"Ah... I knew a fish that ugly had to have something up its sleeve," Oliver said, wiping the blood from his mouth as he stood up.
"Oliver!" Nami shouted.
"I'm fine! I just tripped a little!" Oliver said.
While the fight continued in Arlong Park, the sound of several approaching footsteps could be heard.
'This is getting better... He's stronger than me and that electricity is troublesome... Why did it have to be an eel?'
He slowly got back up, feeling some pain—something he hadn't felt since he obtained the talent that allowed him to be more tolerant to it.
He kept his breathing under control while thinking about how to defeat him.
"You're pretty strong, sushi, but strength isn't everything," Oliver said, relaxing his arms and legs.
The Fishman heard him and started laughing.
"Don't make me laugh, human! That's the only thing that matters in a fight!"
With impressive speed, the Fishman lunged forward, throwing a straight punch with monstrous force. Oliver didn't fall behind and got ready. He moved his body, dodging the punch by centimeters and counterattacking with a knee to the ribs with Electro active.
"That tickled," the Fishman said.
"Right, an eel isn't resistant to electricity," Oliver said, realizing the stupidity of what he had just done.
However, Oliver didn't give him time to counterattack and began chaining a series of attacks.
He landed a hook to the chin, a low kick to the knee that made him stagger, and an elbow to the stomach.
"Damn human!"
The Fishman tried to throw a right punch, but Oliver dodged it and delivered a powerful right hook that made him stagger. Then he started a series of blows to his head that pushed him back more and more, switching from the face to the ribs and changing hands with each hit.
The Fishman tried to grab him in an attempt to attack, but it didn't work because Oliver dodged and landed another punch to the face.
'Two hits to the stomach, a hook to the jaw, double strikes to the face, dodge, two more hits to the face, continue'
Little by little Oliver began to read the direction of the Fishman's attacks, and he started laughing.
"Hey, sushi... could it be that you... don't know how to fight?"
He struck him directly in the face, then immediately grabbed his arm and pulled him closer, delivering a knee to the stomach, followed by a kick straight to the back of the neck, slamming him into the ground.
"It looks like you really don't know how to fight. And you think you're better than a human?"
The Fishman got up to try to punch Oliver, but was met directly with a kick to the face that knocked him to the ground again.
"And down again. You're getting worse every time, Sushi."
"Shut up!"
He grabbed the ground forcefully, breaking it, and threw the debris at Oliver, who had to step back a bit.
"I'm a Fishman, I'm superior to a worthless human!"
The Fishman launched himself forward with all his strength to strike Oliver. So Oliver, using Hoplomachia, blocked the blow with his forearm, but felt a strong electric shock through his body, causing him to be hit directly in the stomach.
'This bastard electrified his whole body...'
He struck him again, this time in the head while still electrifying himself.
"I'm better! Better than a human!"
He kept hitting Oliver, blow after blow, not letting him move properly until he fell to the ground, where the Fishman continued hitting him until Oliver dodged a strike and grabbed his arm.
"D-Don't get ahead of yourself... damn sushi."
He pulled him in and struck his jaw with an elbow, then instantly summoned a spear and stabbed him in the shoulder.
"Bastard!" the Fishman shouted in pain.
"There are other ways to fight someone like you," Oliver said as he pulled out an axe.
The Fishman got angry, pulling the spear out and attacking again, but unlike him, Oliver took a deep breath and exhaled all the air. He leaned back, rotated his hips, and tightened his grip on the axe so that when the Fishman got close, he slashed him with it.
He dropped the axe and began delivering multiple blows to the Fishman, who kept electrifying him, but Oliver just kept hitting him again and again.
'I think I'll have to see if my adaptability helps me with this'
With every punch Oliver landed, he got electrified, but little by little his strikes became stronger and faster, not allowing the Fishman to act freely.
Whenever the Fishman tried to attack, Oliver would use a weapon from his inventory to stab his arm and pull him closer, headbutt him, then store the sword again and pull out his axe to attack once more.
"Y-You bastard..."
