Chapter 160: Justice from the Heavens! The Roar of Lightning Release: Kirin
"Rumble rumble rumble rumble—!!!"
The night sky over Dock 1 seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand.
However, at this moment, the most heart-palpitating thing was not the monstrous waves of the Aqua Laguna.
It was the terrifying thundercloud converging at the top of the Galley-La Company headquarters building, spinning, compressing, and changing color frantically.
In front of the shattered floor-to-ceiling windows.
Tatsuya's raised right hand was like a lightning rod.
The blinding Lightning Release Chakra in his palm shot straight into the sky, creating a mysterious resonance with nature's violent lightning.
There was no expression on his face, only those scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Under the reflection of the constantly flickering lightning, they flowed with an eerie and dangerous light.
"This... what kind of power is this?!"
Inside the room, Rob Lucci, who had transformed into his leopard-man form, had his cold and heartless beast-like pupils contract violently.
His instincts as a carnivore sounded a frantic alarm in his mind—
Escape!
Escape quickly!
Staying here means death!
"Vanish... along with the thunder."
Tatsuya's voice was terrifyingly calm, piercing through the sound of the wind and rain, echoing clearly in everyone's ears.
"Zzzzzzzzzz!!!"
The dark clouds in the sky, guided by the lightning, actually began to slowly twist and deform.
Amidst the interweaving of countless lightning snakes, a huge and hideous lightning beast's head emerged from the clouds.
It had the head of a dragon and the body of a horse, composed entirely of the purest high-voltage blue-white electricity, emitting an aura of world destruction.
It was the legendary mythical beast—Kirin.
"Roar—!!!"
The lightning beast opened its huge mouth and let out a deafening roar.
This roar made the glass in all of Water 7 vibrate, as if it were the wrath of a god.
"The name of this technique is... Kirin."
Tatsuya's arm swung down sharply, like a hammer of judgment being brought down:
"Fall!!"
"Get out of the way!!!!"
Lucci let out a heart-wrenching roar; it was the first time in his life he had lost his composure like this:
"That's a natural disaster-level attack!! Humans can't block it!! Everyone, scatter!!"
However, it was too late.
The moment this technique was formed, the outcome was already decided.
From the moment Kirin poked its head out to its crashing descent, it took only a thousandth of a second.
This was a divine punishment that exceeded the limits of human reaction, even surpassing the predictive speed of Observation Haki.
"Boom—!!!!!"
There was no process.
Only the result.
A blinding white light, sufficient to cause blindness, instantly swallowed the field of vision.
Immediately after was a world-shaking explosion that felt like it would shatter eardrums.
In that instant, the entire Galley-La Company headquarters building was completely submerged by this terrifying lightning pillar, dozens of meters in diameter.
Solid stone walls, thick oak floors, luxurious furniture...
In the face of this destructive power from nature, they were like paper, instantly disintegrating, shattering, and vaporizing.
"Zzzzz..."
Currents ran wild in the air, and the high temperature instantly evaporated the rain.
White steam and black smoke mixed together, forming a small mushroom cloud rising from Dock 1.
...
A long time later.
The smoke and dust gradually dispersed under the wash of the rainstorm.
The originally luxurious and grand President's office no longer existed, replaced by a scorched ruin.
Only a few broken load-bearing pillars stood there lonely, emitting wisps of blue smoke.
"Cough, cough..."
Amidst the ruins, everything was a mess.
Kalifa, the only female member of CP9, was currently lying on the edge of a large crater.
Her once-proud black fishnet stockings and uniform were in tatters, and her exposed skin was a shocking scorched black.
Her eyes were rolled back, having long since lost consciousness, and even the thorn whip in her hand had been melted into a lump of scrap metal by the high temperature.
Not far away.
"Pwah—!!"
The long-nosed Kaku knelt on one knee, suddenly spitting out a large mouthful of blood.
His hands propped himself up on the ground; those were his two famous blades used for defense.
But at this moment, those two sharp blades that had accompanied him for years had snapped cleanly in the middle, their bodies charred and curled.
"This... what kind of sorcery is this..."
Kaku's entire body trembled violently; if he hadn't used the highest intensity of 'Iron Body' to protect himself at the last moment, he would probably be a piece of charcoal by now.
And in the center of the ruins.
Rob Lucci was still standing.
But his once majestic leopard-man form now looked incredibly pathetic.
That coat of beautiful leopard fur was scorched over a large area, emitting an unpleasant burnt smell.
His right arm hung limply at his side, clearly broken or with ruptured muscles.
Blood flowed down his forehead, staining his eyes, which were filled with shock and wariness.
Even for him, known as the "strongest in CP9 history."
After taking this S-rank Lightning Release ultimate technique head-on, he was already at his limit.
"Huff... huff..."
On a pile of rubble not far away, Tatsuya knelt on one knee, panting heavily.
His face was pale as paper, and his right hand was still trembling slightly; that was the backlash from overdrawing Chakra and guiding natural lightning.
But the red light in his eyes had not yet faded.
