Crocodile 21: Chapter 21: Moke vs.
Crocodile The moment his words fell, he killed the man outright, without the slightest hesitation.
It had to be said: Crocodile’s entrance was both domineering and incredibly stylish.
Daz Bonez gave Gem, Mikita, and the others a look.
Immediately afterward, they leapt back and landed on the Straw Hat Pirates’ ship.
They confronted the Straw Hat crew directly.
Clearly, they had no intention of leaving anyone alive.
Naturally, the Straw Hats also knew these people had not come with good intentions.
In an instant, the atmosphere between the two groups became tense, as if swords were about to be drawn at any moment.
At this time, however, Moke was staring fixedly at Crocodile.
“I really didn’t expect you to come as well!” Crocodile replied, “A Logia user with abilities similar to the Glint-Glint Fruit is worth a personal trip from me.” Moke truly felt a little overwhelmed by the attention.
If he remembered correctly, in the entire Baroque Works organization, Daz Bonez was the only one Crocodile had personally invited.
But in the current situation, things had become seriously troublesome.
Even so, he absolutely would not back down.
Pointing at the vulture, he said, “So, if I refuse to join Baroque Works, I’ll end up like that guy today, right?” The corners of Crocodile’s mouth lifted slightly.
“This is why I like talking to smart people.
It saves me from wasting too many words… So, what is your choice?” Hearing this, Moke directly turned into a beam of light and left the scene.
He was not running away.
Instead, he hid Kashu, along with the bundle containing the two Devil Fruits and the various jewels.
After all, the person he had to face now was Crocodile.
If he carried those things with him, he would not be able to fight at full strength.
Immediately afterward, he transformed back into a beam of light and returned to his original position, facing Crocodile head-on.
“!!!???” Seeing Moke leave and then return, Crocodile thoughtfully glanced in the direction Moke had just gone.
Then he said meaningfully, “It seems there is something in that bundle of yours that you value greatly… That Devil Fruit you stole from Colonel Wild Dog in the East Blue, perhaps?” It had to be said that Crocodile truly was a meticulous man.
He had guessed it almost immediately.
“Barchan…” However, the moment his words fell, he launched an attack.
Crocodile enlarged his arm and transformed it into a crescent-shaped sand blade, slashing toward Moke.
Moke’s pupils shrank slightly.
Crocodile’s Barchan was an extremely terrifying technique.
That was because, once struck by the sand blade, all the moisture in the target’s body would be drained away.
In the end, they would collapse helplessly and become a dried-up mummy.
Only Luffy, protected by the halo of a protagonist, could survive after being completely drained.
If it were anyone else, once all the water in their body was sucked dry, they would be as dead as dead could be.
There would be no coming back to life.
Water was the source of life.
That was not just an empty saying.
No matter who it was, no one could live without water.
However, this move was useless against him.
Naturally, as long as it was not Seastone or Armament Haki, no attack could harm him.
Sure enough, the sand blade cut Moke directly in two.
But so what?
In the very next moment, he immediately recovered as if nothing had happened.
Crocodile brushed past Moke.
At that exact moment, the corners of Crocodile’s mouth lifted slightly.
But this time, his smile carried a trace of ferocity.
His golden hook struck backward, stabbing toward Moke’s rear shoulder.
Clang!
At that moment, Moke, who had originally stood motionless and allowed the attack to hit him, instantly drew the Sandai Kitetsu from its sheath and swung it backward.
He blocked the strike.
Afterward, the two of them each retreated several steps.
However, the expressions on their faces were completely different.
Moke stared fixedly at Crocodile’s golden hook, because at this moment, Armament Haki was wrapped around it.
“Damn…” Moke was greatly shocked, but at the same time, he felt that it was only natural.
What kind of person was Crocodile?
He was a man who dared to challenge Whitebeard.
Later, he even partnered with Mihawk to establish Cross Guild.
How could someone like him not know Armament Haki?
If he truly did not know it, that would be far too unreasonable.
Crocodile’s gaze toward Moke became even more appreciative.
Just now, he had used the sand blade to numb Moke’s vigilance, making Moke believe that, like Daz Bonez, he had no way to inflict effective damage on a Logia user.
Unexpectedly… This brat had counterattacked during the second attack.
That meant everything had been within this brat’s expectations.
Instead, Crocodile himself seemed to have lost some face.
“It seems you also know of the existence of Armament Haki.
In that case, you should understand as well.
At this moment, only I can injure you, while you are powerless against me.
So… are you still going to stubbornly persist?” After saying this, the aura around him suddenly changed.
With a hint of killing intent, he said, “Let me warn you first.
My patience is not very good.
And I will not keep giving you chances… Perhaps the next time I attack, it will be the moment you die.” “Hahaha…” Moke could not help but burst into laughter.
“If it were any other Logia user, that might truly be the case.
But against you, Crocodile?
That is not necessarily true.” After all, Moke had not awakened Armament Haki.
If he were facing any other Logia user, he really would have no way to deal with them.
“What do you mean?” Crocodile raised an eyebrow, but his heart tightened involuntarily.
As the user of the Sand-Sand Fruit, he naturally understood that his Devil Fruit ability was different from other Logias.
It had one enormous weakness.
Moke asked meaningfully, “Crocodile, do you usually take baths?
Have you ever experienced the feeling of surfing?” Crocodile’s face instantly darkened, because the meaning behind Moke’s words could not be any clearer.
At this moment, Crocodile’s gaze toward Moke changed.
If before he had still intended to recruit him, now he had truly developed killing intent.
Because he would not allow anyone else to know his weakness.
“You want to die?
Then I’ll grant your wish.” Crocodile’s lower body directly turned into sand.
Immediately afterward, he flew toward Moke at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of Moke.
His golden hook, wrapped in Armament Haki, stabbed toward Moke without the slightest hesitation.
Moke had already been prepared.
He crouched down, successfully dodging the strike.
At the same time, his hand had already touched the ground.
His body also transformed in an instant.
In the next moment, the ground surged.
Finally, it formed into a huge fist.
It punched straight at Crocodile.
This sudden attack truly caught Crocodile somewhat off guard.
However, Crocodile still reacted quickly.
He swung his golden hook to meet it head-on.
Clearly, he wanted to clash directly with it.
But he never expected that, when his golden hook smashed fiercely into the fist surging up from the ground, it would be as if the hook had struck a swamp.
It sank straight in.
Immediately afterward, even his arm became trapped inside the mud fist.
“Not good…” Crocodile’s expression changed drastically.
He forcefully stopped his attack and decisively tried to elementalize.
But Moke could no longer suppress the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
Because this was only the beginning.
The real show was still yet to come!
Sure enough, Crocodile’s expression changed once again.
There was even a trace of shock in his eyes.
Because he discovered that the arm trapped inside the mud fist was actually unable to elementalize.
He could not help but cry out in alarm.
“How is that possible?”
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