Chapter 234: The Great Desert Banquet!! ★8
Seeing Rain Dinners explode, Xie Wen naturally rushed over with the cats at once.
But before they could get close, a massive sand tornado erupted from inside Rain Dinners. Countless grains of yellow sand swept up the blasted rubble and surged into the sky through the gap left by the destroyed spire, then gathered into Crocodile's upper body.
"Wow! It's Gaara, meow!" Klee Meow cheered. "He just looks a little older, and he isn't carrying a gourd, meow."
Little Plushie's voice was completely out of place amid the screams of the passersby fleeing in panic, instantly drawing Crocodile's gaze.
Besides, a man carrying a salted fish and a group of cats made an eye-catching party to begin with.
"Sapphire! Star! Xie! Wen!"
The furious Crocodile stared fixedly at Xie Wen, grinding out his name word by word.
Then something happened that infuriated Crocodile even more...
A large brown cat crackling with electricity rushed out of Rain Dinners and swiftly reached Xie Wen's group. After a flash of light, Nico Robin's figure appeared.
Another cat immediately pounced on her, shouting, "Big Sister Robin, are you okay, meow? Klee's bombs worked great, didn't they?"
If Crocodile still failed to realize that Nico Robin had hooked up with Xie Wen's group long ago, he would never have been capable of running circles around the entire Alabasta Kingdom. Working backward from that conclusion, their strange behavior finally made sense...
So these two had been making a fool of me all along!
Crocodile was so furious that he laughed. He took Mr. 0's Den Den Mushi from his pocket and ordered everyone in Baroque Works, "Everyone in Baroque Works! I am Mr. 0, and I am also Crocodile of the Shichibukai. I now order you to hunt down