Chapter 108: Sauron's Enlightenment

After eating, Ajin finally had the strength to get up.

"I'm leaving."

"Goodbye."

Ajin randomly found a boat docked near the sea restaurant and left.

Sanji had a satisfied smile on his face. He felt that he had done something quite accomplished by saving a person who was about to starve to death.

“Do you like other people eating your food?”

At this moment, a sudden voice was heard.

Sanji raised his head. It was this guy. He started causing trouble as soon as he arrived at the sea restaurant and was now asked to work in the restaurant by Zeff to pay off his debts.

"I love your cooking, do you want to come on my boat?"

"I'm a chef, not a pirate." Sanji said.

"I just want you to come on my ship, be my crew member, and also be our chef." Luffy said.

"I told you, I'm not interested in being a pirate." Sanji said and turned away.

In the next two days, Luffy came to block Sanji every day.

He has already identified Sanji, and he thinks Sanji is an excellent chef.

At least it fits the image of a chef in his mind.

Nami thinks every day about how to steal the Golden Merry.

But Rosen, Johnny and Joseph were on the boat all the time, so she had no chance at all.

On this day, Luffy blocked Sanji again.

"Hey, Cook, are you thinking about coming on board my boat?"

Sanji turned and walked away, with Luffy following closely behind him.

Just then, a loud noise was heard from the direction of the restaurant.

Sanji's face changed and he immediately rushed to the restaurant.

I saw a sturdy man in golden armor sitting at the dining table, and several broken bodies were lying not far away.

The explosion must have been caused by that strong man.

At this moment, Ajin was standing next to Creek: "Boss, didn't we agree to just replenish some supplies here? The chef of the sea restaurant saved me, so I hope we don't mess around here."

Creek glanced at Ajin and said, "I am the captain, so I have the final say. Our ship is badly damaged. If we can capture this ship, we can set sail again and enter the Grand Line. We can also disguise ourselves as a restaurant to trick other pirates and the navy to come, and then we can ambush and capture them. Haha... I am so cunning."

"You all deserve to die!"

Suddenly, Sanji did a flying kick and spun towards Creek.

Creek grabbed Sanji's calf and slammed him against the wall.

Luffy looked at Zeff who was standing not far away: "Uncle, if I take care of him, can it offset the debt?"

Zeff looked at Creek in the restaurant, then looked at Luffy and nodded, "Okay, let's fight outside. I don't want to increase the losses."

"Hey..." Luffy suddenly stretched out his arms: "Rubber rubber... Bazooka!"

bang——

Before Creek could react, Luffy's sneak attack blasted him out of the restaurant and crashed into the boat parked outside.

Luffy rushed out right after him.

At the same time, on the Golden Merry, Rosen, Johnny and Joseph were watching the battle outside the sea restaurant.

Creek was blasting a pirate ship to pieces with his lance.

Luffy was in mid-air, punching Creek below wildly.

"Old man, should we go up and help?"

Rosen leaned against the railing, holding his chin and watching the battle in front of him, and said: "You two pirate hunters, go up and help the pirates fight, then you will not be able to survive in the East China Sea in the future."

"But that's Brother Zoro's captain."

"If anyone needs to take action, it will be me, the deputy captain, who will do it."

Johnny and Joseph immediately thought that Rosen was extremely powerful, and they felt relieved.

At this moment, the battle between the two was in full swing, and in the battle between the two, the large ship of the Creek Pirates had also been affected.

The pirate ship, which had originally escaped from the Grand Line and was in a dilapidated state, was now shattered by the battle between the two.

Zoro also joined the battle at this time, and little Karami from the Creek Pirates was cleaned up by Zoro like cutting melons and vegetables.

At this time, Sanji also found his opponent, the demon Akin.

It can be seen that Sanji's strength at this time is still a little immature.

The demon Ajin has even let Sanji go.

"Kid, with your strength, entering the Grand Line is just seeking death. It's full of monsters." Creek gradually felt a little tired facing Luffy's fist.

