Chapter 856 Enemies gather together
"Nami! Let's go here. I think it's more interesting here! Hehehe!"
"No!"
After leaving Fishman Island, the Sunny arrived at the New World waters safely. Because of some accidents that happened to them in the sea, the route of the Sunny changed. Vice Admiral Smoker of the Navy Headquarters who was waiting for the Straw Hat Pirates at the exit of the New World also came up empty-handed. Smoker can be said to have avoided the fate of being beaten at the beginning!
Luffy looked at the recording pointers on Nami's wrist, pointed at the one that was spinning the most violently and chuckled, while Nami had a look of despair on her face!
Luffy didn't know the meaning of the violent rotation of the record pointer, but Nami, as a navigator, knew it very clearly. The more violently the pointer rotated, the more dangerous the island ahead was. However, the more interesting Luffy found it there, the more he found it interesting. This was unreasonable, because Luffy was the captain. As a navigator, her job was to take the captain to where he wanted to go!
Except for the still timid Usopp and Chopper who were howling like ghosts, everyone else had a look of confidence and their eyes were full of eagerness to try. Maybe they didn't exercise their bodies before in Fishman Island and had not had time to display many of their abilities. They were looking forward to the battle ahead!
In fact, the direction that the violently spinning needle was pointing to was Thunder God Island, which was not an island that anyone could land on. In the end, the Straw Hat Pirates did not land on that island because they received an unknown distress call on their way, which attracted the enthusiastic and curious Straw Hat Pirates to another island!
Because the distress signal was released on a public channel, not only the Straw Hat Pirates received it, but also the Den Den Mushi on Smoker's warship, and he also heard the Straw Hat kid's voice on the Den Den Mushi. Isn't this a coincidence? Before, he didn't wait for the rabbit, and now he even heard the specific location. What else can he say? Just chase after it!
The Straw Hat Pirates were lucky because the three islands pointed by the recording pointer were not ordinary places, or in other words, the islands on the three magnetic routes were very dangerous. The Straw Hat Pirates were lucky to come to an island that was not on the magnetic route - Punk Hazard.
This was originally the island of the World Government. Vegapunk's experimental base was built here, and it was guarded by Kizaru and Xuanlong, who were still vice admirals of the Marine Headquarters. If a pirate broke in at that time, they would most likely never return.
However, due to the evil scientist Caesar Courant's manipulation, a large amount of poison gas leaked from the experimental base on Punk Hazard, filling the entire island. Vegapunk had to lead the scientific researchers to evacuate, and the island became uninhabited.
Originally, the island could be reused once the poison gas on it dissipated. However, two years ago, two admirals, Akainu and Aokiji, fought a fierce battle on the island for the position of Admiral of the Navy, which completely changed the climate of the island. Spring Island was then covered by glaciers and flames, and was completely abandoned by the World Government.
Caesar Clown's years of planning have paid off. He got the huge experimental base built by the World Government at great expense without spending a penny. The call for help received by the Straw Hat Pirates came from the island of Punk Hazard!
Of course, there is an uninvited guest on the island, the newly promoted Shichibukai Trafalgar Law. In order to come here to investigate Doflamingo's weakness, he gave his heart to Vergo and reached a temporary cooperation with the Don Quixote family.
However, this kind of cooperation was only on the surface. It was achieved because Law took his own heart as a hostage. Among the pirates, Law's brain should be one of the best. Knowing that he could not defeat the Don Quixote family head-on, he thought of using a strategy to save the country in a roundabout way!
Law has never forgotten the great hatred that Doflamingo killed Corazon right next to him. To Doflamingo, his younger brother Rosinante was a traitorous navy undercover who could be killed.
But for Law, Corazon changed his life, redeemed his soul, and allowed his life to continue. This was a great favor. No matter how legitimate the reasons were for Doflamingo to kill Corazon, he would not let Doflamingo go. This is the thinking of a pirate.
Becoming a Shichibukai is only the first step in Law's revenge, and now he is taking the second step. After a period of investigation, he already knows that Doflamingo is cooperating with the Four Emperors Kaido, and the key lies in Caesar Clown. To be precise, it should be the SAD synthesized by Caesar. This substance is the key potion of the artificial animal-type devil fruit, and it is also the key to the cooperation between Doflamingo and Kaido!
Without Caesar and SAD, Doflamingo would not be able to create artificial animal-type devil fruits to complete the deal with Kaido. Doflamingo could not bear the consequences. He was scared to death of Kaido. Law recognized this point and prepared to kill with a borrowed knife!
But his heart is still in Vergo's hands, and now is not the time for him to take action to disrupt SAD's kidnapping of Caesar. He needs an external force to destroy the balance of Punk Hazard to help him get his heart back!
The Straw Hat Pirates and Vice Admiral Smoker who were summoned by the distress call were exactly what Law needed. As for whether the distress call was also part of Law's plan, it was unknown. Anyway, the half-body of the samurai that made the guards terrified and sent out the distress signal was left by Law!
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The Straw Hat Pirates arrived at the island of Punk Hazard in an anxious mood to save people, but seeing the burning island, the timid trio immediately backed out. However, Captain Luffy became even more excited and started shouting. The adventurous atmosphere of the island in front of them was too strong and it was exactly his favorite.
"Adventure! Adventure!"
The entire plot of Punk Hazard is very much like a farce, mainly to set up the foreshadowing for the Don Quixote family in Dressrosa. Caesar, Monet, and Vergo are not very strong enemies, and with the addition of Smoker, the troublemaker, the three parties made a lot of noise on the island, which weakened the shortcoming that the boss of the transition chapter is not strong enough. Otherwise, with the strength of Law and the Straw Hat Pirates, they would have directly swept through, and then this chapter would have been too thin and not exciting enough.
Although the big boss Doflamingo also appeared in the end, the Straw Hat Pirates and Law had already left Pang Island, leaving only the unlucky Smoker. If Aokiji had not appeared in time to save him, Smoker and his subordinates would have been killed by Doflamingo!
But this has nothing to do with the protagonists anymore. The big boss Doflamingo must be dealt with in the next big chapter.
In fact, from a long-term plot perspective, even Doflamingo cannot be considered the big boss, because Momonosuke and Kin'emon traveled through time and space from twenty years ago and appeared in Punk Hazard.
The moment they appeared, the adventure route of the Straw Hat Pirates changed completely. They went straight to the Four Emperors Kaido. It was no longer a routine sailing adventure. Their adventure had become utilitarian and purposeful. This was also a manifestation of the Straw Hat Pirates' greater maturity after two years of training.
Law's ultimate goal was just to kill Doflamingo. The agreement to form an alliance with Luffy to bring down Kaido was just an agreement at the beginning. He had no intention of abiding by it. As long as the two of them joined forces to kill Doflamingo, he would immediately break the agreement.
But Luffy's personal charm is too strong, and he saved Law's life from Doflamingo in the middle of the journey. Law, whose soul was saved by Corazon, can no longer be allowed to break the contract, so even if it costs his life, Law will follow the Straw Hat Pirates all the way to the end!
Although there were twists and turns in the process, including the major incident of the Four Emperors Big Mom recruiting Sanji as her son-in-law, Luffy did not really confront Big Mom. Instead, he learned the ability of Observation Haki to foresee the future from Katakuri.
Maybe Oda also knows that Luffy has no chance of winning against the Four Emperors directly now. After all, he had a hard time defeating Caesar and Doflamingo before, so he can be considered to have taken a side quest to improve himself.