"Ha ha ha!"
Crocodile couldn't help himself. He suddenly burst out laughing.
He wasn't happy. He just found the situation in front of him so amusing that he couldn't hold it in.
"This is getting livelier and livelier..."
"..."
At first, it had just been Crocodile and Lindsey.
The former had found Nico Robin; the latter had somehow gotten to know Fujitora and Jorian.
Every last one of them was a formidable fighter.
But if you asked which powerful figure Crocodile least wanted to run into within Elegia's borders right now, there was only one answer—
Red-Haired Shanks!
Red hair, short stubble, and three scars over his left eye.
A white shirt, brown knee-length shorts, and flip-flops.
A long black cape draped over his back.
"Puhahahaha!"
A drunken man stumbled over and slung one arm around Crocodile's shoulders.
Still laughing heartily, he sized up the five people in front of him.
"I... hic! I've seen you all before..."
Shanks had drunk who knew how much. He was already dead drunk, barely able to speak clearly.
"You're the Shichibukai's 'Crocodile'!"
"Hic!"
"And the one beside you is..."
"Nico—"
Before he could finish, Robin's expression changed.
She crossed her arms and sprouted two more from Shanks's shoulders, clamping them over his mouth.
The Flower-Flower Fruit's power activated!
Robin hadn't recognized Red-Haired at first, but she knew she absolutely couldn't let this man say her name!
To conceal her identity, she'd covered her face with a scarf, and she hadn't used her full name when introducing herself.
So why had this red-haired man recognized her?!
Never mind. Better safe than sorry. She'd make him sleep for a while.
Robin crossed her hands and pulled them back, trying to knock the man unconscious.
But in that instant, she felt an unimaginable resistance