Daily life as a writer in the world of pirates

Luffy stood in front of Crocodile, thought silently for a while, and then suddenly said: "This guy is a good person~"

Wanzi tilted his head and wondered: "Why? Didn't he hurt Weiwei?"

"He hurt Weiwei and was a bad person, but he came here in person and was a good person!" Luffy said plausibly, "It just so happens that I don't want to walk anymore, hahaha!"

Crocodile took out three cigars from his arms, lit them at the same time and put them in his mouth: "You guy, don't look down on others - Sandstorm!"

"Gumo Gumodo-machine/gun!"

Crocodile, who was not a martial artist, suddenly attacked. Countless sand balls rose from the ground in front of him and rushed towards Luffy at a speed faster than a gun. Luffy has rich combat experience and reacts very quickly. He does not retreat but advances, and he also uses his own moves to fight head-on.

The sand ball in front of him was quickly shattered by rubber, and the ferocious fist directly hit Crocodile's body, causing round holes in his body.

Crocodile didn't care. He waved his hand, and the flying sand automatically filled his wound, allowing his skin to quickly return to its original state.

Luffy rubbed his head with a look of distress on his face: "It's really troublesome. This guy can't hit their bodies just like the smoker."

Ace laughed loudly: "Hey - Luffy, do you need my help?"

"No! I want to beat this guy away myself!" Luffy refused firmly.

Wanzi suggested: "If you use water, his body won't be able to turn into sand. I can use water to let you hit him. It doesn't count as participating in the battle~"

"So!" Luffy made a fist with his right hand and hammered it into the palm of his left hand, with a look of realization on his face, "Okay!"

Ace pretended to complain: "You guys, you really treat them differently!"

"This is different." Luffy explained seriously, "If Ace helps me, it won't be a battle between me and Crocodile, but Maruko's method will be."

With an inexplicable little pride, Maruko walked past Ace with his head held high and stood not far from Luffy and Crocodile.

Ace chuckled helplessly: "Two childish ghosts."

"Ninja Water Escape - Water Formation Wall!"

Wanzi formed seals with his hands, and the chakra in his Dantian swam along the unique meridian path under the guidance of ninjutsu, and finally poured out from Wanzi's hands. The desert that was so dry that there was no trace of green or water droplets suddenly appeared out of thin air. The waterfall, which was more than ten meters high, quickly rushed towards Crocodile.

Looking at the size of the waterfall, Wanzi frowned vaguely.

This desert is really too big. Due to the long-term drought, the water element in the air is very small. If you want to escape with water, you can only use Maruko's own chakra as the raw material. And she is still a magatama, and the amount of chakra is simply not enough. .

Maruko closed his eyes and talked to Luffy through perception: "With my amount of chakra, I can only perform Water Release of this scale three times. You have to seize the opportunity."

Luffy's eyes were sharp and showed no fear: "Understood!"

Crocodile completely turned his lower body into sand, and used the power of the wind to quickly retreat more than ten meters, avoiding the first wave of Maruko's attacks. Although his weaknesses are very obvious, the fact that he has been able to stand firmly here and occupy the title of one of the Shichibukai for so many years is not empty.

Maruko was not discouraged, and looked at Luffy, and the two of them rushed forward at the same time, one on the left and one on the right.

"Gumo Gumodo - Fire/Arrow/Cannon!"

"Ninja Water Escape - Water Dragon Bullet!"

Luffy used powerful moves to try to force Crocodile in the direction of Maruko. Maruko no longer used inflexible moves like "Water Formation Wall", but instead condensed a huge water dragon around him. From the water dragon's mouth Water globs continued to spurt out of it, hitting Crocodile's body like bullets.

Unfortunately, Crocodile did not act according to their expectations.

Because Luffy's attack was completely ineffective against Crocodile, Crocodile ignored Luffy and rushed towards Luffy instead.

