"Boss Kaido! The Immortal is here!"
Suddenly, the navigator on the Saber-toothed Tiger lowered his telescope and shouted, pointing toward the front right.
A similar scene unfolded on Big Mom's ship. Pekoms, one of the few cadres who wasn't one of Charlotte Linlin's children, lowered the telescope from his sunglasses and shouted toward the interior of the Queen Mama Chanter.
Both captains walked to the bows of their respective ships and looked in the direction indicated. On the distant horizon, a black dot was indeed slowly moving toward them.
As the dot drew closer and grew larger, everyone was shocked to find that Alucard had come alone!
Facing two Yonko who were like hungry wolves, even a loner like Kaidou had brought a main division of his subordinates. Yet Alucard had come by himself. Was he crazy, or was he overconfident in his own strength?
The shock in Charlotte Linlin's eyes faded, replaced by a calm laugh. "Ma~ma-ma-ma! It's been a long time, Immortal. How many years has it been?"
"You've been squatting at home popping out kids; of course it feels like a long time," Alucard mocked ruthlessly.
Linlin's face went cold. She had heard of Alucard's comments about her, but she didn't expect him to be so blunt as to say it in front of everyone.
"Enough chatter!"
Kaido stood at the bow and barked, "What the hell did you call me here for? Give me an explanation, or watch out for the consequences."
"You mad dog, just shut up for a moment and wait to pick up the bones."
Alucard's contempt for Kaido was no less than his contempt for Linlin. The crews of both pirate groups broke into a cold sweat. Impressive. It's barely started, and he's already offended both sides.
A pool of blood rose beneath Alucard's feet, and two stacks of blueprints gradually materialized within it. Alucard casually tossed them.
Charlotte Linlin and Kaidou caught the blueprints simultaneously.
They flipped through them. Though they couldn't understand the text, they could vaguely guess what it was from the structural diagrams of the ship.
"Could this be..."
Even Charlotte Linlin's voice trembled slightly.
"That's right. The design blueprints for Pluton," Alucard laughed, head held high.
"Alucard-san," Elburn walked up to Kaidou's side and asked Alucard on the sea, "I don't know why you're doing this, but there shouldn't be two copies of the Pluton blueprints, right?"
"You two aren't the only ones receiving them," Alucard laughed maniacally. "You'll find out what's going on soon enough."
…
New World, Whitebeard Pirates' Territory, Kairyu Island. (Sea Dragon Island)
"This is..."
Whitebeard held the item Aranea had delivered, squinting his eyes at the young girl.
Aranea smiled sweetly. "A little gift from my Captain. Please accept it, Whitebeard-san."
Having said that, Aranea activated her ability, using her flying armor and Steam-Steam Fruit powers to fly away.
…
Gran Tesoro, Golden Dock Entrance.
"Law-san, have you become addicted to coming here? Or are you looking for a date with me?"
Baccarat, one of Tesoro's confidants and the receptionist for Gran Tesoro, stood with one hand on her hip, smiling glamorously at Law.
"Shut up. I'm just here to deliver something."
Law tossed a piece of paper to Baccarat with a look of annoyance. "Give this to Joker and his lot."
"This is..."
Baccarat looked at the patterns and text on the paper that she couldn't make heads or tails of, a confused expression on her face.
"It's one page," Law said, his words striking like a lightning bolt, "of the design blueprints for Pluton."
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Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
"Fleet Admiral! Fleet Admiral! It's the Kuja! The Kuja Pirates have broken into the Crescent Moon Bay!"
Hearing the panicked report from the intelligence soldier, Sengoku rushed out of his office. He looked toward Crescent Moon Bay and saw countless Sea Kings gathering at the mouth of the harbor.
"Poseidon!"
The only one who could trigger such an ability was undoubtedly the Sea King in Alucard's possession—Shirahoshi!
"Ohhh! That's the legendary Pirate Empress, Boa Hancock!"
"She's a peerless beauty!"
"Look over here, Hancock!"
The Marines stationed at the pier all had hearts in their eyes, causing the leading Momonga to roar, "You bunch of useless trash! Shut up!"
"Disgusting men..."
A look of deep loathing appeared on Hancock's face. She touched her lips with her left hand, pulling out a massive pink heart. Her right hand pulled back, releasing countless heart-shaped arrows that struck the infatuated soldiers.
Slave Arrow!
By the time Sengoku arrived with Admirals Aokiji and Fujitora, over a thousand Marines had already been turned to stone. Sengoku roared in fury, "What do you want, Boa Hancock?!"
Hancock stood atop a giant Sea King with an elephant trunk and a shrimp head. She pointed one hand downward while the other was on her hip, her body arched back in her signature pose. "Shut up! I will be forgiven no matter what I do! Because I am... so beautiful!"
"Aokiji," Sengoku didn't bother arguing with this crazy woman, clearly, a madman's woman was just as mad. He ordered Kuzan, "Use your full power to freeze the sea and immobilize the Sea Kings!"
"..."
"But if I do that, what about the battle with Whitebeard?" Kuzan's question left Sengoku momentarily speechless.
Indeed, Kuzan's full-power Ice Age would be extremely troublesome to deal with later.
"Hmph!"
Hancock, atop the Sea King, snorted. At her signal, Koala drew a bow and shot an arrow into the ground two meters in front of Sengoku. A few pieces of paper were tied to the shaft.
"If it weren't for my Master's orders, I wouldn't deign to associate with you stinking men. We're leaving!"
…
Back at the gathering of the Three Emperors, the crews of Kaido and Charlotte Linlin flipped through the blueprints they had received. They found there were only a few pages, barely a handful.
Even if they didn't know how to build ships, given the imagined scale of Pluton, it should be a super-warship at the very least. It was impossible for the blueprints to be only a few pages long.
If that was the case...
A realization struck both sides simultaneously.
Alucard had torn the blueprints apart and sent them out in pieces!