“Oh no—”

  “The Celestial Dragons have been attacked!”

  “Run! The Admirals are ing!”

  “Damn it, what’s going on?”

  “Who would be foolish enough to provoke the Celestial Dragons?”

  “This is bad! We ’t stay here!”

  “Enough talking, just run!”

  “Set sail immediately!”

  ...

  Soon enough, news of the atta the Celestial Dragons spread across the entire Sabaody Archipego at an arming speed, causing widespread pani every street and alley, pirates, civilians, nobles, and merts fled in terror, scrambling to escape.

  Some, who had long harbored reseoward the arrogant and overbeariial Dragons, or who had been oppressed by them in the past, felt a sense of satisfa. Others, however, cursed those who dared to offend the World Nobles, bming them for disturbing the fragile peace of Sabaody.

  Regardless, many pirates and merts felt that disaster was immi and rushed to leave the archipego, fearing they might get caught in the crossfire.

  “Heh heh, hey there, boys… What are you doing skulking around here?”

  At that moment—

  Outside the au house on Isnd 1, Moss appeared as if from nowhere, like a phantom. He patted the shoulders of two CP agents who were hiding in the er, peeking inside. “If you want to watch, why not just walk in openly?” he asked with a mischievous grin.

  Before the two agents, now frozen with fear, could react, Moss made his move.

  'Bang!'

  His rge hands grabbed their heads as if they were watermelons and smashed them together.

  “Ahhhh…”

  With screams of agony, their bloodied bodies colpsed to the ground, their heads shattered, and brains spilling out.

  At the same time—

  Nef, with a pyful smile, flicked her fioward the distant forest.

  'Swish!' A sharp “Finger Gun” pierced through the air like lightning.

  A figure hiding in the woods, using binocurs to observe, let out a sudden scream as a bloody hole burst open in his chest, and he fell to the ground, dead.

  “Linlin, we’ve just left G-1 Base, heading toward you, following the life card…”

  Ihe au house, apart from the unscious guests still seated, the entrance was littered with bloodied corpses—CP agents who had tried to break in and rescue the Celestial Dragons but were swiftly dealt with.

  he au stage, a Celestial Dragon crawled on all fours, humiliated and trembling, much like the humahey usually rode. His eyes were filled with fear and fury, but he couldn’t speak or resist.

  In front of him, Linlin sat with her legs crossed, holding a telephone snail that looked tiny in her rge hands. The snail imitated Gerd’s features, and a distorted voice, apanied by the sound of howling winds, asked, “How’s it going on your end?”

  “Hmm~ Moss just took care of a few clueless idiots…” Linlin smiled. “But I’m sure the Navy will surround us soon, and we’re ready food fight!”

  “We don’t o say much more. Tell Moss and the others to be prepared and stick to the pn. Don’t let anything g at this critical moment,” Gerd instructed.

  “Mamamama, a diversiht? No problem!” Linlin ughed.

  Nearby, the three-eyed girl Lillian and the mermaid girl Ily looked fused and wide-eyed. They couldn’t uand what Linli by a “diversion” or why there was another pn. Wasn’t their goal to kidnap the Celestial Dragons? Why were they waiting for the Navy to e and capture them?

  “Barry, have you mastered the powers of the Mirror-Mirror Fruit yet?” Linlin asked, turning to the Snakeneck youth Barry from the former Sheep's House, smiling. “We don’t have much time!”

  'Plop plop,' Barry chuckled, pulling out two round mirrors. “Of course… I’ve already marked these two mirrors. Even from a great distance, I pinpoint their locations and open the mirror world whenever needed for a quick escape!”

  As the Mirror-Mirror Fruit user, Barry not only had the ability to enter a the mirror world at will, but he could also trol the size of the mirrors. Though he had only retly gaihe ability, there was still much more to explore.

  “Mamamama, we inally just wao get a few Devil Fruits…” Linlin said happily. “But since you’ve already mastered the Mirror-Mirror Fruit, let’s take it further ay their treasury!”

  Their inal pn had included obtaining the Mirror-Mirror Fruit from the au. The Fallen Angel Pirates had already learhat Steel Bone Kong, one of the you Navy Admirals, was away on a cssified mission. Another admiral, "Pegasus" Horn, was stationed in the Holy Land of Mariejois, leaving only "Iron Cw" Hark at Navy Headquarters. If Barry could quickly master his new abilities, they inteo take advantage of the Navy’s absend loot their treasury.

  “Then we’ll leave the rest to Moss and me!” A short, pink-haired boy, less than two meters tall, with white horns like a demon, grinned. “With Moss’s A Zoan Pegornis form and my Door-Door Fruit, we won’t have any trouble!”

  The boy, Uthan, a former member of the Sheep's House, had demon blood and possessed the Door-Door Fruit, which allowed him to create spatial portals and travel between them instantly.

  “I’ll help too!” Miniaturized by his ability, Little Oars, now less than a foot tall, jumped onto Uthan’s shoulder, baring his teeth with excitement.

  “Thanks to Sally, of course!” Moss ughed.

  “Yes, Sally’s amazing!” Nef nodded in agreement, her voice tinged with admiration.

  As the intelligence chief of the Fallen Angel Pirates, Sally, the “Shapeshifting Witch,” had infiltrated Marineford unnoticed and memorized the yout of the Navy’s headquarters, eveifying the location of their treasury. This would allow Uthan and the others to find it quickly and avoid dete.

  “Let’s not waste time. You guys leave the isnd a ready!” Linlin ordered, tossing several sve colrs to the Celestial Dragons. “Barry, put these guys into the mirror world. They’ll be useful as hostages.”

  “Mamamama~ they’re valuable bargaining chips!”