Chapter 21

In One Piece As A Pirate

Chapter: 21

The four Navy ships have arrived. About to touch the knot's warship. Before the sailors prepared, the five leaders and 26 crew members jumped on the four Navy ships and started to fight.

The five leaders who didn't participate just let the crew members train in this fight. So the new members could grow rapidly.

They were amazing. Everyone fights very well. Maybe because those captains were from the nearby branch. All the soldiers were very weak in front of Rood's new crew members.

In the eyes of the five leaders, Hazel and Zamp were the most dazzling among the newcomers. And then it's those who join the first with Hazel. Last were the new eleven members; they fought like they were desperate, and breathing was very difficult. Because it's not their first fight. They don't fear the blood anymore.

It took 15 minutes to defeat the soldiers. After their fight was over, it took only one move for Duke and his partners to defeat the four captains. Then everything was under Duke order. All the supplies and weapons were looted from the five ships.

On the other side.

Knot and Rood keep fighting. They have a lot of scars on their bodies. After the first scars, they keep making mistakes out of distraction, and blood keeps flowing out of the wound.

And their breathing is getting disordered. They don't know how much time has passed. It's been a long time since Rood's bleed like this, and he has been fighting with his peak strength. So, the consumption can be said to be huge.

Rood is now trying to concentrate on the mistakes that he is making when he has already bleeding, and his breathing isn't stable. Those two things make him very distractive. So, he is now keeping his concentration on the fight and trying to make fewer mistakes.

But Knot was different right now. He is enjoying being injured and experiencing this pain. So, it can be said that he has gone crazy.

When this situation moves a little.

Rood saw that this guy was going crazy. Rood changed his style to first defend and then attack. But Rood simply underestimated the power of craziness. Rood was now getting into a little disadvantage.

Roods strategy didn't go well for long. Because the speed of KNOT attacks is getting heavier and heavier. Rood still doesn't want to play like this. He tries to concentrate and sometimes tries to dodge the attack, trying to see the pattern.

This Crazy Knot doesn't have any pattern.

Rood keeps thinking about what to do in the fight. In the distance, Duke saw that Rood was at a disadvantage because of Knot's craziness.

"Rood! Kill this guy. If you don't kill him now, he will kill more innocent people in the future." Duke saw the hesitation in Rood's eyes. So, give him a choice to make.

When Rood heard this, he distanced himself from the crazy knot. And look at Knot seriously; he was still smiling like the devil.

'Yes, that's right. Maybe he has gone crazy completely. If he kills people in the future, it will be all my fault. I thought he had some strength. This fight may benefit both of us. But this guy couldn't control himself.' While thinking, Rood looked at the sword in Knot's hand.

while thinking so much, but it actually took less than one second. And Crazy Knot is already in front of Rood.

Rood keeps thinking about what the reason for his craziness could be and keeps looking at Knot's sword. Roods thinking of "how to defend and defeat the opponent" has changed to "what could be the reason to make this guy go crazy?". And this also comes with a benefit, which is his mentality.

Rood is now becoming more calmer than usual. He is now calmer than when he sleeps.

The Rood sword keeps attacking the crazy Knot's Sword. Now there is no hesitation in his mind. It was a life-and-death duel from the beginning.

Rood speed also increased rapidly, and his flaw became less and less. His breathing became stable. His reaction also keeps up with the speed of his movements.

Crazy Knot keeps attacking Rood. But when he should have defended, he forgot about this. He only knows how to attack and kill this guy. But when the Rood attack got heavier and heavier, this crazy guy still didn't defend himself. A lot of places have been cut through by Rood.

Rood's attack didn't get heavier at all. Right now, Rood, with his clam mind, didn't use much force at all. All he is doing right now is moving the sword to the right position and cutting that place without any force. It was cut because his sword's sharpness is getting better.

Actually, sword sharpness hasn't changed. All it changes is Rood. Rood's mentality about using force in his sword moves has changed. His mentality about not killing has changed.

