One Piece: The Cryo Doctor on the Straw Hat Ship

Chapter 57 Income: Explosion, Light as a Feather (Please continue reading~)

"You are……"

Upon seeing V's appearance, MR.5's pupils suddenly contracted.

"V, the mechanical cyborg of the Straw Hat Pirates!"

He instinctively leaped back several meters, a strong sense of crisis welling up inside him.

"Cyclicizer? Who gave me such a tasteless title!?"

V frowned slightly, taken aback by the unexpected nickname.

This is so low-class!

Of course, what intrigued him even more was...

"You know me?"

"Of course!" Mr. 5 answered without hesitation, "With just a handful of men, they destroyed an entire naval fleet and even caused a vice admiral at the Navy Headquarters to go missing..."

"With your reputation, it would be impossible for me not to know about you."

"Although I heard a few days ago that you had entered the Grand Line, I never expected to meet you here!"

Just like what the newspapers said...

V's eyes sparkled.

Despite seeing the Straw Hat Pirates' reviews in the newspapers these past few days, those headlines—"Shocking! East Blue Nightmare! Straw Hat Crew Annihilates Entire Fleet!" and "Outrageous! The Mystery of the Disappearance of a Mysterious Powerful Figure and a Marine Vice Admiral?"—are still typical UC sensationalist headlines...

It was so shocking that he, someone who had been bombarded with big data, didn't feel much of an impact.

But nowadays, even a nobody can find out about me without a bounty...

It's clear that the Straw Hat Pirates have become incredibly popular in the world of One Piece!

“Now that you know our reputation…” V tilted his head slightly, a glint of blue light flashing in his prosthetic eye behind his glasses, “then why don’t you get lost?”

His voice was calm, yet it carried an undeniable sense of pressure.

Mr. 5 broke out in a cold sweat, but his pride as a senior agent of Baroque Works kept him standing firm.

He glanced at Miss Valentine floating beside him, and the two exchanged a look.

"The Straw Hat Pirates are indeed famous," Mr. 5 said, trying to remain calm, "but this is Baroque Works territory. You and these two traitors... shouldn't have any connection, right?"

“Traitor?” V repeated the word with interest, his gaze shifting to Vivi and Icarus, who were still lying on the ground behind him.

Vivi struggled to lift her head, her blue eyes filled with pleading and despair.

Her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't make a sound due to her injuries and nervousness.

Icarus coughed up blood and shouted with all his might, "They...they are Crocodile's subordinates! Princess did it to save Alabasta..."

"Shut up!" Mr. 5 interrupted sharply, several tiny booger-like bombs already forming on his fingertips. "Say one more word, and I'll make you—"

Before he could finish speaking...

V's figure disappeared.

It's not elementalization, it's not high-speed movement—it's a speed that purely transcends time.

Sianweistein activates instantly, and time is stretched and extended in V's perception.

In Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine's Day's eyes, V was only blurry for a moment, the next second...

boom!

A dull thud resounded.

Mr. 5 didn't even see what happened; he only felt an overwhelming force in his abdomen.

He was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through three stone walls before finally coming to a stop, where rubble and dust buried most of him.

"Mr. 5!" Miss Valentine exclaimed, instinctively wanting to take off and create distance.

But it was too late.

A hand shrouded in pale smoke emerged from the shadows behind her and easily gripped her throat.

The smoke spread and solidified rapidly, binding her limbs and torso like chains.

“Ten thousand kilograms—” Miss Valentine tried to activate her ability to increase her weight, but the smoke chains seemed to have a life of their own, expanding and strengthening, binding her firmly.

V, carrying the bound Miss Valentine, slowly emerged from the shadows.

His movements were as casual as if he were just picking up an object.

“You just said…” V looked at Mr. 5, who had just crawled out of the rubble and whose mouth was bleeding, “This is Baroque Works’ territory?”

"So you're declaring war on the Straw Hat Pirates on behalf of Baroque Works!?"

