"Boom ......"

Seconds after Pika fell to the ground, the shards of rock that had been shattered by Maud and flew far away fell to the ground one by one, causing a loud bang.

The resulting air waves, carrying a large amount of sand and dust, swept from afar, filling the air for a long time.

The great movement made the Straw Hats wake up like a dream, and their tense nerves first relaxed, and then they looked at Maude in awe or adoration.

Perona floated in mid-air with her umbrella raised, and after glancing at the Straw Hats, she flew forward to Maude's side.

Then, she moved the cute little flower umbrella over Maude's head.

Maud didn't care about Perona's thoughtful little gestures, and walked straight towards the Straw Hats.

Perona followed, making sure that the shadow of the small flower umbrella would contain Maud.

"Idol !!"

Seeing Maude walking step by step, Bartolomeo was the first to react among the crowd, and immediately flew in front of Maude, with a shining star in his eyes.

“……”

Maud looked at Bartolomeo in surprise with an excited face.

As his gaze swept over Bartolomeo's iconic cockscomb, some images of memories came to mind.

He quickly recognized the other party's identity, but forgot the slightly longer name.

Don't......

Bartolomeo in the information is the cockscomb head in front of him?

However, this guy shouldn't appear until two years later, so how could he get mixed up with the Straw Hat Pirates?

In the middle of Maude's thoughts, Bartolomeo took out a pen from his pocket, handed it to Maude tremblingly, and said excitedly: "Idol, I, I finally see you, can you sign a ...... for me?"

"Bang."

Before Bartolomeo could finish his words, he was pressed into the sand by Luffy who came from behind him.

"You're so strong."

Luffy half-knelt on Bartolomeo's back and looked up at Maude with a burning head.

Maude didn't speak, but looked at the son of this world in front of him with interest, Wang Luffy.

Luffy stood up, as if he didn't realize he had trampled Bartolomeo under his feet.

He stood on Bartolomeo's back like this, and even then, there was a noticeable difference in height between him and Maude, and he could only look up at Maude.

"How did you do that teleportation ability?"

Luffy looked at Maude with a curious expression.

Compared to Maude's slashing swords, Luffy cared more about the teleportation ability used by Maude.

"Stupid, who would be willing to take care of you if you ask this kind of question as soon as you come up."

Perona pouted and looked at Luffy, thinking to herself.

"I am a Shadow Fruit ability, and I can freely swap places with Shadows, and the teleportation just now is the effect I achieved after swapping places with Shadows."

In the next second, Perona saw that Maude answered Luffy's question very simply.

"Huh?"

She couldn't help but be stunned when she was slapped in the face.

This guy can't be your one or the other?

Perona turned her head to look at Maude's side face and complained in her heart.

Hearing Maude's answer, Luffy immediately looked at the shadow behind Maude, tilted his head slightly, and several question marks popped up on his straw hat.

At the same time, a hypothetical image appeared in his head - Maud lying flat on the ground, and then a shadow standing in front of Maude.

Suddenly, the question mark hovering above the straw hat became even more.

"Didn't you understand this?!" Perona looked at Luffy in disbelief.

"Huh."

Maude smiled, and with a slight movement of his thoughts, he let the shadow break away from his body, and then gradually condensed into an entity, standing at his side.

"My shadow can move freely, and it can be like clay, and it can change into what I want it to be, like ......"

As Maude's words fell, the solid shadow that was printed in the same mold as Maude turned into a silhouette that was indistinguishable from Luffy's at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wow! It's amazing! ”

Luffy couldn't think about it, starry eyes looking at the shadow with the same silhouette as himself.

"Wow! It's really exactly the same as Luffy! ”

"Wow! Is this what Master is capable of? ”

Chopper, who woke up at some point, and Usopp, who couldn't suppress his excitement, both came to Luffy's side, starry eyes looking at the shadow of the entity controlled by Maude.

Nami and the others also came to the vicinity one by one.

Except for Zoro who was silently looking at the countless red rocks that had been shattered by Maud in the distance, the rest of the people's eyes were focused on Maude.

Facing everyone's gaze, Maude smiled as the shadow kept changing shapes.

"Shadows don't just shape people."

Maud controls the shadow to transform into a Tyrannosaurus rex with a body size of twenty meters.

"Wow......"

Seeing the solid shadow of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Luffy and the others exclaimed in surprise.

"There is no problem with weapons."

The body of the shadow Tyrannosaurus rex turned into a forty-meter shadow black knife like a wave of water, which was held in Maude's hand.

After seeing the forty-meter-long shadow black knife, Luffy and the others exclaimed again.

Even Zoro, who had no interest in shadow tricks at first, couldn't help but look at the forty-meter black knife in Maude's hand at this moment.

"It can be turned into a weapon, and naturally it can be turned into a tool or something."

Looking at the surprised crowd, Maude raised the corners of his mouth, and then transformed the forty-meter-long shadow black knife into a chain of the same length.

"For example, the chain is a more practical tool."

As he spoke, Maude seemed to demonstrate the true effect of the shadow chains, and manipulated the chains to set them on Luffy.

Under Maude's control, the shadow chain wrapped around Luffy's waist like a python, round and round, and wrapped Luffy tightly in an instant.

"Wow, it seems to be stronger than a chain, I can't move!"

Luffy tried to struggle, but the feedback was a binding force that was so strong that he couldn't move.

"What a practical ability."

Looking at the shadow chain that wrapped Luffy into a rice dumpling, everyone couldn't help but be amazed.

Luffy smirked and struggled, demonstrating to everyone the hardness and binding power of the Shadow Chain.

Maude smiled slightly and said seriously: "It's really practical." ”

With that, under the puzzled gaze of everyone, Maude slowly raised his hand.

I saw Luffy, who was bound by the shadow chain, fly towards Maude out of thin air, and was immediately carried in the air by Maude.

"Alright, just follow me to the Navy Headquarters."

Maude smiled at Luffy who was tied into rice dumplings.

Luffy blinked, looking at Maude with a silly expression, a little unable to react.

"Huh!?"

Maude's sudden move made everyone led by Usopp look at Maude who held Luffy in his hand with wide eyes.

"Master, ...... are you?"

"No matter how I say it, it's also the Seven Martial Seas, and I have to do something 'within my duty', such as catching a few pirates or something."

Maud tossed the dumpling Luffy.

"Huh!! Am I caught!! ”

It was also at this time that Luffy finally reacted and looked at Maude in shock.

"How can this be ......"

The Straw Hats looked at Maude in panic.

Qiang –

This is the sound of Sauron drawing his sword.

Even if the other party is as strong as a monster, this swordsman with infinite potential will not have the slightest intention of backing down.

"He's my brother, I'm going to take him to Navy headquarters or something...... I wouldn't agree. ”

Just as Zoro drew his knife, an irrefutable male voice came from the smoke and dust in the distance.

At the same time, a figure with a shoulder bag slowly emerged from the smoke and dust.