Pirates Reap the Benefits

Sabo's female colleague spoke as she vigorously tugged at his cheeks. "Honestly, every time you do whatever you want, Hack and I are the ones who get yelled at, okay?" She finally let go, leaving his face red from all the pulling.

"Ow, that hurts." Sabo rubbed his cheeks with both hands, looking aggrieved. But then he suddenly stood up. "Navy Admiral Fujitora..."

Meanwhile, over at the Royal Plateau, Usopp and the others had all been tightly bound by the citizens.

"Good, well done! All that's left is to use these prisoners as bait and lure the other prisoners here!" the citizens said.

"Please, let us go!" Usopp shouted.

But the citizens were unmoved. "We'll begin the next phase of the bait operation immediately."

"Move!" Suddenly, one citizen after another fell to the ground.

"Pirates!" A group of pirates had appeared behind them, rushing over.

"Finally found them!" the pirates said.

A pirate swung his blade at Usopp. Usopp hurriedly twisted his head aside, barely avoiding the strike. Even so, the blade passed terrifyingly close to his head, and cold sweat poured down his face.

"God Usopp, with a bounty of 500 million! I'll take your head and make our pirate crew famous in one go!"

The pirates charged forward at once.

"Wait, they're important hostages for completing the game!" Some citizens tried to stop them. "Could you at least not kill them?"

"Stop pretending to be saints. If you hand them over to Doflamingo, won't the result be the same?" the pirates said, shoving the citizens to the ground.

"What a pain. We might as well kill them all together," a pirate said.

"Help!" All the citizens cried out at once. They had no strength to fight back.

More and more pirates climbed up.

"Hurry up, don't waste time!"