Chapter 40 The Impending Threat (Ch 40)

Barlotomio.
A fanatical fan of Luffy, captain of the second division of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, a crazy supernova, and No. 1 on the “real-time ranking of the pirates most wanted to disappear”.
Moze also has some impression of his childhood sweetheart De Zaya, an original character from the animation.
He is a pirate who loves sweets (Moze: Good taste!).
Especially since he had heard the name De Zaya from Mina not long ago.
“The East China Sea is really small.” Mo Ze lay on the deck, his hands behind his head, squinting at the seagulls circling overhead.
The sunshine shines on my body, making me feel warm.
“Yes, Master Moser.” Perona floated beside him weakly, ghosts circled listlessly around her, “So when are we going back? It’s so boring here.”
Ever since she witnessed and tasted the dessert that Moze made that night, Perona’s fear of Moze plummeted.
Although he still didn’t dare to act rashly, he was obviously bolder.
After all, a person who can make such a heart-warming dessert shouldn’t be too cruel, right? Probably.
At least, she dared to whisper in his ear now.
“It’s still early.” Moze didn’t even raise his eyelids. “I have a few more places I want to go.”
“Okay…” Perona curled her lips.
“Hey, Master Moser,” Perona did not give up and floated back, changing the subject, “These new guys on the ship don’t look very smart, are they really okay?”
Now that the ship has crew members “friendly provided” by the underworld of the previous place of residence, Perona no longer needs to personally launch the ghost bomb to provide power.
She enjoyed her free time, but she also started to find fault with the new crew members.
Mo Ze finally opened his eyes, sat up, and looked at her: “Are you free?”
Perona looked at him warily: “What do you want to do?”
“Wipe the deck.”
“…” Perona’s face fell, and the ghosts around her also hung their heads in dejection, “Why me! There are crew members!”
“They’re going to sail.” Moser’s reason was impeccable.
Perona glared at him angrily, but finally picked up the mop reluctantly and began to mop the deck intermittently.
He kept muttering words like “child labor abuse” and “black-hearted captain”.
That’s right, now she dares to scold me in person!
The peaceful voyage continues.
Mo Ze closed his eyes and rested, seemingly enjoying the sunshine, but in fact his outward observation Haki was like an invisible tentacle, carefully sensing everything around him.
Suddenly, his eyebrows moved slightly.
His Observation Haki sensed that something was approaching him quickly, and it was not a good thing.
“Haha.” Moze laughed in a low voice, and the laughter made Perona, who was mopping the floor listlessly beside him, pause.
“How dare you come to the sea to provoke me without knowing whether to live or die? I really underestimate you.”
Perona stopped mopping, came up to Moze, and asked excitedly, “What do you mean? Lord Moze, have you encountered an enemy?”
Moze ignored her and just cast his gaze towards the distant horizon.
Perona followed his gaze and saw nothing at first.
But as time passed, a few blurry black dots appeared at the junction of the sky and the sea.
The black spots became clearer and clearer, gradually revealing the outline of the ship.
There was not just one ship, but several ships, breaking through the waves and heading straight towards them at an extremely aggressive speed.
Judging from the aggressive look, it was definitely not an accidental encounter.
The people on the opposite boat naturally saw Moser’s boat.
“Hehehe! I finally caught you!”
Bartolomeo stood on the bow of the ship he had just seized, facing the sea breeze and laughing harshly and wildly.
After being threatened by Smoker, Bartolomeo could not bear the humiliation.
He vowed to turn Rogue Town upside down and massacre the entire town until blood flowed like a river.
But he had no confidence that he could defeat or even kill Smoker, who was the user of the Nature Fruit, so he planned to go out to sea directly after massacring the city and join the ranks of pirates.
This time, Bartolomeo regarded the attack on Moser as a “warm-up exercise” before going out to sea.
During the days of sailing on the sea, feeling the free sea breeze and looking at the boundless ocean, Bartolomeo felt that something in him was awakened.
Rob, intimidate, do whatever you want…it feels great!
He licked his cracked lips and a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face.
The two ships were moving towards each other and getting closer and closer, and soon they could see each other’s appearance clearly.
Bartolomeo folded his arms across his chest, put one foot on the side of the boat, looked extremely arrogant, and grinned with a malicious smile.
“Hey!” Bartolomeo yelled in his ugly voice, his voice spreading far across the sea: “You are that bastard tyrant, right?!”
Mo Ze didn’t even raise his eyelids, as if he didn’t hear it.
This attitude of disregard obviously angered Bartolomeo.
He winked at his men, and two of them immediately and roughly dragged a man with a bruised face and wounds all over his body to the front of the deck.
The man was dressed in rags, and it seemed that he had once been decent, but now he was thrown on the ground like a dead dog.
“This is the bastard from the Mara family you wanted!” Bartolomeo grinned and stepped hard on the man’s back, forcing him to lie face down on the dirty deck.
“See clearly!”
“If you want him dead.”
Bartolomeo crushed the man with his foot, causing him to groan in pain.
“As long as you kneel down and kowtow to me like he is now, I may consider giving him to you if I am in a good mood!”
He looked around proudly at his men.
“Don’t you think so?”
“Yeah, yeah! Boss is right!”
“Kneel down and kowtow to Brother Bato!”
The minions immediately responded excitedly, and the shouting and laughter mixed together, which was particularly harsh.
Perona frowned as she watched from the side, muttering quietly: “What a noisy green algae head…”
“Hmm?” Mo Ze suddenly frowned slightly.
But it was not because of Bartolomeo’s childish and ridiculous provocative words.
It was because, even though Bartolomeo was right in front of him, the sharp warning feeling from his observation Haki was still like a thorn in his back.
It didn’t weaken at all, but became clearer.
This feels… wrong.
“It’s not Bartolomeo?” Moser had a hint of doubt in his mind: “Who else could it be?”
Seeing that Moser still looked absent-minded and didn’t even look at him, Bartolomeo felt unprecedentedly humiliated and was furious.
“Asshole! Are you fucking deaf?!”
“I’m talking to you! Who are you looking down on?!”
“Do you believe me? I’ll chop this bastard into pieces and feed it to the fish right now!?”
Bartolomeo started spitting and cursing, using all kinds of obscene words.
Mo Ze finally became a little impatient with the noisy sound.
He turned his head and casually instructed Perona who was floating beside him: “Perona, it’s too noisy, go over and kill them.”
He just took a quick look around and confirmed that there was no figure resembling De Zaya on Bartolomeo’s ship.
In that case, it would be best to let Perona handle it freely.
Although Perona is still young, she has eaten the ghost fruit since she was a child, and the level of development is quite satisfactory.
This capability is almost unsolvable in the East China Sea where there is a lack of effective countermeasures.
According to the information Moser obtained, Bartolomeo has not yet demonstrated any ability similar to the Barrier Fruit.
Perona alone is enough to deal with them.
He needs to concentrate all his energy on his Observation Haki to carefully identify and lock onto the impending source of the threat that really makes him feel uneasy.
“No problem! Leave it to me, Lord Moze!” She clenched her fists and even let out a few of her signature “hahahahaha” laughs, appearing to be in great spirits.
Finally there is something to do!
Still beating people up!