"Krokdal! Don't run!"

Luffy jumped up and hugged Crocodile from behind.

Crocodile's body sank. The rain on his body had not completely dried. He had already tried his best to use the semi-elemental transformation. At this time, he was hugged by Luffy. He couldn't break free for a moment. He looked silently.

However, he was entangled again, and he was furious.

"Go away!"

The golden hook in his right hand hooked directly towards Luffy's back.

Luffy's close combat ability is already strong, how could he be hit by such an attack? He used Crocodile's back as the floor and jumped directly in mid-air to avoid Crocodile's attack, but the hands holding him did not

When he let go, it stretched because of his leap.

"Rubber - back fall in the air!"

Using his hands, Luffy's figure dropped rapidly, and with a daring gesture, he threw Crocodile to the ground.

"Devil's wind feet!"

Sanji seized the opportunity, dodged to Crocodile's falling point, ignited flames on his feet, and kicked the opponent with an upside-down golden hook.

Bang——

The moment the attack approached, Crocodile suddenly turned into a ball of yellow sand.

The next moment, Crocodile's figure appeared behind Sanji, and his left hand directly pinched the back of Sanji's neck.

"You have pissed me off."

The water in Sanji's body was directly drained, and he turned into a mummy and was thrown aside by Crocodile.

"Sanji!!!"

Luffy's eyes were about to burst as he rushed towards this side.

"Desert Great Sword!"

Crocodile dwarfed and pressed his palms on the yellow sand. The next moment, a gray-white sword suddenly grew out of the ground around Luffy, and penetrated Luffy's chest directly at a speed that was impossible to react.<

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"Oh——"

Luffy's pupils shrank to the extreme. He slowly lowered his head to look at the sword on his chest. All the water in his body was drained away, leaving only his dry body hanging dangling on the sword's blade.

At this time, Daisy finally arrived, and her body turned into an overwhelming canopy, pressing down on Crocodile.

"Desert Diamond Sword!"

Crocodile repeated his old trick, and four huge sand blades tore Daisy's body apart again.

Crush!

With all their strength, neither Daisy nor the Straw Hats are any enemies of Crocodile!

But enough time has passed.

Rain fell from the sky again, this time on a larger scale. The rain clouds spread over a wide range, even covering the city of Rain Land. Where Crocodile was, the rain curtain was like a downpour, making the world blurry.

"Not a dancing fan, but a devil fruit ability?"

Crocodile clenched his fists. Defeating the Straw Hats did not make him feel any less angry and uneasy. The conspirator was his biggest concern. Obviously, such heavy rain could no longer be dispelled by his current state.

Unable to elementalize, I missed the opportunity to escape.

"Let's start the next round!"

Tang Sen's voice sounded behind Crocodile, followed by the sound of gunshots.

Crocodile reacted quickly. He did not look back immediately, but suddenly turned sideways to avoid the trajectory of the bullet in the sensor. Then he bowed, looked back, and activated his ability.

The desert sword pierced the figure in the rain curtain.

But there was no feeling of relaxation in his heart at all, and the underlying sense of crisis made his hair stand on end.

The danger is not gone yet!

How is that possible? Is there anyone else?

The obstruction of the rain curtain prevented him from noticing that the pierced figure slowly turned into a paper man. Driven by the sense of crisis, Crocodile did not hesitate to activate his abilities to the maximum extent.

His arms shook, and all the yellow sand began to stir up. Even in the rain, the yellow sand set off a turbid storm, carrying enough power to drain all the moisture from everyone's body. In Crocodile,

Sweeping all over.

One second. Two seconds

A minute passed, and there was no movement around.

Crocodile raised his head and saw that the strange black thing had disappeared.

"Something is wrong, absolutely something is wrong."

Crocodile reacted suddenly: "The other party is consuming my energy!"

Of course, the ability of the Devil Fruit requires physical strength. If Crocodile uses it with all his strength, the physical consumption will be even greater. What's more, he was beaten by the Straw Hats in order to avoid the Sea Tower Stone bullet.

Attack, at this time the injuries in the body have begun to be uncontrollable.

"We can't let the other side succeed. If it keeps raining, it will be very detrimental to me if we are dragged into a war of attrition."

He was just about to restrain some strength when he suddenly saw a figure appearing very close to him.

The muzzle of the gun is only half a meter away from me!

"Go to hell!"

Crocodile's conditioned reflex activation ability, which was already highly concentrated, caused the sandstorm around him to directly bury the figure.

"No-no!"

He didn't feel the sandstorm hit the entity at all.

At this time, the dawn has spread all over the earth, and a new day has arrived, but under the cover of dark clouds and rain, everything is shadowy. Crocodile was horrified to see that when the sandstorm receded, the figure actually stood unscathed.

.

He was finally able to clearly see the other person's face.

You can also see the other party's joking eyes and the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth.

It's like watching a clown mocking you.

Anxious, furious, frustrated, and exhausted, Crocodile's sanity was crushed.

He broke his defense.

"Go, die, die, die!"

The entire desert shook, and the yellow sand set off waves tens of meters high, sweeping into a vortex around him, swallowing everything up.

This offensive, which almost unleashed his remaining strength, successfully tore the figure in front of him apart.

"Ho—ho—"

Everything around him became calm again, Crocodile hunched over, gasped, and suddenly laughed.

"No one can defeat me in the desert!"

"There is no way I will be defeated by second place——"

Snap!

Crocodile's voice stopped suddenly.

He slowly lowered his head and saw the blood hole that suddenly appeared on his chest.

This was not a fatal injury. The bullet did not penetrate his heart, but was just stuck in his body.

However, the bullet's warhead is fatal to him.

A feeling of weakness enveloped his whole body, and the sweeping yellow sand fell in an instant, and the power of the Devil Fruit completely disappeared at this moment.

Crocodile tried his best to resist the weakness caused by Hailoushi and not let himself collapse to the ground. However, this had consumed all his strength, and he did not even have the strength to raise his head again.

He heard the sound of unhurried footsteps besides the sound of rain.

A pair of black boots appeared in his field of vision. He could not see the other person's face, but he could imagine that the other person's face must be proud and sarcastic. This imagination made him almost lose his mind again.

He is a Shichibukai, a user with natural devil fruit abilities. His plan is obviously going to succeed in a few days, but he is just a little bit close!

However, he fell here, defeated by a person whose identity he did not even know using such insidious means.

He wanted to struggle and resist, but he had been deprived of the strength to even clench his fists.

Then, the anger faded away like the tide.

Once again. Failed.

Instead, he calmed down. This was not the first time he had tasted failure. Compared with the last time he faced Whitebeard, he was completely defeated in the face of a power that was completely despairing and impossible to reach no matter how hard he tried.

The failure of losing courage and ambition for strength, this kind of failure due to other people's machinations, seems to be more suitable for myself.
To be continued...