Luffy sat down beside the barbecue grill and reached for the meat, but the girl hurriedly stopped him and began asking questions.
"Wait. My name is Vivi. Who are you?"
"Mm, mm, we're pirates."
With his mouth stuffed full of grilled meat, Luffy spoke indistinctly.
Vivi knew what pirates were. Every pirate was supposed to be a merciless killer, but could this guy who looked none too bright really be a pirate?
"Are you really going to Rainbase?"
Vivi's expression changed instantly. Leaning against a sand dune and wiping down his blade, Zoro slowly asked, "What are you going to Rainbase for?"
"It's dangerous there. We're looking for Crocodile. I heard he's one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, so I want to fight him."
Vivi had never expected these people to want to challenge Crocodile.
After all, whether it was his strength or his status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Crocodile was someone no one could afford to provoke!
"You can't beat him. He's a devil. He wants to destroy Alabasta."
The moment Vivi said that, everyone was stunned.
Tears welled up in Vivi's eyes as she continued, "He used Dance Powder to create a drought. He wants to take control of this country."
Sure enough, Crocodile had still taken the same path as in the original story.
The one good thing was that Crocodile had not slaughtered Alabasta's citizens so openly. Otherwise, Robin would never have agreed to it, much less Mu Chen. Mu Chen had said that people could not be killed indiscriminately, so Crocodile had found a loophole. If he did not kill the citizens and merely used other methods to control a country, what could Mu Chen say?
At that moment, Luffy suddenly stood up and patted his chest. "We'll