Chapter 136: Pandemonium (3)

"BLOOD! CRIES OF PAIN! INTENSE BATTLES!"

While airborne, the gigantic alligator, Euchre in his Zoan form, revealed his gigantic size as he screamed monstrously.

"URAHAHAHA!"

From below, the marines revealed disbelief. Some, having lost the will to fight, dropped their weapons from their hands and fell to their knees, as their eyes hollowly stared at said gigantic alligator.

"WAKE UP, IDIOTS!!"

Doll who stood along with them growled as she dropped her firearm. Clenching her fists tight, she jumped at the descending figure of a gigantic creature with her right fist cocked back.

Watching Doll's approach, the gigantic alligator opened its mouth once more, as if trying to engulf Doll in a whole.

"Tch...!"

Robin, on the other hand, concentrated on the operation of her fruit ability. Shutting her eyes tight and gritting her teeth, she generated the maximum number of arms that she could muster,

"Cien Fleur!"

From the ship she stood on, hundreds of arms sprouted and joined one another to form an long, enormous, hammer-like shape. Just from the sheer concentration, a trickle of blood dropped out from Robin's nose, but without any realization of it, Robin willed said hammer-arm to swing itself at the gigantic alligator.

"Big Hammer!!"

BOOM!

Just before the gigantic alligator managed to bite onto Doll, Robin's attack struck it on the head, forcibly closing its mouth.

Doll's eyes widened as her reckless charge-in has become an opportunity.

"Robin, was it? Strange... I don't recall that name in the past! Nevertheless, good job!"

In this state, she wrapped her fist around with the hardening of Armament Haki.

Doll grinned,

"I wasn't Zephyr-sensei's disciple for nothing, y'know! Sharpshooting is simply 'one' of the many things that I'm capable of!"

Then, a punch landed straight onto the creature's exposed forehead.

"Rock 'n' Roll Blaster!"

The booming noise occurred as Doll's punch managed to draw blood. The gigantic alligator's head was knocked back from the force and it was now above the ocean, about to fall into the water.

Doll, however, didn't let her guard down. And just as she expected, before said creature ended up falling into the water, abruptly shrank back to its human form, Euchre.

"Quite skilled, aren't you?"

Revealing a big bruise on his forehead, Euchre smiled calmly as he continued falling.

However, at the next moment, he suddenly kicked his feet against the air and propelled himself at Doll, much to Doll and Robin's shock.

"...Geppo?!"

"You see, a good friend of mine used to be a marine in the past!"

Euchre was right in front of Doll with his fist ready to punch, and said fist was covered in alligator's durable skin.

Doll quickly intercepted the punch by pushing it away from her with her palm. Euchre, as soon as his punch was stopped, rotated and landed his elbow on Doll's abdomen which was quickly shielded with Armament Haki at the last second.

CLANG!

Doll grabbed Euchre by his shoulders and slammed a knee kick at the man. Euchre managed to block it by crossing his arms but didn't expect a follow-up attack from Doll, who proceeded to land a headbutt straight on Euchre's wounded forehead.

"...I know."

Doll smirked.

"You can't use Haki, can you?"

Euchre's face wrinkled up in response to Doll's words as the blood tricked down from his forehead. He growled, before roaring in a crazed manner,

"BITCH!!!"

His body sprang back into the gigantic alligator right in front of Doll.

Through her quick reflex, Doll evaded a bite of the monster and landed back on the deck where the other marines were found looking at her in awe.

"...Hah,"

Doll, whose eyes were locked on Euchre above, snorted in a subtle amazement.

Boom. Boom.

In the sky, the gigantic alligator, Euchre, was somehow utilizing Geppo to keep himself afloat in his full Zoan form.

"SO WHAT IF I CAN'T USE HAKI?!"

The creature then propelled himself downward, straight at Doll's ship. The marines' faces paled as Euchre's approach suddenly accelerated.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'VE GONE THROUGH TO BECOME A TOBIROPPO!!"

"...Crazy man."

Doll bickered, though with a cold sweat. She looked around, trying to think of a way out. However, no matter how much she thought within this short amount of time, the only conclusion she reached was the destruction of the ship.

'Damn it—'

Just when Doll was about to jump and meet the gigantic form of Euchre by herself, Robin acted.

"Ochenta Fleur!"

As Robin raised her arms, eighty arms sprouted from the ship that Doll and marines stood on top of. They then joined together to form a propeller-like construct.

Said construct then spun rapidly, giving the ship an immediate momentum to travel out of the descent of Euchre.

Seeing that the ship had moved out of his target area, Euchre growled as he shrank back into his human form.

"...You."

He suddenly laughed as he gazed at Robin.

"Urahaha, not bad!"

He clapped his hands, to which Robin raised her eyebrow.

"FUCK YOU!!"

