"¡Kuahahahahaha!"
"I didn't think my ambition would end like this, in the hands of an unknown young man."
"But don't think you won, boy!"
"The world government will catch you for hiding Nico Robin, the demon girl!"
Crocodile was not someone who was indecisive.
Being in this situation, he quickly realized that he had lost.
His dreams of finding Pluto and ruling the world with its power had vanished.
And at the hands of a young man who didn't think he was a danger.
At first, he thought this young man was just an upstart from the Grand Line who was lucky enough to eat a rare Devil Fruit, but it seems he was wrong.
Kosue Ishihara had haki and was able to defeat him with it.
Of course, I wouldn't let Kozue win either.
The fact that this guy used his weakness against his sand abilities, he knew that Nico Robin had betrayed him.
He didn't know if it was a coincidence that it was raining at that time and how Kozue had manipulated the earth to get him out of their secret base, but he didn't have time to think about that and gave one last scream that he hoped would get Kozue into trouble.
Kozue knocked out Crocodile, but it was too late. Crocodile's words were heard by everyone who approached, many of them from the city's army.
While Kozue could use mental magic to erase the recent memories of all these people, she couldn't waste time.
Immediately, his legs pressed hard against the ground and he headed towards the base where Crocodile was hiding.
With earth magic, the ground opened up in front of him and he was able to easily go down to the basement.
In this basement, Kozue found many empty cells and in one of them was Cobra.
When Cobra saw Kozue walk in and easily open the bars, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He heard the sounds of battle above him, and seeing that Kozue didn't have any injuries on him, it didn't seem like he had fought Crocodile.
But for Kozue to be here and able to free him, Crocodile was possibly defeated.
At this last thought, he looked in amazement at the young man in front of him who easily opened the handcuffs that had him trapped with only his hands.
"Let's go," Kozue said without further explanation and left the cell.
But Cobra had gone so long without eating or moving that his legs weren't responding well.
Seeing that the cobra was having difficulty walking, Kozue stepped back and lifted it onto her back.
Although it was a little embarrassing to be carried like that, Cobra didn't complain and let Kozue carry him out of the place.
Not caring about the cobra's weight, Kozue easily jumped and left the half-destroyed base.
Not caring about the people gathered around, Kozue kept moving and quickly picked up the unconscious Crocodile before jumping into the air and flying away much to the surprise of the people and Cobra.
"Where are we going?" Though he wanted to ask how they were flying, Cobra asked when they didn't head toward the castle as he expected.
Although they were moving at high speed in the air and the wind prevented the words from traveling through the air, Kozue heard him perfectly and only said that she had to hurry to get to her shopping center.
Before Cobra could insist that he wanted to see his daughter, he saw out of the corner of his eye a beam of light approaching.
'Damn,' Kozue thought as she also noticed the beam of light.
There was still a little while left before he reached his shopping center, it seemed that he wouldn't arrive before the Borsalino admiral, a user of the Logia of Light type devil fruit, reached him.
In the distance, Borsalino also noticed another flying figure.
"Oooooh" said Borsalino after stopping and seeing through his observation haki the figure of Kozue carrying Cobra.
Borsalino had received orders from Sengoku to capture a rare user of a space-type Devil Fruit.
From what Sengoku said, it was not clear what Devil Fruit this guy had eaten and the 5 elders wanted to capture him to study and use his abilities as a CP agent.
Not caring what the world government would do with this young man, Borsalino shrugged and accepted the task.
Logically, he had seen her image and that's why he was able to recognize Kozue.
His brief pause brought Kosue closer to his shopping center, but for the user of the glowing fruit, that pause was nothing.
At one point, Borsalino disappeared in a beam of light only to reappear in front of Kozue.
Seeing the beam of light forming in front of him, Kozue realized it was too late to escape without a fight.
Stopping, he descended to leave Cobra and the still unconscious crocodile on the roof of a building.
Borsalino calmly watched Kozue drop off his load and was not surprised when Kozue exploded in speed, leaping over buildings to try to get past him.
"Oooooh, how fast," said Borsalino in his characteristic lazy voice.
Although Borsalino acted casually, his actions demonstrated his attitude of capturing Kozue when she appeared in front of him again.
Seeing Borsalino appear in front of him again, Kozue's fist turned black and he prepared to punch the Admiral in front of him.
Seeing the young man use Haki, Borsalino was not surprised that an inhabitant of the grand line knows how to use Haki.
As an admiral, it was of no significance to Borsalino that someone knew Haki.
And from what he could sense, the haki of the young man in front of him was only low level haki.
Against someone of such a low level, Borsalino planned to use only one hand to stop his attack.
After that, he planned to say his signature line 'have you ever been hit at the speed of light?', and hit him with a parry.
Of course, it will be a light blow. He didn't want to kill his capture target.
!!!
Suddenly, his haki felt the fist of the young man in front of him gain a bright white aura and connect its blow against his hand.
BOOOOOOOM
Kozue smiled as Borsalino flew away after receiving her punch with Haki and Touki.
Knowing that this was not enough to stop an admiral, he wasted no more time and moved forward at great speed.
Flying backwards, Borsalino was still thinking about Kozue's blow.
Of course, he had not received any damage.
When he realized that his target had haki, he used haki on his hand as well.
But what he didn't expect was that his target also had another ability besides Haki to enhance his attack.
His mind raced through all the skills he had seen before, but none of them matched Kozue's bright white aura.
'Maybe it has to do with his Devil Fruit?'
'Do you use this energy to teleport?'
As he flew backward, Borsalino thought but quickly stopped.
Although he thought about several things, it only took a moment and he was always attentive to Kozue's movements.
The moment it appears he is about to teleport away, I would act immediately to prevent him from escaping and to capture him.
But strangely, his target didn't.
'Does he think he can escape?' Borsalino thought with amusement.
It was always fun to find people who underestimated the strength of an admiral.
Many pirates entered the Grand Line and thought they were already on top of the world, were dead or in Impel Down after bravely facing it with the goal of making a name for themselves by defeating an admiral.
Seeing that Kozue didn't use any spatial abilities to flee far away and just entered a large building, Borsalino looked at first curiously wondering what Kozue wanted to do.
!!!
For the first time, Borsalino opened his eyes wide.
The admiral who always acted lazy had a dignified look now when his observation haki couldn't pick up anything inside that large building.
According to the information Sengoku gave him, this large building was a shopping mall owned by his target, but nowhere in the report was there the fact that Observation Haki didn't work on it.
Now Borsalino left the lazy attitude and his posture changed.
Since his observation haki didn't work, his target could use his spatial abilities to escape and he wouldn't know.
To prevent his target from escaping, Borsalino prepared to act with all his might and enter the Grand Building to capture his target.
Suddenly, Borsalino stopped.
And it's not because he decided to stop working.
The reason he stopped was that his target came out on his own.
But unlike before, his goal now seemed… Dangerous.
Borsalino didn't know why, but he felt like he was facing one of the emperors of the sea.