【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 336 Zoo Organization

As expected, there was no one in these rooms. He continued to expand his Observation Haki and finally found it. When Sanji was about to put away his Observation Haki and rush towards the room at the end, he suddenly caught two powerful auras downstairs, as well as that kid Usopp, although that guy Zoro was also downstairs.

Sanji frowned and immediately changed direction, running towards the stairs. That kid was really going to cause him trouble!

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"hu~hu~"

"Why is this corridor so long!" Nami ran along the corridor with the weather stick in hand. She still hadn't found an enemy. She had wasted too much time...

"Yo yo eh…yo…yo!"

"Damn pirate! I've been waiting for you for so long! Oh my, stop right there!"

Nami stopped running and frowned at the tall man with strange makeup. He kept making strange noises when he spoke and kept poking the ground with a stick. He was really noisy!

However, this person is also one of the CP9 group, and he should have the key...

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"Luffy, it's right here." Robin called out to Luffy who was about to continue running upstairs, "This is the room!"

"Why is there no one here?" Luffy put Robin down and looked at the empty room in confusion. This room was indeed the room where Qi and Robin had just stayed. "Qi is not here. We have to go directly to the Gate of Justice to intercept them."

"Luffy, let's look for the stairs that the owl mentioned first." Robin looked around, trying to find the stairs that the owl mentioned that led directly to the secret passage. "This way we don't have to run to the bottom of the Justice Tower to find the secret passage!"

"Oh, yes, that strange guy said that we have to go through some underground passage to get to the Gate of Justice!" Luffy reacted and suggested, "Robin, wouldn't it be closer if we go directly to the area near the Gate of Justice?" After saying that, Luffy jumped directly onto the balcony to check the direction of the Gate of Justice.

Robin smiled at Luffy's lively expression. It would be best if they could find it here so that no more time would be wasted. Thinking of this, Robin continued to look for suspicious places and noticed that there was a pool of blood where they were originally tied up. She was sure that there was no such thing at this location before. Robin squatted down and carefully observed the traces on the floor. Sure enough, there were more than these.

"Luffy!" Robin shouted to Luffy on the balcony.

"Robin!?" Luffy quickly jumped in from the balcony upon hearing Robin's cry. "Did you find it?!"

"Well, look at this." Robin looked at the bloodstain on the ground and said, "Following this bloodstain we should be able to find the place where they passed. This may be the clue Qi left for us."

"So Qi is injured!?" Luffy keenly noticed the crux of the matter.

"Maybe..." Robin frowned worriedly.

"That bastard with the pigeon!" Luffy said angrily "Let's go!"

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"The sword is out..."

Kaku looked up at Roronoa who walked into the room with a knife, and the corners of his mouth curled up. He finally found it. He had been longing for it for a long time.

"Because they... want to suck blood!" Zoro sneered, staring sharply at Kaku who was sitting on the sofa. "You have the seastone key, right? If you don't want to suffer, hand it over quickly!"

"What a joke! Just you?" Kaku said disdainfully. "I regretted not seeing your true strength at Carrera Company, but I never expected you to chase me here!"

"I'm much stronger than I was back then. You'd better take care of yourself!" Zoro was a little impatient, looking at Kaku with sharp eyes.

"Really? You seem very motivated, like a monster, and seem very scary. However, I am the best swordsman in CP9... Don't underestimate me!" Kaku said as he stood up and reached out to draw the two swords at his side.

"Are you a two-sword style?" Zoro looked at Kaku's movements and became a little interested. He then swung his sword to block Kaku's four slashes, and the cabinets on both sides were cut in half.

"Sorry! You guessed wrong, it's the Four Swords Style!" Kaku held two swords in his backhand and looked at Zoro with a smile.

"It doesn't matter even if you are covered with swords!" Zoro bit the Wado Ichimonji, and with a flash of his body, the two swords met and hit Kaku directly.

Kaku reacted quickly, leaping to his feet and using both hands to strike Zoro's attack.

The two blades collided at the same time, separating at the touch, sparks flying. They had already fought for several rounds. Zoro took the lead in changing the direction of attack and slashed at Kaku above, "Seventy-two Winds of Troubles!!"

"Storm Kick White Thunder!!"

At the same time, Kaku slashed downwards, and the two attacks collided instantly, causing an explosion. In the smoke of the explosion, Kaku used his slash to instantly appear behind Zoro from the air, crossed his blades, turned his back and slashed at Zoro.

Feeling the attack, Zoro immediately rotated the blade, making it vertical and slightly turning, instantly blocking Kaku's crossed double blades. Then he took a step forward, rotated, and sent out another 72 winds of troubles towards Kaku.

Feeling the power contained in Zoro's slash, Kaku's expression became completely serious. He jumped up and bent down to avoid Zoro's attack. The two passed each other, Kaku turned over, stepped lightly on the broken wooden box, and looked up at Zoro who was pointing the blade at him.

Kaku laughed heartily. Although he got a little bloody from this confrontation, it did not affect his enjoyment of the evenly matched battle. "Hahaha, it's really refreshing!"

"I don't have time to play with you here!" Zoro frowned and looked at Kaku. He had to end this battle as soon as possible, but his swordsmanship was really tricky, and he couldn't end the battle instantly.

"Kill me quickly if you have the guts!" Kaku completely ignored Zoro's threats, leaped up, stabbed his two swords into the ceiling with his backhand, and kept kicking and slashing at him in the air "Storm Kick Random Slash!!"

Zoro swung his sword with both hands to continuously block the slashes from Kaku's toes. Zoro gritted his teeth and watched the continuous slashes. This guy could actually perform such slashes so freely.

The objects and walls in the room were all affected by the slash and soon became ruins.

Zoro bit the Wado Ichimonji and looked at Kaku who was standing on the top of the ruins with dissatisfaction, "Are you kidding me?"

"I dare not, I don't have that ability... But since you are so anxious, I will let you see my new ability!" Kaku smiled proudly, and then began to use the devil fruit, intending to transform into a half-beast deer man.

"What...what!?" Zoro looked in shock at Kaku who was slowly turning into a giant giraffe. Before he could think of anything more, the severely damaged floor obviously couldn't withstand the sudden size of the giraffe that Kaku had turned into. The floor collapsed instantly and the two of them fell to the room below.

"I wanted to turn into a human-beast form, but I turned into a giraffe!!" Kaku shouted in shock as he fell, obviously shocked by his failed transformation.

"Hahahaha, Kaku! Your ability is so cool!!" Gabra laughed mercilessly at the falling giraffe.

Usopp, who was confronting the werewolf of Gabra, was startled by the sudden collapse of the ceiling. He looked in shock as the huge giraffe fell down along with the ceiling above while talking.

Zoro, who was falling down with the giraffe, looked at the huge wolf below with shock, and even wondered if he had come to a zoo. "Wolf!? What the hell is going on? Is this a zoo!?"

"The Bull Fruit is in the shape of a giraffe! Hahaha, that's so sad, you'll be a giraffe for the rest of your life!!" Gabra laughed at the giraffe Kaku without any hesitation.

"What's so funny about giraffes? I just like it. What's it got to do with you?" Kaku shouted angrily at Gabra.

Zoro looked at the quarreling giraffe and wolf, and couldn't help but think of Rob Lucci who could transform into a leopard. He suddenly felt that CP9 was like a zoo.

Just as Zoro was seriously considering whether CP9 was actually a zoo organization, Usopp, who was hiding behind a cabinet, looked at the seastone handcuffs in the stone wall grid behind him and instantly came up with a good idea. Since they were both Devil Fruit users, then these handcuffs...