Chapitre 71: chapter 71

Third person's point of view:

Kano country, inside the cp9 Hideout, the three cp9 agents were standing together, Kumadori and Fukurou staring at Jabra with a frowning expression as he yelled into a transponder snail.

"What the hell do you mean we are to be relocated?" he exclaimed with a loud voice as he brought the snail close to his mouth, spraying its face with his saliva.

"You heard me, agent," replied an icy crisp voice from the other end of the call. "Not only did you act on your own against a person of interest, but you also alerted him to your presence and the growing interest in him," the voice added in a tone that didn't accept any arguments.

"The only thing you've accomplished is alerting the target to our interest, compromising yourselves, and making future attempts that much more difficult," the voice explained with a patient tone. The words he spoke, however, seemed to be anything but that.

"The only reason we aren't sending other agents to erase the shame you've caused on the cp9 is that you still haven't completed your mission, and we are currently short-staffed with the others assigned their own missions," the voice added, his tone growing colder and colder as he spoke.

"So you better complete your mission with flying colors and hope that the people up top are impressed enough to spare your miserable lives," the voice concluded, hanging up the call and leaving the trio looking at each other with concerned frowns.

"How the hell did news of this get out so fast," Jabra asked with a scowl. "I know none of us told anybody, so how the hell did the higher-ups know about it so fast?" he added with an expression that was a mixture of anger and concern.

"It can't have been you flapping that big mouth of yours again, Fukurou, can it?" Jabra asked while looking at the green-haired humanoid ball, which was Fukurou.

"That's impossible. You had my zip my mouth this entire week-" Fukurou replied as he unzipped his mouth. "-and I haven't opened it even once this entire week," he concluded, zipping his mouth again as he did.

"YOYOI. It doesn't matter who did this. I will take responsibility and commit seppuku right this instant," Kumadori Exclaimed with his hand in front of his face while jumping on one leg, causing the other two cp9 agents to smack him on the head. "Now is not the time, you idiot," they shouted with their fists on his head.

"YOYOI. If that is the case, then there is no longer a need to continue this pointless argument," Kumadori remarked with a nod. "We must hurry up and leave this island to complete our mission, hopefully well enough to keep our lives," he added, causing the other two to nod while sighing.

"However, meeting my mother in heaven does not sound like a bad idea, so feel free to continue arguing if you wish," the pink-haired cp9 agent added after a minute's pause, causing the other two's eyes to twitch.

"That can be easily arranged," Came a voice from outside as one of the room's walls exploded into countless pieces, revealing Johnny's scowling face as he burst into the room, rushing towards the trio.

-0-

Johnny's point of view:

Earlier:

"So this is where those bastards are hiding," I murmur to myself while looking at an unassuming building with very few windows compared to the surrounding building with what little windows it had closed shut.

'I've waited this long, so might as well figure out what they're up to before I get to it,' I think to myself as I disappear from the rooftop I'm standing on, only to appear near the cp9 hideout leaning my back on the wall and straining my senses.

'It seems that they're talking to their superior,' I think as I close my eyes, focusing on my hearing instead.

"It looks like they weren't acting on anyone's orders," I murmured to myself as the conversation between Jabra and the person on the other line of the transponder snail ended.

'It doesn't change what I'm here to do anyway,' I concluded, channeling the impact fist technique through my body.

"However, meeting my mother in heaven does not sound like a bad idea, so feel free to continue arguing if you wish," I heard Kumadori's voice from the other side of the wall, causing me to scowl as I punched the wall, shattering it to countless pieces.

"That can be easily arranged," I remark as I rush into the room, channeling the impact fist again and lunging at Jabra, who quickly activated his Tekkai Kenpo as soon as the wall shattered.

I held Jabra's face with one hand to make sure he wouldn't go flying and buried my fist in Jabra's abdomen as soon as I reached him, the shock wave caused by my punch going through his defenses and injuring his internal organs that were still recovering.

I then slammed him to the ground, with the back of his head impacting the wooden floor, shattering it into pieces and immobilizing him for now as Kumadori shouted, "Shishi Kebab," hurling a fireball at me, which hit me in the back, but I shrugged it off thanks to my heat resistance cyber ware enhancement.

"Soru: Iron ball," Fukurou shouted in a hurried tone as his body turned even more round, launching himself at me as he spun in the air.

It took me a mere fraction of a second to calculate his trajectory and movement pattern thanks to my enhanced vision and enhanced brain processing power, so I took two steps forward, my left arm snaking its way towards the spinning Fukurou's collar, gripping it and forcing his motion to a halt.

I then slammed him on top of Jabra in an over-shoulder throw, channeling another impact fist and releasing it with my hands on his chest, immobilizing him as well and causing Jabra, who was beneath Fukurou, to faint.

Looking at this scene, Kumadori hurriedly lunged at me, the butt of his staff pointed at me as he held like a billiard's cue, continuously thrusting it at me and releasing a compressed air bullet with every thrust.

