Pirate World Fang Yu vs Sir Crocodile

Crocodile stubbed out his cigar with his Golden Hook, the Gilded Wall Clock in his office pointed to three in the morning, and the moonlight, shining through the stained-glass window, split him in two, the Dance Powder hidden in the Hidden Compartment glowing eerily green in the shadows.

He leaned back on the Camel Wool Throne, tapping the Alabasta Sand Table on the table with Golden Hook hook.

The moonlight outside the stained-glass window was pale, and a figure blocked the view.

A figure hangs upside down outside the stained glass window, white Ukaku like demonic bone claws piercing the gilded window frame.

Fang Yu's pupils gleamed with bloodshot veins in the moonlight, and the high-frequency humming of his wings shattered the Capital City Model in the Sand Table.

"The etiquette of visiting late at night." Crocodile's Golden Hook flicked his cigar, sparks tracing arcs through the air. "Don't you understand at all?"

"Etiquette?" Fang Yu's boot tip lightly tapped the windowsill, his wings spreading behind him. "For those who steal a country, there is only the guillotine."

Crocodile squinted, unable to see Fang Yu's face due to the backlight. "Report your master, brat! The World Government? The Revolutionary Army? The Royal Family? Or some dreaming pirate?"

Fang Yu's fingertips traced the gold frame by the window. "I'm here to find the hyena hiding in the sandcastle, plotting its schemes."

The air in the office suddenly froze, Crocodile's coat fluttered without wind. "Do you know where the body of the last person who called me Hyena is?" He raised his hand and made a grasping motion, Capital City Model in the Sand Table collapsed with a crash. "He was fed to the piranhas of the Sandora River."

Fang Yu jumped out of the window and stood in front of the desk, which was only three meters away from Crocodile. He casually flipped through the documents and found one that belonged to him. "Did you know? After tonight, the bounty on this Wanted Poster will be updated again."

"Oh?" Crocodile finally noticed the newcomer's face. "No wonder you were so arrogant. So you're the one who killed Gecko Moria. I never expected you to come looking for me."

His voice suddenly rose. "But who told you that the Shichibukai are all the same strength? That piece of trash isn't even half as strong as me!"

Fang Yu's lips curled up. "Then who told you that the basis for my judgment of my strength is that I beat Gecko Moria?"

Sir Crocodile lit a cigar. "Heh, young man, you know nothing of strength."

Fang Yu stretched his shoulders and ankles. "Old Sand, you know nothing about me."

"Court death!"

Seeing Crocodile about to make a move, Fang Yu took a step back. "We can't fight here. We should at least go somewhere deserted. Wait a minute, I'll get some fruit. I'm thirsty."

"Hehe, then you should eat more and die a full ghost."

Crocodile's Golden Hook scraped against the rock face, the metallic scraping sound like the cry of Vulture.

The moonlight turned his camel hair cloak a ghastly white. He stared at Fang Yu, twenty meters away, his eyes narrowing into Blade: "You must be the World Government's new dog, right? Let me think, someone specifically designed to eliminate the Shichibukai? But they've miscalculated. I'm completely different from Gecko Moria."

Fang Yu's Sharingan swept over the pile of unknown animal bones at the feet of the Sand Crocodile, the Golden Tomoe swirling deep within his pupils. "Is it possible that I've come here simply to rid the world of a menace?"

Crocodile suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter. "Hahahaha, how could a pirate say such a hilarious joke!"

He took a deep drag on his cigar, the red glow of the cigarette tip illuminating the scar across his right cheek, a mark of shame left from challenging Whitebeard.

"Call--"

Crocodile exhaled a smoke ring, but Fang Yu struck first!

Fire Release: Great Fireball!

Fang Yu's Hand Seal were so fast they were almost afterimages, and a Crimson Flame fireball with a diameter of forty meters tore through the night!

Crocodile tapped the ground with his Golden Hook: "This is... the Flame-Flame Fruit?" The sand dune rose up in response, and a thick sand shield rose from the ground!

"Boom--!"

The moment the fireball struck the sand shield, a blinding white light burst forth from the point of contact.

The Sand Crocodile's eyes narrowed sharply! His prized sand shield melted like butter on a hot knife, the surface sand grains turning into reflective black glass!

"Sizzle!"

The vitrified sand layer fell like melting ice cream, while the sand grains behind it that were not attacked were sintered into a whole by the high temperature, completely out of control.

Crocodile's Golden Hook suddenly trembled.

This is the first time the Sand-Sand Devil Fruit Ability has been damaged by such flames.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Fang Yu's pursuit was precise and ruthless.

The hurricane, carrying the embers of the fireball, tore the half-molten sand shield to shreds.

The shards of glass shot out like hail, leaving several scratches on the Sand Crocodile's clothes. Those sand grains, melted into glass, had now become the sharpest hidden weapons.

