Chapter 37

This lasted for almost a minute, and then the pressure began to weaken, and over time it completely stopped and the sand dissipated. Crocodile appeared before me with a pale face and eyes burning with anger, I smiled and said:

- Not bad, maybe you can try again?

- Bastard, what kind of fruit do you have? Shichibuka growled.

I chuckled:

- Now you will find out ...

* H-y-y *

Mist floated out of my body, and took the form of a snake wrapped around my arm. I looked at Crocodile and said:

- Ready?

Crocodile tensed and the sand around him began to move, I smiled and said:

- Nine Star Bullets! - In the blink of an eye, the snake on my hand split into nine parts, which took the form of bullets, and flew with great speed towards Crocodile.

- Ha-ha-ha, I'm logia! Do you think some bullets can hurt me ?! Shichibukai laughed haughtily, but he still erected a shield of sand in front of him.

I chuckled:

- Let's check it out.

* Vshuh * * Vshuh * * Vshuh *

All nine bullets easily pierced the sandy barrier of Corocodile and flew further.

* Bach * * Bach * * Bach *

I heard nine clear bangs, and then:

-Kha ... Not-impossible ... - The sandy barrier completely crumbled and Crocodile appeared in front of me, with nine holes in the body from which blood was flowing. Heh, it worked. In fact, I was not one hundred percent sure that everything would work out, I just made a bet and made the right decision. Since Crocodile is the logic of the sand, it's useless to use regular bullets against him, but who said I use regular bullets?

Attack "Nine Star Bullets" is my strongest, since it requires maximum compression force, and control of gravity, all I got was just nine bullets, besides, I use not some ordinary fog, but something like a star fog, or something like that. He by nature has a gravitational effect, and at the moment of contact with something, he acts on it with his gravity. Therefore, Crocodile simply could not rebuild his body into sand. Although he has enormous control over his fruit, and perhaps he even "awakened" it, it still would not have helped him, against the natural law of gravity. I already knew from the canon that the fruit of the Logia has a body like ordinary people, they just can change it using the power of the fruit. For example, Ace could not change his body when he was in kairoseki handcuffs, and he could be easily executed with ordinary weapons. It follows from this that logia does not change the body of the wearer, but only allows the wearer to influence his body with the power of the fruit, which is fundamentally different from some Paramecia. For example, Lufia's Paramecia changed his body, and even when chained in kairoseki, he could easily stretch. Therefore, it is possible to defeat logic, not only by the will or the opposing elements, but also by something that will not allow the fruit tree to change its body, such as gravity. But, of course, this is not a hundred percent method, if I did not use bullets, but simply beat Crocodile with a gravitational palm, he would eventually get used to it, and could resist. The only reason why he lost now is his carelessness and lack of experience, he never fought against someone who possessed gravity, otherwise he would have been able to change his body at the last moment. But now…

Crocodile dropped to one knee, leaning on his golden hook and breathing hard. He had about six holes in his torso, probably the rest of the bullets missed.

I slowly approached him and said:

"I didn't mean to kill you, but now ... You are unlikely to survive.

He looked at me furiously and growled:

- We had no enmity, you attacked first!

I nodded.

"You're right, but if I hadn't attacked, you would have gotten rid of her sooner or later.

Crocodile frowned and said:

- What are you talking about?

I came close to him and said:

"Oh Nico Robin, I'm only here because of her.

- Ha .. Ha ha ... Ha ha ha ha .... - Shichibukai laughed hysterically: - All this ... All this shit, because of this girls ?!

I nodded.

- Exactly. If I hadn't come for her, you would have removed her after you received the Pluto blueprints, wouldn't you? He said nothing, but I saw a sneer in his eyes.

I chuckled and continued:

- Well, it doesn't matter anymore. Now you can't do anything to her. - I raised my hand and formed a bullet of fog on it and directed it at Crocodile: - Rest in peace ...

* Vshuuh * * Bach *

The bullet instantly pierced the head, and Crocodile's body fell to one side. He lay with open eyes, and blood mixed with the brain flowed from the hole in his forehead.

At that moment, a familiar voice sounded in my head:

[* Beep * Special character, "Sir" Crocodile, "Shichibukai" is killed. Special reward: 1 development point, 100 growth points.]

I exhaled:

- Huu, yes, logia is something with something, and a special award, very handy ...

I turned towards other battles. Everything was quite expected there, my team was crowded, and they were already fighting with their last bit of strength. Still, taking on multiple agents is not easy, if they fought one-on-one as in the canon, they would have won without too many problems. Now their power is much greater than it was in the canon during the time of Alabasta. It's time to end this ...

I shouted out loud:

- Enough! Your boss is dead! If you don't want to follow him, lay down your arms!

Everyone around froze and looked in my direction, someone shouted incredulously:

- He killed him! He killed the boss!

- Bastard!

- You will pay!

Curses rained from all sides, and I got not what I expected, it seems that Crocodile's death only angered them, and they all rushed at me in a crowd.

Hmm, this is my first time, usually pirates give up quickly when you kill their captain ...

Well, it's your choice. I raised my hand and said:

- Star Barrage! - About a hundred small bullets formed around me, and in the same second they fell on the attackers.

This was another technique I had invented, it was just that the fog was compressed much less, therefore, I could create more bullets, but their power was not much better than ordinary flint pistol bullets. Unless they had a higher speed and a small gravitational field, such bullets are better used against ordinary weaklings who are unable to defend against them. And now it worked quite well ...

* Bach * * Bach * * Bach * * Bach * * Bach *

I closely controlled each bullet and everyone hit the target, the next fifty people fell dead. This created a huge deterrent for the rest of the attackers, and everyone stood rooted to the spot, not knowing what to do ...