Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Although he felt this was like letting a tiger return to the mountains, he respected other people's opinions, especially since this matter didn't affect them at all.

Even if this Poison Pirates were truly a pirate crew under Whitebeard's command, given the relationship between their Straw Hat Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates, he believed that as long as they explained things clearly to Whitebeard or Reyna, the other party might still try to eliminate them.

“Alright! Since this is your request…” Sanji nodded and prepared to tie Ibara up.

But at that moment, Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy and the others who were hiding in the alley all looked up at the seaside at the same time, and they felt a powerful life force rapidly approaching.

"W-what's wrong?" Sally asked, puzzled, when Sanji suddenly stopped moving.

"Something big is coming!" Sanji said in a deep voice.

"Hey... you perverted cook, the person coming this time is likely a captain-level figure, don't be careless!" Zoro said with a serious expression.

"Captain-level...?" Sally's expression changed upon hearing Zoro's words. He looked in the direction Sanji and the others were looking with some fear and said, "Quick! You guys run! If it really is a captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, then we're in big trouble!"

Sanji exhaled a puff of smoke and chuckled, then tossed the rope to Sally and said, "Go tie him up, then have him take you to your crew. I told you... leave this to me!"

“Sally!” Sally’s companions also looked at her, seemingly waiting for her to make a decision.

"No, I can't just leave like this!" Sally gritted her teeth, tossed the rope to her companion, and said, "You guys grab him, then go rescue the captain. I'll stay here, and then... you let the captain take you away first!"

“Sally!” Sally’s companions clearly didn’t want to leave her there.

But Sally remained resolute, saying, "While the captain is away, I will act as captain and give orders! Now, you must leave immediately!"

"Leave? Wahahaha... Where do you think you're going? Wait until the captain gets here, and I'll see how you all die!" Ibara naturally heard Zoro's words and began to gloat again.

"Bang!" Sanji kicked him in the head, giving Ibara a big bump, and said, "I advise you to behave yourself, otherwise... you might be a dead man before your captain arrives!"

Ibara looked at Sanji with fear, feeling that Sanji was a demon.

"Who... sent out a distress signal to our Whitebeard Pirates?" Just then, a voice that Sanji and Zoro both recognized rang out.

With Hyōrinmaru and Senbonzakura at his waist, Reina descended from the sky and landed directly on the mast of a pirate ship docked in the harbor.

Everyone looked up, and when they saw who it was, they all gasped. They had thought it was just the captain, but they never expected it to be the vice-captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Benedict D. Reina, known as the Red-Eyed One!

"First...First mate!" Upon seeing Reina, Ibara was initially overjoyed, but then feigned a wronged expression and pointed at Sanji and the others, saying, "It's me! I sent the distress signal! It was them, they were the enemies who attacked us!"

Upon seeing Reina appear, Sally's face turned completely ashen. If it had been a captain, given the strength Sanji and Zoro had just displayed, they might have had a chance to escape. But facing Akame Reina, they had absolutely no chance of escape. Moreover, she was quite certain that even if all of them combined, they wouldn't be enough to defeat Reina alone.

Reina arrived at the port square, looked at Ibara who was crying and accusing Sanji and the others of being wicked, then looked at the calm Sanji and Zoro, and asked Ibara, "Who are you?"

"Huh?" Reina's question surprised everyone. The first mate didn't recognize Ibarra?

"First...First mate, I am Hilma Ibara, captain of the Venom Pirates under Whitebeard's command! Ibara is known as Venom Ibara!" Ibara quickly introduced himself.

"The Venom Pirates?" Reina's lips curled slightly when he heard the other party's self-introduction, and then he walked directly towards Sanji and Zoro.

Seeing this, Sally, though terrified, still stood in front of Sanji, pointing at Ibara and shouting to Reina, "This was all his doing! He's the one who kidnapped our captain and crew! It has nothing to do with them. If you want to kill someone, kill me!"

Chapter 856 The Wonderful Uses of the Sharingan

Reina bypassed Sally, who was blocking Sanji and Zoro's path, and stood directly in front of them.

Everyone around stood still, waiting for Reina's next move.

Reina walked up to Sanji and Zoro, a slight smirk playing on his lips, before giving them both a sharp rap on the head.

"You two are pretty good! You don't even put my Whitebeard Pirates in your eyes? Aren't you getting a little too arrogant? Trying to show off to me? Pretty cool, huh?" Reina looked at them with a half-smile after beating them up.

Sanji's face fell upon hearing this, and he said, "Uncle Reina, what brings you here? It's clearly this guy who's using your Whitebeard Pirates' name to do bad things. As Robin's partner, I can't let them continue like this!"

"Hehe...you guys, are you still going to hide over there? Come over here now!" Reina shouted with a laugh towards the alley.

Luffy and his crew had no intention of hiding any longer, so they walked over with smiles on their faces.