"You brat!" Crocodile roared, his body instantly Turned to Sand and reforming into a protruding rock wall.

The spot where he had stood had been plowed into a ten-meter-deep crater by the swirling wind and fire, with molten glass meandering across the ground.

"The Sand-Sand Fruit is nothing special." Fang Yu's Sharingan locked onto the shadow of the rock wall. "I originally thought water was your weakness, but I didn't expect that my level of Fire Release could still make you look so pathetic."

Crocodile's eyes shrank to pinpoints.

For many years, since his defeat by Whitebeard, he had never felt this chilling sense of being seen through.

The force with which the Golden Hook pierced the rock layer made the entire sandstone tremble. "You think you can win by melting a few grains of sand?"

Fang Yu disagreed. "You can tell what a person will be like at three years old."

The sand grains condensed into a spiral drill bit in Crocodile's palm, "Desert Sword!"

A hundred-meter-long sand blade sliced through the moonlight, scorching the air wherever its edge passed!

"Whoosh!"

A blur disappeared under Crocodile's attack, Fang Yu's figure appeared on the other side of the sand dune.

Crocodile's cold smile froze on his face. His proud attack method had been dodged so easily!

Crocodile's Golden Hook hook pierced the ground, and a muffled thunderous roar echoed from the depths of the dunes.

He grinned maliciously as he spun the hook, the sand grains writhing as if alive. "Witness a true Desert Funeral — Desert Coffin without a tombstone! Desert Sunflower!"

The sand beneath Fang Yu's feet suddenly liquefied, and a quicksand vortex with a radius of 100 meters rapidly expanded!

Even more deadly is that the Sand Crocodile controls the direction of the Underground Dark River's water veins, and the water flow carries sand grains to form high-density mud!

This move makes it difficult to even use Devil Fruit abilities once trapped.

"Gurgle."

The mortar submerged Fang Yu's ankles, each grain of sand biting into his flesh like a miniature hydraulic clamp.

Crocodile's Golden Hook stirred up waves of sand as he watched his prey slowly sink. "Your blood will fill the gaps between the sand grains, becoming the perfect coffin lining."

Fang Yu's Sharingan remained as calm as an abyss.

He formed the Yin-Si-Shen seal with his hands, and his chakra surged through his Meridians like a tide. "Water Release: Water Wall!"

"Boom!"

Four ten-meter-high Water Wall burst through the ground and soared into the sky, encircling the quicksand vortex into a square Mud Prison!

"Fool!" Crocodile, though surprised by Fang Yu's ability to control water, still stirred the sand with his Golden Hook and mocked, "Water only makes the sand more..."

His cold laugh suddenly froze. The sand grains, soaked in water, stopped flowing like snakes and instead swelled and clumped together due to Water Absorption!

The quicksand that was originally deadly beneath Fang Yu's feet has now turned into soft mud.

Fang Yu easily pulled his foot out; the sole of his shoe was no longer covered in quicksand that devoured life, but rather in damp clumps of mud.

Under Crocodile's astonished gaze, he stepped out of the Prison Cage as if walking on flat ground. "Water can carry a boat."

Suddenly, the Golden Hook cleaved through the Water Wall, Sand Crocodile, wreathed in furious sand blades, charged forward. Yet Fang Yu remained calm, saying, "It can also capsize a boat."

"When!"

Golden Hook struck the hook of the Pirate World Fang Yu's Tail. Crocodile stared in astonishment at Fang Yu's seemingly inhuman structure, "What is this thing? What kind of Devil Fruit did you eat?"

Fang Yu smiled and explained, "Duke-Duke Fruit, take this! Hidden Shadow Snake Hands!"

Eight purplish-red venomous snakes suddenly sprang from Fang Yu's sleeve, their fangs dripping Venom that corroded the sand grains, sending up wisps of smoke! Before Crocodile could even raise his Golden Hook, the snakes had already coiled around his neck, waist, and limbs, the constricting force causing his bones to creak under the strain.

Fang Yu's Sharingan reflected Crocodile's flushed face, "Returning your suffocation."

Crocodile stared at Fang Yu with vicious eyes. His strangled Elementalization sand particles, and Crocodile's true form reassembled behind Fang Yu.

The Sand Crocodile's cloak was stained with snake venom and scorch marks, and the Golden Hook locked onto Fang Yu's throat with a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. "Desert Prison!"

The terrifying suction force released from his palm instantly sucked away the moisture in the air, and Fang Yu's skin withered and cracked at an alarming speed!

Crocodile's fangs nearly crushed his cigar. "Your blood will become the finest sand."

"Bang!"

White smoke exploded, and the choked "Fang Yu" turned into white smoke. Twenty meters away, on the top of a sand dune, the real Fang Yu squatted and tossed an apple around. "It seems you've never fought against the ninjas of Wano Country and have never seen Ninjutsu before, have you?"

"Damn brat! I'll bury you in this desert right now!"