Pirate's Sword Tower Tavern

This is an unknown island in the East China Sea.

In a small, dilapidated house, more than a dozen people sat around a table that was about to fall apart.

The chairs they were sitting on were pure white chairs that didn't match the style of the room at all. They looked very strange.

In the room, two people stood out.

".1, .3, weren't you arrested? How did you escape?"

The speaker was a man with heavy makeup on his face, wearing a swan costume, with two swan heads and small wings on his back. He was from Baroque Works.2.

"Yes, it's really impressive that you were able to escape from the hands of the navy. After all, we heard that you were captured by the vice-admiral."

The person who spoke this time was .1’s partner, ss. Two Fingers, a woman with a purple afro and wearing a close-fitting leather jacket.

"After we were captured, we were only held in a prison at a naval branch base, not Impel Down City."

.3 opened his mouth to explain that he had made the chairs here for everyone present, otherwise there wouldn’t even be a complete chair in this shabby place.

"But you are ability users, right? After you were arrested, didn't you put sea-floor stone handcuffs on you?"

SS. Still can’t figure it out with both fingers. They all know the navy’s methods of arresting people. There are people who have escaped from prison, but they are definitely not people with their abilities.

"Actually, it was the boss who rescued us."

.1, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.

As the strongest person present, his momentum was also the strongest among everyone present. Even people from the Baroque Working Group were a little afraid of .1.

However, his words surprised everyone present.

"boss?"

Although they are members of the Baroque Working Club, they have never met the boss, the .0 of the working club.

Even during this gathering in the East China Sea, they didn't know that other people had actually received the same order.

It wasn't until the members of the work club arrived one by one that they discovered that .0 had gathered everyone here this time.

"So, you have met the boss?"

As a man who lives behind the phone bug, .0 has always maintained a sense of mystery about himself and has never met anyone under his command.

But this time, he actually took the initiative to show up, which immediately made these people have a little expectation.

"Yeah, we didn't expect that the boss would be him."

.3 shook his head with a wry smile. He even thought that he might spend the rest of his life in prison, but he did not expect that he would be rescued by .0 who had been hiding behind the scenes.

What he didn't expect was that he actually got a chance again. Otherwise, according to the rules of Baroque Works, he would have been dealt with by other agents by now.

This is an organization that never tolerates losers.

"Who is the boss?"

This time, everyone was curious.

"it's me."

There was a sudden gust of wind in the room, a large amount of sand suddenly appeared, and a small piece of the wooden floor that creaked when stepped on suddenly became corrupted, and a figure slowly rose from the ground.

"Crocodale!!?"

The moment they saw their boss's face, everyone except .1 and .3 were frightened.

"So, the slave family is actually a pirate's subordinate?"

"Why would the Shichibukai..."

"Isn't the Shichibukai a pirate recognized by the government? Why is this society still organized?"

When they saw Crocodile, everyone had their own doubts.

"What I want is not money or status, but [military power]."

Lighting a cigar, Crocodile began his explanation.

"military force?"

Everyone crossed their arms and started to act cool, although they didn't know who it was for.

"I'll tell you bit by bit, my true purpose, and the full picture of Baroque Works' final operations."

Exhaling a puff of smoke, Crocodile began his explanation.

time flies.

After smoking four cigars, his words finally came to an end.

"That kind of thing is really in Alabasta? The slaves are all getting goosebumps. That's why you want to rob the entire country, right?"

.2 raised his eyebrows, revealing very thick forehead lines.

"In other words, the tasks we have been doing are all to complete this huge plan."

.1 also just learned about this, but his expression did not change at all.

"You are right. Since the founding of Baroque Working Group, all the tasks you have performed have been to prepare for this battle. But in fact, my plan has only been implemented less than half. There is still a long way to go to completely seize the country. It’s a long way to go.”

Crocodile glanced at everyone, but there was no look of happiness on his face when he mentioned the plan.

"But...since you are our boss, why did you drive us out of Alabasta? As far as I know, boss, you should be doing greening in Alabasta now."

ss. asked with his fingers on his hips, confused.

She runs a spider bar in Alabasta, and her identity has not been exposed, but because of "Crocodale", all the agents hidden in Alabasta were kicked out.

At the beginning, they thought that their identity had been exposed, and Crocodile was a hero in Alabasta, so it was not unreasonable to be targeted, especially since .0 also allowed them to come to this remote area.

But they didn't expect that they would be driven out by their own boss.

"That's not me."

Crocodile said with a dark face.

Everyone: "!!?"

"That is a person with abilities. Not only can he transform into the appearance of others, he can even use the abilities after transformation. And he has more than one ability."

Crocodile told the information he knew.

Facing this kind of enemy, Crocodile also thought about how to defeat him.

Probably just like Whitebeard, just blow it up with one punch.

So after summing up, Crocodile found that he didn't seem to be the opponent named Walter.

So he gave up this option and instead used his own wisdom. After all, he felt that his brain was still very useful.

"The main purpose of calling you here this time is to formulate a plan for the future. What we need to do now is to face the new enemy and find a way to deal with the fake me."

Crocodile still has not given up his obsession with Hades and is preparing to return to Alabasta again.

"Wait a minute, boss, when you rescued us from prison, didn't you expose your identity?"

At this time, .3 asked a very important question.

"Exposed? What does what .0 did have to do with me, Crocodile? I am currently opening a river and planting trees in Alabasta."

Crocodile lit a cigarette and said he had no fear.