Vivi told them what she knew about Baroque Works. It was not much, but it was everything she had learned after years of undercover work.
Most importantly, there was the boss no one had ever seen: Mr. 0.
His true identity was Crocodile, one of the current Shichibukai.
He ran Rainbase Casino while fending off invading pirates to maintain his heroic image, all while secretly serving as the mastermind behind a criminal organization.
"Why? Why am I so unlucky?"
Nami collapsed onto the ground, looking like she was about to cry. "I was so stupid, really. All I knew was that taking this job would earn us a huge sum of money."
With her pale thighs sprawled out, Nami looked so pitiful in her grief and despair that Vivi ended up constantly comforting her instead.
"I don't care! Pay us more! You have to pay us more!"
Seeing Nami baring her teeth and shouting, Reiner got a dark look on his face.
Looking off into the distance, Luffy had already chased Mr. 3 into the forest. With Luffy's strength, beating Mr. 3 would be as easy as playing around.
Reiner put away Blue Ogre and Red Ogre before heading deeper into the forest. "Giant uncles, please look after them."
"Gahahaha, don't worry, Reiner boy."
"How could we let our guests get hurt right in front of us?"
"Thanks, uncles. I'll bring you two more barrels of wine later." Reiner waved with a smile, then turned and walked into the forest.
"Booger Bomb!"
"3000-Kilogram Press!"
"You damned freaks! You think you can touch me?!"
Mr. 5 sounded disdainful, but there was a trace of wariness in his eyes as he stared solemnly at the tall fish-man before him.
At first, he had been careless and taken a punch from this fish-man, and it was still faintly aching.
This fish-man was bigger than the others, with large blade-like fins on both arms. He assumed a karate stance as he faced Mr. 5.
Reiner had made him using Kuroobi's template. He could use Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Jujutsu.
"Why are there so many fish-men here?!"
Miss Valentine used her ability to float into the air, dodging a Water Gun fired by one of the fish-men. She frowned and muttered under her breath.
Mr. 5 dug into his nostril and flicked out a bomb, blasting away three fish-men charging at him.
"These fish-men aren't right. It's one thing that they're all mute, but even after getting their arms and legs blown off, they don't make a sound."
At that moment, neither of them noticed Reiner standing atop a thick branch in a nearby tree, watching the battle below.
"These two are pretty weak." Reiner could not help saying it. A group of Fish-man Undead had actually tied them down. No wonder Luffy and Zoro could take out trash like them with one punch each.
Other than these two, there was also a little girl, Mr. 3's partner. She had gone to help as soon as Luffy started fighting him.
Seeing that there was no one else around, Reiner raised his hand. In an instant, rifts in space opened behind him in neat rows, and dozens—hundreds—of swords, spears, blades, and halberds emerged from them.
"I've got my own Gate of Babylon now too." Reiner chuckled and waved down at the battlefield with a thought.
Immediately, all the weapons shot downward as if they had been thrown, targeting Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine.
Swords, spears, blades, and halberds rained down like a torrential storm, filling the forest with flashing steel.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Miss Valentine floated at low altitude, her attention entirely focused on the battle ahead. Caught off guard, she was struck in the thigh by a longsword.
"Ah!"
She let out a shriek and whipped her head around, only to see a dense rain of weapons already before her. Before she could react, a spear pierced through her delicate body with a wet sound.
Her ability was forcibly canceled, and she crashed heavily to the ground. Several cold flashes followed, piercing her body and pinning her to the earth.
"Valentine!!"
Mr. 5 had only just heard the cry and turned around when his partner was brought down by the sudden ambush.
He opened his mouth, inhaled deeply, then forcefully blew out, triggering an explosion that sent every weapon flying away from him.
"Couldn't even defend against something like that?" Reiner said flatly.
The woman in the pencil skirt lying on the ground had already gone silent. Even though her body was tougher than an ordinary person's, she had little means of defending herself against cold weapons.
