The battle, from beginning to end, lasted barely a dozen seconds.
When quiet returned to the alley, every member of Cipher Pol No. 9, including its strongest member, Lucci, was already lying on the ground.
They grimaced in pain. Though none had suffered fatal wounds, agony wracked their entire bodies, and they had long since lost the strength to fight again.
Ye Chuan brushed nonexistent dust off his chest and looked down at Lucci, his voice calm:
"You're all too weak."
"You... who... are you?"
Enduring the excruciating pain, Lucci asked hoarsely:
"Why are you getting in our way?!"
Through internal intelligence, Cipher Pol No. 9 had already learned Ye Chuan's identity.
A mysterious Pirate Hunter who had single-handedly defeated Crocodile in Alabasta.
But they had never imagined that his strength would be this terrifying!
Looking into Lucci's eyes, which were filled with resentment, Ye Chuan asked casually:
"Getting in your way?"
"Is... standing here a crime too?"
"You were the ones who came looking for trouble with me."
"You!"
Ye Chuan's indifferent attitude infuriated Lucci so much that he nearly coughed up blood. Gritting his teeth, he spoke with a threatening glint in his eyes:
"Ye Chuanliu!"
"Don't think we don't know! That Devil Child the World Government has been hunting for twenty years, Nico Robin..."
"Is... traveling with you right now!"
He tried to threaten Ye Chuan with Robin's identity.
"I suggest you stop being so ungrateful!"
"The World Government's higher-ups were considering recommending you to fill the Shichibukai position Crocodile left vacant!"
"But now you're openly sheltering Nico Robin, a crime serious enough to make you an enemy of the entire world!"
"You'd better hand that woman over immediately!"
Yet at those words, the calm on Ye Chuan's face ebbed away like the tide, replaced by a