Zoro's group face off against Hodi's forces at the palace, while Luffy meets up with Sanji and Chopper. Wouldn't sharks be more sensitive to bad odor due to their enhanced sense of smell? Summary: After Decken flies off to find Shiraboshi, Hodi explains his mission to rise against the humans and cites Arlong as his inspiration. After hearing this and seeing Hodi's Arlong tattoo, Nami secretly slips away. Hodi proceeds to demonstrate his strength by destroying the arch of the front gate, causing, the gate to collapse and seawater to flood in. Hodi then whips the water at very high speeds towards King Neptune's soldiers who are helpless and get knocked out. King Neptune throws himself in front of his troops and is injured as well. Having seen enough, Zoro steps in and attacks Hodi, but Hodi blocks Zoro's strike with one of his own underlings. Zoro orders Usopp and Brook to untie King Neptune's forces since he couldn't keep his promise of not letting the hostages get hurt. Usopp releases a stinky flower to keep the fishman pirates at bay, and the three Straw Hats quickly untie King Neptune and his troops. Zoro asks King Neptune to take Usopp and Brook out of the castle while he will stay behind to fight Hodi. Zoro then takes a deep breath and faces off against Hodi in the water. At Coral Hill beach, Chopper is tending to Hachi while Sanji is arguing with the residents. Luffy and Megalo pass over the area and Luffy jumps down to meet up with Sanji and Chopper. As the residents watch with apprehension and curiosity, Megalo can't hold it in anymore and barfs out Shiraboshi, and now Chopper is afraid that Sanji will nosebleed to death. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At this rate, the misunderstanding between Straw Hats and the people of the kingdom isn't going to be cleared up any time soon. King Neptune might be in bad shape, but the princes are still around and they might come after Luffy once they hear the news. I thought Luffy would have made it to the Sea Forest, but I should have expected things to not go smoothly. Everything that could have gone wrong so far already did. The situation is turning into a big mess, and we would expect no less. So Hodi's first real fight will be against Zoro, the Straw Hat's #2 fighter. On land, I'd give Zoro a decent chance of winning, but this is an underwater fight which gives Hodi a considerable advantage. Zoro can probably hold his own until Hodi starts popping pills, but after that Zoro might have to find a way to retreat or will probably end up beaten. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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