I quickly drew my sword, deflecting the air bullets as I charged at Kumadori as well, causing him to frown and shout, "Lion Finger Gun."

Kumadori's hair became longer and morphed into countless hands with their fingers pointed at me, releasing even more air bullets as he thrusts them all in my direction.

I naturally could not deflect such an ungodly amount of projectiles, causing some of them to hit me, doing absolutely no damage thanks to my tough, cyber ware enhanced exterior and Tekkai technique that I learned to move while activating earlier this week.

"Zekku (absolute void)," I murmured, feeling my consciousness being drawn into Satori's blade, leaving me unable to think of anything but the most optimal way to swing it as my hands moved on their own, slashing Kumador's torso leaving a red gash that extended from his chest to the upper area of his stomach.

"I have questions, and you will answer them," I stated while looking at Kumadori collapsing next to Fukurou and Jabra, bleeding profusely and staining the floor red with his blood as he fell.

"You won't get a single word out of my mouth," Fukurou said as he unzipped his mouth and zipped it nack again after he finished speaking.

Jabra didn't say anything since he was unconscious while Kumadori tried to say something, but only blood came out of his mouth.

I raised an eyebrow in bemusement at Fukurou as I kneeled down next to him and unzipped his mouth. "Why did you attack my companions?" I asked in an icy tone.

"Don't look down on me. I'm the tight-lipped Fukurou, lover of gossip," Fukurou said while looking me in the eye challengingly. "There is no way I'll tell you that we've attacked your friends, so we'd have less trouble when we go after you," He added, causing me to sigh in exasperation and Kumadori's body began twitching on the ground.

"I see. If you're not going to answer that question, then it can't be helped. I'll just have to ask you a different one," I remarked in a mocking tone as I watched Kumadori's body twitch even more intensely, seemingly trying to say something but only making grunting noises.

"Why do you want to go after me?" I asked as I turned my face to look at Fukurou again.

"As I've said, you should give up already. There is absolutely no way I'll tell you that Jabra wanted to go after you because a cp0 agent promised him a promotion if he managed to capture you alive," Fukurou exclaimed, his eyes filled with resolve and his tone unfaltering to the point where even I would have been moved if he wasn't telling me everything.

"I see. You're a tough nut to crack, but you'll break eventually," I remarked with a blank face, barely holding my laughter at this scene, even forgetting my earlier rage.

"Why does the cp0 agent want me captured alive?" I asked the green-haired humanoid ball again after a second's pause to compose myself.

"I don't know, and even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you that I think it has something to do with the celestial dragons or the SSG since they are the only ones able to make them move," Fukurou replied, his tone challenging and his eyes unflinching as they met my own.

"So you won't crack until the end?" I asked as I heaved a purposefully long sigh of disappointment. "Then there is no point in asking you any more questions since you will now answer," I added while shaking my head with a defeated expression on my face.

"Then, that only leaves deciding your fates on today's schedule."

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"Then, the only thing left on today's schedule is deciding your fates," I remarked, watching Fukurou paling, Kumadori halt his twitching, and even Jabra chose this moment to regain consciousness.

"Deciding our fates- cough - don't make me laugh," Jabra said, coughing blood as he did while clutching his chest. "We're already dead. Our only hope of survival was to complete our mission without any further complications," the wolfman added, his expression a mixture of pain and resignation.

"And now that's impossible since news of this defeat would reach the higher-ups somehow, like our earlier defeat," he concluded while looking me in the eye, making it clear that I should hurry up and kill him.

"I see," I said, getting up and kicking Fukurou and removing him from Jabra. "Then die," I stated as I drew my gun and put a bullet between his eyes that were stubbornly looking at me to the very end.

"Do you two wish to die as well?" I asked while looking at the Fukurou and Kumadori, only to be met with silence from them, with Kumadori struggling to turn himself around to lie on his back.

"No matter what you do, the world government will try to erase you as soon as you finish your mission," I remarked while lighting a cigarette as I kicked Kumadori, giving him a helping hand (or a foot in this case) and turning him on his back.

"You know this as well as I do," I stated while watching Fukurou crawl his way to sit in front of Kumadori protectively. "But your fates aren't in the world government's hands. It's in my hands," I added with an amused smile while looking at Fukurou and Kumadori, who were listening intently to my speech in silence.

"Unlike the higher-ups of the world government, I'm a very reasonable man. You only need to ask for a chance to live, and I'll give it to you," I concluded with a smirk as the two's expression began shifting rapidly, seemingly very conflicted.

"What do you want?" Fukurou asked with a resigned tone of voice after exchanging several meaningful glances with Kumadori.

"Those are not the magic words, my rotund friend. Why don't you try again?" I replied, my smirk becoming more pronounced.

"We would like to live. Give us a chance to live!" Fukurou said through gritted teeth, his body tensing, only to lose its tenseness as when he finished his sentence.

