The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

"Since this is a battle for our partners, the referees cannot afford to make any mistakes!"

"To ensure true fairness and impartiality, then of course both sides should have referees supervising the match!"

Link clapped his hands. "Then I'll be the referee on our side."

"That's settled then!!"

Foxy: "???"

"Hey, stop talking to yourself!"

Seeing that Link's interference meant their advantage of biased refereeing might be lost, Fox panicked.

"Such an important matter as refereeing, how could it be just you talking about it..."

boom!

Pili pala!

Before Fox could finish speaking, a burst of blue-white lightning suddenly descended from the sky and exploded beside him.

"how……"

Link looked at him slowly. "Is there a problem?"

"No... no problem."

Foxy glanced at the charred ground beside him, which Link had blasted out of, and couldn't help but swallow hard, chuckling dryly.

Faced with absolute power, your opinion is not that important.

Even this so-called battle for supremacy is something you can only play with if Link and his group want to.

If Link and his friends were to overturn the table, Foxy, the silver fox, would instantly turn into a dead fox.

"First, never act impulsively; second, never overlook any wrongdoing; third, ensure absolute fairness and impartiality in judging!!"

Link stood on the sidelines, arms crossed, reciting the classic line from Captain Dragonfly.

"In this battle, no violation of the rules will escape my notice!!"

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188 wins two games in a row! Ah Niu is incredibly strong! He's almost too good!!

Seeing Link's unyielding expression, the Foxy Pirates contestants, who were about to enter the competition, couldn't help but shrink back. The first competition was called the Ring Race.

Both sides sent out several contestants to race around the surrounding islands, competing to see whose boat could travel the fastest and cross the finish line first.

The Straw Hat Pirates sent Usopp, Nami, and Robin.

"Yosh, let's win the game in one fell swoop!!"

Usopp, unusually confident, let out a loud shout and then looked at Fox:

"Are we allowed to use our own tools during the competition?"

"Well..."

Fox initially wanted to refuse outright, but then he and his accomplices secretly resorted to underhanded tactics.

But when his eyes glanced over and he saw Link standing on the sidelines with his arms crossed, he couldn't help but shudder.

"Of course!!"

He thought that at the last moment, he could use the power of the Slow-Slow Fruit to influence them and become the key to the final victory.

Not wanting to lose the insurance, Fox gritted his teeth and agreed to the rule.

However, he immediately regretted it immensely.

"Is that so? That's good."

Usopp nodded in satisfaction, then took out wind shells from his backpack and stuck them to the stern of the ship.

Seeing this, Nami also decisively pointed the [Tornado Meat Pipe] backward.

Robin sat there quietly reading a book, but several rowing arms appeared around the hull of the ship.

With a lineup like this, tell me, how can we lose?!

Ever since~

The Fox Pirates have gone into seclusion.

The moment the match was announced to have started, Usopp and Nami simultaneously activated Wind Shell and Tornado Wheatpipe.

Then, in the brief moment before Fox could even react, he quickly crossed the key mark.

Fox: "..."

The competitor, who was about to set off, was speechless.

The other members of the Fox Pirates: "..."

We didn't even have time to react, and it's already over?!

I didn't even have time to prepare to launch the slow-relation particles, and it's already over?!

Fox stood there, a bewildered look on his large, round face.

I seem to have made a very stupid decision.

Well, that's incredibly foolish.

Then, after Link announced the results of the match.

Fox then realized what was happening, his mouth agape, snot and tears streaming down his face.

"I'm so stupid, really!"

He lay prostrate on the ground, repeating the same phrase over and over again, much like Xianglin's wife.

He clenched his fists and pounded the ground repeatedly while burying his face in his hands and sobbing, tears and snot streaming down his face.

As the waves crashed against the nearby islands, they washed away his sorrow, which was almost flowing like a river.

Thus, the first round of the Davy-Back-Fight battle ended in victory for the Straw Hat Pirates.

Then, Luffy, all fired up, and under Fox's watchful gaze, which was filled with the impassioned thought that "he'll definitely choose me," he chose the stilt-walking uncle's white horse, Sherry.

