As Tailed Beasts, Isobu and Matatabi are naturally very strong, but their attack methods are very monotonous.
They possess huge bodies and physiques, vast amounts of Chakra, Tailed Beast Balls, and attacks related to their own attributes.
For example, Matatabi's attribute is Fire and Wind, so its regular attack methods are blue flame attacks and wind cannons.
Isobu's attributes are Water and Earth, so its attack methods are controlling earth spikes and water cannons.
The only thing that could truly threaten Bullet was a charged Tailed Beast Ball.
If it was a fast-type Tailed Beast Ball, the threat to Bullet would be very small.
However, a charged Tailed Beast Ball simply couldn't hit Bullet.
So after Bullet became familiar with the two Tailed Beasts' attack methods, he already had a battle plan.
As for the two Tailed Beasts' massive bodies, this made it even harder to pose a threat to Bullet.
Bullet's physique was even stronger than the two Tailed Beasts.
Thus, under Bullet's domineering iron fists, the two Tailed Beasts finally fell.
Rosen carried Lucci and Bruce and came before the two Tailed Beasts.
Rosen formed hand Seals, and then, under Bullet's astonished gaze, the two Tailed Beasts were Sealed into their bodies.
"What are you doing?" Bullet asked curiously.
Before this, whatever Rosen did, he basically remained silent.
To Bullet, Rosen was his boss, so whatever Rosen told him to do, he would do.
But at this moment, he was genuinely very curious how Rosen could stuff such huge monsters into a person's body.
"Do you understand what a Seal means?"
"Are you saying, what just happened was a Seal?"
Rosen nodded: "Those two monsters just now are called Tailed Beasts, and people who have Tailed Beasts Sealed inside their bodies are called Jinchuriki. Jinchuriki can borrow the power of the Tailed Beast, and the more harmonious their relationship with the Tailed Beast, the stronger the power they can borrow."
"According to my estimation, their strength is at the level of pirates with a 500 million Berries bounty. They're not weak, but they're not exceptionally strong either, so what's the point of you creating these two Jinchuriki?"
In Bullet's view, even if they borrowed the full power of the Tailed Beasts, it would only be equivalent to the Tailed Beasts themselves.
He could suppress them with a mere raise of his hand. Such strength held no meaning for Rosen.
"Humans and Beasts are different. Of course, I'm not creating two Jinchuriki to add subordinates for myself; wake them up."
Bullet woke Lucci and Bruce up.
Then, Rosen's eye patterns changed to the Eternal Mangekyo of Greed, using the ocular jutsu: Magatsuhi.
Rosen directly cut out all of Lucci and Bruce's memories from that entire day.
Bullet felt the terrifying power of Rosen's eyes.
"What did you do to them?"
"I stole a day of their memories."
Bullet's pupils suddenly constricted: "Is that a Devil Fruit ability? Or the ability of those eyes?"
"Very keen intuition, that's right, it's these eyes." Rosen glanced at the dazed Lucci and Bruce: "Send them back to the bar."
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When Lucci opened his eyes, he found himself and Bruce in a bar.
Bruce was still sound asleep, reeking of alcohol.
There were many empty bottles around, seemingly consumed by the two of them.
Lucci nudged Bruce, who yawned and opened his eyes.
"Lucci... morning..."
The next moment, Bruce's eyes snapped open, and he leaped from his seat.
"Did you notice?" Lucci's expression was grave.
Bruce's expression was also very serious as he constantly surveyed their surroundings.
He and Lucci were both CP9, and it was absolutely impossible for them to get drunk; in fact, they didn't even touch alcohol.
But now they were drunk.
That meant something unforeseen had happened to them.
Someone had placed them here and made it look like they were drunk.
But who was the other party? And why would they do this?
What did the other party do to the two of them?
A series of questions rapidly crossed Lucci and Bruce's minds.
But there were no clues, absolutely none.
The fact that the other party set up such a scene indicated that they didn't understand spies, or perhaps didn't understand CP9.
At the same time, if this setup was for ordinary people, they would surely think they had blacked out from drinking. This implied that there was a period of time when they were under the other party's control.
"Go out and ask what day it is today."
Bruce went next door and asked the shop owner what the date was, while also checking the time.
Upon returning, Bruce said: "It's the 24th, 9 AM, but my memory only goes up to when I went to sleep on the 22nd."
"My memory also stops before I went to sleep on the 22nd," Lucci said.
"So after we fell asleep, we were knocked out, and then we were taken away by unknown individuals for about a day. The other party did something to us, then placed us here, creating the illusion that we were drunk."
