Crocodile did not immediately acknowledge the plundering pirate. Instead, he surveyed the chaos around him, put on an expression of remorse and self-reproach, and spoke in a low voice.
"Sorry, everyone. I arrived too late!"
The pirate captain frowned, instinctively sensing his authority and the unspoken contempt directed at him.
"You bastard, don't you understand plain speech?"
The pirate captain rushed toward Crocodile, his burly body moving at a speed far beyond an ordinary person's.
"I told you to get lost, but you wouldn't! Now die!"
The pirate captain roared, raised his bloodstained saber, and swung his right arm. The blade whistled through the air toward Crocodile's neck.
Thump!
A sound slightly different from that of an ordinary beheading rang out as the pirate captain severed Crocodile's head with a single slash.
"I thought you were someone worth fighting! Compared to that monster Doflamingo, you're trash! Trash!"
Seeing that he had beheaded his enemy in one stroke, the pirate captain instantly lost all his nervousness and began jeering wildly.
"Oh? Doflamingo?"
Crocodile's severed head floated in midair, his emotionless eyes gazing coldly at the pirate captain before him.
"I'll remember that name..."
Clang!
At the sight of this ghostly spectacle, the pirate captain lost his grip. His saber fell to the ground with a sharp clang.
"M-monster!!"
The pirate captain shrieked. He hurriedly lowered his head to retrieve his weapon, intending to chop this monster who could survive decapitation into mincemeat.
However...
Stomp!
Crocodile planted one foot on the blade of the pirate captain's saber. No matter how frantically the man tugged at the hilt, his foot did not budge.
The pirate captain looked up, about to demand an explanation.
But Crocodile had no intention of giving him another chance to spout nonsense.
"Desert Prison."
Murmuring softly, Crocodile raised his