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She mumbled two words.
"Ahem... if you're still angry, I can reveal the identities of the other Baroque Works officers-"
Seeing no change in the young people's expressions, the man gritted his teeth and prepared to sell out his companions.
"Sa... no, not that."
The little girl, who had nearly said "same"
again, swallowed her last mouthful of rice cracker, produced a small teacup from somewhere, and took a gentle sip.
Young as she was, when it came to so-called "companions,"
she had a stubborn conviction: in another possible timeline, almost all the Baroque Works officers had been captured, and she alone had sneaked into their cells and dragged them out one by one.
"Did you two come here to do a comedy routine?"
Even Zoro couldn't help twitching his lips. The anger the ambush had stirred in him had now vanished without a trace.
The man calling himself Galdino was a Wax-Devil Fruit user who could produce liquid wax from his hands-like Doflamingo and Trebol, he belonged to the rare "matter creation"
category within the "Paramecia"
class.
Apart from his reasonably intricate waxwork and wax walls that became as hard as steel, his personal fighting ability was practically negligible.
For someone who relied entirely on his Devil Fruit ability, running head-on into Luffy and the others without being knocked out on the spot was already lucky.
As for Marianne, the little girl beside him known as "Miss Goldenweek,"
her ability manipulated other people's emotions through the paints on her palette, possessing extremely powerful mental-interference properties.
But with Luffy and the others already developing the beginnings of Observation Haki, her methods, which required time to set up, had no chance to be deployed.
Rossi did not underestimate the girl, however: Marianne was not a Devil Fruit User. Her power