Chapter 370: What a Swift Sword
[Chapter Heading Serialization·Love Serialization Stop for a Second 1·"The Handsome Knights"]
[In the Kingdom of Brujoa, on a ship about to set sail on the seashore, a reporter from a newspaper was using a camera to take pictures of the little girl Marianne; another group of reporters were gathered on the other side, Cavendish was narcissistically looking at the sea in the distance, swallowing the rose he was biting in one gulp, surrounded by the sound of crazy shutter clicks and jumping flash lights; thinking of the daughter she was about to return to her hometown to see, Anne could hardly suppress her excitement, and easily knocked down a member of the prince's guard on the deck, and then excitedly waved to the next one...]——
“What’s going on…?”
"Who is that?"
"Did something fall from the sky just now?"
"Look! There's a handsome guy!"
The originally noisy huge arena area became quiet for a moment because of this sudden appearance.
Countless pairs of eyes were focused on the man and woman who fell from the sky.
Even the professional host who was holding a loudspeaker and introducing the competition information loudly as background noise was startled. He pushed his glasses up for a moment, looked up at the sky, and then looked at Lynch and Robin over there.
"Uh... the ones who just dropped from the sky to the competition venue... seem to be the rumored duo, Kujo Jolyne and her crew member, Giovanna Giorno! "This way of appearing is really impressive. Contestant Giorno is indeed the same as the rumors said... um... incredible..."
After all, it is a competition open to the whole world, and it is impossible for a professional host to openly introduce the contestants as "pirates".
Many of the spectators who bought tickets to watch the game were actually a group of ordinary people. Many of them were tourists who came to the resort island specifically to watch the fun and would not care about such details.
This is a formal large-scale competition, not a live broadcast of an execution during the war at the top, so naturally there will not be only one camera facing the big stage.
In fact, there were many reporters and photographers inside and outside this huge arena, with cameras hanging around their necks. Some were purely mechanical, but more were various kinds of Den Den Mushi, which served as camera positions scattered inside and outside the arena. The big screen behind the arena, the huge screen on the wall outside the arena, and various screens around the world that were broadcasting simultaneously, all switched to show the live scenes captured by these Den Den Mushi cameras.
Some scenes are overviews of the entire arena, the huge and empty arena, the players and staff walking around the arena, and the dense crowds of spectators slowly filling up the stands, all of which give people a strong sense of tension as if they were actually there...
Some of the pictures slowly passed by more than a thousand contestants on the sidelines...
These swordsmen from all over the world - in fact, there were nearly three thousand original contestants, but during the long registration period, many swordsmen who had come to the resort island quietly withdrew one after another. Especially as the registration deadline approached, more and more people quietly withdrew. You don't need to count to know that the actual number of people who will come to the site to compete must be less than the nearly one thousand on the final registration list. After realizing that there are so many monsters from the Grand Line, the New World, and big forces participating in this swordsman competition, more people gave up wisely. At this moment, they are probably on the street outside the arena, mixed in with the tourists and residents on the island, willingly or unwillingly watching the live broadcast on the big screen outside.
Sometimes the screen will cut to interviews with some staff, interviews with some contestants, interviews with passers-by...
But when Lynch and Robin appeared on the stage from the sky, all the Den Den Mushi cameras at the scene, as well as the vast majority of the audience and contestants, subconsciously immediately pointed at them.
The picture on the big screen immediately changed to Lynch's handsome face with a nonchalant smile.
The camera had to be pulled back slightly to include the face of the beautiful woman who was several heads shorter than him.
"Hey, what are you all looking at me for?"
On the big screen, the guy asked with a puzzled look on his face.
It's all because your appearance was so bizarre! Many people were speechless and secretly envious. Damn it, why did these two people steal all the limelight?
But it’s really handsome!
………………
"Captain, this face..."
Outside the arena, quite a few people had gathered in the street square in front of the huge broadcast screen.
Ben Beckman, the vice captain of the Red Hair Pirates, who was mixed in the crowd, was smoking a pipe and looking at the puzzled face of the handsome young man on the big screen. He couldn't help but ask the captain next to him.
