Swish!~

Evading the greatsword slash, Raffa accidentally falters as hunger gets the best of him, making him fall in his butt.

Raffa tried to reason his way out and yell "Hey hey wait! we haven't done anything wron-" but a greatsword slash landed at the middle of his spread legs and with a cold sweat, he confirmed if his jewel got caught then sigh a relief as it hadn't got caught.

Looking at the crowds flocking around just to witness the subjugation of pirates, Raffa put down his saber and raised both of his hands "Could we talk instead?" he even tried to sound like he was pleading.

"There is nothing to talk about, you being a pirate is enough for us to arrest! Men!" the white-haired young lady said and in an instant, he was surrounded by dozens of guards.

He found that Jic was already captured by two guards and he could only sigh in defeat, letting them confiscate his saber and the stowed devil fruit then handcuff him.

"To think, we will have a big harvest huh." Belle put the devil fruit into a small chest and gave it to her trusted comrade.

"Expected of lady Belle!"

"Thank you for protecting this island from these nasty pirates!"

The crowd cheered as the two of them were carried away and while they were walking, Belle the white-haired girl interrogated them "Where is your companion?"

"What companion are you talking about? we are on our own." Raffa replies hastily, not letting Jic answer the question.

Belle looks at them for a minute before yelling at her men around "Hhmm, okay. Men, scattered around! search the whole place, be strict at every gate point we have! Go!"

"Yes, big boss!"

"Where is little Elle!?" Belle asked after looking around and didn't see her little sis.

"Ow, she pulled Old hag Nana out, wanting to buy some snacks... ow, here they are!"

"Big sis! look, I've got a black kitty!" little Elle jumped with excitement and lifted the black cat over her head as she presented it to Belle who responded with a smile "What a cute little fella we have here!"

She closely observed the cat while hardly patting its head and her eyes glinted with a dangerous light that made PB nervously "M-meow!?"

Raffa did all his best not to laugh and smack the stomach of Jim who almost laughed, with his shackled hands "Y-you!"

After the parade in the street, they eventually reached the prison for the pirates they captured. Throwing them in separate cells with their hands shackled in their back, Raffa even shouted for food but was ignored by the prison guards.

"Captain! I'm hungry!" Raffa heard the exact rumbling of his stomach and helplessly responded "I am too."

Looking at the only small window of his cell, he can't help but lament why everything went awry after sticking to that guy 'It's that guy's fault!'

"Hey!" hearing a weak familiar voice, Raffa looked up just to see Pate peeking at the small window.

Raffa stood up and weakly blurted his anger word by word "Y-you, left us in there!?" fearing that the prison guard might hear him.

"Wait!" Pate chewed a little bit of the left meat inside his mouth and gulped it entirely even punching his chest just to help him drag it down to his stomach "Sorry, but you guys just jumped out of the raft and like a lunatic hugged the ground."

"Y-you f*cker, at least give me some meat!" Raffa tried to reach the small window as he opened his mouth "Give me, give me some!"

"Ahhmm there is nothing left, I just ate all of it!"

"Are you here just to poke fun at me, you bastard! let me out for once and I'll beat you!"

"Shhhh, you'll alert the prison guard!"

***

Somewhere in the dark alley, two silhouettes were whispering as they exchanged information and one of them ask "Is the arrangement done?"

"Yes, everything is put in place. They are just waiting for the signal to move."

"Good, stand by. Lieutenant might send the signal now or tonight, be careful!"

"Okay, thank you for the hands up but Raffa Slasher was defeated by the White Subjugator Belle."

"There is nothing to worry about, just do what the order entails. Got it!?"

"Yes, sir!"

***

Click!~

"Finally!" Raffa weakly removes the handcuffs, Pate almost spends half an hour picking the lock "I've got the hang of it, let's go and get Jic out of there."

"How about the prison guards?" Raffa asks as he peeks at the side of the door cell, to see a prison guard at the side standing silently and scared the hell out of him "Shit, there is a guard!"

"It's okay, I knocked them all out, letting thin plants inside their armor grow to support them to stand up." Pate put on a proud smile.

"Yeah, you're the best. Could you please be faster, I want to scratch my crotch!" Jic's voice sounded and saw him looking at them begrudgingly.

"Okay, okay. Chill out, men. Here hhmmmmm…" Pate fish out a couple of keys to his pocket and tries it one by one as Raffa looks at it with turmoil in his eyes "Y-you have the keys!?"

"Yeah, I have!" Pate said while switching to another key.

"Then why didn't you use it earlier and spend almost half an hour there!" Raffa screamed and tried not to punch Pate's face.

"But you said it yourself that I should pick your handcuffs before they discover us!" Pate looks back at him with confusion in his eyes but his lips give him away as they twitch to stop his laughter.

'It was just a prank from a kid, be calm be calm' Raffa tried to stabilize his boiling anger "Whatever, just be faster before that barbaric girl got here!"

But as Pate unlocked the handcuffs a tingling feeling from afar creeps inside him "Huh!?"

"Jeez, finally!" Jic scratched his crotch and let out a satisfying groan but a smack on the back of his head immediately stopped him, he glared at Raffa and shouted "Y-you hit me multiple times!"

Raffa opens his mouth to retort but a serious voice of Pate intercepts their arguments "Stop, you two. We have fallen into a trap, a much deeper trap. Let's go!" Pate waltzes outside the cell and the two just look at each other and nod, following Pate after.

Getting out of the prison dungeon, Raffa and Jic found themselves surrounded by a mass of guards.

A couple of gunmen rifles were pointed at them from a distance and dozens of guards unsheathed their swords as they made way in which white-haired Belle appeared at their sight "Surrender, pirates!"

Raffa and Jic sweated a lot but they stood firm as a demon in human skin was on their side.

Pate put a nonchalant expression and tauntingly said "Surrender? in a matter of seconds, I'll bet that you will do what I bid later. What do you think?"

Belle looked at the man and found his attitude quite annoying but she smiled graciously "Are you implying about the ghost cat that you trick onto my younger sister?"

Pate didn't answer but silently mouthed as he counted every second passed by 'four' which made the calm Belle frown.

As she wants to say something -

*Purupurupuruuu, Purupurupuruuu!~

Her Den Den Mushi ringed out at her side.

"Huh!?" a bad foreboding feeling surges through Belle and looks up to see in the far distance a few rising black clouds of smoke painted the sky "What have you done, bastard!"

Pate only smiled in return and the two in his back were confused by the sudden turn of events.