People are pirates, creating Cthulhu

After several days of long journey, Rosinandi finally arrived at Algina, the royal city of Alabasta.

"The hero of Alabasta? His Majesty the Seven Warlords, Crocodile..."

Recalling the rumors he heard along the way, Rosinandi finally knew where the source of the unrest that Doflamingo mentioned came from.

Although the King's Shichibukai has a nice name, to put it bluntly, they are just a group of pirates recruited by the World Government.

Even if they recruit pirates, they are still pirates, and their nature as pirates will not change.

I didn't expect that someone would regard a pirate as a hero just because of his name and superficial work.

Knowing that he was finally looking for someone, Rosinandi was not in a hurry.

Anyway, he had no intention of negotiating this deal for Doflamingo from the beginning, but since he had to return to Doflamingo to work as an undercover agent, he still had to do the face-saving project.

He planned to have a casual chat with Crocodile early tomorrow morning, and then he could leave for Malinfando to see what was going on there.

The next day, Crocodile received another summons from the king at dawn.

After entering the palace, Crocodile clearly felt that the guards in the palace seemed to be a little depressed. After meeting the king, he found that this situation seemed to be more serious in the king.

"How's the nightmare investigation I told you about a few days ago going?"

When they met, Kobra omitted even polite words and went straight to the point and asked about this matter that had been arranged for several days.

"We don't have a clue yet."

"Well, just yesterday the nightmare had spread to the royal city. You should have noticed that the guards were in a very depressed state of mind today. Not only the guards, but also the ministers and I fell into a nightmare last night."

"yesterday?"

Crocodile thought for a moment that he had also lived in the royal city yesterday, but he did not encounter a nightmare as the king said.

"Well, I have sent people to calculate the scope of this nightmare. News should be coming soon."

Sure enough, just after Kobra finished speaking, a guard trotted in with huge dark circles under his eyes.

"Your Majesty, the results have been calculated. The entire Western District, including the royal palace and the residences of ministers near the Western District, are all covered by the scope of this nightmare."

"Can you determine the center point?"

"It should be near the junction of Third Street and Eighth Street."

No. [-] and No. [-], these two streets are commercial streets, mainly restaurants, pubs, and some hotels are concentrated there. If the nightmare is sent from the center point, it means that the other party should be someone living there. People in hotels.

After all, the Royal City still has a normal curfew. If it is too late at night, restaurants and pubs will not be empty. In this way, the scope of the search was quickly narrowed to the hotels on No. [-] Street and No. [-] Street.

"If this is the case, immediately send people to search the hotels on No. [-] Street and No. [-] Street to identify all suspicious persons."

Kobra's idea coincided with Crocodile's, but after seeing the appearance of the king and the guards, Crocodile had an idea and immediately came up with an idea.

"Your Majesty, leave it to me to deal with the pirates."

"Then it's up to you!"

Seeing Crocodile volunteering for a job, Kobra couldn't ask for more. After all, these pirates each have very weird abilities. Although ordinary soldiers can also fight, the casualties will be difficult to control.

But it would be different if Crocodile, who was the King of the Seven Warlords, took action. With his officially certified strength, I am afraid that most pirates would not be his opponents.

Taking the initiative to take over this matter was not due to Crocodile's conscience, but because he realized that this kind of nightmare seemed to play a great role in his plan.

As long as I control the nightmare and keep the king and the royal family in a coma, then as the hero of Alabasta, I can legitimately become the king of Alabasta.

As long as he sits on the throne, the ancient weapon Pluto, which is silent somewhere in this country, is destined to be in his possession.

After leaving the palace, Crocodile immediately led his guards to the junction of No. [-] Street and No. [-] Street.

After completely blocking the two streets, Crocodile personally led his guards to search the hotels one by one. However, before the search of the first hotel was completed, he found a small note in one of the rooms.

"Krokdal, I hope to be alone with you."

Although there was no name written on the note, when he saw the circular pattern painted on the lower right, he frowned and seemed to think of the man who had made all the arrogant Celestial Dragons have to lower their noble heads.

Could it be that the recent nightmare was also caused by him?

Crocodile immediately felt a little stung. After being silent for a while, he put away his suspicions and came to a remote empty room alone.

After waiting for a while, he saw a man wearing a black fur coat pushing open the door with a smile on his face.

"You're not Doflamingo!"

Although Crocodile had never met Doflamingo, the original incident caused quite a stir, and of course Doflamingo's photo was published in the newspapers.

Even though it was a photo taken a long time ago, it did not prevent him from recognizing that this person was not Doflamingo.

"..."

Rosinandi still carefully maintained his mute persona, and wrote on the note: "I am a cadre of the Don Quixote family, Clason, and I will discuss cooperation with you on behalf of JOKER this time."

"Cooperation? That's not necessary."

"In that case, I will convey your original words to JOKER. Excuse me. Farewell!"

Seeing Crocodile decisively rejecting him, Rosinandi felt relieved. Since it was the other party who actively rejected him, it would be easier for him to do business when he went back.

So without any hesitation, I planned to open the door and leave.

"Wait a minute, are you the one responsible for the recent nightmare that has disturbed Alabasta?"

Crocodile's eyes were cold and he stared at Rosinandy as if he wanted to see any trace of cover-up in him.

nightmare?

Rosinandi turned around in shock, as if she didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

However, at the moment when the two people's eyes were about to meet, Crocodile was shocked, and endless fear rushed towards his face. This fear seemed to have a physical form. With just a moment of impact, he felt as if his body had become stiff and petrified. generally.

Even if you want to elementalize it immediately, it is difficult to do so.

"never mind."

Crocodile's palms were filled with beads of sweat, and he forced himself to calm down. Looking at Rosinandi's appearance, it seemed that he did not mean to make himself embarrassed.

But the more this happened, the more it made Crocodile extremely fearful.