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Bang!!

The slash kept coming. In the blink of an eye, it reached Crocodile, and the flash of the blade sliced through his body.

A thin line appeared from his left shoulder to his right abdomen. A sea breeze blew past, and he split apart where he stood!

"Looks like you've improved. You even picked Observation Haki back up."

Atlas didn't believe for a moment that he could be killed so easily.

Sure enough, fine grains of yellow sand swirled through the air. The clean cut slowly sealed, and Crocodile took shape again.

"Long time no see, Kanos Atlas—"

Before he could finish, a vast shadow fell over him.

"Iron Body: Armament!"

A foot hardened with Armament Haki slammed into Crocodile's face.

Boom!!!

The island cracked. A human-sized hole punched straight through it, and Crocodile was kicked down below.

The enormous force drove the already plummeting island even faster.

Crocodile hurtled toward the island beneath him, having taken a solid kick from Atlas.

Smack!!

But he kept his composure. His body turned to sand and struck Klamapo Island in a spray of dunes.

"What the hell is Crocodile doing picking a fight with White Hou? Is he trying to get us all killed?"

"Exactly! He's always challenging enemies he can't beat. What an idiot!"

"Damn it, wasn't the lesson Whitebeard taught him enough?"

It had all happened in an instant, but the Pirates fleeing across the island soon noticed. They couldn't help muttering curses.

"Erosion... Reincarnation!!"

A cold voice cut through their complaints.

Sand filled the air. The desert spread farther, reducing flowers, grass, and scattered stones to dust in an instant.

"—?!!"

Before the Pirates nearby could beg for mercy, their desiccated bodies toppled to the ground.

That was the world of Pirates—

The weak had no right to