While Xie Wen and Klee Meow went after Crocodile, Robin and the other cats were surrounded by Baroque Works members pouring in from every direction.
But since Xie Wen had dared to leave them behind to face the rest of Baroque Works, he naturally hadn't thought these people could pose any threat to the cats.
If nothing else, the Billions and Millions who were only there to make up the numbers had no resistance whatsoever to Hua Mei Meow's Conqueror's Haki.
Even among the Senior Agents and Junior Agents with code names, more than half couldn't withstand Conqueror's Haki.
So by the time Xie Wen returned with Klee Meow, his face dark, the cats had already rounded up everyone from Baroque Works.
As for why Xie Wen's face was dark...
It was because he hadn't managed to carve the Sand-Sand Fruit out of Crocodile!
The man was one of the renowned Shichibukai, yet all Xie Wen had carved out of him was a box of premium cigars...
I don't fucking smoke!
Xie Wen had brought Klee Meow along not only to keep Crocodile from escaping, but also to borrow her good luck and improve his drop rate. He hadn't expected to fail to carve out the Sand-Sand Fruit even then...
As expected of the second-rarest type, Logia really wasn't that easy to get his hands on. So Xie Wen had begun considering the feasibility of taking the Dark-Dark Fruit. As long as he kept tabs on the Pirates Blackbeard had killed, it was still possible to intercept the Dark-Dark Fruit first.
The only problem was... what was the name of that guy Blackbeard had stabbed in the back and killed again? Xie Wen couldn't remember, let alone what he looked like. He seemed to have appeared in only a few