Pirates: Usurping a Kingdom Is Surprisingly Easy

Kael held the antidote Crocodile had dropped, considering whether or not to save Nico Robin. He wasn't interested in poneglyphs. Nico Robin didn't seem to have any use value to him.

On the contrary, she might even leave a huge crisis. After all, the World Government was very concerned about this Child of the Devil who could decipher poneglyphs. The risk of him keeping her was very high. After all, Crocodile knew Robin's identity. If this Crocodile exposed it, the Gorosei would invite Kael for tea in minutes. It seemed he couldn't let Crocodile escape.

Kael casually put away the antidote, not immediately saving the exiled Nico Robin.

'Whether I save you or not depends on whether I can capture Crocodile first!'

Kael instructed Reiju to take care of everyone, and he immediately rushed out to pursue Crocodile. If he captured Crocodile, Nico Robin, as the vice president of Baroque Works, would still have some value in subduing the organization. Otherwise, Nico Robin would just remain exiled.

Outside the Royal Tomb, Crocodile, who emerged from the sandstorm, had a sinister look in his eyes. There was a complete wound on his shoulder, a piece of flesh directly missing. His elementalization had not fully recovered.

"Exile Power, it actually exiled my physical body?!"

Veins bulged on Crocodile's forehead as he recalled how Kael could instantly make countless Wano Country warriors lose their heads. If his head had been exiled by Kael just now, would he, a Logia-type ability user, have died? Crocodile touched his strange wound.

He felt that if Kael released his vanished elemental body, it seemed it could still regenerate. This seemed like good news for Crocodile. At least he wouldn't die directly like those Wano Country warriors.

"Did it sever the connection of the elemental body?"

Crocodile began to quickly analyze Kael's Exile Power. It was surprisingly troublesome! Even after elementalized body parts were exiled, the corresponding areas directly disappeared. He wondered if the elemental flesh isolated by exile would undergo necrosis.

Just then, a transparent domain covered him. This startled Crocodile, who immediately elementalized and fled from the range of this damned Exile Power.

'Seven Star Slash!'

A sharp sword qi split the sand mass that Crocodile had turned into into two parts.

"Always running away, that's not like your style, Crocodile!"

Kael quickly rushed out, intending to forcefully exile the elementalized sand that Crocodile had turned into.

"Damn it, how can such a powerful ability exist!!"

Crocodile was furious and shocked, forcefully merging his elemental body, unleashing a trace of Armament Haki to block Kael's Exile Power.

"Is it possible that your Armament Haki is too weak, not even comparable to the pillars of Kano Country?"

"It seems you've been in the Grand Line for too long, causing you to neglect your Haki training."

Facing advanced and bizarre Paramecia abilities, besides understanding the weaknesses of the ability, the only option is to cultivate powerful Haki for strong defense. Throughout history, countless strong individuals have accidentally fallen to bizarre Paramecia ability users. Even users of the three types of Haki can still accidentally capsize. Some advanced Paramecia abilities are just that unreasonable.

"If the ability is bizarre, then kill the ability user!"

"Diamond Sand Blade!!"

Crocodile suddenly waved his hand, and a huge sand blade diagonally slashed upwards from below Kael, cutting him in half with one stroke. And one of Crocodile's legs also disappeared at the same time.

"Did I get him!!"

"Disgusting ability!"

Crocodile quickly covered more of his body with his not-so-thick Armament Haki and continued to rapidly escape from Kael's ability range.

"I dodged your sand blade, but you don't seem to have dodged my Exile Blade."

Kael's illusory body had no injuries; it was even more useful than elementalization, and he continued to pursue Crocodile.

"I am a Warlord of the Sea, why are you attacking me?"

Crocodile's face darkened; he felt that he was still within Kael's ability range, and both elementalization and Armament Haki defense were constantly being attacked by Kael's ethereal Exile Power. Another part was lost if he wasn't careful.

"Princess Vivi is going to marry me, so what if I attack you?"

"Besides, it's just taking down a Warlord of the Sea who coveted Pluton. Am I afraid of what the World Government will do to me?!"

Kael sneered, and a violent Conqueror's Haki erupted, interfering with Crocodile's premature elementalization. The Seven Star Dragon Sword unleashed a magnificent sword qi, shattering Crocodile's Armament Haki defense.

"You actually know about Pluton?"

"Did you spread the news to the World Government?!"

Crocodile's face grew even more furious; it turned out that Kael had stabbed him in the back, alarming the Gorosei and forcing him to act prematurely.

"That's right, it was me."

'Time Domain · Exile!'

Kael once again exiled one of Crocodile's legs, making it disappear. It turned out that exiling elemental bodies was not as bloody as exiling other living bodies. It seemed that exiling elemental bodies could still allow them to recover and return. Is this the special nature of Logia-type ability users?

"You also want to obtain the Pluton battleship?"

"Unfortunately, Nico Robin, who can translate ancient texts, is probably already dead."

"That poneglyph, which may or may not contain information about Pluton, will remain undeciphered, and you, like me, will have wasted your efforts."

Crocodile no longer thought about escaping Kael's ability range, and defiantly turned back to fight Kael to the death.

"My Exile Power can restrain your elementalization, and my Armament Haki is not weak either."

Kael held the Seven Star Dragon Sword and with a swift slash, cut Crocodile's golden hook in two. The terrifying Armament Haki sword qi scared Crocodile into instantly elementalizing to dodge. As a result, most of his body's elements were forcibly exiled by Kael in an instant. The remaining elements could only reform into Crocodile's upper body, even the half-arm with the golden hook had disappeared. Without most of his body, Crocodile's strength decreased again.

"Don't struggle, Crocodile."

"What you've been searching for in Alabasta for over a decade or two has long been in someone else's territory."

"You are destined to be a joke."

"Even if you know the whereabouts of Pluton, you still won't get it."

Kael's left hand was wrapped in Armament Haki, and he grabbed Crocodile's neck, pressing him hard into the ground.

"Ugh ~"

Crocodile spat out a large mouthful of blood, and his consciousness became blurred. Why was he like a toy in this kid's hands? He couldn't believe he would lose so easily to Kael. The bizarre Exile Power made him feel even more stifled than the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability.

Pluton was already in someone else's territory? Kael actually knew Pluton's whereabouts? Crocodile stared intently at Kael, who was clutching his neck, his eyes filled with the bitterness of defeat and a desperate longing for Pluton.