Chapter 509 White-hot
"As expected, he is a user of the Nature-type Sand-Sand Fruit. Normal attacks have no effect at all. So what do we do?"
After Rebecca punched Crocodile several times with both hands, all of which penetrated Crocodile's body, she directly covered her fists with the armament color and punched Crocodile in the chest. This time she hit the entity, and the unethical attack was effective.
"Ah! Poof!"
Crocodile never thought that such a young girl would have Armament Haki. He was careless and did not dodge, so he was knocked away by Rebecca's punch, spitting out blood in the middle. Vic, who was far away, laughed out loud. Rebecca's attack was made with the anger of the past month, and the damage was not light!
“You you you…! Ahem! How come you are armed? Who are you?”
Crocodile was lying on the ground, holding his chest and coughing up blood. He really couldn't believe it. A random girl from Alabasta had strength that was not inferior to his, and even knew the armament color. This was the first half of the Grand Line!
"I'm Rebecca, a captain at the Navy Headquarters. I came to Alabasta specifically to find you. I'm not a weakling!"
After Rebecca punched Crocodile and made him vomit blood, she felt much more angry and did not hide her identity. Of course, she still felt a little resentful that Crocodile did not recognize her.
Vic's light was so bright that it hid everyone around him behind it. Now he only needed to announce his name and many pirates would tremble in fear. If he came closer, those who survived would have a promising future.
"Are you the little girl next to Xuanlong? Did Xuanlong also come to Alabasta? Did you come here specifically to find me?"
Rebecca's words surprised Crocodile. He naturally read the newspaper frequently, but he only paid attention to major events and important people. He had seen Rebecca's name in the newspaper, but he felt there was no need to remember her face.
So he didn't recognize her at first, until he heard Rebecca introduce herself.
In the past two days, he had also heard news about Xuanlong in the royal capital Albana in Yudi. It was just that the communication between the cities in the desert country was not very convenient. However, occasionally there would be caravans traveling between the two cities, and some of the news in the royal capital Albana would be spread over, but not to many people.
It would be a shame for a person like Xuanlong not to go to the New World, so Crocodile just thought it was a rumor and didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that Xuanlong really came to Alabasta, and his purpose is to find him. He is a little panicked now. His old rival Barrett has been sent to Impel Down by Xuanlong. What's the point of him? If he is targeted, he will be the next victim!
"What? Are you scared? Don't worry, he's not here. If you can't even get past me, you'd better go to Push City and spend some time in jail!"
Rebecca didn't say the following words 'the position of Shichibukai is not suitable for you', in order to prevent Crocodile from having any inappropriate thoughts. She just wanted to fight with all her strength now, because Vic said that actual combat is the fastest way to improve strength!
Although Rebecca didn't finish her words, the highly intelligent Crocodile still heard the loophole in her words, which was that Xuanlong wanted to find him for something, and the girl in front of him was here to test him. Only by defeating the girl in front of him could he see Xuanlong and find out what happened next.
Moreover, he could only defeat him but not kill him, otherwise there would be another result. Crocodile did not ask any more questions, silently climbed up from the sand, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.
"Since you are a navy, there is nothing to say, Sha Lan!"
Crocodile knew that he had to win this battle, otherwise he would have no chance of survival, so he took the initiative after he finished speaking. A rotating mini sandstorm appeared in the palm of his right hand, which quickly grew larger and was thrown towards the opposite side.
"Humph!"
Rebecca looked at the desert storm spinning towards her and snorted coldly. She quickly pulled out the Aizen from her waist and disappeared on the spot. When she reappeared, she was already above the sandstorm. Sword energy spread out and a huge long sword shadow appeared.
Rebecca split the sandstorm in half with one sword, and it disappeared completely. Crocodile's sandstorm has the ability to grow, and the farther the target is, the stronger its power is. However, the distance between the two was too close, and the sandstorm was cut off by Rebecca before it could grow.
Rebecca did not stop after cutting off the sandstorm. She waved Aizen in the air and sent several flying slashes towards Crocodile.
Crocodile did not sit still and wait for death. He directly used the Desert Diamond Sword. His right hand turned into sand and slashed towards Rebecca's flying body. During the flight, the sand turned into four sharp blades and collided with Rebecca's flying blade.
The sand blades were cut into pieces and turned back into sand. There were not many of Rebecca's flying slashes left, but the remaining few quickly passed through Crocodile's body and slashed towards the sand behind him. When the sand waves were stirred up, Crocodile's body was also broken into several pieces!
Except for the two feet that were still standing, the rest of the body fell into the sand in several sections. However, there was no expression on Crocodile's face, with only his head left. Soon, the broken limbs and arms turned into flying sand as if weathered.
Rebecca's slash was not entangled with domineering, so Crocodile, as a natural ability user, did not suffer any substantial damage. His body turned into sand and then grew back on his remaining legs. Rebecca knew that ordinary attacks were useless, so she did not continue to attack and directly wrapped her domineering around Aizen.
In terms of speed, Crocodile is not as good as Rebecca, and Rebecca is also blessed with the Float-Float Fruit. Her speed is not comparable to that of Crocodile, a player who relies on the power of the fruit.
Crocodile could see this from the previous few fights, so one wanted to break the elementalization of the nature system in close combat, while the other tried to use elementalization to avoid the long sword entangled with domineering aura. Both used their observation Haki to the extreme, but relying on observation Haki could not completely defend against Rebecca, because Rebecca could still rely on her body's instincts to fight.
Relying on her speed, Rebecca hit Crocodile several times with the Aizen in her hand, but Crocodile's body, which had been elementalized in advance, dodged it.
Crocodile frequently launched various attacks at Rebecca, including Desert Prison, Sand Storm, Sand Dunes, Desert Sword, etc. Some of his moves were broken by Rebecca, and some were dodged by her. The battle between the two was a 50-50 fight, and neither could hurt each other.
But due to the long stalemate and the anger accumulated from the previous fights, Rebecca no longer used her Observation Haki to predict Crocodile's attacks and elementalization. She was always one step behind the opponent, and her predictions were predicted by the opponent. She simply gave up her Observation Haki and fought with her own combat instincts.