"Klockdahl! Don't run! ”

Luffy jumped up directly and hugged Klockdahl from behind.

Klockdahl's body sank, the rain on his body had not completely dried, and Fang Cai's semi-elemental transformation had been used with all his might, and he was hugged by Luffy at this time, and he couldn't break free for a while, and seeing that he was silently entangled again, he was furious in his heart.

"Get out of here!"

The golden hook in his right hand hooked directly towards Luffy on his back.

Luffy's hand-to-hand combat ability is already strong, how could he be hit by such an attack, he used Klockdahl's back as the floor, jumped directly in mid-air to dodge Klockdahl's attack, but the hands holding him did not let go, but elongated because of his jump.

"Rubber - back fall in the air!"

With the help of both hands, Luffy's figure dropped rapidly, and in a whimsical gesture, he slammed Klockdahl to the ground.

"Demon Wind Feet!"

Sanji seized the opportunity and dodged to the point of Klockdahl's fall, flames on his feet, and kicked him with an upside-down golden hook.

Bang –

At the moment of attack, Klockdahl suddenly turned into a cloud of yellow sand.

The next moment, Klockdahl's figure appeared behind Sanji, and his left hand directly grabbed the back of Sanji's neck.

"You guys. . . Angered me. ”

The water in Sanji's body was directly drained, turned into a mummy, and was casually thrown aside by Klockdahl.

"Yamaji !!"

Luffy's eyes cracked and he lunged in this direction.

"Desert Greatsword!"

Klockdahl was short and pressed his palm on the yellow sand, and the next moment, a gray-white sword suddenly grew on the ground around Luffy, directly piercing Luffy's chest at a speed that could not react at all.

"Ho-"

Luffy's pupils shrank to the extreme, and he slowly looked down at the big sword in his chest, and all the water in his body was drained, leaving only his dry body hanging on the blade.

At this time, Daisy finally arrived, and her body turned into an overwhelming canopy, pressing down on Klockdahl.

"Desert Vajra Sword!"

Klockdahl repeated his old trick, and four massive sand blades tore Daisy's body apart once again.

Crush!

With all their might, neither Daisy nor the Straw Hats are any enemy of Klockdahl!

But there is enough time to procrastinate.

The rain was falling from the sky again, this time on a larger scale, and the rain clouds were so widespread that they even enveloped the city of Rainland, and where Klockdal was, the rain curtain was like a downpour, making the sky and the earth blur.

"It's not a dancing fan, it's a Devil Fruit ability?"

Klockdahl clenched his fists, defeating the Straw Hats didn't make the fury and uneasiness in his heart fade by half, that conspirator was his henchman, obviously, such a heavy rain was no longer something that could be dispelled in his current state, and he missed the opportunity to escape without being able to elementalize.

"Let's start the next round!"

Townsen's voice rang out behind Klockdahl, followed by gunfire.

Klockdahl reacted quickly, he didn't turn back at the first time, but suddenly turned sideways to avoid the trajectory of the bullet in the induction, and then bowed down, reviewed, and the ability was activated.

The desert greatsword pierced the figure in the rain.

But he didn't feel relaxed at all, and the sense of crisis in the dark made him creepy.

The danger hasn't gone away!

How can it be? Could there be anyone else?

The obstruction of the rain curtain made him not notice that the pierced figure slowly turned into a paper figure, and driven by a sense of crisis, Klockdahl did not hesitate to use his ability to the maximum.

With a shook, all the yellow sand began to stir, even in the midst of the rain, and the yellow sand set off a turbid storm that carried enough power to drain all the water out of everyone's body, and swept around Klockdal's body.

One second. Two seconds

A minute passed, and there was no movement around.

Klockdahl looked up and saw that the strange black thing had disappeared.

"Something is wrong, absolutely not right."

Klockdahl reacted suddenly: "The other party is consuming my physical strength!" ”

Of course, the Devil Fruit ability consumes physical strength, and if you use it with all your strength like Klockdahl, the physical consumption will be even greater, not to mention, in order to avoid the Hailou Stone bullet, he was attacked by the Straw Hats before, and at this time, the injuries in his body have begun to be unable to suppress.

"I can't let the other side succeed, if the rain doesn't stop, once I am dragged into a war of attrition, it will be too bad for me."

He was about to gather some strength, but suddenly he saw a figure appear close at hand.

The muzzle of the gun is only half a meter away from himself!

"Die!"

The ability to activate the conditioned reflex of Klockdahl, who was already highly concentrated, was directly buried in the sandstorm around him.

"N-no!"

He didn't feel the sandstorm hit the entity at all.

By this time the dawn had spread all over the land, and a new day had arrived, but under the cover of dark clouds and rain, everything was shadowed, and Crocodal was horrified to see that when the sandstorm receded, the figure stood unharmed.

He was finally able to see the other person's face clearly.

can also see the other party's playful eyes, as well as the mockery at the corners of his mouth.

It's like looking at a clown's mockery.

Anxious, furious, aggrieved, and exhausted, Klockdahl's sanity was shattered.

He broke the defense.

"Die, die, die!"

The entire desert shook, and the yellow sand set off waves tens of meters high, swept into a vortex around him, swallowing everything into it.

This almost exploded the offensive of his remaining strength, and successfully tore the figure in front of him apart.

"Ho-ho-"

Everything around him calmed down again, and Klockdahl hunched over, gasping for breath, and burst out laughing.

"No one can beat me in the desert!"

"I'm never going to lose second-"

Syllable!

Klockdahl's voice came to an abrupt halt.

He slowly lowered his head and saw the bloody hole in his chest.

It wasn't fatal, the bullet didn't penetrate his heart, it just got stuck in his body.

However, the warhead of the bullet turned out to be fatal for him.