"Ah, I see." Shanks held down the straw hat on his head, looked up at the face on the big screen, and smiled, "It's been a long time since we last met, Lynch."
Sniper Jesus said with a grin, "So it was him who was using the Moon Step to travel in the sky before! Haha, he is so casual and flirtatious, could it be that you, the Captain, taught him to be a bad person?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't accuse me!" Shanks said innocently, "When I first met this guy, he was already..."
Everyone laughed.
………………
“Indeed.”
In the crowd at the Sabaody Archipelago, Rayleigh, the former "right hand of the Pirate King", looked at the faces of the young people on the big screen in the park. This unruly style really fits the tone of their former pirate group...
Mr. Pluto, who was almost sixty-four years old, took a sip of wine with a smile.
“The wave of the new era is slowly rising…
"Did you see that, Roger?"
………………
"You only know how to show off, you arrogant paradise boy."
The pirate swordsman from the New World glanced coldly at Lynch and the other man.
The contestants who had received their number plates saw this person and started talking about him: "This is Wendy Chanos, the bounty is 260 million Baileys!"
“So high?!”
"Isn't this much higher than Giovanna Giorno's 200 million Beli? How terrifying..."
"Giorno is in trouble now that he has been targeted by such a powerful guy..."
"Humph, who let him show off like this? He doesn't even look at where this place is. Many of the strong people here came here from that terrible hell in the new world to participate in the competition..."
Of course there are many people who don't like Lynch and Robin, but since the two of them together have a total of 360 million Baileys, they dare not conflict with each other casually. However, they still have the courage to complain about the New World Pirate Swordsman's name, and it's very bold.
"I heard that woman, Kujo Jolyne, is the captain, but her bounty is lower than Giorno's. How strange..."
Amid the discussions around him, one person in the crowd looked up at the sky and said to himself, "But how many people here... can fly over from the sky?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Gah! The discussion stopped for a moment, and everyone looked up at the sky, bewildered.
Feitian, I've never heard of such a thing before...
Not to mention the various thoughts of passers-by, although the appearance of Lynch and Robin was somewhat unexpected, the sisters Charlotte Mond and Charlotte Armand who participated in the competition from Big Mom Pirates just glanced at them and didn't take it to heart.
Armand's face was hidden in the shadow of the wide brim of his hat, with only wisps of smoke floating up.
Her sister Mond, holding the hilt of the sword at her waist, casually looked at the various contestants in the arena with a hint of scrutinizing curiosity.
"No." She glanced at the group of sword contestants.
"Too bad." He looked over a few gloomy swordsmen.
"Where did they come from? "With this level of skill, you dare to participate in the swordsmanship competition?"
Mond commented unhappily, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He said, "Oh~~" and saw the burly man in military uniform standing in the opposite corner. "That guy is not bad! Armand, what do you think?"
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion from the side of the burly man in military uniform that she was looking at. It turned out that a passing contestant suddenly had several wounds on his body.
"Ah!" Blood spurted out of the man's body, his eyes rolled back and he fell to the ground.
"It's a knife wound!"
"Who threw the knife?!"
“I didn’t see it at all!”
The contestants around exclaimed in surprise, and next to the swordsman lying in a pool of blood, Xilu was biting a cigar, and his sword was sheathed without any blood on it.
"Smash it, you're blocking my sight." Xiliu said.
The people around him only then realized that it was he who had chopped the man down.
"What a fast sword..."
"When did the sword come out?"
All the contestants looked fearful. No one wanted to get close to Xiliu in the first place, and now everyone stayed even further away from him.
This big man in military uniform seemed to exude a weird and bloody aura, which was frightening.
In such a big competition, he actually drew his sword and killed people without any hesitation. He was so arrogant to the extreme.
Soon, medical staff arrived at the scene and put the injured person on a stretcher.
Cigar smoke was curling up, and Xiliu squinted his eyes and looked forward.
The man with eagle eyes stood alone at the empty ring, with his hands behind his back, staring at the empty arena.
This man has been silent since he came here. No one knows whether he is Dugu Qiubai or just standing there in a daze...
(End of this chapter)