His aggressive use of strength has changed to calmness.

Now he has become the swordsman that he wanted to be. Now he has the calmness that needs to breakthrough the realm—the will of a swordsman.

Rood saw that Crazy Knot couldn't take any more. Rood distanced himself from him. Hold the sword on the left side of his body. He bent down his left leg a little bit. Move his right leg to the front side.

Rood took a step, and he is already in front of Crazy Knot. The Rood sword moves like a snake, and its aim is the head.

Crazy Knot, who saw the upcoming blow, still didn't defend. But choose to attack. He holds the sword up to his head and tries to chop away the upcoming sword.

But, to his surprise, there wasn't any collision between the swords. And he felt that something had passed through his neck. Before Knot could react, he was already dead. And Rood, who just killed KNOT, Look at the corpse on the deck. And then look at Knot's sword beside the corpse.

The sword has already been cut right in the middle. The lower part now looks like a dagger. Rood bent down and picked up the dagger-sized sword. And look at it. And murmur: Knot.

Without a smile on his face, Rood looked back at his own ship and jumped to join his crew members, who still couldn't shut their mouths because of the wonderful fight.

"Okay everyone. I need some sleep. K.Kish, get away from here. Mokume, We need food in large quantities. We will have a party after we leave this place." Rood went straight to his cabin and fell asleep. When Rood fell asleep, Duke came to his room. He took out a box. Which seems to be medicine.

He stole five boxes from the Navy ship. After putting on some medicine and bandages, Duke went away.

'Hey, we need a doctor now.' Duke sighed while coming to the deck.

Kish has already turned the ship in an unknown direction. Only K.Kish knows.

Navy headquarters. Sengoku is waiting for the replay. But there hasn't been a call from the south.

Bulu Buru Bulu Burr

Sengoku hurriedly caught the phone bug.

"What's the news? Did you capture that pirate?" Sengoku asks without even listening to the other side.

"Sir, I will send you a video record that we found in a corner of the Captain Knot Ship." The informant didn't say anything else.

After some time, the video was playing in the Sengoku office. And besides him is his friend Tsuru. She is also here to know the news.

When the video started to record, it was when the four Navy ships went there to rescue.

After watching the video, Sengoku's face became ugly. He was about to order a vice admiral to hunt down this pirate. But he was stopped by Tsuru.

"It seems like Rood was using him for training. But in the fight between them, Knot suddenly had the upper hand. But his sanity was lost at that time. Even if he comes back alive. He will live like a psycho. Maybe he will run rampant like a pirate in the future." Tsuru said while looking at the crazy Knot face on the screen.

"Tsuru! Are you standing on the side of A pirate?" Sengoku is now even more angry.

"No. If you saw Rood Pirates behavior, I am sure now they are looking for a place to hide. And they will likely hide for a month. So even if you send someone, they won't find the Rood Pirate." Vice Admiral Tsuru said it without looking. "I think you should think about a new bounty for this pirate." 

Sengoku looks at his partner and sighs. Because what she said is true. There is no way we will be able to find someone on the sea who wants to hide. Because it's not the Grand Line. In Grand Line, from the point of compass. Humans can only move in a linear direction unless they have a permanent pointer.

But this is blue. There are still lots of unknown islands. So, it's impossible to find someone.

"On top of that, the captain of this pirate ship is now much stronger than before. With this strength, Do you think his next destination is Grand Line?" Sengoku ask.

"I got some information about the Rood pirate some time ago. Although it was little, I saw a different attitude in this person. It's like he knows the danger out there in the sea. So keep his crew members training all the time." Tsuru said while holding a paper in her hand.

"Okay. What do you think about the bounty?" Sengoku asks again.

"Rood and Duke should be more than 100 million. And the other member's strength hasn't reached that level of their captain, so make it a little less than their captain. It should be fine." Tsuru made a speculation about the strength.

"Okay, I understand." Sengoku didn't say anything. I just agreed to the Tsuru decision.