The guards said, "We'll lend you a hand!"
Luffy said, "No, you guys go on ahead."
Kin'emon said, "But..."
Luffy turned to them and said, "I'm counting on you to get Usopp and the others out of here."
Lu Yu said, "Luffy, you should go with them too. Stay behind and let me handle the cleanup. I'll catch up in just a few minutes."
Seeing Lu Yu's response, the guards said, "Understood." Then they all ran toward the ship.
Bill said, "I don't care about the others. But I'm not giving up on the five-hundred-million-berry Straw Hat."
Meanwhile, the ship was under attack. Amid booming explosions, the men fired cannonballs at it. Someone aboard shouted, "Guys, we can't let the Going Luffy-senpai, which Franky-senpai worked so hard to repair, get damaged again!"
"Right!"
Usopp immediately launched Green Star: Devil at them. The man-eating plants swallowed the attackers whole in an instant.
Franky also brought out his weapons and started firing cannonballs at them.
Robin used Mil Fleur: Giant Tree, which crashed down onto the sea and crushed the men to death.
Franky said, "They just keep coming one after another. What a pain."
The men surrounded the ship and attacked it again and again. Trafalgar Law sat on the ground in discomfort and said, "Has Straw Hat not come back yet?"
Robin said, "It seems he's been delayed."
Back on Luffy's side, Luffy looked up at Lu Yu.
Desire said, "I'm the one who's going to settle things with Straw Hat!"
Bill said, "Settling things means claiming all the bounty money. To do that, I'm going to blow up the entire mine."
Desire said, "What? Your own men will die if you do that!"
Bill said, "So what? Compared to Straw Hat and the others, it may be a trivial