A sense of weakness enveloped him, and the swept yellow sand fell in an instant, and the power of the Devil Fruit completely disappeared in this instant.

Klockdahl tried his best to resist the weakness brought by Hailou Stone, and not let himself be paralyzed to the ground like this, but this had already consumed all his strength, and he didn't even have the strength to raise his head again.

He heard footsteps beyond the sound of rain.

A pair of black boots appeared in his field of vision, he couldn't see the other person's face, but it was conceivable that the other person's face must have been smug and mocking, and this imagination made him almost lose his mind again.

He is the Seven Martial Seas, a natural Devil Fruit ability, and his plan is obviously going to succeed in a few days, but it is almost there. Just a little bit!

However, he fell here, defeated by such insidious means by a man he didn't even know who he was.

He wanted to struggle, he wanted to resist, but he had been deprived of the strength to clench his fists.

And so the anger faded like a tidal wave.

Again. Failed.

On the contrary, he calmed down, this was not the first time he tasted failure, compared to the last time he faced Whitebeard, in the face of the kind of completely desperate power, no matter how hard he tried, he completely lost his courage and the failure of his aggressiveness for strength, this kind of failure due to the intrigues of others, but it seems to be more suitable for himself.

"What a pity."

To Crocodahl's surprise, there was no smug in the man's voice, much less the mockery he had imagined.

"Your plan is coming to an end here, Klockdahl."

The corners of Klockdahl's mouth moved, and he said in a deep voice: "It's just a matter of becoming a king or defeating a villain." ”

"No need to talk nonsense, let's do it."

He tried hard to keep his posture, at the very least, not to be as embarrassed as he was last time.

However, the other party had no intention of making a move, but instead held Klockdahl's forehead, so that Klockdahl was finally able to raise his head.

He saw the other man's face.

It was the man, the one who was unscathed in the sandstorm.

"Some kind of vision?" Klockdahl, who had returned to his senses, understood in an instant what had happened before.

From beginning to end, it is the person in front of him who plans himself.

I never knew this man existed - didn't Nicole Robin find out about him? No, unlikely.

Therefore, Nicole Robin lied, she did not flee back to the rain because she was defeated by the Straw Hats, but was directly captured by this person and rebelled.

The Straw Hats are just a decoy.

This man knows his weaknesses and, like a patient hunter, hides behind the Straw Hats, only showing his fangs when it counts.

"So, the purpose of that illusion is not to consume my physical strength, but to consume my sanity."

"When I lose my mind, I lose my sense of danger."

Klockdahl smiled bitterly, there is no point in reviewing it now, the other party's methods are very simple, no more subtle than what he has used in the land of Alabastan over the years, but the other party's psychological control is deadly enough.

Through some means that actually don't threaten you at all, you tighten it little by little like a net, and finally when you react, it's too late.

"No, today is not your time to die." Klockdahl heard the other man say, "Your life is still useful to me." ”

Such words made Klockdahl feel only absurd and mocking.

He looked directly into the other party's black pupils and said, "You can't get anything from me." ”

Even if he is a lost dog in the New World, Klockdahl has his own pride, he can't submit to anyone in order to survive, let alone a person who is obviously far inferior to himself in strength now, and only relies on stratagem and sea building stone to defeat him.

"Really?" The other party was not angry because of Klockdahl's attitude, and even laughed: "Mr. Klockdahl, you don't know me. ”

"But it's okay, we'll be together for a long time."

He looked around, and the dense rain curtain blurred ten meters away.

"It's not a good place to talk."

"We'll see you again soon, Mr. Crocodall."

Without hesitation, he turned to leave.

Klockdahl looked puzzled.

Only. That's it?

But he soon stopped wondering, and as the other figure's figure disappeared, another figure approached through the blurred rain curtain.

The man was graceful and had long black hair.

Klockdahl's face darkened completely.

"Nicole Robin!"

"I didn't expect him to really succeed." Nicole Robin walked up to Klockdahl, her expression a little unclear in the rain.

"It seems that I have at least made the right choice at the moment."

"What did he give you?" Klockdahl asked the question he couldn't figure out the most.

Nicole Robin has been working for himself for so many years, and although he doesn't know this woman well, he also knows that the other party is not stupid, and the other party knows how to weigh the pros and cons.

He couldn't figure out what kind of means were able to get the other party in a day. No, in just one encounter, he completely betrayed himself.

"It's something you can't give anyway." Nicole Robin said:

"Klockdahl, it's time to hit the road."

Townsend didn't pay any more attention to Klockdahl or talk to Nicole Robin.

What to do and what not to do, in fact, before bringing Klockdahl over, Townsend had already explained everything.

Of course, he didn't trust Nicole Robin so thoroughly that he would put such an important matter in the hands of someone who had just recovered it and had not yet been given the mark of the Dark Lord.

He just has faith in his backhand.

Whether it's when Nicole Robin goes to the rain to ventilate the news, or when Klockdahl arrives, and even now, there's a presence watching all of this.

It's just that the watcher is high in the sky, and the sharp gaze of the golden pupil is not noticed.

In the event of an accident, such as Nicole Robin not taking Klockdahl to where he needs to be, then Townsend will know first through the Dark Lord Mark.

As for why Townsend didn't take Crocodall himself-

He had more important things to do.

He never puts the cart before the horse, his goal is never to defeat Klockdahl, crush the other party's plots, help Princess Vivi and the Straw Hats, and restore the country to its former peace and beauty.

What he has to do is to take the power of the country into his own hands, and what he wants to do, maybe the original starting point is different from that of Klocodahl, but the result is the same.

He doesn't need a perfect ending where he defeats the bad guys like this and everything goes well, at least for now, the situation in this country can't be calmed down like this.

Townsend is not a messenger of justice.

He was a usurper.

(End of chapter)