"Yahahahaha!"
"Someone like you isn't even worth Mr. 5's (Yang Cheng's) time. I can finish you off easily on my own.
Ten-thousand-kilogram crush!"
She reduced her weight to one kilogram and leaped into the air, then instantly increased it to ten thousand kilograms.
The heavier an object was, the greater its acceleration and power as it fell.
Boom!
So the instant Miss Valentine's descending body struck the ground, the surrounding earth shattered under the terrifying pressure of her enormous weight.
Destruction King Laboon, a pirate with a bounty of 1,500 Beli, had narrowly dodged Miss Valentine's attack. But as he stared at the massive crater before him, his face filled with horror.
Yet just as he prepared to flee, Miss Valentine, who had smashed that enormous pit into the ground, closed the parasol in her hand.
Reducing her weight again, she darted lightly in front of Laboon and lashed out at his body with a roundhouse kick.
"Million-ton flying kick!"
As her long leg swung out, Miss Valentine instantly raised her weight to its limit again.
Clearly, as her mass increased, both the speed and power of Miss Valentine's roundhouse kick skyrocketed in midair, turning it into a true million-ton flying kick.
Laboon took the blow square in the kidney, and his ribs snapped instantly. Coughing up a mouthful of blood, he flew over a hundred meters before crashing into a cluster of walls, his fate unknown.
With their captain so easily taken out, the Laboul Pirates' morale collapsed. They were either killed by the Baroque Works members present or scattered and fled.
Watching Mr. Valentine cripple a pirate with a bounty as high as 1,500 Beli with a single kick, the chief commanders and Millions of Baroque Works present were stunned.
Among them, a girl with long blue hair and a middle-aged man with wavy blond curls looked not only shocked, but also troubled.
These two were none other than Alabasta's princess, Nefertari D. Vivi, and its Captain of the Guard, Igaram. They had only recently infiltrated Baroque Works and were still newcomers here.
Some time earlier, Vivi had learned about the organization called Baroque Works from Igaram and deduced that it was the culprit stirring up the populace and causing Alabasta's current civil unrest.
That was why Vivi and Igaram had infiltrated the organization: to investigate its secrets and uncover the mastermind behind it.
In the days since joining, Vivi and Igaram had learned about Baroque Works' organizational structure from the other members.
The Millions, their current rank, were merely foot soldiers. If they wanted to gather intelligence and uncover the organization's secrets, they would have to climb higher.
What Vivi and Igaram hadn't expected, however, was that Baroque Works was far stronger than they had imagined.
No, more precisely, the two Frontier Agents who had appeared today were stronger than they had expected.
Leaving aside Baroque Works' mysterious president, according to the information they had gathered, weren't Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine the lowest-ranked pair among the Frontier Agents?
Never mind Mr. 5, who hadn't lifted a finger and had simply watched the entire time. The strength Miss Valentine had displayed already far surpassed that of Igaram, Bells, and the others in the guard!
Just one of the weakest Frontier Agents was enough to crush several of Alabasta's strongest fighters.
With such a vast gap in strength, even if they uncovered Baroque Works' secrets and identified the mastermind behind it, would they be able to defeat their enemy?
"You two over there. Yes, the blue-haired girl and the middle-aged man with his hair styled like a musician's.
What are your names?"
Vivi was still worrying about her country's future when, to her surprise, a black-haired man with a long sword at his waist suddenly looked at her and Igaram and asked them a question.
The man questioning them was Miss Valentine's partner.
In other words, he was also one of Baroque Works' Frontier Agents.
Faced with Yang Cheng's question, Vivi looked nervous, while Igaram quietly stepped in front of her.
The same thought ran through both their minds: Have we been exposed?
"Yang Cheng, what's wrong? Is there something suspicious about those two?
If so, you can leave them to me. I haven't had my fill yet."
Ever since she had developed her Devil Fruit ability further, Miss Valentine had grown increasingly confident in her strength.
Although she had the virtue of valuing her partner, Miss Valentine had even more flaws.
For instance, she was overly confident in her strength. Not only did she enjoy loudly mocking her opponents, she also loved torturing them.
She would, for example, sit on an opponent and keep increasing her weight a hundred kilograms at a time.
Yang Cheng usually couldn't be bothered to interfere with Miss Valentine's sadistic behavior. After all, the people she tortured were pirates.
Besides, Yang Cheng felt that sooner or later, her carelessness would come back to bite her.
Seeing the malicious look Miss Valentine directed at them, Vivi, who was only fourteen, tensed up completely.
"That's enough out of you. Torturing enemies is one thing when they're pirates, but if you dare do that to ordinary people, I'll deal with you first.
I called these two over because they performed well in the fight just now. I wanted to ask whether they'd be interested in working under me."
Yang Cheng's words made Vivi and Igaram breathe huge sighs of relief.
For a moment, they had thought their cover was blown and that they might even die here.
They had never imagined that, rather than being exposed, they were about to be given greater responsibilities because of their excellent performance.
Working under a Frontier Agent would make them Billions, then.
They had infiltrated the organization less than half a month ago, and now they were being promoted straight into the Billions, becoming candidate chief commanders?
This was probably what it meant for a desperate situation to take an unexpected turn for the better!
"What, are you
unwilling?"
The change came so quickly that neither Vivi nor Igaram could react. Once they realized this was an excellent chance to climb the ranks quickly, they naturally nodded repeatedly, expressed their thanks, and gave their false names.
Miss Valentine was also curious about Vivi and Igaram, whom Yang Cheng had taken an interest in.
After all, they had been partners for so long that she understood his personality to some extent. Baroque Works had over two hundred Billions. When had he ever cared about any of them?
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