"Tsuru, do you think people who do too many bad things will suffer Heaven's Punishment?" Charlotte Linlin squinted her eyes at Dytet, the tachi in her hand flickering with black electricity.
"What do you mean?" Tsuru looked at Charlotte Linlin.
Rumble!
"Get up! Get up and keep hitting me!"
Dytet, who was in a state of excitement, was drawn by the sound from the sky and instinctively looked up.
Through the hole Tsuru had smashed earlier, he saw a bolt of black lightning several meters thick falling toward him.
"No... No! I just survived! Ah!"
The excitement of having just survived Dock's hands was replaced by terror on Dytet's face. His limbs flailed wildly as he tried to leave the spot, but having been smashed into a pancake, he was completely unable to move. His constricted pupils watched in despair as the black lightning descended upon him.
Click!
The black lightning flashed and vanished, and along with it, several square meters of land... and the pancake-shaped Dytet.
"It means..." Charlotte Linlin said in a flat tone:
"Evil people will be judged by heaven! And I... am that heaven!"
Tsuru looked at Charlotte Linlin with a solemn expression. "You... actually have the ability to control this kind of black lightning!"
In the intelligence she possessed, there was absolutely no mention of Charlotte Linlin having the ability to control black lightning. Furthermore, this lightning gave her an extremely dangerous feeling; it was something that definitely must not be touched!
Charlotte Linlin said nonchalantly, "Well~ that's not my ability, it's my sword's ability."
After all, this was her companion weapon; she could put it away or take it out whenever she wanted, and no one could take it from her.
Tsuru was stunned and instinctively said, "It really is a sword? I thought it was just a nice-looking stick."
After all, neither Sengoku nor she had ever seen Charlotte Linlin unsheathe this sword.
"However, such a dangerous weapon! Today, you must be locked up in Impel Down! Leaving you be will definitely bring a huge disaster to the Marines!"
As Tsuru spoke, her figure vanished from the spot once again.
Whether it was Charlotte Linlin herself or the weapon in her hand, having them continue to roam the seas was not a good thing for the Marines.
Seeing this, Charlotte Linlin said somewhat helplessly, "Really, I don't like fighting women!"
Despite saying she didn't want to fight women, Charlotte Linlin's movements showed no mercy. The airwaves wrapped around the White Jade Pillar in her hand as she swung out several waves of sword qi, slashing toward the charging Tsuru.
Several pink sword qi waves swept out. Tsuru's body in the air was like willow catkin, drifting gracefully and easily bypassing the obstruction of the sword qi. The powerful sword qi sliced through a stone pillar in the room, leaving a smooth cut, and flew hundreds of meters through the high air before gradually dissipating.
Charlotte Linlin took a step and instantly appeared in front of Tsuru, her pink giant fist smashing down directly.
Bang!
Tsuru was sent flying once again.
Bang!
Charlotte Linlin, who was about to pursue, was drawn by a sound from the side. She turned her head and saw a piece of the wall falling from the ceiling.
Looking at the place where her sword qi had sliced through earlier, she had just... seemingly... cut through the load-bearing pillar.
Abandoning the idea of pursuing, Charlotte Linlin made several leaps and quickly left the room.
Rumble!
Not long after Charlotte Linlin left, one side of the walls of this historic Colosseum completely collapsed.
Standing atop a high platform and holding her nodachi, Charlotte Linlin quietly watched the collapsing Colosseum.
As she expected, once the dust settled, Tsuru's figure appeared amidst it.
Compared to before, Tsuru's aura hadn't weakened much, but her Marine uniform was heavily damaged, revealing quite a bit of skin and exuding a different kind of charm.
Looking at Tsuru, Charlotte Linlin teased, "It seems you won't be catching me and putting me in Impel Down today. If we keep fighting, you'll be running naked."
"If Tsuru won't do, then how about me?" A resonant voice rang out from behind Tsuru.
"Oh? Purple hair... but why is it a man!" Charlotte Linlin glanced at the person behind Tsuru and thought unhappily to herself.
This was the first purple-haired person she had seen in this world, but it was actually a man! If it were a woman, even if the other party were a Marine, Charlotte Linlin would definitely find a way to force her to join her side. After all, she was a total sucker for white and purple hair.
"Vice Admiral Tsuru! We're here!"
At that moment, a group of Marines in white uniforms arrived behind Tsuru. Among them were both men and women. A female Marine, Seira, jogged to Tsuru's side, took off the justice coat from her back, and draped it over Tsuru.
Leading them was a strong man with purple hair. Although compared to the nine-meter-tall Charlotte Linlin, he still appeared quite small.
"I didn't expect to meet you in this way. For our first meeting, my name is Zephyr," Zephyr said very politely.
After all, his goal was similar to Charlotte Linlin's; he wanted to persuade her to surrender and join the Marines.
"Zephyr! Right, it seems you're the only Marine with purple hair."
Charlotte Linlin looked up slightly, looking down at Zephyr with a gaze filled with a hint of pity. She didn't know Zephyr's future fate, but from her impressions of her past life, she knew this guy's future seemed quite miserable, being called "Sensei" by his disciples while being buried step by step by them.
What left the deepest impression on her was the Yasakani no Magatama, which almost never hit anyone, but none of it went to waste when it hit Zephyr.
Feeling uncomfortable under Charlotte Linlin's strange gaze, Zephyr carefully checked himself. Finding nothing wrong and that he was as handsome as ever, he said in a slightly displeased tone:
"Hey! What kind of look is that! I am a Navy Vice Admiral, Zephyr! Remember that!"
"Yeah, I remember, Purple Hair," Charlotte Linlin nodded and said.
Veins popped on Zephyr's forehead. In their very first meeting, he was first looked at strangely by Charlotte Linlin and then had his name intentionally called wrong. His feigned politeness almost crumbled.
"Why are you here? How's the situation over there? Is it resolved?" Tsuru asked at the right time while putting on the Marine coat Seira handed over.
Zephyr suppressed the displeasure in his heart and said:
"It's been resolved. Those pirates used Prince Riku as leverage and escaped after trading him for a Devil Fruit."
Zephyr snorted, his mood clearly improving as he continued:
"Humph! They wanted to trade for both of Dressrosa's Devil Fruits, but I only gave them one. Those two Pirate Crews will definitely fight each other over the uneven distribution."
"Mm, well done. But... that means there's still one Devil Fruit left in Dressrosa~" Charlotte Linlin chimed in.
Damn! I forgot there's still a pirate right in front of me!
Zephyr's face turned ashen. He had just been so annoyed by Charlotte Linlin that he blurted it out instinctively.
After all, this was the first time he had used a scheme to entrap pirates, so he couldn't help but feel a bit proud.
Tsuru looked speechlessly at Zephyr, who, like Garp, preferred solving things with his fists, and thought to herself:
He's improved, but not much.
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