Just as Sand Crocodile caught sight of Blue-Eyes White Dragon,
the Blue-Eyes White Dragon perched atop the Rain Banquet pyramid spotted Sand Crocodile at the same time.
The White Dragon beat its wings, and a gale sprang up.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon swept its wings and hurtled toward Sand Crocodile.
"Is that really a dragon?"
Sand Crocodile's brow furrowed deeply. He casually tossed the treasure from his shoulder aside, and his right hand instantly turned into flowing sand.
"Or is it... some Devil Fruit User who likes playing tricks!?"
Crocodile watched Blue-Eyes White Dragon flying straight toward him and took a battle stance.
But before he could even draw his Desert Sword,
Blue-Eyes White Dragon opened its cavernous jaws and unleashed a world-shaking—
[Dragon's Roar]!
"Roar—!"
A thunderous dragon's cry that split the clouds and shattered stone, wrapped in a powerful explosive shock wave, shot toward Sand Crocodile at lightning speed.
"Nani!?"
Crocodile's pupils contracted instantly.
Caught completely off guard, he had no time to mount any effective defense before the [Dragon's Roar] shock wave struck him.
Boom!
The powerful shock wave hit Crocodile squarely.
The famous "hero" of Alabasta was blasted into a vast cloud of sand in broad daylight.
Once the [Dragon's Roar] shock wave had passed,
all that remained on the spot was a pair of battered "crocodile legs"!
But a closer look revealed
that what flowed from the severed ends of those "crocodile legs" wasn't bright red blood, but golden grains of sand!
The wind kept blowing.
The sand surrounding the "crocodile legs" gathered together again under some unseen force, taking on a human shape.
A moment later,
Crocodile reappeared on the spot, completely unharmed.
As a [Logia - Sand-Sand Fruit] User, Crocodile could turn any part of his body into sand.
This was the powerful ability