【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 347 Burning Judicial Island

"What's wrong with these guys? It's like they've been stimulated by something!"

Qi looked at Sanji and the others lying on the deck with their mouths wide open in amusement. Everyone looked as if they had been greatly frightened. He teased, "Who could scare you like this?"

"This is truly a miracle!" Franky stood up and said, "They seemed to have been suddenly shocked and fell into a coma. Fortunately, they were in a coma and no one drank a lot of sea water..."

"Hehehe, that's great. However, what caused them to fall into a coma?" Grandma Kokoro said with a puzzled look on her face.

"It's you!" Franky said without hesitation, pointing at Granny Kokoro. He guessed it the moment Granny Kokoro rushed out of the water, because he was also frightened by Granny Kokoro's mermaid form, so he suddenly closed his eyes and dodged. Qi didn't see it. That guy was really lucky.

"Ahem!" Usopp sat up in fear, his eyes widened as he looked at Granny Kokoro standing in front of them and immediately stuck out his tongue in fear, "Uh oh!"

"Huh!" Zoro also sat up, his face full of disbelief.

"Puff!" Sanji knelt on the deck, spitting out a large mouthful of sea water, and immediately asked the ladies, "Are Miss... Miss Nami and Miss Robin okay?"

Franky looked at the few people who were still drowning and sleeping and immediately sat up. He couldn't help but complain, "You guys are really strong!"

"Don't worry, everyone is still alive!" Qi said with a smile.

Hearing Qi's words, Sanji sat down on the deck and relaxed. Thinking of what he had just seen in the water, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. "I was just dreaming."

"Great, back to reality!" Usopp immediately came back to his senses, looked at the familiar Granny Kokoro with two legs, and immediately denied excitedly, "Mermaids really don't exist!!"

Zoro also began to try to convince himself, shouting excitedly, "It looks like a mermaid, but it's actually a dugong. It seems that this legend is true!"

"Shut up, she didn't say she was a mermaid. Don't give up your dream easily!" Sanji denied dissatisfiedly. He couldn't believe that what he just saw was a mermaid.

"I am the mermaid from Whitefish Island!" Grandma Kokoro said with a smile.

"Don't say that..." Sanji pounded the deck in pain.

"I've never heard of a mermaid with long legs..." Usopp retorted in shock.

"I have objections too! Mermaids should be more...should be more..." Sanji pounded the deck in frustration.

Qi walked towards Robin and Nami who had already woken up, ignoring Sanji and the others' argument about whether Granny Kokoro was a mermaid or not. "Are you okay?"

"Strange!!" Chopper hugged his neck with tears in his eyes.

"We're fine!" Robin gave Qi a grateful hug. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

"Don't underestimate me!" Qi smiled and patted Robin's shoulder.

"You guys are such a mess!" Nami patted Qi's head and gave him a hug. "You really made us worried!"

Qi helplessly touched the place where he was photographed and noticed that someone was staring at him. Qi turned his head and saw Sanji looking at him with jealous eyes. He couldn't help but teasingly said, "Sanji, do you want a hug too? I don't mind lending you my arms!"

"Who wants your hug!" Sanji yelled angrily, damn it! This kid got the advantage and still acted like a good boy! It really makes people jealous, why can't Miss Nami and Sister Robin give him a loving hug...

"Zoro! Look over there!" Usopp looked towards the direction of Judicial Island in shock. The place where they had just been was now completely covered by artillery fire.

"I can't imagine it. This is the island we were on just now. Now it has completely turned into a sea of ​​fire!" Zoro frowned as he looked at the island filled with smoke.

"This wave of attacks seems to have received instructions. The bridge and the escort ship seem to have been spared!" Franky explained, "That's why we were able to escape!"

"After they blow up the Judicial Island, it will be a close fight..." Zoro warned.

"Everyone is seriously injured, and there are a lot of experts on the warship!" Usopp said worriedly. "Also, where is Luffy now?"

"Luffy is inside the first pillar of this bridge." Qi looked at the place where Luffy and Rob Lucci were fighting with some concern. "He is fighting with that bastard Rob Lucci inside."

"Isn't that close? Let's go help!" Usopp said worriedly.

"Don't go!" Qi stopped him. "Rob Lucci is not on the same level as the other CP9. Let Luffy deal with him. If he goes over there, it will affect Luffy's battle."

"That's right. If we get involved, we might get separated again. Besides, the fleet may come at any time. We have to make sure we can escape as soon as Luffy comes back!" Zoro agreed.

"I understand!" Usopp nodded, but still looked at the pillar with concern. The pillar had been half destroyed, but they couldn't see the scene inside from their position. "Luffy, come out quickly..."

"Ki, can you see what's going on inside?" Usopp couldn't help but ask as he looked at the motionless pillar, but there was no movement behind him. Usopp turned around in surprise and saw that there was no one there. Usopp screamed, "Ki... where did Ki go!?"

"What!?" Everyone turned around in shock, and sure enough, Qi was nowhere to be found.

Nami couldn't help but yelled angrily, "What does that guy want to do at this time!?"

Just then a voice came from the navy's radio.

"We found pirates escaping from the main island at the main gate. Including giants, there are about 50 pirates!"

"It's them! Look, they escaped successfully! I'm not worried about them!" Franky said with a smile, crossing his arms, as if he was not worried at all. "It's hard to kill them... There was a time before..."

"Under concentrated bombardment, everyone has died. There are currently no survivors on the main island!"

"There are no survivors on Enies Judicial Island! The courthouse and judicial tower in the southeast of the island, as well as the underground passage leading to the bridge, have been completely destroyed!"

"The only target left is the Bridge of Hesitation!"

"Franky..." Usopp looked at Franky's silent back worriedly.

Everyone watched the burning Judicial Island in silence.

"Can people die so easily?" Nami said slowly as she looked at the completely destroyed Judicial Island.

Robin looked at the burning Judicial Island with her lips trembling. She felt her whole body shaking and enveloped by an icy chill. "You can't see people on the map... They just coldly removed a small island from the map! This is the Demon Killing Order!!"

"Straw Hat! Your friends are waiting for you here! I won't agree if you die!" Franky crossed his arms over his chest, suppressing his inner sadness, and shouted towards the first pillar.

"boom!!"

"Luffy!" Usopp looked worriedly at the movement coming from the first pillar.

"Rob Lucci is indeed very strong! If the Straw Hat Boy hadn't been there all the time... to entangle Rob Lucci, we don't know how many people would have died!" Franky said slowly as he looked at the first pillar that made such a commotion.

"That kid... won't die..."