“Lieutenant Commander Lucas reporting to Base Commander Kadaru!”
“Hahahaha, Lucas, welcome to the East Blue.
I have been waiting for you for a long time.
Your accommodation has already been arranged, and we will hold a welcome ceremony for you at G5 tonight.”
Base Commander Kadaru had made a mistake before; he failed and was captured while attacking the Sun Pirates, which ruined his career path.
It was highly likely that he would be stuck at G5 for the rest of his life.
He was quite polite to Lucas, knowing that Lucas had come here to gild his resume.
“Base Commander Kadaru, there is no need for a welcome ceremony.
Do you have information on the pirates in the East Blue?” Lucas said with a smile.
“Of course.
I will have Colonel Chero organize it for you.
By the way, I will assign you one hundred Marine soldiers; you can lead them to patrol the G5 waters every day,” Kadalu said.
Lucas nodded and thanked him: “Thank you, Base Commander Kadaru.”
…
The next day, one hundred Marine soldiers assembled before Lucas.
Wearing a white Lieutenant Commander’s uniform and a coat, Lucas looked at the one hundred Marine soldiers in front of him and said loudly: “I am the new Marine Lieutenant Commander.
Following me might be dangerous, so I am giving you a chance now to withdraw.”
After a while, seeing that no soldiers moved, Lucas raised his voice slightly and said: “You are all good men.
Let’s go, board the ship!”
“Yes!”
Whoosh!
One hundred people quickly boarded the ship!
Arlong Pirates, Krieg Pirates, Black Cat Pirates.
These three were Lucas’s targets.
“Ensign Zabu, we are heading to Cocoyasi Village,” Lucas ordered.
“Lieutenant Commander, Cocoyasi Village is not within our patrol range,” Ensign Zabu reminded him.
“You don’t need to worry about that.
Weigh anchor and set sail,” Lucas said.
He wanted to find the Arlong Pirates first, but he didn’t know if Arlong had gone to Cocoyasi Village yet, so he could only try his luck.
“Yes, Lieutenant Commander,” Ensign Zabu replied.
Four days later.
“Sir, a ship has been spotted ahead.”
“It’s a pirate ship, the Black Cat Pirates.”
The lookout shouted from the watchtower.
Upon hearing that they had encountered the Black Cat Pirates, Lucas became interested and then gave an order:
“Follow them!”
“Lieutenant Commander, we should be cautious; that is the Black Cat Pirates,” Ensign Zabu kindly reminded him.
This sentence made Lucas narrow his eyes, and he said: “Since when do Marines flee without a fight when encountering pirates?”
…
Black Cat pirate ship.
“Captain, another Marine warship has followed us.” A strange man wearing heart-shaped glasses and a blue coat walked backward into the Captain’s quarters and said to a man.
This man looked very young, with a tall figure, regular features, and neatly combed-back hair.
He wore rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked quite refined and gentle.
However, the black skull epaulets on both sides of his coat were extremely eye-catching.
This person was none other than the Captain of the Black Cat Pirates — Kuro of a Hundred Plans.
“They really are persistent!” Kuro of a Hundred Plans pushed his glasses with his palm and said with some impatience.
They had just shaken off a group of pursuing Marines not long ago, and he didn’t expect another one to come.
Kuro came to the deck, looked at the rapidly approaching Marine ship, and said after a while:
“Sham, Buchi, take your team, go around from the left and right sides, and swim to board the ship.
Flies still need to be swatted; they are very annoying.”
“Yes!
Captain!”
Hearing Kuro’s order, a thin man with green spiky hair and a fat man with a black eye circle around one eye replied, then stared at the distant Marine ship, chuckled, and quietly got off the ship from one side.
“Jango, turn the rudder to the left, and let the small ones prepare for boarding combat.” After the Cat brothers got off the ship, Kuro ordered again.
“Yes, Captain!” the man wearing heart-shaped glasses replied.
…
On the deck of the Marine ship, the black-haired Lucas held his sword and watched the Black Cat pirate ship getting closer and closer.
Just then, his ears twitched, and a few extremely faint sounds came from both sides of the ship.
Click!
Click!
Click!
The sound was very light, and if one didn’t pay attention in the sea breeze, it would be blown away.
But Lucas’s perception was amazing, and he heard this sound immediately.
Seeing this, Lucas narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around suddenly, and said: “Watch the sides, someone is coming up.”
Just as he was speaking, two figures, one fat and one thin, leaped up and jumped onto the deck.
Clang!
Shuro was unsheathed, and with a wisp of wind, it slashed toward the fat man on the left.
“Steel Tempest!”
A white slash was unleashed from Shuro.
Before the fat man landed on the deck, his body had no leverage in the air, and he was hit squarely by Lucas’s sword.
Splat!
A burst of blood sprayed out, and the fat man fell heavily onto the deck.
“Buchi!” the thin man with green spiky hair screamed.
Then he quickly rushed toward Lucas, moving very fast.
The trick that Sham of the Cat brothers actually used was to feign weakness and then launch a sneak attack.
But his brother’s death made him disregard everything.
Although Sham was fast, Lucas immediately saw through his movement trajectory.
When he clawed at Lucas with one of his claws, Lucas’s sword struck first despite being launched later, slashing forward and bringing out a gleam of cold light.
Swish!
A bloodstain appeared on Sham’s throat.
A gleam of cold light arrived first, and then the spear struck like a dragon…
Sorry, wrong set.
Just as Lucas finished off the Cat brothers, more than a dozen pirates climbed up, all of whom were subordinates of the Cat brothers.
Bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
They were greeted by rifles.
…
Just as they were dealing with the Cat brothers and other pirates on the ship, the people of the Black Cat Pirates had already approached.
At this time, Kuro of a Hundred Plans also discovered that something was wrong; there was no chaos on the ship, and the Cat brothers had actually failed.
This was the first time…
“Jango, the Cat brothers have failed.
Hypnotize the others,” Kuro of a Hundred Plans said.
Jango was the Vice Captain of the Black Cat Pirates, wearing a blue coat, always pressing his wide-brimmed hat with his hand, and walking like he was doing the moonwalk.
He came to his pirate crew, took out two ropes tied with metal rings, and then said: “Brothers of the Black Cat Pirates, look over here!”
After speaking, when the pirates looked at him, Jango said again: “After hearing ‘One, two, Jango’, your strength will be greatly enhanced, and you will not feel any pain.
After that, you will kill all the Marines in front of you at the fastest speed.”
As he spoke, Jango lowered the brim of his hat, covering his heart-shaped sunglasses.
“One, two…
Jango!!!”
The next moment!
All the members of the Black Cat Pirates, after being stunned for a moment, all began to howl as if they had been injected with adrenaline.
Clang!
When the two ships boarded, they all rushed toward the Marine ship where Lucas was with an indomitable momentum.
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