Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 21
“An old friend? Then feel the care of an old friend!”
Almost his entire face darkened as Kaido, who himself was prone to moodiness and had always been temperamental.
For Arceus, if he found the wrong thing, he could find it again; the tablets couldn’t be lost, and no one could destroy them, so even though he had found the wrong thing, he wouldn’t be too emotionally disturbed.
Kaido is different; before he was on the ship, he dreamed that he would lead an army of phantom beast species to start a large-scale war.
In the end, he is actually an impostor. If he can’t find the honest John, he won’t be able to find Locus’ treasure, and if he can’t find the treasure, he won’t be able to find the whereabouts of the tablet, and without the tablet, he won’t be able to fulfil his deal, and his dream will be far away from him.
What could be worse for a pirate than to have his dream come true? Kaido picked up his wolfsbane, which had been hanging from his belt in dragon form, which showed the quality of his belt was quite good.
“You’re John, aren’t you? Then you’ll definitely be able to catch this one, Thundering Bagua!”
The fact that the people on Roxas’s ship hadn’t fought each other was the strangest thing, and if it weren’t for Roxas’s absolutely crushing strength, those monsters wouldn’t have been able to concentrate together at all.
The consequence of this is that this pirate group has little cohesion, and in the face of a great crisis, most people have chosen to go their own way, or Rocks would not have been trounced.
Although there is no significant conflict between Kaido and John, the relationship is not good either, and even the John of five years ago would be able to take this blow.
The wolfsbane stick, which was wrapped in an aura of dominance, smashed into John’s head, and no matter how much John tried to avoid it, the wolfsbane stick was locked onto his head, and he had no choice but to raise his sword and swing it at Kaido in an attempt to block the blow.
But the moment the blade made contact with the baton, an unimaginable force travelled from the blade to his wrist.
The blade was made of something that didn’t break from Kaido’s attack, but he couldn’t hold on to his sword, and it fell out of his hand under Kaido’s tremendous force.
“This guy doesn’t know how to use a sword at all.”
“The stance of holding the sword is all weird, and the difference between the strength of his left hand and his right hand is too big, and he doesn’t look like a second-blade runner.”
Queen and Ashes nodded at John from the sidelines. Neither of them were considered sworders. Although Queen had two knives hanging at his side, he had more weapons in his body, and he would probably pull out all sorts of strange weapons in a fight.
As for Asuka, the sword was just his weapon. He had no so-called fixed stance, and his sword just existed for the sake of fighting.
But to them, John was a complete amateur who couldn’t use a weapon.
“No, don’t you think he’s a bit strange? Compared to a normal person’s actions, his movements are slightly stiff.”
While Queen and Ashes were concerned with the clash of weapons, Shaina saw the incongruity in the body structure, a feeling that was less like a living person and more like a puppet.
And something strange was happening on Kaido’s end.
After John’s weapon was disarmed, the baton struck John on the top of the head and then smashed straight into the ground, but Kaido felt something wrong in his hand, and the object he hit was more like a piece of wood than a human being.
When the smoke and dust cleared, there was no blood on the ground, only broken pieces of unknown material interspersed with bone-like white objects and a mask that had been broken into several pieces.
“Substitute? Ability user?”
Looking at the golem knocked back into its original form, Kaido couldn’t figure out what had happened except that the threads he had managed to find seemed to be broken.
Queen walked over and unashamedly picked up the object on the ground and observed it.
“This must be a humerus; it seems to have been dried and spliced in a special way, but something like this can actually talk.”
Kaido ignored Queen’s analysis and walked towards the base in front of him. Although the golem in front of him disappeared, he noticed that there was still a special aura within the base in front of him.
At this time, those pirates who fainted due to the influence of his Overlord colour actually got back up one by one, only that their eyes were still in a rolled-over white state, and they were not awake, as if they were being manipulated by something.
A large number of pirates blocked the entrance to the base building, not letting Kaido in at all.
The radio broadcast from the base also sounded at the same time.
“Kaido! Why is a pirate like you in a place like this?”
“Huh? Do you need to tell me where I’m at, your hideout? I’m just looking for that John guy. What’s your relationship with him? Tell him to come out, or tell me where he is. I’m not interested in you, man.”
If he was simply pretending to be John, there was no way he could have left any attack marks similar to John’s here, and the fact that the man was dressed exactly like John and seemed to have some knowledge of his relationships had to have been premeditated.
Kaido spoke in a voice that wasn’t quite loud enough to get a response from the other man, who had a unique way of doing things.
The crowd of people around them were wildly moving, and those people surrounded Kaido and the others like a herd of zombies. Queen, Ashes, Shaina, and even Arceus had a lot of pirates around them.
But before Arceus could make a move, the pirates that came close to him were knocked out by two figures, one red and one grey, as the flames and the rocks formed an impenetrable line of defence.
“I am not weak enough for this.”
“Lord Beast, it would be a real shame for us if just anyone could come near you. You don’t have to do anything, Ashes, and I will take care of them.”
At that moment, an untimely voice sounded from behind.
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! You’ve suddenly disappeared. It’s challenging for this great master!” Queen transformed into a substantial tropical dragon, and some of those brazen pirates were already crawling on his legs.
The sudden departure of Ashes and Shaina caused Queen to face more pirates at the same time.
Although they were just a bunch of mongrels, he was in trouble. He didn’t have any heavy weapons on him, his internal weapons had yet to be recharged, and the Tropicana’s own abilities had yet to be developed, so he could only use his colossal body to fight with brute force.
On the other side, the other side’s voice was still coming from the radio.
“Kaido, you’re just a trainee. Don’t be so arrogant. You’re already at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troop strength!”
“Strength? What’s the point of having more of this crap, how can you be so naive?”
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