“You…you guys…” Sally stared at Sanji, Reina, and the others, completely dumbfounded.

"Father!" Robin walked over and said with a light laugh, "Why did you come here? Is that guy really from the Whitebeard Pirates? I felt something was off about them, so I decided to test them out!"

Reina smiled and looked at the captain of the Venom Pirates. He said to Robin, "Our Whitebeard Pirates have more than fifty pirate crews under our command. How could I possibly know them all? But I am absolutely certain that he is not one of our Whitebeard Pirates. You're not even sure about someone like him?"

Robin was taken aback and looked at the captain of the Venom Pirates with some surprise, saying, "But...didn't he take out the Whitebeard Pirates' distress flare?"

"So that's why you believe he's a member of the Whitebeard Pirates?" Reina chuckled, turned around and walked up to the captain of the Venom Pirates, asking, "Flag...where did you get it? Explain yourself, and I'll give you a whole corpse!"

"I...I..." The captain of the Venom Pirates stammered, unable to speak. He tried to struggle a bit more, saying, "First mate, I really am the captain of a pirate crew under Whitebeard!"

Upon hearing this, Reina turned to Robin and said, "Haven't you found out yet? He said he's from Whitebeard's pirate crew! Do you believe him?"

Everyone was completely confused, but Robin's eyes lit up, and he said, "I get it! It's Dad!"

Everyone was even more confused, but Reina nodded and said, "In the entire Whitebeard Pirates, everyone except me calls my brother 'Pop.' It's impossible for any of his pirate crews to call him 'Whitebeard.' If someone heard that, he would probably be killed long ago. Who gave you the right to swagger around here? I'm giving you one last chance to tell me where the signal flare came from!"

Robin smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, I should have known better. He's an imposter!"

"What?" Everyone watching looked at Ibarra, the captain of the Venom Pirates, in surprise. None of them had expected that this person was actually an imposter.

Ibarra also looked flustered, but he still didn't answer Robin and Reina's questions.

"Watch closely, I'll teach you another way to use the Sharingan today!" Reina smiled slightly and said to Robin.

Everyone looked at Reina, who walked towards Ibara and immediately activated his Sharingan. He then lifted Ibara up and made him stare into his eyes, asking, "Where did the signal flare come from?"

Ibara, who had been struggling, slowly became dazed, and then slowly spoke, saying, "When we were sailing before, we encountered a shipwrecked. Everyone on board died, but there was a well-preserved box. At first, we thought there was treasure, but it only contained the Whitebeard Pirates' flag and signal flares. So we started impersonating Whitebeard's pirate crew!"

After hearing what Ibara said, Reina tossed him aside like trash and turned to Robin, saying, "This kind of thing can only be done to enemies, because once they are invaded by the Sharingan, even if they manage to regain consciousness, they will only become idiots, and more likely they will never wake up! Also, don't use it on people stronger than yourself, otherwise the genjutsu will backfire."

Apart from the Straw Hat crew, everyone looked at Reina with fear. Was this the method of a great pirate?

However, Sally and her companions breathed a sigh of relief. If Ibara was an imposter, then they hadn't offended the real Whitebeard Pirates.

So at this moment, Sally looked at Sanji, thanked him sincerely, and then planned to go and rescue her captain and crew.

After Sanji and Sally said goodbye, Reina looked at Sanji with curiosity and asked, "You... you don't seem to have much charm, so why are there always some people so devoted to you?"

Reina's words surprised the Straw Hat crew. He clearly meant that there were others who were grateful to Sanji!

Sanji looked completely bewildered; he didn't understand what Reina meant.

"Father, what brings you here?" Fortunately, Robin successfully changed the subject, thus helping Sanji out of the predicament.

“Our Whitebeard Pirates are planning to take a break recently, and I happened to hear from Marco that you were here, so I thought I’d come and see you! As your father, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you!” Reina said with a smile.

"Where does Father plan to go next?" Robin smiled slightly, sensing Reina's concern for her.

"What? You're already in a hurry to get rid of me after just meeting me?" Reina asked with a chuckle.

Robin shook his head and said, "No, it's just that Father has revealed his identity here, which might cause unnecessary commotion. Besides, we're planning to go to the front lines to see what the extraterrestrial visitors are like!"

"Hahaha..." Reina laughed and said, "This is the North Blue! There's no need for so much trouble. This is the territory of our Whitebeard Pirates, so everything here is up to us, and the Navy won't interfere!"

After explaining the special rules of the North Blue to Luffy and his crew, Reina also told them that the Whitebeard Pirates had ceded part of their territory to the Revolutionary Army. If Luffy was willing, he could also give him an island so that they could use it as a base to develop their influence in the North Blue.

