The face on the Den Den Mushi on the table bore Rob Lucci's features, and it was wearing a black, half-height, ceremonial hat.
"Since you were lucky enough to come back alive, stay over there and recover quietly for now," Stussy said coldly, rejecting Lucci's request to rejoin the fight. "We didn't train you at such a high price just to have you throw your lives away for nothing. Giorno didn't hit you this time, don't expect that kind of good fortune a second time."
Lucci replied, "Haiyna and Giorno, either one of those pirates is troublesome. Right now..."
"For reasons unknown," Stussy said with a reserved smile befitting a noble lady, "Giorno and his captain, Jolyne, are about to clash with Haiyna. What an unexpected windfall."
"What?!" The Den Den Mushi with Lucci's face was utterly shocked. "The JOJO Pirates and the Red-Clothed Pirates?"
Those people must be insane. Haiyna, a Shichibukai, was nothing like Sand Crocodile; she was a legendary pirate who had already made a name for herself in the previous era.
Unlike Sand Crocodile, the Shichibukai of the New Age were invited by the Marines just as they began to rise to prominence. However, Haiyna and her Four Knights had already been top-tier pirates with a 700 million Belly bounty when the Great Pirate Era began after Roger's execution. Overwhelmed by the flood of pirates pouring onto the seas, the Marines invited her to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Anyone with common sense wouldn't provoke a pirate of that caliber, especially one backed by the World Government as a Shichibukai.
"They're both pirates, yet they insist on playing the heroes," Stussy said with a smile, her legs crossed and a cigarette held between her slender fingers. "Then let them see it through to the end. Otherwise, an opponent on Haiyna's level...even I wouldn't be too eager to face."
She exhaled softly. Smoke curled around her red lips, her refined features appearing and disappearing within it.
.........
Amid the dust and debris, a tall, indistinct figure emerged from the rubble carrying two women.
It was Liam.
After his Stand, his true body had finally arrived as well. Robin quietly let out a sigh of relief.
Although the City Fortress no longer had a roof, very little sunlight filtered down through the gloomy sky above Crykana. Ross hid in a shattered corner of the fortress with her father and whispered, "Father, it was those two who brought me back..."
"Jiabode! Coyatl!" Rasha stared at the two women in Giorno's grasp, fury flashing in her eyes. "You'll pay for this, Chopper-na Giorno!"
Liam ignored her shouting and only met Haiyna's gaze.
"..."
Haiyna glanced at the black specter behind her, then looked back at Giorno. There was little anger or coldness on her face, only a faint smile.
"Put them down, little boy."
Liam grinned. "If I put them down, will you kowtow three times to my captain? Will you tuck your tail between your legs, take your four little pets, and get the hell out of this country?"
"..." Robin looked over at him.
"What did you say?!" Rasha roared in fury, but she coughed up a mouthful of blood when she shouted. Haiyna held her back with a horizontal sword.
"..." Her long, flame-like hair stirred without wind as Haiyna stared coolly at Giorno. "Don't test my patience, little boy. You've already killed one of my subordinates. I intend to..."
"Wait!" Liam suddenly cut her off. His expression was grave as he muttered to himself, "No, no, that's not right. Let's do that again. Cough, cough..."
Then he smiled. "If I put them down, will you let bygones be bygones about me killing your subordinate? Will you abandon your evil, wicked plan, and leave this country with your people?"
"Sigh..." Robin shook her head and sighed softly.
Haiyna replied calmly, "I have very little patience for men."
"Why is it so hard to play along with a joke?" Liam sighed. "Then I refuse."
Over there, Robin pinched the bridge of her nose. Honestly, this guy...
"Cough, cough!"
At that moment, the two women tucked under Liam's arms coughed twice and woke up.
"Useless trash... so you didn't die after all!" Rasha cursed aloud and quietly let out a breath of relief.
"How did I..." Jiabode was still dazed. She remembered that, after she and Coyatl were defeated by Giorno, the remaining Haiyna activated and temporarily controlled them to deal with Giorno's attacks.
After that, Giorno should have stopped, shouldn't he? Why was she knocked unconscious again?
"Haiyna!" Coyatl had already grasped the situation and lifted her head, shouting loudly.
"Stop yelling!" Rasha shouted back, frowning and enduring the pain in her throat. "We'll rescue you very soon..."
Who would have thought that Coyatl, still pinned under Liam's arm, would twist her neck and yell?
"Jiabode's been groped all over by this man!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the entire scene seemed to go quiet for a moment.
"..." Robin looked toward Liam.
In the corner, Ross stared with her mouth hanging open in shock.
"Is this really the time to say this kind of bullshit?!"
Jibade, tucked under Liam's other arm, and Rasha, at Haiyna's side, shouted at the same time. No one had expected Coyatl to say that.
Rasha coughed up bloody foam again, her face flushing red with anger.
Jiabode craned her neck and turned her head as if she wanted to bite down and reduce her "neighbor's" cup size. She bared her sharp teeth and cursed.
"When did I ever get groped by him all over?! I'm the one who used the Bubble-Bubble Fruit to grope him!"
"Tch." Coyatl turned her head away, then back again. She blinked her big eyes and asked pitifully, "What's the difference?"
"You're putting on that airheaded girl act again..." Jiabode ground her teeth in rage.
"Airheaded?!" Coyatl exploded, kicking her legs as she yelled. "This is called the weak-and-soft moe style! Do you even understand, you slut?!
"Say that again, you bitch!"
"Was I wrong?!" Slut!"
"Big boobs, no brain!"
"Ugly glasses girl!"
…
The two women... one on Liam's left and the other on his right... started yelling insults at each other, separated only by him.
Ross: "..."
Are these really Haiyna's Four Knights, the powerful pirates Jolyne's elder sister said could rival the Sand Crocodile?
Robin: "..."
It's just like Liam said, there are all kinds of weirdos on the sea.
Rasha wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and wished she didn't know those two embarrassing idiots. "Captain, just don't bother saving them."
"..."
Haiyna didn't speak. She exchanged a look with Giorno, then her gaze shifted to Jolyne Kujo.
Her long red hair fluttered as she pointed toward Robin. The tips of her hair stretched unnaturally, and suddenly, a stream of dark green fluid surged out.
Liam's pupils shrank!
Whiz!
The dark green liquid shot out from the end of Haiyna's hair, streaking straight toward Robin.
(End Of This Chapter)
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