Weapon fruit is rubbish? Have you ever heard of Ryujin Jakka?

"Rosen!"

With both arms broken, even a man with a strong will like Crocodile could not help showing pain on his face.

He looked around reflexively.

Only then did they realize that Rosen, who had been pierced by the sand blade that broke out of the ground, had disappeared without a trace.

Before Crocodile could think more, he heard the sound of something breaking again, which he had heard twice before.

click

When the first sound came, he lost his left arm; when the second sound came, he lost his right arm.

just now.

When the third sound rang out, Crocodile felt a lightness at the base of his right leg, and then his body instantly lost balance and fell into the desert.

Also crawling on the ground with him was a bloody right leg.

"what!"

In the blink of an eye, he lost both hands and one leg and was unable to do anything. Crocodile was like a beast on the verge of despair. He could only let out a strangled, angry, yet powerless roar.

Before his eyes, there was only a world filled with sand blades. He could not see Rosen, nor the Zanpakutō that cut him off, and even Kuzan and Nico Robin could not be seen.

click

Suddenly, Crocodile, who was crawling on the ground, heard the sound of breaking again, like a death scream.

This time, it was the left foot.

Intense pain came from where his limbs were broken, quickly spreading throughout his body, causing his already pale face to lose almost all its color, while his expression became extremely hideous.

"Go to hell!"

Crocodile roared and released sand, forming an indestructible sand blade. After it was cut off with the armed color domineering, it exploded in the direction of his left foot that fell into the sand pile.

Tsk

This knife directly split the desert, creating a deep crack.

however.

puff

This time, Crocodile, whose limbs were cut off, finally heard the sound of a sharp blade entering flesh instead of objects breaking.

His back was pierced by an invisible Zanpakutō, tearing open his skin and flesh, and the sharp tip of the blade pierced his spine.

"what!"

Crocodile screamed, his whole body tensed like a cooked shrimp, arched backward and twitched continuously, but soon he collapsed like a soft-skinned snake with its bones pulled out.

噗

Blood gushed out from the wound on his back, his shoulders, and his legs, quickly turning the desert beneath him into a pool of scarlet blood.

As a user of the natural-type Sand-Sand Fruit.

After losing his hands, he could use sand to make hands and feet to replace them, but his spine was severed by the blade. Even though he could still use the power of the fruit with his brain, his body was unable to move.

With only a trunk, he could only crawl on the ground.

"Give up!"

"Your sand can't touch me."

"Forever."

Rosen's voice, like the whisper of a devil, sounded leisurely in Crocodile's ears.

"come out!"

"Come out now!"

"Rosen."

"I know. You're right in front of me."

As soon as Crocodile heard Rosen's voice, his eyes turned red instantly, and then he seemed to be stimulated and turned into a crazy beast.

While he let out a series of roars, he continued to create sand without giving up, forming one sand blade after another, which kept slashing in all directions.

click

Accompanied by waves of tearing sounds, the desert was also cut into pieces, extending into shocking cracks.

Seems to be exhausted.

It also seems that he was seriously injured.

Unlike Kaido, who had a monstrous-like health bar, blood recovery ability, and defense, Crocodile was unable to stir up even a bit of sand after slashing out nearly fifty sand blades in one breath, and his proud head could only stick to the hot desert.

That's when.

Crocodile, who was lying in the desert, found that a figure suddenly appeared in his sight.

His pupils moved upwards and he saw a blood-stained Zanpakutō.

Continue moving up.

He saw the other person's whole appearance.

It was Rosen holding the mirror flower and water moon.

"Rosen!"

Seeing Rosen appear, Crocodile gritted his teeth and roared, subconsciously trying to support himself with his hands and stand up, but the next second he found that his hands and feet had been cut off, and he collapsed in a pile of sand not far from him.

"Why this expression?"

"Do you really think you can defeat me?"

Rosen met Crocodile's predatory gaze and chuckled.

"..."

Crocodile didn't say anything, but his eyes became more and more ferocious.

"You should be proud of it."

"A pirate of your level can actually witness the power of Kyoka Shuiyue."

"You know, this is one of my strongest Zanpakutō."

Rosen shook his head:

"Even the Four Emperors like Kaido and Wang Zhi who reign over the world have never seen this."

"And you, Crocodile."

"But a mere Shichibukai has the honor of seeing the mirror flower and the water moon."

As soon as these words came out.

Crocodile's eyes widened, and he was about to use the Sand-Sand Fruit again to continue attacking Rosen.

But his every move was seen by Rosen.

Facing the rapidly condensing sand blades.

After taking a glance at Crocodile, Rosen did not try to stop him, but spoke in a calm tone.

"Break it, Mirror Flowers and Water Moon."

click

Just as Crocodile created a sand blade and was about to chop at Rosen in front of him, the space in his sight exploded first.

next second.

The crack like a broken mirror disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

But at the same time.

Along with the crack, the endless desert covered with sand blades also disappeared.

Yes.

Whether it was Alabasta's capital, Arubana, standing tall in the desert, or the entire desert where Crocodile was crawling, they all disappeared.

Instead, there is an endless ocean.

Crocodile, on the other hand, was crawling on the beach that connected to the sea.

"..."

As Rosen's words changed everything, the sand blade that was about to be chopped out completely solidified in mid-air.

rustle

After a moment, the sand blade hanging in the air began to disintegrate, turning into a waterfall of yellow sand, all falling on Crocodile.

It was not Rosen who crushed the sand blade, but Crocodile no longer used the fruit to control the sand blade, and then it disintegrated into wind and sand.

Looking at the blue sea in front of him, Crocodile seemed to have lost all his energy.

There was no thought of even launching a meaningless attack or continuing the desperate struggle.

this moment.

He suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the sand blade that had just affected an area of ​​a thousand meters in radius could not touch Rosen at all.

It turned out that he was no longer in Arubana, but had come to the border of Alabasta.

Through the world live broadcast, Crocodile, who had witnessed Rosen tearing the sky with the Black Cavity, understood that from the moment he approached the palace of Alabasta, he did not go to the underground burial hall or the desert outside the capital, but stepped into the Black Cavity and then came to the border of Alabasta step by step.

And Rosen.

And Kuzan and Nico Robin.

All three of them stood on the frozen sea, looking at him quietly and speaking to the sea.

Water is the nemesis of the Sand-Sand Fruit, not to mention the sea.

In the face of the Grand Line, it is simply a matter of creating a desert sword from the sea.

Therefore, the sand blades everywhere that we saw just now were just illusions that Rosen deliberately created using the illusions in the mirror and water.

Fighting till now.

Even his limbs were cut off and his spine was pierced, but he was still living in an illusion.

Can't tell true from false.

No enemy in sight.

I don't even know where I am.

Can only sink into illusion forever.

Watching the desert turn into the sea, Crocodile felt both desperate and collapsed.

He lay on the beach, no longer resisting, but kept asking in his heart.

Everything before my eyes.

Is it an illusion or reality?

Has he returned to the Grand Line, or is he still living in an illusory world woven by illusions?