He grabbed Oliver's arm, but was met with a punch, followed by a kick to his arm and then a barrage of blows. As Oliver kept striking, a strange reddish aura appeared on his hands, making him hit faster, until he delivered the most devastating attack he had managed so far.
Oliver's fist struck directly into the Fishman's torso, causing his skin to cave in from the pressure of the blow. Along with the force of the wind it generated, it tore off the Fishman's arm. He was sent flying backward, destroying the wall surrounding Arlong Park and crashing into several trees, leaving him defeated.
"That Fishman was really difficult to deal with."
He walked toward the others, where he saw that Sanji had already defeated Kuroobi.
"You guys are really strong. I struggled with that Fishman, and you came out almost unscathed," Oliver said to Zoro and Sanji.
"Unscathed?" Zoro said, kneeling on the ground, bleeding from his chest and mouth.
"You're the one who looks unscathed," Sanji replied, also bleeding.
"It may look like it, but I'm injured too."
Oliver tried to raise his right arm, but it didn't move at all, and his other arm was also hard to move.
"I think I broke my arm," Oliver said casually.
"Don't you think you're all getting carried away?!" Arlong shouted furiously, seeing all his crewmates defeated.
The eel Fishman, Hatchan, and Kuroobi had all been defeated by the Straw Hats, so Arlong was extremely furious.
Because of everything that had happened, the villagers had arrived and were watching the battle that would decide the fate of Conomi Islands.
Enraged, Arlong moved to attack them, trying to get into position, but was met with an egg to the face.
"I'll cover you!" Usopp said.
"Usopp!" Nami said happily.
"I also managed to defeat one of the officers!" Usopp said.
"Hehe, you're next!" Luffy told Arlong.
"I'm next? How dare you?! How dare you?! How dare you?! How dare you?! How dare you?!"
Furious over the defeat of his entire crew, he tried to punch Luffy without success and then attempted to bite him, forcing him back until he reached a pillar, where Arlong grabbed him.
He tried to bite him, but Luffy grabbed his head, dodging the bite.
"That was close!" Luffy said while holding his head.
The pillar behind him broke from the bite, so Luffy moved away, avoiding the debris.
"This is the power of the Fishmen! I'm completely different from you!" Arlong shouted.
Luffy grabbed a rock and crushed it just by squeezing it in his hand.
"I can break rocks without biting them," Luffy said.
"What nonsense! The human race is weak and stupid! What do you think you can do?!" Arlong said as he charged at Luffy.
"If there's something I can't do, there's always someone who can help me!" Luffy grabbed two swords and tried to attack Arlong with them.
The others were a bit confused, since most of them knew he didn't use swords.
Luffy started swinging wildly at Arlong, who easily dodged every strike.
"I don't want to play your little games!"
Arlong easily broke the swords Luffy was holding.
"Eat this!"
Luffy punched Arlong in the jaw, breaking his teeth.
"I'm not a swordsman, idiot!" Luffy shouted.
Everyone was a bit confused about what he was talking about.
"I can't navigate! I can't cook! I can't lie!"
That last one felt a bit insulting to Usopp.
"Oi," Usopp said.
"I'm sure I can't live without their help!" Luffy continued shouting.
"Shahaha! Someone proud of not knowing how to do anything deserves to be a captain?! What the hell can you do?" Arlong said mockingly.
"I can beat you!" Luffy said with a smile.
The villagers began cheering for Luffy to defeat Arlong.
"You can bark all you want, inferior race!"
His broken teeth fell out, only to grow back again.
"His teeth grew back!" Luffy said, impressed.
"I'm a shark! They can grow as many times as needed, and each time they're stronger!" he said, pulling out two sets of teeth to hold in his hands.
Arlong charged at Luffy, trying to bite him with his teeth, and since Luffy was made of rubber, his teeth could pierce through him easily.
Luffy grabbed one of Arlong's hands holding the teeth to avoid being bitten, but with the other hand, Arlong attacked.
Everyone got worried, but the one Arlong attacked wasn't Luffy, but one of his nakamas.
"Arlong-san, that hurts," said the Fishman who had been used as a shield.
"You rubber bastard!" Arlong said angrily.
"Shishishi, I think I have a good idea," Luffy said with a smile.
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