Pirate's Fire Dragon's Claw

Chapter 401 Hawkeye VS Sauron
The figure in the distance walked towards Luffy and his party without any haste, and everyone was ready to fight. The terrifying sword aura that can cut a boulder like tofu is not released by ordinary swordsmen. of

"I have made great progress, it seems that I did not make a mistake in coming today."

The man walked up to the crowd and said something for no apparent reason.

Just when everyone else was stupefied and didn't know who he was talking about, Sauron standing in the front suddenly showed a smile on his face. That kind of beast smiled like a prey, and his body was trembling with excitement
Sabo suddenly recognized the identity of the person in front of him, and exclaimed in surprise:

"You are? Hawkeye!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard Sabo's words.

"what?!"

Then they took a closer look at the person in front of them. The black windbreaker, the black top hat, the huge black knife on the back, the small cross hanging around the neck, and those sharp eyes, isn't this the world's number one sword? Hawkeye Howe, Joe Rachel Mihawk
Hawkeye appeared here at this time, and attacked them as soon as they met, a fool could see that he came with hostility, but Sabo didn't want to waste time and energy with Hawkeye, so he said to Hawkeye:
"Mr. Mihawk, you are no longer Shichibukai, why do you still help the world government?"

"I'm not here to help the world government, I'm just here to find someone"

As Hawkeye said, he pulled out the black knife behind his back with a "swipe", and pointed it at Sauron from afar. The huge black knife was held flat by Hawkeye, and the black blade shone with a frightening ghost in the afterglow of the setting sun. Light

Hawkeye's provocative actions have fully demonstrated his intentions. He came to fight with Sauron. Sauron's combat power is still very important for this raid plan. After all, no one knows what will happen next. Unexpectedly, so Sabo didn't want Sauron to fight with the outsider Hawkeye, so he persuaded Hawkeye:
"Mr. Mihawk, Shanks is your friend. He died in the hands of the world government. You must want to avenge him. I don't ask you to help us, but can you please don't stop us? You want to find Sauron's sparring, you can wait..."

Before Sabo could finish his words, a knife suddenly fell in front of him. It was Sauron's knife. Sabo turned his head to look at Sauron. With eagle eyes, he sneered and said to Sabo:
"Discussion? How could it be a competition? This is a duel of life and death."

Then Sauron stopped and shouted:
"Hey, Luffy, I'm sorry, I have an agreement with this guy. When we meet again, I will challenge him to be the number one swordsman in the world, so you guys go first."

"Sauron, you..."

Sabo couldn't understand the meaning of Sauron's actions at all, and wanted to persuade Sauron that the priority of everything now should be to solve Glenn, not to determine the world's number one swordsman, but at this time Luffy stretched out his hand to Sabo, Pulling him behind him, he asked Sauron in a very serious tone with no expression on his face:
"You will catch up"

"Do you still need to ask, of course?"

Zoro answered Luffy's question without thinking.

When Luffy heard Sauron's answer, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he shouted to his companions:

"let's go!"

Then he ran towards Mary Joa without looking back, and everyone in the Straw Hat Pirates also ran up one by one. When Usopp passed by Sauron, he said to Sauron:
"Come on, hack that bastard"

He still remembered the revenge that Hawkeye shot at him just now, Hawkeye glanced at him lightly when he heard Usopp's words, Usopp trembled in fright, and ran away quickly
Sabo watched everyone run up one by one, even Ace followed, frowned, hesitated for a long time, finally said "Come on" to Sauron, and followed the pace of others
Watching the crowd walk away, Hawkeye didn't stop him at all, but said to Sauron:

"It seems that you are very confident that you can beat me?"

Sauron took off the turban on his arm, tied it to his head, pulled out the word "Hedao" from his waist, put it in his mouth, and bit it, then pulled out the remaining two swords and held them in his hands, and said to Hawkeye:

"Actually, I've been looking for you for more than a year, but the New World has been under martial law, and I can't go back. I originally wanted to challenge you after finishing this matter, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect that I would throw myself into a trap, did you?"

"yes"

The smile on Sauron's face became more and more excited, and the traces of murderous aura could not be restrained emanating from his body, Hawkeye curled his lips in disdain

"Hmph, then let me see your progress in the past two years, let's see who is the prey!"

Speaking of Hawkeye waving a black knife and rushing towards Sauron, Sauron also rushed towards Hawkeye without showing any weakness

"boom!"

