Lucky Roux laughed.
"I'm counting on you!"
Shanks breathed a sigh of relief, turned, and ran.
At the sight, Buggy instantly panicked and tried to give chase, but the fat man before him quickly blocked his path.
"Your opponent is me, Buggy!"
Lucky Roux laughed.
"Bastard!"
Buggy flew into a rage.
"I hear you and Shanks go way back, and you're pretty strong too. Interested in joining us?"
Lucky Roux spoke with a smile.
Yet his attacks were fierce and powerful, forcing Buggy to keep dodging.
"Whew!"
Slowly exhaling a cloud of smoke, Crocodile stared at Whitebeard before him, his expression growing grave.
Even in his old age, Whitebeard was still the World's Strongest Man. Crocodile could not afford to underestimate him in the slightest.
The next second, his legs turned to sand, and he charged forward at tremendous speed.
Whitebeard gripped his Naginata, his towering body breaking into a run as he charged toward Crocodile.
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, the two clashed.
Sand scattered everywhere. Madness shone in Crocodile's eyes as he thrust out his right hand and clenched it.
"Desert Grand Burial!"
In an instant, the ground shook. The surrounding earth and buildings turned to sand and surged upward, forming a mountainous mass weighing hundreds of tons before crashing down ahead.
Whitebeard's pupils trembled. He released one hand from his Naginata, clenched his fist, and hammered it into the sand overhead.
Crack!
The sand collapsed, torn open by a hole over a hundred meters across.
Crocodile's attack, which rivaled a natural disaster, was brutally shattered.
Then their eyes met, each seeing the cold light in the other's gaze.
"All these years!"
"I've carried what happened back then as the shame of my life, Whitebeard!"
Crocodile snarled.
He slammed both hands onto the ground. The