He then angrily shouted while launching himself at Robin. However, he seemed far too focused on Robin, such that,

"Don't tell me that you forgot about me!"

Euchre didn't Doll, who landed a kick straight on his cheek midair. By the time Euchre registered what happened, he was falling toward the ocean with his body having lost its speed.

And Robin, in this situation, acted.

"Treinta Fleur,"

Around the ship that she stood on, thirty hands bloomed. They, taking hold of firearms that were prepared beforehand, simultaneously aimed said weapons at Euchre.

"Gun Mayhem!"

Euchre shielded his body by modifying his skin into that of his Zoan form. Then, numerous bullets struck his body over and over with terrifying accuracy, as Robin's thirty hands fired them at the same time.

Just when the loads of bullets ended, Doll appeared in front of Euchre once again. Then came in the series of Haki-infused punches and kicks, ones that bombarded him without giving him any chance to retaliate.

BOOM!

Doll's elbow struck Euchre right on his forehead, knocking him back. With the other arm, Doll then grabbed Euchre by his ankle.

"If you can't use your legs properly, you can't use Geppo."

And that's when Euchre realized that they were close to the surface of the water. His eyes widened in panic as Doll kicked off the air in a downward direction as her grip over Euchre's ankle persisted.

'Either way, it's over for you.'

The size of Euchre's Zoan form was far too huge, but that was the only way for him to make Doll release her hold over him. After all, save Haki; he didn't even seem to have mastered the hybrid form.

The point was, once he morphs into his Zoan form, he will immediately come in contact with the sea below due to its size.

"I told you, haven't I?!! I've reached the rank of Tobiroppo for a reason!!!"

However, Euchre in this state growled without any sign of giving up.

Doll frowned, wondering what he was up to. With her hold over his ankle tightened, they were now three seconds away from the water.

"HNNNNNNNNGGGG!!!!"

Then came, an explosive propulsion that suddenly brought Euchre and Doll upward against the gravity... from Euchre's butt.

"...Huh?"

In an instant, Doll found herself confused as she was now back high up in the sky.

"A-A..."

Doll's jaw dropped.

"A FART?!!"

"ALLIGATOR FARTS!!!"

Euchre roared as once again, his body expanded into its terrific Zoan form.

Doll, whose grip was forcibly released, was blasted downward toward the ocean. Gritting her teeth, she used Geppo to prevent herself from crashing into the water.

"Damn it..."

Again, Euchre in Zoan form began to dive at Robin's ship at its gigantic size, as if a meteorite was dropping from the above.

Watching the gigantic alligator's descent from the ship below, Robin furrowed her brows.

"...Say that he successfully lands on this ship. Can he even propel back up before he hits the water?"

The gigantic alligator accelerated. Robin wondered if it was that he had another trick up in his sleeve or that he was trying to bluff.

Humming calmly, Robin decided to take the chance.

"Robin!!"

Doll shouted as she urgently ran at Robin by using Geppo. Robin, without responding, simply focused on Euchre who was rapidly falling from the above.

'Three... two... one...'

"DIEEEE!!!!!"

'Now!'

Right before Euchre crashed onto the ship, Robin jumped off the edge of the ship.

Immediately after, the ship splattered into pieces and the huge splash of water arose. Robin, having been engulfed by the water, lost the control of her body, but Doll, dashing through the water, caught Robin and successfully escaped from the scene.

"Huff... huff... there is the answer, I guess."

Robin, now held by Doll, mumbled as she looked at the sea which rippled.

"He was just an idiot."

Euchre, by diving into the water, committed a suicide.

The marines simply watched silently by the side, wondering what exactly happened.

BANG!

Then, Doll lifted her Haki-coated arm to deflect a bullet that was shot at their way. Turning aroud, she saw that high number of Beast Pirates' ships, which momentarily halted their approach due to Euchre, has now resumed.

"...No time to rest, of course."

__________

"...Fuck."

While Doll and Robin were having a battle of their own, Senor Pink was found in the middle of one Beast Pirates' ship, completely wasted.

With wounds everywhere on his body, there was no doubt that he currently wasn't in a normal state.

"If I were to summarize you in one word..."

Standing ahead of the fallen Senor Pink was the old man with a hunched back, Gong Zhu. Without a single injury on him, he rubbed his long beard.

"Stupid! And brash!"

"That's two words, you old codger!!"

Huffing and spitting blood out of his mouth, Senor Pink stood back up by pushing his hand against a nearby railing.

"And don't you dare mock my style!! You don't call it stupid... you call it manly!!!"

"Erererere... you call not dodging an attack, on purpose, manly?"

"TRUE MAN DOESN'T RUN AWAY FROM THE DANGER!!!"

On the other side of the battlefield, the one versus one match-up between Senor Pink and Gong Zhu was ongoing.