The blades of the two collided together, and a loud sound came from the place where the two fought

After the two weapons touched, they separated immediately and collided again. The two figures, one green and one black, separated at a speed invisible to the naked eye on the vast red soil continent. The sharp knife turned into a joint in their hands. Afterimages, countless sword qi and sword lights spread from the battlefield of the two to the surroundings, and deep ravines appeared on the hard red soil continent

The impact of the battle between the two was so great that even Luffy and his party, who had already run away, felt it. Everyone stopped and looked back, only to see countless terrifying sword auras flying in the sky, Those sword auras seemed to gather together slowly in the crowd, turning into a soaring eagle and a three-headed and six-armed blood-colored Shura, fighting fiercely in the air
Everyone stared blankly in the air, and Ace sighed and said:

"This is the battle for the world's number one swordsman. I really want to see it with my own eyes."

Everyone nodded in agreement. This kind of fierce battle is not seen all the time. However, after seeing this terrifying scene, everyone inevitably felt a little worried. They were worried about whether Zoro could win Hawkeye. Nami was worried. Ask Luffy:
"Luffy, can Sauron really catch up? That's Hawkeye!"

Luffy nodded very firmly.

"Of course, he will definitely catch up after he says it. He promised me before that he will never lose again. Don't worry about him. Let's go now."

"Um"

Seeing Lu Fei's appearance, the Straw Hats felt inexplicably at ease in their hearts, and followed Lu Fei to continue on their way
Sabo and Ace walked at the end, and Ace asked Sabo:

"Do you think Hawkeye came here by himself or was found by Glenn and the others?"

Sabo thought about it

"It's unlikely that you will come by yourself. Although Hawkeye is very strong, his strength is only his own, and he has no power to help him obtain information. At this time and this place to fight Sauron, I feel that he was sought by the World Government. more likely to come"

Ace frowned
"But it doesn't make sense. Although I don't know him very well, I met him a few times when I was under Dad. He is a very affectionate person. Shanks is his good friend. The world government killed Shanks, how could he come to help the world government?"

"Emmm, that's not clear, but he himself said that he didn't come to help the world government, but came to fight Sauron, and he really didn't stop us. I think Glenn and the others used some reason to persuade us." He, or gave him some undeniable favor."

Ace nodded
"Well, that's the only possibility. That Nat under Glenn has a lot of tricks. He must have brought Hawkeye here."

Ace and Sabo guessed right, Hawkeye was indeed called by Nat, but Glenn and Nat killed Shanks, although Hawkeye knew that Shanks went with the determination to die, and certainly didn't want to Avenge him himself, but it is definitely impossible for Hawkeye to help the world government
The reason why Hawkeye came was because Nat gave Hawkeye a reason that he could not refuse as the number one swordsman in the world. Hawkeye had been waiting for this duel with Sauron for a long, long time, and Nat told Hawkeye, This battle is the last battle between them and the Revolutionary Army. If the Revolutionary Army loses, he will never have the opportunity to fight Sauron again.

There are actually loopholes in this statement. After all, the Revolutionary Army is not 100% sure to lose, but under Nat's clever words, Hawkeye believed it in a daze, so he became Nat's way to stop Sabo's team from raiding Mary Gioia. first blocker

Looking back at Ace and Sabo, Ace stopped suddenly, he suddenly thought of something, Sabo saw Ace stopped and looked at him suspiciously

"what happened?"

Ace turned to Sabo and said:

"Sabo, if Hawkeye was found by Nat, does it mean that he already knew that we would come to sneak attack, and the battle between Hawkeye and Sauron was so loud, wouldn't we have been exposed?"

Sabo was taken aback, Ace was right, he hurriedly shouted at Luffy and others in front:
"Wait a moment!"

When Luffy and the others heard Sabo's shout, they hurriedly stopped. Luffy turned around and asked Sabo in doubt:
"What's the matter, Sabo, I'm going to Mary Gioia soon."

Speaking of which, Luffy pointed to the distance, and indeed he could already see the shadow of the Holy Land Marie Gioia
Sabo stood on the spot and thought carefully. Their action this time was based on a sneak attack. If the enemy had known about it in advance, there would definitely be countless ambushes waiting for them. With their team alone, could they go as planned? Solving Glenn like that is unknown
Seeing that Sabo didn't answer, Luffy and others went to Ace and Sabo, and Luffy asked again

"What's wrong Sabo?"

Sabo raised his head and explained to everyone that their whereabouts had been discovered with a dignified expression, and then asked:

"That's the way it is. If we continue to move forward, we may encounter an ambush. Do you think we should continue to move forward?"

Everyone was silent when they heard Sabo's words. Only Luffy turned his head to look at his companions and two brothers around him, with a puzzled look on his face, and then suddenly shouted:
"What are you struggling with? Of course we are going, we are all here, should we go back, I don't care, even if you don't go, I will go by myself!"

The captain has expressed his opinion, and the Straw Hats will definitely follow them whether they want to or not. Ace and Sabo smiled at each other.

"Okay, let's go"

(End of this chapter)