"No!"
Mo Xingchen refused without the slightest hesitation, his tone utterly decisive.
"Eh? Why? Is it because I used to be a pirate? But that was out of necessity! Besides, I never did anything that harmed the World Government."
Crocuss's eyes were full of urgency as he hurriedly explained to Mo Xingchen,
"You're too ugly!"
"!!!"
It was like a bolt from the blue struck Crocuss. He had imagined many reasons he might be rejected and prepared countless arguments to refute them, but he had never expected Mo Xingchen's reason to be this.
Clutching his chest, he staggered back several steps and shakily pointed a finger at Mo Xingchen, so furious that he could not speak for a long while.
Mo Xingchen continued solemnly,
"What would I want with a decrepit old man like you on my ship? You can neither write nor fight. If you were a beautiful woman, I could reluctantly accept you. At least a pretty ornament would be pleasing to the eye, but you're ugly on top of that!"
"Ah!!! I'll fight you!"
Humiliated and enraged, Crocuss charged at Mo Xingchen with a roar. Yet in the next second, Mo Xingchen vanished from his sight.
Crocuss hurriedly spun around and searched everywhere, but he could not find Mo Xingchen. Then a voice came from above his head,
"At your age, you should quietly retire! Don't act like a child who wants to swing blades around all day. You're not steady at all! Besides, you can't beat me anyway. I don't want people saying I only bully the elderly."
Crocuss looked up at Mo Xingchen standing atop Laboon's head and gritted his teeth so hard that his gums itched.
"Let's go, Laboon!"
"Woo~~"
Watching Laboon leave, Crocuss's face was filled with reluctance. Then he heard Mo Xingchen's