Chapter 176: Walking Into the Trap (22)
Chapter 175: Walking Into the Trap
"From now on, we call the shots here. When pirates enter the port—whether to fight them, how to fight them, whether to kill them, whether to exchange their bounties—it's all up to us. Who agrees? Who objects?"
Leo looked over the wreckage, the wounded agents sprawled across the ground and groaning, and spoke.
Aside from the few relatively strong Intermediate Agents, the rest could barely even be considered agents of Baroque Works.
Baroque Works could not afford to keep that many agents. Simply put, everyone here was an uncontracted hired hand.
And these hired hands had a great deal of freedom—the mouse and the vulture might have been watching this place, but they could not be bothered to kill them.
Even if they surrendered, the two creatures could not be bothered to kill them.
However, if Intermediate Agents surrendered or fled, they would attack. They were actually quite formidable, but Leo had long since forgotten they even existed.
The reason Leo had kept Dragon and the others from showing themselves was to prevent anyone from leaking their information to Crocodile.
He was setting a trap for Crocodile, making him continuously send Baroque Works agents over. Ideally, he wanted Crocodile to send the Slice-Slice Fruit user and Mr. 2 Bon Clay as well.
Unknown rookies like Zoro and Tashigi showing up here were nothing more than easy prey. So what if they could subdue several thousand people? Someone like Mr. 1, with the Slice-Slice Fruit, could slaughter them all without taking a scratch. In the first half of the Grand Line, a Paramecia Devil Fruit was almost enough to let someone run wild.
Crocodile, meanwhile, was a devoted believer in Devil Fruit powers. Yet once Luffy discovered his