"Thank goodness"

Fox breathed a sigh of relief, then instantly sensed something was wrong.

"I can't even beat a horse?!"

He became withdrawn again.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft, the boss is withdrawn again, pfft."

A hamburger that looked a lot like an ape was standing next to him, laughing at Fox as he was being molded.

"Don't worry, boss, this is just the first round."

Beside them, Porchi, the navigator and cheerleader of the Foxy Pirates, and their idol, who had a loud voice, comforted them:

"Now that we're on guard, and with your killer move yet to be used, boss, we're sure to win!!"

She had a slightly pointed nose and wore the Fox Pirates' signature mask, but her pretty face was still faintly visible beneath it.

"That's right!!"

Fox rallied again and sought to use his abilities to cheat and win.

He, Hamburg, and Porchi were whispering among themselves and quickly decided on a new competition event.

"Hotball Battle" is a game where one side has two or three players, one of whom balances a ball on their head and acts as the ball player.

The team that scores the ball into the basket wins.

"We can see that the person the Foxy Pirates sent is Hamburger, one of Captain Foxy's trusted right-hand men!!"

The host, Itomimis, was enthusiastically introducing the event.

"And there's our second most muscular guy on the ship, known as the Collision Machine, Piculus, and the tallest and strongest, Bikupanda, who's a half-fishman and half-giant!!" As he introduced them, three figures, growing taller in turn, appeared on the field.

"A hybrid of fish-men and giants?!"

Link, however, took a closer look at the giant fish-man named Bikupanda.

He was a hybrid of giants and mudfish.

Logically speaking, both giants and fishmen are among the world's top bloodlines, and the offspring born from their union should possess extraordinary talents.

but?

"What a waste."

Sensing the opponent's strength and power, Link shook his head with a hint of regret.

The opponent only has that size and strength, but not much real power.

Instead, they've wasted this precious bloodline.

The opposing team's ball handler is naturally the giant fish, who is the tallest and least likely to get into the basket, compared to Kupanda.

The Straw Hat Pirates sent Sanji, Zoro... and Ah Niu!!

That's right, they are currently the three strongest fighters in the Straw Hat Pirates, besides Link and Luffy!!

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"Awoo awoo!!"

As this was the first time Ah Niu had shown his abilities in front of so many people, his fighting spirit was very high.

"Keep it up, everyone!!"

Chopper cheered them on while munching on a marshmallow.

"That's right, we can win over their captain, the one with the ass-head, and use him as a handyman!!"

Usopp also offered his suggestion.

"Am I the butt...head?"

Foxy then lay sullenly on the ground again.

"And he was just doing odd jobs..."

"I don't want him!"

Nami, on the contrary, said with disgust, "It's greasy and disgusting, it's absolutely awful!!"

Puff puff! !

Nami's words were like three sharp arrows, piercing Foxy's chest one after another, knocking him to the ground and rendering him unable to get up.

It's clear from their conversation that Nami and Usopp never considered the possibility of losing the match.

Especially after Usopp learned about Foxy's bounty from Link, he was even less worried.

He's just a pirate with a paltry 24 million Berries, only 2 million more than Nami.

Compared to Usopp, who has a sticky gun with 33 million Berries, this is still a long way off!!

This arrogance reached its peak after Usopp easily won the first round.

"Are you sure you're okay with being the ball player, Ah Niu?"

Zoro looked at Ah Niu, who had a ball on his forehead, and couldn't help but ask.

To be honest, the rules of this game are to throw the ball into the hoop, so the bigger the ball, the harder it is for it to get into the hoop.

Requesting flowers.........

Having Ah Niu as the ball player is actually a very disadvantageous choice.

"Awoo awoo!!"

Ah Niu waved his arms twice, then made a few punches in mid-air like a boxer, and said confidently.

Seeing that Ah Niu was so insistent, Sanji and Zoro said no more.

They still have the most basic trust in their companions.

Soon, this intense ball game began.