"Still a little lacking, but beggars can't be choosers, I guess," I replied in a leisurely tone. "The way I see it, the world government will try to erase you one way or the other, so why not work for me instead?" I added with a smirk.

"You want us to join your crew?" Fukurou asked suspiciously with a raised eyebrow.

"Rehahahaha, Hell no. I don't take weaklings and government dogs on my ship," I stated with a laugh. "And you two check both boxes," I added with a shrug after I stopped laughing.

"We're not weaklings. It's you who is a monster," Fukurou shouted with an outraged expression and a loud tone.

"Why, thank you," I replied with a beaming smile. "Anyway, what I want you two to do is join The baroque works organization, and provide me with whatever important information you come across about both the grand line and organization itself." I explained while looking at their expression that shifted with every word I spoke.

"What about the world government? Won't the higher-ups notice something and send people after us?" Fukurou asked with a frown, seemingly contemplating my offer.

"That's simple. Pretend you're still doing the mission and disguise yourselves when you infiltrate the Baroque works and make up some bullshit to report to the government when they contact you," I replied with a shrug while looking at Fukurou like he was an idiot.

"What about Jabra? What happens when they ask about him, and what should we do when they discover that we're lying?" Fukurou asked again while pointing at the dead Jabra.

"If they ask about Jabra, then tell them he went rogue and ran away, you wouldn't have any problems convincing them of that since he's the one who started this entire farce," I replied while pointing at Jabra's body as well. "And when they find out you've been lying, then the organization of the Baroque work is the perfect hiding place," I explained in a leisurely tone. "As long as you hide yourselves, well, that is."

"No matter how good a hiding place we find, we'll eventually be found," Fukurou replied while shaking his head.

"You won't have to stay there forever, only two years, which is how much time you need to finish that so-called mission anyway," I said with a wolfish smirk, causing Fukurou's eyes to widen in shock.

"How do you know that?" the green-haired agent asked, his shock visible on his face, and I merely replied with a bemused grin. "Fine. Never mind then," he added a second later, after seeing my expression.

"We accept those terms. No, we don't have any choice but to accept those terms," Fukurou said with a resolute tone after exchanging a glance with Kumador in what seemed to be a silent conversation.

"Then get a doctor to look at your wounds or something and contact me on this number when you leave the island," I said as I got up, turning around and throwing a small piece of paper on the ground.

"Oh, and just in case you two think of double-crossing me," I added without turning around while walking toward my improvise entrance (The wall I exploded earlier) as I took out a transponder snail and pressed the red button on its shell.

"Don't," I concluded with an amused voice as the transponder snail began playing the conversation we just had.

-0-

Later at night.

I sigh in content as I slump into the black pearl's railing, leaning on it and taking out my whisky bottle to indulge in as I do.

After venting most of my frustrations at the cp9 agents and Killing Jabra, the piece of human waste who started this whole situation, I'm finally able to relax now.

Even though it was Jabra's reckless actions that alerted me to the situation early, allowing me to begin planning ahead of time to get on top of any similar circumstances in the future, he still had to die.

But I wasn't satisfied, as the main reason for all of this situation. A fat pig in a fancy space suit is still living in Mariejois, enjoying his life without a care in the world.

I shake my head as I take a sip of whisky, pushing down the urge to climb the red line and doing something similar to what Fisher Tiger did in the past.

"I'm not nearly strong enough to do something like that. I need to focus on my plans and become strong for now, but one day...," I murmur to myself with an inaudible voice while smiling, the image of a burning Mariejois appearing in my head as I did.

"What did you say, captain? And your smile kind of felt scary for a moment, just now," Elly said, causing me to stop thinking about all the different ways a celestial dragon would squeal when I finally get the chance to beat one of them to death.

"Nothing important, just thinking about something fun," I replied with a smile as I turned around to look at her. "More importantly, give me my hat back. I just lent it to you when I went to meet with Hina," I said while looking at my hat that was resting on Elly's head.

"No," Elly replied with one word, causing my eyes to twitch. "What do you mean, no? That's my hat. Hurry up and give it back," I said with an exasperated voice.

"No means no," Elly replied again, looking at me like I was an idiot. "You..., fine. You can keep it for now, but you'll have to give it back sooner or later," I said with a defeated sigh when I noticed Laffite and Kozue coming back to the ship.

"Welcome back, you two. How did it go?" I asked as I turned to look at the two as they jumped aboard the ship. "It looks like someone called Obbi had too much to drink on while moon gazing on a rooftop and fell headfirst into the ground, breaking his neck and dying in the process," Kozue replied with a smirk.

"I see, what a shame," I remarked with a blank expression as I leaned my head backward, taking a big mouthful of whisky into my mouth and swallowing it promptly.

"You guys did well, go get some rest," I added with a smile, causing Laffite and Kozue to smile as well as they turned around to mingle with the rest of the crew.

Laffite went to drink with Wilson while Elly took Kozue's hand and led her into the lower decks to do god knows what females do in private, causing me to shrug as I made my way to my room to call it a day and get some shut-eye.