However, Luffy refused outright, because the Straw Hat Pirates are a free pirate crew that doesn't stay in one place. They came to the North Blue just to see the extraterrestrial visitors.

Chapter 857 Reunion

"So you're planning to head to the front lines right now?" On the Sunny, Reina sat on the deck and asked the Straw Hat crew.

“That’s right!” Luffy nodded and replied with a smile.

“However, at the front lines, we, as the main force, have entered a period of rest and recuperation, and the extraterrestrial visitors have just been severely injured by me. If you go there now, it may not be a good time!” Reina said after thinking for a moment.

"Does Father mean... that the enemy will likely strengthen their defenses and not launch an attack?" Robin asked, frowning slightly.

“That’s right!” Reina nodded and said, “So if you go now, you might easily fall into the enemy’s trap!”

As he spoke, Reina told Robin all the information he had gathered. The Straw Hat crew listened in stunned silence. At first, they thought that extraterrestrial visitors were powerful, mindless monsters. Now it seemed that those extraterrestrial visitors were basically no different from them, just another race.

"Luffy, what do we do?" Nami asked, looking at Luffy.

After thinking for a moment, Luffy asked Reiner, "So, are there still extraterrestrial visitors at the front lines?"

Reina smiled slightly and explained the current situation to Luffy and the others.

"So, we now have to land on the island occupied by the enemy to see the extraterrestrial visitors?" Franky asked, frowning.

“That’s right!” Reina nodded and replied, “The forces currently still fighting the extraterrestrials are mainly the Navy and the Revolutionary Army! The Navy has your grandfather, Mr. Garp, with them, so they still retain the ability to attack for the time being, while the Revolutionary Army has just recovered its strength, so they need to fight the extraterrestrials! As for us pirates… Kaido’s Beasts Pirates and Big Mom’s Big Mom have recently suffered defeats, so they are on the defensive!”

"Besides major powers like us, there are also some scattered, unaffiliated forces launching attacks against extraterrestrial visitors. Our Vinsmoke family from the Whitebeard Pirates is one such example. We should have been resting, but they weren't willing to stay idle, so they launched a separate offensive against the extraterrestrial visitors!"

Reina's words made everyone fall into deep thought, while Sanji's eyes darted away; he didn't want to hear anything about the Vinsmoke family.

"How did those scattered forces launch their attacks on the extraterrestrial visitors?" Robin asked curiously.

He knew what kind of people his companions were, so he went straight to asking them the question they most wanted to know.

Reina smiled slightly, took out a map of the North Blue's power structure, placed it on the ground, and said, "The entire North Blue is centered on the small island first occupied by the extraterrestrials. All the surrounding areas are the extraterrestrials' territory! In addition to the extraterrestrials, the Navy, Linlin, Kaido, and our Whitebeard Pirates are divided into four directions, occupying four areas of territory!"

“Recently, our Whitebeard Pirates have ceded a portion of our territory to the Revolutionary Army!” Reina said, pointing to the latest map of our territory.

The territory that originally belonged to the Whitebeard Pirates has now turned into the color of the Revolutionary Army, but even so, the Whitebeard Pirates' territory is still quite large.

“These places are occupied by smaller forces. Some of them are stronger and occupy some small islands, charging fees to passing pirates. If you want to go, I suggest you go here, because the Vinsmoke family is the actual controller here! Moreover, this place is surrounded by the Whitebeard Pirates and the Revolutionary Army, so you could say it's our territory!” Reina pointed to a small island not far from them and said.

This area was specially reserved by the Whitebeard Pirates for ordinary pirates, bounty hunters, and free adventurers. However, Ichiji later took a liking to it, so he stationed his original Vinsmoke family forces there.

Sure enough, upon hearing Reina's words, the Straw Hat crew became interested, except for Sanji, who remained silent while smoking.

"Let's go here!" Luffy said happily.

He disliked cooperating with so-called powerful forces and preferred this free and easy atmosphere.

Robin, who was standing nearby, seemed to notice Sanji's silence and spoke up, "Sanji, don't you want to go?"

Sanji shook his head and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Reina said to Sanji, "Speaking of Sanji, there's something else I'd like to ask you for help with!"

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Sanji, wondering what Reina wanted Sanji to help him with.

Sanji looked at Reina with some surprise and asked, "Me? Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Reina nodded and gestured to Sanji to go somewhere where no one was around. After hesitating for a moment, Sanji followed Reina.

To prevent eavesdropping, Reina specially created a protective shield using Haki before asking Sanji, "Do you remember Charlotte Pudding?"

"Pureen-chan?" Sanji was taken aback, then his expression changed, and he said, "Could something have happened to her?"

“No, that’s not it!” Reina shook his head and said, “It’s that we want to rescue her from the Big Mom Pirates!”

"Rescue her? What do you mean? She's Big Mom's daughter, would Big Mom really hurt her?" Sanji asked, puzzled.