Chapter 170: Proof of Companionship! An Embrace in the Lightning and Shattered Iron Body
Inside the Tower of Law, tremors continued incessantly.
The battle between the Straw Hat Pirates and CP9 had officially unfolded.
In a spacious hall within the tower, a counterattack by the "Weak Trio" was taking place.
"Chapapapa! You can't hit me! You can't hit me at all!"
A man as round as a ball CP9 member Fukuro was using "Shave" to move at high speeds through the air.
His figure flickered left and right like an annoying fly, playing with Sniper King on the ground.
"Yoyoyi !! My hair is alive! Life Return: Hair Binding Technique!!"
On the other side, Kumadori, with his head full of messy pink hair, was waving his long hair like tentacles, tightly entangling Chopper, who was in the middle of transforming for battle.
"Damn it... it's so tight! I can't move!" Chopper's eyes rolled back as he was strangled, struggling desperately.
"Sniper King! Think of something, quick!" Chopper shouted.
"I'm trying! But this guy is too fast!"
Usopp was drenched in sweat; the slingshot in his hand simply couldn't lock onto Fukuro in the air.
In his desperation, Chopper bit down on a golden pill.
"Rumble Ball!!"
Chopper's body instantly shrank, turning into a small reindeer form with a massive head.
His eyes, which seemed to carry radar, quickly scanned the battlefield.
"Brain Point: Diagnosis!!"
In Chopper's vision, the enemy's weaknesses were materialized.
"Found it!!"
Chopper shouted, "Usopp! When that ball man speaks to mock us, opening his mouth causes air to leak."
"That's the moment he can't maintain 'Moonwalk' and 'Iron Body'!"
"And... that long-haired man should be afraid of fire!!"
"Got it!!"
Usopp understood instantly.
As the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates, once he had a clear target, his gaze became incredibly sharp.
He pulled back the giant slingshot "Kabuto," the string drawn into a full moon.
"Sure Kill: Firebird Star!!!!"
Swoosh—!
A massive firebird roared forth, but the target wasn't Fukuro in the air; it was Kumadori, who was entangling Chopper.
"Yoyoyi?! So hot! So hot! My hair is on fire!!"
Kumadori screamed in terror, a primal biological fear.
He had to release his hair and desperately swat at the flames, even cutting off his beloved long hair to do so.
Chopper was instantly freed!
"It's not over yet! Sure Kill: Sunflower Star!!"
Usopp fired again, five special pellets exploding in the air, bursting with an extremely dazzling light.
"Ah!! My eyes!!"
Fukuro, who was moving at high speed in the air, was blinded by the intense light.
His movements stalled for a moment, and his body involuntarily fell downward.
"Now's the time! Chopper!!" Usopp roared.
"Ohhhhh!!! This is... everyone's power!!"
Chopper let out a roar, his muscles expanding rapidly in an instant, transforming from a cute little reindeer into a muscular, burly man.
"Arm Point!!"
Chopper leaped high, his hooves hardened like rock by his muscles.
He aimed at the falling ball-shaped belly.
"Cloven Rose: Blizzard!!!!"
Boom!!!!!
A dull thud echoed.
Chopper's hoof print, powerful enough to crush rock, slammed firmly into Fukuro's round belly.
The massive impact sent Fukuro flying like a bowling ball.
"Chapa... pffft!!"
Fukuro screamed as he flew backward, accurately crashing right into Kumadori, who had just extinguished the flames and hadn't yet regained his footing.
"Bang!!!"
The two collided in a heap, the massive kinetic energy carrying them through three walls behind them.
Finally, they were embedded deeply into a stone pillar at the end of the corridor.
The dust settled.
Fukuro and Kumadori both had their eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth, completely unconscious.
The battlefield instantly fell silent.
"We... we won?"
Chopper reverted to his small form, staring blankly at the two fallen powerful enemies.
"We won!!"
Usopp threw down his slingshot and rushed over to hug Chopper.
The two usually most cowardly guys hugged each other, weeping bitterly, snot and tears smearing all over one another.
"Waaaah! Even we... beat CP9!!"
"We're not burdens!! We did it!!"
...
On the second floor of the Tower of Law, in a luxurious room filled with bubbles.
"Insolent pirates... to actually kill Director Spandam..."