Lucci and Bruce felt a heavy weight in their hearts.
As spies, they disliked this feeling of being out of control.
However, Lucci still returned to the shipyard, continuing his undercover life.
Upon arriving at the shipyard, the shipwright Paulie raised his hand and placed it on Lucci's shoulder: "Lucci, I heard you didn't pay for your drinks a few days ago. How was it? Bruce didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"
Lucci paused: "When was that?"
"Wasn't it yesterday? Yesterday, Peepley said Bruce came to your door asking for money for drinks, and then you took him back to get the money. Did Peepley lie to me?"
"I forgot, I had a bit more to drink last night."
Just then, the boss's secretary, Kalifa, walked over: "Everyone, get to work. The boss isn't paying you to slack off here. Lucci, come with me."
Lucci approached Kalifa, who adjusted her glasses: "I smell alcohol on you."
"Was I at the shipyard yesterday?"
A look of confusion appeared on Kalifa's face: "What happened?"
"Bruce and I both forgot everything that happened yesterday, and this morning, Bruce and I woke up in the bar, reeking of alcohol."
Kalifa's expression became serious. As Lucci's subordinate, she was also an excellent spy, and her strongest skill was intelligence analysis.
"Could it not be someone from above?" Kalifa asked: "It's possible it's the result of some drug. After your contact with the higher-ups, and to prevent the leakage of certain secrets, they might have given you a memory-loss drug."
Within their CP organization, there were indeed drugs that could cause people to black out.
"I can't be sure, I have a very bad feeling about this," Lucci said gravely.
They couldn't find any clues; the other party left no information.
Only that shipwright from yesterday mentioned Bruce coming to Lucci for money for drinks.
Other than that, there was no other information.
At the same time, the Going Merry was docked at the port of Seven Water City.
Luffy and the others disembarked from the ship. After a series of adventures, the Going Merry was already riddled with holes.
Especially after returning from Sky Island, the Going Merry suffered immense damage to its hull during its descent due to an error, causing the ship to fall from dozens of meters in the air.
If Usopp hadn't patched it up, the Going Merry probably wouldn't have made it to Seven Water City.
"Can we find shipwrights here who can fix the Merry?" Luffy asked.
"Definitely, there are many excellent shipwrights here. Almost all the best shipwrights in the World are in Seven Water City," Usopp said with certainty.
The group then split up. Nami went shopping, Robin went to find the local library.
Luffy went to find something good to eat, and Sanji went to procure supplies.
Seven Water City was very prosperous and a rare large island on the Grand Line.
As soon as Robin found the library, she entered and saw Rosen sitting by a window.
"Grandpa." Robin immediately went up to him happily and sat down opposite Rosen.
"There are people from the CP9 organization here," Rosen said.
A hint of worry appeared between Robin's brows.
"Do you want to know what Luffy and the others think of you?"
"What do you need me to do?"
"Do nothing, let everything take its natural course," Rosen said: "If they don't dare to oppose the World, they aren't qualified to be your companions either."
"Grandpa, aren't you going back to the ship yet?"
"I still need to prepare the cornerstone for your tempering."
"My strength is already very strong now."
"I've left Tailed Beasts on two people within CP9. Defeat them and take the Tailed Beasts from them."
"I know what to do."
"Grandpa, when will you rejoin the crew?"
"I will wait for you at Marineford."
"Marineford? That... isn't that Marine Headquarters?"
"Yes, that will be the grandest stage I set up for you, but without enough strength, you could die."
Robin used to not feel that power could bring her a sense of security.
But ever since she gained power, her thoughts had changed.
When power is strong enough, strong enough to defeat all enemies, when it's as strong as Rosen's level, then no one will ever be able to threaten her again.
She would also have the right to fear no one and protect anyone.
Bang--
Just then, Rosen's body transformed into a puff of smoke and disappeared.
Robin felt a moment of trance. She was already accustomed to Rosen's various abilities.
In the evening, Robin walked out of the library, and a figure passed by her.
Robin's steps paused slightly. The chilling aura emanating from this person made all the hairs on her body stand on end.
This person is... someone from the World Government!
Is it CP9?
Lucci also saw Robin.
Indeed, the Child of the Devil actually delivered herself to their doorstep.
It seemed he needed to speed up the mission, after all, the Child of the Devil was a big fish.
Lucci had no intention of letting this cunning woman escape.
Originally, he had planned to slowly search for the Pluton blueprints from Iceburg.
However, after what happened yesterday, Lucci no longer planned to delay. He intended to resolve things quickly, directly abducting Iceburg and obtaining what the World Government needed through interrogation and torture.
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