King of Streetlights

Vivi told them information about Baroque Works. Although it wasn't much, it was all she had learned after years of undercover work.

The most important piece of information was about the boss, Mr. 0, whom no one had ever seen.

His true identity was Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai.

He ran the Rain Dinners Casino while simultaneously fighting off invading pirates to maintain his heroic image, but secretly, he was the mastermind behind the criminal organization.

"Why, why am I so unlucky?"

Nami slumped to the ground, on the verge of tears. "I'm so stupid, really. I only thought about the big money I'd earn by taking this job..."

With her legs spread wide, Nami's heartbroken and dejected appearance was pitiful, and it was Vivi who ended up comforting her.

"I don't care! More money, you need to give me more money!"

Lina's head was covered in black lines as he watched Nami bare her teeth and shout.

He glanced to the side, where Luffy was already chasing Mr. 3 into the forest. With Luffy's strength, fighting Mr. 3 was like playing around.

Lina put away the Blue Ogre and Red Ogre and walked into another part of the forest. "Giant Uncle, please take care of them."

"Gahahahaha, don't worry, young Lina."

"How could we let our guests get hurt right in front of us?"

"Thanks, Uncle. I'll bring you two more barrels of sake later." Lina smiled, waved goodbye, and headed back into the forest.

"Nose Bomb!"

"Three Thousand Kilograms of Pressure!"

"Damn freaks, you think you can touch me with just this?!"

Mr. 5 spoke with disdain, but a hint of apprehension flickered in his eyes as he looked at the tall Fish-Man before him.

He had been careless at first and taken a punch from this Fish-Man, which had even made him ache.

This Fish-Man was taller than the others, with large, blade-like fins on his arms. He adopted a karate stance to face off against Mr. 5.

This was a creation of Lina's, made from Kuroobi, who could use Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Jiu-Jitsu.

"Why are there so many Fish-Men here!?"

Miss. Valentine used her ability to float into the sky, dodging a water gun shot by a Fish-Man. She frowned and whispered.

Mr. 5 dug into his nose and flicked out a bomb, blasting away three charging Fish-Men.

"These Fish-Men are strange. They're all like mutes, and even though they've been blown apart, limb by limb, they don't make a sound."

At this moment, they didn't notice Lina standing atop a thick branch of a nearby large tree, watching the battle below.

"These two are quite weak." Lina lit a cigarette. A group of undead Fish-Men had managed to tie up these two. They truly lived up to being the kind of fodder Luffy and Zoro could defeat with a single punch.

Besides the two below, there was also a little girl, Mr. 3's partner. She had gone to help when Luffy started fighting them.

Standing on the branch, Lina saw that there was no one else below. He raised his hand, and instantly, numerous void rifts opened up behind him, arranged in a row. Dozens, even hundreds, of swords, spears, and halberds extended from the rifts.

"I have my own King's Treasure now too." Lina chuckled lightly and waved his hand towards the area below.

Immediately, all the weapons shot out as if thrown, aiming at the two fighting Mr. 5.

Swords, spears, and halberds rained down like a torrential downpour, creating a flash of blades in the forest.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Miss. Valentine floated low in the air, her attention completely focused on the battle before her. Caught off guard, she was struck in the thigh by a longsword.

"Ah!"

She let out a scream and suddenly turned her head, only to see the dense, rain-like hail of weapons upon her. Before she could react, a spear pierced her delicate body with a thwack.

Her ability was forcibly dispelled, and she fell heavily to the ground from mid-air. Immediately after, several cold glints flashed, piercing her body and pinning her to the ground.

"Valentine!!"

Mr. 5 heard the sound and turned back, only to see his partner already struck down by the sudden surprise attack.

He opened his mouth, inhaled a breath of air, and exhaled forcefully, creating an explosion that blew away all the weapons aimed at him.

"Can't even defend against this kind of move?" Lina said calmly.

The woman in the hip-hugging skirt lying on the ground was already lifeless. Even though her body was stronger than that of an ordinary person, she had no way to withstand cold weapons.

