Your Time to Die Has Come

"If you wish to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Looks like this is forcing you to grow stronger, Anna!"

Xia Zhiqing spoke to Anna, who was holding her bounty poster and studying it.

"I'll work hard!" Anna said firmly.

"I found Devil Fruits too. There are two: a Paramecia-type Sound-Wave Fruit, and a Logia-type Mud Fruit!"

"Which one do you want?"

Xia Zhiqing looked at Anna and knowingly asked.

He refused to believe Anna would choose the Mud Fruit!

"I choose the Mud Fruit!"

Yet Anna's answer caught him completely off guard!

She had actually chosen the Mud Fruit!

"Are you sure you didn't choose wrong? Have you thought this through? The Mud Fruit's side effect will make your whole body stink!"

Xia Zhiqing looked at Anna in surprise and said.

"But it's a Logia. That's enough!" Anna said with incomparably determined eyes.

Logia Fruits made it easier to grow stronger. That was a fact universally acknowledged across the seas!

"Are you sure you don't want to think about it again?" Xia Zhiqing asked once more.

"No need. This is the one. I won't change my mind!" Anna answered just as firmly.

"You want to become stronger that badly? Because what I said to you two days ago got to you?"

Xia Zhiqing looked at Anna and spoke seriously.

"Yes. I don't want to hold you back anymore!"

"We're a group, aren't we?"

Anna clenched her fists and gave a pale smile.

"Sigh! Fine, do as you wish!"

Seeing Anna like this, Xia Zhiqing suddenly began to regret what he had said to her two days earlier.

What a mess. Why do I suddenly feel like I'm a sinner?

Xia Zhiqing mockingly thought to himself, then steered the ship toward their destination.

But just as Xia Zhiqing sat cross-legged on the ground, ready to allocate his Evolution Points, his expression suddenly changed drastically!

He grabbed Anna and used Moonwalk to rush into the sky!

Boom!

The next moment, their ship was violently overturned, and a vessel resembling a ferocious beast emerged from beneath the water!

A group of vicious-looking pirates stood atop that ship!

Leading them was a muscular man five meters tall with only one arm!

Xia Zhiqing checked his combat power, and his pupils instantly contracted!

210!

He could easily take down several ordinary Marine vice admirals!

Among pirates, that was strength worthy of a 400 million bounty!

Pop!

The membrane around the pirate ship burst. The one-armed man spoke, "Natsi, right? You finally showed yourself. You really made me search!"

"Steel Arm Kuja!"

Xia Zhiqing immediately realized who he was.

The only person who held that kind of grudge against him was this man!

"Have you figured out how you want to die? Killing yourself will lessen the pain!"

He looked at Xia Zhiqing, his eyes filled with savage malice!

"Die? Heh heh! Sorry, but I don't think you have that ability!"

Xia Zhiqing silently converted all his Evolution Points into combat power and added them to his combat power stat!

Even so, his combat power only rose from 172 to 175!

It was a drop in the ocean!

With a difference of 35 combat power points, the gap was simply too great!

After all, if Kuja had been at 190, Xia Zhiqing could have barely gone all out and used Heavenly Thunder Tribulation to kill him in a counterattack!

But at 210, Xia Zhiqing was truly powerless!

"Then let me see where the confidence behind your big talk comes from!!" Kuja said in a deep voice.