Ulti's gaze fell on the damaged street, and her face turned a deep purplish-red.
I've been tricked!
Ulti stomped her foot on the ground and ordered her subordinates to search for the unfamiliar faces that had appeared in the Flower Capital and the Four Supernovas.
He then pulled Page One together and turned back to the general's residence.
"Let's go back and report to Kaido."
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Flower Capital, in an abandoned warehouse area.
Six figures appeared out of thin air and crashed to the ground simultaneously.
Luffy was the first to get up. He shook his dizzy head and looked around.
What was once the ruins of a dojo has now become an empty space piled with old wooden crates.
Half of the warehouse roof had collapsed, and moonlight leaked in through the holes, casting dappled shadows on the ground.
"What happened?" Luffy scratched his head.
Zoro had already stood up, his hand on the hilt of his sword, his eyes scanning his surroundings warily.
"This is a spatial displacement of the Op-Op Fruit."
Trafalgar's abilities.
The four Supernovas also realized what was happening and rearranged themselves into battle stances.
"Etc."
Just as tensions were running high, Law led the Red Star Pirates out of the shadows, with Sanji following behind him.
Sanji started criticizing Luffy the moment he saw him:
I knew you idiot wouldn't stay put!
He promised to wait patiently for the big meal, but he turned around and ran out to fight!
Luffy retorted confidently:
"But it's too dangerous for Zoro to go out alone! What if he gets lost!"
"Who are you calling lost?" Zoro's forehead veins bulged.
You always get lost!
"You're lost!"
"It was clearly you who was there--"
"Alright, Straw Hat Master, now's not the time for this."
Luo's voice wasn't loud, but the Operating Room expanded again, and the boundary of the light shield completely enveloped everyone in the warehouse.
Apoo watched Luo warily:
" Trafalgar, you want to get involved too?"
Luo ignored them and instead walked between the two groups, sitting cross-legged in the moonlight.
The Kikoku wailing sound lay across his lap, its voice faint.
"I didn't come here to fight."
Luo's voice was calm.
"I'm here to discuss cooperation."
There was a moment of silence in the warehouse.
Bege paused, the cigar in his mouth dangling from his lips, as smoke slowly escaped.
"Cooperate?"
"The four of you have been subdued by Kaido, but are you content with that?"
Luo's gaze swept over Apoo, Hawkins, Bege, and Drake in turn.
Kaido only sees you as tools.
They're sent out to bite people when needed, and thrown into a corner when not.
"You've been in the New World for so many years, when have you ever been treated like this?"
No one answered.
However, the tense atmosphere in the arena gradually subsided.
"Now the Straw Hat Pirates are going to challenge Kaido."
Seeing that the atmosphere had eased, Luo continued, lightly tapping the scabbard of the Kikoku sword with his fingers.
"I have already allied with the Straw Hat Pirates."
You four--
Do you want to join?
Hawkins stopped flipping the cards and looked up at Luo:
"What are the odds of winning if you team up with them?"
"If you fight alone, your chances of winning are zero."
Luo's tone was completely unadorned.
"If we join forces—it won't be zero."
Bege exhaled a puff of smoke:
Do you know what level of monster Kaido is?
Back then, all of us combined were just slightly larger ants compared to him.
"So you're content to be ants?" Luo retorted.
Bege didn't say anything.
Luffy suddenly interrupted at this moment, his voice so loud that everyone was stunned for a moment:
"Since we're going to beat Kaido anyway, it'll be more fun with more people!"
Come on, all of you! Let's take down Kaido, then we'll fight the others!
Apoo glared at him. "You're thinking way too simply... That's one of the Four Emperors!"
So what?
Luffy tilted his head, his expression serious as if he were saying that one plus one equals two.
"Whether it's the Four Emperors or the Admiral, they're all people who will be beaten to a pulp."
Don't you want to fight back after he bullied you?
Even if you can't beat them, you can just run away, get stronger, and then come back to challenge them!
Luffy's simple words struck a chord with the new Supernovas present.
As members of the Worst Generation, they were lawless by nature. Apart from Drake, the undercover agent, who else present would willingly act as a dog?
The warehouse was quiet for a while.
Then Hawkins suddenly put away the tarot cards.
"I'm in."
The other three turned to look at him at the same time.
Hawkins ' expression remained calm and indifferent, but his tone was more resolute than ever:
"I've calculated it. The survival rate by cooperating with the Straw Hat Pirates is 50%."
Bege was silent for a few seconds, then took a deep drag on her cigar, threw the butt on the ground, and stomped it out.
"OK.
Anyway, I've been wanting to get revenge on that drunkard for a long time.
He got drunk last time and treated my men like bowling pins; I've held a grudge against him ever since.
Apoo looked at Hawkins, then at Bege, and finally shrugged.
"Three against one, the minority obeys the majority."
Anyway, I don't want to stay under Kaido anymore. That King looks at me like I'm an insect he could crush at any moment.
Finally, everyone's eyes fell on Drake.
This taciturn former naval undercover agent kept his head down, making it impossible to see his expression.
After a long while, he slowly nodded.
"Good."
Luo stood up, and the Operating Room slowly receded.
"Now that everyone has agreed, let's get down to business."
Hawkins suddenly spoke up:
"Since we're going to gather our forces, there's one person you won't want to miss—Eustas Kid."
Luffy blinked. "The red-haired one?"
"That's him."
Hawkins pulled a tarot deck from his pocket; the top card depicted the Hanged Man.
He and his men are now imprisoned in the Udon Prisoner Mine.
Seastone Handcuffs restrained his abilities, forcing him to do forced labor every day.
I went to see him once, and the situation wasn't good.
Zoro frowned. " Kid? That guy with magnetism? He's joining too?"
Hawkins nodded. " Kid hates Kaido the bone. When Kaido descended from the sky, Kid was the only one who dared to confront Kaido head-on."
As a result, he was easily defeated by Kaido, and he has not yet surrendered. He is still in the quarry wearing Seastone Handcuffs and moving stones.
"If we rescue him, he'll definitely be on our side."
Luo pondered for a few seconds, then tapped the location of Udon on the map:
" Udon is Queen's territory."
That fat pig may seem unreliable, but he has at least five hundred men under his command, and his Brachiosaurus Fruit is not easy to deal with.
"They still need to be saved."
Luffy stood up, dusted off his backside,
"Although Kid has a bad temper, he's still someone who's going to beat up Kaido."
The more people who fight Kaido, the more beatings Kaido will get.
Sanji rolled his eyes. "Your logic is really simplistic and crude."
"It's a very simple thing to begin with."
Luffy grinned.
" Kaido has bullied many people, we must beat him to a pulp."
Everyone who is bullied by Kaido is our friend.
My friend's been locked up, of course I have to go rescue him.
A slight smile appeared on Zoro's lips.
That's Luffy —always making complicated things sound as simple as one plus one, but strangely enough, he's always right.