This was something he had developed back in the day to look cool. It didn't have much power, only capable of dealing with fodder and clearing out mobs.

As for the principle behind it...

He couldn't say; it would ruin his image.

"Bastard!! You used a sneak attack!!"

A roar erupted from below the tree. Mr. 5 had seen him and, with a furious expression, began to dig at his nose.

"What the hell is this crap!"

Lina's face darkened as he controlled Kuroobi's undead to surge forward, unleashing a full-power Fish-Man Karate: One Thousand Brick Fist at his opponent.

However, Mr. 5 didn't stop his actions, raising one hand to block the attack. He was sent flying directly into a tree trunk by the punch.

"You despicable bastard, die!!"

Mr. 5's blocking hand was completely twisted. After coughing up a mouthful of blood, he extended his other hand, a ferocious expression on his face as he aimed at Lina.

Is he determined to avenge his partner? Lina thought. A void rift tore open out of nowhere, and a sinister spear protruded from it.

"It's a move meant for clearing out weaklings, but with the Blue Ogre and Red Ogre, it's a different story."

Whoosh--!

Lina willed it, and the spear shot out with terrifying momentum, like a meteor streaking across the sky, arriving in an instant like lightning.

"Nose Fantasy..."

"BOOM!!!"

The spear pierced Mr. 5's outstretched hand, which he was preparing to launch a bomb with, and impaled his body, dragging him backward as he crashed into a tree.

The spear's power didn't diminish, piercing through and creating shockingly large holes in over a dozen trees before finally embedding itself in a tree trunk.

"Talk about using a cannon to kill a mosquito," Lina said, jumping down from the tree.

Lina wasn't surprised by the exaggerated power of the spear thrown by the Red Ogre.

If this had been the Elbaf Spear aimed at an Island Eater Goldfish, the opponent probably wouldn't even have ash left.

Using the Red Ogre against an enemy of this caliber was practically overkill.

"...Cough... cough cough."

Mr. 5's body had a shocking hole in it, and he was stuck halfway into the tree trunk, his face contorted in pain.

"Still alive, huh."

Lina walked slowly in front of him and took out a pack of cigarettes from a handkerchief pocket on his dark blue shirt.

"You... bastard, you actually..."

"You actually... killed Miss Valentine."

Mr. 5 weakly raised his hand and slowly threw a punch. The fist, struggling to move through the air, weakly landed on Lina's chest.

Pat...

"When you're about to die, you should beg for mercy."

Lina pulled out a cigarette from the pack and bit down on it. He glanced back at the girl in the hip-hugging skirt lying lifelessly on the ground.

"Was she your lover?" Lina asked calmly, drawing his bone chain sword.

"Heh heh..." Mr. 5 let out a weak sound, his eyes slowly closed, and his head drooped.

Swoosh!

Lina retracted his blood-stained bone chain sword, lit the cigarette in his mouth, collected the opponent's template, and turned to leave.

In the center of Little Garden Island, on a grassy clearing.

"Nami, do we really not need to help?" Vivi asked worriedly, as after all, they were top-tier combatants ranked quite high in Baroque Works.

Nami confidently patted Vivi's shoulder and smiled, "Don't worry, Luffy is incredibly strong, almost inhuman."

"That's right, and Lina too. Don't underestimate the monsters on our ship," Usopp said proudly.

Although Lina disguised himself during battles, they knew the combat power of his undead. No one genuinely considered him part of the Weak Trio.

Just as he finished speaking, a dinosaur appeared from the depths of the forest in the distance. Riding on it was a figure with blond hair, wearing a light blue shirt and beige trousers.

Usopp immediately got excited, "Wow! It's a Tyrannosaurus Rex! Lina!"

"I've handled things, everyone," Lina said, jumping off the Tyrannosaurus Rex and walking over with a smile. "Some guy with an explosive hairstyle used a booger attack on me. So annoying."

"Booger attack?"

Usopp burst into laughter, "Hahaha, you didn't get any on you, did you?"

"Ew~, stay away from me!" Nami said with disgust.