Even if the water bombs spit out by the water dragon flew to the limit, they did not hit Crocodile's body. Instead, they took the opportunity to get further away from the two of them.

"It's time to throw away this ridiculous joke - Sha Lan!"

Crocodile stood in the distance, a small sandstorm appeared in the palm of his hand: "The sandstorm, which is completely controlled by my power, can continue to grow as it advances. In the end, even I cannot control its destructive power, so I can resist it. Give it a try!”

The sandstorm that was originally only the size of a palm quickly grew in size after it was placed on the ground. The strong wind blew the clothes of Luffy and Maruko more than ten meters away. Crocodile looked at Luffy and Maruko happily with contempt in his eyes. As if facing a formidable enemy.

The sandstorm did not stay in front of Crocodile for too long, and soon moved in the direction of Luffy, and the height of the sandstorm itself had reached hundreds of meters!

Maruko pulled Luffy, turned and ran to the side, but Crocodile was more than capable of controlling a sandstorm of this size. He easily let the sandstorm chase behind Luffy and Maruko, and then engulfed them.

"Ninpo Wind Release - Confinement!"

Maruko opened his eyes, and the magatama with blue ripples was spinning crazily in his eyes.

Although Maruko has all attributes of chakra in her body, there are more or less of these chakras. Among them, the wind attribute chakra is her weakest. If it were someone else, she would probably use her strengths and avoid weaknesses and only focus on developing the chakra that she is good at. carat. However, Maruko is a bit perfectionist, and he still learned several wind escape ninjutsu, one of which is this.

The essence of confinement is to control the wind within a certain range. When there is wind, air will come. If she has enough chakra at this time, this move can directly turn the area into a vacuum state, but now she does not have enough chakra, she can only control it. The wind doesn't flow, but that's enough.

The originally raging sandstorm, without the help of the wind, finally turned into its prototype and turned into sand falling.

“Gumo Gumodo—Balloon!”

Luffy took a sharp breath and turned his belly into a huge balloon, protecting himself and Maruko from falling from the sky.

Maruko's chakra was completely exhausted after this move, and he could only stand aside and try to recover.

Although Maruko has temporarily withdrawn, the battle between Luffy and Crocodile is not over yet.

There was a hint of surprise in Crocodile's eyes, but he quickly looked away and looked at Luffy in front of him.

Luffy's body was covered in blood, and the manic sandstorm cut his skin, causing countless wounds, large and small.

"That girl can't take action anymore, right?" Crocodile looked relaxed, "You can't hit me just by your words."

Luffy raised his hand: "Even with blood, I can defeat you!"

"Gumo Gumodo - hand/gun!"

Crocodile, uncharacteristically, no longer avoided situations that were unfavorable to him as before. He approached Luffy forcefully and received the punch, but Crocodile also put his right hand on Luffy's neck at the same time.

"Originally I didn't want to kill them all, but bugs without self-awareness are really annoying. People like you who can only attack with fists should just die!"

Crocodile grabbed Luffy's neck with one hand and lifted him up in front of him. His face with a cigar in his mouth was full of disdain: "If you can't even defeat me, you still dream of becoming the Pirate King. You are really ridiculous. !”

"Desert Prison."

Crocodile said these words calmly. In an instant, his right hand seemed to have its own breath, expanding and contracting violently. Correspondingly, Luffy's body shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than five seconds, Luffy, who was originally lean but full of tight muscles, became even thinner than his hundred-year-old grandma. Luffy's originally fierce resistance gradually weakened as his body lost a lot of water, until he passed out.

"Luffy——" Maruko shouted, "Ninjutsu Water Release——Water Dragon Wave!"

Maruko subconsciously wanted to use ninjutsu to rescue Luffy from Crocodile, but she forgot that in such a dry environment, in order to effectively attack Crocodile, she had used all her own chakra to create water escape. The chakra in his body was completely gone.

