"Indeed, fish-man scum and human scum are no different."
A soft laugh clearly reached everyone's ears, and it made the smile on Nami's face even softer, as if she had found support.
As the smoke slowly cleared, Link and Luffy walked side-by-side at the very front.
Usopp held a slingshot, seemingly calm, but in reality, his legs were trembling slightly as he followed at the very back of the group.
As for the middle, Sanji held a cigarette in one hand and dangled a light blue-skinned fish-man in the other.
However, that fish-man didn't look too good; his face was covered in blood, and his eyes had rolled back, clearly having lost consciousness.
"Kuroobi!"
Seeing the figure Sanji casually dangled, Arlong, who valued his companions, instantly had bloodlust in his eyes.
"What did you do to him?!"
"Do what?"
Sanji glanced at him, then continued to swing the fish-man up.
"I originally thought about seeing if I could make him into sashimi, but his upright posture, just like a human, made me hesitate."
"Bastard!"
Hearing such blatant provocation, Arlong couldn't help but roar.
At the same time, he instantly reacted:
"You are the new Pirate Crew that broke in earlier, aren't you?!"
Connecting this with Nami's abnormal smile just now, Arlong's icy gaze turned towards Nami again:
"I think you owe me an explanation, Nami!"
"You brought these people, didn't you?!"
"That's right, I brought them."
Nami tossed her orange hair, her eyes resolute: "It's time for us to settle things, Arlong!"
"Settle things? Good, good, good!"
Arlong laughed in his anger, "I'd like to see how you plan to settle things!"
"Just bringing a few lowly humans who look like monkeys, and you think you can overthrow my rule?!"
Arlong growled, kicking over the chair behind him, his expression fierce and ferocious as he glared at the group of people who had arrived and stood behind Nami.
However, despite his words, Arlong did not make any overly rash moves.
Kuroobi was, after all, the second strongest fighter in their Pirate Crew, besides himself.
He was a master of Fish-Man Karate, forty-dan, capable of unleashing a Thousand Tile True Punch underwater, powerful enough to shatter a thousand roof tiles!
Even such a master was defeated by the opponent, so Arlong had no choice but to be cautious.
Of course, Arlong believed that Kuroobi must have been careless and ambushed by these lowly humans to be defeated.
Just like Big Brother Tiger back then, ambushed and severely wounded by humans, leading to his death!
Immediately, Arlong roared twice towards the sea:
"Moomoo!!"
With a surge of waves, a massive figure suddenly emerged from the water in the sea within Arlong Park.
A Sea Kings with armor-like scales, covered in green and white mottled patterns, appeared in everyone's sight.
"Is that... a sea cow?"
Sanji scrutinized it, wondering which part to cut to best preserve its flavor.
Usopp shrank back in fear, while Luffy watched with great curiosity.
"Are there foreign invaders? Nyu~"
Not only did this sea cow emerge, but beside it, a Fish-Man with octagonal white hair, a long mouth, a sun mark on his forehead, entirely red skin, and eight arms also surfaced.
It was the octopus Fish-Man, Hachi.
Besides him, the other Fish-Men of the Arlong Pirates also reacted, gradually gathering around.
There was Chuu, the kissing-fish Fish-Man, also a cadre, whose protruding lips resembled a triggerfish.
And Kuroobi, the goldfish Fish-Man shipwright, and Hatchan, the carp Fish-Man party captain, and other less important minor characters.
In short, in a brief moment, all the combat power and members of the Arlong Pirates had gathered here.
Colonel Nezumi, on the other hand, retreated to the side with his two subordinates, intending to watch the show.
As for why he didn't retreat, even though he might be affected... Nonsense! He hadn't gotten his hands on that 100 million berries yet, so how could he leave with empty pockets?!
"Everyone's here..."
Link glanced left and right, "That saves us the trouble of searching for each one individually."
"Captain, this Sea Kings and the other small fry, you can handle them, right?"
Link said to Luffy, whose gaze was almost constantly fixed on Moomoo.
"Leave it to me!!"
Luffy patted his not-so-loud chest, guaranteeing.
"Then I'll take care of the octopus, shall I?"
Sanji stroked his chin, setting his target on Hachi.
"I've been preparing wasabi octopus sauce recently, so it might come in handy."
"Then... then that guy with the long mouth and red cheeks, I-I-I'll take him on!"
Usopp also swallowed, indicating that he wasn't entirely useless.
"Alright."
Usopp-sama's performance is sometimes quite reliable.
Link nodded, his gaze turning to Arlong, who was looking menacing, as if he wanted to bite them all to pieces.