Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Hey~ Hurry up and leave! Once the Whitebeard Pirates arrive, you won't be able to escape!" Seeing the signal in the air begin to dissipate, Sally finally reacted and shouted loudly to Sanji.

Chapter 853 Encirclement

Sanji, a cigarette dangling from his lips, looked up at the Whitebeard Pirates' symbol in the sky and asked Zoro, who had rushed over beside him, "Do you think these are members of the Whitebeard Pirates?"

"Idiot! Every pirate crew doesn't send out distress flares to strangers, that's common sense, okay?" Zoro rolled his eyes at Sanji and retorted, "By the way, how did you manage to provoke them?"

Sanji recounted what had happened, and then slowly said, "Why do I always feel like they're not from the Whitebeard Pirates?"

"As the world's number one pirate crew, they are too large. Apart from the main crew maintaining its usual style, the level of the pirate crews under their command is inevitably uneven!" Zoro replied calmly.

This kind of thing happens all the time, which is why Luffy always admits defeat. People who aren't respected by him can't possibly become his friends.

"In that case, it seems I've really gotten myself into big trouble!" Sanji replied, exhaling a smoke ring.

Zoro glanced at him and said with a smile, "Now you know? But it's not much of a problem; Robin can easily handle this!"

Sanji remained silent. He didn't want his companions to clean up his mess, but relying on them when in trouble wasn't a bad thing. So Sanji decided to save the lady in front of him first!

"Did you rescue your comrades?" Sanji asked Sally.

Sally shook her head and said, "Now is not the time to worry about these things. You should leave now! I will fight to the end with my companions, which will buy you some time!"

In her view, having offended the Whitebeard Pirates, it was impossible to continue living in the North Blue. Finding a small place to live in anonymity was the only way to survive.

"Hey, green-haired guy, do you want to join in the hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress thing? You can count me in!" Sanji asked Zoro beside him.

"Hehe..." Zoro was about to refuse, but seeing Zoro's calm appearance, he nodded and said, "Of course, I just don't know which member of the Whitebeard Pirates will come this time. If they're not high enough, we'll beat them up!"

He knew very well what Sanji was thinking: he wanted to save people but was afraid of causing trouble for his friends, so he invited him to participate as a form of psychological comfort.

That's why Zoro changed his mind and said he wanted to participate after he found out.

Soon, due to the Whitebeard Pirates' distress signal, more and more people began to gather at the port.

"Which Whitebeard Pirates crew member fired this signal flare? I am the captain of the White Serpent Pirates. I was once helped by the Whitebeard Pirates and have come to lend my support!" A tall man dressed in white led a group of pirates to the port and shouted loudly.

"It's me, Brent, the combat captain of the Poison Pirates under Whitebeard. Thank you all for your help!" The burly man who had surrounded Sally earlier cupped his hands in greeting and proudly introduced himself.

"Who dares to attack our crew?" At this moment, a shirtless man covered in messy tattoos, carrying a large sword, arrived at the port with a group of pirates.

"Captain!" Upon seeing his captain, Brent rushed forward and pointed towards Sanji and Sally, saying, "It was them who defeated all our men!"

Hilma Ibara, the captain of the Venom Pirates, is known as Venom Ibara and is a ruthless and vicious man.

"So it's you? State your names, or don't blame me for being ruthless!" Ibara squinted at Sanji and Zoro and said.

"I am Zary, the navigator of the Goddess Pirates!" Zary shouted before Sanji and Zoro could speak, "Ibara, release my captain and crew! You dare to use Whitebeard's name to do such a despicable thing, kidnapping my crew with drugs!"

Her purpose in saying this was twofold: firstly, to conceal Sanji and Zoro's identities, and secondly, to expose the actions of the Venom Pirates, telling everyone that it wasn't that they wanted to be enemies with the Whitebeard Pirates, but rather that the latter had gone too far.

"So it was you!" Ibara laughed loudly upon hearing this. "Your captain volunteered to go to the Whitebeard Pirates' base to serve Whitebeard, and for that, he not only contributed his treasure to me but also took all the crew members who wanted to go with him! So you guys who are unwilling to see your pirate crew disband try to smear us with this kind of method? It's a pity your captain has already left with my letter of recommendation, otherwise I would really like to see the scene when you two meet!"

Ibarra, true to his cunning nature, not only turned the tide with a single sentence but also portrayed the other party as someone who was difficult to deal with.

Sanji and Zoro, seemingly oblivious to what was happening, exchanged a glance before Zoro spoke up: "Shall we make our move now? How about we have a contest to see who can take down more enemies?"

