Sirobu Village waters.
Tina looked at the Black Cat Pirates crew trapped in the cage, unsure whether to be happy or depressed.
One thing she was sure of was that both she and Vice Admiral Momo were tricked by the traveler, Xia Yu!
After capturing the Black Cat Pirates, she immediately interrogated their captain, Kroe.
To her surprise, when the Black Cat Pirates heard she was there to capture the Red Rabbit, they all lost control of their emotions and started cursing, each one more vulgar than the last.
“Tina Colonel, we really have nothing to do with that damn Red Rabbit!”
Tina had just finished her call when a tied-up crew member immediately pleaded, “To be honest, we hate that Red Rabbit even more than you! If it weren’t for it, we wouldn’t have been caught by you!”
“Colonel, give us a chance?” Sam, the Black Cat Pirates' combat member, with a head of green hair, said earnestly, “As long as you let us go, we'll make amends and follow you to capture that damn Red Rabbit!”
Looking at the pirates, who were more excited than she was, Tina inexplicably felt like laughing.
Of course, she couldn't laugh!
She was the cold beauty of the Marine Headquarters, renowned for her stoicism, how could she chuckle because of these lawless pirates?
Just then, a warship suddenly sailed into these waters.
This warship was fast, and in no time, the two warships were only a hundred paces apart.
On the deck of the warship approaching Tina's ship, stood a burly middle-aged man with two cigars in his mouth. If not for the Marine Colonel coat he wore, he would definitely have been mistaken for some kind of sea bum.
The man with two cigars in his mouth was none other than Smoker, the Marine Headquarters Colonel who had just taken up the post of the highest authority in Loguetown this year, the former problem child of the headquarters, the infamous “constantly losing” Smoker of the original anime!
Beside Smoker, stood a tall, slender girl with a near-perfect waist-to-hip ratio, wearing glasses.
She had a long sword strapped to her waist and a slightly goofy expression.
That was Tashigi, the Vice Commander of Smoker, the highest authority in Loguetown, a sweet and soft-spoken girl who was strangely fond of collecting famous swords!
On the deck behind them, there were dozens of tied-up pirates.
The leader was none other than Alvida, the captain of the Alvida Pirates.
Soon, the two warships came alongside each other.
“Tina, what's this…?”
As soon as he came over, Smoker saw the tied-up pirates on Tina’s warship. He hadn't expected Tina to have such a rich haul. Smoker jumped in front of Tina, without even taking the cigars out of his mouth, and mumbled indistinctly, “You’ve got quite a haul!”
Tina didn't speak, but stared intently at the pirates on Smoker's warship, her expression becoming increasingly interesting, "Smoker, don't tell me you were also tricked by a traveler to catch pirates!"
“Traveler?” Smoker blinked, bewildered, “What traveler?”
Seeing Smoker's reaction, seeing that he didn't know about the traveler, Xia Yu, Tina simply changed the subject, asking, “Do the other warships still have no news of the Red Rabbit?”
Before Smoker could speak, a member of the Black Cat Pirates suddenly raised his voice and lost control of his emotions, “Tina Colonel, please speak clearly! What do you mean, tricked by a traveler?”
At these words, Kroe, who was always calm, turned his head to look at Tina with difficulty!
He had always thought that Tina appeared in Sirobu Village to capture the Red Rabbit who killed the Celestial Dragons, and then accidentally discovered their whereabouts!
Now it seemed that this wasn't the case, it was some lousy traveler who tricked Tina to Sirobu Village!
For a moment, he almost cracked in place!
He, the great captain of the Black Cat Pirates, with a bounty of 16 million berries, the captain nicknamed “Resourceful Kroe”, had been tricked by a traveler?
What made him most furious was that he didn’t even know who this traveler was, what he looked like!
Smoker didn't pay any attention to the Black Cat Pirates' reaction. He simply went to sit across from Tina, nonchalantly, grumbling, “Don’t even mention it. From the moment we entered the East Blue, we haven't found the Red Rabbit, but we've caught a lot of pirates!”
“I just talked to Vice Admiral Tsuru, his situation is the same as ours, and so is Vice Admiral Hina's. They say they’re almost out of space for the captured pirates, and have no choice but to temporarily abandon the search for the Red Rabbit and send the captured pirates to the nearest branch base!”
Hearing this, Tina put her forehead in her hand and said to herself, “So, where did they run off to? Tina is very confused!”
“I think it'll be a while before we find them,” Smoker exhaled a cloud of smoke, his face solemn, “According to what Mr. Garp said, that Red Rabbit has a Dupi Dog with the ability to teleport! That being the case, as long as they deliberately hide and don’t show up, it’s like finding a needle in a haystack for us to find them!”
Pausing for a moment, Smoker suddenly changed the subject, "By the way, you just said traveler… what's that about?”
Tina didn't hide anything, and simply told him about her encounter with Xia Yu.
After listening to Tina's story, Smoker hadn’t even had time to react, and the Black Cat Pirates exploded!
“Ahhhhh, so it was that damn traveler!”
“He actually tricked such a beautiful Colonel, how could he have the heart!”
“Hey, hey, this isn’t a matter of tricking the Colonel!”
“Damn traveler, don’t let me meet you, or I’ll definitely dismember you and throw you into the sea to feed the fish!”
…
“Achoo!”
At the same time.
By accident, a certain traveler who had entered the waters off Frostmoon Village, sneezed involuntarily.
“What’s wrong?”
Xia Yu, who had just walked from the cabin to the deck, looked around, bewildered, “Why am I constantly sneezing today? Could it be that the Red Rabbit and Dluby are up to something again?!”
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