This chaotic battle had come out of nowhere.
How could the Straw Hat Pirates have imagined that the people attacking them were doing it solely to make Usopp change his name—or simply to kill him?
But the truth was right before their eyes, leaving them no choice but to believe it.
With no other options, they could only meet force with force and overcome every troublemaker who came looking for them.
Perhaps it had been intentional, but most of the people beaten down by the Straw Hat Pirates had avoided fatal injuries.
But the trouble had not ended there.
After the riffraff fell, the mastermind behind it all finally appeared.
It was not Smoker, who had arrived on a cool motorcycle.
Instead, it was a man with a green mohawk, eye markings beneath his right eye, a nose ring, and a black, wing-shaped half-ring tattoo across his chest.
The man walked with both hands in his pockets, looking somewhat roguish.
Not far away, Smoker had sat watching the farce end. Now he stared expressionlessly at the green-mohawked man walking toward the Straw Hat Pirates.
"Bartholomew."
He knew this man. He was the underworld boss of Loguetown's streets.
The people lying on the ground, beaten by the Straw Hat Pirates, were all Bartholomew's men as well.
"Has he set his sights on the Straw Hat Pirates' bounty?"
From Smoker's perspective, Bartholomew had no previous connection with the Straw Hat Pirates. Laying an ambush to attack them was most likely motivated by their fifty-million bounty.
When Bartholomew appeared, he naturally noticed Smoker, his "old acquaintance," nearby.
But he ignored Smoker, stepping over his fallen subordinates until he reached Luffy and the others. His fierce gaze fixed on Usopp dozens of meters away.
"You're Usopp, aren't you?"
Bartholomew drew the short knife at