"Hmph! Of course I won!" Sanji stepped forward and came to Sally's side, saying, "Leave this to us. You take your crew and hurry to rescue your captain! They've all come here, so the guards over there should be very weak!"

"You...you're willing to believe me?" Sally looked at Sanji in surprise and asked.

After Ibara spoke, everyone believed Ibara but not Sally, largely because Ibara was a member of Whitebeard's pirate crew.

“Of course! Lady Merry would never lie!” Sanji replied with a smile.

Sally took a deep breath and said, "Okay, don't worry, I'll come back to help you as soon as I've rescued the captain and the others! If it's inconvenient to reveal your identity... just... just say you're from our Goddess Pirates!"

After saying that, Sally's pretty face turned red.

She felt very embarrassed for admitting that someone was a member of her pirate crew without the captain's permission, especially since the other person was a man.

Seeing Sally's adorable appearance, he couldn't help but become overjoyed. He started twisting his body and saying happy things, which Zoro couldn't stand and almost kicked him away.

But before Sally and the others could leave, countless pirates surrounded them.

"You've offended the Whitebeard Pirates, and you think you can just leave? Forget about the North Blue, you won't have anywhere to go on the entire ocean!" Brent, the combat captain of the Venom Pirates, stepped forward and said with a loud laugh.

The surrounding pirates also started to laugh strangely, not minding doing the Whitebeard Pirates a favor at this moment.

Chapter 854 Robin's Doubts

Just as Sanji clashed with the Poison Pirates, a giant turtle was rapidly approaching the island from the sea not far away.

On the turtle's back, Reina lay on a deck chair, leisurely sipping red wine. He had found Robin based on her Vivre Card.

But just as he caught a glimpse of the island, a distress flare from the Whitebeard Pirates exploded in the air, leaving Reina stunned.

"Who's on the island? And they even used a distress flare?" Reina got up from the deck chair, his face darkening.

This place is close to the front line of the battle against the extraterrestrials, and this location is also within the control range of the Whitebeard Pirates. However, someone has attacked the members of the Whitebeard Pirates.

"Hardshell, speed up!" Reina said to Hardshell after detecting the distress signal.

"Roar~" With the response from the hard shell, it accelerated again, rapidly approaching the island.

On the other side, the appearance of the signal flare surprised the Straw Hat crew scattered across the island, especially after they recognized the Whitebeard Pirates' symbol.

"Who is this? Daring to attack the Whitebeard Pirates here? Is he an idiot?!" Nami, who had just come out of the clothing store, looked at the signal flare gradually disappearing into the sky and said in disbelief.

“That’s right! This is within the Whitebeard Pirates’ territory! Even though we’re close to the edge, attacking the Whitebeard Pirates here would be a very serious matter!” Usopp nodded seriously and replied.

"Want to go take a look? We've received a lot of help from them before!" Chopper looked up at the two of them and asked.

However, Nami and Usopp exchanged a glance but did not speak.

"You guys think... that kind of idiot... shouldn't be someone we know, right?" After a moment of silence, Nami said cautiously.

"Huh? Someone we know? Who is it?" The naive Chopper asked, quite surprised.

Usopp, looking terrified, swallowed hard and said, "Impossible! Jinbe was with Luffy, wasn't he? And there's no reason for Luffy to clash with the Whitebeard Pirates!"

Upon hearing this, Chopper's eyes widened as he looked at Usopp and said, "You're saying that Luffy is the one who caused the Whitebeard Pirates to send out a distress signal?"

"In a place like this, how many people do you think would be able to cause such a commotion and defeat the Whitebeard Pirates?" Nami sighed and said helplessly.

Chopper realized at this moment that the Whitebeard Pirates were not a force that just anyone would dare to attack, nor were they someone that anyone could defeat, especially since they had been forced to send out a distress signal.

Someone with such strength is definitely not an insignificant person, and besides Luffy, Chopper really can't think of anyone else who fits all these criteria.

Meanwhile, Luffy and his two companions, who were eating at the tavern, did not see the signal flare. However, they soon learned about it when someone rushed into the tavern and told them about the Whitebeard Pirates' distress signal flare appearing in the sky.

"Luffy, since the Whitebeard Pirates are in trouble, we can't just stand by and do nothing!" Jinbe said to Luffy, his smile fading.

Luffy put down his large bone club, nodded, and replied, "That's right, let's go! Let's go take a look!"

Luffy has great respect for Whitebeard. Whether it's Robin's father, his older brother Ace, or Marco and Whitebeard, they are all very kind to Luffy. If they are in trouble, Luffy will definitely help them.

So the three of them followed the crowd out of the tavern and headed toward the port. Little did they know that it would be Sanji who clashed with the Whitebeard Pirates.

