Smoker isn 't exactly doing great. He orders his troops to retreat immediately, taking the arrested members of Baroque Works to Hina 's base.

He didn 't think he could face down Crocodile here, after all-- he was just stalling.

But now he was faced with surge upon surge of pelting sandstorms that

cut

like razors.

Sure, he had Haki-- but Crocodile had it too. And when two incomparable powers pitted against each other-- the superior Haki won, no matter what. Man he fucking hated that.

He winces when another gash opens over his shoulder, and a swing of his jutte diverts Crocodile 's arm from another attempt at his neck.

What were his weaknesses again?

(The floor was covered in water. Not enough to deter a Devil Fruit user, just a few nasty puddles of splash potential. And then there was the coat he discarded, where Anne had painted a dull red Colours trap upon it.)

And flight

.