Kalifa, the only female member of CP9, was currently in a state of rage.
Although she usually looked down on that useless director, as an intelligence agent, the director being killed was the ultimate dereliction of duty.
She pushed up her glasses, her eyes looking coldly at the orange-haired girl before her.
"Golden Bubble!!"
Kalifa waved her arms, and a sky full of soap bubbles surged toward Nami like a wave.
Once these bubbles touched the body, they would take away all friction, turning a person into a slippery doll unable to stand.
"Damn it! These bubbles are so annoying!"
Nami waved her Perfect Weather Stick, dodging left and right.
The floor had already become extremely slippery; several times she had nearly fallen.
"In that case... I'll just blow them away!"
Nami's gaze sharpened as she shouted into the air:
"Clay!! To the left! Wind direction correction!!"
"Caw!! Roger!!"
Clay the Crow, who had been circling in the air providing support, now showed its utility.
Attached to its wings were special miniature breath dials given to it by Tatsuya.
With Clay's high-speed dives and circles, a strange air current formed in the room, instantly blowing away the bubbles approaching Nami.
"What? Even a pet can coordinate?" Kalifa frowned.
"Don't underestimate us! Mirage Tempo!!"
Flash!
Where there was originally only one Nami, there were suddenly five.
Some tall, some short, some distorted, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.
"Such small tricks... Tempest Kick!!"
Kalifa's long leg swept across, a blue slicing wave cutting through the five figures.
However, the slicing wave passed directly through all the figures; they were merely illusions of light and shadow.
"Where is she?!"
Kalifa looked for the true body with some anxiety: "Rat who only knows how to hide! Come out!"
"I'm right here."
A confident voice came from above.
Kalifa snapped her head up.
She saw Nami's true body hanging upside down from a ceiling beam, and at the tip of the Weather Stick in her hand, a terrifying thundercloud as black as ink had already accumulated.
"You lost because you underestimated a woman's meteorological science..."
Nami looked down at Kalifa, the cowardice in her eyes long gone:
"And you also underestimated... my determination to stand by that man's side!!!"
"Go!! Thunder Lance Tempo!!!!"
Zzzzt—!!!
There was no room to dodge.
A bolt of black lightning, like a spear of divine punishment, instantly pierced through heaven and earth, striking straight down at Kalifa.
"Iron Body!!!"
In her terror, Kalifa instinctively used her strongest defensive technique.
But that was her biggest mistake.
Iron Body can only defend against physical strikes; it cannot defend against high-voltage current.
"Aaaaaahhhhh!!!!"
The black lightning instantly pierced through Kalifa's defense, and her Bubble-Bubble Fruit ability completely failed under the high heat.
With a scream, Kalifa's body emitted black smoke as she slumped to the ground.
Her sexy black fishnet uniform was tattered, revealing large patches of charred and snowy-white skin intermingled.
The battle was decided.
Victory in the second battle.
"Huff... huff..."
Nami jumped down from the beam, staggering slightly as she landed.
That series of high-intensity running and calculations, combined with the recoil of the lightning, had pushed her to her limit.
Her hair was messy, and her body bore many abrasions traces of being grazed by the Tempest Kicks earlier.
Just as she was about to pick up her Weather Stick and leave.
The sound of footsteps came from the doorway.
Nami looked up alertly, gripping her weapon.
But the moment she saw who it was, the Weather Stick in her hand fell to the floor with a "clatter."
"Tatsuya..."
Nami's eyes reddened.
All her strength fell away in this moment.
She rushed toward Tatsuya without a second thought.
Tatsuya looked at the figure running toward him, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly as he dotingly and slowly opened his arms.
"Thump!"
The next second, Nami crashed heavily into his embrace.
One of her hands tightly circled Tatsuya's waist.
The other hand gently covered Tatsuya's eyes.
She buried her face deep into Tatsuya's embrace, which smelled of gunpowder.
Her voice was muffled, carrying a hint of a sob, but filled even more with pride:
"Tatsuya! I did it!"
"I beat CP9! I didn't run away!"
"I... I wasn't a drag!!"
Tatsuya let her cover his vision.
He reached out and gently stroked her soft, long orange hair, feeling the girl's racing heartbeat in his arms.
"Yeah, I saw."