However, when the three of them were on their way to the port, they encountered the Cowardly Trio. Nami and the others were quite surprised that this time Luffy wasn't the one who caused the trouble.

However, when they arrived at the port, they found Sanji and Zoro surrounded by a crowd, and the two of them were protecting a group of little girls. It seemed that it was their group that had caused the conflict.

Seeing this, Nami knew without thinking why things had turned out this way; it must be because of Sanji's damn chivalry once again.

"Luffy, what do we do now?" Clearly, none of them had expected that the one who clashed with the Whitebeard Pirates would be a member of their own Straw Hat crew.

If it were Luffy himself, then there's no question, he'd just go for it!

But now that Luffy, the person in charge, is here, we must ask for his opinion.

"Let's rescue them first and figure out what happened! Where's Robin?" Luffy asked without hesitation.

Jinbe, standing to the side, couldn't help but nod in agreement. He could see that Sanji and Zoro had been holding back, otherwise those ordinary pirates would have been no match for them at all. Zoro's three swords were practically a harvester of small fry.

But just as they were about to make their move, Robin, who was hiding in the shadows, quietly called out to Nami.

"Hey? Robin? What are you doing here? Sanji and Zoro seem to have gotten into a fight with the Whitebeard Pirates!" Nami led Luffy and the others into the alley and found Robin waiting for them there.

“Things seem a bit strange, so I deliberately didn’t go out, just to see how things would develop!” Robin pulled down the brim of his cowboy hat and said softly.

"Something's not right?" Luffy and the others looked at Robin in surprise and asked, "What's wrong?"

“I was initially suspicious that they weren’t a pirate crew under Whitebeard’s command, because they seemed to be just using Whitebeard’s name to bully the people here! But just as I was about to confirm further, they fired a distress flare from the Whitebeard Pirates at the port! You should know that even if it were me, Whitebeard wouldn’t have given me a flare if I wasn’t operating under the name of the Whitebeard Pirates!” Robin shook her head and said.

"So what are you planning to do now...?" Nami thought for a moment, then looked at Robin and asked.

“There shouldn’t be any major members of the Whitebeard Pirates around here, so Sanji and Zoro shouldn’t have much trouble dealing with them. Besides, I don’t think they’ll go too far. Let’s interrogate them after we’ve defeated them! That should be effective!” Robin said, stroking her chin.

"Huh? Aren't we going to help Sanji and Zoro?" Luffy asked, frowning.

"Don't worry, they'll be fine. If the other side has a strong opponent, we can go out later!" Robin explained to Luffy with a smile.

Although Sanji and Zoro are also high-bounty criminals, they are still a bit inferior to Straw Hat Luffy. If Luffy jumps out at this moment, he might be recognized by the other party.

Chapter 855 Reina Arrives

Just as Robin said, although the enemy outnumbered them, Zoro and Sanji were clearly stronger. Because they had to stay behind to guard the area, the people here would have been killed by them long ago.

Although the opposing team does have a few strong players, they are no match for them at all.

"Who...who are you people? How dare you attack us? Aren't you afraid of retaliation from the Whitebeard Pirates? Give me your names if you dare!" Captain Hilma Ibara of the Venom Pirates was already going crazy. Weren't these people afraid of the Whitebeard Pirates?

He didn't know that, regardless of their relationship, Sanji and Zoro were not people who were afraid of trouble. So, the other party's attempt to intimidate them using the name of the Whitebeard Pirates was ineffective.

"Wow...that's amazing!" Sally exclaimed, both surprised and excited, upon seeing Sanji and Zoro defeat all the enemies.

"Heh... this is nothing!" Zoro chuckled, swinging his longsword. "So... isn't it your turn next?"

Ibara's expression changed, and he looked at Sally, saying, "I'll return your companions to you, and we'll call it even. How about it? You don't want to be chased to the ends of the earth by the Whitebeard Pirates, do you?"

Sally was clearly tempted by what he heard.

But Sanji, standing to the side, said in a deep voice, "Do you think we're idiots? Let you go and then you send people to hunt us down?"

"No, no, no... I guarantee I will never do that! I vouch for the reputation of the Whitebeard Pirates!" Ibara said earnestly.

"Heh... That sounds pretty convincing!" Zoro clearly didn't believe it, but since it wasn't his business, he looked at Sally instead, as she was obviously the one in charge.

“You two…” Sally glanced at Ibara, the captain of the Venom Pirates, then at Sanji, and gritted his teeth, saying, “This has nothing to do with you! If you can, please help me capture him. I’ll release him after I find my crew. Anyway, he doesn’t know who you are, so if he wants to pursue us, he can only do so by pursuing us!”

Zoro sighed and put away his weapon.