The result of desperately squeezing chakra was that Wanzi spit out a mouthful of blood. Not only did he fail to use water escape, but he was even more injured.

"The so-called mysterious ninja is nothing more than that."

"Desert Sunflower!"

A confident smile appeared on Crocodile's lips. He placed his right hand on the desert ground and felt it for a while, then revealed a cruel smile: "Desert Sunflower!"

Crocodile's right arm once again looked like it was breathing heavily, and the originally naturally formed desert floor quickly collapsed as if it had no support.

This kind of collapse is not instantaneous, but gradually spreads from the center to the surroundings, but the speed of this spread is very fast. Ace and Maruko immediately retreated dozens of steps and barely escaped the scope of the collapse. Even the tied Msall Sunday's expression changed drastically, his legs quickly jumped back, and he followed the ball back at an alarming speed.

Before Maruko could ask, Msallsunday took the initiative to explain: "This trick is for the boss to sense the location of the underground river under the desert through the sand, control the flow of water veins under the desert, and then control the desert on the surface to form quicksand that can swallow life."

"You should have seen a swamp. Once you fall into a swamp, the more you struggle, the deeper you will sink. The heavy mud will pull you down desperately. Your strength is so insignificant in the face of nature." Msall Sunday's voice was low, with an unknown tone. Famous sentiment, "Quicksand in the desert is a more terrifying phenomenon than a swamp. This trick is also called - a desert coffin without a tombstone."

Msallsunday's eyes were calm: "The desert is the boss's natural territory. There is no way for you to defeat him. It would be better to abandon your partners and run away by yourself."

Ace suddenly clasped his hands into fists and turned his wrists, his eyes full of seriousness: "What a pity, dad never taught me these two words."

Maruko also wiped the blood from his mouth with all his strength, and stared at Luffy in Crocodile's hand: "What a coincidence, abandoning friends is not in my dictionary. Moreover, no matter how powerful Crocodile is, Luffy will definitely be able to Beat him away!"

A proud smile appeared on Ace's face: "Luffy's partner is really good! Hey - your name is Mariko, right? Mariko, I will fight Crocodile, you go and bring that idiot back."

"Thank you...my name is Maruko."

"Oh, you're welcome, Yuan...wanzi."

On the desert, a sand pit with a diameter of nearly a hundred meters gradually formed. Crocodile's eyes were full of indifference and he casually threw Luffy into it.

Luffy was thrown to the bottom of the quicksand pit. Within a moment, less than half of his body was submerged.

If there was still chakra at this time, Maruko could just use the Kiryu no Jutsu to pull Luffy up, but now, Maruko didn't even have a drop of chakra on him.

Wanzi didn't say anything and rushed directly to the bottom of the quicksand pit. hateful! ! Chakra has never been able to fight for a long time. If... if the second magatama is opened...

Everyone in this world is either an ordinary person or a devil fruit user, but each person can only possess one kind of devil fruit, and the way of fighting can only change around the devil fruit ability. Maruko once felt that with her various ninjutsu, she could basically target most people in the world, so she always attached great importance to improving combat effectiveness, but she did not attach absolute importance to it.

Until this moment, watching Luffy being slowly buried in the quicksand, while Maruko had no choice but to run desperately using the most primitive method, Maruko suddenly realized that if the amount of chakra in the core does not increase, No matter how many means you have, you can't use them at all!

The quicksand began to cover Luffy faster, gradually rising from Luffy's calves to his waist, and then covering his neck. The next moment, it would cover his mouth, nose, ears, eyes...

"Luffy-" Maruko shouted.

Luffy, who was unconscious, suddenly moved his fingers, and subconsciously raised his right hand to reveal the sand.

Maruko immediately took a deep breath, jumped up on the spot, and rushed into the center of the quicksand in a free-falling posture. He quickly grabbed Luffy's hand that was left outside, and then - carefully passed the fresh air into Luffy's mouth.

Everything fell into darkness.