Tatsuya lowered his head and whispered in her ear:
"That lightning was very beautiful."
"Well done... Miss Navigator."
...
In other corners of the tower, two other top-tier duels also reached their conclusion.
Amidst the ruins of the first pillar.
"Not just swordsmanship... even in spirit, I've lost..."
Kaku looked at the man before him who was like a demon god, the swords in his hands broken into fragments.
Facing Kaku's strongest slash, "Sky Slicer."
The demonic aura on Zoro erupted completely, as if he had transformed into the three-headed, six-armed Ashura.
"Demon Spirit: Nine Sword Style: Ashura: Silver Mist!!!"
That silver mist slash instantly cut down Kaku's giraffe form.
Kaku lay in the ruins and threw the only key to Zoro:
"Is this... the obsession of a pirate..."
On the other side, in the kitchen dining room.
"Despicable pirate... to actually see through my lies..."
Jabra lay on the ground, his Iron Body defense completely shattered, marked by traces of being burned through by high heat.
Sanji stood on a table, spinning and friction-heating one leg his newly developed ultimate technique.
"Diable Jambe: Flambage Shot!!!"
A kick carrying the fires of hell blasted Jabra, who had tried to deceive him with lies, deep into the ground.
"God created food, and the devil... created spices."
Sanji adjusted his tie and coolly puffed out a cloud of smoke:
"Isn't this taste a bit too spicy?"
...
As his companions achieved victory one by one, all eyes converged on the final battlefield.
The Bridge of Hesitation, inside the first pillar.
Even though his comrades had all won, the man known as the "strongest in CP9 history"—Rob Lucci still stood.
The battle here had reached a fever pitch.
"Gomu Gomu no Jet Pistol!!"
"Iron Body: Hollow Tree!!"
Bang!!
Luffy had activated Gear Second, his body erupting with pink steam, moving at a speed difficult for the naked eye to discern.
But Lucci was also completely enraged.
Spandam's death had caused his mission to fail; this humiliation had to be washed away with the blood of the Straw Hat boy.
Every collision between the two triggered a violent airburst.
"Straw Hat... your partners may have won."
"But as long as I don't fall, don't even think about taking that woman away!"
Lucci's figure flashed, using Shave to appear behind Luffy, his fists clenched together and aimed at Luffy's heart.
"Six Powers Secret Technique: Maximum Ring: Six King Gun!!"
Boom!!
A shockwave powerful enough to shatter internal organs pierced through Luffy's body.
"Pfft-ha !!!"
Luffy spat out a large mouthful of blood and fell heavily to the ground.
"Luffy!!" Usopp, in the distance, took off his mask and shouted.
"Get up! Luffy!"
Luffy lay on the ground, his vision already blurred.
But...
If he fell here...
Robin's face as she cried out "I want to live" surfaced in his mind.
The images of everyone fighting desperately surfaced.
"If I fall here... Robin will be taken away!!"
"Everyone won... as the Captain, I absolutely... absolutely will not lose!!!!"
"Rooooar!!!"
Luffy let out a roar that spent his very life force, forcibly activating Gear Second again.
He charged at Lucci with his final strength and final resolve.
"Not dead yet? Then I'll crush you completely!" Lucci also charged forward, Iron Body fully active.
"Gomu Gomu no,"
Luffy's fists turned into countless black afterimages; it was a speed surpassing a machine gun, an ultimate Gatling that could only be released under Gear Second.
"Jet Gatling!!!"
Ora ora ora ora ora!!!
"What?!
Iron Body... can't block it?!"
Lucci discovered in terror that every single one of those dense punches was as heavy as a thousand pounds.
His Iron Body was beaten to pieces in an instant, along with his bones and internal organs.
"Go, fly away!!!!!"
Boom!!!!
With one final heavy punch, Luffy sent Lucci flying with sheer force.
Lucci's broken body crashed through the stone wall of the first pillar, which was several meters thick.
Like a kite with its string cut, he plunged into the churning sea behind.
The battle was decided.
With Lucci's defeat, CP9 the strongest combat force on Enies Lobby was completely wiped out.
Luffy deactivated Gear Second and collapsed on the ground.
But he looked at the ceiling and grinned.
The Straw Hat Pirates had created a miracle on this island that was supposed to be impossible to conquer.
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