"Who's there?"
Ye Chen spun around. Five people had appeared on the roof behind him. They wore the same outfits as the Bounty Hunters of Baroque Works. Clearly, they had been hiding among them all along.
There were four men and one woman. The speaker was a tall, thin, middle-aged man with a face like a donkey's.
The other four were an odd-looking bunch, all different shapes and sizes. One was bald, another had an Afro, and a long-armed man wore his trousers above his jacket. The woman was a beautiful young member of the Mink Tribe with a mane growing from her body.
"We're assassins from Dragon Mansion. My name is La Deng!"
"La Deng?"
Ye Chen couldn't help laughing. "In our world, that name's famous. Almost everyone knows it!"
But in the world of One Piece, it was clearly just an ordinary name.
"Assassins from Dragon Mansion?"
Ye Chen wasn't particularly surprised. On Horror Island, Diana and Klyde had served Dragon Mansion. Now that something had happened to them, Dragon Mansion had every reason to send someone.
Clang!
Zoro drew his sword first. Holding Kitetsu back behind him, he slashed forward. "Thirty-Six Pound Phoenix!"
Lucci and Gin charged out almost at the same time. "Finally, a chance to stretch our legs. Hope these guys don't disappoint."
Ye Chen had once assumed the Celestial Dragons were all useless fools. But after clashing with Dragon Mansion, his view had gradually changed. The Celestial Dragons still controlled a terrifying amount of power.
Besides Impel Down, there were the intelligence agencies from CP0 to CP9—ten trained elite forces in all. Every one of them answered to the Celestial Dragons.
And Dragon Mansion itself held two fearsome trump cards: West Owl War Wolf's Azure Dragon Squad and East Owl Falcon's Golden Cicada Assassins.