Chapter 240: Straw Hat Boy

When Uchiha Feiyu completed his mission and returned to the capital of Alabasta, he had assumed the war was completely over, only to discover the presence of a massive rebel army.

"What is going on here? Did you not reach an agreement with the rebels?"

Inside the royal palace, Uchiha Feiyu summoned Cobra and Vivi, speaking with a hint of confusion.

Princess Vivi wore an indignant expression as she said:

"Those rebels have now made contact with pirate crews from the outside world, and suddenly they launched an attack, gaining a significant upper hand, so now they've started acting arrogant again."

"Moreover, the original rebel leader has been replaced by some nobles. Those greedy, insatiable guys are not as pure as the original rebel leader."

The original rebel leader was named Shu, and he was something of a childhood friend to Vivi; at the very least, in terms of character, he could be called a good man, single-mindedly focused only on ensuring the people had a path to survival.

Unfortunately, due to Uchiha Feiyu's actions, a large number of separatist nobles were killed, and the remaining small portion of nobles simply fled to the rebels, causing these nobles who had originally only supported the rebels from the shadows to step directly into the light, while simultaneously seizing the position of rebel leader.

These nobles were not like the original rebel leader who only thought about seeking a way for his subordinates and the people to survive; they truly wanted to overthrow the Alabasta royal family!

"Tsk... bad money drives out good. There is nothing new under the sun; in this game of contending for the world, those with high morals always lose to those who have no bottom line."

Uchiha Feiyu was not surprised by this; such situations had occurred countless times in human history. Most founding monarchs, while possessing great talent and strategy, were generally below the average standard in personal morality; after all, guys without a bottom line are always harder to deal with.

Emperor Gaozu of Han could let Xiang Yu share a bowl of his father's meat broth, Emperor Taizong of Tang killed his own two brothers directly, Emperor Taizu of Song had the yellow robe draped over him while bullying orphans and widows, and Zhu Yuanzhang also pretty much wiped out his old brothers...

Unless it was someone like Qin Shi Huang who had the accumulation of ancestors, or someone like Liu Xiu who had destiny on his side and could summon meteorites, otherwise, in the process of contending for the world, those with a bottom line were easily eliminated.

Of course, what Uchiha Feiyu was more concerned about was another issue:

"You mean the pirates helping those rebels are the Straw Hat Pirates? Interesting, how did these guys get involved in this kind of thing?"

After the Straw Hat Pirates escaped from Smoker, they already had a bounty; now the three main combatants probably all had bounties of several tens of millions, though their actual strength was certainly more than that number.

"It's probably because of you, Captain. You seem to have forgotten what you once did; whether it was the pirate ship or that guy Usopp, they were all snatched by you from the Straw Hat Pirates, weren't they!"

The one speaking was Robin. Although she had just joined Uchiha Feiyu's team, with the cunning she had developed from years of lurking in the underground world, she had easily learned about what Uchiha Feiyu had done in the past from Nami, Usopp, and the others.

"Uh... so they want to take revenge on me? They really are persistent..."

Uchiha Feiyu muttered, but thinking that he had not only snatched the Going Merry but also pulled Usopp over to do odd jobs... even if the former was something the Straw Hat Pirates could laugh off, as for the latter, no matter what kind of rubber-brained guy Luffy was, he would absolutely never let it go.

Unless Usopp went to explain it to the Straw Hat Pirates himself, but Uchiha Feiyu didn't think Usopp would do such a thing; perhaps the first thing he would do upon returning to the Straw Hat Pirates would be to urge Luffy and the others to take him and run away.

Uchiha Feiyu didn't care much about Usopp, but he had already invested a Candle-Candle Fruit; if he just let Usopp go back to the Straw Hat Pirates like this, wouldn't he be taking a huge loss?

(But this is also fine... since the rebels are unwilling to disband, doesn't that just give me an excuse for slaughter?)

Honestly, in Alabasta, Uchiha Feiyu could be said to have killed to his heart's content. To date, he already had nearly 100,000 lives on his hands. People in the One Piece World were full of Qi and Blood; even ordinary people were no worse than the ninja of the Naruto World.

The Dharma Power obtained from 100,000 lives, after being transmitted back through the void, was no small amount. It could allow his main body's cultivation to advance further, and at the same time, through the transformation of Dharma Power, this clone of his had gradually come to possess a monstrous physique close to that of Charlotte Linlin and Beast Kaido.

