Aiming for the top with the magnetic fruit in One Piece

After 2 days, Vlad had fully recovered, along with the others they had arrived at a grand line island.

Now the whole group knows well about Vlad's abilities, stealing ships is a piece of cake with his magnetic fruit.

The 4 of them agreed to choose a pirate ship, because they preferred to rob other pirates rather than normal civilians.

As for Dan, he would return to North Blue to continue his career.

As for their safety, there was no need to worry, apparently they had already hired guards.

The island was now called Padera Island, they depended on trade and the sale of different poisons, because of that it was a popular island among assassins and bounty hunters.

Vlad had already been to this island in the past, when he was a newcomer to the Grand Line, he had followed a pirate here to kill him.

"Captain, people keep staring at us even though we didn't do anything to draw attention to ourselves."

Brook stared back at the people, scaring them...

"Well, Brook, maybe it's because you're a skeleton or because I'm so handsome, we both draw attention without doing anything."

Vlad rolled his eyes at Brook's words.

Brook, who had forgotten his condition, walked around in a good mood; it had been a while since he had seen a town with so many people.

Enel and Vincent had gone to another area of ​​the island under Vlad's orders, in search of decent ships.

As for Vlad and Brook, they were looking for a specific place.

This island had a secret site that sold information, it was a site that Vlad found in his previous job as a bounty hunter.

"Brook we have arrived"

Vlad and Brook arrived at a house hidden somewhere in the village, knocking on the door, a dark-skinned man opened the door.

"Oh it's you, I thought you were dead"

The man looked at Vlad carefully, giving him free passage.

Vlad just smiled and walked forward with Brook.

Once inside, Brook noticed several large men gathered at a bar table, frowning at them.

Vlad followed the dark-skinned man to another table and sat down.

Brook stood beside him with his hand on his light sword, ready for any incident. 

Vlad put a wad of bills on the table, it was money that Vincent had lent him from his own savings.

"I want information on any devil fruit"

The man listened to Vlad's words as he put away the wad of bills.

"A rumor has spread in the underworld, several government agents chased a pirate ship carrying a devil fruit, it is assumed that it was a trade between both parties" said the dark-skinned man.

"'You're supposed to say?" Vlad silently put more money on the table.

"Those agents didn't plan to give them anything in return, they killed almost the entire gang, but the captain managed to escape with the fruit."

The dark-skinned man smiled again waiting for Vlad to put more money on the table.

Vlad just clicked his tongue and put down more money, causing the dark-skinned man to speak again.

"According to my sources, the pirate escaped towards the route near Namakura Island. It is not certain that he is there, but it is a possibility."

"That's all"

Vlad stood up and returned to Brook, under the watchful eyes of the men inside.

"Captain, are we going after that fruit?" 

Brook sighed in relief after leaving that tense atmosphere.

"That's right, if the world government wants it, it means it's a decent fruit"

"I see, but surely there are already several people other than us who will follow?"

Brook looked at his captain who had put a lollipop in his mouth.

"You thought it through Brook, we probably have to fight."

Vlad said as he threw the candy wrapper into a trash can.

"Captain, you really like sweets, don't you?"

Brook was jealous because he had no taste buds...

Vlad, who was chatting with Brook, suddenly remembered the other two, and activated his special haki.

Enel and Vincent's situation made Vlad raise an eyebrow.

"Brook, let's move faster, the other two are upset."

Vlad didn't wait for Brook to respond, giving him magnetic properties to push him into the air.

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10 minutes before Vlad noticed the situation of Enel and Vicent.

On the other side Enel was in a dilemma, at his side Vincent was frowning.

After parting ways with Vlad and Brook, they both went to fulfill their task of searching for ships, but were unlucky.

The captain of the other party noticed the suspicious behavior of both.

Crocodile looked at the little pale-skinned boy with a strange look. 

Crocodile who had had an inflated ego since he went to sea with his sand fruit that made him "invincible" in the grand line.

Now he found another rival who was also like him, a logia user.

Crocodile had attacked the boy who seemed suspicious to him, to his surprise the boy became elemental, escaping from his arena.

Enel got angry and used lightning speed to appear in front of Crocodile with a kick. But the kick went through the sand body.

"Lodge?" Enel who walked away like lightning, looked strangely at Crocodile.

The two suddenly felt uncomfortable and maintained a strange look, until Crocodile spoke.

"Brat, what were you doing lurking around?"

Crocodile that had a cigarette in its mouth blew a puff of smoke out of its mouth

Enel didn't respond, he simply launched a beam from his hands, although it was his weakest beam compared to his attack with 1 million volts, it was still a dangerous attack for ordinary people.

"Hmph" Crocodile snorted and turned into sand, avoiding the attack in time.

While dodging, he ordered his crew to fire, causing a shower of rain to fall towards Enel and Vincent.

"Shit!" Vincent jumped up and hid behind a wall while cursing.

Enel on the other hand became even more enraged, and quickly moved towards Crocodile's crew.

With a kick he sent one flying, the others retaliated, but it was useless, none of them had haki.

"Captain, our attacks are useless!"

"Captain save me!"

Hearing the shouts of his subordinates, Crocodile hurried over.

Cutting off Enel's path, Crocodile looked at him closely.

The one standing in front of him did not flinch and gave him a threatening look.

I have to say that the view of the situation was somewhat strange, after all Enel was very short while Crocodile was 2 meters tall.

"Brat, are you interested in becoming my second in command? We both have lodge, we would be unstoppable."

Crocodile lost interest in continuing to fight since it was pointless, he wanted to take this little one with him.

Enel ignored the invitation, spitting on Crocodile's shoes.

"You!!"

Crocodile, who was about to explode in anger, was about to launch an attack again, but a voice interrupted him.

"Do you have a problem with my little brother?"

Vlad appeared with incredible speed, throwing a fist straight at Crocodile's face.

Crocodile's head exploded into a cloud of sand but quickly reformed.

Crocodile looked at the newcomer. He was amazed by the other party's speed.

"Who the hell are you?"

Crocodile, who was holding his cigarette, looked at the man who had a lollipop in his mouth.

"You should stop smoking, it's bad for your lungs, here take this."

Vlad reached into his pocket and pulled out another lollipop, handing it to Crocodile.

I look closely at the future Shishibukai, the Crocodile of now seemed to be about the same age as Vlad.

Vlad noticed that the current Crocodile had an attractive face, but not as much as him.

Taking a look at his two hands, Vlad realized that this crocodile was not yet one-handed, nor did he have the scars on his face.

Crocodile became more and more annoyed with these strangers.

"Don't play with me, damn it"

Crocodile was about to raise his hands, until suddenly an enormous force of repulsion pushed him.

"Huh?"

Crocodile quickly transformed into sand, reforming his body and freeing himself from the repulsive force.

"Were you scared?"

Vlad had already expected something like this to happen, after all, something like this had already happened with Enel in the past.

It doesn't matter if Vlad marked a target with magnetism, if you are a Logia, you will be able to remove the magnetic mark by fully transforming.

When Vlad spoke, the others appeared at his side.

Brook had already removed the sheath from his sword, on the other side, Enel was expelling electric arcs from his body

Vincent, who had already left the alley, had also prepared to fight.

Compared to them, Crocodile was a little embarrassed because his subordinates were trembling and dying behind him.

"You guys really want to take this far?"

Crocodile who was already ready to have a fight to the death with them even though the scales were not in his favor.