Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

"Fortunately, it seems his target isn't us."

Chopper patted his chest.

However, no sooner had Chopper finished speaking than another identical tall figure appeared silently, like a ghost, at another fork in the road to their side.

"Whoa! Why are there two bears?!"

Chopper was so startled that he jumped up.

It wasn't just two bears.

Meanwhile, on another route leading to the port.

Nami, Bonney, Merry, and Zoro, who was covering the rear, also encountered an interception.

"Is that a bear?"

Nami's expression changed when she saw the tall figure blocking the middle of the road.

"Father!"

The moment Bonnie saw that familiar face, she completely lost control of her emotions. She screamed and rushed forward without thinking.

Too many questions, too many grievances, too much longing... all erupted at this moment.

All she wanted to do was rush to that man and ask him why he had disappeared without a trace and why things had turned out this way!

"Bonnie, calm down!"

Nami reacted quickly, grabbing Bonney tightly from behind. "Look closely, something's off about this man!"

"Let me go, he's my father!" Bonnie struggled desperately, tears welling in her eyes.

"Calm down, Nami is right."

Zoro, with Wado Ichimonji already in his mouth, gripping the Sandai Kitetsu and the black sword Shusui in both hands, stood in front of the crowd with an extremely solemn expression and said:

"This guy doesn't give off the same vibe as the previous bear. Although the appearance is the same, the aura is completely different."

Just then, a deep voice came from the side.

"The pirate hunter is right."

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a large man with a sturdy build like a wrestler slowly walking towards them.

His face and hairstyle resembled a girl's, and there was a slit on his left cheek from his eye to the corner of his mouth.

He wore a red bellyband with three tomoe and a strange pattern printed in the middle, a huge rope around his waist, shorts, and bandages wrapped around his right hand and left foot. He was also carrying a huge axe.

"Zhan Momomaru?"

Bonnie was visibly startled when she saw who it was, and her struggles lessened.

She knows Sentomaru.

Many years ago, when she was seriously ill and seeking medical treatment everywhere, she lived with Kizaru, Sentomaru, and a genius scientist named Vegapunk for about six months.

That brief period was one of the few warm memories in her bleak childhood.

We're friends, right?

"What happened to Father?!" Bonnie asked Sentomaru with a sob in her voice, as if grasping at a straw.

"Bonnie, you know me well."

Sentomaru slammed his giant axe to the ground, put his hands on his hips, and struck a proud pose: "I am the most tight-lipped man in the world!"

Zoro clicked his tongue impatiently:

"Looks like they're enemies too. Let's just cut them down together."

He made a move to step forward.

"and many more!"

Bonnie called out hastily, knowing Sentomaru's personality, "Wait a minute!"

Sure enough, after making that declaration of being the most tight-lipped, Sentomaru's mouth began to move involuntarily, as if he had something he absolutely had to say. He struggled for a moment as if fighting some kind of instinct, but finally couldn't hold back and blurted out like a machine gun:

"They are not your father Bartholomew Bear, but mass-produced human weapons—pacifists—made from your father's physical genes and modified with cutting-edge technology!"

This is the first time something like this has been deployed! There are so many pirates gathered here, it's a good opportunity to test their fighting capabilities!

He paused, as if trying to shut up, but his mouth opened again uncontrollably:

"This thing costs as much as a large warship and possesses astonishing combat power that surpasses that of ordinary pirate crews. It is the World Government's absolute weapon for cleaning up the seas and dealing with pirates like you!"

"weapon?"

Bonnie was struck dumb, frozen in place, forgetting even to struggle.

"You actually turned my father into a weapon?!"

"I don't know the specifics of the process,"

A complex expression flashed across Sentomaru's face. He tried to keep his mouth shut, but in the end he said dejectedly, "But the only thing I know is that your father voluntarily underwent the transformation."

Voluntary?

Bonnie fell completely silent, her face drained of color.

impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

How could my father willingly become such an emotionless fighting machine?

why?

Why didn't she reply to any of the many letters she wrote?

Countless questions and immense sorrow overwhelmed her in an instant.

"There may be many hidden reasons behind this, but you can't block our way now!"

Zoro's gaze returned to the pacifist, his killing intent palpable.

Nami also gripped her Weather Stick tightly.

The most important thing now is to get back to the ship.

Even though it was still trading time, so-called pacifists were blocking the way, which means...

Has the deal fallen through?

"Merry, are you able to contact Sanji and the others now?"

"Yes, they're all here..."

As a ship spirit, Merry could naturally contact her companions on the Thousand Sunny through the Going Merry, but the next second her expression changed drastically:

"Oh no! Pacifistas have appeared on the Thousand Sunny as well!"

Nami's heart sank: "It seems the deal isn't going to go smoothly after all. Is the Navy planning to wipe us out in one fell swoop?"

It's not just the Straw Hat crew.

The Navy clearly wants to gain more.

The pacifists blocked the supernovae's escape route.

"It seems we can't leave without defeating him."

Uroki hugged his large, rhomboid pencil tightly, maintaining that strange grin on his face, "Then this humble monk will go first!"

"I'll join too."

Luo stepped forward and stood on the other side of Urgi, his right hand clenched loosely, and the invisible ROOM space quietly unfolded.

"I also want to test the strength of the so-called Seven Warlords of the Sea."

Hawkins is ruthless and doesn't talk much; he just takes action.

He drew his longsword from his waist, and the blade was quickly wrapped in strange straw, extending and lengthening into a flexible and sharp straw whip.

Scarecrow with Hand-held Knife!

The long straw whip, like a venomous snake, pierced the chest of the pacifist with a sharp whooshing sound!

Clang!

With a crisp sound, the tip of the straw whip struck what seemed like indestructible steel, leaving only a white mark on the special material of the pacifist's chest, emitting a wisp of smoke, without even piercing the skin.

The pacifist's massive body was only pushed back a small step by this force.

"Very strong defensive capabilities."

Hawkins said in a deep voice, his tone now more serious.

When attacked, the pacifist's scanner-like lenses flashed red, as if locking onto a target.

He said, without any emotion:

"Surgeon of Death, Trafalgar Law, bounty 2 million Berries."

"Magician, Basil Hawkins, bounty 249 million Berry."

"The Strange Monk, Urouge, bounty 108 million Berries."

After confirming the target, the pacifist slowly removed the glove from his right hand.

Not far away, Vivi and Robin encountered the same situation.

"Sister Robin, look at his hands!"

Vivi, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed the difference.

A real bear's paws have soft, adorable pink pads like a cat's or dog's paws, but this bear's paws have a structure resembling a gun barrel in the center.

Furthermore, the gun barrel was rapidly charging, gathering golden light.

call out!

A laser beam shot out from the pacifist's palm without warning, its speed far exceeding the reaction limits of ordinary people, heading straight for Hawkins, who had just launched the attack.

boom!

"A laser?" Hawkins exclaimed.