Mr. 5's face turned deathly pale.

After all, not long ago, their boss had given them orders not to provoke the Straw Hat crew.

"What...what do you want to do?" Mr. 5's voice trembled, but his fingers secretly touched his nostrils—a habitual action when he activated his ability.

"What do I want to do?" V smiled, a smile that sounded like a devil's whisper to Mr. 5. "Haven't I made myself clear enough?"

His expression hardened: "We accept your Baroque declaration of war!"

The moment the words left her lips, V abruptly released Miss Valentine's Day.

The chains of smoke still bound her, making her stand stiffly like a puppet.

At the same time, V's right arm began to deform.

Mechanical structures intertwined with pale smoke, and the armor plates on the outside of the arms unfolded and reassembled layer by layer, revealing the intricate internal transmission structure and energy conduits.

A faint blue light flowed through the conduit, eventually converging in the palm of the hand—

A complex mechanical hand cannon with a cyberpunk aesthetic.

The muzzle is not a traditional circle, but is made up of three sharp metal plates that can be opened and closed. At the center, a ball of highly compressed pale energy is concentrated, emitting a low hum.

"Try this." V's voice was calm and even. "Smoke Compression Cannon."

boom--!!!

There was no fire, no explosion.

Only a pale beam of energy, solid as a pillar, shot out, forcibly compressing and ionizing the air in its path, emitting a piercing shriek.

Mr. 5's pupils constricted sharply; his survival instincts compelled him to activate his ability without hesitation.

"A barrage of boogers - an explosive barrage of comments!"

Dozens of booger bombs were fired like a rainstorm, each one expanding and glowing mid-flight, attempting to detonate before contacting the energy beam and neutralize the attack with a chain reaction of explosions.

however……

Wherever the pale energy beam passed, those booger bombs didn't even have time to detonate before being vaporized and annihilated by the extremely high energy density.

The still-powerful energy beam struck Mr. 5 squarely in the chest.

"Ugh—!!!"

Mr. 5 let out a piercing scream as a charred mark appeared on his chest.

It's hard to imagine...

Despite being a user of the Blast-Blast Fruit, he was surprisingly at a disadvantage in the clash of energy.

"What a waste of such a good fruit!"

Watching Mr. 5 stagger after just one strike and eventually collapse to the ground, V was deeply moved.

In his view, the potential of the Blast Fruit is among the best, even among all Devil Fruits.

But Mr. 5, that good-for-nothing, managed to turn such a powerful fruit into a tool for setting off firecrackers.

In contrast, his colleague, the third brother, with his seemingly worthless Wax-Wax Fruit, not only nearly killed the legendary Giant Warrior Pirates captain but also withstood a poison attack from a Marine Admiral Magellan.

A person with ability is far more important than ability itself!

"Just obediently become source material!"

Whew!

Thick white mist suddenly erupted from V's palm, enveloping Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine's heads, obscuring their mouths and noses.

"Uh...uh..."

The pain of suffocation caused the two to struggle violently.

No matter how they twisted and turned, the white mist seemed to have chosen them, locking firmly above their heads.

The two eventually lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen.

With a thought from V, the two figures vanished instantly.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face.

With that kind smile, V slowly looked at Vivi and Icarus, who were completely dumbfounded.

"Gentlemen, shall we have a talk?"

Chapter 58 You Need Strength (Please continue reading~)

Second--

Instant kill—!?

Vivi stared blankly at the unbelievable scene before her, her deep blue eyes reflecting V's image, her pupils trembling slightly from the extreme shock.

Just moments before, she was mired in despair, believing that her and Icarus's lives were about to end under the cruel attacks of Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine.

As a senior agent of Baroque Works, the overwhelming sense of threat they posed almost suffocated her.

However, in just a few seconds, the situation reversed in a way that she could not comprehend at all.

"Is this... the power that defeated the naval fleet?"