119- Execution Platform

"Kuina, where have you been? I've been looking for you." Zora looked at Kuina standing with the Marine group.

"I'm the one who should ask you. You've been walking beside me a moment ago, how did you get inside the Marine branch building?" Kuina opened her mouth in shock.

"Oh, that explains why there are so many Marines here." Zora grabbed her chin while saying seriously.

The marines looked shocked at the conversation between Zora and the person they thought was Tashigi.

"Let's go." Kuina sighed and then grabbed Zora and wanted to start running away, but the Marines surrounded them.

"Tashigi-san, where do you think you're going with Pirate Hunter Zora." The Marines frowned, the situation turned suspicious when Kuin started talking to Zora as if she knew her.

Kuina and Zora didn't say anything and started hitting all the marines who got in their way and after a while most of the marines were defeated at the Marine branch, after which Kuina and Zora quickly escaped from there, They didn't want to meet Smoker because they knew they couldn't defeat him..

The rest of the Marines looked at Zora and Kuina's escaping and were powerless to stop them, while some of them looked in disbelief at the escaping Kuina's back, "I didn't expect Tashigi-san to betray the Marines."

"No, I don't think she's Tashigi-san." one of the marines realized something and then took out several wanted posters from his jacket pocket and started flipping them until he found a wanted poster.

"She's a pirate named Kuina and she looks a lot like Tashigi-san."

"You guys have to remember something in order to differentiate between enemy and friend, Tashigi-san has poor eyesight and always wears glasses while Kuina doesn't wear glasses. The other difference is the sword they carry is completely different."

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"Who are you? I don't know you." Lucy looked at Smoker while scratching the back of her head.

"You don't need to know who I am, all you need to know is that I am the one who will send you to prison." Immediately after that, Smoker's hand turned into thick white smoke that shot towards Lucy, trying to catch her.

Lucy sensed Smoker's attack so she easily dodged the attack and then said to Alvida, "Alvida! Let's run away quickly."

Lucy didn't want to destroy the old man's bar because of her fight here so she chose to run away.

Smoker stands at the entrance so it's hard for them to escape without making a mess, but luckily there's a back door in the bar that leads out too.

The old man gestured to Lucy and Alvida to get out the back door while standing in front of Smoker to distract him, "You brat, because you always catch all the pirates, I'll have to shut down my shop."

"Old man, my job is to catch pirates, so I won't stop until I catch all of them." After he said those words, Smoker's body turned into smoke and dashed toward the back door that Lucy and Alvida had exited.

"Damn, I couldn't buy them any more time for them to escape." The old man sighed with regret. He thought that Lucy and Alvida would eventually be caught because he knew very well how terrifying Smoker's strength was.

As soon as Lucy and Alvida walked out of the bar, Lucy stretched her arms and grabbed the roof of a house and then smiled at Alvida, "Hold me tight."

Alvida knew what Lucy was planning to do and she didn't like the idea but she had to do what Lucy wanted.

"Shishishi, let's go." After Alvida grabbed her tightly, Lucy jumped and took off at great speed into the sky.

"You're not going to run, Straw Hat." Smoker came out of the bar and saw how Lucy and Alvida were flying in the sky, so he jumped to the top of a building, marked where they were going to fall, and started running there as fast as he could.

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Lucy and Alvida fell into a large plaza in the middle of the city, Lucy stood and looked around and saw a tall platform in the middle of the plaza and then a happy smile appeared on her face, "Oh, Alvida, is this the execution platform?"

Alvida stood up and then looked at which direction Lucy was pointing. "Yes, it's the execution platform."

Lucy's smile widened and then jumped to the top of the execution platform.

Lucy's smile widened and then jumped to the top of the execution platform and started staring at the piazza.

"So, this is what the King of the Pirates saw before he died," Lucy said to herself while looking out. She could see a crowd gathering around the base of the platform and they were all looking at her in confusion. Lucy could also sense the Marines were circling the plaza, none of them was really powerful and Smoker had yet to arrive.

"GET DOWN FROM THERE IMMEDIATELY!" a man in a Marines uniform yelled while holding a megaphone.

"Why?" Lucy asked innocently.

"You are standing on an execution platform that belongs to the World Government. Now get down from there right now!" the man yelled. Lucy shrugged her shoulders before she spoke again.

"I don't know what a World Government is and I don't care, so I will stay here." she said, causing a few people to gasp in shock. The man was about to yell something at Lucy but before he could, he was smashed in the head by a giant lion's claw on which a goat-like man was riding.

"It's been a while, Straw Hat." the goat-like man said causing Lucy to raise her eyebrow in confusion.

"And who might you be?" Lucy asked.

"What a rudeness to forget someone you met a while ago." The goat-like man frowned.

Lucy held her chin while thinking about the place where she saw the goat-like man, then realization appeared and suddenly cried out, "You are one of the Big Red Nose Pirates."

"WHO DO YUO CALL THE BIG RED NOSE? I am the Great PIRATE BUGGY!!!" A very short person wearing a hooded overcoat screamed, but after he screamed, he removed the hooded overcoat and showed his full form.

The body of this person consists only of hands and feet and a large head with a red nose.

The strange thing is that this person does not have a torso, an upper arm or a forearm, nor does he have two legs, he only has two feet.