Tatsuya looked up at the swaying CP9 members and suddenly roared:
"Luffy!! Zoro!!"
"Now is the time!!!!"
This roar woke up the main forces of the Straw Hat Pirates, who had just been shocked by the power of Kirin.
"Oh oh oh oh oh!!!!"
From the shadows of the ruins, two figures rushed out like cheetahs.
Luffy had been protected behind Tatsuya and was not affected by the lightning strike.
At this moment, his long-accumulated anger completely exploded.
"Gomu Gomu no—"
Luffy's arms stretched back to their limit, Armament Haki instantly hardening them; those fists seemed to carry all the anger of being framed and the worry for his companion.
He aimed at Lucci, who still emitted a threatening aura even though he was heavily injured.
"Bazooka!!!!"
"Two-Sword Style: Iai—"
On the other side, Zoro held his swords with a reverse grip, his aura ghostly.
Although he was missing a sword, his momentum was not diminished in the slightest.
He aimed at Kaku, who had just spat blood, and his body turned into a flash of light.
"Rashomon: Oni Giri!!!!"
"Damn it..."
Lucci's pupils contracted as he tried to dodge.
But the previous lightning strike had caused a fatal sluggishness in his neural reactions, and his body was too paralyzed to move.
"Bang!!!!"
"Squelch!!!!"
Two dull sounds rang out almost simultaneously.
Luffy's palms slammed solidly into Lucci's chest.
The massive impact directly broke Lucci's final Iron Body defense, and the sound of his sternum shattering was clearly audible.
Zoro's blade ruthlessly slashed across Kaku's back, blood splattering from a wound deep enough to see bone.
"Waaaah!!"
Lucci and Kaku screamed at the same time, their bodies flying backward like kites with broken strings.
The two of them slammed hard into the remaining wall behind them, smashing it to pieces.
"Cough... cough cough..."
Lucci collapsed in the pile of rubble, vomiting large amounts of blood, his once powerful aura instantly withering.
He struggled to look up, seeing the approaching Luffy, Zoro, and the cold-eyed Tatsuya.
Even someone as cold-blooded as him felt a chill in his heart at this moment.
They lost.
If he didn't do something, CP9 would be wiped out here tonight.
This group of pirates... were not ordinary rookies at all, but a group of monsters in human skin!
"Huff..."
Lucci took a deep breath, squeezing out the last of his potential.
"Shave!"
His figure disappeared again.
"Watch out!!" Tatsuya shouted.
But he didn't attack anyone.
Lucci's target was—
"Ah!!"
A startled cry.
Robin, who had been standing to the side, stunned by the battle, suddenly felt her neck tighten.
Lucci's intact left hand gripped Robin's slender neck like an iron pincer, lifting her whole body up and using her as a human shield in front of him.
"Don't move!!!!"
Lucci's voice was hoarse and frantic, with the ferocity of a trapped beast:
"Take another step... and I'll crush her throat!!!"
Luffy's step forward stopped abruptly, his fist suspended in mid-air as he gritted his teeth: "Despicable!! Let go of Robin!!"
Zoro also stopped his blade, his brow furrowed.
"Hmph... despicable?"
Lucci leaned against the wall, blood on the corner of his mouth, revealing a cruel sneer.
He slowly pulled a Golden Transponder Snail from his coat.
The Transponder Snail was solid gold, with a red button on its shell.
The moment she saw that object.
Robin's already pale face completely lost all color, her eyes filled with endless despair.
"Golden Transponder Snail..." Robin said tremblingly.
"That's right."
Lucci stared at Tatsuya, his eyes full of wariness and threat:
"As long as I press this button... the 'Buster Call' will be launched.
"Ten top-tier battleships and five Vice Admirals will completely wipe this island... along with you, off the map."
"You are strong... but can you oppose the entire military force of the World Government?"
Stalemate.
Being wary of harming the hostage, combined with the threat of the Buster Call, forced the Straw Hat crew to stop.
"Smart people."
Lucci used this brief standoff to signal Kaku, who had barely managed to crawl up.
Kaku understood and, enduring the severe pain, picked up the unconscious Kalifa.
"Tempest Kick: Sky Bird!"
Lucci kicked out sharply, and the blue slashing wave sliced right through the floor beneath them, revealing a large hole leading to the external waterway below.
"Go!"
Lucci grabbed Robin and, taking Kaku and Kalifa with him, jumped into the large hole without hesitation.
"Robin!!!" Luffy shouted and rushed over, but only caught a corner of Robin's fluttering hem.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
Outside the shattered opening were the wind, rain, and howling waves.
Lucci's cold voice, mixed with the sound of the wind and rain, drifted up from the darkness below, filled with endless hatred:
"Straw Hat crew..."
"We will wait for you at Enies Lobby."
"That is one of the three major institutions of the World Government, the island that never sleeps, and also... a hell you can never cross."
"Want this woman back? Then come and meet your death."
The voice grew more distant and finally disappeared into the sound of the monstrous waves.
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