"Those idiots!"
Rainbase, Rain Dinners.
Crocodile furiously kicked over the table in front of him.
He had just received a call from Miss Doublefinger and learned what had happened at the Spider Cafe not long ago...
Didn't I tell them not to provoke that Sapphire Star?! He clearly hadn't intended to bother with them, yet they actually went and offered themselves up like idiots! And Mr. 1 was the one leading them...
Crocodile felt as though a mouthful of blood was stuck in his chest, refusing to come up.
Of all his subordinates in Baroque Works, Daz Bones had originally been the only one he truly thought highly of. Strong, obedient, simple in temperament, and free of any odd hobbies, Mr. 1 had definitely been the member Crocodile had the highest hopes for among that collection of freaks in Baroque Works.
Yet who could have imagined that this subordinate, the most "useful" one in his eyes, would actually take exception to Xie Wen...
And then there was no more.
As for Mr. 5, who had been taken out along the way, Crocodile did not care at all. In his eyes, subordinates at Mr. 5's level could easily be recruited again. If he died, he died.
But the circumstances of Mr. 5's defeat concerned Crocodile greatly...
"Conqueror's Haki? Hmph!"
Lacking the "qualities of a king" himself, Crocodile was deeply jealous of Xie Wen.
Yes, he had completely misunderstood who possessed Conqueror's Haki.
But Conqueror's Haki and the like were not the most important things. Right now, the most critical question for Crocodile was...
Whether Xie Wen had noticed the existence of Baroque Works.
Once he calmed down, Crocodile recalled the contents of Miss Doublefinger's report and found that things did not seem quite as bad as he had imagined.
First, Xie