It was still a bit far off, but at least ordinary firearms and artillery, even if Uchiha Feiyu had no defense at all, could no longer cause him any harm.

This level of physique was already close to that of a special race like King, and Uchiha Feiyu's strength, converted to the One Piece World, was also roughly at the one-billion level.

If Uchiha Feiyu could slaughter the hundreds of thousands of rebels, the Dharma Power he would gain would be close to a decade's worth of harvesting in the Naruto World, and it would even allow his physical transformation to be completely finished, turning him into a knock-off version of Shura in the One Piece World.

Compared to the original, it was of course 108,000 miles away, but in this One Piece World, it was already much stronger than the average Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.

"Since that's the case, leave it to me to handle! If I don't scare these rebels once and for all and kill all those parasites who conspired to seize high positions, I'm afraid there will be quite a few recurrences in the future!"

"Then leave it to you to handle, but for the ordinary rebels, there is no need to be so brutal... they are also just trying to survive."

Princess Vivi spoke up, and Uchiha Feiyu nodded. Wiping out all the rebels would probably be a bit difficult, and Cobra and Princess Vivi would never agree to it, but killing the most radical ten or twenty percent as resources for his own progress was no problem at all.

"By the way, Robin, have you finished reading your world's Poneglyph?"

As if remembering something, Uchiha Feiyu looked at Robin and asked. Back when he had killed Krokfar, Robin had obtained the consent of Princess Vivi and King Cobra to go and examine that world's Poneglyph.

Uchiha Feiyu didn't care about this; he knew very well what was written on this side of the Alabasta Kingdom's Poneglyph—wasn't it just the location of the Pluton?

The key was that the Pluton was in Wano Country in the New World, and Wano Country happened to be the territory of Kaido, one of the Four Emperors. To seize the Pluton, one had to first deal with the strongest creature on land, sea, and air...

Honestly, Krokfar's series of plans seemed incomparably exquisite, but in reality, it was a tragedy written in capital letters. Even if he knew the location of the Pluton, what could he do?

If the sand crocodile couldn't beat Whitebeard, could he beat Beast Kaido? If you really want to talk about it, Kaido was much more dangerous than Whitebeard!

Never mind the current Kaido; in terms of strength, he was probably already above the aging Whitebeard. The key was that Whitebeard often softened his heart when he saw young people he admired and would let them go, while Kaido didn't have that hobby—either he would capture you to be his subordinate, or he would just snap you in two.

With Krokfar's strength at the time, being able to escape from Whitebeard was definitely because Whitebeard hadn't been serious and had gone easy on him. If it had been Kaido, he would either be dead with his bones rotted, or he would be doing hard labor in Wano Country.

"I've finished reading it... unfortunately, it wasn't the blank 100 years of history I was looking for."

Robin sighed, then glanced at Uchiha Feiyu, discovering that he didn't seem interested in the Poneglyph, and her heart secretly relaxed.

As for something like the Pluton, Robin didn't want to entrust it to the wrong person. Although Uchiha Feiyu gave her a better feeling than Krokfar, Robin still didn't place much trust in him.

"The blank 100 years? Although I know the locations of quite a few Poneglyphs, not many of them involve the blank 100 years. Perhaps Vegapunk knows more; he has done some research in this area."

He answered Robin's question casually, which made Robin, who had been a bit disappointed because of this one Poneglyph record, have her eyes light up, and she was once again full of fighting spirit.

And Uchiha Feiyu had already left the palace, preparing to enter the battle.

The rebel troops were gradually gathering; these people seemed to be preparing to achieve success in one battle and wipe out the capital of Alabasta in one go—this was also Uchiha Feiyu's credit. He had now killed all the separatist nobles and corrupt officials in this country, and with the improvement of the country's finances and other aspects, the rebels' will to fight would continue to decline.

The reason they could still gather hundreds of thousands of rebels now was because the policies still needed time to ferment. If another three months passed, ninety percent of these rebels would probably throw away their weapons and go straight back to farming.

This was something those failed nobles could not accept no matter what, so they could only choose to fight a quick battle to force a quick decision.

When Uchiha Feiyu arrived at the city wall, he could see the rebel army camp opposite, as well as Luffy, who was jumping up and down at the very front of the rebels.

He didn't see Sanji and Zoro; perhaps one was cooking for the rebels, and the other didn't know where he had gotten lost. Uchiha Feiyu jumped down directly from the city wall and looked at Luffy opposite:

"Long time no see, Straw Hat. Didn't you get thrown into a pirate prison?"

