"—Thank you for your help. I know that I am shameless, but I also ask everyone in the navy to help. The life of our princess is at stake, so we can't delay it any longer!" Kneeling down on the ground in a seated position, he pleaded with Smog.
"...In a word, let's explain the situation from the beginning to the end." Smaller, who was sitting on a chair on the deck of the warship, was still interested in this. The kind of person who would not leave Rogue Town to hunt down the Straw Hat Pirates.
"At least introduce yourself," added Liz, who ran on the warship to join in the fun.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I am the head of the escort regiment of the Kingdom of Alabasta, and my name is Ikalem." Egg roll head propped up his upper body and said.
"Kingdom of Alabasta?" Liz looked at Dusky, who was the most intellectual.
Dusky did not disappoint and introduced Liz: "The kingdom of Alabasta is a peaceful desert country known as a 'civilized country', but in recent years due to drought problems, revolutionary movements have begun to appear in various places, and people have launched riots. , the country is in chaos.”
Liz asked inexplicably: "Huh? What does it have to do with the king if it doesn't rain? Overthrow the king and it will rain?"
"Captain Liz, have you heard of [Dancing Fan]?" asked Dusky.
"Some kind of high-energy drug?"
"..." Dusky gave a strange expression, but think that Liz knows a lot of other things, and even Colonel Smalls was greatly inspired. He is definitely not an idiot, and can only be understood as a cultural difference in his hometown. "That is a A powder that can make the sky rain, the disadvantage is that it will make the country downwind more drier... It is rumored that the king of Alabasta has rain, but the place outside the capital has not rained a drop for three years, so people everywhere think that the king is there Wang Du used dancing powder."
Liz nodded, finally understanding the reason for the turmoil, "Well, this is not unusual, kings and nobles who only care about their own interests—"
"—It's not like that!" Ikalem retorted loudly, "Our king has always insisted not to use dancing powder. In order not to pass the drought on to neighboring countries, how could he use dancing in the capital for his own benefit? Fan! This is someone deliberately set up!"
"?" Everyone knew that this was about to get to the point.
"Our princess, Nafiru Tali Weiwei, discovered that there was an organization called [Baroque Studio] behind the scenes inciting the people to rebel. In order to investigate its purpose and members, Her Royal Highness and I acted as bounty hunters. , I was finally recruited in to conduct some investigation." In order to get promoted and touch the truth, Vivi and Ikalem had to cover their consciences and do some bad things.
"[Baroque Studio]...?" Not to mention an outsider like Leeds, even a small naval cadre named Smaller had never heard of this name.
"That's because the members of the organization don't know each other's details at all, and they always call each other's code names. About the boss's true face and where he is, only a few people can know, a criminal group that faithfully executes criminal orders. ." Ikalem revealed the intelligence he had collected, representing the world government's navy, and could only believe, "The members are about 2,000 people from top to bottom, their business is all-inclusive, and almost all crimes are involved... But their ultimate goal is to take the kingdom of Alabasta!"
"Two thousand people?!" Dasqi was startled. Usually, he only fought against a pirate group of dozens of people, but now he jumped two orders of magnitude.
"...Huh, is it a criminal organization?" Smoker's eyes changed. He was one of the few navies who projected the "justice" behind him into action.
"Well, it's roughly straightened out. [Someone wants to seize the country" uses some means to prevent rain outside the capital" uses various methods to provoke rebellions in various places "It is logical to pick the fruit], so the identity of this person must be very special. Who is he?" Liz caught on to the point at once, a much more nutritious question than "What exactly did the Baroque studio do to seize the kingdom".
"...My lord, can you trust everyone?" Ikalem raised his head, first looking at Smog, the navy boss here, and then at Leeds, who was unidentified but always took over the right to speak.
Liz shrugged, "If you don't say that there will be no good results, you can still gamble on luck, do you need to think about it?"
"..." Ikalem was silent for a moment, only to admit that Liz had a point. "The leader of the Baroque studio, the person codenamed MR.0, is Crocodile."
"What did you say?!"
"Tsk! That guy!"
Dasqi, Smog and even the captain of the navy soldier next to him couldn't help exclaiming.
"Who is it?" Unfortunately, Liz still didn't know him.
Dasqi said angrily: "One of the seven seas under the king! The big pirate who took the 'Sasha Fruit' and offered a reward of 80 million baileys! Haven't you heard of it?!"
Ignoring Dusky's questioning, what Liz was concerned about was, "Eighty million Baileys? That's not great... Not even 100 million Baileys."
Smog can only explain: "After he became a king under the Qiwuhai, he became a 'legally existing' pirate, and naturally there is no bounty."
"In other words, he was so strong that he didn't let the bounty go up at all, and he was invited by the world government to be the king of the Qiwuhai."
"That's what it is," Smoker exhaled, "...if it were him, it's not hard to imagine doing such a thing."
When a big man was involved, Dusqi couldn't help panicking, "Colonel, what are we going to do? This is not something we can handle."
"Calm down, no matter what, let's report the matter to the top first." Smog's answer made Ikalem relieved, at least [Baroque Studio] did not continue to be a secret.
"Since it's the king's subordinate Qiwuhai, I think there is a high probability that the Naval Headquarters will make you stand still, right?" Liz sneered.
"Ah, I think so too, but they give their orders and I do my own thing." Smog smiled.
"Wow~ I have a higher opinion of you, Smoker," Liz patted Smog's shoulder hard and laughed, "I originally thought of taking my little brothers to be chivalrous, but now I bring Let's go to you~ ahaha~"
"Although I don't want to say that, I don't have the ability to deal with the 'sand crocodile'. I hope you can deal with him." Smog said with a stinky expression.
"You, you...!" Ikalem couldn't believe it, after hearing the name "Crocodahl", there were still people who were brave enough to attack him! Or do a good job of not getting the support of the Navy Headquarters!
Smog looked at it and said coldly: "Don't think that all the navies in the world are cowards, I have never felt that the 'King's Qiwuhai' needs to exist in the world, pirates are pirates, and prisons are their best The destination... Then what? What happened to Princess Weiwei, how did you fall into the sea, haven't you finished yet?"
"Yes!"