Before long, Luffy, Nami, Zoro, and the others finally escaped in disarray from the flames and thick smoke kicked up by the explosion. They realized that the PX-1 robot hadn't blown itself up because it had malfunctioned; it had deliberately been showing off its strength.
From that explosion alone, it wasn't hard to tell that the robot numbered "PX-1" seemed even stronger than the "PX-4" robot they had just defeated after a tremendous struggle!
There was no doubt about it: the strength of those robots was inversely proportional to their numbers. The lower the number, the stronger the robot?
"How terrifying!"
"Damn it!"
"We nearly got blown to bits..."
"Yohohoho~"
"My lungs are about to be shaken out of me, even though I haven't had lungs in ages..."
"Nami! Robin!"
"And Chopper, are you all right?"
"Yeah!"
"We're fine!"
"We're not dead. The blast was too dispersed."
Sanji, Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Franky, and the others leaped out of the smoke, coughing violently as they stubbornly insisted they were fine.
They might have said that, but anyone could see the many small tears and smears of blood on their clothes. They looked even more battered than before.
Fortunately, the explosion hadn't done any serious harm to the Straw Hats.
Even so, the blast had given them quite a scare and shown them just how strong their opponent was.
"Cough, cough!"
"This won't work. We're all too exhausted to keep fighting, and we don't even know how many more robots like that there are. We can't just stay here and fight endlessly!"
"Everyone!"
"We'd better run!"
"Scatter!"
"Then hide and recover our strength before regrouping!"
As captain, Luffy had noticed the predicament they were in. Knowing that continuing like this would be pointless and unwilling to see any of his friends get