"No one can stop me from becoming the Pirate King." Luffy loudly declared his dream.

Rosen looked at the battlefield consisting of a large number of broken ship planks, and then looked at Creek.

"What an ugly fight."

Rosen stretched out his hand and controlled the floating wooden planks to form a drifting wooden passage leading from the Golden Merry to the center of the battlefield.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow demon under Rosen's feet extended out.

Following the driftwood passage all the way to Creek's feet, Creek's body was suddenly eroded by darkness.

When Luffy saw this scene, his alarm bells immediately rang.

The same thing happened to Clo last time. Could it be that this Creek will also become Black Creek?

Things happened just as Luffy predicted, Black Creek appeared as expected.

The originally golden armor turned black.

But the original Creek fell into panic, and he found that he could not control his body.

Luffy's eyes turned cautious, and when Zoro saw this, he immediately jumped to Luffy's side and fought against Black Creek with him.

"Hmph!" Black Creek suddenly moved.

"Behind!" Luffy suddenly did a hook kick towards Black Creek who suddenly appeared behind him.

Black Creek suddenly grabbed Luffy's legs and threw him into the sea.

Luffy hurriedly stretched out his hands, grabbed a huge piece of driftwood, and then pulled his body back.

Zoro immediately drew his sword and rushed towards Black Creek. Black Creek raised his hand and grabbed Zoro's left sword. Zoro's pupils suddenly contracted, but his body was knocked away by Black Creek's punch.

Zoro flew more than twenty meters away before stopping on a piece of driftwood.

Luffy and Zoro are now in the front and back directions of Black Creek respectively.

What they were thinking at this moment was that, as expected, one must possess Armament Haki in order to enter the Grand Line.

Without Armament Haki, you are not qualified to set foot on the Grand Line.

The two men attacked at the same time and rushed towards Black Creek.

Black Creek spun in mid-air to avoid the attacks of the two men, and while spinning, he reached out and grabbed Zoro and Luffy's necks and slammed them together.

"Do you understand now the gap between you and me?" Black Creek carried the two men, his face full of arrogance.

Suddenly, a figure came running towards him at the speed of thunder. When he was ten meters away from Hei Creek, he suddenly raised his leg and kicked him.

Black Creek was kicked away by this kick, and Luffy and Zoro were able to escape at this time.

This is the first time the three giants of the Straw Hat Pirates fight side by side.

"What's wrong with this guy? He feels like a different person now." Sanji asked.

"It is said that this is Armament Haki." said Zoro.

At this moment, all the crew members of the Creek Pirates were looking at their captain in shock. They really didn't know that their captain was so strong, even a little outrageous.

"Something's wrong... This is very wrong!" Ajin held onto the wall and looked at the battlefield in front of him. At this moment, Black Creek gave him a strange feeling, very strange.

That's not the power Creek should have!

Creek is now controlled by something.

"Let's attack together!" Luffy adjusted his breathing, and Zoro and Sanji were also ready to take action.

woohoo-

The three of them burst out and rushed towards Black Creek at the same time.

Black Creek was able to handle Luffy and Zoro with ease, but with the addition of Sanji, he began to find it difficult to cope.

The combination of the three people seemed to have produced some kind of qualitative change.

Of course, Luffy and Zoro are obviously much stronger than Sanji.

Rosen frowned at this moment. If he was on land, it wouldn't be so difficult for him to operate.

But on the sea, his connection with Black Creek was the driftwood on the sea.

Just like a base station with unstable signal, his signal with Black Creek was sometimes working and sometimes not.

The Shadow Fiend must be solid to extend, and cannot extend through liquids or gases.

Finally, Luffy used a spiral ascension move to completely defeat Black Creek.

But before the three of them could celebrate, a fierce murderous intent spread from far away and approached the three people on the battlefield.

But on a raft, there sat a man with a black sword on his back.

A pair of green candles were lit on the raft, making it look particularly eerie.

