Those three were far beyond anyone he could handle. It seemed he had no choice but to go easy.
Crocodile's voice sounded as though it had been scraped with sandpaper as he glared furiously at Mu Chen. "Mu Chen, you did this on purpose! You knew who he was all along. You deliberately asked me to go easy first, then brought up his connections to pressure me!"
"I was only stating the facts." Mu Chen leaned back against the sofa, returning to his usual air of unruffled ease.
He paused before continuing, "Challenging you is Luffy's choice, and I won't stop him. But if you actually kill him, Dragon's temper isn't nearly as mild as Garp's. If he finds out his son died in Alabasta..."
Crocodile's face alternated between green and white. He wasn't afraid of Garp. As a Marine hero, Garp had too many constraints. But he feared Dragon. That man didn't care about rules at all. To achieve his goals, he would even brave the World Government's cannon fire head-on. If killing Luffy brought down the Revolutionary Army's furious retaliation, his dream of becoming the Pirate King would all come to nothing.
"You win!"
Crocodile sat back down, grabbed the bottle, and poured red wine straight into his mouth. It ran down his chin and into his black coat as he added defiantly, "I can refrain from killing him, but forget about me going easy."
"If that brat can't take a beating, don't blame me if I cripple him." "That's enough."
Mu Chen nodded in satisfaction. He knew this was the greatest concession Crocodile could make.
"If Luffy can't even withstand thirty percent of your strength, he doesn't deserve to travel the road ahead!"
Robin listened with her heart pounding. She finally understood why Mu Chen had dared