard he was once a world-renowned Great Swordsman..."
On the Grand Line, Mihawk, wearing a hat, slowly raised his head aboard a lone little boat and looked at the newspaper in his hand.
It was just a pity that after Golden Lion had severed his own legs and tied Famous Swords to them, his swordsmanship had surely declined.
"But if I get the chance, I can still seek his guidance."
Holding Night in his hand, he gently paddled the surface of the water, and the wooden boat moved forward.
Far ahead in his path, a pirate ship happened to be sailing in the opposite direction from Mihawk.
Someone quickly spotted him.
"Look, look! There seems to be someone in the distance!!!"
"Rowing across the sea with a sword? Hahahahaha, that's hilarious!!!"
"But he looks kind of familiar..."
Before they could see him clearly, a thousand-meter-tall emerald slash came cleaving toward them.
It split open the sea along the way, neatly cutting countless Sea Kings in half as it shot straight toward the pirate ship.
Under the horrified gazes of