A New Path - Chapter 186

Shiryu and Rick joined Genma and Albion back with the panicked rookie pirate crew. “Spread out, separate and retreat, we can’t win against them!” Eight declared her orders and immediately and without hesitation the now six other agents separated and started running in different directions. Eight with her injured hand also disappeared.

“Should we give chase?” Albion asked Shiryu, the leader of the group.

“No, let them be. Only agents above six are worth our time, Albion, go fetch Crocodile.”

“Understood!” He bent down and jumped away. His leap took him across half the city towards where Crocodile was fighting against Monkey D Luffy.

“Who the hell are you people?” Zoro who was barely alive asked as he stumbled over to them with his swords in hand.

“Boy, you should rest unless you want to succumb to your injuries.” Genma gave Zoro a stern look that made it clear he wasn’t joking. Zoro had inhuman willpower, but as the saying goes, even Gods can die, and if Gods can die, so can Zoro.

“Not before you tell me who you are!”

“You aren’t ready for that yet!” Shiryu interrupted and said. “Your crew just entered Grand Line, it is so much you don’t know, and even now, by just us saving you, those agents will come after you again. Your journey just became a lot more dangerous!” Shiryu waved towards his men and they started walking away. “Be careful, and lay low for a while!” He said as the two groups parted ways.

“Zoro, do you have any idea of who they were?” Nami asked carefully. She was looking at the departing group of strange yet unknown men.

“No idea, another Warlord maybe. They did appear to have some form of connection to Crocodile. But I don’t think they’re related to the rebellion, so maybe they came to stop it.” He was just throwing out wild guesses.

“Yeah, maybe! I doubt that’s the last time we’ve seen them.” Nami said quietly.

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“By order of the Marine Headquarters, acting with the authority of the world government, in accordance with the naval enemy seizure clause. You are henceforth stripped of all your titles and privileges granted to you by the world government.” The female Marine known as Tashigi stood above the unconscious body of Crocodile with a slightly saddened expression. She was completely exhausted, she slowly raised her hand and pointed at the now-former Warlord of the Sea. “Men! Take him!” She looked back at her men. It was then a figure that no one saw appeared far above them, and that figure was quickly falling towards them.

“Look out down below!” The figure yelled loudly and crashed down beside Crocodile. Tashigi together with her men got blown away when he landed on the ground.

Albion stood up and looked around, in his grasp he had Crocodile. “I did warn you, so you can’t blame me if you’re all dead!”

“STOP! Who are you?!” Tashigi yelled while forcing her body to stand, she drew her sword and dashed towards Albion without regard for her safety. He just looked at her calmly. “Don’t hit me, little Marine, I won’t be nice if you do!” His tone was almost childlike, but it still carried tons of weight.

“Release him!” Tashigi raised her sword, jumped up and struck down on Albion’s shoulder with all her power. Her sword bounced off his skin like she had struck the worlds strongest metal. “What? How?!”

“Little Marine, not too good at listening to others!” Albion’s hand moved quickly and gripped her by the throat. Thanks to being just as tall as Doflamingo, Albion looked like a giant compared to her. “You hit me, so I have to kill you now!”

“TASHIGI!!” One of her men yelled as all of them tried to stand up. “Goodbye!” Albion raised Tashigi into the air. ‘I’m sorry, Captain Smoker!’ That was her last thought as the ground exploded from having Albion slam her down on it. He let go off the now dead Marine and looked at the other Marines with tears streaming down their faces. “No means no! You don’t hit me if I don’t want to!” After speaking his piece, he took off in another incredible leap and disappeared from view. He left the Marines with broken hearts and spirits, and the civilians were terrified.

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