Chapter 865: Gathering at the South Gate of Albania...
The next day came, and armies from all over Alabasta were ready to take action.
On the Alban side, the kingdom's army has been assembled after a day, and is preparing to march to the Rainy Land under the personal leadership of the king to attack Crocodile who is no longer there.
As for the rebel army, troops from all over the country have already assembled, and they also accidentally obtained weapons prepared by Crocodile from a merchant ship, and are preparing to attack Albana.
As for the Straw Hat Pirates, since Crocodile had already escaped, Luffy, who had nowhere to vent his anger, could only turn all his strength into food. A group of people simply plundered some food and water sources in Crocodile's territory in the way of pirates, and then turned around and , ready to stop the upcoming war.
In the rainy area, the noise is quite loud.
Erza simply ignored the promises Kira made to Mr. 1 and others at the Rain Banquet, and used force to force Baroque Works to disband on the spot, and told them not to be killers and take people's lives at will.
Those who have no criminal record and whose past crimes were relatively minor can be forgiven. If they want to make money in the future, they can become bounty hunters and hunt down heinous pirates. The rest will be packaged up and sent to Smoker as performance rewards.
This is also one of the reasons why Erza did not follow Kira to Albana but chose to stay. She did not want to see a corrupt organization like Baroque Works still exist in Alabasta.
Erza knew very well that although Kira verbally called them a "subordinate guild", in the final analysis they were just using this group of tools, mainly because they had more people and could do things more easily, so Erza was not very polite to them in her heart; plus, she didn't like organizations like Baroque Works that were like dark guilds, so she disliked them even more.
As for whether doing these things would make Kira unhappy...
Isn't that better?
I finally got to the point where I made him lose face. Isn't that something to be happy about? I can definitely have a party!
Looking at the spies and killers with bruised faces, bandages on their bodies, and limping, Gray hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but look at the current leader Erza.
"Hey, Erza! Is it really okay for you to be like this? That guy Kira didn't seem to say that yesterday, right?"
Erza glanced at him proudly and snorted, "Who cares about him? Ever since he came to this world, this guy has been talking about setting up a new guild and naming himself the guild leader. How can he put the old man in his place? Even if the old man did say some time ago that he planned to retire, does that mean Kira must be the new guild leader? Don't I, Erza, have the ability to compete?!"
Gray: “…”
"You didn't seem to value the position of 'President' much before ?"
Erza argued loudly, "Do I value the position of 'President'? I am teaching Kira a lesson on behalf of the old man! This guy is getting more and more reckless now. You know, he used to stay at home in the store and rarely went to the guild! But now? He talks about making trouble every day. Do you think this is his previous style?"
"Forget it, forget it, do whatever you want, I don't care!" Gray had nothing to say, waved his hand, turned and walked towards Juvia who was coming towards him.
"Gray-sama~Juvia prepared a loving dessert for you~"
“Here it comes!”
"This is the Gray Cookie that Juvia made especially for you!!"
"…Forget it. I suddenly realized that I'm not very hungry."
“Ehhhhh??! No!!!”
…
Albana has five gates, namely east, west, south, southeast, and southwest. The rebel army set out from Cattleya near Nahana, a city just south of the capital, and naturally attacked the south gate.
At this time, an extra-large golden magic flying carpet was floating three hundred meters above the south gate of Albana. The hot wind blew the corners of the flying carpet up and down like waves.
"These people actually have horses?"
Kira held a telescope in his hand and looked at the rebel army that was about to arrive in Albana in surprise. "I thought there were only camels to ride in the desert, and at most some strange local creatures, such as ducks, crabs, and turtles. I didn't expect that there would be even horses."
Lucy blushed and said, "Those are creatures that live in the water, right?"
Robin shook his head and explained to Lucy and the other foreign visitors, "No, Kira is right! Alabasta does have running ducks, moving crabs, and water turtles. They are all animals that can move quickly in the desert! In comparison, horses are indeed much rarer!"
“Uh… is that so…??”
"Looking at this situation, they will be here in about 30 minutes." Kira said and looked back at the Albana city defense, "This side is also ready to go!"
Even though he knew that Crocodile was the mastermind behind the civil strife in the kingdom, and even though he had already decided to go to the Rain Land to deal with Crocodile, when the rebels really arrived, even Cobra, as the king, could not so easily abandon the capital and lead his entire army to the Rain Banquet.
It's not because Cobra is unwilling to bear the stigma of "abandoning the city", but because the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command will not allow such a thing to happen.
Even if there were only six people, it was not certain that they were united, let alone six hundred thousand people?!
These soldiers could not see Crocodile's conspiracy, nor the hidden hand of Baroque Works. They could only see a rebellion that was huge enough to destroy the country, and a foolish king who was suspected of using dancing powder and fled the city at the last minute.
The soldiers were unwilling to obey orders and abandon the city and flee, which prevented Cobra's army from setting out for the Rainland smoothly. They were forced to stay and defend the city while making plans.
Kira turned the telescope and looked towards the west. There was a cloud of dust at the end of his sight, and it seemed that someone was rushing towards this side.
"It should be Luffy and the others, right? Since they are almost here, I have to make some preparations!"
As for how to prepare? Of course, eat enough, drink enough, and get enough sleep!
"You guys, you ate up all the food! Leave some for me, I'm going to use up a lot of mana later!"
At this time, on the airship, Urrutia and others were sitting around the table, leisurely eating hamburgers, French fries, steaks, chicken wings, egg tarts, barbecued meat, pancakes, and crayfish, and drinking coffee, milk, green tea, black tea, lemonade, strawberry milkshakes, and mango sago. How can one explain how comfortable they were?
However, after hearing Kira's voice, the few people not only did not stop, but ate faster.
"You guys..." Kira was suddenly furious.
…
Half an hour later, Luffy and others riding the Super Fast Duck arrived at the city gate first.
Without Crocodile's delay in the original plot, Luffy and others spent , so they arrived earlier than in the original work.
"That's great... We finally made it!" Thinking of the country that was about to be at peace, Weiwei, the sixteen-year-old girl burst into tears of joy.
"Weiwei, what are you going to do next?"
Weiwei quickly wiped away the tears from her eyes, clenched her fists, and encouraged herself: "I want to meet the leader of the rebels and tell them the truth!"
It is indeed so! But will things progress so easily?
Looking at the place not far away where the smoke and dust were billowing, both Luffy, who had a rare high IQ, and Zoro, who was still wrapped in bandages, frowned for a moment.
They knew very well that Crocodile was the root of the country's unrest. Getting rid of him would prevent the country's situation from getting worse, but it would be equally difficult to restore the damaged parts. Moreover, the situation had now developed to the point where the enemy was at the gates. Would the rebels really listen to Weiwei's advice?
Unless, there could be a heavy rain here right now to extinguish the fire in those people's hearts!
Thinking of this, several people suddenly looked up at the sky...