"Hahaha, I was almost caught, but I was lucky and finally escaped from that smoke guy's hands."

Luffy scratched his head and laughed out loud, his face wearing a carefree expression, which made the group of rebels around him, who had turned pale and were trembling after seeing Uchiha Feiyu, show indescribable expressions.

These two looked so familiar; could it be that the group of pirates they had pulled over were in cahoots with the butcher in front of them!

But very quickly, Luffy's expression changed directly:

"By the way, you guy, where did you take Usopp?! Hurry up and hand him over!"

"Sorry, the long-nosed kid owes me several hundred million Belly. It's no problem for you to have him go back, as long as you give me 500 million Belly!"

Uchiha Feiyu said with a light laugh, which left Luffy completely stunned:

"500 million Belly!! How could Usopp owe you that many Belly?"

"He ate one of my Devil Fruits and has now become a Candle-Candle Fruit user. The auction price for this Devil Fruit is roughly three to five hundred million Belly."

Upon hearing this, Luffy's face immediately fell. After pondering for a brief moment, he suddenly had a realization:

"Wait a minute?! Aren't we Pirates? We can just run away if we don't have money to pay for a meal! Besides, Usopp was captured by you anyway—why should we pay for a Devil Fruit that was eaten based on our own ability?!"

Uchiha Feiyu: "..."

Why did your rubber brain suddenly start working at a time like this?

However, if the extent of your "evil deeds" as a Pirate is limited to dining and dashing, and you only run away when you can't pay the bill but pay when you actually have the money, then you are a very unprofessional Pirate!

Of course, Uchiha Feiyu was also very clear that while Luffy was definitely firmly in the chaotic camp, he could at most be classified as chaotic neutral or chaotic good; he certainly didn't count as being in the chaotic evil camp.

He might unconsciously do some bad things, but when it comes to doing something heinous out of subjective intent, he really doesn't have such a low moral bottom line.

"It seems you are prepared to solve this using the Pirate's way..."

Uchiha Feiyu slowly drew the Sandai Kitetsu. A shrill and tragic killing intent instantly permeated the air. The light emitted from the dark red blade seemed to carry a thick smell of blood, and some of the rebel soldiers standing in the front even heard illusory sounds like ghosts crying and wolves howling in their ears.

No matter how thick-headed Luffy was, he felt a chill all over his body after sensing this eerie situation. He tensed his nerves and put on a serious expression:

"Uh oh... this guy doesn't seem easy to deal with... Whatever! Let's go!"

"Gum-Gum—Gatling!"

Rubber fists like a hail of bullets smashed toward Uchiha Feiyu, followed by the sound of *clang, clang, clang, clang*. A moment later, Luffy retracted his fists, looked at Uchiha Feiyu standing in front of him without even a wrinkle in his clothes, then looked at his own fists, and immediately fell into deep thought:

"How is this guy harder than iron? My fists hurt, but he didn't even react..."

"Are you done with your moves? Then it's my turn."

Uchiha Feiyu slowly raised the Sandai Kitetsu in his hand, then the blade light flared, and a Flying Slash was instantly unleashed.

"So strong..."

Luffy's expression changed. His companion Zoro was also a swordsman, but unfortunately, Zoro hadn't even grasped how to cut steel yet, let alone a Flying Slash.

Facing the overwhelming Flying Slash, this Gum-Gum Fruit user could only shout to boost his momentum, then clenched his fists and struck out with a Gum-Gum Rocket.

Unfortunately, this punch didn't cause any consequences for the Flying Slash; on the contrary, the Flying Slash cut directly through Luffy's fists, pushed Luffy himself backward as he flew, harvested an unknown number of rebel soldiers along the way, and only completely dissipated after cutting through the entire army.

The current Luffy hadn't even developed the most basic Gear Second, and his Power Level was about the same as an ordinary Paradise Pirate worth a few tens of millions. Such an opponent could be summarized as an "elite grunt" in Uchiha Feiyu's eyes; it would be a miracle if he could block Uchiha Feiyu.

"However, this guy's vitality is truly tenacious... To a certain extent, Luffy is a monster whose potential is no worse than Big Mom or Kaido!"

The rebel army was seen being split directly in half by Uchiha Feiyu. At least several thousand rebel soldiers died under that Flying Slash, all of them cut in half at the waist and drained of blood. At the end of the Flying Slash, the severely injured Luffy stood up tremblingly.

(End of this chapter)