When the man saw Creek, who was already dying, the murderous intent in his body gradually faded away.

Although he had been chasing him all the way, Creek at this moment made him completely lose interest.

Instead, at this moment, Zoro was trembling with excitement.

Because that man is the world's number one swordsman, Hawkeye!!

Zoro jumped in front of Hawkeye and pointed his knife at Hawkeye who was sitting on the boat.

"I'm going to challenge you."

Hawkeye glanced at Zoro from the corner of his eye: "What is your goal?"

"The strongest."

"The strongest?"

Zoro's momentum suddenly rose: "Come on, fight with me."

"Hehe... If you have enough strength, you can clearly sense the gap between us even without a fight."

Hawkeye was obviously mocking Zoro's overestimation of his own abilities, and that was indeed the case.

At this moment, Zoro couldn't even sense the gap between them.

"You dare to point a sword at me. Should I say it's your courage or your ignorance?"

"Because of ambition! And the advice of my best friend, you are the mountain I must cross." Zoro was still eager to fight.

Hawkeye jumped lightly and came to the driftwood where Zoro was standing: "Well, let's treat it as an entertainment program for this journey."

Hawkeye removed the cross from around his neck, then removed the sheath on the cross, revealing a small blade that could only be used for manicures.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Zoro looked at Hawkeye angrily.

"Although you are a well-known swordsman, this is the weakest East China Sea after all. Unfortunately, I don't have a sword smaller than this one." Hawkeye said the sarcastic words lightly.

"You bastard!" Zoro was furious: "Even if you look down on others, there should be a limit."

Three sword style. Demon slash!

Zoro suddenly rushed towards Hawkeye, but the tip of his blade was blocked by the tip of Hawkeye's small knife.

"How is this possible! How can there be such a huge distance in this world!?"

Zoro attacked Hawkeye frantically, but Hawkeye stood still, and the small knife in his hand could always easily block all of Zoro's attacks.

On the Golden Merry, Johnny and Joseph watched the scene with worry.

"Old man, please go and save Brother Zoro."

"This is a battle between swordsmen. If I save him, it would be equivalent to killing him." Rosen watched the battle between Hawkeye and Zoro with interest.

It's better to say that it's a game than a battle, Hawkeye's game.

Finally, Hawkeye seemed to be tired of this game and stabbed Zoro's heart with a knife.

At this moment, Zoro seemed to have foreseen this scene, and he forced his body to avoid the attack, allowing the knife to pierce his shoulder. At the same time, he also slashed at Hawkeye.

Hawkeye was surprised for a moment, but he just moved aside. The blade passed in front of him, and with another slash, a huge gash was left on Zoro's chest.

However, Zoro still insisted on standing where he was, his eyes still filled with determination.

Hawkeye then took off the black knife from his back and said, "As a swordsman, you are worthy of my full strength. Tell me your name."

"Roronoa Zoro!"

"I will remember you, long-lost strong man."

The strongest swordsman in active service, the future supernova, both sides understood from each other's eyes that it was the glory of a swordsman, and the victory or defeat would be decided in one move!

Zoro's two swords were cut off and his chest was cut open at the same time.

Zoro opened his arms and took back the last sword: "As expected, you are the strongest!"

Hawkeye looked at Zoro in surprise: "What?"

"A knife wound in the back is a swordsman's shame."

"Great!" Hawkeye swung the black knife without hesitation and slashed at Zoro's chest.

"Zoro!!!" Luffy catapulted to Zoro's side.

Hawkeye looked at Luffy who jumped over without hesitation, with some appreciation in his eyes, especially when he saw the straw hat.

"Thank you for not intervening until the duel was over. Don't worry, he is not dead."

With that, Hawkeye returned to his boat and the raft was back on the road.

Rosen looked at the direction where Hawkeye left and said, "Next, I should also collect some interest for the swordsman on my ship. By the way, if a navigator wants to drive away this ship, let her do it."