He had developed this move back then just to look cool. It was not very powerful, only useful for clearing out fodder.
As for how it worked...
Couldn't say. It would ruin the cool factor.
"Bastard!! You actually used a sneak attack!!"
A furious roar came from beneath the tree. Mr. 5 had already spotted him, and with an enraged expression, he reached up to dig into his nostril.
"What kind of fucked-up nonsense is that!"
Reiner's face darkened. He controlled Kuroobi's undead to close in, unleashing a full-power Fish-Man Karate: 1,000 Tile Kick at him.
Yet Mr. 5 did not stop what he was doing. He raised one hand to block, only to be blasted away by the punch and slammed into a tree trunk.
"You cowardly bastard, die!!"
Mr. 5's blocking hand was completely twisted out of shape. After coughing up a mouthful of blood, he stretched out his other hand, his face twisted in fury as he aimed at Reiner.
Was he really determined to avenge his partner? With a thought from Reiner, a rift in space opened, and a sinister spear emerged from it.
"Though it's a move for clearing fodder, it's a different story when Blue Ogre and Red Ogre are involved."
Whoosh—!
With a thought from Reiner, the spear shot out with terrifying force. Like a meteor streaking across the sky, it arrived in an instant, swift as lightning.
"Nose Fantasy."
Boom!!!
The spear pierced through Mr. 5's outstretched hand, which had been preparing to fire a bomb, then drove into his body and carried him flying backward into a tree.
The spear did not lose any momentum, punching through the trunk and boring horrifying holes through more than a dozen trees behind it before finally pinning him to another tree.
"That was using a cannon to kill a mosquito." Reiner jumped down from the tree.
Reiner would not have been surprised no matter how absurdly powerful a spear thrown by Red Ogre was.
If he had fired an Elbaf Spear powerful enough to pierce through an Island Eater Goldfish, there probably would not even be ashes left of him now.
Using Red Ogre against an enemy of this level was giving him far too much respect.
".Cough. Cough, cough."
A horrifying hole had been blasted through Mr. 5's body. Half of him was embedded in the tree trunk, and his face was twisted in pain.
"You're still alive."
Reiner slowly walked over to him and took out a pack of cigarettes from the breast pocket of his dark blue shirt.
"You... bastard... You actually..."
"You actually... killed Valentine."
Mr. 5 weakly raised his hand and slowly threw a punch. His fist struggled through the air before landing feebly on Reiner's chest.
Smack.
"When you're about to die, you should be begging for mercy."
Reiner turned to glance at the lifeless girl in the pencil skirt lying on the ground.
"Your lover?" Reiner asked calmly, drawing the Bone Chain Sword.
"Heh." Mr. 5 let out a faint, breathless sound. His eyes slowly closed, and his head drooped.
Squelch!
Reiner pulled back the bloodstained Bone Chain Sword. After collecting the man's template, he turned and left.
At the center of Little Garden Island, in an open grassy clearing.
"Nami, do we really not need to go help?" Vivi was a little worried. After all, they were high-ranking elite fighters within Baroque Works.
Nami confidently patted Vivi on the shoulder and smiled. "Don't worry. Luffy's so strong, he barely seems human."
"That's right, and Reiner too. Don't underestimate the monsters on our ship." Usopp said smugly.
Though Reiner disguised himself when he fought, they knew how strong his undead were. No one truly considered him part of the Weakling Trio.
As soon as he finished speaking, a dinosaur emerged from the depths of the forest in the distance. Sitting atop it was a blond figure wearing a sea-blue shirt with beige trousers.
Usopp immediately grew excited. "Whoa! It's a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Reiner!"
"I took care of them, everyone."
Reiner jumped off the Tyrannosaurus Rex and walked over with a smile. "Some guy with an afro actually attacked me with boogers. What rotten luck."
"Boogers?"
Usopp clutched his stomach and burst out laughing. "Hahaha, don't tell me some got on you?"
"Eww~, stay away from me!" Nami said with a disgusted look.
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