Wano Country’s surrounding waters are monitored by Marines’ surveillance ships, but due to the special sea currents around Wano Country, those surveillance ships are far away from Wano Country. Within the Beasts Pirates, there are numerous Devil Fruit users capable of flight, so they have many methods to evade surveillance ships.
Furthermore, Omanyte has infiltrated the Den Den Mushi of CP0 team, resulting in them being monitored in return.
Queen’s whereabouts were only recently discovered, and the reason for this discovery is because of the king of the Cozia Kingdom; he revealed Queen’s identity.
Although they are a non-affiliated nation, they have contact information of the World Government, because in this world, there exists a creature called “bootlicker,” and many non-affiliated nations live like bootlickers.
World Government looks down on them, cares little for their safety, and will not send people to protect them, but these non-affiliated nations still shamelessly try to seek the favor of the World Government in hopes of gaining the opportunity to join them.
Though it’s very sad, it is indeed the best way for a country to exist in this abnormal world – to find a protective umbrella.
Collecting protection fees, protecting the nation, both the World Government and some pirates operate this way. Pirates like Kaido, Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, while still technically pirates, are essentially warlords ruling over a territory.
But they still carry the title of pirates, and unless they began as pirate nations, most people still choose to believe in the Marines and the World Government. Despite the exorbitant heavenly tribute and the corruption within the Marines, they are still much stronger than most pirates.
They believed in Queen that after defeating Germa, they would have to pay a huge price to him. So, thinking about Queen’s “only alive” bounty, they had a new idea; maybe they could use this opportunity to smoothly become an affiliated nation.
So, the royal family of this country straightforwardly sold Queen out, leading to the current situation.
As the most trusted executioners of the World Government, CP0 knows a lot of secret information. For example, Queen’s bounty skyrocketed due to his research abilities; his own strength is just average.
Of course, Queen was also well aware that out of his one billion bounty, roughly eight hundred million is likely because of undeserved blame. As the “Pot King” of the Beasts Pirates, he feels quite helpless about this.
In fact, they had arrived here long ago, but they have been observing him from the shadows all along. To the outside world, Queen’s strength is shrouded in mystery, and they want to understand more about Queen’s strength.
“Knight, is it really okay for us to give up on our original mission?”
“This is an order from above, just carry it out. For us, there is no need to think about the reason for carrying out the mission, all we have to do is complete it.”
The leading CP0 member replied calmly.
Knight isn’t his name, but his code name; CP0 has many teams, each with its unique code name. He then instructed his subordinates:
“Germa seems to be unable to handle it. That Queen seems to possess remarkable technology. Bishop, Lance, you go deal with that little girl, he seems to be quite concerned about her. Rook, you come with me to deal with Queen.”
Knight quickly made arrangements, and his subordinates followed their orders and acted separately.
He advised them to pay more attention to the Genesects under Yamato, as those machines seemed far from simple based on his previous observations.
Originally, Queen was mercilessly bullying those ordinary clone soldiers of Germa. Under absolute firepower suppression, those guys couldn’t even get close to Queen even if they wanted to attempt suicide attacks.
With the arrival of GT-8, Queen became even more relaxed. He knew Judge’s capabilities very well. In the MADS research institute, aside from Vegapunk and his creations, Queen considered himself the strongest.
Caesar is just a trash. Although he has a Logia-type ability, he himself is quite weak. As long as someone knew Armament Haki, most people could deal with him. In comparison, Judge was slightly stronger, but the majority of his strength lay in his weapons and equipment.
Only him, while modifying his body, also trained it. After joining the Beasts Pirates, he obtained a sufficiently powerful physique and learned dual-color Haki. It wasn’t due to his innate talent; it was the living environment of the Beasts Pirates that could toughen anyone.
However, the appearance of CP0 disrupted Queen’s rhythm.
Bishop and Lance appeared next to Yamato first, interrupting her plan of pursuing Judge. Watching CP0 appear here, Judge didn’t stay but directly took Germa away from there.
These CP0 members were all trained killing machines. In situations with clear targets, they didn’t have any intention of conversation. Lance raised his hand and sprinkled a powder towards Yamato.
He was the Devil Fruit user of this squad, capable of releasing potent hypnotic toxins, which were extremely convenient for covert missions. However, the sleeping powder failed to affect Yamato because Genesect beneath her suddenly emitted a powerful suction force, drawing all the hypnotic powder into itself.
“Oni Princess, be careful. This powder is toxic and could potentially cause unknown effects if inhaled.”
As a Steel-type Pokémon with most of its body being a specialized mechanical structure, poisons have no effect on Genesect whatsoever. It can easily function as a mobile air filter.
While Bishop and Lance were attacking Yamato, Queen had already noticed them, which was Knight’s plan. He hoped to use an attack on Yamato to distract Queen.
And it proved successful; these people suddenly attacking Yamato did indeed distract Queen. If something happened to Yamato, he wouldn’t fare well either.
He hadn’t been worried when it was about Judge because he understood him well enough, but now it was different.
When he wanted to go support Yamato, Knight used Soru to appear in front of Queen in an instant.
“A chance.”
He raised his leg high, a purple light flashed over Knight’s body, then a heavy stomp landed directly on Queen’s head.
Boom!
Queen’s Tropius-transformed head slammed heavily onto the ground and several cracks spread out along the ground in all directions.
“Captain, we took care of him so easily?”
Looking at Queen, who was almost unresponsive, Rook couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He couldn’t believe that a pirate with a 1 billion bounty would be knocked down with just one blow.
But immediately, without waiting for Knight to answer, he and Knight both used Geppo to dodge upward. Just as they dodged, a laser shot out from Queen’s tail, leaving a charred pit in their previous position.
Then Queen pulled his head out of the soil, shook it, and disdainfully looked towards the sky.
“You thought such a weak attack could defeat me? Compared to those pe*verts, your attacks are too weak!”
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