While Xie Wen and Hawk-Eye enthusiastically traded blows, one firing off Spirit Blades and the other answering with knockoff Spirit Blades, the other Shichibukai each found opponents of their own.
Having received the cats' kindness, Boa Hancock naturally could not truly come to oppose Xie Wen and his companions, so she pulled Baby 5 aside and put on a show of a "friendly match."
Moria and Cavendish, who had already experienced the cats' strength, wisely went around the furry youngsters and fought the Revolutionary Army instead.
The "Corrupt King," Avalo Pizarro, who had been imprisoned in Impel Down many years ago, genuinely did not know how formidable the cats were. But he was rather crafty. Noticing that Boa Hancock and the others were deliberately avoiding those tiny "Minks," he refrained from attacking the cats as well, and instead...
Turned to Yamato, who also had a pair of horns on his head.
Only the treasure hunter Mad Treasure, nicknamed "Treasure-Obsessed," went straight for the Palicoes without hesitation, opening with an AOE attack...
"Madman Chain!"
Several iron chains flew out of Mad Treasure's body, sweeping toward the cats who had boarded the Moby Dick.
"Gihahahaha! You little things! People on the black market are offering a fortune for you! Be good and become my spoils!"
These words immediately drew sidelong looks from everyone nearby. Even Mihawk, who was enthusiastically trading blows with Xie Wen, could not help sparing the man a glance.
As expected of someone whose nickname included "madman." The last time Xie Wen had heard someone wanting to seize the cats was... the last time...
Ahem... to be precise, it had been when he was still a Shichibukai and attended the Reverie with the Ryugu Kingdom.
But the problem was that the ones who had dared say that back then