"Where are you going...?"

A low and calm voice sounded at this time.

The gorilla man's pupils shrank, and he turned his head tremblingly, as if looking at a demon, and looked up at the figure approaching step by step.

It was a young man wearing a burgundy patterned shirt, with a beard, a black top hat, and holding a broad cross sword in his hand.

The most eye-catching thing is his sharp yellow eyes like eagles. Just looking at each other unintentionally can make people feel palpitations and feel an invisible sense of oppression.

"The great...great swordsman, the eagle...the eagle-eyed Mihawk!"

The gorilla man gritted his teeth and said angrily:

"It's been half a year since I, 'Giant Ape' Kondo Ichiro, came to the Grand Line and earned a bounty of 80 million beli along the way. But I ask myself, I have never offended you in the past six months, so why do you want to kill me!"

This is a question that he hasn't thought about until now.

Apparently ten minutes ago, he was happily eating hot pot and singing songs with his subordinates. In the sea mist, he saw a fool rowing a boat hard with a sword. He was laughing, making up songs, clapping his hands and making fun of him.

But in the blink of an eye, when he was drunk, six pirate ships under his banner were suddenly cut into two halves at the same time.

The next moment, before he sobered up, he was horrified to discover——

Mihawk, the eagle-eyed man who has become famous in the past few months, has already boarded his ship and looked at him with a look like a dead man.

This doesn't make sense?

The mohawk man, who was in a half-drunk state, was so confused that for a moment he couldn't connect the great swordsman in front of him with the rowing figure before.

"..."

Looking at Ichiro Kondo lying on the ground with a face full of grief and anger, Mihawk was silent for a while, and then spoke softly after a while:

"You don't need to know, just be a fool and go on the road with peace of mind."

The next moment.

The black knife waved, a cloud of blood mist spread out, and the body on the ground was broken into two pieces.

After sheathing the knife, Mihawk noticed a brand new newspaper on the inside of the corpse's coat. He bent down and picked it up, glanced at the pirates struggling and screaming in the sea around him, and shook his head slightly.

He had no intention of going on a killing spree, so he turned around and jumped off the bow of the ship, floating back into his coffin-like boat.

The boat sailed away into the wind, with ghosts and wolves howling behind it.

Without looking back, Hawkeye gracefully crossed his legs and unfolded the newspaper.

"Um?"

After just a few cursory glances, he was stunned and froze on the spot.

"Even that golden lion..."

After a long time, Hawkeye came back to his senses. Looking at the familiar face on the front page photo, he couldn't help but murmur with a wry smile:

"As expected of Lord Nuo Xia, it seems that the strength you showed in the last competition with me is just the tip of the iceberg..."

Fortunately, he once naively thought that at least at the end of the battle, Nuo Xia took a serious attitude and went all out, allowing himself to understand the gap between the two.

Now it seems that you are clearly just playing house and playing games with your children, right?

Simply ashamed.

"It has become more distant..."

Suddenly, a drizzle of rain began to fall in the sky. The eagle's eyes looked up at the sky, as if he wanted to see Malinvando under the red earth continent through the thick dark clouds.

Can I really catch up with that man?

For a moment, his eyes were a little dazed, and various complex emotions such as loss, envy, despair, etc. flashed through his mind.

But in the end.

These distracting thoughts disappeared, and his eyes became as sharp and firm as an eagle's again.

"There will come a day..."

Hawkeye gently rubbed the hilt of Hei Daoye's sword and murmured in a voice that only he could hear clearly.

"I will definitely win the title of the world's greatest swordsman, Mr. Noxia..."

"When we meet again next time, I won't lose again!"

Rumble!

The rain became heavier, and thunder and lightning began to appear in the sky.

Driven by the waves, the boat drifted farther and farther into the mist...

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Chambord Islands.

Along the port of a certain illegal zone, people were coming and going and it was quite lively.

"It was clearly agreed upon that one hundred thousand beli, how come it became one hundred and fifty thousand?"

"Aren't you robbing people, you stinky old man!"

"Ah, yes, I'll kill you. What's wrong, don't you feel good?"

The fat man and Jesus Bu were haggling with the old coater man over the price, and they couldn't stop arguing.

Shanks squatted on the stone and put down the newspaper in his hand, his expression even more painful than when he saw Bucky become the Pirate King...

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Holy Land, Marie Joa.

In the top-floor office of the World Government, the warm afternoon sun shines in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, five elderly people with different figures and appearances were standing or standing, looking at the documents in hand with different expressions.

They are the elite leaders among the Celestial Dragons and the rulers responsible for government affairs in the world government——

Five old stars.

The silent atmosphere lasted for a while.

"Have you read the battle report just sent from the Navy Headquarters?"

The old man wearing a kimono and holding a demon sword in his arms was the first to speak quietly, breaking the silence.

"Um."

Wearing a flat hat and a fluffy white beard, Wu Laoxing put down the documents in his hand and said leisurely, "Guarded the Impel City, defeated the Golden Lion... saved a catastrophe, what an amazing young man..."

"Indeed, a remarkable achievement."

"Especially when I'm just twenty years old..."

"...This kind of talent is really rare, let alone in the history of the elite camp, even if we look at the entire Haiyuan calendar."

Several other Five Old Stars also nodded, feeling the same way.

In their hearts, they have reached a consensus on their evaluation of Nuo Xia. If they summarize it, it is probably that this boy has an unlimited future and at least has the status of a marshal...

"When the general seat becomes vacant in the future, perhaps this child can be given priority."

Kimono Wu Laoxing stood up and came to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the magnificent holy land below with deep eyes:
Chapter completed!