"Hey! Captain, what did you see?"
When the navigator saw Crest's pale face, his heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition emerged.
As expected—
The next moment, the pirate ship that had just come to a standstill suddenly started to vibrate.
Crest and the others felt their vision spinning. The sky and sea seemed to turn upside down, and a strong sense of weightlessness came over them.
The boat... seems to have been lifted?!
Only then did Crest remember what he had just seen. They weren't on the rocks at all!
Instead, they bumped into a man with his upper body exposed!
What frightened him the most was that not only was the man unscathed, but he also knocked a big hole out of the bottom of the boat!
You know, his pirate ship can barely be called a medium-sized sailing ship. Coupled with its good speed, it is hard to imagine that anyone would be unharmed in a head-on collision.
Moreover, from the fact that the other party can move freely in the sea water, it can be seen that this man does not rely on a Devil Fruit to achieve this effect!
"Hey, hey, hey! Captain, what on earth did you see? Just now!"
Stan dug his fingers into the deck, scarlet blood smeared around the hole, but he still grabbed the deck and fixed his position regardless of the pain.
"...a man."
Man? What shocks you about a man?
Stan was confused, and then his expression suddenly changed, "You said we just bumped into a person?!"
Before he finished speaking, the entire ship was completely uprooted from the sea, with the bow facing down and the stern facing the blue sky.
The splashing water droplets sparkled in the sunlight.
"That's...a person?!"
"We were lifted up by one person?!"
"Captain, use your fruit power quickly!"
The other crew members glanced down the deck, and a man with bulging muscles and smooth lines appeared in their field of vision.
A pair of arms with bulging veins grabbed the hull of the boat fiercely, and stood at its feet.
So, they were frightened.
What kind of monster is this that lifts a ship out of thin air?!
Atlas was also speechless.
He had a fight with those two old men. He was in a daze for a few seconds, and ended up being swept away by the current into an unfamiliar sea area.
The Grand Line is different from the Four Seas. Without the guidance of the Log Pose, he probably will never be able to find the Marine Headquarters.
So he could only find an island with people there first to see if he could get some outside information, or buy a pointer to a place he was familiar with.
What? You said you were almost cut in half with a sword and your head was almost deformed?
So for Horse talismans, can it still be considered a thing?
Of course, it's not like he hasn't encountered some pirate ships on the way.
But in the end, he chose to swim forward to find the island, just to recall the years of rafting in the East Blue.
Who would have thought that by accident, he would be hit on the back of the head by this pirate ship.
As a Marine, of course, he couldn't tolerate this kind of thing.
Thus, the current scene appeared.
"Damn it! Don't be so arrogant!"
Just as Atlas was deep in thought, Crest secretly resented that the deck beneath him suddenly rippled, as if it had turned into a pool of liquid.
And half of his body sank in, and his arms began to slide quickly, as if he was swimming in the water!
"Come on Captain! Kill him!"
"Captain, you can do it, believe in yourself!"
"Wow! I'm so touched. The captain actually didn't hesitate to challenge that kind of monster for us!"
When the crew saw Crest activating the fruit ability, everyone burst into tears and shouted in unison.
"——?!!"
"Shut up! You idiots!"
Crest, who was swimming vigorously, twitched the corners of his eyes and turned his head, shouting loudly towards the back.
Are these guys pig teammates?
Didn't they see that man was distracted? Maybe he could get rid of the opponent with a sliding shovel? They just had to wake that guy up.
"Um?"
After coming back to his senses, Atlas looked at Crest, who was 'swimming' towards him quickly and raised his eyebrows slightly.
This ability... seems familiar?
He remembered that this ability belonged to someone under Doflamingo, but that person was accidentally killed by him back then. Unexpectedly, he met the second owner of this fruit here.
It's really... fate!
He looked at the other party with interest, then his arm suddenly exerted force again, and the pirate ship was thrown hard towards the sea.
Bang--!!!
The sound was like a temple bell, clear and distant.
Huge waves were stirred up, and the entire hull seemed to have been crushed, denting from one side towards the other side of the ship.
This sudden change of speed caused Crest, who was originally close to Atlas, to be quickly thrown to the stern of the ship under the action of centrifugal force.
"Again?"
Atlas was raised high again, trying to complete his victory in one battle and bury the people and the ship completely in this sea area.
"Wait!! I'm not a pirate!"
A childish voice suddenly came from the ship, and a young man walked out of the deformed cabin, holding several fruits in his arms and with bright eyes.
Elle just wanted to eat a fruit meal before dying, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, and a desire to survive forced him to shout with all his strength.
That's Marine!
He recognized it—it was Marine Admiral Hakuryu!
He had collected the other party's news papers before, so he was naturally very familiar with that tough and sunny face.
When Atlas heard the words, he paused, his eyes searching for the source of the sound, and finally locked on Elle, "Do you know me?"
He didn't think he was so famous that everyone knew him.
"Yeah! You are Mr. Marine Admiral Hakuryu. I have always admired you! I was kidnapped by these pirates!"
"You must believe me!"
Marine... Admiral Hakuryu?!
When the pirates heard Elle's words, they all looked horrified, and then they shouted in a hurry: "We are not pirates either!!"
"We were forced onto the ship!!"
"Please let us go! Ooooh!"
Crest, who was thrown to the stern of the boat, felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his head suddenly buzzed.
Hakuryu?!
Although he had quoted Hakuryu's words before to improve his standing in front of his crew, he didn't even know what the other person looked like. Who would have thought that he would actually meet this Marine after talking about it.
He now wished he could give himself two big slaps.
Ignoring the noise beside him and looking blankly into Elle's eyes, Atlas suddenly grinned, "I believe you."
With one thought, the power of the Rooster Talisman was activated, and Elle was levitated directly to Atlas.
"And Maud!"
Elle suddenly pointed at another boy and said.
Atlas didn't care either. Saving one was saving, and saving two was saving.
"In this case, the remaining pirates...say goodbye forever!"
Smashing it down again, blood flew everywhere. Even if an object falling from high altitude and high speed hit the soft water surface, it would have the same effect as hitting hard cement ground.
At the moment of Crest's death, a fruit in Elle's arms quietly changed, and the spiral pattern began to circle...
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