Seeing that there was nothing urgent to attend to, iser went to play with Chopper. The little guy was quite happy to spend ti with him.
Chatting before the battle was a good way to pass the ti.
"Hey, guys!" Zambai ca running down and said, "There's a detached Sea Train carriage up ahead blocking the tracks!"
"Is it Sanji?!"
Luffy's eyes imdiately lit up. Did this an Sanji had already rescued Robin?
"Not sure," Zambai shook his head. "But we can definitely see people inside."
"We'll know once we check it out," iser said as he walked to a nearby window. "Even if Sanji isn't there, we can still get information about him from the others."
With his Sharingan, extracting information from people wasn't difficult.
"I'll go too," Luffy said.
"No need, I can handle it alone."
"No way, I'm coming with you!"
iser sighed helplessly as Luffy stubbornly followed him outside. He pointed into the distance. "It's so far. How do you plan to get there?"
He could sprint across the water at top speed, but Luffy couldn't.
"Hey, leave it to ."
Luffy grinned, jogged to the front of the train, and stretched out his arms to grab both ends of the Rocketman.
Then, with perfect nonchalance, he wrapped one leg around iser's waist.
Seeing this, iser's pupils shrank. "You can't possibly be planning to—"
"Haha, let's go together, iser!"
Without giving him a chance to protest, Luffy released his arms and launched them both forward like a cannonball!
"Damn it, I can run on my own!"
iser's furious shout echoed through the air, leaving Franky and his crew utterly dumbfounded.
"You still don't understand Luffy," Zoro said with amusent.
He had experienced this treatnt more tis than he could count.
When things were dangerous, Luffy was incredibly reliable—but when things were safe, Luffy beca the biggest threat.
Thud!
A dull impact sounded as iser's head slamd into the distant train carriage.
The noise alone confird it was a solid skull.
"Luffy... I swear I'll kill you one day..."
"Hahaha, safe landing!"
"Huh?"
"My deepest apologies..."
Seeing the long blade resting against his neck, Luffy imdiately apologized.
"Tch. If I weren't this tough, that would've killed ," iser grumbled.
Most ninjas were glass cannons—those like him were rare.
"But you're fine..." Luffy muttered under his breath.
Rolling his eyes, iser couldn't be bothered to argue with this single-celled idiot.
Glancing at the crowd staring at them in shock, iser flashed a friendly smile. "Mind if I ask you sothing?"
"Pirates! They're pirates!!"
"Quick, shoot them down!!"
"They must be chasing the train ahead—don't let them pass!"
"Get them!"
Their response was t with a pair of black eyes, swirling with three tomoe.
"What a pain."
"Everyone, look at !"
...
After iser's "friendly" interrogation, the group quickly beca obedient.
No choice, the unruly ones were still lying on the ground, their expressions suggesting they'd experienced sothing terrifying.
But whether they were dead or just unconscious, no one knew—nor dared to check.
"Would've been easier if you'd just cooperated from the start," iser remarked.
"iser, what did you do?" Luffy stared at him wide-eyed. "Why did a whole group suddenly collapse?"
Not only that, but before falling, those people had looked as if they'd seen sothing horrifying.
"Nothing much. Just showed them sothing interesting," iser said calmly.
Using illusions was the most efficient thod—it instantly subdued all these troublemakers at once.
"Alright then."
Luffy scratched his head. Though he didn't understand how iser had done it... the problem was solved, wasn't it?
"Hey, have any of you seen Sanji?" Luffy asked.
"Sanji... who?" one man ventured cautiously.
"Hm?"
"Boss, we really don't know!"
That single "hm" from iser nearly scared the man out of his wits.
No helping it—this guy was terrifying. With just a glance, he'd left most of their group unable to stand. When those blood-red eyes had locked onto him earlier, he'd thought he'd been dragged straight to hell.
"Fine, I'll look for him myself." Luffy ignored them and ran ahead to search for Sanji.
"Hey, Sanji, are you there?!"
"Sanji!"
"I'm coming to find you!"
anwhile, iser pointed at one of the n. "You. Co here."
"Boss, please don't kill ..." The suited man trembled.
"If I wanted to kill you, would I let you speak?" iser said. "Stop wasting ti. Get over here."
"Y-yes, boss..."
The suited man shuffled toward iser, his lips pale with fear. Though the distance was only a few ters, it felt like an eternity to him—as though an entire lifeti had passed.
iser found it almost amusing. Just how scared was this guy?
"Relax. As long as you cooperate, I won't kill you."
The suited man said nothing, rely glancing at his unconscious comrades.
His expression seed to say: Boss, that's not very convincing.
"Explain. Why are you all here?" iser asked. "What exactly happened?"
iser was curious. Could they have stayed behind to ambush the Rocketman? But that didn't make sense. From what Chopper had said earlier, very few people knew they'd left Water 7 on the Rocketman. And those who knew wouldn't have revealed their secrets to the enemy. Besides... sothing like crossing the Aqua Laguna? The enemy probably wouldn't even believe it.
iser still rembered how terrifying that tidal wave had looked.
"If I talk... you won't kill ?"
"You don't get to negotiate," iser said flatly.
"Then..." The suited man pressed his lips together, as if weighing whether to share the information.
If talking ant death either way, he figured he might as well stay silent.
"Never mind. I'll handle it myself," iser said.
"Handle it... yourself?"
The suited man stared at iser in confusion, unsure what he ant.
However, when he saw the Sharingan in iser's eyes, his own imdiately lost their light, as if he had turned into a puppet.
"Is Sanji here?"
"I don't know who Sanji is, but there are only our people here."
"I see..." iser frowned and asked, "Then how did you end up like this?"
"Soone led us to the last carriage of the Sea Train, then disconnected the links between the carriages. That's how we got left behind."
"So that's how it is."
Hmm, sounds like sothing Sanji would do. That guy's brain isn't just ordinarily clever.
Which ans Sanji is still on the Sea Train ahead.
The others watched iser with uneasy suspicion, not understanding why the man in the suit was now answering every question without hesitation—as if... he was being controlled!
"How terrifying... Is he a Devil Fruit user?!"
Combined with what had just happened, the fear in their eyes grew even stronger.
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