Crocodile VS Douglas Bullet!

Empress.

It seems like Hinomoto is in the height of summer right now. Even though it's past 2 PM, the wind still feels like a wave of heat.

In such sweltering heat, a large group of Heavy Motorcycle arrived on the plains of Ashika County, their roaring noise startling animals within a radius of hundreds of meters, sending them scattering in all directions.

They moved in groups, yet in an orderly fashion, with the distance between vehicles remaining almost constant, leaving tire tracks on the ground under the scorching sun.

Roughly counting, the number of people seems to be around a thousand.

"Crocodile!!!"

Suddenly, a loud explosion came from ahead, so loud that it even drowned out the engine noise of the nearly one thousand Heavy Motorcycle.

Soon, the group at the front of the convoy spotted a figure that was all too familiar standing about two hundred meters away.

Douglas Bullet, Army Lieutenant General, their instructor!

"This guy"

Crocodile squinted and stopped the motorcycle.

Over the past few days, I've gotten somewhat used to the 2.5-meter-tall Biba Amatori beside me. But looking at Bullet's enormous size, which seems to be over four meters tall, I was stunned and my pupils contracted in disbelief.

Is it possible that in that world called Sea Star, Titans like these are everywhere?

"Except for Crocodile, all other Army, get the hell back to base!"

At Bullet's command, nearly a thousand Army soldiers behind Crocodile looked at each other, and after a moment, they all accelerated past on both sides.

Although they could also feel the chill emanating from Crocodile, these people were more afraid of Bullet, who had been training them for a while.

Crocodile completely ignored the choice of these people to the Army, and simply stared blankly at Bullet, who was two hundred meters away.

Aren't you leaving?

Then, he spoke, addressing the still-standing Biba Amatori, whose handsome face wore a slight smile.

"This is my first time here, and I don't know the way. Let me go back with you."

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Crocodile chuckled, then pulled a cigar from his pocket, lit it, and casually handed it to Biba Amatori, saying, "Take this and stay away. You can smoke it while watching and learn something new."

"OK."

The latter naturally accepted the cigar, even though he didn't smoke and had never seen one before meeting Crocodile.

The next moment.

The Biba Amatori held the cigar in her hand, Crocodile on the Heavy Motorcycle instantly transformed into a yellowish-brown sandstorm, heading head-on towards Douglas Bullet who was charging towards her.

[Boom!!]

Two high-speed afterimages, one yellow and one blue, swept across a hundred meters in the blink of an eye before colliding violently.

"Crescent Sand Dune!"

"Great Cannon!"

The Sand Blade right arm tore through the air and slammed heavily into the black fist, whose surface shimmered with a layer of blue light.

In an instant.

The two of them trembled, their energy surging wildly, transforming into visible ripples that spread in all directions.

The moment these ripples touched the ground, the entire area trembled violently, followed by the appearance of numerous cracks. Finally, with a loud bang, the ground completely cracked, fractured, and caved in.

"Stupid crocodile!"

"I told you to lead your men and take Kongokaku head-on, right?" Bullet said with a sneer, his voice filled with rage as he grappled with Barrett.

"So what?"

Crocodile sneered, "You're Vice Admiral, and so am I. What Vice Admiral do you have to tell me what to do?"

"Let's see if I can control you today!!"

Bullet roared, and the veins on his right arm bulged instantly, muscles clenching as he poured even more power into his fist.

"Um?"

Crocodile's expression changed as he felt a fierce force coming from his 'arm'.

[Bang----]

The next second, he was blasted away by a punch, flying into the sky like a cannonball, while Bullet showed no sign of stopping.

With a burst of power from his feet, he shattered the already cracked ground, unleashing a violent and ruthless dark blue aura that instantly pushed aside layers of air blasts as he chased after it.

[Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!]

From afar, Biba Amatori witnessed the most astonishing scene of his life.

High in the sky, Shah Crocodile and Douglas Bullet, both clad in black Coat of Justice, chased each other like streaks of light, their fierce battle raging like Firestone.

Every collision between the two produced a deafening, metallic clang.

Clusters of white mist burst open in sight, like flowers adorning the yellow sand and blue fog.

If he weren't a Kabaneri with a certain degree of physical enhancement, he wouldn't even have been qualified to see the afterimages of both of them.

"Sables!"

Crocodile's furious roar echoed across the sky, which had long since become a battlefield.

[Whoosh whoosh whoosh----]

Suddenly, the sky darkened, and a Tatsumaki, growing larger with the wind, appeared out of nowhere, sweeping towards Bullet's location like a tidal wave.

"Is it really worth shouting when you're just playing in the sand?"

Douglas Bullet roared, unleashing a surge of deep blue energy from his body—his Conqueror's Haki.

Those jet-black arms stretched forward, then opened their palms and grabbed forcefully, unleashing a torrent of immense energy.

With a deafening roar, the sand that had expanded to the point of reaching the heavens and the earth was torn apart by his Haki and palm force!

"Desert Spada-- "

In that Setsuna, Crocodile seemed to have been prepared, taking advantage of Bullet's momentary exhaustion to unleash his most powerful single-target attack directly at the latter's face.

He transformed his arm into Sand Blade once more, like an extremely sharp slashing weapon, Coating in purple lightning, and cleaved it in a straight line.

"Combined."

He simply forgot that Bullet was also a Devil Fruit User.

[Boom!]

Under the influence of a Formless supernatural fluctuation, the shattered ground began to rapidly gather around Bullet, forming at an astonishing speed.

Just a second before the 'Desert Spada' arrived, it transformed into a nearly twenty-meter-tall Rock Giant covered in Armament Haki, its surface black with a hint of blue.

[DUANG------]

A massive sand blade descended from the sky, slamming into the Rock Giant's chest like a raging sea, sending out bursts of purple lightning wherever it touched.

[Snap!]

Bullet, who was inside and controlling the 'Titans', immediately sensed that the Haki on his body had been breached by ten centimeters, which made him frown and his eyes become serious.

"What's going on with this move? Why is there lightning on the attack of a Sand-Sand Devil Fruit User?"

But he immediately discovered that the "Desert Spada" that had pierced his "chest" was already powerless, which made Bullet reveal a cruel grin.

"It was just a moment of overwhelming power!"

The next second, Bullet controlled the combined Rock Giant, slamming its enormous black hands down on both sides of the Sand Blade, instantly crushing it into a cloud of sand with a deafening boom.

"This"

Crocodile in the air was dumbfounded.

[Call out----]

Douglas Bullet swiftly broke free from the Rock Giant, leaving the Sound Explosion boom behind with lightning speed, and appeared above its head in the blink of an eye.

"In the end, your Haki is still weak!"

[Bang!!]

With a deafening roar, Crocodile was sent flying backwards to the astonishment of Biba Amatori, shattering the entire ground in that area and sending plumes of dust billowing up like angry dragons.

I'm a part-time writer. When I'm not busy, I can update many chapters, but when I'm busy, I only have time to write in the evenings. I can only guarantee three updates a day, but I really can't guarantee a consistent schedule. The key issue is that I've run out of drafts.