Why did he choose to come to the East Blue in the first place?!
Wasn't it because the East Blue was the weakest sea in the world?
The facts proved his choice was correct; not only did he live a life of wanton pleasure for the past eight years, but eight years ago, he was already wanted for twenty million Berries.
Even after inflation, to this day, no one in the entire East Blue has surpassed his bounty from eight years ago.
The East Blue has no strong individuals—this was Arlong's long-held belief.
But today, his perception was utterly shattered by Link's kick.
Pfft!!
He coughed up another mouthful of blood, his body slightly unable to support itself, and he knelt on one knee, one hand propped on the ground.
Just as he was gasping for breath, a black figure stood in front of him.
"Who exactly are you?!" Arlong struggled to lift his head, looking at the figure towering over him, his throat bobbing as he spoke with difficulty.
"I'm just an unremarkable Item Master," Link said with a calm smile.
"By the way, you've always said that Fish-Men are the most excellent race in this world, right?" Link looked down at him.
"That's right!!" Even at this point, Arlong absolutely would not change his inner thoughts.
"You humans are the lowest and most despicable race!"
"We merfolk are naturally stronger than humans!!"
"Humans resisting merfolk is equivalent to defying the laws of nature!!"
He screamed his narrow-minded views hysterically, like a barking stray dog.
"Hopeless, indeed." Link shook his head, not surprised by Arlong's display.
"You say Fish-Men are the most excellent race in this world, but I don't agree."
A playful smile suddenly appeared in Link's eyes. He spread his palm and pulled out a contraption.
"Undeniably, Fish-Men are very powerful, but opposed to Fish-Men, there are also Merfolk, right?"
"This means that if the most excellent race in the world is on Fish-Man Island, then Fish-Men can only account for half, and the other half of the advantages lie with Merfolk."
"So, could there be a situation where a creature possesses both the characteristics of a Fish-Man and the features of a Merfolk?!"
Link looked at him with a half-smile, "I think it has great research value."
"How about we use you for an experiment?!"
"Possessing both the characteristics of a Fish-Man and the features of a Merfolk?!" Arlong felt Link was talking nonsense after hearing his words.
How could such a creature exist in this world? Even on their Fish-Man Island, there were either Fish-Men or Merfolk.
There would be no third type of biological phenomenon, even if humans or other races combined with Merfolk or Fish-Men, their children would still belong to these two groups.
As Arlong thought this, he saw Link approaching him with the small contraption in his hand.
"On you, it might still be possible…" Link, who understood Arlong's thoughts, grabbed Arlong's mouth.
Before he could resist, or rather, while he was completely unable to resist, Link directly put the small contraption into his mouth.
"Cough, cough, cough, what did you… cough, cough, make me eat?!" Arlong coughed, his face exceptionally grim.
"Nothing," Link smiled, "You'll know soon enough."
"I…" Arlong was about to say something when he suddenly felt a warm current spread through his lower fish body.
"This is?!" He looked down, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
"Seriously, what's with this 'Eight-Sword Style'? It's not like you can wield as many swords as you have hands. Do you think you're like a certain green-haired swordsman?!" Sanji said, after knocking Hachi down, tidying his slightly disheveled clothes.
"The purpose of your eight arms is to provide me with ample ingredients for takoyaki!!"
He wanted to light a cigarette to celebrate his victory.
"I wonder how Link and the others are doing."
Sanji, who had just put a cigarette in his mouth and was about to light it, subconsciously looked for his other companions.
He quickly saw Link standing over Arlong.
"It seems it's resolved, after all…" A smile involuntarily appeared at the corner of Sanji's mouth. Indeed, for Link, there was no problem or enemy he couldn't handle.
He truly was so reliable.
Thinking this, Sanji intended to look at Arlong's miserable state.
However—
As soon as his gaze shifted downward, the smile on his face immediately froze.
It was replaced by increasingly bulging eyes, a constantly widening mouth that caused his cigarette to fall to the ground, and snot flowing from his nostrils.
"What the hell is that?!?"
A loud roar to the sky startled Usopp, who had just returned after dealing with Chu.
"Nani nani?! What happened, Sanji?!"
Usopp, not understanding, thought Sanji had encountered an accident and rushed over.
He saw Sanji's mouth wide open, no less than a Crobat's, his face looking as if he'd eaten feces, had sex with a dog, as if he'd suffered a major blow, and his worldview had collapsed.
"What's wrong, Sanji?!" Usopp swallowed, cautiously circling him but not daring to get close.
Because the dark gray low pressure surrounding Sanji was almost solidified, even he didn't dare to approach.
"What exactly happened?" Seeing Sanji ignore his question and still stare intently in a certain direction, Usopp's gaze also subconsciously followed his, and he saw… "What the hell is that?!"
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