"Ah—why... why?"
As he felt intense pain surge across his face like a tidal wave, Jester was both furious and utterly bewildered.
His multilayered barrier magic had clearly blocked the other man's punch.
Why had the force of the punch still penetrated through and struck him?
Of course, Crocodile had no intention of explaining what Ryou was to Jester.
The key was that his face had been too close to the barrier. If he had been one or two meters farther away, it probably would not have reached him.
But who told him to lose focus?
Just as Crocodile was about to give chase, Princia's flying kick had already come hurtling toward him.
[Bang!!]
This time, Crocodile used only his Haki-reinforced right palm to catch the woman's metal sole.
Surging air blasted out in every direction, whipping up the pitch-black Coat of Justice.
"I will defeat you!" Princia said coldly, her gaze resolute.
Crocodile grinned around his cigar. "Woman, what's your name?"
"Hmph, I am Princia U... Usagi, the eleventh Wizard King of the Clover Kingdom."
The woman seemed a little embarrassed when mentioning her surname.
"Usagi? Rabbit?!"
Having already eaten the Translation Konjac, Crocodile found this deeply puzzling.
He could not understand why anyone would have a surname like Rabbit.
"Shut up! Shut up!"
Humiliated into rage, Princia immediately withdrew her right leg and threw a heavy punch.
At once, a sound explosion rang out, and her fist wind howled.
Yet even such a powerful punch was blocked by Crocodile's left hook.
"Fine, Madam Rabbit. My name is Crocodile, Sand Crocodile Admiral of the Army Headquarters."
The moment he finished speaking, his gaze sharpened, no longer in the mood to tease her.
His right arm instantly transformed into a pitch-black sand sword and stabbed toward the woman's abdomen.
He